Morning journal and courier., 1889-11-30
SEW HAVEN, CONN, SATURDAY MORNING NOVEMBER
EDITORIAL NOTES.
One whole day without rain.

One whole day without rain.
 Stirred up by the discussion about aban- doned farms in New Hampshire and Yer
 mont, g correspondent of the Christian Union reports that within four miles of Brooklyn
 Connecticut, there are twenty.seven such farms, containing from ten to two hundred
 acres each, aud says that "most of them can
 be bought for half the value of the land, and
 the buildings free" The young man need not go west for 8 farm.
 A trial has begun in Gallicia against sixty five men for heeoing immigrants during ten years past. Among the accused are persons of all ranks, the first on the list being dis- trict governor. The Gallician peasants are 50 simple that such 6 device as a little alarm clock served to telephone to the Emperor of America, ," who was regularly asked whether he would accept particular emigrant, and g favorable answer was always paid for highly.
 H. F. Valance, London lawyer, has been disbsrred for posting client on the extradition laws so that he would know what country he could take refuge in after com- | brought back. In striking his name from the roll the court read Valance sharp lecture on the distinction between lawyers duty to his client in defending him when on trial, and his duty to the court when ap- pesled to by an offender to aid his escape be- fore trial.
 A Nebraska editors barn was burned the other day, and he crowded out the latest news from Stanley in order to insert two column account of s'the 1urid work of the fire fend." as he expressed it. And he ended thus: ''As the last dying flame fickersd heavenward we realize that the loss was $65 no insurance. Thus to great and small alike come the deeper tragedies of life that furrow the cheek and scar the heart. We hope the coyotes who are in arrears will now have the decency to pay up. Verb sap."
 The necessity of new school building in Richmond, Virginia, has led the school board to propose the tearing down of the house in which Jefferson Davis lived while he was
 president of the southern confederacy. This place, which was afterward spoken of as the southern White House, was selected fer MT.
 Davis residence soon after his arrival in Richmond in May, 1861. It stands on hill in the western part of the city, and was then an old house, though without any notable history, and was described az elegant and stately; 1t is now spoken of as 'quaint old structure" The opposition to destroying this landmark of the confederacy is general in Richmond.
 A novel suit is to be tried in western
 Pennsylvania. The prorrietors of window glass factory at Jeanette imported forty -six glassworkers from England, after having been informed by the presidents of the local unions that they could not be secured in this country. The number of apprentices in this trade is strictly limited. hence tho scarcity of skilled workmen. Now suit Is being brought to recover fine of $1, 900 for each man imported. The suit is not brought by the unions, but against their wish, as ell the immigrants belong to their organizations. Thus law to protect the American work men will result in this case in expressing the employers, who are in sympathy with them. A postage stamp saving card is . new de- vice which will be urged upoa the attention of Congress this winter. The samples which are being distributed for approval by Horace J. Smith of Philadelphia consist of folded cards with spaces on the inside pages where postage stamps may be affixed. The card may be used for the saving of small sums, and the plan provides for the refunding of the face value of undefaced postage stamps attached to such cards, on presentation at the postsAices. The card could thus be used for deposits in savinas banks or for renittances of small sums. This plan has be on in sue cessful operation for years in Great Britain. France, Belgium, Austria and Italy, and has
 been adopted in Holland, Canada and other
 British colonies, and the postmaster general of Germany is trying to introduce it in that country. The cards are mailable for one cent as they are, or if greater security is desired they can be inclosed in an envelope.
 Victor Poissant, young electrician of Omaha, has a very ingenious way of killing rats. As he has been practising this method of electrocution at intervals for the past three years. he may be fairly credited with having anticipated the New York scientists who are now puzxling themsslves and the rest of mankind a. to the propriety of send- ing Ar. Kemmler out of the world by the overhead wire system. The pfying rodent is caught in an ordinary oval trap, the bottom of which is covered with tin. Ar. Poissant
 has small dynamo of his own manufacture. One wire, connected with the dynamo, is fastened to the lining of the trap, and an- other is trust into the prisoners cell. The well known propensity of caged rat to do
 battle asserts itself. and he seizes the wire between his teeth. In doing so he makes ! the mistake of his life. The circuit is com- pleted, his jaws close on the wire with a death grip, and without squeak and almost without quiver he passes into state of ! eternal desuetude.