Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-31
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The legislature is taking a much needed rest. When can the people have ones


 It has been calculated that the railroads of the world are worth nearly $306, 900, 900, ,000, about one-tsnth of the wealth of the ciyi- Ized nations, or more than a quarter of their invested capital. At this rate all the ready money in the world would buy only about ons-third of them.
 In an English Sunday school the other day a lady teacher was impressing upon her pu pills the necessity of being entirely devoted to God. Ut won't do, my dear boy" she said, "to be half hearted in this service. There is 6 crown of glory laid up for everyone who is good all the time; but do you suppose there is anything for boy who Is good only half the timef" There was an oratoricsl pause for a moment and then big shoek-hsaded boy drawled out: 'It do zeem to me, missus, that theem as is good 'arf the time ought to get 'arf Q crown at least"
 The condition of the streets of New Or leans is disgraceful, but nobody seems to care much. Half a dozen of the largest property holders of New Orleans are women; one-third of its real estate is owned by non- residents and foreigners. This may account for the fact that the proposed tax of three mills upon all property for ten years, to be devoted to paving and draining the city, was defeated Tuesday. The voting, accord- ing to the constitution, was confined to tax payers. While there are in New Orleans II ,O0O real estate owners who were qualified to vote, only 4,s52 votes were cast, showing that the average voter preferred to allow the election go by default.
 The fly fishermen and the owners of weirs on the Penobscot river in Maine are asking: ''Why don't we take more salmona" Up to the present time the salmon have been taken 1 in only small quantities this season, and the dealers have hundreds of orders which they are unable to fill. Fish Commissioner Still | we'll thinks that recent washout injured the fly fishing, yet that Is all over and the wate, | is clear again. He says that the large suan. ! tity of sawdust annually dumped into the ! river from sawmills and the poisonous refuse | from the pulpmills are undoubtedly having 6 I very injurious effect on the salmon fishing l and that it is only question of time, if the ! number of pulpmills keeps on increasing ! when the refuse from these mills will com. | pletely destroy the salmon fishing.
 It has been feared that the Argentine Re public might become dsngeous rival O | this country in the production of beef ! Consul Baker, at Buenos Ayres, says tha ! the cattle business has been actually Ian gushing and that the government has ofe1es c bounty in the hope of reviving the indus l try. Several large establishments are pYe pairing to take advantage of the government guarantee and will fit up special steamer for the traffic, with storage warehouses fo
 meat in England and France. Consu Baker, thinks, however, that the beef ship pers of the United States need not b. alarmed by this activity, until new method are adopted by the Argentines in preparing beef for exportation. The cattle are neve stall fed and are taken right from the gras and killed and the meat is thus very inferio
 to that shipped from this country.
 The Boston Advertiser has this to say con
 cerning the political situation: It was not hi inconsistent policy in the disposition of tn
 offices which cost President Cleveland his re
 election, bat great errors in the policy of hi
 administration. We confidently count upo President Harrison's avoidance of gray
 blunders in statecraft, but the task of unitin
 the executive department and the Republioa
 congressman in the support of them sn problems of constructive legislation eonfron
 ing us is one not to be underestimate
 President Cleveland and his cabinet office
 were notoriously out of step with the Demo
 cratic majority in the house of represents ltives throughout the entire administration