Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-06-05
EDITORIAL NOTES.

StatlStlcS snow that. the numDet ot
 Jess Tn the world is estimated al c, Soo,-
 900. The remarkable thing about 1t IS that the best authorities say ths, from earliest time, the number of Jews has remained nearly constant, and as far as known has not gone much over or less
 than 6.ooo, 900.
 The revival of the liner industry m
 this country may be looked for in new discoveries. A new process of setting
 or macersiing flax has been found. In the early decades of our existence as a nation. the industry was very aourlshing, but with the Improvements in cotton manufacturing i. fell into decay, and for
 many years, nearly all our fabrics except coarsest, have been imported.
 Judge Wm. C. Hazledine. who IS well known in this territory. IS favorably mentioned as a candidate to represent
 Bernaalillo county in the constitutional convention of New Mexico. He has served in the legislative assembly of the territory, and IS ideR,i6ed with many enterprises, which suggest his fitness strengthened by long experence in pub lie affairs, for the position of delegate.
 One of the heavsst robberies recorded
 among the many that have occurred in
 official life was committed in Chicago,
 and exposed last Monday. The vault
 cf the superintendent of the division for
 registered mat sas eZtc-~a a"d sixty eight valuable packages aos..acted and
 not trace let. The postmaster says
 il was beyond doubt the work of an em- ploys, aided by others who are to be
 benefited by theft.
 The largest f-~t pa lep record in the pension off wa. n..e to Phillip Flood. formerly a private in an Ohio regiment The amount of arrears al lowed in his case is nearly sixteen thou sand dollars, his disability dating back to November. 1862. the second year of the war A, the rate pensions have been allowed up 10 this time dur ng the last six months large deficiency will cause heavily increased appropriation at the next term of congress.
 A first class hotel in New York has sign to the effec, that any person who is hungry and lacks money will be cheer fully served with wholesome food free of charge in the rear of the hotel. The most notable thing about the matter IS that the promise IS faithfully kept. The food supply is not leavings from the other tables, but is bought and cooked for this speoial custom. The charity. which was al first confined 10 certain holidays. is now dispensed every day in the year. Ssrhe agitation caused by the alleged dissection of the body of the mind reader. Bishop. may prove beneh'cial. Even if It IS not found that he met his | death at the hands of unfeeling and bar bsrous surgeons, and there seems little | likelihood that such thing will be proved, even If il ever occurred, the | noise that has been mad over the affair | will have salutary effect in causing | knIfs-slashing enthusiasts to wait longer than they sometimes do before carving body m the pretended interest of science
 It is estimated that the average life of man has gained as per cent m the last fifty years The lowest arverage that has been calculated is a, years, which represents the life expectancy ci some of the SclarS, bordering on Russia. bni even this seems high. when It IS remem- bered that Tn Geneva in ,he thirteenth century, the average length of life allotted to man was but fourteen years. Possi- bly, those who dream of such a thing as living hundred or more years are not quite so wild as Il has been the fashion to consider them.
 If any woms >ver jus ned the distinction Of being man killer, m a sense. that daughter of Eve has been discove- ed m Indiana, in the person of Mollie Corwin. Seven times has she been m~rre6 and seven times divorced. Nov he ] still hunt for the eis -.A v.>um ,o her allure ments. She commenced her matrimonial experience when about sixteen years old and she is yet young. She has scaled the gamut of welded lite from the poor farmer boy to the sep,uagenarian bond holder and has feathered her nest pretty 
 In the United States district court, now in session in Los Angeles, Judge Ross delivered an important decision hbS Os eSS | |, Southern Pacific road to s,soo acres of and, and indirectly to over Soc, lcres more. Hls decision was against ho company's claim. The land in ,uestion stretches from Tehachipe to he Colorado, and laterally through Los Angeles county. The railroad company las sold great pat of the land to in locent purchasers, but the provisions of he same law under which the suit was commenced give them ample protec- ion. A physician at a public meeting in 1. lew York, commented on the fact that = ,ultitudes Of people were buried alive :; ie proposed to give an Illustration of trance subject. On invitation mum ;, CT Of men seated themselves on the age and one of them was hypnotized ' Id thrown on the floor as though inca " ,hle of n,ofi0n The physician thr;,St a |