Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.

' The British government will send one hun | dred workingmen to the Paris exposition \ with view to studying mechanical arts ! from the workingman's standpoint. The \ government of the United States could vel have afforded to do something of this kind A new industry has been invented by q clever English girl She calls herself ar I accountant and auditor for large households | She finds plenty of employment in looking after the business of & few families of large expenditure whose heads have net taste fol the work.
 The third anniversary of "Lsbor day" al Portland, Oregon, was observed by major ! ity of the craftsmen by working at their re- speotive trades. They said they preferred wages to play. The bill establishing the holiday, says the Oregonian, was forced through the legislature by noisy and aggres- sive minority"
 Women will get married, but some wish they hadn't. Mrs. Matilda Skelly of Mill lersburg, Pennsylvania, applied for pen sion some years ago. but the case hung fire so long that she sought other means of sup port and some two or three weeks ago re- married. Just eight days after her marriage she received a letter granting the pension, with $5,375 arrears. Owing to her marriage the valuable paper had to be returned to Washington.
 The disaster In Pennsylvania has led to \ discussion concerning the advisability of building what is known as the Quaker Bridge \ dana structure that is to con6ne 20,000,- 0O0, 900 of gallons of Croton river water iu an immense reservoir, 50 that 1t may be an ! ample supply at all times for the people of New York city. The Evening Post, the \ World and the Tribune maintain that if \ would be unsafe to build such 8 structure, { in view of recent experiences, for the dam ' has to be of enormous size, and, if it gave way, would let forth a quantity of water far | in excess of that which was confined in the Conemaugh reservoir. The New York ! Times, on the other hand, asserts that there | is not the least difficulty In constructing 6 dam of the strength, required, and that, | even If this should break, the water flowing ! out from the great reservoir would readily | empty itself into the Hudson river at Tap l pan bay, and would spread itself out witt
 little or no damage to anybody or anything. | An Englishman has written to the St.
 James Gazette showing that the American republic, in case of 8 war with England
 could be badly beaten, and, in fact, made te
 "disappear." Our army of "300,0 900 o,
 sOO,O ,O00," mere linen with muskets, would be "totally unamenable to discipline, and "plenty of good excuses for mutiny
 would be supplied by the army contractors. The southern and western States are very
 much dissatisfied, and would be glad of ( chance to "get loose." The negro popu
 lation would be an element of discord, and the agricultural population are two-thirdi foreigners, Germans rrsdominating, who
 would not want to fight the English. Bu
 the most interesting discovery is that thu Indians, half-breeds and ''squaw-men'
 would take to the war path in revenge fol
 the white mans faithlessness in executing
 treaties, and the cowboys would join witt
 them. Then there are the Socialists anG
 Anarchists in the great cities, and ''th'
 great labor organizations might probabl,
 take the opportunity to put themselves az gressively in evidence" There's nothin,
 like going away from home to hear tn
 news.
 The old Roman wall of London, laid bar
 by the excavations for the new postofice a
 St. Martin's-le-Grand, becomes daily nor
 interesting to antiquarians as further DOT tions are uncovered. A London paper note
 the fact and then goes on to say: From tn