Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Italy is not very uncomfortable place to publish newspaper in. There has not been libel suit against newspaper in that coun try for fifty years. The belief there is, that newspaper seeks to tell the truth, and if 1t is mistaken frank statement to that effect satisfies the Italian.
 All but half million of the $S2, 900, 900 appropriated for pensions this year has al ready been expended. As there are some six weeks demands yet to be satisfied, and as the money required for June alone has in previous years been from $3, ,000, ,000 upward, deficiency is inevitable.
 The rush to get out of Oklahoma continues, the greatest exodus being from Guthrie, a place that had 10, 900 people on April 23d, the day after it was opened to settlers, and which day has not more than half that number It Is predicted that there will not be.more than 200 people in the place by the 1st of August. What goes up must come down.
 A novel experiment in dealing with rum is about to be tried in Minnesota. While one school of reformers is constantly devel- oping new zeal in the attempt to prove ! that drunkenness is a disease, Minnesota ! formally declares that it is crime, and im- poses a fne or imprisonment for the first two | offences, and for every subsequent offence l imprisonment for not less than sixty nor more
 than ninety days.
 l Governor Riggs, of Delaware, owns SO,eOO peach trees. He, recently remarked: My | orchards in Caroline and Kent counties, | Maryland, were never in better condition, I and if one half of the buds on them turn in- l to peaches there will be too many on the | trees. There are not going to be as many l peaches in Delaware and on the Peninsular | this year as last, and consequently those who have peaches will obtain better prices, l though last year was very profitable sea- l son.
 new guppowder is being made at the government powder factory at Wetteren, in | Belgium; it is known as poudre- papier, or paper powder and it is stated that a charge I of two and one-half grams, or thirty-nine l grains, gives, in 8 rife of small calibre, an I initial velocity of some six hundred and six 1 ty yards to the ball-this being equal to, if it I do not exceed, the celebrated Lebel powder. | The additional advantages attributed to this l new powder are those of not smearing the
 barrel, of producing no smoke, and of causa 1 ing but little recoil.
 1 A San Francisco wine dealer recently tried an interesting experiment. He shipped four casks of native Zinfandel to Havre, France, around the Horn. Thence the wine WAS
 taken to Antwerp. and from there it was
 shipped back to San Francisco, again around
 Cape Horn. Two casks were fortified with
 one per cent. of California brandy, and the
 other two left in their natural state. Ex-
 perts sampled the casks on their return, and
 found that the wine was very much improved
 by the long voyage, and that the unfortifed
 wine was better than the fortified wine. The
 experiment speaks highly for the quality oi
 California wine and for it's ability to beal
 transportation. Wine men say that French
 wine would have been spoiled by such a
 journey. It is thought that many Califor'
 nians will now ship wine to Europe and bacl
 again, in order to improve it.
 The Archbishop of Canterbury has write, letter to the English Presbyterian Synod in which he said he was requested by tn