Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-18
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The U. s. Supreme court has decided tha beans are vegetables.

The U. s. Supreme court has decided that
 beans are vegetables.
 It takes some beer to ''go round" in Eng
 land. The chancellor of the exchequer pro-
 poses to make up for the deficit of 0,000,-
 900 in the annual budget, in part, by adding
 a duty of one-fourteenth of 8 penny upon
 every gallon of beer consumed in the king-
 dom.
 The contest over prohibition in Massachu-
 setts makes some queer divisions. Senator
 Hoar Is making speeches in advocacy of the
 pending constitutional amendment and Judge
 Rockwell Hoar as earnestly advises the people
 to vote it down. Edward Everett Hale sides
 with the senator; Phillips Brooks sides with
 the judge.
 The New York postofice is the largest bus
 mess establishment, affecting the greatest number of people under the government of the United States. It delivers and collects every year a number of letters, papers, etc., six times as numerous as the entire popula- tion of the Union. It handles each year over $S5, ,O00, 900 in money order business, while it's own receipts are over s5, ,000, 900. and the ret revenue of the government is 8, ,250, 900. The production of beet sugar on profit able basis seems to have been demonstrated at Watsonville, California, in spite of all the drawbacks which naturally attend new enterprise. The factory was run last year sixty-one days, consumed IA, orr tons of beets produced ], $40 tons of sugar, employed 135 men and made net profit of $24, 570, or five per cent. on the capital invested. The far mers engaged in raising beets receive an l average price of $5.04 per ton, and cleared from $40 to $65 per acre. For the coming year the capacity of the factory has been
 doubled, without corresponding increase of the cost of operation, which will increase the percentage of profits.
 Pennsylvania fishermen are expecting @ good time this year. In 1885 there were
 thousands of young trout deposited in the l streams in different parts of the State. Ac- cording to the laws of the State no fishing for this particular fish was allowed for three years. The prescribed time is now up, and, having had three years' rest, the streams l are supposed to be abounding with the beau- ties. There were 48, 900 distributed in Son. erset county, chiefly the Confluence. There l were 10000 put in Westmoreland county streams at Ligonier and New Florence. At
 Brady, Indiana county, IS ,00O were distribut- ed. In Cambria county 43,00O were dis- tributed at Ebenshurg, Gallitzin and South Fork.
 It will really be high license in Missouri if | the bill which has passed the house becomes l law. This bill hands the saloon over into
 the hands of taxing power of State, county and city in a way that will not foster the business. First, the State and county are allowed to bounce upon the saloon with 8
 maximum licence of $1 200 and minimum of $550; then the towns and cities will fastsn on the business with additional license fees of from $1 ,500 to $100. maximum limit | is fixed so that the city cannot squeeze out
 the last drop of revenue, leaving the county 1 and State empty-handed, or vice versa. In
 any case, the saloon must pay license of al
 least ss50 and as high as $2, TOO, the average
 being over $1 ,O00.
 Governor Richardson of South Carolina ii
 receiving good deal of praise, and he de.
 serves it. Two colored men were recently con
 victed of lynching white man who had com
 united shocking crime. They were the frs