Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1889-11-18
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

The announcement that the report of the
committee which is investigating town affairs
will be made before election is gratifying. 1t
certainly ought to be SO made.
General Boulanger is certainly dangerous
to France no longer. He has received an Of
fer from an American to make a tour
through American cities and ventilate his
ideas on the French republic.
The estimated results of the Paris exposi-
ton just closed are profit Of 81, 600, 900 and
which latter will be turned over to the city
of Paris. The total attendance was about
$4,000, 900 people.
certain merchant in Augusta always ex-
amines every package left in his store, wheth
er he has any business to or not. The other
day an acquaintance. knowing this failing,
left paper bag of mad hornets in the mer
chants store, to be except safely until called
for" The merchant explored as usual, with
exemplary results.
The Supreme court of Indiana has thrown
a bomb among the female oficeholders of
the State by deciding that all State offices
are elective, and under the State constitu-
tion males only are eligible to Offices. Hith-
erto this clause of the constitut ion has been
construed to mean that the governor could
appoint women to positions that were not
usually regarded as State Offices until the
Supreme court passed upon the matter.
It is said to have been demonstrated that
the cotton stalk, which has hitherto been res
garded as waste, contains valuable fter. A
lot of the stalks was recently sent from Ar
kansas to factory in New York to be ope-
hemp. There were returned about twenty
different grades of fbrous material, from
coarse strands of the stalk to glossy fiber
as soft as silk. Persons are now engaged in
perfecting machine that will spin the ma
terial. The fiber is sufficiently strong to
| make the best Of bagging as we'll as cloth as
fine as linen.
The election for school trustees In Salt
Lake City last June resulted in choice of
| seventeen gentiles and forty-six mormons
Fearing loss of the control of the public
| school system, the mormons have since that
time been scheming to gain full supervision,
| and to that end on October 5, petitioned the
| county court, which is mormon body, to
consolidate the twenty-one districts In four,
thereby ousting all the GENTLE trustees
should the petition be granted. Judge Zane,
however, has granted the gentle trustees a
writ Of prohibition, preventing the county
ccurt from acting on the petition, and the
matter will be heard November 81.
| If improvement In the iron market Is 9
sure sign of prosperity, as many think 1t is,
the country is pretty prosperous. On Janu-
ary the number of furnaces in blast was
264. On November 1t had increased to 1913.
The weekly capacity of all the furnaces in
blast at the beginning of this year was 142, )
452 tons. Now it IS nearly 10000 tons
The furnaces are evidently being pushed te
their utmost capacity, and are now produc'
ing pretty close to the greatest amount evel
recorded in ths history of Great Britain, ane
more than that country is currently produc
ing. Notwithstanding this greatly increased
output, stocks on hand show no accumula
tion, both the Pennsylvania and southern
furnaces being we'll sold ahead, if reports arr
to be relied upon.
New London wants the. United State
to put up a building. there. The Day thu