Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-27
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The New York Graphic was started to fill "a long felt want" It now fills long pre- pared grave.
 The stockholders of the Consolidated rail- road are fond of calling themselves and be- ing called family. They form very hap py family just now.
 Ex-Governor St. John spoke at the Athe- neum last evening in support of the proposed prohibitory amendment. Many in the audi ence remembered St. Johns able work in be- half of the Democratic party in 1884, when he and his followers assisted in the defeat of Mir. Blaine. His advocacy of prohibition in this State will not be apt to help the cause much.
 It is already safer to travel than to stay at home. It will soon be more comfortable. On one train on the Pennsylvania railroad bath rooms have been added to the sleeping- cars, with female attendants for lady psssen- gers. A drawing room car, handsomely ft- ted with rockers and other easy chairs, has been placed in the rear of the sleepers, in which persons taking berths can ride while their beds are being prepared. Barber shops are provided for men, and arrangements have been made to receive stock quotations on the day trains.
 The Mormons of Salt Lake City. who, as a political organization, are known as the peo- ple's party, have adopted rather progress sive platform. They do not have anything ko oho svof frk{ I~,,A look upon the United States constitution as the ''sacred charter of human liberty" and they declare their 'unwavering allegiance to the government and the laws made in pur- suance of it's provisions" They also favor many local improvements, and are in gen. eral more progressive in their utterances than has been their custom.
 The new 6re boat which New York will have next spring will be one of the nautical wonders of the port. She is to throw four solid four-inch streams of water, and the range of these streams will be from $50 to 45o feet-solid water, not spray. It is as- serted that the fremen can bore through the brick and stone walls along shore with ease with these streams just as miners in the mountains lore into and wash down the faces of solid cliffs with streams carried down the mountain sides. To fully compre- bend the power of four inch stream it should be remembered that it is from eight to twelve times as large in cross section as the streams from tho ordinary fire engines, while the nozzle velocity of the water is several times greater
 M. Georges Vile, French scientific agri- culturist, after almost thirty years of assidu- ous researches on the experimental farm at Vincennes, has made remarkable and i'm. portant discovery of relation existing be. l tween the color of plants and the richness of soils in fertilizing agents. He finds that the color of the leaves of plants undergoes marked change whenever the soil is lacking in phos phate potash, lime or nitrogen. The colol remains light green or turns to yellow wher the soil is deficient in phosphate potash ol nitrogen. When none of the fertilizing ele ments are wanting the color is dark green By his experiments M. Vile furnishes agri' culturists with positive indications by whicl they can determine with the greatest facility what kind of fertilizer the soil needs most o1 in what clements of fertility it abounds.
 The seat of the bitterest hostility to tn Jews has been the city of Vienna, but ven geance seems to have come upon 1t. A grea event in Vienna every year has been the in ternational grain market, the great marke for the continent. Last year 6,000 person