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

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Colonel John Hay tells "Gath" that not
withdrawing the great price, $50, ,000-great
for q serial-whioh the Century paid him
and Nieolay for the life of Linceln, "the real
wages which, with all their great expenses,
the two historians are really making is but
$50 day." Cheap enough.
Vice Consul Blackjack reports to the stats
department from Samoa that most of the
cettsn gsels sold there are of British manu-
faeturs, because "ths principal trade Is being
done by the British, and the only steam con-
neotion is with British colonies" He says,
however, that American cottons are DC
knowledgsd 10 be Superior and 'our prints
are gaining favor every day, being the only
goods of this class that can be guaranteed
fast colors."
A Dakota woman wrote to one Of the Bos-
ton papers q piteous letter, describing the
poverty and suffering of . near neighbor
who was likely to lose his mertgagsd team
through foreclosure. Some benevolent peo-
pie in Boston collected money enough to help
the poor farmer out of his trouble, and new
word comes that the woman who wrote the
letter was struggling under hardshipss but
did not mention her own troubles.
The Supreme court Of Wisconsin has re-
Gently made very important and wise de-
cision (Eoaquet vs. the Stats), to the effect
that the testimony of medical witness is, at
best, hearsay, and inadmissible In a criminal
trial for murder when the witness has had no
practical experience, and can testify only
frsn memory what medical wsrks and In
struo.ers teach On the subject. This distum
may With propriety be extended to cover any
experts.
There is hill In Qasenslana which Is only
few hundred feet high, but II is very valu-
able. II was not known until five years age
that Mount Morgan, as it il called, was worth
anything, but IL would take millions o1
money to buy ii now. The original stock si
the company, organized to dig cut the inside
of Mount Morgan, is now worth, at the
market price, about 4s, ,000, 600. and the mine
is supposed to be the richest in the world.
The hillook il now yielding an average OF
$3.50, O,00O of pure gold week.
Anthropelogy is to receive good deal Of
attention at the CLARK university at Woresa-
ter. 1t is intended that the science shall be
studied, as It has been in the European uni.
versitiss, with strict adherence to the true
meaning of the term; net In the narrsw sense
that has been given to IL in our American
schools. DR.. Boaz, who is the instructor, ID
q young man and has been pupil in the
school of virehow. He has conducted an in.
vestigation into the ages of primitive human
life under his government, and his labors
are preserved in several publications. The
department has broad field for usefulness
in America.
For six months or more worknen at 6
quarry on Lay avenue, st. Louis, have beer
finding human bones. They are found at 9
depth of more than hundred feet, under {
deposit Of Limestone ssventy-fve feet deep
There are evidences of either waterway tha
one time existed on the surface Of the earth
or it may have besn a subterranean river. A
any rate, there is every indication of ditcl
or water course Of some kind, which has beel
filed with clay, in which the bones ar