Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-12
EDITORIAL rOTES.

Several years ago Ben jamln Braswel left 8 small fortune to his county of Morgan, in Georgia, "for the sole purpose of educating the orphan children" in said county. The custodians have reported that the fund has outgrown the orphans. It has reached $4S,- 900, and they have been able to expend only S7OO out of an income of s2, ,470 on the edu- cation of the children. They are not per mitted to make any more orphans, and un- less some one runs off to Canada with the fund they do not know what to do with 1t.
 Albany has been great 'sstove center," but the stove manufacturers Of that city have been gradually having more and more of their stoves made by contract in the wes- tern states until now many of the largest foundries in the city closed wholly or in part, hundreds of skillful workmen are idle about the streets, and the threatened loss or its stove industry stares the city in the face. The causes of the decline are the cheapness of labor at the West and the refusal of Al- bany workmen to submit to g reduction of wages.
 Says the Jewish Messenger: It is certainly strange that while Christian clergymen be- lieve in the Old Testament, and lose no op- portunity to praise it, and resign their of- fees when they cease to regard it as authora- tative and sanctifed, several of our modern rabbis feel like spologizing for the place it holds in literature, try to show its weakness es and inconsistencies, and would supplant it by revised version of their own, yet they have no idea of abandoning their salaries and privileges as teachers in Israel spiritual heads of this or that temple.
 British North Borneo is likely soon to com- pete in the worlds markets with some inn | portant staples. The soil and climate are admirably adapted for raising the famous | "wrap" tobacco, which is used as the out side leaf in cigarmaking. The Dutch East Indies have until now had monopoly of | this tobacco, but experiments have proved that Borneo is fully capable of producing as fine quality as Java and Sumatra. The Dutch have turned their attention to the settlement on account of low taxes, and a large area has been taken for tobacco grow ing. Coffee, sugar and other important pro- ducts are easily grown, while cheap labor is easily obtainable from the swarming millions of China.
 European emigration is now turning south
 ward and perhaps this tendency will partly
 or wholly solve problem that is now trou-
 bling this country. The greatest host is
 bound for the Argentine Republic, which now vies with the United States ss land
 of promise to the overcrowded denizens of Europe. For months past immigrants have
 been arriving at Buenos Ayres from Great
 Britain, Italy and the low countries chiefly,
 at the rate of more than 8 thousand day.
 With all this influx the newcomers have no
 difficulty in securing profitable occupation
 immediately and the planters of the interior
 are clamoring constantly for more help.
 There is no restriction there on contract la-
 bor, and large portion of these immigrants
 have their work all cut out for them before
 they leave home.
 Newspapers outside the State are discus
 sing Connecticut parallel railroad question There is but one opinion concerning it. Tn , New York Times has this to say: The Nev
 Haven company's stock has for many year been withdrawn from the field of specula 5 tion. While the management of the roa. with respect to the train service has lei