Morning journal and courier., 1889-11-14
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Patti is at Ii again. She receives the larg-
est wages ever paid to singer. She is paid
&3, 500 every night she sings in the Albert
hall in London. Even with this and the
expenditure of $1,000 for each concert her
manager is able to show profit of from
81, 600 to s., 600 per night. Patti has earned
by her own exertions more money than any
Eve women that ever lived on the face Of this
earth. Her receipts, since she began singing
in public, twenty-five years ago, cannot be
much short of $3,000,00
1t was Mr.. Tilden's desire to give to the
people of New York 1000, 900, to be used in
founding and maintaining great public
library. He sought to embedy his wishes in
his will, and supposed he had succeeded in
drafting document that would stand the
assaults of those who might desire to break
1t. As matter Of fact, in spite Of his care,
the document is found faulty, and unless the
Court of Appeals recognizes the obvious in
tention of Mr.. Tilden, the people of New
York will be deprived of the great public
benefaotion he had proposed giving them.
As Emperor William of Germany was
about to leave Constantinople the other day
the Sultan sent him a present. When the
bundle was unwrapped It was found to con-
tain the great cross handled sword which
was captured from Count Hunyadi Of Hum
gary in 1868 by the Turks, after defeating
the Hungarian army. The weapon wal, even
at that time, an heirloom in the royal family
of the Hapsburgs, and had been given to
Count Hunyadi before he set out on his ILL.,
fatea campaign by King Matthias Corvinus.
For four centuries the trophy had been pre-
served in the Sultan's armory at Constanti-
nople. Now it returns to the hand of de-
scendant of its 6rst owner. This was very
neat thing for Turk to do.
There are hard things in this world. A
wrstchsd woman was before New York
court the other day who admitted stealing
some articles of clothing and pawning them
under truly pitiable circumstances, her hus-
band having got out Of work and having
pawned first his clothes and then his tools
and she herself having pawned most of her
clothing. When her husband learned of her
crime he tried hard to earn money enough to
redeem the stolen articles. The woman ap-
peared In court with an infant four weeks
old. She pleaded guilty to petit larceny and
the husband to receiving stolen goods. Ar
Judge Cowing was convinced that the theft
was committed under compulsion Of hunger
he sentenced them to one day. imprisonment
in the Tombs.
There is quite stir in New York over the
attempt to prevent the mayor from reappoint
ing the female members of tho board of edu-
cation. The New York Herald thus talks
about the matter: If the mayor fails to re-
appoint the female members of the board Of
education he will put slur upon every
woman in Now York. The only objection
that can be urged against them is their sex
and 1t must be clear to every right.minded
person that the presence of women in tht
body that governs the common schools, where
hundreds of women toilers are employed, IL
necessary. Not only are the intuition ani
refinement of female commissioners useful ir
the deliberations of the board, but there ar.
| many matters about which women teachers
will talk unreaervedly to members of thsil
| own sex which would never reach the ears O
men. And these are the matters that hav'
from time to time stained the school system
Through the generosity of various person
interested In this subject, the American Eco
nomio association of Baltimore, Maryland
has received the sum of $500 to be awarde'
as prizes for the best essays on the subject 0
women wage-earners. The money ia to b
awarded in the proportion Of $500 for th
frst prize and 5000 for the second prize
Any person is eligible to competition. Will
the experience, of foreign countries will nc
be excluded, it 10 expected that competition
will deal principally with the America