Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The apple growers of Western New York are complaining that they cannot dispose of that part of last years enormous crop which yet remains in their hands. They have about two hundred thousand barrele left.
 The beautifully paved streets of London are so slipperJ that an association has re- gently been formed called the Society for Promoting the Safety of Horses, and another called the Horse Accident Prevention society The proposed plan to receive the most com- rlendation was to keep the streets clean and we'll sanded.
 The Supreme court of Michigan declares that evidence that man choked his wife, threw her down stairs, con- pelled her to lie on the floor behind the stove all night without anything to sleep on or anything over her; that he swore at her and called her rough names and threatened to knock her brains out, will justify divorce on the ground of cruelty. There will be few dissenting opinions.
 The Hebrew Standard has good reason to believe that the name of Engene Schuyler was withdrawn from the list of President Harrison's appointments on account of the anti-Semitic proclivities of Mir. Schuyler Compressed by him at time when the terri ble persecution of the Jews in Russia should have touched the heart of a man who. an American citizen and representative of 6 government which frowns upon any discrim- ination on account of race or religion, should have kept himself free from that poison which is disgrace to our century,"
 Henri Chevreul, son of tho French chem ist, who is now 1O4 years old, was buried last week. The father is still ignorant of the loss of his boy. When about year ago the latter, then sixty nine, went to Paris from Dion for medical advice the elder Chevreul seemed to feel that he was personally in- suited by the fact that his son showed such fragility of constitution. The family physi- elan tried to enplain the matter to the old scientist, but Chevreul was annoyed and said that he always felt he would never be able to raise the child. Chevrsul begins to show signs of approaching death, and his sons de- mise has been kept from him.
 There is an epidemic of suicide in the Aus trian army. The latest and most sensational outbreak was that of Lieutenant Mangesius, at Klausenburg. He seemed depressed, and leaving his comrades went into room where @ number of rifles were kept. Taking one of these he called soldier and ordered him to show if he could aim properly. "Point at my left eye" said the lieutenant, and the sol disr, without any idea that the gun was loaded, did 50. The lieutenant gave the usual commands to make ready, present and fire, the soldier obsying each and being horrifed at the last to sec the gun dis charged and the lieutenant fall dead. The correctness of the soldiers aim was proven, for the ball had gone through the left eye. The lieutenant had left letter to his captain saying that the soldier who would shoot him would be entirely innocent.
 MT. R. Price Williams, an English scien- tist, has recently read paper to the Statis- tical society in London on the rapid exhaus- tion of the English coal fields. According to this authority, the Northumberland and Durham coal deposits will have been used in ninety-four years to an extent that will make their further operation impossible, considered from commercial standpoint. The same effect will overtake part of the South Wales coal fields in seventy nine years, and another part in forty-six years. The Lancashire and Cheshire coal fields are given life of seven- ty-four years; the Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire coal fields ninety years; the Warwickshire coal fields fifty three years; the Denbighshire and Flintshire coal fields two hundred and fifty years; the Scottish coal fields ninety-two years. It may yet pay to carry coals to Newcastle.
 Charles Francis Adams in Soribuer's maga- zine makes an interesting effort to show how tho service of a railroad company should be organized in order to prevent strikes. Each of the divisions, he says, of the operating department of railroad should have on its