Morning journal and courier., 1889-07-30
EDITORIAL NOTES.

And now 1t Is announced that an Orange trust is to be formed. Hope 1t will be bad ly squeezed.
 It is to be hoped that the apparent collapse of the Salt trust is real and permanent. The outlook for it's success was not very promis- ing.
 The New York papers are already figuring on the number of people who will attend the worlds fair there in 1892. They have decided that fifteen millions is . Hconservativs" figure, and that nineteen millions are possi- ble.
 A novel use is made of the electric light on the St. Lawrence river, near the Thousand Islands resorts. One of the lights has been placed at the end of yard arm on the steamer St. Lawrence, which has dynamo aboard. The light stands in front of pow- erful reflector; and as the boat steams about at night among the islands, the search light Is cast upon them, revealing, with startling distinctness their beauty and She beauty of the landscape
 It has been said that there is no inventive ability in the colored race, but two colored men of South Carolina, one the pastor of @ | colored church at Columbia, have invented | cotton chopper which proves to be such . | valuable invention that they have sold a share in is to two white men for $20, ,0e0. One 7 of the inventors is said to have devised a | self-pumping machine which is almost a per petual motion machine. The oontrivanoe is put in well and pumps water from the time 1t Is started until 1t is stopped.
 There arc no less than 237 German singing societies in New York city, among the most popular being the Euterpe, Franz Apt, For tuna, Harmonic, Goethe, Fritz Reuter-, Men delsshon, Teutonia, Damrosh and Concordia Tho average membership of German singing society is 200, and as comparatively few mel
 belong to more than one. the total member ship is not far from 50,000 in New York
 This counts, of course, men only; with wives
 sisters and swsethsarts added, the who'll
 number is probably 100000, or two.6fth
 of the adult German and German. American
 population of New York. A correspondent who has met Boulangsr Ii
 London writes: The generals manner is, fo
 Frenchman, sedate, composed, tranquil with the self possession of one long used t intercourse with his fellow-men and wit women. As to the latter, the most skepties , never hinted doubt. It is good manne
 without being remarkable for distinction Unknown, ne might pass unobserved in
 drawing room, nor is there much in his bear ing to suggest the notion of greatness. good soldier,a good war-of6ce administrator 2 he possesses certain frankncss and popu a larity of address, an easy command of col 5 ventional oivilities and an extremely pliab temper to those rather adventurous polit cians who use his name.
 New Jersey property owners are alarmt D by the enoroaohments of the Atlantic ooet E. upon valuable seaside land. It is a we
 known fact that the New Jersey coast
 gradually sinking, but the sea itself is al
 destructive. 'sThat tho heavy northeastsr storms of each passing winter," says "T
 Philadelphia Inquirer" are destroying t
 beaches along the whole coast line from Sa
 dy Hook to Cape May is exemplifed by vi
 l has been seen by the naked eye during