Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-10-14
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Tho atest scientific freak is to prevent frost by artificial means.
 A syndicate has offered to buy the Washington monument for shot tower.
 The big Chicago fire occurred twenty years ago to-day, October 9th. 1871.
 ATucson justice has decided that Frank Heney killed pr. Handy in self defense.
 Parnell, the great Irish agitator is dead. Parnellism has been dying for some time.
 The United States has been pay ing Sl5,0O0,000 annually to Germa- ny for beet sugar.
 J. K. Basye, the jeweler, formerly of Albuquerque, has failed recently in Seattle for SlO0,OOO.
 The election for the adoption or rejection of the constitutional con vention has been fixed for December list.
 No more pilgrims will be received by the Pope on account of the spit ting incident on the register at the tomb of Emanuel.
 Maurice B. Strellinger, the original Sam'l of Posen actor, is on trial in San Francisco for the murder of Policeman Grant.
 The receipts of wheat in St. Louis for the month of August were the largest ever before received in one month, being 5,l94,505 bushels.
 Henry Watterson still insists that the tariff is tax notwithstanding this theory has long since been ex- ploded by a thousand practical illus trations.
 There is no country in the globe where so large a proportion of me chanics, laborers and wage earners generally own their own homes as Tn the United States.
 Capt. Thomas E. Fraser, a former manager for the late James E. Lick, who built the observatory on Mt. Hamilton, died at Banning, Cali fornis, October 9th.
 Wm. Garfield has confessed to turning the switch at New Palestine whereby three men were killed. His motive was robbery. William should be ''hemped."
 Coal in the State of Washington exceeds in volume all that is in the Atlantic States combined. The known workable coal strata covers an area of over 100000 acres.
 A Tempe firm advertises to pay thirty cents dozen for live quail. Any one in Arizona would do that. Dead quail find a ready market in Prescott at Sl.50 per dozen.
 With an immense crop of grain safely harvested and prices ranging at the top notch, the calamity orators of the democratic party have an up hill job this year in the campaigns.
 The constitutional convention did what the last legislature refused to do. It passed memorial to Con- Congress asking for the survey of lands in the limits of the Atlantic and Pacific land grant.
 Pomona, California, has "Jack the Squezer." He frightens ladies on the streets, by catching and "hugging" them, and then releasing them. The police are on the look out for him.
 Gladstone says that the wages of English workmen have been in creased fifty per cent. through free trade. What must they have for merly been as they are now from twenty-five to fifty per cent. lower than in the United States.
 To read the address delivered by w. A. Rowe, at the close of the con- stitutional convention, one would think that he has become an advo- cate of statehood since going to Phenix to attend the convention.
 Secretary Proctor has introduced some salutary reforms in the army during his term of office. As re- suit of ii, t,desertions during 1890 were reduced to only six per cent. being less than one-half of what they amounted to few years ago.
 During his presidency of Chile Balmaceda issued S27,OOOOOO of pa per money, without authority of the Chilean congress. It wovld naturally be expected that the new government would refuse to honor this money, but they have decided to pay it.
 An editorial in our contemporary charges the republican party with want of sincerity. We'll that Jam news" Wonder if the democratic party is sincere in its campaigns in the east. In Ohio the party is in- tensely silver, while in New York its orators pander to the sentiments of the Wall street gold bugs.
 The anonymous contributor of the Courier refers to Mckinley and Reed as 'chumps and idiots" A man only shows the smallness of his own-soul, and the shriveled condi- tion of his brain by such language, as the most bitter opponents of the gentlemen referred to, cannot but