Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-07-18

EDITORIAL NOTES.

No "open letters" yesterday. Can't
have 'em every day.
A young dentist of New York has just
died in great agony from the effects of
bite inflicted by woman whose aching
tooth he was attempting to pull.
Some men can stand good deal. The
recent discussion on tobacco and alcohol
following Tolstoi's merciless screed against
their use has revealed man who smoked
for seventy years without interruption,
consuming between eight and nine thou
sand pounds Of tobacco, and yet retaining
perfect physical and moral health.
The devotion of Miss Shepard, who laid
her jewelry on the ''Altar of the Lord' at
Saratoga, was surpassed o short time ago
by the Duchess Eugene Litta Bologuine in
Milan. To express her complete abandon
ment of the pomp and vanities of the
world, the duchess sold her wonderful
gems for 5000, 900 and gave the money to
it hospital for little children.
The Chinese are still coming into Cali
fornia over the Mexican border, and the
Mexican government refuses to in any
way interfere with their arrival at Mexi-
can ports. This refusal is based upon this
clause in the Mexican constitution: every
man has right to enter and to go out of
the republic, to travel through it's terrific
ry and change his residence without the
necessity of any safeguard, passport, letter
of safe conduct, or other like requisite. u
This is interpreted by the Mexican state
department to include Chinese as we'll as
all others, and SO to, stop any interference
| with their transit into this country
The other night Professor J. L. Ray oi
Ashland, Virginia, saw something while
looking at the moon through his big tele
scope. He saw huge sheets of something
seemingly water" hurled a thousand miles
Through the lunarian atmosphere" He
saw several huge luna- mountains sinh
and disappear. He saw our satellite sway
to and fro. He gazed on the lawful spec
| tdClc 1OE uOuES. IL ullcu ulu Will Iut
intensest ave." He is convinced that the
convulsion, whatever it may have been
threw the moon "several degrees out o.
her course" and that Ishe is now (say) 20,
600 miles nearer us than she was before
He doesn't know what is going to happen
but suggests that perhaps the 'sharmoni
GUS balance of forces" has been destroyed
and the moon may presently, in the neal
future, be attracted to, and incorporated
in, this planet. Brother Totten hasn'
said anything more "scarey" than this.
Here you are. Live long and-be happy
A Ruthenian, one hundred and twenty
four years old, is living in the town o.
Belgorod, Russia. His name is Bogda1
Nitchinorenko. He is still hale and hearty
only his hearing is somewhat impaired
He ascribes his old age to his manner O.
living. At the age of twenty-five he be
came i'll, and as there were no physician
in the neighborhood, Tartar practitioner
or "wiss man." was engaged to cure him
For three weeks he was under the Znak
har's treatment until his health was re
stored. Parting from him the Znakha
told him that if he wished to live long h,
must never eat any old or stale food. Fo
fear lest he fall sick again, Nitchinorenk'
observed this rule scrupulously. He at
nothing but spring fowl, veal or lamb, ant
never touched piece of meat of an oil
animal. Even garden fruit he ate onl,
when 1t was quite young and fresh, b