Morning journal and courier., 1891-04-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Another very fine day for an unlucky one.
 A French electrician has successfully employed electricity to make hard water soft.
 All the farmers have not lost their senses. The farmers alliance in Missis- sippi has lost forty per cent. of it's mem- bership within few weeks, on account of disapproval of the sub treasury plan, which the leaders attempted to force down the throats of their followers.
 Hurrah for reciprocity! Good judges believe that the reciprocity treaty with Spain which has just been negotiated will so increase our Cuban exports that within a year they will amount to $50,000,000. This result will not be altogether pleasing to Spain, but that country was practically compelled to make the desired treaty in order to keep on good terms with her colonies on this side of the ocean.
 A law has been made in Massachusetts prohibiting fines upon weavers for imper- feet work, but it is evidently not going to work just as it was expected to. It was claimed that weavers were often fined un- justly and the legislature accepted that theory and acted upon it. That may have been done in some instances, but while the legislature can prohibit a mill agent from deducting from the wages of mill hand who weaves poor cloth, the legislature can not oblige the mill agent to employ weav- CTS who cannot weave. The practical ! sequel of the anti-fnes bill therefore is the "weavers who carelessly or wilfully make imperfect cloth may expect to be dis charged without notice at the discretion of the overseer."'
 Princesse Marianne Bonaparte, who died at the age of eighty, on the same day as stPlon-P -Plon,' was the daughter of Sig nor Conchetti, the sculptor. She and her husband, Prince Lucien Bonaparte, for a time dwelt in the second story of the house in which Napoleon was born, in Ajaccio. After married life of eighteen years, the prince made repeated efforts to get a divorce from the princess. He of fered her a large sum of money to con sent to the legal separation. 'No," she replied to his offer, 'the name of Bona
 parte is worth more to me than the great
 est fortune" True to her word, she lived
 and died in the Napoleon house. She re-
 ceived from her husband and the ex-Em-
 press Eugenie an annual pension of 6,00C
 francs. Prince Lucien has lived for many
 years in England, where he has devoted
 himself to scientific study.
 The iron and steel manufacturers of thi.
 country have been protected and they have profited by such protection. But thu
 country has also profited by such protec
 ton. General Manager Swank of thu American Iron and Steel association hal : issued his annual review of the trade
 showing that in 1890 the United State
 went to the top of the list, exceeding tn
 production of iron of Great Britain for tn
 first time. The production of pig iron wa 9,202, ,703 gross tons, about 1,2OO, 900 ton more than was made in Great Britain. O : Bessemer steel ingots 3,6ss, ,s71 tons wer , produced, or nearly 100000 tons nor than Great Britain, and of Bessemer stee rails 1,S67, ,837, against about 1000, ,OO tons made in Great Britain. In the manu facture of open hearth steel, which is use for ahipbuilding, we are still far behin 'e Great Britain, but this is the only import
 ant product in which we are second.