Morning journal and courier., 1892-10-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.

L
It not entirely Inappropriate that Colo
mel Ham of Georgia is campaigning In
Texas for Governor Hogg.
Sir Archibald Geike has come to the
conclusion that the world is somewhere be.
tween 7a, ,0oO, 900 and e5O, 900, 900 years old.
All the graduates of vassar don't learn
to hate men, at least not until after they are
married. During the first two years after
graduation 36 per cent. of the graduates
get married, while ten years after gradua-
ton the statistics show that As per cent. of
the alumn@ have husbands.
Chicago does things on big scale. The
size of the audience that listened, or at
least attempted to listen, to the dedicatory
exercises at Chicago can be appreciated
when 1t Is remembered that IL covered q
space of eleven acres. When the presiding
officer of the meeting wished the great
chorus of Ave thousand voices to perform
its part In the program he was obliged to
use the arrangement that had been pro-
Tided and telephone to It.
Mr.. Mulhall of the Royal society of Lon
don has been figuring out the daily aocu-
mulation Of wealth in the United States,
and the result is cheering. He says: 'Tt
would be impossible to fnd parallel to
the progress of the United States in the
Last ten years. Every day that the sun
rises upon the American people 1t sees an
addition of 81, SOC, 900 to the accumulation
of wealth in the republic, which is equal
to one-third of the daily accumulation of
all mankind outside of the United Statesi"
Aren't we doing well enoughi And is 1t
necessary to upset the government this
yeari
There are some ingenious men in this
world. The delicate tests for determin-
ing the position of break in an ocean
cable have for years been sufficient to de-
termine the fault within mile or two and
this has been considered good work. But
recently fault was found in the Marseilles
and Algiers cable, which Is about 500 miles
long. Tests from the Msrseilles end indi-
Gated that the break was near the other
end, and at last word was sent that 1t
would probably be found on the beach at
Algiers. And there 1t was, located from a
distance of 500 miles and determined with
in few yards.
1t is announced that company is being
organized to build in Boston refriger-
ating plant, from which pipes filled with
continual flow of cold air will be laid |
throughout part of the city. These |
pipes will connect with a coil in the house |
of every one who desires to use it, and 1t |
will be arranged so that the temperature
can be raised or lowered as desired. 1t is |
estimated that this use will save annually |
20, 900 tons of ice, and do away with it's
The service will cost no more than the ice |
would cost and has the advantage of |
making room cool and dry, whereas ice |
makes it cool and damp. This cold air /
can be used in food chests, wine cellars
and sleeping and living rooms.
The recent decision of the supreme court
of Indiana concerning combinations of
railroad companies designed to prevent
in rates and to fix non-com-
petitive charges for transportation is en-
The Indiana court says that |
"where several common carriers combine /
as an association, the object of which is to
reduce competition between them and to
provide uniform charge for carriage, and
fx upon such a rate, each member to pay
a fine for carrying freight for less than the
same, the agreement is void and the asso-
citation cannot recover the fne." Such /
combinations may exist and may enforce
the terms of their illegal agreements by
their own power, but not with the aid of |
the courts.