Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-09-08
EDITORIAL NOTES,

Charles Dickens writes to an English
paper that the originals of his fathers ad-
mirable characters, the brothers Cheeryble
were the brothers Grant, manufacturers
and merchants in Manchester.
A penny-in- the slot electric reading lamp
is expected to prove favorite on the Eng
lish railroads. By dropping in penny
any passenger can obtain light of three
candle power for half an hour.
Justice is said to be blind, and there
are times when it looks as if it would be
better If this were not the case. That
was strange sentence of German couIt
which sent to prison for three years
thirteen-year old girl who agreed with her
four younger brothers and sisters to com
NIT suicide to escape the cruelties of step
mother.
Dr. Carl Book, formerly professor of
medicine at the University of Leipsic,
recommends as preventives of cholera the
wearing of a flannel bandsge about four
teen inches wide and the drinking of
boiled water. He treated about eight
hundred cases in the last cholera epidemic
in Poland.
Public Opinion, which has been investi
eating the joke business, says that a good
original joke which is eisily illustrated
brings as high as S5. The magazines and
papers which pay for their jokes have
regular prices. Professional jokers send
a supply of from ten to fifty jokes to the
papers paying best, and the editor in
charge of that department chooses those
which suit him and sends back the rest.
These are then cent to the next best pay
ing publication, and so on, until they
reach the papers which pay but SO cents.
Such as are then returned the joker con-
siders useless.
1t is said that there are thousands of
infected steamers, the Moravis and the
Stubbenhuk. 1t may well be doubted
whether any ordinary process of fumiga-
tion or disinfection of cargo will make that
beet sugar proper for distribution through
American markets, even after it lie refined,
and in the refining process it would be
handled by American workingmen. A
German statistician, Herr LIGHT, estimates
that nearly 100000 tons of beet sugar
were engaged for shipment from German
ports to this country during the last half
of August and the first half of Septem-
ber.
For some time past the more enlightened
orthodox Hindus have been debating the
question whether their Scriptures really
sanction the common belief that sea voy-
age involves the penalty of loss of caste.
The subject was fully discussed at large
representative meeting held in Calcutta re-
Gently, under the presidency of one of the
most respected leaders of the orthodox
party, the Maharajah. Sir Narnedra Krish
ma. The opinion was expressed, all but
unanimously, that some practical steps to
decide the matter should be taken. Pundit
Mohesh Chunder Nyaratna, great author
ity on Vedic literature, said that he had
thoroughly studied the point, and had
come to the conclusion that nothing in
the Shastras was opposed to sea voyages or
to residence in foreign countries provided
that Hindu ussges were observed. This
meeting is likely to mark big forward
stride in the progress of the Hindu COM
munity in civilization.
Further reports show that there Is no
mistake about the success of the storage
system in Milford, Massachusetts,, for al
ready the people of the town have become
so convinced of its practical value and its
| wide introdu uction in tho future that they
| have offered the electric company twenty
| acres of land as a site for an enormous
electric plant which they believe will rival
the Thomson-Houston works of Lynn.
The feature of the system that is doing
successful work in Milford, while failure
has resulted elsewhere with storage bat
teries, is in the construction of the cells
of which the batteries are made, previous
attempts to use the storage system having
failed because the same kind of cells that
are used for electric lighting were i'm
properly used in generating power for
these street railroad lines-with uniformly
unsatisfactory results. A highly interest
ing feature of the storage battery used on
the Milford line is its ability to make use
of the power developed by the cars on
down grades to become partially recharged
again with electricity, the development of
this power serving also a. a brake upon
the cars too rapid progress down the