Morning journal and courier., 1892-07-26
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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"All hotl"
The Germans do like beer. In 1886 there
were 900, 600, 900 gallons of beer drank in
Germany, to !, la, ,OOO, 900 gallons in 1891.
OF all the unpleasant relatives which
people have relative humidity is about the
worst. 1t is more uncomfortable than the
historical "poor relation"
A notable Judgment has been rendered
in st. Louis court, to the effect that
alimony in a divorce case cannot be col
lected from a man who is on strike. If
this is good law there will be an increase
in the number of strikers.
1t will be remembered that at the be-
ginning of the school year which has just
closed the English government abolished
the "penny-a-week" tax, which was col
lected from school children each Monday
morning, in 80 far as it applied to a GER
tain number of schools, some sixteen
thousand having been made free schools
for the children Of England and Wales. It
is interesting to note that sttendance has
vastly increased during the past year, and
not only increased In the aggregate num-
ber present in the schools, but the attend
ance has been much more regular since
poor children would frequently, under the
old system, lose q whole week at q time if
the necessary penny were not at hand on
Monday morning, as 1t frequently was not
1t has been wildly reported that the
worlds fair is bankrupt; that 1t has drawn
it's last cent and used it's last postage
stamp. The fact is that the exposition has
now 50, 500, 900 cash in bank and about
million more in sight. 1t has not had. at
any time for year and half, less than
million dollars to its credit in cash, and
has had as much as s., 600, 600 at one time.
During the last six months the money has
necessarily been expended rapidly for con-
structing the great exposition buildings
About three-quarters of q million month
has been paid out for this purpose. A like
expenditure will be necessary for several
months to come, and more money will be
needed by October The bulk of the re-
ceipts of the fair from admissions, ETC.,
will not begin to come in, of course, until
the fair opens. 1t is in order to tide the
enterprise over until that time that the
government has been asked to advance
s5 ,OOO, 900. A conservative estimate of
the fairs receipts and expenditures places
the former about 100000 in excess of
the latter.
Mice are doing much damage in Scot
land, and a special commission of the de-
partment of agriculture is now at work
taking evidence in the matter with view
to devising some effective remedy. Some
points have been brought out
during the progress of the commission
Quite q number of farmers attributed the
plague of mice to the killing of the birds
of prey and wessels by the gentlemen
owners shooting over the estates, and by
the keepers who killed the weasels because
the weasels destroyed the game. One man
said the keepers had killed a hundred
weasels on his farm and the adjoining es-
tate. The mice had increased and de-
stroyed the pastures, and he had lost
So, 600 on sheep in consequence. His fam
ily had lived on the farm for three CEN
turies. Another man said that for the
same reason his crop of lambs this year
numbered but S33 against an average of
600 or 7O0 The situation Is very serious,
and nothing the farmers have been able to
do has lessoned the scourge.
They are discussing hot climates in Eng
land Just now, and those who think New
Haven was hot yesterday may find crumb
of comfort in reading the following from
the London Standard: We have heard
responsible officers of the old Indian
flotilla svouch that they have seen the glass
register 200 degrees in the sun at Bushire
1t was a long time ago, however, and there
lies their excuse. Perhaps $50 degrees
has been recorded, for brief space, under
peculiar circumstances. But when l6O de-
grees is passed, every fraction becomes
horribly perceptible. Ten degrees above
this is not uncommon. The coolest place
to De 1OuQu At SulkAtpuE coihctiAaco Ao0
been 140 degrees. But 120 in the shade
may be regarded as the temperature of the
very hottest climates in the world-when
no wind blows. Fancy that, as the mini
mum, for forty eight hours at stretch!
At Sukkur-the year round, mark!-resi-
dents endure q minimum of 81 degrees;
happily there are very few whites among
them. But this Is in a time when no
wind blows; and winds are the rule from
March to July. There is the Suk, which
rises, as scientific persons allege, in the
Kaohi desert; but ordinary mortals will not
be persuaded that 1t has it's origin in the
upper world. ALI life withers before it.
But there is worse. The Bad-i-simoon
kills outright everything it encounters
not only that-it burns up tissue and
cartilage, 30 that the limbs can be pulled
asunder when the storm has passed by.
OF course it is rare and brief and very
narrow in its track. From the roof of his
house in Jacobabsd, an officer watched ii
sweep by, destroying actually everything
1t met; but he, fifty yards from the edge,
| felt only q warmer glow than usual.