Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-01-13
EDITORIAL NOTES.

President HarrlSons message has
 been withdrawn by the Chilean gov
 ernment.
 Democrats in congress have given
 the president assurances Of support
 to the administration in case of war
 with Chile.
 A Berlin doctor is said to have
 discovered the bacillus of la grippe.
 He should lose no time in putting
 an end to the pesky things lief.
 Two deputies sheriff state that Dr.
 Graves had confessed to them, his
 connection with the murder of Mrs.
 Barnaby. The doctor says he
 didn't.
 A Stockton, California, man has
 invented a flying machine. He says
 it will remain stationary in the sir
 while the earth whizzes past it at the
 rate of 1000 miles an hour.
 The worst mine disaster that has
 ever happened in this country oc-
 curred near McAllister, Indian terri
 tory, last week, in which 300 men were killed by an explosion.
 The San Francisco Chronicles 40-
 page New Year edition was valua- ble paper. Whenever the occasion
 demands it the Chronicle can always
 surpass all its contemporaries.
 An evidence of the unfairness of
 the gerrymander is adduced from
 the last election in Ohio. While Mckinley carried 50 of the Ss coun- ties, he had pluralities in only : of
 the Fl Congressional districts.
 Prof. G. B. Smith, of Cornell University, declares that the gift of oratory is departing from America. The professor should visit Prescott and listen to the oratorical efforts of some of our budding and blooming statesmen.
 The Mexican press denies that there is any revolution in Mexico. The Mexican press seems to be right, too. What little attempt at revolution has been made down there seems to have been on the Texas side.
 A democratic contemporary says that it has been discovered that wild monkeys when at war always cast empty or rancid cocoanuts st each other. We have known great many democratic editors to carry on political campaigns on the same basis.
 A Baltimore and Ohio railroad train attempted to mako forty miles | an -hnas-tthe other day near Fair mount, West Virginia, but broke an | axle in the attempt, and five coaches were derailed, killing several people and wounding thirteen more. As 8 man killer, the B. & O. has no equal.
 The JoURNAL-MINER editor does not feel his own importance to any very great extent, but when a bomb | is fired at his head he is not.so blind | but that he can detect the aim of | the thrower, even though the afore- said editor may be in a crowd at the | time. He is able to dect whether it is fired at him direct or whether fired promiscuously at the crowd. Sabei
 A Massachusetts physician has succeeded in setting the broken neck ,f young man and restoring him o life and health in 6 period of ,hree months. If he could succeed now in the discovery of some means the vertebral column of Ia ,rippe's bacillus could be perma- lently disjointed, he could fill 6 ong felt want" of the suffering hu- nan race.
 Apropos of the disaifection over peaker Crisp's committees among .embers of his own party, the Chi % Tribune dropped into the fol- wing bit of Christmas poetry. lis the day before Christmas, and Il through the House everybody's s mad as petulant mouse. There re too many Democrats-more is he pity-to make each the chief of ome leading committee.
 A bill has been introduc ced in the I ieorgia legislature, providing for { axing bachelors. It has been re- 'orted favorably by a committee ( nd stands good show of being assed. Under its provisions bache- DTS of 30 years of age are to be an- lually taxed R5, and the tax is to 'e increased on rising scale of &25 or every additional five years of 'achelorhood until the maximum nnual tax of s2OO per annum is cached at 65 years.
 1T one were to believe the walls of |. c. k. and Justicia, two anony- nous correspondents of our con- he would verily conclude hat since Cleveland's appointees aft the bench corruption and dis !onesty prevails among the judiciary. The judiciary of to-day is not more ,rgely partisan" than the judiciary | few years ago and will size up lually we'll in honesty and purity. The Chicago Inter Ocean observes hat we import 6,OO0,0OO gallons of vine into the United States every ear, but we sell something like 22,- 'N,Ooo gallons of imported" wine g n the same period. That leaves a a arge margin for the domestic pro a luct which goes under foreign labels, V md indicates the quantity of Ameri- ] an wine that is consumed, while the 8 thinks he is taking the i'm W 'orted article into his stomach and tt