Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.

that an employe is not slave.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
We are going to have a better Higf
School building, but what is really needed
is better school.
A woman's tombstone is the only one In
England upon which the epitaph Is writ
ten in shorthand.
There are still over eight thousand
| widows of veterans of the war of 1912 or
the pension rolls. Remembering q good
man who leaves a pension is conducive to
longevity.
Ward AcAllister solsmnly asks: "Wha,
does It profit man If he shall gain the
whole world and lose his own souli What,
then, is life to man of fortune with soci-
ety's doors closed to hint"
Who can tell how things happena A
wagon loaded with gunpowder moving on
perfectly level road near Wenachee,
Washington, exploded last week, while in
the same week another wagon loaded with
dynamite, drawn by q four-horse team,
went over the grade not far from the same
spot and rolled 100 feet without doing a
bit of damage.
An electric fly-cstcher is the latest. 1t
consists of small induction coil giving
about an inch spark and is furnished with
series of fine wires strung on board
and looking not unlike q either. Each
alternate wire is connected with an Undue
ton coil, and a sliding regulator is SO ad-
justed that the spark will not strike
across between the wires until the un-
lucky fly alights. Then the battery puts
in its work, and the fly dives down be-
tween the wires and leaves the field clear
for the next victim.
A new charge against the bicycle. The
Hartford Christian Secretary says that
"the great enemy of q proper observance
of the Sabbath is not the saloon, great as
that is. 1t is the bicycle. 1t is our opin-
ion that the bicycle causes more young
men to neglect church and Sunday school
than almost anything else. Yet it would
not be fair on this account to condemn the
bicycle, for doubtless many people have
been benefited by it. The evil lies in using
it for improper purposes. and this is true
of many other things"
Another proclamation has been issued
by the "Si1 Companies" Chinese organ
isation, ordering all Cinnamon in this
country not to obey the provisions OF the
Geary registration law on pain of ostracism
and other dire punishments. This is the
second attempt which this powerful soci-
ETY. has made to secure notification of
the law passed by congress last winter re-
quiring all Cinnamon to register within
one year. These proclamstions seem to
have the desired influence, for very few
Celestials have as yet registered in any
part of the United States. The latest
manifesto declares solemnly that the law
in question degrades the Chinese, and, 1T
obeyed, will put them lower than the
meanest of all peoples.
Carrier pigeons played interesting parts
in the newspaper work of the recent cleo
tions in Great Britain. Important candi-
dates in out of the way country districts
poorly provided with telearaphic facilities, |
as Mr. Gladstone's Midlothian district,
were accompanied in their tours by news
paper men provided with carrier pigeons.
The reporters who went with Mr.. Glad |
stone had a regular pigeon man" with
them. When Mr.. Gladstone delivered
speeches from his carriage the reporters
wrote their reports on thin tissue sheets, |
"himsy," and passed them to the pigeon |
man. Tho sheets were attached to the
legs by rubber bands and the
birds set free The birds performed eI-
oellent service in carrying the matter to
neighboring cities or telegraph centers, as
they had been trained. On several occa-
sions, however, on fine, warm days, the
birds alighted on roofs and summed them
selves for an hour or SO, while the pigeon
man tried to coax them in 80 as to file his
copy, and the matter they carried had to
be left out of the latest editions.
1t appears that n. Deloncls's project for
the construction of Colossal telescope to
be the great attraction of the next Paris
exhibition has not been abandoned, In
spite of the cold water thrown upon it by
scientific critics. The idea is to bring the
moon within an apparent distance of
mile or two of the earth, and the promoters
of the enterprise now declare that no in
superable difficulties will be offered by the
earth's atmosphere. Consultations have
been held between NJ. Dsloncle, Aessrs.
Paul and Henry of the Paris observatory,
NJ Gautier, the optical instrument-maker,
and different architects. The proposed
telescope will be forty four yards long and
nearly ten feet in diameter, while the diso
for the grand rejecting mirror will weigh
several tons and be many times larger than
the greatest now in existence. The chief
problem is whether the glasses can be
made In seven years or made at all, al
though it is understood that the st. Gobain
glass works are willing to undertake the
Job. Two million and half of francs is
the estimated cost of the instrument. but
little faith is put in the figures. Should it
ever be completed successfully, it Is
thought that objects on the moon twenty
one feet square could be distinguished