Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-10-07
EDITORIAL rES.

EDI rORlAL NOTES.
1t has been very windy lately. About
two thousand stump speakers are at work
in various parts of the country.
A New York woman, after living in an
apparently happy way with her husband
for ten years, has deserted him because he
| is too thin.
The scare is over, but don't forget that
the cholera germ propagates SO rapidly
that in forty-eight hours one will produce
2s0, 900, 600 others.
Provost Pepper, in opening The term of
the University of Pennsylvania the other
day, referred feelingly to the prosperous
condition of the institution at the begin
ming of the new year, facetiously adding:
"And best of all, we start the season with
good rush line"
Rice will be plenty this year. The results
of the rice-growing revival in Louisiana,
started by colony of Iowa farmers, have
begun to appear in New Orleans, where on
one day last week 36,217 sacks of rice ar
rived, the largest receipt ever recorded. 1t
is now estimated that the crop will reach
1000, 900 sacks, and the dealers are afraid
that the market will slump under the sup
ply.
All corporations have an interest in the
decision just rendered by the Supreme
court of Rhode Island in the weekly pay
ment CAGES. The Justices hold that the
State statute requiring corporations to pay
their employees by the week is constitu-
tional. Corporations do not stand on the
same footing as individual employers,
they say. Corporations are the creatures
of the legislature, and that body has a
right of control over them which it doesn't
have over individuals.
The Tunnel Power company that has
been doing such big work on the Ameri-
can side of the Niagara river at Niagara
Falls is also to construct tunnel on the
Canadian side for the same purpose-that
of utilizing some of the power of the great
cataract. 1t is expected that tunnel SOO
feet long on the Dominion bank will
develop 100, 900 horse power, while boring
of 6, 700 feet was necessary on the Ameri-
can side to obtain 10000 horse power.
The British government will derive
revenue of $25, 600 year from the Cana
dian tunnel privilege. The American tunnel
is completed it's entire length, save the
portal, and work upon the Canadian tun-
mel will commence another year.
A man who met with shipwreck off the
coast of Cuba and had TO take to an open
boat tells of the peculiar hallucination,
called by sailors the Paradise craze"
brought on by exposure to the terrific heat
of the suns rays. He says: The sea ap-
reared to be transformed into mighty
meadow, bright with flowers and musical
with song of birds. Cool springs burst
from crystal rocks and trickled over golden
sands, and men and maideus danced be-
meath the trees. They seemed beckoning
to me to join them, and I plunged over the
side of the boat into forty fathoms of
brine. The bath brought me to my senses
and 1 reached the Cuban coast more dead
than alive. The mania is of frequent oc-
currence in tropical seas and is often re-
ferred to by the poets.
A wonderful clock has been built by a
Black Forest maker and sold for 81, 600.
Besides doing everything that most clocks
do in the matter of time and calendar, it
shows the time in Berlin, st. Petersburg,
Madeira, Shanghai, Calcutta, Montreal,
San Francisco, Melbourne and Greenwich.
Every evening at eight a young man in
| vites the company to vespers in an cleo
| tricslly illuminated chapel where young
woman plays the "Maiden's Prayer" On
| New Years eve two trumpeters announce
the flight of the old year and the advent of
| the new. In May a cuckoo comes ont; in
June quail; in October pheasant ap-
pears to be shot down by a typical British
sportsman who proceeds to bag his game.
At daybreak the sun rises and some bells
| play a German air entitled "Ph9bus
| Awakes." On the night of the full moon
| they play another German air entitled
"Sweet and Tranquil Luna" There are
other features too numerous to mention.
Mr.. Vausittart Neale of Bishsm Abbey,
England, who died few days ago, had a
remarkable history. A man of good birth,
large means, and wide culture-he was a
fellow collegian of Mr. Gladstone-he, at
the age of thirty-nine, convinced himself
that the labor problem was to be solved by
CO operation, and thenceforward, for
forty four years, devoted himself to the
promotion of the movement. He founded
in succession three societies; and although
they all failed. absorbing the larger part
of his fortune, he never lost confidence in
the idea He aided every effort to estab-
lish the principle, and, even after his ac-
cession to Bisbsm Abbey, lived in lodgings
in Manchester that he might by hard work
keep the Central Union straight. For six
teen years he acted as General Secretary
giving for nothing help of kind which
could not have been obtained for money
Every co-operator in the United Kingdom
now respects his name; but he led sc
modest a life that the great body o.
, Englishmen were scarcely aware of hi
existence.
LETTERS.
Cadmus was the first postman. 81,
brought letters to Greece.-Boston Tran