Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-09-14

no free trade record to cover up or sneak
!: away from. And 1t does not stand for
! protection in epots.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The market price Of q wife in equatorial
Africa is ten bundles Of hairpins.
, 1t is evident that the cholera scare has
been greatly overdone. Let's be sensible
and go to work.
; More troops out. By and by it will be
necessary to call out the troops in order to
buy groceries safely.
Colonel R. T. Auchmuty, the founder of
the New York trade schools, has gathered
facts to show that out of s23. .0O0, 900 paid
annually for mechanics in the building
trades of New York city less than So, ,000,-
600 goes to men born in this country.
The Atlanta Constitution, which takes
the southern view of the silver question,
says this: "We have good reason to be-
lieve that Mr.. Cleveland's position on the
silver question is that of Senator Carlisle.
If we are correct in this, his views are not
in the slightest degree obnoxious to those
who believe in free coinage"
In 1889 the Ohio legislature passed a
law requiring all school teachers in the
state to pass an examination in physiology
and hygiene as well as the ordinary school
| branches. The Cincinnati school examin-
ers have omitted to make this requirement,
| and on that account the assistant clerk of
the school board, who pays the salaries,
has just made the discovery that about 900
teachers hold illegal certificates, and that
since 1889 they have been drawing illegal
salaries
| Perhaps the most costly wall paper on
| any room in the United States can be
found in the Office of a San Francisco
newspaper Three sides of a room 40x25
feet are covered by over 5000 worth of
southern lottery tickets. The thing was
| started by disgusted reporter who planked
up twenty blank tickets one month. The |
other fellows in the Office took it up, and |
every month saw numerous additions to |
the costly wall decoration until the diff |
Guilty of procuring tickets put an end to it |
before the room was covered.
The steady increase in the number of |
cotton mills in the southern States is one |
of the signs of the industrial prosperity of |
that region. At the close of August, 1890, |
there were 270 mills in operation in that |
region. At the close of 1891 there were
2S7, which figures have been increased to
he o1n of Aro nj IN
increase in the number of spindles during |
the past year alone of 174 $40. 1t is an
interesting fact that while this industry
has made a satisfactory increase in all the
cotton States, two-thirds the entire in
crease belongs to North Carolina alone.
Occasionally a newspaper man has luck.
About nine months ago Colonel Aunoy was
stubbing around the Pacific slope, trying
to get living as a newspaper reporter. A
hundred dollars was all the money he had
in the world. He was induced to take hold
of five prospect holes in Idaho, and to find
out what there WAS in them. Not having |
money to hire assistance, he went into the |
holes himself with one or two men who |
were willing to wait for their pay. 1t was |
not long before he discovered that he had |
struck into one of the richest finds in that
silver belt, and Colonel Munoy, who had
not had more than his weekly salary from
a newspaper at any one time in ten years,
cleared over $500, 900, and is now the gen.
eral manager of the mines at a salary of
$25 day.
At recent meeting of the directors of
the London General Omnibus company,
the chairman had curious and instructive
tale to tell about the sequel Of the recent
great strike. That strike was ostensibly |
for twelve-hour day. The men got what
they asked for and almost Immediately be-
gan to grumble at not being allowed to
work for ''fulI day." Within two
months a majority of the drivers petit
toned the board of directors for the old !
hours. The board refused. Then the men
persuaded superintendent to allow them
to work full day, and the board promptly
suspended the superintendent. This
brought a large deputation to the directors.
1t was pointed out to the men that they |
had got what they asked for; but |
the answer was: 'fNo, it is not what |
we want. We want to work the full |
day for an extra shilling; and we object to
other men driving our horses" Finally, !
the board relented, and offered an optional
full day with the extra shilling and with |
out relief by "the other men," and the |
whole body at once availed themselves of |
the permission. The men, therefore, are |
rrht oh fha
labor leaders demand shall be prevented |
by penal legislation. The object of the |
strike, evidently, was not so much less
time as more money, but of course the |
men are perfectly willing to put up with |
less work if they can get more pay for |
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