Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-20
EnIEofkIAL NOTES.

uob as VIII ha huo SulCaSO pIatIOfm Nast
and it shows the consistency and honesty
Of that famous document
EDITORIAL NOTES.
A young girl in Brooklyn tried to COM
NIT suicide because she msdly adored q
policeman and could discover no recipro-
cal feeling on his part. Can you blame
bert
The Berlin anthropologicsl society has
recently completed some curious tsbuls-
tlons on the average size of families In the
various countries of Europe. According
to these statistics the average number of
persons in families in the different Euro
pesn countries are as follows: France, 3 03;
Denmark, 2 6li Hungary, 20; SwItzer
land, 8 "a; Austria aud Belgium, 405;
England, 4.0S; Germany, 4 10; Sweden
and Norway, l2; Holland, %; Scotlsnd,
4.46; Italy, 4 54; Spain, 65; Russia, SO,
and Ireland, $50
Farewell. dear, gentle, patient, good
natured canal mule. A successful test OF
oAcShA4O PoHCk AtA NoASA oSoNo
was made on the Erie canal, near Roches
ter, N. Y, Friday. The power was fur
nished by trolley wire, and two motors
of 25-horse power esch moved the boat
loaded with 110 tons OF sand, at o speed
of six miles IN hour, which Is as fast as
boats are allowed to Iun on ths canal. 1t
is predicted that the application of electric
motor power will reduce the cost of nsvi-
CATION on the canal fully one half.
The commission which Is studying the
methods Of doing business in the depart
ments at Washington has discovered that
about third of the clerks are over so
years old, and fully half over 40, while
about 10 per cent. are over 60. There is
one clark who Is over 80, six who have al
most reached that age, 33 between 50 and
50, and 66 nearly 80. There is also good
deal of nepotism In the departments, as
about one-third of the clerks have rela-
lions In Office; some have ss many rs eight,
while two have nine each filing clerkships.
1t is pleasing to read that Mr.. Lsidlsw,
who sued Mr.. Russell Sage for injuries sus-
tanned when he was made a screen to cave
Mr. Sage from the effects of dynamite ex-
ploeior, is to have a new trisl of his suit.
On the first trial be lost his csse because
the court held that he must prove that he
would not have been injured Just as badly
if Mr.. Sage had not pulled him between
himself and the dynamite Ths General
Term overrules this ruling and holds that
Sage must prove affirmaiively that Lsidlsw
would have been as bsdly I'M ared If he had
not been used as a screen.
President Washburne, of Roberts college,
Conetantinople, Gays that many mission
aries do not deserve their title and that
their work Is worthless. "a missionary" p"
he said, "csn gain more converts by prac-
ticiDg in his everyday life tSe life of Jesus
Christ than he can by preaching. 1t is
| often bstter missionary work to import q
plow than tracts; to help q fisherman mend
bis net than read chapter on the sin of
| worshipping idols; far better to help a
| heather dig q well than to cit idly by and
read the ten commandments; far better to
read and study the Koran than to always
read the Bible, If the missionary Is in the
land of Mahomet"
For awhile it looked as If the whaling
| industry would have TO die on account of
a lack of whales. but the past seasons sue
cessful whaling in the Arctic Ocean aud
Behring Straits and Sea has broken the
record of all past seasons, and whAlers say
/ there won't be any money in the business
for years to come, the price of bone will go
| go low. When the bark Alaska, which ar
rived at San Francisco last week, left the
/ grounds October 8, the total catch had
been 1853 whales. Four steamers took 2l7
of this number, one vessel taking 81 whales
and another So, and another "a whales In
twenty days. The sailing vessels were not
in it. Eighteen failed to land q single
whale. The steamers, wintering as tk"y
did In the Arctic, were on the ground able
to take advantage of the frst break mp OF
the Ice. The steamers made no attempt to
save oil. The head was cut Of of the
whale, tie bone secured, and the great car
cess allowed to go sdrifs.
Chicago has its glory, but 1t also has It,
shame. The Hsymarket monument, which
commemorates the heroism of the Chicago
police who lost their lives during the An
srohist riots on May 4, 1886, is said 10 b.
much neglected, dirty, and diugy, and Il
be threatened with dilspidation. The rail
ing Ia rusty and broken and bent; tn
plinth is uneven and disjninted, and is tn
receptacle of the accumulated rubhiah o
months; the lamps on either side, botl
globes and posts, are coated with dirt, ant
the bronze shields bearing the arms of tn
, State and city have lost their original colo
and look as If they had been made Of clay
/ The motto on the city shield, ''Urbs 4
Horto," reads like irony. Decaying vege
table debris lies around on all sides In va
, rious stages Of putrefsction. The place /
= seldom swept and has the appearance Of
f dumping ground. This condition of thing
i is almost incomprehensible when 1t Ia oor
. sidered that the money for the erection c
= the monument was subscribed By the PEI
Q pie of Chicago themselves.
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= OMMUNIOATI0Ns.