Morning journal and courier., 1893-12-15
NEW HAVEN, CONN, MORNING, DECEMBER 15 1893.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

According to records kept In the Boston | public library ''The Count of Monte Cristo'
 is the most popular novel. The fourteen
 copies in the library are always engaged in
 advance by the patrons.
 No investment that a city can make is
 better than an investment h psrks. The
 four squares, Union, Madison, Tompkins
 and Washington, which cost New York
 city $353, ,331, are now valued at go, ,000,- 900 by the assessors. As matter of fact,
 however, they are absolutely priceless.
 The new sovereign of the Knights of
 Labor, MT. Sovereign, begins bis public
 utterauces sensibly. Speaking of the set clement of the Lehigh strike as not "much
 of victory for the men," he says: "As to
 strikes generally, am inclined to think
 their day Is over. There have been strikes
 which have ended successfully for the
 strikers, but victory always costs some
 thing and, like every other battle, thsse bloodlees battles require time to rally from their effects"
 The Massachusetts Supreme court has just decided an interesting fish case. ". s. Gilbert of Plymouth raises trout In sn artificial pond on his own land and makes business of selling them. He thought the Massachusetts law forbiddipg the sale of trout at certain seasons could not hit him, as 1t must be contrary to the pro visions of the constitution which guarantee hio rfu yinhfo ha fonuhf fha mi a f. ter through all the courts of the State, up to the highest. The law Is sustained.
 Officers of building and loan associations point out that if federal tax should bs levied by congress on the incomes of all corporations, 1t would be a serious blow to these associations. A great many of them show large assets, but these assets are made up of small individual contributions by great many shareholders of very flen der means. A federal corporation tax which made no exceptions in regard to corporations of this kind might be 6 sufH- cisnt hindrsncs to the maturity of the shares within the estimated time, to upset the working of the system.
 The Scottish Home Rule association has complained to the Prince of Wales of lecture by Mr. Lscky, with his Royal High ness presiding, in which the British empire was spoken of as the "sole possession of Euelishmen," and the colonies ss having been "built up by Englishmeu." This language has given the greatest offense to Scotland. The Prince replies, through his secretary, that he thinks that MT. Lscky "had no intention of casting any reflection on Scotland or of ignoring the great serv- ices which the inhabitants of that country have rendered toward the creation of the empire"
 The experiment of putting carrier pigeons on Sable Island, that narrow, low, sandy island lying to the southwest of Cape Cameo, N. S., which has been called ''the graveyard of the Atlantic. has proved successful. The experiment was tried by the Canadian government ss & relief to the islanders, the government steamer making only monthly trips. The homipg loft of the birds is at Halifax, nearly 250 miles from the island, and the flight is made over the stretch of sea in less then a day. One pigeon was out in the heavy storm on November 2s. and lost part of its message, but enough was declphered to show that all were well on the island that morning.
 Prominent ChinAmen on the Pacific coast are predicting big exodus of their coun- trymen from this continent, and all other lands, to the Celestial Empire within year or two. They will go to be present at the big fair which occurs there once in sixty years, and at which every subject of the great Emperor tries to be present. "Hun- dreds of thousands, maybe millions, of Chinese from all parts of the empire and the world will bs there," says Interpreter Pon Sc of San Francisco. "All nations will be invited, and everybody ought to go, for 1t will be the sight of lifetime" The fair was founded many centuries ago, and has been held regularly since. He Is not sure of the exact date, but it is within two yesrs. Great preparations are being made for 1t all over the empire, and announcement of 1t will soon be made to the world.