Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

six seconds gain in a mile over the old sulky.
 KDITORIAL NOTES.
 Less than a century ago the Psnnsyl-
 vanis legislative assembly passed this law:
 "Thst in the future no member of the House shall come barefoot or eat his bread and cheese on the stepsI"
 The supreme court of Indiana has de- cided that saloon-keepers can pull down the blinds, notwithstanding local laws prohibiting it. The court holds that whsre municipal corporations pass ordi- nancss they must be reasonable, and that the use of blinds, shutters, colored glass and screens in business houses and dwell lings Is one of the convenisnces of civil iEsd life; almost as necessary as the houses themselves.
 For twenty years the Swiss government has been making observations through its forestry stations on the temperature of the air, of the trees and the soil in the forests. These observations show that the tempers- ture in the forests Is always below the tenn persture outside. The temperature also varies according to the trees composing the forests. A beech forest is always cooler than forest of larch. As to the trunks of the trees, they are always colder than the surrounding air. Regarding the temperature of the soil, 1t is found that in the forest the temperature Is invariably below that of the air. Outside the forest the soil is always warmer than the air in summer and colder in winter.
 An interesting discussion has sprung up among the palmlsts in regard to the line of the hand known as the marriage line. One recognized authority says that when this line curves upwards the possessor is not likely to marry at all. Other experts reply that they know many married and happy people with such line. It Is also alleged that the transverse line on the Chill of Mercury" which one party says is the marriage line, ia not 80 considered by the Chirologioal society. "Our opinion," says the editor of the party organ, "is that these lines are signs of attachment, and there is scarcely a hand ever seen without at least one in the hand of either married or unmarried people,"
 General Schofeld in his recent annual report takes a more favorable view of the Indian as 8 soldier than has been expressed by some other observers. He ssys that the enlistment of Indians ''sppesrs thus far to have accomplished in a satisfactory manner the principal objects contemplated in that policy" He thinks that consider able has been done in giving occupation to a number of men likely at any time to be- come hostile, and likewise in educating Indians in the rules and customs of civil izsd as contracted win savage warfare; and he adds this highly important state ment: "There has been no serious indics- ton of hostile disposition manifested by any of the Indian tribes since this policy was inaugursted.
 The Missouri Court of Appeals has sus- tained 6 verdict for damages against St. Louis hotel for the loss of a coat and hat which guest left in charge of an attend ant at the dining room door. The coat and hat were stolen or delivered In mistake to another guest while the owner was at dinner. The hotel proprietors pleaded that they had provided e coat room, where checks were given for personal apparel, and the guest, knowing this, should have availed himself of 1t. and his negligence in failing to do SO relieved them of responsi- bility. The court held tha. the fact that defendant had prepared a place for the safe keeping of the overcosts of its guests did not negative the fact thst 1t had pre- pared other places for that purpose like wise.
 As before mentioned, the Paul and Polly Prys can't very we'll overshsdow Man with Womsn's magni6cenee when there Is a marriage between a noble lord of high de- gree and an ordinary United States prin- cess. Here is 6 preliminary notice which shows what may be expected in one case: Essex, fsvorite of Elizabeth, was executed February 25, 1901. His son, also Earl, was General Essex, of Cromwell's army. He resigned In 1645, and died in 1647, and, 1t ia presumed, without heirs. Soon after Charles I. WAS beheadsd, possibly over sn Alderman, Lord Capsl in i9 suffered on the block. His son was created Earl of Essex by Charles II. In 1861. He was also Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, ss was Esssx, the favorite of Elizabeth. He, the last named Essex, was sent to the Tower by Charles H., and there committed suicide in 1888. A few hours before he was found dead the King and the Duke of Monmouth visited him In the Tower. Hence they were charged with his murder. The real cause of the death of Essex Is still historic doubt. He was the suces- tor of the present Earl, who is to marry Miss Adele Grant, of New York.