Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-10-28
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EDITORIAL NOTES.
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There are one hundred and thirty -thre,
puhlic schools in Winnsbsgo county, Hi
nois, and there is United States flag fly
ing over each. Which IL just as 1t should
be.
The discovery that of II, 500 employees il
the departments at Washington no les,
than 8, ,610 have relatives at the same time
drawing government salaries is interest
ing.
Ex-Asyor Courtenay, of Charleston, sayl
that Tillman's State whisky monopoly ia 9
failure. Wines and whisky, he says, 'sre
being smugsled into the State in large guam.
titles. Liquors come by wagon loads dur
ing the night, and are sold to retailers in
cities and towns along she State line.
authorities to break up the smuggling, for
1t would be necessary to distribute mar
shals along ali the highways leading from
| Georgia and North Carolina"
A writer in the Chicago Open Court
| makes = vigorous and justi6able protest
| against the growing custom, which he calls
an imposturs, of having "pspers" read in
literary gatherings by other persons than
their authors, owing to the latters "un-
avoidable ABSENCE" especially when the
author has been advertised positively to be
present and read his paper himself. No
substitute reader, thls oomplainer says,
however graceful an elocutionist, can put
into any "paper" the magnetic presence of
the man who wrote it, his meaning, his
feeling and that personality which gives
to an essay a special interest of Its own.
Among other interesting matters with
which the psychological laboratory is e1-
per nenting Is the subject of tims-meas-
ursments of diff .rent mental process .es.
The conclu stems reached on the average
time 1t requires us to make some of the
eommonsst judgments were: Recognition
of ray of light, oil seconds; recogni-
ton of ordinary sounds, .015 sc econds; to
lcc4lizs mentally when blindfolded any
place on our body touched by another
person, .021 seconds; mental judgment of
a distance when seen, .022 seconds; recog-
nitiop of the direction of loud sounds,
.O62 seconda; recognition of short English
words. .214 second.; recognition of pic
lures of objects, .163 seoonds; to answer
such questions A. "Who wrote Hamlet"
300 and over.
There has been a good deal of various
kinds of luck in the Midway Plaisancs. A
woman vent from Portland, Oregon, to the
fair, taking the funds she relied on to pay
her expenses home in the shape of draft
on Chicago bank. The local bank sus,
pended, her draft was worthless, and che
was stranded. While strolling down the
Midway meditsting how to get home she
saw a pocketbook lying the walk. Others
saw 1t, too; but she was nearest in the
scramble. and got 1t. 1t oontained our
rency to the smount of almost 500. She
turned 1t in at the lost property bureau,
left her address, and the n wrote home for
funds. The owner didn't claim the purse
within the specified period, and 1t and Its
contents being handed back to the woman,
she went her way home praising Provi-
dence.
The Rev. Floyd Tompktns, of St. James
Episcopal church of Chicago, is described
a. . very serious person. But. The mission
ary council of the Episcopal church at
tended st. James church Sunday. Among
its leaders is the bishop of Montana. The
council needs money. The bishop of Mon
tana preached in its bshslf, but refrained
from touching the question directly. At
ter the formal service the Rev. F lloyd
Tompkins, without moving q muscle of his
ecclesiastical coun:enancs, said from the
pulpit: 81 think you ought to give gener-
ously, considering that the bishop of Mon
tana has not said word about the silver
question" The decorum of the plscs was
not disturbed in the least, but there were
quiet smiles, in consequence of which the
subscriptions became double the ordinary
sizs.
| The deliberations of the California Good
Roads convention, which met recently in
Sacramento, promise we'll for the improve
ment of highways on the Pseifc coast, as
Oregon and Washington must find Il to
their advantage to model aftsr the pioneer
work of the oldest State. The principal
business done was to empower a committee
to prepare a bill in accordance with the
suggestions of she convention, which bill
is to be laid before the next legislature
Among these euggestions which the com
nittes is to be guided by were the follow
ing: That the broadtire system of wheels
be used on wagons; that each county shal
have engineering supervision of its roads
that the question of bonds for road con
struction be desmed local; that trunk line
of roads, or main roads, be maintained a
county expense aud other highways at dis
trict expense; that the contract system
for construction and maintenance be
retained In the discretion of tn
supervisors. and that the Contr
Costa plan OF numbering roads
adopted. By this method every mile o
road is divided into ten blocks, which ia
cittates travel and is an Indispensable a,
to postal delivery. The convention de
cided, however, in favor of an eight bloc
sysrem, Gas country lands in California,
it was explained, "ars divided into ter
twenty, forty and eighty acres"
THE FLEETING SHOW.