Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-28
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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Among the liabilities of the eldest son
of Sir Robert Peel, who has just become
bankrupt, is an item of 81, 900 for shirts.
Anybody who has had his leg pulled
knows what it means, but 1t Is interesting
to note that a court in Pennsylvania has
decided that pulling persons leg" must
be interpreted as getting money out of q
person without giving an equivalent.
Visiting cards of iron with the name
printed thereon in silver are among the
latest German novelties. They are so thin
that four hundred of them placed one upon
the other are only an inch In thickness,
while the iron plates being black the silver
name shows up clearly.
Now is q good time to think how dan
gerous money is. The Vienna weekly
medical journal reports that two promi-
nent biologists in that city recently ex-
amined some much handled bank notes
and the average of the lot showed not far
from twenty thousand microbes fourishing
upon Its dirty surface. Eight of these
we're identified and included the streptococ-
Gus of erysipelss, the bacillus of diphtheris,
and that cf tuberculosis.
A notable illustration of the progress of
electrical appliances is electralytic paint
ing. Hitherto, If copper or other metal
were to be deposited electrically, bath of
solution was needed. Now this is changed
and technical journal says a ships hull
can be plated as easily as spoon or teapot.
Instead of a bath, insoluble salts, ground
to a fine powder and mixed with water,
are used. This mixture is painted on the
metal to be plated by fine wire brush, to
which one pole of dynamo conductor is
attached, the other pole being connected
with plate. Not only pure metal, but all
sorts of alloys can be used.
The city marshal of Boston more than
sixty years ago arrested one William Doyle,
and found in his possession deposit book
on the Providence Institution for Savings
showing that the prisoner had deposited
$50 there. The City Marshal took posses
sion of the book; Doyle served his term
after sentence and was then lost to sight.
Long after it was learned that he died in
Charlestown, Massachusetts,, leaving no
known heir. Five years ago legal proceed
ings were instituted, publications were
made, and no claimant appeared. Last
week the sum on deposit, which has in
creased to about So. 100, was turned over
to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,.
A civil court at Salt Lake City has estab
lished precedent by deciding that q sol
dier tried by court-msrtial for killing
man and acquitted is exempt from prose
cution for the same offence by q civil
court. The case was that of Lieutenant
B. B. Buck of the Sixteenth infantry, sta
toned at Fort Douglass, Utah, who In
June last ordered a civilian who was cross
ing the reservation to halt, and on no at
tention being paid to the order, and there
being suspicion against him, the lieutenant
ordered two enlisted men to shoot, and the
civilian was fatally wounded. Buck was
tried by q court-msrtial under General Nc
Cooks orders and acquitted. when the civil
authorities took the matter up.
The rulers of the miniature republic of
Andorrs dec ided recently that the country
should possess a cannon. Krupp, there
fore, was ordered TO manufacture one of
the most modern type. The great gun ar
rived at its mountain destination a short
time ago, and was placed on the highest
point in the country" SO the citizens
could see that the valley was we'll protect
ed. A day was appointed to try the cannon,
which was able to send q ball eighteen kilo-
metres. Just as the two artillery men of
Andorrs were ready to fire 1t occurred to
one of the prudent citizens that the shot
might cause some troubls. The territory
of the republic Andorrs does not extend
over more than six kilometres. To direct
a shot, therefore, toward the surrounding
mountains would be the same as firing at
Francs or Italy, as the ball would necesss-
rily fall on the territory of one of these
countries. A war might be the result. 1t
was then decided to shoot the ball in the
air, but some one suggested that it would
endanger the lives of too many people in lite
descent, and possibly bore a great hole in
the republic of Andorrs. Good council
prevailed and the two srtillerymen were
commanded to unload the gun. The shot
has not yet been fred and the good Repub-
llcans are uncertain what to do with the
expensive gun.