Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-29
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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EDiTORIAL NOTES.
The New Hampshire Experiment farm
finds that milk from the best cows costs
II cents a quart; from their poorest, n
| cents, as 1t costs just as much to feed the
smaller producer.
While the auditor of the Columbian ex-
position figures out a balance of about
s., ,000, 600 on the credit side of his books,
it is to be borne in mind that ChicAgo's
SIC, ,000,0 600 subscription has not been de-
Quoted. Accordingly about 5000, 900
more appears to have been paid out than
was directly received at the fair.
A suit over the ownership of seven hun
dred canary birds has made trouble for q
justice in Hoboken. Pending a decision
the birds remain in HE Office. 1t is q small
room and they take up most of the space
in it, besides which their singing interferes
with his business. The birds and the JUS
tice are waiting for action by the Supreme
court.
The international boundary line between
the United States and the republic Of Mex
leo is marked bypyramids of stones placed
at irregular distances along the line all the
way from the Rio Grsnde to the Pacific
ocean. Wherever 1t was found practicable
to do SO these pyramids were built on
prominent peaks, at road crossings, fords,
etc. The line was not surveyed, rs Is the
custom, the location of the monuments be-
observations.
Mormon missionaries have been warned
by the people to leave portions of North
Carolina because of their success in max
ing converts of young girls. 1t is ss-
serted that more than hundred girls have
been persuaded to go to Utah from North
Carolina and Virginia within q few weeks,
sixteen from one sparsely settled county
IL North Csrolins. The charge sgainst
these missionaries ia that they do not try
half go hard to convert adults and men as
they do girls, and that they care very little
about inducing families to go to Utah.
Georgis's experiments in tobacco culture
have proved successful. A good crop Was
raised on the experimental farm at Way
cross, and it has just been successfully
cured by the air curing process. Experts
pronounce the tobacco very fine. 1t is to
be msds into cigars at Wsycross factory.
For several years this State government
has been doing much to encourage the to-
bscco industry in the State; yet the pres
ent house of representatives in the State |
legislature passed bill q week or two |
since making 1t crims to handle cigar |
ettes, cigarette paper OF cigarette tobacco,
in any way and for any purpose. The
senate, hearing from Wsycross maybe,
threw out the bill.
The growth of the rattle of the rattle
snake has been studied by German scien-
tist, who finds that the rattle Is frequently |
ehed; and, after being shed (his snakes were |
kept in a very warm room), in three or four |
months two rattlss were present, their sp-
pearance having nothing to do with the |
casting of the skin. The snakes were made |
TO register the vibrations of the rattle on |
smoked paper, and 1t was found that the |
was a compound one, consisting |
of the vibration of the tail as a whole, and |
of the rattle Independently of the :ail |
vibrations. The approximate figures of |
vibrations were, for the tail, IS; of the |
rattle, ITO second.
An interesting bill fer a national law |
for the prevention of lynching has been |
by Hon. U. b. ]. Taylor, the |
talented colored lawyer of Kansas City, |
whose nomination for minister plenipoten- |
tiary TO Bolivia was sent to the senate by |
President Cleveland, The main feature of |
the proposed bill is a provision that the |
family or legal heirs of the victim may |
collect from the county in which the |
lynching took place the cum of 1000 |
Mr.. Taylor thinks this will put a stop to
this illegal and horrible practice by fore
ing the taxpayers everywhere to elect |
sheriffs who will not allow mobs to take |
prisoners from their custody. Property |
owners, who, in the absencs of such |
penalty, might bs inclined to wink at |
lyncnlng5, or even TO take part In tnemi
would feel aud act differently If they knew |
that they would be forcsd to pay their pro- |
portion of the penalty for every such viola
tion of law.
1t is related that just before the passage |
of the much talked of lottery and opium |
bills in Hsvsii Liiluokslsni was waited |
upon by q committee of women, wives of
many prominent residents of the islands,
bearing petition begging that her majesty
would not confirm by her signature the
passage of thess bills, vhose effects would
be 30 demoralizlng on her people. Liliuo-
kalani recsived them with courtesy, wept
and prayed with them and promised to
follow their advice. Much grsti6ed, the
ladies were making their Kit, when one of
the committee, turning suddenly, deserted
the queen mocking with nnincing stepe,
much to the Amusement of her lsdIss-in-
waiting, the venerable missionary mother
who headed the committee and who had
loved and helped to educate this woman at
time when she little dreamed of aspiring
to the throne of Hawaii. Two days later
LiliuokslAni signed both these bills, which
she herself had helped to bribs through
the legislature.