Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-03-22
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Joshua Jump wants to be collector of
internal revenue at Terre Haute.

Joshua Jump wants to be collector of
internal revenue at Terre Hsute.
At a recent examination of medical
students In Pennsylvania the question was
asked, "What are some of the causes of
natural death" And an earnest young man
answered, changing, disease and old age."
The barkeepers of Chicago have formed q
union, and will ask for an increase of
wages during the Columbian exposition.
The company leasing the restaurant rights
proposes to open eighty five places on the
fair grounds for the sale of liquors, and
have already contracted for $4,000 barrels
of beer from one brewery.
1t appears that there are possibilities in
divorce that haven't been thought of. The
wife of an Omaha man sued for divorce,
but became reconciled after bringing quit,
and abandoned its prosecution. Her at
torney presented bill for $500, which che
refused to pay. He then sued the hus-
band and recovered, the judge holding that
divorces are necessity of life.
An amendment, introduced in the Com
mittee of the Peers, to bill to amend the
press regulations, which is before the
legislature of Japan and is attracting con-
siderable attention throughout the coun-
try, prohibits women from becoming pub
fishers or editors. Those places are re-
served for men of or over twenty one years
ofo rha
mously that "the discharge of such work
by females is neither becoming nor desir-
able"
According to a medical paper, man
committed suicide a few days ago from a
melancholy conviction that he was his own
grandfather. He left this singular letter:
sI married a widow who had a grown-up
daughter. My father visited our house
very often, fell in love with my step
daughter, and married her. So my father
became my son-in-law and my stepdsugh-
ter my mother, because she was my faith
er's wife. Some time afterward my wife
had a son; he is my fathers brother-in law
and my uncle, for he is the brother of my
stepmother. My fathers wife. that is, my
stepdaughter, also had SOP; he is, of
course, my brother, and in the meantime
my grandchild, for he is the son of my
daughter. Ny wife is my grandmother,
because she is my mothers mother. 1 am
my wife's husband and grandohild at the
same time. And, as the husband of per-
sons grandmother is his grandfather. I am
my own grandfather. FAREWELL"
The paw in which Abraham Lincoln sat
while living in Washington was removed
from the church in which he worshipped
the New York avenue Presbyterian-
about ten years ago, and relegated to an
adjoining Sunday school room. The
trustees have now bsen instructed by
vote of the society to restore it, and an in
scribed silver tablet will suitably designate
it. An old resident of the capital and an
attendant upon the services at this church
says: "I always laugh when 1 recall how
some who sat near him sought to fill their
own pews with the hops that they might
bs invited into that of the president. One
person, in particular, 1 call to mind now.
He never seemed happy until his pew was
filled, for Mr.. Lincoln's great hospitality
sought him out. He would wait out In
the vestibule and direct the old colored
sexton to Gil his psw. Then, just before
tbs service began, he would walk up the
ailse in such an innocent way until oppo-
site Lincoln's pew. Then he'd pause and
look around as if to beg some one to take
would rice, reach ont that long arm, draw
him up and push him into the pew, almost
seating him in his own innocent kind
ness"
The work of reclsiming the Arizona
deserts goes on apace. During recent
years many irrigation projects have been
put on working basis, and districts vary
ing from few thousands to hundreds of
thousands of acres are being, rapidly
brought into agricultural and horticul
tural use. The greatest project of this
character yet undertaken was practically
begun few days ago, and plans for one
still greater are announced. For the first,
contracts have been placed involving an
expenditure of more than $4,000, 900, for
the construction of reservoirs and canals
to utili2s water from the Gila River in re-
claiming 800. 900 acres of land. The dam
will be one of the largest in the country,
and seventy-two miles OF canals are to be
constructed. The second project contem-
plates the reclamation of 1000 acres of
now arid land, with water taken from the
Rio Verde, stored in three immense reser-
voirs, and distributed by $50 miles of
canals. The land and the canal routes
have been surveyed, and the $4,000, 600
necessary to undertake tho work sub
soribed Much of the land will make good
orange growing land.