Morning journal and courier., 1893-01-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Aonsignor Satolli's title Ia 'sHis E.cel.

lency."
There seems to be no doubt that tbs by,,
to retire our unclean currency and substi.
tute clean money in Its place will become
a law. That's all right. Now for a Law
giving everybody enough of the clean
money.
1t Is announced that all the locomotives
in the United States would, If coupled to-
gether, make . train 800 miles long. The
passenger cars would make another ttain
OF about the same length, and If all the
cars of every variety In the country were
coupled behind the engines the result
would be q train just about 1000 miles
long.
It is found by q Philadelphia arm seek
ing to sell q quantity of SCOTCH sugars In
the United States that call the wholesale
grocers have signedan agreement not to sell
these goods, binding themselves to sell
only the sugars sold by the American
trust" It pays the wholesale grocers to
sign suoh an agreement and It pays the
trust to have them sign 1t.
Business In business with some people.
The following advertisement recently ap.
peared In the Aberdeen (Scotland) Free
Press: "a Christian offers to any Chris
tian lady df she Is willing to advance few
thousand pounds ON heritable and other
security board and residence with . very
nice Christian family In Union street,
Aberdeen. Feed the flock of God which is
among you, taking the oversight thereof,
not by constraint but willingly; not for
filthy luore, but of ready mind Peter
v. 2n
Ifeverything goes well with this coun-
try next summer. and If the cholera
doesn't break out here there will be some
money circulating. Colonel A. K. Ander-
son of Washington, who has been one of
the most active promoters of the Colum-
bisn exposition, estimates that foreign
visitors will spend at least $500, 900, 600 In
this country the coming summer, and that
$1OO, 900, 600 which would ordinarily be
spent by Americans visiting Europe will
be kept and spent at home. All this
money, of course, will not go to the fair,
but will be scattered by tourists all over
the country.
A curious story is told regarding q
French countess, friend of Camille Flsm-
marion, the astronomer. On one occasion,
observing her in evening dress, he frankly
expressed admiration of her beautiful
shoulders. When she died. in accordance
with her directions, enough skin to bind
book was removed from that part of her
person, and sent to Flsmmsrion, with .
note gracefully asking him to use 1t as
cover for a volume of the next work he
should publish. 1t Is said that after skill
full tanner had been employed to prepare
this strange nemento, 1t was actually de-
voted to the use prescribed; and upon the
cover was inscribed, In gilt letters,
Souvenir dune morte."
A company has organized in New Jersey
to utilize the accidental discovery of q
student In chemistry-the discovery that
tile can be made of common beach sand
mixed with water and some chemicals the
nature of which is kept q secret. All that
1t is necessary to do Is to empty the wet
eand into the tile shaped moulds, and in
the morning there Is your tile, glazed and
hard, without the application of either
heat or pressure. 1t IL said that tile, tubs,
drains, imitation terra Gotta, statuettes,
and 90 forth, become as frm IS baked
pottery and arc much cheaper. Coloring
matter can be stirred into the sand with
the effect of permanently tinting 1t, and
marble can be fairly initiated by pouring
the color unevenly through it.
That eighteen-mile crust is occasionally
disturbed in spots. Alake thirty
miles long and twelve wide, and one of the
most beautiful sheets of water In the State
of Sinslos. Mexico, has entirely dissp-
peared. 1t was situated at the foot of the
Sierra Msdre mountains, in the midst of
q fertile agricultural region. There were
several earthquake shocks In that vicinity,
and during one of these disturbances the
natives were startled to see the water of
the lake sink into the earth a. though the
bottom had dropped out. while Thousands
and Thousands Of fab were left in the bed
of the lake. A large orevice was found In
the bottom, through which the water had
disappeared. Evidently the water had
found an underground outlet to the ocean,
through which the flow of the springs
which fed the lake now passes.