Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-11-30
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EDITORIAL NOTES
A welI-known woman's rights champion
has founded school for fencing in Paris.
| A condition of membership is that the pu-
pills place their swords at the service of
| woman's emancipation. They intend to
be able to defend their cause at the point
| of the rspisr, and one of the rules is that
| the members conduct their practice secret
| ly, that the persons with whom they may
have to fight dusls may not learn t'aeir
methods.
The New Orleans Times-Democ<stC CDem.
agrees with the Richmond Times tDsm.)
that even negro rule is better than the cor
ruptipg influence of fraudulens eisctions.
Speaking for Louisiana, the Ttmen-Demo.
crat says: "We need new electoral quail
fcation, and then an election law that will
render fraud of any kind impossible. The
demand for this improvement is universal
throughout the South, and we hope to soon
see Virginia and Louisiana join Mississippi
in system whiok, at the same time, as
sures white rule and prevents fraud.
The well-known fact that women live
longer than men Is illustrated as follows:
The excess of females of allsges over males
of all ages in England and Wales LIS only
about 81 per cent. dn round figures, 15,-
600, 900 minus $4,000 to $4,000, 900 plus
SO, 0,OOO. But when We begin to compare
women over 60 with men over go the fs-
male msjority becomes much greater, and
when we once pass IS the old men are no.
where. The female nonogensrians nearly
double the male, there are S54 women over
95 to 354 men, and 104 gammers to 40 gaf-
fers who own to a century.
Some interesting "reminiscences of Emin
Pasha have been made public by DR.. Franz
Stuhlmsnn, who was one of the explorers
most intimate friends. Emin, he says,
was brave to the extent of placing but
small value on his life and possessed an
unbending will. Lsttsrly he became
capricious and whimsical-either too vio-
lent or too mild, too credulous or too sus-
picious. As a scientist he collected new
information and data of immense interest
and value to geographers, ethnologists,
linguists, biologists and botanists, and left
behind for pos!erity thick volumes of notes
on African ornithology, meteorology and
travel, with invaluable maps.
Editor Herbert Myrick of the American
Agriculturist, proves by the census of 1890
that nothing could be farther from the real
truth than the common assertion that
"nine-tenthe of our farms are mortgsged
for more than they are worth" AH a mat
ter of fact, only e.fourth of the farms in
the United States are mortgaged, the total
indebtedness upon real estate being but
$92 per capita; while in France the ma
tional debt alone is $116; in England, 800;
and in some of the Australian colonies,
$500. To put the matter in another way,
all the mortgages on actual farms In the
whole United States do not exceed the
value of one years hay crop. The total
farm mortgage debt in 1890 was about
1875, ,00O, 900, an increase $3.50, 900, 900 dur
ing the previous decade, in which 600 new
farms were created in the West and South.
The new laws affecting foreigners in
France are beginning to take effect. The
official report on nsturalizations for 1899
shows that between 1887 and 1889 there
were only 10,076 naturslizations, whereas
under the new law there were 1884 in
1890 and 5,371 in 1891. In 1892 there
were 4, ,537, of whom 3,571 were males, and
fve-sixths of these had lived in France
more than ten years. One thousand and
fifty three were natives of Alsscs- Lorraine,
954 of Italy, 726 of Belgium, 279 of Ger
many, 1913 of Luxembourg, ITO of Switzer-
land, 81 of Austria, S3 of Russia, 55 of
Spain, and 1O6 OF other countries. Com
pairing the nsturalizations with the num-
Der of foreigners returned by the census of
1891, the Alsatisns and Germans show a
percentage of 2.75 per cent, the Italians
and the natives of Luxembourg .s7 per
cent, the Austrians 10 per cent, the Rus
SLAMS (mostly Poles) .63 per cent, the
| Spaniards .3S per cent, the Bslgians 80
per cent, and the Swiss .18 per cent. Five
| Thousand eight hundred and ninety fve
persons also became French last year by
the naturalization of their parents, and
| adding 1,500 nsturalizstions in Algeria
and email number In the colonies, France
altogether gained 1879 citizens, while she
lost only 800 by repudiation and foreign
nsturalizatiops.
When people address the Prince of Wales
by all his titles the performance takes some
time. He is the Most High. Puissant and
nlustrious Prince Albert Edward, Prince
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland. Prince of Wales, Duke Of
Saxony, Prince of Ssxe-C -Coburg and Gotha,
Great Steward of Scotland, Duke of Corn
wall and Rothray, Earl of Chester, Csrrick
aud Dublin, Baron of Renfrew, lord of the
isles, K.G., KIT, KIP, COB, GO. 1. L.
COLE, PC, field marshal In the army
colonel in-chief First and Second life guards
and royal horse guards, colonel Tenth
Prince of Wales own regiment of roys
hussars, honorable colonel of several In
dian regiments, of the Second brigade
eastern division royal artillery, of thu
, Third battalion Gordon highlanders; slst
of the Oxford and of the Cambridge uni
, versity, Middlesex civil service, Sutherland
highlanders and Third Swansea rifle vol
unteer regiments; honorable admiral II
the fleet, personal aide-de-camp to he
J msje'ty, honorable captain of the roya
{ naval reserve, elder brother of Trinit.
, House, president of the Society of Arts
president of st. Bartholonew's hospital
trustee of the British Museum, grand mas
t ter of the united grand lodge Of Free ant
: Accepted Mssons of England, Student o
, jena, field msrshal in the German army
: colonel of the Fifth Pomeranian husssrs
=, colonel of the Danish hEssars of the guard
: etc etc, etc.
FASHION NOTES.
Il Contrasted Get-Ups.
!. This was q gown go elegant that th
}, young woman who wore 1t was hardly nc
n ticed, which is one of the penalties of ge