Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-09-28
EDITORIAL NOTES.


RDITORIAL NOTES.
A man has been sent to jail for thirty
days for kissing Bridgeport woman.
Courage and self-sscrihcs don't seem to be
appreciated in Bridgeport.
Oae of the interesting sights to be seen
on the Green yesterday afternoon was a
deaf and dumb couple talking to each other
with their fingers about the Moodus and
other noiees.
In the Island of Reunion is q plant
known as the wild orange, which produces
fruit, green at first, sfterward BLUSH,
and verging into purple es 1t ripens. This
has been tested and found to make a
beverage in every way equal to coffee and
at much lower price. The product is
called "mussaenda" and can be used alone
or mixed with purs coffee. It is an
nourced that about 900 acres of this
plant are now being cultivated. 1t is most
likely, however, that chicory, more than
coffee, will suffer from the introduction of
"mussserda"
The California Supreme cour: has sus-
tsired the sppesl of ali editor who was
fined by lower court for publishing a
report of testimony taken in a divorce
case, after the court had forbidden such
publication. The Supreme court decided
that court has no right to prevent a
publication unless fuch publication would
interfere with the operations of justice or
embsrrass the court in Its proceedings.
The wisdom or morality of publishing
the details OF divorce was not in quss
ton. The proceedings of the court were
public property and what the public had
the right TO listen to the editor had the
right to publish.
etone quarry on the south shore of Lake
Superior, conceived last fall the idea of
getting out the largest monelith in the
country and exhibiting 1t at the Worlds
fair. He got out the column of stone, ITO
feet long, 10 feet square at the bsse, and 4
feet square at the top. 1t cost him s15,-
600, and he offered it to the Wisconsin
Worlds fair commissioners. They refused
1t on the ground that 1t would cost some
where from $25, 900 to 800, 900 to remove 1t
and set it up. Then he offered it to the
city of Milwaukee to be get up In one of the
parks. Subscriptions aggregsting $40, 900
were made to set 1t up, but just then the
hard times came and it was found that only
a Of he cnhoorinffnna DnnId he
paid. Now, In disgust, Mr.. Prentice is
cutting the great column into building
etone.
Lancashire miner, who for many
years was a member of the local labor
union, to which he regularly paid the re-
quired dues, discovered some FIVE years
ago that he and his fellow members de-
rived but little benefit from their contribu-
tions to the general fund while the ''dele-
gates" were the only ones who profted by
the union. So, Gays the Pail Mall Gazette,
"he and his two sons formed burned
sight better union of their own. They
left the union, snd had 8 strong boI made,
with a smsE opening, into which they
could put their money, but not take 1t out,
aud all the money for dues and levies
which they would have to pay as members
of the union, they dropped into this box.
When tho strike came oa they opened the
box snd found that they had accumulated
ESQ (s400). They had enough to tide them
safely over the strike in comfort, while this
poor members Of the anton we're reduced
to tbs bcrdess Of stsrvetion. "Pm no
blackleS," he said, "snd l mean TO pisy
until the strike is over. But I'm none
such blooming fool as to give my cash to
union legate, and then want Il my
eelf"
Female suffrage is to have trial In New
Zsalend. The Legislative council of that
colony has agreed, by the narrow but uu-
expected m.jorIty of :wo, to the third
reading of the electoral reform bill, which
confers the right of franchise upon women.
The general election of next Decsmber will
be held under the new law, and the year
1894 Will sse part of the British empire
governed by the equal votes Of the male
and female population. This frat English
| experiment IN universal suffrage hss come
about very quietly. But for the admission
| to the legislative council of csrtain osudi-
dates of the advanced Radical party, there
would have been no possibility of the pro-
| posed change passing into law. Even with
the existing competition of the upper
house ths acceptance of the measure was
30 little expected that no serious opposi-
ton had been organized. 1t is suspected
that the government which carried the bill
is as much surprised as anyone else ct its
own victory, and not altogether certain
what to DO with 1t. 1t is even suggested
that With go narrow a majority In its favor
the opponents of ths measure may rally
their forces and devise some means fol
making 1t imperative. Bat at present
universal suffrage is ths law in New Zea.
land.