Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.

business Ia business.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The managers of the Worlds fair are
doing all they can to increase the atten'
dance. The bands of the fair have been
ordered not to play "After the Ball" any
more.
Women, except those obliged to be
there, have been conspicuously absent
from the trial now going on in the City
court. This Is encouraging, as this is just
the kind of trial they have been accused of
liking
Those who are tenor singers will feel
fattered by the compliment paid such
singers by Richard Barker, stage manager
for Gilbert and Sullivan, who says that
"when the Lord gives q man tenor voice
he takes away his brains"
A good many people don't know when
they are well of. This was the trouble
with John R. Hill of Kesnsburg, New Jer-
sey, who was shot and killed on the border
of the Cherokee Strip last Saturday. Hill
was possessed of 500, 900 worth of prop
erty already, but set out for the Strip to
increase his holdings in race for claims.
He hired men to race for certain districts,
and he himself mounted the fAstest horse
| he could buy. A gun which he took for
the noon signal sounded, and he suddenly
rushed out and tried to pass the troopers
One of them ordered him to stop, but
either he would or could not. The trooper
then dismounted, took quick aim and shot
him
The electric underground railroad has
earned such approval in London that the
Beleians are turning their attention to the
system for their city passenger traffic. A
railroad based on the Greathead system Of
tunnels is now proposed for Brussels. 1t
is to be worked by electricity and to run
fifty feet below the surface. The first
portion Is to consist of a complete circle
about four miles long, with double track,
having eleven stations and future extern
sion of a second circle of about two miles
long, with four stations; the two tunnels
for the different directions will be quite
distinct from each other; they run almost
entirely below the public streets. The
subsoil appears to be clay. There is to be
two and one half minute service each
way.
Archbishop Ireland knows how to say
wise things. In responding to the senti-
ment 1.-THE Hierarchy of the United
States" at the banquet following the cere-
monies of the investiture of Archbishop
HenLessey of Dubuqus, said that he was
glad the storms had been succeeded by an
era of mildness, charity and mercy. This
was taken as a reference to the advent of
Satolli, and the cheering was terrific. He
alluded covsrtly to the opposition he had
encountered from the hierarchy, and bsde
the young priests remember that the pre-
judice of Americans against the church,
of which they had complained, was a pre-
judice that the church itself had aroused.
He was prepared to follow the words the
pope's messenger had just uttered in Chi
csgo: "Go forward, holding in one hand
the book Of Christian truth, and in the
other the constitution of the United
States"
Now the directors of the Worlds fair
don't see how they are going to do any
thing profitable with the buildings when
the show is over. They represent an ex-
pense in construction of about $19, 900, 600.
1t was estimated, at the time of their con-
struction, that they could be sold for $s,-
600, 900 to some contractor who would pay
that for the privilege of tearing them down
and restoring the park to what it was be-
fore the buildings were put up. It looks
| now, however, as If no contractor would
step forward to put in any bid at all, on
this anticipation; as If, in fact the cost of
tearing down and restoration is so great
there is no profit left In the material OBJ
tanned. 1t is even represented that the
Exposition company is likely to forfeit its
bond to the South park commissioners,
and leave them with the buildings on their
hands to dispose of as they best can.
| 1t ia announced that this will be a re.
markably good claret year in France. Ac-
cordirg to report issued by the French
minister of agriculture, 81 departments
will produce a very large quantity, 90
much wine," while only 2 are ranked as
moderate" as "passable," and . as
mediocre" The crop would have been
phenomenal had 1t not been for the drought
late in the summer. In the district of the
Msdoc, In several vineyards of Msrgsux,
the gathering was begun on August II,
and the vintage was in full swing on the
21st. On the estate of Chateau Loudenne,
where last year only 700 hogsheads of wine
were produced, the harvest this year will
be between 1,4Oo and $500 hogsheads.
Vines from vineyards which in 1892 gave
81, 900 pounds of grapes this year yielded
nearly 124 900 pounds. Chateau Latte,
which in the last vintage produced 800
hogshesds, this year yielded 1000 hogs
heads of wine. Every vintage since 1887
has been successful, and 1t Ia a noteworthy
fact that wherever the wine is more than
commonly abundant, it is always of su-
perior quality. There is, therefore, every
prospect that the vintage of 1898 will be
memorable.