Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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 The latest is that appendicitis is 6 germ disease. One physician in Chicago has op- erated on one hundred and eight cases since the fair opened.
 Justice fig not always slow. A young man who persisted in singing oAfter the Ball" has been arrested at Harper, Kan, and paid $10 and costs for disturbing the psace.
 Those Illegal expenses" sst down in the annual report of the New York, New Ha- ven and Hartford Railroad company are attracting some attention. A good deal of legal work can be got for s25s, ,O6s.
 St. Helena is again the prison of royalty. DInizul, the son and heir of Cetywayo, the Zulu king, and Undsbuko, brother of the same monarch, are kept in captivity there by the British. Owing to the climate, which is much more severe than that of South Africa, the two Zulus have to wear blankets or some other heavy covering all the time. Their health Is bad, and 1t Is not believed that they will ever leave their island prison alive. Perhaps the English government does not intend that they shall.
 Perhaps there ~-s q ca;.ss4o Gsiuubas. The records of China show that In the fifth century Buddhist priest sailed out into the Pacific ocean distance of 10000 Il, where he found country which he named Fueang. People similar to the Indians were described in his report, as we'll as American plants. The doubt about the claim that the priest was the original dis coverer of America rests in the question as to what is meant by 10000 II, for the priest may only have reached some Pacific ocean island.
 A German scientific weekly proposed the conumdrum: 'Do water wheels run faster at night than In the daytime-and whyG" Correspondence grew up round this sub ject, multiplied reasons, upset them, dis torted them and finally brought the ques- tion into so much prominence that 1t be- came ingrafted into the columns of a French rival across the border. Then the process began again. At last some one asks: "Why not look at a water wheel and see if it is true3"
 There should not be any social club the membership of which is exclusively Jewish, in the opinion of the Jewish Tidings, which says: ''Do not make of your club y,1a oraun1 xghfoh a barrier that is bound to foster prejudice and create jealousy. Jewish clubs should not exist. Jews in their social life should mingle with their fellow citizens of other denominations as they do in business pur- suits. It is the Jews themselves by their clannishness and exclusiveness who foster the prejudice of which they so much com plain. We believe this Is the best way to solve the social problem and to tear down existing barriers.
 London papers are laughing over the awards to British exhibitors in the agricul- tural section of the Chicago exposition. It appears that under the head of agricuI- tural ards, medals have been granted to a firm of pickle manufacturers, to a maker of chocolates and to couple of distillers. The London Standard suggests that cotton spinners and wesvers, ehoemakers and yacht builders might with equal propriety claim place and an award in the agricul- -tural department It thinks elso that nos- sibly the juries found 1t more agreeable to sample the products of distillers than to decide between the merits of manures and other things that are commonly recognized as appropriately classsd with agricultural exhibits.
 Probably few men have had more thrilling fifteen seconds or so than had the driver of heavy load of giant powder in Oregon few days ago. He was piloting four-horse team drawing a wagon con taining 5000 pounds of giant powder over a rough road into Tillsmook. A rickety bridge spanning a narrow ravine gave way under the load, and the whole outfit wat dumped down into the dry bed of tn, creek. There was no explosion, and tn, driver, horses, wagon and powder were hauled out all right. The driver has To | recorded his sensations as he felt tn, bridge giving way and during the few sec onds between then and the time the loac | landed safely again.