Morning journal and courier., 1893-12-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

l fare of this nation
 EDITOHIAL NOTES.
 Mulhan estimates that the land in th
 United States is worth $12. .50O, ,0OO .000; tn
 cattle, S. 800, 900, 900; the houses. $14, 200, COG, ,000; the furniture, etc. $7, 200, ,000, ,00C
 the railroads, $1o, 900. GOO, GOO; the ship ping, $3OO, O,0O0. GOO; the total wealth per in habitant, $1, ,O50.
 The Harvard "Anne1." now adopted b. Harvard college, takes the name of Rad | cliffe college from Anne Radcliffe, Lad, Moulton, who gave 9100 to Harvard col lege in 1643. She is supposed to hay been the frat woman to endow an educa tional institution in America.
 The famous strike of the Lawyers cor poration of the city of Rlom, in Auvergue France, is ended: One of these lawyers or advocates, having been improperl, treated by 8 judge, his colleagues sidet | with him, and for five months they hay, refused to plead before the court, whici was practically closed. At last due satis faction has been given to the lawyers cor poration by M. Oudoul, the president ot the Court District of Rom, and the advo cates have resolved, in a meeting, to re sume again their evocation and pIesdingl in that court.
 The officers of the steamship Seandia ar rived st Philadelphia from Hamburg few days ago, and report that during the voy age, in the widest storm the ship had evel been in, with high waves breaking over the ship in great volume, soap suds made and allowed to drift over the ships bow almost instsntaneously broke the force of the seas which ceased to smash over the sides, and the vessel soon lay comparatively easy. The officers were enthusiastic over the sue. cess of the experiment. Experiments in this line have recently been made by the Photographic office with uniform success
 The losses caused by the great strike oi the English coal miners are startling. h sixteen weeks the coal output dropped from the normal figure of 63,00O, ,000 tons to 39,000,000. The loss to mine owners, iron masters. railroads, and so on, was s13, ,255, ,e15. Consumers paid in increased prices e1, ,767, ,000. Miners, iron workers and other artisans lost e1S, POS, ,000. The total general loss is placed at 453 ,232, ,215. The workers rendered idle numbered 1,003, ,250, which meant 3,511, ,425 persons in a destitute condition. No strike in modern history approaches these fgures.
 At the recent meeting of the Geological Society of london a most remarkable in stance of evolution in the adaptations of organisms to their environments was dem- onstrated. MT. Tegetmeier said that the English rabbits imported into Australia were gradually changing their habits and becoming tree. climbers, the available food for them there being largely the bark and leaves of trees. In evidence of his asser- tions he showed the feet of some Austral. ian rabbits, which shows that they are slighter than those of their English progen- itors, and their claws are longer and sharper.
 Sir William Turner, the eminent anat- omist of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, with the help of Glasgow shipbuilder, has been making some cal. culations as to the strength of whale The size and dimensions of great whale stranded some time sine. on the Scotch coast furnished the necessary data This whale was 80 feet long, 20 feet across the fspges of the tail, and weighed 1e5.000 pounds. The profes sor calculates that to attain a spsed of twelve miles sn hour, an ordinary rate for whale, the animal would have to exert 145 horsepower.
 Goat raising is an important and grow ing industry In Oregon and some othe, northwestern States. One rancher ir Benton county, Oregon, has fine herd ot 450 goats, which includes 8 number oi thoroughbred Angora bucks. Twenty-Five cents . pound is the lowest this man hal received for fleece in dozen years, whil. frequently he has received thirty to thirty five cents pound. The average yield from goat is about four pounds, bu eight to ten pounds is frequently obtained from high grade goats. The goats are no only valuable for their fleece, but in clear ing off land, as they subsist largely ol brush and weeds.
 The ridiculously low prices at whicl Worlds fair buildings are sold Is festur of the closing events of the fair which tn most sagacious spectators in salvag values had not anticipated. It was cup | posed that the Worlds fair structure | proper would bring at least million dol lars in the market, and that the state ant foreign buildings would bring somethinl at least near the cost of the materials Instead of that the fair directory offer the buildings and $2OO,0Oo bonus to tn south park board merely to get rid o them. The other buildings are sold a prices that are but small percentage O their coat The Midway palaces wsr
 bought for amounts legs than the value 0
 the lumber for kindling wood. There wa no demand-no msrket-for the material
 of which the buildings were constructed | The wreckers bought them at aomins
 prices and will have to use up the rubbis gradually in their contracts with thos
 erecting buildings.