Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-30

EDITORIAL NOTES

EDITORIAL NOTES.
The claim is made that beer will coun-
tersct toadstool poisoning.
Woman's influence is recognized in
Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Times makes
this string appeal: Madame, If you ap-
preciate the advantage of clean streets do
is on the registration list. If he has not
registered yet, send him out Immediately
after tea.
The people of Troy, New York, voted
for a change" last fall, and they are now
satisfied that they got 1t. When the shirt,
collar and cuff industries of that place
were in full blast, over $1,000 persons
were employed. Now these Industries are
running with half their force, and the pso-
pie are receiving in wages 81, $50, 900 less
this year than last.
The Scientific American describes q nav
method of making steel that will revolu-
tionizs the steel industry If Its inventors
hopes are realized. The process is simply
to place bar of iron and stick of char
coal together in a parallel direction in an
electrical friedrich Furnaces of a tempera-
ture of 1000 degrees, subject them to
strong current and the steel is made in
simultaneously. Julss GARNER, a French
man, Is the inventor.
A recent issue of the Congressional
Record shows what can be done. 1t con-
tains ths celebrated speech of Senator
Allen of Nebraska. 1t is the longest
speech ever printed in the Record, and
fills 60 pages of 124 columns. If pub
lished in pamphlet form, as are many of
these silver speeches, 1t would make q vol
ume of IT'S pages. 1t is doubtful, how
ever, If Senator Allen will long hold the
record. The spesch of Senator Jones of
Nevada will probably take more room, but
1t was delivered in sections.
A strange arrival occurred the other day
had left the town in his youth to seek his
fortune in America, resppesred with q
suite of over 200 persons-s very large
family. He had been married three times,
and brought back TO Barcelona with him
sixteen daughters, of whom six were
widows and nine married; twenty three
sons, some of whom were widowers and
others married; thirty-f four grsnddsugh-
ters, some of whom we're married, and
forty seven grsndsons, and among the
NTH
their wives and husbands and children,
made up large family.
Mistenwalde is small city of about
5000 inhabitants, not far from Berlin.
The burgomaster of Mittenwslde is not
very busy at times and 60 he has en-
ployed his leisure hours in poking about
among the old records and archives of the
city. In these he has made an astonishing
fud. The chronicles show that in 1549
the city of Berlin borrowed large sum of
money from Mittenwalde, and the elector
of Bradenhurg of that period, Joachim IL,
also became debtor of the city for con-
siderable amounts. Calculated with COM
pound interest from the year 1549, these
loans now sum up at the respectable
figure of $s75. 100000
Where there's will there's way.
Everett Chsuncey Bumpus, of Quincy,
Massachusetts,, member of the present
freshman class of Harvard, is completely
blind, but intends TO take the full course for
the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He wrote
his entrance examin ations on a typewriter,
except the Greek, which he dictated, and
the geometry, in which he used mechsni-
cal appliance. All Mr.. Bumpus' textbooks
are prepared for him especially on the
Sraille system for the blind; his G rsek and
few other subjects, however, he prepares
by bavirg them read 70 him. Mr.. Bum
pus is the aon of Judge E. E. Bumpus, of
Boston, andis twenty years CID. BE rooms
in FELTON, Hall, about three minutes walk
from the college yard, but is rapidly learn
ing his way about Cambridge.
The Missouri Court of Appeals has sus-
tanned verdict for damages against st.
Louis hotel for the loss of a coat and hat,
which guest left in the charge of an at
tendant at tAe dining room door. The coat
and hat were stolen or delivered in mis-
take to another guest while the owner was
at dinner. The hotel proprietors pleaded
that they had provided coat room, where
checks were given for personal apparel,
and the guest, knowing this, should have
svailed himself of 1t, and his negligence in
failing to do 80 relieved them of respons.-
| bility. The court held that the fact that
defendant had prepared place for the safe
keeping of the overcosts of its guests did
not neg alive the fact that 1t had prepared
other places for that purpose likewise.