Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EDITORIAL NOTES.
 Some curious fgurer announces that If
 the money spent every year in this country
 on drink were given to person in $5 gold
 pieces, he might walk around the world at
 the equator and drop three at every step,
 and then only just exhaust the supply.
 Wool, wooler, woolman, Tarrier, Sack
 CT, Staples, Carder, Comber, Primer, Tow
 ger and Tozer, Spindler, Weaver, Webster,
 Lister, Taintor, Dyer, wooder, MAdder-
 man, Tucker, Fuller, Walker, Beater,
 Batter and Bates, Sherman, Draper, Spin ner, Winter, Bleaker, BlAker and Black. ster are all names derived from various operations connected with the manufao- ture of wool into oloth-
 Dr. Hermann NJ. Bigss of the New York health department has been making bac- terlological examinations in a number of cases of so-cslled membranous croup, and has discovered in a great majority of the cases, the game bacillus which Is present in cases of diphthsris. This indicates that membranous croup is contagious, and should be subject to isolation and disin- lection, ss in the case of diphtheria.
 It is said that nearly every case of em- bezzlement and breach of trust from which the Philadelphia surety companies have suffered for the past four years has been traced to the racetrscks at Glouc sstsr, New Jersey. For that reason, those companies now keep detectives at the races watching for men for whose fidelity they hNve be- come surety. If 6 clerk for whom a bond has been given even appears there hIs bond Is cancelled, and If merchants and business men are found there they are reported to the banks.
 Experiments made by NJ. d'0rsonval with an instrument which he calls a myo- phone proves, contrary to the older opiu- ion, that nervous excitsbility may exIst for many hours after death. The old test of the muscle shortening Is, no doubt, not applicable long after death has departed; but as the sound given out by the myo- phone proves, the death of a nerve Is much less rapid than has been hitherto and a nerve may act on muscle, in state of electric excitsbility, without producing more than simple molecular vibration.
 NIT. Isasc Sharp, distinguished and Quaker of London, England, is making an easy journey around the world at the age of eighty eight years, and this week is U attend the yearly meeting of Orthodox Friends in Baltimore. He has once before made the circuit of the globs In the cause of missions, being then seven- ty years old. He will 60 from Baltimore to Florida and then to Mexico, and expects to return home in time for the yearly meet ing of Friends in London next June. He has been preacher of the society for about sixty years. He started on his present tour about three years ago, and has visited India, Australia, China and Japan.
 warburton Pike, hunter and explorer. who returned from Nsnsimo. B. O., last week from a fifteen months trip to ths interior of Alaska, brought a poor opinion and account of the country he passed through. He followed the Dssse river to It's junction with the Willard, a tributary of the Mackenzie, explored the Pelly river country, folio wing the river to its source, paddled down the Lewis river to the Yukon, and finally went down the river to the coast, near Fort Alexander. He had very fine hunting, but says most of the country he trsversed is except for hunting, and much of 1t is of no value at all. He found great many mining camps that were sban- doned except by men too poor to leave.
 Chicago will retain several enduring me morials of thsexposition her people planned and carried through to a magnificent sue cess. First of these will be the Columbian which we'll occupy the Fine Arts building that will remain in Jackson Park, and be recsst of enduring materials. The splendid gift of $1,0OO.0O0 by Marshall Field has been supplemented by liberal from other citizens, the az gregste of which makes a handsome and sufficient endowment. The institution thus assured has received gifts of many exhibits that were displayed at the exposition, and many more have been purchased at prices far below their real value, their owners taking this method of their appreciation of Chicsgo's public spirit, and of the cour tesies they have received from her citiz ems. A wo- mans memorial structure will also be erected on the lake front in honor of the part women have taken in the exposition.
 The wine-growers of South Carolina are up In arms against the Tillmsn dispensary law. They say that iu operation it Is ruin ing their industry, and the growers of Geo. nee County are circulating petition pray ing for the repeal of so much of the law