Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-04
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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EDITORIAL NOTES.
The hard times tell in the Postoffiee de-
partment. The deficit tbis year will be
from So, O0O,0O to $1O,00O,OOO During
Harrison's administration the average de-
ficit was 81, 343, 455. Business correspond
ence has been greatly curtailed and there
has been large falling off in the trans
mission of newspapers, magazines, books
and merchandise.
Captain Thomas @. Wikon, an assistant
in the Pennsylvania Bureau of Industrial
Statistics, is making tour of the State to
ascertain to what extent the apprentice
system is being carried on in its leading
manufactures, aud what effect the trades
unions have had in increasing or decreas-
ing the number of apprentices employed
in them. At the outset he is met by the
information that the places for him to
make his Investigations are the little shops
in the towns and villages, from which the
larger manufactures re cruit their working
forces.
Doctor Luys, who has been making hyp
motto experiments in Paris, says: The con-
frmed drunksrd, the man of vicious
habits, the lazy child, the kleptomaniac, or
cured by it. A patients will power can
be so intensifsd by 1t as to resume mastery
of the parts of the body, which as the re-
suit of nervous disorders, as paralysis, he
may have entirely lost. Ague, tic nervsoux,
neuralgia and analogous disorders have
bsen cured by repeatedly epjoining the
patient, while in the hypnotic state, to
conquer his trouble.
An apparatus for collecting electricity
from the air Is described by a French jour-
nal as a revolving wheel having eight
spokes but no rim. Each spoke is q con-
ductor, insulated from the hab and having
metallic crossarm at its farther end.
Two brushes are arranged near the hub,
one above and one below the center. These
brushes are always in contact with the
spokes, pointing vertically upward and
vertically downward, respectively, during
the revolution, and therefore lead off from
them the electric charges collected from
the atmosphere at the top and at the bot
tom of the wheel.
Convertible steamships are the newest
designs in shipbuilding. They are built
to carry general or liq u!d cargoes on very
short notice. The first vessel of that type,
the new British steamship Mexican Prince,
arrived at Philadelphia a few days ago
from the Tyne. She was built at Wall
send, England. for James K mott, and had
every requirement for loading and dis
charging anything that might have to be
sent across the sea. Steam fans to drive
out gases that always accumulate on this
type of vessels are part of the ships equip
ment. Winches and high power pumps
are also on board to suit the varying de-
mands of commerce.
In connection with the recent announce
ment of the birth of Queen Victoria's
seventeenth grandchild. 1T is said that pure
ly family occurrences of this kind are kept
written up from day to day In vast vol
ume. This is systematically examined, In
order that ths interchange of affectionate
messages, which is tradition with the
Royal family, may not be overlooked. In
her own childhood the Queen was very
punctilious in recognizing the birth ami
versary and other such festival days in the
life of her uncle, George w., and she still
possesses under lock and key at Windsor
the last birthday present she made to him.
In recent years she has come to prize very
highly any such intimations of affection
that reach her from the second and third
generation of her own descendants.
Atlanta is preparing for its coming
semi-centennial celebration with the en-
thusiasm and energy which are character
istic of the Yankee city of the South
The merchants, from the wholesale deal
ers down to the street venders, are to take
part in the pageant which Is to be thu
feature of the day, and the houses along
the line of march will bs profusely de
corated. The authorities expect a orowt
of sight-seers equal in numbers to tha
which attended the first Piedmont e1posi
tion. Atlanta has reason to be proud o
it's half-century of existence since Its set
Element. 1t has now "a miles of stree
railways. 63S manufactures with capita
of SIS, 100000, II railways, 220 whol
sale houses employing 1000 drummer
and doing an annual business of owe
$95, ZOO, 900, a banking capital of So, 500
600, and more than 10000 population
counting the suburbs. And 1t must nc
be forgotten that the city was all but de
stroyed by the federal forces during th
war.
It is currently stated in California this
a young woman student of Oakland, Mit
Ray Frank, is soon to be ordained a rabbi
, She has studied at the Hebrew Union CO
t lege at Cincinnati and at the State Unive
, sity of California with that object In vie'
, and lattsrly has taught in the Jewish Sa
q bath school at Oakland. She delivered q
f address at the Congress of Religions
o Chicago. If the report prove true she VI
}. be the first of her sex to hold such plsc
g "Sueh an ordination would be . remark
n BILE and entirely unprecedented event
n said q Jew in discussing this ststeasr
% "Woman has no standing whatever in t
1t orthodox Jewish Church. She is not ev
d allowed in the body of the synagogue, b
d occupies q place In the gallery of t
church, set aside for her sole us Q, and sh
g. off by q screen. It would be accounted
IN Dissertation for her to have any part in
is ceremonies of worship. If Miss Frank
O. to be ordained to any sacred jewish of
~ 1t must be in some ultra reformed cong
be gatien, and 1t will, think, be nota
innovation"