Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-19
NEW HAVEN CONN, MORNING, SEPTEMBER
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EDITORIAL NOTES. The estimated loss to shipping by the August hurricane is between $3,oO0, 900 and $5, ,000, 900. New York, Philadelphia, Boston and number of other cities divide the sum. It is estimated that the insur- snoe less will be about $500, 900. These losses are unprecedented so far as this | coast Is concerned.
 Some people find advertising at the Worlds fair profitable. An American concern which manufactures steam rsdia- tors in New York, Boston and Chicago has just made contract at the Worlds fair with the official engineers of the city of Hamburg to supply four carloads of radi- ators for the new municipal buildings in that city.
 It has been the ambition of electrical en- ginesrs to bring about the manufacture of electricity for lighting purposes by railroad trains as they run. Gen ersl interest, therefore, will be felt in the statement that twenty-five light dynamo has been put in day coach upon the New York Central railroad, and that it is worked by @ crank which Is at tached to the front axle of the car. This dynamo lights the car. When the train stops light is turned on from 8 storage battery warranted to supply light for six teen hours.
 Six thousand salmon were taken in nets from the wharves at Port Angeles, Wash ington, by amateur and casual fishermen during one day of laat week. The run of salmon up the smaller streams entering the lower part of Puget Sound has been greater than ever before known. On some days the streams were quite choked, and the bsrbsrous practice of fishing with giant powder was resorted to, until the straits became filled with dead salmon, and the attention of the State Fish commission was called to the outrage, when 1t was promptly stopped.
 One of the most interesting events of the Congress of Religions in Chicago was the kissing of the Presbyterian sisters by the High Priest of Shintoism. These motherly church ladies, some of them buxom, others bespectacled, approached the reverend Shi- bats Rsuchi when he had finished reading his paper and held out their hands to him. He bowed low, and then with great cour- tesy put his hands on the shoulder of the lady first in line and kissed her plumply on the cheek. She was too surprised to remonstrate, and before the others had re- covered their eelf-possession three had sub mitted paesively to the same pleasing csre- monisl.
 The Rev. Dr. Henry L. Wsylsnd of Philadelphia says that he was recently alt ting near statue of Lincoln. There were also sitting on bench mother (supposed to be an American citizsp) and her SOD, who presumably hereafter will be voter of this happy Republic. The latter inquired: "What Is that1' "rhst is the monument Of Abraham Lincoln" Ones ton of Inquiring Offspring: "Whst is a monuments" Reply of Intelligent Mstron: ''It is something that looks like somebody" Question of I. O., "What did Abraham Lincoln dos" Reply of l. M., also: "He didn't do anything; he was shot in thesyter."
 One of the most interesting things about dime novels and summer books Is the way they are made. There is an establishment in New York which prints 5000 novels an hour. They have g machine consisting of two cylinders, on each of which IA pages may be screwed, and as the long strip of paper goes through first one side is printed and then the other, making 1t possible to print 2SS pages at every revolution. The strip of paper, after being carried over rollers which dry the ink, is cut, folded and brought together in the shape of a | small volume, with the edges all trimmed. Every time the great cylinder goes around novel is printed, folded and trimmed, ,and 5000 of these ere turned out every hour, while, If 1t were necessary, 1000 or 5000 might be the quota. The covering does not take long, fifty being the average for minute. The paper costs nearly five times as much as the printing and mounts as high as cents 8 novel. The whole cost l books is not more than cents piece. The most laborious part is in the writing and reading of them.
 There was good deal of surprise when it was discovered that John Stephenson, the car builder, left an estate of only $50,- l GOO. His CATS are found on nearly all the street railroads in the country, and it is known that his business was always pros porous. But MT Stephenson believed In executing his own will as he went along. It is estimated that during his lifetime he gave away fully s1 ,O00 900 to many worthy objects. He wss especially interested in public improvements in the town of New Rochelle, where he resided, and spent over $5O,0 in building good roads for five miles in either direction from his home. To relieve the town of malaria he pur- chased land and constructed drains and sewers at & cost of $40,000. Two years ago he subscribed s25,000 toward new Methodist church in the town. When the Rose Hill Methodist church in New York city was burned, he rebuilt 1t at a cost oi $60,000. He gave literally to the Drew seminary and to prominent Methodist in'
 stitutions In the South, and was always 2 liberal giver to worthy charitable objects.
 He lived unostentatiously, aud always said
 that he would never leave a large estate,
 prefering that his eons should start tr
 life where he did and earn their own for
 tunes.
 FASHION NOTES. Presses Considered.
 Don't make any mistake about the 1s3O headdress. It may be in itself grotesque but 1t sets of piquant face ohsrminsly 1t sets of the carriage at the head, 1 shows the hair and 1t gives fine value t