Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-19
law HAVEN, CONN.,, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 49, 1894
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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EDITORIAL NOTES.
Naturalists Say that healthy swallow
swallows 5000 flies every day. This is
astonishing, but 1t is evident that there are
not enough healthy swallows.
A bill has been introduced in the New
York Legislature prohibiting the use Of
Fifth avenue to other than pleasure vehi-
clss during afternoons from October to
June I, and 1t IL said that there will be no
serious opposition to its pssssge, the truck
men and the retail dealers being heartily
In favor of it.
A French engineer has built an electric
locomotive which carries 50O-horss power
stationary steam engine. This runs dy-
namo electric machine, which generates the
current applied to the electric motors
mounted on driving axles. That Is to say,
instead of using the mechanical energy d.
rectly, 1t is converted into electrical, and
then into mechanical energy. There must
perforee be some loss in each conversion,
but whether 1t is greater than the loss in
cidental to the direct use of steam in an Or
dinary locomotive has yet to be proved.
People in Europe are. just catching up
with China In the matter of eating horse
flesh. Horsefssh has been considered o
great delicacy for centuries In China. The
inhabitants, however, for the purposes of
the kitchen, use almost exclusively ami
mails of email breed, little bigger than
ponies, which have thin legs AID small
bones, and grow fat on little food. They
are fed almost entirely on grass and hay.
The meat is sold at comparatively low
prices for this reason. Many farmers de-
vote their time almost exclusively to rails.
ing these horses for the market.
The Supreme court Of Virginia has de-
cided question of much Importance to
railroad companies and freighters. It es-
tablishss the right of railroads and car
service associations to have and collect 9
fixed charge for every day that cars remain
unloaded after the third day from notice
given the oons'gnes of their arrival. The
opinion, rendered by Judge FAuntleroy,
says that railroads, for their own protec.
tion, "a we'll az for the protection and ben
eft of the public, have car service set of
rules designed and enforced to secure the
prompt movement of freight cars. Before
this system was adopted there were serious
inconveniences and delays to both railroads
and shippers, which it has to great e1-
tent overcome. Companies have right to
make and enforce such rules.
A Brooklyn merchant has made a big
Newfoundland dog work for him in effect
i've fashion. He has equipped the dog
with sandwich boards and turned It loose
to wander ct will about the city streets.
The dog is unusually large and handsome.
Fastened on its back Is white oilskin
coat, fashioned like an ordinary dog blsn-
ket, except that 1t is 20 long as to almost
sweep the ground, and painted thereon in
vivid colors is an advertisement Of the
dogs owner. The dog seems to know bis
business, too, for he spends most of his
time trottinz up and down the shopping
district of Fulton street, whore the crowds
are thicksst. He Is good-natured:and fra
tern!zes with the children who accompany
the shoppers, and in many ways makes
himself conspicuous and thus an efficient
advertisement.
Gramerey park in New York city is on
the city tax list for the first time. It has
been exempt from taxation these sixtytwo
years. Now 1t is put on the tax books at
valuation Of $500. 900 dts valuation as
exempt property having bsen $725 5.00O),
and the owners will pay the city $40 800
in 1894 unless the courts help them out of
it. There certainly seems no more reason
why this park under its conditions should
be exempt from taxation than If its terri.
tory were divided into 30 many private
gardens for all tho sixty owners. The re-
suit will probably be the transference of
the park to the city park commission.
Among the property owners are the Play
ers' club, the Society of Friends, whose
meeting house fronts on the park, Stuy-
veesnt Fish, A. Il. Gsllatin, J. q. Sorym-
ser, William Steinway, and the estates of
Cyrus W. Field aud Samue, ]. Tildsn.
1t is said that with the death of Sir
George Elliot there disappears the original
of Sir Gorgeous Midas, PORTRAYED by Du
Maurier in the pages of Punch. Sir George
is described as having been an sppallingly
vulgar man, but he was shrewd and was
possessed of great energy and enterprise.
A good sample of his quality was afforded
by q fpsech which he made not long ego,
in the course of which he told of his hum.
BILE beginning, and how he had started out
as q collier boy at the age of ten, working
his way up to the ownership Of the very
mine in which he had commenced his ca.
reer, to the possession of immense wealth,
the baronetcy and membership of Parlia
| ment. He wound up by observing that al.
though he held up his life as An Illustration
of what could be achieved BY energy, hon.
esty and perseverance, "yet I cannot sx
pect that you will oil become Sir George