Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-13
RpIroRIaL NOTES.

EDITORIAL NOTES.
 4 large number of women in California, are engaged in raising fruit. They do not raise e much hsdss with their fruit as the frat woman did with hers.
 Waldorf Astor's Engliah newspaper says: There is something remarkable about American women. A man goes half mad until he gets an American wife, and then he'd give half the world to get lid of her.
 It Is encouraging to read that fhs owner of barking dog has lost suit for dam ages brought bsfore an Iowa court by c man whose horse the dog had frightened with disastrous results. The caee was car ried to the supreme court of the State and the horse owner won at every stage.
 Many country people in Italy foretell the weather by means of lsech in an open mouthsd bottle partly filled with water. The water must be changed once . week, and . spoonful of blood poured in it about ss often. When the weather is good the lseoh will remain coiled up at the bottom of the bottle. Whenever rain is near ct hand 1t will creep up to the top and stay there until the weather is settled again. If wind is imminent 1t Szill be very rsate less and dart about in the water as though in pain, while before a thunderstorm 1t will appear to be in convulsions. It is SO generally trusted that at having time and other seasons when fine weather is impor- tant the leech is one of the most useful members of the household.
 Jacques M. Redenay contributes a learned and exhaustive article to Goldthwaits's Geographical Magazine, entitled "The Landfall of Columbus in the Light of Ear ly Records" in which he adduces facts tending to show that Columbus first landed not on Waiting island, but on Crooked and Acklin islands, which are practically one. There is, in his opinion, not another island in the Bahama group that SO com pletely nests all the facts of the case. "There ii, he ssys, "but ore discrepancy, and that is the admirals statement that the side of the islsnd toward Gusnshani SAsoAASo HUI s4 oho ooubus A6 "Att6k OI fact, it is the east-and-west lying side that is, the north coast-that lies opposite Guanahani. Whethsr or not, during the night, while standing off and on, he had worked his vessels so far to the eastward that they were opposite the east instead of the north coast, Is matter of conjecture only. I am free to admit tho discrepancy as aa objection, and do not attempt to explain it by guesaes. The same objec- ton obtrudes itself just as strongly in the consideration of Waiting island"
 This country is to become an importer of petroleum. While the Standard Oil people will continue to send it abroad from the Atlantic ports, as they have been doing for years, Grace & Company of New York and Peru will commence carrying it to San Francieco from their oil territory in the latter country. To this end they arc hay ing constructed Rect of tank steamers the first of which will sail this week for the Peruvian coast. A contract has been made for the first cargo with the San Fran cisco Gas Light Company at c cut rate of 75 cents barrel. The gas company use. great quantities of crude petroleum to on. rich the gas made from Scotch coal. Two years ago California stood sixth in the list of oil-producing states, but since then the development in Rem county has probably brought it up to the fifth. But there has been a large falling off in the production of coal in California and Oregon which has caused the substitution of crude oil for fuel by manufacturers, and this has 80 greatly increased consumption that the de- mand exceeds the supply. The Standard Oil Company cannot carry oil in tank CATS across the continent and deliver 1t in San Francisco in competition with Grace & Co.,, who expect in time to supply the en- tire Pacific coast from Peru.
 The COW killing excitement in India has hssn followed by a revival of violent at tacks upon the English in the native press. Here Is sample paragraph taken from Bsngalee daily paper published in Calcutts: Their Indian fellow subjects are like toys in the hands of Englishmen. Why else should they use them as they liksf An Englishman wilfully shoots down s native as he would wild beast. and then he takes the plea that he mistook the man for a jacksl; and as the life of native ie | considsred of no more value than that of l beast, the plea ia admitted by the British courts, and the murderer is hon. orably acquitted. Thus, not to speak of Englishmen who kill natives without in- tending to do SO, good many of those who kill natives Intentionally escape punish ment, and in consequence a large number of Indians yearly lose their lives at the hands of Englishmsn in this way. It is owing to the defects of the English admin.
 istration that many ttadesmen now aiul
 terste articles of food with impure and
 noxious things, and the he.lth of the peo
 pie consequently suffers. A large number
 of the deaths from cholera and mslsrii
 which take place year after year are to b'
 traced to this cause. Before Englishmel
 came to this country the people never suf
 fered SO much sickness or died in sucl
 large numbers. The question of diseas
 and mortality is occasionally discussed il
 the government reports, but no steps ST
 taken to deal with them.