Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-01-20
RDITOHIAL NOTES.

NEEDED as anything nowadays in our mag
nificent public school systems. ;r
EDITORIAL NOTES.
1t is reported that the Cxarina, who is
suffering from the grip, refuses to 90 to
bed. She probably doesn't like the idea Of
sleeping with the grip. =
Farmers in Kent county, Maryland, have
found that ground planted In tomatoes
yields from $27 to $50 per acre, and one
farmer reported yield of $7s per acre,
while the average of reports received indi-
Gated yield of little less than $40 so per
acre. All these facts came out at meet
ing of farmers. 1t was the sense of the
meeting that the landlord should furnish
half the fertilizer and half the tomato
plants, and that he should receive one.
third the returns.
Britannia still rules the yave. Accord
ing to the Bureau veritas, or French
Lloyds, Great Britain owns more than one
third of the actual shipping of the world
1911 out of 42,257 vessels. Six out of
twelve of the largest steam and sailing
companies in the world are British, and of
the fourteen vessels of over 5000 tons en-
ployed in the worlds commerce British
ship-owners claim nine. The estimated
value of the merchants' feet of Grest
Britain is 81, 100, 100000 The United
States comes second in the list with 8, ,794
vessels owned by US. Norway comes next
with 3, 7sS ships, and is followed by Ger
many and Italy with 2.165 and 2,122 re-
spectively.
They do some things we'll in France.
When France became republic the or ,wn
jewels and plate were sold, and some $3,-
600, 900 were turned into the public treas
ury. Recently the government has intro
duced in the chamber of deputies bill for
transferring this money to a special fund,
the income from which is to be paid in
pensions to aged and infirm workmen
Thus a part of the money wrung from the
toiling artizans of France during several
centuries ia to to returned to their de-
scendants in pensions that will provide
for their comfort in old sge. Which is a
very poetic kind Of justice.
Geologist J. B. Tyrrell and Surveyor J.
w. Tyrrell of Canada have recently made
journey through the Barren Grounds
lying between Black Lake and Hudson Bay
previously unexplored region where tho
ground is frozen the year round except
e. l.
They saw reindeer every day, and think
there must be several hundred thousand of
them there, grazing on the grass in the
summer and the moss in the winter. The
region is absolutely treeiess. After reach
ing Chesterfield Inlet the two explorers
made their way in canoes 500 miles to
Churchill. Thence by .dogtesm and on
foot they journeyed 1000 miles to Winni-
peg.
In the resting place of the old kings of
Denmark, the Cathedral of Roeskilde, a
recent visitor notes thas there is a column
against which a number of monarehs have
been measured and upon w...ich their diff
ferent heights are recorded. One of them
is Peter the Great, and We learn by this
means that the shipwright eEsr measured
no less than eighty Danish inches, equivs.
lent to something like six feet ten inches
in our measurement. Only one other of
the sovereigns was taller, and that was
Christian l., of Denmark, who, according
to this authority, WAS just a trihe over
seven feet English. The czar, Alexander
Ill, ia about six feet one inch, and is
about couple of inches taller than Chris
tian *. of Denmark, and about four
inches taller than King George of Greece,
neither of whom, nevertheless, is what
would be called short man. 1t is worth
noting that in the same ancient cathedral
where this column is to be seen Ssxo
Grammaticus, The Danish historian from
whom Shakespeare borrowed practically
the entire plot of "Hsmlet," lies buried.
1t is singular fact, says a correspond
the reign of every queen in modern times
has been attended by wonderful advance
ment in th N aterial, political, literary and
even military progress of her country.
The reign of Catherine the Great of Rus
sis witnessed the widest extension of the
Russian empire that had been known up
to her time, aud the greater part of the
Russian copquests were accomplished dur
ing the time of the other Russian empreeses.
The reign of Maria Theresa was period of
prosperity for Aust ria Hungary, in spite
of the Seven Years war, while tbs reisns
of Elizabeth and Anne in English history
were sges of glory in letters, arts and war,
and that of Mary might have bse but for
the unlucky foreign alliance she formed
with Philip of Spain. Great Britain has
never seen such an age as that of Vict oria,
and perhaps will not again for centuries.
The presence of queen on the throne as
sovereign seems to inspire all the poetry
and chivalry there is in the nature of man,
and psrhaps that fact furnishes an adequate
explanation. Can this be what sils the
President of the United Sta!esi