Morning journal and courier., 1894-02-26
EDITORIAL NOTES.

nOIIOnlAh II NOhH5s
A project 10 on foot to introduce into the
United States the edible hchsn of Japan.
It Ii gathered Of the granite rocks of the
japanese mountains and contains large
Quantities of starch and other gelatinous
substances.
Those journalists who are sauirmipe
about In their efforts to get what they call
circulation" can and hint In the exam
pie set them BY ST. Petersburg Journal
Lat, who 10 printing bis journal on paper
suitable for making cigarettes.
The manufacture of brick from blast fur
mace alag has recently been commenced In
Germany. One set of furnaces alone
turned out over :, ZOO, 900 bricks last year.
The bricks are weak at hrst and have to BE-
handled carefully, but they become suHi-
oisntly strong for building purposes after
the lapse of six months.
Cecil Rhodes, known as ''ths Un crowned
King of Africa" and called by Lobengula
''the man who eats q whole country for his
dinner" went to Africa 9 siekly lad,
twsnty-four ysars ago, for his health. He
is only 40 now. yet he has built telsgrsphs
and railroads, sxtsnded the border of Cape
Colony, hsld . worlds fair ut Kimberley,
and lie man Of athletic asurs.
Vice Admiral Lefsvrs, French minister
of marine, estimates that by about 1905
the type of ironclad now being constructed
by the nations of the world will have
reached Its spogee, naval armaments along
present lines will be completed, and the
nations will have armed, for the sea, up to
the limit. The naval budgets will, he
thinke, attain their maximum by that time
and will then diminish for some time.
This Is 6guring along present lines. A
complete revolution, like that of the intro
duction of steam, would be needed to up
set the calculation.
Prohibition In Kentucky will not seen
very oongruous, but the Legislature of that
State has passed . stringent local option
law for the control Of the liquor traffic,
and ss soon as the governor sigas II q ma
jority of the voters Of any county can for
bid the sale of Intoxicating liquors within
that county. But IL any city, precinct or
town In q county voting to prohibit liquor
selling had previously voted to permit
such sale, the negative vote of the county
ss 9 whole shall not be operative In those
precincts, ,eities or towns. II In this county
election those districts which had previous
ly voted TO permit the sale of liquors
should revoke that permission by msior-
ity vote, then prohibition would be univsr-
sal in that csunty.
In the current issue of the Psnnsylvania
Magazine . very unhsttsring description
of Bsnjsmin Franklin's wife 10 given. 1t
is taken from the diary Of Daniel Fishsr,
who was Frsnklin's secretary for q short
time. "She sat on the aoor st q neighbor's.
She assumed tbs sirs Of extraordinary
freedom and great humility, lamsnted
heavily the misfortunes of those who are
benevolent disposition, sald che believed
all the world claimed privilege Of troub-
ling her Pappy leo she usually calls Mr..
Franklipl with their cslsmities and dis
tress, giving us a general history of many
such wretches and their impairment sppli-
cstions." He mentions "ths turbulence
and jealousy and pride of her disposition"
and the violence of her invsstives. Point
ing to Franklin's son. ons day, she ex-
claimed: ''Thsrs goss the greatest villain
upon EARTH
1t IL said that the days of the second
class carriage upon Euslish railroads are
numbered. For many years there has hsen
tendency on the part of the public, espe-
cislly In local traffic, to economics by rid
ing In tie improved third-class carriages,
and of late the seoond-class carriages have
been comparatively deserted. In the old
days third elass carriages were little better
than horse boxes, and thsre was q large
class of travellers unwilling to ride In them
and yet unable to pay frst class fare. For
thsse persons the second-clsss carriage
was provided, and by them. for q time,
1t wac patronized most literally. Now
sdsys. however, the third-class carriage
In on decent springs and is often
comfortably upholstered, particularly
on the longer lines, and 10 ussd BY
q large majority of travellers Of moderate
means. The problem to be solved by the
directors was whether. II there were no
second olsss carriages. the people who
used to ride In them would go into the
frat or the third el.ss. At rtssnt meet
ing of the Great Eastern Railway COM
psny, Lord Gland Hamilton, the chair
man, observed that the rssond class had
nov been abolished for q year on the
main line aud on the branches in the eoun-
try districts, and the result had more
than exceeded the expectations of the
directors. If the whole of the second
class passengers had gone into the third
| class, the company would have stood to
lose fa2. 600 In the year, but nearly one.
third had gone into the arst elsss. causing
an increase in rscsipts of more than s4l,.
900. These figures probably will seal the
1 fate of the sscond-clsss carriage.