Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.

taxpayers Of the country $4 900 day, ani
they are very much dissatisfied with tn.
return they are getting for their money.
DR.. Buisson of Paris is the author of q
pamphlet treating of certain prevention
and cure Of hydrophobia by vspor baths.
The author has tested bis plans for years
| with, 1t is claimed, invarisble success, and
Is so convinced of its infallibiIity that he
offers to submit himself to inoculation
with the virus of a rabid dog.
DR.. Cyrus Teed, of Chicago, the founder
of the strange religion known as Koresh, ia
soon to buy q plot of land in Florida,
thirty-six miles square. This will consti-
tute the "Heaven" of the Koresheans; and
in Its center he will build temple, to cost
$500, ,000,0 One enthusiast has already y
promised q subscription of 500.
According to old "bench marks" that
were made by surveyors, 1t is known that
the Louisiana delta has sunk fully a foot
within comparatively few years. Added
to this is the knowledge that New Orleans
has sunk six inches within 40 years. A
number of eminent engineers have become
interested in the matter, and are about to
investigate It.
The State of Virginia borrowed $54O, 900
of the United States in 1860 to be paid in
1894. The bonds are now due and United
States Treasurer Morgan has demanded
payment of the state treasurer of Virginia.
The State of Virginia does not pay Its
debts If inconvsnient and proposes to treat
the United States as 1t has its other cred
itors, and 80 refueed the payment of these
bonds. The treasurer of Virginia asserted
that his State had claims against the
United States sufficient to Offset this
$40, 900.
The Hurontario Ship Canal company of
Canads has been incorporated by the Cana
dian legislature for the purpose of con-
strueting q ship canal from Toronto, on
Lake Ontario, to Georgian bay, near Col
lingwood. Tho stock capital of the COM
pany is $65, ,0OO, 600, of which 81, ZOO, 900
must be paid in and 10 per cent. subacribed
before 1t has legal existence. One clause
in the franchise requires that the directors
must be British subjects. A number of
American capitalists are interested in the
scheme. 1t is q revival of the old project
which has been advocated at intervals for
many years.
The district of Whitechapel, Londen, is
rapidly ceaaing to be, as 1t is generally con-
sidered, a distinctively cockney populated
locality. In 1891 one in every five inhabi-
tants of the district was a foreigner, and
since then there has been a great influx of
foreigners, mostly Russians and Russian
Poles. More than two thousand of thefs
foreigners settled in the district during
last year, driving out almost as many Lon
doners. The birth rate in Whiteohapsl is
forty-ons, as compared with twenty five
in the western districts of London and
forty-seven in Russia. Even if immigra-
ton should cease 1t IL considered pretty
soon predomina.e in Whitechacel.
The opening of the suez Canal, 1t ap-
pears, has brought ruin to the historic ISL
and of St. Helena, where the population
has been declining steadily for years.
Formerly about a thousand ships called
each year at jamestown and the population
of FIVE thousand souls was kept in full en-
ployment. Although St. Helena is appar-
interior is extremely fertile and rich in
vegetation, but during the period of pros
perity that preceded the opening up of a
more direct route for trade with the East
the cultivation of tho soil was neglected,
and afterwards, with the lessening de-
mand from ships calling at the
island, the incentive to production
was removed. Of late years the
condition of the islanders has besn
growing woree and worse. The main
employment of the men is found in the
whale fishery, established under American
management, but each year an increasing
number of the young and the strong leave
for South Africa or the United States. SO
that in 1901 the population was less than
5000. A committee has been formed in
London to improve the condition of the
islanders. They propose to develop the
fisheries and to start Ash-curipg indus
try, which may provide employment for
the women and girls. The waters of St.
Helsna teem with fish of good quality, but
at present only sufficient supply is caught
to meet elocal demand. There are cod
banks not far from the island, and many
other varieties for which, when salted,
there is a steady market in South Africa,
the United States, and other oountries.
In particular the slbscore, or tunny, is
abundant.