Morning journal and courier., 1894-06-02
EDITORIAL rsOTES.

AhDA OHA1A AA ASOA oos
 Greene Graves is the rather sugpestiy.
 name of new doctor Vho has located a,
 Kensington, Kansss, and advertised that
 he has just graduated from medical col.
 lege.
 There are said to be only four survivors
 of Nspoleon's Grand Army, the oldest of
 them being Jean Jacques Sabatier, who
 was horn April 15, 1792. The others are one hundred and one and one hundred years old. They are all sa.d to be as hearty and vigorous as could be expected of men who have lived eighty-two years since they suffered the hsrdships of one of the most terrible retreats in the history of warfare.
 It is found that shirts of white muslin and 2, 200 linen can be produced at 73 cents per dozen. Each shirt passes through the hands of seventeen operatives, and each woman employed averages about one dozen complete shirts per day. The greater part of the cost of production Is the element of labor, and while the average pay is neces sarily under 7s cents per day, some of the workwomen make a good deal more, while the superintendsnts, cutters and the like are we'll paid. Machinery, in this instance, has enormously increased the power of labor and raised wages.
 Two extraordinary cases of bullet wounds becoming active after lapse of twenty four years are reported by German medi- cal paper. One is that of watchmaker named Kleeman, living at Dusseldorf, who was wounded in the Franco. German war. Three years ago he had bullet success fully extracted from his right shoulder, and week ago, after 8 months illness, second bullet was extracted from his left side. The second case is that of @ station master who few days ago was operated upon at Bonn and had French bullet, which pierced his right shoulder in the war, cut from his right side.
 The dissolution of the Topolo- -bsnipo Co operative colony ends another scheme to make this discouraging world over. It was started six or eight years ago by 8 visionary named Owens and some other Kaneans of his stamp, who expected to create in Mexico an ideal cooperative A large grant of land was secured from the Mexican government and a considerable number of families from Kansas and elsewhere were induced to leave the United States and cast their lot with the enthusissts. One of the fore most ideas of the projectors was that they could dispense with churches and re- yers, and that, unhsmpered by the re- straints of civilization they could lead lives of simplicity and purity, and become 8 prosperous community, every member of which would be copartner with all the others.
 The natives of Colon and Panama were lately discovered in sharp scheme to rob the steamship company. The transfer of bales and packages of India rubber over the istbmus is always large in volume after the arrival of steamers from Peru and Mexico Then there are constant arrivals from Colombia and Nicaragua, as we'll ss local receipts from within few miles of Colon. These, piled on the docks, make large aggregate and at 8 favorable opportu- nifty bale or two would be dropped over board, and as rubber naturally will float, It was comparatively an easy matter to pilot the booty to a point whence 1t could be readily landed and disposed of by a fence" AS bale weighs from 100 to 200 pounds, the haul was good one to the native. The loss could not be discov cred until after the steamer reached New York, and it bothered American detectives for months, until the leak was finally To- oated.
 Perhsps the prisons Of Russia haven't been greatly elandered, after all. Dr. 5utchineky read paper the other day be- fore the Russian Statistical society in St. on the condition of the prison of Tiumen, the largest jail but one in the country. He said that the institution had been inspected in August, 1899. It was then found that the principal building had air space sufficient for 230 prisoners. On the Sd of August there were 9e9 confined there. On the 27th of May, 1898, there were 2,430. The hospital building wss also crowded with four or five times as many patients as its cubic-air space war ranted. One reason for this overcI owdiDg was that convicts who ought to have been forwarded to Siberia long before were detained because there were no warm clothes in store. The prison buildings were in filthy and most unsanitsry condition. The principal building had been turned into hospital, and the pris- oners were "nested" in the surrounding cells, averaging 100 men in @ cell made for ten. Water was scantily supplied, and out of a sum of about $25, ,0OO year allowed for food, $10, 900 of which goes for the sick, the prison authorities have "economizsd" nearly $45, ,000 in ten years. Infectious diseases of every description rage perma- nently, and the medical staff Is quite inad- equate. The conclusion of the report reads thus: Tn view of all this, 1t appears quite indispensable, if not to introduce radical reforms in this prison, and to reg ulste the transfer of convicss, at least to change the conditions in which its inhabi- tsnts live as far as 1t Is possible for the State to do so."
 THE FLEETING SHOW.