Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-06-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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EDITORIAL NOTES.
When the editor Of the Populist paper at
| Ktngman, Kansas, returned from the State
| convention, where he had voted against
female suffrage, he was seized by large
party of woman's rights people, who put
on him flaming sun bonnet and a yellow
Mother Hubbard" and marched him
through the streets, hsaded by brass
band.
A convention of German restaurant and
hotel keepers, which represented two
hundred societies of this line throughout
the Fatherland, has decided that the even
Ing coat for walters is out of date, and the
jacket is the only suitable garment for
them. These are to be black In hotels,
dark blue in restaurants and dark green
in beer gardens.
Parisian women have a new method of
augmenting their personal charms by the
creation of false eyelashes, which cannot
be told from the real. 1t is done by draw
Ing hair of any desired color through the
skin of the eyelid by means of a fine
needle. The operation is said to be pain
less and the effect is described as quite a
success when the work is artistically done.
Dr.. Anderson Brown, one of the fore
most women physicians of England, has
established an industrial farm for inebriate
women. The test of the practicability of
outdoor life as cure for drunkenness will
be made under the auspices of the Women's
Temperance association. Fruit growing,
poultry raising, gardening, bee keeping
and butter making will be among the
branches taught.
THE is how a Kentucky judge charged
the Jury the other day: eff you believe
what the counsel for the plaintiff has told
you, your verdict will be for the plaintiff;
but If, on the other hand, you believe
what the defendants counsel has told you,
you will give verdict for the defendant.
But if you are like me, and don't believe
what either Of them said, don't know
what you will do" The jury disagreed.
completing his fftieth year in the chair of
modern languages at the University of
Virginia. He was born in 1920 near Wex-
10, Sweden, entered the civil service of
Prussia while very young man, and be-
came an attache of the embassy at st. |
Petersburg. The loss of his private for
tune compelled him to abandon his career
and emigrate to this country. Soon after
his arrival he became connected with the |
University of Virginia as teacher of Ian |
guages. Professor de We're has written |
several books on pathological subjects.
There is Rabbit department of the |
government of New Zsaland. 1t has the |
organization and equipment of forces and |
the planning of campaigns against the |
rabbits, which. If NOT kept under control,
would overrun and devastate the south |
leland. The need of this department is
shown by the fact that In the last five |
years about 81, 600, 900 rabbit skins have
been exported, and 1t is estimated that
nearly 300, 900. 900 animals were killed to
obtain that number of salable skins. In |
spite of this Wholesale slaughter, the num-
ber of bunnies is constantly increasing, and |
the handling of the enormous multitude of |
animals is an undertaking requiring both
judgment and force.
The statement concerning the Congo |
railroad which was submitted to the Bel |
gisn Chamber the other day by NJ. De Smet |
de Nay Ter, ss an argument in favor of a |
subsidy of 100000, has excited vast
amount of criticism on the part of the J
Radicals. The official figures show that,
instead of the million sterling at which the |
cost of construction was estimated at the |
outset, the railway will absorb s2, $50, 900,
and that its maintenance will require an
annual outlay of e75, $50. without putting
aside anything towards the liquidation of |
the debt. The annual expenditure will
thus exceed by e12,000 the receipts ex-
pected In the estimates of the company,
even at the almost prohibitive rates of c 40
per ton and ego per passenger for a dis
tanoe of 24S miles 400 kilometres). The
company maintsins, however, that when
the line for distance of 175 kilometres Is
In working order the railroad can be
proftably opened. Thus far, how
ever, 1t has cost $4,000 per kilo-
metre to construct and 100000
for preliminary surveys, which are still
80 that 1t is natural enough
the minister of finance should hesitate to
adopt in their entirety the optimist views
of the company. While affirming his be-
lief that their calculations will prove cor
rect, he is careful to enumerate the pro-
digious and almost insurmountsble diff
culties that the enterprise has encoun-
tered. The main obstacles have been the
climate, the soil, the conformation of the
country, and the impossibility of finding
capable workmen. Begun In 1890, It was
only at the end of three years of almost
effort that the work of laying
the line from Matadi to Kenge, represent
ing the first section of forty kilometres,
was accomplished.