Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-31

EDITORIAL NOTES.

L
Rabbi Isaac N. Wise, Who is trying tc
and ont how many Jews there are In ths
world, has come to the conclusion thai
there are over IA, 600 900 of them. There
are other computations which put the
number at nearly 90. 0O0, 600.
The Hon. Simon Wolf of Warrington Ia
compiling "roll of honor" to contain the
names of all Jews who ever served In the
army or navy of the United States, and be
has II practically completed. It win be In
teresting and probably surprising.
Queen Victoria is In possession of q
curious needle. 1t was made ct the cele.
brated needle factory at Redditch and rep.
Scenes from the queens life are depicted
on the needle SO finely cut that they are
only discsrnibls through . microscope.
Ex-booms can be had cheap In these
days. Mr.. E. N. Cullom bought the
''boom" city of Fort Wayne, Alabama, at
sheriff's sale the other day for $60, COO.
His purchase includes 1000 acres of ore
land, 2,000 city lots, ore crushing works,
furnaces. three factories, two hotels and
other property.
DR.. Zergler, q German scientist, thinks
that 1t may bs possible to forecast the
weather by taking photographs of the SUMS
disk. He says that "circulsr or elliptical
halos around the orb of day indicate vio-
lent storms, especially If the halos are dark
in tint or of large diameter. Lightning
and magnetic disturbances may also be ex-
pecsed from these sigma"
Oliver Wendell Holmes said recently con.
corning Hswthorne's well known diffidence:
II was always an adventure whether one
would succeed In entioing Hawthorne into
anything like communicative intercourse.
He went his solitary way through life like
o whale through the crowds of Lesser hshss
in the sea. You might stand II your boa,
and hurl your hsrpoon at him as he passsd
it was hit or miss. Ifyou succeeded In
bringing him to he was genial enough COM
psny for awhile In his abstrsotsd olympian
way. If you missed him you would hard.
ly have another chance for year.
A test of the biggest gun in the navy lie
soon to be made by the government. The
base of the gun Is thirteen inches In diam.
eter, and it carries q projectils weighing
], 100 pounds. The $50 pounds of powder
necessary to give 1t impetus will, it is es-
timated, carry the projectile 1000 feet q
second. The force at the muxzle will be
snfncient to move 40, 600 tons one foot. To
be accepted by the government the gun
must penetrate at 1000 yards distance
twenty-five feet of solid steel If such
guns can be aimed and hred with accuracy
they would bs this most effective coast
defense yet conceived. No armor could
aloat would 60 down under their 6re.
Bishop Clifton Peniok, an agent of the
commission of the Protestant Episcopal
church for work among the oolorsd psople,
concludes from q study of the ce asus fg-
ures of 1890 that either the negro 10 bstter
South than he is North, or the southern
PcOplo 0cet Anofo Ac1tohsay Ntta Stiakcas
Bishop Penick points ont that In the South
Atlantic and South Central divisions there
Is one negro for every two white persons,
yet those negroes furnish but one prisoner
to every S69 and 335 respectively. In the
rest of the entire country there Is but one
negro to every 5s white people, and yet
they furnish one prisoner to every 1874,
1877, 105 respectively. Looking At the
homicldes, we see the North Atlantic gives
one prisoner to every 2,17s negroes, while
the South Atlantic gives but one to every
4,167 The North Central gives one to
every 1,8s7 negroes, the South Central one
to every 2,277, and the Western one to
every 677. Now, when We consider that
sentences of imprisonment South are
much longer than they are North, Ii adds
still more to the South's favorable bearing
towards the negro