Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-17
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EDITORIAL NOTES.
 It is not generally known that the hay
 crop is the most valuable crop in the
 Northern States, and, indeed, of the whole
 country. The values of last years prinoi.
 pal crops were: Wheat $825. 000, 900, corn
 $65o, 900. 900 and hay s75O. .0oo, 900.
 The woman suffrsgists in New York
 have found out that outside of the city of New York about $500, ,0O0, 900 worth of property in that State Is owned by women and it is expected that the New York city records will more than double those fig ures.
 Daniel Baugh, e farmer of Scott county, Indians, has reached the age of 105 years. He says of his habits: sI have always been temperate in ell things. thoush-aot an- ab. stainsr from liquor. have drunk little never to excess-snd drink . little stiil when think need it. Tobacco use, and I have always eaten anything that pleased me-"
 Ahu 1aaA o& AkbkAAao accans aAa h1Ht good deal of guarding at night. Fifty men from the Household troops, under command of an officer, march up every night and patrol the spacious quadranslss of the bank and do sentry duty over d. lotted spaces till the morning, and besides this military guard there is a forcs of "watch clerks" whose sole duty it is to keep awake and move about from building to building, inspecting the various rooms, to see that all goes we'll. Several of the higher officials sleep on the premises, ready to be summoned at a moments notice. Provision is made for needful reflection for the military guard and watch clerks, while the officer in command is allowed dinner for himself and friend, including a bottle of the banks special old port.
 Dove, the Mannheim tailor who invent ed bullet proof coat, has submitted 1t to a test which seems to show that it is all right. He went to the Russian empassy st Berlin and let Count Sohouvslof shoot three or four bullets at him, and sa the count is as good a shot as he is diplomat, every bullet hit the tailor, some of them in places which would have spoiled his expsr- imentipg with any more armor ooats if they had gone through. Count Schouva- lof used the new German army rife. and tried it first by shooting ball through block of solid oak. Then Dove put on his coat and stood before the rife. The count fired and Dove stood unhurt; once more the count fired, and once more Dove re- ceived the shot without wincing. Then the count examined the coat, picked ont both bullets, one from above Dows's heart, and the tailor was pleased.
 British agricultural returns for 1893 show the remarkable fact that during last year some 150, 900 acres of land in Great Britain were withdrawn from eulti- vation and turned into pasture. This is spoken of as an s'actual abandonment of of this area. The main point de5uoed is that Great Britain is rapidly essipg to be 6 stproducing country. the present wheat area with that of 1873 the decline is 1 500, 900 acres. The returns also show that fruit farming and market gardening are largely increas- Ing. In 1893 there were 65, ,487 acres in this kind of cultivation ss against 62, 148 acres in 1899. Argument has been largely made of late that If English farmers would give their attention to truck farming and fruit raising they might retrieve their almost ruined fortunes. They cannot com- pste with America and India In wheat growing, and they lose more money every year. At the ssms time immense quanti- ties of fruit. vegetables, butter, cheese, sggs, and even milk are imported from Butter and eggs come in ship osds even from as far as Australia. Last year butter, cheese and eggs alone to the value of s25. .e20. 900 were imported into Great Britain. The economists are seek Ing to learn why this splendid income can not be secured for British pockets.
 The Bishop of Msrssilles paid notable tribute to war at the inauguration of the monument raised to the memory of the Gardss Mobiles of the department of the Rhone who fell in the Franco German war. Among other things he said: The church loves to surround the army with Its solici- tude. It blesses Its standards and its weapons. Certainly the church loves peace, and seeks to spread 1t in the world and among the peoples; but is is aware that the fire of the passions sgitatipg the hearts of men sometimes renders war in- evitsble. The church also knows that the scouree of war is sometimes preferable to a peace obtained at the price of shame and cowarSioe. Moreover, war Is sometimes necessary in order to make pescs more lasting. The monument to be insugurstsd to day is not, alas to recall to mind vic- tory, but the remembrance of those heroes to whose memory it Is erected is rendered greater and more noble by the knowledge that they shed their blood generously and not uselessly, since 1t was sbed in the &C., complishment of the most noble of dutiee. That blood has caused to spring up in our hearts thst true patriotism which will make us all rise, like one man, when t will be necessary to defend the integrity of our territory. The soldiers we honor to day did not cause our flag to triumph, but in giving their lives they gave US what is greater and more desirable than even vic- toyv vhieh Ia honor