Show EDITORIAL NOTES I 1 some of our eastern aris declare that the toy pistol is 1 the most moat murderous weapon of mod em ern invention are they not la in edor enor how about the coal oil can as us a fire lighter A charter has been obtained by canadian capitalists for a railway from some point on the atlantic coast to lake superior and a company has been organized with a capital of those who have seen been and heard the harlequin of the pulpit will ap pre predate clate elate this criticism of the omaha herald parson talmage taimage in a gesticulating cu lating mood resembles a lobster with the delirium tremens cremens tr emens tho the presbyterians rians are holding a confab in ogden now look out for some more resola ions lons they have a Coyne rou hand band for the fabrication of spurious anti cM mormon ormon notes new york has over factories which give employment to over persons the capital employed is set down at th the a annual product at over and the annual wages at near nearly nearis ay J the californian for september is a flue number min miu mingling gling as usual solid reading with lighter it aderial al all interesting and from able pens this magazine is western in tone and style and occupies a place of its own in the literature of the period the california publishing company of san francisco deserve great cred it for this Ws excellent periodical it Is stated in recent statistics of s suicide that in the four years from 1875 to 1879 the average number of suicides to the one ono million inhabit ants of london was 85 in berlin in vienna in palls palis and in leipsic why there should be fl five fire a times as many proportionally among the french and germans as among the english is a problem which german investigators are trying to solve among the jews in the public ab 1 ae service in a belgium are three chief f clerks to ministers one director of the royal carpet manufactory one court of appeals judge two crown prosecutors one judge of instruction six barristers bar three nia Ina nine captains and four professors of universities this is a large number of positions of distinction in proper tion lion to their numbers which is but in a population of i the magnitude of the pr production of iron steel and coal will be strikingly shown in the forthcoming report po rt of the secretary of the amerl american iron and steel Amo association clation one item states that tons of rails iron and und stool were manufactured during the year 1880 and pound kegs of cut nails and spikes were also produced coal to the amount of gros groa tons was mined during the same time the schoolmaster is certainly abroad in the tho populous city of buffalo bumm Buff malo ialo the commercial adver that place mentions what may be safely set down as the worst wont case orf orp of spelling of recent record it occurred in a notis of a nhun shun to be I 1 leid on the shores of lake lahe eary earyl and mentioned the occasion aag as aguile uble ubie 11 this word troubled the editor a good deal but with rare perspicacity he at length resolved it into jubilee anew A new process of tanning Is extensively ten used in germany birk Is wholly dispensed with and inorganic compounds take its place the new process requires from four to six weeks for its completion and the particular feature is described to be the action of chrom chromic die ile acid for the generation of which a number of substances soluble jn in water are brought together so as to effect the decomposition of of potash i of all people in the world the democrat republican people of the united states most do worship a title and with all their shrewdness shrewd nees nesb are the most likely to be gulled by impecunious foreign cloradel CL lords order ordel and I 1 counts ants the latest victim to this title worship is Js a wealthy widow of a long branch florist who engaged hercell to count amott arnott anderson the titled villain has hag bolted edwith with all her riches and married in raed the floral widow either the georgia legislature has bas cassed assed a law making it a penal offense to point a loaded or unloaded firearm at any person this is good so far as it goes but there should be bernoth bea another section added providing that if the firearm so io pointed goes ot the one who points it should suffer stiffer the punishment decreed for the same crime when intentionally done A few convictions under buell buehl a law would probably make know it wag was loaded fellows look and see whether it was loaded or not before pointing at others A rifle tournament is to tc be held at atlanta ga during the forth coming international cotton fairand american english and canadian riflemen have been invited to be present and participate another of the attractions is to be an ensilage catt lery under full operation ensilage pita pits are being constructed and horses cows sheep and mules are to be fed during the exhibition from them the importance of this new system of needing feeding cattle cattie is obvious from the fact that it costs coits more n the south tafeeda to feed need a mule than to keep three field hands while the world nowadays knows of the torpedo invented and named by fulton as a machine to blow up ships comparatively few know that it takes its name from a fish of mar bellous electrical properties which was atomized anatomized an by the famous sur geon john hunter the torpedo is found in the mediterranean the bay of biscay and the southern english and irish waters the ancients employed it as a therapeutic agent it Is believed to use its extraordinary powers to benumb a big enemy or to capture a smaller fish it loves to lie he in sand in which it will bury buny it self by flapping its extremities throwing the sand over its ita back tread on it then and you will be prone in a moment it is sometimes sold for food in french markets koumiss forms part of the regular scanty diet of the wounded president the koumiss of the kalmuck muck tartars is an liquor distilled tilled d from mares milk as ii it undergoes fermentation twenty en on ounces of the milk are baid eaid to biele fourteen ounces of low wines vines from which six ounces of alcohol are obtained by rectification cows Cowal milk is probably dotso not so rich insular in sugar the richer the milk the better the koumiss to make milre it on the american plan take one quart of new milk add one gill of fresh buttermilk dissolve three or four lumps of white sugar and mix thoroughly keep it warm wann for ten hours then pour from one bottle to another until of uniform consistency cork securely let stand twenty four hours and shake well five minutes before opening Is it possible that there ilas has been an importation into utah of any of the butter described describe below some borne of the stuff sold for butter erha erta certainly c bears the marks and odors of antiquity asli fjug butler butter a thousand years old has been analyzed and found to contain volatile fatty acids calculated aa butyric 6 per cent soluble fatty acids not volatile 4 42 2 per cent insoluble nixed fixed acids cent glycerol minute traces acids contained 9 per cent oleic acid and gio 91 0 per cent and palm it IL c acids an older sampie sample i of or ancient butter was taken sa sometime me time time ago ao from an egyptian tomb it dates about or years before the birth of christ it was contained in a small alabaster vase and had apparently been poured in while in a melting state in appearance color smell and taste it corresponds closely with slightly rancid butter analysis showed that the sample had not undergone any notable decomposition the north american review for september opens with an article on the church the state and the school by professor william T harris M J sava bava savage bavage e treats of natural ethics arguing that the principles of morality are rooted in mans nature and are the products of evolution consequently lys iss that they are not affected by athe the of dogma or religious creeds theaon the johna johnta kasson gives of cc monroe declaration and proves that the credit of or formulating that cardinal doctrine of american statesmanship is due to john quincy adams the bev rev edward everett hale writes of the taxation of church property he would have all churches taxed in form but would exempt in practice those which by their charitable work help to lighten the public burdens the other articles jn this number of the review are jewish ostracism in america by nina morals the decay of new england thought by the bev bey julius hward H ward ghost being 11 by prof P Y H hedge and factitious history by rossiter johnon the latter article is a malli ing lug criticism of jefferson dovias recently published historical sae moir |