Show EDITORIAL NOTES A french alphabet with twenty six illustrations is announced as one of the prominent features in the forthcoming october number of st nicholas prof W G sumner of yale college will have an essay on socialism in the october scribner discussing its history fallacies fala cies and methods in IA R a vigorous manner the great eastern steamship which through her im immense in ense size has been for a long time practically useless is talked of as a cattle transport between the united states and great britain shell do the city ay iy council of oakland cal cai have adopted the moffet bell punch and in the beautiful city by th the 6 bay will hereafter smile only at gif the tiie tinkling of the bell the tue czar of russia wants to b borrow or bortow a little t te cash here is a chance for the money lenders I 1 but au t as that ambitious ambit ous monarch already alread owes owea w 9 theanus the ohe snug little sum of perri perli aps usurers will not rush forward very hastily with heir their moneybags money bags one of the dire effects of the famine lne ine in india is the loss of agricultural cattle in bengal they die by the hundreds daily daliy dally daily the consequence Is that there Is less plough ing and that which is done ia is shallow thus the famine threatens to perpetuate itself in that afflicted land vosburgh the pastor of bergen baptist church jersey city who was tried and acquitted for fon forthe tue the attempted murder of his wife b by Y poison has been sep rep separated abed from his other half and has resigned his position 1 in the pulpit under the plea piea of impaired health unkind peo people will interpret that thit to mean impaired reputation 17 1 7 be careful how you handle matches A young man iu lu Pari paris ailt slit ilu lit a match by scratching it 16 with his thumbnail thumb nail A particle of burning phosphorus lodged under ithe ahe nail and though instantly quenched com munica ed poison soon extended to the arm amputation was advised but dela delayed Y d until it wag waa useless nse leea and the young man died in great agony twenty seven hourn houra atten alter the burn two french chemists have discovered a process for the manufacture of 4 rubies sapphires sapp hires and emeralds emeralda aida alda from clay and red lead the chrystall developed by heat being colored with mineral combinations as required for each kind of gem are we approaching the tim time when ewhen the baser metals will be transmuted into gold perhaps the alche al chemists mists mista hope was not alto aito gother a dream who knows that frightful disease the glanders is ja committing commit terrible havoc a mong among the horses in california one two merr meir have bave died ahorrio a horrible death also by becoming infected through scratches scratch es on their handa yve ve hear of one horse case in andavis davis county A fine animal died on sunday last at farmington with all the symptoms of glanders let everybody be careful of handling a horse borgo under such circumstances we hope the farmington case will prove exceptional COPt ional lonal anew A new paper is about to he started in the british metropolis in a the interest of the socialist movement it will be printed in french and italian and calledo callella cal cai ledLa la guerre so male dale its its ita prospectus designates its ita mission as revolutionary and the overthrow of wage wages inheritance and usury the tho three elements of capital it boldly avows itself an enemy to god which lade it declares is I 1 in a monstrous metaphysical creation 11 frankness appears to be its chief merit it is not likely to live long in the capital of england mr Shaf ferone of the proprietors of the evanston age aoe ge the them rocky mountain courier and the carbon county newe has recently paid a visit to this eity and rite writes tIte sup up an account of it in the je under the heading of the laut lauy ladof of fruita fruits and flowers utah cities wies must muse musi present press nt a it strong and pleasing con coil to the tha towns ili lii in wyoming ng where those papers are published andee and we shy should ouid think their editors i would want to come often for a change of scene seene a relief from i the treeless streets and suburbs of those dry places in the mountains where they grind pabulum for the people run dobri again al i I 1 the jewish a communication showing that the first white man who set foot on american soil wasa was a jew it Is related by humboldt that columbus when approaching the island ot of cuba believed himself to be opposite to two chinese ports desiring to hand band the letters which he possessed t from european mon arches to the great chan of the moguls Mogu ls in china and then return to spain he sends a baptized jew louis de torres by name the shore because he lie un understand der standi the hebrew the and some arabic those languages being used in all the mercantile places in asla asia there were white men on this land before judah was born and if the genealogy of torres were un unfolded folded it is more than likely he would be proven an israelite but hot liot a jew |