Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.

l Mrs. Jennie Smith declares that she will
 have nothing more to do with Bennett, and
 will not recognize him if she should meet him
 anywhere. Her love for him couldn't stand i three trials for murder, and she now detests
 him.
 i The Chinese seem to take kindly to the cus-
 toms of the country in Indianapolis. Four of
 them have recently joined Presbyterian
 church there, and one has taken out naturali- five other Chinamen in Presbyterian Sunday school there.
 1 Arsenic was discovered in the remains of
 Mrs. Riddle, but the Grand Jury found no evidence that she was poisoned by her hus- band. A lady in Youngstown, Ohio, has lately i died, and just before death she declared her be- lief that she was poisoned and asked to be ! examined. The post-mortem showed plain
 traces of arsenic, but nobody is suspected and there is no reason to suspect anybody. She was accustomed to take patent medicines, and
 it is thought that these contained the arsenic /! found in her. Such cases will tend to make willful poisoning by arsenic harder to prove than it is now.
 Business is decidedly picking up in Europe,
 if we may judge by the activity of speculation in various cities. At London, Vienna and Paris there are stock booms, and in the latter
 city an immense one. The aggregate net ad-
 vance of the securities quoted on the bourse from December 31, '76, to December 31, '79,
 was $546, 765, ,sss. Nearly one-third of this, $160, 728, BIT, is in the appreciation of French rentes or Government bonds, but French rail-
 road shares have increased in value $103, ,0OO,-
 900 and the funds of foreign governments $120, 900, 900, .net. The advance of railroad bonds in this country in 1879 was probably four or five times as large as in France, but 1 then the railroad system of this country has
 cost three times as much as that of France. Some very startling statements were made in a recent lecture by Dr. R. R. Gregg before
 the class of the College of Physicians and Sur geons of Buffalo, New York. The lecturer has charge of the Department of Tuberculosis, and may be presumed to speak from we'll authenticated statistics. He announced that in each generation stone-fifth of all mankind | die of consumption alone, and one-third of
 all from the ravages of tubercles upon all the
 organs of the body, including the lungs"
 Comparing the mortality from this source
 with that from yellow fever during the year 1878, he stated that it ''would require 45O years of such epidemics of yellow fever to equal the devastation wrought by consump- ton in single generation in this country alone, and 75O years of such work to equal the
 mortality caused by tubercles in one genera ton in this country
 The London Standard gives some narrowing statements regarding the sufferings of the
 people in parts of Ireland. In Connemara the suffering almost bafies belief. The 3D.
 psarance of relief at once revealed the misery
 of the poor creatures who thronged to obtain
 1t. Hungry and half f-naked. without clothes
 and without credit, they had covered for weeks
 in their cabins, ashamed to appear before
 their neighbors in the open day, and only ven-
 turing to move about when the friendly
 shades of night came to veil their wretched-
 ness. But now the news was abroad that
 bread for the hungry ones might be had for
 the asking, and in ths wild rush to obtain it
 all other considerations were forgotten Wo-
 men and children, half-naked, rushed through