Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-16

new reglSJerlng DallOt DOX was used, W01cn stamps number on every ballot as it is de. posted and thus puts an end to ballot box stuffng. There was little trouble with the boxes in some of the voting precincts, owing to ignorance of the machine, but it is believed that this can be obviated in the fu- ture.
 Energetic measures against the locusts are being taken in Cyprus. Up to the end of October 88O tons of their eggs had been de- stroyed, of which 27o tons were gathered in that month alone, and four or five months still remain for the collection. The rewards paid have been raised to e13 the ton and the government, having already spent e6, 900 this year on the eggs, is preparing to expend e23, ,O0O as soon as the insects are matched in April and May on screened enclosures and pit-traps to be managed by 1000 men.
 A member of the Board of Education of Cleveland, Ohio, comes forward with statis- tics in regard to the health of the children of the public schools, which should arouse the attention of all who really desire the phy-
 
 rising generation. From the Cleveland High School twenty-five per cent. of the girls and eighteen per cent. of the number of boys were obliged to withdraw from the school on account of il1-health. Out of one hundred girls who entered the school, ninety-five be- ing in good health, fifty were in s'yery poor' health while at school thirty y-three were .1, a,I were in tolerably good health. Not all High Schools would make such lamentable show ing, but very few of them are places to which the young can safely resort for health.
 Sir Moses Montefore, baronet, of London, England, has sent to Boston gentleman a check on the Bank of England and letter saying: q beg that you will favor me by distributing, in memory of the highly esteemed and greatly lamented President of the United States, James A. Garfield, the amount of the inclosed check for e1OO, among the different charities of your city, in any way you may in your good judgment deem most desirable, without distinction of race or creed" The baronet, who is now 97
 
 the time of the birth of Queen Victoria, and is man of very large fortune. He was active in securing the prayers of the Jewish church at Jerusalem and throughout all the European country for President Garfield during the long period of his suffering and for the appropriate observance of his death.
 The new Congressmen are embarrassed just as their predecessors have been by vast number of applications for office. But if the experience they are having makes them civil service reformers, or even opens their eyes to the demoralfzing influence of the spells sys- tenn, it will not be in vain. The New York Times well says on this point: ssBut even the ordinary Congressman not possibly be vacancies enough to satisfy a tithe of the applicants who are always forth coming, the business of finding public po- sitions for his constituents ts is one of which it would greatly add to his popularity and peace of mind to be relieved. He cannot fail to make at least half dozen enemies for every friend whom he succeeds in gratifying by an 6pPO4AbAu0uG, dl4u WAcA u6 O1dCG6 A1S dp- pointee he does so with the full knowledge that he will be expected to take care of him at the risk of mourning his lasting enmity. When he wants to run again, he will find himself very liable to be outbidden in prom ises by some one else who coyets the nomi- nation, and, when it is too late, he may rue the day when he let himself down to the I,~-aJ <,E 4bo o<3oa h,,r,%o-, n~s
 The meeting of the Keely motor stock holders held in Philadelphia Wednesday was an interesting one. According to long re- port read by one of the stockholders they still have implicit faith'' in the motor, and have no doubt of it's great money value, but they complain that the inventor is unrea- sonably secretive. On this point the report says: It has been the experience of every one brought into relation with him during the past ten years that any attempt at a seri-