Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1881-06-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Governor Cornell's prospect for Senator
ship grows brighter and brighter.

One of the correspondents says that book
agent trying to sell copy of the revised
version could not be more subdued and in
sinuating than Conkling is nowadays
The man who was so absent minded that
he put his umbrella to bed and stood himself
up in the corner has found a rival in Salem
MASS. man who left his infant son in the
Eastern railroad depot in Boston and did not
miss him until he reached home and was
asked what he chad done with that precious
darling"
It will become necessary before long for
anybody who cares to live to keep private
chemist. Frequent caution has been given
against exposure to injury from the use of
arsenic in wall papers and other articles of
domestic use. 1t is now said upon excellent
authority that mercury has come into use in
the preparation of wall papers, in way and
to an extent dangerous to health.
A Philadelphia newspaper has adopted
novel plan to stir up certain members of the
Legislature of that State whom it charges
with corruption. This charge it published
several times in the English language, and
the attention of the members accused was
earnestly called to the fact that the language
employed was actionable. AS these diligent
efforts to provoke libel suits elected no de-
tense, answer or resort to legal process the
attacking newspaper, assuming that possibly
the implicated members were more familiar
with foreign than with the American lam
guage, republished the charges in several
European tongues, and, still failing to attract
attention, put the accusation into what it al
leges to be the Grow Indian language, hoping
that the sensibilities of the accused might be
thus stimulated to retaliation or denial. But
even this desperate expedient fails.
All the professors now at the university at
Yeddo, Japan, are said to be Germans the
English and French masters having been dis
carded. ALI branches of study except theol-
ogy are represented in the university, and a
thousand students are receiving instruction
therein. These have all had six years pre-
vious training in the German school or
Gymnasium of Yeddo, where they are
obliged to pass severe examination to quail
ify for the university. They are subjected
to periodical examinations during three or
four years of college life, and these examina-
tions are more severe than even in Germany.
Nevertheless, many of the students obtain
university honors. Most of the students go
into the medical profession, as this pays bet
ter in Japan than any other. Each profess
sor of the university has house and gar
den, and a salary of $4,000; he is, more
over, permitted to earn something additional
by private lectures. The Japanese Minister
of Public Instruction is a German. The
Chinese, it is reported, are also starting a
German university at Pekin.
The Boston people seem really in earnest
with their worlds fair scheme At the Sec
ond meeting to talk the matter over, which
was held Wednesday evening, about two
hundred and fifty of the solid men of Bos-
ton were present There was no diff
ference of opinion as to the desira-
bility of having an international exhi-
bition in Boston in 1885, though some
gentlemen thought it not prudent to pass
resolution to that effect until some definite
plan had been prepared and an estimate of
the cost made. Colonel Pulsifer, of the
Boston Herald, with twenty six others, was
appointed to obtain more precise information
as to the site and other matters, and to out
| line plan of procedure for the financial and
other proceedings. A report was presented
from meeting of railroad presidents to the
effect that they were all in favor of the fair,
and that subscription of three or four hun
dred thousand dollars toward guarantee
fund might be expected from their roads but
of course could not be promised antil author
| lied by votes of the directors
Mr.. Fleuss has been giving at Portsmouth,
England, some practical illustrations of the
merits of an apparatus he has invented for
enabling persons to work under water and in
noviour oasas Tn order 10 do This ba talaz