Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.

In the New York Legislature for 1883 there will be fifty-three 1awyers-ifteen in the Senate and thirty. eight In the Assembly.
 New Bedford, Mass, has made the pleas ing discovery that most of it's city officers have been illegally elected since 1857. An amendment to the city charter was adopted at that time providing that these officials should be elected in April, but the elections have taken place in January.
 There is at least one contemplating newspa- per in Georgia. The Atlanta Consultation claims to have spent $2, 900 in getting quick returns from the Georgia election districts, and Tn many parts where there are no rail roads or telegraphs employed horsemen to take the returns to the nearest telegraph sta tion. One carrier was paid seventy-five dol lars for his nights riding.
 scheme to introduce compulsory insur- ance has been broaohed in the New Zealand Parliament. The plan is that every man must pay either eG6 outright before he is twenty y-three, or two shillings week for twelve years, and then he will be entitled to receive fifteen shillings week if single, and twenty two shillings and half if married, during sickness. After the age of sixty-fve an allowance of ten shillings a week perannuation stipend is provided for.
 The Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler endeavors, in the E0angezist, to remove all doubt that Daniel Webster was an incorporate thinker. He says it might as we'll be denied that Ham, ilton was killed in duel as that 'tthe great ! orator of Bunker Hill was painfully addict ed, during the last dozen years of his life, to spirits, and on public occasions was visibly ! inebriated." Presbyterian elder has lately told MT. Cuyler that he once saw Webster entirely helpless after public dinner, and he himself remembers seeing him on board Q | Sound steamboat in pitiable condition. He l had drunk at the bar of the boat until he was | intoxicated. Mir. Cuyler speaks of him as Ian | example and warning to young men not to assassinate their brains with the bottle."
 In the sixth grade of the Maiden, Mass. public schools the pupils begin the study of geography in very judicious way. The child first makes a map of the school room upon the slate, with all the boundaries and location of articles in it in relation to other articles. Then the school building is drawn and it's boundaries defined, then the school district, the city, the neighborhood about it, and through the several rooms, until maps and boundaries of coun- tries and nations are drawn with the same ease those of the small room Moulding boards are used in the upper grades, and teacher and scholar together mould the shapes of States or countries, the water courses, their mountains and their valleys. This branch is taught in such manner that the various towns, cities, lakes, rivers, noun
 tains, etc., which serve only to cumber the memory, are omitted, as are also the many
 unimportant facts which fill so many pages
 of the geography. Whatever is important in the position of city, State or country as
 to it's geographical position, it's climate soi
 and productions, is the chief requisite in
 sisted upon and in connection with these
 statements the political, social and business
 history of the people of these importan
 places is carried on at the same time
 When the unofficial bulletin of the census
 bureau covering the manufacturing interest,"
 of Philadelphia appeared about two years az, | Mr IoIr