Morning journal and courier., 1884-05-12
EDITORIAL MOTHS.

''Our Mir. Eaton'' is not as popular in the South as he has been. The Charleston News and Courier says he must go.
 The idea that we can have an appropriate and cheerful centennial celebratisn without spending great deal of money seems to be generally accepted.
 It takes an EpgIishman to discuss affairs in this country intelligsntly. The London Saturday Review wonders why the gifted Roscoe Conkling is not prominently brought forward by the Republicans as their Presi- dential candidate.
 Jay Gould taking cheerful view of things in these days of disturbance and distrust in Vail street is pleasing spectacle. Perhaps he can afford to be cheerful but the general opinion is that he has suffered by the great decline as well as others.
 The opinion of the Republican party, as voiced by the Republican press, appears to be largely against the nomination of MT. Blaine. If he should manage to get the nomination, feat which we do not believe he can accomplish, he could not be elected.
 Miss Lochine, of Athens, Georgia, had been engaged for three years to nice young man, and had made preparations to be mar ried few days ago. but when the time came she refused to be married because she was 'tafraid.'' This is strange case. Young ladies who are afraid to be married are not very common.
 A comma is sometimes a very important thing. On account of the omission of Q com- ma by the New Jersey assembly clerks in expressing the new corporation tax law, only those manufacturing corporations which car ry on business in New Jersey are exempt to exempt all manufacturing corporations, including those organized in New Jersey to do business elsewhere. To one glucose com pany it makes difference of SIS, ,0OO.
 lady who has been looking into the matter says 8 bachelor can spend nice fortune in New York without dissipating to any large extent. Supposing he takes small suite of rooms in fashionable apartment house, eats at his club. keeps road horse and wagon and gives half dozen parties a year. At this rate his rent will cost him $2, 800, his meals at the club or fashionable restaurants about 8, 5000, his horse's board and his club dues about g 900 more. his entertainment an ad- dtional $500, and that makes total of | $7, 900. Throwing la $1.O0O for clothes and sundries, and $1 900 more for losses at cards, it will be seen that bachelor can live in comparative comfort there for BIO, ,O00 8 year. This does not include the first cost of his furniture.
 Constantinople is lamenting the death of two of it's greatest benefactors. Georgios Tariff, the philanthropist, whose whole life was devoted to works of charity. was a spe- cial friend to the Greeks of the Levant. The numerous Greek schools in the Turkish capi- tai were largely helped by him, and the new school for boys is almost entirely his crea- tion His funeral was attended by Tarks, Jews, Greeks, and Armenians of all classes; an immense procession of above 10000 friends following the coffin to the tomb. At the same hour this Greek was buried another funeral moved toward Scutari-namely tLat of the Princess Zeineb Hanun, daughter of the late Mehemet Ali of Egypt, and widow of Kiamil Pasha. She was great benefactor 1 of the Turkish poor, especially the exiles. One-third of her enormous wealth she leavea to benevolent societies; the rest goes to her brother, Prince Halim.
 Some curious Investigations have been made by Dr. Richardson, the famous writer on the physiology of alcohol, showing that mortality from that substance has it's regular seasons in England, declining below the mean from February to April, rising to the maximum in July, declining again until the close of December, and finally rising to the smaller maximum in the first week of January. The revenue returns are al- so said to follow the same variation. From all this it is argued that certain conditions of weather cause an increased consumption of alcohol, and that this causes an increase of mortality. As opposed, however, to this method of bringing together the three sets of