Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-26
EDITORIAL NVTtS.

MT. Thomas G. Bennett, of this city, has
 been elected member of the Yale corpora ton. We congratulate Mir. Bennett and the
 college.
 A remarkable speech was delivered at a
 recent Conservative meeting at Malvered,
 England, by certain Rev. F. Hopkinson.
 According to his own public confession he
 Is so deeply impressed with 8 sense of the
 appalling consequences which must ensue
 from the wicked policy of the present gov
 ernment, that he ''daily thanks God' that
 he is the last of bis race, and has no one to come after him and fall victim to the dread
 ful doom which Mir. Gladstone will entail
 upon the country.
 Charles Francis Adams' attack on Greek has apparently been felt in Harvard college. For the coming collegiate year Greek, Latin, Greek and Latin literature and mathematics
 will not be required studies for the degree of Bachelor of Arts after the students admission l to college, examination for admission still covering these studies. But the prescribed amount for admission has been much reduc- ed. Under the new rule more than half of
 the freshman year has been made elective, the policy being that .the average stu dent, acting under good advice, will make more judicious selection of studies for himself than | the faculty can make for him.
 At the last session of the Massachusetts | legislature law vas passed making it neces- | sary for the telegraph, telephone and electric l light companies to obtain the permission of
 householder before putting their wires upon ! the roof of his building. AS this permission 1 Is not readily obtainable the various electric l companies have found it necessary to adopt | an alternative and carry their wires through ! the streets by means of telegraph poles. Structures of this kind have already been put up in one or two of the streets of the busi- ness portion of Boston and in a short time more ether streets are likely to be occupied l in the same manner. This action is very properly complained of. The wires in cities belong underground, where they must event. 1 ually go.
 number of important questions, the out come of the New York statute of June 20, 1879, which reduced the legal rate of inter est from to 6 per cent, have just been 1 settled by the court of appeals, reversing the decisions of the lower courts. The latter held
 that judgment obtained for debt con-
 tracted before the law was passed should bear per cent, the original rate; while contracts ! to pay money with interest," made before
 the passage of the law and maturing after 1t
 went into effect (January l, 188O,) should carry only per cent. interest. The court of appeals decide that if contract made before 1880 names the rate of interest and provides that this shall be collected till the principal is paid, it is not affected by the law in spite Of the maturity of the obligation, unless the latter is merged in 8 judgment.
 The English House of Commons is called upon to deal with peculiar question Mid
 d!eton, one of the members for Glasgow, be- came insane from the excitement of the elec- | tion, and has been in 1unatic asyluna ever sioce. No means have been discovered of procuring vacancy in his seat, for the Speaker can only issue 8 warrant in cases l where the medical advisers of the member 1 declare him incurable, anl medical men l naturally shrink from making such a state | nent. They are trying to provide for such contingency as this in the new Franchise bill There was case in 1889, during Lord Mel
 bournes administration, in which, on very l close fight, an insane member was taken out
 of lunatic asylum, brought along the lob | bles with member on each side, thrust
 through the turnstile, and made to record
 his vote The next day attention was called l to the matter, and the vote was disallowed.
 Edward Atkinson says that he can imagine
 no greater improvement in the condition of
 the people employed in New England cotton
 mills than the construction of broad, low,
 well lighted and we'll ventilated one-story
 factories. He says that the latest fve-story
 structures, of the most solid construction
 cost on an average eighty cents per square
 feet of floor. surface, including the towers, | on an ordinary foundation. The two story