Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-22
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Boston Herald is very much opposed to Blaine, but the Augusta (Maine) core spondent of the Herald can't find anything in the political outlook in that State which will give the Herald much comfort. He says the drift of the vote of Maine is largely towards Blaine.
 Cheng Tsao Ju, the Chinese minister who sails from New York to-day on diplomatic business, gave some advice to an assembly of his countrymen in New York which indi- cates the Chinese feeling towards the people of this country. He told his hearers that no matter how accustomed they became to American customs these customs could never equal those of China, and he did not advise them to become permanent citizens here.
 In Weimar, the little German city which is associated with the fame of Goethe and Schil- Ter, stringent measures are adopted to pre- vent the abuses of liquor selling. An official circular has lately been sent to all retailers warning them on penalty of forfeiting their licenses against supplying ardent spirit to twenty-five persons named notoriously un- der it's influence, and thereby offending
 
 domestic duties The ground for this action is that liquor dealers have no right to en- courage topers in causing scandal and ex- pense to the community.
 Returns of the State census of Michigan are now coming in, and the results of the decennial census for 1884 will in due time be available. So far as the work has gone, the census shows noteworthy tendency of the population towards the cities and larger towns. In the period of 1870-80, while the population of the whole State increased 3S per cent, the ten principal cities made gain of nearly 60 per cent. In the years since 1880, this movement cityward has also been marked. Detroit and all the chief places have grown steadily. Detroit reports 134, ,934 inhabitants, a gain of 16 per cent in four years.
 Dr. Labsrdi, it may be remembered, made a horrible experiment. with the head of the murderer Campi, who was recently guillo- tined in Paris. Since then Dr. Brown-Se- quard has undertaken similar experiment with dog. He wished to see whether, after violent death in a healthy state, conscious ness in dog could be fully restored. He therefore beheaded dog that was familiar with his voice, another dog having before hand been prepared for the transfusion of it's blood into the arteries of the dead dogs head. No sooner did he inject the blood than the head became animated, the eyes opened and, on the name of the dog being called, an attempt at response was made by significant look.
 The French dispose of large quantity of coarse foreign wines and sailing vessels now constantly arrive at Marseilles specially fitted up for wine cargoes, somewhat as the large steamers have been transformed for Aneri- can beef. Their holds very much resemble vast breweries, being fitted up with immense vats and system of tubes, through which the wine is loaded and un1oaded by pumps. The economy of time as we'll as of plant is considerable There are six such vessels now plying between MarseiIles and the small wine port of Scog1letti alone, being ballasted with water on the return voyage. One of these, the Nostra Madre, contains ten large vats, each holding $500 gallons, besides t28 smaller ones fitted in as the space admits, and carrying in all about 47, 600 gallons.
 French schools have lately been taking to object lessons on very large scale, the au- thorities having come to the conclusion that the best way of teaching children about for eign countries is to let them see those eoun- tries for themselves. At several of the Par isian schools preliminary course of study in the political and industrial history of the countries to be visited is first gone through, and then the pupils are taken en masse to see what they have been learning about. One school, the Ecole Monge, has just returned from tour in Switzerland and Italy, and an other, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commer- ciales, from tour in England. The French consul in London looked after the young tourists, who visited the docks and the post office and several of the leading warehouses, as well as the ordinary exhibitions and mu- seums.
 Latest advices from Brazil say that the new ministry is about to present an impor-