Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Confidence is said to be plant of slow growth, but there has been nothing slow about it's apparent growth in Wall street during the last three or four days.
 It is predicted by some of the cheerful Mormons that the cholera will spread in this country as a divine retribution for the re- appointment of Governor Murray. If there is any retribution about the cholera Salt Lake City is not very safe place.
 President Bruce of the Massachusetts State Senate is reported as saying that it looks to him as if the bottom were about to drop out of the Democratic party in Massachusetts, and he reports that in his own city of Somerville the Butler men of last fall who are falling away from the Cleveland banner will be counted by hundreds.
 On all European railroads there are first, second and third-class fares for passenger traffic. The third-class fares yield the larg- est margin of profit. During the last ten years the rates have been generally reduced, and it has been found that the reduction has invariably increased traffic enormously, even peasants, who formerly did not dream of travelling, indulging in the luxury of riding behind the iron horse.
 The Central Park Sunday concerts in New York have proved so popular, in spite of the opposition to them, that it is now proposed to have additional music in Tompkins square for the benefit of those who cannot spare the time to go to Central Park. One business firm, which employs large number of the i 800 working men and women who have signed the petition for music in the square, offer to defray the expense of frst-class band until September 1, if there is no money in the hands cf =, park commissioners for the purpL e
 A recent decision by an English judge is interesting to educators" In the case decided boy had been kept after school hours for failure in lesson he had been di- rected to prepare at home. His parents had forbidden his studyirg out of school hours, and they brought action against the school master for assault. The magistrates dis missed the case, but the Queens bench re- versed the judgment, holding that the dete@r tion amounted to an assault in law, because the child had been punished for not doing what the master had no right to order him to do.
 The Spaniarls are not satisfied with their navy, which consists of five ironelads, an ironclad monitor. floating battery, and IF other vessels. The navy possesses besides 35 gunboats for the protection of the 1sthmus of Cuba and Porto Rico. According to the new proposals, tie organization of the fleet ought to be completed in ten years, at the end of which time Spain would possess 12 1 ironclads, 2 ironclsd cruisers, 7 frst-elass | cruisers, g second-class cruisers, ii third class cruisers, 32 orpedo boats, and trans ports A sum of 230, 900, 900 pesetas(about $46,- l 900 ,000, to be spent in ten years, is demand ed from the government. The United States
 ought to have as good navy as Spain. NJ. Pasteur's wonderful experiments with
 the virus of hydrcphobia are going on with \ unbroken success. He has thus far expert
 mented on fifty-seven dogs, nineteen of them ! mad and thirty-eight bitten under uniform conditions. Of these thirty-eight half had
 been obviously inoculated, the other half
 not. The latter, without single exception,
 died with unmistakab1e signs of hydropho- bia, whereas the nineteen others are as well 1 as ever. They will be watched for year by veterinary doctors to see whether the inocula-
 tion holds good permanently or only tempo
 rarily. M. Pasteur's theory is that hydro
 phobia is produced solely by the bite, and if
 this is correct law compelling all dogs to be
 inoeulated would in the end extirpate hy-
 drophobia entirely, whereas if the disease
 arises spontaneously such an enactment
 would be less effectual
 Jersey justice" is famous, and Rhode Is-
 land justice is in a fair way to become so.