Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-20

venom as he attacked that of the empire But single one of the eleven has at present
 share in the government of the country
 He, it is true, has the lions share, for he is
 Jules Ferry.
 According to the annual report of lead
 ing Marseil1es firm which is regarded as an
 authority, France has good cereals all through
 and wheat crop f'immensely superior'' to
 any since 1880, when the record was begun.
 Great Britain has 8 record of bountifu1
 crops. Austro- Hungary is fully equal to
 1883. Italy reports wheat, barley and oats
 as one-quarter better than last year. In the
 Danubian provinces the yield is satisfactory"
 In Russia crops are better as rule than last
 year, and wheat in particular ranks at 100
 against 90 last year. In Belgium the crops
 are good; and in India wheat is fully equal
 to the very satisfactory yield of last year.
 Taking into consideration the immense crops
 in our own country it does not seem probable
 that the world will starye this year.
 Professor William Everett, the principal of
 Adams academy at Quincy, Massachusetts,
 which fits boys for Harvard college, tells the
 Quincy people, and that includes his pupils.
 that personal purity is of no account at all in
 the character of public man. He asks his
 fellow citizens to run through the list of Re
 publican candidates, Fremont and Dayton,
 Lincoln and Hamlin and Johnson, Grant and
 Colfax and Wilson, Hayes and Wheeler,
 Garfield and Arthur, land ask how many of
 these men could stand the test you impose on
 Governor Cleveland" Dr. Everett virtually
 admits tho loathsome unchastity of Cleve-
 land, but says he 'fis not bad man. He has
 not done that which need make us doubt
 that his administration will be virtuous
 one.' We have fallen upon strange times.
 The Italian government, following the ex-
 ample of Austria, has been quietly but
 actively at work to complete the defensive system of fortifcation on it's northern iron tier. At Asiago, the chief place of the Sette Conmuni- singular district of the old Venetian territory, where the people still speak dialect largely compounded of words of Old High German origin-two companies of Cacciatori delle Alpi and half battalion of engineers have been quartered for con- time. The engineers have been chiefly occupied with the construction of two detached forts, which will effectively control the mountain road which passes up through the Val d 'Assa and deseends by the Val Vezzena, near Levico into the Vlasugana, in the southern Tyrol, through which the upper course of the Brenta flows. These forts will dominate the plateau of the Sette Communi, and bar the road against coup de main di- rected against Vicenza. A fort has also been built near Campo Rovere, in the neighbor- hood of Asiago, which seems from the out side to be of formidable character and capable of receiving considerable garrison. The position is admirable.
 The medical journals indorse, without ex- ceptioE, the suggestion made by Dr. Veil in the Archives of Otology, based on his exam ination of the ears and hearing of nearly six school children, namely, that in every case of inattention the child should have it's ears examined, so convinced is he of the fact that children who simply hard of hearing are often misjudged and consid- ! cred inattentive. Indeed, such examina- tion, he thinks, would be desirable once or 1 twice year for every child, the test being made in the schoolroom itself if there be no other room convenient; that IS, the teacher could place the pupil in one corner of the room, then retire to the other himself and | test each ear separately by whispering, caus- l ing the words and sentences used to be re- peated by the pupil, and thus easily find out l wkich of them are hard of hearing. This, it I is believed, would have the further advan- tage of calling the attention of parents to I 2E n1, them to act accordingly: or, what would be ! still better, surgeon should have the health 1 of the schools in charge, including the exam ! ination of the of every pupil whom the ! teacher finds inattentive.