Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-28
EDITORIAL NOTES,

The Hon. John L. Sullivan seems to have found his match. He says his wife has been 'intolerably cruel" to him.
 The banquet in honor of ex-Postmaster Spe1y last evening was more notable af fair than any of the kind that has ever taken place in this city. MT. Sperry may well be proud of the splendid tribute
 Pressed glass that is as hard and tough as cast iron is now turned out in the Siemens works. It is far lighter than iron, and not affected by temperature. It is intended to make out of this hard crystal street lamp posts, stairs, and gas and water pipes.
 The last Indiana legislature passed law regulating the charge for telephone service, to go into effect June 30. Accordingly the telephone company has notified subscribers that on that date it will remove all tele- phones and the business will end in the State. If this action is taken there will be a loud call for reconsideration"
 The pestiferous English sparrow is always in mischief. Farmers, gardeners, horticu1- turists and arboriculturists at the North 1OA<S5 AAOoANONA HC59 to attack the blossoms of fruit-bearing trees at this season and nip and clip of the same not for food, but from pure wantonness. And now the orange growers of Florida and Louisiana are making the same complaint Would that the English sparrow had never come and that somebody would invent a way to make him go.
 oe signed the anti-oleomargarine bill It's first section is as follows: No person, firm or cor porate body shall manufacture out of any oleaginous substance, or any compound of the same, any article designed to take the place of butter or cheese produced from pure unadulterated milk or cream from the same, or any imitation or adulterated butter or cheese, nor shall sell or offer for sale, or have in his, her or their possession with intent to sell, the same as an article of food.
 Thomas Kay of Stockport, England, has found a process for making sea water drink able which may be of value to shipwrecked people His process is to remove the chlo- rides by the use of the citrate of silver. He says that one ounce of citrate of silver will convert half a pint of sea water into drinkable fluid, and man can keep alive on it day, or seven ounces will serve to sustain life week. He proposes that bot ties of the citrate of silver should be secured in the lifeboats of ships, and used when ab- solutsly required. The citrate of soda formed is an important constituent of the human body, and oitric acid, from it's carbon, is almost food.
 A funeral in St. Paul's cathedral is not only rare event, but it is also an exceeding ly costly honor. The fees paid by the cor poration of London for burying the late Lord Mayor in the cathedral were about 5000. When royal funeral takes place at Windsor, the preliminary fee to the Dean and Chapter ''for breaking the ground" is $1,00O. This item is the more unreasonable inasmuch as the royal vault is not under St. Georges chapel, and no ground is broken, the only disturbance being the temporary removal of a certain slab on the floor of the choir in or der that the coffin may be lowered into the vault ltssbeneath, whence it is wheeled along a passage to the royal tomb-house, underneath the Albert Memorial chapel.
 The population of France is decreasing. The mortality among infants belonging to the poorer class is appalling. So also is the