Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

fanity before the Boston city court the past year. There is a good deal to swear at in Boston.
 The Montreal board of health has decided that it is not 'time yet" to close the schools, theaters and churches. There's nothing like "taking things easy"
 It now looks as if Riel would have to hang, but much better use could be made of him. If this country could get along without hang ing Jeff Davis England ought to be able to without hanging Riel.
 A Chicago man called at an undertaker's neral. "Dr. sent me here," he said. ooh, yes," said the undertaken; 'sDr. sends us all his work"
 The Church Congress came to an end yes- terday. Its meeting has been a very pleas ant one and much has been said that is worth remembering. The people of New Haven have exhibited great interest in the assembly and it's discussions, and would like to have the Congress hold all it's meetings here if such a course would be fair to other people.
 Prohibition is making much headway in Canada, under the local option act, which leaves the matter to the counties. Forty nine counties have adopted the provisions of the act, which remain in force until repealed by a formal vote, and no effort to repeal has succeeded. Complaints of on-enforcement are made, but not by the wholesale liquor dealers, who admit that their business is suf- fering,
 Senator Colquitt of Georgia was in New Orleans recently. In an interview he said that 'sthe South will not differ with the President on the appointments he may make, altho6gh here and there it may be thought that the appointments are not what in all cases they should be. The southern people will not quarrel with the President on the opinion unless he should take constitutional and other positions which they could not up- hold" Cen it be that southern Democrats are more high minded than northern Demo- crats?
 The squirrel is not often very useful to man, but it seems that the burrowing of squirrels led to the establishment of the lat
  prospector noticed mass of deeomposed quartz mingled with the dirt which the little whiskered rodents had thrown out from their holes in hillside. The quartz when examined was found to yield gold in good quantity and the squirrel holes were traced to quartz ledge which lay beneath the sur face It is pleasant to know that the pros pector has richly reaped the fruits of his dis eovery.
 Here is an extract from despatch of Queen Elizabeth's deputies in Ireland to their royal mistress: 'tShould we exert ourselves in reducing this country to civility and or der it must soon acquire power, consequence and riches The inhabitants will be thus elienated from England, and will cast them selves into the arms of some foreign power; perhaps erect themselves into an independent and separate State. Let us, then, rather eonnive at their disorder, for weak and disordered people never can attempt to detach themselves from the Crown of England" :" In the light of subsequent events, this is in teresting.
 In the agricultural dspsrtment of a library in Warsenstein, near Cassel1, Germany, may be seen most novel collection of books. At first glaGr.ee they appear like rough blocks of wood; but on closer examination it is found that each is a complete history of the partic- ular tree which it represents. At the back of the book the bark has been removed from space large enough to admit the scientific and the common name of the tree as a title. One side is formed from the split wood of the tree, showing its grain and natural frae- ture; the other shows the wood when worked smooth and varnished. One end shows the grain as left by the saw, the other the finely polished surface. On opening the book one finds the fruit, seeds, leaves and other pro ducts of the tree, the moss which usually grows upon it's trunk, and the insects which feed upon the various parts of the tree. To all this is added well printed description of the habits, usual location and manner of growth of the tree--all forming a complete history of each kind of timber represented, and in form readily understood. For many years the Harmony society of Economy, Pennsylvania, commonly called the Economies" have attracted attention by their peculiar customs, VOWS of celibacy, and, in fact, the general oddity which dis | tinguished them from their neighbors, Of