Morning journal and courier., 1885-11-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A class for the study of politics has been organized by the National Wo1nan's Suffrage association of Massachusetts. Men and women will be welcomed at the meetings, the object of which is to form an acquaint- ance with tho groundwork and eventually the details of our national and State govern ments This is Boston notion which. is worth something.
 Governor David B. Hills record as 8 con vict-pardoner is rather astonishing. During the ten months that he has been Governor of New York he has restored two hundred and twen- ty-seven ex-convicts to citizenship. Of these restorations ninety five were granted prior to October 1, and one hundred and thirty-two were granted from that date to October 28. Mr. Hill was nominated for Governor on September 24 He has given the right to vote to more conyiets in twenty eight days since his nomination than he did during the entire nine months preceding his nomina- ton.
 The ''faith cure" theory still lives. Mrs. Baxter of London, firm believer in it, made the following ingenious and curious statement the other day: On certain Mon day night found my face all full of mo squi- to bites Several friends kindly prayed that I should be freed of them by Tuesday morn ing When I retired to my bed Jesus spoke to me and said: sWould you not go among the people and speak for me with swollen faces' I replied, eff it is thy will, I will be glad to" and that is the reason 1 came here with the swelling in my face. It is the work ing out of divine purpose.
 A plea is made in England against the needless destruction of sea birds. It al'- pears that several species are in danger of extinction owing to persistent shooting, snaring and the systematic raiding of their nests and the removal of all of their eggs. The birds of many species lay but one egg If this is taken they lay one more, that Is all If both sets are stolen, and this process is carried out against majority of bird colo nies along the coast, it is clear that the dis appearance of the great aux, already fact. will be followed by the extinction of other species. Practical arguments brought out in the interest of the sea birds are that they l are valuable scayengers, and that many | ship has escaped wrecking by being warned | N~N ~--S fog. It is great pity that the English spar l row is not sea bird.
 | On the bodies of almost all the Japanese
 one sees round white spots. These are the
 moxa spots, produced by burning the flesh with species of plant, with the object of ! curing some affection. This is 8 universal I popular specific in Japan, which is it's home, | although moxa is to be found used elsewhere. It was introduced from Japan to Europe by | the Portuguese and Spaniards, and the name is Japanese. In May the leaves of the Arte- misia Chinensis are powdered and dried, and the mass cut into small blocks or pieces One [ of these is laid on the body and set on fire, burning slowly away. At first it naturally | produces sore, more or less deep, according to the intensity of the heat; soon this heals, | leaving the scar forever. The belief in the efficacy of this process is universal, and, Dr, Baelz thinks, not altogether misplaced, for | the moxa acts much as our blisters do. More | over, from the accounts of those who have | gone through the cure, it is by no means so painful as one would anticipate from the heroic nature of the remedy.
 | There is encouragement for women ih
 some facts concerning the worlds population
 which have just been published. It appears
 that women have greater tenacity of life
 than men. Nature very properly worships | the female in all it's varieties. Among in-
 sects the male perishes at relatively early
 period. Female quadrupeds have more en-
 durance than males. In the human race, despite the intellectual and physical strength
 of man, the woman endures longest and will
 bear pain to which the strongest man sue
 oumbs Zymotic diseases are more fatal to
 males, and more male children die than fe-
 male The proportion dying suddenly is one
 woman to seven men. One thousand and
 eight men in the United States in 1870 com
 mitted suicide to two hundred and eighty
 five women. Intemperance, apoplexy, gout
 affections of the heart and liver. are more
 fatal to males than females. Pulmonary
 consumption is more deadly to the latter All old countries, not disturbed by emigra