Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.


 The following specimens of wild western journalism are interesting: The Gila How Ter says: .'The ickspittle greaser who edits The Ripsnorter lost his head last week in trying to answer us" And the Ripsnorter ripsno rts as follows: fThe reformed bum whose office boy edits the Howler for him can't lose his head, for he has none."
 Fred Ashford, an Alabama burglar, was sentenced to hard labor for five years. He has served that term and also five years on his costs. He has nearly two years more be- fore his debt on account of the expenses of his trial is paid. He is paying at the rate of five cents per day. ''If any device or plan more devilish in it's conception or moro wicked in it's execution could be concocted by the in genuity of man to oppress his fellow man, :" say the prison inspectors, "we would be glad to be advised of it. The idea of imprisoning man in this age for seven years to pay debt of something over $100 at five cents per day is abhorrent" The prison inspectors are just right. The ease is a disgrace to the State.
 The number of residents in Paris between the ages of fifteen and sixty is greater than in any other part of the realm. People go to the city to seek work; at sixty they leave to spend their declining years in the prov inees on their savings. The mean average number of births in Paris is 60, ,0OO, or 2S per ,000 inhabitants. In 1880 this per centage was 3S. In the provinces the num- Der of illegitimate children per 1000 women between fifteen and fifty years of age is F per cent; the ratio is 65 in Paris. Ty-
 phoid fever is the most dangerous illness of
 the city, and generally attacks the young up
 to twenty-five years. h 1926 there were
 in eleven cases the malady was caused by
 alcoholism. Of the 2,2O0 inmates at present
 in the asylums one-fourth have become mad
 through drink.
 The Baptists recently held what they called Ca temperance symposium" at their
 camp ground at Martha's Vineyard, at which clergymen from different sections Of the country delivered their opinions or stated facts. Rev. W. W. Landrum, D. D., made an interesting speech. He appeared, he said, not as a worker in the cause of tenn perance, but as reporter of the condition of the South in that behalf. In the conser- vative South, he says, there is no Universal ism, Spiritualism, Unitarianism nor Boston Christian Science" He told the brethren that the proffer of raisin water at the com munion table in the South would be consid cred sacrilege. And good deacon bought 1 barrel of whiskey with which to entertain an association, rebuking brother deacon l who bought only half a barrel, as being pc nurious and not enthusiastic in sthe suppor l of the gospel" And yet the prohibitionist 1 are making many converts in the South. MT. John F. Schultz thinks he has discov cred a way to defeat the destructive tornado
 He will blow it up with gunpowder. A kel
 of powder is to be kept atsthe southwest
 the house or village to be protected. Tn
 reason for placing it at that particular poin
 of the compass is because experience show that tornadoes generally move toward tn
 northeast. When the black and dreadful
 funnel of tornado cloud is perceived bound ing, whirling and roaring across the countr