Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-16
EDITORIAL NOTES,

Minneapolis is thriving place. The .as- sessed valuation of property there is now more than $4OO, 900, 900, which is an increase of fifty per cent. since 1880.
 Minnesota has commendable plan to head off the divorce scandals which have reached so many other States by making the matrimo- nial disruption less easy. A bill to this end has been drawn providing that applicants must actually live in the State year, that the defendants have actual notice of suits in- stead of the constructive warning by news paper advertisement, that the county attor- neys shall act in all cases, and that the courts may refuse to grant any divorce at discre- ton.
 Evidence that the prohibitory law is a fail ure in Iowa continues to accumulate A Davenport paper recently applied to the may OTIS of the principal cities for information as to the working of the system. Fifteen of them unqualifedly pronounce the law a fail ure, three regard it as doubtful whether it does more good than harm, and not one in dorses the statute. In these eighteen cities the numb Der of saloons under nominal prohi- bition is 39 more than before, and there is 6 general agreement that drunkenness has greatly increased during the six months since the new law went into operation.
 MT. W. H. Rosser, the well known Eng fish student of the law of storms, has re- gently given seamen a valuable guide by which to find their way out of the perils of ocean cyclones His modification of the cir cular theory of storms is an especially inn portant and practical contribution to the subject. The particular feature of his new work is the elucidation of the incurvature of the wind in so-called circular storm His researches show quite conc1usively that while this incurvature in the cyclones of the higher attitudes is apparently not so great as in those of the tropics, it is considerable in the rear of the storm, but in it's front the wind movement is generally circular.
 The Hartford Telegram is good Demo cratic paper, but it has this to say concerning Senator Platt Mir. Platt is 8 strong Repub- lican, and we are sorry for this reason that he is not to be succeeded by Democrat in uni son with the policy of the next administration. But we are free to say that there is no Republican in the State more deserving of the honor than Mr. PIatt and we are not surprised at his unanimous in dorsement by his party. In his official term he has accomplished much for his constitu- ents, especially for disabled Union veterans. and the widows and orphans of veterans. We have disagreed with him radically on many public questions, but this is due to political reasons. Personally he is above reproach honest, capable and ever ready to advance the general interests of his State.
 The year 1885 finds no less than four Eno- fish judges still actively pursuing their judi cial labors after attaining the age of four score years. They are Vice. Chancellor Bacon. who is in his eighty seventh; Judge Peters doff, in his eighty-ffth; Judge Hutton, in his eighty third, and Judge Bayley, of the West minister County court, also in his eightv-third year. For the first time the judges of the county courts in England and Wales occupy. by virtue of her Majesty's recent warrant un- der the sign manual, especial place in the Table of Precedence, where they are placed next after knights bachelors, thus displacing the sergeants-at-law. The Queens warrant, which bears date August 4, 1884, further