Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.

It occasionally pays to go fishing. The schooner Henry Dennis of Gloucester put into Boston the other day with a catch of S2, 800 mackerel, all made at one haul in less than half an hour, and which sold for $2, ,279.
 Our esteemed contemporary the Register makes serious mistake in trying to get the Church Congress interested in the State House question. Does the Register want to make this meeting of the Congress discordant and furnish g cause for everlasting dispute in all other meetings which may be held?
 Lovely woman has seldom received a finer compliment than is paid her by an ingenious Chinaman, who has been defending his coun- just published at Paris. He thus disposes of the charge of keeping the women of his coun- try in ignorance: "Woman," he says, "does not require study to make herself perfect she is born perfect"
 When you write to your Arabian friends you will do we'll to follow this example of an address: 'tIn the name of the merciful God, the benefactor. This writing is from one who serves his Lord, from K, the son of K; :; and if God wills it will get into the hands of our friend Sidi Musa, the son of Hamdalla, the Prussian, the Christian, in the city of Tharabolus, Tripoli, the illustrious, the fa- mous."
 It is believed that grape growing and wine making in the South are likely to attract considerable emigration to that section. An hoo mented on the lands in upper South Carolina in the vicinity of Greenville, and believes that it is the best wine growing district in this country. He expects to make sixty thousand gallons next year and all that he manufactures is readily sold at good prices.
 The legislature of Pennsylvania has snact- ed law by which all teachers in the public schools are required to teach the evil effects. physically speaking, upon the human system of intoxicating liquors. A protest being en- tered against this by the liquor dealers, upon the ground that they paid their share of the taxes in support of the schools and that the proposed teaching might or might not be scientifically exact, the school authorities have decided that the aim of the legislature was to instill teetotal sentiments in the minds and hearts of the rising generation and so secure the eventual annihiation of the liquor traffic throughout the State. The law is i'm perative they declare.
 The investigation of thunder storms is becoming more and more speciality with scientific men. France has made an i'm portant study of them for number of years, Bavaria and Belgium have more recently taken them up, and in our own country, as well as elsewhere, considerable has been un- dertaken in this direction. In recent report by Lancaster, on the famous storms of 1879 in Belgium, the conclusions previ- ously announced there are confirmed, name ly, that thunder storms occur only in the southeast quadrant of the barometric de- pressions, or great cyelonic storms that ire quently sweep across temperate latitudes. But there still remains to be found the actual mechanism of thunder storms, concerning which so many opinions have been put forth. It is thought that the matter will probably remain in doubt until settled by the same kind of investigation that demon