Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-12
EDITORIAL NOTES.

It's an ill wind that blows no good, and even the odor of such Illuminating gas as is burned in New Haven has it's use. The natural gas which is burned in Pittsburg is dangerous, because it cannot be snelt in time to prevent an explosion.
 Among the amendments to the house rules which have been offered that offered by Congressman Beach, of New York, is aota- ble. It provides that all eulogies of de- ceased members shall hereafter be delivered on Sundays. The adoption of this rule would result in saving some valuable time.
 The members of Congress from the Pacific States have made the statement in Washing
 ton that eighteen thousand Chinese have come into the United States this year, and that at least four thousand of these came in violation of our treaty with China. The anti-Chinese feeling that these gentlemen bring to Washington with them seems to fall short of the popular feeling in Wyoming and Washington Territories only in that they dis approve of expressing it by physical violence. They desire Mongolian immigration to be utterly prohibited.
  map is the contour or vertical relief of Q country. No very satisfactory process of making relief maps, by which we may get at a glance good idea of the oonfguration of the earth's surface, has heretofore been in vented. New relief maps, however, that are now being introduced in Europe are said not only to show accurately the physical features of the earth, but also to be as convenient to handle as an ordinary map. They can be rolled up or folded, and can be carried about as easily as so much paper. They are flat tened when weight is placed upon them, but instantly resume their proper shape when the pressure is removed.
 Some of the inhabitants of New York city are disturbed by the falling off in foreign trade of that port. The annual report of the Chamber of Commerce. just published, fully | justifes their concern. Compared with 1SS4-5, the decrease for the fiscal year amounts to $97, 165, ,803, while the falling off at all the ports of the United States during the same period is but $107, ,5S0,015. Exor- bitant port charges, excessive wharf rents, ineessant exactions from swarms of greedy
 
 tion from municipal administration, are among the causes at work to make New York too dear place to do business in, and to drive trade away to other points.
 If Mr. Carlisle completes the term of office as speaker to which he has just been re- elected Kentucky will have supplied the national House of Representatives with Speakers during twenty out of ninety eight annual sessions. Fourteen States have thus far furnished Speakers. Virginians have filled the chair thirteen years, Pennsylvanians eleven years, and representatives from Massa- chusetts ten years Indiana has furnished l Speaker nine years, New Jersey, North Car olina and Maine each six years, Tennessee five years, South Carolina and New York each three years, and Connecticut, Georgia and Ohio each two years. Southern men | have consequently presided forty-seven years and northern men forty-nine years. Two school teachers of high grade in St. Louis who have been suspended for l drunkenness are asking to be restored, not | denying that they have been drunk, but all l leging that it was nobody's business so long l as they were not drunk in the school room. | They challenge proof that they have ever l appeared before their scholars when intox1- l eated or have been absent from their duties
 from that cause, though it is admitted that | the evidence of absolute life was so ap- parent in their countenance as to cause re-
 mark among the scholars. One of them was charged with habitual excessive drinking
 more than year ago and promised to re- form, but admits that he has not kept that 4 promise. He did drink, but not ''in way