Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

l Two distinguished English noblemen, botI
 married, have been fighting in London ove1 Mrs. Langtry. The English aristocrats seen l determined to keep themselves before the public.
 Nothing as easier than to run 8 newspaper l successfully (according to those who don't know anything about the business) and yet
 about $25,O00,0O0 has been sunk in the
 newspaper business in New York city dur ing the last fifty years.
 Probably the largest, and not the least sat-
 isfaetory, organized movement of population | ever known in this country is soon to begin from the mining districts of Pennsylvania. A body of 0,000 Hungarians are preparing to go in body to the Qu' Appelle district in the Canadian Northwest, where the govern | ment promises to give them 200, 900 acres of fertile land. The region is certainly very rich, and is probably destined to become a
 great agricultural country.
 It is an interesting fact that while mar riage with deceased wife's sister is illegal l in England it is entirely legal in nearly all the British colonies, and in Australia four bishops of the church of England have pub. riages. One of these prelates, the Bishop of Nelson, reminds the clergy that it would be ibellous in Australia to refer to these mar riages as 'tincestuous" or ''unholy"-terms which ill England are the chief arguments
 against the practice.
 A combination of tent and hotel life has
 been attempted at summer resort on the
 Pacific coast. Each guest or family can have
 8 separate tent pitched in grove overlook ing the sea- and provided with the rude fur niture of camp; but there is also wooden
 hotel, in which an ordinary apartment is as signed to every visitor for refuge in case of storm CT sudden dislike of the canvas.
 Meals are served in general dining room or in the tents, as desired, and the bills of fare include the primitive dishes of campers as well as the products of French cookery.
 Hawaiians are becoming alarmed at the rapid change taking place in the population of the islands. During the month of June there arrived in Honolulu IA white persons, three Hawaiians and 524 Asiatics, and there departed during the same time 302 whites and only 215 Asiatics, show ing total change in favor of the Chinese of 467 persons. By the census of 1884 there were 1s, ,055 Chinese in the islands, which is known to have since increased II per cent, while during the past year the English speak ing race has fallen off about 8 per cent
 Miss Blanche Williams, of Brantford, Can ada, has just matriculated in the University of Toronto The event is made the subject of an editorial article by the Toronto Globe, the reason being that the matriculant is a young lady of color, and the first to be ad mitted to the privileges of the university Six years ago two eolered girls, sisters, ma circulated, but owing to the regulations then in force they were not allowed to attend lec- lures in the University college. Miss Will Hams, according to the Globe, passed in mathematics, history, geography, classics and English, and obtained seeond-class hon ors in French and German.
 A traveller pictures the guano coast of South America as the most desolate region on earth On one side is the Pacific ocean, with it's great swells sweeping most around tine globe, as regular and constant as the throbbings of the human pulse. On the