Morning journal and courier., 1885-11-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Supreme court of Indiana has just de- cided that man whose mill was tired by the negligence of railroad company may recoy- CT full damages therefor from the company, although he may have been paid for his loss by an insurance company. The court held that a contrary decision would give the wrongdoer the benefit of an insurance on which others had paid the premium.
 The politicians and statesmen of Scotland are often subjected to a pleasant process called ''heckling." Here is specimen of it:
 'Are you in favor of increasing the length of soldiers kilts?' ''Would you vote for pay ing the expenses of unsuccessful Tory candi- datess" ''Would you erect monument to Lord Beaeonsfeldl" ''Would you"-this by the chairman of the meeting-''would you advocate bill forbidding sergeants to swear in drilling raw reeruits?' It is not to be
 wondered at that after an hour of such
 "heckling" the candidate declared that he
 would emphatically favor bill for gagging
 everyone that asked fool questions.
 Hon. Norman J. Coleman, United States Commissioner of Agriculture, in the address
  some very interesting facts. The number of cattle in this country is forty-fve millions. The value is $1 200, 100000. There are thir- teen millions of horses and mules, forty-fve millions of swine, fifty millions of sheep, all representing capital of s2, 500, 900, ,000 The value of the hay, corn and oat crops is annu- ally s1, ,O0O, 100000. The argument is that Congress should legislate for the protection of these vast interests in the way of the pre- vention and restriction of disease. That is to say, it should not be left to the States to quarantine or slaughter diseased animals, but I there should be national law, strictly and generally enforced by intelligent and innpar- l tial experts.
 Comparative tests of the granites of New England and Minnesota, instituted by Profes- sor Winchen with view to determine their | crushing strength, exhibit some surprising differences. The pieces employed for this purpose were two-inch cubes, unpublished, and, crushed between wooden cushions, the 1 average strength of twenty specimens of Minnesota granite was found to be 93,272 l pounds, or 23,31S pounds per square l inch; crushed between steel plates the | average strength was 104, 800 pounds, | or 26,200 pounds to the square inch of surface The average obtained for the same number of specimens of New England l granite was 59, 7S5 pounds, or IA, ,756 pounds per square inch. The age of Minnesota gran | ite is archaen; that of New England granite | is not known.
 l Strangely enough, examinations made of ] the painted windows, so celebrated as works 1 of artistic genius and skill, of the old cathe- 1 drals of England and continental Europe,
 show that their superiority consists really in
 the inferiority of the glass, it's richness in the poverty of it's constituents, in the very per | lection of it's uneven thickness and in the l imperfections of it's surface and it's body, all covered, as they are, by the accommodating
 dust of ages, and honeycombed by the cor
 roding effect of time. Like the facets of a
 diamond or ruby, each little wave and 1 thread and blister becomes, by interference,
 refraction and reflection of the light which plays upon it, new source of the gem-ike
 brilliance, harmony and beauty which dis 1 tinguish the painted glass of former centu-
 ries The glass makers of America and En- gland now aim to reproduce the perfection of
 this old glass by reproducing it's imperfec-
 tions.
 A Michigan law requires that of four regis tration commissioners for Detroit two shall be Republicans and two Democrats. The Supreme court of the State, having been call