Morning journal and courier., 1885-11-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The business men in all parts of the coun- try are expressing. themselves strongly in fla vor of national bankruptcy act and against the further coinage of standard silver dol lars.
 It is only a score of years since the canning of salmon was begun on the Pacific coast Everybody was afraid of it, and the proprie- tor of the first cannery, William Hume of Oakland, Cal. <, used to take basket of cans acquaintances explaining the method of it's preparation and inviting a trial. Now canned salmon can be found in every market, and MT. Hume is rich man.
 A very exciting prohibition canvass is in progress at Atlanta, Georgia. According to the State law, recently enacted, when town or city votes no license the popular decree is to remain 8 permanent enactment. The "dry ticket'' in Atlanta is being pushed by every means possible. A huge gospel tent holding six thousand people is crowded nightly; the Women's Christian union are making personal canvass of the city, and brass bands play rum and "dry" music on alternate nights.
 Dr. Clayton, an English physician, who is believed to have had wider experience in smallpox than any living authority, has pub lished his analysis of 1o, ,4O3 cases which have come under his observation. Among patients showing perfect marks of vaccination the mortality was but 2.97 per cent. Among those whose marks were imperfect the mor- tality rose to 9.37, the patients whose marks of vaccination had entirely disappeared sui fering to the extent of 27.18, while of the un- vaccinated no less than 43. 70 died.
 'sThe spirits" are not in the habit of dis playing their interest in mankind by any thing that is useful, but lady in Bath, Maine, who is firm believer in spiritualism, states that on recent occasion, while she was trying to paper her parlor and making a hard job of it, the spirit of well known ps- per hanger appeared in the room, and on re-
 covering from her surprise she found the pa
 per had been put on the wall as neatly as the it. This is something like it. If the spirits
 would do such things oftener spiritualisn would spread faster.
 Thus far the Brooklyn bridge has proved a losing investment. In order to be called g success, it's gross earnings ought to cover keeping it in repair, guarding it and paying reasonable rate of interest on the money invested in it. During June of this year the gross receipts from the bridge were $50, ,00O
 In July they were 5000; in August, $51,- 900; in September, $55, 900, and in October, $61 1000. During the corresponding period 1 the expenses were between $32, TOO and $36,- 160 month. In order to pay per cent. on the capital invested, the average net receipts should be about $5O,000 month. Several years are likely to pass before the average
 gross receipts reach $90, 900 month. The malignanoe of the poison of the l membraneus matter that collects in the throat of a child suffering with diphtheria is
 shockingly shown in the case of Dr. George O. Warner, popular physician of Leicester 1 the poison conveyed in a piece of membrane | that was coughed up by child over whom
 he was bending, and which lodged in hil
 moustaehe. The poisonous matter wal quickly removed, and the moustache wash l ed; but the infectious nature of the disease showed itself, in spite of these precautions i for the doctor took it, and with the fata result mentioned. This melancholy inciden
 should serve as sharp warning.
 l Music from gas is the latest English inven