Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Malaria is said to be working towards Bos- ton. When it gets there it will take the starch right out of tho prim Bostonians
 The appearance of smallpox in Chelsea,
 Massachusetts, is attributed to kiss given
 by patient in Montreal to the person who
 was taken with the disease after reaching
 Chelsea. But people will continue to
 kiss.
 General Sloat is reported as saying that he
 doesn't know much about the management
 of the schools, but that he thinks it is ad-
 mirable and he is quite sure that those who are criticising it know little about it. Here's richness for you.
 British Guiana paper describes the do-
 ings of British commission which has been
 visiting the West India islands At one place the commission had light lunch, con sisting of $3 worth of wine and three pence worth of bread. Many would think that this was too much bread
 Japan is a very progressive nation, but a
 Buddhist temple which will cost $3, ,000, 900 is
 being built in Kioto. It is said that more
 than ton of large ropes, made of their own
 hair, contributed by the women of Japan,
 will be used to haul the timbers fer the tenn pie to their places. This temple is to be a Mecca for the faithful all over the empire. The unselfsh and disintsrssted opponents of the citizens movement to elect some new members of the Board of Education are do- ing their best to confuse the minds of the people concerning the matter. The main issue is very plain one. There is 8 general impression that there is something decidedly wrong about the management of our schools. Let us, therefore, elect some men who will try and find where and what the wrong is
 and when they have found it correct it. An association for the protection of plants has been started at Geneva: The object is to preserve Alpine rarities from the extermination with which the annually ln-
 ereasing number of botanists, msrcenary col
 lectors, and mountaineering tourists general ly is said to menace them. Tho projectors of the association announce that they are go- ing to cultivate the flowers of the Alps in nurseries, and sell them at such low rates that it will not be worth anyones while to dig up the wild plants.
 The hydrographic office has been engaged for several months in collecting facts regard l ing the value and use of oil for reducing the I violence of the sea when vessels are in peril, and, it is said, will soon have ready large I amount of highly valuable data on this sub ject. The instances are multiplying in which
 vessels have obtained great advantage 1n 1 time of peril during gales by simple contri-
 yances for allowing oil, whether paint oil,
 fish oil or kerosene oil, to trickle in the water 1 about the ships. .a4
 1 After twelve months of experiments n all
 kinds of weather, at the South Foreland, the
 Trinity House committee, which has charge 1 of the lighthouses on the English coast, has
 made ita report upon the relative merits oi
 electricity, oil and gas as lighthouse llumi-
 nants. It has been found that for ordinary
 necessities of lighthouse illumination mineral oil is the most suitable and economical 1ltu minant, and that for salient headlands, i'm
 portant landfalls, and places where very powerful light is required, electricity offers l the greatest advantages.
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