Morning journal and courier., 1885-11-10

VII Indian question which should be attentively read. It is time that this important matter should receive the attention it deserves.
 M de Lesseps asserts, in circular issued to shareholders, that the Panama canal twill certainly be completed in 1SS8." Possibly, if the sanguine Frenchman succeed in getting two or three hundred million more dollars, but it does not look just now as if he could.
 Professional etiquette does not allow physi- clans to advertise in the newspapers, and the Springfield Union raises the question whether the newspapers do not painfully violate the alleged etiquette when they mention physi- cians' names in connection with difficult cases. This is often done in New Haven and there has been no protest yet.
 English military leaders are beginning to urge a reform in what is known as "the horse question" In 1873, when the army required 2,OO0 transport horses, it was found necessary to import 1 1,500 from France. In 1882 it took seventeen weeks to buy TOO of the useful beasts. In the first month of serious war it is estimated that 5000 would be needed by the various branches of the British service; 2,500 is the utmost that the home market could supply.
 Female car conductors are common ob- jects in the towns of Chili. During the war with Peru, when most of the able-bodied men were drafted into the army, women were employed in this capacity and proved themselves so successful that they have been continued in this employment. They are usually girls from twenty to twenty five, dressed in natty uniforms and jaunty Pana- ma hats and white pinafores.
 Sugar is valuable for fattening stock, and the price has sometimes been so low in Eng land that it could proftably be used for this purpose Sir J. B. Lawes, the eminent au- thority on such subjects, says that at the price of e-fourths cents pound sugar is profitable feed for pigs and cattle, and that it was cheap enough to be so used last year, but has cost too much this season. If sorghum sugar is made in this country at a cost of about cent pound, as some think | it will be, it will probably be much used as food for stock.
 | | the Nevada legislature last winter has turned ! out just as it might have been expected to. | Both police and people treat it as jest. Yet | no law could be more rigidly framed. It | imposed fines of from five to twenty dollars, and imprisonment of from two to ten days, for the gratuitous offering of any alcoholic beverage in a place of public resort, and
 more than doubled the penalty for any at- tempt at evasion, while local vigilance WAS
 stimulated by the provision that the fines
 collected should be paid into the school fund
 of the county.
 The milk dealers of Philadelphia have
 been quarreling among themselves, and some interesting secrets of the trade have come out A dealer asserts that the wholesale ane
 retail dealers in Philadelphia use large quan
 titles of boracic acid as a preservative
 Whenever the demands of consumers do moi
 exhaust the day's supply, the surplus is pre-
 vented from souring by putting into ever!
 can of forty quarts four ounces of the acid
 which is powder and must first be dis
 solved in quart of boiling water. It is sait
 that in this way milk can be kept sweet for
 week, but the acid cannot be proftably uset in milk that is on the point of becoming sour