Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-12
EDITORIAL NOTES.

De Lesseps is a wonderful man and his countrymen have unbounded confidence in him. In spite of the dubious appearance of his Panama canal scheme and the failure of his lottery scheme, the canal companys shares have not suffered much depression.
 The first three months experience of the moderate high license law passed by the Wisconsin legislature shows excellent results. In one hundred towns there has been a de- crease of 267 in the number of liquor shops and an increase of $224, 900 in the public rev. enue.
 Berlin has added unique institution to it's numerous humane ones-a hospital for horses, in which over-worked or sick ani- malls may find rest and regain their health. It is under the joint management of veter mary of the first class, an ex-captain of artil- lery, and farmer. The grounds have an ex- tent of nearly one hundred acres, with ex- cellent pasture land, clay and moor patches, water and bathing facilities. In case of need the patients have ambulance wagons sent for them to transport them to the hospital.
 The companies which use electric wires in New York have only until tomorrow for presenting plans for placing the wires under ground. After that it will become the duty of the commissioners to devise plan if no satisfactory method has been presented. Thus far there seems to have been no definite plan submitted by any of the companies except those that have already an underground system, and it is evident that they do not intend to spend any more money in underground work than they are obliged to.
 The Massachusetts State board of health lunacy and charity hopes to find homes in private families for fifty insane patients be- fore winter. The constantly increasing num- Der of the insane has compelled resort to this resource from motives of humanity. The annual increase of insane in Massachusetts has been about two hundred in recent years and the four large State hospitals and the city and town hospitals are all overcrowded. Of course those boarded out will be harmless lunatics.
 Those New Haven taxpayers who are think ing of moving to Philadelphia had better stay where they are. The mayor of Phila- delphia wants about million dollars extra next year for additional policemen and other matters. and the board of education wants 6 million dollars extra for new school houses and lots upon which to build school houses The tax-rate is now $1.S5, and two mil lions added to this would run the 1886 rate up to considerably over $2.00, and if another million were to be added for the water de- partment, the rate for 1886 would be put at 8 figure calculated to make the hair of the aver age taxpayer stand on end.
 Free thinkers have much to say about free thought, but they are not always willing to allow it. Leo Taxi1, who has been one of the chief organizers of atheistic societies in France, the author of many anti-Christian textbooks andthe champion of the anti clerical movement, recently published a re- cantation. His followers were furious and summoned him to appear for judgment be- fore the free thought societies. His recanta- ton was denounced as an infamy and g crime, the hall rang with cries of ''traitor" and ''coward!" and he was expelled by a unanimous vote, leaving the platform amid tumultuous uproar and displays of passion ate resentment. Brother Taxil had, it seems, no right to his free thought unless it was like their free thought.
 Experiments made during the past two years to introduce few of the early varie- ties of American corn into some of the Aus t1ian provinces have proved very successful in Dalmatia. Not only is the yield twice that of the home product, but the harvest of the American corn can be finished early enough to escape the annual inundations, while the Dalmatian corn ripens late and is often totally destroyed by water before the harvest time. The question, however, seems to be whether the American corn will retain all these good qualities after it has been cul- tivated in the foreign soil and climate for a period of years or whether it will become ac- climated and partake of the home peculiari- ties, thus neeessitating constant importation of fresh seed.
 The Lancet says that the pain of neuralgia headache experienced by women is generally located in one or more branches of the sec ond ceIvica1 nerve, very commonly those terminating in the scalp at the oeoiput. The nerves of the scalp are irritated by the hair being drawn tightly back, and put on the strain, not as whole, in which case the strain would be spread over large area of the surface, but by small bundles of hair, which are pulled back and held in place by hairpins. Relief is often consciously experi- enced as a result of removing the hairpins, but this has only temporary and partial effect. The injury done is lasting in it's con sequences. The present style of dressing hair should be discontinued, as it probably, in part, accounts for the extreme prevalence of neuralgia headache.