Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-14
EDITORIAL NOTES,

Brother Zunders prayer is the most unique contribution that has yet been made to the discussion of school affairs.
 A Bar Harbor mother before going out to an evening entertainment went to the nurse ry and kissed her dog, but not her child, as they lay asleep together in the same bed. The dog had been good, and the child had been ''bad." It is such things as this that encourage pessimists.
 The disinterested and unselfish gentlemen who are so sure that nobody knows anything about school affairs but themselves have done their best to confuse the minds of the people. The main issue is, Shall the people retain control of the schools, or shall they let them be managed, or mismanaged by the superintendent and two or three members of the Board of Education?
 The instructions to our consuls to make studies of trades abroad have suggested an odd, article of trade to the consul at Nice, viz, the French trade in the affections of American women. The French youth, he declares, have habit of coming to America to SOW their wild oats, and by contracting marriages here they save trouble in the sow ing. Such marriage is not regarded 8 binding obligation by the gay bridegroom by his family in France, or by the French government; and the American wives of these international gallants are left to live as best they can. This is a needed warning but it is doubtful if it will do much good There is no way to convince young woman that she is foolish.
 Leonardo Arentino, an Italian prophet, announces the destruction of the world in November. The following is the programme: The dissolution will begin on the 18th and last fifteen days, viz: First day-The sea will overflow. Second day-The water will penetrate the soil. Third day-Death of fresh water fish, Fourth day-Death of sea animals. Fifth day-Death of the birds. Sixth day-Fall of houses and buildings. Seventh day-Fall of rocks. Eighth day Earthquake. Ninth day-Fall of the noun tains. Tenth day-Men become dumb. Eleventh day-The graves will open. Twelfth day-Rain of stars. Thirteenth day Death of all mankind. Fourteenth day DesbfuctloA ol uedNeuS aio 0oICh OJ Aio. Fifteenth day-General resurrection and last judgment.
 We print on this page this morning an ex- tract from article concerning the schools which appeared in the Sunday Union. The whole article was very interesting and point ed, and we regret that we have not space to print it all. The writer of it is evidently well informed and knows much more about school affairs than is told. There is a good deal of ''food for thought in the article, and it has sharply called attention to some of the performances of Superintendent Dutton which the public knows little or nothing about, and which ought to receive attention. The able and astute young superintendent is having difficulty in making himself out to be g martyr in the cause of education. To us he appears more like victim of his own selfshness and obstinate disregard of jus tice
 An attorney at Yazoo City, Mississippi, has written pamphlet proposing to solve the negro problem by colonization. He con cludes as follows: We can colonize them. This is practical; if you can fool negro with forty acres and mule" you can get him into a country where he will own the country. There has been enough money spent on the negro, trying to educate him, since the war, to have sent him from the