Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-27
EDITORIAL NOTES.

California has very glorious climate, but it can't boast of many prettier days than yesterday was in New Haven.
 The mobbing of Mormons in London is a significant affair. Some of the people of London are evidently determine to do what they can against certain kinds of nastiness.
 Preston S. Brooks, jr., son of the man who assaulted Charles Sumner, is a dry goods merchant at Sewanee, Tennessee. He has been talking to newspaper reporter, and he declares that he ''could never see why that little affair of fathers created such a wide interest" Brooks, jr., must have large bumps of perceptiveness.
 Cholera is stgaining on it" fast. The num- Der of deaths in Italy and France last year was about twenty thousand. The number of deaths officially reported thus far this year from Spain alone was 72,347 up to Monday. It is well known that these figures do not tell the whole story Moreover, there are to be added the deaths this year in southern France.
 J. J. Owen, the editor of the Golden Gate has been telling the people of San Francisco that the religion of the Sandwich Islanders is all on the surface, and as for morality there is no such thing known. He thinks that the missionaries have not done any thing except enrich themselves. Under their rule the population has greatly de creased, and many of the churches are now closed for want of a congregation. This ap pears to be an outrageous charge.
 The Irish who live in Ireland consume large amount of tobacco, but not a pound O it is ever grown in that country. Yet it ii said that the land in many parts is vel adapted to it, and it is estimated that al average profit of $225 an acre could be easil, made at it. But an old law, mads in Crom wells time, designing to foster thu tobacco plantations in the American colonies decreed that no one should grow the plan in Great Britain and Ireland, and that law has, strangely enough, never been repealed.
 The White Mountain forests have within [ few years passed from the early proprietor into the hands of speculators, railroad com paIlleS, duu otuoI k'ssE1Aoe WAAo A''S AAo AAAooA est in them beyond the sale of the timber fol the making of money. Anyone who makes tour along the railroads that pass through the notches and wind around the mountains can see that serious havoc has been made New Hampshire has the legal control of thil region, but Massachusetts and Connecticut are deeply interested in the water supply which the cutting off of the dense forests would destroy. Thousands of mills are TUT by these streams, and thousands of farms made arabic.
 Fresh evidence of the progressive spirit oi the Japanese is continually coming to light Some of the leading scholars of Japan who completed their education in Europe became convinced, while ago, that il would greatly facilitate the study of thei1 language, and also of foreign literature and science, if the Roman alphabet could be sub stituted for the Japanese characters in theil written and printed language. A society was organized under the auspices of the University of Tokio to promote this reform It was announced at the first meeting that the government would support the move ment if the society suggested practica