Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.


 Beer and learning together appear to be good for the health. There are at present at the various German universities no fewer | than 157 professors between the ages of 70 and 90.
 | An effort is being made in Cincinnati to start mercantile agency on the plan of re- ciprocity of information, subscribers ex- | changing with each other information upon subjects of credit, etc. There are already ! two large commercial agencies in the city, | and the new project is criticised as imprae- ! ticable from the unwillingness of subscribers i to an agency to furnish statements as to each l others standing
 Senator Law, of New York, who was the l promoter of the law concerning oleomargarine which the Court of Appeals has decided to \ be unconstitutional, is not discouraged by l the decision He asserts that it is erroneous, has already done an immense injury to the dairy interest in the State, and would, in \ his opinion be reversed by the Supreme ! court of the United States. He advises the
 bringing of new suits, and the carrying them ' to the Supreme court of the United States;
 and if need be in the event such an amend ment of the constitution of the State as will enable the statute decided to be unconstitu- ! tiona1 to stand a law.
 The manual training idea is taking well ! in Philadelphia. Candidates from the Phila- delphia public schools for admission to the | new manual training school in that city have | just been examined. One hundred and four | teen have passed, and it is thought that 13O | will be accepted before the school opens. | The average age of the boys is fourteen years and ten months. The demand for manual | training is so marked that the board of edn-
 cation is now considering the introduction of
 a rudimentary system into all the public | schools. Lieutenant Crawford, formerly of | Annapolis, who is to be the director of the
 training school, is very enthusiastic in his plans and believes that the Philadelphia
 school can be made the most successful in | the world.
 | A strange funeral took place recently in Paris. A wealthy bourgeois of the Rue St.
 Jacques, named Begis, tired of life and caring nothing for his relations, made will in fav-
 or of M Poubelle, the Prefect of the Seine, and then proceeded to hang himself. The
 succession is estimated at about e6, TOO. | Whether the terms of the will imply 8 gener-
 al trust for charity may be doubtful, but M. Poubelle has executed the first instructions of the testator, which were to give him decent
 funeral and pay two francs to any poor per
 son of his arrondissement who would follow
 his corpse to the grave. M. Poubelle issued | 5000 invitations and string of fally 2,000
 claimants for two francs appeared as mourn CTS. The clergy of St. Jacques refused admis-
 sion to the church on account of the suicide, and the cortege proceeded to Pere La Chaise An interesting report comes from Wash | ington that the President is dissatisfied with l the way in which the Utah commission has | executed it's duties. Its somewhat tentative, l timid methods are attributed to the fact that | the members of the commission are all old
 men. The President, it is said, thinks that 1 the work of the commission might be much
 more vigorously done. He regards polyga- my as an unmixed evil which ought to be