Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-04-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Senate adjourned yesterday and there
| will be comparative peace for time. Let
us hope that true Civil Service Reform will
not take rest.
| One of the cases reported at a recent meet
| ing of the Charity Organization society at
| Washington was that of professional beg
gar who has two dresses begging dress
| and society dress. Her name Appeared in
the society column receiving guests during
the Inauguration, and she was found to be
living handsomely out of the proceeds of
aims.
A new way to treat pneumonia has been
discovered in Abbeville, South Carolina,
though we would not advise anybody to try
it. A physician of that place left with pa
tient i'll with pneumonia a small vial of vera
trum to be taken internally, and liniment
of hartshorn, turpentine and chloroform to
apply externally. He called next day to find
his patient decidedly better, but the liniment
had been taken internally and the veratrum
had been applied outside.
The Ohio Court of Common Pleas holds
| that saloon keeper cannot recover taxes
paid under the Scott liquor law after the
Supreme court has declared the law consti-
tutional and before the court reversed it's de-
cisiou. This decision affects every county in
| the State, as taxes were collected everywhere
under the law during the time that the court
sustained, the money has been used, and
special taxes would have to be raised should
the court order the collections refunded.
The French academy has awarded the
prize of forty thousand francs for test to
| prevent persons being buried alive to ply
sician who has demonstrated that if on hold
| ing the hand of supposed dead person to a
strong light scarlet tinge is seen where the
fingers touch life is not extinct. No scarlet
| is seen if death has really occurred. Anoth-
er test by Dr. Max Busch is contracting a
| muscle by electricity. If life remains the
temperature will rise and be indicated on q
small surface barometer; in case of death the
temperature remains unchanged.
Easy marriage and difficult divorce make
good deal of trouble. A bill which is in
tended to make it harder to get married has
been introduced into the New York Isgisla-
IuTe Ii prON1ueS InaU parties snall eAIer IN
to a formal marriage contract, according to
prescribed form, and in the presence of two
witnesses, the document setting forth the age
and eligibility of the contracting parties.
This contract is to be duly executed before q
notary, and the original is required to be
filed with the city or town clerk. The
method of solemnization and the form of the
marriage are likewise prescribed, with a
view to insuring regular and orderly
proceedings.
Some interesting discoveries have been
made in Florida by Professor Lawrence John
son of the United States geological survey
Just outside of Alachua county line he found
several specimens and skeletons of animals
which relatively belong to not far distant
period. In piles, and somewhat mixed, there
were the remains of mastodon, two or three
specimens Of the rhinoceros, large stag, a
camel, fully as large the Arabian camel,
but in structure more allied to the llama;
also tapir very much like the South Amer
can tapir, which lives in swampy places; two