Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The plan of the leaders of the Salvation army in England to raise fund of one hun dred thousand dollars to be devoted to raking and scraping the London gutters for 'sfallen women' and sending them to the United States is interesting, but it won't do. There are fallen women enough in this country al ready.
 The Supreme court of Indiana has decided that where property has been destroyed by fire from sparks negligently permitted to es- cape from locomotive the owner may re- cover it's full value from the railroad com pany, notwithstanding the fact that the properly was fully insured and the insurance company had paid the loss.
 We call attention to an article from the Union printed on this page. The time for the annual school election is near, and the taxpayers and voters should take an interest in this important matter. We believe that there is room for much improvement in what are called ttschool methods in this city, and that we can have quite as good schools as we have now for less money.
 Boston is like New Haven in one respect it is great city for discussion. One of the questions now under consideration there is of interest to the inhabitants of many cities. It is as to whether a person, when riding ir an open street car, should move away from the end seat so that a newcomer may not be obliged to squeeze past. It is held by many Bostonians to be selfish for a man to cling te such seat throughout a long ride while ladies in spotless gowns push past him in an6 out.
 It is late in the season to announce that i is not fashionable to eat ice cream in public but it is perhaps better late than never fol our young men. At Newport there isn't al ice cream saloon anywhere in the region O cottages, and the same is true of the fashion
 able part of Long Branch; but at Ocear | Grove, where nobody pretends to be anybod. l in particular, ice cream saloons abound, ant 1 800 persons can be seen emptying saucer with spoons all at a time in locally cele | brated restaurant. "And yet" says cri | tic, "some of the girls looked quite refined and nice.''
 A Tennessee man finds that there are thre' | hundred thousand worthless dogs in tha State, which consume food enough, if fed t' ! hogs, to make 3O,0O0,OOO pounds of bacon 1 which would be equal to feeding 1OO,OO' 1 able-bodied men whole year. At 10 cent per pound the bacon would be worth $3, 900, l 900 and if in silver would load down ninety l four two-horse wagons and make wagol
 train more than half mile long. Again, tn | worthless whelps prevent the farmers iron
 keeping 2,000, ,0O0 sheep, the mutton an'
 wool from which would be worth 5000, ,OO0
 Including the sheep annually killed the whol | expense of keeping the dogs of the Stat | amounts to the pretty sum of $9, ,O0O, 900. During eight centuries, says a correspon dent of Nature, one's direct ancestor
 amount to far greater number than woul
 at first be contemplated. Taking three gen
 erations to century, one has father ant
 mother two, grandparents four, great-grand parents eight. At the end of the second cen l tury the number of ancestors springs t | sixty-four. Following the calculation, yo will find that at the end of eight centurie one is descended from no less than 16,0O0 900 ancestors Intermarriage, of course
 would reduce this estimate, and there is D doubt it must have largely prevailed. Bu