Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

This is Orphans Day. "He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord"
 And now the Democrats are busy explain ing the Ohio affair. They are working hard CT at it than they need to.
 Cardinal McCloskey's funeral to-day will be very impressive event. It will surpass in ecclesiastical pomp any funeral pageant ever seen in this country.
 The world does move. The management of the Vienna opera house have publicly in- timated their intention of standing it no lon- ger Ladies in the Austrian capital must in future lower what is comprehensively de- scribed as their s'head gear'' before they take their seats in the theater-or they must stay at home It will be interesting to see what the dear and obstinate creatures will do.
 A novel notion concerning the treatment of the insane comes from the Isle of Man. The old-fashioned spinning wheel was intro duced short time ago into the Isle of Man insane asylum with the idea of amusing the patents. The latter seemed delighted that they could in this way contribute to their support, and became so absorbed in their new occupation that their nervous symptoms no longer predominated As Dr. Richardson, the medical superintendent, expressed it, the direction of the nervous force was changed, and their condition was improved. The experiment. is to be tried in other asy lums.
 Consistency is jewel, and it is therefore rather amusing to read the following extra t from the review in the New York Tribune of the Public Writings and Speeches of Samu- el J. Tilden:' He would have transacted the business of the executive office with punotil ious care and observed it's forms and ceremo- nies with irreproachable decorum. He would have left no impression on the political ideas of his time; he would probably have checked rather than encouraged the growing senti- ment of nationality; and his lifelong habit of putting off difficulties for the consideration of posterity would have resulted in 8 heavy legacy of trouble. But he would have been respected, and when at last he retired he would have passed for perhaps the very ablest administrator who ever occupied the Presidential chair.
 The village of Minussinsk, in Russia. has been troubled by the pest among its COWS, and the conscript fathers held a mass meet ing to decide upon the best means of putting a stop to the calamity. It was agreed that resort should be had to the old Slavonic GUS tom of round ploughing. A Russian paper gives an account of the process. Seven vir- gins, two old women and a young bachelor of good character are elected. At midnight g procession of the peasants is formed, led by the two old women carrying pictures of saints. In the rear of the procession the seF- en maidens are harnessed to plough, which is guided by the young man. A light fur row is ploughed around the village, and thereby, according to the belief of the loca agriculturists, a barrier is provided against the evil spirit. He has no power to pass over tte mystical furrow.
 The 1iquer dealers of Wisconsin are evi dently too much agitated to be wise. The last legislature passed law raising the min mum fee for licenses throughout the State to $200, and allowing any municipality to increase the rate to a maximum of $500 Compared with the system in operation in the neighboring State of Illinois, and in view of the growing sentiment everywhere in favor of imposing heavier license fees, this was moderate proposition, which the liquor interest would have been wise to ac. ccept without grumbling. Instead of doing so. the dealers have furiously opposed every movement toward securing the higher rates, l and they have begun to apply boycettine tactics to people who favored such move ments. They will do well to remember that little prudence now and then is needed by maddest men.
 The expense to the emperor of Austria, ol rather to his subjects, of the recent imperial I meeting was something extraordinary. It is said, in fact, to have been the most costly 1 thirty-four hours in the history of royal in l terviews. There were sent from Vienna 50( beds with bedding, 60 court carriages, 15(
 horses, 1000 pieces of carpet. 400 pairs o1
 curtains, 800 complete breakfast services. l 1000 sets of silver forks and spoons, 40(
 coffee pots, 300 tea pots, 10, ,000 wine glasses
 10000 plates, 1,500 bottles of the finest
 Rhine wines, 2,500 bottles of claret, 5000
 bottles of champagne, 300 bottles of liquors,
 200 clocks, 200 pounds of coffee, 500 pounds of tea, 8 hundred weight of sugar and soc pounds of wax candles, as we'll as scores ot
 of wagon loads of furniture. pictures, plate and china The suites and retinues mum. bered nearly 800 persons A fire brigade was also dispatched from Vienna, as well as