Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-06
EDITORIAL NOTES.
A fine parade yesterday.

English society is apparently in very
 healthy condition. Victoria Q. Woodruff is
 said to occupy high place in it.
 Miss Carrie Damn of Cincinnati was mar ried the other day. Her maiden name gives her husband great advantage over her. An intelligent correspondent remarks that the new liberty pole ought to be in one piece that is, there ought to be nothing sectional about it.
 Reporters sometimes have queer minds Thus one of the young men who make the New York Sun readable talks about "a pop ular pickpocket." The benefits of ''total abstinence' were
 strikingly illustrated yesterday. Usually after great parade in this city there is much dis order, drunken men go reeling through the
 streets, and the tlockup' is rapidly popula- ted Contrast this state of affairs with that of yesterday.
 The Mormon policy of colonization is now to be tried in Alabama. An agent of the church proposes to settle three hundred fresh European converts upon land in Jackson and DeKalb counties and he has gone to Alabama with the purchase money in his pocket. The quicker Alabama wakes up to what this means the better.
 There is much want. and suffering in Ire land and there is also much thrift. One in every forty of the inhabitants of Ireland has money in a savings bank, the average deposit standing to each ones credit being e17 16s. 6d., as compared with e13 9s. lid. for one in nine in England, and :e7 Is. 5d. for one in thirty two in canny Scotland.
 A Boston mechanic having fondness fo1 mathematical research. to prove what com plicated affair paddle wheel of steamer is, | has made minute examination of the new paddle-wheel built for the steamer Empire State He has found that there are 444
 pieces of white oak, measuring 5,640 feet and
 weighing 2s, 800 pounds. Of bolts, straps and other wrought iron fastenings there are 5,042 pieces, weighing a total of 11,91S pounds
 l Bishop Turner, prominent co1ored Geor-
 gian, urges the young men of his race to
 seek homes in the government lands of the :" ooo iooooo oA SAAAiSiiAS go oao ooSsoAA oioaoe
 and engaging in occupations too often ser 1 vile. He forcibly says: ''You might take | the brightest young man in Georgia and lei | him come out of Harvard or Yale with a di- ploma as large bed sheet, but after he l has blacked boots for three months at ho- | tel his manhood is gone for life."
 l A member of Parliament from Liverpool | lately introduced into the House of Com
 mons resolution declaring that Git is expe
 dient to establish a system of compulsory
 industrial training for the children of tho destitute classes, in night schools, from the
 age of twelve or thirteen to sixteen years, 1T
 order to fit them to earn their living either | at home or in the colonies" The introducel 1 expressed the fear that there was Gloom
 ing in the future something very like {
 starved proletariat, and it might be cata
 clysm of the most appalling kind" Accord
 ing to the report of the royal commission
 on the housing of the poor, 6O,O00 fam
 flies, representing fully 300, 900 persons, ar
 now living in single rooms in London
 There is reason to fear "cataclysm."
 Some interesting facts have come to hgh as the result of the work of the select com
 mittee of the House of Commons, appointe'
 some time ago on the motion of Sir Johl
 Lubbock, to inquire into the desirability c
 establishing forest school in England
 In furtherance of the plan for scientific fol