Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Sam Jones called Christianity 'Ewillipus
 puzzled many. It turns out that willipus
 wallopus is the name of the big machine
 they use in Nashville for crushing rocks in the streets.
 A New York merchant endeavored to col
 lect some part of the debt due him from a
 defaulter who has gone to Canada, and the
 defaulter taunted him with his inability to
 do anything toward getting his money.
 Thereupon his creditor gave him "a piece of
 his mind" and made demonstrations so
 threatening that the defaulter had him ar
 rested. Such is life.
 A rabid prohibitionist is 8 queer being. Thus, the Rev. Dr. Leonard, the prohibition candidate for governor of Ohio, makes this outrageous declaration: 'Rather than vote
 to license the traffic in intoxicating drinks would vote for fountain at every street corner, from which should flow continuous stream of whiskey, free to everybody, and furnish tin cups from which all who desired should drink their fill"
 A scientist states as net result of a num- Der of observations that there is an exhilaration of the pulse rate and 8 slight elevating of temper ature from smoking. If the average temper ature of non-smokers were represented by | 1000, that of moderate smokers would be 1,008; while the heart in the former case was 1 making 1000 pulsations, in the latter it ! would beat 1,1S0 times-hence the harm of l tobacco smoking.
 A Belgian manufacturer named Key, who I employs three thousand people, retains three I per cent. of their wages and agrees to provide l 8 physician when they are taken ill. While unable to work from illness, the employe gets half pay and meat and wine, if neces- sary. If a workman dies his widow gets a pension of one third of his wages if he had | been in the works for ten years, and one- 1 half the wages if over ten years. A pension ! for life is given to all invalids who have been l fifteen years in his employ.
 l The Law and Order league at Boston will urge the next legislature to provide some bet ter method of selecting juries than the pres ! ent. Formerly the jury list was made up by l commissioners appointed by the courts, and was entirely independent of political action of any sort It is charged that at Boston the 1 jury list is in the control of the political ma- 1 chine and only those persons are selected who | are supposed to be lenient to the criminal classes, especially to those who offend against 1 the liuuor laws The result is that ignorant
 and prejudiced men are impaneled, and in
 both civil and criminal cases trial by jury
 at Boston is something like a lottery.
 | The latest ship canal scheme-that to con- meet the waters of the English Channel, at
 Havre, with Marssilles, on the Mediter-
 ranean-is stupendous one. The idea, which | is submitted by M de Lesseps and his coop
 orator, Admiral Galliber, of the French
 ministry, is not new. Some years ago com
 mission was appointed for the purpose of in vestigating the feasibility of similar pro. l iect. This commission reported three plans,
 the shortest one, from Bordeaux 10 Cstte,
 using the waters of the river Garonne and
 the present canal The second, from Nantes
 to Marseilles, by the Loire, the Saone, and 1 the Rhone. The third was from Havre
 to Marseilles by way of the Loire, the Saene and the Rhone There were good as we'll as
 bad points to all of these plans. The Hayre and Marseilles route went through Paris, and