Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The melancholy days have come in New York. It is hard to pin faith to base ball nine and then get left.
 If our telegraph companies could learn they might learn something from the work ing of the English telegraph system. The recent reduction in England to a sixpence for twelve words has caused & very great in crease in business.
 In yesterdays issue MI. N. H. Hoyt asked where in the New Testament the following text could be found: 'sTop-knot come down. ? We have received a number of answers to this inquiry and they all point the inquirer to Matthew, 24, IT, where it says: "Let him which is cn the horse-top not come down to take anything out of his house."
 A traveller who dropped into Butte City restaurant was frightened when he heard the waiter scream out: "Gimme a graveyard stew, potatoes in the dark, two men, g horseback, moonlight on the lake and a fiambeau.n Then he was told that grave yard stew means milk toast; potatoes in the dark, boiled potatoes; eggs, circus style, scrambled eggs; rough and ready, pork and beans; a fambeau, light hot cakes, and moonlight on the lake, rare beefsteak.
 From investigations made by Dr. Alexis A. Julien regarding the life of different stones in this country it appears that the life of coarse brown stone is five to fifteen years, laminated brown stone twenty to fifty years, compact fine brown stone one hundred to h11nI ol tried) fifty to two hundred years, Ohio sand. stone from one to many centuries, coarse fos- siliferous limestone twenty to forty years, granite seventy five to two hundred years, gneiss fifty years to many centuries.
 In some of the villages in the south of Germany there are number of employment offices where children are engaged to sew on buttons. The children are taught, almost in infancy, to sew on the tiny white buttons to shirts, an industry which is generally farmed out to agents, who, in turn, employ poor families to do the work, whose children are allowed for every gross 14G of buttons the astonishing sum of one pfenning (s11s mills United States currency, which is not even paid them in coin, but-the agents, for the most part, being country grocers-in coffee, sugar and other colonial produce.
 Some of the papers published in the Do minion are treating the subject of Canadian independence with respect. The judicions Morning Star declares that sso rapidly has the question grown that it stands to-day on the threshold of the Canadian world, /" and may very easily become factor in all future elections. Even the government organ, the Toronto Mail, which has within the year sneered at and ridieuled such talk, is brought to remark that ''those who do not relish re- volutionary theories must choose sides either going with the young men on the high road to the United States, or falling in behind the conservative party, which will save the coun- try to the empire if it can" This is si mi fcant language.
 The lot of private soldier in the United States army is not particularly happy one, but Lieutenant Myers in the Army and Navy Journal shows that private soldiers and non- commissioned officers in our army have op- portunities for saving their money not grant ed to any other soldiers in the world. They are allowed to deposit a portion of their pay at interest with the government, and it is calculated that soldier at the end of thir- ty years' service can have little fortune of nearly $6,000 in the governments hands. Retiring at this time, he draws a monthly stipend of $25, which, with the interest on his accumulation, will give him nearly $45 per month to live upon. Soldiers in Europe draw no such pay as the men of our army and have no such chances for living after their retirement.
 The Supreme court of New York has just decided an interesting question concerning family burial plots. The owner of a lot in Greenwood cemetery had bought it as burial place for the dead of his family. In it were buried one of his sons, his brother were spent by both him and his wife in inn proving and adorning the lot and erecting monument on it. After all this had been done the husband sold it to & stranger. Thsreupon the wife brought suit against her husband and the purchaser to annul the sale and to have the lot restored to the family. The court has decided in her favor. Justice Daniels says: It would be offensive to the moral sense, and therefore should not be sanctioned by the court, after these bodies had there been buried, to permit this prop erty to be made the subject of speculative disposition, with permission to the purchaser to remove them from their resting place. Good order, public decency and just regard for the repose of the remains of the dead re- quire, under the facts of this case, that the judgment from which the appeal has been taken should be affirmed.