Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-26
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The attempt to drive away the swallows from Charleston South Carolina) park by using steam fire engine was failure. The birds returned bright and early the next day. Probably nothing but dynamite will permanently scare them.
 South Australia is coming into competi- tion with South Africa ostrieh-farm1ng region The feathers thus far produced are of superior quality and bring high prices; moreover, the chickens seem to arrive at a plume bearing much earlier than at the
 Cape. ....
 The sugar planters of Louisiana are en- couraged by the increase of cent pound in the price of sugar in time for them to reap the benefit of the advance from this years crop. It is estimated that the crop of beet sugar in Europe will be 450,0 ,000 tons less than usual.
 We are informed that at the meeting of the Board of Education this evening an ''im- ported principal" will probably be elected. We do not believe that the Board needs to go out of New Haven to find suitable man, and we do believe that if there is 8 suitable man in New Haven who wants the place he ought to have it rather than an Consider"
 The women's movement is making good progress in Sweden. Though the bill giving them the Parliamentary suffrage was badly beaten by nine votes, they have voice in naming the electors of the county council, who choose the members of the upper house, and vote for municipal councillors and par ish clergymen. Sweden is the first country in which, in modern days, a lady is professor at the chief university-Mrs Kowalewski, graduate of Heidelberg, and an accomplished mathematician.
 Here is chance for poet. An Arizona paper makes the following proposition: We will pay ten dollars for good epic poem of one hundred lines on the "Scourge of the Seventeen Year Locust" Said poem must be sound in wind and limb, but it must not be all sound; little sense is desirable. All metaphors must be new and applicable to the subject No more than one poetic li- cense to fen lines will be allowed. Rhyme not absolutely necessary, but reason sine qua non. No parodies allowed. We re- serve to ourselves the right to work over the poems of all unsuccessful candidates into editorials on the need of 6 new navy and the failure of the wheat crop.
 The Paris National says: There are in France 36, 900, GOO of human beings who work hard from morning to evening, and who do harm to no one. There are besides in this country 300, 900 rascals who rob and murder, and who pass by the name of the army of crime. There are, furthermore, in France 300, 900 politicians whose sole occupation is to excite class against class, and whose avow- ed aim is the destruction of every existing institution. With regard to the 36,000,000 of Frenchmen, nobody pays any attention to them; but the other 500, ,000 are the object of the most careful solicitude on the part of the governing classes. If a professional malefactor commits criminal act, every ef- fort is made to save him from merited pun ishment, and if professional agitator in- cites his fellow citizens to pillage and worse, he is privileged being.
 High license is fast gaining favor in the West. Two years ago the Missouri legisla ture enacted high license law. which has