Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-02-28
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Is it lawful for American children to eat
peanuts and laugh at school is question
now under discussion by the Schuylkill
county courts. Six children of a Pottsville
school were expelled because they ate pea
nuts and laughed, and their parents have
com bined to resist the expulsion by legal
process.
A New York druggist says the market is
full of cinchona, which is put up in pills and
sold as genuine. It looks and tastes like qui-
nine but is lacking in effect. The pills are
made up with gum arabic, mucilage and tar
taric acid. The only safety to the customer
is to buy of responsible house or to buy
only the quinine powder When he buys a
pill he must rely entirely on the honesty of
the druggist, who may himself be deceived.
ASS result of contest extending over sew
ersl years the San Francisco board of educa-
tion has decided that the position of any fe
male school teacher who marries becomes
vacant. Another rule adopted by the
board abolishes corporal punishment in
grammar and primary schools except by the
principal, and he Is forbidden to chastise
pupils on the same day the offense is com
mitted. The rule also provides that cruel
OF unusual punishment be allowed, and that
there be no corporal punishment in high or
evening schools or upon girls in any grade.
A narrow spur of land, some fifty or sixty
miles in length and but few miles across,
extends the State of West Virginia at it's
northwestern corner far beyond the south
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for the rest of the. way its northern bound
ary. The importance of this fragment arises
from the fact that it contains midway in its
length the city of Wheeling, which is by far
the most important place in the State.
Wheeling is but fifty miles from Pittsburg,
and its business relations are much more
with Pennsylvania than with West Virginia.
The advantages of union with the Keystone
State appear SO strong that the city council
has unanimously resolved to lask the legisla-
ture for the appointment of commission to
take steps to annex the county of which
Wheeling is the center, with the two counties
above it, to Pennsylvania.
It is gratifying to learn from the second
animal report of the State Board of Silk
Culture in California that the industry there
is in q very encouraging condition The
eocoons raised hare never been surpassed in
quality, and many persons are going syste-
matically into the enterprise. The report
adds thas the United States is now the third
silk manufacturing county in the world, its
annual product being $50, ,O00, 600. Twenty
years ago our supply of silk ribbons, silk
laces, shawls, etc., came mainly from Eng
land and France. To-day, beyond few
fancy and mixed goods, we buy no silk from
Great Britain Statistics show that nearly
forty per cent. Of the silk goods nanufac-
tured in the country issnow produced here.
AS for si1k-cu1ture, California. Mississippi
and Kansas are the present centers, and in
1888 about fifty thousand pounds of ran
silk wers produced, egual in quality to the
best in Europe.
Progress: There are 1893 colored men in
Washington who are worth oYe rS25, 900 each,
ffty-two worth SO. 900 each and nearly !, 900
who pay taxes on So, 900 each. George W.
Williams, ex-member of the Ohio assembly
and author of history of the colored race,
is worth 40,0O0 Frederick Douglas has
$500, 900 and now lives in and owns house
opposite Washington formerly owned by
man who so hated the blacks that he refused
to sell anything toaone' Of them. John F.
Cooke. tax collector of the District of Colum-
bia, himself pays taxes on S250,000 John
M. Langston, United States Minister to Hay
ii, has $75, 5,000 John Lynch, of Mississippi,
4s