Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-05


 taking more interest in the school election than usual We hope that ticket will be formed of men who will do something to- wards bringing about some of the needed re- forms.
 People can smoke cigars or pipe and escape ill health or death, but the cigarette is very destructive. A prominent physician of Athens, Georgia, who has had many cases of sore throat lately, made an investigation and found nearly every one of them was caused by cigarette smoking.
 One of the English railroad companies has supplied all it's employees with red neck cloths, the wearing of which is to be con- pulsory. The object of this regulation is to furnish porters, guards or switchmen with red flags that are always at hand and can be employed in the event of any sudden acci- dent or the derangement of the regular sig nals
 volume has recently been published in England which sheds a great deal of light upon the cost of English wars. It is his tory of English taxation and taxes, and part of it is devoted to showing, as nearly as possible, the exact cost of each war into which the English people have been led. Thus the war with the American colonists is jotted down as costing ninety million pounds, while that of the Spanish succession is charged with fifty millions.
 The New Hampshire insurance act requir- ing underwriters to pay the full amount of hair cio iY,f fla of Anto out regard to the actual damage sustained, and providing that an insurance company which appeals from the jurisdiction of a State court to that of the United States court shall lose it's license, naturally does not suit the insurance companies and nearly every insurance company from outside the State has withdrawn from the State.
 The wool market has been very active for the past seven weeks. The advance from the lowest point has been two to four cents per pound, and prices are now about on par with those ruling year ago. Very little speculation is reported, the heavy transac- tions being due to free purchases by manu- lecturers of woollen goods who have recently secured liberal orders therefor. Wool, too, like many other articles of merchandise, had been forced down too low, and the reaction has been the more quick and emphatic. A short clip is reported.
 A physician of Watertewn, New York, re- teEtion. A little girl dying with scarlet fever wished to send dying kiss to little friend. She pressed her lips to 8 letter which her mother was writing to a relative, and circle was drawn around the spot that was kissed. The letter passed through the mails, and the little friend received the mss- sage of love by kissing the circumscribed spot on the letter. Shortly afterward the child was attacked by the scarlet fever and died, and as it was the only case in the place the physician believes, that the contagion was communicated by the letter.
 Treasurer Jordan is said to be much pleased with the result of the attempt to se- cure better circulation of silver coin. Dur ing the month of August just ended there was paid out for the different b-treas uries s1 ,677, ,444 in standard dollars and $1. 495, ,902 in fractional coin, which amounts were largely in excess of the issue of silver during the corresponding month of last year. MT. Jordan says the withdrawal of $1 and $2 notes from circulation was made necessary by the rapid accumulation of wealth in the sub-treasuries. It was expected in this way to create demand for silver coin. That the plan was successful is shown by the large output of silver during the past month. So far no formal complaints or protests against the withdrawal of $1 and g notes hssstsssn made. Applications have, however, been re ceived for large quantities of small notes. In each case answer has simply been made that the issue of these notes has been suspended for the present.
 Foremost among students of earthquakes is Professor Milne of the new government college at Tokio, who has had peculiar facil- ities for pursuing his investigations. Japan is subject to frequent though for the most part harmless earthquakes, one day being the average, so that the population are quite used to the disturbance. MT. Milne has for four years been pursuing his investigations into the arcana of earthquakes, being aided by the Japanese government, which, with it's customary good sense, ordered it's officials throughout the country to communicate, by means of postal cards, news of the earth quakes which had happened in their districts during every week. By this means large