Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-10
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The more light on the school questian the better. It is good thing that the people are talking about it, and we believe that they will deal with it fairly.
 The committee of the Knights of Labor acted wisely in accepting the compromise of the Wabash managers, and those managers acted with equal wisdom in offering it.
 Toronto has little society which is known as the T. B. O. T. D. A. F. T. T. s. O. T. L. T, which stands for the Toronto Branch of the Dominion Alliance for the Total Suppression of the Liquor Traffic.
 The London Lancet regards the increased use of fruit in ordinary diet as one of the most salutary tendencies of domestic man. agement in our day. The starchy and sac charine components of fruit, while they are not equal in accumulated force to the more solid ingredients of meat and fat, are simi- larly useful in their own degree, and have the advantage of greater digestibility. Other advantages are local stimulation and the maintenance of vigorous circulation, thus relieving skin and kidneys by transferring part of their excretory work to the bowels.
 The Norwich Bulletin has noticed the un- usual interest in school affairs which has been manifested in this city and pertinently remarks: What may be said of the New Haven case is equally applicable to school and general elections in other cities. People the caucuses to nominate and at the cleo tions to vote ought not to complain if things are not run to suit them. It is better to att tend to these matters annually than to allow evils to spring up through several years in attention, and then have spasm of indig nant reformation.
 A queer story of clerical intolerance comes from Little Leigh, in Cheshire, England. The resident Baptist minister reported at public meeting that since coming to Leigh he had met with actual persecution from the rector. He had been unable to obtain house in which to live, and having decided to build dwelling, he found that his at tempt to purchase land from Lord Leigh was met with 8 protest from the established churchmen. In reply, the rector admits the truth of these charges, and declares that he but keeps his ordination VOWS, having sworn to do all in his power to prevent the spread of schism.
 The State of Wisconsin reports 8 popula- tion of 1, ,50O, ,000. Five years ago there were only eleven States in the Union that could equal this record. In 1S40 Wisconsin stood at the foot of the list, with population of about: 31 ,000. In 1850 it showed 305, ,0OO inhabitants, while at the outbreak of the war the figure had risen to 775,000. Fifteen years ago the State could boast of having a million people within it's borders and now 1t can boast of having million and half In spite, however, of this apparently rapid growth other States have recently been do- ing better. Between 1870 and 1880 twenty two out of the thirty eight States showed higher percentage of gain than Wisconsin. Indeed, in this decade, the State fell from fifteenth to sixteenth in the list of States, Texas passing it.
 c. 0. Blake, who has been predicting the weather with more or less success for several years, has started paper in Richland, Kan