Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-14
EDITORIAL NOTES.

iAnesthetics caused the death of eighteen persons in England and Scotland last year. Nine were from the use of chloroform, six ether and chloroform. In every fatal case the patient had been comparatively healthy, and the operation had been of slight char aeter.
 The people off Ohio have had a lesson which ought to teach them the value of the high license system. The Scott law levied special tax of $200 on retail liquor dealers. When. the law went into effect there were IS, 735 saloons in this State, which number in six months was reduced to 1O,531; but now since this law has, been declared unconstitu tional the number has increased to 14 ,92O. Sam Jones', the southern revivalist, has definite opinions concerning some other things as well as concerning religion. Here are some of his utterances: 'I was born Democrat, raised a Democrat, and expect to | die aDemocrat, but if ever the Democratic party straddles a whisky barrel I'll vote for a nigger before I'll vote for it's nominee" | 'tNext to beautiful woman I love beauti- l fu1 horse."
 M. Plante, the we'll known French electri- l clan, has been making experiments in which | a successful imitation of ball lightning has I been obtained. With a powerful current | from secondary batteries he has produced in | an air condenser, formed of two moistened \ pads of filter paper placed near together, a 1 small ineandescent globule, lasting some | minutes and moving slowly in 8 curious and | most cratic path. When a condenser was used in which the insulating material was ebonite, a sound was emitted like that of a toothed wheel rapidly rotated against piece | of cardboard.
 | The meeting of the emperors of Russia and Austria at Kremsier will be pleasant af-
 fair unless something unpleasant happens
 The preparations for this little chat are sig
 nifcant. Hundreds of selected policemen I and detectives have been drafted to guard
 the town. Precautions have been taken to
 prevent mining the streets and buildings, and watch is kept to stop the importation of
 dynamite or any explosive materials into the
 town-every box and parcel being carefully
 examined. The names of all lodgers and
 strangers are taken by the police, with their
 occupations. No person will be permitted to
 visit the town after the 20th inst, without
 special permission.
 The Fall River Herald believes there is a special cause of the phenomenal depression
 in cotton prints which the manufacturers will have to remedy their industry
 die out.r ss When the dull trade began the
 quality of the cloths was reduced from full
 64x60 te something over 60x6O, the present
 standard. This method of .economizing the
 Herald characterizes great mistake.
 Seconds have been worked off by mixing
 with irsts and sold as frsts and traders
 have learned to regard them all with sus- picion. But what is worse, customers have
 been coming to the conclusion that modern
 prints are hardly worth making up, and have
 accordingly turned to other fabrics A.dif.
 ferent policy will have to be commenced and
 persevered in for some time before the de- mand of ten years ago will return.
 Ten pairs of English sparrows were lei