Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-28

In another place on this page "F. w. F. sets forth in a very interesting and able way the superiority of the American yacht. His article will please all lovers of sea-sport.
 The New York Times, the Brooklyn Union and the New York Evening Post are heartily supporting the Republican nominees for State offices in New York. This action of the prominent mugwump organs and the re- fusal of MT. Flower to stand as the Demo cratic nominee for lieutenant governor makes the outlook for the New York Repub- licans bright They deserve to win, for they nominated good ticket and declared them selves in favor of civil service reform.
 A boy in California school rashly re- marked that the teacher had red hair. He was whipped to make him retract, but he in sisted that he could not tell lie, and he had the utmost confidence in his judgment of color. The woman declared that she would beat him to death unless he changed the word from red to auburn, and he abused his conscience to that extent, but afterward took the case to the trustees, who sustained
 him and dismissed the bright-headed pun
 isher.
 A man was lately tried in England for giv-
 ing fve-weeks-old child four drops of
 examination of witnesses indicated that the
 ideas of English women concerning the ad-
 ministration of narcotics to infants are dan
 gerously hay. One woman thought the
 dose of laudanum for 8 child was one drop
 for each year of its age; another thought it
 was drop for. each week. A physician tes-
 tifed that most soothing syrups were oom-
 posed of opium, and fatal results often at-
 tended their use. He thought they were
 unsafe at any age under one year.
 A Philadelphia court has been asked to decide whether telephone company must furnish telephone when one is ordered. The Baltimore and Ohio telegraph company is the plaintiff. In petition praying for g mandamus it was averrsd that the telephone company undertook for an annual rental tc furnish to the public, without distinction oi class or occupation, telephone instruments connected by wire with a general exchange that to facilitate it's business and to secure greater conveniences to it's customers in sending telegrams the telegraph company has applied for an instrument in it's main office, but that the telephone company refused to furnish an instrument for such use.
 Compulsory vaccination has at last besn undertaken at Montreal. A week or so ago the health board undertook the experiment
 of asking voluntary compliance with regula- tions for isolation and vaccination, and since that time the daily death rate has grown by more than fifty per cent. The total mortali- ty from smallpox is close upon one thousand, and at last recourse is had to decisive action, which, if taken in the earlier stages of the epidemic, would have saved hundreds of lives and the sanitary repute of the city. It remains to be seen what effect will be pro- duced by the course of action new begun. The plan includes house to house visitation by public vaccinators and severe penalties in the way of fine in case of refusal to submit to the preventive operation.
 According to Professor Tyndalls investi- gations, the singularly blue color of the wa
 ter of the lake of Geneva is due to the pres
 ence of small mineral particles, probably de-
 rived from glacier dust brought into the lake
 by drainage from glacier streams, and of such extreme minuteness as not to settle