Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-08
ED1ToRaAL NOTES.

According to himself, the deposed King
 Theebaw is very nice young man. But it
 is just as we'll to keep him where he cannot
 murder anybody.
 There are some queer people in this world.
 The singular fact is certified to that for fifty
 eight years past some person has found it worth his or her while ts pay the annual in terest on green umbrella pledged for three francs in pawnshop of Paris.
 No wonder Socialism spreads in Berlin. In that city no less than 94, ,000 families, com prising nearly 40e, 900 individuals, have to live, sleep, and often work, in ssuites" of single room. In 5000 of these rooms these One fourth of thair tenants are poor 1odgers
 Twenty-Five thousand families live in cellars under sanitary conditions that are character ized as absolutely shocking.
 The power of the trades union of musicians has been sharply shown in the settlement of the dispute between the union and the man ager of the Thalia Theater. The latter
 employed non-union men from abroad, and
 was boycotted by the union. He now yields,
 agrees to employ only union men and will re- fer all differences arising hereafter to the
 Central labor union. Moreover, he has got to pay the expenses of his boyootting.
 The oleomargarine manufacturers in Penn sylvania have received another serious blow
 in the decision of the court at Harrisburg,
 affirming the constitutiena1ity of the law for
 bidding the manufacture and sale of any imi-
 tation of butter. The case, test one, will
 no doubt be taken to the Supreme court, and meanwhile the stuff is likely to be sold every
 where as usual. The evil, of course, lies in the fact that so much of this product is made
 to appear what it is not
 Hard drinkers will be pleased to know that their practice is considered by some scientific writers to be, on the whole, @ benefit to the community. In recent paper on "The Economy of Vice and Crime" Dr. Brigham said: 'sThe alcoholic road to self-extermina-
 ton is one of the most speedy ways of de stroying the weak and inferior, and although some who select this road are brilliant speci-
 mems of mental power, yet, as whole, they are weak and unworthy of preservation. h. temperance, though doing much harm, also does great good. The certainty and celerity with which intemperance destroys the weak and wicked classes of society favorably rec ommends it over the ordinary methods ot to-day in the administering of justice" An African explorer, H. H. Johnson, in an
 account of a journey to Killmajare, describes l the natives as clever smiths, who forge all sorts of tools, arms and decorative articles from pig iron, which is brought from the country of Usanga, near Lake Jipe. The
 forge consists simply of pair of goatskin bellows with stone nozzle, which is thrust into the furnace of charcoal. The bellows is kept steady by several pegs thrust into the ground and huge stone is often placed on the pipe to keep it firm. After the iron has been heated white hot in the charcoal it is l taken out by the iron placers and beaten on a stone anvil The Chaga smiths net only make spear blades and knives, but can fab ricate the finest and most delicate chains The report of the pension commissioner shows that since the time when the civil war began nearly one million claims for pen sion have been filed at Washington, and of these claims nearly six hundred thousand l have been allowed. In the meantime the government has paid out in this way sum