Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.
We wish all our readers very Happy New

Year.
 These are indeed hard times. Poor Jay Gould's income is only $500,000 month.
 The fact that there are over one thousand cases of smallpox in the London hospitals ought to teach the British public effectively that vaccination is good thing. Heretofore attempts at compulsory vaccination have been resisted not merely by the ignorant, but by societies composed of the educated stand ing high in social circles. It is astonishing that they don't know any better, but perhaps they will learn after smallpox epidemic.
 It is interesting, if true, that the Buddhist priests of Kioto, Japan, have held meeting to condemn the pending strife between their people and the Christians, and passed reso- lutions declaring that an inquiry should be instituted into the principles of Christianity, with view to it's adoption in lieu of Budd hism in case it should be found better re- ligion A committee was forthwith appoint ed to go to Europe to study Christianity in it's cradle.
 The Brazilian law of 1871 provides that
 
 free after they twenty-one years old, but must serve their moth CTS owner until that time. Consequently children are worked to death, and only a small proportion of them live to secure their freedom. A traveller says there "never was nation on the globe in which slaves were treat ed with more diaboEcal cruelty than they to-day in the coffee producing provinces of Brazil. The punishments practiced are sim ply barbarotls." There are still 1900, 900 slaves in the empire. In two provinces abo- lition sentiment is so strong that all of the slaves have been freed.
 An Iowa girl killed her father in the night by going to his bedside and braining him with an axe. In her trial it was shown that she had threatened him with vengeance and that he was afraid of her. She main tained, to her counsel as to everybody else, that she had no recollection of the deed; but there was not the slightest evidence of insani- ty, and she was sent to prison under a life sentence. That was six years ago. The warden thinks that he has solved the myste- " with theory of somnambulism. She had in her younger days been chronic sleep walker, and he believed that, with her mind filled by hatred of her parent, she uncon- sciously committed the homicide while slum boring soundly. He will ask the Governor of the State to pardon her
 British postal clerks like wedding cake. gentleman was recently married in London, and after the wedding the usual cake and cards were despatched to the friends of him. self and wife in the cake boxes generally used for the purpose. In all seventy y-eight boxes were sent out at cost for cake and postage of some A. They were addressed to pefsons living in all parts of England and Ireland. Of these seventy-e eight boxes, so far as the sender has been able to ascertain, not quite a dozen reached their destination intact. Some, on arrival, contained stray currant or two, others the cards without the cake, and in one case at least the lid of the box was all that arrived. Complaint was made in due course to the general postofice, which, after few weeks delay, reported that "our