Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.

It is said that southern Senator will bring forward a proposition to give Mrs. Grant a pension of s5,0OO. There will prob ably be no objection to the bill.
 The Springfield Union has discovered why Englishmen are so anxious to marry their deceased wife's sisters. The Unions idea is that they are averse to changing their mothers-in-law.
 A few days before his death General Grant said: ttI believe myself that the war was worth all it cost, fearful as that was. Since it was over have visited every State in Flu rope and number in the East. know as did not before the value of our institutions. 5 Thirty y-eight years ago Brigham Young and his followers took possession of Salt Lake valley, and yesterday the Mormons celebrated
 the anniversary of that event. The celebra- tion was not as pleasant as it used to be when polygamy was unrestricted.
 MT. Alfred Davy, 8 member of firm of | manufacturers of machinery in Sheffield, England, declares that the only advantage Europe has over America in the line of man l ufactures is "cheap labor" When the free traders have their way labor will be cheap | enough here.
 I The effect of the industrial depression up | on immigration was very marked the past year. The number of immigrants fell off l over fifty per cent from the figures of 1882. 1 The arrivals for the year ending June 30 were
 387, ,S21 agaiDst 509, S34 last year and 7S8, ,992 | i,,1 nd pie in this country
 Sheep husbandry is steadily declining in
 France, the present number of sheep and lambs in that country being less by about Il, l O00, GOO than it was 8 few years ago. Mutton l still continues in good demand there, how ever, as is evident from the fact that the weekly importations equal about IA, 000
 head, or about 75O, 900 per year. This sup | ply is drawn chiefly from Germany, Algeria
 and Eastern Europe. The price of live nut
 ton there is 20 per cent. higher than live | weight beef.
 l Repeated but unsuccessful efforts have
 been made by the Italian government to grow ] tea in the zone between Florence, Naples and Sicily; but now, however, it is asserted 1 that a mistake has been made in thinking
 that the tea plant required shade, whereas in
 China and Japan it is grown in open and ex posed places. An agent of the Italian gov ! ernment is now in Japan buying extensively l of the hardier varieties of plants, and one more attempt will be made to secure suc- l cessful cultivation of tea in southern Italy
 It costs New York city something to take care of it's indigent and criminal classes. Ex elusive of officials and hired help there are now under the care of the Commissioners oi Charities and Correction 12,65S persons There are 3,925 insane persons, of whom 1 2211 are women. There is rapid increase in the number of insane, the increase being greater among women than among men. The lowest number of persons in any one institu
 tion is two. which is the number confined 1T
 the insbriate asylum. And yet intemperanct
 is said to be the chief agent in filling up tht
 other institutions.
 One of the scientific papers, discussing tn.
 reasons why gun barrel bursts when fre6
 with the mazzle under water and the danger
 of wadding gun with wet grass, relates {
 singular accident with Colts navy revolver
 which was sent to the factory with the barre
 burst. This was before the adoption O these pistols to the metallic cartridges, ant
 it is probable that in loading with open pow
 der and ball only small amount of powde
 got into the chambers and the bullet was no
 propelled with sufficient force to drive i
 from the muzzle; at least, the bullet did no
 go out, but lodged As the shooter did no know whether the bullet escaped or not h