Morning journal and courier., 1886-11-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.


 The latest great steal in Boston calls atten- tion sharply to the fact that there are many directors who do not direct.
 The Providence Morning Star was started six years ago "to fill long felt want". Over fifty thousand dollars has been lost in trying
 to make the Star shine proitably, and the
 attempt has finally been given up. Trying to fill long felt wants in the newspaper field l is often discouraging.
 A company just formed at Rochester, New York, has leased for fifteen years a large l stretch of marshy ground on the borders of
 Seneca lake and will engage extensively in growing frogs for their legs. People who | live in the neighborhood of the frog farm | will have reason to be very gloomy summer evenings.
 There are some very practical people in ! this world. A Montreal doctor who had an | account with job printer agreed to take his pay in work. After he had all the printing done that he needed there still remained 8
 balance, and, as his wife was very sick, he ! decided to have some blank funeral notices struck off with her name on them. He lock ed them in his desk, his wife got we'll and found them, and now she talks of getting | divorce.
 It has been predicted that within five years the magnesium light will be as famil- jar sight in many places as the electric light is to-day. Only the high cost of mag nesium has hitherto kept it from extensive use, and it's price, which was $40 pound
 few years ago, is said to have been reduced
 to $S pound by a new German process,
 with the prospect of still further cheapening.
 A wire of moderate size equals the light of
 seventy-6ve stearine candles, making the cost
 at present but little more than that of gas,
 while no expensive works or street mains are required for it's use. The magnesium is sim-
 ply burned in lamps provided with clock work movements to feed the ribbon regu- larly.
 The Paris Gaulois is excited by the infor- nation that the drinking of champagne on the part of officers of the army of Wurtem- berg has been prohibited, presumably in re- taliation for French criticism on German beer, and thereupon declares that Germany, | ''that country which attacks us with it's toys and horribly lying maps, is unworthy of the l divine beverage (which carries part of our gayety and forgetfulness of care to all the l nations of the globe, befogging the English spleen, Illuminating the long nights of Rus
 sia and pouring love into the hearts of the jolly viennese." s'Let us rejoice" the Gau- l lois exclaims, ''that champagne will no long | CT force a smile from the boorish book ! drinkers of Germany.
 The Arizona HowIer is at it again. A re- cent number contains the following gem: With ghoulish glee seldom equalled in Arizona journalism the putty-faced editor of t'The Paralyzer'' anno ounced the other day
 that we were dead and printed our obituary.
 The only possible excuse that the ornery cuss had for doing this was that we have not been
 in Al Blodgett's saloon during the last few
 days. But he knew very well that this waa
 because we were temporarily indisposed, | having gone to Tombstone a few days ago
 and renewed some acquaintances. We are
 all right now, however, and when the galoot of "The Paralyzer'' turns in his toes, it will give us great pleasure to say that his mem
 ory will be most cherished by those whe
 knew him least
 The English treasury department is "out'