Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-30
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A bill has been introduced in the House of Commons making it misdemeanor for any person to hold more than one hundred acres of land in a waste or uncultivated State, unless it is devoted to public uses enjoy ment. Of course the bill will not pass, but 1t is a sign of the times.
 It is proposed, on the initiative of the mu nicipal council, to hold a baby show in Paris. The object of the exhibition is said to be humanitarian and scientific Each ex- hibitor will have to fill up list of questions tending to throw light upon the influence of consanguineous diseases, tho hereditary prin- ciple, climate and different methods of nurs- ing, and will be asked to send in with the ex- hibit photographs of ancestors or ancestral pictures and of naer relatives. The ages of the 'exhibits" will range from one to five years. The first prize will be one of 1 1000 francs and the second of 800 francs, and there will be inferior ones of 100 francs each and gold and silver medals.
 The New York Sun is q good Democratic paper but it cannot stand what it calls ''the telephone scandal" It says: MT. Garland the attorney general, and MT. Lamar, the secretary of the interior, are very deeply i'm plicated in this scandal and it is incompar ably the greatest scandal by which any mem bers of any presidents cabinet have ever been affected President Cleveland is a de- liberate man, and, in such matter as this especially, it is not to be expected that he will act from any nasty impulse. But in the end he will act, and then we suppose that some other man than MT. Garland will be at torney- general, and some other man than MT. Lamar will be secretary of the interior. The necessity will be painful to the president, it will be painful to every hopeful member of the Democratic party; but necessity is something that has to be obeyed.
 The Jacksonville (Florida) Times Union speaks thus encouragingly of the condition of the colored race in that city and State: There is no discontent that we can hear of except from those who are more disposed to hang around barrooms and run ward eau cuses than they are to work and get together property. They have great deal of ''voice" in political affairs-in fact, more of it than is good for the community. As for schools, the negroes have the best house in the city
 
 payers point to it grumblingly. Their corps of teachers is of their own choosing, and their young people are making good progress in education. The condition of the negro race in Florida is apparently satisfactory to all parties, the only disturbing element being the ward bummers before mentioned, who want to make a living out of politics.
 The relief department to be established by the Pennsylvania railroad company is likely to prove a very useful thing. The present employees are requested, and those hereafter engaged will be required, to join the relief as sociation, which will be managed by a super irtendent appointed by the company and an advisory committee chosen by the members. The members will be assessed a scale ae- cording to their pay. those getting s35 month paying seventy-five cents to the fund andthose receiving $1OOpaying $3. The fund will be used to pay accident benefits, sick benefits and an insurance at death. Men as sessed seventy-five cents month will receive, if sick or disabled, fifty cents a day; if killed, $500 will go to their families, and at death from natural causes $25O. Men pay ing s3 month to the fund will draw B a day when sick or disabled, $2,000 if killed and $1 ,OOO at death from other causes.
 Mir. Gabriel Charmes has ready for publi- cation @ new work on the subject of naval re- form He attacks in the most vigorous man. ner the policy of ''persisting in concentrating in single vessel all arms both for offence and defence" His programme he defines as "the substitution for the armor-plated line of battle ship-a vessel essentially complex, intended to serve several purposes, enormous ly costly, and of limited speed-of large number of specialized vessels-gunboats, rams, torpedo vessels, cruisers, etc.; the giv- ing to these vessels, each destined for single special end, the utmost possible speed; in word, the division of labor in order to produce the best results and at the cheapest rate" Of the present condition of the French navy he speaks in the very strongest terms. "we spend 200, 900, 900 francs per annuin, and we have not managed to build single cruiser as fast as the Chinese vessels"
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