Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

It is declared that not one of the sixty thou sand Hebrews ;n New York city is the keep CT of saloon.
 General Sherman is evidently "mad." He says that Charles A. Dana followed the army as a tolerated spy. It will be interesting to see how Mr. Dana takes this pleasant little compliment
 The German government neglects nothing that will give it's soldiers the advantage in war. The German minister of war has just I given orders for 8 number of dogs to be trained with a view of testing the value of the services they might render to sentinels engaged in keeping guard during the night It is fully believed that by the aid of these sagacious animals outposts would be far less liable to surprise, and that the dogs would always give notice of the approach of the eIemy much earlier than 1t could be detected by the sentinel without such assistance. Some interesting facts concerning suicide | in Mexico have been made public. The ta- | bles cover the years 1860-S4, and constitute, | it is believed, the first considerable attempt 1 to collate material for this branch of vital | statistics in Mexico. Very striking is the
 smallness of the ratio of suicides to popula- 1 tion here revealed. The lowest ratio given l by Morselli is that of the Slavs of Southern
 Europe, viz: 20 per 100000 yearly. These l Mexican tables, however, yield total for the 1 entire twenty four years of only 4s7 suicides, 1 or no more than per 1000, ,00O. The gene | ral impression in this country is that the Mexicans have not great deal to live for, but they seem to like to hang on.
 Virtue is it's own reward William Guy Terre Haute railroad There was collision in which he was badly injured, but remem- bering that a passenger train was due soon he managed to extricate himself from the I wreck, and, mangled and bleeding, seized red flag and staggered up the track. Twice he fell from exhaustion, but pluckily got up and went on and Tagged the train five hun dred yards from the place of danger. Then he fainted away and remained unconscious for two days. When he recovered he was cripple for life. He sent the doctors bill to
 the railroad company and payment was re- fused. Then he sued for $1O,000, and jury has just awarded him $5,O93 damages after four years of litigation.
 | MT. Frederic Harrison recently delivered | spirited address on the Irish land question. l He took the ground that ''landlordism" was | as really social crime as slavery had been;
 that its degrading and expressing influences were the direct and blamable cause of the prevailing lswlessness of the Irish people,
 and consequently that in the best way possi-
 sle it should be rooted up and effectually eliminated from Irish life On the other
 hand, he pointed out with equal force that,
 bad as landlordism is, it has much of the
 good within it, and so many British pledges
 behind it, that the process oi eliminating it
 must not be one of violence or injustice, but
 of moderation and equity. He concluded by. declaring for Mir. Giffen's scheme of expro-
 priation, which proposes to have the govern l ment buy out the landlords.
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