Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.
We wish you Happy New Year.

We wish you Happy New Year.
 It seems to be settled that Major Tibbitts will be the Speaker. He will make very good one.
 A juror engaged in trying a murder case at Winona, Minnesota, refused to allow the lawyer for the defense to point at him the pistol with which the crime had been done, and, though the lawyer showed that the weapon was unloaded, the other jurors backed up the rsmonstrancs successfully.
 It is reported that tariff bill will be in troduced into the coming Parliament, and that it will provide for taxing the goods of those countries that lay duties upon the goods of Great Britain. This would include all, or nearly all countries except those over which England exercises sovereignty. It is claimed that the free trade of England is working iujusfoe<Fr -sr.sss=zf's and labor interests.
 New York real estate man who has many tenants has prepared himself for the continu- ance of the silver coinage act. h his leases he provides that the rent shall always be paid in gold coin. lie says he never can col 1ect but the stipulated number of dollars and he means to have them worth as much in the future as they are now 't I don't want to pay my debts in depreeiated currency" he says, "and I don't mean that any one shall cheat me out of what is due, even if Congress does think it is all right"
 By the completion rsst month of the rail road from Cape Town to the South African diamond mines at Kir berly steam cars have supplanted the tireson3e stages and the great OK wagons of the Dutch and British traders for about seven hhndrad niles along the di- rect route toward the Zanbesi. The advent of the locomotive into that very region where Moffatt and livingstone lived among the be- nighted savages is not only an evidence of the substantial progress of Soath Africa, but also illustrates fine impulse that is now nov ing civilized naions to penetrate new fields of commerce with railroads.
 The kind of silver dollar made by the government is a direct temptation to fraud. Mr. Horr, whb is no longer a representative from Michigan, says he is convinced by his inquiries that the number of silver dollars in circulation is much greater than the treasury authorities Felieve. Their estimate, made by deductirg from the whole number coined the number held by the treasury, is about fifty millions Mr Horr says that it must be about one hundred millions, and the e1- cess must have been coined by private per sons, who can make a profit of nearly twenty cents on each dollar turned out.
 The Brattleboro (vermont) Reformer urges the farmefs and business men of Vermont not to let another legislative session pass with out the enactment of law compelling the savings banks to invest their deposits at home. "The same craze for western invest ments from which New Hampshire and other New England States have suffered prevails in Vermont" says the Boston Herald, 'fto the great detriment of all home interests, except those of the money lenders, and that they will profit permanently by no means cer- tain. Just now the State $ being drained of capital, and all that can be done about it by legislation is to reach the savings banks by 8 law similar to that of Massachusetts,"
 M A. Martha states that the number of pauper students in Germany is largely on the increase, and is causing much uneasiness to the University authorities, Professor Billroth in particular having frequently called public attention to the danger misn which this large influx of starving students menaces the uni versailles and society. AS examples of the straits to which these hlngerers after knowl- edge are reduced, M. Martha quotes from Berlin paper the application made some time ago to the municipality by university stu dent who asked to be employed as a night sweeper, 8 post which, however modest, would not interfere with the prosecution of his studies. In the Gallieian and Hungarian universities poor students will sell matches in the streets, or, if they have musical gift, eke out existence by singing or playing in the cafes or brasseries. Many of them, for want of books and lei lure to study, never manage to pass the examinations, and settle down at thirty to the very humblest occupa- tions, while not few take to evil courses and swell the army of crime.
 Some singular facts are given in relation to the character of the remarkable gold deposits which have been discovsred in some locah ties on the FAtzroy river, New South Wales. The most notable feature is an isolated cone, rising from the plain through which runs the River Dee, the plain being fanked east and west by bluffs of Mesozoic sandstone, out of which the valley has evidently been carved down to the leysl of the primitive rocks that row form fla fl0>r Thesa o1f5 shades and