Morning journal and courier., 1886-06-05

The attacks upon Senator Edmunds in
Vermont seem to have been overdone. Thirty
of the leading Republicans of st. Albans are
out with remonstranee against them, and
it is very thorough one, too. It is not
probable that Senator Edmunds will be
politically annihilated this year.
The international industrial exhibition
which is to be held in Paris from July to
November of the present year bids fair to be
a great success. 1t will take place at the
Palais d'Industrie, where was held the great
exhibition of 1866. The affair has been Or
ganized with the skill and care SO character
istic of the French in undertakings of this
kind. 1t is expected that the exhibitors will
como from all countries, and especially from
this country and England. Foreigners are
promised large representation on the jury
of awards, and the exhibition will be under
the patronage of the minister Of commerce
and industry and group of members of the
Senate, of the chamber of deputies and of
the municipal council of the town of Paris.
Recently published facts concerning Brit
ish India give the entire population at $685.
square miles. The density of the population
reaches its maximum in Bengal where there
are 442 8 inhabitants to the square mile; the
minimum is found in Central India, with
SO. 3, and in British Burmah with 42S to
each square mile. For every 130 males
there are 1874 females. The Hindoos and
Buddhists include 100, 900, 900; the Moham-
medans, 100000; Christians, 1900, 600;
Parsees, So, 900; Jews, $4,000; and various
other sects with smaller numbers The en-
tire debt of India amounts to e171 SIT, ,945.
In March, 1885, the entire length of rail-
roads, in miles, was 1000; of the telegraph
systems, 90, 341; the total length of wires,
6s, ,694.
This is the way the correspondent of the
New York Times sums up the doings OF the
Cleveland convention: The assembly recalled
the commissions of six hundred organizers,
many of whom it admitted were doing the
order harm It increased the general execu-
tive board, it plunged the order into politics,
it widened the breach between the Knights
and the trades unions, it offered lot of ad-
vice to Congress and to the country at large,
while generously offering to run the uni
verse, and showed clearly its inability to
conduct its own affairs. This is all the work
accomplished by the assembly, and it should
be eminently satisfactory to the bitterest en-
ernies of the Knights of Labor, for they are
to-day shorn of their strength, and the man
| who has long been recognized as their
| leader is without honor even in his own or
| der.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton argues
against low-necked dresses in an article in
the Cosmopolitan. She says that even II
| such highly virtuous women and paragons OF
perfection as Mrs. Madison, Mrs. Adams ano
Martha Washington did expose themselves
| it is no reason why women of the present
day should follow their example. because
| ssWe know more of the laws of health and
morals than they did," Mrs. Stanton cen
| tinues: "Those ancient danes used to dress
| their babies in the same way, their little
| shoulders and arms all bare. We learn by
such exposure they were subject to Group
| diphtheria and pneumonia, and now the
| fashion is to cover their arms and shoulder
| with high-necked, long -sleeved hannels, and
/ the mothers made on the same general plar