Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-05


 be reported in the house to-day, and some of it's friends are confident that it will bass. | Many of the Chicago business men have | just been interviewed and they are hopeful. | In nearly all lines of trade the testimony 1 shows greater business this year than last. l MT. Waters, member of the Ontario leg l islature, introduces each year bill giving
 single women and widows the right to vote | in provincial elections. He has just put in his bill for this year and it finds some sup port.
 It will be hard to make the Chinese under l stand why they cannot get justice for the wrongs inflicted on their countrymen in the West. The President has made very lucid explanation of the difficulty, but it will not help the heathen Chinamen to realize that this is great, glorious and free country. It has been asserted that the women of
 Massachusetts do not appreciate their priv1- lege of voting for school committees. They do not to any great extent, but report just made shows that there has been steady in crease in the number who have voted. Eley- en hundred voted in 1882, thirteen hundred in 1885,. seventeen hundred in 1884 and
 more than thirty-two hundred in 1885. Times change and we change with them. The following quotation from one of Senator | Edmunds' speeches in the forty-frst congress is now going the rounds: ''It is cause enough for me, sir-eonstitutional cause, when the l President of the United States, acting if he l oo1x 1 entious sense of his responsibility to the peo- l pie and to God, chooses to send in one man 8
 name for place that another holds"
 Froude in his new work, "Oceana," calls l Auckland the workman's paradise and says l that 8 shillings (s2) day is the common 1 wages and the cost of living is less than in England. A poor clergyman's wife asked the price of some hothouse grapes and when told laid them down with 8 sigh, at which the dealer sympathizingly remarked: "Tisnt
 the likes of you that can afford them grapes; we keep them for the Workingmsns ladies. :" The New Orleans States is one of the southern newspapers which oppose the Blair bill on the ground that it will do the cause of education in that region more harm than
 good. It says: We recognize to the full and deplore the illiteracy that prevails in many portions of the South; but neither are we
 blind to the phenomenal progress which ed ucation has made in this section of late years. A sentiment in favor of education has grown and spread among our people, and has mate rialized in an amplitude and readiness of local self-taxation which bid fair to wipe away the disgrace of illiteracy from among us, and render external aid as supsrhuous as it is under any circumstances intrusive. Any attempt on the part of the federal govern ment to interfere with our educational ways and means and our method and courses of
 instruction can only eventuate in taking the fine edge from of the educational sentiment referred to, in demoralizing our self-depsnd- ence and in crushing our self-rsliance.
 The funeral of Hu-Tow-Tai, a Chinese speculator, occurred recently at Hang Chow and it was gorgeously mournful affair. At the head of the procession Q number of coo l lies trudged along carrying little scraps ot paper on which short sentences full of wis
 dom and sound advice were traced in pencil. | Then followed crowd of lantern bearers, | the lanterns fastened at the end of long bam- boo canes. After them came small army | of musicians with gongs, cymbals and trum-
 pets, making noise enough to scare the sul-
 phur and birthstone out of all the wicked
 spirits within range. Next came few hun l dred little boys, each holding in his hand