Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-18

l Sir Andrew Clark, the celebrated English 1 physician, declares that one-half the popula- | tion of London is permanently ill-that is, 1 not in that condition in which 'twork is easy | and duty not over great trial" Few peo- pie are ever we'll enough to find work ''real l easy"
 When everybody is on strike and every
 body is boycotted a very few people in this great, glorious and free country will be hap py. But it is not likely that the millennium
 is at hand. If unjusti6able strikes and boy colts continue they will soon bring the great labor movement into discredit
 It has cost three hundred and thirty thou 1 sand dollars to fight locusts in Cyprus since the British occupation. But the govern 1 ment engineer states that, large as the ex- penditure has been, it is certain that it has already been recovered by the island many times over in the value of the crops saved It is hard to eradicate the desire for pie from the New Englander. Is is recorded that an inhabitant of Springfield, Massachu- setts, woke up the other day from drunken sleep in cell, and tried to hang. himself
 
 resuscitated was for "a pie, large squash pie"
 Pneumonia has been making sad ravages in and around McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and the physicians attribute it's prevalence to natural gas. 'I have no doubt," says one of them, ''that natural gas is responsible not only for pneumonia, but also for many other diseases of the respiratory organs. It is a great convenience, but as it is burned now the grates are almost closed up and no pro visions made for ventilation. The result is, the atmosphere of the entire house not only becomes very dry, but is vitiated by the products of the combustion" :"
 The New York Sun wants suitable de- fences provided for the great and rich city which it Eliminates. It estimates the value | of the property which might be destroyed by hostile feet, in New York city, Brooklyn 1 and Jersey City, at the enormous sum of $2,- 547, ,490, ,67S. And it reminds Congressman that the fact that there is at present no pros pect of war furnishes no argument against the construction of adequate defences. ''It takes years to build forts. It takes years to con- struct big guns. Until nations become suf- fciently courteous to give us few years warning of their intention to declare war we shall find it to our advantage, financially and otherwise, to be fully prepared" This is solid sense.
 The Boston Advertiser has interviewed several clergymen as to the propriety of abol- ishing the Massachusetts Fast Day. Bishop Paddock would like to have Fast Day set down for Good Friday. The Rev. Phillips Brooks failed to see that the day, as now ob served, subserved any use whatever. The Rev. S. E. Herrick favored the view that Fast Day should be appointed on Good Fri | day. The Rev. 0. A. Bartol said that Fast Day has become farce, and had better be | dropped. The Rev. George A. Gordon favor ed retaining it, and because he believed | pastors could influence their people to ob- serve it in religious manner. The Rev. A. A. Miner advocated the perpe:uation of Fast Day, while the Rev. M J. Savage was for it's
 abolition. The Rev. w. B. Wright would pre- | serve Fast Day, devoting a part of it to
 prayer and supplication and portion to
 wholesome amusement. The clergy thus
 seem to be divided on the question. 1 An agent of the Delaware, Lackawanna
 and Western railroad company refused to
 sell communication ticket to a man who had
 had some difficulty with one of the conduc-
 tors of the road The man thereupon ap piled for mandamus to compel the compa ny to sell him ticket, as usual The New
 Jersey Supreme court decides that the com pany must sell him one. Says the court: A
 company is under no obligation to establish
 communication rates for particular locality
 but when it has established such rates, and
 communication tickets are sold thereat to th' public, the refusal of such a ticket to par
 ticular individual, under the same circum
 stances and upon the same conditions ai Asuch tickets are sold to the rest of the pub