Morning journal and courier., 1886-11-24
EDTTOKsAL NOTES.

Judge Gresham of Indiana is mentioned" as good man for the Republicans to nomi- nate for President.
 The Chicago Socialists aggressively op- pose the formation of ''co-operative pack ing and provision company" in Chicago. By and by the real workingmen will be able to see through the schemes of the Socialists. The Berkshire County Eagle makes the following light If Mr. Andrew thinks that Massachusetts can no longer be held by the Republicans, Che must be walking along with board on bis nose like cow" It is hard work to keep an A merican citi zen from getting drunk when he wants to. In Atlanta the other day man went to drug store and had lamp filled with alco- hol, and when he came out on the street | drank the stuff. got drunk and went on wild whirl.
 Georgia is very solid part of the solid South The official returns of the Congres- sional election in the State show that the | voting population of 100000 cast only 27,- | 577 votes, less than IA per cent. When only | fourteen men in every hundred take the trouble to go the polls on fair day it can | hardly be sad that the interest in public affairs or current questions very great.
 Ten per cent of the students in the Uni versity of Zurich women, twenty-nine studying medicine, fourteen philosophy and 1 two political economy. In London the fe- male students of medicine number forty | eight In Paris there among the four 1 thousand students of medicine one hundred | and three women Within the last seven years eighteen women have taken their de- grees as doctor of medicine in Paris.
 Great and important changes are going on | in England The London World says that | the depreciation of real estate is proceeding | SO fast that the centers of wealth are being shifted, and ere long people with fixed in-
 comes will be compelled to earn more money l somehow or they will starve. So plain is
 this coming state of things that prudent peo- pie are taking time by the forelock. The
 aristocracy is merging itself among the | tradespeople, and men of long descent are | taking service in positions which they would have thought far below their dignity gen.
 eration ago.
 It is found that walls of good hard-bu1ned
 bricks, in mortar composed of good lime and sharp sand, will resist a pressure of 500 pounds per square inch, or 216, 900 pounds
 per square foot, at which figures it would
 require 1,6O0 feet height of 12-inch wall to crush the bottom course, allowing 135 pounds as the weight of each cubic foot. It
 also appears from accurate calculations and
 measurements that walls laid up in the same
 quality of brick and mortar, with one-third
 quantity of Portland cement added to the
 same, are capable of resisting some 2,5OO
 pounds per square inch, or 36O,O pounds
 per square foot this would require height
 of wall 3, TOO feet to crush the bottom bricks.
 Dr. L. H. Ormsby remarked in recent
 lecture at Dublin: Medical men from the
 days of Hippocrates have all along the line been the pioneers and promulgators oi
 science. Contemplate for one moment thei1
 incessant toll, the varied, intricate, and in
 some cases most dangerous investigations ID
 the cause of scientific truth, the combined re
 suit of all being that the community at large have alone derived the advantage of then
 labors. What has the discipline of law, dl
 vinity, or arms, as 8 body, done for science
 Think of the enormous debt of gratitude tbat ought to be bestowed on medicine ane