Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-04
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The special postal delivery system is re- garded as failure in New York city, where ] only about one thousand letters a day are carried under it. The regular delivery there ! is frequent and rapid.
 l In order to settle the question as to the proper treatment of persons who have been 1 frozen Dr. Laptchinski has made series of very careful experiments upon dogs. He found that, of twenty animals treated by the | method of gradual resuscitation in a cold l room, fourteen perished; of twenty placed at l once in warm room, eight died, while twen- | ty put immediately into hot bath recovered quickly and without accident.
 Herr Stephan, the minister of posts and teIegraphs in Germany, in his latest report gives an interesting account of the progress that has been made in internal communica- tions in Germany in the last four years. The telegraph stations have ill that period been increased by 1889. They now number F. 535, or one office to every 5000 inhabitants. In the same space the postoffices have been | increased from 7,5s0 to 13,651, an advance of some 70 per cent The annual value of the enclosures in registered letters passing through the post amounted to f75, 100000. Compensation for loss and damage to these was paid to the extent of about e6,000 per annum, or roughly speaking, Tooth per l cent. Of non-registered parcels one in 30,- 900 failed to be delivered.
 The dairvmen of Great Britain have found out that they have reason to fight bogus but 4la.a -4oIf h, country nearly 40,000,000 pounds of bogus butter and oleo oil, and England received 8 share of it. There has been laid before the Council of the British Dairy Farmers asso- citation and referred to a special committee g bill providing that all limitations of butter ''shall be called by names clearly and entirely distinguishable from the word butter, and from any compound modification or deriya- tion of that word;" that all manufacteries of bogus butter in Great Britain shall be regis tered; that bogus butter shall not be colored in imitation of real butter, and that the bogus products shall be sold under their right names.
 Among the interesting results of subma- rine or deep-sea explorations conducted un-
 
 cal society are those in reference to the At lantic sea bed. It would seem that the bottom of the North Atlantic is occupied by two valleys, the eastern extending from 10 to 30 deg. west longitude, and tracsable as far as the equator, with an extreme depth of less than 13, ,000 feet, while the western valley reaches from the 30th to the 50th deg. of west longitude. The two are separated by ridge in 30 deg. west longitude, along which the average depth is only 1000 fathons, and which can be traced northward to Iceland and southward to the Azores; it is volcanic in character at both extremities. Its sx- treme breadth is somewhat less than 500 miles, and the depth of the water increases on both sides of 1t according to the distance of the axis.
 Red Gulch, Arizona, is deeply stirred up by newspaper change which has taken place there. One of the old established pa- pers of Red dulch was The Dam Recently rival paper was started in the town, the proprietor of which gave 1t the name of The Fool. The newspaper soon began to outstrip it's ancient rival and became especially popu- lar by calling upon the President to banish all Mugwumps to the Fiji Islands. At last