Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-29
En5TaRyAL NOTES.

Dr. Shrady, the editor of the Medical Rec ord, laughs at the recent hydrophobia scare. He declares that there have only been three cases of genuine hydrophobia reported in the United States in the last ten years, and that he does not believe there has been genuine case in the State of New Jersey.
 recently published army return shows the total effective force of the British regular army to be POI ,0OO. The distribution of this force is not without it's bearin gs on the Irish question. Ireland is disconte ntsd and conse quently there nearly 27, 900 men, with sixty field guns, quartered there. Canada has 1 1900 troops and India has 63, 900. There are only IA, 900 troops in Egypt.
 The cigarpaakers' strike in New York city is costing the unions at the rate of $1O, 900 8 week. This merely represents the money act ually paid to the strikers out of the contingent fund. A computation in the loss of wages would probably show total five times as large The total loss to the manufacturers and the workmen is estimated at 3150, 900 & week. This great loss might have been avoided by sensible arbitration.
 The French have looked with alarm upon the steady export of Pereheron horses to the United States; but the most prominent breed CTS there now say that the progeny of these horses raised in the United States an inn provement upon their sires, and that it is profitable to reimport. It is known that Napoleon III used to import Percheren horses from Vermont for the postchaises Il oL his Master of the Horse, found them much superior to the Mechlenburg horses, more generally in use.
 A member of tue Geological Survey says that Salt Lake will be of great value in the near future, not only account of tho com mon salt it will produce, but also for the sodium sulphate it contains. The latter is separated in focculent precipitate by the cold weather of midwintsr, and annually thrown upon the shore in enormous quanti- ties. There are many other lakes in the far West whence an insxhaustible supply of commercial alkalies may be obtained at small cost, Mono Lake, Cal, alone being estimated to hold over 7S, ,000, ,000 tons of sodium car bonate.
 In showing the progress af labor reform the Boston Globe cites, as one of the most striking illustrations ever afforded to the power of public opinion, the complete change of front on the subject of weekly payments exhibited this winter by the manufacturing corporations of Massachusetts. Last winter, says the Globe, the legislature was told that it would be death and destruction to the in- dustries of the State to compel employers to give the laborer his hire every Saturday 1 night Within six months, such is the ob- yious justice of the movement, great many 1 heavy corporations have voluntarily adopted
 the weekly system, and it is now given out
 that no serious opposition will be made on Beacon hill to the enactment of the desired
 statute Whether opposed by anybody or not, this measure is bound to become law
 very soon, and without much question this
 winter.
 They are charging Senator Evarts with am- l biguity, but it seems that it is only sshis 1 way" For instance, here is sentence from