Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-28
EDITORIAL NOTES.

l The bill for liquor law now before the | New York legislature has some very com
 mendable features. It provides that there l shall be only one saloon licensed for every | 750 inhabitants, and no saloon shall be To- ! cated within three hundred feet of any school | house, church, asylum, penitentiary or navy I yard Beside this any ward in any city may, | by local option, prohibit the sale of liquor within the ward.
 The people of Boston are much interested
 in the decision concerning the legal status of
 beans as dutiable product which has just ! been made by Judge Shipman. In 1884 beans were classified as garden seeds and the duty l was fixed at twenty per cent. Later they ! were rated as vegetables and were liable to ! ten per cent. duty. It is now decided that beans are neither seeds nor vegetables, but are plants and hence are to be admitted free of duty.
 An English insurance magazine has devel- oped novel advertising scheme. The pur- l chaser of each monthly number in the very | act of purchase and without any further l trouble insures his life against accident on l the railroad for a month Each copy of the l magazine contains coupon payable by the Railway Passengers Assurance company, which is equivalent to an insurance policy 1 for a month. The coupon in the shilling copy of the magazine is worth $2, 500 in case of death and s10 week in case of disable | ment. The coupon in the six-penny edition
 is worth $1 ,0o0 only in of death. Saccharin, a species of combined benzoic l acid discovered by Fahlberg in 1889, is 8 substance many times sweeter than cane su- gar, and, when mixed with grape sugar, pos | sesses the flavor of the cane product in a | marked degree. It's high price has hitherto prevented it's acquiring commercial impor- ] tance, but the Rundschau Leitmeritz now l states that several costly steps in it's produc- 1 ton have been eliminated, and it is likely to 1 become very useful to confectioners. One | part of saccharin added to 2,000 parts of | glucose is said to give that substance sweet 1 ness equal to cane sugar. The same authori- | ty states that saccharin is harmless to the human organism, and does not, like cane su- gar, become decomposed in the system. Dr. Prior, of Bonn, has treated several | cases of whooping cough with cocaine, with good results. He does not consider the drug specific, but simply means of relieving l and reducing the number of the paroxysms. He used fifteen and twenty per cent. solu-
 tions to paint the fauces, the inter-arytenoid fossa, and the vocal cords, with the result of prolonging the interval between the attacks,
 and lessening the severity of these. The | treatment was resorted to twice daily, great
 stress being laid on the necessity of produc- ing at the time complete an@sthesia of the
 fauces and upper part of the larynx. Inha-
 lation of a twenty per cent. solution four
 times day was not so successful as paint ing.
 Investigations show that the limit of tenn perature at which men can work depends up
 on the length of their exposure, the amount | of exertion they put forth, their condition, and the nature of the atmosphere, particular
 ly as to it's degree of moisture. It is stated
 that men have been employed on railways at 104', in mines-under very favorable condi-
 tions-at 125o, and are said to'work occasion
 sionally in the stoke holes of tropical steamers
 at 1560. Prof. Dubois is reported to have estimated that a temperature of 1929 can be