Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-17
EOETOxTAL NOTES.

A bill has been introduced into the Massa- chasetts legislature with strong support which forbids all deductions of pay for bad weaving in the cotton and woolen mills in that State. What folly ne1ta
 One of the objections raised against new $S, ,000, ,O0O to $15, 100000 of the former is- sue was lost in the hands of the people. This won't disturb anybody. What the people want is money that is convenient.
 Professor Kirehoff, to decide bet, recently stated that Chinese was the most popular language in the world. It is spoken by 40O,- COG, ,0O0 persons Hindostani by upward of 100, ,00O, ,00O; English by more than 100, ,00e,- 900; Russian by more than 10000, 900; Ger man by 59, ,000, 900; Spanish by 4s,0O0, 900, and French by only 4o,0oo,Oo0.
 A medical journal says that new experi- ments have changed old theories upon the best methods of treating frost bites. A physician froze sixty dogs into condition of completely suspended animation; twenty of these were treated by the usual method of gradual resuscitation ID cold room, and of these fourteen perished; twenty were treated in warm apartment and eight of these died; while of the remaining twenty, covered.
 Iowa druggists are interested in two bills ROW before the legislature of that State. One of them provides that no liquor shall be sold by druggists, the sale being placed in the hands of not more than four accredited agents in each county. A substitute meas ure introduced by Speaker Redmsn places druggists who sell liquor under bonds of $3, 900, and allows such sales only after petition has been signed by certain propor- ton of the voters in each ward or township and an equal number of women. The senti- ment against any liquor selling whatever is said to be growing among the better class of druggists.
 Though more than seventy years old Prince Bismarck still works as hard as he did when he was twenty years younger. He never goes to bed until in the morning, and eats hearty supper shortly before midnight. He rarely rises much before noon, as he has always been heavy sleeper and is often dis turbed during the night by the arrival of | dispatches which require instant attention. The Chancellor is becoming rich man. The l salaries from his offices are by no means ex- l travagant, but added to the revenues of his estates and the profits of his saw mills and distilleries, they bring his income to between $10o, ,000 and $150.o0o year. And, as the ! prince is notoriously economical. very large l proportion of this comfortable income is an
 nually saved. The Director General in China suggested that the officers in charge of the Yellow river l works who showed remissness in not taking
 precautionary measures to prevent the recent
 floods be degraded, but this was deemed toe light punishment and they were ordered te be exposed in the cangue along the river banks. The Sub Prefect and Mayor of Shang- sn, the Assistant Department Magistrate o1 Chang-C Chou and the Lieutenant and Second Sergeant of the station below Cheng- Chou
 were thus punished. The cangue or wooden l collar which these unfortunate officials are
 condemned to wear is large, heavy square
 of wood, opening so as to allow the prisoner'i
 neck to eater. From the time it is put on i