Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Republicans are gaining ground every day. And it is the kind of gain that holds. The Boston Herald has discovered that the real manager of the Democratic campaign is not Scott, nor German, nor Brice, nor Jones. ''It is Gen. Apathy, and he still sits on the box and holds the reins."
 The Glass-workers' union seems to have carried things too far in the case of one of the Pittsburg glass manufacturers. employing 450 men, who is to move his plant to Belgi- um. He wants to get away from the labor unions, whose members "work when they please and quit when it suits them"
 A committee of the house of lords, which has been taking testimony concerning the problem of poor relief, has been informed by 8 London clergyman that thousands of chil dren are starved or otherwise murdered every winter in order to obtain the insurance upon | their lives He urged it as 8 duty upon par l liament to prohibit absolutely the practice of l insuring children's lives, which, he said, is simply offering premium for murder.
 The following dispatch, dated at London and published in the Newcastle, Australia, l Call, shows what can be done: President Cleveland, the only candidate for the presi- | dency of the United States, has been declared | reelected Senator Stanford of California, the Republican candidate, has retired. The l St. Louis platform convention indorses Pres- l ident Cleveland's tariff policy. Sherman is l the only person nominated for vice president. Chinese justice is quite as prompt and comprehensive as Jersey justice. Two clans or families in the Prefecture of Yung-How 1 in Human, China, recently fought for the possession of certain hill and twenty-seven were killed. The government thought such proceeding irregular and sentenced the ! leader of the victorious party and fourteen of I his followers, with the one of the defeated ! who fired the first shot, to decapitation. Sev- eral members of the two clans who took no | active part in the row, but encouraged it, | were sentenced to receive one hundred blows each and the elders of both families were sentenced to eighty blows each, on general principles, for not having prevented the fight 1 A Boston school teacher who has made
 notes of some of the queer sayings of her pupils gives as samples the following: Asked
 to describe the character of Alexander the Great, one said, 'He was proud, of medi-
 um height, with small eyes, and head in- 1 elined a little to one side. I think, Miss
 Blank, it was the left side." In giving an account of battle, another said: "The
 soldiers fought with such bravery that after
 they were killed they crawled along on the ground and slashed at the legs of the enemy.'
 Here are three more: "Henry VIII of Eng
 land married his brothers deceased wife. '
 ''In the first century Pompeii and Herculan-
 cum were covered with eruption" "Then
 there was resurrection of Pompey's sons in Spain.
 There will undoubtedly be shortage in this
 years wheat crop in this country, and there
 are some indications that the farmers will
 obtain better price for their wheat than
 they have been able to during the last three
 or four years. According to Beerbohm's es'
 inmates, which are as reliable as can be ob.
 tained, there will be deficiency of the whea