Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-10
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Paris anarchists who are publicly de- the folly of their kind. It is the big shops which furnish the best bargains to people ot small means.
 The labor committee of the Massachusetts legislature has refused to report bill repeal ing the weekly payment law. There were good reasons given for making the law, and no sufficient reasons for it's repeal appear. The Journal of Education has collected few answers from public school examination papers. and here are samples: Mosquito, child of white and black parents. Herodotus was 8 descendant of Herod the Great, and he was king of the Jews. The Aryans spoke the French language Virgil was great Ameri- can author. Diogenes was great philoso> pher and successor to Alexandria the Great. Longfellow wrote Paradise Lost" and ''Par- adise Regained" Hawthorne wrote "Moses" | from at Old Manse Plato was the Father of Language, and his language was so perfect that it is said that if Jupiter were to speak he would speak Plato.
 A Belgian theatrical manager has hit upon a novel method of indicating to the public | the moral character of his plays. It is by I printing his play bills in different oelors. Thus red bill signifies that the play is per | nicious, and that, therefore, none but adults should see it. A white bill indicates that the play is moral, and that, therefore, par ents ought to bring their children to see it. Still again, blue bill signifies that play is on the borderland of morality, and that, therefore, parents must use their own disere- ton in bringing their children to it. Lastly, yellow bill signifies that husbands should be careful not to bring their wives te see the play. although presumably they may go themselves.
 The uneasy cigarmakers in New York city have annoyed their employers too much dur ing the last two or three years and an import ant change will be brought about by the
 adoption of machines for ''scrap punches" !"
 "long filler punches" stripping and rolling,
 which can be managed with ease by young
 girls, and reduce the cost of cigar making to
 a trihe It is anticipated that the general
 adoption of such machines will revolutionize
 the trade. The Tobacco Journal says that it
 will dispense with union shops and union
 worknaen and all the endorsements and
 snnoyances and troubles which have hitherto
 been connected with that organized body of
 labor. It will also dispense with male cigar
 makers generally, at least for all cheaper
 grades of goods which form the biggest bulk
 of the cigar production.
 The adulteration of drugs, on whose purity
 human life may depend, is about the meanest
 kind of adulteration there is. A writer in g
 trade journal says concerning this matter
 The drug trade just now is following the
 cocaine market with great deal of interest Large sales have been made at very low
 prices, notwithstanding the fact that coes
 leaves have been and are still very scarce Speaking of this, large manufacturers agent said that the low market had attracted
 such marked attention that several druggists
 had had number of analyses made by east
 ern chemists, and the latter had reported
 their tests running from one-half to three B fourths borax, and a very small proportion , of genuine cocaine. Pulverized borax ha very much the same appearance as cocaine