Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-15
EDITOKIAL NOTES.

NJ. de Lesseps is reported to have wept for joy the other day. Many of those whom he has deluded into investing in the Panama ditch will weep, but not for joy.
 A boy in Brooklyn lost leg by an scci. dent on the elevated railroad. A jury has just given verdict against the company of ,000. If the boy had been killed his life would have cost but $5, 900.
 Major Burke, of the New Orleans Times Democrat. says he has been a protectionist ever since he saw the southern oonfederacy go to pieces, largely for want of workshops and trained mechanics to work in them.
 Rev. Solomon Schnidler of Boston, whose name was on all the tickets for school com- mittee and who received total vote of 80, 636, while the total vote for mayor was 63, ,684, has reason to feel that he is popular. He is Jewish rabbi, and his abundant cleo ton is great compliment.
 All the fools are not dead yet, but one of them has just gone. In 1884 John Shaw of Shamokin vowed that he would never wear a coat until Republican president was elect ed. He kept his VOW, visited his old home in Scotland and travelled considerably in the United States without @ coat, wearing knit jacket in it's stead. It is thought that the consequent exposure resulted in the disease of which he recently died. On election day, although then thought to be near to death he insisted upon being carried to the polls that he might once more vote the Republican ticket.
 Says Forest and Stream in speaking of rabbit eoursing: If the consideration of cruelty be left out, or even if 1t be granted that the practice is not cruel, there is yet in it that which makes 1t revolting to lovers of fair play and manly field sports. The Hemp- stead style of hare killing is most certainly opposed to public sentiment, and finds no approval among those who thoroughly be- lieve in field sports. This is because it vio- lates the first principle of sport, inasmuch as it gives no Claw" to the game. There Is ab- solntely no chance for the game to get away, it's death is sure; the only uncertainty about the affair is as to which of the dogs will do the killing in the shortest time, but the kill ing itself is a thing of certainty.
 The special information about immigration which is furnished by the collated reports, just issued, of hundred or more of our con- suls is valuable. There can be no doubt that Consul Goodwin, at Annaberg, Saxony, is substantially correct in saying that "one- third of the emigration to the United States from the continent of Europe is not only un- desirable, but positively injurious and dan gerous." Certainly that statement Is fully borne ont by the reports of other consuls as we'll as by our own home experience and ob- servation, The intelligent classes among the l immigrants of to day are but small minor l ity. As the consul at Venice we'll says, they are ''often fugitives from justice and in 1 many cases those leaving their native coun- tries to evade legitimate duties imposed by law. They are no more fitted to perform the duties of citizenship than slaves newly re- l leased from bondage"
 The Rev. Dr. Hole, dean of Rochester, Eng l land, recently preached sermon in the ca- | thedrsl of that city, which has given great offense to the total abstainers. He declared
 his conviction that the person who partook moderately of liquor was more manly aud more noble than he who, owing to lack of
 moral strength, abstained altogether. Soma people wish to turn the church from her pre- ! sent position as temperance society into a