Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-28
EDITORIAL L. NOTES.

During the present year eighteen hundred
girls have been graduated from Boston cook
ing schools. Here's a chance for the young
men who are living at cheap restaurants.
Mr.. George w. Childs, the publisher of
the Public Ledger of Philadelphia, is very
benevolent man and good man to work for.
On Christmas day he distributed among the
editors, reporters, correspondents, clerks,
compositors, pressmen and other employees of
the Ledger nearly $4,000.
Liverpool, England, needed an additional
water supply, and the government went into
Wales, seventy miles away, and bought
large valley, including the village of Liam
wyddyn. This valley is now being filed
with body of water five miles long and
eighty-four feet deep. 1t is understood that
ell the houses, the church, two chapels, tav-
ern and postofRce remain as they were, and
are gradually being submerged under the
collecting water that pours into the valley.
new village has been built near by and all
the Llanwyddyans have removed to it.
piano tuner who says that pianos fre-
quently deteriorate because they are allowed
to become too dry. prescribes this remedy:
Keep growing plant in the room, and SO
long as your plant thrives your piano ought
to, or else there's something wrong with it.
Just try it, and see how much more water
you'll have to put in the flower pot in the
room where your piano ia than in any othee
with sopping wet sponge in it, near or un-
der the piano, and keep it moistened just as
cigar dealer keeps his stock. They keep
this up all the time the fires are on.
How a derelict drifts has an interesting ex-
ample in the Norwegian bark Talemaoh that
was abandoned at sea October IS, 1887, 100
| miles southwest of the Azores, latitude 81
| north, longitude 39' west. Two months and
twelve days after being abandoned she was
| sighted in latitude 81 IL north, longitude
36' 90 west, having drifted $50 miles south
| southwest. She was last reported on Octo-
| ber 10 of this year in the neigh Aorhood of the
Bermudas, having in the year and two days
since she was abandoned drifted about g.
| 500 miles. At last accounts she had moth
| ing standing but her mizzenmast, and her
| deck was even with the water. She has
been reported six times during the year.
| An English journal repeats a warning, fre-
| quently given and often neglected, to Eng
lish and American girls about to marry
Frenchmen. It does yet seem to be under.
stood that though woman may be married
to Frenchman according to all the forms
of the English law, she is not necessarily
| married in France. The French law still
requires that the absurd and antiquate6
form of asking the head OF the bridegroom
family to consent to marriage shall be gons
through, and if this is omitted the marriage
is invalid. An English woman who hai
been married to Frenchman for two year,
was recently coolly informed by her husband
that they had not been married at all, thu
above precaution not having been taken, ani
she had to leave him.
The Vermont legislature has reached tn
limit in dealing with rum It has provided
with respect to carrying out the existing pro
hibition laws, that sit shall be the duty o
any sheriff or his deputy or any constable +
search without warrant any wagon, carriage
cart, sleigh, sled, ** \ trunk, box
hand bag, satchel, bundle or clething'' con