Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-11
RDITORIAL NOTES.

There is much sympathy with the unfortu- nate relatives of the murderer Swift, as there ought to be, but the people feel better about the matter than they did.
 Dublin has had remarkable dog case in one of its courts. Two men claimed the same dog. One, to prove his ownership, told the animal to fetch his cane. The dog obeyed. The other said that he had owned the dog in Asia, where he had heard only he told the dog to fetch his hat. The dog obeyed. No report of the decision of the judge has yet been received in this country.
 Vermont has prohibitory law, but ac- cording to the Rutland Herald, Rutland county's record is about as bad as that of any county in any license State, and good deal worse than the majority. According to the last census Rutland county had popu- lation of Al ,S29, and it is estimated that the sales of liquor in this county last year amounted to 200, 900 gallons, or about five gallons to every man, woman and child in the county.
 Senator Blair of New Hampshire has dis covered something. He writes to the New York Mail and Express: The rapidly grow ing feeling among the people of the United States in favor of the expulsion of the Jes- uits from the country cannot much longer be restrained from public expression, and l think that it is time that the discussion be conducted openly and dispassionately before the general indignation now so deep and de- termined breaks out into an unmanageable and irresistible popular fury.
 Ray Odenmeller, a -year-old boy of Brown county, Illinois, has genius for days and dates. When any date in any month of last year, this year or next year is given him, he at once names the day of the week on which it falls or has fallen. But beyond three years his power does not extend. Next year he will lose all power over 1888, and will then show the same knowledge in re- gard to 1891, of which he now knows noth- strange power, and cannot tell how he ar. rives at the true answers.
 new and wonderful cartridge has ap peared in Paris. It has all the modern i'm | RAOfCAAoAsS oAA AOuA 0AStAACI dANnAooSSn First. it is without the metallic socket, whicl costs considerable, and increases the burder of the soldier. Second, it can be adapted te all guns, and particularly to the Gros gun Third, it does not grease the barrel. Fourth
 it costs 70 per cent. less than any other cart.
 ridge. It Is also said to be the most power full of all. The inventor-so it is alleged
 offered it to Gen. Boulanger when he wa
 war minister, and the general wrote in repl, that he hadn't time to consider the matter.
 A circular was sent out from Oregon t
 eastern workmen, about year ago, statinl
 that there was not work enough in Oregol
 for those already on the ground. The fol
 lowing from the Portland Oregonian woul
 indicate that things have changed: A goo
 deal of building is going on, but not enough
 There is some delay for want of material, bu
 this want will soon be supplied. A greate
 drawback is want of labor. Contractors an
 builders hesitate, because they cannot be sur
 of obtaining labor to carry out their unde,
 takings. Hence they proceed cautiously, ,an
 many owners of lots who would build at one hold back under the fear that they would
 involved in too much cost and delay.
 The Macon Georgia Evening News hs