Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-10
EDITORIAL NOTES.

General Boulanger isn't making much noise just at present He has made enough.
 It Is expected that the legislature will get through its work this week, but we can tell better about it ct the end of the week. The Fourth of July is at hand.
 It begins to look @. If the conspiracy against Dr. Cronin would not be revealed. The investigation seemed to be of kind that doesn't really investigate.
 Some people are predicting that the next Gibbons, of Baltimore, is mentioned" It is safe to say that the next Pope will not be an American.
 It is whispered that if oonsolidationists continue their ag9ressiveness "the outlying districts" may petition to be made separate towns. This would be an interesting out- come of the agitation.
 The Massachusetts senate has added to It's bad record by killing the bill requiring & sworn statement of election expenses. This measure was cordially endorsed by leading Republican papers throughout the State.
 Fort Dodge, Iowa, hes a question to deal with which Is deeply agitating the city. The city council hes authorized all owners of miloh cows to turn them loose within the city limits. The members of the council have been asked by many to resign, and we are informed that Heading ladies" announce that rigid boycott will be instituted against all merchants holding business relations with members of the city government. Moreover, prominent citizens refuse to con- tribute to the Fourth of July celebration un- less the ordinance IS repealed.
 The governor of Nan, in Armenia. has re- gently issued 6 decree against the breviary which Gregorians and Catholic Armenians have used in their schools for more than 8 thousand years. the only difference between the Gregorian and Catholic versions being that in the former the name Cstholicos is substituted for that of Pope, used in the lat ter. The Governors reason was that the teaching of the breviary was opposed to Otto man national principles, some of the saints mentioned in it having been kings of Arme- mia. and also foreign kings. Both the Catho- lio and Gregorian Patriarohs have seen the Grand vizier at Constantinople in behalf of their people, but as yet in vain.
 The treasurer of the Ellen M. Clifford Shell tering Home for Animals fin Boston, in her annual report, says that steadily the work has gone on increasing, until now. with larger facilities and better accommodations the Shelter is not obliged to close it's doors to any case of suffering. Two acres or more of land have been added to the estate by the founder of the corporation in the last year, thus affording large playground for the dogs and greater space for she cats. Several gifts have been received since the incorpora- ton, about year ago, and all unsolicited, as 1t has been the aim of the management of the Shelter to make its work speak for itself. During the past three years the whole ex- pense of carrying on the Shelter work has been met by the founder.
 A lawyer in Breslau, Germany, has made an analysis of the percentage of income paid fellow citizens for the rest of their houses He finds that the larger the mans income, the smaller proportion of this which has to go out in procuring lodgment for himself and his family. Thus, those whose incomes are from $500 to $1, 1000 year are found, with him. to pay about one-ffth of it for