Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-26
EDITORIAL rOTES.

As originally designed, the New York Stste capitol building at Albany was to cost $4, ,00O, ,00O. The sum of $1s,00o, ,000 has thus far been expended on it, and it remains uncompleted.
 There is said to be one school district in Douglas county, Kansas, where the people will not allow grammar to be taught because they are not going to have the youngsters making fun Of the way the old folks talk and write.
 A correspondent of the London Times says that the word ''teetotal" had it's origin through Q stuttering temperance orator, who urged on his hearers that nothing less than "te-te total" abstinence would satisfy tenn perance reformers. Someone at once adopt- ed "teetotal' as suitable word, and 1t sprang into general use.
 A London physician is of the opinion that turpentine bath is good for rheumatism, gout, insomnia, laryngitis and bronchitis, and recommends the following method of preparing it: Make saturated solution of six ounces of yellow soap, and add to it three or four ounces of oil of turpentine. Shake the contents we'll before they are put into the bath, which should be filled with warm water. The result is pleasaet bath, from which exhales the genial odor of pine, and which causes a glow all over the body. After fifteen minutes immersion, the patient should be put to bed.
 MT. Charles J. 0. Puckette, Texas states. man, comes out with Ga solution of the prob lem of the negro in politics." It is a simple one. The fundamental principle of his plan is e'the absolute supremacy of the white race in local, State and national politics for all time to come" This idea is to be put into execution through system of "fair minor. ity representation for the blacks" That is to say, the 479, ,000 whites of Mississippi are to choose five representatives in Congress, and the $50, 900 blacks are to choose only two. The ss1, ,00O whites of South Carolins are to choose five, and the GOA, ,o00 blacks are to choose two. The 454, ,0O0 whites of Louis jana are to choose four, and the 4S3, ,000 blacks are to choose two.
 M Goyi, an Italian savant, has presented { paper to the French Acadamy of Science, 1T which he claims for Calico the distinction of having discovered the microscope, as wei as the telescope. He has found bool printed in 1610, according to which Galilet had already directed his tube fitted witt lenses to the observation of small near ob iects, The philosopher himself stated short ly after this date that he had been able te observe through a lens the movements O 1 minute animals and their organs of sense In letter written in 1914 he states that h. ! has with his microscope 'eeen and observed flies as large as sheep, and how their bodies were covered with hairs, and they had shsrr
 claws" The discovery of the microscope Ii usually assigned to the year 1891, and the in vention is attributed to Drebbel, 8 Dutch man.
 l Mir. Foulke, who has been president of thu
 Indiana Civil Service Reform association tells the association that those who knoy I General Harrison believe that the next fou years will be substantial fulilment of ever promise the general has made. He adds We have his word for it in the clearest Ian
 guage that in appointments to every grad
 and department, not only of the elassife
 service but everywhere, fitness and not part
 service is to be the discriminating test, an
 fidelity and efficiency the only sure tenure (
 ofiee But, more than this. The Presiden
 elect has told us that only the interest of th public service should suggest removals frol
 office. This means great deal. It mea1
 that the local claims of political aspiran \ and even the local political sentiment of u