Morning journal and courier., 1889-08-20
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Boston Medical aud Surgical Journal
denounces the new elixir of life and declares
that the sooner the general public, and espe-
cially the septuagsnarian readers of this latest
sensation, understand that for the physically
used up and worn out there is no secret of
rejuvenation, no elixir of youth, the better
An anti-sewing machine guild has been
formed by the Chinese tailors of Hong Kong.
A Chinaman who had joined "the party of
progress" and had been using the sewing
machine, was recently waited upon by
deputation from the guild and requested to
pay to Its members 80 taels as compensa-
tion for using the "foreign devil.n He re-
fused and was instantly assailed. The police
saved his life, but he is not quite 80 eager
now to use the sewing machine.
What is known as the Scheffsr law went
into effect in Minnesota June l.. By this law
drunkenness is made crime, for the third
commission of which the courts must impose
penalty Of thirty days in the work house.
1t has not been in operation to demonstrate
with absolute certainty Its value, but Judge
Burr, whose court sees most Of the cases for
drunkenness in ST. Paul, says that he is be-
coming impressed With the idea that the law
is good one, working in many cases as a
deterrent.
The dairy business of this country amounts
to something. It is estimated that over 80,
500, ,O0O, 900 is invested in it; that 10 000, ,00O
| tho voatar}a1. that fo foaI
these cows 60, 600, 900 acres Of land is under
cultivation; that 100, 600 men are employed
in the business, and over 1000, 900 horses.
The COWS and horses each year eat 30, ,0G0, 00C
tons of hay, 90,000,00O of corn meal, about
as much oat meal, $40, 900, 900 bushels of oats
100000 bushels of bran and 30,000,00(
bushels of corn. 1t costs $3.50. .000, 900 yeal
the hired help.
DR.. Burney Yeo, who is 40 eminent Eng.
lish medical authority, is very sure tina
change of air is of advantage not more to in.
valids than to people of health. People a
the seaside, in his view, need to go to tn
mountains; people in the country should
seek the seashore; those living in the cit!
must go where man has not interfered will
Gods making of the world. All this is TO
change of air, and, if this is not enough, DR.
| Yeo advises the dweller inland to take voy
age on the open sea- This is the "oceal
cure" and in his opinion is the best thing il
the world for those who need complet
change and renewal of life.
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There are some interesting items on Eng
lands civil pension list. Sir Richard Owe
has had s., 900 a year since 1842, and Lor
Tennyson the same since 1S45. The widoy
of Kitto, the biblical encyclopedist,gets$ $3.50
and the widow of Haydn (of the "Dictionar
of Dates'o 5000. The daughter of Dougla
Jerrold gets $3.50. Mr.. Gerald Massey, be
cause he is "a lyric poet sprung from th
people," gets $500 year; the same sum
awarded to Mr.. William Allingham, Mr.
Oliphant, Mr.. Robert Buchanan, the wido
of George Cattermole, and the Rev. D.
George Macdonald. Faradays niece ge
$3.50, Mr.. Tupper 5000, the widow of Charl
Kingsley s., 200, two ladies directly decende
from Defoe, 1915 each, the widow of Richa,
A. Proctor $500, the sister of Keats $4OO, M
, Philip James Bailey $500, and the daught
of Nelson's adopted daughter 81 500.
IL The returns of the savings banks of Il