Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-13
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Eight States now have ballot reform laws. They are Massachusetts, Indiana, Montana, Rhode leland, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Minne- sota and Missouri. Connecticut will have one soon.
 And now the peach raisers of Delaware are afraid that they are going to have so many peaches that they cannot sell them profta- bly,. This isn't the usual story, but the peo- pie can get along very comfortably with peaches cheap.
 In discussing the relation of England's power to the world at large, Sir George Ba- den Powell recently remarked in public that "st least 80 per cent. of the coaling stations of the world could be in our hands, and that secured, the enemy would be power less."
 Some of those who opposed biennial ses- sions of the legislature in this State are pointing to the present performance ss 8 good argument for return to the old plan. It does seem that we haven't gained much yet, but it is consoling to think that there will not be another session for two years. But a painful thought presents itself. It may be that this legislature will not adjourn until the next gets ready to work.
 What we'll directed training schools car accomplish is illustrated in the case of ths dairy schools of Denmark. The government has for years spent over $50,000 yearly fol the maintenance of dairy schools. The re suit has been an immense improvement 1T dairy products and lively demand for Dan ish butter. Within twenty years Denmark'i exports of butter have increased from $2, 100, 900 to 13,O0O, GOO per snnum. Sportsmen in India are attacking set ot rules lately promulgated by the chief com missioner of the central provinces, the effec of which is to put practically prohibitivs tax on big game shooting in that part of tht peninsula. The central provinces contair many thousand square miles of forest land which have been the happy hunting ground of the Anglo-Indians. The result is tha tigers, partners and other beasts have beer getting scarce, and the local officials have de terminsd to "preservs" the game for thei own amusement.
 4ulQRS DeCOIn0 NdluAOlS "ucu eu0y oA' needed. Now that lumber is scarce and higl as compared with the times when the Wes 1 was new country, a singular change ha l come over the value of the cottonwood whicl grows in dense thickets along the Mississippi | and Ohio bottoms. Formerly it was uset | only for steamboat fuel, and very poor fue it was, too, but the discovery that it was tn best possible wood for grain barges, craoke boxes and fruit barrels has sent up it's val1 | till it sells at New Orleans for $65 per thou sand, while white pine sells for $35.
 For the last ten years Holsters have cor
 tinually decreased in size and number fror
 over fishing. An effort is to be made b New York and Massachusetts fish commis
 sioners to increase the supply by artifcis
 means. Matching of Holsters by srti6eis
 means has never before been attempted on
 large scale, and the experiment. will be
 great interest not only to lnarketmen an
 consumers, but also to ichthyoloe,ists. I'll
 matching apparatus is constructed so that tl
 motion of the tides is initiated by the wat
 in the matching box. the slightly rolling m
 tion thus communicated to the eggs beiI
 necessary to their matching. The Massach
 sstts commissioners expect to turn out AC