Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-01
EnITOKIAL nlTES.

An indication of the growth of the mor- phine craze is given by 8 Portland Me. manufacturer, who has made and sold 25, 900 hypodermic needles since 1S86
 The recent railroad accident has aroused Maine travellers to the dangers of their sys- tenn of car heating. A big petition has been sent to the legislature asking for legislation to compel steam heating.
 Some of the correspondents at Washington are announcing that there IS much less in- terest there in the president-eleet and his family than one would suppose. This Is sad. but they will grow more and more interest ing, we suppose.
 The other day a teacher in Boston school showed little girl picture of fan and asked her what it was. The little girl didn't appear to know. "What does your mother do to keep cool in the hot weather" asked the teacher. "Drink beer," was the prompt reply of the little girl.
 Professor A. Graham Bell has recently written letter to the Census committee ot the United States senate in which he gives statistical proof, deduced from the census of 1880, that the defective classes in this coun- try increased about four hundred per cent. in the previous thirty years, while the gen eral population has simply doubled. This is not a very cheerful showing.
 The province of South Australia has, it is | said, passed what amounts to the land-tax law advocated by Henry George. Town
 
 l and all improvements in the colony are ex- empted Much of the land in the province | is held unimp1oved by spectators and a great commotion is imminent over the / change. The experiment will be watched I with great interest in all civilized countries. l Woman is making her way. The records 1 of the Association of Collegiate Alumna show of the 524 members Il physicians, journalists, 8 authors, 8 librarians,5 5 lawyers, 3 artists, 3 printers, 3 each of school prin- cipals, musicians, elocutionists and private secretaries, and one each of lecturer ,cheplist Others are engaged in bookkeeping, dairy farming, stock raising, insurance, biolog! the drama, and one is the editor of an agri cultural paper.
 l The London Electrical Review says tha l portions of the Channel cable laid in 1855. have been lately recovered "with the irol wires so slightly corroded as practically t. have lost but little of their original strength. Yet this was not protected by a compound O outer coating, such as that with which oceal cables laid in recent years have been served ! The galvanized wires of the section Punt Rassa-K Key West cable of 1875 were found be almost If not fully as perfect as on the da l the cable was submerged.
 A committee of the California senate ha reported favorably bill requiring all good made in the State to be stamped with tn name Of the manufacturer, date of manufac turer and the kind of labor employed in tn production. The Alta California says: Th pernicious measurer is @ relic of the las legislature, which passed it only to have
 killed by Governor Bartlett. There ought be courage and independence enough in tt senate to save the executive the trouble
 killing this bill 8 second time. It is piet
 of demagogue legislation which self-respec
 ing men ought to be ashamed to enact It
 not demanded by anybody except set
 mouthing, self-styled slabor agitators, WI
 are trading on the anti Chinese sentimel
 for the purpose of playing sort of conf
 dence game on genuine workingmen.