Morning journal and courier., 1889-10-29
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A notable decrease has taken place in the British convict population. In July last the total number in custody under sentence of penal servitude had dropped to 6,405, as compared with ii ,660 twenty years ago. The number of women sentenced to penal servi- tude has fallen very much below even recent years, the number in 1888 being 67, and in 1883, 186. The whole number of women in England and Wales now under sentence of penal servituds is only 402, or less than 8 third of the daily average female convict population of ten years ago.
 A petition for the rsappeintment of Miss Dodge and Mrs. Agnsw on New York's school board is receiving signatures in that city. It presents the great value of their services, the utter lack of any possible objee- tion to them on the score of character, ability or fidelity, and argues that not to appoint them again would be to say that the expsri- ment of women in that position has been a failure. The petition also recites the fsst that the women teachers have found much advantage and comfort in the visits and supervision of the women commissioners.
 Many men of high rank in Europe are en- gagged in trades. Prince Bismarck is an en- thusisstic lumber merchant and paper man. ufacturer. His powder mills are very profit able. The Duke of Fife Is an active partner in London bank. The new King of Portu- gal owns and runs the faience factory at Caldss. .Reinha. The royal manufactory of porcelain at Dresden furnishes a consider able portion of King Albert's private in- come, while the horse. breeding establish ment of the Grand Duke of Meoklenburg- Schwerin places him in the foremost rank of horse dealers in Europe
 A celebrated European specialist fer dis- eases of the throat, nose and ear asserts that tuberculosis is making alarming progress among cigar smokers. He does Tot attribute this to the use of tobacco, but to the manner in which cigars are manufactured. Rolling the tobacco leaf is a craft that requires neith- CT strength nor intelligence, consequently in this branch of the operation it is usual to and diseased, and who, in consequence of their infrEitiss, are economical employees. Most of these suffer from Hcrofula or tubsr. culosis. They cough, and often give the finishing touch to cigar with their lips. Otto, the mad king of Bavaris, is thus de- scribed by one who has seen him at Fursten- ried: Tall and almost as gigantic in stature as his brother, the late King Ludwig, his appearance is sufficient to startle any one who sees him for the first time. His hair is long and unkempt, and his bush brown beard reaches down below his waist. There is kind of wild, weird look in his eyes, the gaze of which remains steadfastly fixed straight ahead into empty space. The only person who can succeed in bringing gleana of intelligence to his face is the sixty-year- old Nme. Marie, who was his nurse when . ohild. She is the only person who is per- mitted to speak to him.
 According to the Pittsburg papers, an agent of Krupp, the German gun maker, has lately been prospecting in that city with .
 view to removing his entire plant to this
 country. Since the death of the elder 1 Krupp, his son has become possessed of the
 idea that fin case of European war his gur
 business would be very improbable, be
 cause, of course, he could sell only to Ger
 many and her allies. A syndicate, says hi
 agent, has offered Krupp million francs fol
 the Essen plant, but the young man think
 he has good thing and it Is wise to keep 1t
 He has high opinion of Pennsylvania be
 cause of its natural advantages for the fro,
 business, and because it is situated in neu
 tral country. But it is not at all probabl
 that Bismarck will let him move.
 ! The great Bear River canal in Utah, fo