Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-23
EDITOIsIAL N,,TES.

Michigan has never paid Ter governor but
 S1, 900 year, and she has managed to get
 pretty good governors for that salary. But
 proposition to raise the pay to S4,OOO
 will be voted upon at the coming State cleo
 tion in April.
 Fifty-four out of sixty-three Massachusetts
 lawyers questioned by the Boston Transcript
 avow themselves opposed to the pending
 constitutional amendment prohibiting the
 manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors
 up there. Six out of eight Massachusetts
 college presidents, q out of 26 Massachu-
 setts physicians, and g out of 67 Massachu-
 setts clergymen, feel the same way.
 bright youth, undergoing examination
 few days since for admission to one of the
 government departments, found himself con-
 fronted with the question, "What is the
 distance from the earth to the suna' Not
 having the exact number of miles with
 him, he wrote in reply: "I am unable to
 is near enough to interfere with proper
 performance of my duties if get this clerk ship."
 A "bill clerk" seems to be sadly needed
 in the Nebraska legislature. A bill has been
 passed which provides that it shall be un-
 lawful for any person to fire off or discharge any pistol, revolver, shotgun, rife or any firearms whatsoever on any public road or highway in any county of the State of Ne-
 braska, or within sixty yards of such public road or highway, except to destroy some wild, ferocious and dangerous beast, or an officer in the discharge of his duty. The English have lately been getting g hold in Mexico. The Mexican Central rail- road has become substantially an English corporation. The control of the National railroad is already in the hands of the Eng fish, and the Inter Oceanic railroad, formerly Mexican property, is now owned in Lon don. The English have also made heavy purchases of vast tracts of land in the border States, and it is British money that is to i'm. prove the harbor of Tampico and complete the railroad from that place to San Luis Potesi.
 Lord Wolseley has been writing an essay upon the English swords, that proved in re. cent battles in the Soudan to be no bette, than sticks, bending and breaking under the most ordinary strain. He says that the pres ent style of sword is too light by two or three ounces, and too thin in the fuller" but he l thinks that one main trouble has been that the weapons were weakened by the tests to which they had to be submitted before ac- ceptance. and he sagely suggests that it might be better to accept the swords without test ing them.
 The proposed salt trust has big work to undertake. Although it may have $25, ,O00,. 900 of capital, it cannot control all the salt in the world nor even in this country. A remarkable vein of rock salt was discovered in 1887, at Hutchinson. Kansas, and eight large companies are already at work there !! and several more in other localities, and the product has captured the Kansas City market and promises to supply the whole West. This salt vein is 300 miles long, twenty-five miles wide and 400 feet thick and consists of the purest quality of rock salt.
 The city of Joliet, in Illinois, furnishes @ good example of the effectiveness of high l license. Seven years ago it had 127 saloons
 for population of 15,000, and the license l fees, being $25 each. amounted to $3,175. Under the high license law the fee was raised 1 to $1 ,000. This closed more than one-balf
 the saloons, leaving only ffty-fve. The | largely increased tax they pay supports the
 police, the fremen, all the city officers and the cost of lighting and cleaning the streets.
 Having now population of about 30, 1000, the people of the town are considering the l advisability of raising the fee to the enor