Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-09
EDITORIAL NOTES,

Woman continues to make progress. Miss Miriam Samuels, bright Jewess of Bombay is going to London to study medicine with dia. She has already earned the degree of bachelor of arts at the Bombay university.
 Official notice ought to be taken of the plan proposed by Garden and Forest to prevent the further denudation of the timber lands. It is that until permanent policy can be adopted the sale of timber lands of the Paci- fic and Central States should cease, and the army should be employed to protect the for ests from spoliation.
 In Philadelphia the average number of persons living on an acre of ground is only 13, the number of dwellings per acre 2L, and the number of persons per dwelling G. In New York the number of persons on each acre of space is 52, the num- Der of dwellings per acre 4. and the number of persons per dwelling IS.
 The exact number of persons who cross London bridge in day on foot has been ss- certained. In order to decide guessing competition, in which 36, 900 persons partici- pated, the editors of the London Answers made arrangements with the commissionaire corps, and large staff of men was drafted onto the bridge for the whole twenty four hours of the 23d ult. The result proved that III ,S73 foot passengers were checked, and that in addition 900 vehicles, containing an average of three persons each, crossed.
 Professor Angell, of Michigan university, furnishes the following as test of the pur. ity of water for drinking. Dissolve about half teaspoonful of the purest white sugar in pint bottle completely full of the water to be tested, and tightly stopped; expose it to daylight and @ temperature up to 70 de- grees Fahrenheit. After day or two ex- anime, holding the bottle against something black, for whitish floating specks, which will betray the presence of organic matter in cons siderable proportion"
 Japan has been making astonishing preg- ress since American enterprise in 1854 opened that country to the world; progress that has been startingly rapid since the complete es- tablishment of the Mikado's authority in 1878. The empire has in the ten years follow ing that date acquired one of the best public educational systems, both elementary and advanced, in the world; hundreds of news- papers have been started; complete and cheap postal system has been established; hundreds of miles of railroads and thousands of miles of telsgraphs have been built; all large towns have been equipped with tele- phone systems; cotton mills and other facto- ries have been built up that now outstrip all foreign competition in the home market; the army and navy have been reorganized on the best known models; and the finances oi the nation are as sound as any in the world.
 An English steamer of two or three hun. dred tons burden is reported as having passed through the Panama canal from Aspinwall te Chagres, a distance of about fifteen miles
 but this doesn't amount to much. The DOT
 ton of the canal said to have been traversed
 by this ship is the 50 called sscompleted sec.
 tion," extending from the Atlantic tsrminui at Aspinwan through the low swampy land to the base of the hills. The soil of this sec tion is soft and easily dredged; it's surface il just above the sea level. The dredging wa