Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-15
EDHTOHkKAL NOTES.

Massachusetts has just sold $900,000 of thirty year bonds on a basis of 2 and 9-1s per cent.
 The latest new word comes from the Cali fornia legislature. It is ''difHequible," mean ing flank attack on a main question by criticising some minor detail
 The emperor of Austria is said to be 8 great worker. He enjoys excellent health, and nothing seems to fatigue him. After heavy nights work he will lie down on sofa and sleep for couple of hours, rising as refreshed physically and intellectually as if he had enjoyed good nights rest. When obliged to travel he makes 1t a point to go the longest stages of his journey at night, and, seated at the table of his saloon car- riage, with the window open at all seasons, he gets through his ordinary routine of work. He rarely puts his signature to any paper of importance without being made thoroughly acquainted with the subject it refers to.
 The St. Stephens Review of London says that if Bismarck thinks that the United States can be insulted with impunity he will find himself mistaken. "Prince Bismarck" ," says the Review, ''no doubt thinks that the Yankee will not dare to take his own part, knowing, as he must do, that the German feet can steam to Sandy Hook in ten days and shell all the towns along the coast from New York to New Orleans, but mayhap it does not enter even into the decaying old ! mans calculations that the tie of blood which l binds these islands to Columbia would never permit German fleet so to operate. It is I just we'll to inform him of this fact, but | if he doubts it let him instruct his secret | agents over here-and there are plenty-to | ask casual hundred of Englishmen the question. He will find at least 90 per cent. I would unhesitatingly reply that before the Kron Prinz could rain it's iron shower on Broadway the Benbow and the Inhexible l would have first to be beneath the waves of l the Atlantic"
 | An improved headlight for locomotives has an adjustment which allows the engineer to conveniently direct the light as he may | desire to various points off the line. The lantern Is supported on frame or platform, l which has movement to right or left about ! 8 vertical axis and also up and down by the same means, the operating mechanism lead- ing back to the cab, so as to be within ready reach of the engineer. He is enabled, by this arrangement, to examine dangerous or doubt full parts of the road and in stormy weather to turn the light upon threatening trees or masses of earth or rock upon either side and which are liable to fall. The device also permits of the lantern being turned so as to throw the light across sharp corners and exhibit the line of track at some distance ahead of the train and at points which would be entirely out of reach of the light in its usual fixed position. According to the usual construc.
 tion and employment of locomotive head
 lights, they are fixed to the engine front ir
 such a manner that the light Is always throwr
 forward and concentrated in one lire only
 this being, of course, an inadequate arrange
 ment in the case of sharp curves.
 The Massachusetts Society for Promoting l Good Citizenship, of which Edward Everet l Hale is president, has issued circular ex plaining the purposes for which it exists ant
 what it's members are expected to do. Tn
 society wishes to encourage a more carefu
 study of American history and institutions
 our constitutions and laws in compariso I with those of other countries. Members 0
 this society, individually or in associatio
 with each other, in simple local organize
 tions, in clubs or classes, are urged to thee
 studies in more systematic and comprehen
 sive manner for themselves, and to promp
 direct and assist such studies on the part
 others. Let them study the town and th town meeting; let them study the city, tt