Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-29
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The nomination of Robert Lincoln was 8 1 surprise, but not an unpleasant one. According to the latest returns, the Duke of Westminster is still the richest man in Great Blitain, his fortune being set down at $sO, ,000,0O The United States is far ahead of England in the matter of big fortunes. The big raft that is to float from Puget Sound to San Francisco will be made of long CT logs than were ever put into 8 raft on At lantic waters. It will have but 5000 logs, as against the 25, 900 in the big Joegins raft of last year, but none will be less than 100 feet long. and the great size of the sticks, it is thought, will bring the amount of lumber up to the amount of the eastern raft.
 A farmer in Kern county, California, who has been experimenting with Japanese buckwheat, reports that in all respects it is far superior to the American buckwheat. It produces twices the number of pounds to the acre, makes remarkably fine cakes, can be sown at any time, and he thinks will prove far more profitable than wheat to the farmers of California if they can be induced to make trial of it.
 teacher in a western school who asked one of her pupils to procure grammar, received the following note from the girls mother: ''I do net desire that Mattie shall ingage in grammar as prefer her to ingage in more yousful studies and can learn her to speak and write proper. I have went through two grammars and can't say they did me no good-I prefer Mattie to ingsge in German and drawing and vokal music on the piano.
 The Scotch-Irish congress which is to be held at Columbia, Tenn, April IS, is ex- pected to bring together large number of representatives of this very strong element of our population. The Scotch-Irish settled the Carolinas, and from those States moved westward and became the pioneers of Ken lucky and Tennessee. They were the au- thors of the Meoklenburg declaration of year before the Immortal declaration" and were among the sturdiest soldiers of the revolution.
 Woman is handy with drugs. There are at present some two thousand women em- ployed in drug stores throughout the coun- try. When the Women's School of Pharms- cy was first organized in Louisville there were but two women engaged in the busi ness, and both of these were in the labora- tory of one of the professors. During the last term more applications tor graduates to fill responsible positions in drug stores or laboratories of manufacturing chemists have been received at the Louisville school than the total number which the school has graduated since it's commencement.
 The Oklahoma proclamation opens to set- clement about 6,00O, ,000 acres of land ceded by the Greek and Seminole tribes of the In- dian territory to the United States. There are about 5000, 900 acres in the Cherokee outlet, which belong to the Cherokee tribe. and the act of Congress this spring which opened the Seminole lands provides for @ commission to agree with the Cherokees on terms for the purchase of this land also. Be- sides there are some Il ,0OO, ,00O acres more held by various tribes whose titles would have been extinguished under the Oklahoma bill, but which are untouched by the last act of Congress, and are not considered in it's provisions.
 The weakest spot in the last administra- tion of the postoffce was the railroad mail service. It is said to be the purpose of the postmaster general and of the President, so far as is possible, to restore te their old places the body of the rank and file of the