Morning journal and courier., 1889-07-04
EDITOHIAL NOTES. The drought is broken.

There are other lucrative professions than base ball The testimony of Charles Wood, an English jockey,in . recent lawsuit brought out the information that he had earned more that s7O, ,oO0 a year.
 Recent experiments at the es- hospital In London indicate that stammering is not . nervous defect only. h operations for deaf ness in several cases the patients were cured of stammering also, and the result ,s the opinion that stammsripg comes from some defect in the hearing.
 Lawyers are tough. The woman who died in Pommona, California, a few weeks since, having had six husbands, selected each one from . different profession. The first was teacher, the second pork packer, the third an army officer, the fourth a preacher, the fifth sugar planter, and the sixth lawyer, who survives her.
 Coal gas Is tho latest agent for capital pun ishment suggested. ''It can be applied in any ordinary cell with no special apparatus, and while the criminal is sleeping. Under | It's influence perfectly quiet lapse into pn- consciousness ensues, the last memory of events being clear and unolouded. Above l all, 1t Is certain to effect its end"
 The London and Northwestern railroad company has just issued new regulation whereby every person in the employ of the company, from the general manager down to the very humblsst greaser, Is entitled to an l annual holiday of eight days on full pay. The other English companies are about to follow suit, and doubtless their good exam pie will not be followed in this country. This is a hard world, even for the chinch bug. Professor Snow of the Kansas univer- sity states that disease has attacked the chinoh bugs. and is thinning them out rapid ly. The disease consists of white fungus, though some entomologists call 1t the chipch bug cholera. It is very contagious and boxes of dead bugs have been sent to various parts l of tho West afflicted with the bugs and 1t thins them out every time.
 | An order has been offered in the Boston city council directing tho school committee to consider and report upon the feasibility and
 oest of providing an advanced grade of edu.
 cation in connection with the public school system, embracing the curriculum of aca
 demic studies, as taught at Harvard Univer
 sity. Action on the order was deferred te
 September, 50 that 1t will not be known fol
 some time what the council and the sohoo
 committee think about 1t. The corporatio,
 counsel has lately given an opinion that ther
 Is no legal obstacle.
 A Tennessee judge "talked sense" in tn
 noted case of J. 0. Lawrence, negro elected
 to the Knoxville board of education, wh
 sued to compel recognition at the hands o
 four white members of the board. Chancel
 Tor Gibson of the Knox county chancer
 court informs these bourbons that s'our law
 are now blind to the color of mans skir , In Tennessee man must show other title , to pre-eminence than that which results fror , comparison of cutioles. The higher lav
 on which the defendants rely in their answs
 may be appealed to on the musings, but th courts are bound by the law of the lani
 which is the highest law"
 It has been thought that birds become a' lcustomed to the presence of telegraph wire