Morning journal and courier., 1890-06-14
EDITORIAL NOTES. Pepper on strawberries Is the latest.


 A very interesting meeting of the Board of Education last evening.
 The talk absut the South building mon. umsnt to General Grant Is inoreasing. There will not be 6 monument very soon unless the South does take hold of the matter.
 You can overdo almost anything. A Hous- ton (Texas) man caused a card to be inserted in local paper, thanking the undertaken ''for the pleasant and satisfactory manner' in which that fuuctiouary buried his wife.
 An unmarried williamsport (Psnnsylyania) girl says: "I have considerable money of my own. have parrot that can swear and . monkey that chews tobacco, 90 that have no need of husband" It is very evident that she hasn't.
 It is hard to permanently defeat . mule. At Shamekin, Pennsylvania, . burned out shaft of coal mine has been examined. In one of its recesses twelve mules were found alive which had been imprisoned for twenty six days without food or water, and in an atmosphere fit to kill e toad.
 In many towns of Iowa the amount of drinking is much greater than 1t was when the saloons were in full operation. The original package act is really giving better satisfaotion to the old toper than any other plan that has ever been tried. For quar- ter of dollar he gets vial, corked up, which holds about four drinks of the ordina- ry size. He pulls the cork himself and usu- ally swigs down the contents of the bottle be- fore leaving the place.
 A French technical paper gives the follow- ing method for making artificial whetstones: Gslatine of good quality is dissolved in it's own weight of water, the operation being is added 11k per cent. of biohromste of pots ash which has previously been dissolved in a little water. A quantity of very fine emery, equal to nine times the weight of the gela- tine, and is intimately mixed with the gela- tine solution. Pulverized flint may be sub- stituted for emery. The mass is nodded into any desired shape and is then consolidated by heavy pressure. It is dried by exposure to strong sunlight for several hours.
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 There are meaner men in Boston than one might think. It Is related that in the office of a wholesale silk and thread house of Bos. ton, small, half-fed and half-clothsd boy was engaged to do the errands, carry bundles and be the slave generally of the employees for twelve hours each day, at the salary oi g week. He was clean, bright, willing boy, and we'll worth the money he earned The first day he arrived he had no lunch, ant the employees marvellsd te see the proprieto hand the child ten cents, for although he i well.to.do man, charity is not in his line When Saturday night came and the child re csived his pittance, the proprietor told tn bookkeepsr to deduct the ten cents. An officer of the Massachusetts BensA association, reference to which was made | this column the other day. thinks that " treated the company unjustly. He sayi This association is offered Gin the languag of the high officials of Massachusetts) b ''sons of the leading citizens of the common wealth and men of unqusstionable eharacte and integrity, in whom the public have right to place entire confidence" anon them being the Secretary of State of the Con monwealth of Massachusetts. It has not single approved claim due and unpaid, an holds $339, ,000 of legally invested cash snl plus or reserve fund. No claims have bee settled at 90 cents on q.
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