Morning journal and courier., 1890-11-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.

1t is reported that the Duke of Portland
recently paid bill of $15O,O0O rendered by
plumber Those who are not plumbers
will think this big bill.
Woman continues to march ON. A
course of lectures on law by women to
women has been begun at the University
of the City of New York. Mrs. Kempin
gave the first lecture.
"One mans money is as good as anoth-
er's." That is the title of bill intro
duced into the Vermont legislature the
other day to correct certain alleged in
equalities in the rates of railroad fares up
in that State.
This is a world of change. Count
Sackendorf is now conductor of an ele-
vator in Cincinnati hotel In addition
to this the Count is defending himself in
suit for $500 brought against him by
baseborn churl who keeps restaurant
and sells baked beans.
Some cats are funnier than other cats.
An English writer tells of two cats which
advanced daily from opposite ends of
long and lofty wall, and, meeting in the
middle, fought with great fury until one
OF both were precipitated to the ground
below. upon which the fight ceased imme-
diately, the combatants remounting the
wall and basking peacefully side by side in
the sunshine.
It takes Hindoo to ham die the English
language. This is the way young Hindoo
clerk recently wrote to his employer
"Most Exalted Sir: 1t is with the most
habitually devout expressions of my sensi-
tive respect that approach the clemency
of your masterful position with the self
dispraising utterance of my esteem, and
the also forgotten-by-myself assurance that
in my own mind shall be freed from the
assumption that am asking objectionable
donations if I asset that desire short
respite from my exertions; indeed, fort
night holiday, as am suffering from three
boils as per margin. I have the honorable
delight of subscribing myself your exalted
reverence's servitor.
1t is charged that a corruption fund has
been raised by the New York importers
and given to the Democrats for use in the
| close congressional districts. 1t is said
that of this amount $4,000 has already
been sent to Ohio to aid in the defeat o1
Major Mckinley; $1,000 more to preven
: x-Governor Foraker from overcoming th'
1900 majority which faces him; $5,00t
goes into each of the four Iowa districts
now represented by Gear, Henderson, Lac,
and Flick; $1,000 each into the four Yves
Virginia districts; the same sum in each o
the four Connecticut districts, and simila
amounts into eight4sf the New York dis
tricts that they consider doubtful
Minister'S son amount to something il
Canada. Charles Tupper, says writer il
the Canadian Presbyterian, is son of th
late Rev. Charles Tupper; Sir Richar
. Cartwright son of the late Rev. RID. Carl
wright; the Hon. ]. j. G. Abbott, leade
of the government in the senate, son o
the late Rev. Joseph Abbott; Judge Stron
, of the supreme court, son of the late Rev
i DR.. Strong; Judge Gwynne, son of th
= late Rev. William Gwynne, D. D.; th
n Hon. William Hume Blake was son c
i the Rev. Dominick Blake; r. N. Hal
y M. P. for Sherbrooke, is a son of the Rev
!. R. v. Hall; J. G. Patterson, M. P. for E.
= sex, son of the Rev. James Patterson; !
r G.. Prior, M. P. for Victoria, B. c., son
q the Rev. Henry Prior; the Hon. w. f
q. Richey, late lieutenant governor of Nov
y. Scotia, son of the Rev. Matthew Richie,
~ Deputy Minister of Justice Sedgwick, sc
" Of the Rev. Ssdgwick; Alfred Selwyn, d