Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-09
EDITORIAL NOTES
" of all the week the worst.

Day of all the week the worst
 It appears that Mayor Sargent's idea that the city ought to gobble up the Water com pany isn't wholly popular even in the Trades Council.
 'sUncle Sam" can still give many farm. Public lands are still to be had, taking States and Territories containing them in alphabetical order, in Alaska, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Iowa. Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska Nevada. New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming, or in little over half of the States and Territories taken together.
 France is suffering from an overcrowd- ing of the learned profession. The state ment is made that 15, ,0G0 schoolmistresses, 1000 primary schoolmasters and 500 high school instructors are looking in vain for employment There are 27,000 French physicians-that is, about six or seven thousand more than there are in Germany with her 10,000,0O0 more inhabitants. Two thousand lawyers in Paris cannot make livings in their profession. Civil and mining engineers are so numerous that hundreds of them are seeking eagerly petty positions in mines and factories
 Some men are more stubborn than most women. John Bend of Mitchell, Illinois, "got mad" at his mother 27 years ago and went to bed vowing he would never get up | again, and he is there yet. Efforts have been made to start him on several occa- sions by telling him that burglars had broken in or that the house was on fire, but he did not start. Once they filled the house with smoke and apparently aban- doned him to his fate, returning half an | hour later to find John still in bed as calm as ever. At first physicians pronounced him in perfect health, though of late years his health has failed and now he lies with head and body covered, speaking only when spoken to.
 The Boston Courant, the organ of the negro race in that city, wants the presi- dent to appoint man of that blood to succeed MT Windom, and names Blanche K. Bruce, John N. Langston, John R. Lynch, Frederick Doughlass and James M. Townsend as men fit for the position. It argues as follows: "Was not the Hon. Benjamin Harrison elected solely by black was. Even the president himself admits it. In view of these indisputable facts, $ cabinet position is not at all too large { gift for President Harrison to bestow upor the faithful colored Republicans who mad, him the head of the nation" Nothing un certain about this.
 It is very remarkable, says St. Louii clergyman, 'how many parents are in tht habit of naming their children after som, popular hero. This is well illustrated il the case of the late Bishop Marvin, of St Louis. A gentleman in the interior of thu State noticing the frequency of the nam l among Methodist children, inserted re , quest in one of the Church papers that tn, names and address of all persons who hat been named after the Bishop be sent him , He received about 1900 answers, and considering the numbers who probabl.
 saw nothing of the request and those wh'
 saw but paid no attention to it, have n'
 doubt, from the omissions of which hav
 knowledge that between 2,O00 and 800
 boys in this country are named Marvin.
 The "golden rose" is to be given to tn I -c q,
 this gem costs about s2,o00. The rose
 on a branch with leaves and set in silye
 gilded vase, on the sides of which the papa
 emblems are engraved. It is eonsecrate
 thus: The Pope, clad in priestly garment.
 reads the benediction from book held b
 bishop, while two other bishops bea
 tapers. The cardinals surround the Pope