Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-06

places of amusement, public baths, imedi- cal assistance and temperance societies.
 The system will perhaps receive trial
 in Massachusetts. A bill providing for 1t
 Is now befors the legislature, and 1t has
 already secured strong support.
 EDITORIAL NOTES.
 Lord Roeebery certainly has tact. One
 day he met the Queen and she began the
 conversation by remarking on the gloom
 iness of the weather. "Your majesty, it
 is always fine where you are," was Rose.
 bery'sreply.
 The times are hard. Two London phy-
 sicians lately advertised in daily paper, offering q, GOO to man who would sub
 init to an experimental surgical operation involving some risk. One hundred and 1 forty two answers were received.
 l One of the cherished possessions of c Chicago man is brief autograph letter written by President Abraham Lincoln in October, 1861, which reads: ''The lady
 bearer of this-ssys che has two sons who want to work. Set them at it if possible. Wanting to work Is so rare merit that 1t 1 should be encouraged"
 Of course there was woman In 1t. It
 WAS two years ago that woman threw . piece of gingerbread at MT. Gladstone,
 hitting him in the eye. The injury thus inflicted was not supposed to be serious at the time, but the results of 1t are now be- l ginning to be manifest.
 Dr. Paul Garnfer, of Paris, has made
 special study of those slum children that
 are the offspring of hsbitual drunkards.
 He says: "Thers Is a flaw in the very na- ture of these young wretches that the psychologist sees clearly and notes with apprehension-the absence of affsotionste emotions, and where they do not become
 lunatics they chow insensibility and pitilessness. ID -.si,9 ,9pts..zl ,t...z In Madrid recently Don Andres Comes, ., dean of the Church, was fogeed with all the ceremonial exactions of the ancient form. After expressing repentance for having been Freemason, he was taken in
 solemn procession, led by priests and friars, to the official residence of the bishop, where his upper garments were taken of.
 As he knels the bishop whipped him with cords over the shoulders, while the priests I chanted "Missrere Mel" Da%k t,. oS hal periencs. About twenty seven years ago he preached in Trinity church, Boston, 8 I sermon in which he used the words, "With such large discourse, looking before and after." and attributed them to Lord Bacon. Going home to luncheon with the Hon. Robert 0. Winthrop, MT. Winthrop re-
 minded him that the passage was Shakes peares, and was to be found in Hamlet" act W, Scene 4. In his recsnt address at
 the Drexel memorial service the bishop en- ployed the same quotation, and again at tributed 1t to Lord Bacon, although he is not diecipie of the theory of the Baconisn
 authorship of Shakespeare's plays. A few days sfterward he received a letter from MT. winthrop, now in his eighty fifth
 year, alluding to the address already men, tioned, and adding: "Bus write now to say that you have ascribed to Bacon the words of Shakespeare, with such large discourse, looking before and after.' They
 are in Hamlet Act W, Scene A." Bishop
 Potter, in letter to "The Ciitic," play fully refers to Bacon's essay on "The Per
 sistenoy of Error," and wonders who will act as his mentor when his venerated friend
 in Boston is no longer spared to him. Some interesting information concern Ing the petroleum fields of India was con-
 tained in paper which Mr. R. D. Old
 ham read in London the other evening,
 before the Indian section of the Society of
 Arts. He said that the operations that
 had been carried on in the provinces of
 Khaltsn, Rohri, Baluohistan. Mogalkol, and Northwest Punjab had, for the moss
 part, been successful, but he had come to the conclusion that e very limited field of
 oil was to be obtained on the western from tier of India. In the east the failure of
 the operations in Upper Assam, where 1
 tho oil springs extended some 100 miles, was due, he thought, to want of skiil on
 the part of the artlicers employed, and au injudicious selection of the sites for
 boring. The workings in the neighbor hood of the Digboi and Bapa pungs were most promising, and he was hopeful of an abundant yield from them. The time was not come when the coal and petroleum fields of Upper Aseam, which were un- surpassed both for quality and quantity in the Indian Empire, could be opened and developed. Petroleum was known to exist on the southern margin of the
 Khssi and Garo hills, but the promise
 was not sufficient to justify the heavy ex ! penditure that would be necessary. The only productive oil field of the empire was in the newly acquired province of Upper Burmah, where the possibilities of the ex-
 pansion of the petroleum industry de- pended largely upon the policy adopted by | fha oovernment