Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The French government has warned the tobacconists, all of whom are appointed by the Stats, the tobacco trade being . government monopoly in France, that they must not sell anarchist papers. Nearly all the small tobacconists combine the selling of newspapers with their tobacco business.
 The Union Pacific Railroad company, at Its shops in Portland, Oregon. has adapted . device for cleaning Its cars by compressed air. The apparatus in immediate use is a rubber hose from the nozzle of which can be turned the stream of air in the same manner ss though it was a stream of water, and with this the operator can do better work, and do 1t more rapidly, than with a broom.
 One of the largest collections of rare postage stamps is that left to the British Museum by the late MT. Tspling, member of parliament. It is now being exhibited In installments in the kings library there. The selections now on view include stamps of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Busnos Ayres, Hawaii, New foundland, Vancouver leland and Prince Edward leland. The collection altogsthe. amounts to several hundred thousand eI- smples, ard is valued at $50, 900.
 The society people Of Knoxville recently decided to help the poor, and incidentally to have a good time, by giving biz charity ball. But local Methodist minister be- gan to denounce the scheme in unmeas- ured terms on the ground that dancing was inherently wicked. To silence him the managers of the proposed ball published q card one morning agreeing to call of the affair, provided the minister would deposit $1 900 in 8 bank for charity before II o'clock that day. in which case they would contribute the same amount. The offer was simply bluff, but to the surprise of the managers and the disgust of society the minister complied with the condition. So Knoxville will not have 6 ball, but Its poor people will have 5000.
 England's pension list for the last fiscal year has just been published, aud the fig ureI will sstonlsh our own tsx-ridden citi- zsns. Her last great war-in the Crimsa- antedsted ours by but few years, and she has had the Indian mutiny and many little wars with savsges within forty years. Moreover, she has a large civil pension list. Yet the total amount paid out for all kinds of pensions for the year ending March, 1892, was s7,5ss. .ss2-less than $3S, ,0O0, 900, or about one fifth of what we pay ss the result of our civil war. The pensions for the civil list amounted te s2. 101 ,6S7; for the army, 3.714,67s; fol the navy, q, ,742. SIP, and for the survi vors of former very distinguished maya and military men, f29, ,720. The whole number of recipients of all classes is 162. 040.
 Among the great cole ,tIons of pspyruI scrolls which Brugsch Bey brought to Der. lin from Tsijum in Egypt, Is one, a small brown scroll, the interest in which lies iu the fact that it Is the denial of his faith by Christian. It is 500 ysars old. Azure
 Illus sstrebus, son of Diogsaes, 72 year, old, with e scar over the right eyebrow testihes that be has always sacrificed to the gods, and has done so in the presence ol | the commissioners. Also that he has taker part In the specification of the sacri6cisl
 animals. This assertion Is followed by ths | official verihcation, and is dated: In the | first year of the sutocrst and Emperor Gsjus Ressius Amiuino Trsjsus Derius Put
 Felix Augustus. This was called hbellu' and for all times freed the possessor from
 religious persecution. Sometimes suct
 libelli could te purchased without hsvinl | sacrificed to the gods.