Morning journal and courier., 1894-02-10
EDITORIAL NOTES.


 Rebecca L,chner of New May, Illinois, offers to prove that she is IF years old. Rebsccs may wear petticoats, but she is no woman.
 Thomas Bailey Aldrich was told the oth- CT day that Boston blue-stooking had called him effeminste. "So l am, com pared with her," said the poet.
 The California exposition Is to be sx- tended to the first of August, month be- yond the time originally intended, and the Fourth of July will be made gala occas- sion at the grounds.
 The country in Europe which counts, proportionate;y to its population, the lar- gest number of "abonnes," or regular sub scribsrs for the use of telephones, Is Swift zerland. In 1888 si1ty-one townships, with total of 644 abonnes, had te!ephonic connections; the sbonnement, or subscrip- ton price, was $30. That price was low cred to $16 in 1890, and at the end of June, 1893, there were 154 townships with F, 900 abonnes using the telephones.
 It requires an order from the President of the United States to procure an impress sion of the great seal of state. Collectors of seals and autographs frequently write to the secretary of state for copies of the Seal of state. The same formal reply is sent to all of them-that under the law no impressions of the seal can go out of the department unless they are affixed to off cial papers. The President of the United States could give authority to collector to obtain an impression of the seal, but no President has evsr done so.
 The Elgtn Qlllnois) Board of Trade de- clares that Elgin is the dairy center of the universe. The total product of the terri tory represented at Elein for the year 1893 was 30, 9S6. .525 pounds Of butter, for which $e, ,056 .496 50 cash was received, and G. 3s1. .79S pounds of cheese, valued at $572,- 561.37. The average price for 1893 of but ter was 26 csnts, and of cheese g cents. The total production of thls dairy district for twenty-two years has been 213, 404, 101 pounds of butter and 130, ,3o5, ,445 pounds of cheese. The cash transactions for this period have reached the sum of $64. .567,- ,- 594. The average price of butter for twenty-two years has been 2St cents and of cheese St cents. There are 35S facto- ries represented on the Elgin board.
 After great deal of discussion 1t seems probable that the vexed question of the right of the Cambridge University author ities to arrest and imprison persons not members of the university will be decided soon in the negative. The dons and the municipal authorities have agreed upon 6 bill which will be introduced soon in Psrlis- ment. This provides for repeal In part of the charter of Elizabeth, which gave the university officers control with regard to suspected persons, and in future their jurisdiction will be limited to members of the university, over whom the proctors will still have the powers of police-con stables for the maintenance of discipline. The power of revoking theatrical licenses in future will be vested in the county council and for revoking licenses for other public entertainments in the hands of the licensing justices, both of which powers hitherto have been in the hands of the uni versity authorities.
 The commissioners appointed by Cover nor Russell to investigate the Norwegian and Swedish systems of selling liquor have reported fsvorably on them to the Msssa- setts legislature. They ind that under the Norway system the sales of alcoholic liquors have decreased 40 per cent. They have presented bull for the adoption of this system, which vill not interfere in the least with the no-license system of the state or with the freest exercise of the local option principle. The towns are left free by vote to adopt the system, and 1t Is tc continue in force in towns where adopted three years before another vote Is taken It is provided that the profits of the busi ness above per cent. shall go to such oh jects as industrial education, coffee houees reading rooms. parks, hospitals, public baths and sanitary Improvements.
 Mention is made by Professor Hilton, II his lectures on Rest and Pain," of tn seven varieties of the former obtainable il the treatment of disease, namely: Menta rest, bodily rest, @ combination of thos two, as in that most perfect state of req called sleep; organic rest, as evidenced 1T the avoidance of exertion in csrdis disease, of talking in affections of the re spiratory tract, and in limiting, SO far a possible, the act of deglutition in sfec
 tions ot the alimentsry tract by the sut | stitution of enemats; local rest, as secure
 by the change In the position of body O limb, the use of pillows, cushions. etc
 distetic rest. by avoiding the too frequen
 use of food and drink; lastly, medicine
 rest. in the relief of spssm by inhalation
 and the not too frequent administration c
 medicines to the prejudice of nutrients c
 stimulants. Professor Hilton lays it dow
 as rule that, by a consideration of th
 manner in which these principles of res
 may be best applied in each special case c
 disease, are relief and comfort 10 h
 brought to the sufferer, and diseased at