Morning journal and courier., 1894-06-05

be hard to make such an enlargement with the doctors SO numerous and the medical schools so prolific. And the tendency seems to be toward free doctoring for all but those who honestly think the doctor is worthy of his hire, or who are ashamed to tell their neighbors that they don't think SO.
 EDITORIAL NOTES.
 They are serloueiy considering bill in the New Jersey legislature to limit the prop erty a man may bsqaeath to heirs to $1 ,O0O, ,OOO, all above that sum to go to the State.
 Lady Mary Wortley Montague says that Circassian women who are capable of blushing invariably fetch higher price in the seraglio of the sultan than the less sus- ceptible of their sex.
 Don M. Dickinson believes that Presi- dent Cleveland will yet become the most popular man in the United States. 'There was time," says Mr. Dickinson, "when they burned Andrew Jackson in efigy all over this country, and yet two 5ears after that so popular had Jackson become that you couldn't find man who had ever said word against him. That Is tho way 1t will be with Pfeaident Cleveland" Good idea.
 Lawson Tait exonerates the human race from the imputation of being the only creatures that naturally take to drink. Wasps, he says, have the proclivity. MT. Tait has watched the wasps eagerly attack ing overripe fruit, when the sugar has in some degree been converted into alcohol. Around such fruits, especially rotten plums and grapes, the wssps may bs seen strug- eling and fighting for precedence, and af- terward, when they are absolutely drunk with the spirit, they crawl away in 6 tor pid condition and hide themselves in the grass tili they have slept off the orgy.
 Two eminent English physicians, Dr. Warren Lombard and Dr. Vaughan Harley, have recently made an important series of experiments regarding the influence of to- bacco on muscular effort. That influence was not so marked in the experiments of Dr. Harley as in those of Dr. Lombard. The conclusion which Dr. Harley has reached is that moderate smoking, in one accustomed to 1t. neither increases the ca pscity for work nor retards the approach of fatigue; though, in some cases, it may slightly diminish muscular power and hasten the time in which fatigue overcomes the system.
 In Peterboro, New Hampshire, live twin sisters named Elvira and Elmira Fife, who will soon be eighty-thfee years of age. In 8 recent sketch of them it is stated that at the age of fourteen they entered the em- ploy of local manufacturing company. and for sixty years they remained on its payroll. One peculiar thing Is that they have never ridden on a railroad train and they declare they never will. A few years ago few friends wished them to take a ride on the cars and they came 50 near do- ing 1t that they went 10 the depot, but backed out before they got on board. In all their lives they have been separated but seventy. hours at any one interval. They never have entered theatre, and each has always cooked her own meals.
 It Is claimed in New Hampshire that the valued policy law has now vindicated itself beyond the question of the most ob- durate insurance company. Taking the eight years to 1886, or before the valued policy law was enacted, the ratio of losses to premiums received averaged 654 per cent; during the eight years since the ratio has been only 41.7 per cent. Risks written increased $218, ,s36. 400 in the second period over the first, premiums received increased g, ,555, ,135, while losses paid increased only $59, ,S24. So says the insurance commis- sioner in his annual report, just published. He thinks these figures ought to close the mouths of insurance men who are still run ming on the ruinous valued policy law. It will be remembered that all the outside companies left the state when the law was enacted, but they went back again in two or three years.
 The proposal to establish Pssteur In stitute for India, originally made in Bom-
 
 bay, has been followed by public meetings at Madras and elsewhere, and has brought into prominence the double aspect of h. dian benevolence-thatt tenderness towards animal as we'll ss towards human life, which is an essential feature alike of the Buddhist and Brahmanic faiths. The h. dian press is willing, on the whole, to &C., cept the statement that 8 Pasteur Institute would probably save many men and women from horrible death, but 1t expresses fear that the probable saving of human life could only be accomplished at 8 cost of certain suffering and death to multitudes of animals. A curious discussion, on 8 more philosophio basis than that of the anti -vivisectionists, Is going on in India with regard to this view of the case. The immediate result seems to be that the richer Hindus shrink, not only on humani- tartan considerations, ant also on religious grounds. from giving subscriptions in aid of project which otherwise would have had their generous support. Even if the humanitarian arguments for and against such an institute be regarded as fairly balanced, the religious doctrine of the sanetity of life of all sentient beings, they say, still remains.