EDITORIAL NOTES. 



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The North American Revieiv for May con- 

 tains several valuable contributions by distin- 

 guished writers; notably Party Schisms and 

 Future Problems, by Hon. Carl Schurtz ; 

 Days with Longfellow, by Samuel Ward; 

 The Navy, by Lieut. Commander Gorringe; 

 The Spent Bullet, by Gail Hamilton. That 

 last named has probably attracted as much 

 attention as any of them though by no means 

 the most deserving. It is a ''smart" spe- 

 cious, womanish essay, but as a just, critical 

 review of President Garfield's case it is 

 not entitled to any consideration. Its state- 

 ments of fact are unfair and garbled; even 

 the conclusions drawn from them, as stated, 

 are illogical and unwarranted ; the handling 

 of the scientific questions involved is utterly 

 unscientific; the discussion of the religious 

 points is flippant and irreverent. 



Two murderers, named respectively Baber 

 and Ward, were hung in St. Louis a short 

 time ago. Immediately after the drop the 

 pulse of each was counted up to the moment 

 of death, with the following result ; Ward's 

 pulse was forty for the first minute. The 

 third minute it was fifty-seven. After that 

 there was a gradual decline, and in five 

 and a half minutes the pulse ceased to beat. 

 For the first half minute Baber's pulse was 

 normal, the next half it was thirty per min- 

 ute. The second minute there was thirty- 

 six strokes ; third, sixty ; fourth, seventy ; 

 fifth, seventy-six; sixth, fifty-eight; seventh, 

 seventy ; eighth, sixty-eight ; ninth, forty- 

 six ; tenth, forty-eight. At the close of the 

 eleventh minute his pulse ceased. 



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