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Arul so tin* Filipinos fret insult. < ! They
have grown thin-aklnned. Should Uncle,
Sam once tan their hides I hoy would prob
ably not be so sensitive.
This paragraph from the Philadelphia
Ledger should be pasted in every parent’s
hat: "If every family had a curfew law
of its own, no town would need one."
Gen. Miles continues to talk. Hasn’t the
case of Eagan proved a warning to him?
Or is he courting a courtmartial? What
ever it may be, clearly he does not mean
that that embalmed beef shall be buried.
Gov. Stanley of Kansas says: "When 1
find a law on the statute books I shall
©bey it." If Gov. Stanley attempts to
obey all of the laws that he could find
on the Kansas statute )>ook.s If he were
to look for them, he would be in the asy
lum in less than six months.
A bill has been introduced In the New
York legislature having for its purpose
the keeping down of the flood of private,
local, obnoxious and unneeded legislation
which now retards the public business at
every session. One very simple and good
way to abate the nuisance would be to
abolish annual and institute biennial ses
sions.
Comment in newspaper headlines will not
•‘go" In Boston hereafter. The Herald of
that city has been fined SSOO by the Supe
rior Court for printing "Gilt is Evident"
ns a headline over a report of a case at
the time pending in the court. Comments
In headlines, by the way, Is a matter
■which should be regulated in the office. It
is not the l>est jouraiism to express opin
ion elsewhere than in the editorial col
umns.
Charleston is to try the experiment of
shipping cattle to Cuba. We hope it will
be successful. There ought to be room for
a business of that sort, and there are pq
doubt hundreds of good cattle on the mea
dows and in the canebrakes of Lower Caro
lina that would fetch fair prices in Cuba.
Every movement of the kind is calculated
to increase inu rest in cattle raising in
this low country, and hence do good to
the whole section.
U the camp at Greenville, S. C., is to be
abandoned, the troops there should not
bo sent to Augusta, because that city "is
near to Charleston and Savannah." but
they should be sent direct to Savannah.
Besides having superior camping grounds,
ready at a moment s notice for the occu
pancy of troops. Savannah Is some miles
nearer to Charleston than Augusta Is, if
it should be deemed advisable to ship the
troops from that point.
Where does the money come from with
which the expenses of Agon oi!.o and his
party are paid? A wild rumor that An
drew Carnegie was furnishing it was cur
rent in Washington a few days ago. This,
however, is emphatically denied, and the
statement is made that Agoncillo gets Jus
money from the $400,000 fund which Spain
tome time ago paid Aguinaldo and his fol
lowers us a bribe to give up the rebellion
and leave the country. Meantime, Agon
cillo is quoted as having sakS that "an
American millionaire" had offered to let
him have money, hut he had declined th<*
Offer because the Filipinos did not wish to
U under obligations to any on<*
THE BILL OF THE HOI VTY BEG
GARS.
The minority report on the Hanna-Paync
shi[>ping bill, a synopsis of which was
published in our dispatches yesterday,
ought to be sufficient to kill it outright.
If the bill should become a law, and the
statement made by th<* minority of the
lommttee which reported it is correct, the
treasury would be heavily burdened be
fore the end of the term for which boun
ties are provided and there would have to
be an enormous increase in the revenue
of the government. According to this
statement the bounties would amount to
$1115,000,000 on contracts that would be
made within twelve months after the pas
sage of the bill and the ships which
would have to bo built would increase the
aggregate of the bounties to at least $400,-
000,000. It is also asserted that the most of
this money would go into the pockets of
one company, the International Naviga
tion Company. It seems that the bill was
drawn by those who would be benefltted
by it. It is therefore just what they want.
They have not been at all modest in their
demands.
But there is another objection to the bill
which is even more serious than that
which has been pointed out in the minor
ity report, and that is that it would be
a heavy burden on the farmers of the
country, it is claimed by the trade bodies,
especially those of the West, that it would
cause a very decided Increase in the ocean
freight rates until such a time as all the
ships contemplated in the bill were built.
The increase in the ocean rate would have
to be paid by the producers of wheat, cot
ton and provisions. And if the ocean
freight rate were increased the prices of
these articles in the home market would
lx? lowered to the extent of the increase,
because the foreign market controls prices
in the domestic market. It appears there
fore that the hiil is an attempt to build
up the shipping interest and the manu
facturing interest at the expense of the
agricultural interest.
The prices of farm products are now so
low that farming in most sections of the
country is unprofitable. In the South the
low price of cotton is making it difficult
for the farmers to provide for their fam
ilies and pay their taxes. As agriculture
is the foundation of our prosperity our
first duty is to take care of the interests
of the farmers. We certainly cannot af
ford to put heavier burdens on them, with
the view of helping the ship-builders and
manufacturers.
It is alleged that England has built up
her commercial interests by the bounty
system, but those who make that state
ment forget that England is an Importer
of agricultural products, not an exporter
of them. That fact makes a vast differ
ence in the discussion of this question of
bounties for the ship-building interest.
The people of this country are not at all
partial to the bounty system for the pro
motion *of any interest. The paying of
bounties to the sugar planters of Louisi
ana was so strongly condemned that Con
gress was forced to repeal the sugar boun
ty law. In the face of the experience the
country had with that law it is hardly
probable that the people would approve
bounties of nearly $20,000,000 a year for the
ship-building interest.
We are regarded as the most enterpris
ing people in the world and it would be
strange indeed if we could not build up a
merchant marine sufficient to carry our
own products to market and bring back
to us what we want from other countries
as cheaply as this carrying could be done
by the ships of other countries, and that
too without the assistance of their re
spective governments. It ought to be pos
sible to build ships in this country as
cheaply as they can be built elsewhere.
We have the materials, which can be* pur
chased in our market at less cost than
they ran be had in any other country.
We build locomotives for the whole world.
Why is it that we are so far behind in
ship-building? It seems to us that if we
were to reform our antequated naviga
tion laws it would not be long before our
ship-builders would discover that they
could build ships as cheaply as they can
be built in England, Germany or any other
country. It is pretty certain that Con
gress will not approve the Hanna-Payne
bill, at least not in its present shape.
GOMEZ’S AIIStRI) HEM AMIS.
If Gomez succeeds in getting any money
out of the United States for himself and
his army he will have to modify his absurd
demands greatly. He wants ul>out $57,000,-
000 distributed among his officers and men.
He says that his army is 40,000 strong, and
that it must be paid for three years’ serv
ice at the rate which officers and men of
the army of the United States are paid.
If the demands of Gomez were com
plied with the men of his army would have
more money than they have had in all
their lives Not only that, but they would
conclude that soldiering is such profitable
business that it would be difficult to keep
them from getting up another insurrec
tion in the hope of again being bought off.
The only way to get along with Gomez
and those who are supporting his absurd
demantis is to deal firmly with him. It
would serve him right to refuse to give
him and his men a cent. If they are the
patriots they pretend to be they would be
satisfied with having obtained the freedom
of the island from the yoke of Spain. The
United States are under no obligation to
pay him and his soldiers the wages they
claim are due them. The people of this
country have already suffered and spent
enough in behalf of the Cubans. It is pre-
I>osterous to even seriously consider the
proposition of distributing pretty nearly
$60,000,000 among an army that did com
paratively nothing towards driving the
Spaniards out of Cuba. The whole cus
toms receipts of the island will not amount
to much more than that suip in the next
five years. If this country advances $3,000,-
000 for Gomez’s soldiers they ought to con
sider themselves fortunate. It will lake u
number of years for Cuba to pay back that
sum. If we remain In the Island until all
of Cuba’s debt to us Is paid we shall be
there longer than England has been in
Egypt—sixteen years.
It seems to be the opinion in Washington
that Gen. Eagan will not be dismissed
from the army, as a result of the recent
court-martial, but that the President, in
response to a numerously signed petition
for clemency, will make the sentence sus
pension from duty until the time of Gen.
Eagan's retirement in 1903.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1890.
GEORGIA'S GOLD MINES.
The rapid increase in the production of
gold within the last two or three years
has drawn attention to the go!d fields
of this state. The owners of go.d-bearltig
lands in the vicinity of Gainesville are
organizing with the view of having their
lands prospected and their mines worked,
and in other parts of the state where
there Is known to be gold there is activity
among those owning the lands and among
prospectors.
Gov. N'orthen has been doing good work
for several months in the direction of
having the gold fields of the state
worked. He has succeeded in get
t.ng some mining experts from Colorado
to visit the gold-bearing sections, and
these experts are well pleased with what
they have seen. They are so well pleased
that they say that all that is needed to
develop the gold mines of Georgia is a
conveniently located smelter. It is given
out that they are taking steps to
establish a smelting plant at some point
convenient to the mines. It is their opin
ion that just as soon as there is a mar
ket for the ore there will be great ac
tivity in gold mining in all parts of the
state where it is known that gold is to
be found in paying quantities.
Some of the ore is of a high grade—
so high, in fact, that it compares favor
ably with the best grade of ores found in
Colorado. The most of the ore. however,
Is of a iow grade. To mine it, therefore,
with profit the railroads to which it is
tributary will have to carry it to the smel
ter at a tow rate of freight. Ex-Gov.
N’orthen is now in correspondence with the
railroads with tne view of finding out
whether they are willing to encourage the
movement to open up these mines of low
grade ores. On the railroads will depend
to some extent the success of the move
ment to put Georgia in a high place
among the gold-producing states.
Just now there is a great deal of ex
citement among the gold hunters of Colo
rado on account of a big strike that has
been made in that state in the Isabella
mine. If the stories of the strike are
true the Isabel.a mine promises to become
one of the richest gold mines in this coun
try. If the efforts of ex-Gov. Northen
to open the mines of this state are suc
cessful we may be having news of big gold
strikes here in Georgia, which will be no
less exciting than that which comes from
Colorado once in a while.
WHY NOT A SHIP YARD!
The thought thrown out by Vice Presi
dent Egan of the Central of Georgia Rail
way, namely, that steps ought to be taken
by the business men of this city to es
tablish a ship yard here, is well worth
careful consideration. There ought to be
a ship yard on the South Atlantic coast,
and there Is no other South Atlantic port
which has the advantages which this has.
The harbor has a depth greater than that
of any other of the South Atlantic harbors
except Port Royal, and it is pretty certain
that the project for a twenty-eight foot
channel will receive the approval of Con
gress in the river and harbor bill of next
year.
This port is in touch with the coal mines
and iron and steel mills of Alabama,
where Iron and steel are made at a less
cost than elsewhere in the world. Lum
ber of nearly all kinds is within easy
reach, and a site for a shipbuilding plant
can be found without trouble. The navy
yard, which was established at Port Roy
al, should have been located here, and
would have been probably if greater ex
ertions had been made to secure it. That
is a matter of the past, however, and
nothing is to be gained by calling attention
to it, except to remind our business men
that if we are to have industries here we
must work persistently and intelligently
for them.
Mr. Egan calls attention to the advan
tages which exist here for a ship yard.
It is probable that he has given the ques
tion of having such an industry here con
siderable thought. It seems to us that
our business men should get together and
have a talk with him about the matter.
No doubt he has some practical sugges
tions to make. It would do no harm to
have an interchange of views as to the
chances of influencing capitalists to put
money in a ship building Industry here.
If we make no move ourselves to bring
industries to our city, it is pretty certain
that outsiders will not.
The Sampson-Schley controversy- is to be
transferred to the Court of Claims. Some
of the sailors of the fleet want their “head
money.” How much they are entitled to
depends upon whether or not the New
York, with Admiral Sampson on board,
was in the fight. With the New York and
Sampson out of It, and the land
batteries taken into consideration,
the American forces were not as
large as the Spanish. Under such
circumstances the victorious fleet
would tie entitled to S2OO per head for every
man on the Spanish ships. With the New
York out of it,.too, there would be fewer
men to participate in the division, hence
individual shares would be larger. It Is
understood that a test case will come be
fore the Court of Appeals shortly, and that
voluminous testimony will be taken to
show that the New York was not In the
fight and is therefore not entitled to any
part of the prize money; and as a matter
of course there will be quite as much testi
mony on the other side. Thus it is ex
pected that a Judicial opinion as to who
was the tiero of Santiago will be secured.
Some idea of the actual cash value of
a great metropolitan daily newspaper may
shortly be ascertained, from the sale of the
Philadelphia Record. The sale has been
ordered, for the benefit of the creditors
of the late William M. Singerly, Includ
ing the depositors of the Chestnut Street
Bank, There are outstanding equities of
about $1,000,000 in the Record pro|ierty
Whatever amount beyond that sum shall
be realized from the sale will be applied
to the payment of the depositors of the
bank. In order for the depositors to be
paid dollar for dol.ar, it will be necessary
for the Record to fetch about $1,600,000. It
is predicted that even mote than that will
be received. Some time ago an expert said
that the capitalization of the paper could
be safely made $4,000,000. The earnings
of the Record for 1897 were stated to be
$343,000, which is 6 per cent, on more than
$5,500,000.
In the summer of 1895 the Zamorra regi
ment. recruited in Corunna, Spain, sailed
for Cuba 1,400 strong. It included many
young men of the best families, and all
of its members were strong and healthy.
Last week the Zamorra regiment arrived
in Spain from Cuba. Of the original 1.4“’
billy 300 were alsve, and a number of these
were ill and weak. This is the sort of
thing that stares the American people in
the face when there is talk of holding and
governing tropical colonies.
PERSONAL.
—A professional antiliquor member of
the New South Wales Legislature is Mr.
Fegan, who in the course of a recent
speech in the legislative assembly said:
"Whisky makes men genial for a time.”
adding that this effect soon wore oft and
reft the drinker in a worse mood than
ever. The official report next day- made
him say: "Whisky makes me genial for
a time.” and Mr. Fegan was subjected to
so much chaff as a consequence that he
almost resigned his seat.
—Claude A. Swanson, member of Con
gress from the Fifth Virginia district,
owes the retention of his seat to the popu
.arity of his wife. The committee on con
tested elections the other day reported in
lavor of seating the Republican contest
ant. but the House, by a vote of 79 yeas
to 138 nays refused to adopt the report.
Mrs. Swanson is a great favorite with the
wives of congressman and the women made
it their business to see that their hus
bands did not vote against the husband
of their charming associate.
—lt was known before his death that
the Swiss poet, Constantin Ferdinand Mey
er, was a man in easy circumstances; for
some y ears he paid taxes on 1.137,000 francs
but last year the valuation of his estate
was raised to 1,190,000 francs on the ground
that, it must have increased largely, owing
to his quiet and retired life. The aged
pcot protested, however, and the valuation
was left at Its old figure till he died. The
official schedule, however, shows that he
possessed a much greater property than
the assessor’s estimate. Under the Swiss
law half the sum concealed is forfeited.
—Sir William Vernon Harcourt is very
absent-minded. Going to a dinner on a
Monday night, he noticed a look of sur
prise on the faces of his host and hostess,
but thought no more about It, and spent
a pleasant evening. On Tuesday, Wednes
day and Thursday he attended dinners
at other houses vith the same result, and
on Friday, while keeping the list of his
engagements for the week, which were
marked down in his book, he found that
the butler who had to announce him was
an old acquaintance—had formerly been
in his service. Tie man, however, started
back and gazed at him open-mouthed.
“What's the matter, John?” asked the
statesman. “Didn't you expect me to din
ner?” “Yet, Sir William,” explained the
butler, "blit It wasn't to-night. It was
for Friday of next week." Investigation
of the engagement book explained the
mystery. (Each page noted a week’s en
gagements. Sir William, in his haste, had
turned over two pages and had thus been
keeping engagements which only fell due
a week latei
/BRIGHT HITS.
—Out of Place.—Mabel—l'll never invite
Fan Billiwiik to a box party at the theater
again as lo|g as I live! Never!
Maud—Doesn’t she know how to behave?
Mabel — t.V She kp= sayjug: 11,,„i, ’
I want tibear the play.”—Chicago Tri
bune.
—“Wh I reckon up what it costs me
for amnunitlon, the clothes I ruin tramp
ing arouid, and what I lose by neglecting
my busijess every bird I shoot costs me
$5.” “Thm it's lucky for you that you only
hit one h ten; if you were a better shot
you’d baikrupt yourself.”
—Makiig Allowances.—" Don’t you ad
mire Wtgner?” asked the young woman
who is fnd of music. "Yes,” answered the
young nan with wide ears, “he was all
right fo- his day, but we can't form a
fair estimate of what he might have done
if he had had the chance. Rag-time wasn’t
invented when he wrote.”—Washington
Star.
—“I dtn’t see,” said Mr. Mulberry, “why
you women have that Mrs. We**-*—- s n
your literary club. The rest of you are
bright enough, but she’s dull as dull can
be.” "It's this way,” answered Mrs. Mul
berry: Mrs. Watkin’s great-grandmoth
er's half-sister’s second cousin by mar
riage could trace her descent from Chau
cer. So you see, after all, with such lit
erary claims, wo couldn't very well leave
Mrs. Watkins out.”—Har(*er’s Bazar.
—A Baltimore woman took her little girl
to Sunday school last Sunday. When all
the children marched up the aisle singing
a processional the four-year-old followed
and sang with much unction, although the
mother was sure the child had never
•heard the hymn before. After service the
mother asked her how she enjoyed It.
“Oh, I liked it ever so much,” the child
said.
"What were you singing? You didn't
know the hymn, did you?”
"Oh, no, ma'am, I didn’t know the one
they were singing, but I wanted to sing,
too. so X sang ’A Hot Time in the Old
Town To-night.’ ’’—New York Tribune.
CURRENT COMMENT.
“Good Lord, deliver us!" is the frame of
mind of the Nashville American (Dem.)
when it contemplates the wild rush of
the New York brokers to buy and sell
stocks. The American says; . “We do
not mean to say there is no use of stock
exchanges and brokers. They are both
very necessary and very legitimate insti
tutions, and both have an honorable field
of operation. What we object to is the
speculation, the gambling, for it is noth
ing else which attends them. It is a hol
low mockery, a delusion and a snare, and
we sincerely hope and pray Nashville will
not become afflicted with it.”
The Cleveland Plain Dealer (Dem.) thus
comments on one of the "new companies:”
“The zinc trust reported to have been or
ganized a few days ago is declared by its
organizer not to be a ’trust,’ hut merely
anew zinc company, ‘into which several
concerns now established will be merged.’
Just so. There are no ’trusts’ nowadays.
They are all ‘new companies.’ There is
no white lime trust, either. Nevertheless,
the ‘Western White Lime Association,’
with a capitalization of $1,500,000, an
nounces that the price of white lime is
to be put up from 35 to 45 cents per bar
ret in the states of Ohio, Indiana and
Michigan, controlled by the association.”
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) says:
"Very little public interest or comment
lias been aroused by the report of a de
sign on the part of somebody connected
with the government to advance three or
four million dollars toward paying off the
Cuban insurgent soldiers. Truly, the ad
ministration has a huge cash balance In
the treasury; but it has no money for
this or for any similar purpose. It costs
enough to feed the ex-reconcentrados.
without undertaking to maintain in idle
ness a host of half-reformed freebooters—
for such is the true meaning of the propo
sition to pay up arrears due to the Cuban
army. "Work or strove, as we do in the
North," is the only answer that should be
made to this impudent appeal for federal
bounty.”
H„ Johnson Downed Dingley.
the late Nelson
Dingley when the Dingier bill was before
tion to the fact
. Mf D1 ~ .. hat was of foreign
|,f ilome-ue make, says the Wash*
ington coi respondence of the New York
WorM The only otlier man who Is re-
V . hz\ ng "floored” the studious
statesman from M ... " h- Tom L. Johnson
of Ohio uni N.-w York. Mr. Johnson is a
‘ , ‘ : MUM and trolley magnate.
In 1854 when (he Wilson tariff bill was
, m ,|er • : • -h- . ..n in the House. Mr. John
son. a rampant free trader and single tax
advocate, elalmed that the steel rail trust
owed iis life to the McKinley bill. Mr.
Dingley denied the very existence of sucn
q trust. . .
"Hoi s the gentleman deny mat there *s
such a mis 7 asked Mr. Johnson, with
some show of amazement.
"1 do," said Mr. Dingley, vehemently.
“Th<Te is no such trust.”
“Then," shouted back Tom Johnson,
with every evidence of satisfaction, 1
wish to tell the distinguished gentleman
from Maine tiiat he is unacquainted with
the subject. There is a steel rail trust, for
I, myself, am the president of that great
corporation.’
Mr. Dingley was nonplussed. He sat
down utterly confused. The Democrats
howled with delight, and even many of
the Republicans laughed at the clever
way in which their leader had been
caught.
Mr. Dingley, with all his intellect, could
not appreciate a joke. Above ail. he could
not understand such a thing as a bit of
fun at his own expense.
MaJ. Houle > n’s Military Cow.
While we are talking of army people,
says a writer in the Washington Rost, I
must teil you-of the distressing -time Maj.
Romeyn had once upon a time with a sa
gacious cow. It was a military cow, an
animal born and bred in an army post,
and tended from oalfhood by a person In
blue with brass buttons. She was all un
used to civilians, when for educational
reasons. Maj. Romeyn decided to send
his family to a college town. The military
cow went with them, attended by a sol
dier. The morning after their arrival in
their new home the maid servant ventured
out to milk the cow. Biood-curdling
shrieks were heard later, and a terrified
Irish girl, pursued by an instilled and
indignant cow. flew up the steps to the
back door. The military cow simply
wouldn't be milked by a civilian. She
tossed her horns at tlie grocer’s hoy; she
kept the butter woman quaking under
her wagon for one solid hour. She chased
everybody who went near her, and be
tween times she lowed piteously. A po
liceman, a radiant being with brass but
tons, was approached with bribes, and did
the milking for two days. After that the
Irish cook tried it again, but to no pur
pose. The military cow would not permit
herself to be touched by civilian hands, and
presently she was led away by the butch
er. She was an army cow; she had lived
an army cow, and an army cow she died.
“The "White Man's Burden.'*
Rudyard Kipling has written a poem en
titled “Tne White Man’s Burden," evi
dently called forth by the colonial develop
ment of the United States, It will appear
in the February Issue of McClure's Maga
zine. The poem is not only important, but
is of considerable length. Here are some
extracts from it:
Take up the white man’s burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go, bind your sons to exile
To wait, V *i’n V fieavy* h;i rness!*"** 1
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half-dcvl! and half-child.
Take up the white man’s burden—
The savage wars of peace—
Fill full the mouth of Famine,
And bid the sickness cease;
The ports ye shall not enter,
The road ye shall not tread,
Go, make them with your living
And mark them with your dead.
By all ye will or whisper.
By all ye leave or do,
The silent sullen peoples
Shall weigh your God and you.
“Tile Ilalr So on His Cheek.”
Among the numerous anecdotes told in
Berlin of the visit of the imperial couple
to Jerusalem is one in connection with
their inspection of the German Female
Orphanage at the Holy City, says the
Baltimore Sun. The girls sang, as a greet
ing, “Dera Kaiser gilt mein erstes Lied”
(My first song is for the Emperor). When
the words “Der Kaiser lebe hoch!” (long
live the Emperor) came, William 11, to
amuse the children, took a step backward,
as if startled. The little singers laughed.
The Empress Jokingly asked them, “Well,
did you see the Kaiser? Wfifch is he?”
Some of the children cried, “The one
with the star,” but a little Armenian girl
said, pointing to the Emperor’s upturned
mustache, “The one with the hair so on
his cheek,” representing at the same time
by her two index fingers the well-known
shape of the Emperor’s mustache ends.
“Yes, that’s he,” the Empress replied,
laughing. Then the Kaiserin led a little
girl up to her consort and said: “Look,
Wilhelm, this girl is from German East
Africa.” "Your majesty's rightful sub
ject,” remarked one of the officers of the
institution. “Yes, it is true; this Is my
only yellow German here," answered the
Kaiser, and took the little one up in
his arms.
The Intellls'ence of Eagan.
Capt. John R. Bartlett of the navy told
a story the other night at the banquet of
the Society of the Colonial Wars that ar
oused much laughter at the expense of
the many army officers present, says the
New York Sun. Capt. Bartlett told how
much it worried him, when he was put in
charge of the office of naval intelligence
during the war, to hear a woman he knew
explain that the naval intelligence office
was a place where sailors applied for
places in the navy, just as cooks, wait
resses and the like applied to civilian "in
telligence offices.”
"Not long after I went to Washington,”
Capt. Bartlett said, “a messenger came
Into my office and said:
“The compliments of the commissary
general of subsistence of the army to
Capt. Bartlett and can he tell him of some
place where he can hire a Swedish nurse
girl.'
This is the answer that was sent back:
"Capt. Bartlett’s compliments to the
commissary genral of subsistence of the
army, and he knows nothing about Swe
dish nurse girls, although he can tell him
a lot about army transports*” ’
gome Epigrams By Ur. mills.
Dr. Hillis of Chicago, who has succeeded
Dr. Abbott in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn,
has a colloquial style In his essay writ
ing that suggests Henry Ward Beeehei.
and will probably suit the taste of the
Plymouth congregation, says an exchange,
in a paper on "Ruskln'f Message to (he
Century.” he remarked, speaking of men's
disposition to look upon art as a fad to be
left to women: “Man has a genius for
egotism. He can take the columnar I and
turn it into a hitching post for women to
tie to.” He told a story about a young
mail named Lord who called himself Lord.
Jr., so that he might not be mistaken for
the Almighty.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Col. H. Watkins, chief inspector of po
sition finding in the British army, has
recently devised a modification of the usual
form of aneroid barometer, in which it is
claimed the accuracy of the instrument is
greatly increased. The inaccuracy of an
eroids, owing to temperature effects which
cannot be eliminated entirely, and the ex
periencing of a progressive error, at low
pressures, has been a serious disadvantage
in the use of an otherwise extremely con
venient instrument. Col. Watkins corrects
these evils by having the vacuum-box ad
justab.e ar.d placed in position with a
screw when it is desired to take a read
ing. In this way there is no continuous
strain on the mechanism, and the vacuum
box can be raised or lowered as often as
is necessary. One of these barometer-,
was used about Zermatt by Edward
Whymper, the Alpine explorer, and the
error in comparison with a mercurial in
strument was found to he much less than
one-tenth of an inch.
—Col. Robert Ingersoll admitted recent
ly that there was something wanting in
his philosophy of life. An Illinois theater
manager skipped off with the receipts
from the sale of tickets. When Ingersoll
learned of it he remarked: “If there is
no hell there should 'be one.” In Kansas
City the atheist and John L Sullivan w’ere
rival attractions one night. The pugilist
expressed his opinion of Ingersoll in this
wise: “Bob’3 a clever feilow. He's one
of your bright ones. He’s fast and his
uppercuts and rushes are bad—bad, I tell
you. But religion is a d—d bad thing to
talk about. Religion, my boy, we don’t
know anything about. I’ve got two as
good hands as ever grew and I’d lay ’em
on the track of a trolly car and let the
wheels cut ’em off if I could bring my old
mother and father back to earth again.
But I can’t. No more can Bob Ingersoll.
He doesn't know any more about these
things than you or I do. The man who
tells you an untruth, my boy, is a liar.'”
An lowa boy recently passed through an
experience which he will not forget if he
lives to be 100 years old, says Ihe Chicago
Inter-Ocean. He is only 5 years old. and
one day when his father went to the wheat
field to drive the harvester he took him
along and perched him on the high seat
at his side. For a lime the little fellow
watcher the yellow wheat lop over as it
was cut in a wide swath, and the tall
arms sweepi it back and bind it and finally
the fat bundles being tossed aside one by
one. For a time all this was very inter
esting, but presently the little fellow grew
tired and began to squirm and complain.
And then, just as his father was leaning
over to look more closely at some of the
machinery, off tumbled the little fellow
on the conveyor. He shrieked Just once,
and his father tried vainly to stop the
horses. But before he could even slack
the speed the boy had been driven up
through the elevator canvas with half a
bundle of wheat, the binding twine had
twisted swiftly around his neck and legs,
and he was rolled out on the wide earner,
securely bound in a wheat bundle. He
was almost choked and there was a tiny
bit of skin torn from his shoulders, but
otherwise he was unhurt when his father
cut the string and helped him up again.
But a worse frightened boy would have
been hard to find.
—Some interesting facts regarding bees
appeared in the Archives of Surgery some
time since. Summarized they are as fol-
lows: There are no “neuters” in the bee
hive. The workers are all females. In
whom the sex organs are present but in
developed. The development of the sex
organs depends upon the feed supplied to
given fo
the bees to any larva which it is wished
should grow into a developed female—in
other words, a “queen bee.” Under the
influence of this food the larva grows more
quickly, both as regards size and develop
ment, than one fed from the common
food; and, as a most special feature, its
ovaries grow and become capable of for
ming eggs,without fecundation. The queen
bee can at will, if she has once been im
pregnated, produce eggs which will hatch
out either as workers or as drones. If a
queen bee has not been impregnated, she
can produce fertile eggs, but they will all
hatch out males. Sexual impregnation is
absolutely necessary to the production of
females. Thus It would appear that there
may be some truth in the old belief that
males take chiefly from their mothers and
females from their fathers, and one can
by no means feel certain that prepotency
on the part of one or other parent may
not have some influence in the determina
tion of the sex of the offspring.
—Although volcanic flames have been
seen and described by many writers, says
the Scientific American, their existence has
been doubted 6y others. Special Interest
thus attaches to the outbursts of flames
which occurred on Vesuvius in April last
and which are de alt with in two papers—
one by Prof. E. Semmoia, in the Renril
<onto of the Naples Academy, the other by
Prof. V. Matteucci in the Atti dei Lincei.
From the former paper it would appear
that this rare phenomenon may have been
caused by the failing in of a part of the
crater wall, and consequent blockage of
the orifice, the pent-up gases becoming
heated until a chimney was formed
through which they escaped in flames
Prof. Matteucci’s paper concludes with
the following summary of the principal
[mints: 1. The greater part of the aeri
form substance evolved from volcanic
magma has the power Of producing flames
2. The small flames in the crater of Ve
suvius were of longer duration than the
large ones; these latter did not last with
out intermission for more than nineteen
or less than fifteen days, and ultimately
liecame small and quiescent like the oth
ers. 3. The complex phenomenon, of
which the flames were one of the most In
teresting features, seems only comparable
with that described by Si Humphry Davy.
It has not been reproduced or, at any
rate, has not been noticed oh Vesuvius
for eighty-four years. 4. The spectrum
produced by these flames is continuous,
like that observed by Ltbbey in the in
candescent lavas, also with flames, of
Kilauea.
—Some interesting speculations concern
ing the age of tha Niagara gorge are te
noned by Nature. This was the subject
of a paper by Prof. G. Frederick Wright,
read at the Boston meeting of the Ameri
can Association. The lale Dr. James Hall
early noted the significant fact that “the
outlet of the chasm below' Niagara falls
ir scarcely wider than elsewhere along its
course." This is important evidence of
the late data of its origin and it has been
used in support of the short estimates
which have been made concerning the
length of time separating us from the
glacial period. A close examination made
by Prof. Wricht this summer gTeatly
strengthens the force of the argument,
since he found that the disintegrating
forces tending to enlarge the outlet and
give it a V-shnpe are more rapid than has
been sui*posed. As the result of his in
vestigations he -concludes that a conserva
tive estimate of the rate of disintegration
fo*’ the seventy feet of Niagara shales
supporting the Niagara limestone would be
one inch a year, with a probable rate of
two inches a year. But at the lowest esti.
mate no more than 12,000 years would tie
"equired for the enlargement of the up
ler part of the mouth of the gorge 1,000
feet on each side, which is very largely
in excess of the actual amount of en
largement. Some of the recent estimates,
therefore, which would make the gorge
from 30.000 to 40.000 years old, are regarded
as extravagant According to Prof.
Wright, the age of the gorge cannot be
much more than 10.000 years, and is prob
ably considerably less.
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