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The Rome Tribune made its appearance
on Sunday' last in a brand new typograph
ical dress; and a handsome one it is. The
Tribune is one of the cleanest, brightest
and best of the Georgia dallies.
Zoia says he does not write books for
young ladies; that he does not believe his
books are good for them. All of which
will have the effect of booming the sale
of Zola’s books, and the reading of them
in boudoire.
Admiral Schley's interview respecting
the Nicaragua canal contains nothing new;
stijl it seems to be necessary to iterate
and reiterate the patent facts in favor of
the construction of the canal in order for
them to make any impression upon the
minds of congressmen.
In a war with the Russians Japan would
speedily find that she was not dealing with
Chinese. Still, it is to be remembered that
prior to the war with China it was the
general opinion that the ponderous Mid
dle Kingdom would crush her little assail
ant within a short time.
Epicures will be Interested lo know- that
the market prices for diamond-back terra
pin are fiorn $5 to $6 each for 7-inch, and $3
to $4 for 6-inch, with very small supply
In prospect and the probabilities favora
ble for higher figures. It begins to look
as if the chemists would have to find some
way of making artificial diamond-bucks,
out of cotton seed or cornstalk.
It may be that Biberia wifi yet become
a rich and progressive country. The high
pi Ices of rubber huve led to the develop
ment of a eonsiderab'e rubber industry
•here, with the result that the Utile le
ppblic is now for the first tme In ps
hit U.ry able lo pay the inter, st on its
debis. The possibilities of rubber pro
duction are said to be large and promis
ing.
An effort wilt be made In the New York
legislature lo repeal the Horton boxing
law. under which prize fights are held,
but some doubts are expressed as to
whether the effort will Ire successful. Gov.
Roosevelt Is said to favor boxing <on
tes s. hut r.ot prize lights, therefore it
is in. dieted that while he would favor any
Kg station Poking to the e.imlnalion of
the fight he would not sign a bill pro-
I taibUing boxing and sparring exhibitions.
! MR. lilt YA VS VIEW OF* THE ELFA
TIOXS.
In the review of the elections which Mr.
Bryan furnished the press he takes the
ground that there was a clear gain for
the Chicago platform. Including the 16 to
1 ides, and that the anti-expansion policy
of the administration was practically con
demned. Mr. Rryan has the reputation of
being a very clear-headed politician, but
1; muFt he admitted that far as heard
j from the party leaders and newspapers do
not, as a rule, agree with him Jn this mat
i ter.
The two states in which the Democrats
won notable victories were Nebraska and
Maryland. In Nebraska the winning ticket
was a fusion ticket. The elements which
supported It have a very high regard for
Mr. Dry an ami for Judge Holcomb, who
was the leading candidate on the ticket.
Doth ore extremely popular throughout
the slate. There are many good politicians
who regard the victory in Nebraska as
having been won by the persona! popu
larity of these two men, and not as n
protest against expansion.
Maryland, having gone Democratic by a
good majority, Mr. Bryan says he. regard*
as now safely In the Democratic column.
Hut Is it not a fact that the Democratic
nominees were gold Democrats and was
not the silver question eliminated from the
campaign? On the showing made are
Democratic leaders Inclined to accept Mr.
Bryans judgment that Maryland Is now
safe in the Democratic column? What
will the result be In that state next year
if the silver question Is made as promi
nent a9 it was in 1*96?
We mention these things because it
would he folly for the Democratic party
to push issues to the front which do not
give promise of victory. Mr. Bryan think 9
that the two things which will win in
the national election next year are ap
proval of the 16 lo 1 idea and opposition
to expansion. The paper which gave
Mr. Bryan his chief support in the East
in 1896, and which is his strongest sup
porter in that section at the present time,
declares that the entire country' is prac
tically in favor of expansion. The f?outh
is solidly Democratic, but it cannot be
said that the South is against expansion.
Indeed, there Is a growing sentiment in
favor of it. The cotton mill Interest fav
ors it and the cotton growing interest
feele pretty much as the cotton manufac
turers do about it. Unless there is a radi
cal change in public sentiment anti-expan
sion cannot be depended upon as a win
ning issue.*
Mr. Bryan calls attention to the fact
that the Democrats In Ohio indorsed the
16 to 1 Idea in their platform, and that
they out down <he Republican majority
in that state. But he does not mention
the further fact that at as early a date
as possible after the beginning of the cam
paign the Democratic leaders discouraged
any reference to the 16 to 1 idea. They
found that the party was losing ground by
discussing it. It seems to us, as we have
already stated, that the. recent elections
show that the anti-trust issue is the
strongest one that the Democratic party
can put forward. It appears to have done
the Republicans more harm in Ohio than
any other, and in all parts of the country
opposition to trusts appears to be growing
stronger.
A I*l*ll F3 HEX SI VE OF A GREATER
WAR.
In a cable letter in the World Dean
Farrar expresses apprehension of an out
break of a great war in Europe, a war,
in fact, that may involve the whole world!
The little flame in South Africa might
easily be fanned into a great conflagration.
France, he says, hating England with a
bitter hatred, is ready to pour out the
vials of her wrath and hatred upon her.
Russia is'bent upon extending her empire
and Germany is ambitious to engage In a
desperate bnttie for the supremacy of all
Europe, and even the world. And Great
Britain Is threatened in her own house
hold. In the House of Commons some of
the Irish cnetrtbers have recently indulged
In very bitter attacks on the British gov
ernment.
It is piohabie that there are other prom
inent Englishmen who take as gioomy a
view of the situation In Europe as Dean
Farrar. They know that England has no
friends In Europe. Each one of the great
continental Powers would like an oppor
tunity to strike her a blow, and it is prob
able that they would seize upon a very
flimsy pretext for doing so if they were
not afraid of her powerful navy.
Great Britain seems to take comfort in
the expressions of good will that appear
in the newspapers of this country. She
pretends at least to believe that this coun
try is sincerely friendly to her. There is
undoubtedly a show of friendship between
the United States and Great Britain. Bord
Salisbury in his Guild Hall speech the oth
er day took particular pains to refer to the
"sympathy" and happy "relations'' be
tween the two countries. Ambassador
Choate has responded in so hearty a man
ner to these expressions of the English
Prime Minister that in some quarters he
has been quite severely criticised.
While it Is true that there is a very
friendly feeling between the two countries,
neither Englishmen nor Americans believe
it would stand any considerable strain.
Great Britain is very friendly to this coun
try when It is to her Interest to be so, and
we understand such to be the case. She
was our friend during the Spanish-Ameri
can war, mainly because it was her policy
to be friendly. She wanted us as an ally
in the Far East. We are showing sym
pathy with her in the Transvaal war, but
it might be different if our interests drew
us In a different direction.
It is probable that Dean Farrar takes
altogether too gloomy a view of the situa
tion. The indications are that the Trans
vaal war will be ended without any other
European country becoming Involved in It.
The town of Bogansport, lnd.. Is making
a considerable experiment in municipal
ownership. It already owns its water
works, electric lighting service and gas
plant, and is making arrangements to own
the street railway system and the local
telephone exchange. It is said that in the
management of these enterprises politics
is barred and they are all run upon busi
ness principles strictly. So far Bogans
port Is well pleased with the undertaking.
The electric 1 ghts are claimed to be the
cheapest in the world, but the cost to con
sumers is to be stiil further reduced.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 1890.
A CtIAWE Til tT CUBA WANTS.
Cuba wants a chance to recuperate her
financial affairs at the expense of the
United States. Her Hoard of Agriculture
has appointed a commission to ask Con
gress 10 reduce the duty on Cuban sugar
to that on sugar from the British colo
nies, if sil l greater confessions cannot be
obtained. Wha Cuba would l.ke to have
is tl.e prlvlbge of sGI ng sugar in oar
market free of duty. Such a concession
as that would make her lands immensely
valuable, and her sugar planters very
prosperous. But what would le the effect
on the sugar industry of this country—the
cane sugar growers of Louisiana and Tex
as, the syrup producers of Georgia and the
beet sugar growers of the East an 1 West?
Would th'ey not lc ruined? Not only that,
but a vast revenue that Is now obtained
from the du.y on sugar would be lost.
And what would this country gs.n?
A ery little, as far as we can see. Our
trade with Cuba might be increased to
some extent, hut there is no assarince
that this country would be favored In
trade above other countries.
Cuba's only chance of getting her su
gar into our market free of duty is an
nexation. If she consi nts to abandon her
demand for independence, and to become
a part of this country, the United States
would be a market for her products on
the same terms that they are now a mar
ket for the products of the various states
of the Union.
This question of a market for Cuba’s
products is going to be a powerful, if not
the controlling, factor in the settlement
of the question as to whether Cuba will be
independent or become a part of this
country. It is quite probable that the
great majority of the Cubans who have
something at slake are in favor of an
nexation. They see that It is for their
Interest. The Cubans who have nothing
except what they earn, and those who are
looking forward to places under an inde
pendent government, are the ones who
are insisting on Independence. It is yet
a question as to whether they or the prop
erty-holding class and the business in
terests will dominate the island. It seems
to us that this movement of the Cuban
Board of Agricuituie is a step towards an
nexation.
THE SAMPSON-SCHLEY CONTRO
VERSY.
Admiral Schley will soon be at sea, and
then it is probable that the controversy
growing out of the naval battle at San
tiago will cease. The latest phase of it is
the letter of the Secretary of the Navy to
the President, and the letter of Gen.
Felix Angus of Baltimore to the Secretary.
It seems that Gen. Angus, some weeks
ago, sent a dispatch to the President ask
ing him to receive a delegation of Mary
land Republicans, -who wished to show him
that the treatment Admiral Schley was re
ceiving from the navy department was in
juring the chances of the Republicans for
carrying Maryland in the approaching
election. The Secretary of the Navy heard
of this dispatch, and he wrote to the
President a long letter, in which he as
serted that the navy department had al
ways treated Admiral Schley fairly. In
his letter he said come pretty h&rsh
things about Schley, or at least Gen. An
gus thought they were harsh, and so he
sent a somewhat tart letter to the Secre
tary.
The letters make interesting reading, be
cause in them are presented all that the
opponents of Schley have to say against
him and what his friends have to say in
his defense. It is but fair to soy that Gen.
Angus makes it very clear that there is
no foundation for the charges which have
been made against Schley. He makes It
clear also that there appears to have been
a settled determination in the navy de
partment to find fault with Schley, and
to make complaints against him when
there were, in fact, no good grounds for
complaint. The navy department seems to
be aggrieved because its championship of
Sampson was no! approved by the public.
It 1s full time that the controversy came
to art end. To pursue It further can do no
good. The people have settled the matter
by deciding that Schley is entitled to the
credit for the naval victory at Santiago.
This decision is not of course agreeable to
the navy department, but, having been
made by the highest tribunal, there is no
appeal from it. t
WHEN AVI 1,1, THE FILIPINOS QUIT t
Some of the officers of the Tennessee reg
iment, which has just returned from the
Philippines, express the opinion that it
will require from 75,000 to 100,000 men lo
compel the Filipinos to surrender and ac
knowledge the authority of the United
States. The country is so large, and it is
so difficult to follow the Filipinos in many
parts of it, that a comparatively few of
them can keep a large force engaged all
the time.
Gen. Funston, however, is of the opinion
that the end of the war is not very fat
off. It is his belief that the Filipinos will
quit and accept our terms just as soon as
they become convinced that it is our pur
pose to give them a liberal and stable gov
ernment—a better government than Ag
uinaldo can give them. They are convinc
ed already that they cannot cope with our
soldiers. They continue to fight because
they are misled by Aguinaldo and other
Filipino leaders. They are told that if they
surrender to the United States they will
be treated far worse than they were un
der Spanish rule. Ix?t the truth once find
a lodgement In their minds, Gen. Funston
says, and they will lay down their arms
and cease their opposition. It is probable
that Gen. Funston has a pretty correct
idea of the situation. Is there no way of
making the Filipinos understand what our
purpose is except by killing a large num
ber of them? It doesn't seem so.
One of the most notatu- exhibits nt the
South Carolina Slate Fair at Columbia
last week, aicotd ns to the News and
Courier, was that of the Gaffney Cari et
Manufacturing Company, which showed
the fine class of lnxraln goods ai.d art
squares that are being made by its m.ll
at Gaffney, S. C. The mill. It is stated,
"is turning out very nearly 1,(00.000 yards
of carpeting every year, and has eighteen
traveling salesmen on the road, who sell
all the goods it can make.” Thus we see
that the South is giving attention to di
ver-Red textile milling, as well as diver
sified farming. We need a great deal
more of the same sort of thing. There
is room in lwth Souih Carolina and Geor
gia for a number of caipet mills.
! The Hartford (Corn.) Times soys: “The
South has shown little interest in the rural
de.ivery mail matter, and is now said to
be opposed to granting money for this
purpose.” The South would welcome rural
free delivery, but not upon the terms
which the administration lays down rs
obligatory, namely, that the delivery must
be by negro carriers. There was not long
ago a plan to establish rural free delivery
in the upper part of this state, and negro
carriers were selected. The congressman
for the district asked the department that
white carriers be designated, In view of
the fact that the carriers would have to
visit isolated houses of white farmers
where the women were necessarily left
alone while the men were in the flefcte at
work. The deparim nt replied that the
district must accept negro carriers or It
would get none, to which the district re
joined that it would accept the alterna
(ive in preference. Thus the matter stands.
The rural while population of the South
is punished by the postoffice department
because it insists that the white women
shall not be menaced.
Some scientist not long ago estimated
that within a few thou-and years the
Niagara river will have disappeared, and
the cliff at the falls will have become a
dry wall of rock. If some of the schemes
that are being canv-issed should material
ize, it would probably not be thousands or
even hundreds of years before Niagara
Falls w'ould disappear. In Chicago they
are talking about building a great dam
at the head-waters of the Niagara river
near Buffalo, for the purpose of raising
the level of the lakes, for the benefit of
Chicago’s great drainage canal. Meantime
Ihe power companies are boring holes
through the rocks above the fulls and
drawing off water to turn turbine wheels.
The reported failure of a Russian loan
in Germany is the second incident of the
kind within the past few years. At the
time the alliance between Russia and
France was being talked of some time ago
Russia made efforts to effect a loan in
Germany, and the German Emperor is
credited with having called together a
number of bankers and told them, "If you
love your country, don’t make this loan.”
That settled the fate of the proposed loan,
and Is believed to have hastened the un
derstanding between Russia and France.
It is estimated that the California
orange groves contain one-third more
fruit than at this time last year.
Eighteen thousand cars of oranges and
lemons win be marketed this season, It Is
said. But at present producers and deal
ers are having considerable trouble in get
ting the fruit to market. There is practi
cally a. famine of cars on the Pacific side
of the country.
The new University of California, which
is to be constructed upon the $30,000 prize
plan of Emile Bernard of Paris, will cost,
it is said, no less than $80,000,000, and twen
ty years’ time will be needed for the work
of building. When completed it is pre
dicted this university will be the best laid
and equipped in the world. It will ac
commodate 5,U00 boarding students.
PERSONAL.
—Clohn H. Page, Jr., recently commis
sioned as a second lieutenant in the Third
Infantry, is the third of the name to serve
in the army of the United States. His
father, John H. Page, is colonel of the
Third Infantry and served in Cuba during
the war, taking part in the, fighting about
Santiago. He was the last of the regular
army colonels to leave Cuba. His grand
father, John H. Page, was killed at the
battle of Palo Alto during the Mexican
war. For more than fifty years there has
always been a John H. Page among the
officers of the army.
—MaJ. the Hon. Harry White, the young
Englishman who is now serving as Mayor
of Buluwayo, the capital of Rhodesia, has
had a most picturesque and exciting ca
reer. He began active life as an officer
in the Grenadier Guards, becoming liter
a member of the staff of Lord London
derry, lord lieutenant of Ireland. During
these days he was a famous leader of ger
mans. Then he fell under the influence of
Cecil Rhodes, became an officer in the
Chartered Compony, took part In the
Jameson raid, and was brought back to
these scene of his former society triumphs
to occupy a cell in Bow street prison.
AA’hen the brief period of his punishment
was over he went back of Africa and got
himself chosen Mayor of the Rhodesian
capital.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The New Orleans Picayune says of the
cotton situation: "A much safer indication
of the size of the present crop than the
pronunciamentos of the crop estimators is
the movement of the crop to market. Of
course, the speculators explain that the
crop is being held back; but that is no
explanation, because all past experience Is
against such a thing, and there is not
sufficient money In the South to make
holding back to any material extent pos
sible. If the cotton has failed to come
into sight in the accustomed volume, it is
because it is r.ot in existence in the vol
ume looked for; in a word, because the
crop is extremely short. If business men
would simply ignore the estimators, and
keep to fact:-, they would be better off by
a good deal.”
The Boston Herald (lnd.) says many
rocks He in the channel of our expansion
policy. One of them is the sugar tariff.
It concludes; “Sugar from Hawaii comes
here duty free. If the sugars of Cuba.
Porto Rico and the Philippines are to have
a like privilege -what will become of our
sugar duty? It will be reduced to very In
considerable figures, and perhaps to the
vanishing point. The expansionists claim
that our new possessions can be brought
under the flag without bringing them Jr.-
side our cusioms fence, hut good constitu
tional lawyers assert that this cannot be
done, and assuredly the letter of the con
stitution hurls strong support to the as
sertion.” ’
The Springfield (IMass.) Republican (Tnd.l
•says; "The talk of Mayor Jones of Toledo
for second place on the Bryan ticket runs
against the fact that he is a Welshman by
birth. The federal constitution, as origi
nally adopted, was sient respecting the
qualifications of a Vice President, requir
ing only (hat the President should be a
native-born citizen. But the twelfth
amendment provided that no person con
stitutionally ineligible to the office of Pres
ident could be eligible to that of A'ice
President.”
The Chicago Chronicle (Dem.l Fays; "We
learn that the administration agrees with
Admiral Dewey in the opinion that the
natives of the Philippines are more cap
able of seif government than the Cubans
are, but th .t It does not regard either peo
ple as Hi to Ive trusted to govern them
selves. Now let us hear what Congress
thinks about it.”
How Mn Reformed the lee Man.
"Georgie" writes a.-* follows in the Chi
cago Times-Herald:
A while Ago ihe Dockrer told maw She
Ot to Drink Beer to Bild up her sistum.
But maw sed She diden’t bleeve in Haven
them kind of things in the house, Becoz
thay mite git fokes in Bad habuta.
•Shaw,” paw told Her, "Don't Git to Be
a Crank. I Lake to see peepul gro old
Graisful and not Have a Lot of strange
noshuns in thare hed.”
Maw looked Hurtr, But she Diden’t say
nothing more, and the next I>ay the Beer
Come. It Seemed to Do maw lot of Good
if It only Would of Lasted longer, so Rhe
fold paw about it, and He was madder
than a parson what gits up to liet n Bew
tlful gurl have hie seat and the man siani
ln' Behind hum sets Down Before she
look’s around.
Maw tnot it was the ice naan or Sadie's
80, and Sadie kot mad when maw Bpoke
to Her about ft and Sed she whscn't agoin
to Live at no place where people Diden't
no llow to Behave when thay was Talk
in to ladies. Bu maw raised Her wages
a Doler a weak, and promised to make us
ware our Stockens and undershurts Long
er, e< Sadie sed she would Give us anulher
trile. '
Paw sed if he thot it was the ice man
He would make that gent Think a fire was
Blit under him, But thay coulden't ketch
him at it.
So maw got anuther case and told the
Dockter about it, and the Dockter says:
"That's all rite. I no How to Stop it.”
So he give maw Some little while pow
der to putt in a Bottel what was on the
Ice.
“My grashus,” maw said, "I Don’t want
to poison nobuddy and Git in trubble."
"It won't kill them,” the Dockter told
her; "thay’U git Over it in a Fu ours, But
after that I don't think you’ll nead to By
so mutch beer."
Maw took it and put it in the Bottel and
thay was Cumpny come and She forgot
ail about it till purty Late that nite.
Then all of a sudden paw Looked Skared
and says:
"I wunder how it feels when peeple Git
the pendy Seetus?”
"I Don’t no," maw says, ‘‘X never Had
it Tit.”
"My hevvuns,” paw Hollered, "I feel
Like if I IXad Swallered a Dum Dum Bul
let and it was begtnnen to Dum.”
Maw run out to the Ice Box and Liooked
in and then She Come Back and paw Look
ed Like if He was pracktasun to Be the
Indy rubber man on the stage, so maw
says:
“Why, paw, ain’t you ashamed to act
that way Before your children. I always
Like to see peepul Gro old graceful.”
Paw unwound Himself long enuff to look
at maw purty sad, then he Dubbled up
agin and Groned and ast maw why she
Diden't Send fer the Dockter.
“Oh, I Don’t Bleeve thay are ennything
the matter with you,” maw says. “What's
the yoost purtendin that way? X see thay
are anuther Bottel of Beer gone. But I Bet
the one that Drunk it’ll Be sorry pur.y
soon. The dockter give me Sumethink to
in it.”
“Was it polsen?” paw Hollered with the
Swet Hangin all over His forred.
“No,” ma Sed, “they'll git over It in a
Fu ours. I wisht I new whether it was the
Ice man er not.”
Paw he Crawled up Stares, given a grone
every time. He took a Step and when, he
was neerly to the top maw says:
“Paw,”
“What?” paw ast.
"Ain’t it nice to Gro old Graceful?"
Paw Diden't say nothin But give the
Dore a Siam what neerly nocked the
plastern off.
Maw told the Dockter yistady that the
ice man must of sined the pledge.
It Is Very Comfortin'.
From the Los Angeles Herald.
It is very comfortin'
When your hair is gettin’ thin.
And the crow feet in your eyes have come
to stay,
Just to feel her little hand
Smoothtn' back each silver strand.
While you meet her lovin’ look and hear
her say:
“My dear, it seems as tho’
Every year you live you grow
Handsomer than in the olden days;”
Then you look up at your wife
And you think in all your life
You never heard a sweeter word of praise.
But the teardrops will arise
To your dim old fadin’ eyes.
And you kiss the gentle hand, still white
and small,
While you try to tell her how
You loved her then—love her now,
But bless me if the words will come at
all;
And Just then there comes to you
The trials she’s gone thro’,
And borne without a murmur for your
sake;
You can only bow your head
At the lovin' things she’s said.
While your poor old heart will only acha
and ache.
But she knows what ails you then,
And she kisses you again,
While you hear her gently whisper, sweet
and low:
“Life has brought me more hopes than
fears,
We have known more smiles than tears,
And the years seem ever brighter as they
go.”
Yes, 'tis comfortin', you know,
When your step is gettin’ slow
And you’re slidin,' down life's hill a'mighty
fast.
Just to feel her little hand
Smoothin’ back each silver strand,
While she tells you that she’ll love you to
the last.
He Didn’t Bite.
“I never can tell a story and have It
come out all right,” said a little woman
plaintively the other day, according to the
Cleveland Plain Dealer. “I thought I
had such a good one not long ago. I was
walking along and heard one street boy
say to another, 'Oh. you go buy 10 cents
worth of potash.’ ‘What for'.” says No. 2.
'For 10 cents,’ yelled the other, and ran
off giggling.
“I thought it was pretty good, and I'd
try it on Charlie at supper. But w hen I
told him to go buy 10 cents worth of pot
ash lie never said a word, and I knew
another Joke had fallen flat and kept still.
But the worst was later. He put on his
hat and vanished after supiier, coming
back In a minute with a little parcel that
he handed to me.
“ 'What's that?’ asked I.
“ 'Why. the potash you said you want
ed,’ answered he, and I nearly had hys
terics on the sj>ot. Did you ever hear any
thing so perfectly awful? I won’t ever try
to get off anything funny again.”
And the little woman sighed as site
walked away.
Wit of a Mountain Daneehome.
To the traveler In obscure corners of the
world a flash of w,t. like a streak of light
ning in the night, often discovers an
Irishman, says the Philadelphia Post.
The biting wit that is bandied across the
floor of a mountain dance house is enjoy
able. There are a few villains in each
townland, who, attending all dances, sit
in corners all the night exercising the
tongue in preference to the toes.
"Jamie Mor,” one of these fellows in
quires of a young man on the floor who
has a remarkably sparse mustache, “would
ye lend me Hhe loan of that mustache to
go coortin’?" "Faith, an’ he wouMn’t,”
another of the scoundrels replies across
Ihe floor; ’ye mightn’t fetch it all back till
him again." ’Troth, an’ I will bring It
safe back—let him count It.”
And again: “Who, did I hear sayln’ Nell
Dunnion wasn't musi;al—an’ that ear on
him?”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The highest observatory In Germany is
now completed. It is situated on the Seh
nee Koppe, the highest summit of the Si
lesian mountains, at an elevation of 5.216
feet. It wti! be managed as a Prussian state
Institute.
—A few years ago a Berlin cigar dealer
paid $1,500 for a corner lot measuring six
feet by six, and the other day he sold
it for $12,000. This was at the rate of
$223.33 per square foot—the highest price
ever paid for land in the German capital,
—A football team composed of Kaffirs
from the Orange Free State Is now In Eng
land. It is composed principiily of mem
bers of the Basuto tribe, though two are
Hottentots. All of the p.ayers speak Eng
lish fluently, and profess unbounded loy
alty to the Queen and British au
thority in South Africa. They look up: n
the Boers as enemies who kept their kind
in slavery until Great Britain interfered.
—The Bulletin of International Statis
| tics, Just published in St. Petersburg, es
tablishes an Interesting comparison be
tween divorce figures in the different
countries of Europe. Switzerland takes
the lead, the divorces among the Swiss
being at the rate of forty i>er thousand.
France holds the second place, with twen
ty-one per thousand. In Great Britain
the divorces are least numerous, not ex
ceeding one in every 2,00 b marriages.
—Signora de Riva Monti, who has been
—Several months ago the Mexican Cen
tral Railway Company imported several
hundred Chinese laborers to work on Its
roadbed, and it is now reported that many
of them, having become homesick, have
entered the United States by way of Texas
in order to secure free transportation home
under the provisions of the Chinese exclu
sion act. Unless the federal authoiiks
shall find some means of circumventing
the designs of the wily Chinamen ihe
United States government will be a heavy
loser, as the cost i>er head of deporting the
aliens is about S6OO.
—ln France, at a small place near Quim
per, a statue of a local hero was ordered
of a sculptor and in due time the work ar
rived. One of the authorities of the town
was not acquainted with bronze sculpture
and was greatly disappointed when he
saw the dull color of it, which was ob
tained with infin te care and labor by an
expert colorer of bronze. The official or
dered that the surface should be rubbed
with emery paper until it acquired the ap
pearance which was considered necessary.
It is not likely that the official will ever
become a minister of fine arts in France.
—For several years attempts have teen
made at Omaha and Los Angeles to hatch
the egg of the ostrich artificially, but so
far these attempts have been unsuccess
ful, the difficulty being the application of
moisture. Now, however, an ostrich farm
in Florida can boast of the first incubator
hatched ostrich in the United States. The
incubation required forty-one days of care
ful watching, the thermometer was kept
at 110 degrees and the moisture was ap
plied at intervals. A London concern man
ufactures many incubators for use :n Ca; e
Colony. The Incubators are large enough
to hatch seventeen eggs at one time.
—The little band of religious enthusiasts
who went recently from Missouri to Pal
estine, expecting there to witness the sec
ond coming of Christ, are in a bad way.
The pilgrimage was the result of a tract
written by Mrs. Ida Dickinson, called
'The City of the Great King.” It con
vinced some farmers In Belham township.
Mo., and others in Michigan that if they
went to Jerusalem they could see Christ
come again in all His glory, and that the
faithful would be "caugtit up to Him.”
The pilgrims were headed by Mrs. Dickin
son and her husband. They sold all their
possessions and started for Palestine a lit
tle less than a year ogo. A letter has
Just been received from them. The pil.
grims are crowded into one small house.
They are penniless and ill, but they are
still hopeful that the Lord will come and
they are waiting.
—The Queen of Roumania, who is in her
self a proof of the fact that it is quite pos
sible for a woman to combine great taste
in dress with exceptional mental gifts and
culture, has Just ordered three thoroughly
smart and up-to-date outdoor garments.
One, a long mantle, cut in the newest fash
ion, is of richest black velvet (the mate
rial which, perhaps, of all others best suits
the poet-queen's effective and uncommon
style of beauty), trimmed round the edge
with two moderately wide and rather full
flounces of chiffon, surmounted by a strik
ing wreath of flowers and leaves in black,
gray and white heads. More simple, but
equally chic, is the driving coat, fitting
tightly to the wearer’s slight figure and
made of dark blue cloth, the high storm
collar and smart lappets being covered
with the glossiest black astrakhan. The
third, in a soft material, is a long coat
suitable for walking in winter, and Is
made on much the same lines as the blue,
except that the plaits are somewhat fuller
at the back, and it is devoid of trimming
or ornament of any description.
—lt has been decided, In spite of the
wailing of some artists stuls, that the un
finished friezes of Puvls de Chavannes in
the Pantheon are to he completed by an
other hand. Some consolation will no
doubt he found in the fact that the work
has been intrusted to M. Cazin, who wi 1
bring much love and veneration for the
great master, who was also his friend, to
bear on his delicate task, which will he
carried out In s'rict accordance with tile
directions left by Puvia de Chavannes
himself. The sketches are at the present
amount in the Pavilion de la Tremo le at
the Louvre, where M. Cazin having al
ready spent some time in the composition
of the requisite tones and coloring, wiil
shut himself up with a few wi ling pupils
in order that the mural decorations of the
Pantheon may be quite finished before the
opening of the exhibition of 1900. Some
other intere ting works of art to he given
to the word next year are three memor
ials to Alphonse Daudet; two by Falguiere,
a statue for Nlmes, and a medallion for
the tomb of the great writer; and a statue
by Saint Marceaux to be erected, li is
hoped, somewhere on the Champs Ely
eecs.
—“Tell me how many drinks a bar gets
out of a gallon of whisky,” said o veteran
New Orleans caterer, according to the
Timcs-Democrat, "and I’ll tell you approx
imately where it is located and what kind
of trade it enjoys. The average for a
business in the commercial center is from
60 to 65. If It is patronized o any ex
tent by the upper working classes, skilled
mechanics and so on, -the percentage runs
down to 50. A fellow who wasn't posted
might suppose lhat indicated workingmen
were heavy drinkers, but it’s Just the re
verse. The average upper-class mechanic
drinks very seldom, but when he does he
generally takes a good one. The heavy
tipplers ere the chaps who take smalt
drinks and lots of them, and a house that
has very swell custom wiil get from So to
S5 out of a gallon. In the tough places
and dives 40 would be about the figure
which represents on average of exactly
four-fifths of a gill to each customer. In
such establishments the glasses are often
very thick and the Inside is round on the
bottom. They ore deceptive, and even if
filled to the brim will not hold over one
half of a gill, which would make 61 drinks
lo the gallon. At only 5 cents apiece that
would mean $3.20. and as the stuff they
serve dees not cost more titan a dollar
the profit Is a shade over 300 per cent If
a S-cent house set out thin glasses with
the black bottle It would be bankrupt In
Jess than a week.” ,
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From the late Gen. Grant’s broiher-ln
law, Gen. F. T. Dent, Mrs. Grant’s
brother.
State of Florida, County of Duval.—Per
sonally appeared before me F. T. Dent,
who, being duly sworn, says: “I have been
seven days under the treatment of Prof.
Dexter for paralysis of the left side, of
over eight years’ standing, the parts affec
ted being particularly those members
which pertain to articulation and locomo
tion, and for Ihe last two months the foot
and leg from the knee down were numb;
circulation was so bad as to make it diffi
cult to walk, and that very slowly and
with a very uncertain step. At times my
articulation was more than bad. My rignt
arm and hand were so affected that I
could only write three or four words, and
this with difficulty and pain. My general
health, from nervous twitching, causing
loss of sleep, of appetite, and weakness,
became alarming. By the treatment of
Prof. Dexter, in one short week, I have
been so far restored as to feel no pain, no
nervous twitching; I sleep sound, eat
heartily, walk with a firm, decided step;
articulation improving, and after first rub
bing wrote four pages without difficulty or
pain. This day a week since I felt like a
man who could not live two months; to
day I feel as if I could reach another
score years. F. T. DENT. ’
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
22d day of May. A. D. 1883.
(L. S.) J. C. MARCY, Notary Public.
Washington, D. C., July 22, 1856.-Jair.es
H. Johnson, Esq.: Dear Sir—l am in re
ceipt of your letter of the 21st. and am
glad to say that my testimonial in' Prof.
Dexter's Journal is genuine. I have suf
fered for ten years previous to Prof. Dex
ter’s treatment, and spent thousands of
dollars with the most prominent doctors,
both in this city and New York, and th' y
done me no good. My trouble was con
gestion of the kidneys and liver fin. the
beginning of Bright’s disease). I tri and
everything that money could get, but to
no use. Two years ago Prof. Dexter
came to Washington for a shoTt stay; I
read his testimonials and I tried him as
a forlorn hope. In three months time I
was a well man. as sound as I ever wis
and continued in excellent health ever
since.
Prof. Dexter is the wonder of tlie world.
There Is a young lady In my family who
injured her knee when a child eight years
old. Her limb got stiff, she tried tho
most prominent doctors in the city, but
they could do nothing for her. She
walked with a crutch for twelve years,
and when Prof. Dexter came here he
undertook her case and cured her in four
months. She w r alks now without cru'cn
or cone. You can find her testimonial
in the professor’s office. Her name is
Miss Rebecca Storey. The professor
while here, cured Mrs. Carlisle, the wife
of the Speaker of the House of Represen
tatives, and hundreds of citizens of this
city. All the professor’s testimonials a e
genuine. He Is no humbug nor quack
but where his power of healing com J
from I cannot say. He does wonderful
cures. I wish he would come to this city
again soon: I would like to shake hist
by the hand once more. Very respectfully
yours, JOSEPH B. CECIL.
No. 713 Eighth st., S. E., Washlng;on. D.C-
A certain party wrote to many of Prof.
Dexter’s patients. Above is one of the let
ters he received.
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