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Kudyard Kipling is probably the
first poet to have one of his works
form an item in a government’s cable
bill. His “Our Lady of the Snows”
was cabled at twenty-five cents a word
from London to Ottawa at government
expense. Even with this the Canucks
were not satisfied.
In Austria a law has just been
passed making it a punishable offeuee
for parents to take young children
into bed with them. This arbitrary
interference with the “liberty of the
subject” has been rendered necessary
bv the large number of deaths of in¬
fants by being overlaid.
The houseboat.plan has been turned
to good account in the Fen country in
England. According to the latest
English papers a boat has been fitted
up as a church in the parish of Holme,
in the diocese of Ely, and is moved
along the canals and thus spiritual
consolation is brought within the
reach of those who could only with
great difficulty get to the parish
church.
A writer in the New York Herald,
signing himself “Lawyer,” comment¬
ing upon the overcrowded condition
of the legal profession, says that hun¬
dreds of lawyers in this country are
actually starving to death for the
want of practice, and that something
should be done at once to check the
constantly increasing stream of talent
that is pouring into the ranks of the
profession.
The British population was by the
last census over thirty-nine millions,
and must at the present time be fully
forty millions. The population of
France was by the last census under
thirty-nine millions. The white people
in the French colonies have not ap
preciably grown in numbers, but the
white people iu the British colonies
now number from twelve to thirteen
millions. Thus, the white population
under the British Queen at home and
abroad is not less than fifty-two mil¬
lions.
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It is rather odd that so many
American newspapers will persist in
referring to the reigning sultan of
Turkey as “Abdul.” They would
better call him “Abd” and be done
"with it, for “Abd” means “servant,”
while “Abd-ul” signifies “servant of.”
.The true designation of the Sultan is
Alid-ul-Hamid, or the “Servant of the
Praiseworthy One.” In like manner
Abd-nl-Aziz meant the Servant of the
Holy One. Both names are extremely
pious in etymology, and American
newspaper writers should abstain
from tampering with them.
The producing and exporting oi
coffee is becoming a large business in
Liberia, Africa. The coffee exported
in 1896 amounted to 3,000,000 pounds.
Farmers, merchants and people gen¬
erally have turned their attention to
coffee growing, While no American
ships touch at any Liberian port, yet
more than one-fifteenth of the coffee
produced is shipped to the United
States via Liverpool. If ships from
the United States touched at Mon
ravia, Bassa and Cape Palmas, half oi
the imports would be American and
in turn the exports would go to the
United States.
The San Francisco Chronicle de¬
clares that New York is so far in the
lead in the matter of foreign com¬
merce that no other American city at¬
tempts to dispute her position, but
occasionally some one is rash enough
to maintain that Philadelphia is the
greatest manufacturing centre in the
United States, Tlmre was a time
when this was true, but the New York
papers are now pointing out that the
census of 1890 exhibited the fact that
the value of the manufactured pro¬
ducts of New York city was $777,221,-
721, while in the same year the
manufactories of Philadelphia only
turned out products worth 8577,234,
446. The statistics of the census.
when examined closely by would-be
rivals, afford very little hope that the
metropolis will ever be overtaken ii
the race for precedence. New York
has first place, 1 ’ and is likely to hold i:
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permanently. _ From present
maica
tions there is as little prospect of i>
rival American city surpassing New
York as there is of some provincial
r>*overtaking London.
WEEKLY REVIEW
Of Trade as Reported by Brad
streets.
JULY THE BUSIEST MONTH.
The Widespread Confidence That There
Will be a Marked Revival in General
Trade in tha Fall Continues to Grow—
Reports Are Very Encouraging.
Bradstreet’s weekly review of trade
eays: The widespread confidence that
there will be a marked revival in gen
eral trade in the fall continues to
grow and with it material evidence
that it is well founded. Chicago job
bers in olothing, dry goods and Bhoes,
and manufacturers elsewhere of pianos,
organs, wagons and farm implements
report that fall business has begun,
which is much earlier than usual. The
distribution of general merchandise
from St. Louis is less active though
trade there is favorable. Like ac
counts received from Pittsburg, not
withstanding dullness in iron and steel;
Savannah, in spite of this being the
busy seasons on plantations; Omaha,
Milwaukee, Duluth, Minneapolis and
St. Paul, where merchants are feeling
the influence of a prospectively large
crop of wheat, and from Galveston
and other points in Texas on the fa¬
vorable crop outlook and confidence
in all increased movement of mer¬
chandise next fall. Demand for sup
plies for shipment to the Klondyke
gold region has made July the busiest
instead of the dullest mouth of the
commercial year at feeattle and has
an influence on sales of staples at Ta
coma, Portland and San Francisco.
The world’s wheat crop outlook
continues to favor the United States
much as it did eighteen years ago.
The outlook is that Russia, alone of
all other other wheat exporters, will
be able to compete with the United
States. The advance of more than
cents a bushel, compared with a year
ago, is in the face of a domestic wheat
crop probably 1,000,000,01(0 bushels
larger than last year. And the pros
peots for a continued higher level for
quotations owing to increased demand
from importing countries explain why
tho American farmer is to secure Ins
proportion of the advance of the coming
era of prosperity. That he is alive to
the situation is indicated by a ten
deucy to hold back wheat already
harvested, notwithstanding higher
quotations. „ Unfavorable fenturer in
olude the continuance Jof the strike
of the bituminous coal miners in
the western and southern states
which now begins to threaten the
continued activity of industries de¬
pendent upon thas variety of fuel, the
present stagnation of the Bessemer
pin iren and steel billet markets with
prices as low as ever known, the shut
ting down of Neiv England cotton mill
machinery to reduce output and get
rid of stock on hand and the unsatis
factory condition of the w-oolen goods
market on account of the relatively
low prices of the products compared
with the prices for raw material.
Exports of wheat (flour included ns
wheat) from Montreal and both coasts
of the United States this week, amount
to 1,978,828 bushels, an increase of
about 456,000 bushels compared with
last week, for which shipments from
the ports of New York and Baltimore
are largely responsible. The corres
ponding total in the like week last
year was 3,037,000 bushels: in the
week two years ago, 1,205,000; three
years ago, 3,888,000 bushels, and iu
the corresponding period in 1893, it
was 4,363.000 bushels.
Exports of Indian corn amount to
2,298,379 bushels this week, contrasted
with 2,723,000 bushels last week, 1,
980,000 bushels in the week a year
ago, 770,000 bushels two years ago,
256,000 bushels three years ago and as
compared with 1,587,000 bushels in
the like week of 1893.
There are 220 business failures re
ported throughout the United States
this week as compared with 247 last
week, 280 in the week a year ago, 239
in the week two years ago, 237 three
years ago and 489 in the correspond
ing period in 1893.
There were twenty-one business
failures reported from the Dominion
of Canada this week, against 38 last
week.
FLOODS IN TINNESOTA.
Water Rose So Fast People Were Rescued
in Boats.
A special from Ada, Minn., says:
The worst floods in the history of this
section are now on here. LoDg con
tinned raills amounting to 5 inches
coming at a time when the ground was
thoroughly soaked have flooded half
oi Norman county The water rose
unprecedentedly- Fields where the
grain was wavmg 4 feet high are now
under water covering the heads of the
wheat. The water rose to fast that
the people were rescued in boats. The
damage is especially severe on farmers
who had trouble last rear from floods.
MAN’S (REED FOR GOLD.
Mines That lay Handsomely Are De¬
serted ioj the Klondike Region.
Among thoarrivals at San Francisco
from Alaska an the steamer Bertha j
was Dr. C. F. Dickenson, of Kodiak
Island, wbichiies as the head of Cook’s
inlet. He sue the gold excitement ;
over thd territory of Alaska is j
something unprecedented, and that i
the people at flocking to the Klon- 1
dike region ii i way that threatens to
depopulate tniiy of the trading posts
and coast tow 3 ,
“When I lit Kodiak two weeks
ago,” said Mr Dickenson, “the peo¬
ple were leavi g all that section of the
country and flicking in the direction
of Klondike. In a way the situation
is appalling, Dr many of the indus
tries are left practically without the
means of opeptions. Mines that are
paying handsupely at Cook’s inlet
have been dflrted. In my opinion
there are just* al'ook’s good placer diggings the
to be found inlet as in
Klondike regia. There is not a foot
of ground in ai that country that does
not contain gofl in more or less ap
preciablequantties. The great trouble
has been that people have not had
either the confrge or opportunity, I
do not know which, to thoroughly
prospect the country. I think that in
another monii the oountry about
Cook’s inlet wjll be practically de- for
serted. There! is room there
thousands of aim and there is cer
taiuly no better dace in the world for
a poor man.”!
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nlNISTERI ARE RETICENT.
The Gold Discovers May Cause Interna*
tlonal Dispij es as to Boundary.
A te j egram f, m Ottawa, Ont., says:
q-^e attention ’ the monetary com
m j a8 j yu has been called to claims tbs'
tho uew goJd , tddg a re in American
territory. The ministers ore reticent.
It jg regare( j t he act providing
for the appointment of a bouudary
commi6sion wag b tho light of a treaty
and any ao tidh n opposition to that
COI1 ^ention wovul be taken as relm
quigbment tbfi treaties. The gov
ernment has no fears as to the decision
Bg regard8 the mainland, but admit
that Bome 0 f tie islands on the coast
ma y be subject for arbitration. This
dep6nd g w hethir the boundary fol
j owg {^0 indentations of the coast or
whether the 8 i x rotile coast line is to be
C0UB i dered lron J u ne gtretched from
headland to headland of the coast line,
As regards fit are proceedings this
statement j B m8d( , that for tweuty-two
rs Canada la been anxious to have
b oulK i ftr y clearly and finally
apt tled and nnSf^blo. Jgfj and amicable
proposition to this will be seri
ougly considered,
CAPTAIN GENERAL '* EYLER
Shows Neither Mercy Nor Quarter—In¬
quisitorial Torture Daily Occurences.
The correspondent of tho London
Daily Chronicle in Sagua La Grande,
province of Santa Clara, Cuba, writes
to his paper a terrible account of the
condition of affairs in the island,
Both the government troops and the
insurgents, he says, are suffering hor
ribly from famine and the ravages of
smallpox and yeliow fever, while
butcheries of prisoners after inquisi
torial tortures are of daily occurrence,
,f the victims be suspected of with
holding,information, Captain Weyler, the
General corre
spondent says, has shown neither
mercy nor quarter, and has turned
the campaign in Cuba into a near ap
proach to that of duke of Alva in Hol
land iu the sixteenth century,
A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION,
L’ghtnlng Strikes a Magarine Containing
Twenty Tons of RowJer.
At Wilkesbarre, Pa., during the
prevalence of a heavy rain and thun
Jer storm last Friday afternoon the
powder magazine at the Empire mine,
operated by the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre Coal Company, was struck by
lightning. great
A terrific explosion was go nearly
that it shook the foundation of
every dwelling in Wilkesbarre. Thero
w-ere about twenty tons of powder
stored in the building. No one was
in the place at thp time but John Hig
gins, who was driving by just as the
explosion occurred was instantly killed
by flying debris. ,
Charged W.th Killing Deputies.
At Trinidad, Ool., six men and two
women are under arrest for the mnr
der of Deputiea William Green and
William Kelly, who were iu search of
cattle thieves, in 1895. Officers are
in pursuit of two more men who are
implicated,
Kxport* of Gold.
Lazard Freres, New York shipped
ggOO.OOO in gold to Enrope Saturday,
ft was not taken from the sub-treas
ury. Peabody Co. of Boston,
Kidder, &
shipped $.500,000 in gold to Europe on
Tuesday.
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