Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 26 December 1890 — Page 2

©he democrat DKCATUr7IND. M« BLACKBURN, - • . Pubusbz*. The average width of the path of destruction for young men is wide and »My to follow. Somebody has coined the word “moiorneer,”’ to designate the person who manages the motor on an electric car. It is said that all fashionable wemen now wish to be tall, and to address a stylish lady as “Dumpy” or “Sawed-Off” in considered in bad form. A Chicago man has had three men arrested for throwing a dollar at him. It must be that he was angered because they did not continue the assault; An old cathedral is still standing about seven miles from Tuscon, where It was erected by the first missionaries over three and a half centuries ago. _ , 7- ' • ■ 0- * There are 55,000 Masons in Georgia, which has a larger proportion of Masons in its population than any other State in the Union. At a recent meeting of the Grand Lodge thirty new charters were granted. It is asserted that a velocity of six or •even miles a second will get a body away from the earth’s gravitation, but a small boy laden with coal scuttles who falls down stairs with a velocity of ten miles a second will contradict the assertion. A Boston chemist claims to have discovered a J process of' petrifying the? human body. Os what utility it can be cannot be guessed. There are so many human fossils walking about now that an increase in their number is far from desirable. An old woman died in England lately who was said to have been the cook that lighted the fiie with the manuscript of Carlyle’s “French Revolution.’’ Her name, Roxalana Buggies, dei serves to go down in history with that of the aspiring youth who fired the Ephesian dome. It cost “Our Mary” SIO,OOO to secure her release from a professional engagement with Mr. Abbey in order to meet a matrimonial engagement with Mr. Navarro. In other words, Mr. Navarro cost Mary SIO,OOO in cold cash. Let us hope that Mary has not paid too much for Mr. Navarro. Edward Payson Weston, the once famous pedestrian, is 61 years of age, but he regards a fifty-mile walk of little importance, and he is at present thinking a walk across the continent which will take in all the big towns and stretch over a track that is roughly estimated at 4,000 miles. If will not be done for the love of sport alone, but for the purpose of booming a Western town. ■a — An exchange tells how one can find the day of the week of any date by a simple mathematical calculation. But the simplicity of the -figuring gives no value to the information, because when a“feller’ forgets the day of the week he is generally in such a frame of mind that he cannot tell 2 from next Tuesday. Our mathematical exchange should now publish directions for finding key-hole s with night keys by triangulation. It appears that.luck was not always on Mr. Gould’s side. He recalls that, when he first arrived in New York, he was told very confidentially that there was a gold mine for sale up in New Hampshire. He invested $250 in it, and he has never since been able to find either the county or the town where . the mine was supposed to be. But he has kept the certificate, on which there appears a pretty picture of the miners at work. It has been a sort of beacon to him ever since. ' Two Indians have been lynched near “ Chamberlain, S. D. Some cattle had disappeared in that neighborhood recently and the settlers suspected that the Indians might know something about it. The illogical and untutored Lo, finding that a religious revival brings the whole United States army at his back, and that being discovered in the vicinity where cattle have disap-, peared is a crime ’’which merits death, must have the most hazy and troubled ideas respecting the beliefs and codes of the intellectual pale-face. iX For a choice bit of humor we commend the suggestion that the French yachtsmen may build a yacht to send over to this country to sail for the American cup. Tire Frenchmen have' never been particularly distinguished” as yachtsmen, and we are inclined to think that they would not make much I headway against the American champions that have so often shown their heels to the best English boats. Probably the Frenchmen do not think very "X seriously of this scheme; but if they do, we advise them first to take a fly with the English craft that we find it so easy to distance. Then they will know better whether they ought to come over here or not. And they will never come. It is remarkable that enterprising whales who pass the summer season at Newport and Long Branch, generally alope around to Baltimore during the fall, and pass the winter season among the best society and best oysters of the South. Recently the captain and crew of a vessel in the Chesapeake had a racing match with a whale which was eighty feet long The leviathan went off at a tangent in pursuit of his midday meal and the ocean race was abruptly terminated. But the mere fact that he waa there, or thereabout, shows that Southern progress is not confined to literature, manufactures, or cottongrowing. All things are possible to ’’ p •

1 the people who can have a real whale of their own. i Few people in this country are aware of the fact that a great fair has been held at Tashkend, the capital of Russian Turkestan. The exhibition included the display of products of the central Asian region and was in many ways a remarkable enterprise. Perhaps its chief interest, however, lies in the evidence it gave of the oriental submission to western influence. An endeavor to consummate such an enterprise twenty years ago met with ridiculous failure. Now, with the increase of interrelationships, it has been carried through successfully, the Turks slowly acceding to the propositions of the dominant races, which are gradually extending their sway, together with their railroads, into the darkest of the unenlightened nations. The numerous inventions which have been developed in the past hundred years in the line of cotton-working machinery have worked a revolution in the industry, and cheapened the production of goods very materially. But there is one process which has never yet been materially aided or altered, no mechanical process having been successfully introduced to do the work. Cotton picking has always been done by hand. Now, however, it is reported that a machine for this work has been Invented which promises to be successful in its operation, ft this be true, and the Southern cotton planter can pick his cotton by machinery, and deliver it to the factory in as good condition as at present, a great step has been taken in the future progress and, prosperity of the industry. You can tell the manner of a man by the way he wears his hat Your jovial, happy-go-lucky man wears it on the back of his head. Things do not trouble him much. One reason is that he has never had any trouble. If he had, he would be? wearing his hat farther over. The man who walks along thinking of his work, who is a matter of fact sort of a man, never very happy, and never very blue, wears his hat squarely on his head. The man who has trouble at home, or who is a great thinker, wears his tilted over his face. If you want some one to laugh at your jokes, the first man is youi friend. If you want good advice, go tc the second, and if you want sympathy in trouble, go to the third. There id trouble in his eyes, and the tilted hat brim tells it instead of hiding it. A melancholy case was brought tc light in Brooklyn the other day when a man was taken to court on the charge of neglecting to provide for his family. He solemnly asseverated that he carried home all the money hq, earned.. Being further questioned, he admitted that his sole means of livelihood was serving as a juror, and that he only got a chance to prosecute his vocation about once a year. This is sometimes scoffed at as the age of the decadence of faith. the poof day after day and year after year! Is it any wonder if he has sometimes doubted whether, after all, trial by jury is the palladium of ouf liberties? Certainly he were to be pardoned if questionings and suspicions sometimes arose in his mind. Still, the calm wings of his faith soared above such petty things, and he faced the future with confidence. As a family provider, though, it is plain that such a person has ‘ serious drawbacks. But there’s no denying his faith; it might not be able to remove mountains, but it would not hesitate at a fair-sized hill. Seaweed as Food. To The Scottish Review Mr. A. H. J. Crespi contributes an interesting article upon strange foods. “Seaweed,” says Dr. Crespi, “is eaten on the coasts of Scotland and Ireland in vast quantities, and though unpalatable and flavorless, is at times the chief food of some of the poorest. When dry it is richer than oatmeal or Indian corn in nitrogenous constituents, and takes rank among the most nutritious of vegetable foods. Laver is an exception to the low estimation in which seaweed is held, and is a favorite condiment. We have known it eaten in large quantities in North Devon, and with great relish. To prepare seaweed for the table it should be steeped in water to get rid or the salt with which it is impregnated, and a little carbonate of soda removes the bitter taste, which to some palates is most disagreeable. It should then be stewed in milk or water till mucilaginous, and is best flavored with vinegar or pepper. Fungi are almost every- ■, though in England d to them than they nds appear at tabie. is to suppose that id toadstools poisonof demarcation exspeaking, has the y precise meaning. ,re edible, and the ually eaten in England is not the most palatable and wholesome. Few foods are more savory, and none are greater favorites, than well-cooked fungi, and the souls of vegetarians yearn for them. Woyinlng’s Soda Deposit Sold. A syndicate of English and French capitalists have purchased the celebrated soda lake property in Natrona County, Wyoming. The consideration for the property, which consists of 240 acres of land, is $2,000,000. The soda deposits involved in the sale are the only ones known to exist, and are practically inexhaustible. At this lake the soda is found already transformed by nature into a sulphate, leaving the only remaining process the one necessary to convert it into a carbonate of soda. This reduces the cost of production fully fifty-per cent. By analysis the deposits at this lake are found to be ninety-six per cent, pure soda. Baron Dcbesyne, who is at the head of the purchasing syndicate, is the largest manufacturer of soda in France, and heavy English manufacturers are also interested in the deal. The syndicate > will at once commence the erection of a large manufacturing plant. z Mr. Callows—“ls the report true /that you are married?” Miss Three Stars —“No such luck. I’m even out of an engagement.”

TO WORK FOR REFORM. ' THE REFORM CLUB OF NEW AND ITS GREAT FIGHT. A Great Power in the Recent ElectionHow the Tariff Fight Wai Carried On— Victories Gained on the Stump and Through the Press—Already Opening the Great Battle of ’92. One of the most important agencies in securing the great tariff reform victory of November 4 was the Reform Club of New York City. This club was organized, in January, 1888, for the purpose of furthering several important reforms, such as the Australian ballot law and the reduction or abolition of tariff taxation, especially the latter. It at once attracted to itself a strong mem- , bership of enthusiastic men in business or professional life, who were earnestly impressed with the id_pa that pur present protective system is a injustice, and that all patriotic citizens ought to enlist themselves in the war hgainst it, and continue that war till just relations are established between producer and consumer. In the Presidential election two years ago, the club took an active part in the fight for tariff reform. Undaunted by the defeat of that year, the club determined to begin at fight for the Congressional elections of 1890. The .publication of tariff-reform literature went on without interruption, and already in the fall of 1889 the club was maturing its plans for work during the winter and spring of tliis year. A meeting of the club has recently beeit held, at which reports of its work were read. Some of the points in these are of interest to the friends of tariff reform everywhere, as showing the vigor .and effectiveness with which the fight was carried on. At the meeting referred to, Hom John DeWitt Warner. Congressman-elect from the Eleventh New York District, read the report from the General Committee on Tariff Reform, of which he is Chairman. From this report, which includes reports of the various subordinates, a most interesting view o£> the scope and thoroughness of the club's work is obtained. One of the most important pieces of work done by the .gjubyvas a complete poll canvass of the voters of New York State outside the larger > cities. In this way the names and addresses of 659,100 voters were obtained. The lists conveyed also some general information about-each voter, such as his politics, his tariff views, his occupation, whether a Grand Army man. etc. This last was used with excellent effect in distributing the tariff reform documents which the club publishes and - circulates. Tariff matter was sent to each man which would be best, suited to his case. When, for example, it was desired to inform the farmer of the State of the humbug nature of the McKinley tax on barley, the mailing clerks of the club had but to turn to the poll-lists and select the farmers in the barley-growing counties of the State. But this subcommittee, of which Mr. Jason Hinman is chairman, did not content itself with, the mere distribution of documents. It organized speaking tours in many of the counties and sent out speakers in this way to talk tariff to the farmers and people of the smaller country villages. An extensive series of such meetings was held in the winter and spring, and these tours were resumed in the fall. More important still were the joirit tariff discussions at county fairs in August and September. On July 22 Mr. Hinman challenged the American Protective League to debate with Reform Club speakers the tariff question before the farmers at sixteen annual fairs. A month passed without an answer; then, in the middle of August, the Protective League replied that they had the matter under consideration. Two county fair meetings had been addressed by tariff reform speakers before the awakened to the real situation. On Au?. 29 they sent in a notice of acceptance/of Mr. Hinman's challenge. In accordance with this plan debates were arranged at forty-one fairs. The Reform Club was represented in these debates by tariff reformers of national reputation, like Hon. Wm. M. Springer of Illinois, Hon. W. D. Bynum of Indiana, Hon. Wm. L. Wilson of West Virginia, and Hon. John -E. Russell of Massacusetts. The effects of this work were seen at the 7 election on Nov. 4. In the twenty Congressional districts north of NewYork City, in which this work was done, the Democrats made a gain of seven Congressmen. Simultaneously with this activity in New York the committee was carrying on operations in every other State in the Union, but, of course, giving its attention chiefly to those States which most needed evangelistic assistance. Literature was sent into those States, agents of the committee were dispatched to some of them to aid focal reformers in organizing tariff reform movements upon the lines adopted by the committee, and during the campaign speakers were sent to points where help was most needed in the fight for Congressmen. Under the auspices of the club poll canvasses were made in the whole of lowa and Connecticut, and in parts of Washington, Maryland, South Dakota, Michigan and Wisconsin, while in a number of other States one or more Congressional districts were canvassed in the same way. The lists thus collected were used by the club in the distribution of literature. Many of the club’s documents were also supplied to the campaign committees of the various States, the State Central Committee of Wisconsin alone circulating 250,000 of them. Ono district in the West was selected in which to make special efforts. This was the district in Illinois now represented by Mr. Powell. Here a special canvass was made at the expense of the Reform Club. The district was supposed to be hopelessly against tariff reform. It wife covered, however, and a few weeks before the eleci tion a complete canvass was handed to , Mr. Scott, the tariff reform candidate, with data showing him that he wojgld be elected—as he was by a good majority—though neither he nor his opponent i could believe it until some days after the ’ election . . / The good results of the club's work in the West may be seen from the following ( extracts from letters: Wesley W. Hyde, Grand Rapids, Mich.; I cannot refrain from writing you in rela- • tion to your influence and effectiveness in i the campaign in Michigan and the West. I | believe that to your literature, more than ! any other one thing, the Democrats owe their victory. Nothing could be more ad- ! mirable and timely than the literature on tariff questions. It formed the text-book > of speakers and writers alike, and enabled , us to present our side of the question inr .telligently, exhaustively and forcibly. I want to thank you In the name of all tariff • reformers here for your good work. Hon. Neal Brown, Warsaw, Wis.: You I have helped us very greatly in Wisconsin , during the present campaign, _ and pers.mally I owe a great deal to the information 1 obtained from your briefs on the tariff i question. I hope that you will not cease j your work, but that you will at once comi mence the campaign of 1802. In Wisconsin .. we shall do our utmost to hold the electoral • vote for President, and from present indl- > cations we shall succeed. From what I > know of your work in other States I have I no doubt but what you have made tens of thousands of votes for tariff reform. The greatest good you have dene has been in educating our own leaders upon the tariff I question. A . most important part of the club’s I work during the campaign was the inrI Risking of tariff-reform matter through

_ newspaper syndicates and press associations to more than 1,000 country papers, having, as is estimated, a reading circulation of at least 2,000,000 readers. This work was begun a year ago and has grown up gradually to its portions. It goes on since the election just as during the campaign, and there is scarcely any less demand for the matter than during the campaign. This I part of the work will be carried right on through the great tariff reform battle of 1892. The Reform Club has recently moved into its new house on Fifth avenue, in New York, bought and fitted up at an expense of about $325,000. Its membership, both local and non-resident, is

o - ■ ■ I f ■■ „ ' . ‘ . - f e \ ' . ( «w/\ x - Si ft - - jW<OPOLYS ) poaching Ano — - SHMT/WS Ot FIRE-/I POSITIVELY /I . -n rrtOK/eireo The Farmer—They thought I wasn't loaded before, but if they come monkeying around again I'll let ’em have the other barrel.—Chicago Herold.

growing rapidly, and the club is fast becoming recognized as the leading organized force in this country at work against the iniquitous high tariff. It work will go forward with energy and courage until justice is done in the matter of taxation. IMPORTED INDUSTRIES. A GREAT LOCK-OUT IN THE « SPOOL THREAD MILLS. Th® Clark Spool Threat! Company Locks tp Its Mills and Throws 3,000 Operatives Out of Employment—A Case of'Protection for Labor. Our high tariff apostles always greet with joy those European industries which are compelled by reason of the high tariff to remove their mills to this country. When McKinley was defending his high Chinese wall in Congress last May he said: “Let them bring their factories right over here. Bring $25,000,000 over here and sit down among us and employ our labor and consume the products of our farmers. ” Republican cohorts applauden the sentiment. Since the passage of the McKinley law there has been a great deal qf talk about European manufacturers who are re- ' ported to be on the point of setting up mills on this side of the ocean.’ The Republican papers print such news as this and comment on it as vindicating the wisdom of recent tariff legislation Since the. election, however, there has been a noticeable falling off of rumors of this kind, and when the London Economist pointed out that European manufacturers, who had contempleted establishing mills here, would now perhaps be deterred from that step by reason of the Democratic victories,, our protectionist journals copied these expressions with great satisfaction. These journals do not seem to see that news of this kind makes out a strong case against MeKinleyism. Tariff reformers have never wearied of reiterating that our high tariff secures undue profits to the manufacturers, and that the McKinley law must increase these profits to a greater extent than ever. When a Earopean manu-

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facturer decides to go to the great expense of moving a mill to America, paying high duties on his machinery, it is the most convincing proof possible of the assertion that manufacturing is in many lines assured of undue profits. When, therefore, these manufacturers are frightened out of moving their machinery over here by a Democratic victory, they simply recognize the fact that the Democrats are not going to allow undue tariff spoils to be collected from the people by the protected interests. But McKinley did not originate the notion of transferring European industries to America; the old tariff had already forced some manufacturers to establish themselves in this country to avoid higher duties, and reap their portion of protection’s spoils. A company of this kind is the Clark Thread Company, of Newark and Kearney, N. J. The old duty of 40 per cent, ad valorem on linen thread and a duty on cotton spool thread equal to over 50 per cent, caused this company to set up mills here some years ago as branches of their great establishment in Scotland. McKinley raised the duty on linen thread to 45 per cent, ad valorem in the better grades and higher still on the cheaper ones. This was done notwithstanding the fact that a prominent Massachusetts firm engaged in the manufacture of linen thread said to McKinley through their authorized agents that

they did not need any higher protection, and that if the duty on dressed flax were removed altogether they would be willing to have the duty on thread reduced to 25 per cent. But, alas, there were other people who wanted a still higher duty on dressed flax. The old duty was S4O per ton; they wanted this doubled. McKinley raised it to S6O per ton; and then, to compensate the thread men, he raised the duty on their product as above shown; The high duty on cotton thread and the increased duty on linen thread ought to make the manufacturers able to keep their labor happy and contented; since it is always in behalf of labor that protection is pretended to be given. But

these same imported Clark establishments at Newark and Kearney, N. J., have not succeeded in making their labor happy and contented. A difficulty has recently arisen between the superintendent and the operatives, resulting in a strike of the spinners and the lock-out of all the other employes. The total number thus out of employment is 3,000. Nearly half of these are girls, and some of them showed their disappointment in theii tears. It is true that the lock-out did not have its cause in a dispute about wages. But the McKinley scheme of compelling foreigners to “sit down among us and employ ohr labor” ought to guarantee employment to that labor. Is the country to be forced to pay higher prices for thread to enrich these foreigners and ta get our labor employed, and is the labor then to go unemployed, while the protected foreigners jingle their guineas in their pockets'? Does it not seem that the Republican scheme for protecting labor by enriching the employer is a scheme with an enormous hole in it? Where is the guarantee that the laborer will get steady employment, and if he does, that he will get any higher wages? Prices Still Going Up. The advance in prices, which made havoc among Republican caiyiidates for Congress on Nov. 4, still goes on. In reviewing the market for foreign dry goods in New York, the Journal of Commerce. of that city says: “Prices are as strong as they have been at any time since higher values were demanded. The advance to full tariff ratds is necessarily slow, but the desired end is gradually Jjeing reached, and the new season will not have advanced far before prices will have actually reached thal level. ” The trade papers simply record facts as they find them in the markets. Theii reports cannot be subject to suspicion as being influenced by the “Democratic conspiracy to raise prices. ” It is interesting to note that while trade papers in sympathy with protection print the facts about rising prices, Democratic papers which reprinted these facts were denounced by the Republican press and

speakers as in a “conspiracy to raise prices. ” One such trade paper in sympathy with protection is the New York Dry Goods Economist, which is perhaps the leading organ of the dry goods trade in this country. In> a recent number the Economist shows how the McKinley tariff is still getting in its work of raising prices. The Economist says: “A 54-inch double-warp Italian, which cost 52cents to import on Oct. 1 last, one week later cost 72hj cents; a little better grade, which cost 60 cents to import, was jumped up by the McKinley bill to 82 H cents, making a difference in the retail price of either grade not less than 25 cents a yard. The amusing part of this is that one-third in value and about the same in weightAjf this cloth is American cotton, on which the McKinley tariff imposes, in addition to the ad valorem duty, four times the duty on the Australian wool, of which the remainder of the fabric consists. This putting an enormous wool duty on our own cotton when we bring it back to this country would be enough to make a cow laugh, if it wpre not such an irritating piece of What better description can we have of an old decaying and forsaken house than Byron’s line, “All tenantloßg, save to the crannying wind." Man is sometimes self-made, while woman is often tailor-made. i

THE SENATE AND HOUSE. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceedings of the Senate and Hom>* of Representatives — Important Measures Discassed and Acted Upon—Gist of the Business. The Senate, with a small attendance of members, proceeded on the 17th with the usual routine business of the morning hour. When Mr. Quay called up the bill providing for the sale of the old Customs-House building at Erie. Pa., Mr. Blair protested against giving time to such unimportant matters while so many bills of national importance were pending, and said that if the Senate could do nothing else during the present session but change its rules it should do that, and future Senators could then proceed to do something for the country. After a long debate the House passed the apportionment bill with amendment—yeas, 187;’ nays, 82. Mr. Flower presented the claims of New York City fora recount. Mr. Washington of Tennessee also argued in favor of the recount. M'S. Allen of Mississippi thought it a mistake to increase the House membership. Mr. Tillman of South Carolina spoke in favor of the bill. He defended the Superintendent' of the Census, as did also Mr. McKenna of California. Mr. Blount of Georgia favored the bill. The previous question was ordered and a vote taken on Mr. Mcßae's amendment to make the membership 359. It. was lostyeas, 113; nays, 145. Mr. Washington offered as a substitute for Mr. Flower’s amendment (to give New Y’ork one more Representative) an amendment ordering a recount in New York City and county, the representation of New Y’ork to be made thirty-five if the recount warrants it. Lost —yeas. 123; nays, 148. Mr. Flower withdrew his amendment and the bill was passed—yeas.' 187: nays, 82. It fixes the membershipof tlieHouseof Representatives at 35<K In the Senate, the election bill was taken up again on the 18tb, and Mr. Coke spoke in opposition to it. Mr. Cullom (Republican), accepted the bill as the best that could be framed to meet the evils complained of, with the understanding that he should favor such amendments as might be offered and might meet his approbation. The bill, he said, had been opposed on the other side of the chamber, notably by Mr. Gray and Mr. George, on the ground that the General Government had no right under the Constitution to control and manage the election of Representatives to Congress in the States. But in that objection there was no virtue. The duty was imposed upon it by the Constitution and by the results of the war —to protect the negro of the South in his right to cast a free ballot and to have a fair count; in his right to exercise, without fear of violence and undeterred by threats of any kind, all the political rights of American citizens. The time was at hand. Mr. Cullom declared, when the authority of the Government must be interposed in behalf of the negroes of the South. In the morning hour in the House the pending measure was the Senate bill amending the interstate-commerce act by providing for the taking of depositions by notaries public. The bill was passed. Mr. Farquhar, of New York, as Chairman of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. moved that the House go into committee of the whole for the consideration of the Senate bill to place the ’American marine engaged in the foreign trade on an equality vvith that of other nations, with the House substitute therefor. Mr. Farquhar made a motion that the House go into eomn*ittee of the whole on the state of the I’nion, and the House proceeded to the consideration of the Senate bill to place the American merchant marine on an equality with that of other nations. ' Mr. Stanford addressed the Senate on the 19th in explanation and advocacy of his bill to provide the Government with means sufficient to supply the national want of a sound circulating medium. Said he: ‘‘The bill I am now considering proposes to put the Government in a condition to issue a supply of money equal substantially to the general demand, and to erect a standard by which the Government may determine what Is the amount needed. This has never been attempted by any Government. The money (legal tender notes) will be issued under the provisions of this bill upon unimpeachable and practically inexhaustible security, and its supply is ascertained and determined by the rate which the borrower can afford to pay. Two per cent, is the amount to be paid to the Government for the loan of its money, and so long as money is worth more than 2 per Cent., the security being practically inexhaustible. money will always be borrowed from the Government, and thus the Government will be able to discharge its duty and supply the general want. As borrowed money is not expected to lie idle, but to be used, it goes into general circulation to supply the needs of business, and its abundance stimulates not only the larger but the smaller enterprises and industries on which so largely depend the steady employment of labor with its natural conse--1 quences—general prosperity. The rate of interest on these loans on real estate is 1 fixed at 2 per cent? in the bill, but in time ; may be reduced as experience shall teach. The rate of interest charged by the Government under the provisions of this bill will not necessarily fix the ! general rate of interest for business pur- ! poses. That always will be determined by I its value in use. The farmer having this I best security will borrow for his own use or the use of others who may be willing to pay x him a satisfactory interest. The banker borrows money from the Government free of interest and loans it at such rate as its use commands in the market. No business of importance was transacted in the House. Mr. Pettigrew introduced in the Senate, on the 20th, a bill to prohibit the sale of firearms and ammunition to Indians on reservations. Referred. A dozen private pension bills were taken up and passed. Mr. Moody, from the Committee on Indian Depredation Claims, reported from the House a bill for the adjudication of claims arising from Indian depredations. Calendar. Mr. Platt Introduced a joint resolution appropriating 8100,000 to enable the President to take action to obtain from the German Government a supply of the remedy discovered by Dr. Koch and the formula for the manufacture of the same. Laid over. Mr, Paddeck gave notice that after the consideration of the pending bill (and before it should be concluded, if its debate was to be protracted to any great extent) he would ask the Senate to take up the pure food bill, which was demanded by the farmers from one end of the country to the other. Mr. Edmunds demanded the regular order, and the floor was taken by Mr. Spooner in a speech in advocacy of the election bill. In the House Mr. Milliken of Maine presented a number of conference reports on public building bills. In every case the change made in the measure was purely verbal in its character, and though this statement was made by Mr. Milliken Mr. Rogers of Arkansas insisted upon the re:*ing of each report in full. The reports were all agreed to, but a good deal of time was consumed. BIG THINGS. The highest waterfall in the world is that of the Yellowstone River. The greatest cave in the world is the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. - The greatest lake in the world is Lake Superior, 430 miles long and 1,000 feet dcdt>. The largest bell in the world is the great bell of Moscow, which weighs 440,000 pounds. j A mortgage on a railroad for $75,000,000, the largest on record, has just been filed at Pittsburg. The greatest natural bridge in the world is over Cedar Creek, in Virginia, eighty feet wide and 250 feet high. , The United States Government holds in its Treasury more cash than any other state—s643,6oo,ooo in gold and silver. The greatest city park in the world is that of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia,. containing over twenty-nine hundred acres. The falls of Niagara carry down 1 10,000,000 cubic feet of water per mifi--1 ute, equal to about 3,000,000 horsepower. The largegj; tree in the world is in Fresno County, California. It has a circumference of 120 feet 5 inches four feet from the ground.

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