Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 27 February 1891 — Page 2

©he democrat DKCATUR3ND. X. BLACKBURN, • • . Ptteluhh, Tn 1819 the United States purchased Florida from Spain. , “ "Work is the best remedy for heartaches. To cure your own sorrow, help your neighbor. At last it has been proved mathematically that it is impossible to squqre'the the circle. Thus in time does science overtake experience. In 1894 it will be 100 years sine Hungary became an independent government, and it is proposed to celebrate the anniversary with great jemp. f Grand Bauds, Mich., leads the world in its percentage of divorces to marriages. This year it was one to five and last year one to six. The total number of dissolutions was *213. The report that 22,000 people have died of smallpox in Guatemala within six months sounds almost too astonishing to be true. If it is correct, the vaccinator evidently has a fine field for work there. Jan. 8, 1815, was the day on which the battle of New Orleans, in the second war with Great Britain was fought. Wonderful victory of Gen. Andrew Jackson with his entrenchments of cotton bales. \ Four hundred out of every 1,000,000 of the residents of Saxony, in Ger- ; 4 many, commit suicide. In Leipsic the proportion is the highest in the world, reaching 450 per 1,000,000. In London I it is only 85 per 1,000,003. c MB x Arabi Pasha is slowly dying in Ceylon. It has been suggested that an appeal be made to the British GovernF’ ment asking that some more fitting k* place be selected where the unhappy Egyptian chief can serve out his exile. A recent invention is an electric mineral ore detector, by which it is claimed that the presence of ore may be detected. By this means a comparatively inexperienced person is able to tell whether the sample contains ore or not. . Had Jack Dempsy ran for the presidency of the United States and been defeated he would not have felt the bitterness of it half so much as he does the affair at New Orleans. When a champion is downed earth has fno further charms for him. Although whales grow to enormous size, sometimes eighty and even ninety feet long, the throat is so small that the animal couldn’t swallow a bite as large as a tea biscuit. This applies to the common whale. The spermaceti lias it mouth large enough to swallow a man. ' " Oxi telephone was put in at a small town in Kansas, and the owner of a house to rent immediately raised the price $5 per month. Then he went over and called up a saw-mill half a mile away and burst a blood-vessel trying to kee’p up a conversation over the wire. ‘ It is pretty evident that every band of Indians will fight before they will surrender their rifles, but the only way to keep the red man docile is to disarm him and dismount him. If he can fight the soldiers with stones and shillalahs he is welcome to the satis- — faction. *. , , Gf.n. Ben Bi tj.er, though nearly seventy-five years old, is one of he hardest working lawyers in Boston. He comes down from Lowell every morning and goes back at night after a day of toil, and he does not hesitate burn the midnight oil when occasion requires. The track mileage of street railways in the five leading cities of the United Statesis said to be as follows; New York, ‘168; Chicago, 365 ; Boston, 329; 8r00k1yn,324; Philadelphia, 324. Three •ities have elevated roads : New York, >-»2 miles; Brooklyn, 24 miles, aud Kansas City, 5 “miles. s The custom of the Japanese in not permitting a father to see his child un- • lil it is three months old was founded an the idea that the youngster wouldn’t know his dad at an earlier ago. Having never seen him, how he should know him at three months is a question the Japs entirely overlooked. M John Beals was arrested in Kansas for malicious trespass. He promised the Sherifi not to dig his way out of jail if left unwatched, but inside of three days he went through the brick wall, stole the Sheriff’s horse and buggy, and then took Mrs. Sheriff in with him and galloped away to parts unknown. A ciTiZßafypf Portland, Me., applied to another citizen for relief, claiming to be in destitute circumstances. He was arrested next day on a charge of false pretenses, as it w as discovered that he had a quart of w hisky and nine cents when he applied for relief. The law will now have to define what “destitute” means. An Austrian professor says that many women who keep lap-dogs suffer from an affection of the liver caused by a small parasite which is peculiar to the dog’s liver. 3. This explains everything. It never did seem possible that the silliness of some women’s demonstrations over pet dogs was due to an affection of the heart. Dr. Felix L. Oswald has contributed an article to the Medical Tribune on “The Night Air Cure,” in which he maintains that night air from»the outside is far more healthful than the vitiated, disease-laden night air of ordinary human dwellings. In Germany successful experiments have been tried in summer of having patients with pul-

, monary disorders deep all night in the i open air of the pine woods. At any rate it is all we have to breathe at night, and it had better be fresh and pure as possible. A black convict in the South Carolina penitentiary made his escape the other day, but after two days of freedom he returned’ of his own accord, saying that he could not find as good a place outside of it for the amount ol labor he was obliged to perform. In fact, when he got home he found nothl ing to eat and the fire all out. .1 ■ - - < . Mayor Yancey, of Lynchburg, Va., announced that he would remit all th< fines of citizens* for failing to remove snow from their premises, as he consider ed it unjust to fine a citizen for an offense that the city was guilty of. He then issued rules against the superintendent of the city hands and the city engineer to appear before the court to show cause why they did not do their duty in cleaning snow tiff the city property. V- ■■ -- r. ', , , -! One of the most excellent of recent innovations is the introduction of metal ceilings in place of wood and plaster. These ceilings do not shrink or bum like wood; they will not stain, crack or fall off like plaster, but being permanent, durable, fireproof and ornamental, will eventually super sed< both wood and plaster, besides being An the end far more economical than either. A correspondent of the London Times says that he and his party saw a rainbow which formed a complete circle, visible for nearly half an hour during their ascent of the Finsteraarhorn. “There were,” he says, “heavj clouds lying some 4,000 feet below or the Aar glaciers, and it was on these that the beautiful brilliantly colored ring lay. A second circle was also visible. We were near the summit oi the peak when we first observed it, and from that point the face of th« mountain on the Grinsei side is almost perpendicular.” . In Britain the Royal Society for thi Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ar< turning their attention to the condition in which cattle are landed from the Atlantic and to the treatment they receive, In a case at Birkenhead a seaman was charged for cruelly ill-treating a steej at the freight landing stage, and was sent to priso® for twenty-one days, with hard labor. It would be well if oui American Societies would look after the treatment of animals here in the various stockyards throughout the country. In many instances the animals are treated in the most cruel manner. You think you know what a servant is. Well, don’t be too sure about it. Not long ago a Rhode Island gentleman died, directing in . his will that the sum of $12,000 be equally divided among his servants. And when the division was madb the woman who had washed the windows of his house was left out, on the ground that she did not technically come under the designation of a servant. Os course she has brought suit to find out why this is thus, and the lawyers may be expected tc make a pretty fight over the point whether the washing of a window is a menial act de jure or only a menial act de facto. The youngest married couple that ever passed through the barge office in New York put in an appearance last week. The husband, Yussef Gosn, wasj only 16 years old, and his wife, Mai-1 acha Simaan, was of the almost infan- I tile age of 11. The couple were from Lebanon, in Syria, the husband having been in this country before for two years and having returned seven months ago to claim his bride. He was accompanied by his mother, a woman 40 years old, who said that the mar riage of the two children had been sactioned by the parents of both. The young couple will ply the trade of peddlers. One of the curious products of Mexico is the jumping bean, a vegetable curiosity, whose freaks of acrobatic agility has never been fully explain ed by the scientists. They grow in pods, each pod containing three beans. Each segment is rounded on one side ano A-shaped on the other, greenish yellou color, and in circumference about the size of a large lead-pencil. When placed on a table they Toll over and skip about, sometimes actually jumping a?good two inches. When held be tweejfrthe thumb and forefinger they arc felt to beat a« strongly as the throbbing ! of?a strong man’s pulse. The Agricul- j tural Department at Washington has been acquainted with the rarity since 1884. - . - ' A Terrible Ostracism. It is true that the British law ir India permits the widow to marry again. But custom, far more powerful, forbids it; and the family abetting remarriage, even in the case of maiden widows, would, in most parts of India be doomed to social ostracism. An enlightened Hindoo in Madras, the editor of the "native newspaper, had a daughter whose child-husband died. The two had been married in infancy, and never lived together. This editor, pitying his daughter’s widowed condition, determined to obtain for her another husband. The father was esteemed by the European community and popular with his own race. If any one could safely contravene prejudice and custom he seemed to be the man. He procured a worthy young man as a husband for the “widow,” who had never met a husband before. They were married, and the father felt that he had done a noble act both for his daughter and his people. But the weight of ostracism, more terrible and intolerable in India than in any other country, began to oppress the editor and his family. Enlightenment and philosophy were not sufficient antidotes for the bane of loss of caste. The editor’s wife whs the first to succumb. Her European friends encouraged her; but in vain. She died, not of disease, but of heart-breaking, crushed by social odium and contempt. Her husband, at last accounts, was striving tc bear up as manfully as possible; but k there was a ring of melancholy and despair in his latest letter to a British friend who gave these facta publicity,

; M’KINLEYISM EXPOSED. | THE TARIFF LAW MINUTELY EXAMINED. » Ab Item by Item Companion of the Old and Mew Tariff Laws and the Mills BillSpecific Duties Changed Into Ad Valorem Equivalents—Some Enormous Duties. * The Reform Ch’. of New York has i recently published a pamphlet which I will prove of great assistance to all persons who wish to study the McKinley 1 tariff law. This pamphlet is called “Comparison—ltem by Item. ” It gives a comparison of each duty under the old tariff with the same Under the Mills bill and under the McKinley law. The value of this comparison is in the fact that it gives the ad valorem equivalent of the specific and compound duties. The difficulty with most people in getting a correct idea of the extent and weight of the tariff burden is that most duties are levied at so much per pound, gallon, yard, etc. This is called a specific duty. On a very large class of articles, too, there arc two duties, one specific and the other ad valoren. Now. if a person does not know the first cost of an article by the yard, pound, etc., it is impossible for him to form a correct idea of just what the duty on it means. He cannot tell how much duty there is on the dollar s worth of goods. Yet this is the only form in which one can decide whether a duty is high or low. When a blacksmith is told that the duty on anvils is 2S' cents a pound he cannot form an exact idea of the size of this duty unless it is estimated at so much on the dollar. In order Ito get that estimate he must know ttje price of anvils when brought in at the custom house. That price was an average of 6 cents a pound in 1889; and the duty of 21/ cents a pound is therefore equal to 42 cents on the dollar’s worth. That which is landed at the custom at $1 goes to the wholesale merchants at 81.42, and is passed on through other dealers and finally to the blacksmith at a price at least double the first cost Still more difficult to estimate are the so-called compound duties, or specific and ad valorem duties on the same article. Take corduroys, for example; when a woman is told that the corduroy goods that she buys pay a duty of 14 cents a yard and 20 cents'ad valorem, she cannot tell just how high that duty is. She must know that-corduroy costs in England all the way from 15 cents a yard to 70 cents. Then she can calculate the duty on the dollar's worth. She will find that on corduroy worth 15 cents a yard the duty will be 14 cents specific and 3 cents ad valorem, equal to 17 cents, or a single ad valorem duty of 113 per cent. In other words, a dollar’s worth of corduroy will leave the custom house at a cost to the importer of $2.13. The pamplet already referred to changes all duties into their ad valorem equivalents, and any one can learn from it what tariff duty he pays on a doHar’s worth qf any goods The three tariffs, compared have ea h two columns, one for specific duties and one for equivalent ad valorem duties. The headings of these columns are given thus: Tariff of 1883. Mills bill. McKinley tariff. I Ad [ ’Ad I Ad Specific. val. | Specific. |val. Specific. vaL I I II I $ cts. Ip.c. i S cts. p. c . S cts. p.c. The changing of the McKinley compound duties on woolen goods into their ad valorem equivalents gives a striking exhibition, of the enormity of the present tariff law. A few cases will suffice. Here is how the matter looks when the compound duties on woolen and worsted clpth, blankets, wool hats, and flannel for underwear aros changed into their equivalents: •WOOLENS AXI> “WORSTEDS. McKinley tariff. i~Ad I Specific. ] vaL c. I c Valued at not above 3?c per 1b.'33 c «S:4O Vo 150 "Valued above 30c and not above 40c per lb 38Jjc &40 f?c 136 Valued above 4Uc and not! above 8l)c 44 c &50 pc 125 Valued above 80c per lb 44 c&iO pc 86 BLANKETS, HATS, AND FLANNELS. ~~ ' Valued at not above 30c per Ib.lieysc &30 Ibc 91 Valued above 30c and not] I above 40c *23 c &35 Pc 98 i Valued above 40c and not| ; above 50c 33 c &35 Ibc 101 Valued above 50c, and not above 60e 38}. 2 c &40 ibc 119 Valued above 60c, and not’ above 80c -. 3S' 1 ->c <5:40 Pc 95 Valued above 80c .. 38SjC &-40 pc , 71 The equivalent ad valorem duties on knit woolen goods range from 79 to 166 per cent.; on woolen and worsted yarns, from 72 to 132; on women’s and children’s dress goods from 73 to 123. On ready-made clothing, composed wholly or in part of wool, the duties are 49)< cents a pound and 60 per cent., and these duties are equal to an ad valorem duty of 85 per cent. This tariff dictionary might well be called an exposure of McKinleyism. Steel Kail Production. Our total production of Bessemer steel rails las? year was 1,797,489 gross tons of 2,240 pounds. The price- of rails has recently been fixed by the steel rail combination at S3O a ton. The average total cost of producing a ton of steel rails in this country has been given officially by Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright as 825.77. The net difference between this cost of production and the price at which the combination sells rails is $4.23 a ton. If this was the net average l gain on the tottil product of last year our i steel rail manufacturers —there arc now j only six companies—cleared $7,600,000 last year. The price for the first half of last year was considerably above S3O. The present price of rails In England is s2s per ton, or a difference of $6 cheaper than at our trust price. . To Cover this difference our trust is given a protective Aiuty of $13.44 a ton. If this difference of $6 a ton continues throughout this year, and we produce the same quantity of rails as last year, we shall be compelled to pay $lO,780,000 more for them than the price of the same quantity in England. In order to insure ourselves the privilege of paying more for our rails, and increasing the prices of our railroad tickets and of freights, we tax steel rails $13.44 a ton. The protection on 1,797,000 tons at this figure equals $24,150,000. This is the sum which foreign rail-makers would have to pay if they should try to flood our markets with 1,797,000 tons of rail. ’ . But the home market is sacred, and we must keep it for our own use to make our own millionaires No wonder that Andrew Carnegie is reported to have said at a dinner in London last year, that the American people are great fools to tax themselves to make millionaires of a few smart men like himself. Where th. Tariff Is a Tax. Italy is one of the most heavily protected countries in Europe. The high taxation on the necessaries of life Tn that country lays an intorable burden upon the, poor laboring people, and perhaps in no country in Europe is there so much poverty. But there is strong and intelligent opposition in Italy to high protection. The opponents of protection there have been making a study of the actual cost of protection. One of these, Signor Pareto, has published a statement showing the tariff taxation of a workingman’s family at Florence. This family is composed of poor hard-working people. Its entire earnfhgs for a pear amounted

to>47«, and its savings were $5. Out of the family’s expenses of 3471, taxes direct and indirect amounted to sll3, or 23 per cent, of the* total expense. The share of the royal treasury was $69, the 21” o y tOO, f the P rovince 82, and about $lB went into the pockets of protected Wmi?- . turers ant * agriculturists. v lYu SDends $41.20 for clothing, but that sum included a tax of 87.41, of which $1.28 went to the state and $6.13 into the pocket of the protected manufacturer. In like manner, the family paid out for bread $77.40, in so doing turning over to the state $7.22, to the city $2.69, and to the protected producer $8.85. So much for protected Italy. A similar study of the expenditures of a family in England has, been made. In England there is no protective tariff, and the amount of taxation upon the poor is, therefore, far less than in protected countries. The English family in question was composed of a man and wife and five children. Their expenses for a year were about $385, of which only about sl7 went to pay taxes. The rate of taxation of the Italian family was more than five times greater than that t of the Ejglish family. A few cases will show why there is so ! great a difference between the expenses • of theltalian and the English family. The , English family buys untaxed sugar at a • little below 5 cents a pound, while the ; Florence family has to pay 14 cents. The duty on sugar he must pay the state and city is nearly S cents a pound. The Italian family has to pay a duty of '

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over IS cents a pound on coffee, the English family 4 cents. Kerosene oil costs the Italian family 58 cents a gallon, which includes a duty of 36 cents a gallon. Evidently the tariff is a tax in Italy. Imports for December. When President Harri-on sent his message to Congress he nointed with pride to the fact that up to some'time in November the entries of goods at the New York Custom House were 8 per cent, greater than for the corresponding period in 1889. He called attention to this sac. in his de sense of the M< Kinley bill against the charge that it hindered importation. The President apparently took delight in noting that the tariff bill was failing to do the very thing it was intended to do. But the President was too hasty. The recently published report of the Treasury Department on imports and exports for December shows some marked decreases in imports for that month. The total decrease for the month on dutiable goods was nearly a million dollars' worth. The following table gives some of the entries in which a decrease is reported, together with the imports In December, 1890 and 1889: ’ ?89<j’ W)’. Buttons SIOB,OOO $211,000 Clocks 9,000 ' 39,000 Cotton manufactures.... 2,942,000 3,110,00) Fancy articles 447,033 540,000 Manufactures of flax, etc. 1,200,000 1,418,009 Cutlery.. 72,000 167,000 Gloves of leather 336,000 392,000 Leaf Tobacco 572,000 1,082,000 Wool manufactures 2,597,000 3,981,000 These articles came into the country only because American citizens wanted them. Why should other American citizens seek their own gain by having laws passed to take away liberty of purchase from their fellow-citizens who wish to order their goods from such countries as can make them cheapest and best? To Form a Plate Trust. Our paternal protectionist Government has taken the unborn tfn-platp industry under its wing, and already there are that when the “infants is born it will find a ready-made trust to enable it to feast and fatten ou the tariff spoils. A latq number of a high-tariff organ, the Boston Commercial Bulletin, prints the following piece of news: “Edwin Norton, of Norton Bro^., Chicago, and C. R. Britton, of Britton & Co., Cleveland, have visited the United States Tinplate Mill atiDemmler, Pa., to see how that plant eq® be embraced in a reorganization of the American Tinplate Association; to include all the present members; to absorb the Western Sheet Iron Association, which is largely represented in Wheeling. Cleveland and . Chicago, and to admit all manufacturers of sheet-iron, steel billets and tinplate who desire to become members—about 25 firms at the start.” Not only are the people to be made to pay a hifch tariff price for their tin plate, but apparently a trust is to step in and Shylock-like demand the drop of blood. In doing this the trust will simply take advantage of the situation which the McKinleyites have created. Why should the people object to trust prices if they can tolerate McKinley prices? They should not forget that McKinleyism and trusts have the same objects in view, the enrichment of manufacturers by raising prices. ■” , .■ Competing at Home and Abroad. Protectionists are happy over the prospects of increasing our exports of manufactured goods to Brazil. But one grave question arises, How are we to beat England in South America if we cannot beat her at home? In order to keep England out of our own market we lay heavy .duties on mantfactured articles. The McKinley duties on the manufactured goods which Brazil now promises to admit free are as follows: McKinley * protection. Agricultural tools and machinery4s per ct. Mining and mechanical machinery4s per ct. Scientific instruments and books. .45t060 perct. Railway construction and material... .45 per ct. and those on which Brazil will reduce

the duties one-fourth are as follows: ’ , McKinley — . . . 4 protection. Cotton manutactnree ,40 to 60 per ct Manufactures of iron and steel. J 45 per ct. Furniture of all kinds 35 pe r Manufacture* of India-rubber 30 per ct. Manufactures of leather 35 per ct. ’lt is said that Brazil will be bound to admit all these articles on the same terms with England as from the United States. Can our merchandise pay freights to Brazil and then compete successfully with British merchandise. If so, why does it need protection from England in New York, when it has no ocean freight to pay? This question was put to Mr. Charles R. Flint, of New York, who was a member of the Pan-American Congress, and who is largely engaged in Sonth American trade. Although a stout protectionist, Mr. Flint, says the report, “denied that the United States were unable to compete in their own market with European nations in those articles of merchandise which it was expected that the United States would find a large market for in Brazil under the reciprocity convention. The United States did success--5 fully compete in their own territory with other nations in those articles specifically mentioned in the convention, and all those embraced under general terms, except such as were of a very high grade and particular style, and produced only in Europe. The United States already successfully competed with other nations in Brazil in many of those articles to the value of nine.million per annum; and the object of reciprocity

was not to create in Brazil for the United States a now non-existing market, but greatly to enlarge a market already enjoyed.” ». This being the case, the protective tariff can serve no other purpose at home than io give the protected manufacturer a monopoly of the boasted home market. McKinley’s Somersault. MpKinley is the champion jumper of somersaults. In his Toledo speech he undertook to reply to ex-President Cleveland’s utterances at the Thurman banquet in favor of such a policy of taxation as will cheapen commodities to the consumer. After attempting to show that cheapness is not to be desired, that we must have a tariff to shut out European cheap goods and prevent European competition, he claimed that in this way home competition would-be developed, “giving the American consumer better products at lower prices, and the farmer a better market than was everienjoyed under the free trade tariffs of the Democratic party.” McKinley objects to “free trade tariffs” because they make things too cheap; and yet he promises by his protective tariff to make things than ever a free trade tariff does! McKinley’s head is muddled. Protecting Wool in France. It is said that the woolen industry of France is having precisely the same experience as our own in regard to the duty on wool. It is pointed out, too, that in spite of protection the domestic supply of sheep is declining, both in quantity Snd quality, and in consequence the French manufacturers are clamoring for free wool, although they are very strenuous in favor of keeping up the tariff on the manufactured article. All of which shows that there is about as much human nature in one part of the work! as in another. One touch of human selfishness makes all protected industries akin. Dame Kuntur Says It. We are fated iu this world to be often misunderstood, and to have our motives misconstrued. If your face is ruddy with the glow of health your kind neighbors will circulate a report that you have “taken to . drink.” If you chance to attend church or an entertai in.ent without your wife, who may be in New Orleans on a visit, your good neighbors will insist that there is trouble, and that divorce proceedings are not improbable, for Women must gossip, or they can’t sleep. The following anecdote illustrates the ease with which our actions are misconstrued: “My dear,” said young Mrs. Fitts at the play, “it is a humiliating confession for me to make, but I am positively nervous for want of a piece of gum.” “I’ll go get you some as soon as the curtain falls,” said Mr. Fitts. And various of their acquaintances, as they saw him disappear, said what a pity it was that so <&weet a young woman should be bound for life to such a slave of the demon drink that he could not even wait until the play was over to satisfy his depraved appetite. — Exchange. An Indianapolis man went to Europe and on his return was searched at the dock in New York, and several fine watches were found in his pockets. He was trying to save a duty of 25 per cent. How does it happen that this man became a smuggler and ran the risk of going to the penitentlMy, if it be true, as the protectionists assert, that goods are made in America and supplied to the consumer as cheaply as in Europe? Our leather and boot and shoe mana- * facturers boast that they can beat the world. They exported last year over $12,000,000 of leather and manufactures of leather, including more than a half million dollars* worth of bootsand shoes. Yet they are given a protective duty of 25 per cent on foreign boots and shoes, and 10 per cent on leather. I

INDIANA LEGISLATURE The day in the Senate, February 14. was devoted to the introduction of bills. No quorum was present in the House, and reports of committees were heard. Appellate Court bill passed the Senate, February 16, with amendments limiting its existence to six years, and reducing the salary of J udges thereof from $4,000 to $3,500 per annum; bill also passed for creating of court of arbitration. House —Indianapolis city charter bill passed; also bill to require street railway companies to pave between rails and two feet on each side: to regulate the system of weighing coal at the mines; the Indianapolis library bills; to protect labels, brands, trade marks, etc.; defitl® ing legal fences; to exempt Indian lands from taxation; to recognize the State Board of Health; to protect the dairy product, etc. Resolutions to convene at 9 a. m. adopted. In the Senate. Feb. 17, bills were engrossed as follows: Placing benevolent institutions under civil service rule; placing appointment of inspector of oils in hands of State Geolontst; resolution passed asking city to condemn ground east of State house, to be converted into a park. House—Resolution to investigate T. 11. & I. railroad accounts reported. Bill authorizing increase of capital stock of building and loan associations to $25,000,900* defeated. Resolution to, compel temperance committee to consider measures relating to temperance laid on the table. Bill authorizing formation safety deposit and guarantee companies passed. Bill toerect natural gas plant in Indianapolis passed, also bill to authorize cities to construct waterworks, electric light plants, natural and artificial gas plants passed. The following bills were passed by the Senate, Feb. 18: Raising the salaries of Prison Wardens from $1,500 to $2,500, and of Deputy Wardens from 81,000 to 51,500, and providing that these officers shall have no perquisites whatever; adding imprisonment of from ten to thirty days to the penalty provided for selling liquor without license; providing a tine of from $5 to SSO for hunting on inclosed lands without the, written consent of the owner. The following bills were introduced: Authorizing a loan of 5700,000 to carry on the State government. andS7oo,ooo to meet special and regular appropriations; authorizing the Auditor of State to sell lands in Rush County purchased for Fairview Academy; prohibiting railroads from making overcharges for freight and providing penalties; providing for the discharge of life and long term convicts after twenty .years good behavior; appropriating $200,000 for the Wold’s Fair, etc.; amending the cor mon school act; authorizing’ County Commissioners to borrow money to erect and repair public buildings to an amount not to exceed 2 per cent, of the valuation of property; act relating to the duties of City Councils in the matter of building streets, alleys, and sewers, and issuing bonds in payment of the same; prohibiting the sale of real estate owned by the State, except by consent of the General Assembly. The following bills were passed by the House: Providing that Sinking Fund Commissioners may use funds to buy bonds for which such funds were levied, at the market price at any time; appropriating SI,OOO to advertise for the publication of certain text-books; repealing the law which holds the estates of insane persons liable for their maintenance in insane asylums; establishing the office of Natural Gas Inspector, at $1,200 per yehr, said inspector to be appointed by the State Geologist; making it unlawful for railroad companies to heat coaches, cabooses or mail cars with stoves; providing that in the settlement of estates where the heirs all live in the same county, and give their consent, the administrator’s notices may be limited to ten instead of twenty-one days. In the Senate, February 19, the bill* for civil service for benevolent institutions was defeated: building association killed; bills passed placing control of Evansville metropolitan police in hands of council; giving State Geologist power to appoint oil inspector; abolish water works trustees in towns of 5,000 inhabitants. House—Fee and salary bill considered, but no progress made. Large number of bills passed, including one to publish names of persons receiving aid from township trustees. Bills were passed by the Senate, Feb; 20, requiring registration of dogs;.licensing pawnbrokers; long discussion of the cigarette bill, but no action thereon; bill for discharge of incurable and insane defeated. House—Fee and salary bill engrossed. Gathering and Drying Tea in Japan. The gathering is commenced in May. Girls are employed, at an average of 5 cents a day, from sunrise to sunset. The sprig of leaves is nipped off carefully with the finger-nails and deposited in a basket, and other servants carry these baskets, as they are filled, to the tea-planter’s house and necessary out-houses. Here other employes spread them out on large palm mats and here the first and only adulteration essayed by the tea-planter is executed. Having decided the percentage of exhausted leaves to mix with his fresh Traves these are put.also on the mats. The drying is in the open air and in the sublight. That having been completed, the next operation is the curling. To effect this the dried leaves are poured into open cast-iron receptacles over a charcoal furnace beneath of accurately graded heat. Sufficient laborers are placed around these pans to constantly take in their band the leaves as they become heated and to roll them. When the curling is done the leaves are packed in coarse, cheap boxes, freighted to the nearest tea market and there sold to a foreign tea-dealer. Every foreigner keeps a special variety of tea-taster, who has to tell tlfe quality of the fresh leaf and to make a guess at the amount of leaves that have already done service. Train Struck By Lightning, It has 4>een thought that lightning could not strike a train. The theory has received a complete contradiotion. At Dischau, Prussia, an express train running at the rate of sixty kilometers per hour into the station broke down the buffing apparatus, ran into the interior facade of the station, and broke up against a neighboring house. An investigation established that the accident is to be attributed to the effect of lightning, which fell upon the train. Iron Production in the United States. The United States has now become the greatest iron producing nation of the world, having produced 8,202,703 gross tons of pig iron'ju 1890, against about 8,000,000 gross tons produced in Great Britain, an excess of about 1,000,000 tons, or 15 per’ cent It has 'been attained by the most astoundingly rapid development of a vast industry which the world has ever seen, our pig iron product having increased from 4.04 millions in 1885 to 9.20 millions in 1890, an increase of 5.16 or 128 per cent, during which period the British product increased only from 7.42 to 8.00 Million tons, or about 7.8 per cent.

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