Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1892 — Page 4

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New Jersey complains that it has a surplus of dogs. Has Mew Jersey no consumptive patients? The death of the late Mahdi left upward of forty widows. There is the chance for Senator Hill. Dr. Keeley thinks that asafetida will drive away la grippe. If asafetida is not handy Limburger cheese might serve. John L. Sullivan has signed the pledge again. His autographs at the foot of temperance pledges are only exceeded in number by his sprees. Mb. Howells can afford to laugh at his critics. In fact, a man with a salary of $17,000 a year can afford a great many things that critics can’t. “Sir, ’’said the great Senator sternly, “understand that my acts are governed by fixed principles.” Then the lobbyist fixed ’em and went away smiling. What’s in a name, anyway? The “Burial Expense Association,” chartered at Springfield, 111., recently, is declared by its incorporators to be for “amusement and social improvement.”

The English miners probably feei as much sympathy for Queen Victoria in the loss of her grandson as she feels for the loss of any of their grandsons, but they do not know how to manifest it diplomatically.

Howells thinks all letters of the future will be typewritten. There will be something painfully realistic in a typewritten love letter, and its only redeeming feature will be that it will look as if it meant business.

Miss Frances E. Willard is engaged in a praiseworthy attempt to attach the signatures of 1,000,000 women to a petition for peace with Chili. Bets are freely offered that she cannot get Colonel Phoebe Couzins to sign.

Philadelphia women have met and resolved that the nude shall be rigidly excluded from the approaching exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts unless it be in the form of portraits of ladies of the highest fashion attired for the opera.

There are two remarkable things about the death of the late Khedive of Egypt. One is that he died in his bed and is not suspected of having been murdered or committed suicide. The other is that his death is deeply mourned by the poor peasantry of EgyptPhysicians must excuse plain, every-day people for their lack of enthusiasm over the discovery of the grip microbe. It will be time enough to throw hats in the air when a remedy is discovered which —unlike antipyrine—will not kill more people than the disease. i Twenty-five years ago a young man named Tom Lowry walked home from St. Paul to Minneapolis because he had no money with which to pay his fare. Mow he controls all the street-cars in botbrtoowns, and when his cables get tired other people walk, whether they pay their fares or not. Some man is said to have discovered a method of deodorizing whisky. If thiß genius who has struck such a body blow at the clove industry can now devise a method of eliminating the “drunk” from the juice of the corn and the fermentation of the he can make bi-chloride of gold a drug in the market. Dr. Keeley says asafoetida in doses of sixteen grains, administered four times a day, is a specific for grip. A disease that would not get up and get away from a man with sixty-four grains of asafoetida exuding from the pores of his skin could easily be marked a tough. As a punishment to a family the treatment would be a howling success. More than 300 Baltimore girls have abandoned corsets as injurious to both health and beauty. The Balmore girls may yet convince their Bisters everywhere that what is beautiful in art is beautiful in life. The Venus de Medici statue has not a taper waist and it is the highest and best type of female beauty that art has given the world. Unnecessary ado is made over the discovery that Harvard students are branded on the arms as a part of the initiatory ceremonies of a secret society. In later years it gives much satisfaction to the alumni to point to these honorable scars, thus demonstrating that they have something else to show for their college course than merely a taste for liquor. Mexico will present her interests In the World’s Fair with $750,000 and Japan with $630,000. Mew York statesmen propose that the great Empire State, to which has,been accorded the largest space and the most Conspicuous position on the ground, shall have the enormous fund of $300,000 to make an exhibit The chances are that Mew York will be ashamed cf it after it is done. The statistics show that married men live much longer than bachelors. They are supposed to keep bettor hours and are better fed. Besides, «a old bachelor has not much to live

for, anyway. A man moving along Into that period where “the grass* hopper is a burthen,” without a wife or child present or in memory, calls for sympathy. There is no period in life when the good wife is more a necessity for a man’s happiness than during the last quarter of the race. ~

In the trying climate of Manhattan Island Cleopatra’s Needle continues to disintegrate. Experts estimate that it has fost 700 pounds in weight since it was brought over, and it will be necessary to spend at once $2,500 in giving it a coat of paraffine in order to save the hieroglyphics from peeling off completely. There is no money on hand for the purpose, and no feasible plan for raising it has been suggested. Why not put a high fence around it and as the fragments drop off sell them to relic hunters?

The break-up of an English club, which has been spreading abroad pamphlets teaching the manufacture of explosives for “persuading” bombs, is a fresh illustration of the need of sterner legislation in all countries against bomb-makers and artificers of infernal machines of every kind. The club taught the noble science in the coolest manner. Perhaps the society issued secret circulars of “Instructions how to blow up a Czar at sixty paces;” or “Manual for the annihilation of a King by dynamite, model number six. ” The law must proscribe all such manufacture and instruction, or the wild-eyed crank with the black bag will continue to haunt the timid millionaire.

TnERE is one thing which the East should learn from the West, and that is the habit of giving short sentences. In this part of the world whatever effectiveness there might be in the infliction of the death penalty is lost in the delays, the deliberation, and the postponement which seem to be the inevitable consequence of the long time which is allowed to elapse between conviction and execution. There should be on the statute books a law making it obligatory to the judge who pronounces a death sentence to limit the time of probation to a couple of months at least. The sentencing of Dr. Graves to be hanged in a month is an excellent precedent, if there is to be any hanging done at all.

A new cure for inebriety is annonuced, although its nature is not made known. Its owner has confidence enough in it to undertake the founding of a great institution at Washington, evidently believing that he will find more patients there than anywhere else. The remedy is a liquid, like the Keeley cure, but is said to resemble the latter in no other particular. If institutions for destroying the uproarious taste which leads to painting towns red are to spring up like this at every center of population, determined topers will have to migrate kindlier scene where one may drink until he sees snakes in his boots without having any other remedy offered him than “a hair of the dog which bit him.”

New Jersey has a million and a half dwellers, and is one of the wealthiest of American States. It is all the more surprising then that the cause of popular education languishes in this part of the Republic. According to the census given out the other day there are 430,279 children of school age, of whom 137,814, or more than a third of the tfttal, are not enrolled in any educational institution. In comparing the illiteracy of the country, the South is singled out as derelict in educating its young, but here is a proud Northern State with more wealth than any composing the Southern group of commonwealths, that is allowing a vast number of its children to grow up without schooling of any kind. In this age of enlightment it is nothing less than crime for any State to allow a considerable part of her population to grow up in ignorance when education can be so easily obtained. The injury inflicted through the ignoramus policy falls hardest upon the most deserving —the honest wage-earners. Their children of all others should not be deprived of the benefits of an education. To deny that handicaps them in the race for preferment in all the avenues open to the industrious and ambitious, and detracts materially from the happiness of life in a number of ways. New Jersey owes it to herself, those who people her areas and to the nation that she pass such laws as will prevent every third person within her borders from becoming a dunce as well as a reproach to American civilization.

Physical Peculiarities.

The right arm is always a little larger than the left, but the left foot is almost always larger than the right, presumably because, while nearly every man uses his right arm to lift a weight or strike a blow, he invariably kicks with his left foot, while the lounger stands on his left leg and lets his right fall easily, because he has learned by experience that this is the best attitude he can assume to prevent lassitude and fatigue. This constant bearing of the weight on the left foot makes it wider than the right, and it often happens that a man who tries on a shoe on the right foot and gets a close fit has to discard the shoes altogether because he cannot endure the pafiu caused by the tightness of the left. If, when riding on a street car, you will take the trouble to notice, you will see that in laced shoes the gap is smaller on the right foot than on the left, while on button shoes the buttons have to be set back ten times on the left shoe to once on the right. W hat a Moh! » A Chinese newspaper published in San Francisco has been sued by a negro and an Indian.

HE WAS A BRAVE FELLOW.

Sketch of Mate Rtgrgln, Who Lost His Life In the Chilian Riot. Few knew him except his brother and his sisters, yet Charles W. Riggin, one of the victims of the Chilian crime, murdered in the streets of Valparaiso while he wore the navy blue of the United States, was Philadelphia born. His home was here, says the Inquirer, and the child he loved is here. The dispatches and the papers tell of him as the boatswain’s mate, not as the sailor ’prentice boy who, sixteen to the day, walked aboard the training ship Portsmouth at League Island Feb. 10, twelve years ago. His brother says he was a handsome lad. His picture speaks for him afterward. He did his best to get ahead in the two years he was learning to be a man-of-war’s man. His medal of merit later on shows that he had “Fidelity, Zeal, and Obedience” for his motto. He won it when he was a full seaman on the Tennessee. She was the flagship of the North Atlantic Squadron then, and he gave his services the full cruise—three years. He liked the water and the flag he sailed under so well that immediate re-enlistment came to him naturally. As of the old vessel he was sent to the torpedo station in Newport harbor for advanced Instruction. Successful again, he was pushed on to the gunnery school at Washington, and there he gained the skill to make the model that his brother prizes, a miniature of the six-inch rifle, with its shining barrel, on a land carriage instead of the sea rest. From the Government shops he joined the Galena, and when he returned again it was on Thanksgiving Eve, in 1889, and for the last time. He lived

RIGGIN AND HIS NEPHEW.

during the short shore spell—telling his sea yarns to the curly-haired nephew who bore his name and whom he idolized—with his brother, John I. Riggin, of the gas works, and the latter’s wife, at their cheerful home, 2914 Master street. It was within this visit that the double portrait, enlarged in crayon, was taken. He did not remain long, though there were also the ties of sisters to keep him from the sea. The old longing brought him to the Baltimore for his last voyage. He was with her nearly two years until, stabbed in the back by the mob, shot in the throat by the police, he gave up his life to the hatred of the enemies of his country.

MINISTER PATENOTRE.

The New French Representative to the United States Government. M. Patenotre, the new French Minister, has already made a good

impression in diplomatic circles in Was h i ngton. His brief hut pleasant speech to President Harrison indicated that he is in touch with American institutions and that he fully appreciates the honor his own

M. PATENOTRE.

country has paid him in sending him as its accredited ’representative to a Government which has long been the admiration of all liberty-loving Frenchmen. M. Patenotre is a bright and pleasant-faced gentleman and full of that life and vivacity so characteristic of his people. He is a man of imposing presence, easy and graceful in his manners and -a fine conversationalist.

Don’t Blaim Him.

William Harman, a resident of Titusville, Pa., committed suicide a few days ago from a melancholy conviction that he was his own grandfather. Here is the singular letter that he left: “I married a widow with a grown-up daughter. My father visited our house very often, fell in love with my stepdaughter and married her. So my father became my son-in-law and my stepdaughter my mother, because she was my father’s wife. Sometime afterward

LATE EVENTS ILLUSTRATED.

my wife had a son. He was my father’s brother-in-law and my uncle, for he was the brother of my stepmother. My fathers wjtfej—i. e., my stepdrughter—had a son. He was, of course, my brother and In the meantime my grandchild, for he w«as the son of my daughter. My wife was my grandmother, because she was my mother’s mother. I was my wife’s husband and grandchild at the same time. And as the husband of a person’s grandmother is his grandfather, I was my own grandfather.”

NORTH DAKOTA’S BUILDING.

Plans Prepared and Presented to the Construction Department. Plans for North Dakota’s Building at the Fair have been presented to the construction department. The area occupied by the building is 70

NORTH DAKOTA’S BUILDING.

by 50 feet. A space 46 by 21 feet has been left in front of the main assembly hall for a courtyard. This court is surrounded on three sides by the building and in front by a low stone wall. From this court the main assembly hall is entered through a large stone arch, on which is an elaborately carved panel bearing the coat of arms of North Dakota. The main feature of the interior is an assembly hall, the dimensions of which are 24 by 56 feet. This hall is spanned by four broad arched beams, between each of which is a wide window reaching from near the floor to roof. At either end of this room is a broad fireplace. Two committee rooms, each 10 by 22 feet, have been ar-ranged-at either end,of the audience hall. These rooms are connected with dressing-rooms. The walls of the main gable-ends are brick; otherwise, except a low stone wall about three feet high entirely around the buildings, the walls are of timber, filled in between with plaster panels. The entire building is given a picturesque appearance by low thatched roofs.

BRAZIL'S NEW PRESIDENT.

Florlano Peixotto Gives Promise of Seine a Model Ruler. Brazil seems to be safe under the Presidency of Floriano Peixotto. The new President has an honorable rec-

PRESIDENT FLORIANO PEIXOTTO.

special study of military science, and he was subsequently admitted into the Military School at Rio, where he graduated with honors. Nominated to a sub-lieutenancy shortly before the outbreak of the war with Paraguay, he played a gallant part in several of the early battles. His rise was rapid, and at the battle of Aquidaban, which finished the campaign, he commanded the ninth regiment of infantry. He took no active part in the deposition of Dom Pedro in 1889, but was a member of the Constituent Assembly which elaborated the new constitution. Afterward he was appointed to the Vice Presidency. In this capacity he officiated as President of the Senate. Throughout the struggle of that body with the late President, Da Fonseca, he maintained an impartial and dignified attitude, and he abstained from associating himself in any way with the coup d’etat, by which Da Fonseca attempted to establish a dictatorship. Since his accession to the Presidency, Gen. Peixotto has exercised his powers with moderation, and gives promise of being a model officer.

Our Public Lands.

According to the report of the Land Office, there remained 579,664,683 acres of public lands undisposed of at the end of the last fiscal year, of which 294,027,773 acres, or more than one-half, had not been surveyed. This is land enough to make seventeen States as large as Illinois. This statement is exclusive of the Cherokee strip, lands in the Indian Territory west of the ninety-sixth meridian, and the whole of Alaska, which contains 369,000,000 acres. It is also exclusive of public lands in Texas, which belong to the State, and not to the United States. During the last

ord. He is an army officer of distinction, who won all his grades during the sanguinary war with Paraguay. Born in the province of Alagoas 49 years ago, he enlisted in the army as a common soldier. During his leisure he made a

fiscal year 2,142,539 acres were disposed of by sale for cash, 5,040,391 acres by homestead entries, and 969,000 acres by timber culture entries, making a total of 8,151,939 acres. This is the smallest total for six years. In 1886, 18,309,942 acres were disposed of, and every year since then has shown a decrease. Still, last year’s total was very respectable, being about equal to the area of the two States of New Jersey and Connecticut, or a little less than onefourth the area of Illinois. In the following table we bring together the areas unsold and the disposals in 1891 (fiscal year) in the States and Territories in which the largest areas yet remain: Disposed Undisposed of in 1801, of, acres. acres. Montana. 71,372,769 201,651 Arizona 56,061,0(5 89,127 New Mexico 64,803,079 167,693 Nevada 53,689,524 3,919 California 52,299,491 797,568 Wyoming 50,842,434 162,327 Colorado 42,167.030 635,904 Oregon 39,220,151 728,343 Utah 35,428,987 126,917 Idaho 33,781,857 339,261 Washington 20,401,691 909,056 North Dakota 16,135,440 330,071 South Dakota 14,085,394 470.758 Nebraska 11,*60,430 575,5'3 Minnesota 6,819,975 288,848 Arkansas 4.9518,398 300,717 Florida 3,468,381 126,711

HE BATHES IN THE SNOW.

An Akron, Ohio, Man Tries a Novel Cure lor La Grippe. H. E. Miller, of Akron, Ohio, thinks he has a sure way of preventing the grip, and, though the treatment is heroic, advises all people to try it. Every morning at 5 o’clock he goes out into the back yard, naked,

TO CURE THE GRIP.

and for ten minutes rolls around in the snow. This practice he has kept up for two weeks, although the temperature sometimes has been.as low as 16 degrees below zero. When snow is not on the ground, he takes a tub of Ice water. He has not had a cold this winter, and attributes his excellent physical condition to his snow and ice water baths.

WAS ENGLAND IN IT?

Act 1. British Lion to Chilian Cat—l am in this thing to the end, but I don’t care to stir up the old bird myself. You stir him up and I’ll do the rest.

Act. 2. Lion to Catr-This will never do. If there is going to be a fight lam not in it. I’ll do the roaring and you do the rest.

BRAZEN EFFRONTERY.

WORKINGS OF REVENUE AND PROTECTIVE TARIFFS. In the Case of the Tin-Plate Tariff the Poll Duty Has Been Added to the Price —Domestic Manufacturers Can Pocket the Whole Duty. Revenue and Protection. Major McKinley has often undertaken to enlighten the public as to the difference between a revenue and a protective tariff. He thinks that he makes a strong point against a revenue tariff when he tells us that it is > a tax to the full extent of the duty, the total amount of it going into the national treasury, and being used to meet the Government’s obligations. And any duty, he is careful to add, whfleh does not protect some American industry is a revenue duty, not a protective duty. When McKinley took hold of the tariff bill he found a duty of one cent a pound on tin-plate. As there were no tin-plate mills in the United States, he proposed to raise *tbe duty, high enoughto be protective, thus getting rid of a revenue tariff. Niedringhaus, Cronemeyer and a host of others were on hand in Washington to persuade the willing McKinley to double the duty and make it protective, and they would set to work in short order to make tin plates for the American people. The plea of these applicants was a virtual petition to McKinley to pass a law to raise the price of tin-plates to all the people in order that they might make plates at a profit. Their plea was that they could not make plates and sell them in competition with the English plates under the old duty of one cent a pound; for Cronemeyer himself had tried it, and even after adding one cent to his prices the wicked English just would undersell him and drive him out of business. They must be able to add at least another cent before they could feel safe from English competition. Well', the good and patriotic McKinley took them at their word; he raised the duty 2.2 cents per pound—in order to make it protective; in order, that is, to compel freeborn American citizens to buy their plate of Niedringhaus, Cronemeyer, etc., at the enhanced price. Now let us see how the thing will work. Last year we imported 1,036,400,000 pounds of tin, worth, without the duty, $35,700,000, or about 3.4 cents a pound. The old duty on this yielded a revenue of $10,364,000, all of which was paid by the consumers and went into the treasury of the United States. Just here is where the brazen effrontery of Niedringhaus, Cronemeyer, and their abettors in and out of Congress is seen in its true proportions. They said that this ten milllion dollars’ tax was not enough; it must he more than doubled, must be made $22,800,000, and then we shall'have a protective tariff instead of a revenue tariff on tin-plate, with Niedringhaus, Cronemeyer and other prospective manufacturers of tinplate to collect and pocket the tax. We have now had the McKinley tinplate tax in operation since July 1, 1891, but it was practically a certainty a year before that date, and was even then causing prices to go upward with a bound. It was promised by the prospective manufacturers and their friends in Congress that the infant tin-plate mills would be in operation. within a very short time after the law passed, Senator Allison said within a month. Up to the present date no American tin-plate is quoted in our market reports, and the insignificant quantity produced by our manufacturers has cut no figure except as a political curiosity. If, however, the time should ever come when they make all that we need, is anybody so simple as to believe that they will sell it for less than they can get for it in competition with English plates handicapped by a duty of 2.2 cents? Manufacturers are not built that way. Meanwhile prices in the American market have come up to the McKinley tariff notch and even gone beyond it. In January, 1891, the price of tin plates of the largely-used grade known as “Bessemer steel; coke finish, IC basis,” was $5.55 per box in New York, $4.38 in London (difference $1.17), in January, 1891, against $5.70 in New York, $3.06 in London (difference $2.64), in January, 1892. The price in London last year was high, owing to the artificial demand caused by the anticipation of the McKinley tax. Now the price there has dropped back to the figure that prevailed three years ago, and has gone even slightly lower; but with us the price is higher than last year. It is all that the McKinley duty adds to the foreign price, and more, too. Thus McKinley’s tin-plate tax is getting in its work. It is making the people pay about twenty millions a year, so that Niedringhaus, Cronemeyer & Company may make experiments in plate manufacture for political purposes. If these men ever make tin plate there is no more reason to suppose that they will surrender their tariff spoils and sell at foreign prices than the steel rail trust does. A protective tariff is a tariff for private profit and collected by private hands.

Mr. Whitman’s Protest.

The small clique of men who adopted the name of the National Wool Manufacturers’ Association and had a few professional wool growers, with an equally high sounding name, meet them at Syracuse in 1865 to agree upon a tariff to tax the American people on their woolen goods, held a meeting recently at which resolutions were adopted and sent to Congress protesting against the putting of raw wool on the free list and reducing the duty on woolen goods. In commenting on the following statement of the Boston Herald in its account of thi6 meeting, “The wool manufacturers of New England, who met In a body,* have shown their accustomed cowardice in treating this subject, ” the American Wool Beporter says: “If the Herald means that the wool manufacturers of New England ‘met in a body’ when the recent memorial against the Springer bill was adopted by the ‘National Association of Wool Manufacturers,’ we are surprised that our usually well-informed contemporary should have been so deceived. In addition to the very small attendance at the meeting at which the 4 memorial ’ in question was adopted, it should be stated that some of those present agreed to the ‘ memorial ’ with the express reservation that a certain section of the McKinley bill might need to be changed. An explanation as to the small number of manufacturers by whom this ‘ memorial ’ was adopted is necessary in justice to a large and increasing number of influential manufacturers who have not believed in the McKinley bill, and who do not like to read the misleading statement that ‘the wool manufacturers of Now England met in a body’ in its support.” This clique of a few manufacturers, under the leadership of William Whitman, is becoming quite as offensive as the National Wool-Growers Association, which Judge Lawrence carries about with him in a bag on his travels, to be called out to pass appropriate resolutions at a moment’s notice.

How Much Tin?

Professor Claypole, of Buchtel College, Ohio, has written a report on the famous Black Hills tin deposits which is not calculated to cheer the hearts of the

protectionist wiseacres who look to the Black Hills for a vindication of McKinley’s wisdom in putting a duty of 4 cents a pound on tin. Professor Claypole is an expert geologist. After making a careful personal investigation of the deposits in question, he reports that “a sanguine estimate” might place the proportion of tin ore in them “at 2 per cent, and probably in order to attain this some of the poorer mineral must be excluded.* This, he says, is about the same percentage as the tin mines in Cornwall, England, yield. The result of this examination does not bear out the extravagant claims made for the Black Hills tin deposits. All sorts of extravagant assertions have been made about the richness of those> deposits. It was reported last year, for example, that “about April 1 a flve-stkmp mill was started on ore that is said to have yielded 10 per cent of tin and eight tons of ore were crushed per day. ” April 1 was a very good day on which tt> start this tariff industry. Its tin has never been heard of in our markets. We now import about 40,000,000 pounds of tin for use in the various industries of the country. The tax on this quantity after -the McKinley duty goes into effect July 1, 1893, will he $1,600,000. If the tin-plate enthusiasts should ever realize their dream of supplying the home market with American made tin-plate, an additional 25,000,000 pounds of pig tin will be needed every year, making the annual duty then foot up a round $3,000,000, not to mention the far larger tax on the tin-plate itself. All the protection afforded by this tax, too,will be gobbled up by the English companies which own or control the few mines in California and South Dakota. How do American voters like the McKinley plan of taxing themselves for the benefit of English capitalists?

Exporting Apples.

During the year just past, about 600,000 barrels of apples were received in Liverpool from the United States and Canada, by far the larger part being from the United States. Our exports were the largest on record. During the fiscal year 1891, before last year’s crop came on the market, we exported apples, green and dried, to the value of nearly $900,000, and if any apples came into the country from abroad, the fact is not mentioned in the Government reports. Even before the present law was passed, no mention was made in the reports of any imports of apples. However, something had to be done to make the farmers think that they, too, are getting some of the benefits of the protective system. Hence the McKinleyites took apples from the free list, and made them dutiable at 25 cents a bushel. This transparent humbug may deceive such farmers as want to be deceived. Certainly no one can betaken in by it who knows that we import no apples, but export them in considerable quantities. And what is true of the duty on apples is also true of nearly all other products of the farm. Farmers can get no direct help from protection, because their own products go into foreign markets, and offer successful competition there with all the world.

No Politics in It.

The duty on Canadian barley was 10 cents a bushel. The framers of the McKinley law sought to raise it to 30 cents. The border towns, without regard to party lines, protested against any increase, but offered to compromise at 15 cents. Senator Hiscock was indifferent or hostile, and the objections of Buffalo, Oswego, etc., went unheeded. The increase was gratuitous. It was not needed for purposes of protection. The farmers of New York cannot be induced to raise barley to any extent. It is an expensive crop. Western barley will not answer the uses of brewers, who are the principal consumers of barley. It was not an instance of a foreign underselling a domestieproduct. Maltsters cheerfully paid a higher price for Canadian barley than they could buy the New York product for, because they believed that Canadian barley alone would make the best quality of beer. The malting and brewing interests of Buffalo are very large. This trade now claims that “the experience of the past year has demonstrated that the predictions of those favoring the increased duty on barley were erroneous, as is evident by the fact that the value of barley is lower now than it was when the duty was only 10 cents per bushel.” A meeting will be held on ’Change at rfoon to-day to ask Congress to restore the old rate of duty. Congress should heed the request.—Buffalo Express.

How the wool tariff operates against the use of wood in goods and in favor of substitutes in “woolen goods” is described by a New-England woolen manufacturer as follows: “Free wool, with the present ad valorem rates upon goods, would be a great gain to woolen manufacturers; and, as on the woolen schedule, free wool brings a very large reduction in the duties on goods, with largely reduced cost on many woolfc goods, the bill for free wool would benefit everybody. It is a very exceptional item in the tariff law. Free raw material for ■froolen manufacturers also means a greater use of wool for socalled woolen goods; mills running upon ‘all-wool goods,’ so-called, are now in many instances using no wool at all, but some waste or shoddy, and mostly cotton. Free wool would also put up the price of wool abroad which competes with American wools." No wonder that the shoddy manufacturers are opposed to free wool.

The Mexican Government has decided to place an export duty on silver-lead ore shipped to the United States, in retaliation for the duty of 1J cents per pound on the lead contents imposed on Mexican ores by the McKinley tariff. A short time ago we showed how the imposition of this duty on the part of the United States cut down our production of lead from silver-lead ore and at the same time send a great deal of capital to Mexico to be expended in the building of smelters there. Now that these have begun working, Mexico feels bound to help them as much as possible. We are sorry to be obliged to repeat that we desire no “poetical” contributions. This world is full of ordinary human clods of both sexes who seem to think it a patriotic duty to send us an installment of rhymed slush as often as they feel a rush of imbecility to their brain tanks, which is altogether too often for the capacity of our present waste basket.— Pullman, (Ill.) Journal. So, so; the Chautauqua reformers have decided that the corset most go! Just the same, Feeblewitte ventures the prediction that it won’t be let loose right away! It is credited with being a stayer, has held its own so far and ought to have backbone enough to squeeze along for a while yet. “My dearest Ida, how is it that you, the liveliest girl in our set, arc going to marry and settle down?” “Nothing is simpler, my dear. The season’s bonnets for matrons are so becoming! ” The grounds used for our World’s Fair comprise 660 acres Philadelphia used $36, Paris 143, and New Orleans 250 There are over 3,000 animals in the Londoß Zoological Gardens.