Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1893 — NOTES AMD COMMENTES [ARTICLE]

NOTES AMD COMMENTES

More particulars of the discovery rtt the mammoth fossil on the banks at Montezuma Creek in Colorado are at hand. The work of excavation is rarer going on under the direction of an agent of Yale College, which has secured the remains. The reptile (for so it is rleurtl. judging from its vertebrae, rite, etel, must have been at least 100 feet long. The ribs measure 18 inches is width. The bones were imbedded in a hillside of coarse sandstone, and distributed over a space of 600 feet. Some of them harebeen taken out weighing a few pomnfcv and others hundreds of pounds. ftnC. O. C. Marsh of Yale writes to tha Colorado San as follows: “If anywhere near as large as represented, the animel is probably a dinosaur from the jiiieenk, perhaps similar to the one I named stlas tosaurus, which was found near Monism in your State. Other specimens neatly allied have been found near Canon m the same formation. Some other way large reptiles have been found in the cretaceous, especially, in Colorado and Wyoming, but none are known from tha carboniferous. I have myself never been in the immediate region where this new fossil is eaid to have been found, bat tha jurassic is well developed east and north of there, making it probable that it may exist at the locality named.” The skeleton lies sixty-five miles from Mancos by wagon road.

Stair Controller Hcppenheimer ass New Jersey is collecting information far his report on railroads and canals,, which is designed to present in the dearest light possible the causes of the nccidaat* that nave occurred during the year. The main causes of injury and death on railroads lmvo been the coupler and the striking down of men while ut work ontracks. The total number of pcisooa injured on the railroads in Now Jersey hat' year was 938, two-thirds of whom were employes. There wore 240 persons killed. The trcachorous coupler waa the causo of the deaths of 17 emplayeaand the injury of 389. Eighteen menwore injured by cars while at work on the road and 75 others were killed. Tha cureless habit of driving across railroad tracks rogardless of approaching trains resulted in the killing of 137 personsaod the injury of 183 others. The Jersey Ceutral Railroad, which has 15G mike of railroad track in the State of New Jersey, shows a record of 355 persons injured and 58 killed. The coupler ia responsible for the injury of 83 treiatneu on this road.

The Bt. Louis Republic gets off tire following educational ideas: “And that is tho point when the attempt is made to get ut the point in tho question of higher education. Liitin and Greek, chemmry, astronomy, mathematics, everything tint' goes to make education, will give loom power for any businoss, hut they mar take away tho incliuatiou. The welleducated man could make more money at any business than the mmdacetad man, hut there iB alwoys a question of whether he would or not—of whether hewould wish to nmko the sacrifice required to pay for money. Generally hewould not. So, if you wish your bey to get a great deal more mouey than ha can well earn, teach him to read, write and cipher and then put him ‘at iiiirilnw* He will ho a groat deal uptcr to hem—very rich than if ho were thoroughly educated. But if you wish him to tie-■ widely useful, that is another matter, and ho must have all the education yawcun possibly give him.” Each day of the year over QW,OBt a persons in the United Kingdom are driven to accept relief as paupers, la the course of every year about two millions of individuals aro thus relieved. At least one in five persons over sixty-fire years of age is a pauper. In Looteralone, in 1892, there was an average at 58,145 indoor and 45,792 outdoor nampers, over 200,000 individuals falling for longer or shorter periods into tha condition in the course of the year. Ore in every eight deaths in London takea place in a workhouse or other Poor law institution. Ik tiie expectations of.to-day ureetre* tuinmated, the time is not far distant': when tho mouths of tho Mississippi rjf have a reputation for fertility nv^h®: that of tho alluvial regions along the Nile. Give to the logions of husbandmen of the basin of Mississippi security from the annual avalanches of water from the Ohio und Missouri and a new life will he injected into agrientamg and tho overflows of the Mississippi wflS . he succeeded by a tidal wave of bond-' gration as beneflciul in its effects ga are tho overflows disastrous.

Nkw York maintains its mctropoKfam supremacy by the vast concentration ol wealth that was secured through- the fact that it has long been the gateway ol a rich and rapidly growing region in the West. Its railways and its Erie Canal gave it the readiest communication with the rich and populous States of Obiov Indiana and Illinois, aud their development made its first greatness. Now that it is the money mart of the Western World, it commands trade from every (juarter. Tiik doctors from all over the Uuitaß States and parts of Canada in atteudeaee upon the recent quarantine congress were impressed with the ineffectivencss of the quarantine regulations of ties United States, taken as a whole, end' with the excellence of most quarantine features at this port. They seemed to regard the quarantine system of Michiganas on the whole the best yet adopted by, any State. Perhaps the earliest Columbus moa ument in the United States was that erected at Baltimore by a French mident in 1792. Many persons in accordance with a current tradition, that it was erected to the memory cf a favorite horse, but the monument beamthis inscription: ‘*Chrs. Unbind ibb Octr. 12, MDCCVIIIC.” The work of transforming vosttnetosupposed for years to be barren wastes into fruitful farms goes steadily on lathe great West. Two irrigation projects, to cost $4,500,000, are under way in Arizona which are expected to reciaon--700,000 acres.