Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1899 — CURRENT COMMENT. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT.

An estimate of what the news costs a tag newspaper and how it travels may be derived from the telegraphic tolls charged for transmission. The expense of telegraphing war news from Manila is at the rate of $2.35 a word. From Manila to New York the cable route is: Manila to Hoag Kong, thenee to Saigon in Anam, Singapore, the Straits of Settlements and Penang. on the Malay peninsula, to Madrasi India; thence by Eastern Telegraph cable to Aden in Arabia, to Port Said and Alexandria in Egypt; Malta, Gibraltar, Lisbon and Plymouth, England; from Plymouth by Commercial cable to Waterville. Ireland, and Canso. Nova Scotia, to New York. Nears comes that during the last winter the submergence of Sable Island by the ocean has proceeded rapidly. Sable Island. which lies eighty-five miles east of Nova Scoria and in the track of ocean steamers. is the most notorious spot in the world for shipwrecks. In the last ninety years —ore than 150 ships have been wrecked on its treacherous shoals, and two lighthouses placed on the island by the Canadian Government have been I washed away by the ocean. During all ■ these years it has been gradually sinking 1 under the water, until now the island is not ranch more than eae-third as large as it was at the beginning of the century. During the mouth of April there was a remarkable falling off in the exports of agricultural products, provisions, including cuttle and hogs, showing a reduction off JJ33 and breadstuffs $12,297,517 as compared with the same month last year. Cotton exports dropped $(5,327,454, thus making a total shrinkage for the month fa products from field and farm of The exports of breadstuffs for April were smaller than for any month since July, 1897. The payment of a dividend of one-fifth iof 1 per rent to the creditors of the Iron j HaO winds up a failure which involved •53.WD0 naembere scattered through more i than twenty States. When a receiver was appointed it was found that the liabilities lof the order were $5,100,000. Altogether 1 S3.OntKWM> has been collected and paid to creditors, leaving a permanent deficit of SXI«MDMM>For the maintenance of the life-saving .mt ire the people of this country pay about fiIJSWKOOO a year. Of 3,987 lives imperiled in coast shipwrecks last year, only 23 were lost: of the $7,1(58,390 worth of property imperiled, the life-saving service rescued $»\420.530 worth. Rear Admiral Watson, who .succeeds Dpwey fa the Philippines, was a lieutenant a* Farragut's flagship at the battle of Mobile bay. and assisted in lashing the admiral to the rigging of the Hartford before he went to do or die. M. F. Hastings writes from Weatherford. Dk_ that he has plowed up on the bottom* off the Cimmaron river an old army musket, with the inscription. “L. B. Howard. Cfa A, 64th HL U. V. I ” He would like to hear frpm some one who has a etai— to the old weapon. It i» befieved that the largest audience ever gathered to witness a sporting event wmt present at the windup of the football aeauam in Loudon. England. An accuwmhm «abwxnrsxzl that Vkcvrxrvlrk fl®#®* CwWWn SBvWTtt iBKk gMrO|>lv