Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1890 — Order of the Longest Rivers. [ARTICLE]

Order of the Longest Rivers.

Tire good effect of the amended ex tradition treaty between this country and Great Britain is already seen, not only in a reduced number of departures to Canada of persons who have betrayed their trusts, but in an actual diminuition of crimes of this class. No one who reads the papers attentively can have failed to notice that there has been a marked decrease of crimes of this kind. There is many a m:jn who has no conscience, but who listens to the voice of caution, when the devil is talking to him over the other shoulder. The case of Roe, the Minneapolis man. arrested in Montreal last week, charged with embezzlement, and who did not think it worth his while even to wait for extradition, will be a valuable lesson to those similarly inclined. A year ago he would have been perfectly Secure, and would have remained to enjoy his illgotten $25.000 until the money was gone.

A Connecticut man sends a circu lar setting forth his proposal. for the completion of the Grant monument. It is that on a day fixed, preferably during the coming autumn, every man. woman and child in the United States contribute the sum of five cents to the project, no subscription larger than the amount named to be permitted, and no one to bo allowed to make more than one subscription, except iu the case of one who wishes to do so in the name of another. The projector of the scheme is very sanguine that the result will be the collection of not less than $2,500,000, supposing it to be well pushed. The trouble with plans of this kind is that they are apt to be O a little like the eye water scheme of Col. Sellers, and the ‘-pan out” in proportion to the population. In this case, however, there will be at least one advantage—that the moderate amount asked from each person will permit the 'millionaires of New v ork to have a share in the erection of the monumept. even though it be erected, as the projector suggests, in Washing" ton. rr ——r~"~

The Amazon, in South America, falls from the Andes through a course of 2,600 miles; tip Mississippi, from the Stony Mountain, runs 2,690 miles; La Plata, from the Andes, 2,215 miles; the Hoangho, in China, from the Tartarean chain of mountains, is 8,260 miles; the Yangtse-Kiang runs ‘from the same mountains and is 4,060 miles long; the Nile, from the Jihei Kumri •Mountains, courses 2,960 miles; the (Euphrates, from Aararat, is 2,020 miles long; tho Volga, from the Val dais, is 2,160 miles; tho Danube, from the Alps, is 1.790 miles in length; the Indus, from the Himalayas, 1,770 miles: the Ganges runs from the same .source and is 1,650 miles long; tho Orinoco, from the Andes, 1,500 miles? in length; the Niger, or Wharra. is 1,900 miles long; the Don, the Dneipe • and the Senegal are each over 1,000 miles in length; tho Rhino and the Gambia are 880 miles in extent.