St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 27, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 January 1897 — Page 7

HORRORS OF FAMINE. APPALLING CALAMITY THREATENS THE INDIAN EMPIRE. "Millions of Human Beinss May Perish, aa in 1877-78, of Hunger and Pestilence —The People’s Miserable Condition —Measures of Relief Devised. Ghastly Records of the Past. The famine prevailing in the north and northwestern parts of India is, according to the best information available, one of the most appalling calamities which has ever visited the great peninsula. The district affected is many thousand square ■miles in extent and the failure of the ■crops has been almost complete. The millions of India live from hand to mouth, and when from any cause even a single crop fails the effect is at once apparent in widespread suffering. With 1,250,000 people on .the verge of starvation in the Deccan alone and the gloomiest prospects in other great agricultural provinces, the civilized world may be shocked by a recurrence of the unspeakable horror of famines ns those of J HIP nnd^lSi I--78, when people died not by the thousand or the ten thousand, but by the million. The poptflation of British India is now estimated at 240,000,000 people—twice as many as the Roman empire had as its period of greatest strength. Nearly all these millions are laborers living from hand to mouth, and the giving such surplus t s they produce to support the British imperial establishment and their own priests and hereditary rulers. India’s Pitiable Condition. At best, their condition is utterly miserable from any standpoint an American can occupy in looking at them. These strange people living in the hotbed of nations. speak a language which in some of • wbxl — 1 i ■ iin.* .

W / -4W I : Sf® O HORDES OF STARVING PEOPLE SWARM THE ROADS IN INDIA.

its dialects is so strikingly like our own that there can be no doqbt of their blood relationship to us. Yet they seem to be utterly without the race impulses which force the European into ceaseless activity. Given a thatched hut with a little rice or grain enough to make a cake on the heated stones of the hearth and they do not care for the future. The jungles near which they make their villages are full of fierce quadrupeds and yet more deadly reptiles. Tigers kill and devour them, cobras sting them to such an extent that the deaths from this cause glone run into the thousands every year. The deadly miasma of the marsh and the jungle saps their vitality until they are I iff Hr Em Jr w f • B • * bHW®b II Wl^' H I * STARVING NATIVES AT JUBULPORE. never more than half alive at best. Yet they live, if not happily, still with an apathetic content unknown to the Caucasian. In the best years, they drag their emaciated bodies back and forth from their work seemingly with no other use in the world than to figure in statistics illustrating the greatness of the British empire, to whose far distant seat of power their surplus grain is shipped, while they live on as they have always lived—from hand to mouth, in the most literal sense of the word. With little or no clothing, except a cotton rag, with hardly enough to eat in a 'week to keep an American laborer alive for a day, they are still peaceful, uncomplaining and seemingly contented as long as they can manage to barely exist. Famine Levels All Castes. From year to year they barely exist, until the monsoon on which they depend for rain fails them. Then comes famine witii pestilence in its train. The streets of the cities are filled with the cries of women begging a morsel of food for their starving children. High-bred gentlemen and ladies of the Grahman caste, who dread the breaking of caste laws worse than any ordinary death, mingle in the streets with pariahs and outcasts. Fam-

ine, the great leveller, brushes away distinctions like cobwebs. In the agonies of hunger they forget the religion which made them apathetic and meek, and in great crowds they throng around the headquarters of the local governments, demanding bread with a fierceness which gnawing hunger can inspire even in a Hindoo —the mildest of all slaves. During the famine period of IS7i-7S the British Government spe' 1 * ^4*1,000.000 in attempts at relief. b“t m spite of^all it did in relief work, there were 1,556.000 deaths in a single year in the single province of Madras. Horror of Pestilence. But famine is not the worst—or perhaps it is truer to say, the most formidable to the spectator, for with it comes pestilence. At his best, the Hindoo is really half starved, and in a famine year he is inevitably a victim of the horrible diseases of his condition and climate. The DYING FROM HUNGER. ground parches under a sun which bakes it until it is dust with no drop of moisture anywhere to make even a cooling dew. The brooks vanish. The rivers become mere threads or dry up altogether. The pools of water on which the villages chiefly rely are foul at best, but in a prolonged drought the water in them evaporates until it is of the consistency of slime. And this slime, foul with animal and vegetable putrefaction, the people must drink as the horrors of thirst are added to those of hunger. Up from the dry jun-

gles and the parched fields come dust clouds laden with the seeds of death in many forms —and among them that swiftest and most dreaded of all forms of death in Asia—cholera. Whole villages, weakened by hunger, are swept away by it. Father, mother and children die together. There is no one to bury the dead. Houses in the outlying villages are tilled with corpses, and the gaunt wolves and jackals from the jungles are emboldened to enter the deserted streets in search of the food which famine, though it has made them lean in the beginning, supplies them iu superabundance in the end. BLEACH THEIR OATS. An Illecal Practice Attributed to Chicano Grain Dealers. Considerable interest has been aroused over the discovery that oats bleached with sulphur have been handled in the Chicago market. It is against the Jaw of the State so use such a process, but the poor quality cf the present oats crop has proved too great a temptation to certain mixers, who have brightened up the oats with sulphur to help out poor lots. The fact became generally known when in surance inspectors made a complaint to two or three concerns, and raised the insurance on certain buildings. Later ail the large concerns handling oats were questioned as to whether they were using sulphui< Most of them denied it emphatically. The innocent ones in the trade are highly incensed at the use of the process by others, as it is claimed it will hurt the reputation of Chicago oats. Told iu a Few Lines. The question of a century celebration of the death of Edmund Burke is being mooted in Ireland. Because he was out of money and bad nothing to live for, Henry Miller (also spelled Mueller), who was formerly a prosperous butcher in Chicago, shot himself in the left lung at San Francisco and is now dying. Ahlwardt, the notorious Anti-Semitic agitator and member of the German reichstag, who recently camo to the United States to organize a crusade against the Hebrews in this country, is said to have deserted his family in Germany. The Pope lias issued an order forbidding priests not belonging to the Roman diocese to dwell in Rome under penalty of suspension. It also threatens measures against the resident clergy who are seen on the streets after the religious curfew bell. The premises of the Russian Oil Company at Purfleet, Eng., have been burned, doing immense damage. Uataracts of burning oil were poured into the Thames, illuminating the river from Greenwich to Gravesend. The Purfleet powder magazine and the Anglo-American Oil Company adjacent, were saved by the effoits of the fire brigade.

CHAS. W. FAIRBANKS. SKETCH OF THE NOMINEE FOR INDIANA’S .SENATORSHIP. Universally Esteemed as an Able Lawyer, .Honest Politician and Upright Citizen—Like Many Other Public Men, He Is a Native of Ohio. Our New Senator. Chas. W. Fairbanks, the twenty-eighth Senator elected from Indiana, will sutceed Daniel W. Voorhees, who is noir ending his fourth term. Mr. Fairbanm Is universally esteemed in Indiana as & able lawyer, an honest politician and a citizen of sterling worth. He is a produqt of the farm and the university, the court try and the city, the bar and the forum. | He was born near Unionville Center, and is now in his forty-fifth year. Hj» father was a farmer, and young Fair banks’ early days were spent in such agricultural employment as a farmer’s sap SENATOR FAIRBANKS. Is used to. It was not owing to the fl et that he loved the life of country less, tut that ho loved books more, that turned li ni toward the college, and when he ca ne out of Wesleyan University in 1872 he was a bachelor of arts. His ambition led him toward the law, and to facilitate his studies in that profession he served as a newspaper man in (’leveland and Pittsburg. The Supreme Court of Ohio admitted him to the bar, following which the Cleveland Law School tendered him the degree of LL. 8., which ho declined. In 1874 Mr. Fairbanks removed to Indianapolis and has practiced law in that city ever since. He associated himself with politics from the beginning of his career there, but it was not until ISBS that he assumed leadership. In that year he threw his weight to the late .Judge Gresham as against ex-l’resident Harrison. This was largely due to the warm personal friendship between them. It was at this time that Mr. Fairbanks became a distinct power in Indiana politics. At Minneapolis Mr. Fairbanks stood firm for Gen. Harrison's renomination. - In ISSS Mr. Fairbanks foresaw the dan^ gers ahead, and. believing that fofWoW years at least his party would lie minority in Indiana, he gave up his \£U Zll . attention to the matter of its orgW, ln „ !!"" . J 1 " Kn’h'-wl about him tlioW, * ItepublieaiiH <>r ii la . Ntnte. ii,. |.r«*4V' the State convention in 181*1! ntwlWAr. for protection, reciprocity and an htnest ballot. Indiana discovered a new otator and Mr. Fairbanks was in demand ^erywhere. In the campaign of 1884 he was the acknowledged leader of the Re/mbliean party, and in the campaign just posed he was in the forefront of activity and did such work as won for him the riward which he is now about to receive. He will go into the Senate a friend of the administration. His relations with rresident-elect McKinley are those of years of mutual esteem and close friendship. He will, therefore, be in a degree representative alike of the administration, tfie State, his party and the people. M isplaced Eloquence. He was a bright, dapper young lawyer, full of spirits, and possibly a little too smart. For sonm time the Judge of the District Court had been waiting an opportunity to suppress a trifle of this smartness, as it became ,a bore when constantly opposed to his Honor’s long experience. The young lawyer jumped up to defend a case of stealing In which the accused had retained him. Unfortunately he had failed to thoroughly acquaint himself with the facts ot the case, other than that his client had been arrested for stealing. "Your Honor,” he cried, “I ask you does the prisoner look like a man that would steal? Does he look like a man that would suffer his honesty to be demeaned by appropriating another man's gold? No! a thousand times No! He is a patriotic citizen of the-country, one of the proud upholders of our grand republic, and I say It is an outrage for the plaintiff to accuse such a gentleman of theft. Thiffk of his friends that will weep over h&4isgrace undeservedly thrust upon hiin. Think of the blight upon this man’s Ixistence. I say the accused is too manly, too generous, too noble a specimen of hum ” Smash! went the Judge's gavel as he roared out, “Quit that! Young man, this is a case of hog-stealing!”— Harper's Bound Table. Mother Gotse, Mother Goose was a real character, and not an imaginary personage, as some people suppose. Hei- maiden name was Elizabeth Foster, and she was born in the year 1G65 '■the colony of Massachusetts Bay. married Isaac Goose in the year 161,^and a few years later became a mejUjr of the old South Church, Boston. The first edition of her melodies (which were originally sung to her grandchildren), was published in Boston in 1716 by her son-in-law, Thomas Fleet. Mother Goose died in 1757. Wolves in Wisconsin. From ninety-four a flock of sheep ownedl>y I’. A.Port<T,of Mount Morris, Wis„ has been reduced to sixty since last spring by wolves. The crown of Chosroes, the King of Persia, was hidden in an Arabian fortress, and remained concealed for nearly 1,000 years.

SLAUGHTER IN CUBA. Desperate Battle Takes Place, in Which Many Men Are Lost. The New York Press claims to have received news through private channels that Gen. Maximo Gomez stormed and captured the important city of Santa Clara on Jan. 9, and is now moving on Havana With 8,000 men. The famous cavalry leader, Quintin Banderas, was mortally wounded, according to the Press, and Gen. Luque, commanding the Spanish, was also wounded. The news received said that the losses were: Spanish, estimated, killed and wounded, 900; prisoners, 700; cannons captured, 18; battle standards, 4; rifles in the Spanish arsenal, 5,000, with plenty of ammunition. Cubans killed and wounded, 1,500, which is 600 more than the Spanish loss. The Press quotes Carlos Roloff as saying the report is credited. A Havana dispatch to the World says couriers who have slipped through the Spanish lines in Matanzas province bring the news that Gen. Gomez is undoubtedly marching on Havana slowly but surely, and that his advance guard is laying in waste the country as they proceed. In less than a week the advance guard of Gomez’s army has destroyed by fire twenty-one of the most valuable yiatn'nzns and es<ait-w ... t ...... the work of destruction continues as the army moves along. The people of Havana are at last becoming thoroughly alarmed at the situation, and all who possibly can have already left the place. Those*who have been detained are making preparations to leave with all possible haste. Many of those who have been outwardly loyal to Spain have lost all confidence in Gen. Weyler's ability to handle the insurgents, and they now actually tear for the safety of Havana. Skirmishes occur every day in Pinar del Rio. The insurgents are under command of Ruis Rivera.

EXPORTSAND IMPORTS FOR 1896 Statement Relating to Merchandise, Gold and Silver Issued. The monthly statement of the exports and imports of merchandise, gold and silver for the month of December. 1896, and for the twelve months of the calendar year 1,896. shows as follows: Exports of domestic merchandise during December, and for the year. $986,871,256. This is a gain of $25,052.0<M> for the month, as compared with the December, 1890. ami a gain for the year of $179,128.0(X». The imports of merchandise during December amounted to $57,956,099. and for tin* year $689,556,223. Os the amount for the year $321,951,526 was free of dut} and s3.>S.(>O4.itt, was dutiable. The gain for the month is about $4,260.9G0 and the loss for the year about $121,113.(HX>. Th o exports of gold during December amounted to $405,856 and the imports to $2.«*i2,2< I. For the year the exports aggn-gated $56,742,844 and the imports $102,766,438. The silver exports during December amounted to $6,519,545 and the imports to $1,279,801. During the year the exports amounted to $63,029.336, ami the imports to $12,504,577. Press Out in San Francisco that Durant cass Itill continues to hang, while Durant himrelf doesn't. -Cincinnati t’ommereial Bulletin. The murders of 1896 exceed those of IS9o, but then last year's co nie songs certainly were a good deal more irritating. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. It appears that there is an impression among some persons that they can make good bank officials of themselves by committing suicide. New York Journal. Now New York has begun a war on the tall church bonnet. '1 his loks very like a movement against feminine piety in its most popular form.- Boston Herald. Ws are sure that this Mr. Angel, who wants to come to the Senate from Idaho, would feel very much out of place on the roll call of that body.—W ashington Post. Georgia is unable to see why such a pother should be made over Kentucky's six lynchings in six days. Georgia sometimes has nearly that many on one limb at a time.—Kansas City Journal. Recent events in Western banking circles are likely to increase the popularity of the stocking heel and the chimney as places ot safe deposit for people of a saving disposition.—New York Press. It was very thoughtful in the makers of New Y'ear calendars to have the figures so large and black. Hang one of ’em on the wall and you can tell when a note falls due without getting out of bed.—Atlanta Constitution. The delights of holiday buying have now been followed by the equally keen pleasures of post-holiday bargain hunting. and the soul of the shopping woman is lull of energetic peace and joy.—Baltimore American. China is establishing schools for the teaching of English. It is not surmised, however, that the demand for teachers will interfere to any considerable extent with the laundry business in this country. —Houston Post. Mayor Pennoyer, of Portland, Ore., decided that his salary was too large, and so he offered to give back one-half of it. There are various degrees of this malady, but it is not very often elected to office. —Baltimore American. White Ghost, a Sioux chief, has gone to Washington to collect a little bill of $200,000 said to be <Jue his tribe. If he is successful in his errand it will not be necessary for this Ghost to walk back for lack of car fare. —New York Press. Frederick Starr, professor of anthropology at the Chicago University, announces that the American people are degenerating into Indians. This theory accounts for the increasing popularity of the college yell.—Chicago Journal. One of the most sublime and ridiculous attributes of human nature is the perennial assumption that if a few men will meet and pass a law against an evil, that evil will at once get scared and flee to parts unknown. —St. Louis Republic. It is reported that a woman in Philadelphia who has been a kleptomaniac has been permanently cured by a surgical operation. The surgeons have not yet reported the nature of the operation, but if it simply involves the amputation of her fingers the cure is not a discovery worth mentioning.—lndianapolis Journal.

RECORD OF THE WEEK INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. George Blanco, of Anderson. While Crazed, Attempts to Mnrder His Wile—The Governor Will Not Reorganize Metropolitan Police Boards. Goes Insane Over Pearl Bryan Case. George Blanco, of Anderson, was placed under arrest while trying to break a door to get his wife for the purpose of murdering her after the style of Walling and Jackson. He read the Pearl Bryan case from the day it was first published and has become mentally deranged as a result. He has made attempts to kill his wife a la Pearl Bryan twice previously. Friday night she was cornered by him with only a frail door between her and the maniac, who was armed with razors and a butcher knife. He was breaking through the door when the police arrived. He also made a murderous assault upon a neighbor, Mrs. Graham. Blanco has passed his 60th year. One of the interesting questions now before the State and the Legislature is what to do with the metropolitan police law, which gives cities of 10.000 or more inhabitants a police board appointed by the Governor. State Senator Charles E. Shively, of Richmond, one of the leaders in the last and the present General Assembly, said: “Gov. Nlount authorizes me to say to the Senators and Representatives that he is not in favor of the metropolitan police system as it now stands, but does not feel that he would be warranted in reorganizing the various boards. He said he is of the opinion that if the metropolitan system remains upon the statute books the power should be with the circuit judges. The law needs revision and amendment in many particulars, which will receive proper attention.” Robbed by His Supposed Friends. In a suit on trial at Anderson it was brought out that Mrs. J. W. Westerfield, wife of the late Dr. Westerfield, president of the Indiana Association, was robbed of a pocketbook containing $2,000 in cash and an Anderson building and loan deposit book, representing $1,040, by people who came to the house during the doctor's illness or funeral. The case on trial is one wherein Mrs. Westerfield sues for the $1,040 held by the loan association, which refuses to give it up. claiming that the book may turn up in the hands of other parties. In her testimony Mrs. Westerfield says the pocketbook and the loan book were in a locker, which was broken into by people coming to the house during his illness, in the guise of friends or followers of his faith.

AU Over the State. NVillinm Scott, aged 3<>, was run down and killed by a fast freight train on the Wabash railroad at Kellers. Fire in a millinery store under the Grund Hotel at Indianapolis caused a fcaunpede among the guests and employes. Dora, the 1-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elsie Brown, living east of La Grnmre. died from the effects of swallowing chew inn num. <’<>l. Louis S. Hoyt, nged 72 years, for fifteen years luaiumer of the Grand Central Hotel in \ alpariaso. died suddenly. Previous to his coming to Indiana he had been engaged in the hotel business in Rochester, N. Y., and Chicago. W. P. Ijams has resigned as president of the Indianapolis Belt Railway and Union Stock Yards Company and D. F. Winshall. of Terre Haute, has been elected to till the position. There will be no other changes. Mr. Ijams has been connected with the company as auditor, general manager and president for twenty years. Harry Rodgers and Bessie Peterson were married at Jeffersonville Jan. 5, the event having been kept a secret until Wednesday. Rodgers is a pugilist, and has figured in several exciting bouts with persons of his calling, notably Charles Slusher, champion middleweight of Kentucky, in which Rodgers came out victorious. His bride is a captain of the Salvation army, ami her home is at St. Augustine, FFa. Rodgers first met his wife during a religious service. The miners at the Currysville mine quit work at Shelburn. The company posted notices several days ago notifying the miners that a reduction of two cents on clean coal would be made, the district price being 31 cents per ton, which would reduce the clean coal tonnage price to 29 cents per ton, the same as Star City and Shelburn are paying. All machine runners, shooters and loaders, who were formerly on by the day. will be put on by the contract; other labor the same as before. A phenomenon exists near Salem Centre. Steuben County, where a large section of a road is disappearing into what appears to be a bottomless pit. Several thousand loads of dirt have been dumped on the road, but the immense quantity of dirt gradually sinks nto the- abyss. The road is one which has been in use for years and the phenomenon cannot be explained. Land in the vicinity of the thoroughfare is also sinking, and general alarm prevails. George Stottler, Indiana's oldest life prisoner, who was pardoned by retiring Gov. Matthews, has been warned that it would probably be better for him if he did not return to Anderson, the scene of the terrible crime, the murder of the Isanogle boys. Stottler killed the boys thirty years ago by literally hacking them to pieces with a butcher knife. In certain quarters the bitterness against the murderer has not died out. Stottler has passed his fiftieth year now. He is liberated, to find himself friendless, without money and without a home or future and denied the pleasure of returning to the scenes of his boyhood. Generally the pardon is indorsed. The Midland steel works, Muncie, which have been idle several weeks, resumed operations, giving employment to 1,200 men. William Meldenkow, aged about 18. called at Muncie police headquarters and said that he had escaped from the Illinois State reformatory a few months ago and wanted to go back. He told Superintendent Fortner that if he did not telegraph the prison officials at Pontiac to come after him at once he would begin ransacking the city of Muncie and steal everything he could carry. The reformatory Officials were notified.

THE INDIANA_SOLONS As soon as the upper house got back into its own chamber after the joint session had listened to Gov. Matthews message Friday, Senator Shively of Richmond introduced an anti-trust bill. The bill provides that any company or corporation which joins a trust shall forfeit its right to do business in the State, and provides further that the officers of the company or corporation joining a trust may be fined SSOO. The attorney general of the State is directed to prosecute all companies or corporations that become members of trusts, and as an incentive it is provided that he shall receive a fee of SSOO for every conviction. Prosecuting attorneys are also authorized to begin prosecutions. The House did nothing except to adopt new rules, one of which requires a two-thirds vote to appeal from the chair. Both houses adjourned until Monday to await Gov. Mount’s inaugural. Tuesday was given up to caucusing by both houses, no regular business being transacted, it was definitely settled that C. W. Fairbanks should be sent to the Senate, but not before much feeling and a strong opposition had developed. The minority strength was divided between McKeen, Gen. Lew Wallace, and Judge Tiryl-r/"' SDUe ^ J™ J The only measure of importance offered in the House Thursday morning was a bill by Representative Nicholson, author of the temperance law of the last session, putting the holders of Government licenses on the same footing as saloonkeepers and making them pay the same license fee to the State. Since the Nicholson law was passed many saloous have refused to take out licenses, but have run as quart shops. The bill will drive them out of existence. In strange contrast with the introduction of this measure in the House was the reception of each Senator by mail Thursday morning of a four-ounce bottle of whisky from a Terre Haute distilling firm. Some members, when it was known what the packages contained, refused to take theirs from the postmaster of the Senate, and others jokingly alleged that they were disappointed in the amount and were waiting for larger bottles. The lower branch of the Legislature Monday, by unanimous vote, passed a concurrent resolution providing for an investigation of the Vandalia Railroad Company. Speaker Pettit appointed as the members of the joint committee for the House Representatives Henderson, Sutton and Babcock. Under the provision of the resolution the investigating committee is to be composed of three Representatives, three Senators and the Attorney. General of the State, who will be exofficio chairman of the committee. It is not the first time an Indiana Legislature has undertaken to inquire into the allegation that the railroad company owes the school fund of the State nearly $1,000,000, but former investigations have been fruitless, because the investigators have been taken to Terre Haute and treated so hospitably by the railway interests that they were satisfied there was no indebtedness* Recently there has been a demand from all parts of the State that the company, which is now in the hands of a receiver, shall make good its obligation to the State. \\ hen the road was incorporated in 1847 there was inserted in its charter a provision that a certain per cent of its earnings should be turned over into the school fund. It is charged that this provision I lias been ignored. • barb s W. Fairbanks was elected United States Senator Tuesday to succeed Daniel W. Voorhees, whose term will expire March 4. It was the first time in sixteen years that the Republicans have been able to elect a Senator, and the occasion was made one of rejoicing. Many representatives of the party from all over the State came in to witness the formality. The two houses voted separately. The vote was as follows: Senate—Fairbanks, 33; Voorhees, 16; Templeton, 1. House —Fairbanks, 52; Voorhees, 42; Templeton, 5. A Tremendous Journey. An ordinary walk of an hour is equivalent to a journey of 1,000 miles just as a beginning. The average person walks three miles an hour, according to reckoning, but when it is considered that the world is constantly turning on its axis, it is apparent where the 1,000 miles come in. 'This is by no means all. The earth makes a journey round the sun every year, and a long but rapid trip it is. The distance of our planet from the sun is put in round numbers at 92,000,000 miles. This is the radius of the earth's orbit—half the diameter of the circle, as it is called. The whole diameter is therefore 184.000,000 miles, and the circumference, being the diameter multiplied by 3.1416, is about 578,000,000. This amazing distance the earth travels in its yearly journey, and. dividing it by 365. we find the daily speed about 1.584.000 miles. Then, to get the distanee you rode round the sun during! vour hour's walk, divide again by 24. and the result is about 66.000 miles. This is not the end of the hour's trip, however. The sun, with its entire brood of planets, is moving in space at the rate of 166,000.000 miles in a year. This is at the rate of a little more than> 454,000 miles a day, or 18,900 miles an. hour. So. adding the three miles of leg* travel to the hour's axial movement of the earth, this to the earth's orbital journey, and this again to the earth’s excursion with the sun, and you find you have traveled in the hour 85,903 miles. —San Francisco Examiner. Cremation in Italy. Cremation is more extensively praci ticed in Italy than in any other country. The first crematorium was established, in Milan in 1876. and there are now fifty in operation in Italian territory. According to N. Spallard, the production of cane sugar by the leading countries of the world was in 1890: 1 Cuba. 530.000 Ions; Java, 320,000 tons; Brazil. 230,000 tons; India, 220,000 tons; Jamaica. 210.000 tons, Manilla, 180,000 tons; Mauritius. 120,000 tons; Guiana,' 120,000 tons; China, 100,000 tons, Guadeloupe, 100,000 tons; United States,' 100,000 tons; Porto Rico, 80,000 tons, and Honolulu, 66,000 tons. Laevulose is that sugar most liberally, found in honey and various fruits. '