Till- WKKIvIA IUlliVI.I): PLAT'ISMOU III. N Kill ASK A, NOVEMKKU 10.18112.
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THE JnLER, AJlilD
1't.FUSIIKll HAILY KXCKIT SUNDAY
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RATES OF bUBSCRlHTION.
DAILY UWTUIN.
One Year (In uilviinc ...
SIX IHOIltllH,
Uy Currier, per week,
WKi.KI.Y Kll llo.v
One Your In uilvuiici!.
Knot uulil In ii'lvn.iiv,
SIX llllllltllrt,
Three months,
Telephone Nuuiuer
RAILKCMD STRIKER b r. 'i Y
Assistant District Alioi ,) ' t'i..
haw called utten'.ion m 1.1 .
conre.-s iir-ii in ! i'
(Rev. Suit., Cliat. l.'fi'.,. t- I
for tilt settlement l n-lrn i 1 m. ,
by in bitratnui. I'll1' I i ' '
nay Hie Chic ign Vubu,.- : ;
cane of any disable- mem i-
railroad companies .m l u
plojl'H, "If IIIIOII (lie Wl il'ii'ri fiu . .
nit ion of either iariy to in '"
versy to submit ill ir tliU. tenet - 1
arbitration tlie oilier pari) sh li .
"cpt the proposition," tln-n .n'1
aide shall select one pi i -n, ;i.l
they shall select a third. - ; 1 t u f
three person shall coniim
board of arbitral ion. '1 h' iln'i.-
of SUCh board in to lie :ili-ilutr ne'l 1
iinal. The act blither pun i 1 -to .i. .
the president in. ly select t wo c nn j
inissioucrs, who, myelin i mlli ihei
labor commissioner ol the sl.r.c in!
which the trouble ban ocenred, m.iy j
constitute a temporary couiiiiimmi.u
"for the purpose of examining tiie
muses of the controversy, the con-1
fitions accompanying it, and the
bent means ot adjusting n." ihe
j 1 1 r i h 1 1 i c t i ( 1 1 of such a board of arbi
tration applies of course lo inter
state roads.
The we iknesa of this law lies in
its optional character. One part"
niUHt make written npplicaiionH for
the arbitration and the other party
must voluntarily accept the propo
sition before such a board can act.
In other words, if both Hides chose
to take the benefit of the law they
could end the controvert)'; but ol
what avail in the law in the case of
switchmen's strike, where one side
lias shown no disposition to arbi
trate and commenced acts of vio
lence at one, and the other siue
publicly refuses upon the ground
that there is nothing to arbitrate?
The time has now come to provide
some legislative method which will
absolutely prevent these quarrels
betweed railroad companies and
their employes which are im
periling the public interests by
stopping the passage of mails,
freight, and passengers. Further,
the law would be so constructed
that every person at fault, whether
belongs to a wealthy railroad cor
porotiou or to the rank a of its em
ployes, shall be punished severely.
These persons who control com
merce, between States as' common
curriers and who make such
chances as they please under the
law ought to he so regulated and
restricted that their individual
quarrels shall not involve other
people who have no interest in
their disagreements. As it is now
contestants may or my not injure
each other, but they do injure out
siders upon every occasion. They
are tike two rowdies who instead of
firing at each other, only shoot the
spectators and passers-by who
have nothing to do with their
qoaircl. This interruption of rail
road business by labor disputes
must be made impossible, and
some means must be devised to
prevent any interference with
commerce and travel and the mails.
The operation of a railroad cannot
bet-topped fora single day with
out inflicting heavy damages upon
the travelling and commercial
public, and for this reason alone,
without taking any account of the
lestruction of railroad property
old the demoralization which
rows out of such a lawlessness,
here is pressing necessity for a
'jaw strong. enough to absolutely
fireveut strikes of this kind, It
jmis't be an optional law. It must
iioi say to, me contestants. "You
lay arbitrate if you please," but
must take them by the collars
nd say in a way they will under-
and, "You must arbitruteorsutTer
e penalty" of assaulting and iii
iring the public.
So much for the strikes affecting
iter state, commerce. When the
rike affects a railroad within the
ate legislature should provide
atues which will regulate strikes
id lockouts and severely punish
ose who (repass upo n the rights
the public, either in the safe
insportation of individuals nr
operty. Under tlu present sys
n that protection to life and
operty w hich is gwarranteed by
cry state constitution is not irivcii.
ie present miserable condition of
'a'irs has gone far enough. The
blic has more interest in this,
siness than either railroad cor
rations or their employes, and it
! the piincipal sufferer. These i
fkless, "Violent outbreak arei
gro'vin : more and iii'ir- trequent,
and are nvoLing the country in
condition wtiuli are tantamount
to those 'l i " war It is le -r than
civ I wa win' it is found i ec. ssary
lo call on i e entire militia of four
si lies -New York. I'enn ivauia.
I'liiiesse- .nl West Virginia - to
, li e an I property from tlious
i ec less suikers'r I'nder
I ie Colli' I V Well
I s. as w -. e.i.-e
. i i -. i K-"g
I, in, i r 1 1 to
:, .. el enpl . r the
. ,i , i i ions iii n. iii I ity,
t , ee was ' uicipally
i mi his iii.iuCi'iii sub
, i.) pari i.i llieir ipiar
. i ikiu . in a t stop.
s Ik- (lea!, with ill a
.er. I i- . o v lime
.o have their say, for
li sulti'l t'l r.
l-UL, BJ NOT THU.
in .Mad . hi, U
i iseovei ed .md proved
i inti lei'i mi i !!)- I by
, i ,i uxy en and li dro-
llios. l-vo liil.-rH do
i ' 'o furiii water .' I lias
e . , I -d an apparauis c niiilis
i . . i s.iys the Chicago I rilmne
ii ,. 'I connect ion .villi each
" de . I' in nig water into each of
ii. ii I I'lMt'iectiug tiem with Ihe
li.i i l k ne uiitains hydro.'eii and
ih l miiIs iii the tulie iiiin whieh Ihe
ne.: itixe pule of the batiery has
heeu iuuo luei.' l, and only oxygen
in the tube containing ihe positive
pole. "The water is all made up
into one kind of gas from each
tube."
That is, the gentleman says so,
and writes down liis allegation in
a nook, which is duly printed and
for sale, (hit he docs not say that
eithe'of the gaseous products et
his operation have been tested by a
competent chemist for the purpose
of ascertaining if they are really
oxygen and hydrogen or only a
mixture of the two elements
though he denies that Ihose gases
are elementary forms ol matter and
insists upon it that water itself
should he elevated to the dignity.
The omission of the proof noted is
a fatal one, as no scientific man will
concede the validity of the claim
till such proof is supplied and that
beyond all possibility of cavil. Hut
in its absence it may be of interest
to state the psetido philosophy
which the experimenter deduces
from a study of his alleged facts:
Water cannot be decomposed so
as to convert it into two of the
lightest substances found in nature
without uniting with it something
of a lighter character to increase its
volume. That . something is
electricity, which is therefore
material, or it is elementary matter
and the electricity bt each !pulc
creates a different kind of gas. The
water is a base in each "gas, not a
compound o( the two. Combustion
is an active force of nature and not
a condensing process. It decom
poses the oxygen and hydrogan,
restoring them to the elementary
forms of matter. It is the impon
derable matter they contain that
renders them capable of being
burned, and the same is true of
every other combustible of being
decomposed, is evident from the fact
that it unites with other elementary
matter so as to create new matter,
while organic matter only mixes
with other matter so as to make
compounds. The ponderable ele
mentary substances that are held
in solution by water and carried up
into growing vegetation, united
with the imponderable matter
furnished by light, heat and electri
city, create new matter, and in this
way all the different kinds of ma
terial that are found in vegetable
matter are created.
This is much the same kind of
reasoning that have been indulged
in a century or more ago if the men
of that time had had the advantage
of an . acquaintance with, practical
electricity but knew nothing of the
science, In fact the talk about the
supposed "phlogiston" before oxy
gen was isolated by the chemists
were pretty closely parallel to this.
It was all knocked on the head when
chemists learned how to decompose
different substances, and .found
that the sum ol weights of the pro
ductswas precisely equal to that of
the unbalance before decomposi
tion. They have analyzed water in
this way, found that the resulting
oxygen and hydrogen both
together weigh just as much
as did the water from which they
were evolved, and that when made
to combine subsequently tlmse two
Volumes of ir:W,.J ..... . I ., !
I-," " - "uneeil uie
original weight of water. Moth
processes have been repeated so
many thousands of times th.it there
is not the shadow of a doubt as to
the fact, except in the mind ,,f some
such man as the "discoverer" here
referred to, who does not first take
the trouble to learn what others
have done in the field before start
ing out for himself on ,i Jour of
supposed investigation.
D.jH Fi AG ON Trl - t-EA.
A few da s since 1 os'niasler (ien
eral Waiiaiiiaker signed contracts
which will crtate a fleet of such
splendid oeeaii steamships as the
City of Paris under the American
flag. This is the direct result of
President Harrison's earnest sup
port ol the policy which has
brought this about.
A recent announcement Irom the
London (ilobe thus sets forth
another step in this line of restor
ing Aiueric in shipping and Amer
ican commerce. Under the title of
"American Shipping Trade" the
Globe says: "The American
steamer Allianca, which has sailed
from New York for liuenos Ayres
and Montevideo with the United
States mails is the first American
vessel to carry these mt ils to Uru
guay and the Argentina direct
This innovation is the result of the
subsidy provision in the Dingley
shipping bill. The Alliancn also
carries a quantity of agricultural
mpleineiits, machinery and dry
goods, of which trade Great Uritian
has hitherto possessed a nio
nopo y."
CHARAC TEHISTlfcs OF MR. MAC
VtAGH. There is one passage in the career
of Mr. MeVeagh which has been
burned into the memory of every
one who was in Washington in
those dreadful days when the pres
cient of the United States was
stricken down by an assassin's bul
let, and when the republic itself
seemed in peril. That passage oc
curs in a letter from Mr. MacVeagh
to Henjamin Hristow when Mr.
Arthur was a presidential candidate.
The public have not forgotton that
it was Mr. Wayne MeVeagh, this
professional reformer, who said
this: "At the threshold I ought to
warn you that, while nobody envies
Mr. Arthur the great pri.e, as far
beyond his expectation as his de
serts, which he drew in the lottery
of assassination, yet nobody has
forgotton the pregnant fact that
Giteau was the original Arthur
man, that he killed Mr. Garfield
expressly to make Mr. Arthur pres
ident, and that he did make him
president by the act for nearly four
years."
This dastardly assertion was de
liberately made by the man whom
the democrats to-day will claim to
be a convert to their party. Not
only the friends of Mr. Arthur, but
every true American, was outraged
by the attempt even by the most
indirect insinuation to attach the
faintest responsibility lo Mr. Arthur
for Guiteau's mildness. The public
has perhaps forgotten that Gen.
Hristow said of this: "I must de
cline his (McVeagh's) invitation to
go into the slums of personal de
famation. I shall pass over without
comment those slurs and insinua
tions so unworthy their author
which Mr. MacVeagh permitted him
self to make. I know not wha
secret bitterness degrades my
friend to use expressions which or
dinarily his good taste and fine feel
ing would be the first to condemn
If Gen. Arthur had always been
the unworthy person my friend de
scribes, I have him to excuse or
ustify his own act in supporting
him for the vice-presidency and
taking the office of first legal ad
visor to an administration in which
Gen. Arthur stood second by the
people's choice."
Striking ; illustrations of the ad
vantage which the American farmer
gains by the tariff may be found
right here in Omaha. One of the
largest pickle concerns in the
country is located in this city and
a considerable portion of its supply
f materials from the market
gardeners of Nebraska. It uses
great quantities of cauliflower and
onions for which it pays the pro
ducer good prices, but as these
articles are not grown in sufficient
quantities here it is necessary to
make up the deficiency by import
ing from Holland. The tariff upon
these products is 4."i per cent, and
yet they are laid down in Omaha at
the same prices that are paid to the
Nebraska farmer. Without the
tariff the foreign dealer could de
liver them here at a trifle more than
one-half what is now paid and the
American producer would be com
pelled to accept the reduced prices
or quit the business. He never
could stand such competition and
soon goto the wall. This is only
one example among many of the
practical benefits derived hy the
farmer from the protective policy
now in force in this country. Mce.
k'oiu:iT Gk'ANT, professor of as
tronomy in the University of (das
gow, who died recently at the age of
7s years, studied in Paris under
Arago and I.everrier. His "History
of Physical Astronomy", written at
an early stage in his career, no
doubt had much to do with secur
ing his engagement at Glasgow in
1 ."!. He is credited with being the
first person to announce the exis
tence of a continuous envelope
about the sun he having observed
its scarlet waves from the Him
alas iyan lNKl.
GOOD AelD BAD M JMTY.
Kx-Seuator Kvaits states the
position of the democrats on the
currency question in a very apt and
striking way when he says that
t "they hold it to be unconstitutional
to have good money for the whole
country, constitutional to have bad
money for every State in ihe
Union." As the case now stands,
our money is the best in the world
says the Globe Democrat. The
man who has a paper dollar in his
pocket does not care what bank
issues it. He knows that it is worth
its face everywhere, and that in no
contingency can he lose a cent
upon it. The credit of the govern
i inent is pleged for its redemption.
( There is not the least danger that
i it will forfeit its value, or be refused
I in any business transaction. Most
j of the nations have deviced paper
j currency systems from time to
I time, but ours is acknowledged to
be the superior one. Mr. Gladstone
I says it is belter than that of Eng
land, which is the highest praise
that it could receive. It has been
tested by practical experience,
under all kinds of circumstances,
and has been proved equal to every
emergency. The fact that it had its
origin in a military necessity does
not detract from its surpassing ad
vantages for the uses of peace.
When we estimate the victories and
benefits of the war, this admirable
plan of providing the country with
the sound money counts for little
less than the oholition of slavery.
It is one of the greatest achieve
ments of modern statesmanship in
point of practical and continous
service to all classes of people.
The democrats have never been
satisfied with the national currency,
because it took the place of the
local currency which their party
had so long maintained. They said
it was unconstitutional to start
with, and they did everything in
their power to discredit it and to
prevent it from gaining popular
respect and confidence. It suc
ceeded in spite of their opposition,
as so many other good things done;
but they have never really recon
cile i themselves to it. They .ire
now openly proposing to destroy it,
and to restore ihe old state banking
system, which was a source of in
filiate trouble and damage before
the war. The platform of their
party demands the repeal of the
prohibitory tax, which is the only
protection that the country has
against such a misfortune. They
claim, as Mr. Evarts says, that it is
constitutional to flood the land
with a form of money that could
not possibly be made good in any
locality. This is a question which
equals the tariff issue in general
importance. It comes directly home
to every business and industrial
interest. Good money is indispen
sable to the safety and prosperity
of all the elements of society. Peo
ple of small means and those who
work for a living are particularly
concerned in the preservation of a
system that gives them a currency
which is secure against failure or
fluctuation. Had money would
bring them ennstaht hazard and
inevitable" loss. The inflation of
the circulating medium by means
of innumerable state banks author
ized to issue notes would reduce
their wages and diminish the value
of their savings. They would have
to pay more for everything, and
sharpers would impose upon them
in all relations. It is reasonable!)
suppose, therefore, that they will
not give their consent to the scheme
by which the democratic party thus
uiuis todeprive them of the blessing
of first-class money.
DRAW 0 THEM.
One might well imagine that Polk
was again local editor of The Hkk
AU. Peterson in last night's Jour
nal. .. .
Take Petersen and Polk, put tlipin
both in a box, shake them up good
and it would be hard to tell which
would get out first. They are a
good pair to draw to.
Skckktaky Nohlk made an im
promptu remark in his Hrooklyn
speech which every laboring man
in the land should think about.
Someone suggested that the work
men of this country had much more
money in savings banks than those
abroad. "Yes," replied the secre
tary. "I believe the workmen in
America have more money in their
pockets than laborers abroad have
iijjthe banks."
SPRINGER ELUCIDATES FINANCE.
Congressman Springer, demo
cratic leader in congress, is the
Flora Hitching of politics. There
are no full stops nor dashes nor
even commas in the voluble stream
of inaccuracy with which Mr.
Springer entertains his hearers.
I n a single speech at Alton, 111., he
made the following surprising- ns
sertions, whieh repuire no oilier
relntation tluTii their statement to
intelligent men. Of the wild c,;t
bank plank he said :
"If congress can rightfully and
constitutionally exercise such a
power, it could abo impose melt
tax upon the rents of laud ,i n. I
make lands worth less as i.ive
ments, and thus compel the
cupancy and cultivation of land
the only condition of own. rhi
However desirable such a pol c
might be regarded by some peopl i
it would be a most dangerous an . J
unwarrantable exercise of the tax
ing power of the general govern j
tnent."
And yet the democratic commit-1
tee has spread broadcast, as a com
paign document, the official uttei
ance of the party's opinions, Henry
George's book, which advocates ex
actly this method of taxing land
values as a means of indirectly
confiscating and nationalizing
land. Again he says:
"The prohibitory tax upon the
circulating notes ot States banks is
without any warrant in the con.
stitution, and the courts would un
doubtly so hold if a test case was
brought before them."
Yet the decision of the supreme
court of the United States has
affirmed the constitutionality ol
this tax.
Finally, he emits this astounding
exhibition on the subject of treas
ury notes, or greenbacks
"When such (state bank) notes
were coir.om in this country before
the war, the government of the
United States had not assumed the
function of furnishiuga circulating
medium of sufficient quantity to
meet the demand of rade: but
since the government had issued
the greenback, or treasury note.and
made it a legal tender for all debts,
public and private, it is universally
accepted as money, not only in this
country, but in Europe, and the
value of such notes does not de
pend uiion the deposit of bonds or
security of any kind for their re
demption. The national
treasury notes will always be pre
ferred, and congress has enough of
such notes to be issued from time
to time to meet the demand of
trade."
The democratic leader in con
gress here declares in mistakable
'eruis for an irredeemable paper
currency and slides in blissful
ignorance over fact of a reserve of
gold coin in the treasury to secure
the uotes issued, ready to apply on
their redemption when it is de
manded. Anything that Springer says can
hardly be said to commit' himself
or any one else to anything, as he
is as likely as not to assert the con
trary of what he has said here in
the next speech he makes. Yet it is
commentary to the people in the
democratic party that it makes
such man its leader, and lets him
spread such pcsitiveniisstatements
as these among the people in its be
half. A Sensitive Non-Combatant
President Elliot of Harvard uni
versify has issued a bull against
the good army tune "Marching
through Georgia" within the pre
cincts ot his college. He says it is
not dignified enough for Harvard,
and it grates harshly upon Mini.
One would think that a man who
could stand Mormonism, and pub
licly declare tor it in its contest
with the government could endure
a tune which as much as any other
has become the national air of the
soldiers who saved the nation. Hut
President Elliot is given to pecul
iar outbursts. Witness the occas
ion when, in the presence of the
most prominent editors of Phila
delphia who were entertaining- him,
he denounced the press in terms
that amazed these gentlemen and
made it necessary for them to con
ceal the extent of his fault to save
him from the severest criticism.
Hut in truth there seems to be no
special reason why President El
liot should admire the tunes of
war times. He was 27 years old
when the war broke out. Instead of
entering the army he went to Eu
rope about the time when the need of
the country for men began to be
felt and remained until the war was
over. Such a record is not conduc
ive to pleasant war memories pro
vided a man has even latent sparks
of patriotism in his nature.
Hut. to be just to President Ellijtt
the fact that the most of the profes
sors of Harvard nre democrats or
freetraders, or both, probably ac
counts for the greater part of the
dissatisfaction over the formation
of republican clubs at the univers
ity. Hut if Harvard is under the
management of 'men who cannot
bear to hear patriotic tunes the
sooner a large class of its patrons
find it out and act upon their know
ledge the better for the youth of
the land. President Klliott is too
sensitive by far. Even ex-confederate
soldiers who happen to attend
veteran re unions often join in the
sung which he prescribes, just as
union veterans frequently have
their bands play "Dixie." Presi
dent Elliott is a great scholar, but
his patriotism was not developed
during the war, and he does not
seem to have had time to cultivate
it since.
Ttt I'rnnunrliitlna at Name!
Now that Jo tin Philip Sanaa has lo
cated in Chicago we think it proper to
correct h (.'rowing misapprehension m
la l he correct pronunciation of liisuaine.
A eertaiu wealthy and cultured and in
fluential society faction on the SontK
Side call htm Souss-er, and at the Uhi
rmjiicliib it is seriously argned that the
eminent uui.sician was called to this
city iiot ouly in recognition of his
grain and talents, hut also and especial
ly liec anse it was fancied that his name,
iilentifiml with lutisie development here,
would gtand as an enduring tribute te
oue of the greatest industries in the
packiiiK hniiMi quarter of onr civiliza
tion. About the only joke that Phil
Armonr ever cracked was when he put
thia conundrum to a group of friend
the other evening. "Why am 1 like the
leader of oar famous bandr
Marshall Field (who ia a aly wag)
IWaiiBe yoo blow your own horn ha,
ba. ha!
Air. Armonr No.
Ueorge M. Pullman (somewhat of
bmimriKt himself)- because he lives by
a batou and yon live hy a hattoir.
Air. Armour (wanlv No. no!
H. K. r'airbank (always subtle) Be
cause he tries Jiard to please and you
try lard to please.
.Mr. Armour- Yon are all wrong.
Unities- We give it up.
Air. Armour-Then I will tell yon why
I am like the leader of our famous band.
It because I am a soiiser tool
.Marshall field- Hut you ain't; yon'rf
an Armour.
George M Pullman That's so; Marsh
all h right; you're an Armour you ain't
a Sousa!
Air Armour But don't yon seer 11&
is a Sousa and 1 am a souser too! 1
make houhiv- I'ui a notuer see? So we
are Imtb Soiihus!
AlarHhall Field Oh, oh, y-a-as; by
tieorge, that's a good one! Una Uigiu
hothnm heard it?
la spite of Mr. Armour's pretty wit
and in spite of South Side usages, Mr..
Sousa s name is not correctly pronounced
Sonse-er: the correct pronunciation of
the name ih as if the name were Npelleil
S-o-o-s a h, with t lie accent npon thepur
milt --Chicago News-Kecord.
Ilrtikrr tlnvs Fun with a OnTrrnor.
It is a barren subject out of whicln
Wall street fails to get some fun. Gov
ernor Flower's opinion that Friday, Oct.
21. was not a logal holiday had in it too.
much sennna meaning not to invite bur
lesque, llaillery came thick and fast
after it bad fairly started, especially
when it teemed to be settled that the
governor bad put Ins foot in it By
Wednesday night the fun lovers decide I.
that the governor deserved sympathy on
the ground that be was the only man in
the land who wonld work Friday. Tele
grains in this strain multiplied Thurs
day, and when biwine.su ended that day
messages enough were put on the win
to make tjie day certainly one of labot
for the governor's secretary.
Besides telegrams purely sympathetic,
some of the senders demanded that the
governor stand firm foriitate sovereign t v
against the national decree: otiwrs of
fered recruits to the "corporal's guard
of Friday laborers." One of the senders
expressed the hope that the close of Fri
day would not find the governor "n
drooping Flower." New York Time..
A Holtdnjr Trtnmph.
1 heard today of an original wager
made by a number of Harvard students.
One of tbem was willing to back him
self to auy amount that he could eat
forty griddle cukes within three hours.
The others took him op to the amount
of forty dollars, and went to a certain
restaurant on Newspaper row on Co
lumbus Day to do the feat Eiguteei.'
cakes were disposed of at the first sit
ting, then the man went for a walk of
thirty minutes. Upon returning he ate
fifteen more, flisstomach then rebelled,
but seven cakes remained to be enten.
A large crowd had collected by this
time, vastly interested in so unnatural
an experiment. But the Harvard man..
although receiving much good humored,
advice, followed his own line of experi
mentation. The chairs were cleared for
a ninb to ths street at intervals, and he
finished the seven, two at a time, then
three, having eaten the forty in 2",
noura. Uewas living and well when
last heard from. Boston Record.
A li'tsjl Photograph. 1
The most surprised roan at the rt
Grand Amr encampment at Washing-
ton was P . imaster John B. Emery, of
Wtlliamspi i t. When Mr. Emery was
at the from in 1862 he had a photograph
taken of himself and mailed to his
mother. She never received it, and the
picture was long since forgotten. Dur
ing the encampment t he postmaster was
naturally interested in the dead letter
office. There is there a collection of
several thousand photographs that have
failed to reach their owners, and while
looking over them Mr. Emery was as
tonished to find his own among them.
By unwinding the necessary amount of
red tape the postmaster established his
claim to the photograph, and it was sent
to him a few days ago. Washington
Letter.
A Rhp of (.iunta In Olil Gaul.
In the year 1SD0 gome human bones of"
enormous size, don bio the ordinary in
fact, were found in the tumulus of Cas
telnau (Herault), and have since been
carefully examined by Professor Kioner,
who, while admitting that the. bones are
those of a very tall race, nevertheless
finds them abnormal in dimensions and
apparently of morbid growth. They un
doubtedly reopen the question of tin
"glauts" of antiqnify.bntdo not furnish
suflicient evidence to duciilo it. London
Ulube.
iinutlil'n M n-kiiH-liui.
The inuskmelon season lias just closed
in Canada. The Alontreal market shows
some of the finest caiiteloupes raiseU
anywhere. The wagons of the inhabit
ants stand about, the Nelson monument,
piled high wiih splendid fruit. The
warm lands along the St. Lawrence
produce them beautifully. They beat
ilaekeosack. New York Recorder.
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