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folTERARY NOTES.
McCutcheon, the cartoonist on the
Chicago Recorc, is muking a name for
himself. One of his late ones shows'
Bryan taking a walk up Wall street. The
brokers, in a panic, are climbing up
lamp posts and gazing timidly out from
behind half-closed doors, while Bryan
trams a deserted street with the air of a
Roman conqueror.
Miss Juanette Gilder, the book re
viewer of The World and for the Chi
cago Tribune, has gone abroad and has
observed that French and English
women who write books and criticisms
wear chic gowns the and air grand. She
is attempting, in an antique and creaky
way, to follow them but Btyle cannot
be learned in a moment any more than
cooking, and she is not making much of
a go at it.
Willis John Abbott's sketch of Mr.
Bryan in ihe August Review of Re.
views is from a friendly point of view.
As such it is a curiosity of current literature.
innuence upon china, a mosmss
times more will the influence of Russia
there be dangerous for the trade and
policy of other countries, for the pos
session of Port Arthur is a hand upon
the throat of China, which can be
tightened to suffocate her at any mo
ment Moreover, England Is the onl7
country which throws her possessions
open to the trade of the world. Port
Arthur In Russian hands will of course
be carefully restricted to Russian com
merce. The harbor Is a splendid one.
The fortifications manned by Russians
would be absolutely impregnable, and
thus Russia would have In the far east
a naval base which would Instantly
make her the mistress at sea of that
part of the world. In fact, with Rus
sia firmly settled at Port Arthur, with
the trans-Siberian railway behind her,
the influence of other powers upon
China may be regarded as gone, and
the advance of Russia from her north
ern frontier toward Pekin would be
merely a matter of time.
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TALENT NOT APPRECIATED.
Men of DUMnctlon Frequently Laughed
at by Their Contemporaries.
In the resent memoirs of Dean Buck
land an amusing picture is given of
the antipathy felt fifty years ago by
the old classical scholars at Oxford to
the new scientific learning. They
described it as "mischievous and ab
surd." When Buckland once went to
Rome for long vacation one of the
cider dons is said to have exclaimed:
"Well, Buckland has gone to Italy.
Thank heaven, we shall hear no more
of his silly geology."
Learned men do not always appre
ciate the achievements of their fellows.
It is said that a friend brought Mil
ton's "Paradise Lost" to a great Scotch
mathematician, who remarked when
he had finished it:
"It's verra pretty, but, mon, whet
does it prove?"
An American, who stated recently in
a London club that he was going to
Enfield in search of the grave of
Charles Lamb was astonished to hear
him contemptuously described by an
English statesman as "a flighty writer
of silly papers, in which there was no
mention of political questions of his
day."
Paganini, while in England, was
mentioned by a great jurist In a letter
as "poor fiddler who had driven the
town mad with his squeaks and
scrapes," and he, no doubt, would have
described his critic as soulless and deaf
to the highest expression of emotion.
An anecdote is told of Henry Clay in
the zenith of his popularity and fame.
Meeting an old schoolmate at a recep
tion, he expressed regret that another
friend, a mutual acquaintance, whose
career promised to be brilliant, had
given up his life to the raising of pigs
and making a fortune. The friend
presently met the gentleman referred
to, who exclaimed, with a shake of the
head:
"Poor Henry Clay! He might have
made a good stock grower and be a
comfortable planter now if he bad not
wasted his time in politics."
PORT ARTHUR IS DIFFERENT.
England la Willing for Ruaila to Hare
What She Donn't Want-
Now, we have always held that Rus
sia is entitled to an ice-free port in the.
Pacific, says the London Chronicle. It
Is out of the question that so colossal
an undertaking as the trans-Slberiam
railway could be allowed to end in a
remote harbor frozen for five months
in the year. Mr. Balfour, we were glad
to see, declared that the government
would put no obstacle in the way of
such an acquisition by Russia. All
this, however, refers to Port Lazareff,
on the eastern coast of Corea. or some
place in the immediate neighborhood,
upon which Russia has for long been
known to have her eye. Port Arthur
is a very different thing. Russia took
the lead in coercing victorious Japan
out of Port Arthur on the ground that
the presence of Japan there would give
th latter a danerouiljr oreDondoratins:
Latter Want the Foreat la the Ilaala
of the Uppe. Congo,
The object of Germany at the present
moment is to connect her eastern and
southwestern African possessions, says
the Quarterly Review. To do this she
desires to possess the forest in the And any one sending two yearly
basin of the Upper Congo a region 1lhr:hri. t 5n cts each eets a
which is rich in copper. If she could subscriber., at ou cts. eacn, gets a
obtain this territory from the Congo pew Ctnv fin Vpnr
state and a narrow strip of land from r rCC WUpy UUC 1 car.
Portugal she would realize her aim;
and if she gets possession of the forests An O-pagC paper and 9 Icng col
on the Lualaba and the Katanga cop
per mines her colonies may become to
her a great source of wealth. England
should definitely make up her mind as
to the attitude she will assume toward
this policy. If she opposes it Germany
will become a Derslstent enemy. On
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Zambesi and support her heartily In
Egypt. The increase of German pros
perity at home Is also an advantage
to us. As Germany becomes richer she
will become a better customer and less
jealous of the political position. The
wages of German artisans must go up
and consequently Germany will be less
able to undersell us in the open mar
kets of the world. We have now come
to a state of things as regards the
German empire when we must either
come to terms with it or drift into a
position which will certainly lead to
danger. The Germans, if they are to excellent opportunity for those out
maintain their possesions Deyona m
sea, must either be sure of the friend
ship and good will of England or else
they will endeavor to break down her
power on the ocean. Since the begin
ning of this year every corner of the
empire has rung with the most violent
denunciations of this country. The
newspapers, with the almost solitary
exception of the Weser Zeitung, have
given expression to feelings of bitter
hostility. Organs of opinion usually
the most opposed have vied with
each other in their violence of lan
guage. This 111 feeling to Great Brit
ain, as we have said, has not been a
growth of recent times. It is now
strengthened by a growing conviction
that the position of England in the
world is undeserved, artificial and
cannot be maintained if it is seriously
menaced. This view has been festered
by distinguished historians and men of
letters, who exercise a powerful influ
ence on the youth of the country, on
the guides of public opinion, on writers
in the principal periodicals and jour
nals who Indirectly shape the policy of
the cheap newspaper, which is the gos
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Temperature of the Ocean.
Members of the United States hydro
graphia survey located at the Faroe
islands have been making some inter
esting experiments in their efforts to
ascertain the temperature of sea water
at great depths. At a depth of 400
fathoms (2,400 feet) the uniform tem
perature was 45 degrees, and at 500
fathoms (3,000 feet) it was 32 degrees.
The most interesting fact established
by these inquiries is that even at a
freezing temperature there is an
abundant variety of animal forms
even greater than in the shallow water
where it is much warmer.
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and northeastern state and Canada.
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