10
Queer Things, Queer Ways and
Queer People of New York^^
Thanksgiving' past, Christmas close
at hand, the coal scarcity yet unre
lieved, have set
r\ f\ !\ > New York to tak-
Qnj injiiW 'ua. 1 jng. earnest ac
__ count of charita
.Cj LJ D Li, in this respect
jV ~ y as in others tlie
!
sasSi opSoKB J ways discreet
; J hands.
Snn'Jnn Snn relieving pov
: J JLI o LJU o QG ?' erty the Episco
palian church, in
>«;' s l' i,e of i,s BlnaU •
; 10! Jit iTL numbers, takes the :
Hi iy Ufc It includes ;
t M'JMLJML 1 ' practically all the |
men of greatest J
The Edward Clark wealth; it is not
Club- afraid of experi
ments. In what other church would
the relative of a great prelate plan
to open a public house and leave
to its owners' vote the question |
whether it shall sell beer or i
not? The Social Halls association j
of which Miss Virginia Potter, Bishop J
l'otter's niece, is vice president and
founder, is planning to spend $200,000 j
upon its lirst hall. The question of j
applying for a license to sell beer and J
wine will depend upon the vote of the
stockholders. The stock is held at j
SIOO a share, the investment is to pay
four per cent. Anybody can buy stock; j
it is shrewdly held that the privilege ;
of voting upon the license question ;
will boom its sale. People have opin- I
ions upon that point.
The four per cent, proviso is neees- j
sary; that prevents the halls from ;
being "charities." Few people would j
darken their doors if this could be
truly said. There will be lodge rooms,
u restaurant, a roof garden with cafe,
a balcony where meals can be served
in summer and where men can smoke
if they wish.
Another member of the Potter fam
ily—the wealthy widow of Alfred
Corning Clark, of Singer sewing ma
chine fame, who recently became the
wife of Bishop Potter himself—is pre
paring under his direction to spend
tonic of her vast fort-ue upon
philanthropy. The Edward Clark
club, for whose erection she has made
plans, will add to the city's means of
recreation for those whose homes are
too narrow for playroom. Much of j
the city's charitable endeavor now i
seeks this outlet. In the old days
money was spent, often wasted, for i
blankets and soup.
iiitiicui t uiture Movement.
One of the most interesting men in
charity work is Dr. Felix Adler, head '
of the Ethical Cul-
ture society. For
30 years this man
has made philan
thropy his busi- MJrJ
ness. His en- fjfty 1 Ifajsv
deavor has been to
gather in good IS
works the many i
who profess no re- t-J \ I
ligion. His follow- la
crs have no creed j Vf
but good conduct. I (H
Many, but not a I
majority, are of
Jewish descent, an A New Y ork Boy's
element that fur- C-ub Boy.
nishes a very large proportion of New-
York's agnostics. The ethical more- j
ment has been of clow growth, but
there are now seven branches in Lon
don, and the parent body in New York
has just laid the corner stone of a |
splendid new home. The work is the I
same as that usually undertaken un- j
dcr church direction. Kindergartens, !
clubs, country homes, sewing classes, I
libraries, reading-rooms, bathrooms :
and the like are furnished generously j
for the members.
In charities the church hasan a<lvan
tage over any ethical movement in its |
vast accumulated machinery; in some j
cases in its wealth. The ground upon >
which Trinity church stands, with its !
churchyard, just at the head of Wall
street, is probably worth $->,000,000.1
How much it is worth will never be
known; it will never b<* sold. The '
Trinity office building, lit only to be !
torn down, and occupying only two lots
at the northern,end of the graveyard,
tias just been sold for $1,700,000, to be
removed. Old Trinity owns much
profitable real estate whose rentals
grow every year. '1 he money is spent
upon chapels in other parts of the
town and upon charities and good
works, after salaries of unusual num
ber and generosity have been paid to
its clerics, with the venerable Or. I)ix
at their head.
4ii In«t i t lit Imm I Church.
A church of different kind is Or.
Kainsford's. Or. lininsford is a big
raw boned Cuna-
V _ - dian who has just
' celebrated the
'' ~7Tf~ * T ;; twentieth anni-
VjMOUj V " "t »'IH
_ ,9t I •"
> i T Vo ' K 1 "'like Iru,
WW Pf ''- v ~ili eliureh
.rfNC ,lurt but it
jk BSt endow in*'a t, wli ieli
IKB tn
lil 18l I♦• «4 M III* (Jf - lll'll fill . I lhl >
t ha .1.,,
there were perhaps ■«>>• utett«lH-iN,
and an ilu oui* o 1 ~000 a /ear. The
membership has grown to 8,200, the
income to $97,000. You see from the
figures that Or. liainsford has not been
"after" rich people to fill his church.
In fact, over 5,000 of the number live
in tenements. Mayor Low and J. l'ier
pont Morgan are vestrymen, and there
is no church where plainer talk is
heard about the duties of the rich.
Dr. K'ainsford manages clubs, ath
letic associations, dances —anything
that interests people and that can be
put under clean management instead
of doubtful commercial management
outside. Better dance and sing in
places where no wickedness is permit
ted than dance and sing in the public
dance halls of the East side or of
Coney Island, is the doctor's theory.
The doctor is not afraid to speak
liis mind. And a man who can draw
together J. I'. Morgan and 5,000 of thq
very poor from the tenements into one
church has a mind to speak.
"Tody" Hamilton null Hall Cnlne.
The two finest press agents that
! ever crossed the sea are now in New
| York. Off hats to
Mr. Hall Caine i— ————
| and "Tody" Ham
ilton!
11 am i 1 ton is Sjjjj
about 4", years of
famous for half 'SF
num found him;
| His feats of press iSaB
j agentship are fa
mous in the pro- Kate Carew'. Carica
, ... . ture of Came.
| fession. Before lie
had been in England two months th'i
solemn London dailies were punt
ing as news long stories of happen
ings in the circus, of visits of crowned
heads, of romances of the freaks.
Well, Hamilton is back in New York
now. The day the show got here
the papers were full of the death
of a "bad elephant," whom tlie cir
cus people have been, with tearj,
obliged to kill and bury at sea oil
Sandy Hook. There were photo
graphs galore. The next Sunday two
of the papers had page stories on
differing phases of the circus.
"Tody" invented the sensation
i about Jumbo, for whom the children
! of royalty were crying their eyes
j out when Barnum bought liim; ho
| stuffed Jumbo's skin when lie died.
! and lie mounted Jumbo's bones, and
made tne best of Jumbo's having
of "his prettiest feats, though not
famous, was to secure the printing
of a two-page newspaper picture 30
inches long of tlie "modern Noali's
ark," tlie voyage of the "greatest
show," to England. The sectional
plan showed just where the animals
went in two by two or otherwise.
Not a cent, directly or indirectly,
does the big show pay for the in
sertion of these stories. They are
so readable that the papers want
them. Hamilton doesn't even have
to write them. The best reporters
are sent to work up his ideas.
I once asked Hamilton why he
never went into business for him
self.
"I am a sad instance," he said, "of
the benumbing effect upon a man's
, courage of the certainty of a steady
salary."
IVnll C'nliir IN Different.
Ilall Caine is different; naturally.
He takes himself seriously; Hainil
ton, a brighter
man, is conscious
of his limitations.
Caine doesn't
know lie ha.s any.
j Everything
\ J he writes he ex
\ yA. peets to fall upon
the waiting world
* with the force of
[• i n revelation. And
/! ( he does get tre
mendous sen sa -
tions.
I New York Ca-
Mr». Fiske. , ...
tliolicism is now
fuming with rage because Caine
puts "Pope Leo X." —that is to say,
some pope of the future—into his
play, "The Eternal City," and puts
into the pope's mouth sentiments
which Catholics cannot approve.
Thus Father Ducey hasbeen"drawn"
to attack Mr. Caine. Father Ducey is
the typical "soggarth anion"—the
dear priest. He is fervid, elo
quent, devoted, the friend of many
j people. In Henry George's time Fa
ther Ducey was in disfavor with his
! superiors because he was friendly to
the "single tax" movement. His elo
quence has never made him u bishop,
as it uiil Feiielon.
Father Ducey says and he has his
co-religionists with him—that in Mr.
t nine's conception i,f the pope, as
played by Mr. Holland, "con elenc.-,
confidence, religion all are violated.
His Mllge pope I-. an insult to the
most sacred relations of religious
life." Hut th'-re are. enough people
in New York who are not good ('ml,
• dies to till every night the theater
where the t liaiu pope in played.
New Vork ha . I.a.i il till of i-e|j
giniin plays. The "morality" of
"Everyman" hi eht escape thai de,
i;»i.al Inn. I tnt Mrs. I i-ki . "Mjrj j
m gdala" baMlf Itlmrftwii Scrip
tu i t I characters i-xi eptitig the t 'lirl»t \
t limi elf. OW luS LA.NUOON
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER n, 1902.
Some Interesting Chapters
in Mexican History
Included in Which Is a Recounting of the Pius Fun-d
Claims Recently Settled.
f\CK in 1845, Texas, wearied
with playing the role of
the "Lone Star," offered
herself with her broad
domains, to the United
1 States, and was accepted.
The next year a difficulty
arose with Mexico as to the owner
ship of a strip of land between the
Merees and the Rio Grande, ceded to
Texas in 1824 by Santa Anna.
Santa Anna denied tlie claim, de
clared it was wrung from him when
he was a prisoner and his life threat
ened, therefore not valid.
Polk, a man of great energy and
iron will, was president of the Uni
ted States; upheld by the democratic
party he sent troops under Gen. Tay
lor to secure that strip of land—if
need be, at the cannon's 'mouth.
There were secret instructions t.)
provoke a war if possible.
The Texans, remembering the mas
sacre at Goliad, remembering the
Alamo, "Thermopylae had her mes
sengers of defeat, but the Alamo had
none," hated the Mexicans, especially
tlie treacherous Santa Anna.
Taylor, carrying out his instruc
tions, built a fort opposite Mata
moras. This had the desired effect.
The Mexicans were incensed, crossed
the river and fought at Palo Alto.
American blood spilled upon Ameri
can soil! The Kubicon was crossed
when Taylor passed the Rio Grande
and war was declared. The Mexicans
disputed the advance of tlie Ameri
cans step by step. At a convent in
Cliurubuseo the national guard, most
ly Hidalgos, 800 strong, made a brave
defense against a force of G,OOO men.
There was no surrender, but the con
vent was taken —a fight memorable
for the answer, become historic of
/■"* ~ ""\
CV.' -
RUINS OF THE PECOS CHURCH, CALIFORNIA.
the Mexican general to Gen. Twiggs
when a: ked about the ammunition —
"Sir, if there had been any ammuni
tion left, you would not now be
here."
It was at San Cosine that Grant, !
then a lieutenant, lirst showed his j
military sagacity. He mounted a
howitzer in tlie tower of a church,
which commanded the ground of the
enemy. Grant told the story in his
modest way: "The shots from our ,
little gun dropped upon the enemy 1
and created a great confusion." lb
was called before the commanding
general, who pronounced every shot
effective.
Finally the capital was reached and
the stars and stripes floated from the
halls of the Montezumas. The de
mands of the conquerors for the
trouble, expense and bloodshed of a
two-years' war, which they had pro
voked, was California and New Mex
ico, two-fifths of the Mexican em
pirc.
Gen. Fremont had been sent over-I
land to the Pacific coast to incite a
rebellion. Santa Anna fled tl.e Mex
icans were helpless -signcu the
treaty.
If the war were unjust, as has '
been claimed, the United States gen
erously gave an iiidcinnity of $15,00;},-
000.
At the beginning of the civil war
Napoleon 111. was dazzled by a'
scheme of forming an empire in Mex- i
ieo that, in a way, would be a de
pendency of France. He doubted
not that the confederacy would win
and become an ally of the new em
pire together they would stamp out
the Monroe doctrine.
Napoleon chose Maxinilian, arch
duke of Austria, and Carlota, lib
wife, u daughter of llelgitim, as flg
ureheadH, and promised to support
them with French troops.
From the lirst the French govern
incut had I li warned that its action
would be regarded iik a cause of w ir
with the t ii iti*il Stales. So lonir n
the latter win engaged f.r
it» life blood. which tlie I rene'll
thought was fa t oozing out. tlf
waning, wire of little iiiouhii:. \r
ter Appomattox they || M( | ,|.tTj-rent
houiiil in French ear*. I'lawnp wltu
the Monroe il.M't rlnc w.i playing
with tire Napole ii die.,l..| t<• with
(rm iti h troop-, hrnklni hu
pledget, to I'lilpei or ll'lll einpi .
One wiih nliot the other went mad.
Furlv in iln- |.ieseii \ <-ii r I I ..|J
story WM fwvlvvtft, whi'di g,i»,. the.
United Siute» Miotbtr ilusiu sg tiMt j
Mexico. This time no land was in
volved. only money, $4,000,000 includ
ing interest -money due the Catholio
church, which has given it the name
of the Pious Fund.
The rise of the missions along the
Pacific coast reads like a romance;
the churches in decay form the most
picturesque ruins in America. Tli-j
eyes of the Californians arc opened
as to tlie treasures in tlieir keeping,
and are doing what they can to pre
serve them.
Two hundred and fifty years ago,
when Spain held Mexico, she tried in
vain to gain a foothold among the
Indians in California. For assist
ance she turned to the church. The
Jesuits, then in the full swing of
power, were full of zeal, feared no
peril nor suffering could they but
plant the cross. Gold was needed and
gold flowed in from the wealthy hi
dalgoes at the cry, "Help us reclaim
California from the black one."
Father Juan Ugarte, with a few
companions, started for the lower
coast, intending to work his way
north by a chain of missions. The
work prospered, large numbers of
the Indians submitted to baptism and
signed themselves with the. cross.
In Europe the Jesuits had fallen into
disrepute, France, Spain, Portugal
and Venice were clamoring against
them. Pope Clement NIV., much
against his will, revoked the order
in 1773. Father I'garte was driven
from his post and the crown, took
possession of the fund, which had
grown to very large proportions. The
missions were divided between Fran
ciscan and Dominican monks. Juni
pero, a Franciscan father, gave each
mission an endowment of SIO,OOO
from the Pious Fund; the work of
! Christianizing and civilizing went on.
When Mexico threw oil' the Spanish
yoke she took possession of the fund
and claimed the right to administer
it. Santa Anna was president, and
! sold the fund in 1»4~, guaranteeing
| the church six per cent, interest on
it in perpetuity. The promise, like
all Suntta Anna's promises, was bro
i ken. For more than 20 years the
doors of the Mexican treasury were
I closed against the church. In 1800
the archbishop of California brought
the claim before the Mexican claims
commission, and pushed it with so
much vigor that it was agreed to sub
| nut it to Sir Edward Thornton, then
Hritish ambassador to the United
States, who awarded the church
$904,700 arrears, which was divided
among the Catholic churches of the
west.
Again the Mexican treasury was
sealed against further demands of
| .he church.
| Attorneys of both countries argued
j the ease, but were unable to reach
any agreement. At the instance of
the present archbishop of the west,
the I nited States took the matter
j up and diplomatically demanded pay
ment. Mexico refused it, declaring
that tne I'ious Fund was raised for
the political conquest of California
I and the disposal of it belonged firs:
to Spain, after to Mexico, but neve.-
'to the archbishop of California. A
1 foreign ambassador said that had
the I niteil States been anxious for
war or desirous for plunder it might
easily have brought the question of
the I'ious Fund into a casus belli.
Neither country wished to unfurl
its Hag or sound the toe-in of war.
I'orfirio Oiaz nits in the seat of San
ta Anna; being a man of honor and
.if the -tricte-t integrity, it was eu.-.v
to reach an agreement, which wast.
submit it to the Hague tribunal,
called in Is'.i'.i by the autocrat of u||
the UtlMsias.
The I'ious Fund arbitrators decided
iiL-ain t Mexico, their decision heir®
that that country should pay over to
the ('lilted States .>l, uu.iisu'.ii; in \|e\-
iciui currency eoxer what the Cal
ifornia ehurehes hoiilil have i. •
eeived in the past, iiiul r I.' „u'i;i un
nually hereafter forever.
Ih. can* hail penal llile|.»t,
the first Mibniitted to th*
lion court One member put it thit
theirs "was I lie lot of bricrte»k bin
ri ter* and judges without cane.-."
The two new wrurtd republics lutte
«med the court from d'nutt ode
LYOiA L UOU&HJ.N
POPULAR SCIENCE.
The first scientific society was estab
lished by Dr. Franklin.
A German geographer complains
that north pole exploration is in dan
ger of degenerating into a sport, in
which the establishment of "records"
is the main tiling.
The breathing or blowing of wells
driven on the plains of Nebraska has
been lately shown to coincide with
changes of barometric pressure, but
it is thought that .low pressure can
hardly account for the force with
which the air is expelled from some
of tlie wells.
In his experiments with various ve
hicles, M. Michelin has found that iron
tires require greater motive power
than either solid rubber or pneumat-
I ic. An electric automobile running at
five per cent, greater speed with pneu
! inatic tires took 18 percent, less power
! than when fitted with solid rubber
tires; and in stopping, the solid tires
| required an increase of 14 percent, in
braking power.
Two striking instances of the effects
| of "wind shots," or the currents of air
! caused by the enemy's cannon balls,
are given in the "Autobiography of Sir
Henry Smith." On one occasion his
I horse fell as if stone dead, but he was
: not hurt at all. On another occasion
j an officer was "knocked down by the
j wind of a shot and his face was black
I as if he had been two hours in a pu
; gilistic ring."
Between Mount ICasbek and Ghima
rai Khokli, in the Caucasus, a glacier
descends into the narrow, wedge
shaped valley of the Glienal Don, which
| after a course of 13 miles joins the
| Ghizel Don, a tributary of the Terek.
| Like most glaciers of the Caucasus,
! the Ghenal Don lias of late years re
ceded considerably, and some years
ago copious springs of hot sulphur
j water were uncovered by the recession.
About the middle of July the whole end
j of the glacier broke off and slid down
the valley, grinding down everything
i in its path. Thirty-two lives were lost.
On July 11) another huge block of ice
broke off and followed the first with
terrible rapidity for eight miles down
l the valley.
SOUTHERN SUPERSTITIONS.
If you kill frogs your cows will "go
dry."
Tickling a baby will cause the child
to stutter.
To cut off a pup's tail causes hJni
to grow "smart."
To throw hair-combing out of the
window is bad luck.
To thank a person for combing your
hair will bring bad luck.
No person who touches a dead body
will be haunted by his spirit.
Cut a dog's "dew claws" and it will
not die from poisonous snake bite.
To kill a ghost, it must be shot with
a bullet made of a silver quarter-dol
lar.
If you boast of your good health,
pound wood immediately with your fist
| or you will become sick.
To dream of a live snake means
enemies at large; a dead snake, eue
: niies dead or powerless.
To dream of unbroken eggs signifies
I trouble to come; if the eggs are
I broken the trouble is past.
To cut a baby's finger nails will de
form it; if the child is a month old
! it will cause it to have lits.
Silver nails or screws in a coffin will
prevent the dead haunting the scenes
I of its existence in the flesh.
To allow a child to look into a mir
: ror before it is a month old will cause
■ it to have trouble in teething.
A child will have a nature and dis
position similar to that of the per
: son who first takes it out of doors.
To hear a screech owl is bad luck,
j To prevent hearing their cry turn
the pockets inside out and set the
shoes soles upward.
To see the new moon through clouds
or tree tops means trouble; if the
disk is clear, good luck; if seen over
| the right shoulder, joy; if over the
| left, anger and disappointment.
SMALL TALK AMONG ACTORS.
From garret to basement the
large house'of a Leeds- (Kngland) min
eral water manufacturer L- a gigantic
sera pbook, every notable theatrical
: poster of the last 20 years being
pasted on the walls.
Melba will contribute the proceeds
j of her Australian tour to the char
ities of her native country. The an
nouncement was received in Australia,
and.in fact, everywhere, with great
surprise. Seats for the prima donna's
opening concert in Melbourne sold for
high prices, many person*- having re
mained up all night in order to secure
a pooa place in line at the box of
fice.
Hecrbohin Tree, the London actor,
lia* a daughter Viola, who shows
strong artistic tendencies, though she
i'oe> not. wish to enter the profession
in which her parents have been so long
prominent. When quite a little girl
she begged her father to get her a
pony "Hut, inv dear," said he, "a
|Hin> cost* a lot of money." Utile
Viola considered a moment and then
said: "Well, why don't yon act better
and then you would get more money."
Mr Patrick Campbell is said to
"make up" tin re rapidly than any
other woman on the xtage. She usu
ally arrive* at the theater n few min
ute. before curtain time, enters her
d re»» ing-room like a cyclone, and
with the uiil of a nimble lingered niaid
in ready to gn oil before Uie average
actr«-» won hi have her liat off Fre
quently fctir stands in the wing* wait
ing for her i"lie while putting up her
hair. II) the way, she un-ei a tie- j
ItiemloUS row Ml set log llel.elf fcU- !
noiiiiei d Ha ;l.e 1-iiL us "Mi*. I'm j
l4MH|>i>eU."
MENTIONED OF MEN.
Thomas F. Walsh, the Colorado mil
lionaire, is having erected for his 11-
year-old son in Washington a fully
equipped theater, intended to devel
op the dramatic talent of the boy.
John Sherman's grave in the Mans
field (().) cemetery has just been
marked by a handsome granite block.
The name '"John Sherman" is the only
legend that relieves the plainness of
the huge monolith.
John 1. Mitchell, judge of the Penn
sylvania superior court, has resigned
his oflice oil account of mental inca
pacity. He will receive half pay until
the expiration of the term for which
he was elected, which ends in 1910.
Postmaster General Payne is consid
ering the idea of placing portraits of
the late Dr. Charles F. McDonald on
money order blanks. Dr. McDonald
was the first head of the money-order
service and in the main its originator.
Emperor William of Germany talks
tually speaks German with just a
better than any other except his own.
Indeed, it has been said that he ac
tually speaks German wllith just a
trace of Knglish accent. In the case
of his august uncle of England this
condition is just reversed, and for a
precisely similar reason. William's
mother was English; Edward's father
was German.
The retirement from the United
States senate in March next of John
I*. Jones will leave William Itoyd Alli
son, of lowa, the senior senator in
unbroken length of service. He first
took his seat in that body on March
4, 1873, and by subsequent elections
has served continuously ever since.
Immediately previous to that, he served
four terms continuously in the na
tional house of representatives.
Ou the eve of Minister Wu's depar
ture from Washington a young woman
of his acquaintance said to him that
she hoped to visit China some day,
as what he had told her about his na
tive country had been so interesting.
"But you have never explained," she
added, "why Chinamen take four or
five wives." With a grave bow, the
oriental diplomat said: "My country
men take so many in order that they
may find in all of them the beauties
and accomplishments of one such
young lady as you."
CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR MEN.
The "horsy man" might be pleased
with a pen rack for his desk, but an
ordinary one, oh, no—for the back
of this pen rack is made of a trans
verse section of a block of bireh
wood. The bark is left on this block
and the front is ornamented with
pyrographic etching and the head of
a horse carved from wood.
Is he fond of his desk—there's a
beautiful inkstand in bronze. It's a
huge lotus leaf and, rising from one
side, is the figure of a lovely woman
of the Nile, who holds forth a lotus
bud, Inside of which is the inkstand.
Cut glass inkstands that are good
and big have a gilt top on which the
monogram is supposed to be en
graved.
A man's a very good thing to have
in the house at all seasons of the
year, excepting always Christmas
time. If you don't believe it go look
at the drawn, worried faces of wom
ankind who are haunting the shops
for that elusive Christmas gift for
"him." Watch her touch this and
that with dainty finger tip—watch
her flit from counter to counter in
bewitching uncertainty, spending day
after day—for at last—what? Why,
a necktie.
Young men nowadays are quite as
fond of dainty belongings as are
young women, and for his dressing
bureau are exhibited beautifully em
broidered necktie eases, pin cushions
that recall his college colors, oddly
decorated burnt-wood handkerchief
boxes or quaint shaving eases. There
are also photograph frames decor
ated with college emblems and, of
course, quaint pipe racks and the
college pillow. The shops well re
member the voting man anil have
made getting a gift for him an easy
task.
WHAT THE DOCTOR SAYS.
Typhoid germs die after a few days'*
exposure in sea water.
It is not an absurdity to say that
among those who recover from small
pox there are those who are better
physically for having had the disease,
says J. L. Tracy, M. 1)., in American
Medicine.
The birth and death rates of Italy
for 40 years have been reviewed by
Prof. Giuseppe Sormani. The births
reached tlu ir highest point «>f 39.34
per thousand in IsTii anil their mini
mum was X 1.49 in IM)s, while the cor
responding limits of the death rate
were 34.39 in ixi>7 and 21.57 in 1899.
Itnth birth and death rate.-, hate been
diminishing, although there has been
a constant excess of births over deaths,
varying from 2.40 in lsf>7 to 1.'.50 in
1897. Assuming tin- lessened death
■ ate to lie a result of better coutrol
of infect lons di.-eases, it s estimated
that 200,000 persons have been saved
from death, and at least I'll times as
many have been saved from illness.
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.
The average lake t > out Jays n.ooo
i (!(!>. eacli i asuu, and the whitettsh a
greater number.
Ileetlin in the Ka-t and U< it Indie*
urc so brilliant in coloring that they
ale beautiful lo gems.
The specimen of the Japanese hen
|u I he Mute mil of Natural History, Nt W
York, has a tail I" feet h>ug.
Kuiiii of the birds, notable (Ik blue
throat, accomplish the whole oj their
n. uratury journey iu -IUK atupeuuuua
tilurl.