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ABOUT THE_ TRANSVAAL.
OUTLINE OF Tim, HISTORY OF THE
BOER REPUBLIC.
Its eirst settieNtient-leealinas With tee
British covernmente-ueeent itush oe
Miners to the country or the ewers -
The System or erovernment.
The Transvaal Republio is not an
aid country, being under 60 years of age.
Its foundations were laid in strife and
bloodshed atd hardship, and the cir-
umstaames under waicla it WRS set up
give a, clue of some importanoe to the
iresent state of affairs, for it throws
light on. the feelings wallah animate
the Boers toward their English neigh-
bors. The Transvaal -so called from
being across the Bayer Vaal, the north-
ern houndry of the Orange Free State,
tbe other Dutch Republic of South
Africa --was the result of the, last. of tile
great migratory
movements or treks"
Xi which the Boers tried to escape
"
from the dominant English ram with
its, to them, detestable ideas and its
prejudioe against domestio slavery. It
was a flight front a land which English
influence made distasteful to lhe
Boers, and the republie was founded
after bloody conflicts with the martial
Zulus.
BRITISH AND BOERS.
It is well known that South
Africa. was first settled by the Dutch,
who, after a century and a half of colon-
ization, passed in 1800 under British con-
trol. The old. settlers did not agree
well with their new rulers. The races
were absolutely different, in itself a
fruitful source of disagreement, and in
the institution of slavery there was an
important social differenoe which gave
rise to endless trouble. The Boers have
always been stout adherents of domestic
elaverY and have never bad any scruples
in their dealings with the aboriginal des-
cendants of the sturdy Dutch.who suf-
ed so tenth for their Protestantism.
The Boers have preserved a, peculiarly
rigid form of Calvinism, wilieb 11"
taken. a for the reverse of missionary.
They are a people of but one book, the
Bible, and they construe it in the most
literal manner, regarding themselves as
the chosen people, the plains of South
Africa as the promised land and the
natives as the Amarites and Jebusites,
the. Hivites and Hittites, who were to
be exterminated or reduced to servi-
tude. In the forties Livingstone, then
19 iniseionary among the Beehuanas at
Kuruman and Kolobenee, came into
contact with the Boers and did not like
them. They objected bitterly to the
attempts to /civilize and. Christianize
the natives put forth by him. and Mof-
fatt, and on one occasion made an nn -
provoked attack on his mission station
luring his absence and destroyed it,
killing a number of his converts and
enslaving others.
As the more active spirits among
the Boers struck north the dominant
English power followed them, and time
afbc.r time, to their disgust, their pastor-
al nomads, who in their waggons, with
their cat lee and their long guns, wan-
dered northward over the plains, found
themselves under the British flag.
There were trek e in the 17th and 18th
centuries. In 1831 the Orange Free
State was first settle.d, and in 1837 the
N'aal was crossed and the advance guard
of the Dutch found themselves at grips
with the terrible King of the Matabele,
who were then at their zenith of organ-
ized murder. They fared roughly at
his hands-. and most of the pioneers were
exterminated, but the survivors held
their ground, and eventually drove the
Matabele north of the Limpopo, to the
region where the finishing blow was re-
cently given that once powerful tribe
by the Chartered Company's rifles and
Maxims. There was much fighting. in
South Africa in theee days, but that in
the Transvaal was the fiercest and
bloodiest.
DEALINGS WITH THE BRITISH.
Meantime, the British power and
British settlements had been following
the Dutch pioneers, whose flank was
turned when Natal, extending far up
the east coast was acquired and became
&prosperous English colony, with thou-
sands of native residente, whose fair
treatment and material prosperity have
always formed a strong contrast to the
treatment of the natives by the xepub-
lie. The British did not, however, press
their claims to universal dominion in
South Africa, and in 1854 a peaceful set-
tlement was arrived at by which the
Orange Free State was given its auton-
omy on giving a, simple promise not
to introduce slavery. In 1854 the 13ri-
tish Government, after some disagree-
inents, recognizecl the independence of
the Transvaal, and for twenty-five
years the Boer republic went on its
way, increasing in population, raising
huge herds of. cattle, and steadily quar-
reling, not always , with success, with
the native tribes surrounding it. No
more great treks to the north have
been made; one reason is that the
South -Africa Company has secured
Mashonaland and 1VIetabeland, to the
north of the Transvaal, thus, to the
disgust of the. Boers, hemming them in.
Another reason is, of course, the prac-
tic,a1 independence the Boers have en-
joyed.
In 1877 a change occurred in the poli-
tical condition of the republic. Upon
this point the work of M. Elisee Rectus,
the greatest geography existing, and
published, it may be remarked, by a
Frenchman, may be quoted. "But the
everlasting wars between the Dutch and
the natives still continued," says M.
Reclus' book, "and were at times mark-
ed by atroeious in,assacres and whole-
sale extermination. Every advance
Made by the white intruders towards
the north was marked. by a trail of
blood. Thus the dominant British pow-
er never lacked pretexts, and occasion-
ally urgent reasons of State policy and
humanity to intervene and arbitrate be-
tween the hostile. parties, After the
discovery.of the gold fields in the east-
een districts of the republic, followed
by a large immigration of British sub-
jects, other interests were created.
Hence, interference became imperative
when the victorious tribes in the north-
east threatened to overrun the whole
country, exiaeusted by a series of rever-
eas an the field, arid already on theVerge
of bankruptcy. Accordingly, a British
commissioner, attended by a handful of
armed men, made his appearance in
1877 at Praetoria, the capital of the
State, ai
ed ssued e, proclamation sup-
pressing the republic and formally an -
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TEE BXEITER TIMES
neating tbe Tranavaal to the colonial pos-1
sessions of Great Britain. Tie such a
desperate (xnulition had the Beera been
reduced at this critical juncture that
no opposition was offered to this sum
-
roar:, proceeding, which was, in fact, ape
proved of aot only by tbe English resid-
ents but even by many of the Data re-
publicans themselves. At this time it
seemed the only means of saaiag the
count'y from total lain altbough, alien
the danger of a native rising was over,
protests began to:Jae uttered against the
foreign domination.
THE TRANSVAAL WAR.
"The discontent continued to in-
crease, and came to a head when some
injudicious raeasuree were teleen by
the admipistrator tending to make
English the official language in the
courts and schools, A deputation was
sent to London with instructions to de-
mand the maintenance of the local
u -ea administrative autonomy, the right
of continuing the official use a the
Dutch language, "and some, other pro-
visions which seemed searcely compati-
ble. with the established order. Any-
how, the, deputation was coldly received,
and the whole Boer nation, felt aggriev-
ed and insulted by the supercilious con-
duct of the British authorities. They
began to prepare to assert their rights
by foree of arms, probably not with
much hope of susses against the inex-
haustible .resourees of Great Britain,
but in the expectation that the strug-
gle might at least seeure for them the
respect and consideration of the con-
querors. But, to the sdprise of every-
body, and even of themselves, they tri-
umphed over the British troops in three
successive slight encounters, in the last
of which, at Majuba Hill, they certainly
showed themselves worthy descendants
of the bisve trekkers who had faced eo
many clangors and fought against such
overwhelming odds in their endeavors
to secure political freedom in their new
homes beyond the Vaal. The wax now
threatened to assume formidable pro-
portions, and possibly. to change the
whole of South Africa into a battlefield,
when the Governor of Cape Colony xe-
ceived from the Gladstoman :Ministry
ine.morable despatch, suoh as has
seldom been recorded in the annals of
international strife, to the effect that
the Boers had been wronged, and that
pea� was to be concluded without fur -
'her bloodshed. Despite the superior-
ity of their forces, which were preparing
to crush all resistance, the English
Generals were fain to withdraw with-
out Nang afforded an opportunity of
removing the sting of defeat, and the
Transva,a1 republic resumed its political
autonomy, now cemented by the ter-
rible ordeal through which it bad
passed."
Mention has been made of the gold
fields. The discovery ot huge quanti-
ties of this mineral has done more than
anything else to bring about the pre-
sent crisis. In 1867 gold was dis-
covered in the country to the north of
the Transvaal. In 1373 further gold
fields were discovered in the limits of
the republic, and in 1885 still more ex-
tensive fields, while a little later on
the great Witwaters-Rand field, near
Johainiesberg, was discovered. Exper-
ienced geologists are of opinion, accord-
ing to M. Rethas' geography, that in
places the gold actually. lies in beds.
A tremendous rush of mmers followed.
Barberton, which in 1885 possessed only
a few huts, in 1888 had several hotels,
three banks, two share exchanges, a
good club and a theatre. Johannes -
berg in 1887 was not entered on a sin-
gle map, but already had 10,000 in-
habitants. Now it leas 60,000, almost
all -T./Wanders," or members of the
non -Boer eviiite population. ln 1898, by
the way, the population was estimated
at, Boer and Dutch -speaking about
40,000, British and English-speaking
about 30,000, natives from 300,000 to
400,000 and upwards. Since then of
course the llitlanders have increased
immensely. The Boers were practical-
ly all in. the country districts, scarcely
one being in the towns.
HOW THE COTJNTRY IS RULED.
The Boers founded the republic: to es-
cape from English influence, and in
the constitution seem to have made as
effectual arrangements as possible to
keep out the influence to which they so
greatly object. The natives, first of all,
are utterly disfranchised and barely tol-
erated. They are not even allowed to
receive payment for their services in
gold, under penalty of the lash and im-
prisonment. The Boers possess the en-
tire power. At first citizens who took
the oath of allegiance, had resided in
the country for five years and paid
25 were admitted to the franchise, but
subsequently the period of residence
was increased to ten, then to fifteen,
then to twenty years. Further, no
one is eligible for office who is not a na-
tive of the Transvaal or a resident for
fifteen years' standing, and possessor of
one of the vast landed estates, often
6,000 acres in extent, of which the Boers
are so proud. Lately the Boers are re-
ported to have denied citizenship to the
children of Tritlanders born in the
Transvaal, The controversy which re-
cently raged over the appointment of a
po'ice officer in Johannesberg illustrates
this. The city was utterly without po-
lice protection, and a competent police
officer frora Cape Colony was engaged
on trial for a year. He restored order,
but when the question of his permanent
appointment came up President Kru-
ger refused to permit one not a citi-
zen to hold such an office. The officer
was ready to take the oath of allegiance,
but the President was obdurate, and
the city had to organize vigilance com-
mittees. The Boers, who have absolute
control of the gevernment refuse to al-
low English to be taught in the schools,
and, it is etated in the columns of The
New York Tribune, characterized a.sre-
bellion an attempt to establish private
English schools, supported entirely by
the, Uitlanders. Filially, the Boers al-
lowed the schools to be opened on con-
dition that Dutch should be taught as
well as English. There are in Johan-
nesberg, with its 60,000 inhabitants, ac-
cording to The Tribune, but 300 voters,
Boers who happen to live in the city.
The taxation has been altered so as to
fail most heavily upon the utterly unre-
resented Uitlanders ; and the Boer
treasury, which at the time of the an-
nexation of 1877 was popularly report-
ed to contain but eighteen pence, is now
overflowing. The objection which the
Uitlanders entertain to this state of
affairs, and their desire to be taken
into the full citizenship of the republic,
seem to be the causes of the present
trouble.
The Transvaal, it rnay be said, in
closing, is the richest of all the South
African States in natural resources. The
soil is fertile, and the crops are always
of excellent quality. The tobacco grOwn
is rated first-class. 'European cultivat-
ed plants thrive welt, and the climate
is suitable for oranges and lemma. As
grazing land it is not as good as the
Orange Five State, and parts of it are
infested. by the deadly tsetse fly, evhoee
bite is death to horses and cattle. But
as a mining country it is pre-eminent.
Its gold fields have been mentioned. al-
ready. There are also to be found coal,
iron, cobolt, copper an.d argentiferons
lead. The gold is found in an aurifer-
ous white quartz, which requires power-
ful ore -crashing machinery, and thus
confines mining to wealthy capitalists.
hi1dren Cry for Pitcher's Casio kis
IMPARTIAL HISTORY OF THE ENE -
A. citizen' or the Butted States Disentaea
the Queotton-Illatory of the Boundary
Issae-Vettezuelaus and Their Groat, -
tug Tendenetea-Dadleniffes Offered to
Citizens of the Baited states.
Mr. Wm, Yates Perot writes to the
Bait!ore Sun the following interest-
ing history of the Venezuelan ques-
tionPermit me, as a former resident of
British Guiana, and one who is thor-
oughly familiar with that country and
all the matters 'in dispute between
Venezuela and that colony, to make a
few observations on the present situ-
ation. President Cleveland has made
ar terrible blunder. I shall endeavor
to show, first, that Venezuela has no
case; seeond, that the Monroe doc-
trine is not involved at all in the dis-
pute between the two countries. The
boundary line between the two cou.n-
tries Is largely one of historical and
geOgraphical faots. The Spaniards
settled on the Orinoco aboat the year
1580, the Dutch in the Pomeroon in the
same year. They were dislodged from
their settlement by the Spaniards three
years later, and their next successful
attempt at colonization was in 1611
on an island called Kyk-Over-All, near
the mouth of the Essequibo river. This
tbe wasent the
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alss:itil QfgcaovpeinIta-
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was removed to Stabroek, called
Georgetown wben taken over by the
British. By the'aweof Amiens, in
1803, Holland's possessions in what is
known as the colonies 'of Essequibo,
Demerara, and Berbice were ceded to
Great Britain, and have ever since
been known as Britiala Guiana.
HISTORICAL FACTS.
VenezUela achieved. its independence
in, 1814, and succeeded to whatever
rights Spain might have had. in the
country. As a. matter of fact, the
Spaniards and the Venezuelans have
never at any time made claims to or
attempted any jurisdiction over any
of the territory lying east of the
Schomburg line on the Amactuu. The
Dutoli laid out sugar and coffee plan-
tations upon the Essequibo from the
mouth of the Cuyuni river around the
coast to the Pomeroon, the majority
of which plantations are in cultivation
to -day. At no time lia.s Venezuela
ever had any foothold there, nor has
there been a settlement, or even a
clearing, east of the Schoraburg line.
On the other head, the writer, who
was one a the first white men to pene-
trate that country fifteen yea,rs ago,
before any gold was disoovered, found
a, dreary, trackless waste, where the
Indian was monarch of all he survey-
ed. At the same time remains of
Dutch forts are to be seen well up the
Suyuni river almost as far as the
Uruan, where the difficalty of out -
poets occurred about a year ago. In
the Berlina remains of .Dutch aban-
doned estates, with large canals, atin
be seen to -day. All tins would go to
show that the presumption of evi-
dence as afforded by previous occu-
pation would. be in favor of the Dutch
as against the Spanish claimant.
THE BRITISH LINES.
In 1840 Great Britain sent, out Sir
Robert Schomburge a, well-known
geologist, who defined the British lines.
It is a. well-known principle in inter-
national law that the lines of demar-
cittion between contiguous territories
should be defined by natural bound-
ary lines, smileas great rivers, estu-
aries, or mountain ranges. It was
affirmed by the late Czar of Russia, as
arbitrator in a similar displite between
Dutch Guiana and French Guiana,
that the larger river course., in the ab-
sence, of the clearest evidence to the
contrary, should be the natural bound-
ary line. The only two rivers answer-
ing this description are the Essequibo
and the Orinoco. As Spain had al-
ways held and colonized the basin of
the Orinoco, and Holland in a similar
manner had held the Essequibo and
its tributaries, Schomburg fixed upon
the next largest river course lying be-
tween the two, the Amaeura, which
forms the base of the Schomburg
line. A settlement of this matter has
been allowed to remain in abeyance
all these years because, in the first
place, the territory Involved was
thought to be of little or no value un-
til the discovery of gold, about ten
years ago; secondly, all the inhabited
portion of British Guiana had been
confined to a strip of land along the
seacoast devoted exclusively to sugar -
planting, and extending around inland
about fifteen _talks. Since emancipa-
tion of slavery, in 1834, the negroes
refused to work reguln.rly, and large
numberof coolies from East India,
an:taunting to about seven thousand a
year, have been regularly imported
from India, to work on the estates.
This was done at a very heavy ex-
pense, and the planters, who controlled
the policy of the Government (a man
requning to be a possessor of eighty
acres of land, forty of which should
be bona fide in cultivation: 'to be
eligible to a seat in the Legislature),
naturally were averse to any means
being taken to develop or facilitate ac-
cess to the vast country lying behind.
them, fearing that their labor supply
would be drawn away from. them.
DISCOVERIES OF GOLD.
Ten years ago American and English
.prospectors pushed their ,way tep these
various rivers and found gold in large
and paying quantities. The Govern-
ment was forced to take notice of the
growing industry. Gold regulations
were made and titles granted under
favorable terms, and the Government
was forced, in response to public opin-
ion,to assert its claim to and exercise
jurisdiction over the country up to
the Schomburg line Millions of dol -
lam of English capital have been in-
vested in sugar plantations and mines
within the disputed territory. Vene-
zuela, is a mere pretence of a reptile-
lic; only 2 per cent. of its million in-
habitants are white. men, the rest
'being peons, half-breed,s, and Indians.
It is at tines a dictatorship, as under
Guzman Blew°, who after a com-
paratively short reign was enabled to
retire to Europe, where he now lives,
with, a colossal fortune estimated at
$20,000,000. The present President,
Creapa, is also a very wealthy man.
14 isa well-known feet to these hav-
ing business relations with Venezuela
that it is impossible to do any business
there without arranging satisfactorily
with the powers that be for a consid-
erable share of the ventuae.
LITE AND PROPERTY- INSECURE.
As an instance of the insecurity of
life and property under the Vene-
zuela. rule, I would Mention a case
of Mr. T. Morris Perot, of Phila.,
delphia, a wealth3rmaltster, there, who
k,14
Wide, whieh was 4ntirely subscribed
to by Philadelphia capital, The mine
was a paying one, and there was a
surplus of 2150,000 lying to thelr
credit at their bankers, in Plailade
phia.. The directors decided to in-
crease their plant, and ordered 80
stamps to be shipped to the mine.
In the meantime Guzman Blanco east
envious eyes on the property and.
made several offers for it, which
Were declined. Their supermtendent
was newt got at, with the result that
the 80 stamps, on their arrival at
Bolivar, were dumped into the Orino-
co river, where they lay for six
months before they could. be taken
out. At great expense the stamps
were filially put in place, when the
whole mine was caved in on there.
This exhausted their surplus, and
stockholders had to go down into
their pockets to repair the damage
done. During Mr. Perot's absenc,e
from Venezuela, General. Pulgar, act-
ing for Guzman Blanco, bought in
the mine at a forced sale on some
fictitious ground. Mr. Perot, an Am-
erican citizen, at once went to Vene-
zuela and protested against this high-
handed action and was thrown into
prison, where he was only released
by the good offic,es of the English Con-
sul, and was glad M get out of the
country with his life.
A PERFECT ENVILISH TITLE.
England fe4s that she has a per-
fect title to the land. in question, and,
that it is a matter that ooncerns her
and. Venezaela alone, Several at-
teinpta at compromise have been
'made in years past, but came to
naught ownig to the demand of Vene-
zuela, ba.cked up by the I.Tnited States,
to extend the matter to tin line a
the Essequibo. As this country has been
in continuous possession of the Dutch
and afterward English territory for two
hundred years, where To 11110/18 of
capital are invested, ean it be won"
dered that Great Brawn should re-
fuse meet positively to submit the
lives and property of her subjects LO
the mere °hence of submission to emelt
a. Government as that of Venezuela
VENEZUELAN OTIT134GES.
A year ago two American pros-
pectors crossed from. the Englisia to
the Venezuelan territory at Uruan ; on
the one side the Venezuelans had a
station with fifty men;. On the other,
the Buglish two sub -inspectors a,nd
five men; the Americans were prompt-
ly arrested, being without passports,
and la response to their appeal, In-
spector Barnes crossed to the Vene-
zuelan side to meditate in their fa-
vour. He was immediately placed
under arrest; the Venezuelans then
orossed tbe river, tore down tbe English
flag, trampled it to pieces, and placed
the whole guard under arrest, the sta-
tioa being entirely looted. The men
were marched over a, rough couatry
to liolivara where word was received
from President Crespo to set them
free. The American miners were
forced to cross the country with
ropes around their necks; one of
them died upon arrival at Bolivar
from the ill-treatment rec,eived, and
the other escaped to Trinidad, broken
in. health, with all his ,property gone.
A statement a these facts was sub-
mitted to the State Department by
the United States Consul, 1)r. Spright,
bat nothing has been heard of any
demand made for redress from the
Venezuelan Government. Although this
outrage occurred over a year ago, Vene-
zuela, up to the present, has offered
no apology or indemnity to Great Bri-
tain, although one has now been per-
emptorily deinanded. That it has been
so is only one of the many proofs that
Great Britain, conseious of her right
and strength, has shown extreme anx-
iety to defer to the wishes of this coun-
try as far as is compatible with her
dignity and self-respect.
THE 'WAY OUT.
There will be no war. Wax be-
tween* two such countries as England
and the United States upon such a
trivial matter would be the greatest
crime the world has ever witnessed;
it impossible' for these two coun-
tries to go to arms without bringing
on a general European war, the re-
sult of which no one ca.n. calculate
in its loss of blood. a,nd treasure. The
house of Rothschilds is composed of
five different nationalities, one Eng-
lish, another French, another Austrian,
another Gernaa,n, but they are all
Rotbschilds. With the enormous in-
terests they have at stake and the
power they ean bring to bear on the
various Governments, who dare not
go to war without their consent, it
may be taken for granted that such
pressure will be brought to bear as
will remove all possibility of conflict.
In order that both the United States
and Great Britain ean evithdraw hon-
ourably and evitheat loss of prestige,
a way evil' be found whereby intima-
tion will be oon.veyed to Venezuela
that she must deal directly with
British Guiana, which in turn will
be instructed to ma.ke some conces-
sion en the Schonaburg line either
in money or territory, a,nd that will
be the end of the matter. ln the
meantime British Guiana will have
got an immense amount of free ad-
vertising,. and the losses already in-
flicted by- President Cleveland's hasty
and ill-advised action will render im-
possible his nomina.tion as a future
President,
A Lively Pa.
A young Cleveland girl recently had
the following to tell in court, of her
step -father, who is certainly not a mon-
otonous- parent:
"Pa was sitting in. his saloon, feeling
lonely. He went to the barn and, put-
ting a halter on his horse, brought him
into the house, saying he wanted the
anirnal to eat supper with him. Pa
made me set a plate for the horse.
"Then he took hold of the horse's
front legs and lifted them up OD the
table. We all sat down to'supper and
the horse began to eat. Pa picked up
a raug of beer, and began to laugh and
threw both hands in the air. The raug
hit the horse on the nese.
"The beast pulled its feet dow-n,drag-
ging the tablecloth and upsetting the
table. The horse backed up and sat
squarely on a red. hot stove. IThis
burned Re tail so the animal kicked the
Stove over and ran out of. the door.
"I screamed, and pa threw a lamp at
me. The house came near catching fire
and a policeman came, Pa has been ar-
rested one hundred .and eight times.
Men Baby was efelr, we gave her Cdfittillfite
When she vrps a Child, she cried for Castorla.
'Caen she beeame Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When she hedOlaildren,shogavetheneCastorlet
,
Nell -"I wouldn't like to be in, your
shoes 1" Belle -"No 1 they'd r/inch you
,
Science 'Gossip,
Leadworking is the most disastrous of
all trades to health.
Coffee is so called. from. being first,
brought to Europe from Cafe,.
Spectaole•s were fi used in, the lat-
ter part of the thirteenth century.
The only quadruped that lays eggs is
the ornithorynchus, of Australia.
To be perfectly proportioned a man
should. weigh 2$ pounds to every foot of
his height.
One-quarter of all the people born die
before six years, and one-half before
they are sixteen.
Sixteen pints of the juice or sap
which makes India rubber are frequent-
ly taken from. one tree.
The climatic limit to the cultivation
of wheat is not so much the cold of win-
ter as the heat of summer.
The deepest well on our Atlantic coast
Is that at the silk works near Northaro.p-
ton. Mass.; depth, 3300 feet.
India rubber used for 'erasing pencil -
marks was known in England as early
as 1770. A cube of it 1-2 in. square
cost 3s.
jewelers declare that the regularity
of the running of a watch depends upon
the magnetism of the man who carries
it,
The smallest bird. is a species of hum-
ming bird comirion in Mexico and Cen-
tral Araerica,. It is not quite Ko large t
as a bluebottle fly.
The Dutch house builders always cort-1
trive to leave a small space on the roof
of each house for the storks to rest and
build on.
The share of land falling to each in-
habitant of the globe, in the event of
partition, might be set down at twenty-
three and a half sexes.
A novel mowing machine is being
built for use on. tbe Erie Canal. It is
to ran over the bottom of the canal bed
and, cut long grass which grows there.
It is estimated that 293 hairs on the
head, 39 on the chin, 29 on the arra and
19 on the back of the hand are re.spec-
tively .contained in an area of a quarter
of an inch.
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Result of a
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Fortunately, I happened to read in Ayer'e
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trouble was relieved, and before I had fine
ished the bottle I was curedee-A.LEPLAR,
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