The Newtown bee., 1880-03-03
TIMELY TOPICS.

Oulbeu Otdt6S QuTl0g NONeuDtT, loIS, than during any month before in the history of this country The bank transactions of several cities for the month foot up the enormous aggregate of S4, ,360, ,255, ,523.
 The inquisitive should commit the following facts to memory: The first locomotive trip over the Albany and Schenectady railroad with a passenger train was August 9. 1881: The engine used was the Dewitt Clinton" built at West Point foundry. The first ex- pertinent in the use of locomotives in America was made in 1929, the second in 1880, and the actual and continued use of them commenced in 1881, nearly contemporary with their use in Eng land.
 From numerous experiments made in the great hospital at posen, Prussia. it appears that ice is most effectual | remedy against smallpox. One of the patients, in fit of delirium, escaped to | the garden, where the snow lay two feet | deep. There he remained the whole l night, with no covering but his shirt. On tie following morning the fever subsided and the pustules had dried. | This strange circumstance attracted the physicians attention, and after consul tation they determined to keep the tenn perature of the smallpox wards very low, and apply small quantities of ice to | the patients. The results surpassed | their expectations, and at the end of a week all the patients had recovered.
 Russian officials are said to excel in stealing. Millions of roubles vanish annually from the state exchequer, mo- i body seems to know how. The latest h dented grandeur of this class that has come to public cognizsnce, is the theft of S,000,00G pounds of iron from the Juposau iron works, in the mining dis trict of Uta. It is believed that the whole staff of officials employed in these works has been concerned in the gigantic transaction, which has but just come to light, and small hope is enter tained of bringing direct culpability home to any individual.
 In street in Canton rats are hung up for sale with poultry. They are dried and salted and are very much affected by ladies whose hair is falling of, as the flesh of rats is known to be an excellent preventive of badness. Pork is one of the staples of Chinese cookery, the best bacon and hams com. ing from the provinces of Fokien and Quang Tung, the flavor of the hams be- ing much improved by keeping them have been cured. As in Europe and here certain places in China are re- nowned for their products, such as Pekin for its sweet ducks; Tou-lion. a small village near that city, for it's vine gar (tsou), Tchin-K Kiang, in the Kiangsu,
 for a sauce made with fermented beans and the salt, which the Chinese use as
 we use Worcestershire sauce.
 This is the manner in which Bishop Hare, of Nebraska, would settle the In dian problem in the United States: l. Extension oi law over the Indian as well as the white man; holding him in dividually responsible for crime com mitted, protecting him in property right, and giving him an opportunity to work his way in the world on equal terms with his white brother. 3. Let each Indian own his own farm in fee simple. He saw no reason why an Indian, or a number of Indians, should not have the sands of acres of land, and to keep it in their hands until its natural rise in value made them men of wealth, that was ex- ercised by speeulators or railway cor porations- But he would have no tribal property. Give each man a farm of fdesirab,e acreage, and make the title i'm | alienable ter twenty-five years, either for debt or taxes, so that he could not be cheated out of 1t while he was learn ing the ways of civilization. g. Give him schools and means Of education, and through all these, and in all, let the missionaries carry on their work of re- deeming from organism the scattered remnants of a race with many noble traits. --a ... l From the preliminary examination of several Nihilist prisoners arrested re- gently in Russia, it would appear that a | second gunpowder plot was on foot in every way similar to that of the lst of last December, both as to the aim in view and the means by which it was to be attained. The conspirators intended to blow up the CZar on his next journey to Moscow. It was in his palace of the | kremlin, the ancient residence of the great princes of Moscow, that the 1evo- lutionists wished to punish the Czar for the obstinate resistance with which he has met their demands for reform and liberties. When this terrible intelli- | gence was communicated to the CZar his emotion was so violent that for moment those of his courtiers who were present were, in fear of fatal nervous 1 StllitCh. 1ue SZdI lilC tempt made on his life at Moscow was the work of one single individual, and he is now terrified on discovering that at Moscow, as at St. Petersburg, there is veritable committee, organized by the revolutionary party, which has de- ciared against him merciless war.
 The inspectors of factories in Prus- sia are working hard to put down in | fant labor. At Berlin, thirty-three fac | tories have ceased employing children, and in the others there are only nine under fourteen years of age. The same | has been the case in nearly all the prov inces, notably in the district of Frank l fort-on -the-Oder, where, in the33O cloth factories, employing IA, 900 hands, there are now only 300 minors, this being a diminution of twenty-three per cent. since 1876; while in the districts of Col ogne, Co5lentz and Treves the total number of children employed has fallen from 5,334 to 4,237, and of these all but l sixty-one are over fourteen years of age. | The inspectors take great care, also, that proper sanitary arrangements are made, and that the masters do all they can to protect their workmen from accident. One curious fact brought out by the in spector in Westphalia is the wandering disposition of the workmen. He in- stances a manufactory employing 2.O00 hands, in which from one to two hun dred of them leave every month.
 Famines like that which is devas-