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than less attractive. To ignore this fact and lower the rate of proposed interest ''is piece of boldness which amounts to recklessness and that the optional term is increased does not offset the change in rate.'

San Francisco will perhaps get enough of Kearneyism by and by. A comparison, just published, between the bank deposits in that city of January 1, 1880, and those of the pre- vious New Years day contains a sharp lesson. During the year-a period of communistic agitation eliminating in tho adoption of the Sand Lots onstitution-$11, ,25O, ,O00 were withdrawn from the commercial banks of that city and invested elsewhere. The withdrawal capital in the future of a State where it is possible for men like Kearney to dictate con stitutions and rule Legislatures The drain age of capital will surely continue ss long as the existing cause remains in force. The savings bank depositors during the same year fell of from B, 300 to 47, 200, and the sums to their credit from $54, ,OOO, GOO to $44, $50, 900. Dispatches from San Francisco report au in crease of enforced idleness among the work ingmen and of distress in consequence. The war upon capitalists is a war upon laborers also.
 If we may believe unauthenticated ru- nor, the United States Government has not been so indifferent to the interests of this country in the projected canal on the 18th mus of Panama as has been supposed It is stated that @ private American oitizen has purchased property on the Isthnus which our Government has already leased for its own use, and which it can buy whenever 1t deems it necessary. The geographical line which separates North America from South America runs between Costa Rica, southernmost of the Central American States, and Panama, north ernmost of the so-called United States of Colombia. The purchases above mentioned are at the Atlantic and Pacific termini of this boundary; and current rumor says they have been converted into coaling stations and United States men -of-war have been sent thither to occupy them. Whether this is true or not, it is plain that the members of Con. gress and others at Washington have the right feeling about the matter and that decisive &C., ton will be taken if it is needed
 Senator and General GordoR objected to the appointment of Rev. MT. Simmons as Superintendent of the Census in his State be- cause he couldn't spell correctly. Unfortu- nately Simmons had been detected in little too much economy in the use of the alphabet in addressing the President of the United States ss His ''Excelsncy," thus cheating the word out of an 'F that the most popular lex icographers give to it. In Gordon's opinion no man who would cheat the word Excellency out of single letter could be trusted to emu merate any portion of the population of the State of Georgia. His task would be bung-
 
 faulty. Gordon is not the first man who has fallen into pit which he dug for another but his fate should be a warming. In the course of the controversy between him and Alexander Stephens concerning the Simmons matter he wrote letter in which he defied the authority of Webster by spellingthe word controversy y-"controversey" Marshal .''Marshalr'-thus crowding into controver- sy superhuous "e," and adding to Marshal the ''r' that Simmons had dropped from "His Excellency." According to his own standard Of fitness to hold office it would seem that there is nothing for Senator Gordon to do but to resign immediately.
 Of all the measurements by which the diff ference between the human skulls of one race and another can be determined, the most i'm portant is now believed to be that which gives the cubic capacity of the great cavity of the skull wherein is contained the brain. Upon this basis some interesting Investigations have been mads Among other facts ascertained is that relating to race of long, fiat headed people on the west coast of Africa, who ex- hibit the largest average capacity of any hu- man heads yet examined. The Laplanders and Esquimaux, though very small people, have very large skulls, the latter giving av- craze measurement of 1,546. The lower grades of English skulls show 8 size or capac- ity of 1,542; the inhabitants of the Canary Islands, l, ,49S the Japanese, 1,466; the Chi nese, ,424; the Italians 1,475 the ancient Egyptians, ,464 the true Polynesians, 1,454; negroes of various kinds, l 1887; the Kaffirs, 1,34S; Hindoos 1906. The Australian abor- igines give one of the smallest averages, namely, 1,2s3 and the Andamanese, avery di- minutive people, show only 1,22O. A com parison between the skulls of sixty-three men of various races and of twenty-four women, showed the ratio of the woman's skull to the mans to be as S54 to 1000.