New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-01
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE TUESDAY NOVEMBER I, 1891

age to the skeletons, prompted by the same policy
suppose that leads rural colleges to confer the
| degree of A. NJ on their alumni of three years
standing. on the suppostion that wherever they
are, their intellectual march is onward and
upward. AS Rinkin was rayaged by cholera In
1878, the Government Of Japan naturally object TO
the resurrection of the dead of that year Tor
cleansing purposes and have issued edict forbid
ding the ceremonial. The Rinkinans, however, are
obstinate andto wash not to wash is the question
now agitating the minds of the living and possibly
the dead, subjects of the Mikado
Some of the English and French papers are gravely
discussing the possibility of American wheat being
eventually driven out of the European market by
grain from Tunis. They say that land can be
bought in Tunis for half the price it costs in our
Western States-an absurd statement, in view of
the fact that there still millions of of land
in Dakota Nebraska and Montana which can
be had for nothing by the settler who complies with
the Homestead Act. It is further said that the
Tunis soil will produce two crops year, and that
the short distance across the Mediterranean to
Genoa and Marseilles in comparison with the ocean
transit our American wheat must make to reach
European ports is a great point in favor OF
the Tunsian farmer. If only European emf
grants will go to Africa, it is argued that
a revolution might be effected i'll the wheat
trade which would shut us out from our foreign
market All this is nonsense. Europeans will not
go to Tunis to work under tropical sun. If they
did, the area of unoccupied land between the sea
and the desert is so small that even two crops of
wheat year raised upon it would be but drop in
the bucket of the great European demand. The
French have been trying for twenty years to raise
wheat in Algiers and they have succeeded TO an
encouraging extent but the total product of the
country is not sufficient to exercise any noticeable
influence on the grain markets of the world.
A recent report from Mr. John Farrell, the United
States Consul at Bristol furnishes some interesting
information concerning the trade of that city in
American products Our cheese controls the mar
ket, but our butter encounters sharp competition
from France. Our oleomargarine, or butterine
which we trust is all exported to Europe is in in
creased demand indeed the Consul thinks that
nine-tenths of the straw material of the Holland
butter reaching the English market is oleomarga-
rine shipped from the United States to Holland
He believes that this article will soon be popular
and mcrchantabe as condensed milk is at the pre-
sent time. American flour the Consul finds so
popular that many of the English millers buy it to
resell rs of their own production. The importation
of American leather IS constantly increasing.
American beef has established reputation, and
stores for its sale numerous. Our mutton is not
so acceptable. however, at which we do not wonder.
Anyone who has eaten thick juicy English chop
will not be surprised that the British people do not
admire American mutton tough and stringy as it
often is Too little attention is paid in this country
to raising and fattenng sheep for market. An
American sheep slaughtered seldom weighs over
sixty pounds, while English sheep average 100
pounds.
One Of the French visitors, returned from York
town. is reported letting his wit get the better of
his polieness and saying that he is no longer sur
prsed that CORVALLIS surrendered to an inferior
force at that place He thinks he would have done
that or anything else in reason to have got out of