The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1882-03-09
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

600; debt, S10,926.000,000; taxes,
2,OO2, OoO.0OO; capital, sS5. 612, 600, 900.
Sweden has the smallest debt, or S5O.-
900, 900; France the largest, or So, ,14O,-
100000. The United States has the
largest income and England the most
capital. Italy is the heaviest taxed,
paying thirty-fve per cent. of its in
come for taxes, to the average fifteen
per cent. of other nations.
Dennie Dunlap was three-card
monte man attached to a circus. A
greenhorn whom he had swindled out
of 5000, at Assumption, I,a., complained
to justice, who not only issued war
rant but went to the tent to serve it.
Dennie was operating another victim,
and he quietly offered the justice $40
not to interrupt him for ten minutes.
This proposition was declined. Then
the gambler angrily dew q revolver,
but the justice fred quickest, killing
him instantly and coolly recovered the
5000 from his pockets. The gambling
privilege of that circus is now for sale.
One of the strangest incidents OF the
Vienna theater fire came to light in the
rescue of young artillery private after
three days and nights Of peculiar sui
fering. He endeavored to escape from
the burning building by stage door,
but owing to some mishap fell through
a broken trap into deep cellar. Here
the poor fellow remained for seventy.
two hours without sleep or food, and
from the constant pouring of water into
the cellar from the engines came near
being drowned. His cries were at last
heard by an inspecting fireman, who
took him out of the water, which was
up around his chest.
United States Consul Baker, of
Buenos Ayres, thinks that the ostrich
can b domesticated in the United
States and made profitable. He de-
scribes an ostrich farm situated about
fifteen miles from Buenos Ayres, and
gives many instructions for the benefit
of those in this country who may desire
to 90 into the business. Full grown
birds cost from $1,000 to $1,000 de-
livered at Buenos Ayres, and 5000
birds can be kept on 5000 acres OF
land. The gross income derived from
chicks produced by one pair of birds is
from $4,000 to $4,000 per annum. At
Cape Colony s4O,OOO,coO are invested
in the business, and the business, and
the value of the feathers annually pro-
duced is $4,000, 900.
committee of Presbyterians well
known in philsnthropic work, with MIR.
William E. Dodge at their head, have
presented a memorial to Congress ask
ing for ample appropriations for the
education of Indian children, and for
the passage of law providing for the
settlement of Indians in severalty, their
lands to lie held by them in fee simple.
The committee say eff the city OF
Philadelphia, with its 100000 people,
can easily educate its 100000 children,
how much more easily can the nation,
with its 5O.OO0,000 of people, undertake
to educate it's so, 600 Indian children p
The memorial further points out what
has heretofore been accomplished in
this direction, and refers particularly
to the training schools ct Hampton,
Carlisle and Forest Grove, in which the
education of Indian children has al
ready shown gratifying results. The
committee suggest to Congress "the
authorization of the establishment of
other similar schools at military posts
which have been or may be vacated in
different parts of the country"
An interesting discovery is reported
from Pols, the chief naval station of
the Austrian empire, and formerly
station of the Roman fleet. Near the
huge amphitheater, only second to the
coliseum in size and massiVeness of con-
struction, some workmen were lately
engaged in digging an ice cellar for the
use of the squadron and the naval ar
senal, when at about yards depth
from the surface they came upon q
statue nine feet three inches in height,
representing Roman emperor, and in
a state of almost perfect preservation.
This efigy, executed in Grecian mar
BILE of the finest quality, is stated to be
the most beautiful and highly finished
efigy of its kind in existence. 1t has
not as yet been recognized as the por'
trait OF any particular emperor, bat
would appear to be rather an ideal or
typical presentment of the Roman
Caesar. It is supposed that this noble
statue originally adorned one of the
inches of the vestibule belonging to the
theater built y Augustus Caesar in
honor of HE laughter Julia, and bear
ing her name.
At a meeting of the National Asso