Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-01-22
CURRENT NEWS.
Events Reflected by the Press OF
Both Hemfspheres.

Both Hemfspheres.
London has 1900 policemen.
The st. Gothard tunnel railway line will
be opened on July /.
Socially ii is the gayest and most bril-
liant Winter known in New York for many
| years.
Lent begins this year on W~ashington's
Birthday, a fact good church people do not
relish.
1t is fashionable in England to drive
horses three abreast to sleighs, as the Rus
SLAMS do.
Boston, almost alone, OF the larger
cities of the country, is not affected by the
smallpox scare.
1t is said that Chicago has so, 900 girls
working at the various trades for average
wages of SO a week.
1t is proposed to light up the greater
part of the Suez Canal by electricity, with
the twofold object CT first enabling dredg-
ing operations to be carried on at night
instead OF during the day, and next, in or
der that vessels may pass through at all
hours, instead of blocking up the passage
and anchoring, as hitherto.
1t required 1000 cars to carry exhibits
| to the Atlanta Exposition, but 200 vert
sufficient to take away these which re-
manned unsold. Nearly everything, ex-
cept the heavy machinery, found a pur-
chaser. Rather to the surprise of the
managers, the negroes did not visit the
Exposition in large numbers, and Freed
mems Day was almost a complete failure.
According to a German economist the
income of the world is $13, $40, 600, 900; debt,
$40, 956, 600, 600; taxes, 50, 002, 600, 900; cap
ital, $85, 612, 000, 900. Sweden has the
smallest debt, or $50, 000, 600; France the
largest, or 50, 40, 900, 900. The United
States has the largest income and England
the most capital. Italy is the heaviest
taxed, paying IS per cent Of its income for
taxes to the average Is per cent of other
nations.
A stone bridge to be built at Minneapo-
lis bids fair to become one of the most
notable structures of the world. 1t will
consist OF 16 S0-feet spans and -four 100.
feet spans, and, including the shore pieces,
will have a total length of 1900 feet. II
will support two railway tracks at a hight
of over 60 feet above the water, and will
run diagonally across the river below St
Anthony Falls. The cost is estimated al
nearly $500, 900.
Jenny Lind at Berlin received $40, DOC
per annum. The Gear OF Russia offered
her $50, 600 for five months. What she re-
ceived in England may be estimated from
what she gave away, which was 5000, 900,
In America, under engagement with Bar.
mum, she gave 95 concerts, IS Of which were
in New York. The receipts were SIP, 161
an average Of $7,496 per concert. Miss
Lind's net pay was S176,6 75, or 81, 800 al
evening.
Ex-Governor R. G. Mccormick has pur
chased 16, 900 acres of land in the State Of
Colima, on the Pacific Coast of Mexico,
and is going into the business OF coffee
culture on a large scale. He has 40,00(
trees in bearing now. and expects to plan
$4,000 per year for four years to come. In
order to encourage this industry, the State
will remit, for a period Of ten years, al
duty on the coffee and all taxes on the land
where 1t is grown.
A lesson for regulators Is contained in
the history Of the Minnesota State bonds
For 90 years the State refused to meet is
obligations In respect OF these bonds. Dur
ing all that time the fact that the State was
in default was a bar to Its progress. The
end OF it has been that the principal and
interest has had to be paid, and the princi,
pal creditor, selah Chamberlain OF New
York, ran a special car up to the State
Capitol the other day and took away 5000,
600 in cash and 50, 000, 900 in bonds, which
had been voted to cover his claim. The
Railway Directors safe, which he had with
him. was not large enough to hold the
bonds, and a trunk had to be pressed into
service.