The examiner., 1882-02-18
TOPICS OF THE DAY.


 Upon the basis of German statls' tician's estimate that the service oi ev ry man that leaves his country IS worth $1. 900. the emigration from the fatherland last year added $6OO,OOo,- 900 to the wealth of the United States
 An outbreak of the Hindoos against British rule in Nepaul, small State In the northeastern part of Hindoostan and just south of the Himalaya noun tains, has just been put down in sum mary manner. Twenty-one military officers of native troops were summarlly executed, and large number Of the most influential Nepsulese were at once arrested.
 The vineyards ofthe Pacific slope are being more and more employed for the manufacture of raisius instead of wine. The R'oerside Press, of San Bernard ino county, California, is authority for the statement that the raisin crop of that State this year will aggregate more than 1900 bcxes. This new indus try has grown in three years to an an- nual production of half million dol lars worth, and is rapidly increasing.
 From circular just issued by the secretary of the Miners National Union it appears that S1,OOO persons have been killed in various ways during the past thirty-one years in English mines. Our modernized mode of work ing mines," writes the secretary, Sis rem dering catastrophes of this kind of 8 huge magnitude Something needs to be done, and if it be done it mus; be by legislative enactments. To do thi there must be an active trade organiza- tion, seeking and trying to enforce necessary changes in the law"
 William H. Taft, the son of ex-Judge Taft, who has been appointed collector of revenue at Cincinnati, is only twen- ty-four years of age. He was graduated at Yalo in 1878. where he was the best boxer, the best {" rusher" and the most popular man in his class, as we'll as the class orator and salutatorian. He was graduated from the Cincinnati law school in 1880, standing first. He then began the practice of his profession, and was appointed assistant prosecu- ting attorney of Hamilton county. He was also the law reporter of the Cincin :. nati 1Fmes for about year. He weighs 225 pounds, and is about five feet, eleven inches in height.
 Underwood's C0snHerfch Detector an nounces the appearance of a photo graphic counterfeit silver certificate of the denomination of twenty dollars, re- ported from Missouri - Nc. 675, ,114. Tho counterfeit Is much paler than the genuine. The Detector says: We warn our subscribers to examine all silver certificates with great care, as the pho tographic process now having been adopted in the prod of counter foits on them, no doubt many counter feits will be Tut into circulation. The arrest of man in Memphis, Tennessee, with $500 in counterfeit silver certif- eates of the denomination of ten and twenty dollars in his possession, has been reported at the secret service of ice in Washington.
 The Farallone islands are about thirty miles from the mouth of San Francisco bay, and they are the home of innumer- able sea fowls. When San Francisco first began to be city, it's constant cry was for eggs. To supply the lack of eggs, the project of stealing those of the gulls and the muhrs of the Farrallone islands was undertaken, and it proved and has ever since been The birds are too plenti- 'ul to count or to estimate, as may be inferred from the fact that the egg satherers bring in often or used to gather 500 dozen in day; and great many of the nests re inaccessible, while great many others are devastated y the rivalry of the birds: The egg season is from May to August, and, if even 400 dozen is the rule, tue har- rest would be pretty near 5OO,OOO eggs The quarreling between the gulls and he muhrs causes the loss of good many nuhrs' eggs, which the gulls at every ,hance destroy. The egg business is conducted by a company, which has he right. It pays egg gatberers i've cents a dozen, and sells them n San Francisco at a considerable .dvance.
 Webster Described.
 His personal appearance, his voice nd manner. then. as always. greatly l