Morris tribune., 1883-01-18
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.


Blu few people appreciate the force of the
wind when it blows at the rate of IA miles an
hour, as reported from Mount Washington. In
the Philippine Islands, during the late terrific
hurricane, it was impossible to say what We .oc-
ity the wInd attained, for the thermometers
at the observatory were rendered useless
before ths ~severest gusts came, and the
highest rate they showed was la miles an
hour. Not a single house in Manila escaped
damage. During the storm il was III; erly M
possible to walk in the streets, owing to the
force of the wind, which rolled heavy obstacles
along like p~laythings, and kept sheets of iron
roofing floating in the air like pieces of paper.
The annual report of the board of directors
of city trusts aud the superintendent Of the
Girard estate, in Philadelphia, shows that the
estate is III a prosperous condition. The estate
comprises the ground and buildings occupied
by the Girard college, value at 50. SSS, 974.S
banking houses, dwellings,, stores, Wharves and
farm, in the city, assessed at So, 1874, 900; real
estate in Schnylkill and Columbia counties, as
sessed at $1.511.9l7 and other property, the
whole valued at SO, 1923, 204. 90. These COM
pose the residuary fund. In addition to this,
there is a legacy fund from the estate of Iaw-
renee Todd of Illinois, for Girard college,
amounting to $45, 064. 90. The financial re-
port Of the estate shows that the receipts
amounted to l 1922, SO7. SO; expenditures of
estate, 1926, 295. 48, and Of college S467,-
799 As, leaving a balance III the treasury Dec.
81, 1882, of 2S,712.93 The college now
CONTAINS l ITO pupils, with 1872 applicants for
admission.
The following list of the aborigines of North
America is as complete as any that is at present
available: Apsches. Arrapahoes, Arricarees,
Blackfeet, Bloods, Brules. Camanches, Cayu-
gas, Senecas, Cherokees, Chevennes. Chicka-
saws, Chippewas, Ottawas, Pottawatomies,
Choctaws, Munses, Greeks, Crows, Della
wares, Gros Venttes, Iowas. Kaws,
Kaskaskies, Weas Peories, Weas Mi
amies, Plan Keshaws, Kickapoos,
Kiaways, Mandans, Menomonees, MIamias,
Missouris, Ottoes, Minnecongoux, Muhuache,
Utahs, Navajoes, Moquis, Omahas, Onopdagas,
Oneidss, stockbridge, Oregon tribes, Osages,
Pawnees, Prlmos, Mescaleros, Poneas, Pueblos,
Quapaws, Sacs, Foxes, Sans Arcs. Seminoles,
~Shawnees, Sioux, Tuscaroras, Two Kettles,
Uncopapas, Winnebagoes, Wyandots, and
1anctOnnalS.
joaquin Miller writes from New York to the
Cincinnati Commercial: 'Truly it is the car
nival of Rome without the c~onfete, the badin-
age, and the vulcarity. Every man, woman and
child is not only richly, but elegantly and taste
fully cad. 1t is conceded that there are no
such well-dressed people in The world as those
who promenade Fifth avenue. The
less pretentious or poorly clad keep to the
other streets. Elegance alone and wealth and
beauty take their airing here, and here only.
You meet a hundred men, the most noble and
ki%gly on earth, at every square, better dressed
iudu cScdi NIlue. anu my Seutle ITleuQ OScaf
dresses well, and is a youth of fine presence,
indeed"
The Austra'iasian public debt is $780,
GOO, 900, the white population about :, 5OO.-
900, and these colonies are continuing to Dor
row on the score of making reproductive
works and developing the country.
London fogs are a vastly greater evil than
the perennial jokes of those who have to en-
dure them indicate. Official statistics show
that during the week ending Dec. 10 no fewer
than 637 persons died IN London from diseases
of the respiratory organs, under the influence
of the almost continuous fog" And on Dec.
20 the Pail Mail Gazette said: ''It is quite pos
sIble, Judging from past experience, that to-
days fog may cost US as many lives as Tel-el-
Kebir, and that the fogs of December may be
fatal to as many subjects of the queen as the
whole of the Egyptian campaign"
1t appears from the German Imperial Budget
that Prince Bismarck, as chancellor of the en-
pire, receives an annual salary Of $14. 600,
with the free use of his official residence and
) {, OOOa year for maintaining 1t. The ambassa-
doris in London and St Petersburg receive
1877, 600 a year each; those in Paris, Vienna
aud Constantinople, $50, 600 each, and the
ambassador in Rome, $25, 900; and every
ambassador has a free house. The largest
salary paid to any stats functionary is $45,-
600, which the governor of Alsace-Lorraine
receives.