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amounts asked for.
THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
The fact that the title TO the Washington
Monument site Is in the private corporation
known as the Washington National MOnu-
inent society has caused surprise. 1t Is not
thought, however, that the interest of the
association Will prevent the government
from exercising the same ownership and
control over the monument anu surround
ings that II exercises over all the monu.
ments erected at public places in the capital.
The site was given TO the monument society
In le4S by act OF Congress. before any mon
ey was collected. That society after that
collected ST., 900, which raised the shaft
1852 feet. The completion of the shaft from
that point to the present height, 500 feet,
has been done by direct appropriations OF
congress under the direction Of q govern
ment engineer officer. This ancient monu-
ment association will take the lead in the
ceremonies OF celebrating the completion
of the work, as they did the laying OF the
corner stone. ,.O'4
TIE WHEAT YIELD.
5. w. Tallmadge presents the following
figures as the final estimate of the wheat
crop of the United States for 1854. The fig
ures are based Oh official reports made with
i'll few days by the State agricultural de-
partments and statistical agents of the diff
ferent States ana Territories. The report
shows that the total production of winter
wheat is $50, OO0O 600 bushels and the total
OF spring wheat is 10000 600 bushels; total
winter and spring, 500, 100000 bushels. This
makes the total yield of the country fully
p 0O0, 000 bushels more than was ever pro-
duced before, l3O,OO00OO more than last
years crop, and $4,000, 000 more than the av-
erage crop OF the last five years. The de-
partments all agree in reporting the quality
us superior, and where 1t has been threshed
they say the yield exceeds their antlcipa-
tons. This applies especially to the spring
Minnesota and Wisconsin. The quality Of
spring wheat was never better. The spring
wheat harvest has been late, but the wealth.
er has been most favorable and grain is be-
ing cared for in excellent condition.
CLOSING UP THE WORK.
The few remaining clerks of the census
bureau are busy III their endeayors to bring
up the work Of the office so that everything
may be completed by Jan. /. But it is re-
garded as extremely improbable that this
result can be reached owing to the smallness
of the. appropriation. In discussing the
work OF the tenth census the fact that the
results OF progress of not a decade only but
q century are TO be set forth seems to have
been Ignored The tenth census when COM
pleted will be q work of the greatest mag
ntude ever undertaken. Thus far seven
folio volumes of an average OF 200 pages
tdCll IdNC DCcIl NCNl week Tic
eighth volume will make its appearance.
Its contents will be, The Newspaper and
Periodical Press" by S. n. ID. North. of the
Utica Herald; report OH Alaska. by Ivan
Petroff: the fur-seal islands, by Elliott; and
shipbuilding, by Hall. Vol: 9will be ready
leum, by Peekham; Coke, by Weeks; Quar-
ries and Building-stones Of the United
States, by several authors. Vol. 10, which
will appear about Nov. 1, will be devoted to
Forestry and Forest Products. by Professor
Sergeant, Mortality, Drainage Mechanical
will quickly follow. Twenty-Five volumes
will appear in all.
THE PIEGANs.
The acting Indian commissioner has re-
ceived a letter from X. w. Allen, agent of
the Piegan Indians, who are said to be
starving. Mr.. Allen says that the estimates
OF his predecessor. John Young, for the ifs
cal year provide less than five ounces of
beef and six ounces of -four to each person.
He was issuing more than that and would
continue TO do so while he had it in his
hands, as he will not let the Indians starve
berries which the Indians are now gather
ing will soon be gone. In May and June
there We're times when the Indians stripped
the trees and ate the inner bark to keep
soul and body together, and all the time
they were begging for food, AT one
thousand pounds of bacon that 1 had not re-
ceipted for, and that had been condemned
by the board OF survey. L would never have
done so If they had not been in starving
condition." He predicts that the carpen-
tiers will soon again be busy making burial
made for supplying food. A few days ago
Agent Allen returned to the department
$1,000 unused for expenses last year out of
the fund for the employment of assistants.
He is criticised for not asking permission
to use this fund TO purchase supplies and
prevent suffering.
TIE POLAR SEA SCANDAL
An army official who has recently read
portions of the diaries of the Greedy party
says that they reveal more serious cOndi-
ton of affairs than the survivors will admit.
1t seems that from the beginning of the ex-
members OF the party. These led to di-
vision which existed at the time of the res
cue. When found there were two parties,
one in charge OF Sergt Long, and the other
in charge of Sergt. Brainard, and they were
living as separately as two tribes. Lieut..
Greedy, while an Invalid, and during the
last few months of Arctic life, was in the
party headed by Brainard, who cared for
him daily. Diaries show that stealing ra-
tons was common practice. One says
that DR.. Pavy stole them whenever an OPP
portunay offered, and that he sometimes
took such as was apportlOned to the indis-
posed members of the party. At other
times, when the men were sent TO shoot
birds and were successful, the diaries say
that not all the birds killed were taken to
camp. but some were concealed in the snow
for the future use of the hunters. No men,
ton is made of cannibalism i'm any portion
of the diaries that have been read, and the
officer who has seen them refuses to say
whether or not any other member of the
party than Private Henry is reported to
have been shot. Army officials say that the
contents of the diaries will not be made
public until an investigation Is ordered.
AN INTERESTING WORK.
Prof. j. II. Dodge. statstician of the agri-
cultural department., has issued small
book upon the industrial economy of the
United states, which presents some strik-
ing results of his investigation of his statis-
tics of the manufacturing and agricultural
production of the country for twenty years.
Within that period, owing to labor saving
machinery, agriculture has more than dOu-
bled its production with II smaller proper
ton of farm labor, and now threatens glut
unless this proportion shall be further re-
duced The question of an outlet to foreign
markets is discussed, and the fact shown
that the surplus OF food products merely
pays for imported food and beverages, and
that trade cannot be extended without a ru-
nous reduction In price. The distribution
of labor in occupations In this and other