The Mineral argus., 1884-04-17
q Variety of Things.

France of all Europe ans countries has
the largest percentage Of electors to the
population, 26,S5 to eve, 100 i1fhabi-
tants; Switzerland, with 22,55, stands
second; Germany third, with 20,OS,
Denmark fourth, with 10, is: England
fifth, with 6,83.
The Psychological Journal gives the
increase of the number of insane per
sons in the United States at,,,from 1850
to 1860, 1892; 1860 to 1870, 10, $50;
1870 to 1880, 81, 565. The whole num-
Der of our insane is given at 81 ,997
idiots, 1866. More than one-half are
not under hospital treatment.
An English tourist says that most Of
the hard wood shipped from this coun-
try to Scotland is converted into paper
folders and other trinkets and sent
pack to us as s~ouviners from the house
in which Burns was born or died, OF
the tree under which Walter Scott
wrote some of his most brilliant gems.
Treasury department statistics show
shipments of petroleum abroad during
the month of January of the value OF
So, 285 1888, and for the seven months Of
the fiscal year ending January 81 Of
$25 $40, SIG.
1t has been demonstrated in Phila
delphia that the most satisfactory cleo
trio lights are those supplied by under
ground cables. The flame is steadiel
and the illumination more brilliant.
This result must greatly strengthen the
probability of an early removal of all
the aerial lines.
The roll of the British lords, temper
al and spiritual, has just been issued, as
is usual at the beginning of a new ses-
sion of parliament. It contains the
names of 522, or rather SIT, peers, five
of the members of the government
being mentioned both in the places tc
which their offices entitle them and &C.
cording to the dates of the creation OF
their titles. The youngest peers, in
point of creation, are Bramwell, FitZ'
gerald, Alcester, Wolseley, Selborne
(earldom), and Tennyson.
A class in cooking has been formed at
Providence, and the Journal predicts
that the result twill probably be that 8
goodly number of young wives and
housekeepers will discover a new inter
est in the common and to many hum
drum matter of household cooking; and
that it is really an art, capable of almos-
unlimited expansion, to the gratitica'
ton OF many a weary husbands palate
who will perhaps thus discover a new
and hitherto hidden our of attraction
in his home and in the wife who is so i'm
portant a factor in making it what /
really should be-"
Railroad communication will soon
knock over any fancy ideas we may en-.
terrain in regard to Mexico. Speaking
!, of Mexican women, a traveller says tina
2 the daughters of the wealthy pass thei
lives in v|acuity; those of the poor ar
half fed and dressed, and nearly all loo
hunger bitten and badly developed
They are completely without shape
The health of the higher class of wome1
) is wretchedly poor. A plump, health,
woman is a rarity. The picture SO Otter
: seen on the cigar boxes of a beautiful
senorita, swinging in voluptuous Ian
, guor, in a hammock, is a pictorial fraud
The average Mexican senorita is s,
; feeble that she would break her necl
getting into a hammock.
Alice Stone Blackwell, who writes i
the Boston Herald that the services com
monty rendered by wives are considers
worth much more than board and lodg
ing, when they have to be performec
l by a hired servant, further remarks
Gin 1880 there were in the United States
q according to the census, 9,945, 916 fam
, lies, and only 1,075, 655 domestic SCI
wants. Thus only about one family /
nine could keep a servant, even If n
| family kept more than n {. The grea
. majority of wives do their W work"