The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-02-20
TELEGRAPHIC
The Choicest of Late News
Carefully Culled.
What is Being Done IN Wash
ington and other Eastern
Cities.
The Damaging Floods at Gin
cinnati and the Warlike
Attitude of the
British.


white woman says the Pioneer Press, has
drawn fire all along the line of the re-
form brigade In itself the union Of two
kindred souls, albeit they inhablt bodies
of dissimilar color. is Is harmless as the
meeting of robins in the spring. But
when the excusing argument is advanced
by Mr.. Douglass that there is but one
race, and in the levsIjsg. course of time
there will be but one color, discussion is
challenged, and there are disputants
enough ready to join in it. Among the
latest is DR.. D'Unger, the Chicago gentle
man whose name is linked with his Gin
chona cure for inebriation. When Mr..
Douglass speaks of but one race he for
gets, as his critics remember, that there
are Caucasians, Mongolians, Indians, Af
ricans and Malayans, and that between
these races nature herself has drawn a
line as distinct and immovable as the
everlasting hills Intermarrage between
the five different branches Of the human
family is simply impossible, in the sense
that it will blend and amalgamate them
into a common race product. As in
lower animals, there is a limit. Inter
marriage is not even experimental. Its
consequences are absolutely and un-
changeably fatal. Mortuary statistics
show that the average length Of life Of
half-breeds is but about one-quarter that
Of their parents; that the average life Of
quadroons, or one-fourth bloods, is about
one-third less than that of their parent
age, and that this average length Of life
is still lessened with the quintmons, or
fifth bloods. In the octoroon, or eighth
bloods, reproduction ceases altogether
that is. male and female Octoroon can
not beget children. The great common
race, to the halcyon coming of which Mr..
Douglass supposes he has hastened by
example-if he shall not hasten it by
taking upon himself the paternity of a
winter son than himself-this great COM
mon race is prohibited in the laws of re-
production. As sentiment, what he
says sounds well. In effect it is idle US
the wind.
OMAHA. Feb. THE authorities of the
Union Pacific railway here are reticent
rs to their contemplated extensions in
Montana this year. but enough is learned
to indicate that they will extend the
Utah Northern line from Butte City via.
Bozeman to the Clarke's Fork mining
district. They have recently expended
large sums of money in the purchase of
bitumous coal mines about Bozeman at
the head Of Gallatin Wiley in Montana
aud now hold bond Of fifty thousand
dollars on still another which will soon
be closed. Bids have been invited from
fire-clay manufacturers for fire brick to
be used in the construction of coaking
retorts at Bozeman.
The Journal says the Union Pacific has
been quietly acquiring all the coal they
can get at and about Bozeman for some
time. The Northern Pacific has large
coal interests there and make heavy
shipments of the same to the ore roasting
works at Butte City and Wickes, near
Helena, and have contemplated putting
in coaking ovens at Bozeman. 1t would
seem from the above that the Union Pa
cific is looking in the same direction. To
reach these new mines they will find it
necessary to extend their Utah Northern
narrow guage, which is now built from
Ogden, on the main line to Butte City
and to connection with the Northern
Pacific at Garrison Junction on the Little
Blackfoot in Montana. In the meantime
the Northern Pacific is on the alert and
will not allow its territory to be invaded
with impunity and will also probably
make extensions in the same direction.
Nine. Modjeska recently undertook a
kind of discipline in her company which
cannot be said to have resulted alto
gether as she had intended that it should.
1t is the custom of some European
theaters to have FOOLS cap in the
prompter's possession, and whoever is
late at rehearsal in the morning is oblig-
cd to wear it. In travelling about the
country and conducting the rehcarsals of
the new piece every day, Mime. Modjeska
was good deal annoyed by the dilatory
conduct of number of the members of
her combination. She therefore proceed
ed to get up an elaborately embroidered
FOOLS cap, and carefully announced that
whoever was late at the next days re-
hearsal would be expected to wear it.
The company, with that spirit of free
dom which characterizes the people of
the stage in this country, organized
spirited resistance All of them turned
up the next morning considerably ahead
of time, and the clock was put half an
hour ahead, SO that when Nine. Modjeska
herself came into the theater upon the
moment according to the right time, she
was apparently half an hour late. There
was good deal Of discussion, it is said,
as to the difference between railroad and
theater time, but it was pretty generally
contended that such excuses would hard
VI be accepted from the members Of the
company if they had been late in her
place. The FOOLS cap, it may be unneces-
sary to relate has been discarded from
the Modjeska combination since that
time.
Miles City Journal: Upon further in
quiry into the mortality list Of the sheep
of the Marquis de Mores and the cause Of
it. it is now positively known the sheep
were in a deplorable condition when
they were placed on their ranch on the
Little Missouri, Dak., and did not dare
to move around 80 timid were they.
They have had to depend on their own
r,stling since their arrival, and being
raw hands in the country did not sue
ceed. The water being alkali is also said
to have caused their deaths.
The young woman who lately died at
Belknap from the effects of morphine,
did not take it with suicidal intent. She
took it with the idea that it would en-
able her to sleep, Notwithstanding the