The Clifton clarion., 1885-02-11
THE CLIFTON CLARION.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY
CLARION CLIPPINGS.

It is probable that by the close
 lsss there will scarcely be a mile
 coast in the wogld that will not l
 appropriated by some organize
 government. The expansion (
 England in the shape of annexation
 and protectorates will proceed at
 lively place. There will be a conte.
 in flag-raising between England
 France, and Gerrnany-a conte.
 fn which the third will, although lat
 to take the field, acquire some strip
 of territory that may ultimately be
 come populous colonies. The chic
 result of the rivalry of Germany, an
 probably the maiu end held in vie,
 by Prince Bismark, will be the com
 plete establishment of European
 preponderance in Asia and Africa
 and the formulation of intercolonia
 laws and an intercolonial policy
 While the triumverate just mentioned
 progress by sea, Russia Is extendin.
 her boundaries in Asia and the fou
 powers, if they please to agree, will
 before the lapse of many years, prac
 tically establish a protectorate ovel
 all the weaker powers of Asia, anG
 probably absorb some of those O
 Europe.
 Our diplomatic establishment con.
 sists of thirty-stx missions, filled by
 fifty ministers and secretaries of le.
 gation. There are four first-class
 nissious, with annual salaries oi
 Sl7, ,5OO each. These are to England
 Germany, France, and Russia. The
 seven missions in the second class are to Austria-Hrngray, Italy, Spain,
 Mexico, Brazil, China, and Japan, the salary being Sl2,000 a year. The other diplomatic places are worth from Sl O 1000 down to s, 900 for minis ters, and from s2, 1000 to Sl'0OO for sec retaries. The consular service em- braces five places at S,OU0, three at S5, 1000, one at S4, 500, five at S4 ,000, eight at g, ,500, twenty at S3,000, ninteen nt S2,500, thirty-fiive at $2, 900, fifty nine at Sl ,500, twenty-five at Sl,000; tiirty-siX consuls and consular off cers arc paid by fees.
 Senator-elect Evarts, of New York, Is among the statesmen who figured in youthful love romances. He fell in love with his wife when she was 16 and he green boy of college. ner of Vermont, and was as pretty as young Evarts was homely. They became engaged at her home, in Vermont and Evarts went away to Now York, promising to return when he had made enough to warrant the proposed union. At 25 he had made name for himself as lawyer, and New York law firms-of one making, it is said, total of $50, 900 year. At that time he married, his wife, after bearing him thirteen children, is still well and happy.
 Albama dc Granada, recently des- troyed by an earthquake, possessed q most romatic situation and the most history of any town in Spain. It stood high upon;the verge of a gigantic cleft in the mountains, the result of volcanic action. From its position it was justly reguarded by the Moors as the key of their of Granada, and when captured in 1s42 by the forces of and Isabella, the Alham- bra was felt to be foredoomed. It was that event which gave origin to To the mournful ballad, "Muy Dol orro," translated by Lord aByron, with the sad refrain at the Close of 'ach stanza, ''woe is me Alhama.
 Atits highest stage, Great Salt Lake | overs about 35,000 square miles 'f surface, and the present body of l water has barely 5000. The water s generally supposed to have disap- 'eared by evaporation, or, in plain erms, by approximate evaporation of about l16 cubic miles of water. If the lake lowered at the 'verage rate of one hundredth part of m inch per year (and that supposes m evaporation of l, 800, 900 cubic feet then it was at it's greatest Ieight 1,200, 900 years ago. Ii the continues in the future S it has in the past, in 1,5O0 years here will be nothing but thin sheet f water during each spring where treat Salt Lake now is.
 In Orange Mountain, NJ, has cen discovered counterpart of the lmous Giants Causeway in Ireland. he opening of quarry brought the nriosity to light. The formation is due to repeated volcanic ruptions that forced the trap rock h in fafn | Id red sandstone upon which it now ands. The columns are fifteen to 'rty feet high, as if moulded in forms, nd owing to their hexngonal or entagonal shapes are considered by ,ologists to be of crystalline forma- , on.
 The Chinese council in New York a.es that; disrite the apparent eglect by the Chinese of most laws lat to our way of thinking arc essential to the preserva- | ,n of health, it is rare that one of the q ce dies of a zymotic disease. He ys his people have been studying 1 e laws of health for the last ousand years, and that his people " we to this extent, mastered those | ws is proved, to his mind, by the l, that contagious disease II seldom found among them. Q The room in the tower of London which Sir Walter Raleigh was so ng imprisoned is sxl4 feet in size, O d so low that it was impossible d r Raleigh to stand erect in it. The a Ills of the room are eighteen feet thickness, and there is one window. \ opening l0x20 inches-from which V, g only thing that can be seen i, the :" ,nk wall of an adjoining building. a' ire Raleigh lived for fourteen years, yer being once out of his room p til the day on which he was taken 1T Great Tower Hill to be beheaded. Ia In 1875, when a pretty fair case of as ms scriptural conduct'' was made q against brother Beecher, the ,tion sale of pews in hin church s, ought in the sum of S6s, ,997. Every a; dy was on hand and double prices II