The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-06-19
Things IN General.

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The chief items In the list of exports
from Mexico during the last year were
Silver in all forms, $32, 300, 600; gold,
1927 900; heneqnen, $4,000, 200;
woods, $4,000, 900; hides, $1,7OO, 900;
and coffee. 81 500, 900, q large increase
over ths exports II yecent years in all
items except tast Of c6fsas
Considerable increase In the mortal
ity from cancer in Great Britain OUR
ing the past 30 years is shown by the
forty third annual report of the En-
glish Registrar General. In the 10
years 1SGO.G9 there were 5000 deaths
from the disease, and the annual ln-
crease was 248. During 187O-79 the
number of deaths from cancer was ILL.,
301, and the average increase $50.
Thus, in 1S50-59 the increase was about
1000, in 186O-69 it was 2j4OO, and in
1S7O-79 was 5000.
Cholera is relying to some extent on
the fact that people do not keep their
''modern convenioirces" clean. Where
ever there arc "moderis eonveniences"
there is more or less nastincss: There is
scarcely any creature more filthy than q
human being. A human being, if not
allowed to bo nasty and slovenly, gets
sick at heart and its health declines rs
surely, though not 80 rapidly, as if it
had taken tho cholera.
The completion of tho Mackay- Ben
nett cable makes tho total length of
submarine cable, according to the Elec-
trician, about sixty eight thousand
miles. Each cable contains an average
of forty strands of wire, so that alto
grther there arc over two and n half
million miles of wirc used in their con-
struction, or ten times the distance
from the earth to tho moon.
Flax culture has 50 far diminished
III ireland that but little more than one
third tho number of acres is now under
cultivation that was cultivated twenty
years ago. There has also been q full
ing off of tho importation in tile last
four years, though the power looms in
llse have increased. About nlne- tentls
of all tho flax grown in ireland is grown
in the northern province Of Ulster.
The income Of the Girard estate for
1884 was $95O,OOO. Itsreal estate alone
is valued at 81, 346, 900, apart from that
occupied by tho college buildings. The
collieries Of the Girard estate produced
1,40O, 900 tons last year.
The City of Guatemala has recently
been placed in direct communication
with the port OF San Jose on the Pacific
Coast by the opening OF new line Of
railway. The total length of iine is
sevanty-two miles-single track and the
narrow three. feet gauge. Between Es-
cuintIa and Palm, q distance Of nine
teen ni;lss, the road rises over q, 900 feet;
the total riso between San Jose and
Guatemala is within few feet of &, 600.
Tho entire rolling stock was imported
from the United States.
A private in an English infantry reg
iment receives 25 cents day; lancer
corporal, II cents; corporal, Al cents;
lancer sergeant, 81 cents; sergeant, SO
cents; color sergeant, "a cents, and
quartermasteI sergeant, 81. These
rates are subject to tic following he
ductions. viz: One cent day for
washing, and six cents a day for grocer
les and vegetables. These consist of
tea, coffee, sugar, potatoes and green
vegetables. After these deductions,
then, tile pay ol lincsman is II cents
day, bnt. as he has to provide his own
underc1othing; n further deduction Of
two cents daily is made, thus reducing
his actual pay TO Is cents. The pay of
the privates in tho famous Coldstream
Guards averages only about lOper cert.
in advance of these rates, with equal
deductions for messing and washing.
A Honolulu letter to tho st. Louis
Globe-Dcmocrot says tllo charge SO fire.
quently made that the missionaries are
responsible for the rapid extinction of
tho native race at the Sandwich Islands
is without any foundation. The seeds
of deadly disease were sown before their
arrival. The Hawaiian race Ia doomed,
and nothing but q miracle could sasc
them from certain extinction. That
disease has made awful ravaees among
them is due to their contact wi:ll
foreigners. OF late years leprosy has
occn introduced by tho Chinese, and
thas spread with alarming rapidity.
lis estimated by good observers that
ully one-fifth of all the native. .popula.
ion is infected with it, or with similar
complaints in such an aggravated from
IS scarcely to be distinguished from the
genuine Asiatic leprosy.