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ny tI,OOO3 WV oA(SPs VI hAS
the United Kingdom, Canada, Russia
and the United States alone aggregate
1000, 900 tons, equivalent to $4,000, 900
sheep.
Sir Henry Thompson and English
physicians who understand the thing say
that all enteric fevcrs, such as typhus.
cholera and the Oriental plague itself,
are due to positive pollution in the air
and water. Historiographers of disease
tell us that the cholera comes from the
mouth of the Ganges, the yellow fever
from the mouth of the Mississippi, and
the plague from the mouth of the Nile.
Now the Mediterranean is an obvious
focus and hotbed of enteric poison, and
has been 80 ever since the days of the
Athenian plague, which Thucydides
chronicled. It's tideless waters accumu-
late unspeakable filth and garbage. The
present cholera commenced and found
its chief seat in Marseilles, which is, per-
haps, the most p%estile1tial port in the
world.
The public have long suffered from
the iendish scream of the steam whistle,
but there is prospect of alienation.
Lately attention has been turned to this
matter, and that great remedial agent,
the inventor, has perfected different
STYLES of what has been known as a gong
whistle. But some one with the love of
musical harmony in his soul has taken a
step further in the way OF removing the
offensive noise, and produced a musical
chime whistle, the great merit of which
consists in producing a musical chord
composed Of the first, third and fifth
tones of the common musical scale. The
i effect of this chord in the whistle is to
remove the piercing, hurtful effect upon
the ear, and at the same time very much
enhance the carrying qualities of the
sound, from the fact that more tones or
vibrations of the air are produced.
The three largest industries of South
Australia are wool, wheat and gold. The
number of sheep is between 80, 900, 600
and 80, 900, 600. The average value of
the export of wool alone is between $780,
0OO, 900 and 500, 900, 900. This indus.
try is likely to increase in the future.
The expectation of frozen meat, chiefly
mutton, to Great Britain, is a compare
lively new industry, which is growing
rapidly in importance. So important
has the business become that New Zea-
land is building steamers especially for
the trade. Meat is frozen by means of
condensed air, and is kept frozen during
the, voyage by the same means. The
complete carcass of the animal is frozen.
Last year there were exported from South
Australia alone between 400, 900 and
500, 900 tons of wheat. Their importa-
tions from America are limited, and con-
sist chiefly of buggies, American tools
and mineral oils.
Statistics gathered by the forestry d.
vision of the agricultural department,
for the use of the forestry congress held
in Boston, show that the forest product
during the census year(1SS0) was 1S, 900,
900, 900 feet, board measure. In 1884 it
! greatly exceeded this figure, reaching in
that year 90, 600, 900, 900 feet. A rather
alarming fact is incidentally stated in
the report, namely, that the forests are
disappearing at the rate of 25, 900, 900
acres each year; and we can hardly ven
ture to hope that even the diligent ef-
forts of the various forestry associations
throughout the country are making
much Roadway in repairing this enor-
nous annual waste. It appears that
there are in the United States 295, 000,.
900 acres of improved land, AS, 600, 900
acres of forest, and 730, 000, 900 acres of
unimproved and waste untimbered land.
The forest area would be swept clean,
at the rate of consumption above stated,
in about eighteen years. The Boston
Cu!tirator declares that this is one OF the
staples in regard to which we may con
fdentlv say that no fears OF oyerproduc
ton need lie De entertained"
The Washington correspondent OF tn
Cleveland Leader has been interviewing
MIR. Bingham, recently United States
minister to Japan. Mr.. Bingham made
the following interesting remarks:
"Japan is advancing very rapidly in civ
ilization. The telephone and electric
light are being pushed forward. The
railroads have increased from eighteen
miles to 300 miles in ten years: tho
try has :, 1000 miles of inland telegraph
and two great ocean cables. The postal
service of Japan has been organized
within the past ten years, and now they
have nearly as many postoffices as the
United States. Their postal system is
as we'll organized and equipped as ours.
Japan has a free press, and there are five
daily and weekly papers published in
English there, beside a large number of
Japanese papers. AS to schools, 5000
Japanese children attend free schools,
and it is a crime to prevent children be-
tween seven and thirteen years from at
tending school. English is taught in the
schools, too, and the japanese are using
an alphabet to a great extent. and they
are gradually adopting the Roman letters
to their language. The m:kado,' sud
Minister Bingham, sis a marvel of in
telligence and liberality. He comes
from a family which has ruled Japan
{, 1900 years, and has been seventeen years
emperor. He has great administrative
ability, and is one of the greatest men
; of our time"