New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-22
THE TAX CF TIE DAY.

An Australian gentleman now visiting San Francisco
saws: " There can be no doubt that Americans would
have better chance Of doing well In Australia than ID
this country To take one enterprise in which you es
peciay excel the crying want OF Australia is railroads
From the fact that the Governments themselves con-
struct the lines and that after the most extravagant
pan the average being $4,000 methey scarcely
ever nay and the orest nge OF the country touched
hy them They also shOrsghtei enough to sell the
Lands they pass through previous TO- instead OF ater
their constructions thus losing 10 the state all the 0ene
M derived from the Increased value they give to the
land Though ayerse TO making land grants to COM
panie willing TO the Railroads.&c. scheme for trans
continental line this pan having recently been re-
,s,,ed there Of course nsthng to prevent body OF
capitalists buying the land at its unmProVed value ana
then constructing railroads through it, and by doing this
immense profits could be made
Iltchneld County correspondent writing OF manners
and customs in that section fty years tnat
%rammou people didn't own stoves then; they rented
them uf the rich for ~ CENTS month Dr; calm, Oh
Lltchned. had qnite number that he rented We wen
remember seeing HIM stan around for miles TO collect
There were n" clocks IA scnooi1 hoses .he
teachers had noon marks on tho "ln'oW sl' wien wy
struck the ark u was noon; II cloudy they geSsea
noon. There were clocks In out ie" families I'D 'nose
days"-( Hartford Times
The prolonged Frauco-Chinese war. now that peace
has been declared will probably result in absolute
revolution in the military system OF the Empire OF
China The sacrifice OF thousands OF valuable lives, 10
SAY nothing OF draft the treasury has already
suggested the advisably OF founding military and
naval schools or doing Japan has doae in sending
Young men to military and naval schools In Europe and
tb,. country to be educated the European method Of
warfare or the time In tue history OF China she
ha, been forced to money from foreign sou
for which sue pay dearly in Interest and
commissions.
Robert Dye OF Chsrlestown township. is the proud
possessor Of which has eue e upon the dulles
of mother hem As IL been sitting fourteen lays
on a lot eggs. our correspondent states th"t me
good OF the eggs s upon the approach
of anyone Ia nest It Immediately shows hight The
! West Chester PENN Record
Charles f. Courtney. the oarsman has begun Practice
with his shell Cayuga Lake. report says that he Is
In excellent health and spirits and that he makes exceed
nSiy fast time In practo. It is unfortunate for Mr.
Courtney that he fast In races "a he does
| I'm pr,.ce II he could make his boat as fast in a
race IA he his legs getting away from race he
would certainly be the champion oarsman Of the age
| A newsparer soon to be started in Thomas County.
Kansas is TO be called The Thomas out We sincerely
hue that the feline genius of he York san has not
left metropolitan journalism for the Wild West-lLous-
| Vile COurier-JournaL
Il there no way OF putting a stop TO this dynamite
business New troubles arise every day, but the people
don't seem to heed they receive The latest
e,plos On Is one that may happen in any household
where there are crawling baby. impatient mother
and an experimenting father IL occurred In this way
The father dropped little dynamite ON the carpet the
baby slid over 10, the mother spanked tne Dapy.
mother ana baDy,-all gone NSoohS
Give wholesome Instruction. but they don't seem to do So
| y statlstican has figured out the expenditures Tor
various pur soses the United states approximately as
! fnlows: Drink, 5000 100000; Mlssi0ns-home ana
! foreigp s.. 550,O0O; bread. sos, 0OOOOO; meat,
Spo3 900 600; iron and steel, S20O.OOO,OOo woouen
| ,,mi, S{37 900 900; sawed lumber, 33,OOo,ooo
| Cotton goods S2l0.0OO.000 boots aud SHOES
| ~ oG 600 900; sugar and mnlasSes Sl0o,OuoVoO
edn.t ioal purposes $S50OO.UOO According TO these
n,ure, drink costs than bread and meat ana put
little les than food and Philadelphia Press
Colonel Johu Y. Cuyer, OF Brooklyn, who has had
good deaf TO do public schools OF that city say
that there are many children under ten years OF age who
cannot tell the time OF day from IA clock or watch lie
suggests that large paper DIAL plainly figured ana Pr
vlded with movable hour and minute hands be placed
I'm ench schools and that row minutes
be given each day instrucng the pupils how to read
! the time.
IN, Ner York World maintains with vehemence thai
ths nnme OF our English Minister should DO thurman
II IA not ye, for Mr. Phelps 20 OBTAIN tue sane
ton OF the Vermont courts or Legislature 10 such
| change OF NAME Philadelphia Record
Bundle" bees being imported to New Zealand IL
large numbers 1t Is found that clover does not seed 10
that country because there areI no bum'ie bees te
fertze the flowers and the bees are imported Tor tna
| purpose.
| TEMPTATION.