, 1885-12-31
1885

and is We h!d II adicu let u4 take
a brief synopsis If what has trans
pircd. During very few years for q
Ion" time have ITurS ant E,uagrS Of
IIWS disturbed the world - during
the past year, The United States Of
Columbia has had It's rebellion and
shedding internal blood. Great
Britain, a year ago, had her war il
Soudan on her hands. unit! her be
loved General was killed. and since
that time his couqueror. the Madhi.
has died. Char;oum fell and Eng
land withdrew from the contest.
Then ii was trouble between Eng
land, Russia and Afghanistan, the
marching and countermarchiug Of
armies, the enlistment Of troops, the
purchase Of supplies and few
battles, until not alone was all
Europe trembling, but the whole
world was afflicted in regard to her
business and finances by the rumors
Of war.
Then England and Bgrmah had a
a spat and England has come out
victorious.
France too has had her troubles:
her war in the east with An
nam, another with China, and third
in the south with Madagascar. Nor
have they been wars in which the
soldiers who We're sent off to foreign
countries alone We're interested. but
so excited was all France over her
defeat in China, the Ferry ministry
at home fell
Germany and Spain too had their
excitement over the little island OF
Iapin, IN the Pacific, and although it
did not actually result in war, yet so
excited the Spanish people that they
held a demonstration III Madrid
which was attended by forty thousand
people.
Again the European question has
been opened by the rebellion in
Roumelia, and the war between
Servia and Bulgaria. True they are
comparatively insignificant countries,
and half civilized, but all of Europe
is in a fever, expecting that a great
war will take place in the not very
far distant future which may involve
the whole continent and end in the
reconstruction of the European map,
and so little spark may at any time
set on fire the whole continent when
1t Is like tinder box.
Our northern neigLbor, Canada,
has had an Indian war, the first it is
said, in her history. 1t was fer
midable rebellion, and has ended in
the execution of its leader, Riel.
In England reverberating sounds
come forth which show how disaf
fected persons with dynamite tried
to blow up the house of Parliament
and the lower.
Even the United States almost had
a slight touch of fighting on the
Isthmus of Panama during the war
there, but happily the affair blew
over.
During the present century great
efforts have been made by good men
and psace societies to have interna-
tional troubles settled by arbitration,
and has at times seemed as if consid
cradle seccess had resulted from these
efforts, but this year seems to have
been an off year in this respect-as
if some people did not wish the mil
lenium to come, for England France
Soudan, Burmah, China, ,Afghanistan,
AMMAN, Madagascar, Bulgaria, Ser
via, Roumelia, the United States OF
Columbia and Canada have all tried
the way which says, might is right"
PEsTILENCE
has devasted some countries. Thous-
ands week have died in Spain, IN
til, it is said, more than IO0,0Ot
were swept away by cholera. In
Montreal, Canada, the small pox has
made frightful ravages until about q
thousand cases and about two hund-
red deaths were reported in on,
week. In Japan fifteen thousand
people perished by floods. In ou
own country
THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION
has been carried on. Twenty years
ago when the war closed section
al hate was about as strong as it well
could bs between the north and the
south. Time and past events have
done much to heal these wounds,
The Centennial Exposition at Phil
adelphia n 1876 brought the people
together in way that had not before
been doae, and contributed not d
little to produce better feeling. But
that 6as at the north where the
war hardly reached. This year the
exposition has been in the heart OF
the country where the war ragged, and
yet the northern states and territor-
les from Maine to Washington terri
tory have contributed their share to
the.entorprise, and the people of the
south have had an opportunity OF
seeing what the rest of the world is
doing, much better than they did
in 1876, because it has been in their
midst. SO there has been a grand
education for them, aud for some OF
their southern neighbors, the Mex
leans, different from anything they
have previously enjoyed. and its
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