The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-25

republic it will be tested by nearly or quite
six hundred millions. Broad is the founda-
ton for this prediction. One hundred years
ago fifteen millions only of the worlds in
habitants were English speakers; now that
language is spoken by one hundred and ten
millions. Then one-ffth were, now nearly
three-fifths are, citizens of the United
States. Thus the increment of the century
represents the multiple of seventeen in the
United States and Of four in England and
her colonies. The same ratio of increase
to the end of 1889 would augment the
world S English to nearly fifteen hundred
millions, and the continuance of the same
proportions would put nearly six-sevenths
of that number in the United States. But
assume a decline in the past rate of incre-
ment. and take a multiple of ten or even
nine. as against seventeen; the prediction
will still be verified, and American citizens
will, in 1889, exceed in numbers the present
population Of China by more than two
hundred millions. This estimate is not
more startling than was the forecast Of
Captain G. INLAY, who, in 1857, esti-
mated that the population of the United
millions in a century from that time, and it
is certainly conservative when compared
with the published opinions of a celebrated
writer Barham Zincke), who. in 1888, esti-
mated that the English speakers on the
globe in 1880 would number one thousand
be citizens of the United States. While
unforeseen causes may intervene and check
our marvellous advance, all conditions, past
and present, warrant the belief that with
wise policy the American republic will dom
mate every square mile On the continent
before the year 1000 A. D. It's banner of
the eighteenth century waved over one
twenty-fOurth of the Western Hemisphere;
that of the nineteenth floats over nearly
one-fourth and that of the twentieth will
wave over it all if the power Of the Republic
be not diminished by unwise legislation.
The founders of the Republic left it as
their dying injunction to cherish the Union.
Washington embodied their spirit in his
farewell address. in which he presented it
as the palladium of political safety and
prosperity. Andrew Jackson gave express
sion to the determined will of the nation, in
the terse sentiment spoken at the right
time: The Federal Union. it must be pre-
served" Abraham Lincoln. the martyr
President. said that the thousands who died
for their country on the battle fields gave
their lives that the nation might live"
Millions had responded to the call of that
as their own personal concern" and meet
ing their own destruction that govern
ment of the people, by the people. and for%
the people should not perish from the
earth.
1t is such government that the genius
under which our States may remain tor ages
to come united, prosperous, and free.
Washingtons Personal Appearance.
Washington, according to Houdon's meas
urements, was 6 feet inches in height He
was giant in size and physical strength,
and stood as erect as a Corinthia column
His boots were enormous. They were No.
13. His ordinary walking shoes were No. H.
His hands We're large in proportion, and he
could not buy glove to fit him and had to
have his gloves made to order. His mouth
was his strong feature, the lips being always
tightly compressed He weighed 200 pounds
and there was no surplus flesh about him.
He was tremendously muscled. and the fame
OF his strength was everywhere. His larle
tent, when wrapped UP with the poles, was
so heavy that it required two men to place
it in the camp-Wagon. Washington would
lit it with one hand and throw it into the
wagon as easily as if it were pair Of sad
die bags. He could hold musket with one
hand and shoot with precision hs easily as
other men did with a horse pistol. His
lungs were his weak point and his voice
was never strong. His hair was chestnut
brown. his cheeks were prominent, and his
head was not large in comparison to every
other part of his body. which seemed large
and bony at all points. His finger joints
and wrists were SO large as to be genuine
curlosltles. He WAS an enormous eater, but
was content with bread and meat, if he had
plenty OF it. But hunger seemed to PUT him
IN rage. 1t was his custom to take q
drink of rum or whisky on awakening in the
morning. OF course all this was changed