Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1892-03-17
THE TINES DIARY.
A CONTINUATION OF THE WORLDS
SERIAL STORY.

Chili's New Ministry-An old Portrait of
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Polygamy Dies
Hard-Electric Wires and Their Dangers
in Boston-Standard Oil Compiacency-
Other Matters.
The new ministry of Chill is officially
announced us follows Minister of foreign
affairs, Juan Castellon; minister of the
interior, Eduardo Matte; minister of
justice, Gaspar Toro; minister of finance,
| Agustin Edwards; minister of war and
navy, Louis Barros Borgono, and minis
ter of public works, Jorge Riesco, late
intendente of Valparaiso These minis
, ters will probably hold office until con-
gress meets in June, but should the con-
servative or clerical party make fight
over the new cabinet it will have to be
reorganized. This is the first time SEN
ator Toro has been appointed to min
isterial Office, but the others have served
in the cabinet in the past. All are bright
int lligent men.
A very interesting portrait in oil, sup
posed to be of George Washington in his
youth, has recently been discovered in
the possession of Thomas Nelmes, Pasa-
dena, Cal. 1t was owned by Mr.. Nelmes'
father in Bristol, Eng, more than so
years ago, and on the death of the father
and the removal of the family from Bris-
tol it was taken out of its old carved
oaken frame and rolled up, and so re-
manned almost forgotten until very re-
Gently, when it was seen and recognized
by its striking resemblance to other early
portraits of the father of his country.
1t is said by those who have seen it TO be
the work of master hand
1t is signif ant fact that the news
pap rs which shrie lled that Chill was too
small for US to concern ourselves with,
now clamor that England is too big for
us to oppose in asserting our rights in
the Behring Sea case. The honest AM
erican view is that it makes no difference
what the size of offenders against Amer
ican rights may be. The American pol
icy is to proceed temperately but firmly
in enforcing the rights of the United
States, whenever and by whomsoever
they are assailed. There is no other way
to maintain the dignity of this country
and command the respect of foreign ma
tions.
The arrest of one of the lights of the
Mormon church on the charge of having
more than one wife is pretty strong evil
dence that polygamy is not as dead in
Utah as the advocates of the admission
of U tab as state would like to have the
country be lieve. 1t can safely be as
samed that the apostle in question is not
alone in his practices, and that polygamy
still has a powerful hold upon the dis
4 lciples of Brigham Young. Congress
should not admit cit her poly galnous Utah
or Arizona, where the Mormons hold the
balance of the power, to the rank of
state.
The news of the determination of Yale
university to enlarge the educational
opportunities for feminine students comes
almost simultaneously with the news
that the ancient University of st. An
drews, in Scotland, has decided to admit
women to the departments of theology,
the sciences, and the arts. All of the
four universities of Scotland have, with
in a few years past, adopted very
broad policy in regard to the admission
of women as students. In this respect
they are in advance of like institutions
in any other country of Europe.
There are so many trolley wires and
other electric wires in Boston that the
authorities have become alarmed over
the dangers that are everywhere present.
So each police station has been provided
with patent wire-cutter-a clumsy ap-
paratus of iron and steel and rubber
which can be used for severing live or
dead wires without imperilling the users
life. Brooklyn and other cities which
are going to have the trolley by whole
sale can learn something to their advan-
tage by the experience of Boston.
|, Tn SC IN, ho
ready" ssthe needful.' 'sshekels,' %
"sugar," ''spondulix, ''dust," "chink, f"
sboodle," ''rocks," 'soap," ''duff, -
ssthe stuff" ''wherewithal," 'stamps,'' -
but it is left for the Hargreaves trial to
give us new bit of slang in the word
"oof." 1t was Miss Elliott's, afterwards
Mrs. Osborne, love of the ''oof' that led
her to take the path whose last turn was
the cell door. The love of 'oof" is the
root of all evil. .
1t is said that the magnates OF the
, Standard oil trust, in anticipation of the
adverse Ohio decision, have lately been
buying up majority of the stock of the
principal concerns in the combination,
and will thus be able to swing its busi-
, ness as unitedly and effectively when the
trust is dissolved as before. Hence their
remarkable readiness to "comply with
the law and public sentiment and
break up the trust.
: The London Daily Graphic has offered
prize of f100 to the person who sug-
: gests the best means of communicating
: between wrecked ship and the shore.
: Three experts, one of whom is an ad-
. miral of the British navy. have been
appointed judges of the various recon-
! mendatians that may be submitted. The
l Graphic hopes that many Americans will
e take part in this competition.
A cable dispatch says: "The next
Russian military maneuvers, the scene OF
which will be in the vicinity of Moscow,
will be on a gigantic scale. Six army
corps will take part, besides the guards
and other cavalry, the whole reaching a
total of 200, 900 men," The Russian gov
ernment had better postpone its costly
o maneuvers and spend its money in feed
: ing its starving people.