Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-04-06
ALI snRrs nr ITEMS.
The Salvation army has 5000 brass hands in its ranks

ALI SORTS OF ITEMS.
 The Salvation army has 5000 brass bands in it's ranks.
 In almost every school in Japan it is customary one day in the autumn to take the pupils out rabbit 
 X recent invention is a horseshoe 1 of rubber set in the recess of a metal 1 frame. It is particularly useful on smooth pavements.
 The highest viaduct in the world has just been erected in Bolivia over the river Lea, 9.S33 feet above tho sea level and 100 feet above the stream.
 The Panama canal concession will expire in about year. lt has cost the French several hundred millions.
 Boise, Idaho, is now heated by water from hot spring near the city.
 For forty days after a khedive's death food is served, with coffee and cigarettes, to all who visit the tomb.
 A Pennsylvania insane asylum superintendent reports that eight out of every ten of his inmates write verses.
 Net less than seventy-six cardinals have died since March D, 1878, when Pope Leo XIII began his reign, or seven moro than the entire number in the college.
 The United States court of Mon tana has decided that lager beer IS not a spirituous liquor when it is sold to an Indian on the Crow re- servation,
 The Peary relief expedition has made arrangements to carry out im- plements and simple conyeniences for the civilization of the Esqui- maux.
 The natives of Vera Cruz do large trade in fireflies, which they catch by waving blazing co>l at the end of stick. The insects fly toward the light and are captured i'll nets.
 A man applied for naturalization papers at Merced. California, the other day, who after thirty years residence in this country, could not speak word of English or answer a single question put to him by the court regarding our laws and insti- tutions.
 SELECT POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS.
 Thomas E. Reed has made about half dozen five-mlnute speeches during the present congress. Then he has made quite number of three to ten-word speeches. They are all unexpected and they always smash into the opposing ranks like bomb in the act of exploding.
 There are more paupers, support ed at the public expense, in free trade England than ia any other country on earth, and vastly more pauperism in proportion to popula- tien. Does this condition of the toiling masses speak we'll for free trade. On the other hand, there are vastly fewer publicly supported paupers and infinitely less pauper- ism in proportion to population in the United States than in any other country. Protection rescues the laboring masses from poverty.
 The democrats were just as posi- tive that the Mckinley bill was un- constitutional as they were that it was ruinous and would utterly de- stroy the foreign trade of the coun- try. The supreme court has ex- plained how badly they were mista- ken on the first point, and has shown that the law is constitutional an d valid in every particular. The fig ures giving the imports and exports for the last year show a great growth instead of falling of in for eign trade, and conclusiyely dispose of the second objection the demo- crats made to the Mckinley tariff.
 One of the first advocates of free trade in the country, senator of the state of South Carolina, once said that the northern free laborers were all "mud-sills," greasy me chanics," and "small-fisted farmers" His meaning was interpreted by an other free trade apostle of his time, who more boldly declared that capital should own labor, white or black" They were the fathers of our existing free trade democrats, but the latter are less courageous and honest.
 The honest laboring man who in- vestigates the subject without preju- dice will be convinced that the re- publican party was organized chiefly as the friend of free labor; that it has been faithful to its first princi- ples on this subject and is depend ing today more upon the support of intelligent labor than upon any other element of our national sov- ereignty. It is a great, powerful labor party.
 Everything has increased in value in this country except the demo cratic party. An event which took place in April, 1865, sent up the value of American property, Ameri- can character, and American patriot ism toa very high point, and wher,, ever the republican party has stood from that day to this that character | has never gone down in the scale, and while the republican party re- mains in power it never will.-Gen.