The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-01-28

y. MdlCOilu EOIUeS, VI DOSGOu3 LAS
purchased from Senator Stanford the
celebrated trotting horse, Arnon, which
as two-year-old has record of 2:l04.
The bargain was consummated yester-
day. While the exact amount paid for the.
horse cannot now be obtained, it is
known that the figures closely approxi-
mate S15O,OOO. This is the highest price
ever paid for horse in the history of
the world. The nearest approaches to it
are S1O5,OOO paid for Axtell and 100000
paid for st. Blaize.
= The people ofParis consumed with
in the past year 2l,2S1 horses, 229 DON
keys and 40 mules, the meat weighing,
according to the returns, 4,615 tons. At
the 100 shops and stalls where such food
is sold the prices has varied from two
sous to franc pound, the latter being
the price Of the best horse steaks. Only
about one third is sold fresh and undis-
gused, the rest is used in making saus-
ages, 402 horses having been seized and
condemned as Unfit for food before being
turned into sausage.
The annual mortality of the entire
human race, amounts, roughly speaking,
according to French medical journal,
to thirty-three millions of persons.
This makes the average deaths per day
over ninet-yone thousand, being at the
rate of $3.50 an hour, or sixty-two people
every minute in the day and night the
year round. a fourth of the race die be-
fore completing their Sth year, and one
half before the end of the 18th year; but
the average duration Of life is about 80
years. Not more than one person in
hundred thousand over lives to be
100.
- The message Of Governor Stone, of
Mississippi, sent into the Legislature
Thursday, shows that State to be in a
fair condition Of prosperity, while politi.
cally. the Commonwealth is entirely free
from troublesome agitation and conten
tions. The new Constitution, which was
put into operation during the term of
office of the present Governor, has, he
says, by its provision requiring all suf-
fragans either to be able to read or un-
derstand the Constitution, had the effect
to cut off many ignorant voters which
haye heretofore been driven or pur-
chased to disturb the public peace of the
State. All is quiet there now, no trouble
some public issues appearing to claim at
tention.
= At a meeting of wool manufacturers
in Boston few days ago one of them
directed attention to the report that for
eign exhibitors at the Chicago Fair pro-
pose to mark the prices Of articles as sold
at home and as sold in the United States
for the information Of American visitors
to the Fair, and suggested that it would
be we'll for the American woolen manufac-
turers to have complete exhibit Of
every grade of woolen goods, from the
lowest to the highest, "and have them
ticketed with their own prices" 1t is
evident that the American visitors to the
Fair will not learn much thero about
"Protection prices" ifthe Yankee cXhibi-
tors can prevent it.
Suicide has become SO frequent in
many Of the European armies that the
Governments arc beginning to feel that
it is necessary for them to take action
upon it. Tho Austrian army leads tho
list with a yearly average Of 122 suicides
for every 100000 effective troops. Ger
many follows with 81 suicides to the samo
number, with Italy 10. The other coun-
tries show averages % for Franco, 24
for Belgium, 23 for England, 90 for Rus
sia and Ii for Spain. In the armies which
are largely recruited by cnrolmcnts, as
in the case CT England, it is the older
soldiers that commit suicide, while with
France, Germany, Italy and Austria it
is tho Young men who Kill themselves.
II is notable fact, too, that the mania is
moro intense with the officers, the under
officers furnishing throo times the pro-
portion Of suicides that is found among
the troops, while the higher officers fur
nish twice the number. The problem is
one that suggests much curious spccula-
tion, but it shows the terrible pressure
such 3 life O.; intense monotony puts
.upon a man Of ambition. War, with all
its horrible possibilities, is Il welcome
change. and therein lies one of tho most
! serious mcnaccs to the peace OF Eu-
rope.