Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-27
NOTES AND CONMENTS


increase. TO Great Britain and Germany
there 10 an increase of about 20 per cent.
within two years. To the Argentine
Republic the exports have quadrupled.
Our reapcrs and self binders are lighter
Of draft, neater, and about % per cent.
cheaper than the English article In
plows, the English makers do not
properly chill the points, and this rem
dcys their iron brittle. 1t is said that
Americans could extend their trade in
plows if they would adopt the iron.
beamed style 30 much used abroad.
Wagons and buggies cannot be sold
abroad, unless they have an ''undercut, +"
otherwise we make the correct article.
ONE of the big fortunes affected by
the present financial trouble at St. Paul
is that left by Lyman Dayton. He was q
pioneer. and built house in Minnesota's
capital when the place was village on
the hills, and what is now the business
district was swamp. One day Dayton
and two friends sat ON q bluff talking
and gazing at the ''mud hole" 1t was
suggested that If the town grew the low :.
land might become valuable. Soon after
the three separated, and early next morn
ing one of them saddlcd his horse and
started for the land office at Saltwater.
eighteen miles away, intending to
preempt the swamp. He had gone but
q short distance when be saw COM
panion Of the day before ahead of him,
also on horseback and with the same
purpose in view. The two raced to Still
water, and finished even in front of the
land Office. At the door stood Lyman
Dayton smoking his pipe. "Your too
late, boys" he said; IL came over last
night In the course of years the
mud hole" made him a multi. million
aire.
THE immigration from Europe into the
United States for the year ending June
~, 1893, shows decrease of 1000
souls as compared with the same period
for 1892. This falling off is seen in the
movement hither from every country,
save Italy. On the contrary, there has
been considerable increase in the num-
Der of Italians. In 1899 they came to
the number of 6O,944. In 1893 there
were ", 4O3 of them. The total immi-
grafton from all European countries in
in 1892 was 6l9,32O. In 1898 it was
497, The falling off is due chiefly
to the industrial and commercial depres-
sion in the United States. In sending
it's people to our shores, the United
Kingdom pretty nearly holds its own,
with 1QS, 900 for 1898, against III, 900
in 1899; but the falling off is very heavy
In Austro- Hungary, Germany and Russia.
Sweden and Norway are large sources of
our population, and they sent large
contribution of $4,000 in 1893, against
1000 in 1892 The greatest proportion
of all the immigration comes through
New York.
A FRENCH scientist has been using his
microscope recently ON the bank and ma
tional notes of the various countries, and
finds that they are the homes of great
numbers OF little organisms. These, he
says, may be dangerous to health, and he
counsels the fortunate possessors of the
paper money against placing it in the
mouth under any circumstances. On
some OF the notes were bacteria and ba-
cilli in considerable numbers. The pro-
fessor declares that the bills are dan
gerous medium for the spread of conta-
gious diseases, and highly praises the
system Of destroying returned bills
adopted by the Bank of England--al-
though for another purpose. This
ought to console people who can't get
bills these days.
IT is constant advertising that pro-
duces an effect, although the spasmodic
announcement may have force peculiar
to itself, writes well-known expert. A
boy sees his father every day, and is
naturally influenced by the cxamp.e
which is perpetually before him: he goes
to the theatre but occasionally; the effect
of the latter, being moro striking, may
be proportionately more effective. MANY
people protest that it is unnecessary to
continue the advertising of we'll known
articles. They cannot understand why it
is continued; they declare it does not in
f1uence them, but the manufacturers
know better. The man who denies that
he is influenced by advertising constant
ly before him deceives himself, and his
very protest is proof of it.
MANY Italians are leaving Philadel-
phia for New York and also for western
points, where they expect to secure en-
ployment. An inquiry by the North
American into the cause of this migra.
ton reveals the fact that all over Phila-
delphia, notably upon the public works,
the Italians are rapidly being discharged,
and as far as possible American citizens
substituted, and the statement is made
that there arc plenty of men in Phila-
delphia to-day, and good workmen, too,
out of employment, and many of them
have been thus provided for during the
past few days"
In a single century the United States
has attained to the proud eminence that
the leading nations of Europe have
reached through SLOW advances and many
vicissitudes during the space of thou
sand to fifteen hundred years. There are
no brighter or more interesting chapters
in the history of the great nations than
those which record the remarkable adj
vance that this Great Republic has made |
in area, population, foreign and internal |
commerce, and nearly all lines of indus |
try during the one hundred years from
1890 to 1890 inclusive.
IT may have surprised some folks to