The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-25
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

FoUR thousand seven hundred and ten
wrecks is the record for the year ending
June 80, 1893. 5l2 more than occurred
the year previous
THE present annual consumption OF
anthracite is about 10000, 900 tons, and
this consumption has for some years
heen increasing at the rate OF per cent.
per annum.
'Rs!xAs is a big and still roomy state.
OF its nearly $50 counties 26 have less
than 100 inhabitants; 81 others have less
than l 200, and only 81 have over TO-
009. The number having AS few rs o.
0O0 is large, and having AS many as 20,
0O0 is extremely small.
ACCORDING to the latest available re-
turns Russia has the largest prison pop
ula,ion, los $40; next comes India with
76. $40, Italy with GS, Japan with
63, 3,S2S, France with 60, S36, the United
States with 30. 25S aud Great Britain with
80, ,474.
A WOMAN arrested at Omaha for steal
ing s., 900 from her father is spoken of
as a lady of evident refinement The
opinion of the old man has not been re.
corded, but as IL got his money back it
is possible that he may be willing 10 for
give her, for refinement covers so many
sins that charity is hardly a competitor.
IT is estimated that the richest of civ.
ilized peoples is the English, with 81, 266
per capita. In France the average is
said to be 81, ,102, in the United States
81 ,029, while by sale of their lands to the
United States Government some of the
Indian tribes are worth from 5000 TO
$4,000 per capita, man, woman and
child.
DIR. E.NEsr HART, editor of the British
Medical Journal, says that in Europe
quarantine has been everywhere inef-
fectual. 1t has been discarded for
twenty-seven years. The substitute for
it is proper system of medical inspec-
ton" Cholera should be dealt with by
sanitation, disiniection, and isolation of
cholera patients.
THERE are now 100000 Indians en-
rolled as tribes who receive no support
from the Government, and there are 81, =,
600 who do receive such support. The
Indians, generally, are gaining in civili-
zation, in wealth and intelligence. They
have $50, 1000, 600 invested in interest
bearing bonds. and many of them own
valuable and well-stocked farms.
THE influx of great numbers Of tramps
and unemployed workmcn into California
continues, and the problem of what to do
with them is yet unsolved. Hundreds OF
tramps gathering from all parts of the
extreme Northwest pass weekly from
Oregon TO California San Antonio and
New Orleans seem to be cities notably
threatened with visitation from the in
evitable California overflow.
The Electric. Medical Journal says
that in the continued use OF the eyes, in
such work as sewing, typesetting, book
keeping, reading and studying, the saw
ing point is looking up from the work at
short intervals and looking around the
room. This may be practiced every ten
or fifteen minutes. This relieves the
muscular tension, rests the eyes and
makes the blood supply much better.
OF the 6, ,335 women postmasters in
the United tes--Pcnnsylvania having
463, Alaska / and the other states
scattered between-the Oldest is Miss
Martha T. Stone, of North Oxford, Mass.
She received her commission April %,
1857. from Horatio King, who was then
first assistant postmaster general. There
were then only two mails day at North
oxford, but since that time the business
has nearly quadrupled Miss Stone has
always had the office in her sitting room
Mr. Sandford Fleming is visiting the
Australian colonies in the interest of a
cable from Australia to Canada. He has
plans of four possible routes with esti
mates of the cost, and calculations Of the
advantages Of each. He proposes that
the cable should be laid and owned by
the governments interested. The cost
of working the line he figures at f300,
900 per annum. and thinks that the rates
might be proftably put at 2 shillings a
word.
ALL the usual signs, as observed from
the Missouri to the Yuken, by the farmer,
the hunter, and the Indian, seem TO indi.
cate a hard winter in the West. The
Alaskan Indians are agreed with the In
dans OF Oregon and Washington that the
SHOWS will be heavy and the frosts keen
and long Already the snowstOrms have
killed large numbers of sheep in the
mountains of Klickitat county, Wash.
and in Missouri the farmers, now that hog
killing has begun, are telling that the
lard runs very Jagged, an infalible sign,
they agree, OF coming winter of unpre-
cedented severity.
The Gar of Russia always
carries with him, when he visits his
wife's relatives in Denmark, one large
trunk that is filled with valuables.
These are iu the shape of watches, dia-
mond rings, various crosses and ribbons
Of minor orders and purses OF money.
They are used judiciously by the car TO
distributed among telegraph operators,
stationmen, policemen and other minor
functionaries. with whom the emperor
and his family come in contact. The
advent of the car is always heralded
with delight in Copenhagen.
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