The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-03-24
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NutlHtr ndtloIdi ala snOulu De gwen
TO the construction Of the Nicaragua
Canal. The majority of the Govern
ors Justify national assistance, pro-
vided ii can be given so as not TO en-
rich individuals at the expense of the
country.
QUININE for the million is being
circulated in Bengal, thanks TO the
Government scheme of supplying
small, cheap packets of the drug at
village post Offices. The quinine is
made up in five-grain packets, and
over 2O0, 900 month are being sold,
as the remedy is thus within the
reach of people in the most out-of-
the-way districts.
THERE were ii 435, 4S7 barrels of
salt produced in the United States in
the year 1898, as against ll,7S5. .75i
in 1892, falling off of $50, 267 bar
rels. Each barrel weighed $50 pounds,
making a total of 3,20l, 936, $50
pounds. In addition to this there
were importations of 30l ,966, 537
pounds, so that this country coun-
teracted the effects of the enormous
quantities of sugar used by making
way with 1888, 902. .S97 pounds, or
about l,796. 95l tons of salt.
WHILE Great Britain is constantly
adding to the number of her war
ships. the number of men to man
them is increased very little. if. act
ually, at all, and the greatest diff
Guilty is found in commissioning the
ships required for actual service.
There is great dearth of both arti-
ficers and seamen, the scarcity of
competent engineers being alarming,
in view Of the number of new ships
now built and building. AT pres
ent, says the Manchester Guardian,
we cannot commission a single ship
without robbing other vessels Of both
artifcers and seamen."
THE Indians are to be mustered
out of the United States army, and
the announcement serves to recall
the time when the question of en-
ploying them in civilize warfare
was burning one in this land. The
patriot commanders Of the Revolu-
tion and their British enemies were
never tired of exchanging accusa-
tions upon this subject, and the MUIR
der Of Miss McCrea grew out Of the
employment of Indians by the Brit
ish. Later, in the war of 1912. the
Indians were stirred TO arms against
the United States troops, and the
mutual hatreds of the two nations
were embittered by this ancient cause
OF quarrel.
THERE are said to be $50 600 girls
and women in New York earning
their own livelihood. OF this num-
ber, ten per cent. are married women
and seven per cent. are widows or
wives divorced from their husbands. !
The wages vary, according to the sta
tistics, from 81 30 week, the price |
paid cash girls, TO SIS week, which !
IS p~id the best stenographers. The !
higher paid professions do not seem
TO have been investigated. In Chi |
cago Of D, ,O99 women workers in 1892. |
filling 474 different occupations, over
one-half earned from - to 81 week;
$50 earned less than - week and |
] 429 earned from 81 to $25 week. ,
or this number, two per cent. were
widows or divorced wives.
TIE court of the Emperor of Rus
sia, says one of the st. Petersburg
papers, consists of one chief cham
berlain, five chief court-masters, one
chief gentleman-of-the-table, one
chief hunting master one chief
court marshal, one chief carver, one
chief stablemaster, thirty-fve court
masters, seventeen stable masters,
six hunting masters, one director of
the Imperial theatres, two chief mas
ters OF ceremonies, eight assistant
hunting masters, nine assistant mas
ters of ceremonies, l13 chamber
lains, twenty-four court physicians,
twenty-three court priests. ten ladies
in waiting, four ladies of the bed
chamber, and $50 assistant Ladies in
waiting 1t. is well that the Car is
one of the wealthiest men in the
world, as the list is rather a long one
to support.
J. q. JACKSON, the English ex-
plorer, who has just returned from
the polar seas, does not feel very
much encouraged by the results of
his expedition. He had projected a
great expedition, which he wanted to
take TO the north before Lieutenant
Peary or Professor Nansen could get
there, but his friends urged him TO
make preliminary trip first, to get
some practical acquaintance with the
doorways of the region which he pro-
posed to enter. He went to the
polar seas, proposing to make Nova
Zembla base of operations. and
conduct observations from there, but
be did not succeed in getting to Nova
only reaching Weigatz
Island, and utterly failed to obtain !
the information which he hoped to
secure. 1t is said that his exper-
ience will lead TO serious modifica-
lion Of his ORIGINAL plaDs IL NOT IN I