The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-03-10
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

town will suffer in reputation.
To the Hartford Journal "As You
Like 1t" philosopher, the thrilling
stories Of the escapes Of animals from
circus menageries are unfailing signs
OF spring.
Miss MAY PHILBRoOK is the first
to apply for admission TO the
bar Of New Jersey, and the justices
over there are so bothered with the
problem that the whole Supreme
Court OF the State will consider the
question.
THE popular feeling i'm England
against Russia must be regarded a.
the reason for the large audiences
which gathered TO hear George Ken
nan lecture on Siberian prison hOr-
rors. The English fear Russian de-
signs on India more now than Cor
many years, hence there is great pop
ular curiosity about the Cars do
main.
ONE Of the strongest features Of
the Midwintcr Fair at San Francisco,
and undoubtedly that in which the
greatest interest centres, is u small
village Of cabins and similar enclosed
exhibits which is supposed to repre-
sen the Golden Slope I'm the days Of
40. A few placer-diggrrs, numerous
saloons, and by no means Il few dance
halls, represent this era Of FL Dorado
America.
THE timber line in the Rocky
Mountains runs as low as $500 feet
and as high rs II, 400. 1t has been
observed that on the south slope Of
Mount Mcclellan, in Colorado, pines
= feet i'm diameter and 30 feet high
live and increase i'm size at an elcya-
ton Of -, 100 feet. The winter at
that elevation is long, the cold is in
tense, and the snOwStorms are of ter
rifle violence.
THERE is u curious divergence Of
opinion among those who profess to
know H. to the percentage Of adulter-
ants in the food supply Of this u
try. Two or three years ago IN OPP
timist estimated that only two per
cent. Of the food product was adul-
teratcd, and that ninety per cent. Of
the adultcrants used were not injuri-
Gus TO health. Other students Of the
subject placed the proportion Of
adulteration at something between
five and fifteen per cent. Of the whole
food product consumed. There is II
pretty general agreement that the
percentage of positively dangerous
adulteratiOn is not large.
TIE old geographical division of
Tennessee into east, west and middle
still holds, but the mountainous east
Tennessee is growing in relative
wealth and population. The counties
that properly constitute west Ten
nessee now have II population of
about 800, 900; those of middle Ten
nessee have 800 900, and those Of
east Tennessee have 300, 600. Civil
ization first broke into Tennessee
from the east. when Daniel Boone
passed through the mountain wall on
the eastern boundary. The rugged
character Of the country delayed its
development, but its mineral wealth
has Of late years brought population
and many material improvements.
DURING 1892, 1917 aliens were
naturalized in France, and it is of
some interest that 279 Of these were
Germans. A thousand persons from
AlSace-Lorraine acquired French ma
t~ionality during the year, and 9oi
Italians, 726 Bclgians, and S3 Rus
slams. Seven thousand and eighty
.:.It .I.ll.. - ,I..., ..
on French soil, were counted in as of
French nationality, without choice
or option of the parents by virtue of
the new legislation promoted to check
the foreign element in France and to
work up an increase Of the popula-
ton which the native element fails
to maintain. Altogether, France ac-
quired in one way and another o.
S93 citizens during the year 1898.
The %peasantry in the northern re-
gion of European Russia are in u
pitifully impoverished condition,
which is daily becoming more acute.
The region most affected yer an
area Of not less than 375, 600, 600
acres. While the imperial govern
ment is formulating plans for the
commercial and industrial develop
ment Of this region by the building
Of railroad systems, the local govern
ors are appealing for assistance to
keep the people from actual starva-
ton. The people have not enough
for bread to last them through the
winter. They are four years in ar
rearS with their taxes, and are hope
lessly indebted to the crowu for adj
vanccs made during and since the
late famine.
TuE United States Government is
doing what it can by precept and eX-
ample to bring order out of the chaos
Of geographical anne in this
try. One source Of confusion in the
South is the not uncommon custom
of giving n county seat two names
One may be anything, the other is