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inc car uncomfortable should look
back on the canal packet of seventy
years ago, to say nothing of the ear
iier stage coach. The cabin of the
larger canal packets was 36 feet long
bv 10 feet wide. Six feet in length of
this cabin was occupied by the ladies'
dressing rooms, containing four
berths. The cabin was the dormito-
ry at night. Each bed was frame
90 inches wide by 6 feet long, with a
canvas nailed over it and thin mat
tress laid on the canvas. These
frames were suspended in the cabin
in three tiers, and ordinarily there
were thirty-six berths, besides the
four in the ladies dressing room.
The number of berths, however, did
not limit the number of passengers,
for when all the suspended cots were
occupied and other passengers came,
tables and settees were turned into
beds. The place was ordinarily hot
and stuffy, and the boat went three
and half miles per hour.
THE leading German paper in New
York. Der Auswanderer, is taking a
good deal of pains to make it known
to the Germans Of this country and
Europe that they have nothing to
dread in the climate Of the south.
As is well known, nearly all the large
cities of Europe are i'll ATTITUDES
north of New York. The Germans,
and other peoples of the north OF Eu-
rope, when they contemplate immi-
grafton to the United States and ex-
anime their maps, seeing that the
south is several degrees lower in lati-
tude than their native land, naturally
imagine that it is almost tropical, and
that the heats of summer are some
thing terrible. They conclude to
move into the states more nearly in
the same latitude with their homes,
and when they get there, find that
they are subject to extremes OF heat
and cold such as they have never
known. Der Auswanderer has insti-
tuted comparison between the eli
mate of the south and that of Ger
many, and finds that they are not SO
different, save that here the climate
is milder and more equable. 1t thinks
that when these facts are understood
abroad it will have great effect in
turning the tide of immigration from
the northwest toward the southern
states.
THE beginning of the operation of
the street railway system in Glasgow
by the municipality is an event wor-
thy of special note, as it may have
reaching influence, since the prob
lem may be definitely solved as to
whether such an extensive system can
be worked proftably as corporation
scheme. The street railways Of most
large European cities belong to the
municipalities, but in nearly all ca
ses are leased to operating companies.
In one or two instances the corpora
lions work the lines, but in such ca
ses the systems are small. At Glas-
gov it is otherwise; the system is
probably the largest in the United
Kingdom, and the traffic brings in
$43, 600 a mile annually. The change
fIom the company to corporation
working, made on July |, was due to
difference of opinion between the
parties as to the proper terms of
new lease. The municipality intends
to make exhaustive tests of all sys-
TENS of mechanical propulsion, and
has already commenced to lay ca
bic conduit. The ten hour day for
the men has been adopted. The first
day of the week man may 90 on
during the first five hours of opera
ton, lay off for the next five hours,
and then 90 on duty for the last five
hours. The next day he will work
the last ten hours, and the third day
he will work the first ten hours, so
that in this way all the men are treat
ed fairly.
ALTHOUGH Japanese feudalism has
ceased to have legal existence, it is
still the most potent factor in the
politics OF the empire, and it's anima-
ting spirit is responsible for the exist
ing war with China. Says the New
York World The parallel between
the feudalism of Japan and that OF
Europe is so close that it can only be
accounted for on the theory that
where men are free to develop at ali
it must be in the same direction and
along the same lines. The feudal
system, which under the imperial re-
script of April, 1889, was replaced by
system of local self-government
similar to our own, blended an or
ganization resembling that of the
Highland clan with number of the
distinctive features of the French and
Anglo-Norman system of the fifteenth
century. 1t was based solely on mil
itarism, and the change which has
taken place in Japan is in many re-
spects similar to that which occurred
in France when the Huguenot wars
brought the throne and the common
people closer together than they ever
could have been with the barons as
Intermediates. The warrior caste
is still the governing class in Japan.
Under the census of 1891 there were
about 1000 of the old feudal lords
and ovar y 600 600 KNIGHTS or fam