The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-22

| torty-four hundred British seamen l Next in order of power comes poor
 oVer-taXed Italy; she launches two great war-ships every year, while at | the same time the Italians are over
 taxed almost to rebellion point, and the Italian money is reduced to paper and
 heaps of copper. She will be represent | ed by nine ships, one hundred and eighty officers and thirty-three hun
 dred seamen. United States comes as
 a good third with four ships, seventy five officers and fifteen hundred men. | Russia will have three ships, seventy officers and thirteen hundred men, Spain and France each three ships. Counting the ships, officers and men of | all other nations, and adding the Ger
 man ships and crews, also the immense concourse of merchant and passenger steamers which will be present, there will be the greatest possible naval dis play that has ever been made. What
 a magnificent vision would this have been to the longing eyes of Frederick the Great, when with Zeithen and Se-
 gelitz he was fighting and wearing
 himself out on the battle-felds of Sile-
 sia and East Prussial The present
 greatness of Germany was beyond his highest expectations. He was, howev-
 CT, patiently laying the strong founda- tion stones of mighty empire, and his fierce battles and brave Prussian
 hearts won the day. and the Germans should never forget that Frederick
 planted while his successors have reaped golden grain. Too often we are
 apt to cease to remember the patient labors of those who have lived before us.
 'He who sows and who plants is not
 missed by the reaper;
 He is only remembered by what he has
 done"
 held at Kiel there will be expended a
 vast sum of money. There will be
 steamers to carry eight hundred guests
 each through the canal; then there will
 be gratuitles to the crews, a special
 banquet for one thousand guests of the
 kaiser, and special trains will constant
 ly run between Kiel and Hamburg to
 carry guests. The imperial Marquee at
 Holtenau will be three hundred and
 sixty feet long and sixty-three feet
 wide; one thousand guests will sit at
 six tables; this tent will be a reproduc-
 tion of the German frigate Niobe, with
 the actual masts and rigging of the Niobe
 Thirty thousand sailors and marines
 (guests) it is estimated will require daily fourteen tons of fresh meat, one thousand 1itres of milk six thousand v1 of beer, fifteen hundred Bottles of wine and one hundred bottles of other li- quors. CThe above is the daily estima- ted allowanee.)
 France feels reluctant to send her ships to congratulate the kaiser on his great achievement.
 The German policy of conciliating France is vain and idle, for France will not take the bait. France naturally asks why should she be invited to be present at Kiel to witness the grand demonstration when all the world can see that hereafter France will be obliged to keep as great a fleet perma- nently in the North Sea as she now maintains in the Mediterranean wa ters. And in fact why should France Germany upon having achieved a scheme which doubles the active strength of the German navy So France sends merely three ships to Kiel. If however, the tri-color of France should not be seen in this pa rade it never would be missed by the Germans. Dreadful is the hate be- tween these two nations; a settlement must come some time.
 Solomon uttered true saying when he remarked, There is nothing new under the sun" Canals are not mod ern improvements; the ancients con- them on large scale Even the Suez canal is only the successor of | the one which was constructed by one of the old rulers of Egypt six hundred years B. c. It was in use till 500 A. D., when it became flied with desert sand. I was at Suez when the sweet water" canal was opened, bringing water from the Nile. Great was the rejoicing of | the natives, and it was considered a great achievement, but it was no new feature in that ancient land of won- ders.
 In Venetia many canals were con- | long previous to the Christian | eidy ofl b SIIldil SCdle OI course, put II quite large enough to develop a large | district
 Herodotus, Aristotle and Pliny tell of 1 canals in Egypt. Even as long ago as the time of the Persian invasion of | Greece Xerxes constructed a ship canal ! across the isthmus near Mt Athos in 4 Thessaly, between the sea and the Sig nitic Gulf. The Romans after the | great battle of Tiberius in Ga1ilee, af- ter the fall of Jerusalem, deported l of fractious Jews and set | them to work to dig around Mt. Athos and Jewish skeletons by thousands the fields of Thessaly. The canal was built in the sev- century, during the reign of Louis XIV. 1t was one hundred and 'orty-eight miles long, and had one hundred and fifty locks and led from he Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean Sea, and saved two thousand miles of 1 ;ea travel around Gibraltar. The Suez ,anal saves sea journey of nearly our thousand miles on the route to In- lia
 In regard to the Kiel canal it is pre- licted that it will not only prove a ;rand bulwark of powers for Ger many, for it's approaches will