The Monitor-register., 1896-04-03
NOTES AND COMMENTS

Ex-President Harrison is to be married
to Mrs. Dimmick, in New York, next
| Monday.
The Spanish contest in Cuba has
reached the stage of desperation. Gen.
Weyler has begun his butchery Of Cuban
prisoners.
The Newark Nesos thinks that Governor
Grigg's resolution not to appoint men,
bsrs of the Legislature to lucrative public
offices must have been made on New
Years Day.
The National officers of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union have
addressed a letter to Speaker Reed, thank.
ing him for enforcing the rule against
smoking in the House Of Representatives.
Colonel R. W. Thompson, of Terra
Haute, Ind, in a recent address, paid a
high tribute to the intellectual woman
who interests herself in public affairs,
and said if it had not been for the women
he should never have entered politics, and
that it was as the woman's candidate that
| he won his first honors.
Prof. Booker T. Washington, who is
probably the most intellectual negro ever
produced by the South, is doing a
missionary work for education and thrift
among his people that will 60 very far,
10 its results, to eliminate what is known
as the "race problem" He is a living
example of the power of true education,
and there would be more like him, among
his race, if educational opportunities were
freer and more easily obtainable in the
South.
A roster of the Cuban insurgent army,
prepared for the provisional government
at Cubitas, places the effective strength
of the fighting force at 43, 900 men. OF
these, Is 800 are in Havana, and %. 600
in the adjacent provinces Of Matanzas,
Santa Clara and Pinar del Rio. The SUBJ
iugation of such an array of troopers, who
desire no pay. live OIL forage and delight
in combat, is a task which might well
tax the utmost energies of a much larger
and better equipped force than the Spanish
army of occupation in Cuba.
Miss Frances E. Willard is back in
Chicago, after a lecture tour of five
months in the South. She will sail for
England the latter part of April, to be
present at the annual meeting OF the
British Woman's Temperance Associa-
tiou. She will then visit Norway, after
which she will return to this country. 1t
is the present intention of Miss Willard
and Lady Henry Somerset to take a large
company of women on a trip around the
world next winter. They will visit every
potentate and ruler of Importance in tnf
world, and will present to each OF them
the mammoth petition against opium aud
rum.
According to the estimates Of the Agri
cultural Department. statisticiaDs, thu
worlds wheat crop in 1895 was 2. $50, $40,
600 BUSHES. or 1874. 600, 900 bushels less
than the crop of 1894. The Russian croI
is still the most prominent factor in inter
national markets, being 474, 000, 00C
bushels for last year, as against 467, 600,
600 raised in the United States. Argentina
which in 1894 raised so, 000, 600 bushels
of wheat, fell back last yearto 60 1000, 600
and it is scarcely probable that there will
be a further development of the wheat
growing capacity of that region, unless
existing labor conditions should b.
materially modified. The dominant ele
ment under existing conditions in tn,
worlds wheat markets is the Russian
yield, which seems to increase constantly
and steadily, from year to year, and ma.
be indefinitely expanded when, in thu
course of Eve or six years, the Trans
Siberian railway shall have brought tn
fertile plains of Northern Asia in touc'
with civilization.