The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-15
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 According to Heli Chatelaine, of the 200, 900 inhabitants of Africa, 5O,Ooo, 900 are slaves. Every year 1000 slaves are smuggled to Zanzibar and 11,OOO to Arabia.
 A society has been organized in Brooklyn, N.. r., to secure the enact ment of laws prohibiting the marriage of diseased or deformed persons and the killing by the State of all incurable lu- natics, idiots or deformed children.
 The State authorities of Massachu- setts have not yet decided where the Bradford manuscript recently received from England shall be preserved, but it will probably be kept with other priz- ed things in steel safe to be built in the State Library, and exposed under 3 glass to the public during the day. I. +,xr to know how to enforce it. If tax payer protests that he is rated too high by the officials, he is thrust into a dark room and told to think it over careful ly' Sometimes man stays there twenty-four hours, but he can usually think it over carefully in less time than that.
 The board of visitors to the military academy at West Point complain that sufficient care Is not taken in the ap- they attribute the numerous failures of appointees to pass the entrance ex- aminations or to completa the course. 6 In looking over the curriculum the wis., itors decided that more time should be given to the study of English.
 The Financial Chronicle cautiously points out that if cities are selling bonds more freely than ever before, and even if they find a ready market ! for them, it is not possible to deter mine whether the loans are excessive without a careful study of the pur- poses for which the borrowing is authorized. For instance, it says, If the securities represent running or ordinary expenses, rather than water works, subways, etc, the fact is unfortunate.
 Many people In Georgia are much pleased by the wonderful success of the Normal and Industrial college, a State 4nstitution, which was opened at Mill ledgeville six years ago. During the session which has just closed the at tendance has consisted of three hun dred and eighty young women, coming from one hundred counties in Georgia, and nearly two hundred applicants were turned away for want of room in the college. Although only six years old, nearly four hundred of the college graduates and undergraduates have become teachers in Georgia schools, and more than one hundred others have found lucrative employment as steno- graphers, bookkeepers, dressmakers and in other industrial arts which they have been taught at this institution.
 J. w. Bell, of Andover, Massachu- setts, is reported as saying: The United States will in the next few years be competing with the European countries in the manufacture of linens The new tariff takes care of the indus try in satisfactory way. Some years ago people said it was idle to talk about producing silk goods in this country, yet the silk mills at Paterson and other places are a standing refutation of such prophecies. The duties on imported silks have built up our home concerns and have not increased the cost to the consumer. Nearly every servant girl can afford a silk dress. It will be the same way with the linen industry as soon as the new tariff gets into working order Through the completion of the southern cotton mills goodly number of eastern plants have found it un- profitable any longer to manufacture the coarser grades of cotton goods, and hence many of these are about to turn their attention to the production of linen threads and yarns. That the new business will develop into great in- dustry seems almost certain. As yet we have but little machinery for weav- ing the yarns into the various kinds of lfffsm~Gabrics, and what we have must be impNgted from England. In the near future however, we will be able to equip ourNlinen factories with home made machinery, and then we shall be