Arizona republican., 1897-09-23
AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE.

 bet. A French missionary stationed at Batang, on the river Di-chu, in the northwest of the province of Szu- chuan, on the borders of Thibet, writes that the Chinese have suppress sed the revolt of the Lamaists, sub jugated Thibet and organized a gov ernment with Chinese administra- tors Thibet has been for some time divided between Independent and Chinese Thibet, and it would seem that the Chinese nave now decided to subjugate the wno:e country, espec- ially that which forms the northern frontier of India from Burmah to Cashmire, and which is separated from India by the almost impossible barrier of the gigantic ranges of the Himalayas. The movement is prob ably backed by Russia.
 Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserve force," so we are told, and consequently the Roman Catholic archbishop of Montreal has forbidden the priests in his jurisdic- tion to ride bicycles within the city limits on the ground that it is un- dignifed
 Reports regarding the supposed at tempt to kill the popular president of the Mexican republic are very con- f1icting. The cabinet ministers thought the would-be assailant was an anarchist. It was then reported that he was an Italian, and that he resolved to do the deed because Jose Ventre had just been expelled from ,frvy p,If that he is Cleto Arroyo, a Mexican. who had been celebrating Independ- ence day with liberal potations of pulque, and that he merely wanted to embrace the president and shout Viva Gen. Diaz" At all events he has been released from custody. by order of President Diaz The poor fellow had been punished somewhat for Gen. Menasecy, minister of public works, who was walking upon the presidents left and carried a heavy walking stick, struck the man a ter rible blow on the head, felling him to the ground and breaking his cane.
 There must come a time when the citizens of the south will be mortified and ashamed at their treatment of the 7 negro at the close of the nineteenth century. It admits of no justification and it is a standing reproach to the age in which we live. The other day the negro postmaster of Hogansville Ga, was shot. He was appointed about three months ago in the face of violent opposition on the part of the white patrons of the postoffice and murder is the result In Hamilton township, Arkansas, a negro school teacher was taken out and whipped severely in June last, and the other day his body was found hanging from tree with a placard pinned on 1t: "A warning to nigger school teachers. We want pone of this kind of people in this country" Educa- ton in Arkansas must be very de- fective if the white people of those regions do not know that this kind of people, in this country" did not cross the Atlantic of their own free will. The saddest part of the business IS that the negro school teacher bore an excellent reputation among all who knew him, and is said to have been one Of the ableSt colored men in that section Of the state in which he lived.
 AS an example of the evil effects of sensational journalism, which is nothing more than the popularization or the penny dreadful that has al- ways been thrown on the fire by re- spectable and responsible parents. we ind that in the city of Cincinnati a lad only Il years old attempted to lynch one of his brothers after the manner Of southern savages, and on another occasion to go through the process Of an electric execution. as carried out in the state of New York and lastly, experimenting as to the best and easiest way of disposine of muldererS, he hanged himself acci- dentally on Wednesday night. It has hee1 discovered that the lad had been ID the habit of reading accounts of these sensational events in the daily presse/
 fhere are only two places in the world where men are scarce. In the (Shaker communities of this countrv the men are gradually dying out, and the families as they are called are largely made up of females. And Easter Island, a detached spot in the Pacific, only thirty miles in circum- Terence, is described as an Adamless Eden where men are scarce and wo- men plentiful In May last the bark Nonantum which had a cargo of coal for Panama, was wrecked off this island and the crew landed in safety but information has been received al the state department in Washington that the conditions of the island are such as promise a happy and pros porous career to those men who wisf to marry and settle down. It is moi very long ago that gray haired olG man and crew of young men inter cepted a ship off Easter Island ant invited it's sailors to cast in their lo on this interesting island, which i. celebrated for Cyclopean masonr! which has been regarded as a relic of submerged continent.
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