The Opelousas courier., 1898-08-27

The showing of our foreign com
merce, both in agricultural produce,
and manufactures, is exceedingly graf
flying.
Russia Is fully alive to the necessi.,
OF ~interoceanic canal communication
She is now preparing to connect thu
Baltic and Black Seas.
The Kansas City (Mo.) Times says
Ii this is not a wal for revenge why
should so many amateur brass bands
be sent to Cuba. ......
The pictures Of Ensign Powell, who
followed Hobson with the launch. make
him look like a Bryn Mawr College
girl, but just now it Is safer to judge
men by their acts than by their looks.
The total output of coal in the United
states last year amounted to 19S.25O,.
900 shor tons, with an aggregate value
OF S19S, 100000. This is an increase OF
three per cent. over the previous year.
The three big battlesnlps lately au-
thorlzed bh Congress will be named
the Maine, the Ohio and the Missouri,
It is obviously the purpose of the Navy
Department that the Maine shall never
be forgotten.
Whenever the United States asks for
S20O,OOO,OO at 3 per cent. interest we
may be sure that eight or ten times the
amount will be offered by our own CO.
pie. Spain is hawking her I per cent.
n throughout Europe and is glad
to get 80 cents on the dollar for them
at home or abroad.
Cuba is known in history under sew
eral lanes The first was Antilla;
then Juana, after a Spanish prince;
Fernandina came third, followed by
Santiago and the Isle Of Ave Maria.
The original Indian name, Cubanacan,
signifying where gold IS found" was
finally adopted, and usage shortened it
to the first two syllabies.
H. w. Collingwood has taken a CEN
sus of the hens of the United States.
lie figures out the chickens of the
country at $4,000, 900, and their pro-
duct in 1897 at IA 400, 900 600 eggs, of
a value of $165, O00, 900, while poultry
sales realized 1925, 900, 900 more, MAX
ing a total value of the hen crop $780,
100000, or more than those of either
the wheat or cotton yields.
The managers of the telephone COM
pany operating the system at Ve2-
%sailles, France, hold that the express
sion "Hello!" used in response to a call
is impolite. The operators have been
instructed to ask the subscriber who
rings up the central office: VIVA do
you want?" 1t is customary among
Americans to say Eyes," 1t carries
well and it is much more elegant than
Hello"
There are numerous touches of orig
inality surrounding the plans of the
Trans-Mississippi Exposition at Omaha
but none more uniquely clever and
characteristic than the composite pic
ture of the womanly beauty Of the
West, which is to be reproduced on the
official medal. Forty-four of the hand
soonest women of the Western States,
Illustrating the strongest types Of West
ern womanhood, were selected by COM
petent judges, and the result shows a
strong, handsome face.
The increase of German trade with
Belgium at the expense of France and
Great Britain is yearly becoming more
noteworthy. In 1897 Belgium exported
to France goods to the value of ST.
0 5000, while her exports to England
amounted to $G6, 1900, and to Ge:-
many no less than 77,500,0 OO. In the
same year Belgium imported from
France goods to the value of $74, 00O,-
900, from England to the value OF SIS
25O,OO0, and from Germany to the value
Of $50. 100000.
Tho Russian government has assign
ed $40, 900 for the purchase of To-
comotives for the Russian State rail-
ways during the current year. A large
number of these will have to be or
dered abroad, as the Russian works,
which are already full up with orders,
cannot turn out more than 1000 per
.nnum at the most. In addition 400
have been ordered for the
Siberian Railway, and 100 more will
be ordered this year, while $750,OO0 is
to be spent upon rolling stock On this
line.
Kaiser Wilhelm's latest discovery of
q weapon for the preservation and en-
of his empire is represented
in the theatre. The playhouse, he de-
clares, if properly directed along the
Of his creed as to 1.-THE divine
right Of kings" could be made IAN i'm
mense power in my hands," The Kali
ser has manifestly not yet reached the
same conclusion regarding the church,
1t is less than a fortnight since
he arbitrarily limited sermons by sll
court chaplains to fifteen minutes. The
plays the thing wherein to catch the
conscience of the king.
During the decade from 1880 to 1890
,peeds of Is to 16 knots were generally
accepted as standard speeds for battle
ships the world over, comments the
Engineering News. At the present
time speeds of II to 10 knots are
accepted as the standard for
battleships by the principal naval pow
ers. Not one OF these powers would
think at the present time of building
irst-class battleships for any lower
speed, To do so would not only result
a vessel of obsolete type, but would
seriously injure the naval prestige of