Arizona republican., 1898-09-11
OF CURRENT INTEREST

Professor Moses Colt Tyler has repub- lished in book form recently . series Of papers written during q lorg residence in England, ending in the year 1865 Now that the two great nations are coming to understand ore anots,er a1d-whdt is quite as essential-comiGg to lSrow some thing of one another's internal affairs it | is worth while going back the thirty-two wears for some things they did not know. It is a fact, that there were many per sons living there at the outbreak Of the civil war who believed that all the Amer ! jeans who were not red Indians were of African descent. and Professor Tyler had the scant honor of meeting some of them and some others who were quite as funny. While the war was raging he heard q clergyman of no little distinction remark in a drawing room filled with listening BritonS that his symDathies were necessarily with the Virginiars be- cause Virginia had been settled originally by the pilgrim fathers, who, as every one knew. were of the test stock in Ene- land, Others informed the American it was evident that the North and the South should not be under the same gov i ernment. since so strongly marked Q 1 geographical barrier existed between i them. Upcn inquiry it was learned in ! one instance that this barrier was the ! Mississippi river and in another the is l tilmus of Paramai
 ' The oldest living graduate Of Harvard college. Dr. William L. Russell, of Bar Q, ! WHO Will ee lUJ years uIl IL lie IN SS u4ltil ! October q of next year, is still enjoying | . serene and happy old age, according to i the latest accounts of his daily life a5 { given in the local papers. lie has lately had as his guest his brother, A1r. James ] Russell, of Lowell, aged q, and together 1 they played whist and croquet, climbed
 apple trees, filling their pockets with the ! fruit went n swimming, tock a tramp
 of about four miles after the cows, p-ch- ! ing ten quarts of blackberr:es on the
 way, and then going to corr roast in
 the evening, followed by an oid-fasnioned
 shakedown in the kitchen and another
 round of whist.
 In 1799 the center Of population Of the
 United States was a point twenty-three
 miles east of Baltimore. In 1920 ft was l about sixteen miles north of Woodstock,
 Va In 1S40 it had reached a point six
 In 1860 it was twenty miles south Of Chil-
 Hcothe, o. In 1870 it had reached the | neiehborhood of Cincinnati, and today it is not far from Westport, Ind. The center of the area Of the United States is in | Northern Kansas. Accordingly, the cer- ! tel, of population is three-fourths of a degree south and more than + deg cast of the center of area.
 .sThc statement that General Hampton lost . leg in the war reminds US of lit
 tie story says the Montgomery (Ala.) i Advertiser Tn the days before the wal
 there was a hotel on top of Stone moun-
 tain, in Georgia. ard the water for the
 use of the guests was raised by a fierce
 pump from below. A Northern travclsl
 Uro krew something of the use of hy-
 draulic rams acccsted the i2ndiord with
 ..This is fine water, landlord; is it raised
 by a rarn?' Ram, h-l" snorted the
 landlord; it's durned big mule" And
 that's the way Wade Hampton lost q
 leg
 Wont you come in?" cordially asked