The Louisiana populist., 1898-02-25
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

purposes by the Roumanian Govern
ment. Nearly seven hundred and fit
thousand acres of fertile land will thu
be made available. The enterpris
Is the greatest of its kind ever under
taken, and at least five years will b.
required to carry it to completion.
The condition of labor in England Il
,ne of unrest. The general feeling be
tween employees and employers is de-
cidedly unpleasant, and strikes have
occurred frequently of late. The sharI
competition of Germany, where labor
Is very cheap, has caused a reduction
OF wages in many lines of British in
dustry. The German, French and Bel.
gian workingman labors several hours
g. day more than the English working.
man and receives less wages. The
"pauper labor" of the continent is
causing no little trouble in England.
Prince Bismarck's plan to German
tze Prussian Poland by buying up Pol
lsh estates and settling Germans on
them has proved failure. The Prus-
sian Chambers nine years ago estab-
lish fund of 10O,0OO,O0O marks for
this purpose. The Polish mobiles sold
their heavily mortgaged estates to the
Government readily, but, instead of
emigrating, bought with the money
other estates in the country from Ger
mans and gathered around them Polish
laborers. The only result of the ex-
perlments has been to benefit the Pol
ish landowners of Posen.
over a hundred years ago, 1t Is
claimed by the members of the Moser
family, Burkhardt Moser bought 416
acres of land in Schuykill County, Pa,
which is now said to be worth $4,000
OoO. He died a bachelor about seventy
years ago, and recently the deeds to
the land and other documents were
found in an old trunk, with a false
bottom. The Lehigh Valley Railroad
Company occupies most of the land,
and, 1t is claimed, is willing to settle
with the heirs, if they can settle exist
Ing difficulties between themselves.
Nearly one hundred people in Eastern
pennsylvania are interested in the liti-
cation about to begin.
What the fate of Central and South
America would long since have been
out for the Monroe doctrine and the
conviction in Europe that an unshak-
IDLE resolution was behind it is plain
y to be seen in this concerted move
nent on helpless China. The situa-
ION over on this side would have been
ar more inviting than the situation
low IS on that. But the western
hemisphere, thanks to the United
dates, which stands at its head in
rogress and power, has no invaders
meet, with knives drawn, ready to
lice 1t up to suit their purposes. And
ne effect ought to be to draw the
overs OF this hemisphere the more
losely in bonds of mutual sympathy /
nd benefit.
The tunnel which will pass directly
nder Pixies peak has been commenc-
l. The starting point of the tunnel
at the foot of the mountains near
dorado City. The further end will
SIX miles south of Cripple Creek,
ear the town of Sunol. The tunnel
Ill pass directly under the cone Of
lKes Peak. at depth of 1000 feet.
Id will be 2,700 feet beneath the town
Victor. By connecting tunnels.
'er 1000 mines will be made tribu-
ry to the main tunnel. The work {
is estimated, will require seven {
'ars for its completion. The cost is
aced at $500 per foot, or $40 $40 t
0. The money, it is thought, which t
to be spent on the tunnel will be 6
covered from the valuable ore which l
ii be excavated during the work. q
The gold of Alaska, on which the :
.ention of mankind is just now fixed r
tn brilliant anticipation, may not. y
the end, turn out to be the great =
treasure which that land possesses. =
le Alaskan forests appear to De 4
long the most valuable in existence. !,
tending from Cross Sound, a little
18th OF Mount Fairweather, to the h
ait OF Juan de Fuca, partly in Alas 4
and partly in British Columbia, lies 4
at Garden and Forest describes az al
greatest continuous body of timber n,
the cone-bearing or pine family in II
world, almost unmarked as vet by n
axe, safe from fire, and of easy ac- n
s. Security from fire, due to the 10
ist climate, is regarded as one of in
Chief causes of the continued exist az
e of these magnificent forests. ~
recent novel exhibit in Milwaukee tn
canary bird show for prizes. It az
probably the first of its kind in cd
country. 1t is doubtful if such tn
could be organized else
ere in the United States, Milwau-
being the canary bird breeding
OF the country, and having an as wi
alton OF breeders and trainers COM pc
ed OF Germans. Competition was en-