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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-03-16
He OLDEs i NEWS PAPER.

II Was Established In China In the Eighth
Century.
The Oldest newspaper in the world ii
the Using Rao, or Picking News, founded
in the year ITO a. D. Until quite late
~ it was generally supposed that the
Kin Pan, a Chinese journal published
in Picking for the last Thousand years,
was the Oldest newspaper in the world.
In very able work recently published,
however, Imbault Huart, the French
consul at Canton, shows that this high
honor belongs to the Tsing-Pao, which
has been published continuously since
the year no and is even said to have
been founded some 200 years before
that date, or early in the sixth century,
800 years before newspaper was known
in Europe. 3 f.2 .as.s ss@
The Tsing-Pao now appears as book
OF "a pages, octave size, tied in a yell
low cover by two knots of rice paper.
Each page has seven columns and each
column has seven characters, or letters,
which read from top to bottom. The
types are made Of willow wood. This
is the edition de luxe" officially recog-
nlzed by the emperor, and the price Of
which is about "a cents month. There
is also popular edition, got up rough
~ on poor paper and printed, or rather
daubed, from a plate of engraved wax.
This costs 16 cents per month and is
issued an hour before the other. E~
It is the official journal Of the gov
ernment-the ''Times'' Of China. 1t
gives all the details concerning the per-
son Of the emperor, his movements, his
maladies, his remedies, the imperial
DEGREES and the reports of the ministers,
in the printing of which. every error is
punished with death.
1t announces to all the provinces the
date which has been fixed by the en-
peror for the people to change their
summer hats for winter ones, which
they are expected to do as one man.
This journal is easy to read, for it ap-
pears in an English translation ! in
Shanghai.
After the Using Pao the most impor-
tant paper in China is of modern date
the Chin-Pao, or Shanghai News
founded in 1879. It has circulation of
some Is, 900 copies, and at the close of
the Franco Chinese war Ii Hung Chang
made use of it-an innovation till then
unknown-to influence public opinion
and demonstrate by history the rights
OF the Chinese over Anam.
Chinese newspapers are usually print
ed on yellow paper, which is changed to
blue in case of mourning and red Oh
gala days. One paper has three editions
each day-on yellow paper in the morn
ing, gray at noon and white at night
SO that the sellers cannot substitute one
edition for another in serving their GUS
toners. Another journal has title
which signifies ''the reproduction of
what it is necessary to know" all given
on couple Of pages, octave size. They
readily attempt to zen Chinese foreign
words, as, for instance, the word ''tele-
phone' is made to read "to-il foung.''
The Chinese press, like many Of their
other institutions, has remained station
airy for 1000 years, but is now begin
ming to wake up and modernize itself.
San Francisco Call.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-03-16
A Good Roadmaker.

Edwin Mcintyre, who lives a hermit
life in the house near Warren where DR..
Pilton R. Baker was shot, has queer
hobby. One Of the prettiest and best
pieces of road in Maine passes in front
of his retreat. It has been built by Mr..
Mcintyre, who for the last 20 years has
been picking up the rocks and stones
near his home and pounding them into
pebbles, which he has put in the high
way. In % years time he has pounded
900, 900 stones and made them ready for
road use. The town authorities, recog-
nizing the value of the work, for years
have compensated the man by giving
him his noad tax. He estimates that he
has placed on the road 20 cords of these
manufactured stones. Other towns might
envy Warren such faithful roadbuild-
er.-Rockland (Me.) Star.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-03-16
MA ORE q r LIFE.
~ Talk on The Intersection Of the Constif-
uents of Protoplasm. 7ss

"a Talk on the Intersection Of the Constif-
uents of Protoplasm. III
Herbert Spencer definition Of the
nature Of life implies, as is we'll known,
g continuous adjustment Of internal to
external relations, says the London
Lancet. In other words, vitality is pre-
served by Intersections going on between
the constituents Of the protoplasm. On
the face Of it this view must be very
materially modified in the light Of some
exceedingly interesting experiments re-
Gently brought to the notice of the
Royal society by Horace Brown, whose
classic researches on that interesting
class Of ferments the engines are well
known. He has found that by submit
ting seeds to the very low temperature
If evaporating liquid air. e., from
--183 degrees G. to 1879 degrees G. for
ITO consecutive hours their power of
terminating is not in any way impair
ed. Since the above temperature is CON
siderably below that at which ordinary
chemical reactions take place, the re-
suit is very remarkable and would ap-
pear to. show that although state Of
complete chemical inertness in proto-
plasm may be established it does not
necessarily lead to a destruction of it's
potential activity. -.-.. ...s.@
Is this protoplasm thus brought to a
"resting'' condition to burst into activi-
ty on restoring favorable conditions? If
so, what becomes of life during this
"rest?" These observations are also of
interest in connection with the sugges-
ton of Lord Kelvin that the origin of
life as we know it may have been extra
terrestrial and due to the "moss grown
fragments from the ruins of another
world which reached the earth as
meteorites. That such fragments might
circulate in the intense cold space for a
perfectly indefinite period without pref
udice< to their freight of seeds or spores
is, Horace Brown remarks, almost GER
tain from the facts we know about the
maintenance of life by "resting'' pro-
toplasm. The difficulties in the way of
accepting such hypothesis certainly
do not lie in this direction. Here is an
interesting problem for biologists, and
the development of the question will be
followed with the keenest interest.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-03-16
TRICKS OF MEMORY.
Notable Examples of Forgetfulness That
Are Supposed to Be True,

Notable Examples of Forgetfulness That
Are Supposed to Be True.
The first man to start school for the
training of memory was Greek, ST.
monides, who read one of his poetic
compositions to large audience and so
fascinated them that when be bowed
and withdrew from the building they
sat spellbound. The roof caved in and
killed them all, mangling them SO that
the bodies were unrecognizable, but ST.
monides came to the rescue Of the de-
spairing relatives and said he could re-
member where each person in the audi
ence sat and who he was AS there was
no one to dispute his decisions his iden.
LITIGATION was satisfactory, and he profit
eddy the enthusiasm to start memory
school.
A young woman Of no education fell
i'll in small German town. She could
neither read nor write, yet she raved in
Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and the sim
pie villagers thought she was possessed
Of the devil. Investigation proved that
at the age of 9 she had been taken by a
charitable old Protestant pastor. 1t was
his custom for years to walk up and
down passage of the house into which
the kitchen opened and read to himself
in loud voice out of his books. These
books we're ransacked by the physician
in charge of the curious case and who
had made inquiries into the sick girls
past life, and in them were found the
Identical Greek and Latin passages
which the girl in her delirium had re-
peated.
There is an authentic case of a bril-
liant young woman, happily married,
who had long illness, the result of
which was that when she recovered she
had lost every recollection of her life
from the day of her marriage, inclusive
of the ceremony. The rest of her life up
to that point she remembered clearly.
At first she pushed her husband and her
child from her in alarm, but her par
ents and friends have convinced her she
is married and has son. She believes
their word of necessity. though she has
never recovered her memory of that one
year which is lost to her. Exchange.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-03-16
TROOPS AND DRINK.
The Curious Statistics Showing What Eu-
ropean Nations Pay For Them.

The Curious Statistics Showing What Eu-
ropean Nations Pay For Them.
The friends and advocates of "uni-
versal peace and the foes of intemper-
ance and inebriety are pretty generally
agreed that the expenses attending war
and war ornaments and liquid bever-
ages of an Intoxicating or exhilarating
kind are unduly large. There is an old
proverb-it is not a Swiss proverb, of
course-to the effect that a man who
drinks more than he should "drinks
like Swiss, and it is for this reason,
perhaps-and residents of the republic
Of Switzerland say for no better one
that the fame of residents of Switzer-
as the fame of the Scotch, for instance,
for frugality. A recent computation
which has appeared shows that the an
nual expenditures Of the Swiss for wine,
beer, cider and brandy are IT'S, 900, 900
francs, six times as much as is spent on
the army. Germany expends, or, more
properly, individual Germans expend,
$500, 100000 a year on liquid refresh
ments, distilled or fermented-chiefy
beer and Rhine wine-and $3.50, OOO,-
600 year on the German army Franc
expends in year $500, 1000, 900. on
drink, chiefly wine, and $4,000, 900
year on the maintenance of the army
of the republic. The Italians expend
$3.50, 100000 a year for liquors. wines
and cordials and $55, 100000 for the
Italian army, the expenditures being in
about the same ratio as in other nations.
Austria Hungary expends less upon
liquor in year than any other country
Of the first class in Europe, amounting
to about 1925, 900, 900, though persons
who are familiar with life along the
blue Danube might not unreasonably
come to the conclusion that $2O0,OOO,-
900 OF this sum was spent in the city
of Vienna alone in lager beer. Such,
however, is not the case. In the noun
famous districts, particularly in the
Tyrol, Pennsylvania and in Croatia,
very little wine is drunk, and though
Hungary produces a large and steadily
increasing amount of wine very large
proportion of it is exported to other
countries. Relatively not much Of it is
kept for home consumption.
The Austria-Hungarian army costs
$40, 100000 year, or less than one
third Of the cost of the liquors con-
sumed in year. The Russians expend
$500, 900, 900 a year in liquors and
$3.50, 00O,e00 year, or one-half as
much, for the maintenance Of the army.
England expends $4SO,OOO, 900 a year
on beer, ale, wine, porter, gin, rum and
smoky whisky and 500, 900, 900 a year
on the maintenance of the British army.
No one knows exactly how much is
spent in the United States on liquor in
year, especially in prohibition states,
but it is supposed that the whisky tax
en- for medicinal purposes costs each
year more than does the maintenance
of the regular army.-New York Sun.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-03-16
His Mark.

"How do you sign your name?' asked
the tax collector of the Pumpkinville
citizen who had come in to register for
the election. |-s ..s-.# s.s.4s
GLOW did the kernul thar sign his
SEM" asked the citizen, indicating the
young lawyer who had just registered
and was passing out the door. /.
'''Why, he signed his %. Tolliyer
johnson, Esquire. ~ 5- rs d
'tWaal, jest put mine down Hello
Tom Phillips, Esquah. Atlanta Jour
nal.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-03-16
Celebratine His DeIiverance.

Sl5 Herbert" asked the young wife
timidly, lis this the kind Of mince pie.
your mother used to maker
No. dear, Z answered the Young hus-
band Ny mother never made minco
pies. She was a health reform lecturer Z
And Herbert helped himself to a Sec.
ond cut. chicago Tribune.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-03-16

Anthropolo have ascertained that
the Andaman islanders, the smallest
race Of people in the world, average less
than four feet in height, while few of
them weigh more than 2 5 pounds.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-03-16
Not Always.

Remember, my boy, = said Uncle
James as he gave Bobby coin, that
if You take care Of the pennies the shil-
lings Will take care Of themselves. =
Bobby looked trife dubious.
u 81 do take care Of the pennies. = he
replied, but as soon as they get to be
shillings pa takes care Of 'em. - on
don Tit Bits Il ..i M D. ].
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-03-16

OF the two stamps first issued Wash
ington's portrait was on the 10 Decent and
Franklin s on the other. Since that
time the various issues Of the United
States stamps would furnish . unique
portrait gallery shoW wing the faces Of 48#
noted Americans. s
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-03-16
The Only sure wav..

PollyWog low would you go about
finding q needle in q haystack?
Jollydog-I shouldn { look for it. I'd
simply slide down the haystack New
York journal. 2sg5
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-03-16

Charlotte is q corruption of the old
English word oharlyt, which means a.
dish Of custard, and chocolate russo is
Russian charlotte.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-03-16

The bull let which killed Lord Nelson
at Trafalgar is still preserved e isi
mounted IN s crystal locket and reposes
In q crimson bag with gold tasselk
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-09
TO BE SIGNED SATURDAY
The Peace commissioners Expect to
Conclude Their Work by That Day

Paris. December There was no
joint session of the peace commissions
today, as the Spaniards are still oc-
cupied in t~ranslating the American an
swer TO their proposals in regard to
the status Of Spanish subjects in the
annexed territories.
AS cabled last evening. the eight
principal articles OF the treaty are set
tied and all that remains for the COM
missions to attend to is the settlement
of the minor points of the treaty. The
latter will probably be signed on Sat
urday next, for the S~paniards are as
anxious as the Americans to finish the
work in han Secretary Oieda, of the
Spanish commission, said today: 1T
is painful for us to remain here bag
Cling over details since the main points
ave been settled and we have been
obliged to r~elinquish our colonies All
the work will be finished this week.
The commercial treaty between the
United States and Spain will be nego-
tiated upon the re-establishment Of
diplomatic relations, and the question
of Spanish ships and products in Cuba
and Porto Rico will be included
therein"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-09
The First North Caroline Regiment
Ready to Sail

Savannah, Ga, December THE
First North Carolina is the first regi-
ment of the Seventh army corps to en-
bark for Cuba. The regiment went OF
board the transport ROumanian tonigh,
and will sail for Havana tomorrow.
Washington, December 7.-Genera
LudingtOn, quartermaster general of
the army, has received a telegram from
Major Bellinger, the quartermaster at
Savannah, Ga, in charge of the trans
portation of troops from that point
to Cuba as follows:
The following are the arrangements:
First North Carolina on the Michigan,
Second Illinois on the R~oumanian, and
One Hundred and SiXty-first Indiana
and Fourth Virginia on the Mobile
Transportation of our regimental
headquarters with the division hospital
and signal corps divided between the
Michigan and ROumanian. Division
and brigade headquarters on the Mo-
bile. Will inspect and report On her
as a transport. General Lees corps
headquarters on the Panama. Doubt if
you will gain anything by sending
troops from here by way of Tampa on
the Florida and Whitney. 1t will take
both boats to carry one regiment. Time
taken in reloading at Port Tampa and
unloading at Havana will cause con-
siderable delay. General Lees entire
corps should be transported direct from
this point to Havana before the Goth
instant. Understood from General Lee
that authority has been granted for
landing troops at Havana docks instead
of at M%arianao."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-09

Washington, December THE presi-
dent today nominated Brigadier Cen
eral Guy V. Henry, L. S. A., and brig
adler General Leonard Wood. L. S. A.,
to be major generals OF volunteers.
Other nominations sent TO the senate
today included the officers OF the navy
advanced for eminent and conspicuous
conduct in battle. among them being
Rear Admirals Sampson AID Schley
and officers who fought in the Spanish
war. They also included the list of
officers Of the marine corps who were
brevetted and advanced.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-09
WHAT Did ITe

Our esteemed contemporary, The
Reidsville CWebster's) Weekly, one of
the ablest Of North Carolina newspa-
pers, says this:
The Mascot is mistaken, however,
in saying our Raleigh contemporary
started the shiboleth of The White
Man and The White Metal The
Weekly was the first paper in the state
to propose this sentiment as the demo-
cratic battle cry"
The Messenger is not anxious to be
the first" to say the white Mans
battle cry is the way to win. 1t did not
say what The Weekly gives, out two
years ago last summer it said that a
White Mans Government was the is
sue to win. That was in 1896. The last
of April or early in May last, perhaps it
was, The Messenger said that the is
sue should be a White Mans govern
ment. This was lone after a conversa-
ton in our office held with our friend,
Charles B. Aycock, who favored it. We
agreed with him fully. He did not sug-
gest an editorial on it. A day or so
afterwards we wrote the first article
in advocacy of it. We had long held
that view. SO far as we had seen it
was the first editorial that appeared
his year favoring tha issue. Some
body was first. We were for not using
the White Metal" but solely the
White Mans rule for North Carolina.
In that sign we all helped to conquer.
Colonel Webster says
First and foremost was the race
~questiOn-the An~glO-SaXon against the
negro. The democratic party had the
right sid of the question and mar
shalled the best inf1ences in h state
on it's side.'
Correct 1t was helped by thousands
of excellent citizens, republicans and
populists, to redeem the state and save
civilization and all it means. We veri-
ly believe that any other issue would
have lost North Carolina his year
While there were disgust and disap-
pointment among many intelligent,
honorable and patriotic populists,
there would ave not been enough Of
them rallying to the help of the dem
ocrats if 1T had not been hat they
were heartily sick of negro rule and
it's baleful, deplorable consequences.
L~eastwise that is the way The Mes
senger looks at it.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-09
500 Reward 500

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease hat science has
been able to cure in all its stages and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure now known
to the medical fraternity. Catarrh be-
ing a constitutional disease, requires
a constitutional treatment. Hairs Ca
arrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system, thereby de-
stroying the foundation Of the disease,
and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and as
sisting nature in doing its work. The
propcietors have SO much faith in its
curative powers, that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case tha.. II
fails to cure. Send for list Of testi-
monialS-
Address, F. ]. CHENEY & Co. To-
ledo. o.
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-09
SPANIARDS THREATENED
Hostile Attitude Toward Spanish Res
tdents by uhe b Press-ProtectiOn
of American Authorities Sought.
Cleaning Streets of Hayana

Havana, December 6.-The separatist
papers continue to publish articles in
sulting the Spanish residents, telling
the latter to leave the island or pre-
pare to be hanged. Many Spanish fam
lilies are leaving the interior towns,
fearing that the inSurgent forces will
take possession of them before the ar
rival Of the American troops.
A committee representing native ir-
regular troops who fought under the
Spanish flag against the insurgents,
has called at the headquarters of the
men are anxious to return to their
homes, but are afraid to do so on ac-
count of the threats contained in some
Of the Cuban newspapers. The COM
mittee requested the American COM
missioners to adopt measures to guar
antee the lives of those former SOL
diers of Spain. The Americans listen
ed attentively to the representations,
promised their visitors that the Iives
of the men would be protected and ad-
Vlsed them to return to their homes
n mmence work.
The ANerra and Fulda,
chartered to embark troops for Spain,
arrived here today.
The Official Gazette today published
a decree signed by the governor 9. n
eral, diSSolving the colonial cabinet on
December 18th assuming personal con
troll Of all branches of the civil SER
vice n directing the present secre-
tarieS to prepare, between December
18th and December 31st, complete in
VentOrieS of their departments, 10 ar
range all the archives, to classify all
the documents in their respective Of
fees and to figure the pay rolls 20 De-
cember 31st, in order that the employees
may be Immediately paid off. The
archives bearing upon local adnIiEis-
tratiOn are to remain there.
The following towns in the province
of Havana have been evacuated by
the Spanish troops and have peer &C.
cupied by Cuban troops at the re-
quest of and under the direct supervi-
sion of the respective ayers: Jibacoa,
Santa Cruz del Monte. Seiba de Ague,
San Antonio de los Banos. Guira de
Melena, San Antonio de Rio BanClo.
and San Pablo Bano and Caciguas, on
the Isle Of Pines.
The following warning has been pla-
carded at the corner Of the different
streets recently cleaned:
L, the MdTQul ESteDan. mayor OF
Havana, do hereby make known that
this street has been cleaned and dis
infected at the expense of the United
States OF America. All persons who
throw or deposit refuse Of any kind
will be prosecuted to the full extent
of the law"
A dispatch from Puetro Principe
says h Cuban General Lopez Recio
will enter the city at the head Of his
troops, who will then lay down their
arms n be dismissed.
The latest advices from Holguin say
there are over Loo cases of small rox
there and at Gibara.
1t is reported that at today's meet
ing Of the board OF directors Of the
Spanish bank a proposition. advance
by several syndicates, to purchase al
the first mortgages held by the bank
on municipal properties in Havana
amounting to Sc. BOO, 900, was discussed