The Opelousas courier., 1898-11-26
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

.
mo Porto Ricans demonstrate their
-.tr;otism by shouting for freedom
M feeding themselves.
n is a great. misfortune for Spain
sat the war has not brought on a new
set of men to the front to play parts i1
her politics. .
IN 1897 South Africa imported ST.
aa7 sa4 worth of bicycles. In the civ
a,1ation process the wheel seems to
.ske precedence of the railway.
And now the impetuous young Ger
man Emperor has become a fireman.
N last he has a wide open opportunity
70 e~1tinguish himself
! The feminine enthusiasm owe,
rehley surpasses that displayed toward
Hobson to a degree which suggests an
,Dclination TO make a distinction be.
.ueen a lieutenant and an admiral.
spain says she will "insist' on Ger
III & DP0AA
IN interpretations, ETC., etc. Well.
mere will be several American fellows
aresent to take a hand in the interpre-
sstion business, so let the work 60
%.
Dewey was satisfied to only take
IN both ends of the Manila episode.
Fhe spaniards ought to congratulate
themselves that he did not conclude to
ake play in the middle of the
game.
"The only thing we can do now,"
rays Dupuy de LONE, speaking for
spain, "Is to repent and reform
such things are quite possible, even
10 Spain, when she can't do anything
else.
4 II will repay you now to watch how
The word protocol" will be overwork-
I'd from now on in all the ordinary af-
Airs Of life. We will have protocols in
family rows, in neighborhood rows and
ID politics.
General August, of Manila, having
Enthusiastically boosted that he would
bold out to the death, quietly escaped
and left the odium Of surrender to a
unfortunate. Spanish honor is fear
fully and wonderfully made.
France has a law forbidding the
slaughter Of birds smaller than larks.
Nevertheless, piles of such birds are
offered for sale in the markets of many
French cities. A movement is now
Eunder way for enforcing the law and
wing the songbirds and the fields.
xhich, 1t is said, they keep free from
Injurious insects.
Senior Vicuna, the new Chilean Min
ister, has signalized his arrival i'll
! Washington with the announcement
hat his mission is to foster the friend
Il and commercial relations between
tb own country and the United States.
He could have no higher mission and
d is to be hoped that he will meet
18th unqualified success.
1t is now fully recognized that the
ESorst blow which that most sacred Of
ia British institutions, the peerage.
Ms suffered during recent years is that
|shich Mr.. Hooley has inflicted by his
Bankruptcy court revelations. And
let there was nothing new in the gen.
|efal nature Of his disclosures. 1t was
Known to every one acquainted with
The ways Of London that the use Of
|sorne OF the most ~aristocratic titles ir
lEngland long has been a marketable
commodity in promoting financial
|bchemes. 1t is the official proclama-
Hon Of the truth, more than the facts
themselves, which has shocked and
|humiliated England.
This country Is on the V OF an
|enermous extension Of its foreign
commerce. Not only does a great
trade await us in Cuba and Porto Rico
TO secure which ships are already
alling pm all our Atlantic and Gulf
|poats-but ten new lines Of steamers
have been organized to trade with the
Orient, and now an eleventh is an
bounced from San Diego, Cal. These
Zines will sail some of them from the
Eastern and some of them from the
Western coasts. They will trade with
Hawaii, China. Japan, South Africa,
New Zealand, Australia, Manila, the
East Indies and the Polynesian
groHps. Mauila, in u hands, prom
|ises to become a rival Of Hongkong in
|world-coyering commerce, is the opin-
I'm of the New York World.
The Russian birth rate Is so far in
|adyanee of the death rate that the in
crease Of population has been prodig-
|ioas. In 1724 there were $4,000, 900
Russians; yet there were 20,000.O00 in
|a7s2; in 1896, owing to conQuests By
katherine IL, the population jumped
Il y, 200, 900: conquests in Finland and
|Roland account for the gain of 9,000,.
80 shown by the census Of 1909. The
|pEodigious increase, due simply to the
|1xeess Of births over deaths, began
Sfter this date. With no important
mango In the frontiers, the inhabit
|antss In I847 numbered $1,000, 600, an
ncrease Of 81, 000, 900 in less than forty
aears. In 1858 Russia had 100000
~ 1885 los, 900, 000;the census Of Janu-
|sfy 1891, counted 129, 00O. 600, and it is
|sstimated that the present population
} more than 100, O00,e 200. The Russian
3eople has more than sextupled since