The times., 1899-07-10
PICKED UP AT RANDOM.

The irrepressible statistician has again
appeared to the fore, this time with a large
wad of figures on the celebration of the
| latest Fourth of July The man of math-
ematics has supplied a wonderful and de-
pressing list of casualties, but has failed
to take into consideration the amount of
solid fun enjoyed on the great day of days.
| According to the figures given. which are
| based on the news returns from about $50
| cities and towns, the number of deaths
caused directly by celebrants of Independ-
| ence between l a. m. and IL O'Clock mid
night on July was twentythree. There
were 1,262 persons injured more or less
seriously, and the loss accruing from fires
caused by pyrotechnics and noise producers
was sl53, COS. All of which is very sad and
| to be deplored, but, on the other hand.
| more than S3,000,000 were expended for
| fireworks and more than 10000. 600 young
people were supplied with more than $780,
| 10000 cubic feet of fun.
Speaking of the celebration of the
| Fourth, il is about time that We ancient
| and historic burg of Boston take back
| seat as the hub of the intellectual uni
verse For behold, when a great multi
| pal decorations and TO hearken unto prom
| inent speakers, it was discovered that the
centre of all the decorative features was
a huge set piece which emblazoned the day
as the 18th Anniversary OF the Sign
ing Of the Declaration of Independence. -
The municipal authorities may have got
ten tip from the Sacred Cod that the
| above figures were proper but history is
| good enough for the balance of the coun-
oy.l
Minneapolis paper of Republican per-
suasion is holding peace jubilee on its
editorial page because, as II claims, wv. j.
Bryan has lost the support OF the Georgia
Democrats, and of all good Southerners. :"
The paper in question then graVely prints
despatch which states that a certain
| warm-hearted Georgian. thinking that the
great silver man might like a sweet
| mouthful, forwarded to his address whole
carload of watermelons. The freight bill
was unpaid and accompanied the melons.
Mrs. Bryan, realizing that the family
might not be able to demolish all OF the
melons, declined them with thanks, and
the freight bill is still unpaid. 1t may be
that the disappointed donor will refuse to
vote for any man who will refuse a Geor-
gia watermelon, but even good South
erner Will forgive a man for refusing
NuOle CaTIOGu OF lue SeuuCllNe
The annual exodus to Europe continues
and the figures show that the increase this
year has been remarkable. local trans
Atlantic steamship agent In speaking of the
matter last week remarked that the feeling
against those who chose TO spend their
holidays in Europe had passed away. You
don't hear so much of the bloated Anglo
maniacs' who are so unpatriotic as to go
to England as formerly" said he, and
why should not q man go where he be-
lieves he will enjoy himself most? Then,
again, the more the merricr, as Uncle Sam
pockets 81 internal revenue per capita from
the departing tourists, and is acquiring
snug little sum in this manner.
Even song bird has rights. as was
proven in Chicago last week when resi-
dent of that summer resort was fined So
for keeping a canary in a cage. This was
the first arrest under new law which pro-
hibits the Imprisonment of any American
song bird. and as a result the streets of
the Windy City are lined with mOcldng
birds and canaries which regale passing