The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-09


Total OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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Adding the probable yield IN
complete the financial year The
amount of taxation to which The D
are subjected would reach In roua
bers 1902 100000.
There are about 34.000,ooo Itallls
sequently each Italian is supposa
to the state about IS per annun !
include myriad of paupers and Id
computation to the winner
nation, We find that every well-tpt
ian is taxed not less than 3n. q
the penalty for strutting among y
naval and military powers Of Eup
Rome, June IL.
William Rapinet Mo-
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FRANCE.-one OF the thing u [
strikes the continental mind at III
congress Is the appearance thers
United States. The last uunbf :
Revue des Deux Mondes, in ID
ment devoted to politics, edited
Francis Charmes. contains this pis
1.-THE American continent = !eps
at The Hague only BY the UNIV
1t was impossible to overlook Inv
at a discussion which lnteresto
mainly on the morrow OF q ~
waged against European powA.
war introduced America into Euig'I
by selling the chief Spanish eoia',|
only OF the Atlantic but OF ~
also, the United States has bIou!lj
self into contact, or at ieasI NV
tons. with the whole world AZ
place was therefore marked al ~
ell board of The Hague, TINS y
significant fact. 1t was formeliy M
as a remarkable innovation 70 Au ~.
European congress a little stale iM ]
mont, or large state, TIL tnen Y
cred too foreign, like Turkey. oA|
change since then! And amonb
changes not the least is the pls''.'
The Hague of the United staM
Europe is sure henceforth nla
where. America has become an i..'
factor In the affairs Of the far =.
the affairs of the far East arc ~
the affairs OF the West" ,,...
Paris, June IL. Theooots pA''
NORWAY.-This week q veAu I
barrel on the maintop has been sel' !,
along the main quay of OhristlauA
in provisions, in view OF hundlsa =,
tators. This vessel is the sIs'n !
formerly the whaling vessel XIX
the same that years ago conSe!smS
Nansen to Greenland. the s'oas
has been repaired and partly s ~
Lauervig by Colin Archer, inc sI y,
who built Nansen's Fran. -.
is q very strong vessel. but y NV
endure the work In the Ice Ins' ,ssu
accomplished. This. however x.
ly, Is not necessary, for the Ius
Abruzzi, for whom the vessei Il,
ting. in his search for the pole o., "a
the necessity of breaking ice. -
anything but laxative toucnISs I,
petition. He tells me simply LIAM .II,,
first to Archangel to finlsn IN
take on board the 100 dogs tns. =, ~
provided. Then he will make ?. ~
a harbor as possible in Franz
proceeding thence toward ine ~ ~
sleds. H. a.
Christiana, June 10.
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CHILE.-The Chilean governn n
determined to develop the f
the country by having railway 4.
from extreme north to soutn' n.
offers are being considered .! N
eminent for the construc..o' sAIi
from Pitrufquen to Antilnue. iouel
be the means OF bringing INTO
other parts of the republic the
town of Valdivia. This propos,ss
sixty eight miles long. TO a.
struction 1t is to be contracts i
from Pitruiuu ~
coche. thirty miles long. anu mo
from Loncoche to Antilhue' n
miles. The official estimate ~ ~
OF the two sectioan, ~ I.
down at $2,239, Ols and s2,4ss'.rs i
lively. but the bids receiver m q
cred below the price stated py "a 4
ment engineer. 1t is proposssso
construct a railway from ssn. ~
paraiso by way Of CuracaSs
blanca, at cost OF SIT ,00o.vov
Irat.,-. Mav o. Robert p