The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-04-19
GENERAL NEWS.

If Mrs. Dewey desires, after faithful
membership of several years in the
Roman Catholic communion, to renew
her allegiance to the Episcopa1ian
forms and faith, no person can criti-
cize her or question her right so to do;
but, If it is true, and occurring at the
present political juncture, the question
will be 1egitimate1y raised, has this
ecclesiastical turn about any political
significance? The Catholic church is
too astute a statesman to censure
such arrangements, and, Protestant
pathway to the White House might be
less difficult of construction.
A boy sixteen years of age, will, it
said, carry message from Phi1ade1-
phia to Pretoria, and deliver it to
President Kruger of the Transvaa1. It
will be resolution of sympathy signed
by 900 school children. All of which
appears to be i1Ladvised, pueri1e and
inefficient. The sympathy of a child,
or scholar, sophomore or senior, cannot
weigh feather on either side of a
| great conflict between nations. The
message itself will be only the voices
of boys and girls on playground; and
as for the lad who shall be dignifed
with the honor of bearing a message
from America to South Africa, there is
a strong probability that, while pleas
| ure or peril may pertain to the journey
nothing will remain to him save big
headism and swollen egotism.
G1ycerine is refuse from the soap
factory and the chandler shop. 1t is
the vile stuff that must be in demand
in every abominab1e war. Forty tons
of this peculiar grease ooze from the
factory tubs every year, South Africa
is c1amoring for the nasty material.
With this it is proposed to clean out
the foe and light up the Dark Cont
nent. "Lady Sarah Wilson and other
Mafeking correspondents send diaries
of the doings of that be1eagured city
showing that the Beers there tried by
abandoning their trenches to lure the
besieged into a mined ambush. For
tunate1y the British engineers discov-
cred the mine, cut the wire communica-
tons and unearthed $50 pounds of
dynamite and war ge1atine". Dyna-
mite is simply nitro-g1ycerine mixed
with pu1verized silica or infusoria1
earth. So it is'the soap factory that will
clean out the British and the Boer.
This is literary age. Paper sways
the scepter universal. Give hundred
and ffty-fve million feet of logs were
Cit in Maine during last winter. Two
hundred and twenty-five million feet
of this forest output from one state
will 90 not to the sawmi11 but TO the
paper mill. Three or four thousand
cords of pulp wood are transformed in
to paper every day in the United States.
That is nine hundred thousand or
million cords a year. Piled tip in cord
wood dimensions, four feet wide and
four feet high, it would extend 1915
miles. Ali for paper, which appears
today and disappears tomorrow, very
much like our opinions which we write
and print on the innumerab1e fo1ios
which fall fiat and clean from the
heated rollers.
Russia is not swamped with news
papers and journals; only ten such
benedictions for every million of the
inhabitants.
Comptroller Co1er declares that as
agent for the state of New York he
had collected two million dollars inner
itance tax on the estate of the late
Geo. Smith, who died in London.
Must be considerable cho1er about this.
There is bile enough in this sort of
taxation to awaken the Feasibility of
the sleeping dead.