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ott4p, with HOt d WLAlC SCNllct ia dill It's
bounds. Now the territory of Oklahoma,
with 100000 inhabitants and a harvest
worth s100,OOo,0O0 seeks admission as
state.
In "Antiente Epitaphes." Thomas F.
Ravenshow CMDCCCLXVHD. says Notes
ard Quer es, this epitaph is printed;
1856 Richard Richards.
To the memory of Ric Richards who
by Gangrene lost first a Toe, afterwards
a Leg lastly his Life on the 7th day
of April 1866.
Ali cruen Death. to make three meals
of one,
To taste and taste till all was gone.
But know, thou Tyrant, when the trvmpe
shall call.
He'll find his feet & stand-,when thou
shalt fall. Banbury Oxon.
From Sicily to Finland is far cry, and
on a crawling tramp a tedious one, yet
the long sea miles marked no divergence
of foreign sentiment, says a correspondent
in a London newspaper. We left Anglo
phobia strong in Girgenti we found it rife
it Kotka. Finland is at present in The
throes of Muscovite absorption She feels
the hug of the Russian bear badly, and it
grows daily closer. Her representation is
cut down to farce, her press censored to
DEATH her language suppressed and her
territory garrisoned with alien troops II
one might hazard a political forecast her
remote and only hope of emancipation lies
with this country. 1t is the policy of Eng
land to keep the entrance to the Baltic
open. AS things trend now, after Finland
it will be the turn of Scandinavia. If then,
in the case of a Russo British conflict.
England put an army into Finland, while
that country rose and Scandinavia stood
in, the allies position for striking at the
Russian vitals would be strategically ex-
cellent. But to revert TO things in being,
if England is shedding any pity on the
sad case of the late Grand Duchy of Fin
| land she has her trouble for her pains.
| We are just as misunderstood in that
country as elsewhere and il was there
! that | found merchant, urbane enough in
every other way, with numerous business
| correspondents in England. grinning SYM
| patheticaly over indecent caricatures of
the Queen in scandalous French newspa-
| pers.
| Not few readers of the newspapers
must have been puzzled by the fact that
| the new King of Italy calls himself and
! is called "Vttorio Imanuele I'LL" says the
| New York Times AS the existing King
dom of Italy has hitherto had only two
| Kings in ALL and as one of them was
|
how this one could be the third bearer
of the first Kings name. The explana-
| ton lies in the circumstances that before
| the creation of modern Italy, the present
| Kings grandfather was king of Sardinia.
| and he was the second Victor Emmanuel
| to bear that title. He did not change it
| on assuming the more spacious throne,
and the curious result is that Italy calls
| her first Victor Emmanuel her second and
! bar ba,. bir5 ma rath-
re absurd to us democratical piebeians,
| but who are we that we should criticise
| the peculiarities of royal arithmetic?
| Judging from what may be called his
| prospectus the new ruler is a sober-mind-
| ed and sufficiently sensible youth, with
| good judgment in the choice of secretaries
| and full realization of the weight of his
responsibilities. His proclamation is as
modest as it could we'll be while preserv-
| ing even semblance of belief in divine
| right" and there is a hope-inspiring alb
| seuce from it of the signs of mega.omania
which another once youthful monarch has
| forced us to expect in such a document.
| 1t is of little consequence, therefore, that
this second Victor is the third Belong
| ing as he does, to a family that has kept
| tabs on itself since the year 1882 he could
| doubtless find an excuse for using almost
any numerator he chose, and it was
mark of commendable moderation that he
was content with the figure 3.
-Ivestigation of the region of the great
lakes by G. K. Gilbert of the United
States Geological Survey has brought out
the fact that this whole region Is being
| lifted on one side or depressed on the other
in such a manner that its plane is tilted
| bodily toward the southwest, says the
| Popular Science Monthly. The shores of
| each of the lakes are sinking on their
| southwestern and rising on their north
| western sides. the rate of the movement
| being such that the two ends of line 100
| miles long running southwest and north
west are displaced relatively four-tenths of
| a foot in a hundred years. In Lake Su-
| perior, to illustrate by a single example.
| the waters are advancing the Ameri-
| can and falling on the Canadian side. At
| Duluth the advance is six inches, and at
| Huron bay the recession is five inches in
| a century. AT Chicago, on the sinking
| shore of Lake Michigan, the water is ris-
| ing at the rate of nine or ten inches in
| hundred years. Eventually, unless dam
is erected to prevent il, the lake will again
| overflow the Illinois river, it's discharge
| occupying the channel carved by the out
| let of a Pleistocene glacial lake. The sum-
NIT of that channel is now about eight
| feet above the mean level of the lake, and
the time before it will be overtopped can
De computed. T OF tne mean lake stage
| such discharge will begin in about 1000
| years and after 1850 years there will be
no interruption. In about 1900 years the
Illinois river and the Niagara will carry
| equal portions of the surplus water of the
| great lakes. In $500 years the discharge
of the Niagara will be intermittent, falling
at low stages of the lake, and in $500 years
there will be no Niagara. The basin of
Lake Erie will then be tributary to Lake
Huron, the current being reversed in the
Detroit and St. Clair channels.
Andrew Campiano, aged 40 years, hight
feet Louis Campiano, aged 10 years,
hight feet. Frank Campiano, aged Is
years, hight feet inches. These are
The names, ages and dimensions of the
queerest little family in California, says
the San Francisco Examiner Their home
is in Oakland and one may visit them
any day at their residence on Fifty-frst
street. near Telegraph avenue. They may
be seen going about their business in as
matter of fact manner as though they
were as big as anybody Their occupation
is the raising of flowers and Mr. Cam
ano, the father. says that he would
ra her work in this vocation than be the
greatest celebrity the vaudeville world
ever knew. He has a wife who is quite
tsll-taller than the average woman-and
the two have always been happy togeth-
er. Two of his sons take after himself