Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
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The higher class of F'iiipinos are. very
exclusive. They are educated, refined and
intelligent and great lovers Of music and
the fine arts, as far as they have had OPP
portunity to become familiar with them
Few Americans writes a Manila cor
respondent, become familiar enough With
the better class of people to realize that
they are very clever. They live in strict
retirement all day, but ut night they shine
with briliancy and beauty upon those
who are fortunate enough TO be adusitted
TO their circle. They are natural born
musicians. In fact, think all FilipinOs
are. A very pleasant evening can be
| spent in the house of some of the wealth.
est merchants of the city who are natives
when once the ice is broken and the i'm
yitation given. The largest business en-
terprises in the city are owned and con-
trolled by natives and their homes arc t
models of luxury and comfort: Few OF
them live in the walled city, but prefer
ably build out on the Malacanan, the
swell residence street Of Manila"
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A Kansas man who is with the United
States telegraph corps in the Philippines
in letter home tells of the difficulties
which the corps encounters. Recently twU
big army wagons, each drawn by six
mules, were loaded with rubber insuiat-
ed wire, battery and reel to reel it
out, keeping up with the troops, The
road became so bad they had to strap
| the reel on mules back and the rest
of the wire ON other mules, leaving tho
wagon in the mud up to the hubs. One
mule carried the folding field tclegraph
| table, with instruments all attached. Ev-
| cry few miles they would stop and tele-
graph back to Manila the progress OF tho
| column. To do so they would take the
| table off the mule unfold il, cut the wi1e
| from the reel on the other mule, connect
| it with the instruments and do the nee
essary tclegraphing. This was generally
done when the troops stopped for few
minutes to rest.
.Spaniards arc going to Cuba in almost
as large numbers as Americans, accord
| ing to the latest report to the War De-
partment from the port of Havana. Dur
| ing January 1,T20 persons from the
| United States landed on the island, 1.20G
| from Spain and GAG from other countries.
For the year 1899 the total Spanish inn
migration to Cuba was 1920; American.
2,301. Only 257 persons left the island
| for Spain, while j ,722 left for the Unit
ed States. The port collections for thc
month, $1,152,51343, were the largest
| of any month since the Stars and Stripes
began to float over the governor generals
palace.
The steamship Tacoma brings the news
that the japanese Government has pro-
hibited further emigration of Japanese
! to Hawaii Fer months thousands OF
| Japs have been leaving Yokohama month
| ly, being shipped generally by employ
ment bureaus, which expected fee from
each. 1t now develops that 1900 more
Japs have been shipped than the agen-
cies had employment for These labOrerS
are now in distress, and the strict sani-
tary regulations enforced ut Honolulu
add to their troubles. Japan is contrib
uting to their support.
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In the Hawaiian Islands, according 20
| the latest reports, there are 2i,616 Chin
csc. OF these Is are doctors, merchants
and traders number SD, including 3
women; 1856 are clerks and statesmen.
| IS of these women; of mechanics there
are 800; mariners, 10 only; fishermen.
| 294; drivers aud teamstcrs, 105. In the
| country, apart from Honolulu, there arc
| 36 Chinese coffee planters, 9S ranchers,
| us rice planters, 2 of them women; Of
| farmers and agriculturists 1,27S, and the
laborers number 1094l, There are no
Chinese lawyers, =,
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| A little item from the Manila Tribune
| gives a fair idea Of The cost of living in.
| Americas Oriental capital Lee You, n
| Chinaman, runs restaurant and the
prices are given in Mexican money. Steak
| is worth % cents; bacon and eggs, the
same; pie, 10 cents; coffee, 10 cents: tea.
8 cents; chicken, or chicken pot pie, CD
+, cents; pork chops, % cents Ii the prices
are reduced to American money they
would be just about one-haf.
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A well-known Cuban correspondent, y.
| d. Whelpley, writes from Havana under
recent date that the feeling against an
| nexation to the United States Is surpris-
| ingly strong on the island. The Ameri-
can who visits Cuba to-day, he says. will
| be astounded at the strenuous demand
| for independence and the strong feeling
of resentment, Enthusiastically manifest, at
| the continued presence OF Americans In
control of the sland.'
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The Manila (P H. Times states that
the attendance of children at the Ma
| Mia schools was 4,S49 for the month Of
| November last, gain of thirty-two girls
and thirty-one boys as compared with the