The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-05-17
SOME SALIENT POINTS.

hours, and won, but in the meantime
the proud people of Paris, guests as
well as residents, were compelled to
wash themselves or go un1aundried.
Isn't that so?
''Sir ]. Henniker Heaton, a promi-
nent member of the British parliament,
few years ago said, that the United
States was the only nation that could
stand an annual drain of $50, 900, 900
in ocean freights paid to foreign ship
owners" But the drain now is $780,
100000 year.
Thousands of skilled and unski11ed
1aborers were rushed last year into
Paris to work on the Exposition build
ings, and on the Metropolitan railway.
Soon the work will be completed, and
as many as $4,000 of these 1aborers will
be let loose in the CITY," Now the
question arises, what shall be done
with them, or for them? It will be ali
right if they happen to have money in
their pockets, but ali wrong if not.
Most likely they will be peEni1ess.
What can be done?
Prices are up, and going up, along
all lines of trade, but it was not free
silver that put them up. Free silver
has been paralized, nay, annihilated.
"New York farmers are richer today
by S30,0OO,O0O than they were three
years ago.
Frank H. Hitchcock, chief of the
section of foreign markets in the De-
partment of Agriculture, says, we are
searching the world to find new mar
kets in order that the American farmer
may have a reader and more profitable
sale for his products" Do you realize,
Mr.. Agricu1turist, that this is expan-
sion?
Nicaragua will sell cheap, she will
ask only SIS, 100000 in gold and per-
petual percentage of the profits of the
proposed canal, as a consideration for
the lease of strip of territory twelve
miles wide.'
England proposes, after the Trans
vaa1 war is over, to settle thousands of
her discharged soldiers in South Africa.
Alas! Several thousands of them are
settled there already, and they are
quiet and law abiding citizens, even
the pomp and thunder of war do not
disturb their tranquility. But the
British plan is excellent, it will be &C
ceptab1e to the Beers for they admire
the British soldier though they hate
the people of Cape Colony. Tommy
Atkins will be a sort of cushion against
whom Beers and Co1onists may jost1e
without experiencing a shock.
Great Britain has her starving popu-
1ation in India, and United States has
thousands of poor and hungry people
in Porto Rico, and furnishing Indians
among the Kiowas and Comanches.
Now Brazil desires to be Uncle Sans
customer in coal. Welcome, Mr.. Bra
I'll, we have a superabundance in stock.
The manufacturers of the United
States are exporting their goods on
such majestic scale that, by the close
of the fiscal year, which will bein June,
the value of those exports will be
$500, 100000.
There are 66,869 Spaniards in Cuba
who are still loyal to the Spanish flag
and declare allegiance to the crown of
CASTLE.
If Kronstadt should fall, the seat of
government of the Orange Free State
will very likely be transferred to He'll
bron. And then where? It was
shrewd policy on the part of Kruger
ages Of war out of the Transvaa1 and
in the Free State.
The Liberal party of Columbia
offers, in case it should come into
power in that be11igerent State to
grant to this country all the valuable
Panama concessions for a simple re-
cognition of be11igerency; which of
course this great and honorable nation
could not accept, any more than it
could accept the plan of the Sultan of
paying a debt of 100000 by purchas-
ing cruiser.
"On a clip of 100000 pounds of
wool, there has been an average gain
to the sheep raisers Of Oregon of half
a million dollars year,
''The University of Illinois has re-
Gently been the recipient of $4,000
worth of bugs
Today, May 10, the Crown prince of
Japan will marry the princess Kujo.
The prince is 81 his bride II.
What is the matter with the steers?
Three years ago the farmer received in
the market only $3.50 for a steer
weighing 1000 pounds, now he can get
$50 for him. What is the matter with
the steer?
Men who crate and argue pessimis-
tical1y about the church going back
ward, are the men who, watching the
piston-rod in a moving locomotive
while the train is rushing onward at
fifty miles an hour, declare that the