Columbus chronicle., 1900-01-27
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NUlES AND CUMMEMTS.
Mrs. Amelia E. Barr says men are
supplanting women as household
servants.
On the whole, it isn't strange that
the famous Tichborne claimant should
have been discovered again. He is
so numerous that he simply can't
avoid being discovered.
An Indiana man is charged with
insanity because he burned up SO, 0G0
IN currency. If he had lost it in a
bucket-shop his friends would have
regarded it simply as a case of hard
luck.
A New York woman routed burg
lar with her trusty hat pin. The
right to carry hat pins and at the
same time avoid complications with
laws against concealed weapons is
another of the immunities very prop
erly enjoyed by the gentler sex,
Our miscellaneous manufactures,
comprising manufactured goods of all
descriptions, are finding markets in
almost every civilized country, foreign
buyers preferring the products of the
United States, and when these are
properly introduced they find pre-
manent foothOld.
Admiral Montojo again explains the
destruction of his feet in Manila Bay
by stating that Dewey got beyond the
range of his guns, thereby retreat
Ing. Ifa retreat" was so annihilat-
ing to the Spanish ships it would be
interesting to know what effect an
advance would have had.
One of the most notable changes
in our common school system is the
tendency toward compulsory educa-
tion. Thirty-two of the forty-five
states have enacted laws for compul-
sorry school attendance and such
statutes will probably be adopted
soon in most of the other states.
Forty thousand more immigrants
have come into the country since
July l than came during the corre-
spending period of the previous year.
As statement of fact. this is brief
and unpretentious, but it nevertheless
possesses q significance of great
breadth and many shades of mean
ing.
A grim story is told of Lord Sails
bury in connection with the service
of his son under Baden-Powell ut
Mafeking. He was offered at the
opening of the war special facilities
for getting earl y copies of dispatches
from Mafeking, but replied that he
could take his turn and wait for the
newspapers like other people.
Chicago has $3.50 policemen and
the average number of arrests In a
year amounts to 5000, though dur
ing the period of the Worlds Fair
it was considerably higher. Boston
has 1,200 policemen; Baltimore, 900;
st. Louis, LOO; Philadelphia, 1900;
Cincinnati, 600; Cleveland, 450; De-
troit, $50; Washington, 600; San
Francisco, 800; Pittsburg, 500 and
New Orleans, $40.
There can be little doubt that in
time to come electricity will be so
merged with mechanics that the two
sister sciences and industries will no
longer be separable. Electricity will
no doubt permeate every large en-
gineering enterprise, and in fact will
be so far merged in general engineer
ing that no great engineering ac-
Movement will be possible without
electrical application and assistance.
One important mistake made by the
British was their refusal to buy
wagons in the United States, The
war Office thought it patriotic to pa
tronize home industries, with the re-
suit that the lack of wagons is now
severely felt. The London Chronicle
says it had been better had the au-
thorities followed the example of
Kitchener in the matter of the Atbara
bridge, which was bought outright in
the United States.
The Government recognizes the i'm
portance of affording agricultural in
struction to the inhabitants of our
new island territories, and will ut
once proceed to establish stations in
Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philip
pines, where the natives can receive
education in farm work and obtain all
the industrial information they are
found capable of assimilating.
Whether the plan succeeds or not, it
demonstrates the helpful disposition
of the Government, willing to take up
the white mans burden to the fullest
extent wherever its authority reaches.