The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-04-22

of good site for the new institution.
| A number OF sites have been proposed
some of them very good, in fact all
have claims for consideration.
/ Washington reports officially the
aggregate sum Of our international
commerce for the year 1910,reckoned
in terms of money to be three billion,
four hundred million dollars. The ag-
gregate is only little over three mil
lion short of the total commerce Of
combined London and Liverpool. So
that we may be confident that within
few years from now Americas in
ternational commerce will be equal or
superior to that of the British Isles.
One of the leading Southern agri-
cultural authorities makes the pre-
diction that this seasons planting of
cotton will be the most heavily fer
tilized in the history of Southern
farming. Beginnings have already
been made in planting in some Sec
lions, although the last of April is the
usual time for putting in seed. The
boil weevil sections will plant less
cotton this year, according to report,
planters showing disposition to safe
guard their positions by diversifying
with corn, alfalfa, peanuts, etc. From
Yazoo City in the long staple region
the effect Of this policy means a re-
ductiOn in cotton acreage estimated
at 10 per cent. Whatever the total
acreage proves to be in relation to
last seasons the outlook for a full
crop is measurably strengthened by
the universal demands for fertilizer,
which are so great as to tax the rail-
roads.
The Japanese antarctic expedition,
under Lieut.. Schirase, left Wellington,
New Zealand, ON the little steamer
Khan Maru, Feb. II. according to
mail advices just received. Before
leaving the explorer received a large
remittance from Count Okuma to pay
the cost of reftting the vessel on her
return from the polar seas. A feet
of yachts escorted the explorer for
some distance.
M. Bayard Brown, an eccentric
American millionaire, living on his
yacht Va1frayia, which since 1889 has
been moored 200 yards from the En-
glish shore at Brighting sea, has been
ordered by His Majesty's income tax
assessors to pay taxes on his large
to pay taxes on his large American in
American income. The yacht flies the
star and stripes, and from it's snug
anchorage, it enables Mr.. Brown to
survey England from a detached point
of view. Notwithstanding the circum-
stance that during the whole of two
and twenty years the yacht has never
left it's anchorage, steam is always up,
a full crew is carried, and at turn
of the hand her engines have always
been ready to be sea going Mr..
Brown contends that the income tax
is for land lubbers and that a sea
going yacht, even though it did not
go to sea, was not residence
The British Government is taking
immediate steps to ascertain the view
of the commercial community of the
kingdom on the question of revising
the calendar SO that a given date
shall always fall on the same day of
the week. Inquiries will be set afoot
by the Board of Trade, which is sup
ported in the matter by the Foreign
Office and the Home Office. The
action is taken in consequence of an
invitation from the Swiss Government
to take part in an international Con-
ference. That invitation is, in turn
the result of proposal approved by
an International Congress of Cham
bers of Commerce sitting in London.