Show 1 EVENTS AND COMMENTS 1 i Is THE three years it has beenopen to I the public 45130851 people have crossed I 1 Brooklyn bridge IT WOULD be hard to determine from J the proceedings of Congress whether the average Congressman is in favor of bogus butter or not I i i i THAT suBSCBtrnos in aidof i the widow y of General Hancock has not reached the sum of 10000 This looks as i though the nation was ungrateful THE poBCpacking industry only a few years ago one 6t comparative insignificance in-significance bas grown to enormous if proportions last year consuming nearly I near-ly 12000000 hogs k I i JjRAPSTKEKT ESTIMATES the los In I wages trade etc in the late strike was E i s 30000000 Most of this can never be made up The country Is therefore 30000000 poorer because of theses these-s strikes r I OSE PAY last week In a spasm of generosity I 1 gen-erosity New York added 250 to the f t Grant monument fund At this rate I 1 the monument will be completed < in less 1 1 r than five hundred years The whole 1 i affair Is a national disgrace i DENVER is ahead A committee of g solicitors for funds for a grand Fourth I t r I of July demonstration has been appointed I ap-pointed and are now at work What t J are the Salt Lakers going to dot Come Fourth and Bay something I s f t l Tux TIME to befriend a man is during t dur-ing his struggles trials and temptations C It costs nothing to befriend him after i his death Nor can it do any goodto f t abuse him after death The menUi < t 1 1 of charity Is broad and cheapto the dead Y TBEBE AKE now published In the I United States 14100 newspapers and ° c l periodicals of all classes Among S j I 1 i are TOO religious and denominational t I t a newspapers nearly onethird of whichP t j i I are printed In Philadelphia New York B4 1 2 L t I Boston and Chicago i i I e WHY DOESS f J Conimlssioner Sparks I IIJ tackle the land grant railway companies I I if he Is really anxious to preserve the ed public domain ° I or posterity Simple 4 1 i settlers are smell game fora great commissioner d com-missioner of the General Land office I I h 1 when large corporations might bw hunted 1 l hunt-ed as easily II f u THE NEW You builder whose cupidity I A cupid-ity caused him to erect snch a1 tumbledown tumble-down house which resulted in thedeath B a of eeVeral tenanlsr Hole nlKa has j i t J in the New York pemtenttary Hehas the satisfaction J of knqwing that the t I L 1 i o t + n State hildeds ronger than hll and that J his life is safe > 11 a d t THE BOSW bdtteribiUwihlcKhase t I t a cently been agi tgtlag the soions at I I Washington aLS to be i nei fiet I t one thing nor totherTh II butterinells i I 1 jJ badfood It ought tdlje snppressedjfif I I tl t healthful It ouiht to be lei alone ZTbe I t proposed lax on it will prodqce neither I effect But dnivr mind I t t I i 1 T EuLBYAfo1 the JJnited States and l i Terri orieai ef cJustTi o Alaska is In J J round < < irOmber aboutl gOOlbOO OOO a cres rl The Client > V liJi l c afaMe pieaivsay if 890000000 acreB1 Of this j ppnntihere < d were imprpjred Tln iSSQ asy 300000000 I < 1t acres leaving 650000000 acres yet to be ell improved and made productive I I i t7 As JDEA of o tie rapid atb of the t South may be gained from the fact that i jU twentythree cotton mills which will tJ cost 3000009 are nOw in course of erection in that section The great e1 staple will in future notbe manufactured tl manufac-tured in tha etii f dpt est but es-t where itis grown and the Fsil Bivs rJ and Lowells of the future trill be found tut in the SouthErnEtates > > j t J a f RTTOBUCAK FHAHCE or rather some of its rulers seem to have bata poor u 1 opinion the stability of herinstitu J I lions l Thernare stll harpwgoalhe 3 expulsion biUandhave frtually decided J that the decreed b niS > imeat shall l apply Ic ap-ply to all members of alf families which pi may at any time l have reigned in t + it France To make the measure complete tt com-plete they should have added the con cq IJ e ficcation clause S = I i I r THE LASDED property of England tJ covers 72000000 acres It is worth f I J I 10000000000 and yields an annual t ij t L r rent independent ot mines of 330000 t ld h j f 000 Onefourth of the Territory exclusive I t j 1 ex-clusive of that held by the owners of I i less than an acre is in the lands of i q t 1200 proprietors and a second fourth is t owned by 6200 others i so that half the I jt i entire country is owned by 7400 lad i 3 viduals The population is 5000000 j j The peers not COO in number on more j I J than onefifth of that kingdom they l ti possess II 000000 acres of Jaid worth f 2000Q000with nn annual rental of 5oooOCIJ j I t f |