Show EVENTS AND COMMENTS BRETHREN n WE we forgotten thatithe Bulgarian throne is still vacantAlta IT is beiievedihat Bismarck continues to take a dash of saltpetre in his beer OLD SAM Houstons grave is over grown with weeds but his memory isnt J t TWfLVE80 top guns are 1 being made at Woolwich for the armament Viqtoria B C They will be finished in April THERE is nothing in this mindread ing business If there were a mind reader could adopt poker as a profession anil become a millionaire I IUE EMEtoYEM of a shoe manfacturer in Massachusetts have struck alleging as a reasogjthat their employer wanted to run his shop to suit himselfthe incredible wretch COLD WEATHER atWatebury Connec I i ticut killed a great deel of livestock t froze three men to death and destroyed all the small plants it wound everything every-thing up but the Waterbury watch EKGL VND PROPOSES an annual tax upon 1 all foreign laborers which it is estimated esti-mated would yield 2500000 per year f How would that do here We refer the matter to the American eagle and Mr I Wigginton to report i I THE CAN DIANWar Department brags J that it has au abcu ate map of every fort in the Umted States I Who cares t We dont care anything about forts Wet We-t will give them to Canada rent free and ° then knock hereout in one round REPRESENTATIVE HATCU of Missouri I is reported to have made this comment on the recent reelection of Senator Cockreil There is bne thing I am proud to say for Missouri fThereis a State where money doesnt enter Into the making J of Senators t Missouri haS one SenotP rho gas beep herc twelve years and is now entering upon his third term lIe isnt a millionaire When he draws his salary at the end of the month and pays his bills we hasnt enough left to pay for a box of cigars and asineitf too honest to go in debtfor themhe does without with-out and smokes a pipe Washington Post THE NEW YORK Nation says that out i of 762 strikes during the past year mostly of the miRing and manufacturing f manufactur-ing class 31 per cent were successful 44 per cent were unsuccessful and the others compromised StatlsCics have been obtained regarding 226 strikes in which there were lost in idleness the sum of 3711097 Extending the same j ratio to all the strikes the total loss was i over 13000ODO The suffering of families fami-lies and classes growing out of this money loss is incalculable f 1 r t thousand I PAPER is usedijr thousand purposes in these days tLat would have been deemed impossible a fete ytjars ago This week a cargo of flour in paper I barrels was delivered in NewYorkrand it is said there was a great saving of r flour in the transportation as there was no loss through loose hoops or shrinkage t shrink-age in the barrel staves Oil and other liquids are now frequently shipped in i ° paper barrels and in a few years paper t will probably be devoted to a thousand uses at present unheard or unthought of I t ST Louis Republicans Its astonishing F how fighting forgoes I6 I longevity both in the fighters arid in the estimable women who have the good i fortune to be their wives or widowsThe Ib 1 war of 1312 ended seventytwo years ago and yet there are on the pension rolls 1539 surviving veterans of that t spirited and interesting struggle and what is still more curious 13397 widows of such soldiers But there is in North wood N H a more interesting curb osity stilla venerable old lady96 years of age who as widow of Captain Benjamin I Ben-jamin Stevens a soldier of the revolution revolu-tion draws a pension of 16 a month i She is th > last however and when she flies the revolutionary pension books will be closed forever |