Show TOE tax of the debt question in south Ciro lioa is ia another victory for foe over the bourbons Boni boni mil and repudiation A tax is ill to bu be levied 0 10 o PAY abo int trost on the ilia whole debt and ana that on the ibo portion uni universal versAy recognized as i valid is to be prompts tr alid while the validity ol of the disputed portion ij to be b de d biaca by A judicial trib noil nall spi 11 7 for the purpose with wilh the right ol of appeal to the supreme court tho the yens and courier court CF which las hu dado A manly fight for or and would have preferred to tee tea the ibe validity Tili dily of the whole debt cobl without this further re ie fe ferencie fere rentie aoe nevertheless rightly tha the result a Irac practical victory aad dd takes to itself a largo abar mbar of the tha credit ana commercial lays yi it may bo be listed thit that bills flow cott bo be fore fora congress proposing encourage meet meat for american mail lines by Eu baidy provide for tho the py pay deot of three dollars per mile on CD the atlantic Aila niia and four dollars per milo anilo on the ibo pacific ocearl this is equiha lent to about eighteen thousand dol bra per round trip between new york yok and liverpool Li or nearly two dollina mere each oh trip thin vanderbilt offered to perform the ibo evica for twenty years ngo ago to a paper the ilia newly appointed chief joa ties of now mexico hon HOD charles to i a firby dm class nun man no is il saw noir doing a low budoiu in ia that oily ot of ton ion thousand thou saud a year and is ii beside president 0 of a national Nati oDil book ono ot of tho the largest moneyed instill tionda bioni fa the ibo country bat big close application to la business has bis boon been wearing him down ind and under the advice of friends he hd ilia his pric tico in the bobo bopo that a charge of 0 eo sti enery and processional libor labor my may his hig enfeebled health wj wa trust frat that with bishop aidell among others will IT bavo av 0 a ao U i 0 bigots 1 jog effe effect of libe was of ibe globe ltd its size rizo his been determined I 1 have no BO doubt to within a very few ow wilas la in what appears to us now a very simple manner la Is abo bo first drat place every see BOC lion of ito earth cuth li 18 woodall by a circle and mathematicians 11 ll circles into act degrees notice it wo we can acau ly the rort port of 0 this thil gradt circle bud nd if f when han wo we bavo got that bit measure out oat into muen we multiply it by aw we ve get the th of tho the that ibal let i to sayo my the ho veolo distance around it then by dirl dividing dlug this by conlo taing a litun little over 3 the ratio cf the iho of tho the circle to its if diameter dia moter we find out bow far it is from ope ono aide ortho ot iha earth to the iba other this rhe gives us ibe of the ilia earth As A a result of a long series of 0 observations it hall ba bettan foaud that a degroo measures as 01 aloar its as possible oo on the average ga 11 emilei i lea it can bo be stated in tactics inches but it li in near dough for mo me to give git as aa A first of result that it is 13 about C 0 1 t oa i and if itye you atako take the trouble to 10 i multiply 1 1 i ply 66 1 miles mil the average length of one degree by ago degree degre ei the number of degrees that there aro are all found the th earth 3 on oa wilt till find that the ha circumference is something like ilko miles and therefore uial tho the diameter of the th earth Is something liko like bow milos Markwell mark well tho words worda on the average borago To rago lo in truth the earth Is flat toned at tho the poles polea so BO that tho the length of the lb degree varies from tho the polo pole to the equator and benco bence the diameter la in the equatorial plane piano is in ia excess ciceu of the from polo to po polo I 1 these two tiro dla diat neten in ia foet feet are aa u ollowa follows equatorial SO rotor eolar J norman lockyer Locky cr in ia good bood words A trin THE now NOT york graphic says whenever california mining stocks blocks are if transferred to abo now york boards it will tiu bo be better for or investors as the iho in markl market a r will be BK odIer exactly so BO we should like to see ophir for or ineta ioe tance uce toady steady itself in the th now york tork market when three or toor four drogs onta cuts W oro be boat I 1 tota to tap panora aa ore body we W should like ubi 0 o bato seen it there on oa tuesday at 65 and nd on thursday at 31 wall bt akell clotlde do out oat now how oar old friend jim koono delight in showing iho winf wall street how bow to steady tet dy ophir when a orosa close out ont is going through oral ore A arn srn alv T violin in I 1 in sig n od a and u d dated 1709 wm was sold at the hotel dionot in paris february it 11 it was put up at 2000 and knocked down dobo for tile the largo sum sam of 1120 1420 daring the tha a sale 1 there wn was a grett great arces of the iho carious to g got of fight of the iho instrument and a ibl abla wall wai suddenly upset and woo or car persons standing anding et on it were overturned amid the general confusion of I 1 ibo bo crowd do cot be alar alarmed mcd ren gen lle allemen exclaimed aimed iho auctioneer tho the violin Is sate sao |