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Show Tho Board of Health returns for this city showed more normal figures than for some time past, the record" being 32 births (20 male, 12 female), and 11 deaths (8 male, C female), for the week. It is a fine record against any "race suicide" proposition. The cases of contagious con-tagious diseases were few, and not dangerous, dan-gerous, the whooping cough epidemic having the highest figures, at twenty-three. twenty-three. A great city and sanitarium is this, and tho beauty of it Is, people all through tho country arc beginning to find it out. No news could possibly be better for the mining Interests than that which tells of the probability of an amicable settlement of tho Majestic's affairs. And that this settlement will be effected through a consolidation of tho Majestic and tho Monarch, leaves nothing to be desired. The union of the two Is the natural thing, and it will consolidate and harmonize all Into a magnificent, rich concern, competent to take care of all Interests In great style. The British trade returns, as usual, are unsatisfactory, and the usual rumpus rum-pus Is raised about them. But it does not appear that anything can be done to help things. The imports have increased in-creased largely, and the exports have decreased materially. Which shows that the world stands ready to sell to Great Britain at any and all. times, but to buy of her only on lessening occasions, occa-sions, and on . their own terms. It was to be expected that the colonial treaty Just signed by Great Britain and "Franco would make trouble. Spain is tho first to make it known that her corns have been trodden upon. Tho treaty Is supposed to give Franco a freo hand in Morocco, where Spain for centuries cen-turies has been asserting a sort of shadowy right. But as Spain has mado no progress in asserting or maintaining any right there, practically, save only to tho narrow strip of Ceuta, south of the Strait. On the other hand, there is a constant clash at Morocco's eastern border with the Algerian officials, nd a Frenchman has most energetically been trying for a year or two to establish estab-lish an "empire' 'of his own on the Moroccan Mo-roccan west coast. Spain la In no position posi-tion to enforce her remonstrance, however, how-ever, so It will go for nothing. |