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Show Mm.S AM) (OiniDMN. Ills somewhat striking that there should beau Indian uprlslug In Ho. llvia and Colombia almost simultaneously. simul-taneously. The former Is a Boutb American Btato of Upper Peru. Colombia Co-lombia Is located In the northern art ofBoutli America, and compri-es the three Btates of Venezuela, Now Graua. da and Kcuador. Ar these outbreaks symrtoms of an uprising on rt large scale? The Colombian affair has attained at-tained surious proportions, the Indians tiavlug aunthllated u number of towns and villages. The American Pork (Utah) nds-pendttd nds-pendttd Is defunct. It hit Issuo was dated March litis. The causo of death was a common one lack of financial vitality, rb Lohl firmer will now I ubllab an American Pork department. Th wreck of the steamboat "Heaver," "Hea-ver," the llrst steamer that ever sailed in the waters of tho Northern Pacific, lies on tile shore at the entrance cf Vuucouter haibir. llbclouged to tbe uld Hudson ill company, an 1 was run uthorunud abandoned In Is 13. It Is so will preserved, however, that th lirltlsh Columbians think of raising It and trau-pottlng It to Chicago as a contribution to tbo fair. The Japanese aro not slow In catch lug on to occidental customs. They are In the midst of a political campaign, cam-paign, and though It Is uult the second time ttiey have ever had o atllamsnt-art atllamsnt-art election, they tako It us uaturaui aa though they had been used to running run-ning irlniaries, booming candidates, aul trying lo "down" the otlier fellows fel-lows for gineratlons. There Is a hot contest tilwcui rival rartles, and Muruhavelt-t'ii numerous riotous dls tuiluuies. All of which govs to show that there la not much of th effete Last about th lively aud (regressive Japaosse. O. W. Powers would have galnod nothing If be had succeeded lu ob lalulngspacn for Ills Bait Lake -ollt. cal atump speech chestnuts In the re-rt re-rt of th Hous commute on Terrl-torlis. Terrl-torlis. He gains less than nothing by exhibiting his tulanc- toward Chair-mau Chair-mau Washington over tbe ombslou to Insert a pamphlet as "part of my re-msrki." re-msrki." Ti dooltlnaof eating five meals a day, which Helen Waterson Is preaching) preach-ing) Is a rational one. Dcsilto tbe scriptural assertions that man has been inadeonly a Hill lower than Ih angels, an-gels, he it nevertheless much like a hlgh-pressuro engln with boiler attachment, at-tachment, and It Is a matter of necessity neces-sity that there should tw a proper supply sup-ply of fusl for tho generation of steam. William Wirt Henry, of Illchmoud, Is said hi t a graudson, though It would seem as If It must bn a gieat-giandson, gieat-giandson, of Patrick Henrj. Hols a lawyer and an authority ou nil matters ptrtalnlng to tbo history of Virginia. Tbedliratche. conllnuo to surfeit newspaper readers with sttletnenls of monstrous sexual crimes, murders, suicides an 1 lynchlngs. The country Is rarldly drilling Into a maelstrom of lawlessness. Humanity Is gotllng no belter very fast. The statement that during the recent destructive billiard Ibat swept ovor Mlnneaota, Nebraska and other Statet, th wind galnad a velocity of 100 mllotau hour, sounlt Improbable. Buch a blast as that would be strong enough to blow the buttons oil a man's coat and tb hair from the top of his bead.. Iho Vatican, the ancient jalac of tb Homan Po'ies, Is on of tb most magulflceut buildings In the world. It was occupied over 1000 tearaagiby tho l.iuperer Charlemagne, and noon knowa who begau Iho building of it. Yesterday a well known scientist of this city was observed catching "stink-bugs," "stink-bugs," carefully wratlug them lu pieces of iaier aul stowing them away In his pockets. The other evening even-ing he was riding on a street car with ouo pocket of tile overcoat lllled with "beautiful" frogs, while lu another iockst a fine lives snak rejiosed sersuely. Tb N.w York llorfd Is unkind when It ssys: "There Is ums from Michigan that General Alger's boom, lately auppossd lobe withering ou Us stalk, Is swelling with all the graceful altlner-t of a soap bubble." |