Show EDITORIAL NOTES it is claimed that california vi ill produce boxes of raisins this year vear against last year and three years ago age the total value of mineral productions last year in this country was this Is an lac increase of over that of 1886 the farmer who thinks that to make money he be must so go where land is cheaper should consider con kider he if make more money by making the land he be has better and richer at a party in the est where a areat great deal of foliage was used in the decorations some boison noison ivy was intertwined ter twined with the flowers the burlington free press pi ess announces it as a swell s nell entertainment I 1 american statistics allow a population of paupers haupers pau pers TJ 75 per cent of which grows out cia 0 drunkenness there are said to be idiots inthe of whom are the children of drunken parents this thi s being presidential year we hear s a great areat deal of talk about baris bar ls 11 wen we 1 l forty six million seven save n hundred and fifty barrels were produced in this country last year valued at 00 0 cents per barrel citizens who have not lemster ed md el are able abe to take the test oath xich which is alike repugnant to mor mona and aad gentiles but which has to be swallowed by every voter should beat bear in mind that a week from next monday the books will be opened for registration and will remain open during the week these states will hold elections prior to the presidential election ele clion in november the arkansas state election will be held on the first monday in september next nest comes the V vermont election on the first ilist tuesday in september georgia will hold bold an election on the first wednesday in october baulanger Baula oer it appears has managed to rise to the surface and float into the french chamber of deputies again on the popular tide from three departments the mercurial bauls belh delight ht in sensations and are noth nothing tug it not diamatis dia matic A french republic without demagogues would be something new in european history rev sam jones ahe the revivalist aist is rather coarse and sometimes sone times quite vulgar but he occasionally aay good aoa in a trite and happy mait manner in a late discourse he made some apt remarks urn on matrimony one ol of them was this the best thing on this earth is a happy Lo marriage arriage and ana the worst thing an unhappy nf mar arriage nage whom god bath joined together let iao BO man put asunder but chona the devil has joined lit let them go to chicago the veracity of drummers while endeavoring to secure large and prod proa table orders is proverbial A traveling man inan for torn fora a certain new york house was put on u the witness stand in court do you solemnly swear sold said the clerk that tire the eti evidence dence you shall g give in the case now on hearing bearing shall be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth the witness hesitated and then said I 1 ill ive ve been selling goo goods ds for blank co for live years but ill do my best apropos ot of the tree free wool controversy fwise of california who has been erroneously reported as a bolter from the democratic party hits has this to say eay as one with the wool interests of his state lama ol grower and would not willingly advocate a policy which would lessen the value of the raw material I 1 know since the tariff of 1867 wool has been cheaper than it was before the me ver y high duties under it were imposed I 1 also alao know that between IM 1850 and we hao bau wool either fret free or mostly to bo about four years and tor for tour four years deais prices were higher than they have been before or since dakota has a large white population but it numbers also a good many indians they are divided and located as follows at the cheyenne Cheye aine river agency of Blac kleet and other sioux 2783 mixed bloods crow meek and lower brule agency 2252 Devi devils is lake ag agency bency sioux ump chip 1127 ft berthold berthoid agency Arick arees gros ventres Ven ties mandahs Mau Man dans 20 26 pine ridge agency oga alia alla sioux mixed bloods bloo dr 12 rosebud agency brule and mux T s too sisseton biss Aice agency ncy sioux 1579 9 blanding blan diug rock agency 11 papa anil ana other sioux bioux with a few of mixed blood yankton agency sioux 17 1777 77 total that john bull wants the earth seems to be literally correct it if the phrase does appear a trifle slangy his possessions extend to every quarter of the globe and tie he issever is never thoroughly satisfied recently sir hercules robinson governor ot of british colonies in south africa by b proclamation annexed to her Maje faje dominions about twelve degoeas of territory it extends from the transvaal frontier fron tiei on the south to the river in the tha north tile the bou conquest quest seems to have been done by the pen ped instead of the sword and we hear no word of protest at present ot of course sir bir hercules acted by instructions from bowe ocoe and the job waw was done ottle lally it if no complications arise from this quiet luiet acquisition it will tp tie a new cew illus tia ot of atie adage thai i he pen 19 is triau the itie aboid 11 |