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Show LIFE ON ISLAND OP ST. HELENA Inhabitants Ilrpr "" lonlealed anil trim. Ahum! tlnkaoan. Krora the New York Tlmei: Kew people eter think of St. Helena except na a rock In the aea on which Napoleon lived a while miserably and then more miserably died That the grcateat of anti cllmaxea waa not the end of the little Island a history Is hard to real lie. possibly because k poet or romancer would have made It tho end, and c continuation Is therefore more or leu unnatural and absurd He that ai It may, SL Helena haa remained the abiding abid-ing place ot ordinary human being who concern themselves very little about the colussat ghost generally sup-voMiT.10 sup-voMiT.10 bo IhajUland vonly Inbatil- Vm,allUa(raiorttultiavlna,uti'l government Just made by their governor gov-ernor shows that they hate Joy and sorrows exactly like those of the folks .dwelling In plans less tragically famous fa-mous Kor Instance, the revenues of the Island last ytar were JCD.IB!, a de cldedly comfortable sum but alas' the expenditures amounted to 12,31, and that Is an exrtas of outgo not comfortable comfort-able nt all The governor saya however how-ever that tho bad balance waa due to some extraordinary drain upon the Island a resources, and that he anticipate antici-pate a substantial surplus for the current cur-rent )car A recent Increase of the garrison and extensive improtcmer.t now making by the colonial and Imperial Im-perial authorities assure tho Immediate Imme-diate prosperity of the Islanders. SL' Helena haa no public debt but Ii paying pay-ing off by small annual Installments a lionlnlercit-benrlng grant of 5 000 made by parliament In 1871 The Import, Im-port, chiefly foodstuff! and building material! amounted last year to 1'C.',-985, 1'C.',-985, nnd the export, almost wholly p tatoe to 4,391 IdCemaklng haa bee Introduced among the girls ot the li land with great success, and the gov ernor la experimenting with the manufacture manu-facture of brick and tile. The whalers whal-ers have now entirely dcsertid St, Helena, the few ships tngnged In that Industry kteplng far Io tho north or south The total population of the Island Is-land ll -1.03 The got ernor hopes that winter visitors from Kngland may be tempted by the salubrity ot the clt mate to try St Helena, which Is iu perlor, he in)i In some respects to that of Madeira and the Canary Islands He laya the people aa n whole compare favorably with the Kngllsh agricultural agricul-tural population, with few exceptions all can read and write and the language lan-guage li spoken with greater purity than In many districts at home A a rule, the people are happy and con tented, with little crime among them and much klndnes In helping each other Stranger are greatly Impressed with the general civility shown by them to old nnd young |