Altgeld's Idea That The Highest

thority in human government is inTested in the mouth ol an anarchist Si not approved by the people. There were more business failures fa the United States during the month f September 1896, tham were ever ■before known in any one month, the irember beitng 11,290. TVTien Horace Greeley lay dying he exclafaned : Tame 'Is vapor ; poputerity an accident ; riches take wlng ; these "who cheer to-day may curse toaorrow ; only one thiing endures- eharacter." It is said that the largest cargo of arms ever received by the Cuban innrgents reached them lately, and that it came from France. The Cubara seem now to have the sympathy of nearly all the civilized world. Altgeld, the anarchist, did not seem to convert the people in New York, ome way. They appear to take to few, order,, and an idea that the Bnpreme court of the United States fcouM stand unmolested by wrong deeds and their friends, whether of ïïgh or low degree. As New York and Brooklyn are soon to be Consolidated, St. Louis takes its place as the fourth city in the country, lts registered vote is 20,000 iárger than that of Baltimore, which ■tands fifth in the list. In the rapidity of its growth St. Louis is the second American city. Tho experiment of introducing rein■ïeer in Atoska has been a complete nceess. The anímate are increasing ax the rate of 60 per cent a year, and wil! soon supply the natives with excellent and abundant food in place of the now ataiost exterminated seal and other wlM animáis, besides verving ether purposes at once practically aseful and dia-ectly civilizing. Suicide has come to be about as eommon nmong Russian physieians as duels ita Germán nnivereities. The Ijondon Lancet explains the epidemie Vy the statement that fees1 are trasieally low by reason of the presence fTiTynh re of hoavïly en 'ove 1 diepenaries. It often happens that twenty kopeks or six cents are charged for an office consultation, and even that Dal! sum is hard to collect. There is no danger of the epidemie in the United States. At a Barberton, O., match factory, . recently 177,920,400 matches were made in a day. At that rate the factory can produce in a year 34,943.136,000 matches, Ti-hich means 927 matches a year, or nearly three matches a day for each one of the 70,000,000 inhabitants of the country. All this work is done by automatic machinery that is without its equal in the world. Just thmk of it, 377,926,400 matches in one day. If tbe matches were only of the right Bort, all the old maids im the world "would take hope.