A Black State

Jlr. Philip A. Bruce has written rather a remarkable book, entitled "The Plantation Negro as a Freenian." Hetakesthe ground that the white and black races will never mingle. On the contrary, they are drifting apart. He says a firmly established antipathy between the two exists, which will deepen as time goes on. Moreover, the negro as a freeinan, left to himself without the civilizing in(luences of servitude, will relapso into barbarism. By the middle of another century this country will present a race of pure black Africans, exhibiting, for good or for bad, all the traits of their savage ancestore. The colored population is nieantime increasing. Will the fonncr slave states then in time be overrun with a horde of barbarie ebony hued A Africans? This ij the problem Mr. Bruce thinks the south will be called on to solve. Tn addition to this soine curious race statistics have been published from Mississippi. They are not reassuring to the whites of that state. In the teil years from 1870 to 1880 the white race liad incieased at the rate of 25.27 per cent., the negro at the rate of 46.84 per cent. In 1880 the negro population was 171,826 greater than the white. At the same rate of increase the majority of the negroes in 1890 will be 356,921 in a total population of soraething over a inillion and a half. The awful illiteracy of this majority ia soinelhing terrible to contémplate. Over 50 per cent. of the voters in Mississippi are unable to read and write. In 1880 11 per cent. of the whites could not read or write, and 75 percent, of the blacks were in this same condition. The black population of Mississippi is increasing so largely in consequence of immigration from elsewhere in the south. The finger of destiny seems to point to Mississippi as a black Rtate. The it of the English woman, Amelia II. Edwards, LL. D., to this country is an event of interest. Dr. Edwards received the degree of L. H. D. from Columbia college, New York city, and that of LL. D. from Smith college. She is one of the most learned Egyptologists living. Beginning Ufe as a novelist, she occupied her leisure time in the study of Egyptian antiquities, to which she ■was attached. For niany years she has continued these studies. She will come in October and lecture. Her vrork opens at tho Peabody institute in Baltünore. She discusses the influence of ancient Egypt on oor modern art. The British association of newspapur writers has long had a grievance. The f act that it hadnotailto its distinguished kito in the shape of a title or row of letters lias rankled in its breast. At the last annual meeting the organizatiou 6olemnly resolved that hereaf ter thoso belonging thorcto should add M. I. J. to their ñames. 51. I. J. means mcmber of the Instituto of Journaliste. Now happinesj reigns. But 51. I. J. haa not a musical sound. Tho Uulted States is the greateet isroducer cf gold, silver, lead and copper in tho world. Our annual mining product amounts to 550,000,000.