The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 30, August 11, 1894 Page: 4
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THE TEXAS MINER.
THE TEXAS MINER.
WALTER B. MCADAMS, EDITOR.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year $1.00.
Single Copies 5c.
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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY.
Entered at the Post-Office in Thurber, Texas, as Second-Class Mail Matter.
Thurber, Texas, Saturday, August 11, 1894.
All's quiet in the Pullman car—
Sweet peace holds sway once more;
The only men who fret us are
The same old friends who snore.
—[Washington Star.
Cotton of the 1894 crop is on the market already.
Whatever bill Ccngress passes, the people will have to foot it.
Travel to Europe for pleasure and study is greatly increasing
every year.
Watering stocks is the nearest to aquatic sport that some of
our financiers ever get.
Debs and Coxey both want to go to Congress. And each can
if he polls enough votes.
The Mexican war cost the United States $100,000,000. The
number of troops engaged was 101,282.
Fifteen steamers are now on their way here from Mediter-
ranean ports loaded with lemons. A very sour fleet.
Andrew Carnegie running down protection reminds us of the
man who kicked over the ladder by which he climbed.
There is much doubt as to whose part Russia will take in the
Corean war. We judge from history that she will take her own.
Several new cures for drunkenness are announced, but none
gives the satisfaction that the oldest of all does: Stop drinking.
German postoffice employes are not permitted to marry with-
out special permission of the Government. How would that do
here?
Nokodv can complain about this weather, or the season for
crops. Texas has enjoyed a year perfect for agricultural pur-
suits.
Last week badly damaged the reputation of the North as a
summer resort. ,pexas was the coolest spot in the Union for
four days.
Forty-eight thousand Chinese have registered 111 San Fran-
cisco under the Geary law. 'Frisco would be a good-sized Chi-
nese citv.
Ik Texas were as densely populated as Massachusetts it would
have a population greater than France and Germany put to-
gether, or about 75,000.000.
According to the Montreal Gazette, a recent deal between
Belgium and Great Britain shuts France out of the Nile basin in
Central Africa. Both countries have more African territory than
they will be able to improve in centuries, but each shows a con-
stant anxiety to get more for itself and keep the other from add-
ing to its area. It is not when dealing with real estate that na-
tions show their noble qualities.
The melting away of the gold reserve which the repeal of the
Sherman silver law was to stop goes right on. What does the
Administration intend to do about it?
There are 152,000 miles of submarine cables in use, costing
over $200,000,000. It is estimated there are over 2,000,000
miles of telegraph wires in use, costing $325.000,000.
"The negro will never return to Africa," says the Kansas City
Future State, a negro organ. "It is not the disposition of the
American negro to retrograde. If he emigrates he will go to a
civilized country."
The Salt Lake City Copper Manufacturing company has re-
cently completed an extensive plant in that city at a cost of be-
tween $600,000 and $700,000, and will commence operations at
once.
There is a tree in Nevada so luminous from exuding phos-
phorescent matter that one can read by its light at night. Why
can't we cut some twigs from that tree and plant them along our
highways and byways?
Great success has been obtained in Belgium with the amonia
process of sinking shafts through quicksands. The principle is
that of freezing the quicksand by an amonia freezer similar to
that used in making artificial ice.
The outstanding interest-bearing debt of the United States is
being increased at the rate of 8 cents per month for each man,
woman and child in the United States, being equivolent to about
$60 ,000,000 annually. The amount for last year from March,
1893, to March, 1894, was $59,905,670.
The amount of money in circulation at the close of the war in
1865 was $2,000,000,000, or $50 for every man, woman and
child. Since then our population has increased 30,000,000 of
people, and we find in actual circulation to-day among the people
only $800,000.000, or $1,200,000 000 less than in 1865.
The Chattanooga Tradesman says business in the coal regions
of Alabama and Tennessee is somewhat unsettled in consequence
of the miners' strike, and the output of the furnaces has been di-
minished. Contrary to previous expectation, it has not been
necessary to close down any furnaces, as fuel supplies furnished
by negro and convict labor have been sufficient.
Death is a sad messenger, coming in any form; but when one
sees a great, strong, healthy man like the late Robert Tweed
stricken dead in the very prime of life the horrible uncertainty of
life and the certainty of death are most apparent. And yet, were
the history of our lives, written in a book, before us, would we
daré to consult its pages to learn the hour set for our going out?
That great uncertainty, so horrible, is yet the one secret which
keeps us happy and striving for victory to the end—in anticipa-
tion that death is still afar.
New South Wales has the largest population of any of the
Australasian colonies, the estimated figures at the end of 1893
being: New South Wales, 1.223.370; Victoria. 1,174,022;
Queensland, 432,298; South Australia, 346.874; Western Aus-
tralia, 65,064; Tasmania, 154 424; New Zealand, 672,265, total,
4,068,317. From those figures it will be seen that considerably
more than one-fourth of the whole Australasian population is
found in New South Wales. New Zealand, however, seems to
have the largest population of any of them in proportion to its
area. New Zealand has many natural advantages, and is, upon,
the whole, the most prosperous of the colonies.
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 30, August 11, 1894, newspaper, August 11, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200477/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Tarleton State University.