THE YEAR 1881.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1048, 19 May 1882, Page 4

THE YEAR 1881.

We take the to lowing items fmm th* Button Daily Globe of January 1, I®Bl, referred to in another column:— Bki.oiiess of the I InitedStates.— | Ve are now an indissomhle Union of 0 3!l indestrncmhle States, emhr cing, ■according to the latest month! ceil- u>., a lit 1 e over 800.000,000 ef people, ’ ■speaking five distinct. languages, besides 1 11 marked varieties of United States (or English, a* the old writers used to say). If the application of Brazil, Ghili and Peru to he admitted to the Union, which comes before con press at the January session, shall be: granted, as -seems probable, we shall. ■speedily be a nation df over 1,1100.'000,'000 inhabitants. There is, 1 deed, no reason why fhey’shon'ld not he admitted, and the admission of ‘Canada in V 903, Cuba in 1910, and An trabu in 1924, make a formidable ■array of precedents in their faver.

The Most i ecent Immigration The other great question •over which Congress debated, with the manifest'purpose df making politi•c d capita' for the campaign, was that ■of Baboon immigration. The hist ry of this burning Lsue need only be briefly recited. Twenty years since, •in 1960, a great immigration moveTne«t set info this country from the interior States df Africa, first brought into relations with the rest of the world in 1934. The moveme’t was mainly from the great Baboon empire, ruled over hy the Kmperor Jocko. They are, a peculiar people, wear full 'be'irds aT 'Over their bodies, and are born with swallow-tails that curl curiously at the end They are also noted as u-eflent people, never speaking except u i pantomime and a fewimonoto•nous screeches and growls. They are a branch of the great Mongkee race. 'They were first attracted here by the stories of agents sent among them, and who represented to them that this was ■a free .country, where they could sell ■their labor at high wages, vote twice a year, and escape the odious tyranny of llis Majesty Jocko. They accordingly began to come, first in small numbers, but scon by hundieds-a.-d thousands, ■settling chiefly in the U cific States, 'living on roots and wiki herbage, and ■requiring noshelter save the branches ■ot trees, to which they fastened themselves at night by their swallow-tails, they were able and willing to work for one-half the wages df the progressive A mefican s laboring men rtf the Pacific States, mostly Chinamen, to whom a rat-pie and an opium-stew are ■necessities of civilized existence. The ‘Chinese laborers accordingly banded themselves together in hostility to the influx of Baboon labor, and, as it in•creascd, became very violent. Den-1 sKarning, a dangerous agitator, placed ■himself at the head of the Chinese Workingmen's party, and swept every Pacific State at the elections df 1979. 'This state df affairs brought the question into national polities The Irish capitalists and 'bonanza kincs, who own most of the property in the 1 aoific Stales, are naturally not ■averse to Baboon cheap labour, and as the majority of them are Democrats ihe Democratic party Pas felt disinclined to oppose the African wave of i-ei vile immigration. The Centralists, •on the -other hand, made a show of Imstilisy to it, and expressed more or Jess open sympathy with the Chinese fraud ’Lots fashion. The Democrats received support, from an unlooked-for •quarter, a large and influential body ■of Massachusetts philanthropise having espoused the Baboon cause. On sentimental grounds they urged that ra man’s a man for a’ that, and that the Mongol has no more right to proscribe the Mongkee than the Miles’a-. had ,l(l0 years ago tcproacrihe the Mongol, lif th» MongoLcannnt live without his luxurious veytniocelli soup, rat-pie ami ■opium stew, so much the woree tor lliim:; he <inust give wav to the morn, frugal and industrious Mongkeelaborer, who •cun work sixteen hours ■a day board on the third flight of a ■.tree and thrive on toadstools.

Submarine Delays,—Themrmnager •of the Adams Express Submarine 'Tunnel is in hot water again, and loud •complaints reach us from London. This 'morning’s delivery, which leaves (here at 7 o’clock, and should be in 'London two hours later, has been ovei ■forty seconds late twice this week, and' (there has been even a greater delay at 'the Pari# l end- An unaccountable in•erease indhe friction is supposed to be (the cause though'for some inexplicable treason it doi-s not affect tiie western •delivery. w o have always opposed it ho hvb camic-system:; it is almost as ‘bad as the old pneumatic one, and the ■sooner the npdestatic principle is adop'ted the 'better. The Demo.lmperial, ‘Tunnel ifrom Frisco to Yokohama, | •worked nndei this patent, has averaged i ra .variation of less than three seconds tfor over eighteen ‘months, and we can ■ confidently assert “that lit the Adame Express Company do not m ike ithei (desired change a new snh mariue-con-neotiou with Europe will be the result,

AS AsTONtSHHT) MiniENCK.—l’rOtf»ssor ffl'-oitjo Tiuvfiatma announced '«v.‘r hj week a>'n'cliitt ! i>p was about to «e.xbil>it an mttom-rten no perfect in v. geH-ureand facia l expression, as <r ii«t;mrefl .will humanity itself that, 'tko senses of hearing ami seeing would Set Received. Th' l inhibition took jplace in the (private .lactuiv? room uu-

TU’xotl to tVie T ohnoloflic laboratory. At the hour p|minted Professor Inventus stepped upon the platform with Mr Go rge Volks, the lecturer ot the evening. Mr Volks cidle for a ghks ■of water, drank thereof, wiped his lips bowed'fc ■ the »ufHe r ’ce, and proceeded. He-spoke with a clear, full voice, ex•oellent language, perfect intonation, and pl'sisaut ii flection, frequently advancing to the front of the desk, and hy his earnest manner and graceful gesture impressed the audience with his vivid and minute descriptions. After he had continued for some fifteen 'minutes, Mr George Francis Train, who has carefully studied the peculiarities of the world's progress for over six score years, begged leave to interrupt for the puv)iose of answering a question. Mr Volks paid no attention, however, and Mr Tram turned to the professor and requested that his ■question be answered. Still Mr Volks talked on. The other gentlemen present now became indignant at the discourtesy to Mr Train. Finally the pre/fessor startled the audience with the statement that it was tee automaton that was speaking,.aiid that he had taken this method iff giving his first exhibition. iProfessor Inventus promises still mere wonderful exhibitions of his invention in a few days, one feature being the teaching of a clans in vocalization, with examples of chromatic scale singing trills, etc.