Notes and Comments.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 126, 9 November 1901, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

The conquest of Fngland by America is described the by a 'writer in the AMEKrcAN Daily Mail, who thua conquest, pictures the domestic life of the average Englishman :—" Ho risep in the morning from his New England folding bed, shaves with American soap and a Yaokee safety ra-sor, pulls on bis Boston boots over bis : socks from North Carolina, fastens 1 1 on his Connecticut braces, 3lips his Waltbam or Waterbury watch in pocket, and sits down to breakfast. There he congratulates his wife on the set of her Massachusetts biouee, and he tack.es bid breakfast, where he eats bread made from prairie flour, tinned oysters from the Pacific Coast and a slice of Kansas 1 city bacon, while hia wife- playi with a slice of Chicago ox tongue. The children are given American oats. At the same time he reads his morning paper printed ly American machines, and possi.v y on American paper. He rush a out, catches the electric tram (N<tr York) to Shepherd's Bush, whira he gets in a Yankee elevator to take him on to the American .fitted ' electric railway to the city. A'fc lunch time he hastily : swallows some cold roast beef that comes from a cow in lowa, and, flavours ifc with the latest New 'England pickles, and then, soothes his mind with a couple of Virginia cigarettes. 'To follow his course all 1 day ronnd would be wearisome. But when evening comes he seeks relaxation at the latest musical comedy, and finishes up with ft "little liver pills" "mad« ia Anwrioa." "

([•sire for s, higher education. ■ is increasing eyeryjrßJNQ .where, and -the triitt juouoa of the old motto. ilbgw. "It coats much to lv educated, more not to

i axioniatio. Chapters could [itten giving the stories of [toggles which some of these jade men have undergone, but, instances will suffice to show then an American boy wants acation he can get it. One of eading scientific men in the iy of tha United States [jment shouldered the hod jrried the bricks and mortar in the constructioia of one of university buildings and J thft respect of every fellow nt in the university thereby, rating fellow in the eastern ae had sisiteen dollars when itered the university, and it ii)t long before he was reduced ie feraditidnal postage stamp. iy diligence he secured a place iporter on a city paper, and Iy after was given charge of a tinent on a religious weekly. I, together with the fees frojq irding club, enabled him to his place in college and to lite with his class. A wellq college president onee stated

6 his class that he lived ou ar3 and -milk one year at an lae of thirty-five cents a week. lioned as to how he expected able to attend college when j no money whatever, a young said, "I tirust in the Lord," strangely enough, his first was to pump wind into a ih organ. This same man in the basement of one of tho ja buildings, mowed lawns in aer, and attended to furnaces iidewalk3 in the winter. In way he was able to secure ienough to buy his dinner in jp eating club, for which he one dolia:: the week, while sen cents daily paid fur his [fast and supper. This man 1 cripple.' The old custom of ing on a farm has passed with leoadence of agriculture in the , but many new occupations ipan to the energetic student. Sb great lakes members of the aving crews are often recruited the ranks of college men. waiters find musicians on mger boats, street railroad .elevator operators, cattle nun liiropean stack boats, and many in all the humbler occupations rom the leading colleges.

i recent issue of the London Time 3 ohere was an iuxew tempting article on a

al. nevr animal which Sir

Harry Johnston has disred in the forests in ti. "It it the size of an ad is distinctly related to tha

h. This remarkable creature, at, appears, so far as a cursory lination oi ! its skin and skull guide as, to bo a living rapraitive of the Helladotherium, a aire found in the fousil state in ice and Asia Minor, and supdto be extinct. The skin and skulls, which have been furled by Sir Harry Johnston to British Museum, were obtained utive soldiers of the Congo Free eia the vicinity of Fort Mboni. natives state that, the creature itind only in the densest part lie forest, and that it goes about airs of male and female. It Id seem to be quite inoffensive very easily killed. It is ordiily captured in pitfalls, and a what Sir Harry Johnston rtained on the spot, its extincis being rapidly carried out by natives of the Congo Free

ie. Now that this discovery been made, by joint action onpart of Belgian and British mis we may look with confice to King Leopold to issue agent orders for the protection this remarkable creature. Its bis said to be excellent eating, there is no reason why an impt should not bo made to nesticate it."