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than less attractive. To ignore this fact and lower the rate of proposed interest "is a piece of boldness which amounts to recklessness that the optional term is increased does not offset the change in rate." San Francisco will perhaps get enough of Kearneyism by and by. A comparison, just between the of 1, 1880, prepublished, city January and bank those deposits of the lesson. in that Year's contains a the period of During vious New year-a day adoption sharp communistic of agitation culminating in the the Sand Lots constitution-$11,250,000 were withdrawn from the commercial banks of that city and invested elsewhere. The withdrawal represents the decline of confidence felt by in the future of a is for men like Kearney to conpossible capital State dictate where The drain- it stitutions and rule Legislatures. age of capital will surely continue as long as the cause remains in force. The bank same year savings off existing 53,300 depositors during and the the sums fell from to 47,200,a to their credit from $54,000,000 to $44,350,000. Dispatches from San Francisco report au inenforced idleness among the workand of distress consequence. ingmen crease of in laborers The war upon capitalists is a war upon also. If we may believe an unauthenticated rumor, the United States Government has not been indifferent to the interests of this so the Isthcountry in the projected canal on mus of Panama as has been supposed. It is stated that a private American citizen has purchased property on the Isthmus which our Government has already leased for its own use, and which it can buy whenever it deems it necessary. The geographical line which separates North America from South America runs between Costa Rica, southernmost of the Central American States, and Panama, northernmost of the so-called United States of Colombia. The purchases above mentioned are at the Atlantic and Pacific termini of this boundary and current rumor says they have been converted into coaling stations and United States men-of-war have been sent thither to occupy them. Whether this is true or it is plain that the members of Conand others at Washington about the matter acfeeling gress not, and that have decisive the right tion will be taken if it is needed. Senator and General Gordon objected to the appointment of Rev. Mr. Simmons as Superintendent of the Census in his State because he couldn't spell correctly. Unfortunately Simmons had been detected in a little too much economy in the use of the alphabet in addressing the President of the United States as His "Excelency," thus cheating the word out of an "I" that the most popular lexicographers give to it. In Gordon's opinion no man who would cheat the word Excellency out of a single letter could be trusted to enumerate portion of the population of the State of His task bungperformed any Georgia. result would would be lingly and the be Gordon is not man has fallen into a which faulty. pit the he first dug for who another but his fate should be a warning. In the course of the controversy between him and Alexander Stephens concerning the Simmons matter he wrote a letter in which he defied the authority of Webster by spelling the word controversy-"controversey"-and Marshal _"Marshall"-thus crowding into controversy a superfluous "e," and adding to Marshal the "I" that Simmons had dropped from "His Excellency." According to his own standard of fitness to hold office it would seem that there is nothing for Senator Gordon to do but to resign immediately. Of all the measurements by which the dif ference between the human skulls of one race and another can be determined, the most imis now believed to be gives the of the great portant cubic capacity that cavity which of the skull wherein is contained the brain. Upon this basis some interesting investigations have is been made. Among other facts ascertained to a race of on the west coast exthat people relating of long, Africa, flat-headed who hibit the largest average capacity of any human heads yet examined. The Laplanders and Esquimaux, though a very small people, have very large skulls, the latter giving an average measurement of 1,546. The lower grades of English skulls show a size or capacity of 1,542; the inhabitants of the Canary Islands, 1,498; the Japanese, 1,486; the Chinese, 1,424; the Italians, 1,475; the ancient Egyptians, 1,464; the true Polynesians, 1,454; negroes of various kinds, 1,337; the Kaffirs, 1,348; Hindoos, 1,306. The Australian aborigines give one of the smallest averages, namely, 1,283; and the Andamanese, avery diminutive show combetween the men parison people, skulls only of sixty-three 1,220. A of various races, and of twenty-four women, showed the ratio of the woman's skull to the man's to be as 854 to 1,000.