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erally Has Beeu Onward and Upward.

The year 1SSS has been comparatively un

eventful, and yet an era of continuous

progress and almost unbroken prosperity

throughout tho world. True, there have

been local troubles here and there an inter

national dispute in Samoa, an imbroglio in

Hayti, quarrels in eastern Europe and small

wars In Asia, raids by American Indians and

insurrections among West India negroes.

True, also, there have been more important

disDUtes in more highly organized societies;

cabinet crises in France and Spain, a change

mlur in (Wmanv and a continuation of

the Ions and wearying contest in Ireland,

iw. nil li.nvfi cot throusrh the year with less

trouble than any expected at its beginning.

Of calamities caused by great natural

forces there have been comparatively few;

tho exeatest were tho floods and earthquakes

In China, which caused tho deatli of at least

hundreds of thousands of persons and

reduced ten times as many to extreme

poverty and suffering. In Japan occurred a

rnofit astonishing phenomenon. A lake on a

mountain broke through into a volcano, the

whole upper half of the mountain was blown

into the air by the steam thus created, and

in its fall buried a number of small villages

and several hundred persons. In tho United

States there were terrible snow storms early

in the year, causing great loss of life; and in

tho gulf states the yellow fever caused some

loss of life late in the season. But taking tho

year as a whole there has been unusual ex

emption; there has been no blight upc the

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Waterbury evening Democrat. (1888). Waterbury, Conn., 1888-12-31. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn94053256/1888-12-31/ed-1/?sp=5

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Waterbury evening Democrat, 1888-12-31.