Colonel Garlington of the commissary department claims to have collected opinions of three hundred and seventy-six officers and one hundred and sixty-three enlisted men concerning the canned roast beef, which he classifies as follows:—

Twenty-three officers and one man pronounced it "good or excellent," twenty-five officers and two men "fair or good with exceptions," twenty-six officers and eleven men "mostly had or unfit," three hundred and two officers and one hundred and forty-nine men "entirely bad or unfit."

He groups the opinions of officers and men on the refrigerated beef as follows:—

"Good or excellent"—seventy-six officers and eight men.

"Fair or good if trimmed"—one hundred and thirty-three officers and thirty-five men.

"Mostly bad"—forty officers and twenty-six men.

"Bad or unfit"—nine officers and fourteen men.

From this summary he concludes that about seventy-five per cent of the opinion was favorable to the refrigerated meat and twenty-five per cent unfavorable.

In reply to the formal protest entered by the German government against the language recently used by Captain Coghlan of the Raleigh, at the Union League Club banquet, the following official statement has been given out at the Navy Department:—

"Captain Coghlan has replied to the department, stating that the newspapers have not reported him with substantial accuracy. Also, that he intended no disrespect or contempt to the German flag, and is extremely sorry that any such interpretation was put upon his remarks. Proper reprimand will be sent, and such action taken in respect thereto as is proper."

The incident was considered closed when the German ambassador called upon the President and expressed the satisfaction of his government with the action taken.

The annual order concerning Memorial Day has been issued by W. C. Johnson, the acting commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. The order directs that President Lincoln's Gettysburg address be everywhere read in connection with the exercises of May 30. The acting commander says,—

The year closing with the next Memorial Day has added new strength and power to the nation and new glory to the flag. The worth and fame of the American soldier and sailor have been gloriously advanced. The achievements of "the days of the sixties" have rendered possible the glorious victories won in the interest of liberty and humanity.

In the presence of President McKinley and his wife, members of his cabinet, three generations of General Ulysses S. Grant's family, and a great crowd of people, Miss Rosemary Sartoris, granddaughter of General Grant, recently unveiled a heroic equestrian statue of her illustrious grandfather in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.

The monument is a gift of the Fairmount Park Art Association to the people of Philadelphia. The height of the statue from the bottom of the plinth to the top of the rider's hat is fifteen feet one inch. The total weight is five tons, and total cost $32,675.35.

A new field has been opened to the fifteen hundred convicts in Sing Sing prison. They are to publish a weekly newspaper. The name selected is the Star of Hope. It will consist of four pages, and the work will be done by the convicts. Warden Sage, the originator of the plan, will be the managing editor, or news censor, of the new publication. Sing Sing prison has an extensive printing establishment, and the "copy" from the inmates which escapes the blue pencil of the warden will be set by convict printers in the shop and then run off on the press.

Senator Quay was acquitted on the charge of conspiring to use for his own unlawful gain the funds of the state of Pennsylvania. Immediately upon his acquittal Governor Stone of Pennsylvania appointed him United States senator to fill the vacancy until the next legislature meets. There is a question whether Governor Stone's appointment is sufficient to admit Mr. Quay to the Senate.

Colonel Frederick Funston of the Twentieth Kansas Volunteers is the hero of Calumpit. With a small force he crossed the Rio Grande river, flanked the insurgents, and drove them from the strong position they held. This was considered the most daring enterprise of the entire campaign in the Philippines.

Paris, April 26.—The secretary of the French embassy at Washington, M. Thiebaud, arrived yesterday, and handed the treaty of peace to the Spanish ambassador, Senor Leon y Castillo, who immediately sent it to Spain by the first secretary of the Spanish legation here, the Marquis de Novallas.

The only railroad which is in operation in the Philippine Islands, extends from Manila to the seaport Dagupin, located on the western coast of Luzon, a distance of about one hundred and thirty miles. The native employees receive less than twenty-five dollars a month.

Rear Admiral Melville, engineer-in-chief of the navy, will submit to the naval Board of Construction plans for fitting the armored cruisers with a modified triple screw system which will give the vessels a maximum speed of over twenty-two knots.

The American National Red Cross of New York has expended $82,724, and now has a balance of $7,416. The committee has been dissolved and the affairs and fund of the organization will be turned to the National Red Cross in Washington.

The fiercest fight of the war with Filipinos occurred April 23, near Quingua. A reconnoitring party of American soldiers was suddenly and unexpectedly surrounded by the enemy in large force and eight Americans were killed and forty-three wounded.

The telediagraph is a recent invention by means of which drawings are transmitted by electricity. The experiments thus far have proven very satisfactory, and the invention promises to be an eminently useful one.

It is reported that Senator Hanna will use his influence toward helping to seat ex-Senator Quay. Between the two they confidently expect to secure the forty-five votes necessary to reverse the precedents and seat Quay.

A Spanish prisoner recently released by the Filipinos says that the insurgents have fifty thousand rifles, plenty of ammunition, and two hundred pieces of artillery, some of them the latest pattern of quick-firing guns.

The British Admiralty will make a series of experiments with a view of learning to what extent the wireless system of telegraphy can supersede the present system of signalling by flag, semaphore, or flag lamp.

It is reported that Governor Gage of California has followed the example of Governor Stone of Pennsylvania in appointing a United States senator, and has named Dan Burns to succeed Stephen M. White.

Although Congress at its last session authorized the construction of twelve additional vessels, it has just been discovered by the naval officials that it failed to make an appropriation to begin the work.

Sixty-five thousand soldiers comprise the regular army of the United States. Of these 14,868 are in Cuba, 2,972 in Porto Rico, and 24,000 in the Philippines; leaving about 25,000 at home.

The Wade Board of Inquiry on beef has held its last open session, and is now engaged upon the preparation of its report. Over forty-five hundred typewritten pages of testimony have been taken.

The Kentucky law, under which so many negroes in the last twenty years have been sold on the block for a term of years in punishment for vagrancy, has been at last declared unconstitutional.

Dr. William Seward Webb has presented war medals composed of metal taken from Admiral Cervera's flagship, the Maria Teresa, to every member of the Vermont regiment of volunteers.

Information is received from Manila that General Luna, Aguinaldo's chief of staff, has sent an insurgent colonel through the lines under a flag of truce, to ask for a cessation of hostilities.

General Gomez has issued a proclamation announcing the formation of a junta of Cuban generals to advise him. He has also announced his desire for an independent democratic republic.

The Naval Reserve Association of Illinois, veterans of the Spanish-American war, have resolved to offer the government two hundred and fifty men for service in the Philippine Islands.

Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn of the War Department has issued an order extending the immigration laws of the United States to Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands.

The United States army regulars, volunteers, and naval force took part in the exercises of the Confederate Memorial Day at various points in the South, April 27.

Sig. Marconi, whose experiments in wireless telegraphy are attracting international attention, has successfully communicated from the shore to a vessel at sea.

Almost the entire five million dollars that the citizens of St. Louis have proposed to raise to clinch the proposition of holding a world's fair there is in sight.

"The Newsboy" is a unique paper published in New York for circulation among the newsboys. It is distributed gratis and contains no advertisements.

The voluntary offerings in the Church of England during 1898 were $37,531,770, more than $2,500,000 above the amount received the year before.

United States Ambassador Choate recently visited the Foreign Office in London and discussed the Samoan situation with Lord Salisbury.

The farm on which Abraham Lincoln was born has been sold to Daniel Grear of New York, and probably will be converted into a park.

General Miles has asked the President to appoint his son, Sherman Miles, a cadet at West Point, which the President will do next year.

Three hundred thousand square feet of space have been allotted to American exhibits at the Paris exposition to be held in 1900.

Ore assaying $1,000 gold to the ton has been taken out of the side of the Blowout Mountain in Cook County, Arkansas.

The United States dispatch boat Badger, with the Samoan commission on board, has sailed from San Francisco for Apia.

One hundred and twenty sailors from the United States cruiser Releigh were recently entertained at the Waldorf-Astoria.

Information is received that Aguinaldo's agents in Japan are urging Japan to a friendly intervention with the United States.

Leroy M. Willard of Orange, Mass., has received the first pension granted to a soldier of the Spanish-American war.

The three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Oliver Cromwell was celebrated in London, April 25.

Lord Harlech, who has just passed his eightieth birthday, has had a seat in Parliament since 1841.

The Boston Young Men's Christian Union recently held its forty-eighth annual meeting.

Forty-five former American soldiers are now enrolled on the Havana police force.