She has the Cuban war, the war in the Philippines, the revolt in Porto
Rico, the Carlist riots, and the revolt in her African colonies.

She certainly seems to have her hands full.

She has done her best to keep the African troubles to herself, but the
news has at last come out, and with it the fact that Spain cannot spare a
single soldier to go and subdue it.

* * * * *

The waters of the Mississippi are still rising, and as yet there is no
hope of the floods subsiding.

Every day news is sent of fresh crevasses formed and of more levees
broken.

While the city of New Orleans has not yet suffered, there is hourly fear
that it will be flooded. The levees are breaking in all directions, and in
the near neighborhood of New Orleans fresh breaks are feared, which will
send a vast volume of water flowing toward the city.

A government report from Tennessee says that nearly eight hundred square
miles of territory is covered with water, from three to seven feet deep.
What cabins are still standing are filled with people and cattle, crowding
the upper floors or huddled together on rafts moored to the houses.

In Missouri the levees protecting Davis Island, the home of Jefferson
Davis, have given way, and the island is submerged.