FORTUNES IN ANIMALS
TREMENDOUS PRICES PAID FOR
WILD BEAST
A Rare American Goat—A Gorilla
is Worth Millions—Birds that
Bring Fabulous Sums.
Donald Burns has had an adventurous
life. He wus not always the contented
unimal dealer, in his little red shop in
Roosevelt street where he sits to-day,
surrounded by his snakes and leopards.
It has been up and it has been down with
him all the way through. In the carly
days he roamed the pineries of Michigan,
hunting wolverines and beavers, and
living the wild life of the hardy pioneer!
He is an animal broker to-day, and sup-
plies all the snikes used by the dime
museum girls in the United States.
“Yes,” said Mr. Burns, ‘‘there are
styles in animals the same asin any-
thing else. This is the season for the
purchase of foreign animals. It begins
in the spring and runs on till fall. The
call for American animals does not open
until luter in the year.
“I'he demund has just opened for
deer. A good specimen is worth, say
£10. All zoological gardens and other
corporations wanting deer supply them-
selves at this time of year. This
season, according to my trale, deer are
very scarce. If you only had a corner
on the deer market, eh? No, these auni-
mals are not esteemed a luxury, although
some of them sell as high $150 a pair.
However, $80 is a good average price.
“The very rarest animal in the Ameri-
can trade is the Rocky Mountain goat.
If you have a pair of these splendid ani.
mals, by all means take advantage of
the present rising market. You can get
almost any price for the goats. Why,
not long ago | sold the stuffed skin of
gach a goat for £8300 cash. The animal
is the rarest in the United States. It is
extremely shy. It is almost unapproach-
able. It lives at the very tops of the
Rocky Mountains, whence its name. If
taken at all it must be shot. It belongs
to the more inaccessible parts of the
mountain fastnesses. To tuke a Rocky
Mountain goat is the exploitof a
time. The goat is covered with
wool of great fineness of quality.
endeavor was recently made to
the Rocky Mountain goat with some
our native wool bearing animals,
with what success 1 never learned.
“The wolverine is quoted at $400 a
pair, and is scarce at that. It is a cruel,
bloodthirs:y animal, sinaller than a wolf,
with a great long body ¢ wered with
shaggy hair. Its bite is death. ‘This
animal is growing very scarce, although
life-
i
long
Cross
of
but
monest of native stock.
wolverines for fun up in Michigan, which
was so pleatiful there in the earlier
cnys.
“Bears are
Spring. A black specimen is worth from
£15 to $25, and glad to
that.
quoted low
YOry
The animal will twist |
a gun barrel like so much straw, Al
man hag no more chance before one of |
these beasts than a mouse has before a |
bulldog. As far as I know, only one |
gorilla was ever brought to Europe, and
that one died soon after its arrival. It
scems the beast pines away in eaptiy ity.
“With a specimen of the genuine |
man-eating gorilla, n person could eas- |
ily make a fortune in a year. People
would eagerly pay no large price to spo
the beast. In a year you could clear
hundreds of thousands of dollars, So,
if you ever run across a genuine speci
men, re.nember what I am telling you
to-day, and don't sell out too soon or ut
a loss.” —! New York Recorder.
bullet or a snare?
FLORIDA FRUITS,
and vinegar are caten with it. For
salads the fruits make n fine novelty,
which would be greatly appreciated at
the Northern hotels. —{New York Post.
Wild Dogs in the Norih.
In the LaY%e of the Woods country,
1 wilderness
and brushwood, a ruce
of wild dozs have established themselves
that fears ura entertained that the ani.
the Canadian Pacific Ruilway was under
and dogs were often left behind, and
The Rich Variety in the Land of
Flowers and Kumquats,
Florida is notably the land of flowers,
but it is quite as truly a land of fruits,
and Northern visitors are always agree.
able surprised at the number and great
variety of tropical products which can be
grown upon the warm southern peninsula
of this State. From its very nature the
orange ranks first among the fruits of
the South, but many other members of
the citrus family are becoming as favor-
able known as the orange. The grape-
fruit and shaddook sell rapidly in North-
ern markets, although five years
they were allowed to rot upon the trees.
Many people use the words shaddock
aud grape-fruit interchangeably, bat the i
former is much larger, often weighing
from three to four pounds, The shad
docks yield a coarse food, which is of
very little use, but the trees make fine |
ornawental pieces for the lawn and gar. i
den. n
China and Japan, and was brought to the
West Indies by one Capt. shaddeexk,
from whom the name was taken. There
are said to be upwards of forty distinct
varieties of the fruitin Flo : SOME
kinds are preserved the same us citrons,
The ks are
pompelmouse or pummeliow, while the
grape-fruit—a near relative
the name of pomelo. This fruit i
ferred by many to the orange, and the
treos are larger and more prolific. The
an
and healthful acid. A wig
no larger than the little finger will some-
times produce four or five large grape-
fruits, and a comparatively small tree
will produce as many as 2,(KK) in a season
They are picked, sized, and packed
nearly the same us oranges, and in the
cities they retail at from five to fifteen
A fine grape-fruit trie
will thus vield more profit than an orange
: of them were or gin
ago
T ictinally e fr
he tree originally came rod
3
shaddoc sometimes called
3
goes DY
®
pre-
agreeable
cents apiece.
tree, but nearly all of
ally planted simply
Until
for ornamental pur-
very recoutly there he
it
t
OSES, it
ivate
h the
rapidly
but
it
fruit,
for it
and market the grape
increased
wi
demand is
fox.
worth a gold mine. 1 rarely pay
as the supply is greater than the demand.
If ¥oa trap a
him to some park commissioner and ¢
the reputation of ery
for in the market he wou 4 1
more than his freight to New York, that
is if you had to ship him a few hundred
miles,
“{ her « heaper ani
and the raccoon. Tl
hese pests. I will not touch them at any
price,
tomer.
or £30, a
at 83.
“Beaver are scarce and ought to brmg
at least $100 each.
“A good old Bengal tiger ought to
bring £2,000. A lion is worth, say, 81,000
or $1,200. An elephant
$3,000. A tapir comes at 2300.
by the way, | have now what is beyond
question the largest tapir in the world.
It is up at Central Park. Go up and
sce it, The animal is a beauty,
does not belong to the park, it may soon
be taken away. You should see
fore it is removed.
bear vou had better give
beings renerous
'
ail
nt
fs
unless for
A 3
2004
at 25
some spe
woil Is jth vi
fox and race
is
constrictor and the python are quoted at
ing on length. A fair av
from $20 to $100. All the snakes in the
GGuavas are Florida's pe:
many persous eat thom
of hand as
Aware peacues
out
g er th rast v
among the n tI per
i
can scare
ishable
South, and
ar as Jackson i
are m
but when
sugar they have a de
iar to Ihe name of
comes from Mexic
the frui originally
Mexico or the West In us
are about
themselves,
the
iI8 were
ir is fsonvabs
br
he size
ear-shapedq,
' i$
green skin.
to twenty feet
iful for ornnm ti purposes
or
ti prod 106
fruits a June July. and
i} a
nue {
by cold weather
odu
ruits,
i
various fo
nonths
e% One
and
cal America § TIROUS at
f : the natives eat
In Florida they
very little for commercial
of the
them in
have been used
purposes, although
being paid to
Cattley's guava is the
rms,
more sttention
their tivation.
finest grown
is
:
cul
in
good prices at the hotels where North
me. How large do tho biggest snakes in
the land grow? Well the largest boa
constrictor | ever saw was about thirty
feet in length. Bat, in my judgment,
such snakes are seldom caught alive.
“A zebra is worth about £1,006). This
animal is even scarcer than the elephant.
I have seen zebras sold ns high as £2.
O00 each. At that rate a herd would be
worth a small fortune
“One of the rarest and best selling
animals on the globe to-day is the giraffe.
something along about 85,000 or $8,000,
“Monkeys are worth from £10 upward.
“Among birds, the very rarest | know
of is the South American horn screamer,
It is so rare that no price has ever been
guoted.
“The golden turkey of Guatemala is
another rich prize.
thoasands, { do not think there is a
single specimen in this country to-day,
The peculiarity ubout the horn screamer
is the three horns oun its body, oue on
sach wing ond one on its head. The
horns grow out like spikes.
“But by fur the most expensive and
rarest animal in the world is the great
African gorilla. As the Rocky Mountain
goat is the rarest in the American trade,
#0, too, the gorilla is the costliest and
sarest in the trade of the globe. As far
as I know, there never was a specimen
of the genuine man-eating gorilla brought
to the United States. Nor will there
ever boone. You see, in the first vlaee,
this animal inhabits the wildest und most
inaccessible parts of the African inter.
jor, and furthermore, is the wildest and
most bloodthirsty beast in the world,
Henoe, in uy Jud ent, it will be veurs
before one is displayed in this country.
To meet u gorilla means death, every
Hime, A gorilla en fight and kill an
The kumquat is a peculiar fruit of |
tage of being delicious to the taste, |
- - :
hardy. The fruit is about an inch in
diameter, and of a deep orange color
The rind is sweet and the juice acid and
refreshing. In Florida fruit is
worked on ordinary orange stock, and it
may be grafted on any of the trees of the
citrus family. The shrab in caltivation
is seldom allowed to exceed the height of
a gooseberry bush, although if allowed
to grow wild, it would attain a much
higher growth. It is a native of Japan,
and is caltivated extensively in China as
well. When the fruits are picked and
placed on sale in strawberry-baskets,
they make a pretty sight, und as the
shrubs are prolific, the profits in growing
them are not small.
The sapodillus and RONUT-#OPSE are two
fruits frequently met with in Florida,
but never seen further North, The
sapodillas come from the West Indies,
and were first cultivated at Point Pinel |
tur, near Tampa, and it is at that place
one must go to seo them in their greatest
perfection. They make very excellent
the
eating out of the hand. The sour.sops |
come from South America, and the trees
on which the fruits are grown are very |
ornamental. ‘The fruits are large and |
graceful, and frequently one sour-sep
will weizh two or three ponds, They
have a sour, but extremely pleasant
trate, and the natives of the Southern
countries eat them with relish. They
are ulso worked up into preserves and
desserts,
The sugar.apple is a tender native of
the West Indies, and the fruits taste
something like the aute, and they are
relished by nearly all visitors to Florida.
The fruit is a rich, yellowish green, with
u rough outside skin, but sweet within,
The avocade, or alligntor pear, is much
esteemed in the Fouth, and around Ke
West great quantities are grown in pri-
vate gardens. When placed on the
runtket, they sell from sixty cents to one
collar ke dozen. The fruit is so soft
and delicate inside that it dissolves in
thie mouth, and is often called ‘vegetable
As it is rather oily and pesty,
The animals are lurge, lean, short.
haired, and generally red, or red and
In winter they live by cutching rabbits
that abound in the wilderness of brush-
fish that crowd the
conneet inland lakes.
The
a general nuisance. Sometimes 6 wild
dog is taken ina trap that has been set
for other unimals, but the beasts are ex-
ceedingly cunning, swift and watchful.
A race of d is
Newfoundland, keeping near the coust
sis to
wild
Os
and subsisting on what the sone
the shore. — Pilot Mound Sentinel,
Prevalence of Absinthe Drinking.
ng is being carried to
Dr. J. t:, Brown,
cen is 1.4
that il would
“Absinthe drink
that extent to day si
of Chicago, nt the Laclede,
un irres stible te mplatiol
feem to possess a
for all, b It espe :
und not only absinthe ba
xd in wmrger qu inti
has been known at
EEE ot
eve
domi people ie
no disast i
in the argumen
that it i
drinks,
those
rous
& the
its
prod i
uCean i Co
liquors, und some therefor
the extent 3 or
difference | ie in
gone to
is
or i :
g that
iry i
HH
there
produces
who BEAK
both by stady
that whe:
no
I'he best authorities,
men
from knowledge ac i
a pared
erimont,
it produces a
and by exg sliow
used 10 Xcess
ondition whicl
f the strongest
Disarrangement of
he nerves, unbearable headaches, ters
fving hallucinatio:
ollow its constant abu
end to
parent to th
the daily
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}
Louis Globe. Democrat.
mental and pers sus 1 we
dom
§
of ofl
t0llows the abuse o
ierinfoxicants
» fail
wi
whieh these thing
least obser
fi
FMITNAs Of Qa
Indifference of Savages to Pain,
3dr
erence of savage
sword, and vet velling o
his comrades in the
victory we mav n
deny that the sa age
uot hold that he
New York Press.
fee
Miniature Willows,
pedition sent out
When the late ex;
Natural
the Academy of
Philadelphia had in Green'and,
the botanist fell upon his knees and be-
gan tearing uj little shrub not over
three inches high The entomologist
looked on in curiosity, but opened his
eyes wide as the botanist said, “A willow
tree.” “Tree!” he said;
that a tree?” “Salix arctica, the mighty
forest tree of Greenland.” It was, in
deed, a willow, in full bloom, with cat.
kins an inch or so long. and as fully
formed as any willow in the world, It is
hardly correctto say that it was only a
few inches high, for it was what botan.
ists term procumbent—fiattened to the
ground, and. if stood upright, would
stretch to perhaps two feet in height.
The trunk was about a half inch in di-
by
i
NOONOeR of
landed
up a
do wou call
little twigs rose a few inches,
The Poetry of the Farm,
————
poverty degrades
brings Soapuis.
In the country
There you see the
rising nnd setting sun; you bscome no-
quainted with the stars and clouds. The
constellations are yous friends. You hear
the rain on the roof and listen to the
rythmic singing of the winds. Yo. are
thrilled by the resurrection called sp:'ng,
touched and saddened by autumn--ihe
grace and poetry of death. Every Gisld
is a ploture, a landscape; every lund-
scape a poem; every Hower a tender
thought and every forest a fairy laud.
In the country you preserve your ident
ty-—your personality. There you are
an ageregntion of atoms, but in the city
you ure only an atom of an aggrezation.
nll,
THE VALUE OF SQIDPS,
Uses to Which Cuttle Fish and Octo.
pods are Put.
The little cuttle fish, which swarm in
such vast numbers along the North At.
lantic coast, are near cousins to the giant
squids, which grow to sixty feet in length,
and have afforded material for 20 muny
nstonishing sea yarns,” said an ichthy-
ologist to a Washington Star writer,
“These small fellows do not often attain
tonishingly greedy, even devouring their
In
an school of young mackerel they are
with their sharp beaks a triangular piece
out of the back of the neck of each fish
At other times they will
drop to the bottom and change their
color to that of the sund, so as to become |
almost invisible. Then when a fish
Like a
almost transpar-
in the water after |
full grown
when swimming
prey. The mackerel when
voraciously,
“In fact, nearly all of the flesh-eating |
h the ocean feed |
Even |
the whales consume them by myriads, |
4 "1
dweil in
largely upon these small squid.
ns bait has caused them to
{i thut pur- |
value
be used to u great extent for
pose by fishermen, who often gathe r|
them in quantities the |
beaches, when big storms have he:ped
along the shore in
When the moon is full they are apt to
be found stranded in great numbers
fact attributed to a habit they ha
staring at the light. Inasmuch as they
swim backward this course of proceeding
naturally results in their rauning on the
I'he fisher
gn of
Snormous on
w.ndrows,
ih
ve of
posite to the
men take ad
the going out in boats w
and ndvan
when the
shote Of moon,
vantaze of this wenknd
rs by ith torches
slowly toward the beach,
fish retreat o run
Having got aground a squid
gots off aga
ing
cuttle ni
aground
immedi.
rarely a, because it
: i
ately proceeds io water with ail
of the siphon, which is its
ve apparatus, and th
iven farther up on land, usually dis
harging its ink in quantities
“Cuttlie fishes of several species, big
and little, are sold in many of the mar-
kets of the world, particularly
snd Japan. They are much in
Chile. Certain kinds, called Octopuses
breause they have eight arms, are caught
in the Meditterrancan and salted and
pic kiled chiefly for cous amption ini
Grovee, i are hunted in
y the Indians on the const,
from
big enough 4
its mich
it 3
is it is
} in China
eaten
tf ieto wile L8G
Pp Igetl 8 sand
H
:
; $ . : :
who are skilled in spearing them
(ten
be dangerous antagonists,
CANOES, hes re ’
or cailamaries are
Gs Crea.
that so many
attacking
wi gus
pounds
rfentac'es wily
eizht shorter
Me
hav.
i wating
oul » AMCTIcan species
he Oi
hese animals vent when
for « VAT
which furnish the
affords satisfactory t
black ink whi
frightened is dried
es 10.
ommercial §
poses
wm
ted
Cut
into little enkos,
ian of artists, usualiv much adultern
This the
position of India i
cHiers
nk
sepia also nto
A Nile Memory.
I want to give you a photograph which
the bright sun of Egypt registered on |
the sensitive plate of my brain one win. |
ter morning some vears ago. I had been |
travelling up and down the Nile valley, |
wandering in and out of mud villages, |
and rejoicing my soul over the perpetual i
greenness which makes the Egypt of
winter one of the most beautiful places |
on the globe. 1 had gone many miles to
the southward, and was back nat
Cairo to take my lost look at the Pyra-
mids before 1 left for howe, © 1 wanted |
to see the sun rise from them, and early
one morning | called my donkey boy and
mounted 7” Yankee eo wile.” as be called
Lis steed, and galloped across the big
bridge and out into the Selds. Aswe left |
Cairo the dawn just began fo break, and
signe of life appeared in the huts along
The young girls and old
women of the fel ahin, or peasantry, came |
forth, their dark eves shining, and their
handsome features bared to the breeze,
now
the most graceful manner, the large!
water jar, which forms the houschold |
water-works of these six million people,
These water jars are o brick red; the
dress of the poor women of Egypt is a
dark navy blue, and their features are of
a mahogany brown. They carry from
childhood great burdens on their heads,
and their forme are straight, supple and
graceful, There is no brighter light
than that of Egypt. You can see for
miles, and everrising beyond you stands
out like a silhoustte against the blue sky,
and the atmosplisse makes all pictur.
esque and striking
desert, the top of the pyramid of Cheops
women, standing up to their knees in the
old Nile, stood on
printing of one of the old masters repre.
senting a scone inthe Scriptures. It was
n page out of the Egypt of the past, bat
the Egvpt of to-day isthe same os it was
in the days of the Pharaohs,
ertiment changes, but the people
the sume,
harvest with the sickle and the bund just
as thoy did when Joshua was a voung
brickmaker, and when Moses was rocked
to sleep among the bulrushes. —{ Ameri-
can Agriculturist,
A Washington Sensétion.
The Chinese minister's ball was a sen.
sution from the moment
peared. As he had declared
social policy of
shown himself averse to the
ways, not half the world had troubled to
leave cards But when the
his cards ap-
ngninst the
his predecessors, and
Occidental
upon him,
Minister and Madame Tsui at
Home" graven at the top, the neglectful
half of the world rushed to call and to man-
wuvre for invitations,
nese
were de-
ata
few
{ ards
Gs
a
way in,
church wedding, but even then
notorious ones brauzened their
ing the attendant a card of invitation to
1"
and
his protest by saying that it was at len-2
large enough to admit her, as sho swept
b
au dressmaker’'s opening, nuswering
i 2 "
Y-
"Madame Tsui, who was not supposed
put u her tradi-
tions that night, and received her guests
with conventions! hand shakes and E
to exist socially, side all
lish phrases. She was pure Celestial
from the tips of her th
to the butterfly.like ornaments of f
3 her lu
a oom
ree-inch slippers
agree,
jade and pearls that covered dir;
and with the secretary's wife as
Mae
on the arm oi
stepped from some jur or fan lame
Tsui tottered out to supper
en her tired
out of
Secretary Blaine, and tl
feet carried
i
ial her up sia
away from the
Westerns and buck
narrow, restricted I id. Her
baby daughter attracted
rs,
to the
nursem id and
as the ladie
the infant blinked its
es ut the ni until
f what
do on this
much attention
LE
as = Jn ne
bel stairs
little
midaight
and
blag 8g © ne Boss
the Oi08 ©
KIO
to
re
! Despite pr imhecies,
of the globe,
Cine rived irom
not
bee |
function nt
the
the dij
plo-
dame “Tsui has not again
her Orientalism.
resented at any state
Vhite House whieh ladie
Matic Corps ure exp
is in not in
has broken thro
etiquette, she has not « msistently
Harper's Duzar,
she still has
Shao
she
o nttend.
while
ous Cele
and wa Vv, ang
1
gh the rig
ug
lowed ours,
How Bushmen Live
Reattered over the
Kalahari Desert
famous bushmen
wanderings they
enlarge holes dug H
they Phe
| jntor th Y rega
! m the
ns cook
crawl
eRe miserable
Animas
v $e
gress
ing of
wagons and cars
fits on the farm
transportation 10 marks
(Good roads should be above all poli.
tice. They i
issue in every
pet
rive 5
RIFE 9a
is
should be a non-partisan
until laws are
passed and selected to administer them,
which and who for every
tow uship in the | nited States the best
highways that skill and labor can make.
do to improve the
country and better the condition of every
farmer. —| American Farmer,
y
ei ction,
will Insure
will more
The very heavy falls of snow which
masses of snow,
made, some five fect high and six feet
to represent an enemy
ties, stationed 1,500 feet from the works,
in the targets behind them.
of
wr
this case the entrenchments were
the ballets fired against the marks in the
rear of them. It will readily be seen
from this that unless ample time and
plenty of men are ut command snow is
not of much value for fortifying military
yositions against musketry fire.—{Pall
Mall Gazette,
A Home Made Horse Power,
———
A very good horse power may be made
An upright
shaft is fixed in a convenient place, and
them if desired. A horizontal driving
wheel is fitted on the shaft and carries a
wire rope by which the motion is con.
person that can use
that will do as much work as a more cost
The wire rope is better
than & hemp one, as it will not shrink or
treteh as The weather changes. |New
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS.
EPITOME OF NUWS GIEANED FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF THE STATE,
GovERNOR PaTisos will
deliver the ora
tion on Meruorial Day, May 30th, at Millers«
Tus
will of the late Rev. Dr. Chas. Elliott,
valuable library to
Tur Soldier's Monument Association has
asked for the balance of 348 which was in”
eluded In the amount raised in Allentown for
flood sufferers, and which is
The Heo.
fon
the Johnstown
in bank in Allentown unclaimed,
ciation intends to erect 8 suitable iment
in memor
J Ax of Port ( arbon, ernployed
8s ou leader ut Eagle Hill Colliery,
y of the deceased soldiers
MCGUIRE,
wax stand,
ing upon the platform end had started the
conl in the chute, and whes the eonl began to
run he jumped from the pistform to the gang
way. He struck upon a drill which had been
standing upright, and was seriously injured iu
the sbhdomen.
Tu
remove
£ court st Pottsville was petitioned to
J. B. Bowes and FE. E. Beed,
Commissioners, the ground
two
County on of
alleged misdeamennor.
L W. Haves Gries, of Colun
i of
D
COLONES
Wis a ppoinie
Printing
of West (
AT
Italian priest, has been threatened with ss
Superintendent
in place of Major Barton Evans,
Lester,
Rev. Bosano Nasaca, the
Hez eton,
sassination by some of his parishioners who
nd g t and
are ex-bandits, and he goes armed nigt
aay.
Tur pupils
schools of Bethlehem
in the publie
united in
the tri-centennial anniversary of
Comenius, the educator and father of the pub
1
AIC $CHOUIL Bervices sppropriate
occasion were held in the Moravian Church
at which many sddresses were made The
students of the Theological Seminary held an
oratoric contest.
ani
Wititanm 'exey Fisner, of He
3
said he is an heir of Baron Fisher, the n
gire who recently died in Germany.
claim 8 port on of his estate,
AT Pittsbu
R. MeKirby,
for misdemennor, came
Bra i
rg the hearing in the case
Allegheny Cour
off before Al
un, and MeKirby was held for court.
Tus jury,
sudden deaths of Frank snd Lewis Mo
auditor of
lerman
Coroner's inquiring into the
re the
two boys who died st Chester under peculiss
circumstances, brought in 8 verdict of death
from poisoning.
Mrs. Monday borse=
barber,
AT Washington, Pa.,
whipped James Greenlee, a colored
who had been paying ber atientions, but who
jilted her for a younger colored belle.
Tue story pub
that Attorney General Hensel would wit!
lished in a New York paper
STRAW
the suit of the Commonwenlth against the
Feuding combine was denied by Mr. Hensel
and the off cials at Harrisburg.
Was
their delegates to the
11x6TON County Democrats instructed
State Convent
Cleveland, and a motion favoring GO
Pattison ss second choice was voted dos
GoverxoR Pa
tion fixing Thursday, the
TTISOX
issued his
of
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Friday, the 6th day of May, 10 be observed as
14th
Arbor Days in Pennsylvania,
Wai a hotel in
John Ward
ries.
testing a firc-escape at
Williamsport, the rope broke and
| three siories, receiving serion
let
hap
nated for Assembi)
H., Coct
ominated,
nion County ublican proms
Fe
Focht was nom
In Armsiroug County 8.
nk Mast were 3
Tue women Ash
ana at
have
girie
bee:
Wilkes-Barre, sonoyed bya Jae
the Hugger. He wos caught, severely besten
snd warned to Jeave the
LA] * 4
the eflects of
' N
place.
ni
i shot secidenially ©
by Authony Geriski.
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THE TREATY RATIFIED.
Sea Ended
the Senate.
HAEL GRIFFEN died Ashland from
a pint red
Trouble Over Bering by =
Unanimous Vote in
1 executive session bY the
i
it
Two hours spent i
ifficed to
of the Dering Sea arbitration treaty, and
Renate ® Con piete the consider
nanimous vole al (he
The debate itsel
was ratified bya u
clusion of the discussion.
was without incident.
Mr. Sherman who had the treaty in charge,
n the
One of
to be desirable 10
document, snd they were agreed to
lieved incorporate
them provides that the arguments and pro-
ceedings before the arbitrators shall be iu the
English language. This amendment was
suggested to Sir Julian Pauocefote a day or
two ago. He said that it sppeared io be
proper, but that he should like to secure the
sormal swent of Lord Salisbury to it
This ssssent came in the form of a cable.
gram, which was shown to the President by
the British Minister, and was at once seni to
Senstor Sherman, who vansed the necessary
smendment 10 be incorporated in the treaty.
Exactly the same procedure was followed in
the case of the second amendment, which
changes Article 11 of the treaty so as io re-
quire the arbitrators to make their decision,
11 possible, within four mouths instead of
three from the close of the arguments of
counsel.
This change was believed to be desirable in
view of the magnitude ot! the subject and the
enormous volume of testimony to be cone
sidered Ly the arbiirators. The opposition to
ratification, which had been very munch weak
ened, completely disappeared as the result of
Mr. Sherman's explanation, and when the
question was taken directly on the reso ution
of ratification there were no nays, while the
yeas numbered 72—an unusoslly large vole
in the Senate,
After the result bad been announced the
usual resolution notifying the President of the
section of the Senste was passed and the con
sideration of the treaty was complete.
Tin nn III
A TORNADOS WORK.
Buildings Leveled and Houses Carried in
the Alr in an Lilineis County.
A tornado swept over Plant County, Ills,
leveling buikings and destroying many thous
ands of dollars worth of property. It came
from the South, and was scoompanied bya
severe hail storm.
Barns and houses were carried from their
foundations and vemolished. Buildings wers
seen high in the air, being earried slong by
he eye which was 200 feet wide.
No loss of life has yet been reported.
The torna io also skirted Bioomington, Me~
Lean County, unroofing a umber of houses
and a chale factory. An old Jady sewed
Mate was badly hurt and ber Louse was blown