THE NEWS, — " A premature dynamite explosion at Min. ersville caused the serious injury of eight Italian and Hungarian workiogmen,— : Emmet Argenbright fell through the ice | while skatng on North River and was | drowned, —Iateresting papers were read before the Nutioval Conference of Univer. sity Extension held ia Philadelphia, ——A | boiler explode! in the carpet-cleaning es tablisement of R. B. Hutchinson, in Pitts- burg, killiag John Cox, the foreman, —— | John R. Bhirp tien, associate judge of the | Suprems Court, died at midoight in San Francisco, fiom the effects of a paralytic stroke with which he was seized on Monday last. He was sixty-n'ne ysers of age and served thirteen years on the Supreme Bench, ~—Linrequited love cause! Cora Griffith to commit suicide in I.diacapolis. —— Peter Sutter, a retired lowa farmer, murdered his The largest seizure of smuggled opium in yeers was made in San Francso. The contratanl drug, consisting of 1,200 half-pound can, valued at $12,000 wero dis- | covered inside of the sheathing in the hold of the steamer O eanic, from Hong Kong. The duty on the opium amounted to §7,000, «~The Austin Mercantile Company, Alex. H, Lowck, mavager, of Austin, Miun., made an assignment to J. 8, fit of creditors $20,000, i A squall upset a yacht near Sydney, New | South Wales, and a number of persons were drowned, ——The Columbus Fountain, the gift of John B. Drake, was presented to the city of Chicago.——Mrs. Maria Willis, an | aged lady, living alone, was found dead iu bed in Zanesville, Ohio, having frozen te death.——The large knitting-mills of John P, | Sheppard, on Walnut street, Sa em, N. were burned. loss estimated at about #290 000, with $7,000 insurance. The mills were running full time, and about one hundred girls will be thrown out « f work by their de struction. — Fire destroyed 8100000 worth of property in Slater, Mo. the insurance being $US.000. The heav.est losers are A. LL. Haas and A. L. Sieber, both dealers in dry goods. The loss to each was £25 000, —— Joba J. Regan, a pali-bearer ut Paroell's funeral, committed suicile in Chicago A little son of Mra. Milion, at Elwood, Ind, set fire to his sister's dress, and the child was burned to death before her her assistance. In a collision on the Rear! ing Railroad, near Philade!phia an engineer, a fireman snd several passengers were in fared, ~~~ Widiam J, Leary, cf New Be! ford, Mass, got drusk on a hunting trip, and in a tusse! with a sa oon-keeper, his gus was discharged, Alfred Filder, aged fourgeen years, receive | a death wound, Patrick Mahoney and J. H. Barnett, while crossing the Chicago, Rock Island and Paci file tracks in Chicago, weve rund passenger train. Both mangled, Sheedy for the bene- | Liabil ties, £30,000; assests, J Pay 3 mother could come to and wn by a men were terribly and died within half an hour of each other, Fire deswroyed the Linden Opera Houre in Geneva, N. Y.—— Dartmouth College re- ezived a bequest of §200,000, embracing the entire estate of Dr. BEalph Putterfleid, Kapsas Ci'y.~——A fire at Winston, N, C burned M: Arthor’ stables and de Mroyim; Loss 8 5%; insarance §1 000. The orizin of oot known Five #Mreet caught fire in N.C. ani burned down. 1 thought hava originated by the explosion of grocery storeci H. CC. E tit & Co. tock was covered by insurance, ——T ny Gal meting of the American Peycholog: kcal Assce ation was begun in Philadelphia wee Mra. Betsy Hill died in the effects of ill-treatment received from threo rough. ——By the bursting of water and steam pipes, three lower floors of the five-story building at the corrver of Lake and Clarke streets, in Chicago, were flooded with water. Tie loss to the various tenants of the building will be nearly $27,000, Th baavies. l.s.r is Fred Giesheimer, dealer in ‘qthing and fur ishing ; oods. —— Anengine a Eve freight cars on the Cleveland, | Jraine and Wheeling Railroad fell overa | estle into the Obio r.ver at Martius Ferry, T - yeckdipt was dus to the sinking of the Ade. All thecirs wire wrecked, Engineer . Oag was [rightiully crushel and burned, «nd will die. Perry Bishop, the firenn, was also seriously hurt. The prope ty lows is heavy Mrs, Samuel McCoskey, of Btaunton, Ind, has made the agreeable dis covery that she is the heir to an estate near Albavy. N. Y.. valued at $50.000, ~The Executive Committes of the Indus. | frial Legion bas made the amendments sug. | gested by General Paul Vandervort, and the latter has accepted the cflice of commander: in-chief, -— Dr. Ligario, the director of the Chicago Pasteur Institute, says be is thed s, soverer of the new cure for epilepsy, —— Silas W. R. Jones, a wealthy Kokomo man, | arrested on a charge of bigamy, claims that bie is not guilty, and is fighting extradition. wwe Fire broke out in Delaware county's elegant new court-house in Muncle, Ind. ani the bul ding, valued at $300,030, was ruined, The origin of the fire wax in the court-room. Sw. Fhe South Side strest car barns fo Mil | waunkee were destroyed. The loss is mostly | om cars. Many bundred of them were do, | stroyed. The fire is claimed by the watchman | to have been incendiary. Loss estimated at | $300,000. ——By an explosion of dynamite in | a quarry peir Greensburg, Pa. one man was killed and twelve others frightiully injured, Some of those hurt will die. of Niwa + JIVETY twoaty three horse the firv is wooden stores on Broad Camben, he fre i fo a lamp io the Ts The be first Newark from ious polsoning case at Helens, Ark, are | dead. John McFadden, a thrifty furnsce man at Lucy furnace, Easton, Pa, returned to Mrs. Hughes’ boarding-houss and found that his trunk had bee broken opon dw ing | the day and 81,20), his lifetime savings, taken therefrom. William Sommers, a strange ‘boarder is missing. HAMBURG'3 PLAGUE. ————— our More Cases of Cholera and Two More Deaths. Four more cass of cholera and two more ‘ths were reported to the health authori- tiew in Hamburg. Besides this, seven per sons suspected of having the disease were The wall steamer Hungeria, from the Black Sea, is detained at Cuxhaven Hovoc Wrought By the Explosion of Fifty Cartridges. 8ix Persons Killed and Over Twenty Injured, Two Fatally. An explos’on, which shook the Jenzth and breadth of Lom Island City, N Y. cccurred at 8 o'clock the other morning, at the mouth and Long Island Tuunel Company, in Fourth street, cauring the death of #ix poisons fatally injuring two others, and wounding 20 more. The scene of the explosion is the most thickly settled portion of Hunter's Point. la Island of four-story Bavings Bank, Davren's flats, a row barber shop, John Hoptin.'s restaurant and F. Plain's jewelry story. Next to the post office is Fraok McDermott's saloon, with two apartment floors alove, ocrupiad these buildings. The tunnel long by 12 feet con pany ’s>hatt is about 25 feet wide, Some 50 cartridges of Forsythe's powder had been brouzht from the storage house o ths meadows, 10 be prepared for send; down to the driers working in the heading which is being blasted out under Fourth street at a dep b of 85 (eat, As tbe explosive was frozen, Foren a: McEates pmc-d the caririiges in toe steam coedix to thaw the n out. Toey hal ben there about 15 misutes when the explosion ceourred. All that wa lett of the chests and sheds after the expl BION Were a ew sp inters, tut a biz bow ubout three feet deep by eight feet wids told the storv of its downwar | course This eff «ct the ¢xuolos oa on Davren Flax was terr ble, Every window sh iu the rear was r pped out and the glass driven pecs of all siz, throu, hh the roam, and taose in the fr ot 100m bown out Men, women aud children were rudely dashed the floor, some being struck by large shosts of » lass and others by pieces of woodwor. and tailing celilogs Bureaus, tavles and sl oves wera uptorned Nu wreck wa: ever more complete, A tri of th +» rear brick wall, ten fee: w de extending {rom basement to roof, fell in wii a terrible crash, Amid«t the confusion con be heard the cr ths wounded aod th moans of the dying Scantily-clad womes and children rushed frown the building waiting to sce who was hurt or mis ig feariog that the wails were unt out tocol it most beaded men to suflliciently col ect taeir sen to ook arcu ad sh 1 inquire 101 toe me ul of hei families Firemen and police wer » aad been Ms Pots + fl #2 vi of aboyt “5% O no OOK ssveral minutes lor the ikly on wtigh the bud qu a seuren the the cm whose body was jou «dd id the vard at tae rear with ap s of seantiing runviog a most through bdy., Death bal appr ently been iustavtaneous, Then the boy of Mary Gravden, the wait who was breat ving b r last, was found on the fi the restaurant si chen, and near her Edward Delaney Boh the latter faces borribiy mutilat bart 0p lay the i was too mu h disdigur the time. The ma was still sive afterward identificd as Nicoai | t y% broth r. 1 he ambulance from St and a corps of doctor and tx toy the | $ NEWS Po, ings y Rocco, carters wife Was LO She was lying OS $ gn Ws strive undead were gq Th nthe * to stores near ks + iY, v pital. ng were takea While all this wa: g the occasion was mtensified by flames oa the third apart ment buildings rapidiv, and befor: ths uader control nearly the its was d stroyed. At least twenty fam lies bomeless mot th-m ciothing and every h og they opt the low Lain is on their backs : There were ni ie men working in the tn when tae exp osion occurred Une of thew said they felt the shock an | thought the shaft had coliapsed, It was nearly halfan bh ur befcre any of them woald venture to invest gate ant ask to be drawn to the surface. Mog on th ys horror { be bursti sut of tio ur of one of the The flames spread Nremien RO them whole row of bul d ren ler xd ing furmiture, Pos Sel ex ware f Of Ow ON A LOCOMOTIVE PILOT. Charles Griggs Struck and Carried 8x Miles Unconscious. Charles Griggs adrug clerk was taken to his bomwe in Keokuk, Pa., sufferag from the terrific nervous shook of a remarkable escape. He wasstruck by the Milwaukee limited train the Northwestern Road, Laveling at the rate of 45 miles =u hour, aad car. ied 6 miles on th» pliot of the loco. motive in an une nse ous condition. Toough black and tdue with biuises not a bote nn his body was broken Mr. Gri gs was crossing the Northwestern Bmitea, which eaves Coicagoat 7.30 PP, M., whirled in sight simutanecdsly with a suburbs: passenger train golag rapidly in the opp site dir ction, Griggs was bewiideres There wa no tine to leavs the rails. Wnt on Griggs jumpxd straight into the air. H was struck by the tront of the engive au instinctively clutching the braces. Nene oo. the trai: men saw the accident, and it nas Lot untid the liniled reached South Evans ton that they discoverad the man's danger. Ho was s.ul unconscious, his hands gripping the braces on the pilot with superhuman To the surpriss of every ons it was found that not a bone had b ea fractured or even wrenched. The bair on the right side of his bead was somewhat scorched, as a resuit of contact with ths boiler, “I jumped, struck the engine and then sverytning became blank,” said Mr. Griggs, “I dev not remember taken hold of the braces of the piot, but ll must have done so in- stinctively and opt haoging on. If I had htgo | would buve been thrown off aud been killed © The doctors fear he will from tne shock, HE MAY EXPLODE, — BeYEr reacovar a Bufferer From Emphysema. Frederick Ott, a patieat in the City How pital, Baltimore, is likely to explode at any moment. Ott, why is sulfering from em. physema, or air swel ing, is now swollen up to three or four times his normal dimensions and his skin is as tight as the cover of a base ball. The doctors say that unless death comes in some other way, he is bound to ex- While working at the Adam's Express ‘s stables he was caught between a moving oar and a wall and about ten feet. His ribs were broken the sharp sucs driven hin HErertime be wi of Baturalls bs term inhaled is pumped i Lu | i Epitome of News Gleaned from Various Parts of the Btata. IT has come to light that the funds of the Treasurer John Obold having acceptsd the bills in leu of waxes and advanced money to contractors on city work, Heca'r od both in the books as city ass 't , theamouat reach. bog, itis said $750.0. He or his boudsmen will bave to make up a portion of it, Ricnanp Reese, near Monongahela an engineer Cty, was found dead wi h a bullet hole in bic head. Thero is a suspicion that he was murdered by friends of men now on trial for the murder of Reese's brother under similar circumstances some weeks ag, A motion wes made to squash the ind et mest aga nst ex-Frothonotary Meutzer, of Lancaster County, on ral for meat, and the court will consider ter, AFTER making merry chi dren on Chiidmas in mines embezzle the mal with a party of evening, Margaret McLane, known as “Grandma,” wa burned to death in her h vie at Treskow, Mus. Joux C. Warrox, a Republican, the wile of the present office-bolder,a Damocrat, has been appointed postmistres of Kennett, Frask CooLey's comp wion, Lids Pas torius, was sentenced at Uniontown to eigh teen mouths’ imprisonment, Tax Sate Music beid a very suce ssful session at Reding Tue ®t Louis Express, due in York at 4.07 PF. M., was rapid. y approaching t E. B. Harrison, a merchant, and his who driving Teachors' Association 19 Prine ws Street crossing wh n Fuad clerk, Ephraim: Wertz prominent South were bome from market, attempted to cross the The domo] tracks ahead of th train locomotive struck the vehicle, entirely hg it Wertz was tantly killed anil Harris a wa #0 badly icjured that he ns iH not expect d i live, r to decids wiich bstt gt porter Wit the man Aosthony Mitchell, © st the St. Cloud Hotel, and John Hull engaged iniar lored, 1zh and tumble fight Houtz lale Toe light © BO apparent injury al sued for one round, and while ted on either rpse withioa half hour afte til was infli Mitchell was a « the fizht Hud Ronen Moriey, Was arrest sg, re ie Vail ing from a hunting «xp in the Heckschervi perhaps fatally, by th accid of his gun. Tweety f Alle ito and for The ot mornin ; be turased up as nvexpected!y as be bad left, He with Fon ars ago Fdwia H Miller, ieft w. le his lenly hidnn unknown, her locking bale and hearty. called upon his wife who received him Miller has or Open 8 50 years old and during i times. His pe Miller had d th was succes ans, sbsos ce waned the cosan six wife belie lead applied for a RIOD SEVErai Years nga o the wien sine th ng and led "nivie Bn CABLE SPARKS. AT the inte Duke rent Bed syle i of Marlborouch was $100 A Man named Chailet w lang term « = William Proves the lab . who left Engin Africa to studs eXPCis 10 i fu i for Lhe turn iYiraiue!l as a lang nogkeys hn gorul Ag iRTY servant tH Jan VORBRARS entered Milos, wife Lourt, near valued at £ an unicoked sate AT Syduey, NR be b droom of Lady Miles, of Larges und jewels Lady Miles left in of Nir { Bristol wa, 1X ecil Eog . i which sto lo Wo. Makino and bis wife, the batty farm. re who killed thirteen iafants by perc their hi arts or epi with poodles, were committed for tral loth pleades not guilty, Arexasxpen Rosser: Ween recent United Sates consul at Manis, has been myverted to ldamism, and is now in India enllecting fuads to convert ths people of the United States to that faith, Dr. Frascis Cuanres Scorr 8aspens formerly manager of the Lyre Club of Lon do, was sentenced to six yoars penal servi tude for baviog forged the name of the Ear t Londesborough to a banker's ch ok for § egy Rosh, §omE, ng o8 6) THE wife of Count de Lesssps, the origina. tor of the Panama Canal, believes ber hus Land innocent of any criminal action in the prowolion of the inceresis of the enterprise, and says shy is convinced that he is not wholly responsible for what has occurred in Lie affairs of the canal company. A caBLEoRAM from Rome states that the Pope is viensed with the decidon of the Catholic archbishops of the Upited States wu the school question, and that he would have opposed atsolutely any result of the confer ence tending to encourage dissension between American sentient and the episco pats in this couatry Tar Berlin correspondent of the London at Dar as Balaam on November 24 that the rumors of Emin Pasha's death are erroneous, The le ter says be is now following Stanley's route through tee Congo State, and but for sn affection of the eyes, is in exceptionaily good health, aamed Jane Savage, while cleaning house, take down a shelf, ' Horrible Triple Tragedy on Christ- mas Day. Henry C. Varnum Kills His Wife, Daughter and Himself, A borrible triple murder and suicide wag | discoverel at noon in the upper flatof a ' tenement building at 81 Taintor strect, Wor- chester, Mass. Henry C. Vornum, and his little adopted daughter, Fiorenos, found dead, his wife was nearly deud when Ciscovered and divd on the way to the hos- | pital, and Mrs, Wright, the mother of Mrs. | Vargum, now les at the hospital in & criti- cal condition. unaule, as yet, to told or in- dicate iu avy way the story of the awiul | event, Hinry C, Varoum came Worcester from Haron, Vi, in Beptember, and found . a oyment osu wachinbt in the shop of L. L. Pollard, He then blied tbe tenement vu Lalut or street sod sent for bis family, which con.usted of bis wile, an adopted daughter, Florence, and his wife's wot. r, Mrs. Wright, The family lived i 3 { { { were to quietly and to all ap- pearances happ ly, Mrs. Varoum was a regular stteudant at Hope Congregational Churcn, where sbe saug in the choir. Her bus aud and jittle daughter oftea accome panied ber. Mrs, Vornum was not present at any of the church services on B.nday, aud the pastor, Rev. BE. W. Phillips, re- marked the avsouce aud expressed some surprise, saying tuat Mrs. Varoum was not the sort of wowan 10 stay at home be- cause it was cold. Mr, Fi ilips, had ocos- $00 10 make a call on Christy street, near Taiotor, and in passing L.ought ne would ses if anything was wrong. He rong the Varvum bell, but re- Celved no acswer, snd called up the lower teaernent and lat r the or cup ul of the mid. die dueliiog, Mrs F. E, Ha |, who said she had not beard ans thing from the Varnums, aud that ste felt nervous about then. FOURD BY THE PASTOR, Bbe also said that open. ately and entered the the door upstairs was ar. Pulllips went up stairs immedi apartments through the parior. Tobe rovuis were very cold and the furniture He through the parlor into the back parlor aud hen. Hos tbhen pushel open the door of the bedroom leading off from the Kitchen and a terribie sight met eyes, Lyiog ou toe Led, covered with blood, were Mr. Varoum acd bis wile, the man was quite dead. but the woman was breathing heavily. In a cot in the corger of the room lay the chi d, turned aver on her face, also uead M=. Phillips waited to see but rushed dowa-talis to the the RKuowles Loom Works where be telegraphed fur the jolie. When the police arrived the wother, Mrs, Wright, was discovers! in an adjoiniog room. Bhe wus conscious but not abie to speak, thougn she ucdersiood what was said to ber ani mado savers: ineffectual attempts to articulate. Toe b, 0! the as aud child were removed | ¥ an under taker, and the two women were carried to the hospi al, The younger woman died just as the smnbuance mopped at the bospital GOoOr Mrs, Wright ss ill usable to speak, but she way live, She is about 8) years of sage. ibe Wea pos with which the © ime Was Om mit.ed was an iron door-sanger, an iron stiap about 15 incues Jong beaded by a cy hudrica koob., The instrament weighed tuliy our pounds. Veroum bimseifl was killed Uy a stab trom a kaife, identified as bisown, He wasout in the region the heart. There were no other mares upon his body. ioe bodies of the min and child when found were stiff, and water in the kitchen Was irosen iets WES BO EEO of violence about the house cutride of we bedrooms, Mra F. E Hall, who lives io the tenement below, says tbat she beard a siijht sound trom whe chlid at abou: 6 o'clock and a mo- ment later the sound of 1ootseps. The noms coated immediately and sbe though wothing of them undistarbed phssed toe Lo The wile Lis no more, offics of lies of WORK AND WORKERS. Tux woollen weavers emploved in the Backstose Woollen Mill, at Bileckstone, Mass, struck alleging hat excessive fines were enforced by the company. The strike will affect 325 hands ALL the miners and workmen of the Spring Hill Collieries, at Spring Hill, the largest in Nova Beotia, struck and operations entirely ceased. The immediate cause of the trouble is grievances respecting short weight and docking. Use thousand persons are thirowa out of employment, THE jesus of an order reducing the wages of the moulders in the etaploy of the Phoenix Iron Works, of Baltimore, resulted in a strike, in which 50 men participated. The reduc.ion meant about $& per week, which amount, the firm claims, was in excess of the prices paid by competing firme, The a'leged gold ficlds near the junciion of the Ban Juan and Colorado r.vers, in Utah, are attracting thoue-ands of prospee- tors from Areona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utab., ‘The excitement is unparalleled, and tows along the Denver and Rio Grande, both in Southern Colorado and New Mexico are almost depopulate §. Nearly 8.000 people are already u the scene, and the new diggings are saud to have made proprietors IT is propoed by some Cincinnati trades shall be promulgated callng upon every union mau in the country to withhold from circulating ail funds that be may posses or money mar et and thus compel the business ing a strike on iis bands that it will be throat, the razor, razor was 1emoved tightly closed, as she swal owned it w.l probanhly recover fully in three weeks, SHOT HIS BROTHERS, aw Wasn't Loadod, A most disastrous aceident ocourred a few afternoons ago at New Haven, ind, Henry, the wieven year-old son of Bamusl Smith, saw bis brothe's shotzun against a table in Bere we was no ean on the gun look, thinking the gun was not Jonds | he an A cap inl in fun pointed the gun at his two a a To co, Mo ped dhe 1 avely. 0 | trigger, and, the gna ok Jon ded charge of shot struc the two Ye fan tirover, whose ear: was , diel instantly and Josspis was fatally injured. The shot entered hota of bis lungs, About fifty shot entered Josoph's breast and arms T. B. Canrgn, Chie! of the Ssoret Sorvics has prodictsd ois of tae most go and susorsanl counter! sitin ¢ scaemes Hn a ant cot am an ri Sotuterialted ant oumanl dy Ie, Toe ng a prot of Wo the makers, i ployes or show a disposition to settle the dit. ferences between them.” CHANGE OF VENUE. Sagi wh" A Ravisher Taken From Court and Disposed of by Judge Lynch. A despatch from Bowing Green, Ky., MYL Bib Barper has pail te pawity for the nesmalt upon Mas Auderon, and the people feel that the teri ible crime Las been avenged, Ween court upsased the witnesses for the commonwen'ih wers examioed, and Hon, J. C. Bimms had jest announced that the com monwsalth wo 11 rest. Judge Dulaney bad ret.red 10 the withes: room 10 consult with his witness, whe a mob euntered the court room, avined with gus, it was just 11:40 geoct. The mou eaders seized Lue Wivie and urazged him trom fue courieroom, was to hw fair ground ose mile ais tant, He was there lifted £5 the seat of a wagon, and 4d to inake a statement. He rtout.y pro este | kis once soee and ied game, Toe wagon wa pulled from under bim at 11.57 oon, Le Was to bs ded tea minutes Int r. Not a shot was fired and the crowd dispersed q votly, The mob was somposad of vver 1,0u men, Adong the streets Jesding fo the fair grounds the wo nen rash-d to the windows, pd i excitement was | the the crowd ths es AAAS DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES A CRUDE ofl tank at Bpringfield, O, ex plated ant Win, Kobler, aa wmpiyes of } Y Mast & Co,, was Iataily burned, OXE man was fats lly and throes danrer ously inj red 1 y au explosion of wuolie Ulsstlog rocs at Lyao, sells, Jervensox Lextz, of Ta waqua, Penoa,, 8 brabe.wan, was ki ai by fa.lnz under the wheels of vis train whils attempting to get abonrd, Excineer Wu Keuren, of New Albany, Indiana, was kie by beim thiown ugue hs engine, which rau mto uo box car and Wirned over, THREE young girls, daughters of Joh end Wm, Clark, of North Buy, Ontario were drowned by falling through the ice ot Bes lute Lake. AN explosion at the Bickford Fuss Fae tory, st Hop Meadows, Connecticut, fatally injured oue empioye and denolished the building. The cause is unknowa, _ AX elephant ewaped from a circus near Crawlor.ville, lodiaua, a few days ago, and did conside: ab.e damag + to tarmer’s prop erty. He was finaly recaptured. Joux Crosswery and James Duffy, lads 8 uployed in the Fine For.st Colliery, at Sg Clair, Penua., were seriously § ured by the breaking of a hoist ng 10pe, and the couse quent fall of a car, Iwo children of Mrs. Hinekley were burped to death at Bargent, Col, by a fire which destroyed their bom #, lobert Hinck ley. the husband aud father, was crushed te death a fow weeks ago whie Working in mine near Bargent. A SOUTHERN BLIZZARD. Charleston Covered With Bnow aad Bleet--For: Monroe Bnowed Up. Charieston, 8, C yast 10 Massacuu wb nud yeaie A bl zzard struck for the frat housetops wers cove red with a thin of about point during the time within the cost ng gnow and sleet The mer Ury average 4 degrees below {reez ng snd the pedesirians hard three or four aay, pot being accustomed to ice had & time getting along the sidewalks, The orapgs trees in the city are it somewhat aod will robs bly bear only one crop this year. Tiey usually bear twg crops. Flantiug and truck farm crops are not far saou iho ed *10 suffer any dame age, Strawberries are protected and the plants will escape without troubie, FORT MONROE Forr Moxnox, Va.-1 worst blizzard in 20 years struck this vi y about wide night, The electric car | to Hampton ie blocked and navigation » suspended jured pAvan well severe ERNOW -BOUXD. me iis Taz people of Wililamshurg, Col., recently jspanded the resigaation of Professor Voorbix, principal of the primary depart- ment of the public school. 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[ou 100 b Baanerioniresens POPULAR SCIEXCE NOTES, How a Senvesr Feeps.—A tenant in Garden of Plants, Paris, since August, 1885, and has been an object of This is a South i Boa wmurinus), at least Up to the end of 1531 the serpent had taken food in this place 54 times, an average of five times a year, the interval between its meals ranging from 20% dave. It calls for meals by characteristic uneasiness usual { has been rin rabbits on three occasions and a goose oun one, and the largest auimal it has swa lowed has been a kid of 26 pounds, or about one-tenth of its own weight, Such prey is pot remarkable size, a8 ser pents are capable of swallowing animals nearly as large as themselves A i vears ago, indeed, a horped viper was caught in the act of swallowing a Frenel viper a little larger than itself, and ill effects followed this enormous meal boa 20 feet long, American O98 to iw its small gonts, with ood of Ww ' BOGGEETION a subject of cot ai PossiniLiTies Hypuootism formed Ov from Aside sliown 1« of Psychology in London, its scientific interest, was have a practical bearing upon criminal affairs—aus in erime believed to have bees committed under the influence of hypootic sOZarestion ie 1% and upon medicine and edu cation. The was described of a who afflicted with eleven months, whic Case had ian for suicidal mani woman been was cured by s Dr. Beri applications uggestion during hypn« sleep Hon mentioned ed ucatic 0 experiments h CXR, children old 1 P the ones most suscep contrary ief, fromm hereditary nervous de Casy upun o wad {ound from six put f he children of bo that « ght out of 10 ten filtecn year ould Ix ad Rid to general bel subjects it is 7 inutera proje on of Lif ed cach other with eclipse betwed {ore attsine The i provi irs postures may thon ithout image tart w nsiani wu of the band, UPon 3 ced In colors Dy ved in ¢ itern, when the ough a lens upon then Another pre * APPEATANCE Of wry sod mia ch projects n wh lLaaur Sous HY OF Facrs Light produces sound a giass vessel ABOUT AND jlnars falling substan ow a beam of it os full of weled lampblack and sound may be Or, pass the ; through a prism and form a ain as the minbow falls on the sound will be Red and blue light makes a louder sound than green. Fill the glass vessel with red worsted and throw the green light from a prism on it and the noise is very loud. Aud so, one by one, we penetrate the mysteries of nature, Stand fastone or brick wall, and have strike the other end with a You will detect two distinct de Bgn bow vessel a distinct Riass causeq at one one comes to your ear through the From particle to particle, whether of air, stone or any other sub. The discovery of the fact that the fall of light creates sound is new: from brick or stone any one can test it for himself. Explode a fire cracker in an empty barrel, and it sounds about as loud as a gun; fire a gun off ou the top of a mountain, where the old, and as Joud as a firc-cracker. Soun 1 travels at the rate of about 1,100 feet every sec ond. Fire a gun and any one ata dis- tance will see the flash before he hears the sound: light goes faster than sound, you see. [I stood, the other day, on the platform of a milroad station in the country. As the cars got near thev whistled, also while going by, and again while going on past us. I noticed a singular thing, and that was that four hundred yards off the whistle sounded one note higher cach way. That is, st the station it was “B.” four hundred yards before it got there the same whistle had been +C,” and after falling, directly opposite the station, to *‘B,” when the train t four or five hundred yards away again e sound went up to “C” again. It was owing to the pulsations of sound being crowded together on the ear by the swift. dess of the train. Directly opposite to us they were not crowded on the ear, A Word About His Mother.
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