THE NEWS.
Sin sm————
The national bank of
the M. A. Thayer
Ellensburg, Wash.,
Bank and the Bank ol
Sparta, at Sparta, Wis, the Chamberlain
National Bank of Chamberlain, 8. D., the
Union Banking Company of Portland, Ore-
gon, and the First National Bank of Great
Falls, ; Montana, suspended, Joseph Le
Comte, a sheet metal manufacturer of Brook-
lyn, N. Y.. made an assignment. The towns
of Medford, Prentice Junction and Fifield,
Wis, , were destroyed by forest fires, - Ldg-
wie Van Kearew, aged ten years, was burned
to death in the woods near Bridgeport, O.,
by her clothing catching the blaze from a fire
made of dry leaves. —In the quarrel for
possession of the South Atlantic Ohio
Railroad, the Haskell party took possession
of the offices and shops at Bristol, Tenn., by
force, ——'The closing of the Harrisburg Roll
ing Mill throws 400 men out of work, ——At
Balem, Ky., a boiler exploded and killed two
men. The murderer of Mrs. Lizzle Cope-
land, of Camden, N. J
His name is Charles Je
killing was accidental
Two boilers of the
Company explode | at St
and
. has been
rdan, He
captured,
says the
Belleville Distilling
1 sia
A018
, tearing the
boilerhouse to fragments, and badly wreck
ing part of the main building. A
of the boilers a distance of
bundred Nobody
: damage Prinee Yorihito of
the ited States,
portion of
one own
two
hurt
Japan will shortly
-At Brooklyn,
W. Wright
the tug F. W.
Ariosa coff e
down a few days age
and fifty feet, wns
£20,000
visit
the tug OG.
oliision wilh
an engineer on
was drowned by a
Yashurg Arbu
of Brooklyn, which
, resumed ope
McDougall's
130 men out
kle Bros,
mill 1
rations on
a limited scale, t Mootreal,
foundry was destroyed by fire
The of the
[
T. Thread Company, at Newark, N. J...
of work, —
employes lark O. N.
have
notified to work tine, ——
Manufacturers of jewalry in Plainville, North
Attieboro, Attliebore
Mass,, have closed
hard A rece
ed for the Wilmington
been
tines, iver has been app
(Del. Dental Maou-
ts
ts
facturing Company Maud McKibben, a
poisoning her
+ blown all to
nitro.
7
3 c wl of
ivcerine near Pittsburg
The H. M. Brown Dry
Cleveland, O.,
International Typographical
000 in the Indianapolis Nate
failed Tuesday ——Two
Goods Company, of
made au assignment, ~The
nal Bank wh
¢hildren of Willie
Caynor, a farmer of Muncie, Iod., fell out «
instantly
and M. Lo
dealers of Nashville,
& hay-mow and were
S. Lowenthal & Son,
wholesale
Tenn. ,
Jeog ie
one daly In Is
windstorm
killed B.
Levy & Son,
whiskey
made assignments, — Twenty-seven
were made sick by milk obtained from
Ky.
unty.Va.,
, and Capias Dillon,
6 iree
aisviile,
in Chesterflemd «
A. Jones was killed
ured by
~~ Fire at Ashland,
burned out a sumber of stores,
about $30,000,
forty-seventh
ously inj falling upon
Richmond
Total
$12,000
Liberia's inde
pendence was celebrated at the Exposition
by the dedieation of that country’s
in the Agricu’tural building, ~The
North American
Caledonia Association was
First Methodist Episcopal
wmdaeob Heinze and Henry Kaiser were
convicted in St, Louis of the murder of Ed
win E. Brown, a weaithy
night of March 2 last, -
1 Nicho'as & Co., i
Btock Exchange, was announced,
is composed of H. I. Nicholas,
Nicholas, Walter C. Taylor and Marcus
Mayer. The firm was «ox quite a
prominent one in Stock Exchange cireles
Dr. Merman MIrchberg and killed
Theodore K. Meisse in a dispute over a bill
for the pulling of a tooth at Columbus, 0.
WW
in an altercation between William Schu-
macher, bis coschman, and another employe
at Oconomowoe, Wie, and struck
man s blow under the ear from which he
died in a few minutes The alarm in Mil-
waukee banking circles is subsiding, and the
national bank which closed Baturday is pre.
paring to resume, ——The World's Fair Na-
tional Commission decided that a depleted
treasury would not prevent the body from
continuing its sessions until tue close of the
Exposition, ~The cork] syndicate has se-
cured control of the several cork manufac.
tories in Lancaster, Pa. —-— Work on the Get-
tysburg trolley road was temporarily sus
pended, — Patrick McCarthy, a Boston clerk
aged twenty-eight years, and a middie-aged
glass-blower named Brady were struck vy a
train and killed near Fall River, Maas,
were apparently intoxicated. -
Jersey metal refining works at Elizabethport,
them,
nonr « ¥Yi.,
joss
insurance The
anniversy of
pavilion
annual
United
the
reh, Chicage
convention of the
opened in
citizen, the
of H.
the New York
The frm
John DD,
on
The failure
wmbers of
nsidered
shot
the coach-
depression. Two hundred employes are laid
fl. The company expects 10 resume oporn-
tions September 1.
Volunteors, was killed at Cumberiand Island,
Georgla, by lighting, which ran down »
tent pole,
A passenger train crashed into a erowded
strect car at a crossing in Chieago. 1hree
persons were killed and & number injured,
two fatally,
Mes. Growor Bexwerr, aged 63 years, of
Paterson, N. J., drank a quantity of tincture
of jodine in mistake for syrup of rhubard,
and will probably not recover.
Mionaxs Exow and Richard Marshall were
killed and four persons were seriously ine
Jured in Chicago by the premature explosion
of a fireworks bomb at an Italian picnle
Tue steamer Nasmyth, which arrived at
New York from Santos and Rio de Janeiro,
had three cases of yellow fever and two
deaths during the voyage. Bhe was detained
at Quarantine,
b Joux Prreasox, aged 9 years, while bath.
ing in the Monongela river, near Pittsburg,
Pa, had his skoll fractured by striking
against a timber and was drowned, His
brother Stanislaus, aged 13 years, went to
the rescue and be too was drowned,
A can of naphtha exploded in the sweet.
band factory of J. D. Campbell, Brooklyn,
killing four persons—J, I, Campbell, Samuel
K, Campbell, his son, John Weiss, 25 years
old, and Jacob Weiss. Matthow Deering was
badly injured. The building was completely
SM Se A RO SI 1 NO SO 5 Bs a
} .
| WORLD'S FA
All Buildings Closed and the
Gondolas Tied Up.
THE LONESOME GUARDS.
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A Plan to Compromise With Con:
sclence on the Sunday Question
The Attendance at the Fair is
Very Much Less Than it
Ought to Be.
The great white city lay dismal and silent
Bunday. Its gates were barred to the world,
its streets echoed only the footfalls of the
pass-holders and of gorgeously decked bar-
barians who wandered over from the Mid-
way Plaisance, Even the Stars and Stripes
wero lowered and not a flag floated over the
nation's wonder-world. The twittering of
the birds as they sweep over the
or nestle in the eaves of the grand structures
sound like vociferous
the Lake Michigan
beating of waves of
The vast have
power of multiplying
buildings appear to
sound like
through all the courts,
weird and useanny in it all after the
ofthe week and the sight of human
of human voices where
of birds and the
now is only
ripple of waters. It may be
but here
wondrous evideseos of God's
amidst all the
power and man's dignity the stiliness is de-
pressing 148 does not soothe,
silence of an accursed town.
the dismal aisles of the great bulldings with
the handiwork of the men of all the nations
gathered round them with no one 10 view iL
THE LONESOME GUARDS,
The guards in tk
frout and the
utter
he outer alr, along the lake
waterways,
the
natural
fel is, the
and
hh »
£48 §
lon esOmenes Amidst
very stillpess would be sweet,
hat here amidst the splendors
city it seen unnatural, an
grets the possession of the pass
him within the bars, and be hu
for something
And ons
the Fair
trag
be clustered routs
of thea
enthusinsm, Buflalo Bill ¢
for all the tho
his show,
tea rugERest
found that someti
grounds and
s and JUEE glories of i Creasion
ad the
sO
gates, and every
I was fe, aglow with
t And re
palsating with
Isanas thal sot
and every Iakir io the thro
his crowd of admirers,
There was no attemj
gro
i 2
ds on the
part
The fact that the Fair was to be shut tight
ay visitors was very widely heralded, and
Pa; ) ]
there was no repetitio ene of a
the
It was an
no underban
The pass-hok
besought admise
honest close-up, too, with
¥
for anyone,
xhibftors,
others, whe
ground They
of the show
fora
newspaper correspondents
business
have
ey had desired
had penuing
ald not
fh
th
soe
even
hat was pot |
arly everything t to
and even the wooden
oad
was enveloped in a
up was covered over,
horse in the
pany
shroud,
Mr, ¢
court some
proc
Fair on Sunday and to prevent anyone from
it.
The Fair directors, however,
debating the question of opening
Sandays. It is
Pennsylvania Rallr
8 hans
lingman declares that he will go iat«
time this week and endeavor Ww
ure an injunction against ciesing the
are serious) y
the Mid
argaed
ged in
be given a
square chance to compete for business with
out+ide the grounds. Desides
been grumbling
pay, the Fair
A MOCKERY OF CONSCIENCE.
Yet the Fair directors will not escape eritl
elem if they open the Midway on Sunday,
for it is already argued that it will be like a
from a sight of the elevating exhibits in the
Fair on Sundays and yet permit them to
What effort Bunday closing will have
the fluancial results of the Fair fs as yet
problematical, It was believed that the
remove the econscien-
all il opened on Bunday, which tens of
would operate to the Fair's benefit, So far
there is no sign of that, though it may be
Jess than it ought to ba, The best friends
of the Exposition believe it wise to be per.
feetly candid on that point, and to let patri.
otle people everywhere know that the na
to aitend this, the greatest exposition the
world has ever seen.
TWENTY-SEVEN POISONED.
Drank Milk and Three of the Victims
Are in a Critical Condition.
A mysterious case of poisoning occurred
at Louisville, Ky. Asa result twenty-seven
persons have been taken violently iil,
All who were taken ill drank milk pure
chased from the diary of Frank Moser, at
Hancock and Green streets. The sickness
began with violent purging and vomiting,
and is proving m more serious to the
older vietime than it is to the children. Ex.
Detective Carter Tiller, Mrs, Theresa Long
sud John Rapp, Se, all of whom are old
people, are in a critical condition, and fears
are entertained that they will not recover,
The matter was reported to the health
offioe, and a thorough investigation is belng
made,
A
Tue carriage of the Prines of Wales was
in collision with another vehicle in London
(AILE £P/EKS.
Yarrow fever is decreasing in Port Limon
Costa Rica
Twirve workmen were drowned in
Danube river at the Iron Gates,
Frinent vox MoLtasonn, secretary of
Gorman imperial treasury, has resigned.
Mu (3a, sTone received a s¢vere shaking
up by his brougham eollidiog with a van ir
the
the
Parliament Bquare,
It is said that no official opposiifon wil
be made in the Relohstag to permitting the
Jesuits to return to Germany.
ApMinaL Wexpexgorx, who was blockad
ing Rio Grande do Bul, has been captured by
the Brazilian eruiser Republica,
Justice Walter Lloyd Smith, of the New
York Supreme Court, was married in Lon~
don to Miss Jessie Gonzales, of Elmira New
York.
Cuixa has refu ed to make reparation for
the killing of two Bwedish missionaries in
Macheng and the situation is said to promise
trouble
DerLecaTes representing 248,000 English
coal miners have refused
per cent, reductton of wages and
feared, :
Ix the Victoria court-martial
tendent Gilford testified that after the
lision A imiral Tyron admitted that the
cident was all his fault,
Tue Rome Tribune gives a semi-offic
confirmation of the report that 100 Benators,
the Chamber of Deputies
implicated in the Banca
cob
members of
journalists, are
Homans scandals,
voted
Tug French Chamber of Deputies
after the min-
iid not permit
with
wonfldenes in the government
istry bad explained that it wou
of outside the dispute
If the latter country did not
the murder of M,
France bl ekade the y Mek
PEOPLE AND EVENT
interference in
Blam. make
reparation for Grosgaria
would
ng river
Se
Gexenar Lew Warrtace, who says he
school and was
thnt
truant at expelled
where be
hat during his twent)
South Africa with afew
ii IRHED
Philip Ban
who
is Mrs
Hina,
Washing
Mrs
band sank !
pit She
" '
orreapotids
fo 1°0y
fil says th
ere 8 ext
fire, and baving a
robe thrown over his lap. The vacan
tenance, the limp corpulent figure,
pect of old age without its venerable
teristics, got
of deony. This is
has been taken of Ferdinand
“grand Frenchman,’
the midst
ed to be on view in every pro
tographer’s window some
larenany purists,
canonical in English speech,
words and phrases of vulgar
slang they cannot tolerate,
learned
chars
» make up a melancholy image
the latest likencss that
ae Losey a, the
rirait, set in
children
pho
whose po
ol a group of
Countieas
mireont
few youre ag
swearing
spurm upstart
ordin,
Yet has slang its
defenders, an witness this from as
master of gool
nas KR
ackn aurlocged
namely, Professor Tho
Yale
as privately writing to him thag *
English
‘slang fa an
say something more vividly, strongly, con-
cisely than the language, as existing, permits
it to bo said” and that
therefore
ing energies of speech
freshed.™
I ss
HEAT AND FORECT FIRES.
he adds slang is
Temperature Over a Huadred Degre.s
in Wyoming.
For some days st Fort McKinney, Wyo.,
shade at Buffalo from four to six o'clock,
This is the hottest weather
rain bas fallen for nine weeks, and the
range is completely destroyed. Buffalo is
surrounded by forest fires. To the south.
west twenty miles fire has been burning with
more or less intermittent severity since July
th. The fire at one time came down into
the valley, destroying all of Tulley's floids,
pastures, fences, corrals, ete, on Poison
Creek, and burning hall of Hoster's place,
south of Muddy Creek. By great exertions
the fire was checked,
Up Clear Creek Caton another fire raged.
The cavalry troops from McKinney went out
to endeavor to extinguish it, but nothing
oan be done without rain. Ten thousand
notes of cholos timber are already destroyed
just east of Buffalo, Another fire broke out
in the Hed Hills and is burning some ten
square miles of grass, which was the last
range fod in the locality, When the fire
came into the flats approaching Buffalo, all
veighboring rangers and some citizens and
firomon from town fought it all night, get.
ting it cut off. John Hillsberry was ar-
rested and finod heavily, being convicted of
A TRAIN DERAILED
Spreading Tracks on Pittsburg
and Western Railroad.
FORTY PERSONS INJURED.
They Were On Their Way to the
World's Fair—-Cared for in the
Hospital In Akron, Ohlo,~
Wreck of a Mall Train.
A special train, consisting of eleven oars,
was derailed one mile east of Monroe
and eight miles east of Akron, Olio, on
Pittsburg and Western Rallway,
of whom
Falls
persons were injured, six
severely hurt and one seriously,
a point where there is a short curve in
track
Bengers,
Five of the coaches, loaded with pas.
most of whom were ou thelr way to
Chieago, were thrown down a 10-foot em-
bankment, Nobody was killed cutr ght,
doctors from Akron went to the
The epecial train bearing the injured from
Munroe Falls hed Akron about 830
o'clock, All the city
were co
the Cicy He
the attention of a score
reac
ambulances in were ut
ured
ouxibile to spital,
where they received
of physicians,
When the cars Jeft the track many of the
The last coach
nost serfously wrecked, It jumped
the
passengers were asleep, Whe
re the
i along the
down
CUrYe WES
about 10
ng the
bers were piled
tiem Vards
embankment,
promiscuon
Pass ners
maible to tell exactly wha
preadiog of the ralls; probabil
Ld tralps whicl
eave Lhe track.
ened the rail
spread gs
ain from
oro at mids
Thetrain appros
in at the rate of 530 miles an ho
sd into it before the engineer «
s speed of bi
Was COmD 3 noilshed. A
pamed Mil belonging in New
was instantly Killed another
nine
ETE,
mall
bant
fred.
and
Murphy, was
: passtngers were
seriously
also iy
3 Conduclor
wd train was in charge of
Keone and Ragin: r C. A. Bowen.
WORK AND WORKERS.
from
theatrical emg
states met in New Yor
8B Balional alilance
nen in the Rio Grande yards ol
Colorad are on sirike, demanding
of the yar
is tyrannical and unreasonable
iiders at Smith ani Asthony's
Wakefield, Mass, , ko
*
ree months ago I
discharge taster, who
they
fav
Tue mo
foundry, at struck
nearly t
10 per cent,, resumed at an ind
per
Tue striking Kansas cosl
with the assistance of the Po
ft an in rease of
rease of 3°
cent
miners propose,
sulist State offi
attack the operaton | in the couris,
alleging that the companies have
trust or combine to Keep wages
fix the price of coal,
oor, 10
formed a
down and
Two warrants were jssued for the arrest of
President Walters, of the Kansas Miae Work-
ert. Union, on charges of trespass, It is
thought that this action on the part of the
wine owners will “prevent further visiting
of men at work and compelling them to quit,
Asoty 500 of the joeal lumber shovers
were put to work at Tonawonda, N. X. An
«flort was made by some of the officers of
the Union to hold the men together and in-
ionger, but RN
they must
remain out
‘the men realizing that
work or starve next winter,
A Pittsburg despatch says
: The confer.
the iron manufac urers has for
the beginning, 21
tiement, It is the intention of the Amalga-
mated Association to treat with the manu.
facturing firme individually.
Tue Grievance Committee and many em
ployes of the Lehigh Valley Hallroad Com
Pa, to consider Viee-President Voorhees’
letter. The meoting decided to send another
committe to confer with the Reading of.
sinls and endeavor to have them reconsider
their action before taking any further stops.
Detvaares representing the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen, Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen, Switchmen's Mutual Ald
Association and order of Railway Condue-
tors, met at Pittsburg, Pa, and
formed a federation, the object of which is
mutual protection and ald. The Order of
Hallway Telegraphers was not represented,
but it will be included in the new organise
tion, which, bowever, will not admit the
Yrotherhood of Locomotive Faginear,
i Ia
Tue mosssnger boys of the District Tele
graph Company In Wilkesbarre, Pa., struck
against an increase of half an hour working
time per day, making it 12'§ hours. They
are getting #6 per week, and with an in-
eroase of time demand increased pay,
mms isssns r AAI 55 n.
Queers Vieronia has expressed her gratifi
eation ut the address of congratulation
adopted by the House of Commons upon thy
Puke of York's marriage,
PENN SYLVANIA ITEM3,
Epitome of News Gleaned from Varioas
Farts of the Btate,
A care that
cnolera is reported
hus every
in Mouth Chester,
energetic wii wt
fastituted to qumantine the affected
JOHN BMOUSE
mena res
House,
# German,
Pitsburg for murdering his wife and two
etlidren, A
beat them
At
bound and
son saw his father
with a
Bethesda, Lancs
biindlolded Mrs,
laid her babe by her side and ransacked
tha house,
swore he
Lswmmer,
sler
Charles
son.
securing only 11 eents,
General Master Workman Powder y de
pies the story that he
Dr. AD, Pit
ant Unity
is about to resign.
¢
fey, tis, pastor ol the Pleas.
Lutheran Church, instituted di-
Yoree proceedings, naming Dr. L.
1 after cont
co-respondent, The latter,
CoMyLETE urns from the Eighth Con.
tint Howard
tod to Lon.
Bepublicun,
gressionnl District how
Mutehler
gross
Democrat, was ele
over Vrank Heeder,
nearly 4.400
Tre
work on the Gettysburg
eiectrie rallway company stopped
Juttiefield and dis.
charged the « had
been ald within & short
iden.” This move
to the notific
mission that the railway must vacate the bat-
onfiraction corps, walls
distance of the
is presumed
10 be owing
ation of the United States Con.
tiefleld at once,
Tue Thirteenth Regi
Guard at Montross
tison and staf? ;
ment of the National
Whe inspected by {30%
ernor Pat General § }
of 1 Pliny ia
Brigade
of the 1
x Hele
Wi ib Lhe Coa
ymanding the
and Captain Rogers,
Carrals James Kno
widely kn
Behuylkiil Haven
As a result of
Mrs.
kitchen fire,
her home sl Lous:
dest.
dren was burned U
a drunken brawl at
knsk was { \ vy an J.alian,
yMas Mrrrixa, one of Lebanon id
snd respected citizens, died of Jo aw
caused
ius
Property Worth $125,000
Smoke.
One of the most destructive fires that has
occurred in Hagerstown, Md., for
LAL Y
years and one which for a time threatensd a
n of the ebtire southern section of
lock A. M,
un the rear of Jones
use, on South
one of the most thiekly-built
A sify
blowing at the time, and as the supply of
water from the water works was meagre a
serious conflagration was threatened,
Mayor Halm telegraphed for assistance to
Chambersburg, Martinsburg and Waynesboro,
Engines and men were sent from each place
on fast trains. An area of about 7,000 square
fect was burned over, including one
of Mumma's livery stable, John W, E nmert's
private residence on Josathan street, that
also of Dr. J. 8 Wishand, and the wholesale
Messrs, Jones & South,
aod
i urred at 11.3
It broke out in
& S«
Jonathan street,
B slalie
ath's wholesale grocery ho
up sections of the city. breege was
grocery house of
of the latter
nll
being large fu istantial
Numerous sheds and stables on the alley in
went up in
three horses owned by Jones & South
perishing in the fames, The Mail office
building was slightly damaged, and the offices
News and that of the Herald
smoke,
ance of $23,040. Dr. Wishard's joss is about
with insurance
The greatest consternation
which, however, were saved by band hose
and the serviceable bucket brigade composed
of men, women and children.
NEW HAWAIIAN TREATY.
The Provisional Government Sands Av”
other Draft For Cleveland to Act 0.
The Provisional Government has drafted
& new treaty to be used by Commissioners
Alexander and Thurston in cass President
Cleveland decides to withdraw the Harrison
treaty. The new document, in brief, codes
without reserve all rights of sovereignty in
and over the Hawa'lan Tslands to the United
States, of which they dra to become an in-
tagral part ; codes in fee all government and
crown lands ; the existing Government to te
continusd for five years under a United
Sistes Commissioner ; probilbit immigration
of Chines laborers ; provides that the pub
lie dels be assumed by the United Suates, the
Hawaiian Government continuing to pay the
in. erest thervon.
An II.
Ir is said that the United States govern.
ment has interceded in boball of two bane
ished instructors in the Amerioan College of
Mareovan, asking that they be allowed to
An Unnatural Informer,
———
A court officer in
in the course of some
fjueer litigants and lawyers, writes that
fome seven or eight years ago sn un
natural application was made to the
Jersey City, NX. J,
reminiscences of
that he was entitled to a reward of
thirty dolisrs. He had given informa
tion which led to the capture of a desert
er from the army, snd he understood that
he was entitled to the reward. On refer
ence to the record it was found that the
rewnrd had already been paid to the po-
liceman who arrested the deserter, and
be appenred to have deserved it, as he
had a long chase after the man. During
the dispute which ensued, a remark was
made which caused the judge to make
an exclamation of surprise. Addressing
the applic asked, “Who did you
tay the deserter is?” The man bLiushec
snd hung his head. ‘He is my brother,”
he said at last “Do mean, io
julred the judge, “that
against your own brother?
stammered, Lint
had don
brother would
would get
money bh
il us
ant he
yOu
you informed
The mw
finally admitted that he
He the
ries BOMeDOuy
Lie
expected that
i A
led and
ashameq
the joi
woulda
sake of
of mean mer
A Sat
Had Considered That PI
farme
« weren't we
as well as the fac 1%
¥. the response “out
you mot to judge the law Ness
you were clearly satisfied that you
the law Detter than [1 did Well,
jedye,” answered the farmer, az he shifted
his quid, *‘we considered that pint.”
(Argonaut,
Knew
He Saved the Ship.
t is reported that the British warship
dows to the be: after her collision
but for the thought
fulness and gallantry of a Maltese stoker.
was off duty at the time, but when
the collision occurred he ran below,
without orders, and cl the
watertight doors between the Cam
perdown’s bulkheads, all of which
open at the time. Before he
self-imposed task he
was in water up to his neck. It is said
sdmiraity will reward
hie gallantry with promotion and a life
pension. —{ Picayune.
Jtiom
osed
A Backwoods Genius,
Tallulah Falls, Ga, has a backwoods
about twenty years of age. Geor
the means to purchase a violin, deter
mived to make one, and make it he did,
complete in every respeet, well propor
tioned and of delightful tone. The
only tools used in making it were a
pocket knife and poll ax. Having made
nis fiddle, George forthwith learned to
play on it, and spends many hours dis.
guests of
one of the hotels here. — [Atlanta Con-
stitution.
on
Tur average growth of the human
species per yoar varies at ifn ages.
According oa table J pared Yopunitly
by a French scientist the growth during
the year following birth averages seven
and one-half inches; from two to three,
it is four or five inches: from three to
four, it is one and one half inches: from
four to six, about two and one fourth
annuall from sees = sight two and
one-half inches; from to twaive,
two inches yearly: from twelve to thir
teen, one and cight-tenths; from thirteen
to fourteen, two and one-fourth inches;
from fifteen to sixteen, two inches; from
sixteen to seveutees, nearly two inches.
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