Ec NOTES AND COMMENTS. The total tonnage of war ships most active naval powerswas : France, 52,188 tons ; the United States, 40 - 000; Great Britain, 28920: Russia, 17.826, OIL has been struck in Somerset, England. Complaint was made about the water taken for drinking poses from a spring, and investiga- tion showed the presence of leum. The disc commercial importance, and gations to determine whether the oil exists in paying quantity are being made. WitniaM Hosea Banrov has ad- dressed a letter to the Secretary of the Interior saving that thousands of elks are coming down from the deep snows of the Rocky Mountains into the Shoshone Reservation and other lands owned by United that these animals are subjects of indiscriminate slaughter by savages and settlers, and g that the Government interfere to protect them. : the askin WoMeEN in medicine are steadily adding to the honors of their Recently Miss Aldrich Blake, a stu- dent of the L on School of Medi- cine for Women, went up London University to take her Bach- elor of Surgery and passed third in honors, qualifying fi a gold medal est point any woman has yet in the science. Miss Blake enj a very dignified position in the Free Hospital tist. She now cal officer in the Woman's New Hospi- tal. Sex. to the 3 o as assistant anaesthe- is resident medi ’ y SCHOOLS yp nch AMONG the famous milit of Europe there ular for foreign school at { twenty years cadets are said struction $ twelve Americans countries represen Japan, Romania Burma, Monte: Confederation Persia, Switzerland, Belgium and England. Indeed, every try may be said to there, with the ary more pi the Fre St. there i presen ted are: T ara the Haiti, Argen Nervia IIRL S UBY, tine {sreoce, be Tue elaborat a strii Territ West ultimat schools is State and the far mates the school fund at son : $30,000,000 and £40 000,000. Ore school fund is now $2 500 (Xx), ho's school lands are worth $7.000.00x). Kansas holds near O00 (XK) in bonds f th her publie *hools Missouri between £4 ENN) (NN) an her schools have a large scbool dozen other Western ritories for the benefit of su wr the ber 84 | 85.000) Ok) for homa will one (IKin day have many ; are a, and thes without let or manner of trades ar to selling fruit and lic streets, and kX and bakeries. es provided a leper} Town. ich ord hundred o is no restriction going as they pl fearfully rife Indies and in many and South Amer ities in almost a tries are lax in th over the sufferers and it is allowe dered. throu e exercise of « from the d i to be spread u BLUEFIELDS, on whither the when she finally Roncador, is well ed States navy. visited the place before upon rand or another. Not far of Bluefields are the Caru Islands Little and Great over which United States Government periodical. ly exercises some such jurisdiction as that over the island of Navassa. There are guano deposits on one or 1 he M IRI 0 Learsage was steering laid her bones known to the nit. our have On hir SDs One or. northeast the are worked by American capital. When there is disturbance or serious threat of disturbance vessel of the home station is likely to be sent to look after the peace of the islands. It was probably the Kearsage her- self that posted from Hayti to these islands some years ago on just such an errand. some An interesting report has been is- sued by the Agricultural Department relative to the wages of farm laborers in this country during the last half century. “From that it appears that filty years ago farm wages averaged about $8 50 a month with board. By 1860 this average had been raised to $il, a range between $10 and $12 being common in the East, while, with the withdrawal of many for ser- vice in the war, in 1866, it high as $17 45. From that figure the average dropped to $10 43 for 1879, rose again to 12 41 ih 1882. In 1885 it was estimated at $12 87, and at the beginning of the present year at $19 54. he statistics do not take into account the fluctuation in the purchasing power of the currency at the time of the war. Since the re- sumption of specie payment in 1879 farm wages have increased twenty per cent. and they are almost twice as great as they were fifty years ago. According to the report there is a scarcity of farm labor in the East, especially in New England, Tuose who go down to the sea in | ships are finding the task of steering | their vessels made more difficult with | the advance civilization, asserts the Argonaut. From the lakes come tales of a vessel being cast away and a twenty-thousand-dollar cargo lost through the influence exerted on the compass by the steel joints and springs in the navigator's artificial leg, and of another compass bewitched by the corset-stecls of two ladies, which had been magnetized during a visit to the engine-room, where there was a powerful dynamo in operation. More thrilling is the story of a great liner's recent experience on the icy Atlantic. During her last trip from Bremen, the North German Lloyd | steamship Dresden, a big emigrant and cargo carrier, broke her steam steering-gear. Within fifteen min- utes the old-fashioned steering-wheel was connected; but it took a quar. termaster and three able-bodied sea- men to work it. Frosty seas had tumbled aboard and coated the Dres- den’s decks with six inches of The helmsmen were all in wasters, as the spray and wave crests aboard frequently and clad them in icy armor. Steering a steam- | ship of 4,796 tons by hand is some- what of a task. Flesh and could not bear more than an frightful strain on the hail and snow beating in of the helmsmen. at | end of the first hour, another quarter- | master, with three men, took trick for the next hour, and relin- quished the job, with fingers and racked joints, to another of hardy Germans. Every while he was on duty at tl had a line around his waist to from being swept 3 should a sea topple over the quarter The ship was steered in this manner for two days until reached New York. of iCe, south- came hour wheel, the ith Li Ww faces So benumbed quartet man wheel him save away she THis is the age of great enginee The idea reviving English industry by cutting a thirty-six-mile canal, and making a seaport of Manchester, has just been carried out portion supply of li pi) projects, magnificent thus successfully and the harnessing of a Niagara Falls for the n Ol and power to a large sectio rounding country will soon bean ac- An enterprise that ompares favorably with tic undertakings in on foot, the tidal cu complished fact, is ow daring to use rrent sea for the generation t Beit ! Bri WIWer ing Lerrea : Tw 0 meet all requirements Orie nmus. POWEer nDouses Myvinge § ~Nitit ' fie Irish side current the Irish f water estimated niles daily, and the t iweh as would test the f the power and houses woul two power lighting t« » suppli +} TN s wis both the dist t« on both f ri channel for hundreds of mile waterway betwee id of Cantis ile ad in pi ie and on the Irish side— Cantire ar 1.200 feet high——offer fa. HE) to erials ation of ing the mat for the forn The igired to i superficial exten form ha fiir the =tiun le more than a squ mile of the average width and depth of 100 yards. The cost of this jut ction would be about 6 and it raatin creasing 10 x¥) would occupy about three Years, The Tsetse Fly. Wild animals and the goat feel no from the the African Tsetse fly than man, a even calves are exempt as they continue to COWS | more serious effect sting of nd as long suck the but dogs cannot be protected by being fed on milk. The effect of the poison on oxen and horses is most curious; they do not die at once, and indeed the symptoms do not appear for some days; but then the nose and eyes begin to run, the coat rough, a swelling appears under the jaw and emaciation commences, to be inevitably followed by death, al- though, perhaps, not for months, gets tened, however, by rain and sudden changes of temperature, Singular, indeed, is the effect i the bite, or, as the Boers call the ‘‘ stiek’’ cass when examined is found to almost bloodless: the cellular tissue | under the skin is distended with air, of it, | the fat is yellowish-green and oily; | the heart so soft that the fingers can {bs made to meet through it; the bile, ox, such as the buffalo and zebra, suffer no harm ; neither do pigs, goats and wild antelopes, but dogs suffer as severely as horses and oxen, The skin of an animal which has died from the tsetse shows all the punctures on the inside, with a ring of yellow mucus on the flesh be- neath each puncture as large ag the palm of the hand, and resembling the appearance of a snake-bite, No cers tain remedy is known for the puncture of this terrible fly. — [Chamber's Journal. Ice a foot and a half thick is strong enough to support a railway train. THE SWINGING FESTIVAL, A Cruel and Detestabls ''Sport’’ Peculiar to India. The swinging festival, or churruk poojah, is a form of pleasure which could only satisfy a race naturally cruel. There is now a good deal of correspondence between the India Office and the Government at Cal. cutta with a view of stopping this detestable sport. Hundreds of Euro- peans visit the scene and leave im- measurably disgusted, but the na- beat their tom toms and blow their victims are swinging in midair. This sport has some remote connec- tion with a religious rite, and the men who permit themselves to be hideous vow. Vows in India and no vow can avail uniess its performance inflicts some dreadful punishment upon the body. The aflair is thus managed: A devo- toe a hook passed through the muscles of back, which hook is tied to the end of a crosspole. This tilted for the express having victims fastened s0me are common, i 3 ' has his be beam can purpose of to it. After the man is securely lashed to the pole he is lifted into the air with his hands folded on the chest and the body hanging by the hooks There is no other support The usel { the back hold him les of 1 ne pole is then rotated fairly iRIrLY nu alone ne ropes at the counter its attachment le part permitting of free rota- This gentle On amusement the In. intend to abolish will rnment wether it be done withou trouble is a question. Hindoos ers and swim dog and reason too, are great swime- fashion with their ds i the he aquatic en all ages and swim like demons and t 1s commotion, U swimmers | PARY But it Hy paint i i faces and heads t] turnis had our him to it the Kind of paint that i would not be iauby. The guide told him ir wasn't painted, but t be He came ice more scrutinized my locks, his hand over them and then who party asked ask n Mor an greasy he lieve him. over g at his fingers, didn’t what he was aft I had an idea that he was ealculating how nice my red sealp would look hung about his dirty old body, and t it. Our guide, laughingly told me what the chief had said. Two or three the bucks gathered about us and they and the guide had a pow- wow, Finally the guide asked me if I would object to putting ater on my hair. He said the Indians wouldn't believe it wasn't painted until they saw that water wouldn't wash the olor out, (Of course i took some water and rubbed it on my hair and then showed my hands to them. It took four or five days of wondering examination to convince them that I hadn't found some par- know ar was inclined to resent however old more of in a bright red suit of hair.” One Thing a Goat Can't Eat. The trolley of an East End car got tangled in one of the cross-overs and tore down a live wire, which squirmed snake, and causing the spectators to flee in terror. At last the wire came to rest, and attention was diverted from it momentarily, but called back again when a newsbhoy ered out: “Gosh, look at the dead billy gout! He's swallowed the wire!” And, sure enough, he had. While the vulgar mob had ignored the wrig- gling wire, the gentle goat, wander- ing out of the alley behind the cole lege building, where a boy had tied him with a rope, eaught right of the wire and thought to eat a fow feet of it to settle the springy rope meal. He had gotten about two feet swal- lowed when the curivnt pulsated through it again and Billy tell dead. {Cincinnati Times-Star, a" ¥ Valuable copper mines have bee: FULL OF FIGHT. A Cheetah's Battie with a Pairct Big English Mastiffs, Dore Lawton has spent some time in the Island of Ceylon. ‘Speaking of cheetahs,” he sald, “1 want to tell you a story of a battle between English mastiffs and a thoroughbred Ceylonese cheetah, “There is a very general impres- gion that the cheetah and the royal Bengal tiger are just about the same thing, but this isn't The main difference in them is that the former is not bloodthirsty as the latter. Right down in his heart he ig nota man-éater, but he can digest that kind of meat when occasion requires, As a rule he will give the human brotherhood a wide berth, but if you corner him there no telling how hard he can fight. Stir him up and he will make the fur fly in a fast and furious fashion. He has been known to lie in wait along the mountain roads for human prey, but these in- stances are rare, and his manivorous not very highly developed, There are many authentic statements recorded where cheetahs, at certain seasons of the year, have appeared in the mountain villages, generally seeking the fires which been lighted for cooking purposes on the hard earth floors of the rude huts. Then the population migrate, leave the cheetah to his glory, and report at the | that the oh 21 80. 80 is taste is \ nave nei boring village THE 30K MEN OF THE PRESS. Another Glove Contest, Etc., Etc. BLIGHTED “Why did you name $100 damages in suit?’ “That's the price of my AFFECTIONS, as your breach of promise my heart beat so fast that it the timepiece.’ {Chicago Record A BURPICION, “That cat drank all the milk.”’ “Did you see her? ‘No, Johnny told me she did iv.” “Pon’t touch the catch Johnny for me ings. ENEW cat. (ro) WHAT THEY “3 The Traveler—Why the missionary go? ; The Cannibal King—Well, v a thing or two. we do. The mi ary was a man of the ness, while the as they mak York Press ANOTS You hogs and humans. On one occasion f this kind Capt. nial sportsman Baker, the made ¢ great nyestie mm on the spot, shot it stood before 5 ’ made the disco the fireplace hut srv that the g had sought the warmth suliar disease of he jaws and Ho examinin } the mouth that 1g cheetah 1 Baw » full of maggots warmed far enough eeth to etal 8 claws There was a near Kandy t he coffee planter who DUNgERIOW i whose whose uniains fan as Dawson ck dead heetah ¢ emale i rolled over and over heetah making desperate offs Was but it no stay. nest In break the dog's hold The mastiff had bawaon down from 1] come 10 or g ot the i got with a the and wont iong home, juick order shot cheetah to its ribly injured, it having been literally lisembowelled by the claws of the great cat She was via rail to the Marine Hospital at C sewed up and carefully nursed back to health The cheetah measured seven and one-half feet from the end of his nose to the tip of his tail, and was about the largest ever killed that district. “1 tell you, sir, the cheetah cat from away back. Nodog is any- thing like a match for it in a fair fight. The cheetah is a worthy kins- man of the Bengal tiger, and with the latter animal no lion is to be com- pared in strength, agility, or fighting qualities.’ «=! Washington Star. sent olombo, in is a Deepest Metal Mine in the World. The United States has now, we be- lieve, the deepest metal mine in the world. For some time that claim has been made for the Maria shaft at the mines of Przibram, in Austria, which was 3.670 feet below the surface at the time of the groat fire in 1892, and nothing, we believe, has been done upon it since that time. It has now been surpassed in depth by the No. 8 shaft of the Tamarack Copper Mining Company in Michigan, which on Dec. 1 was 8.640 feet deep, and is now more than B.700 feet, the average rate of sinking being about 70 feet a month. This makes it beyond ques- tion the deepest metal mine in exist. ence, and only one other shaft has reached a greater depth, that of a coal mine in Belgium, for which 8,900 feet is claimed. [Engineering and Mining Journal. RR a AR A AS A woMmax’s plea to be appointed postmaster of her town is, in the opinion of the Hartford Journal, the most unique yet presented, She wants the office because she cannot make a living writing poetry. It this is a good plea the Journal opines there will not be enough post-offices to go ‘round. morning ‘Y.fi-n-8 anothah “Been fightin No. 1 them-——with I lost tr Ovi usual “Is it criminal Said the | he w¢ fine Kissed the 1 If I'm hang It will bs Begour ( iven him m (3d $47 in Ma { Beggar y the : “To the ar chool?’’ queried the chappie, without the faintest idea of his companions meas Certainly And why To culti of « pway? ivate its talents for draw- OUrse, n't vou think it it? And on several hours later $ 3 $ Shik TY ’ the ChaDpDie caught Free fivegs wi Detroit HIR LUCK do Stacy-——Why % Prince Pickle Stacy—Gad! 1 wish somewhere on My own credit my wife's is run dry! HE EXOWS THE sEX. She—=Now, my dear, I'll be ready for the theatre in ten He--All right, then, I'll j run down to the office and finish up t two hours’ work [ left.—[Chicago Inter-Ocean minutes, just he NEEDED LEISURE. Tyre Doute—Kin ye tell me were dey’'s givin’ away free bread fer nut. tin? Ben Evolent——Why do you ask? Tyre Doute—I wanter loaf-{ Life. BEST OF REASONS, Dunn—Why is it that you never have any money the day after you receive your salary? people. A SURE REMEDY, Fussy—~I say, do you know any way of getting rid of a disagreeable acquaintance gracefully? Grump = Yes; lend him some money-=just once, PRACTIRING IT. Bighead—-I believe in telling the truth in all circumstances, Bharpun—You are a liar and a con- ceited chump. Bighead—What do you mean, sir? Sharpun—I'm trying to practise what you preach.—{Truth. OUTLAY BIGGER THAN INCOME, Teddy Splurgeleigh--What do they mean by an income tax? Billy Patterson—A cortain percent age that every man will have to pay upon the money he receives during the year. Teddy Splurgeleigh—Great Scott ! It's lucky the percentage isn’t on what he spends, or it would come heavy on him.—Puck. A —————— A ——— pores on—— — | A "WOBT PRANDIAL PROBST. i YGentlemen,”’ said the i suitably to the toast which assigned to me this evening; bute (rood! . (rood | cried the thusiastie dience, and with | manifest gat HAT —When pern 4% }. 9 He—~Not “How do you get on mount Mr Vor M much No * youn LBs Mabel Litt] Perhaps he 130 yOu a mai Sons ory A great She-—You say he | He is hes a cold nobody iy forit!'—{ Brooklyn unpopular? He—Unpopular $0 unpopa- iar that when he offers him a rems Life tle irritable, John: life again, I'd Hm! wed Ti 4 I know I'm if I had to live my same, about on Is the Bishop a broad man and Oh my most of the time and in & views he is most prodigal. liberal in his views? He's abroad giving hi —! Harlem Life Yes, you His Mother~Tommy, if fight with little Willie Walters to-day 1 shall put you to bed for two hours. Tommy-Put me to bed now, ma. —— Chicago Record. Prisoner—It's hard to charge me with forgery, for you see | can’t sign my own name. That point is imma- terial ; it's another man’s name you tare accused of signing. —{Tit-Bits, “I hear that your son's last dramas is a failure.” *'I want you to under stand that my son writes 20 fast that {he does not need to have his plays | performed more than once,’ =| Flie- | gende Blatter, In Brooklyn. —Heights—Late last [ night 1 saw a policeman coming out {of a brewery. Hill—Yeos, gir; this is {an era of reform; before the over | turning that policeman would have | stayed inside all night.—{ Puck. Father—Well, Thomas, you have | graduated {rom college and are now | ready for your life work. What will be your field? Son (thoughtfully) Well to tell the truth, sir, it isa little hard to decide between left ana centre, = Texas Siftings. Tramp—Sir, a single moment. Genial Man—Well, my good man? Tramp—I will be frank with you. 1 am tired of life and have determine to drink myself to death. 1 have el hausted my means and 1 implore you to furnish the funds to complete my destruction. Genial Man (after a careful survey)=My good man, | re- gret to say that I have not $10,000 to spare. {Texas Riftings, Wi
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