ae i Bi INAUGURAL BALY Floral Designs and Buntin® Draperies For the Event. Eleven Car Loads of Flowers and Exotics Needed. The floral decorations which have been de- signed for the inaugural ball at Washington promise to be more plentiful and elaborate than those of any entertainment ever given in this country. The ball will be given in the now entirely completed Pension Building in the patio or inner court, which is probably the most acious in the world, being 1506 by 450 feet, e roof is im three sections with a «dome in the centre. From the ceils ing will depend garlands of laurel six inches’ in diameter. It will take 5000 yards, Ateach end of the ballroom will be suspended huge globes of flowers fifteen feot in diameter, around which will be inscribed the words: ‘‘Inaugural Ball, '80.” These globes are arranged to open in tho centre, and by means of wires manipulated by the men stationed below on either side, as the Presidential party passes beneath the fragrant hemispheres will fart and a shower of blossoms will strew the path of the newly installed ruler and his suite, From the great dome will hang a ship of flowdry chirty feet long—the Ship of State—full- rigged. About the upper gallery are ranged terra- «<otta vases, in which will be placed rare palms. The 300 columns supporting the {aller will be draped with garlands of urels and smilax, The eight large columns which support the lofty dome will be twined with laurel, having palm leaves interspersed. All the galleries will be festooned with laurel garlands and Howers.as will be the gas fixtures and chande- Hers. Suspended from the lower gallery will | be a series of panels 5x10 feet, made entirely of choice flowers, a panel being devoted to | each department of State, upon which will be wrought in half relief some suitable de- vice. The Navy Department will bear upon a floral background a man of-war; the Department of the Interior, a pioneer scene representing a log cabin, a newly felled tree, a plow and a sheaf of grain; the Post office min | a mail-bag and an en- velope duly stamped, «ressed in a flowing Harrison, Washington, D. C." Over each panel will be the name of the | department it symbolizes and a quill of flowers, In the center of the tesselated pavement springs a fountain. It will be covered by a Japanese pagoda sixty feet high and two storied. In this will be placed the two bands of musicians. Palms tropical plants and flow- ers will cover the entire structure. Atone ex- treme end of the billlding will be a conserva- tory effect arranged with palms and growing plants, and overhung by the inscription *'In- aughiral Ball, 1888, Harrison and Morton,” in gleaming gas jets The reception rooms | in which the Presidential arty will receive are to be upholstered in urkish stuffs and provided with rugs and hangings of the | No | richest and most costly deseription, jpicsuiea or ornaments will be introduced, but there will be flowers every where, In tha centre of the Pesidential room is to stand a large tote-a-tete chair made of rare blossoms. Upon the back of one will be written “Harrison,” and upoy the other “Morton,” | and a canopy of choice blossoms will hang | overhead. Mr. Neal, the New York florist, to whom | has been awarded the contract for all these decorations, says they will cogt about 27000, and it will require at least eleven carloads of flowers to carry out his very elaborate de signs, EE IHS. THE LABOR WORLD. Tack machines make 275 per minute, _TuE coopers are to form a National Trade Union. AUSTRIAN cotton operatives get $4.30 to $9.00 per week. PHILADELPHIA'S working people are con- tented and prosperous. New York bas a $600,900 Bouth America for locomotives, Ture Lehigh Valley Railroad has ceased almost sutirely the use of soft coal, THIRTEEN cotton mills in and around Augusta, Ga , employ 43500 persons Tue boot and shoe makers produce an average of five pairs daily per operator. i AnouT 150,000 carbons are burned daily in | the electric lights used in the United States, | Tuer are 350 skilled tack workers in America, They make from $150 to $25) per | month. i Nariovar District Assemnry 217, Knights | of Labor, which once numbered 10,000 from | workers, has collapsed. i THERE are 50,000 men in the Stationary Engineers’ Association, The union was formed in New York in 1852, | CALIFORNIA fruit growers complain of the scarcity of fie d laborers since the Chinese | restriction bill went into effect, | Carrexters in Toronto, Canada, get $1.50 i to £5 per day, while bricklayers, plasterers | and stone masons ars paid $6 per day, i Turre are about 70000 lace makers in | Normandy,and in all France there are nearly 200,000 women engaged in this industry, Tug Order of Railway Telographers is ox- clusively beneficial, and imposes expulsion upon any member participating in a strike, Ax iron factory in Buffalo, N. Y., which has been shut down for over twelve years, | will soon start up with a force of two hun- dred men. Tioene were three firms in the Uwited Btates during 1588 which built over two hun- dred locomotives each, and seven which built over one hundred. Tue Chinese are getting lamp chimneys from the United States, A Pittsburg firm recently shipped to China 1000 boxes of them, or 6000 dozen. Pavr Mmsoxxe, a Belgian who recently died at the age of ninety, had been in the service of the coal mining corporation of Amerconir for seventy-seven years, Peace has been secured for the year in the mills of Fall River, Mass, by the action of the Spinners’ Union in ing the new schedule drawn up by the mill owners, Hamivrox & Browx of 8t. Louis demand a deposit of $50 from every workman as a tee that he will not leave without two weeks’ notice. If he has not that ec - Vis, a “general law fixing the minimuoam of wages of a bard -working man at £2 a day.” Tue marine engineers have concluded at order from Kiv sum Tux Purbington railroad strikers have reo. oeived an official copy of the by which the strike was term wnd were ordered by the Grievance Committee 30 re for work to the Burlington officials be. 's of New York Postinatked and ad- | and to “Benjamin | | Macdonald, | Appropriation bill, LATER NEWS, True oldest oak tree in America, sald to be 2000 years old, av Woodbridge, Conn., is being cut up into chairs, Mason-Gexenan Cartes P, Herring, a Union war veteran, died in Philadelphia, in the 60th year of his age.’ Epwann J, Axpersox, an old New York lawyer of some prominence, blew his brains out at the Putnam House in New York city. A MANUFACTURER of safes in Boston has received an order for a safe for a Philadel: phia bank. It will cost $100,000, and will be the largest and heaviest safe ever con- structed, Svurervisor Winniam Howeris and Assistant Supervisor Cox, o! Division C, Pennsylvania Railroad, were arrested in New York city charged with stealing $12,000 worth of property from the company, ONE HUNDRED persons have been indicted by the Grand Jury at Parkersburg, W. Va, for illegal voting, bribery and intimidation during the recent election. AvAM Berkeres, who was flogged by White Caps near Sardinia, Ohio, last Novem- ber, has brought suit against sixteen citizens of Brown County, for $10,000 damages, Gexerarn W. DD. Wasunury succeeds Benator Sabin to the United States Senate from Minnesota, Tuey have been enjoying a cold wave in the Northwest. At Neche, Dakota, the thermometer registered forty-two degrees below zero; at Morris, Minn , it was thirty degrees below, | States. Tue collection of internal revenue for the first six months of the current fiscal year were $63,512,005, an increase of $505 057 on the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year. Tur President has vetoed four private | pension bills, Tie men-of-war Vandalia and Mononga hela have been ordered Gy the Bscretary of | the Navy at once to Samoa, as the condition of affairs there is sald to be critical. Tue fund Farnell in his litization Tyvmes amounts to more than $150,000, to pay the expenses of Mr with the London Portioss of Scotland have been visited by an earthquake. Two men were blown to atoms by an ex plosion of dynamite at Sherbrooke, Quebec, { Canada, A Youxo woman and man from Lyons { were found dead in a room in a hotel at { Monte Carlo. In a letter to a friend they wid they had suffered losses at the gaming | tables, and intended to commit suicide to- gether, A rorTiON of the Imperial Palacoat Pekin China, has been burned down. Ax explosion of fire damp occurred in the Hyde Colliery near Manchester, England, | There were 107 miners at work at the time, | and of these twenty-five wore killed. Brronre help could reach her, Mrs, Anne { Sullivan was burned to a crisp in ber resi dence at Haverstraw, N. Y. | Isaac Bern, Ja, ex Minister Resident to the Netherlands for the United States, re {| cently died in St Luke's Hospital, New York city. { Mrs. Many J. Hare, a lady aged sixty years, was killel at Riga, N. Y., by Chris Burger, a boy aged sixteen years. The mur. | derer killed his victim with a boot, pounding her head and face to pulp, breaking the | frontal bones of the skull and crushing the nose and forehead. CaALvix BLoonGoon has teen ki'led at the mining town of Bam's Fork, Wyoming, by | his wife, A BRIDGE over Green River at Bpottaville, Ky., was wrecked, causing a los of five | lives, Tue Territorial treasury of Dakota is said nothing. Tuner colorel men wers killed in a race | conilict at Ty Ty, Ga. By a collision betwoen a passenger and freight train at Elmwood, Mich., James H. Lieutenant Governor of Michigan; William 8. Cochrane, of Es killed and five seriously injured. Mac. donald leaves an estate of $500,000, Tux House has passed the Fortifications An amendment appro priating £25.02 for railitary paraphernalia and officers’ quarters at Sandy Hook, N, J., was adopted, The bill, as passed, appro priates £015,990, Tue Caarina of Russia is said to be insane, Apsminat, Mostra, Chief of the German Admiralty, is dead, Mr, Ropenr Beymovn, Vies Consul of the United States at Queenstown, Ireland, is dead. A sorooxEr making a trip to Bkidegate, British Columbia, sprung a leak and sank. Eight Indian passengers wore drowned. The captain, a white boy and seven White Boy Indians escaped, | —————— FIVE BODIES IN THE RUINS, A Woman and Four Children Killed and Their Home Burned A MEMORIAL to the President and Con- gress of the United States has been adopted | by the New Mexico Legislative Assembly | by a unanimous vote, praying for the ad- | mission of the Territory to the Union of | | fledgling petrification has just come to light | the new Panama Canal | stipulates that after the opening of the canal canaba, and one other man were instantly WORK OF THE WIRES, Some Notable Happenings Trane. smitted by Telegraph, A Bill to Admit Five New States Passes the House, —— The House has passed the bill for the ad- mission of North and Bouth Dakota, Mon- tana. Washington and New Mexico, by a vote of 144 yoas to 95 nays, All the Democrats voted for the bill, as did also quite a number of Republicans, It provides, in brief, for the admission of two new Btates, South Dakota and Montana, and that North Dakota, Washington and Now Mexico may be admitted after they have formed and adopted State Constitutions, and whenever Congress shall have passed special acts in their behalf-—that is, at some indefinite date in the future, The main provisidhs of the measure are as follows: South Dakota is to be entitled to two Representatives in Congress,and is to be admitted into the Union upon proclama- tion by the President, provided that at an election to be held on November 5, 1854, a majority of the voters of North Dakota and South Dakota, voting separately shall decide in fuvor of 8 iviaions and that the Constitution of 1835 shall be ratified by & majority of the voters of South Dakota. If either North Dakota or South Dakota shall vote against division, status, and Dakota Territory Is to mitted as a single State, if at all, under this measure. case, will be the only actual Leneficiary. Montana is to be admitted upon proclama~ | tion, if a majority of the voters at the elect- | way of prisms them up Is in strands of tion on November 5, 1580, shall ratify the Constitution of 1854, The Territories of New Mexico and Wash- ington are authorized to elect delegates and hold constitutional conventions and frame and adopt constitutions, but the State are to be kept out of the Union until Congress by special acts shall open the door and admit po North Dakota is to have the same privileges, provided that both North and Bouth Dakota wote for division, but not otherwise, It will be observed that the ad- | mission of Montana under the bill depends on | a single | of the o'/d comstitution adopted five years condition — the ratification ago, while the admimion of South Dakota depends not only upon the ratification of the constitution of 18%), but also upon a majors ty in favor of division in North Dakote af i well as in South Dakota Politios A number of leading Republican ex-sol- diers, members of the G. A Rand Union Veteran Union, have organized themselves at Bloomington, lil, into Camp No. 1 of a new organization, to be known as the Hee sublican So'diery’ League of the United Keates, and have chosen Colonel John Heed President. The oliject of the organization is openly political, It is founded for the ex- press purpose of concentrating the politic al IWET of the Republican soldiers of the Paton Organizers will be chosen at once to intraduce the Order throughout the State and the United States A dispatch from Fort Dodge, lowa, says: The movement for the organization of a so cisty of Democratic veterans of the war is not confined alone to Indiana. Steps are be ing taken for the organization of a camp in this county, and eighty-one members of proposed organization have already besn ou tained, Veterans in His Wife Was Petrified. A remarkable case of what is alleged to be Sixtesn years ago a half bread namad Holade buried his wife about twenty miles from Winni A Manitoba. A few days ago be exhumed the remains, intending to carry them to another burying piace Upon opening the coffin the body was found perfectly preserved, the eyes and mouth teing partly open and the hair quite hiack and natural When an attempt was made to lift the body it was found quite im waible, as it was complelely petrified Ixamination showed that a small spring of alkali water had been running through the coffin, and the action of the water on the remains had caused petrifi- oation. Assistance was procured, and the body was raised to the surface and trans. ferred to the city where it was weighed. The weight was found to be 700 pounds A Relie of the Revolation The old blast furnace at the Oxforl Fron | Works, Oxford, N. J., Is being torn down to give way to modern improvements. The furnace is one of the oldest relics in the county, and was erected over a century ago. It is the oldest stack in New Jersey, and | rendered valuable service in manufactaring | ammunition for the Revolutionary War, to be bankrupt, or $65,000 worse off than | New Panama Canal Company. The Banque Parisienne has assumed the entire cost of the issue and constitution of Company, but it it shall receive annually one per cent. of the net profits, A PALACE AFIRE. Enormous Loss by the Burning of the Chinese Emperor's Home. The fire which broke out in the im | perial palace at Pekin, China, on the 17th was still raging three days afterward. The | loss is enormous, city in itself, and about a quarter of it s in flames. The great audience hall, with its | The palace enclosure is a elaborate ornaments and valuable works of art, is destroyed. The treasury building and most of its contents are in ashes of officials of the court have been swept The quarter of the palace in which AWRY. the fouperor and Empress Mother lived was saved, but the panic was terrible. Their Majesties were hastily conveyed to the fortress, at a safe distance from the Sates The and warehouses were with Beg Be and treasures, which bed been accumulated In tion for the peror, Immense The lows far ex- He Hh i In other words, Montana, in that | Whole | stroots of offices, storehouses and residences | ee a SIGIKS IN COREA. STRANGE SGENES IN A FAR w ~The Wonders of Scoul- Fat Corean Chiidre. eh PEAKING of Coren and th loreans, Frank G. Carpenter says in ole uf his entertaining letters: wh than 1400 to make Mexican dollar worth here seventy. five cents, It cost we in the neigh- borhood of 50,000 Apia Sw “cash” to travel from the sea coast to the capital and back, and it is the custom in traveling in the interior of Corea to take an extra pack horse along to carry your money ople outside of the three sea ports oy nothing of silver and gold, and | one of the common sights near Fusan, neither of them will have any separate | w ade | which is the only southern port of the country, is a coolic aden down with a bushel or so of these copper coins, which he carries upon hisback. Each coin has a square hole in it, and the common hundreds hung on straw cords of about the thickness of a clothes line, dollars is a load for a man, and $30 would break down a mule if the journey was long. Considering the poverty of Corea one | might supposes that the foreigners here | This is far from the | hard life. They have comfortable homes at bad a Case, Seoul, and their provisions, which come | in large part from China, are plenty and good I'hey have a pleasant society among themselves, play tennis, from social bickerings any of the foreign colonies of Western Pacific Their Ii mre most [ree strife the of ves reasonably safe, except in such outbreaks | as that last June, when some of the anti foreign started the story that the foreign devils were feasting on ( babies. Then for a time it looks squally and the troops had to be called from one of our men- of war which lies in the harbor at Chemulpo. The foreigners keep in. doors, the King sends out a proclama- tion, the Coreans quiet down and it is again all quiet on the river which flows by Seoul. Speaking of the Corean baby-eating by the missionaries, the hing in this case sent out a proclamation asking any one who had ksown of babies being stolen by foreigners to come forth and make his charge good, He called attention to the fact that foreigners were civilized dnd asked the as to how civilized people cat children, “But,” the proclamation went on, *‘if children are being stolen, let the informa. tion be filed before the proper authori ties and the offenders will be arrested, and if found guilty by evidence will be punished. A reward of 40,000 ¢ ash will be paid to the informant for each person so found guiity, but in case the informa- tiop is not supports d by the evidence the informant shall be fined in a like sum for bringing the This wean Usnally question could charg sea! and was pasted on the gates and on the grept bell in the centre of the city. The selling of children is, however, not uncommon in Corea, and I am told that many are ¢ ported to China LB od, fat, well disposed babies bring from $5 to to $20 apiece, and a father has a perfect right to sell his children. Dabies are sometimes bought for adoption. Slavery exists to some extent in Corea, but it is more § sgridom than avery. Corean society is divided into three classes, the King, the nobles and the compen people. The latter live in thasched huts and they are the poorest of the poor. The nobles or yang ban are the curse of thecountry. They own all the ople who til them for them. The or of them dress in gorgeous silks, They never go on the street without having a lot of retainers about them, There is now one big American firm in Corea, and here at Seoul the foreign colony, which is made up of three or i gu scores of bright men and women, is a most altogether American. The busi- ness firm is at Chemulpo, the port of the capital. Its members are Morse and Townsend, two bright young Bostonians, who have spent years in Japan and CORBAN SOLDIERS Coreannd who the confidence of the native ta. Corea does a large part of its bu merchant gid and in this way large at one time, Mr, has been shipping cotton that the i g g rH: HEH litis 1] The | Ten | have | concerts, and as far as I can hear are the | and | fanatics among the natives | | are served | covered with | them sold by the bushel in the markets | They have, | achs their god. | sleep and to squat is, to all outward ap- | of wealth lands and live by squeezing the | | of the house to themselves, drygoods box. are arranged around narrow courts with a little plat. form two feet wide rmaoning around their outside and forming us sort of shell two fect high, golug entirely around the court, On to this shell or perch each store ook. and the merchant sits out- side his store and not in it. He has a curtain in front of his goods and he brings out picee bj ploee as you ask for it. He keeps his hat on while he trades and smokes during the whole transaction, Sitting on his heels, he does not ap- parently care whether you buy or not, and I sm told that he considers shat a large order should bring a much higher comparative price than a smaller one, Mr. Townsend wanted, mot long sgo, to export some small Corean mats to the United States, He asked a merchant the rice, and he was told they would be > cents apiece, and was asked how many he wanted. He replied that he om take 50,000, whereupon the rean, taking his long pipe from his uth in astonishment, eaid: *‘Oh, if want so many I shall have to charge yoltwenty cents apiece! If will be im. | e to fill your at less than | wen cents.” And so It is with all | The more you want the mere it costs)and a large order scares the the thought that you are is stock and he may have (ing more, The coin used | in shopping i, of cousse, the cash, and | in buying you ways take a servant with | you to curry youh money-bag for you. THE QUEEN, None of the shops of Seoul are, how ever, and the trade of this capital of i* made up of what the Yankees would call a » hitting busi ness. The loudest-moutned and most Ire 00,000 people | enterprising persons in the whole city seem to be the venders of roasted chestnuts, They are little boys with their hair parted in the middle like girls and braided in one tightly-woven cord down the back. Their stock usually consists of about a quart of chestnuts, and they have a little pan of coals over { which they roast them while you wait, Another thriving trade seems to be the cook shops, where all sorts of Corean dainties, from raw fish to toasted liver, up on little round tables a foot high and about fifteen inches in diameter. These have four or five little legs, and if you order a dinner the boy servant of the cook shop will lift up the | table containing the dishes, balance it | on his head and walk ofl | the legs | about his neck i were not proclamation was signed with the royal | with it, with the table hanging down Such dishes as 1 saw at all aopetizing, and every was seasoned highly with red of thing peppers The roofs of the country huts are now red peppers, and 1 see near the wide street of the bell The Coreaps may use them as appetizers. it seems, an ever-present craving for food, and make their stom- To eat, to smoke, to pearances, the chief employments of the people, and to be fat in Corea is a sign A big stomach is an honor, end the very smali children in the coun- | try districts are in nine cases out of ten pot-bellied. The skin of their abdo- ! mens is stretched like a drum head, and a leading authority on Corean life says that mothers, in order to increase the | size of the stomachs of their children, | stuff them day after day with rice, pad. { dling them on the stomach to press down the contents and make room for more. Corean ladies have a place in the back Fashion in dress does not change with them and their lives are those of almost perfect desolation. Those you see on the street are the common women, or servants, and these have green gowns over their heads and their dresses, which, I am of the Indies, and consist of a short skirt with a waistband about a foot wide. Over this comes a short jacket with sleeves, The only jewelry I see is twelve inches long and as big around as your little finger, silver and jade apd sometimes have knobs on them as big 88 the hand of a two year. old baby. The servants of the Wear a coiled fn thick rolls are very glad tosee foreign ladies, but few of them are able to return the calls, One of them told an American friena of mine that she found it very hard to lead such a secluded life and she lon for the customs of out country. All Corean | ladies smoke. They have their polite ways of bowing and their code of etiquette, and not & few of them mle their husbands, The laws of divorce are almost on tie husband's told, are cut after the same style as those | | whieh in the ha rpins, which are in some cases | | San Francisco Chronicle, They are made of | ince | peck of false hair on their heads | The Corean ladies | ine side, and widows among the better clase do not marry again, The only women who have the right! to be seen by men outside their own families are the dancing girls, and these are much like the Geishas of Japan. They are called in at feasts and there sre many famous dancers who are smployed especially to appear before the King. These girls wenr fine dresses of silk, and they whiten their skins with powder and paint. They sing in a sort of a chant, and their dance is a series of posturing, Uke that of the same class of girls in apan, ‘o-morrow we leave the capital and travel by inchairs, each borne by eight collies, to the seaconst at Chemulpo, where we take the Japanese steamer for China. I feel that T have had but a taste of Corea, but that taste hns shown me that there is here a rich mes! for the man whose soul longs for thipge unkuown snd unwritten, The Wonderful Forage Plant of Call. fornia, Man ople, whose only sequaiptance with alfalfa, through the meditm of the newspapers, are a little skeptical as | to Hiny of the claims made for that ul wonderful forage plant. They do not understead how it can go on, year after year, producing such immense cro without fertilization, or, at least with no /other addition to the soil than is | furhished by the water used in frriga- | tion, But if they understood the mar- velous root development of the alfalfa plant some of their skepticism would be removed, and part of the mystery, at all events, would be explained. The ac- companying illustration will serve to explain to some extent the relation which the roots of the alfalfa sustain to the plant above ground. The portion 1s certainly remarkable, but, after all, it is rather under than over the truth. The roots of alfalfa have bern known in this State to go forty feet in search of water, | The writer has persons! knowledge of at least one such case, and has no doubt but they are quite common. With such a power of draining sustenance from the depths of the soil. there is little wonder, then, that crops should be produced are far in excess of aaything grown by a more shallow-rooted — i Part of a Letter, Dean Jack: ” od Knowing what an ent sporteman ou are, old fellaw, I send a box of npowder, extra powerful. sareful about smok-— . - 1p 8p
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