go atin i ashi * HR FEDERAL OFFICERS Important Nominations Submit ted by President Harrison. Prominent Appointments in the Diplomatic Service. The President has sent to the Senate the following nominations: Thomas W. Palmer, of Michigan, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- potentiary of the United States to Spain. John F. Swift, of California, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Japan. Jo 1. Washburn, of Massachusetts, to bo Minister Resident and Consal-Genaral of the United States to Switzerland. George C. Tichenor, of Illinois, to be As- | gistant Secretary of the Treasury, vice Isaac | H. Maynard, resigned. : The nominations were formally laid before the Senate as soon as the doors were closed, There was a disposition on both sides of the | chamber to confirm SE Senmor Palmer as | Minister to Spain without reference to a | committee, Aa was decided not to] bresk over the regular rule, and so the nom- | {nation was sent to the Foreign Relations | Committes along with those of Jobn D. | Washburn for toe Swiss mission and John | F. Swift for the mission to Japan. Ueorge C. Tichenor's nomination for Assistant Sec. retary of the Treasury went into the Finance Committees. All this took less than Senate adjourned. Thomas Witherell Palmer, of Michigan, | who has been nominaied to succeed Perry Belmont, of New York, as United States | Minister to Spain, was born at Detroit on January 25, 1830. His father, Thomas Pal- mer, was one of the pioneers of Detroit, and his mother was u daughter of Judge James Withereil. : In 1855 he married Miss Lizzie P. Merrill, daughter of Charles P. Merrill, and then entered the lumber business with the latter. As the successor of his father and father-in- law he is one of the largest owners of lumber roperty and saw mills in the Northwest and the possessor of a large fortune. : In 197% he was elected to the State Senate, and in 1558 he was elected to the United States Senate for the term which closed on | March 2, Jobin F. Swift, of California, who has been nominated to sucesed ex-Governor Richard B. Hubbard, of Texas as United State: Minis er to Japan, was born in Missouri about fifty years ago. He went in 1852 to Califor ~ Ale and became one of the leading lawyers © va Laxific Coas', ; and possessed walt, rig all over tae world and people. He bas writteirvipation of places among which are “Going to Jericho,” a bats of travel, and “Rupert Greathous.” a novel. T St Colonel Jobn D. Washburn, of Massachu- setts, who has been nominated to.succeed | Boyd Winchester, of Kentucky, as United States Minister Hesident and Consu’ General to Sv terland, is a native of Boy on and is fifty years old, He uas served in both Houses of the Mas: sachu er + Legislature, was chiv ¢ of staff of Governo Bullock during the * war. and has | held var.ons places of honor ar 4 trust in con- th charitable instit sions, Hels a in business Mr. Tichenor was a soldi, of the Union, commanding an fowa re iment. He was appointed in the Governr J.¢ service in 1978, and has been in cont ous employment ince, most of the time ro 4 special agent of the Treasury. A great deal of his time has been spent abroad i» (,oestigation of the matter of undervaler ne and he has be come the most profi ooo all the spacial agents in that line 0’ 0p lth, and at presse |; {5 nok eagsged | Second Da On the second dr nominations, Pe following itst of x Albert (i. Por Extraordinary of the United § John A. Ear tor Resident United State George S. Assistant § HughS8. T Arthur’ to be Gov ardson, ¢ tary of Coro ritory, Court i's Nominations sy after ho began making sidont Harrison sent the in nes to the Senate: ior, of Indiana, to be Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary tates to Italy adder, of Illinois, to be Minis and Consul-General of the s to Denmark. Batcheller, of Now York, to be ecrotary of the Treasury, vice hompson, resigned, J. Mellotte, of Watertown, Dak, ernor of Dakota; Luther B. Rich f Grand Forks, Dak., to bo Secre- Dakota dius H Hanford of Washington Ter to be Chief Justice of the Supremes Goo of the Territory of Washington shal rge W. Irvia, of Montana, to be Mar . of the Umited States for the Territory of tana, y U. Chambers, of Indiana, to be ited States Attorney for the District of liana. Postmasters--Charles A. Rolfe, at Prince + on, Me ; Arthur C. Perry, at Presque Isle Me. ; Lensio L. Sayles at Malone, N. Y.: Ira Dorrance, at Middletown, N. Y.: Geo. W. Dunn, at Binghampton, N. Y.; Lawson I. Muzzy, at Pulaski, N. Y.: Wm. [. Heers, | at Ilbinelander, N. Y.; Lyman M. Wanl, at Benton Harbor, Mich. ;: Richard Hoot. at Keokuk, lowa, Third Day's Nominations. The President on this day sent the follow- ing nominations to the Senate: ugene Scauyler, of New York, to be As- sistant Secretary of State, vice George L. Rives, resigned. Walker nine, of Maine, to be Examiner of Claims for the Department of State, vice | Francis Wharton, deceased. Cyrus Bussey, of New York city, to be As sistant Sec of the Interior, vice David 1. Hawkins, resi . The Senate during the day confirmed the following nominations A. C Melletts to be Governor of Dakota, XL. B. Richardson to be Secretary of Dakota, Cornelius H. Hanford to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Wash ington, George W. Irvin to be Marshal of he i fied vases for Montana, Smiley N. Chambers to be United States Attorney for the District of Indiana. Georges 8B. Batcheller to be Assistant Seo- taf of the Treasury. bert G. Porter, of Indiana, to be Min. ister to Italy: John A. Enander to be Min ister to Denmark. Walter Blaine, of Maine, to be Examiner of Claims in the State | ment, confirmation of Walter Blaine was out of the usual order and made by unani- | Eugene Soh ler uyler, who has been appointed Awaistant of State, is about forty. | seven years of age. He is generally well | known as an author and a diplomat, and in the last mentioned career he has filled almost | every grade in the service. In 1467 he began | his connection with the State De ment as Consul at Moscow, and in 1300 he was Consul at Ravel In 1570 he was made | El) irmingham, and in 1579 Rome. Fourth Day's Nominations. The President on this day sent the follow - nominations to the Banate: ames 8, Clarkson, of Towa, 10 be First As sistant Fostmaster-Genoral, vice AK. Steven. won, resigned. Lewis Woitley, of Tucson, Arizona, to be Governor of Arizona, Rathbone Gardner, of Rhode de. ten | minutes, and when it had been done the | | the MM: ! elected President, and I BheeD.... ccovvvvsvivnnns | Bteers— Western ..... | Lambs Fair to Good. ... .... The President also nominated Messrs, William: Walter Phelps, John A. Kasson and George H. Bates to ba Commissionsrsat the Samoan Conference at Berlin. Messrs, Phelps and Kasson have both had diplo- matic experience; both served as Ministers to Austria. Mr. Bates, of Delaware, was Mr. Bavard's commissioner at Sama, sent out when the Samoan Contarence in Wash ton broke up, and when agresmnent oV- ernment and those of Germany and England each sent an Envoy to Samoa to make a re port of affairs there to his Government. The nomination of James 8. Clarkson to be First Assistant Postmaster-General wae PROMINENT PEOPLE, Tar Emperor of Annam is dead. PresipeExT HARRISOX has insomnia, Govenxon HILL is going West in June, Tae Car of Russia is an enormous eater. LoRD Rasporrn CHuncniny is forty years old, SECRETARY TRACY ie a great lover of horseflesh. Hiexry GRORGE, the agrarian agitator, is | in London. Frouog, the historian, bas declared for rish Home Hulse. » Sexator Evanrrs is said to be ambitious | to become a Judge, Tue King of Holland, who has been very sick, is much better, Szoneranries NOBLE, | Miller never heid office before. ADMIRAL PorTER and his wile have just celebrated their golden wedding. Presioext Hanmmsox is the fourteenth lawyer to hold the Executive chair. Ronent H. MAY has since 15850 been elected | Mayor of Augusta, Ga, eloven times. SexatTor Sranronrp paid $500 for windows | | service and another new O'Hara, a soldier of fortune who made his | way from Turk's Island to serve under Hip | polyte, After the exchange of some thirty or forty shots the Dessalines pulled out ol range, but not before a gaping hole was seen in her side It was listed heavily and seemed to labor in the light sea that was from which to visw the inaugural parade, Tux youngest College President in the country is the Rev. De Witt Hyde, of Bow- doin, Tis oldest member of the British House of Commons is Charles Villiers, He is nearly | ninety. Miss Pavxcerore, daughter of ths new British Minister, is twenty-five years old and quite preity CoUsTt Bismarck talks of making a tour in America by way of a sum- mer vacation. C. W. Gopvarp, Consul-General to Con- stantinople from [561 to 1504, died recently in Portland, Me. Grover CLEVELAND was elected a mem- | ber of the Bar Association of New York at its last annual meeting held, Miss ScHuLze, who has just taken the de ror, D "ar i articu'arly prolly wei D. jn 2 x: CR I 3 THE 13° 4 Captain Ericsson, the i 3#emmay of *s . aitor, left at his fortum , of not less than $150,000, TH suas W. PaLuen, of Mictrigan, just ap- POU ted Minister to Suain, ix familiar with they Spanish people and language. Postuasten-Gesnrat Waxavaxsn will, it is said, continug as superintendentiof his | great Sunday-schonl at Phailadeiphis Mes, Pork, widow of President Folk, now eighty-five years old wears black kid gloves all day and walks with a gold headed cane, Henze Kruri, the gummaker, of Essen, Germany, bes en income of $1,500,500 a year, larger thar the income of the richest Hoth schilh ’ Bin JrLiax Pavycrrore, British Minister | { at Washington, is a fine looking man, siz fest two inches tall, black eyed, heavy browed and bald beaded, He bas a charming | wife and dauzhter. SoSEY BARTLETT, the aged Poston law- ver, whose death occurred recently, left an estate worth fully $10,000.00. His foes, even for a few words of counsel, frequently amounted to $30,000, Myr Murst, wife ol the Japanese Minister at Washington, has made 120 social calls since the season began. Last spring she could not speak a word of English. She is now a goo) conversatiopalist in our tongue thirteenth year. He is said to bs an excep tionally bright, good boy, but the chances now seem to be that, by the time he comes to years of discretion, there will be no Servia for him to rule Gexenal Jerry Rusk, of Wisconsin, of President Harrison's Cabinet, was the tow path companion of Garfield when the latter was a boy, and bas been a stagedriver, Sheriff. Lagisiator, soldier, Congressinan and Governor of the Badger State CLevELAND was the third defeated candi | dite to ride with his successful competitor in the inaugural procession. One of the other two was van Buren, who rode with the grandfather of the present President, and the other was Andrew Jackson, who rode with John Quincy Adams Tax first “Mrs. Prasident Harrison" was never mistress of the White House, She was sixty-six years old when ber husband was quite infirm. She dared not attempt the journey to Washing: ton from her Ohio home when Old Tippe canoe started February 1, 1841, and was just ! [reparing for the trip when the news of ber gsband's fatal illness came, a month after his inauguration. Cesmtm— —-— Exiaration statistics show that 2,500.0 | emigrants have left Germany since 187], of yom 2,000,000 have gone to America THE MARKETS. il SEW YORE Booves, ... ou. ates & lilch Cows, com. to good... 25 00 Calves common to prime... 0 Ww @® 515 4h 0 CBRL 6% 6 50 on ~ 15 55 « os 5 re Patents Wheat No. 2 Rye—HNtate - S00650606800606000800088 I White ‘aan Mixed Western... ... Butter Eigin Creamery... 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A town burned to ashos. A man-of-war sunk with all on. board. A general deserts from. Legitime with $10,000 and 2000 men, These are the striking items of news brought by the stearnow William Coleman that has just arrived at New York from Gonaives, Hayti, Sis puis an entirely new face on Haytian affairs and offsets to a cer- tain extent the bombastic cables sent by Legitime to this country. . he William Coleman has touched at Vera Cruz and Haytian ports, She steamed Tux Emperor of Germany is an early | aan. ] iy r into the port of Gonaives, which is situated thirty-twomiles north of St. Marc. Captain Scott found the town completely fortified, a heavy stockads having been erectsd around the outskirts and two forts composed of sand banks and piles erected at the mouth of the harbor, Captain Scott went ashore, and there learned that the day previous, about 4 r. NM. the Haytian man-of-war Dessalines had steamed up to Gonaives Bay with the inten~ tion of bombarding the town, She recon- noitred for a position a little, seemingly | afraid of the forts, and she had reason opengd This treatment tw be, for they suddenly seemed somewhat discourtsous to the oom. mander of the Dessalines, who returned the | fire, sometimes alming at the forts and some No damage was doo to | the former, and but ons shot landed in the | latter, and that tore the roof off a dwelling | house near the German Consulate The firing of the forts was rapid and well: aimed, owing to the siforts of a Spanish gunner who had recently entered Hippolyte's jeneral recruit, only a foot above the waker line, that she running as though seriously disabled. Her departure was followed by a chorus of Northern artillery. men, who deserted their guns and ran cuton | the beach and ramparts to demoniac yells from the sxprows in de risive gestures their contempt for so ardly an enemy. That night was a great one in All the town turned out i« | soldiers, and two or three | Geoerals on the spol Before the festivitiss were runner arrived the lower nouncing that the Dessalines had | St. Marc's with all on board. This the enthusiasm and the “‘talla water, Acting under instruct feant of them ware ’ ir ns fi | against Grand Salis, which wa | risoned by Legitime's forces, Al | dred men Jeft St. Marc's at the same tims the same purpose, but for » 0 connect, The Got ever, made a spirited line, but were repulsed ing was resumed and gitime's troops evacuated shen gar mives foros xt day Hght The § p consumed, and Grand Saline off the face of the earth The Southern troops fled across the sandy the iain to the mountains that form wundary line between Havti and Sana Do mingo, and unless the inhabitants of latter have murdered the rofugzess thay are still in hiding. : General Jean Jumeaux to assume command of the troops. Jur was formerly a trusted lieutenant of time's, who gave him charge of Lag It was some weeks ago that he arrived within five miles of the town and felt a kind of sneaking sympathy for Hippoiyte, coming that he dis st the hills | ered and bowled for alms, fact 2% 7 at i over him so strongly, in banded his army and struck o oon, v ——— AN EDITOR SLAIN, Shot Dead in the Office of a Charles ton (8 C) Physician Captain F. W Charleston 8 ( me of the Uawson, oditor Newz: and C and popular nen in South Caro. urier, most | lina, was shot and instantly killed by Dr. T B McDow in the office of the latter pats h from the scenes of the crise says ihe murder was committed about 2:45 ociock in the afternoon, but was not dis covered for three hours afterward, when the murderer surrendersd himself. The body of the murders! man had, in the meantime. 10 A dis Captain Dawson left the fer office about seen: alive again, that vers and Cour. WM o'clock, and was never It appears that he had a his mad servant, had charge of his children was behaving herself properly. last week be asked the Chief of Folios to detail a des fective to shadow the girl, statirg that he | would not sub ect his children to her control | if she was not strictly honest i | bullet The detective accordingly shadowed the girl. The detective submitted report in writ ing to the Chief of Police, who commun. cated its contents to Captain Dawson As stated above, Caplain Dawson left his | ~ £8 god ” ! Oli @ at 0 o'clock and was found murdered | {| word of God to the Chinsse, and he does ! ts § his | Empire has its | about 4.30 o'clock inthe offiow of Dr, MeDow His face was badly beaten, and a pistol was found lodged in bis t. It is supposed that be went to Dr, MeDow's | office to remonstrate with him, & married | man and | Against going with his maid servant. and | the father of several children, that Mcilaw ghot him after the two had been enghged in a serimmage, cllow is said to be the only doctor in the | city who 1s not a member of the State Madi al 8) 12 a LE eal Society, and has an unsavory reputation He married some years ago the daughter of C. Ir. Ahrens, a rich sotired grocer, and it is known that the police have been asked to shadow him several times After murdering his victim, it is said, Dr MeDow lafs him lying on the foor. locked his office door and went out $0 a corner grocery shop. There is evidenos that he tried to bury the corpse of his victim, but that in the meantime suspicions had got out, and, finally, three hours after he had killed his victim, he surrendered himself up to the police authorities, Nine Deaths in Washington Due to Exposure on March 4th. During the firss week after the inaugura- tion nine deaths coourred in Washington city that were directly attributable to that ovent. This is merely the local record. and is necessarily only a one, Itd include the molality among the 200,000 visitors or the eases of sickness which have fatal but bave not yet culmi- is apt to show its bleak side to + It was a very cold day Wha She sal. OBSERVATIONS OF AN AMERI- CAN CORRESPONDENT. Barbarous Panpishment of Crimi- nals— Wretched, Beggars—The Six Great Boards of Govern: ment~Chinese Civil Service. HE crime notes of the Peking Gaette, the official paper of China, says Frank G. Carpenter, are numerous and the horrors of purgatory may be read in the lines fixing the puns ishment. The sen- tences where. the eriminals are to be sliced to deaths are many, Strangling is aommon and decapitation is an casy method of taking ofl. The bastinado and flogging are found in nearly every issue, und | see that corrupt officia:s are often degraded from their ranks, Ina | country where suncestral worship pre- vails, themost terrible crime is the kill- ing of parents. and parricides are, in China, invariably sliced. The punish- cow. Gongives, and toast the made i like 1 the Seers- tary of War, 200 men left Gonaives to march ut five hun for me reason failed How. £ the night Le the late of Lagitime's army, came to Gonalves from Cape Havtian Jurusaus men and | $10.03) to go and subdues Gonaives of the who not | ment of slicing to death means the cut- | ting off of one member at a time. Finger | by finger, ear by ear, toe by tos, and the | legs by inches, until the criminal at last | dies under the torture. Here is a de- | eree of such a punishment which shows | that the insanity dodge does not prevail | in China, and that the insane murderer | gots the same deserts as the sane one. | The decree was published on the 16th of ast July, and the crime occurred in the province where 1 write this letter, § | copy the decree verbatim. The article headed “A Parricide by a Maniac” On the 2ith of last September | sce that a murderer who killed a rival through jealousy was sentenced to be strangled and that the woman in the case was flogged with one hundred blows for loose living. It is almost impossible to that such cruelties exist in this latter part of the nineteenth century, but they do exist here in full force, and the Board of Punishments of Peking passes upon such sentences daily, Even the most ordinary punishments of Chinaare horri- le to us, and the torture of the cangue ardly be sppreciated. During this day I was sitting on one of the nar- row streets near the Tartar wall, a China- LI 2 # » man with a board four seet fastened abou room to turn hi in the centre conceive use 80 t he had just head through the he His hands were tied and his bare feet were hain. His Queue was sk bristles two inches long grown up all over his unshaved hb Jesid m stcod about chained ese boards were pasted bills econtaming Chinese characters show. ing that they had committed some petty oense and were doomed to wear these boards for weeks, The boards were so fixed tha: they could not feed themselves, and they shivered and bowled as the cold winds from the Mon- golian Mountains through their ragged clothes. I snapped my camera upon them and took their photographs, but 1 cannot photograph the heart. sickening sight in pen and ink. feelings are severely worked poverty and cruelties of I have seen beggars who shiv. covered by than a strip of loosely woven coffees and every time I go on the wide street which runs toward the palace 1 am pursued by a half-naked boy without He holds up his bare stumps of shoulders at me and keeps pace with my donkey until I hrow him some cash. Whether he was nas hes I do not know, but | am it is not an uncommon thing for + and others to mutilate children t his peck tha ie his neck gether, tO- came by the J ap mm China. nothing more cing, arins i t parent in order that they may be used as beg. | gars, Beggars sometimes cut themselves, and there is a priest here who goes around begging with an iron skewer stuck through his cheek. He moves { this about su as to Keep the cheek con. tinually sore, and goes along wih a | brass basin which he pushes into your | face as be asks for alms. He has a keen | eye to business, too, and be would not | allow himself to be photographed for | less than six Mexican dollars. He forms | » horrible sight, and one gladly gives to | get rid of him | Speaking of the Board of Punishments, | this board has the control of all the yunishments of the Empire, and it might | be called the . udicia! Department of the | Emperors (abinet. The Emperor is an absolute monarch. His word is the | a8 he pleases. He has, however, | Cabinet, and this great Government organization even as have the other nations of the world. It has its civil service, founded largely upon here ranks higher than the military hero. The Emperor has his grand secretariat, PRISONERS WEARING THE CANAUR, consisting of chancellors and assistants, who assist him with his edicts and de- erees, and who lay matters before him. He has a great council of state, with which he consults e morning between 5 and 6 o'clock, and this is made up of a numberof imperial princes, of secre. taries, chancellors and other influential men connected with the six great boards of the Fmpire, These morning meetings might be called Cabinet councils, and it is at these that the chief official appoint. ments are made. The six great boards administer the business of the Government much as do our departments at Washington, Each has two Presidents, four Viee- aod a number of clerks and Bupj the student pastes this gx- Ph gy Hine then the right to enter the great examinations at Peking, whee, if successful; ho will get su appointment for office, There is still a higher ex amination, which makes him one of the members of Haniin College, and this rank is the highest literary rank in, the Empire, [i Hung Chang is a Hanlin, and so are many of the other high offi- cisls, 1 visited this college the. other day. It is as garty and barn-like.as are the other Government departments, and is hardly worth a description, The great examination hall at Peking covers, I judge, at least twenty acres, and 17,900 students were examined in it a few weeks ago. The number passed ¥ there were forty deaths during the three days’ test. The students were all ex- amined as to their clothes and persons to see whether they had any notes cou- cealed upon them, and sugh as were found guilty were prohibited from future cangue in the same way as tor stealing, Thar fathers spd tutors were also pun and that a Tartar Emperor has sat on the throne for hundreds of years, These six boards are the Treasury De- partment, we Board of the Civil Office, Board of War, the Board of Punish ments sad the Doard of Works, which might, be called the Interior Depart. ment. Itis the Treasury Department whigh takes charge of the Goverpment yigible for the imperial harem, and which Las charge of the revenues. 1 visited this great department of these literary culture, and ths literary graduate | { more likea barnyard than a Government | office, and Colonel Denby, our American | Board of Rites and Ceremonies, looks as | though it might have been sha sed out of | odd pieces from Noah's ark, This Board superintends the warshipping of gods and it supplies the foods for ban- | however, quets and sacrifices, Here, for cleaniivess is not next to godliness, was, I think, about two hundred, and | the Board of ites snd Ceremonies, the | funds, which makes out the list of girls | 400, 600, 000 of people recently. 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Only lately mathe matics and some of cyr sciences have examinations and were punished by the | Dees added to this, aud it is a e fact that at the recent. examination the | highest grade in mathematics was oy a youth from the far west {China ywovines of his way The boy had studied ! through mathemsfical science by books tone. and he distanced the men of the cram It is impossible to appreciate the severity of these examinations. The misplacing of a character, a blot upon | the manuscript or the slighest mistake | will impaip the whole paper and render the examination void, student at the last test who had dope very well up to the last day then became very tired and feel saleep. His candle was overturned: and his papers burned up. He was so disappointed by the accident that he killed himself before the examinstion was over, and, as is the custom of car- ing for dead students at such times, his body was dragged through a hole in the walls and handed over to his friends for burial, The Five Senses, . » every surrounding is that of dirt and | Minister to Peking, and myself had to step carefully ts keep our feet clean as we walked within the inclosure. Just { outside there was a pool of muddy water sovering th and we walked 1 $4 1} : . ts }) 108¢ 20 the 8 ing to » entire straat ¢ entire street, kee] honestly I shall disc As to how is & question which future There is one branch, does not exist in ments, and that is the censorate are censors everywhere in China keep their eves upon the variou and they report whether 1 work well or badly. They right to reprove every one from t perer to the cooly. and Emperor can degrade them they often his sctions Th pass their ipon the eunuchs of the and only a few weeks ago a the Empress dowager nation however, which of Govern. There These any though ey many airs sod for | on a trip away fron Chinaman wrongs ar to and his case and see that hej act thus as spies upon the o the spy system of Ch custom ke OF fp of its Government, the censor, cinls, extends to § every part house A CHINESE JEQGAR, The Fareign Office is not one of the great boards of the Government, and there are & number of subordinate boards in additica to the omnes above mentioned The eivil service of China would furnish the material for a large book in its description. It is estimated that about two million persons are ex- amined every year in China and that only two per cent. of these pass. The candi. dates for ofice are of all ages, but of only ome sex—thkc male. Women have no chance in “iwa. The candidates among the men range in years from six. teen to eighty. Instances have occurred of father, son and grandson appearing at the same examination for the same de- grees. The man who fails honoralyy in an examination has the right to enter for the next axsmination and try again, Examination halls exist in every prov. ince of the Chinese Empire, and the hall at Canton covers over sitteen acres and has more than S000 colls, in each of which a studeat is penned while he writes his examivation essay, It is neces. sary to pass three examinations before one can get a high place under the Gov. ernment. The nrst is held in the dis- trict in which the student lives, and if he gets this degree the graduate is not subject to corporal punishment for or dinary offences, snd he has the chance, | think, at minor o toes. This might be called the of bachelor of ars, de Gees of b second is held st the ‘ four to eight — - —————— on TOUCH, The Passion for Philately. The passion for collecting specimens | of the postal and revenue issues of the | to-day as philately. various countries in the worid is known Among those who have large and valuable collections are members of Congress and of the English Parliament and ministers and consuls in | all parts of the world. There are at least | 100,000 eoliectors of stamps in this | country, but as a far larger number live | in Europe it is safe to say that there are | are riding the hobby. reons in the world who If we only as at least 200,000 | sume that the average value of the col- | lections is £10 each, we have at once £2, 000,000 invested in the study. This is a very low average, for some collecs tions are worth from $20,000 to $50,000 each, In New York city alone thore are probably afy = "ity desions in stam One firm has a pard-u tal of $50,000, and the National po. Dealers’ Association. formed, represents a capital of $500,000, we Mail and Brpress, The Ishmaclitish English Sparrow. The English sparrow seems to have lost its last triend, Time was when this bird was welcome every where, and was even nited States because
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