—————— AP rl WW : Russia is willing to spend $90,000, on a new navy. ————————————— The lowest estimate places the wealth of President Harrison's Onbinet at $42. £00,000, Geologically and mineralogically, Nic- pragua is said to be the richest spot in America, There were 14,900 divorces in the United States during the last twenty years caused by drunkenness. The project of neutralizing the banks of Newfoundland during the fishing sea- | son is exciting public interest. It is said that unless the present con- ditions are changed the complete de- struction of the Adirondacks is inevita- | ble. Fourteen ex-Senators are said to in. | habit the Kansas Penitentiary, though | only one of them ever conducted legisla. tive business in the interest of that State, | Australia has just made to a projected railroad a grant of 16,000,000 acres, or | 20,000 acres a mile. The grant to the Pacific railroads amounted to about 6400 acres a mile. The Dakotas plume themselves, ac cord: ing to the Commercial Advertiser, upon artesian wells of such force and number as to make manufacturers of all sorts well within their possibilities. Dr. Chaille, the well-known statistician, states that the average life of woman is longer than that of man, and in most parts of the United States woman's ex pectation of life is greater. There are, it is said, five men in America worth $50,000,000 each, fifty worth $10,000,000 each, 100 worth | 000,000, £3 worth $1,000,000 and 1000 worth £300,. 000 each. 200 O00, 000, The Atlanta Constitution believes that Bpain holds on to Cuba as a matter of national pride. The island has proved In the insur 1878 20.000 lives an expensive possession. rection from 1868 to were lost, and the total cost to Spain was about £700,000,000, “Life is a delicate possession, after all.” concludes the Detroit Free Press. 4‘A Michigan child was recently fatally injured by falling upon a lead pencil, and last week an English actress was killed by the accidental puncture of hey neck with a knitting needle.” Miss Rose Porter, the well-known write of religious books, is a most remarkable woman. Although an invalid, and forced to dictate from written some fifteen books, all of which her bed, she has already have had extensive circulation. She lives in a pretty brick house in New Haven, Conn., and is much thought of in that city. The Albuquerque Democrat “New Mexico covers a vast BAYS lake, and as wells are being sunk in different parts of the Territory this fact is being assured. A well sunk at Gallup has penetrated a body of water sixty feet in depth, and wherever a hole is sunk to the water it is found to exist in inexhaustible quanti ties.” The wide-embracing arms of civiliza- tion are rapidly stretching out to take in the whole world. One of the latest nota. ble illustrations of this is the announce. ment made the other day that a cable wil goon be laid from Bermuda to Halifax. In a short time, therefore, one can no longer get out of the world, so to say, by making a voyage to the Bermudas, In a recent talk with a delegation of clergymen and others who called upon him to urge a more Christian policy in dealing with the Indians, General Harrison said emphatically that he should do his best in the direction named. He added, how. ever, that ‘‘the Indians with whom he | must bo most concerned at present were not on the frontier, but here in Washing. ton.” It is generally predicted that Oklahoma | will be settled up with phenomenal rapid. | ity. The Oklahoma Valley is one of the | finest ip the United States, with an abund. ance of timber and an altitude of 1600 feet above theses. If any cattlemen are ill. advised enough to remain in the Territory, observes the New York Tribune, they may expect short shrift from the boomers, who will have many old scores to settle. "NEARLY 1000 FEET HIGH, The Great Eiffel Tower at the Paris Exposition. How the Colossal Structure, Just Completed, was Erected. The great Eiffel tower at the Paris Exhi- bition has just been completed, and a de- scription of the colossal structure, with an account of the way it was built, and a sketeh of its constructor, will be appropriate at this time, It is scarcely necessary to say that the and drilled,so that no modification was neces. sary at the place of operations, Up ton height of about fifty feet the workmen re quired no scaffolding to work upon, as each ler supported itselr, although each leaned nelly. the others. Then an artificial support had to be provided, as above that height, un- til the first platform was reached, the center of ravity of each pler would fall outside of the hd 0 And so piece by pleco the toWlrs grow, and at length reached a height of 140 feet, Then four enormous horizontal trusses were put in place to connect the four piers, These were nearly 140 feet long rl weighed a good many tons, and in order to place them in position it was necessary to erect an ex- tensive false work or scaffolding. When these trusses were in position, prt the con- necting beams to form a flooring were in ace, the workmen had a great solid plat ery nearly 150 feet above the ground and upward of 150 feet wp to work npn. These four inclined piers and the four big connecting trusses form the solid groundwork of the tower, There is nothing particularly Hakjuo in the detail of construction, The work is simply a system of trusses and braces, in which the material is so placed as to make a strong and light structure, The four great arches which rise between the plers, frmme diately under the great horizontal trusses, are largely ornmmnental in character. They serve to round off what would otherwise be an angular outline, but do not support any of the weight of the structure s Above the lower platform two four-cor per plore incline toward each other at a sharper angle. The iron columns are lighter and the spaces in the system of bracing are larger. High above the first platform, nearly 400 feet from the ground, a second series of horizontal trusses binds the four piers to gether and forms the basis for a second land. pr — Ws Z 1 oo BR 2a | 100002004 Cathedral, S11 fe ing. These two platforms are glorious places rr pe pened, Ar Rien a wtp gpa AAAS Le J FTL, 3 wo #21 8/70 Jy Eiffel tower is by far the highest structure in | f ths world t presents a decidedly unique sp pearance peral outline not unlikea stack of four gl ¢ muskets with butts well and solidly spread and their bay onets joining at their tips stands in the ( the left bank of ar of the Quai d'Orsay, of its foundation is sunk which ha | th Sodne, Just in t and in fact a part through an old arm of the river been filled in these mu covers a plot pearly two their | } track, while the ly, or rather as nearly ! the angle of the pier will allow {| way for the Eiffel tower ! | Eiffel and vi 1 GUSTAVE EIFFEL It is really at the base a group of four tow ers, each nearly fifty feet square, placed at the corners of the plot of ground, and in clining toward each other as they rise at an angle of fifty-four degrees. Each tower oon sists of four columns, bound together by trasmwork, and each column rests on a masonry pier which is so built that the weight of the column rests upon it squarely and not at an ange As the tower ja 084 feet wen that the matter of providing a solid foundation was one of great importance There was a Jot of boring and digging before | the spot upon which the tower stands was finally selected The foundation rests upon a ick dtratum of sand and gravel. It may be well to say, | for the benefit of those who think sand is a | rather treacherous sort of ground, that a bed of sand and gravel away under ground, is swretty solid stuff. One of the towers of the Jrookiyn Bridge rests on that sort of base The foundations of the two piers of the Eiffel tower farthest from the Seine rest on sand and gravel about twenty-five fest below the surface of the ground. These foundations were laid in open excavations, and consist first of great solid platforms of beton, six feet thick, and next of four stone piers which rise to the surfaco to receive the iron col | umns | The foundations for the two pers nearest the river were not so easily laid. It was necessary to go thirty-five feet below the surface of the ground, and this was sixteen | feet under water, So oaissons had to be | used, ns they were in building the Brooklyn Bridge piers, A calson is in effect simply an enormous fron box, without any cover, turned upside down. The method of using it is to dig the earth out from under it and allow it to gradually settle as the excavation pro- GF aon, meanwhile building the pier on top hen the required depth is reached the cals son itself is fled up with the beton, and it forms the bottom layer of the foundation. A shaft is left running through the pier is high, it will I» above for entrance and exit as the work on, and the air Jn the caisson and compressed to whatever is the water out of the bottom, | and was edueated While the Eiffel tower weption, and will s marvel of moder we LE FE nn engin ived in its th principles are Inve in fact thing about the an engiinesy wer ie ie } af ter vind net Vian and execution, was paved, by the work on the Garobit Tarnes bridge, both of which were In fact nstruction sducts without the nee of sosfToldi false work, by making oral balance themselves as the work pr owes much to this French engl Gustave Eiffel is a master It is said of him that himself the practical knowledge lish engineer, the audacity of t} and the science and theories of the man. He was born at Dijon, France at the Central School of Sciences and Arts. He it was who first made practionl use of compressed air in casions in the building of bridge foundations, in the erection of Ho it bridge at Bordeaux, the f bride th wy friday he combines within of the Eng ¢ American French in 1X82 Bi ¥ - $54 Re a - 2 NT RA VE i an fn ta NE { [ry “5 TOr OF THI TOWER. M. Eiffel has boon a busy man, indeed, those many years, but be found time, when the statue of Liberty Enlightening the World was to be sot up in New York Harbor, to desi the skeleton framework which supports gantic figure and at the same time firmly ds it to the granite Jit on which it stands, A glance at the lllustration will show to what extent the Eiffel tower overshadows all the famous tall Structures of the Yoilil. In compari with ite 084 feet Cheops warfed at 480, The Washington Monument is little and the point of the ork Harbor five france #1) to the to the second orm and two ~ THE SAMOAN DISASTER. Particulars About the Wreek- ing of Our Ships at Apia. Survivors Bring the Story of the Great Calamity, The steamer Alameda arrived in San Francisoo bringing advices from Apia, Bamoa up to March 30 The steamer stopped at the Samoan capital and took off many of the shipwrecked sailors Among those who came upon the Alameda ja were Chief Cadet Robert Stocker and Cadets Hibbs, Decker, Wells, Cloke, Backiand, Le. jure, Wiley and Logan, and Dr, Corders, all of the Vandalia, Lieutenant Ripley came on the Alameda, with thirty men, but stoped off at Honolulu, The hurricane which cost 80 many lives at Bannon began about 2 o'clock on Saturday morning, March 16, and lasted until Bunday at a little after 5 o'clock in the morning The Eber, the German vessel, was the first to be wrecked, She broke up in pleces in a fow minuss, only one officer ad four men being saved. Hee guns, which were of great | quickly Shortly afterward the Adler (German) also drifted on the sune reef a little further westward, She was lifted high and dry, and fs now lying on ber port side high and dry, only 8 few foot of ber side being under water at high tide. In all twenty men were lost from Adler United next on was observable from would pot be to drifting toward the reef headed {on points of rudder wis carried with stern §Hoamt skillful management of the captain and of floors they succeeded in beaching her on th sand, GCrreal ore # due for the manne: which the Nips s handled, for if sh ’ Mees States the list wloniner of th Nigsic was casual thos it that hold out, She and at about nim the shore and just the with her together RO she able wns “iy the which o'clock touched reef | | | | i awn but, by the gone on would ando As it is = would have the ship Early with the Niped damage carryin Inunch On aceon off the full head cident Vell nen wore boens saved in the { y ber smokestack whalohoa! and pe her a stan War wing brokoy araw 10 ket for this im , ips uel nd powerful tut frag pling o gale in safety Vand f the Win an United drifted chow and the Olga came into collision The Calliope struck ber with great foroe os port, doing lamag The § dalia still conting 1 drifting almost ln oon any with the Calliope, but the latter ves! having lost nearly all her ane put Mesum on and went steadily tee The captain of the Vandalia, secing no hb pw of saving his ship, headed hor for the shore and in endeavoring to reach the mandy beach unfortunately struck the reof, and filled and sank befor id bened within about fifty yards from the storn of the Nips ’ i Pay oeter tenant Nines washed overboard, The Was pletely sulunerged and all hands had « to. the rigging wher ‘ until the Trenton was about ogock ig the night, when pnt of Boars and crew got on the Tren ton, excepting Lieutenant Ripley, who jumped int» the son just before the mast gas e way, and with great difficulty swam to the He then procured a whaleboat, and, with the aid of Bamoans, got a out to the wreek, The loss of life in the Vandalia were the com mander, three officers and thirty.nine soamen and marine Trouton closer to ray rable ome horn wit tn fil ial whe « hwy were jay many bork and men vow] Ty thoy +» driven the Reomg aid ae 81 monn vw hil the land eo ports broken in, which ing. and the sen great | through this th getting nto the fires fatal 10 the chances of “op he engineers wero unable t Keep up Moan All hands were amps. which wore kept constantly g hs About 3 o'clock the Trenton had drifted down toward the Olga, which vessel was then about 50 yards i from the reef. Both ship tried to avoid touch img. but a collin was inevitalide The Oigga’s bow struck the Trenton on the quarter, opening a large breach and doing other | damage, and the Olga's bow was smashed Aftor the vessels cleared each other the Treoton drifted still further toward the reef, and ome time held fairly well to her anchors: but at about 8% oodoek she aropped down just clear of the and om 0 the Vandalia. The Tren tons stern was aground. She was broadside on to the sunken vessel, and the poor fellows who had been on the Vandalin's yard about twelve hours got on to the Trenton, being as- | sisted by the Admiral's crow with lines and other contrivances On Sunday morning boats were busily en. | gaged all day in removing the men from the | ship to the shore, which was accomplished fwd t aockdent. All were removed before | night. On Monday 250 Samoans from Mataafa's | enman and the men-of war silore were work. ing bard all day saving property from the Trenton, and several oans and sailors were alwo sngaged working on the other ships adore No lives were lost. The Trenton is a total wreck. One of the men was killed early in the morning of Saturday by being crushad among the timber after the collision. His name was Joseph Howlett, a colored man The Olga, after slipping her cables and got. ting clear of the Trenton, managed to make headway against the sea for a short time, and hopes were entertained that this vessel, the Inst left afloat in the harbor, would be saved, but within hall an hour she was run into one of the best positions for Leaching in the harbor, Wh Nh heft gradually had her an open quantition hawse pipes is was gnfortunately the Admirals came in and 3 saving opening raered to funnel, Her rodder and stern post are gone, propeller bent and twisted Tae Trenton is hard and fast on the reef Her bottom is full of holes and filled with beens working ten hours daily trying to save some of the ri stores. The Vandalia is totally ket. Noth ing ona be saved from her arly ev Garman, ni A vewals bodies of the drowned are bed washed up, greatly do composed and bo Rr A i y Only {4 of our ded sallors’ bodies have been found off Apia. Bome of our and men attended the German nl the fires He says the Trenton | steam but that her engines wore not pow. rfl mora bo save hr following the disaster divers tho ee of the Vandalia, which con ’ | conded in hauling off the Nipsic | ton's satlors I { tents In the middle of the town | at the thine of the storm belonged t | his flagship weight, probably assisted in smashing her so | | Public ¢ N Low y wi y in’ i The pic ls Sto: vi) with the Vandalia's | unl he A contract nok te opkn water up to hor gun deck. The crows have | ing and personal effects and | | shin | Waltham, Mase, able to do men's work for day wince the wrecks of the | when asked to help to restore order, begged to be excused, sayioe he was afraid the Americans would attack the Gorman saflors, He further requested that the American officers should take full charge This was done, and the American sailors ware not allowed to approach the lower part of the town, where thy Germsns had their headquarters. The next great question wa how to get the news of the disaster to Amer fea nnd Europe, Frank Wilson was sent to Futuila Island, where he boarded ths steamer Mariposa for Auckland, from whenee he tele. graphed the news The Calliope took on coal, and Thursday March 19, after firing thirten guns as a salute to Admiral Kimberly sailed for Sydney Order was generally iostored in Apis in n | fow days, A large force of Bamonus sue The Tren quartered in The Van are mporari | dalin’s men are quartered near the American | Consulate, The survivers of the German vesssls are quartered in the German Trading | Company's warehouse Most of the merchant vessels in the harbor the OG man Trading Company Admiral Kimberly, commanding the Ames ican floot, was the last to leave the Trenton He d considered faulty construction of the Tremton's hs indirectly the cause of her wreck Within a few days of the storm a condition of things resembling order bad been brougin about. The marines and Mataafa's poliox bad been actively at work in this direction The and held m morial servic ent dates Tor the dead At the Admiral Kimberly and othe Lov ary AY vrs ’ OnWe { ¢ been recovers ah . pes ne Gorman American Att woul one-fourin of the , then mutilated It wa it or even to the nationalit finally determined to bury al peti A body, th Bohoonmaker miles distant [rom the disaster, fel) ——— A CENTENARIAN DEAD, Death of Chevreeul, the Distinguished French Chemist He was He a wa inl but this wes only a pursaed his of oi vexd hits I chet ton neve fish or dran other food THE LABOR WORLD. Tax iron trad A sins mill § a A SBOE x. £5 SEVERAL silk mills o be built in Penn. Yivanons Tux three labor strikes in Buffalo, N are still og Tire hos with wor ery manufacturers are crowded Huscany, in fear of forbidden emigration a labor shortage, has Ix Spartansburg County, 8. C., there urg “ight cotton mills in are peration TUSK ALL $100, 000 boot SA, Ala mand shox expocts soon to have a factory Ix Groat Britain there are mills, employing 100,000 hands A GENERAL strike of the strect-railway em. ployes in Minneapolis is threatened Knvre, of Germany mill to turn 203 tinplate is putting up a big oul more way material, THE carmen of Vienna are organizing with a view to striking for higher wages Oncaxizen labor is making preparation for the eighth hour strike next year Tue Welsh tin plate makers have aban loned their attempt to form a trust New Exarasp shosmakess continue lave large cities for country places KxoxviLes and Nashvil ing up as great manufac Tae paperanaking industry the United States is profitable 110 mille to le, Tenn, are loom. ring centers throughout There are Tix iggen, , Hinting plant in the world is that presided over by the United States Printer Poon cotton, poor weather, high speed make the threads break often and make the weaver's life a bore Ir is probable that Pennsylvania will ap. propriate 500,000 to introduce manual train ng in public schools, A Gersax manufacturer now visiting American says Amerion leads the world in the | line of shoe machinery. AX expert weaver can care for eight looms: he works in an aisle with four looms before | him and four behind him. New York State is maintainiag 3000 idle | convicts, many of whom arc upon the verge of insanity from lack of work Wonk has boon resumed in sixteen collier fos nt Wilkesbarre that had been idle for | some time, setting to work 6000 people. No Massachusetts railroad will hire a suit for damages in case ho is injured. Tue strike of the female feather workers of Hew York city failed only after a straggle almost without paraliel in the history of strikes, Tueax is sald to be ond woman in the fin. department of the watch factory at men's pay. Kansas has bon obliged to break a prison labor contract for the rather novel reason | wrecked condition, with no one | gers | New York believed that the people on bond bad all been picked up by a passing vessel i Balint adjourned | Chicago, was accidentally shot and kilisd by LATER NEWS, Gronaz CaLven, proprictor of the Fulton Cotton Mill at Lancaster, Penn., has made an assignment, Liabilities $150,000, Tur thirty wood acid manufacturers of the United States met in Binghamton, N, Y., and an association in the nature of a trust was formed, Inresse drcitement was crested in ship ping circles at New York on Baturday by the roceipt of a dispatch snpouncing that the Danish steamer Damnark, of the Thingvalla line, had been passed fn midoccan in a bosrd, Denmark on The with Danmark bad salled from 782 whom puss, 104 O50 were The agents of the line st worl on board, Luomsenrton, Ala, fifty-five miles north of Mobile, bas been totally destroyed by fire AX extremely malignant and mysterions disease resembling in some respects scarlet Hiinois, A dozen fover hes broken out in cases have proved fatal. The disease usually runs its course within thirty+«ix hours, 4 LEY jumped from the Cin Pallroad bridge over the The height of the bridge is Maneorra Bras cinnati Bouthern Kentucky River oh foot He Jumped into twelve water and was uninjured, “Orange Belt” Railroad, from St Petersburg, on Tamps Bay (154 » Santord, Fla, has been formally opened Tux world's conference of the Latter Day r Morn Bt. The next conference will has be hedd ons at Joseph, M . , 1580, at Lamar, Iowa colored, of Bavanmah religi frenzy ina fit o yeur-old child, T United Btates Gra: ownshend, Washington 17 574 | twenty-five indictments anoaine Harned, ex-Special Deputy 3 against Herbert ¥, Beocher ury Agent, and twelve against Quine Brooks for stealing from the Governmer Tus mer nt made the follow Honry 8. White, of West Marshal of that Bai Presid: 1% Ww be Kuapp of Alaska Poogister Dakota; Thon Rood, Jy ton Terriu Erngistor office at Sen Tux that the G Morreia vernment public will send delegates to Americnn fon on the 4 W.H BH Clerk of the of Slates 10 be held Rote next ByIre has been apr Bureau of Eleam Eng Navy Department Hox. Aviex G social eomforenny at the Tax French at Laxembourg TRURNAX, of Ohi wilh Nenate began Boulanger for sedition ried Viovesr carthquakes were rey Epirus, Greece Tix American bark C. D. Bryant was seized by the Hawalian Government st Hono lulu for smuggling opium Foun of the men arrested on the charge of of Presi ago, shot being implicated in the derailment dent Diaz's train a few weeks Monterey, Mexion exscution was oarried out very quietly. ear have been The Se Crantes Rosse finished his pooch in behalf of the Parnellites before the Parnell Commission, Ax explosion of gas occurred in the Grant Tunnel Penn the instant death of Charles Hoga mine at Nanticoke, ausing a fire boss, and Evan Maddie, pump runne Tax was out Commodore Bateman, a pilot boat, in twain off the Georgia Banks, | Nantucket, R. I, by the steamer Sueva, and Pilot John Handran, of Brooklyn, and a colored cook named Harry Halford were drowned, A cycrose struck the mining town of Beidier, Penn, and demolished six dwellings. Ex-Cosonussmax 8. B. Cmirrexoes died at his home in Brooklyn. He was sixty-eight yoars old and was worth §5 000,000 Joux FP. Usaxn of Kansas, Secretary of the Interior under President Lincoln, died at the University Hospital in Philadelphia, while undergoing a surgical operation Tux subscription for the Georgia Com- | foderate Home, started at Atlanta, reached $35,000 in a week's time Jon Jacxsox, President and proprietor | of the 8t. Louis Grain Elevator Company and | a prominent and wealthy citisen, committed suicide by hanging in the office of the | olevator Eopre Garieny, eleven yoars old, of his mother, E G. Rarunoxe, of Cincinnati, has been | appointed Chief of Postoflios Inspootion. Tun total amount of bonds purchased to date under the circular of April 17, is S188 - VRE 500, of which 805,908,550 were four per oonts and §70, 792 500 were 434 por conts. The total cost of these bonds was S158 392 441, of which amount 871,002 964 was paid for the four per cents and $56,400,177 was paid for the 414 per cents. Mus. J. C. Pesmpoxn wife of Admiral Feboger, of the United States Navy, was thrown from her carriage in Washington and killed, Tux Samoan Commisdoners started for
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