— — A A! SR —— tS A A STN Nessie ont ed Great interest is being manifested in the subject of interior waterways, According to reports to date the wheat crop of 1889 in this country will take mnk among the three largest ever har- vested, itself in the color blindness of seamen, and some rigid examinations and experi- ments are to be made when all the naval reviews and shows shall have ended. The American Iron and Steel Associa tion report that the production of pig ircn in the first six months of 1889 was larger than in any preceding six months in the history of the American iron trade. The range of the Mannlicher rifle was proved again in a startling manner the other day when an Austrian soldier was killed by one at target practice ut a re- puted range of over two iniles and a half, At the Centenmal Exhibition of 1876 the only exhibit of electrical apparatus were two dynamos snd some arc hghts run by clock work. Now there are $510,000,000 invested as capital in the | electric light business. Dr. Henry C. McCook, in a paper in the North American Review on the exter- of the there is hope for that f { mination mosquito, holds us in an increase o© dragon flies and spiders, the particular enemies of this particular insect. A remnant of the Seneca tribe of In. Warren County, for dians still lingers | Pean., ing. spearing a liv- The bers 1000 members, ane that marriage among become al A necessity. Dueling sanctioned of Minister The ord recent order the seems to encourage it. dicts the use of specifies either small swords or sabres f as fought in the Duels with sabres, French army, are almost always fatal to one of the combatants, General Crook, the famous Indian fighter, wonders how so great a fraud as Sitting He says that the old Indian is an but full of « it th impresses people 3ull could be made such a hero he is importance. coward, #O MOE at with h “And no wonder he is conce he the General, “for has hit X { end while women anQ endicss marriage from requests for his photograph.” The total original cost of the British war ships of all sorts at the last Spithead review, paraded for the inspection of the German Emperor, was more than £85. £00,000, Fas seventy-three, of torpedo thirty-eight, The weight of tained in the heavy guns was S609 tons The tonnage was approximately 360,000 tons. Five heavy guns, irrespective of quick firers hundred and sixty-nine and machine guns, composed the arma. ment, A New that pense to manufacturing England manufaciurer says street musicians are a serious ex. comp country towns A gypsy girl playing a tambourine recently passed his establish ment, and, he says, cost the company about £200, factory mn to a window, and work was Every employe in the big ] pio] suspended for nearly a quarter of an hour. Every circus parade costs him hundreds of dollars, and when a minstrel | brass band marches by it costs from twenty-five to fifty dollars. It is estimated that over 82,500,000. | ; 82 | the law-makers of the country should | 000 is invested in the dairy business in this country; that 15,000,000 cow . | ’ 3 i suse; hat 15, COWS SUP" | munity that protection agninst burglary | | to which it is entitled.” ply the raw material; that to feed the cows 60,000 000 acres of land are nnder cultivation; that 750,000 men are em- ploged in the business, and over 1,000,. 000 horses. The cows and horses each year eat 30,000,000 tons of hay, 90,000,- 000 tons of cornmeal, about as much oat- meal, 275,000,000 bushels of oats, 2,000,. 000 bushels of bran, and 30,000,000 bushels of corn. It costs £450,000,000 a year to feed these animals, and $180, 000,000 to pay the hired help. Plenty of men are eager to volunteer their services for exploration enterprises, observes the New York Sun, no mat. ter how hazardous the undertaking. When Nansen announced his plan for crossing Greenland most people said he was either mad or tired of life, but about fifty men were anxious to share the perils of the trip with him, Before De Long sailed to his fate on the Jeannette several hundred men and one woman expressed their wish to go slong with him to the North Pole. Stanley was simply over- whelmed with the applications of adven- turesome fellows who wished to take part | tled by law to 250 { and | purchase, | seventy | have fr The number of ships present | boats, | metal con- | | capital offense The luggage of all travelers crossing the Swiss frontier into Germany is being subjected to a most rigorous inquisition at the hands of the German customs officials—a measure of which the German papers are complaining ss injuring Ger- many's own interests by driving foreign passeners to avoid Germany altogether and to travel to and from Switzerland only by way of France, Austria and Italy. Dr. Briand, a young Frenchman, has or invented a new cure for We water cure, and now we shall discovered consumption, have had the cold have the cold fresh air cure. the patient to the action of air, Dr, Slowly accustoming Briand first open the window, then moves the bed on which the “subject” 1s lying The last stage of the cure consists in sleeping in the open air regardless of wind, rain or snow. It is said that the four patients who submitted to the kill-or-cure treat. every day a little nearer to it. ment last winter have gone home to their families rejoicing, symptom having disappeared. every consumptive The Argentine Republic is probably the most progressive of the nations south | | partly coversd them were mingled with of acres of he may want to "y f 1500 at of us. Every head a family is enti. land free, much to ww more as a limit o NOTES, five an ncre. Or a settler may acquire 1500 acres free after five vears, and They also by planting 200 acres in rain twenty-four acres in timber ee transportation from Bueno Ayres to thi pla e of location, « xemption from all taxation for ten Years; and 1 3 v H iment oan them The leaves for t use, or the all bacco made up in large cigar that sell for sm pric | thing. In the opinion of a New Yorl paper, ‘‘one might suppose that ther ne genuing sufficie ountry and in the West demands of all the smokers, but compet tion or something new Walter Rales vo} a is then manufactu % 0 MaKe a * bacco The flavor of the is communicated to the rve straw. and rrain which is there is stamped on it the noticed in the leaf used for wrapping It is said that many of the cheaper cigars now on the market have this spurious wrapper.” The opponents of capital vunishment ! claim that hanging does not lessen the crime of murder. “This,” the New York Star regards as ‘“‘rank nonsense, Certainly that operation prevents the fel low that is hanged from killing soy more ! people; and that is a good deal gained | | toward the protec tion of sox ely Kar ¢ 0 tend both would the hanging of burglars lessen the crime of housebreaking by reducing the number of that class of deterring others from criminals and by means of entering into the business as a And later gaining a livelihood. the latter crime must sooner or be made a When a man enters a house for the purpose of committing rob bery he goes prepared and determined to commit murder if necessary to carry | out his purpose or to escape detection. This is the history and nature of the ; te ta a | crime everywhere, and it is high time awaken to the fact, and give to the com- | It throws light upon Chinese methods | to read in the same issue of the Shanghai | journal which describes the great breach | in the Yellow River banks the memorial from the Peking Gasetle recommending special honors to the mandarins who fur. nished materials for the embankments, The Chinese, in carrying on this work, persistently refuse to employ Kuropesn engineers or to listen to their suggest. fons. The result was costly work which was opposed to al scientific principles and which lasted only a few weeks after the laborers had put the last touches to it. The mandarins in charge made for tunes in commissions and received honors for services which, in any other country, would have led to their dismissal from office. The Ban Francisco Chronicle con- siders that the incident is noteworthy as a specimen of the hopelessness of at- tempting any large public works under the present Chinese system. There must be mdical reforms or else it is idle to talk of an efficient army or navy, or even milroads, telegraphs or the electric light, Where every public work is regarded as an opportunity for plunder no advance is | {| of the city north and south of A FATAL LAND SLIDE. fart of the Heights of Quebec Fall on the Houses Below. People Killed and Injured at twenty minutes past seven in the evening, thirty feet over the houses which were stand ing below wo fearful days of rain and flood suceesd ing a month of dry weather filled the crevi and an enormous mass was detached from the cliff, and hurled as with the noise of many thunders, slowly and majestically at first, | but rapidly increasing in momentum through its slide of a couple of hundred feet, over the | retaining wall, pushing half a dozen houses out of its way and crushing most of them beneath its weight as though they had been so many | per boxes sew the Some of those who | slide were standing at the of their doors i houses, and were too paralysed to move out | of its way. Others ran to a place of safety The debris of rock filled up the narrow street to the depth of some thirty feet and cut | off all communication between the it. On the wharves behind where the houses had stood, scattered timbers and the earth and rock that Huge plies of coal that left little passageway be tween them and the river The river policenen, whose station is « by, and the city police from Champlain Market were among the first to rush to the relief of the imprisoned, tre wounded and the As 8OOD an dom of the extent of Tee avi sufferers na WE thy ! tained vairy and the rv oe About 00 extimate Hedemptorist with r Ve yy Wer * GAIMAge In Hod and injured Latex f Deialls MY was afresh the de- dexter vels starts] [ the debris of and willing hands cusly wielded peeks, axes and tained for them | e City | Royal Canadian ommend of Capt ant Lesaard i lone excellent and had retired at a late b ing for necessary . ob The under du Og nmey irs and Lisuten- Battery, had att oh we mgs of Cav oward with B through win the morn. returned to work in good time and continued the valuable aid given by them during the night About twelve o'clock noon the spectators at the Morgue were horrified to witness a procession of more dead bodies from the ruins and they came one after another borne upon stretchers erected by the men of Champlain street. ‘lhiey were carried into the River Po- w hie} ETYH rene, , lice Station Mrs. McCann, one of the victims, had been Mying a visit to some friends. When found wer position was as if she was about tying the strings of her bonnet y Mrs. Burke, one of the victims, met a most cruel death. When found she was lying un- der a ercas-beam, terribly strained. At four o'clock the crushed bodies of Mrs James Bradley and one of her children were taken from the ruins of their home. The body of Mrs. Martin Ready was also taken from the debris Still ancther sad incident came to notice in the rescuing of Mr. Farrell at the time of the calamity. He had his bale in his arms The two were found together The dead were all Iadd out Police Station, whence about ten were re moved by friends. The Coroner reported de composition as having already set in, and said that the rate were swarming in immense numbers from the wharves, so that he had to have coffing constructed as rapidly as pos wibie Honore Mercier, Prime Minister of the province; Joseph Shebyn. Provincial Treas urer; Owen Murphy, M. P. P., and Mr. Fite patrick, Crown Prosecutor, went around and viewed the bodies in company with the Cor omer, the Sisters of Charity and many priests Altogether between eighty and one hun dred people were injured in one way or an other Bir A. P. Caron and Sir Hector Langevin both Sslegraphin! their sympathy with the sufferers, and the former sent down a mili tary engineer from the Royal Military Col loge, Kingston, to inspect the cliff, in the Water ‘RACE AFFRAY IN ILLINOIS, Colored Men Storm a Jail to Rescue a Prisoner Eight Men Shot, A race affray between whites and colored people has occurred at Lawrenceville, Ill. A St. Louis colored man named “Slick” came | to town and attacked a white man with a knife. The latter after receiving two wounds, and “Slick” then dashed down the THER H HEH Many Homes Demolished and | A landslide occurred at Quebec from the ! and Concord, Mens. face of Cape Diamond, below the Citadel | | at Bhamokin, Penn, crushing the houses beneath it and imprison- | ing the inmates below the debris, which was | piled to a height, in some cases, of twenty to | cos of the soil immediately below and beyond | the southern extremity of Dufferin Terrace, | portions | ! Land Office, | maica i well 250 000 THE N EWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, Two trains collided at Tioga Junction, Penn, resulting in the death of two persons and injuring po Fon twenty-ive, Tax tin box containing the clothin Dr. P. H Cronin, who was murdered at Chicago, was shipped to New York and is now there, It was intended to be sent to Kng- land to mislead the police, BExATons Hoan, Pugh, Butler and Eustis, of the Committee on Relations with Canada, visited Cambridge, Watertown, Lexington of BY an explosion of gas in the Neilson shaft two men were fatally and severally others seriously injured, GexEnral E, Burp Gruss has been nomi- Twenty students have been arrested st Kioff, Rusin, on the charge of being Nibil- ints Lown Mayor Bextox, of Dublin, has de- clared that Mr, Balfour's proposed Catholic university will not divert Irishmen from seeking home rule, A wan fleet has been ordered to Tangiers, Morocco, by the Government of Bpain, and 10,000 troops held in readiness to back its de mand for the release of Spaniards captured by Moors LATER NEWS, Leoxany & Eviw's Shadyside, N, J., have refineries al burned, oll been { total loss reaches to about $500,000, nated by the Republican State Convention at | | Buildings have selected the north end of Trenton for Governor of New Jersey Firry prominent colored wen of Massa i chusetts, in conference at Boston, have posed | resolutions demanding a better recognition of their race in political life, TEN stores and several residences, the Town Hall and the Masonic snd Odd Fellowy' Hal at Seaford, Del, have been destroyed by re has arrived at the from Hayti, Henricx Lares, aged thirteen, of Ware ham; Mass, was killed by Joseph Lebarron, a boy nine years of age, with a pocket knife A HEAVY bridge near Danbury, Conn. col Brooklyn Navy Yard | Cgutral Tae World's ¥air Committee on Bite and Park, Morningside and Riverside Parks, and the Bloomingdale holding the Exposition, AT the Alaska Colliery, at Mount Carmel, { Penn., two miners, Hugh Roberts and An- THR United States man-of-war Kearsage | thony Marchetty, were instantly killed by a fall of rock. Macaiz Torx, aged ten, of Philadelphia, | shot and killed her six-year-old sister Ellen { while playing with a revolver that had been carelessly loft within the children's reach, lapsed, carrying down a wagon, horses and ten men un distance of twenty feet One of the men was killed and four others badly in Jured South and West, Frank AMos, a prominent citizen of Mor ounty, Ohio, was murdered by his Mrs. Haunllton, who hacked his head s with a butcher's knife Dervry Usirep Srates Mansuarn Na GLE, who shot Judge Terry, has been relossed on his own recognizance in bonds of 85000, by a decision of Judge Bawyer, at San Fran chen Fines have raged Imkew California Sonosua County and Milew of ¥ Dulidings ha A FREMAY Lake ( feta fences CB onal park of Mrs. A was destroved ale and her two childre id Ex years, were burned to deatd Lenbower by 0 Washington, ETARY TRACY has sent a retary Whitney, congratul gnificent performance President bas appointed Judge I. A f Omaha, Commassioner of the Genora and Williazn Sm vibe Postmaster NY Spcngrany Wixpox has appointed Rol ert He Terrell, of Massachusetts, Chief of the Navy Pay Divison of the Fourth Auditors i}! The new appointes is a colored ma Goff at Oswego Chane A DEMAND has been made upon Virginia repayment to the United Stats eaaury of a loan made to Military GG r Pierpout before the rex : for the ne ETARY TRACY Hie 000) Lan Savy Yard and the Navy Yard THE Kingston, Ja American Consul af R od at has cabled that a riot has oon the idand of Navassa, and several Aineri cans were killed, The man-of war bas bean ordered to the scene Tag Cour d'Alene Indias have agread to | acres from their reservation in | Idaho to the Government for $500,000 Tie Secretary of War has decided to ao cept the offer of the Indian Rights Associa tion to purchase a tract of land in North Carolina for Geronimo's band of Indians, | and to establish them there ina more civil | ized mode of life I Mason Tumorminus Gases, of West Vir. | ginia, has been appointed Chief of the Pen. | sion Division of the Third Auditor's office, and E. L. Jordan Assistant Superintendent { of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Foreign. A cax of powder exploded at the stone quarries, Vancouver, British Columbia, kill ing two men, and badly injuring four oth- | ote A waMixk prevails throughout Tigre a State of Abyssinia. Bands® of starviag peasants are ravaging the country around Srkota Tug anniversary of Mexican independ ence and the birthday of President Diaz were observed with great enthusiasm in Mexico, Tun caplain and crew of the British steamer Garston, wrecked in the Pacific, reached Wallis Island after being twenty. two days in an open boat without food or water, Kixag Matieroa has returned to power in and German has been The low ls placed at $O0U00, 1 AT Cairo, enteric fever is the in there, simon the sole garrison : Tux Ha been to tion of { heart while trying to separate two fighting | Mus. Parnicx Fannerl, a boarding house keeper at Jermyn, was stabbed bt, the Pane | boarders, Galona | Onn person bas beens killed and severs’ in Jured by leaping from an electric car, which plunged down Mision Ridge, Chattanooga, Tenn, The current had failed it, mw mill and sash WW. Ta dMsurance Bracxuas Boorngn factory at Bnohocniisn, has been i heavy wod und Tur British wars n the Labrador « ves, and the sles a joan Tux Goveran Republic of Ecuador b ited the im migration of Chinese WiLiaax H K Rule member of tenond to off enon under the Crime Horne bosn 4 Repsoxp, an Irish Parliament, has three monthy’ imprisonment act want Cabura, officers, hav Ho prisonment Cartas Museo and Lieute two Mexioan cavalry penitenosd 10 ten crossing into the 1 soarch of deserters THE scoounts published for the fiscal year of 1888 show that the Russian Government receipts exceed the expenditures by 30,000 been for nited States territory in Yonrs 000 rubles Tun of Kensington Prince Edward's Idand, has been burned busisess poriion ‘Uy THE PATENT OFFICE. Sammary of the Annual Report of Commissioner Mitchell, C. E Mitchell, ihe Commissioner of Pat ents, has filed with the Besretary of the In terior the preliminary report of the opera | tions of Lis bureau for the year ended June | 80, 1880. There were received during the year 36, 740 applications for patents, SOS ap {| plications for design patents, 101 applica tions for reissue patects, 1381 applications for ot of trade marks, 772 applica tions registration of Jabols, and 2543 cay eats, making a total of 42047. The number of patents granted during the year, includ ing relesues and designs, was 21,518, the num ber of trade marks rogistered 1111, the num i ber of labels registered 312, making a total of 22.041, toute withheld for ne [Ayman of final foes was 3858 and the num wi of patents expired 11,910, The receipts from all sources during the your tod were $1. 186,557, and the ex penditures, including printing and nding. “la and contingent expenses, $000, 007 | Javing a surplus for the year of $186 800 which rakes the total amount in the United por ry othe credit Pr the patent comparative statemen! shows that $68,568 in excess of those of last year, while were S45,067 in excess of The greatest | near the receipts of the office were | a ——————— OST. The Greatest Disaster In the History of Japan. —————— Whole Towns Buried Under Ava. lanches From the Mountains, The province of Kil, in ths southwesters part of Japan, has been visited by the tragedy in the history of the Probably more than 15,000 people country, | have been killed, several towns have bees {| wiped completely off the face of the earth, | and others have been nearly demolished. | The catastrophe was occasioned by floods in Asylum i | grounds, New York city, as the place for | the western part of the province and by the crumbling of a mountain which buried sia villages under a huge mass of rocks and | earth, The early putt of the month was remarkable | for rain, and the rapid rise of the rivers soot became alarming. The banks of the Kinogaws River, a stroam over 100 miles in length, ei the city of Wakayamo, and e mountain of water, like that which swept through the Conemaugh valley when ti dam above Johnstown broke, rushed out upon the fields and towns, wrecking houses, | bridges, fences, temples, and all things in its | path In that district 200 houses were car. ried away and 5000 wers ruined by the water, leaving 30,000 people dependent upon the local officials for food : Owing to several landslides which ceeurred Ciose to the source of the Hidakagswa vas numbers of troes, some of which were very large, were uprooted and swept on to the fields, where several thousands are pow ily ing Relief has been sent to the ruined district but inadequate facilities for collecting and distributing provisions will make the suffer ing intevse, and in the outlying districts many will die from starvation, sib) the 1st die ves and money will HAYS Deen wiped » we n ned that th on her ve ANOTHER DAM BURST. People Forced to Flee to the Hills for Safety dum bel of Wi i at Hibernia, Penn. & ree ormpany rst and a down the banks aud 1 mass of wales rushed : verflowing bef the ng evervyil » 4 large bridge which crosses the Brandy. fhe dam, was swept away frame were arvicd om tesvyill of the streets oer walter, #lream Just below bud Fo Bi wvilie being { of ta } wero : rushing waters i scape 10 the hills i he flood made the creek road is he mendows were OOove The break was OK ¢Ily want i work i me of the densely og Gdon there are barber for the moderate Maine, all ar w iiient +i BE greatest & world i 38 san pot likely drike of the seamen on the oospn stes the English ports 1 yg te again mst strike was a miserable failure The National Textile Workers 1 ion, which holds a charter in the American Fade mtion of Labor, now has a membership of 3000, distributed among nineteen branches AT the Convention of the National Brew [ erw’ Union in Cincinosati, eighteen branches were represented. New York will continue to be the headquarters of the National Union THERE are limestone works at Glenarm, in County Antrim, Ireland, where several bun dreds of people are employed at wage: ave raging 84 por week for very hard work and long bours Tax organized bakers in New York and | other parts of the United States are still keeping up those efforts that have ben the | means of securing important advantages for thesn within the past few years f Tux percentage of wages paid for food by American workingmen as shown by a recent | return from various countries, is much less | than is paid by the workmen of either Gere | many, Spain, Great Britain, France, Italy or 1m | Tux daughter of the celebrated Professor | Agassiz is busy in Boston establishing a man | and train school. Ower 2000 boys and the advantages of this school last that there will be another wars at The wa
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