a | — Bh 1 %he Emperor of China, it is said, has determined to expel Americans from his domain. : Thomas A. Edison asserts that in afew years the world will be one gigantic ear, Nobody will then dare gossip, for fear of being overheard by a concealed phono- — The assurance that the South has of phenomenally big crops is making busi- ness more active in every department where Southern interests lie. Marked | activity is renewed among the investors | in Southern land companies. The Czar of Russia is ridding himself of his relatives at a lively rate. He has ordered the Prince of Oldenburg to In England the newspapers rarely comment upon cases which are pending in court, and such a thing as challenging a juror is almost unheard of. Crickets have taken possession of Con- stantine in Algeria, and to keep out fresh arrivals the city has been surrounded with a fence six feet high and 36,000 feet long. Edwin Arnold, editor of the London Telegraj, the morning newspaper with been on a short visit to this country. He praises American newspapers. A single sheet of paper gix feet wide and seven and three-quarter miles in length has been made at the Watertown amuse himself in some other country for a year, and it is not long ago that he | bounced his brother, the Grand Duke | Alexis. (N. Y.) Paper Works. It weighed 2207 pounds and was made and rolled entire without a single break. Theodore Kamensky, the Russian sculptor, who was exiled from Russia by | the Czar in 1874, is now a Professor at | the American Art School in New York | city. His offense consisted in putting the name ‘‘Liberty” on a toy locomotive in one of his marble groups. The man who first made the old-fash- joned split clothes pin, selling now for about twenty cents a bushel, hit the idea so dead rizht that nothing better has asked Half a other sorts have been invented, but old been for since. dozen titwo-legs” still holds his own and is on top. Bishop Fowler thinks that Prince Li, the Viceroy of China, is ‘one of the greatest statesmen the world has “ver produced.” General Grant used to say that the two men who had impressed him most during his travels around the world were Prince Kung, formerly Re- gent of the Celestial Empire, and Prince Bismarck. Ths French are having twinges of conscience about that law which for se many years past has excluded American salted meats from France, and there is talk of its This is probably so as to remove any temptations now some repeal. to reprisals while French trade is under discussion by the All-American Congress at Washington. The statistics United tion, show very gratifying progress in ed. furnished by the ex- States Commissioner of Educa- ucation. In the country as a whole the increase in school enrollment has been in advance of the increase in population The increase is almost wholly from the Southern Of the population in the South, sixty-four per States, white school cent. is ewrolled and fifty-three per cent. of the colored children are reported as attending school. The ex-commissioner is opposed to compulsory edu All of the American nations, exceptin : to go, accepted the invitation ference. San a San Doming attend the All-American con on the ground that Domingo declined the United States Senate refused to ratify a treaty negotiated with her several years ago. Evidently, observes the San Fran- the motto of the San Do- A few years ago they were anxious to be at- tached to the United States; now they cisco Chronicle, mingans is the whole hog or none. have refused to be present at a congress of American nations because they assume that this country will take the leadership in the affair, Our neighbor, Gautemala, seems to be a particularly prosperous little common- wealth. Within tke past two years the the average value per acre of its agricul. land bled, while the area under tillage has at the equal ratio. tural has been more than dou same time been increased in about Next year, it is estimated, the coffee crop will amount to a million quintals, worth $11,500,000. The reve- nue is increasing at the rate of about $300,000 a year and the general finances of the nation are in a healthful condition. Altogether it is just the sort of State be- tween which and this conntry closer com- mercial relations might be cultivated to | the advantage of both parties, | A tramp knows what it is to be leg- weary, says the Witness, a farm laborer to be body-weary, a literary man to be brain-weary, and a sorrowing man to be soul-weary. The sick are often weary, even of life itself. Weariness is a phys feal or spiritual “‘ebb-tide” which time and patience will convert into a “flow.” It is never well to whip or spur a worn. out horse, except in the direst straits. If he mends his pace in obedience to the stimulous, every step is a spark sub. tracted from his vital energy. Idleness is not one of the faults of the present age; weariness is one of its commonest experiences, The checks which many » man draws on his physical resources are inpumerable; and as these resources are stictly limited, like any other ordinary banking account, it is very easy to bring, about a balance on the wrong side. Ade. { London London is high in the esteem of the | paper-makers, and no wonder for 99, 008,000 pounds of paper are, it is calcu- lated, used each week in printing the dailies, metropolitan penny weeklies, and three principal illustrated | weeklies, August Boorfried is the name of the Minnesota stone-mason who says he has discovered a process by which granite marble cobblestones may be liquified and run into molds. to New York city to interest wealthy cap italists in his strange invention, He says mankind ought to be able after a while to live in translucent houses, so that the whole neighborhood will know, by the soft glow that will permeate the walls, every time a lamp or a gas jet is lighted. He proposes to provide this transiucent building material. Some journals in France, Spain and Germany, appear to fear the results Pan-Ame diet a revolution the ress. They pre- ican Cong in the existing condi- tion of trade. They are afraid also that the United States will secure a very con- siderable commercial advantage by com. i i ons with Central and of them st that the United States ing into ci ser South America Some go 80 far as to sugg will start upon a career of aggression and subsequent political domination. So far as any political aggression is concerned, se journals may as well save their anx- So far as commercial conquests New York that ate the the doubt are concerned, remarks Observer, there is no the United States is destined to domin marts of South America. This is in the f things, and the ¢ id World } on may as well Ives to submit to the in of nature kin" was a little ' gentieman travell panied by ¢ bereaved sister notice i ntlemen, evidently with surprise four ge not relatives, standing a little away from vvith uncovered heads. She found of was her afterward that these self-imposed mourners one 8 Scotchman from another Englishman from the (rlasgow, Sheffield, an and others two German gentlemen, The latter were traveling in company, but were strangers to the oth- ers, who in turn were unacquainted with each other. Yet all of them had delayed their departure over one diligence to pay a tribute of respect to the unknown man, dead in a strange land, and the solitary mourner far from home. If it is any advantage to a country to increase in population, the Boston Tran- script considers France remains at a dis- advantage compared with other Euro- pean nations, notably with Germany, whose population steadily advances in spite of emigration. The French Jour- nal Officiel publishes the statisticz of the | movement of population in the republic | for 1888, and they are decidedly interest. ing. There were registered during 1888, in France, 276,848 marriages, 4708 di- vorces, 882.630 births and 837.867 deaths. The natural increase of the pop- ulation-—that is, the excess of births over deaths wns 44,772 in 1888, agninst 56,. 536 in 1887. The births in 1888 were 16,794 fewer than in 1887, and these fig- ures show the steady decline of the num- ber of births in France from year to year, In 1884, there were 987,558 births; in 1885, 924,758 birtha, or 13,200 less; in 1886, 912.838 births, or 11,720 less; in 1887, 899,833 births, or 13,505 less: in 1888, 882.630 births, or 16.704 loss, At this mate of decline, says the Tran. seript, it is easy to see that the number of deaths in France will soon exceed ths births, and the population would begin actually to decline if it were not for the immigration, which is larger into France than juto any other European country, seeming to prove that in France the con- ditions of life are easier than elsewhere | « in Europe and life itself better the largest circulation in England, has | Mr. Boorfried has gone TALMAGES CHURCH BURNED. The Brooklyn Tabernacle De. stroyed hy Fire. Eleotric Light Wires Thought to Be the Cause, nacle, has been completely destroyed by fire, including the | organ. | { Dr. Talmage's church, the Brooklyn Taber | J | | furniture and magnificent | the small window over the main entrance of { the Tabernacle, Heat once sont out an alarm. { The Fire Department responded promptly. | The flames made rapid progress, and before { the water could be directed on the building i a solid column of fire illuminated the sky. | A second alarm was sent out and, realizing | that there was no hope of saving the build | ing, the firemen directed their efforts toward | saving the surrounding houses, { Within balf an hour the immense building was a mass of flames Fhe heat was intense, causing the firemen to keep at a respectful distance, peeling the paint from the "i { opposite and destroying nearly every i of glass in the buildings within 30 the Tabernacle Inside the Tabernacle the auditorium re sembled a huge furnace, the flames leking up everything with wonderful rapidity. In twenty minutes after the discovery of the | fire the wooden and iron girders supporting the roof gave way and fell with a tremend ous crash, carrying with them both side wall and large portionsof the front and rear main walls, Simultaneous with the crash an Ln mense volume of flames, sinoke and mounted high in the air. After the « of the roof several streams of wat turned upon the burning not quenched until nearly wood -work had been destroys With the morning hours came th of people who gazed famous Tabernascl sale distance, however tions of the Ir any moment All that remains building are the 1 most intact, and | walls, which are terior of the building was cor Bot a vestige remaining of form, gallery sodden HOUMN pane of feel WE RLY : mH Mit wall A The polished niar mented the base of ti sides of the entrances o small sign beara din Dey i ft entrand ing boon started in the tr g. EUROPE'S GRAIN CROPS, A Deficiency in Nearly Every Coun. try on the Continent, grain Tr : HRTNTY at May mys in a recent this country will have be looked to to supply the Earopean deficiency lie average wheal crop of Ear pe annually ss] at 1.211.000.192 minted to 1.340 it is estimated to I 4 The grain har- Austria-Hungary are said to be the ret of the last decennary. The conse quence is that Hungary has a defleit of about 12,000 000 hectoliters O3,000. 000 bushels in wheat, and Austria about 2.000000 hectoli tere, making a total of 42000000 bushels for the Austro-Hungarian Empire: 31. 140 000 bgshels of rye lows, 54.080. 000 broshels of barley loss, and 31. 240,000 bushels Jess of ats than in 1588. Aunstria-Hungary is one of the countries to which those countries of Europe which do not produce grain enough for their own nesds look for thelr supplios but Austria-Hungary will have no wheat to sxport this year or at the most very little, which may be made possible by an abundant potato crop, leading the wople to use pota- | toes much in the place of bread. In rye and ats there will be no capacity to export In Prussia the harvest did not come up to sriginal expectations. Rye turned out to be | better than for several years past, but in | wheat, barley and oats the yield was not up to that of the preceding year, Wheat gave $7 per cent. of an averages harvest; rye 87; barley, ®1 and oats, 85 In Rileda more | wheat wae cultivated than before, but the yiold was only 75 per cent. of an average i harvest | m the estimates, but that ial Agm the Stat hf ty to to IS ia put Frog am This vear g = + 3} ie Pat oon wR in 1898 the ¢ Hs wr gure is thought to | | 3 too high. Silesia requires a great deal of | rye, anel will be compelled to import a ocon- siderable quantity, Barley did very poorly, and the product is mach worse than that of die yoar before. For a flue yield of potatos the prospects in Silesia are good The Saxon be 80 cent, of | : : i i : 4 a L ¥ Hung Russia, Rou nania, pe poor, and it is romarkable that those districts which shown the bost results last make the worst showing this year, har tasted but oustid of a w year the p J Akow inn Jo ht fei the the Charkow, Poltava, Kursk which had Inst your, over, is fine, rope have them, better At 2:45 A. Mm. Patrolman MeCalfery, while | | patroling his beat, saw flames issuing from | : Connecticut, Ryo is officially put at 75 per cont, | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States, Tue Rev. Dr, Talmage is about to start for Palestine, to be gone two months. His object is to obtain fresh material for use in a life of Christ, which he is writing. His pulpit in Brooklyn will be supplied by min. ters from other cities, Joux Frrzaenavp, alias Liverpool Jack, eonvicted of inapping men in New York city and sending them to becomes virtually | slaves in Central America, has been sentenced | to nine years in Sing Slug prison, Baxurr W. HopGes Boston, was run over by a team at SBtough- | ton, Mass, and instantly killed, Tie three-story brick building of Oliver | been | Brothers’ mill in Pittsburg, Penn., has burned. Loss $300,000, Ix the election which has been held the prohibitery smmendment was defeated Tug New York Committee on Finance of the luternational Exposition of 1802 have made a report suggesting that a puldic sub- | seription be taken for a preliminary fund of | 8,000, 0) Tur General Council of Lutheran Church of North America has met in convention at Pittsburg, Peon, The Council embraces 546 churches snd 250.000 members the Evangelical Tue New York Electrical Execution law, whicn came up before Judge Day at Aabura on a habeas corpus procesding in the case of Kemmler, the Buffalo murderer, has been sustained Tue Triennial National Council opened in Worcester Nix of the officers of the phate Company, who were involved in the recent riots in the land of Navassa, have arrived in Philadelphia Congregational Maw Navassa Phos Ober, Bons & been burned, has fssuad a theria to be epi- Carbondale, Fenn Eome of feriakers have refused to far y farther endang ives of their families by bandling the Hes of the dead Tie House of Deputies at the E in New York city gned to facilitate the establish ment of a Court of Tue State Board of Health Inmation declaring dipt in tne Te | Convention reject resolu tic 1 Ge . A ppeain Goversonr Hivy and Chauncer M. Depew r of the o Sail me of the South and West, the bursting Tb Dakot one fatally injured mins a made a bal dessent he fell } or failed © Am { $400) ft O Mra Studebaker was danger ously injured THE cast » the prison at Jackson Mich., has beens burned, and fire destroyed the jail at Pineville, Ky toneErtT Brastox, of Bait a fit of drunken jealousy fatally shot wife, then shot himself dead Tar Southern Yellow P ciation wet at Birmingham vanosd the price of yellow per 1000 feet, Seremivresoest Ti Wanoey, of Davis & lamar's mine near Langley, 8B C.. wes killed by the caving in of a bank while he was in the mine ing of Lake City, in his Lumber Ass Ala, and ad pine lumber §1 PT Washington. Epwanp OO. Lepcnt, of the District of Columbia, has been appointed Director of the Mint, vice Dr. J. P. Kimball Tur President has made the following ap- pointments: Cyrus Anderson, of Kansas, to be Register of the Land Office at Oberlin, Kan; Alfred Lundvall of Nebraska, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Raligh, Neb, : Charles BR. Drake, of Arizona, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Tocson, Arisona, Uxrreo Staves DisTtaer Arrorxey Owes A, Garvix, of Boston, has sent his resigna- tion to the President Sexon CaMaano, lately Presidez! of Ecua- dor, has arrived in Washington, He i= ao credited as the Ecuador delegate to the Pan- American Congress, and to the Maritime Conference, A xounen of Knights Templar were sn teriained at a brilliant reception by President Harrison, J. PB elected at Washington Grand Master and Hugh McCurdy, of Michigan, Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Encampment, Knights Templar of America. Evtwoon T. Haxer has been tod by President Harrison Postmaster at De troit, Mich, AssisTaxt Beonprany Bussey has ree the order of ex-Commissioner Tanner ty suting al pensions at not loss than #4 per month, Foreign, Bm Witeian Tixpar Romiwsox, a blind member of the British House of comnitte! suicide in a fit of insanity Brighton, England, Tuiry farmers, tenants on the Smith estate in Tipperary, Ireland, were ar for refusing to pay market tolls to their landlord, os lad ref rom London bo the Tsand : . provatied in the ' Wales, during the recent gale, an ex-Alderman of | mn Gomx, of Pennsylvania, was | Everybody on board was saved, Tuk steamship City of Paris reports that om her passage eastward her decks were swept by heavy seas. A female steerage passenger and her child were swept overboard and drowned, and ten other passengers were severely injured, Tur Grand Jury of Kingston, Ontario, has returned a true bill in the case of Twit | ghell, son of the United States Consul there, charged with burglary snd assault, Mayor of London, and the second member of died in that city. A nor occurred at Bristol, England, on the arrival of a number of laborers to replace G00 gas stokers who were on strike. CARDINAL Tasquengav, of Quebec, pre sided at the creation of several canons and the unveiling of a statue to the late Bishop Guignes at Basilica, Over 150 priests were present, GENERAL BovLancen has taken a villa near St, Heller on the wiand of Jersey, He is preparing a work on European military sCienoe Excixexr Joux Pores was killed by the explosion of the boiler in a shingle mill at Lindsay, Ontario. The mill was wrecked A paxEr who was put into an oven by his comparions in the city of Mexico was as phyxiated. To ie their crime they wftor ward burned the body in a furnace MBMALLPOX ix in the Government Oppeln. in Prussian Silesia, and its vie tims are counted by the thousands Tag Argentine Republic is about to float a loan of $40,000,000 with a syndicate of European bankers, ranging of THE LABOR WORLD, (THE bows barbers Philadelphia have Mims a In no of n f . # a nicn of Ban Francisco IN carpenters in Rome #8 day for $1.25 Ga. work iS works throughout the Wve operat 1 can do meth New there haw and omnibus a8 unio ress of to ob a num ifesto appealing ber n rd Roseberry pre for aid was issued sided Apory VG delegates fr Jey States mat ago to urge on build «i canals the shallows and river lakes Ax organization of ==—xs is talked of in London, where there are thousands of clerks, from people who can read, write and cipher up to experienced bookkeepers, out of work The future of clerks in London and other large citiss in England is very discouraging Tug cooperative bakery recently estab. lished by the bakers of Brooklyn, N. Y., is being belped along by the Brooklyn labor organizations, who have taken liberal blocks of stock in the new venture. All the organ. fgations in New York city have been re quested to buy stock A curious strike occurred at Rochester, N. ¥. The osterclogists and taxidermists in Ward's Natural Science establishment, where Jumbo's skaleton was prepared, stopped work and, as a result, many rare birds and anim pring prepared for cellec- tions in Reanim of the country, were left partly mounted. m Mississippi Val at Supecior, Wis, two weeks neral Government to y feet deep through mnecting the great the gv twey TWOHUNDRED HOMELESS, Fire Almost Destrozs the Town of Serpent River, Fire lroke out in Cook's lumber yard at Serpent River, Ontario, A heavy northwest wind blowing extended the flames and soon the whole town was on fire. There was for A buildings in the town, general stores and welling houses, A ial train with fire engines and a Wrigne of Sault 8te. Marie (Ontario) firemen left at once for the scene of the conflagrs tion. Fifty million feet of lnmber, this "" cut, was consumed, The loss is estimated at F500, 000, The vicinity fe strewn with household and homeless families for acres. The steamer Africa and Eo Sa rAd BS were Take and were saved, pi Thre are about 900 otal; And temporary structures are rected Roar thew. ny A UNIQUE _ UNDERTAKIN a. has started from Mouth Version, 21, on be his Boo hn Fn et nf the yes 5 W a | — . LATER NEWS, Tar great trotting match at Fleetwood Park, New York city, between Belle Hamlin and Harry Wilkes, for $5000, was won by the former in two straight heats. Time 2:16 3, 219% Joux Feexs, a Western Union lossan, min Bessamiy samuel PuoLiies, ex-Lord | the Jewish faith to occupy the position, has | Fa sheer a Ah y Fumo hat he hm als] oe oR a A 4 | was killed by an electric light wire in New York city, His body bung in midair for nearly one hour while thousands looked on, Bix men have died in New York city from | the same cause within a few wooks Twosmas Smieros, whose negligence in loaving rails unspiked lod to a fatal wreck at North Raven hag been found guilty of Conn mansinoghber In Frankiord Township, Penn, schild was { instantly killed by a mad bull. The animal's born caught the little girl in the back apd penetrated to the heart, Tur leading manufacturers of Philadelphia ument declaring New York have mig ne Ia doe CE city to be the financial centre of the country, and recognizing it as the appropriate plac for holding the World's Pair in 1808 NLEY the great rot Ix switch vania Hallroad HENDSY Wages NY Lhe iantern made and a atternpiad jury. the Cs m1 lored, was lynched at Migs He susaulted a white woman r trial at Chicago Rorwer Hernando fossed that he had Haxs JerEnsox was sentenced at Pr Utah HH 0, five years imprisonment foo polygamy Owixa to the failure of the crops French Canadian farmers are {hreateoosd with star vation —— AT THE WHIP Thirteen Lashes Lad Upon a Wife Beater's Back. John Eisenburger, who was sentenced at Baltimore, Md., to thirteen lashes and a term ING POST. | of thirty days in jail for brutally beating his wife, has been introduced to the whipping post Eisenburger was brought out from his cell clad in only trousers and shirt. The latter was removed, and Eisenburger was foroed against the crosslike post with his back ex posed, His logs were fastenad to the pow | and his arms were stretched along the cross piece, his hands ing fastened, one to esc’ | end, thus stretching his skin and rendering it more susceptible 10 the lash The preliminaries were quickly arranged, ne | and Deputy Sheriff Roseman, mounting the platickia and raising his arm slightly aloft, wought down the lash with a sharp, quick movesnent upon the bareback. A Jom: welt showed where it had fallen lisenbur ger winced, gritted his teeth, and then set. himself to receive the other twelve lashes They fell at short, ular intervals of about one second each until the baker's dogsn or dered by the court bad been administered. tie ends of the cal struck skin, FATAL FAMILY FEUD, son of a justios of the peace and a wan, married one of the Hall quarrelied with his wife. They
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