FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. In the Senate, 00TH DAY. ~The Nicaragua Canal bill was | taken up as the unfinished business, and Mr, Morgan addressed the Senate in defence of the bill... Mr. Spooner reported favorably a proposed amendment to the Deficiency vill, appropriating $2,500,000 to reimburse the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Dela- ware, Virginia and South Carolina and the city of Baltimore for money advanced by them in support of the war of 1812....The conference report on the Naval Appropria- tion bill was agreed to, The Senate then ad- Journed, x 67TH DAY. ~The credentials of Mr, Platt, of Connecticut, for his new Senatorial $erm beginning March 4 next wore placed on file. wens Mr Morgan and Mr, Vest had an en- counter over the Nicaragua Canal bill... The Sundry Civil bill were discussed and several amendments were made, 68TH DAY, Little progress was made with the Sundry Civil bill... The bill to establish a United States Land Court was passed 80TH Day.—After eulogies by Mossrs, Gorman and Spooner, the Senate adjourned out of respect to the memory of Senator | Wilson, 70rn Day. ~The House amendment to the Direct Tax bill was laid 01 the table for the | present... The Sundry Civil Appropriation | bin was passed... Among the bills reported from committees mud plated on the oalendar were the following: Senate joint resolution | authorizing Brigadier-General Thomas IL. Casey, Chief of Engineers, United States Army, to accept from the President of the French Republic a diploma conferring the decoration of Officer of the Legion of Honor; Senate bill authorizing brevets for gallant services in Indian campaigns; House bill to pension the widow of Admiral Porter. 7181 DAY. —The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was passed .., | Progress was made on the Indian bill... Mr. Stewart presented papers in support of the claim of William H. Clagett to a seat in the Senate from the State of Idaho for the term beginning March 4 (the seat for which the credentials of Mr. Dubois are already on file), and they were referred to the Commit. tee on Privileges and Elections. In the House, dra Dav.—Mr. Wickham submitted to the House, by authority of the majority of the Coinage Committee, an adverse report on the Senate bill for the free coinage of silver. ...The Postoffice Appropriation bill was then laid aside with a favorable recom- mendation, and Mr. Cannon called up the Deficiency Appropriation bill. The Ho n at 9 o'clock, adjourned, without disposing of the bill. 6518 Day. —~There was no further filibus- tering by the Democrats and the Deficiency bill was considered... Mr. Wike has pro posed a plan to impeach Speaker Reed for falsifying the record of the House gore Day.—Mr Boutells presented the conference report on the Naval Appropria tion bill. It was adopted... Mr. McComas introduced a bill to establish a system of wstal savings depositories as a branch of the Poste ffice Department... . The Direct Tax bill was passed by a vote of 172 to 101 Gite Day.—For the second time history the House held two district legisla. tive sessions in the one calendar day. The House, having adjourned at five o'clock, met again at sight o'clock, Mr. Burrows occupy ing the chair... Mr. Dingley, of Maine, sub- mitted the report of the Silver Pool Investi- gating Committee... . The House then went into Committee of the Whole, Mr, Dingley, of Maine, in the chair, on the Agricultural Appropriation bill, which was passed. 681 DAY. —On motion of Mr. Quin, Sen ate bill was passed for the relief of the as. signees of Jobn Roach....The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was considered. , . The Shipping bili was de bated, and at the evening session the General Deficiency bill was passed. 60ru Day. — After a fight lasting from five o'clock to midnight the Postal Subsidy bill was passed by a vote of 140 to 120, WESTERN FLOODS, Many Persons Drowned in California and Arizona in its Late reports show that at least six persons lost their lives in the floods in California, The family of Charles Watts is also missing from near Downey and is supposed to have been drowned. The Wells family, consisting of man, wife and babe ware drowns at Dusrt, and the bodies of two Mexicans were found in the same neighborhood. 8, Laurens was drowned at Wilmington while trying to rescue some cattle The worst of the flood was probably at Downey and vicinity Olid and mew San Gabriel rivers broke from their banks and ran together and made a great inland sea, six to ten miles wide and seventeen miles long. Many houses were swept away Two hundred feet of the bridge west of Los Angeles bas been carried away, the track washed out, the pile work broken and the tunnel at the entrance of the canyon dam aged On the Yuma division eight bemrts of the big bridge wore destroyed and the track is six feet out of line in many places. The bridge near Monte was also swept away The work of strengthening the against the swollen Gila River in Arizona haz made it necsssars for all citizns of Yuma to be pressed into the service. It was even found necessary to take the oon victs from the Fenitentiary to assist the workers It finally became ag parent that the Jeven, which was old and weak, could not be strengthened sufficiently to withstand the river, and the people began moving their effects to higher ground. Finally the loves broke, and in an hour and a half much of the town was under water The air was filled with the noise of falling walls and the screams of women and chil dren. The water was ten feet deep in places. Many people had no time to get out their furniture and lost all, Over a hundred houses were ruined. An American named Gus Lee was drowned The people are encamped on the hills and the United States Quartermaster's bulidings Gave been thrown open, i m—II— i... ss FIGHTING IN CHILI, Government Troops Suffer Defeat on the Pampa, On February 15 a battle was fought on the pampa, at Dolores, Chili, The Government was defeated with the los of about 300 men. On February 18 Iquique surrendered to leven HE tH oH FOSTER FOR SECRETARY. An Ohio Man Gets the United States Treasury Portiolio CHARLES FOSTER. The President has nominated Clhgrles Fos ter, of Ohio, to be Secratary of the Treasury to succeed William Windom, who died sud. denly after speaking at a banfuet_ in New York City. Mr. Foster was elected Gover- nor of Ohio, as the representative of sound money, over General Thomas g. who was the candidate of the Greenbackers, Charles Foster began life as a clerk in his father's store, in Fostoria, Ohio, and at the age of eighteen was admitted to a partoership in the business, Hs at once assumed the management of the establishment, Its transactions were oven them extensive, but by his push, sagacity and enterpsse youn; Foster developed the firm to a remarkable degree, gained great wealth and won the re putation of a most shrewd and snccessliul merchant. At the present time bw is prob ably the richest man in Northwestern Ohio He is a man of many activities and his in- terests are wide aod diversified, He is a manufacturer on a large scala. His rail road holdings are very heavy and ho is a di rector in several important lines in the State f Ohio and beyond its limits. The banking house of Foster & Co. is one of the soundest in the West. Mr. Foster is the President of the Northwestern Ohio Natural Gas Come pany, and his real estate possessions alone are sufficient to make him a very rich man He will be sixty-three yoars old in a few months, haviag been born in Seneca County, Oude, April 13 he town, which is 3 dd after the name of his family, was for Lome, laid out about 1822, and a rival town, about a wile to the north of {4 which was calle] Risdon In 1858 the two were consolidated and named Fostoria, in honor of the elder Foster Che newly appo.nted Fearrelary of the Treasury was married (an 1554 {0 Annie, daughter of Aron Olmatead, of Fremont, Ohio sists of wife oon 1 a The family con chiters w of whom is the Fostoria, The dau P. L. Myers, of other daughter is unmarried Mr. Foster is well known in Washington, baviog beent a momber of four Congresses the Forty-second, Forty-taird, Forty-fourth and Foriy-fitth. He has been twice Gover por of Ohio. His first ele and he was re-electad in 188], wo or —— TWICE HANGED. The Rope Breaking, William West Was Executed a Second Time William West, colored, who murdered Jolin Crouch and bis aged wife and thelr imbeciled son last May, paid a terrible penaity for his erimo at Washington, With blood oozing from neck and side, inflicted by himself in a last desperate effort to cheat the gallows, he was strapped to a plank and car- ried to the scaffold When trap was sprung the rope broke aod the wreteh fell to the ground writhing in agony. Then the rope was again adjusted about his neck and be wasslowly strangled to deat He denied his guilt to the last The execution was a bor ible and ing affair. West bad always declared be would not hang, and when the watch was changed on the morning of the execution he drew the blanket over his head and inflicted severe wounds in his neck and side with a spike. When the new guards discovered hin be was unconscious and would have bled to death in a short tyme had wounds been dressed Then a race began between death and the Bheriff, as it was feared West would die in a few hours. He, however, regained con sicousnesy and at half -past two he was pre pared for death. He was too weak to walk and had to be strapped toa board to be taken tothe scaffold. Against this he fought desperately and would not Jet the guards dress him. He was gverpowered, however, Peun wounds in his woken that rst § noth is A ———— AD — YROMINEN T PEOPLE. Guxgral DANKS began Hie in a shoe fae tory. Brorurany Wixpost left $150,000 to his wife GENERAL cycle rider, Groner W, Care, the novelist, is a skil ful ethnologist, De Lrssers, the great French canal mak er, is now eighty-six years old, BraxLey says that lecturing is mors tire some business than exploring Africa, Epmuxp Nev, of 8t. Louis, is a grand. nephew of the famous French Marshal, Tue estate of George Bancroft, the histor fan, is expected to foot up nearly $600,000, Groner Tunomas Kerr, sixth Earl of Albemarle, is dead. He was born in 1790. Mavyor-grLect Epwin 8, Stuanr, of Phil adelphia, Penn. Is a prosperous bookseller, ApMIRAL L. H, PINzeA ¥ ALVAREZ, com. mander-inchief of the Spanish navy, Mires is an accomplished bi dead. Miran will probably be requested to re sume the Servian throne soon to prevent a | revolution BEXATOR Quay, of Pennsylvania, heart disease Barrixarox Boots is one of eleven chil | dren all heartily devoted to the work of the otion was in 1879 | and finally alter a dose of chloroform had i been administered to him, tied to the board and carried, weak, bleeding and altnest life. ! lex to the seaffold sprung the rope broke and the man fell to the ground in a heap. The wounds in his neck had been reopened and blood was flow. ing profusely. It was a sickening sight. Ina few minutes another rope was procured and | | athird attempt made to send the man into eternity-—one by himself and two by the law «the first two being horrible failures, but the latter was suocessfn! A brother of the murderer, Bazil West, witnessed the execution in his pocket when he entered the jail yard but it was taken from him that his brother was insane, as he had been suffering from progressive paralysis, but he made no further demonstration. I 5. a Ws A MARINE DISASTER. Eighteen Sallors Perish Near San Francisco, Cal, The ship Elisabeth, of New York, went ashore on the rocks at North Head, near San Francisco, Cal., a few nights ago. Bhe had twenty men on board-—tie Captain, two mates, the cook and sixteen milors; also the Ca n's wife and two children. . The boat the occupants were rescued by The Captain and sevoutesn of the crew were drowned, A lifeboat went to the aid Bet hi! 2 { £ i ¥ Hi FEvid if Heo had a revolver | Ho invisted | When the trap was | Balvation Army Provessor Parveen is the third graduate of the old Western Heserve College to as sume a chair in Yale Exrenor Wittiax, of Germany, at » ng : dinner appealed to his people to stand sy him in all lus efforts Morar Harsrean, the journalist, has ten living children —seven sons and three daugh- ters—and bas buried two sons Twoof Fenimore Cooper's daughters, now old ladies, live in Cooperstown, N. Y., in the very heart of the romantic country that the novelist made famous Ase Govrn, brother of Jay Gould, will have charge of the purchasing department of the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific Rail roads under the proposed consolidation Tue death is announced of Bir Richard Francis Sutton, the owner of the English cutter Genesta, which was dofeated by the Boston centreboard sloop Paritan in 1855 for the America Cup Jupae Perrer, who succeeds Ingalls ir the Sonata from Kansas a Mason. Knight of Labor and a member of Epis copal Church He woars a long, full beard that gives him the venerable appearance of a patriarch i" Lie Tae Baroness Burdett. C ts resorted to be in falling health, although no ly. The Baroness is about veuty yours of age vy oung husband, Burdette 3 ¥ pays t serious WrvVen Mr oy IT took Sir Arthur Sullivan six no work to He shut himself up in an refused all visitors knew his steady the music bow lage timate was finished ( OOD One inal and none of whereabouts The hristmas Eve GENERAL SHERMAX'E fav when ino Waal ingt The two ¥ arm, greeted « tations, Probably no other man life was so cordially welcome | ton homes as General Sherman was — —— SIX KILLED, FORTY HURT. Two Cars Thrown Down an Embank- ment on the Pan Handle TE es Tats "wi YO wal Van \ eterans used to go about very where by smi fn was Crone EH Road By the giving wa) a culvert at Hager. town, a short Ind. two cars Roa rollad down an NIX persons w were i jun The killed Deal, O, I Pan Han Pan Handle pre Killed an SOO { others are: Case, ( n cnginoor of nductor; maintenance for the e road; Needham, George general attorney for the Pan Handle: R ME of Richmond i Prosident of the First tional Hank od to be Smith nod John di f i" YOR st hie #1 OT Shera up Indiannpolis were als Ind. bead or i ist of wounded will foot up to forty The train was runniog at ¢ rato of | miles per hour and the cause of th is in doubt wis T mocident it is now said that a part of the engine broke, throwing the entire train from the track bos killed and fatally injured were in the ladies’ conch c——. Mennitr LL. Frasats C. Fernald, of the Maine State College, has accepted the place of asdstant botanist and herbalist in Harvard College. Though only sixteen years old, he is already known in scientific circles. Within the last two vears he has discovered and classified thirty plants hitherto unknown in the flora of Maine. _ THE Standard Oil Company, after seeur. ng nine-sixtesnths of the stock of its great son of President m est rival in Ohio, the Geyser Oil Company has bought out the minarity stockholders for $1,000,000 — et Taz bodies of two more victims of the memorable Johnstown (Penn) flood have been washed from the sand by the recent high waters, THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. Mileh Cows, com, to good. . 1 Calves, common to prime. . . pL .e "erasrne ns Hogs—Ldve...... 1 Crass nsann wwweBe Flour--City Mill Extra Patents, , Wheat-<No, 2 Red... Lye—State , Barley —Two-rowed State, . . Jorn—Ungraded Mixed. .... Jate~No. | White.......... Mixed Western. ...... Hay Fair to Good, ,....... Straw] LL Ra Lard City Steam. ......... Butter--State Sanus ae Pea al al aS or ERZRguBR.TRESSS ® » > > 565056605568 0888008838888460 SELB EAR. Western fggr—Btateand Penn........ lee —hmooe ER ERg3EmsER KF . orthern. Jorn No, 2 Yellow, .oo.uue Inte-No, SAARI. .inins.. Harley No, 2 Canada, | ERERER = sasadeaas ELLE — — Hay—Fair.........0o000000.18 00 Prime. .....17 ®0 WATERTOWN (MASS, CATTLE MA Noof Dressed Live EE EE EE EE EEE Ee Hoge-—Northern, .., bse nnn PRILADELFIIA, Flour Penn, Wheat No, 2 Ted Foi. 1 hd EN bad 8 EL LE xtra... ARAL IEE ER] 5888ss | SOP | RPP ER asses is | has | been informed by his physician that be bas | done | demonstration make him a well man SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON yon MARCH 8, Lesson Text: “Naaman Healea” Kings v., 1-14 Golden Text: Psalm ciil,, 3— Commentary, 2 1. “Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and honorable, becauss by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Byrin.” The Bible is full of contrasts. The great contrast is between the Bon of God and the devil then between those who believe God, stand before Him and serve Him, and such as are only men of this world, serving of sin and Satan. 2. “And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of lsrael a little. maid. and she waited on Naaman's wife” Let "any little girl consider well the situation of this little maid, stolen from home, which was as much to her as home is to any child, and now a little slave in a far off land, with little if any prospect of seeing father and mother again; and yet she seems to bo faithful in her new home under these hard circumstances, Let the boys consider Joseph, stolen from home by his own brethren and serving as a slave in Egypt; and yot we read four times in one chapter that the Lord was with him (Gen. xxxix,, 2 4 21 28 8 “Would God my Jord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for He would re cover him of his leprosy Not only faith. ful as a servant, but faithful in testimony, and at for the t of her enemy, re minding of Rom. v., 8-10: Matt. v.. 44: Rom. xi. 20, 21. She knew of the mighty works done by Elisha, seven of which are recorded in the last three chapters, and she believed that such a mighty man of God could heal even a leper fi Christians had as much faith in Jesus as this little maid had in Elisha they would be pointing every sin. sick and heavy laden soul to Him 4. “And one went in and told his lord, say Ing, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel The little girl's saving is being spread abroad. It has now reached his ears for whom was Intended. We have only to speak of Jesus as we have op- portunity, and we may be sure that wessage will in due Mae be owned of G | 5. “And the king of Syria said, Go « go, and 1 will send a letter unto the king of ls roel.” The little gir] spoke of the prophet in Israel, not of the king of Israel, 1 and such prophets as Elijah and § not often in sympathy xxit, 18: HI Clovon, xvi and the king of Syria that if there was any power ley rosy the king of it. But neither of beneli us the kings isha were I Kings xviik, 17; 10; xviil, 25 may have tt ough [eras to heal i surely know Kings knew the God of Elisha nor the power that could heal the leper 6 "Behold 1 have sent Naaman, my ser vant, to thee that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy Thus wrote the king of Syria to the king of Israel, The Lord wha ave deliveranos to Syria is not recognized We cannot wonder at this if we consider the church of Christ to-day and » lances upon monsy and Influence and the fa. vor of this world, He whose name bears is comparatively unknown and sought and unhonored 7. "Am I God to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy Thus spake the king of lerael, when having read the letter be rent his clothes and fancied that Syria's king sought a quarrel with him. “Am 1 God? reminds us of Jacob's angry words to his wife Rachel on. xxx. 2, and killing and making alive reminds us of Deut, xxxii., 30 1 Bam. H., 68. The king of Israel was in the piace of God's representative, and instead of getting angry he should have felt honored, and been able to point 10 Him who alone can kill and make alive & “Let him come now to me and he shall know that there is a proshet in Israel.” Thus spake the man of whens he heard that the king had rent his clothes. Here is the one to whom Naaman should have come: hs fears not man, nor does be seek honor from man, but he loves to hot @ So Naaman came wi with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Flisha A great and honorable and mighty man of this world stands at the loor of this poor and dependent servant of God. He n the right place, but not in the right spirit H He Xxnows that be I» a leper, that he has a deadly disease, and he has come a Jong 3 y seeking {or heaiti but then be is no poor man: he does not come as a beggar: he is not like the leper of Matt vill, nor the ten of Lake xvii. He is able to pay for his healing and be wanis it done as to a great and mighty He is de g with men and wants his position before men to be recognized. He doos not know Luke xvi, i5 10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clenn.” What mag- nificent indifference to earth's potentates and earth's favors What an opportunity to make a friend with great influence and obtain a great sum of money. Put like Abram before be is in Wael won thee see her re while he un- rod w (3 th his horses and ADOw nan the king of Sodom, conscious that the possessor of heaven and | earth is his friend. and be can afford to say concerning the king of Syria's gold and sliver, “1 will receive none” (ve. 16. But what a gracious message be sends to Naa- | man, and what a simple requirement and glorious result 11. “But Naaman was wroth, and went away and said, Behold, I thought™ * » # He wanted health, but be wanted it a style befitting his high position, and he had his own thoughts as to how it ought to be He fancied just how Elisha would cote out and ory to Jeh ywah, and with great all his thoughts are swept away. Elisha { does not even come out to him, and there is no demonstration, but only a kind mess telling him what to do and promising healt! Many are today out of Christ and unsaved just beacause they have their own thoughts as to how they ought to ba converted, and wet won't come any other way 13. “Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all tne waters of Israel” Here are some more of his thoughts; Syrials better than Israel, Damascus than Jerusalem, Abana and than Jordan, itis a great humiliation for him, a Byrian, to come to Israel seeking any favor, and he doss not want favors; he can pay for all he getx. Bat to be treated thus, and then to be sent to Jordan, is too much for his Syrian pride, and he wont away in a rage 15. “My father, if the prophet had bid do t thing, wouldst thou not bavy done it* Thus reason his servants with him, showing more wisdom than their master, for “lireat reen are not always wise” (Job xxxil,, %; and they had him, too, as we Sas Sor that was just the thought of his 1". ah he dawn. That is very pearson must cote it tha} eofud iilingl} J Jil wave trouble of down. sil 4 5i i ey if: ir ; 1 i * m F i i! | ; E £ i go ] H : SMUGGLING iX THE MAIL PRECAUTIONS THAT ARE TAKEN BY CUSTOMS OFFICERS, All Suspicious Letters and Packages Are Examined How Sealed Par cels Are Treated Big Hauls, The mails offer such an obvious temp- | for getting his just dues, { they reach their destinations. | incoming vessel is first iven on | authorities take for preventing the use {of them for the importation of goods free of duty, few people have an idea that they can get ahead of the customs officials by sending dutiable articles from abroad | threugh the mails, but when they act on | this belief they | stance in are disabused To make virtually every in of this mistaken impression. this lesson the | more effective, the Government, when | ever the intent to smuggle is clear, con- | fiscates the articles, although, when the { 3 5 { . goods are sent into this country through an evident ignorance of the law, the | simple payment of the duty is all that 1s necessary to secure possession of them. To understand fully Uncle Sam's plan one should fol low the mails from the time they leave the big transatlantic to the time When an sighted wor the Postoffice. If the reaches Quarantine before sunset, to be inspected by the Health O his assistants. the mails” are until the ship reaches her pier the pouches, hundreds in number, hurried ashore. If, however, tine at night and is compelied to remain there until after sunrise, tugs in the vice of the Postofli take off the ther places ar liner sent to 8 Ousran.- Juaran huis City in the other cases, are sent to the Postoffice } Nearly 1 est trains, while those for t here as quickly as possible. the parcels that or other dutiable g or the weather, hr Postoffice When the there they Are the parcel that looks as if books, etchings, lithogrs other dutiable goods the heaps of mail matter If, for instance, silk handkerchiefs, wh'cl through holes in the opened customs Insp CLOTS 3 $4 is stamped, ‘‘Sabject to package is securely wrappe i contents are mvisible, “‘SBapposed to tain goods subject to duty” is sta on it. The employes of the Postoffi who bandle the mails aid in picking out parcels likely to contain arti cles. dutiable An idea of the task of the customs me will be gained mail brought by the Servia fi pool a few days before 3 from a few figures She carried about 1050 por §.0C0 ght 450,0 , papers, parcels, ets This wa largest amount ever brought Nearly ons zr in the neighborhood of to by a vessel third was for this city Long practic ful in picking out patch. About 5 , were Ha has made the the ols with dis na par Us DICIOUs-100KIng taken in hand by the Of this haps ninety per cent. « or other pnnied under the law, be imported mails. These, except th sealed, and therefore subject to rales, are the big Customs Bureau on the fifth flo Postoffice Bullding, toge ietlers, ol customs officers matter which through the few which us ro sent to ther with A force of men examin other unsealed parcels at sels 10 work thes packages, every one of which is opened If the books are more thes tweaty years once ! old, or printed in a foreign language, or addressed to institutions of learning, they are admitted free of duty and at once forwarded. Newer ones are a) | praised by men who have become expert | ot it, But | The dutiable books addressed to per- | sons in this city are handed over to the Postoffice employes, together with a “statement and entry,” giving the ap- raised value of the book and the duty evied on it, the books on payment of the duty, which they turn over to J. N. Burke, who is at the head of the Customs Bureau in the Postoffice. Every Saturday morning Mr, Burke sends the money he has thus re. ceived to Collector Erhardt, If the books aro consigned to places outside of this city they are sent to the postmaster of the town or city, with a statement and entry, and he collects the duty on them. A favorite trick of would-be smug glers is to cut out the heart of a book and pack contraband goods ia ik A number of such books have been confis- cated within the last month or six weeks. Some contained wvaludble lances, others, silk handkerchiefs, gloves, jewelry and the like. It is sheer nonsense to at. tempt this form of smuggling, becuse all aro examined, and the detec. tion is certain, The customs officials have an a t difficulty to face in the cae of sealed parcels su to contain dutiable al be person Tek Jaw that susiod vusil tortie opened by no one except to whom it is MAdrisact Hm be aw by persons, tion of it Is term of im. RE stone . Wale th J hl or parcel own compel whom it is This is tation to would-be smugglers that it is | often asked what steps the Government | As un matter of fact, not a | The postal officers deliver | —— son to whom parcels for this city are ad- dressed to eall on Mr. Burke, whose office | is on the mezzanine floor of the Postoffice | Building, and open the suspected piece of onil matter. As soon as the man | opens it Mr, Burke examines its contents, { and if they are dutiable and of more than | trifling value he has them sppraised, | either by one of his men or by some one { at the Custom Hcuse., Bhould the man refuse to open the parcel, it is returned forthwith to the sender, The largest seizure of articles imported [in the mails occurred eight years ago; when diamonds worth %20,000 fell into the hands of a customs inspector, The most important seizure made last year was that of pearls valued at #5000, — New York Tribune. SELECT SIFTINGS. Japanese screws are left-handed, England has electric street signs. Amateur sculptoring is a fashionable f fad New York and daily about 60,000 chic Brooklyn kens in conrgme the U tes was the 850 gold slug of Califor. The biggest gold ex in nited Qt nia A New York er received 8400,000 for hi sugar Trust, Nearly &3.75 the British Governmen of mails by rail. Two eave London, England lawy is said 1.000 hundred trains ralnaray cyvery thousand two twenty-four hours. thst population I'he lately thken census shows the in seventy-five per cent, of { Massachusetts is foun M Dorn m 11 waik is cities, has laid a wager that he ntier to Pari : 4 averaged Alaskan natives fortunes in the : ying Bay Indian | i not be used in the future. The expl mad ite and a substance kept secret, five rounds shells of an ive ehresol And every Datliery has seventy { these projectiles, Msasa- 1000 in- Berk- ’ There are ninety-five yusetts whi hal | » : alia New Ashford, in males! population of any 125 inhabitants, 351 citicz and towns in yitants each hire, has the wn in the Blate, here are n Massachusetts, The term “bask” is derived from the Ttalian “‘banco,” a seat or bench, because the early dealers in money were soCus- tomed to sit on benches in the market of the principal towns. The ear- liest public bank established in modern I Yenice, which was w rope was that 1157 » price of meat | reased the g rse flesh, b ages every Saturday fro The rinkied bl sod let with 1s fat an n thickened, r the Sunday hn M. Weigle, of 1Y Called ti Augusta, e aitention of her which was hearth one Weigle soon saw that it was He tried to escaped from the room walled There way for the littie fellow to wm except down the chime face of a hot burning coal fire, a little animal tine sitting room flying squirre but it by the dogs. At Straubing, in ymbs have a opened and found to most interesting lewonze orna- ments and iron weapons belonging to the people of Rhwtia before the Roman conquest, The long sought-for Roman cemetery has also been discovered through the unearthening of a Roman tomb containing cinerary urns flanking the old military road from Servioduram (Straubing) to Abusina, both situated on the Pro. The Atlaatic Laid Bare. Figuratively speaking, the bed of the Atlantic Ocean has at last been laid bare. English, American, German aad French sounding expeditions have map; every section of the ooze that lies at the bottom of the great watery waste. Ao- cording to these maps and diagrams the Atlantic is a huge water trovgh of vary. ing depths, extending from pole to pole. Here and there rocky peaks, like that of Teneriffe, or huge mountains of sand, like the Bank of Newfoundland, | reach up to or beyond the surface. Be. | tween Ireland and Newfoundiand there | exists a remarkable submarine plain, al. | ways referred to as “‘the te plateau,” which is evidently a continua. | tion of the watorshed, which be- | tween latitudes Javaria, some Ceitio 1 ntain | i
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