- Hlteracy is the lowest in the Union. The London Lancet wants all doctors to wear a distinguishing style of hat. This has already been adopted in Berlin, but hats have been put on doctors’ coach. men instead. It is a mistake, asserts the Chicago Herald, to suppose that polar research has cost enormously in human life. De. spite all the great disasters ninety-geven out of every 100 explorers have returned alive, Count Von Moltke understood the vir. tues of silence. At no time during his ninety years was he much given to speak. ing, although he was an accomplished linguist. he knew how to hold his tongue ia ten languages. Nut farming is a new industry in North Carolina. cuted with vigor in many parts of the Indeed, it was said of him that Small manufactures are prose- Bouth, and several new plantation and | forest industries are stea lily developing that region. Washington Star, ‘are of hope on the American horizon.” comments the **These,” among the The Mail and Express thinks that one | of the most unique railroad stations in the country can be seen on the Green. wood Lake Road at Soho. Is laid around the base of a giant tree, while the roof is in the form of a huge wooden umbrella around the tree, : the whole structure resembling an im- | mense summer house. We more picturesque station can be found in | the world. At least one person in three between the ages of ten and forty years is subject to partial deafness. The great majority of cases of deafness are hereditary and due to the too close consanguinity of the parents, Deafness among men than among women, because is more prevale: the former are more exposed to the vicis- situdes of climate. telephones tend the other. An interesting incident in connection | with Presdent Harrison's visit to Atlanta | was his meeting with Mr. George Cook, | a courtly, elderly gentleman, and a well- known piano manufacturer of Boston. The grandfather of Mr. Cook was the Captain Cook who saved the life of Gen- eral William Heary Harrison from the | Indians at the battle of Tippecanoe. Mr. | Cook and Mrs. Cook had been spending | a few days with Governor Bullock, and | oun invitation of Mayor Hemphill went up | the road to meet the President. The meeting of the two grayhaired grandsons | was very cordial, and they enjoyed a pleasant chat during the ride into the city. Joe Bhakespeare, the Mayor of New | Orleans, was asked whether he knew | “Oh,” | how he came by his surname. said he, ‘‘you think, perhaps, I claim descent from the Bard of Avon. Americans are after. 1 never heard t} the Bard of Avon left name, 80 I took no interest in his family, If he had left money it would be differ eat.” did leave an estate that was reckoned good in its time, As a matter of of New Orleans is a native of the neigh- | borhood of Baltimore, tors were farmers, founder. George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, has consented to exhibit his fine art snd souvenir collection at the Chicago Fair. Among his treasures are the little green harp which belonged to Tom Moore, and which he carried into hundreds of Irish homes; the massive silver vace presented to Henry Clay, when he was at the height of his popularity, by the Whig ladies of Tennessee; Washington's glass; cups, saucers and glasses which came from Louis Napoleon, the late Emperor William, the late Emperor Maximilian aod the of Brazil, a miniature ship, formerly the property of President Andrew Jackson, and the silver waiter presented to Gen. eral Jackson after hus victory by the citi- sens of New Orleans, A ———— It really looks now, asserts the New York Sun, ss though the action of the Italian Government toward this country bad so frightened King Humbert's sub- Jocts as Lo make tens of thousands of them hasten to fly from Italy and seek refuge here. They are coming over as fast as they can find ships to carry them, and, according to recent despatehes, the Mediterranean ports are swarming with Italisos anxious tosscure bunks in the stoernge. of the stesmships bound for America. There is rosson for enter. taining the apprehension that, if King ~ Humbert wore to threaten to make war upon the United States, we cou'd not find room here for the hosts of his subjects where He is a rich iron champagne ex-Emperor Towa boasts that its percentage of il. siygus The platform | elm | doubt if al It is thought that | to bring on deafness | when one ear is used to the exclusion of | Well, | Su as i \ : I'm an American, and you know what | that | anything but a fact Shakespeare | The new Shakespeare his ances | The total indebtedness of Sedgwick County, Kan., is $30,847,512 or $707 for each inhabitant and $63 as annual interest, From the results of a new census it has { been determined that the population of Russia's common people is over 112,000, 000. A count of the royal family and of | those people who are friendly to the Czar | might bring the figures up a hundred or so, sarcastically observes the Chicago News, | | There are five European ports from which the great majority passengers bound for this country take their departure. At one of these ports, Hamburg, 9000 of them found bunks in a recent week in the steamships that left there for New York City. Cuba, it is said, seems destined to sup- plant Bermuda as the truck garden for this country. Her pctatoes and onions have already taken precedence over those of Bermuda, and now her tomatoes are taking first prize. This market garden- ing in Cuba is being largely directed from | New York. | The Detroit Fres Press alleges that a | girl iv Kentucky has received $500 dam- | ages from a steamboat company for naming a boat efter her without asking | her permission, and they must rename | the boat. She took item stating that “Kittie offense at a marine Marshal took | the lower chute and ran her nose into a plantation.” The fifteenth anniversary of the Me. harry Medical Department of Central College The Nashville Journal Tennessee was recently held. of Medicine and of the Me With scarcely an exc ep- Surgery says that more than one-half the educated colored physic inns of Southern States are graduates from harry College. tion, they have been cordially received by the white physicians, who have con. sulted with them in dangerous cases, and assisted in difficult surgical operations. The great invasion of Al. likely to have some effect on wusts in geria is 1" i »heat prices. France gets annually in Je cereals from Algeria, which supply will f . PP neighborhood of 200.000 tons of be cut off if the present catastrope proves w disastrous as is now feared. It is also probable that the of a home su province will be sho pply sud may draw other sources. Tunis and Tripoli the scourge threatens to be equal In Morocco, ly severe. Its effects there will be main ly local, although England gets maize from Morocco to the value of about $750, . 000 annually and France draws considera ble whes* from Tunis. If Peru were not so utterly crushed and cowed, declares the San Francisco Chronicle, she would take advantage of the present suicidal war in Chile to re- gain her lost territory, and Bolivia would help her. By the treaty of October 20, 1883, the provieces of Tacns and Arica were ceded to Chile at the for a term of ten years, end of which time the in- habitants were to decide by vote whether they would remain Chilean or go back lo Peru, and the country in whose favor the vote was cast was to pay to the other $10,000,006. The time will be up on October 20, 1893, and tain her strength it if Chile can re- is certain that when the day comes she will refuse to give up either the provinces or the $10,000,000, Now is the chance for Peru to recover not only Tacos and Arica, but Tarapaca, which was ceded absolutely, and for Boddvia to get back her of which she was entirely deprived. Bat probably either Chilean faction would be equal to the task of disposing of the Peruvians and Bolivians combined, sen coast, = - The most remarkable anomaly in this country, believes the Now York Post, is cities that they cannot get any chance to good wages to do the work that needs to editor of the Hartford (Conn.) Courant, excellen* opportunities for knowing the land of the scarcity of farm help thie spring. It is said that many farmers will have to curtail their plantings on this account, and .yot the papers from the lerger cities toll us of the great num. ber of poor men unable to obtain work, There is something wrong somewhere, when men crowd the cities snd almost starve for the want of work, while we of the country are saxious to give them a home and good wages in exchange for hovest work. From personal knowledge I think 200 good men could at once find employment on farms right here in Harte ford County at from $16 to $25 per month and board,” There ls, indeed, continues the Ju, something wrong in uch a sivuation, but who can right it so long as men had rather hall starve in New York than get $25 a month sad board on a Hartlord County farm! of steerage | the complaint of able-bodied men in the work, at the same time that the farmers complain that they cannot get men at | be done in the country. The agricultural who is a man of wide acquaintance and | facts, says on this point: “I hear com. | ) pe plaint from farmers all over New Eog. | THE LINGERS JUSTE Summary of the New Orleans Grand Jury's Report. Six Men Indicted for Tampering With Talesmen, The New Orleans Grand Jury, who for | several weeks have been probing the inel. dent of March 14 last, when a mob of citi wens of that town shot and hanged several Italians in the Parish Prison, have presented their report to the Criminal Court there, | After reciting the complaints and charges the report says: “We have referred to the large number of | citizens participating in this demonstration, estimated by judges at from 6000 to 8000, and | regarded ns a spontaneous uprising of the wople, The magnitude of the affair makes t a difficult task to fix the guilt upon any | number of the participants, In fact, theact seems to Involve the entire people of the parish and city of New Orleans, so profuse is thelr sympathy and so extended their con- nection with the affair “In view of these considerations the thor | ough examination of the subject has failed | to disclose the necessary evidence to justify the Grand Jury in presenting indictments.” The report is quite voluminous, wmerting the existence of the Mafia (the Italian secret society) at Now Orleans, and charging that Hennessey's death was the result of hy close pursuit of the Italian murderers New Oricans, the report declares, has been a refuge for Italian brigands and cut throats, banded together in a society whose teachings are contrary to the principles of this Goverment, [aw must regulnte thes transgressors: but where the law cannot do it, through the intervention of ti soeret societies, then the people must exercise thelr sovereign rights and “fesue their decree of condemnation Thus the action of the band « leans citizens who marched into the | Prison is justified The Grand Jury also present indicts against six persons, chief of whom | tive Dominic ©, O'N in j directly charged with what the Grau term the mistrial and unwarrante in the Hennessey caw He and his ass ciates are held for the alleged ULribery of talownen The Grand Jur they have discovered that Dossy JUrOrs, is £1 rr wer ney f New Op. arish AN0Y, who that Hen furthermore report thres of 1 y o bribed The Jury's Report in Washington A Washington d ™ Press says t leans Grand 1 ) Italians was a fruitful thea ainong people at the Depas It may be said that the finding Jury excited no surpri 01 WAS eX pec ied infraction Jur) clusi ate the alleged atten pls at jar by the legal minds of there Is a well-defluad whole, the ne oO ficial in its effect upon th 3 slements in the United St , inasmu it will make clear to them the fact that they oannot rely upon to sdompry sibility to the great public for their unlaw ful acts “The report of the Grand Jury will it is expected, reach Secretary Blaine in the course of time, and figure in the official respondence betweeen thy United States and Italy Oto reftion reapon An American Stoned in Florence, On the day that the New Orleans Grand Jury made ta report, William Ja Jues, an American gentieman from Newton, Mass, was out drivieg with his daughter at Flor. ence, Italy, when a mob of people pursasd & his carriage, atiacked stones, and severely injured his who lateriersd in his defence Jacques, according to a Boston dispateh, is the electrician of the American Pell Tele phone Company and well known in Boston and the principal cities of this country, He sailed from New York for England snd the Continent about a month ago for pleasure, and intended to be absent about five or mx months, He was accompanied by his wife and two children, both daughters, one about eight and the other about ten years old. He fsa man of about forty years, and of very quiet and unpretentious disposition. He very seldom expresses any opinion concerning public matters, and his friends: are entirely at low to understand how such 6 man could become the victim of a mob. He is a highly cultured gentleman and was formerly a loge professor A GOVERNOR OUSTED, The Supreme Court Holds That Mr, loyd is Not a Citizen of Nebraska if, pelted it with daughter, The Nebraska Supreme Court has handed own a deca inwhich ex-Governor Thayer contested the right of Governor Boyd to hold kis oflce Lhe opinion written by Justice Norval and wm in the quo warranto case weurred in by Justice Cobb, grants a writ of ouster against Governor Boyd and finde that Mr. Thayer a entitled to the office Governor Thayer took the cath and filed his bound, and Mr. Boyd turned over the office to him The decision of the court ground that Mr, Boyd was not a citizen of the State at the time of his elect Heo came from Ireland with his father, but his father bad neglected to take bis second mituralization papers Judge Maxwell, in his dissenting vis that Mr. Boyd, being a citizen of the ferritory waen it became a Htats, hocame a is based on the oat pinion, wit of the United States by virtae of the | Enabling Act Mr. Boyd will Carry the cass to th» preme Court of the United Slats Se At the election last Novem» r there were three candiiates jor Governor, and Jane B yd received a plursiity of HM over Powers, the Farmers Alija er candidate, ths balance of the Histe ticket e ete ing Hepublioans. After the result was déciared the claim was made that Mr. Bovd was not eligible to hold any ofl 2a, not being a citizen of the United States. TC avoms that his father came to this conutry while James was a minor ani the father neva i the process of becoming a itis When Mir. Boyd demanded the ollloe Gov Thayer refused wigive It up on the ground that no eligible scossor bad qualifial, The controversy lasted sav ral weeks and sesrmad likely to end in bioodshed, As Nr had become generally recognized as Govern. ar, however, and as a Jower court hal de cided in his favor, an arrangement was made by Which the question was submitted to the Suprewe Court, Mr, Boyd meanwails to hold the offies, The decision has just bean rendered against Mr. Boyd, ——— A VALLEY DEVASTATED, Fifteen Mud Voloanoes Play Havoo in Chin, The beautiful valley of Lunahuana, Chili, Om piet com pl Boyd | Eastern and Middle States. COAL-BREAXERS Nos. 1 and 4 of thu Kingston Coal Company, at Edwardsville, Penn, with several boiler and machine houses, were destroyed by fire, will reach $250,000, About 800 men and boys | are thrown out of employment. trade relations with Canada began an inves tigation at Buffyio, N.Y. There were Prise ent Benators Hoar, Gray, Dolph and Hale a singer, and one of the leading attractions of the place, was shot and killed by CN. Wilbur, a former lover, Then Wilbur sent a bullet into Lis own brain and fell dead by | the side of the woman he had murdered, THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. The los | Tae United States Benate committee on | | Music Hay, the magnificent gift of An- | drew Carnegie Ww the city of New York, was | : formally opened to the public | Tir Arbuckle Building, the Pittsburg | Female College, and Christ Methodist Epis copal Church at Pittsburg, Pean., were de- | stroyed by fire. Loss, $750,000 UNUSUALLY cold weather prevailed throughout the Eastern and Middle Btates lee was formed in many portions of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Con- | meticut, Frost damaged the fruit trees and | Browing crops in s pumber of pisses. Bnow | fell in New York aud Pennsylvania. Tue Bpunish man-of-war Nautilus, lying | in the North River, off Twenty-seventh street, New York City, was run into by a tugboat, Her gangway and one of her boats were smashed, and several of her crew par rowly escaped death. Tux Chicago's World's Fair has opened an Eastern headquarters in New York, Tux Advisory Board of the Western Traf fic Amociation met at the Windsor Hotel in New York City Tue remains of Dr. Joseph | famous scientist, and those of his brother, Dr. Phillp Leldy, were cremated at the cromatory of the Philadelphia Crematory Boclety, This was done according to the expressed desire of the eminent physicians, GexEnal J. F. B. Mansnart died at Ken dall Green, Mass. He had been manager of the Hampton Institute for Indians; member of the staff of the Massachusetts War Gov- ernor Andrews; a ‘‘forty-niner” of Cali fornia, and a big sugar plantation holder in the Nandwich Islands. He was born in Boston in 1814 Leidy, the Geonoe W,, George B,, V.M and T. A. Delamater, members of the late banking firm of Delamater & Co., of Meadville, Penn, wore again arrested and arraigned to answer to the charge of embezzlement Parmiex Goroes, Thomas MoGrail and James Kelly, members of the Belect Council of Seranton, Penn, were « spelled from that body by a vole of 1% Wo They hai guilty of bribery THE Spring Garden National Bank and the Penn Safe Deposit and Trust Compan of Philadelphia, Peau, Carer or Porice Marcus E South Bethlehem, Penn. shot h in th head and near the heart i and died in los thao an hour He and his wile bad bal » quarrel Ley closed thelr doors BEY DER mnelf South and West, Tur schooner Atlanta, owned in Mich. foundered sbout twenty mi White Fish Point, in Lake Superior. and five { moven men were Jost of her crew of Miss Benrna MoKamx, Miss Lutis Ride nom, Charles Frank and Smith Mcale wore drowned while crossing a way home from a dance sear Ci by the upsetting of a boat i caped Tue Albuqguer jue SG machine wor F SL EREL TWO miners McNamara Is Ala Tur Grand Jury have made a report of the Italians and finding for jury bribing against six OF Malley, the NEBRASKA'S Buvreme ( writ agninst Drotaaon minse who ty of ’ was of foreign birth and hat uraliosd tac live { ouster iv Bn votes last Yorn reopived fall, on the gron not HE tweniy ith A. Conveution was M internat held nal % in Kanmas ( Heavy frosts in Virginia, N Iodiana, Michigan snd lows i damage on fraits and early veget JHE county inBrmary, five mil joe, Ind war burned down inmates were Tux sho v E SELENE LE) Repub Baltimor Tur Convention of Marviand was held in Casuiznr J. K. Braxrizy of the Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Haliroa snpany, at Little RK Ars, is rt Tue an oad a leputy Ry it ok " Itata witl He fist ant Chilian insurgeat steamship away from San Disga Cal. United States Marsnal aboard was sot ashore at a point eight The United States ordered ths Charleston to pursue the [tata how Ax explosion of firedamp took pi Ocean Mines, in Harrison County, W, Va, while the miners were at work, Fou were instantly killed, Mis. NanveL Drovont, of Loyd, Wie, was burned to death by her clothes catohing fire while burning brush, John Lawrenos who tried to rescue ber, was fatally burned, Wittiax Pruos, colored, was i at Marshall Mo, for assmuiting Alice Ninas, who afterward committed suicide Reronrs from all sections of Kentucky, Northern Tennessee and Southern Indiana indicate the destruction by frosts of pearly all forms of garden vegetables, Washington, ASSIsTART BRCRETARY Bravrorxo has decided that all dutiable goods other than | books, printed matter, samples, ote. are lin ! de to forfeiture Tux Treasury Department has declined to authorize the ree entry of photographs for , exhibition at the girl's high aehool of Brook {| Iyn BY a decree of the President of the United Btates of Veneruela, Indian corn, rice, beans and other eatables are allowed to enter the ports of that Republic free of duty. Tux fourth and last of the tendineh rifled us for the monitor Misntonomoh has fas wail tested at the proving ground at ladian Hud near Washington, with satisfactory results, sent to the with ah sign it immediately Tux Clerks in the Wash. Treasurer's offios, ington, have identified $16,000 of the $17,000 magaityl glass, all MOBSY Was wil exception of $100, which the ex. press company ourrying the Colombia will erect a building at the World's Fair, the interior of which® will be embel. Hahed with the different Jr eclous woods of that country. It is probable that the build. ing will be a reproduction of the ( ‘apitol at Bogota, BRORETARY BLAINE telegraphed to Dirse. tor General Davis, at Chicago, IIL, stating | that the German Government had signifies its willingness to send exhibits to the World's alr, Brorerany Tracy accepted the gunboat Bennington, subject to a contract reserva n { tion of $15,000 to insure completion. Ix the Exceldor Concert Hall, on the | ’ ¢ Bowery, New York City, Ida E. Brevoort, | A STATEMENT propared st the Pension Office shows that during the month of A pril last there were issued 31.54% pension oer- tifleates of all classes, the st payments on which aggregated 8 574.515 he average first payment to each pensioner was $122,558, re doin letter on the Beliring Bea contro versy, from Secretary Blaine to Bir Julian Pauncefote, the British Minister, was made public JuLivs Exasmus Hinoano, late Superin | tendent of the United States Const Burvey, | died in Washington, mica production in the United Bates. He was born in brucken, Bavaria, on January 7, 182) Ziwel- Tue Census Bureau issued a bulletin on The production during the census vaar was con. fined to New Hampshire, North Carolina, Virginia and South Dakota snd amounted to 44,500 pounds of cut mica, valued at $50, O00), Foreign, Rev. William Connor Archbishop of York and mond, is dead Death wa fAuenza, He was born at | 17, 1831 Lorn James Don Marquis of (Queensberry at London, England Ax Italian Tur Most Mages of Eng. Ly on Deceun bet Frimate cated in I's brother rida (01 Ved GLAS, the Lat bla TE named Cummino, at South » gos, England, fatally stabbed and shot s : | r. Sawyer and the latter's wile Ler Cron, Lavosaaw Bcuwase, an Oxford (Bagland) student and heir to millions, has committed suicide, His mind was disor by overwork Presioext Diaz and a number of nent officials of Mex and daugh ered promi rare il with influensa Hxixnicn Smivi, a house owner in the Hochenstrasse, Breslau, Germany, cut his wife's throat shot his sizieen year-old UBRuUKLIer aeaa and biew his own brains out. Domestic quarrels Jl to the tragedy Mu. Sarrn, First Lord of 1 and Government leader of the }§ of Commons, has been the Cinque Ports, succor be Treasury ritish: House appointed Warden of rar ( sans w Tur Gladstonians wor the Northeast Div je Otssor in the Britis Liroene, ( uservativ Turee nus; dred other Warsaw | pero Ay 0 at! zak ‘ Canada A REvH in Eros In Comin | a And The "rowident fociared a state sonal guaran te ane } Fuspendsd per I'm w” FU PT owe Moon ex rats, Chi leading member On gare] ir Hives of the Mis which was thr the street A rrosante deficit of § titine finances has caved anoth serv Ayres. Gold is now at 9M Mur Bray of the England Was Tena wn at ATREY Theosopli.oal 8 recently. ag tad mt Woll AT Hardebwok, blacksmith named Homleld with religious mania, dre dren in white. held thes out their throats, leit the recejptacie we (Germa wife of a Prorsmesmen] iw oh 8 vessel and he blood fall inte over ng SWEPT BY A TORNADO, Destruction Caused by a Hurricane in Paducah, Ky Between 5 and 6 o'clock on a rocent even ng A hurricane with heavy rain and hail wept into Paducah Kv the we, Fhe funnel shaped cloud characteristic of ioroadoss was present. In a few minutes de streets were rivers of water The first work of destruction by the tor sado was the unrooflug of the Newport and Missimippi Valley Raliway freight depot. After this the tornado cut a rigeag swath through the city. The rool of the colored seople’s school-bouse was torn off. as was that of the freight office of the Padu. mh, Tennessee and Alabama Railroad The Third Street Methodist Church was ploked up and dropped into the middle of the street, a confused mass 0 debris. It had just been newly built, Several mills were more or less damaged. steamer Clyde was blown jnto the river with such foros against nm barge as to sink the } One hundred buildings were either totally wrecked. moved from their foundations or unroofed Mrs. Henry Meyers and hor three ohil dren were badly cut by flving glass and debris on Third wtreot ssley Orr was buried under an overturns | wagon and suf. fiom fered internal Injuries, and his little son was | also badly burt, Soveral others are injured. The street oar service was inter rupted, and the havoo among and wires was so t that no oommunion- tion could be had with the rest of the world till 4 o'vlock next evening. The storm lasted till midnight, i HONDURANIAN REBELS. Desperate Battie About the Caartel at Amapala, Desperate fighting is reported from Ama. THE CORK KILLED FIN, Sad End of a Remarkable Bat- tle for Life. Death of Brave Pastor Bothwell in Brooklyn, N, Y, The Rev. Dr, George W. Bothwell, the pastor of the Church of the Covenant in Brooklyn, N. Y., who had inhaled the cork of a medicine bottle into his left bronchial tube two weeks and two days before and whose plucky fight for life has sttractea general attention and sympathy, died in his wife's arms at 9:20 o'clock, in the forty- first year of his lie. Nothing but his magnificent physique snd his fren will kept him ative #6 long under the strain of the repeated operations performed on him in the lust fortnight at the Brookiyn City Hos pital. The case has attracted wid: spread in. terest all uver this country and Europe, and the greatest sympathy has been expressed on all sides for the afMicted wife The accident which resulted in Dr, Both. well's death was simple in the extreme, His youngest daughter had been ailing for sev. eral days, and be took her on his knee and prepared to give her 8 dose of which had been prescribed by the family physician, The child had taken the mixture before, and did not relish its tasty # dew murred somewnat at baving 0 repeat the unpleasant ex eriencs and began 10 ory Dr. Bothwell bad taken the cor bottle and placed it between his teeth, pro- paratory Ww when his other daughter entered the room and began to make faces at her sister, Homething she said or did ber father to laugh aloud and at the same instant the cork was drawn foward, A violent i of coughing followed which failed, b IW eVer, to foros the cork, which was about half an inch in diameter at the large end, back into mouth, Dr. Bothwell tried to with his finger and did so, but inst it he only forced it further in It finally settied int bronchus This was the opinion given } physician, Dr. W. 1H. Biggam, sequent devel punenis proved that rignt Other physicians were consulte day and the general opinion was th before very long would be « xpelied coughing ir. Bothwell preached morning { ving witho but in the eveni finisd medicine k from the % pouring out the dos causa 1 he : at WZ be was A Yaron 3 next few day nis dino adopted du Siem prov od useless Acting upon the and friends the reverend gentiomat went to the Bro Kiyn Hospital the operation of tracheotomy formed by Dr. 1. W. Rusbin { forceps was loserted into traces and into the bronchu no b i the cork could be A day or two afterward another a remove the oork by means of a screw attached to a cathelet was ma no better results followed The collapsed during the operation and thought for a few minutes that he would then Many consultations followed, bu ually impressed itse'f on all inter conse that there was no moving the cork, and that all ¢ Gone was to ease the patient's su i death should end them, Suggest medical men all over the country daily sent to Dr. Rushmore and the | surgeons, but none of them were able To the last Dr. Bothwell was resigned and uncomplsining, For several days before his death be knew that there was no hope for him. Toa close £%end he said it was hard to leave his family and church, but that be was fully prepared. When conscious he was cheerful to the end advice of his ad « »OmEd ile —— FEMALE FLORICULTURISTS, Census Bulletin on a New Field of Labor for Women A conse pat f« bulletin on Soriculiure, given r publication a few days ago. bas an Interesting history. [tis understood to be Lhe result of a suggestion of the Buperintendent view of opening up 8 new avenue of empl ment for women, Superintendent Porter. from the day be received his appointment until now, has been worn down by pitiful ap- peals from women for employment. With. out straining facts it might be said that the proportion of rejected women applicants was ss high ss ninetyaine out of a hundred. Many of those disappointed took a woman's chance and appesied to the wife of the Superintendent, who seeing «0 many help- less females in the world, turned ber mind to devising sowe new opening to employment. The result was the special report on floricul ture which now appears and which was made atl her suggestion It seems that there are already over 300 Goricultural establishments owned and man aod by women, and the number is susceptible of being indefinitely increassd, The returns of receipts from cut Sowers for last year exosed $15,000,000. This is undoubtedly only a partof the actual receipts derived from this source The products of the year were nearly BLODOON of rose bushes and 158. C000 of other Jlants Pepusylvania, Hinols and Ohio are the States where the propagation of roses is caried on most extensively. New York, llinoks and Kaoeas take the lead in the propagation of bardy plants, and New York, Illinois, Penn. sylvania and California are about nal in the value of their cut flower sales. The In dustry is capable of much greater develop. ment, and is one for which women are pecu Lastly adapted. mace LY the wife of the Census, with a Ve ————— SEVEN ACRES BURNED. A Destructive Lumber Fire in Long Island Ciny NY Fire bioke out in the yard of the Export Lamber Company, on Newtown Creek and | the Bast River, Loug Island City, X V., a { 11 o'clock on a recent might. There were three acres of lumber stored thera, and the flames spread rapidly, The entire departs ment of Long Island City was called out, W. R. Grace & Co. are the owners The fire started in Bonoaster’s iron foun dry, the cause being, as is supposxd, a spark from a casting which bad been made just be fore the shop closed. The fire smonldered i Ar —raron The Crk f was tol nyed. The OC food mills alse took fire and buraed to the nd. The flanes then A. 8 Whiting's retail lumber entirely conmmad,
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