— an 4h Wt Emperor William wants to nationalize the Ge:man railways. He would like te see the change made before next year, One-fifth of the ten million families in France have no children. As many more have only one child, and of those who have as many as seven children tbe num- ber is only 230,600. During 1800 there were built in the United States 8300 churches ; ministers to the number of 4900 were ordained. and a membership, in all denominations, of 1,090,000 added. ’ There is au vast amount of wealth in Chili, and the aristocrats are private lavish in their expeaditures. the private residences veritable palaces and are magnilicently furnished. Many of in Santiago are The arid lands capable of culti vation | are estimated at 100,000,000 by Major Powell, of the United States Geo- logical Survey. only through irrization. acres At present the sites for reservoirs and irrigating ditches are withheld by Congress from settlement or sale. It must be a sharp surprise, surmises the St. Louis Star-Sayings, for villages that have nestled at the base of a mount. ain for years to be suddenly ingulfed in hot lava which pours from the mountain's top. the other day. tate in that neighborhood have both suf- That is what h appened in Armenia Inhabitants and real es. fered from the mountain's debut as & vol- cano. In spite of the lack of faith in certain juries in New Orleans, observes the Chi. cago Herald, the people there keep up a custom which is indicative of the deepest respect for the courts. Visitors to the city are apt to encounter chains stretched across important streets and traffic sus. pended thereon, Inquiry brings the sn. wed because swer that the streets are cl they lead by the courts and the courts are When chains are tossed aside and traffic adj the in session. courts arn ROCs on again. The doctors are fond of telling pa- tients, asserts the San Francisco Chroni- cle, that any particular symptoms which they describe are the work of their im- agination, but a recent case has shown they are lable to error. A bas just died in Bridgeport, Conn. want- woman who ed the hospital physician two years ago to recover a set of false teeth which she declared she had swallowed. An opera- tion showed the stomach to be empty, but the doctors told her the teeth had been found. A post-mortem examins tion showed she had lived two with the false teeth in her gullet, years Only about twenty-five United States ships, exclusive of the revenue cutters and the training squadron, are now in commission, but it is estimated that five years hence there will be forty-nine ships available for active service, and that of these only three or four will be of the antiquated types that now make up the bulk of the navy. rives, however, there will be a vast change Before that time ar in the make up of various squadroos. The Asiatic squadron in particular will Several of the vessels on that station have been kept have got itself a new outfit, there for years past chiefly because they were unfit for the voyage home across the Pacific. The rage for high eago is increasing rather than abating in intensity. More tall pierae the sky than are to be seen in any other city, but they are few in comparison with the others that will rise in a compara. tively short time at the present rate of construction. Every office building now. adays must run from fifteen to twenty stories high, and new ones are being projected almost daily, will stop no one can tell, puts up & twenty-two story building will be beaten by the next one, and so on, structures util we may yot have buildings which | tower above the clouds, with occupants | enjoying sunshine and fair weather while the rest of us are slashing around in the tain and fog below, The grasshopper plague is apparently to have » successor in a caterpillar Plague, notes the Chicago Herald. Re. ports from British Columbia state that swarms of these pests are appearing along the railroad lines, covering the tracks wd giving evidence of phenome. ¢ pal numbers that bode no good to the season's agriculture. The eable reports . like phenomenon in Bavaria, where | daring, courageous creature, They can be cultivated | | buildings in Chi. Where this rage The man who | The commerce of New South Wales, one of the Australian provinces, in pro- portion to fits numbers is three times that of Canada, five times that of France, and eight times greater than the trade of the United States. The total number of pupils enrolled in the public schools in Canada is 468,025, average attendance 235,790, per centage of average attendance fifty-one, In 1879 the average attendance was forty-five per cent. of the registered attendance, in 1888 it was fifty per cent. and in 1889 it was fifty-one per ceat. “The American girl of a decade ago has effaced horself,” says Charles Dudley Warner in the Editor's Drawer of Har per's Magazine. ‘‘She is no longer the In Eng- land, in France, in Germany, in Italy, she takes, as one may say, the color of the The satirist will find more abroad the of the de- land. no American girl old type whom he continues to scribe.” The New Orleans Times Democrat sug- | gests that “‘histrionic aspirants may de. | rive consolation from the fact that Heury Irving, the greatest English tragedian, was terribly afllicted with stage fright in his first appearance in 1856, He was a dire failure both that time and on the oc. casion of his second appearance when he became $0 overcome that he in ontinently took to his heel of his part in the last lines he fled.” s and gasped the wings as Hiram J. Maxim, the English machine. gun inventor, has been in Washington to fiving He from the discuss machines Professor “if sa with Langley. said to a reporter: rf Cal rise coast of Frince, through the air across the channel drop half a ton of nitro glycerine I can revolutionize the i 1 ones an Eagl isve I can do it live IfI die, who will world, 1 bel long enough. some will come siter me be successful where I failed.” An experiment was made the other dayon a railroad train running from Rome to Frascati with a new combustible prepared from lignite, rich deposits of The combustible was invented by Signor 8;- which have been found in Italy. Of the new fuel 387 kil. of Tue discovery is expected to prove a valuable one, pori of Siena ograms were used, doing the work S00 killograms of coal. as it will do away with the necessity of the importationof coal. The new fuel makes a light smoke. In addition to the fuel, ligne also yields a brilliant gas, Here is a queer case for an action, cited by the San Francisco Argonant, A man was insane and determined to throw himself out of the window of the aaylum He made several attempts, and was pre. Pat in a apartment, he tried it again, jumped out vented by the servants, new of the window, fell on the lawn, injured himself seriously, but, strange to say, the At once he sued the officers of the asylum for negligence. shock cured his mental disorder. The plaintiff was non. _ There delightful legal quibble about this, for the pros and cons Se many, suited, is a A distinguished authority upon jew. | elry has an interesting article la the Jew- elers’ Weekly, in which he argues that the the great British crown jewel, 1s only a fragment of the Great Mogul's diamond, all trace of which was suppose to be lost. That remarkable koh- | noor, stone has been regarded as somewhat | apocryphal, but this writer holds that the Mogul's diamond did exist: that i was a stone of 208 carats. If the koh. i-noor is really the vast stone that the great General, Mir Junila, gave to Shah Jahan in 1857, the romantic history of the great diamond will have to be re. written and made the more romantic. Bat this new claim to original ownership will not disturb the title of the Empress of India to the ‘‘mountain of light” in her diadem, — A well known man in Washington, was speaking the other day of the new color cure for melancholia, which he as. serted was practical and {a many cases an absolute cure. “I koew a case of aa eminent statesman in Washington,” said ke, *‘who was affected with melancholia. At times he would flad himself sitting tor hours gusing into space dreaming, #0 to speak. His family became very much sonoyed and did everything to cheer him up, but without awail. He seemed to grow worse every day. Fi. nally his wife hung rose-colored shades in his library and then she sewed a piece of rose-colored velvet around the under rim of his hat. His friends guyed him considerably about it around the halls of Congress, but they knew not what it was tion to their fun, for he had felt the effect of the rvose-color upea his mind, It wan barely two weeks before he was entirely cured, and there is not now a Jorrin Supotioned man in this conus | orary degree of D.C, | honors was that of UG. O | mendes to hie son SIR JOHN A MACDONALD. The Canadian Premier Dies After a Long Illness, A Sketch of His Distinguished and Eventful Life, BIR JOHN A, MACDONALD, Bir John A. Macdonald, the father of the Canadian Confederation, disiata quarter. past ten o'clock the other night at Ottawa, Canada, just seven davs after he was striken tpoochlom by a hemorrhage of the brain, without regaining consciousness, For five days ho lay in a condition, able to hand, by means of whi wants to those about hin It was known by from the first that was human ald, and the death was momentarily awaited yet with the indomitable courage which characterized him in life be fought against approaching 4 Gay i SN CONSCIOu the left sigualied his move only the physicians beyond wning of he ution endurance was a marvel to the de and the bulletins which told of his condity om hour LO hour are matiers of an t { Dist was more than a quarter of an hour af ter he died that the announcement was made public. The tolling of the bell upon the City all tower couveved the sorrowful tid ngs of the pation's bereavement, and ere a soors if strokes bad sounded the populace was thoroughly aroused At every street corner crowds wers oon. rogatad and men talked in anxious wilepors of what would happen now that ths leader WAS BO more wy Sketoh of His Career Bir John Alexander Macdona) .C. BB, KCB.D. C L, LL D. Premier of the jovernment of the Dominion of Canada, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on Jane 11. 15. When be was about five yesrs oid his mrents em grated to Cassada, and settied at Kingston, Ontario. After a short residence shore the family moved to Pictou, a town further west joav ing John Alexander t n his teens, at Kingston, to attend the Royal srammar School, There he received his od ation He was diligent at his studies and was admitted to the bar at the age of twenty. ie. He immediately opened an office in Kingston and followel hs projession with wes for about five years before he began 0 turn his attention to politics, He was re Altned in all the important cases brought in. to the courts in that part of the countey Shortly after the Camadian rebellions be wecssstully defended a bani of 0 rebels who bad attacked the K ngeton garrison, It was walle practising io Kingston that won the distinction of being the greatest constitutional lawyer in Canada, a distine tion which was his to the last In 184; he first entered politics, and in 1544 was eeoted member of Parliament, For many years he represented Kingston as a Conservative. He was appointed a member of the Executive Council and Recsiver-General in May, 1847 and at the end of the same your he held the fics of Commissioner of Crown Lands For the next ten or fifteen years he was returned bo Parliament In July, 1865 Mr. Macdouald was ape pointed Minister of Militia for the second time, whick offios he held, together with that of Attorney-General of Upper Canada, une til the conladeration of the Canadian prov. inces as the Dominion of Canada Mr. Macdonald was chiefly instramental in bringing about confederation of the prov inoes of British North America. He was Chairman of the Colonial Conference London, Eagiand, 1996.67, when the British North American act was pases | by the Bag lish House of Commons oa Jaiy 1, 1857 Mr. Macdonald was oalled upon to form the first Government for the new Dominion, and was sworn in by the Eaglish Privy Council, and appointed Attorney-General and Minister of Justios of Canada, an offios which he continued to bold until he and Lis Ministry redigned on the Canadian Pacifie Railway scandal in November, 1574, In 1571 Mr, Macdonald was one of ber Majesty's joint high Commissioners and Pienipotentiaries to act in connection with the Commissioners appointed by the Presi. dent of the United States for the settlement of the Alabama claims, resuiting in the . we 4 | treaty of Washington in May, 1871. In 1865 Mr, Macdonald received the hone \ L. from the University of Oxford, and in 1867 he was made a R. C In 1572 he was made a knight of the Grand Cross of the Royal Order of leated the Catholic of Spain, One of his latest R. This title de Bir John Macdonald's legislative record . lomg and mostly creditable He has often been called Canada's greatest politician, and he doubtiess merited the name. He was bold, ambitious, and aula. “ous in bis policy, He was a born wire puller and was unmatched as an tlectioneering went. He was not overserupulous as to the methods be adopted wo long as they led to Victory, His career was dominated by a resire to give Canada an independent enicy Ad to promote the imperial interests of Oreat and Greater Brita nn. so long as the ursuit of these objects did not Jeopardize It chances of sucess, for his main object was to always remain in office Bir John %as ready In public speech. He bad an open, cordial anner, a wide range of information, and an AMAZING memory for faces, No one ever accused bim of econ my In ia private or public lite, Fir John lived at Earnscidffe, where his short, bent form, and tace were well kino In Ottaws, Disraeli line wi 10 every one, HE WAS IMPALED, Cruel Punishment Infilcted by the Amatonga Queen ana Sulyeor m | : : | carriage THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, EX-Crre Treasurer Jony Ba DALEY, of Philadelphia, was brought up from Moy. amensing Prison in the common van and placed in the dock where he pled guilty to the reventeen indictments found ngainst him for approprinting State and city funds, THE Treasury Department has designated Charlotte, N.Y, ‘as a quarantine station for the eutry of cattle, sheep and swine from Canadas, Tae Reformed Presbyterian Bynod at Pittsburg, Peni, expelled five ministers for non-conformity with principles of the Church Tue Cambri ige (Maw) refused to grant licenses to the sale of liquor is now ited in that city CHRISTOPHER Livre, of Pottss ile, a law. yer and insurance agent, committed suicide at Mauch Chunk, Penn Baxk Examixen Day Ww, of Fhiladelphia, Penn, bas ben uspended by Secretary Fos ter for his Bank failure Aldermen Aruggiste, and absolutely prohib. Ine Massachusetts Eine dis AT Handolph, N, Y containing Mry Blate Senator Legislature adjourned a fast train struck a Dow, wile of vx. A. G. Dow, and Mrs, George Fox Mra. Dow was instantly killgl and Mrs, Fox fatally injured Mrs. Dow was about sixty-five years old, Mrs ¥ x's bus. | band was killed by & train about four years | ag: ivlivered their Ji. members of the Y. Mil SECRETARY ProCTOoOR MELY-I¢ The t Point GDY who 1 nly has beets Treas. Mass., tor fifteen tessed 10 hav ng used £16 10% County in his private bu RD, of Phil epi Was arrest ex City Trea iy of Phils FA OED was The N a decis nated Cony Rely sd ure Bara aw intin wn 1 Livery Pattison, i Ne LO sore 1 Bardsley, RJ Alpointed Ly the ( i ity Coun South and West al it Din 3 Mr. Al te war and had been » sl and tant nisderate dead Va, in the pe wars rg OOUTrse of FRE Conoordia Opera H Oddent frome of Cire fd the usemnent and the auly Gen man theatre in | iSimare, war Dearly Lh Ta] Mt the a ist, by the id recently tn Wo the heme ox We Wi JBUYar f 5 IAM BrLaxey at Baltimore Was hanged in the Md, for the murder granimother and aunt Natioual Bank has cowed ite doors § Tus ww, Nel Centre of Broken B Lewis Davis and Thomas Huglies were instantly killed by being di ppd 117 feet to the bottom of a mine at Bells ile, M« hotsting tub hav ing { ecome detached Tox Rev, Jobin F. Ray of Way ne County, Oho, has been sentencad to two years ime prisoument for burglary. He was a minister in the Dis pled Church, and robbed a hotel al Orville, Obie + the Washington The United States Treasurer's statement of assets and liabilities gives a onsh balance m hand of $45 90 Ox and then deducts from this the National bank deposits of $21 KEL, and $21,000,000 of frac tional silver ooin, leaving what it calls a “pet balance” of 3, on Tux report of the statistican of the De partment of Agriculture Washington, tor June makes the Average in cotton 9.7 per cent. of the aren of 1800 and the average condition 84 7 Tur President has made the foliowing ap pointments: Joseph R. Reed, of lows. to be Ubief Justice of the Court of Private Land Claios Wilbur F. Stone, of Colorado Henry C, Siu, of Kansas: Thomas C. Ful ter, of North Carolina, and William W. Murray, of Tennessee, to be Associate Jus. tices of the Court of Private Land Claims Matthew Gi. Reynolds, of Missouri. to be United States Attorney for the Court of Private Land Claims. A DELEGATION consisting of seventy-five Southerners, headed by Senator Ransom, walte i upon the President and invited him to attend the Mouthern Exposition at Ral vigh, N. Cin October t would be impossible to attend , Tax Squadron of Evolution will visit New York and Boston to Eive practios to the naval militia Prestoesr Hannmos auswered the May or of Poiladelphia that the reports of the Controller of the Currency on the Keystone | Bank would be sentto bin. The Controller will not testify before the Investigating Com Mites THE court-martial in the case of Command. or Lyon, who was charged with negligence In stranding the Triana while on the way to rescue the crew of the Galena, at Gay Head, Mass, has found that the official was not guilty of the charge. — eontruct for mak rE or awkell wun ween awarded the War Department to the Bethlehem Iron Company, the steel forg. of the have | connection with the Keystone | | Garner, of New York City The President said mnoienoe as she was of the charge of slander, ani Sir William Gordon Cumming is inferentially declared 10 linve cheated at the games of baocarat at Tranby Croft, A WATEREPOUT burst near San Luis Paz, in the State of Guanajuato, Mexico, ing away many houses and cattle and up- rooting trees, In fact, for aspace of thres miles, the width of the current, the country was completely devastated, Tae funeral of Sir John A. Macdonald was held in Ottawa: the funeral vrocession was the largest ever seen in Canada, Tue uativex of Matonga, Africa, have massacred, roasted and devoured a French expedition from Loango under M, Crampel Tarr Chilian Provisional Junta addresssd a note to the European Powers, asking for recognition as belligerents Tue English religious papers severely crit. icise the Prinde of Wales in relation to the baccarat scandal. The Prince was Joored by the crowd st Ascot races Wasp. Ix the recent Galician storms fifty persons were killed JULo MEnzevcuer, one of the Bpanish. American agents of the New York Life In. surance Company, robbed the « ompany of $e, 000 Hen Masesry Quien Victoria has or. dered that the name of Bir William Gordon. Cumming, the plaintiff in the baccarat suit shall be stricken from the army list Tue striking omnibus drivers of London, England, have accepted the termes, will cost toem not less than £450 000 SOLEMN requiem services in commeration of the desth of Rir John A. Macdonald late Premier of Canadas, were held at Westmin ister Abbey, London, England, WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. Tie National Lithographers As has decided to make an exten Lithography at the FX Pom sociation exhibit of thon to the Expos GRIGIO Buon ThE visitor opportamty « ust he ton will have ag RK ther things wa re wil is managed, Mos wi Den M can en induced I An ever and {otin LARUTERANT GIiesloner LU of Indian vem of the tribes that § f 2 antiga ritier | DORI eney hospital wil the Exposition groun as E. Owens has beens chosen medical dire Lon of the Exposition, and be tpechical bureau which will onses of personal injury oo ines of duty, and a the Exposition company respons Dae smneryg is ut Dr. John will organise a charge of Irving nthe cases for which nay A have ail in the Teas re Ox of the interesting the ex il be made by Interior D te that re . of th sting to the American Ix fficials of that Department. in speaking of the matter, said Wew have Sioux and Puebios on the ground in their peculiar wig waits, macing all the articles that they now make The Zunis, who ened with the Paebios will make bian stone bottles and a peculiar kind of pot weave blankets The pe entered One merchan dine are ¢ kets ry. while the Nave does wi #0 Bir that they will hold wr huts of the Pueblos, which are frown the roof wor Wii aisd be shown n of the Worl ww I= ng CONTRACTS for the erect t tinge are n Fair buil of ne a Wael is wi at the rate abtsout Chief of Constructs Burnham says that thers why the butldings should not plated by July | Witte under heavy bonds to finish withis & specified time, weted by De contracted Tor must ocember 31 of this year The grounds are to : ny at night wo be kept lighted by elects that the contractors, if they chose or if they o8n work three gangs of i" n 8 Ld ! DOr are their pat work The first building be oom find it nooessary, wen, elght hours each Praxss for the lifesaving which will be a part of the U ments Exousition, have been ompleted. The build. ing will be eighty-four by forty-five feet in dimensions, three stories high, and will have wide verandas on three sides. The first floor Is arranged for offices, and the u sper por tion for the living spariments of ¢ keeper and crew Al the rear is the boat house for the lifeboats. A pavilion fifty by 100 feet wiil be put up for life saving apparatus, It in thought probable that the Government will allow the station to remain permanent. ly at Jackson Park new station, 8. Govern. GORDON-CUMMING WEDS, His Hride i» a Wealthy New York Heauty Bir William Gordon-Cumming, the de fented plaintiff in the famous bacosrat case tried in London, England, was married at 11 | o'clock on the morning after the verdict was rendered, in the fashionabie Holy Trinity Church at Chelsea, to Miss Florence Garner, daughter of the late Commodore William Lord Thurlow gave the bride away. Major Vesey Dawson, of the Coldstream Guards, was the best man | The Rev. B. Robert Eyton officiated, The marriage was practioally a secret one, and only twelve persons were present, When the verdict was pronounced aeainst him, Bir William offered to cancel his en | gagement to Miss Garoer, but she believing in his inocence, would not hear of such a | thing. and indeed insisted that the should take place. In an interview previous to her departure for Nottingham. shire, lady Cumming said that she war ax confident of her huasband's that the sun was shining out, Bir William and his wife will visit the United States in the autumn. The bride's income is estimated by KILLED BEFORE THE KAISER Two Soldiers Struck by Lightning at a Heview of the Grenadiers, companies’ | The concessions made by the latter | hibit at the World's Columbian | a A — ——— THE COUNTRY’S CROPS, Monthly Report of the Govern. ment’s Statistician, The Condition of Wheat, Cotton, Corn and Oats. The June report of the Statistician of the Deparument of Agriculture makes the area in winter wheat, as the breadth harvested last spring wheat, 108.4: barley, 107.1; rye. 101.5 oats, 7.9. The condition is: Winter wheat, 6, | spring wheat, 92.6; barley, 90.9; rve, W.4; outs, W5 in comparison with 188), the in whent BOCrerge is (quite moderate } duction last year of mores than | ACTER suggests the reason for most | Jr sannt increase. This advance is therefore ' Both repincement and developme 1. the for. in Iino, Missouri, Kan. California, the latter in Jesse { degree in Washington, Oregon the Dakotas and in several Territories These violent fluctuations make the invests | gation difficult, and in some will render necessary supplementary To this extent present estimates may be cone | sidered prejiminary The extersion of | acreage, ace ur correspondents, depends on price of wheat and not on availa | ble land A large increment f wheat | breadth is reported in Washington, “a large amount of new land is being broken for pext | year's crop,” and the local opinion is ex pressed that no more than of the | Wheat land of that pew Ntate is under eniti- compared with year, 111.0 renee in Fhe re 2,00 00 of the | mer notably ans and GLEtr icin work riding 1% rding to «¢ one-fift vation woenl aching The winter orop is encr ithern and eastern borders of spring wheat district, notable in lowa {s n, under the protection of ¢ Pop Won snd new methods of £ wheat extens | pon the w Lhe and fiver Nebrasis, } wheat wa Minnesots on 3 Ont in the Bouthern States are far bette sr has vod ight and was the acre educed in the but condits HW In oonseguer westier Mi wa the injuries drought were supgietmented by those of cut worms, Condit North - ern Atlantic sonst and on the where Areas are very amt The Eenera basen part #tr insects Valley, f dry HNes of ni» highest on the Pacif acreare of every section INCTrens: Dariey is Ware 1 = in atmos and ssoecially marked in the States Ohio Va Wisconsin sad Cali. Condition § HOY high except a f the NX Wes where It has “y mn ; aliribuled in some districts t On KOOOU of low fent that aainly doe fitdions for an He area onneeried mitraction prs ets in ¢ infavorst germination Planting delaved by early rains in the latter half of April, followed by tis ight in May, germination arrest. ed, ieplanting active, defective stands rected, femtures of the record mimost universally me were less general and con Texas than in any other State. is evi oC ; drought oon ved dre or fre 3 reported are PROMINENT PEOPLE. CovoxeL Inventor of the Lebel rifle, is dead Pore Lao X11 vate sodiences Axere Rives Onaxser is in gaged in literary work Mank Twaix says T. 8. Aldrich is the wit- tiest man he ever met Tax Grand Lodge of Free Masons William Sherer, Grand Master, Excaerany Braise is sid to be rapidly mproving in health at Bar Harbor, Me, ALAX AnTRUR, son of the late President Arthur, is six feet four inches in height, very erect and slender GrXERAL Sonorigld's bride-slect Kilbourne, of lowa, is thirty-four younger than he is Faaxx Denrsren SagaMax, the poet, is lap, will goant no more pri Paris en elected Miss yours | & professor in the Columbia School of Mines in New York City Lono Duxvo, the new Earl of - Clancarty, husband of Belle Bilton, has taken his seat in the British House of Lords Prestoest Diaz, of Mexico, has a strain of Indian blood in his voins, as had his pre- decessors, Juarez and Hidalgo Tux Empress Frederick has caused an old ruin near her new ongtie to be turnad into a hospital, and she personally attends patients theremn Vier ApMinaL Apasms is to succeed Vice Admiral Wateon in command of the English North Atlantic squadron, and will hoist his flag abroad the Hercules Major Tunsen Gorosurrn, of Atlanta, Gu, enjoys the distinction of having Hved under twenty-one Presidente. He is ty- nine years old and has a host of descendants. Ruan ApMinatL Canren, who died a few days ago, is said to be the only naval officer of bis rank who had lonely been a ma jor general in the Unite | States army. Tux Duke of Portiand is the champion subscriber to newspapers. He takes all the papers of England and a heap more from all over creation. The preceding duke used to do the same thing and filled up three houses with them DOWN THE GRADE.
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