ONAN om § Sem—— i ———- " ——e " Twenty million acres of the land of the United States arc held by English. wen, The colony of Sierra Leone, Africa, is 103 years old, yet there is no machinery there except the sewing machine. The population is upward of 50,000, and not a sawmill or any other kind of a mill in operation, - - — Mr. Keith has contracted with the Costa Rican Government for the con- struction of a suspension bridge over the Reventazon Liver. As security Mr. Keith receives a concession of 800,000 acres of national territory, Professor P. H. Carpenter, the deep- sea student, like Hugh Miller, the geol- ogist, has taken his own life after a period of madness. What is there in the pursuit of science that drives some of its greatest votaries to insanity and suicide. In Gray's Harbor, Washington, the pelican is a common sight. Captain Bergman, of the steamer Typhoon, shot two of the birds the other day, and in order to find out how pouch of the bird would hold, he cut off the head of one of them and tied a string | Water from a | tightly about the neck. faucet was allowed to flow 1n, and when the pouch was full it contained six gal- lons. In a letter written shortly before his | death Historian James Parton illustrated | his views on the financial side of author- ship by saying: ‘An industrious writer, | by the legitimate exercise of his calling— that is, never writing advertisements or | trash for the sake of pay—can just exist, no more. honorable, although can average during his best years §7000 | But literary life unless he has a to $8000 a year. enter the fortune or can live contentedly on 82000 | a year. fortune first and write afterward.” The best way is to make a It seems hkely, notes the Chicago Herald, that electricity is to be calied in phenomena which have hitherto been ascribed to other agencies. That won. derful yet beautifully simple instrument, the spectroscope, which has“revesled to us so much of the cosmos, still seems to be baffled in some directions where difficulty would scarcely be anticipated, to explain many of the celestial it fails pected of #0 being. From other facts, Stas has been led to suspect that the ordinary interpretation ‘of the spectroscope are not to be relied on when it is applied to electrical phe | nomena. — G. W. Childs, Ledger, ia authority for the statement that American gardeners are now pro- | ducing as fine chrysanthemums as those of Japan, which, thinks the New York | Post, will scarcely be credited by Sir Edwin Arnold, who has sojourned so | long in that country and expatiated on its floral beauties. sent from Japan to Mrs. Alpheus Hardy of Boston, and named after that lady. | The wonder is that Americans should ex- cel in the cultivation of this flower after | a comparatively few years of familiarity with it. The chrysanthemum did not become generally known here until 1862, when a number of varieties were intro- duced from Japan. We have now up- ward of 2000 of them. They have al- most supplaated the rose in the favor of rich aad poor alike. The Breeders’ Gasette says it recently visited the Union Stock Yards at Chi. cago, in company with a gentleman from England who is carefully studying American agriculture. His exclamations were not called forth by the magnitude of the yards and the multitude of animals gathered there, but to the ill-fattened or immature condition of nearly aM the cattle in the pens. “We tried” con. tinued the Gasette, “*to interest him by ealling attention to the characteristics of lots from widely different sections of the country, but the diversion was but brief, and be always came back to the same point of wonderment. ‘Why do you Americans send such {Il fatted beasts as these to market when there are great maize flolds on every hand!" We offered 6s excuse overproduction, the partial failure of the lt com crop, and that growers were discouraged, but failed to quiet his mind. The well matured snimals—only a handful in number. were bringing from $5.50 to $6.20 per bundred pounds, while myriads, seem- ingly, ranged down, down, down, veachiog $1.50 per hundred pounds, Our English friend loft shaking his head, puz that America should have much water the | Jy a compromise, not dis- | exasperating, he no man should | this and | in the Philadelphia | Probably the finest | specimen of tltis flower to be found in | America to-day is a product of the slip | ow ” The Hebrew population of New Yecrk city now numbers abous $50,000, ac- carding to the Jewish Messenger, One of the first acts of the Japanese Parlinment was to rescind the regulation prohibiting the presence of ladies at de- bates, and another was the rescinding of the regulation which forbade the attend- ance of members in Japanese dress. The increase in the consumption of plate glass of late years has been enor- mous, Tho production in 1880, meas- uring 1,700,000 square feet, of which 1,042,000 square feet were polished and 377,287 feet sold rough-—has risen to a capacity of 8,000,000 square feet, According to the New Orleans Zimes. Democrat the latest kink to defraud ths coffee drinkers of the land is to exhaust the berries, which are afterward strained, and the residue used in making coffee extract. Under a microscopical examina. tion no evidence of the oily globules in coffee berries could be found. Most of these spurious inventions come means slow to learn. men and boys in Great Britain is 900,. 000, an increase of 200,000 in tea years. In Germany the number of fe- | males in excess of males is about 1,000, I 000, In Sweden and Norway the ‘‘weaker sex” is in the majority by about 250,000, in Austro-Hungary by 600,000, and in Denmark by 60,000. In the United States, Canada and Australia ths males are 1n the majority. In this coun. try there are about 1,000,000 more men than women. The Chicago Tribune announces that the fair sex has achioved a fresh victory in Michigan, where the Supreme Court has delivered its decision that a woman may legally perform all the functions of a County Clerk. The case was that of Miss Marguerite Burr, of Flint, who, | in the regular course of her duties, is. sued a wnt of attachment, The legality of the act was questioned on the broad, general act as a County Clerk. Ccurt, however, holds that the choice of grounds that a woman cannot The Sapreme & deputy by a County Clerk is not limited by race, sex, color or age, as the office is Thus woman, in Michigan, at least, marching wholly ministerial. is lovely | on from one triumph to another. Strangely enough, the phenomena which | to satisfactorily explain are | either such as are known to be electrical | in character or are at least strongly sus. | A puzzie to geologists is the Lost River of Idaho. It first appears iu two threads of stream north of the Yellow- stone Park, streams come to- gether forty miles above Idaho Falls City, aod, forming a rapid river, flow along for two miles when the volume of water disappears suddenly in a subter- ranean passage. A geaerally entertained is that the Lost River comes tothe surface agnin as a part of the Boake River, which supplies Idaho Falls City with its wonderful water power. The Soske River has its origin in a lit. tie Iske in Yellowstone Park that doe not hold enough water to be the source of a great river. Nevertheless the Snake is 1000 feet wide, a short distance eas! of the city, and in its limits pour a vast volume of water through a deeply cut gorge. Here the river is so deep that + plummet of nearly 400 feet has not touched bottom, As the Saake River is originally an insignificant stream the theory that the waters of the Lost Rives unite with it seems to be tenable, al though geologists have been unable te demonstrate the fact. Thess theors Under the direction of Henry Elliott, the only artist who has ever drawn and painted the seal and walrus in thelr native haunts, an interesting exhibit for the World's Fair is being prepared by the Smithsonian Institution at Washing. ton. This exhibit consists of models in | seorued to make the existence | & lifeboat GALE IN ENGLAND. A Fearful Storm Sweeps Along the British Coast. Many Vessels Wreck 1and Scores of Lives Lost, Une of the most terrific gales experienced for years passed over the east and southeast coasts of England, causing considerable loss of life by shipwreck. The London in the afternoon, and hurled down chimuey pots, ripped off slates, tors up trees and caused many accidents, but no loss of | life. A cablegram from London says: Durin the fearful storm which has raged sro) the British Isles at least twenty vessels have been wrecked and fifty men drowned. No braver struggle for life has been wit. nessed on the Bouthern coast than that which resulted in the rescue of the remain. ing members of the British ship Blenvenue, of Glasgow, All day, since the terrible situation of the crew became known, the Hythe and Band. ag lifeboats had been struggling to reach the doomed vessel through the dangerous breakers, which beat with a fury that even of impossible, While the | clung to the masts, the people on shore tried from | | Germany, and the Americans are by no | to make their encouraging above the roar of the storm About 4:30 in the afternoon the Bienvenue cheers heard { began to break up, but the masts, with the | unfortunates clinging in the rigging, still — beld together, The excess of women and girls over | About this time the multitude on shore were thrilled by the spectacle of a seaman's dering and desperate stroke for salvation of himself and his fellow survivors The sailor, a brave, sturdy fellow, looking every inch a British seaman, fastened a lige around his waist, and leaped into the waters that beat with fearful foree about the wreck. Cheer upon cher went up from the | watching thousands | wrecked, The sailor struck out boldly for the shore He was evidently a splendid swimmer, und for a few moments it seemed that the power. fal sweep of his limbs would carry him through the enormous waves denly a pursuing breaker Bim, and he was buried from sight. Breathless with anxiety, the crowd on shore and the remnant on the wreck awaited the man's reappearance. Even the soomed to nF Then an agonizing ery from hundreds of throats as the sailor appeared again, limp and lifeless, tossed on the crest and in the hollow of the waves He was dead, and his fate seemed to fore suadow the doom of his late © on pase fons, Not long afterward the COT Pw and that of another bold swimmer from the wreck carried asbor The storm abated somewhat as darkness grew and another atterapt was made to launch the Sandgate lifeboat Sex volunteers assisted in the launching, and amid shouts from thousands the lifeboat started. It seemed doubtful a while whether the task could be accomplished, but length, after a tremendous brave lifesavers brought their the rigging of the Biegveng every one that remained The poor fellows were almost help themselves. They bad clung mechan ically for hours in their perilous positions and they were utterly exhausted The bark T. B. Fluger, from San Fran- cisco for Bremen, was wrecked at Hastings, Her crew of seventeen and five Passenger remained in the rigging five hours, while the lifesavers sent rocket after rocket, line attached, to the rescue. Several rockets fell short, but at length a line reached the vessel, Thousands were assembled on shore, their sympathies more aroused by sesing a woman's form among the ship A tremendous cheer went up when It was seen that the line was fastened, The crew behaved nobly, and the woman was the first to be seen on the perilous journey to safety. Nearly half dead she was hauled ashore, Then followed two boys and after them the men, the captain coming last. He Was given an ovation Two of the members of the Hythe lilosaw ing crew were drowned in the accident to that boat while attempting to reach the Bienvenue early in the evening, others being rescued by the spectators. It appears tha: artillery was also used in the attempt to throw a line to that ress Chain shot was discharged from cannon at asale height a cord being attached to the shot, with the hope that the cord would be carried’ over, and fall upon the wreck. Every cord broke, The Dover lifeboat, which arrived immediately after the roscus by the Sandgate crew, had been brought around by a tug from Dover, The number rescued from the Blenvenus is twenty seven. The lost are Captain Mod din, Liverpool, two apprentioss, two stewards and a seaman, The sea swept as high as the mizzen-top, so the struggle to hold on may be imagined. The Bienvenue was bound trom London to Sydoey. At Dungeness a French vesssl bound for London went ashore. The crew were saved but the vessel is a total wreck. A brigantine ran ashore near Littlestone and was lost, A fail nf boat sank right in front of the town and sight wee lost, Another schooner, the Faramount, wes wrecked, The lifeboat rescusd two of the suds upon 3s ut burst Live wi LA) caine were res ( and rescucd unable to with of crew; the remaining ten were drowned. | Two vessels were wrecked at Great Yar. | mouth, and at Ventoor five bodies were | washed ashore from the wreck off Bt. Cath- | erines, : The lleboat that left Lythe was capsized and two of the crew drowned. At ook a lifeboat was capsized and several of the crew drowned, The French schooner Ediriml has found ered off Hyther, Kent, and the vessel's cap. tain, his wife and son were drowned, in spite of the efforts of the lifesavers, who were | enabled to take off the rest of the crew, The papier mache representing the fur seal | and walrus fisheries on the Alaskan coast. The soimals to be represented, 3 well as the men who catch them, are being modeled In clay. One of the models shows a seal “drive.” This model includes hundreds of mimic seals, which Aleuts are driving slong to the to the killing grounds by waving cloths and shouting. Another illustrates « *‘rockery” on which the full grown seals, bellowing and pugnacious, have *‘hauled up” out of the surf upon the islands to breed. Another model will show » hauling ground of bachelor seals, The killing of seals will also be shown, a group of Aleuts being represented in the act of smashing their heads with clubs. There will also be represented a number of hair seals, which are not use. ful for their fur, but merely for food supply to the natives of that segion. The walruses, now rapidly becoming extinet, are also to be reproduced in material that will give them a remarkably life-like appearance. Hundreds of models in clay are made of these animals, in order to represent the different species and sizes of each, They are to be cast in papier on n refused to leave the vessel and his wife and son refused to be separated from him, preferring drowning with the gallant sailor 10 being saved without him, Beside these there have been almost num. berless wrecks all along the coast, many boats having sunk in full view of the shore, The wind blew a heavy gale at Paria France, all day. Many persons have been injured. Hundrods of chimneys have been demolishod and an enormous amount of other damage has been done throughout France by the furious storm. A greet storm prevalled on the coast of Portugal. The wind blew with hurricane like fury, COMANCHE DEAD A Famous Horse That Uncle Sam Had Long Kept in Idle Honor, storm visited | oroew | | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, Mas. W. J, Wirrsams, whose husband and son were killed in the mine accident at Nanticoke, Penn., died several days after. ward of n broken heart, MoNCURE ROBINSON, one of the ploneers of railroad construction in this sountry,died a few days ago in Philadel shia, in his nine. tieth year. 8 great work was the build- ing of the Philadelphia and Reading road. A NEW suit against John Hoey, ex-Prosi- | dent, was begun by the Adams Express Company for stocks worth $600,000, Tux Pennsylvania Senate ad journsd sine die at Harrisburg, after declaring that it had no jurisdiction in the cases of the Auditor- General and the Btate Treasurer, secused of | complicity with Defaulter Bardsley, ex-Treas- urer of Philadelphia. It confirmed the Governor's appointments and then ceased to do business, Tre Connecticut Legislature met at Hart ford and adjourned tw January 6, Nothing else was done. Unitep BSrares Treasury detectives have unearthed a system of smuggling opium into the Port of New York. firms in New York are sald to be working in with the keepers of opium dens, Over 200 pounds of contraband opium have been wri zad Tag steamship Allianca, of the United States and Brazil Mall Steamship Line, ar- | rived at the | voyage from Santos, on which the ship's doctor and three men died from what was supposed to have been yellow fever, A MAsS-MEETING at Chickering Hall, New York City, passad resolutions denouncing i the Louisiana Ntate Lottery; speeches were | made by Beth Low, Father Elliott, Abram { 8B. Hewitt, Bishop Potter and others, F. H. Burra & Co., ship brokers of New York City, have failed for nearly half a million dollars, and their New York, Maloe and New Brunswick Steamship Company passed into the hands of a receiver Work has been suspended on the Govern ment breakwaker at Buffalo, N, Y., for lack of money. South and West, Two men and a boy were fatally hurd, three men seriously injured and many other: suffered painful wounds ss the result of a terrific explosion of dynamite at Hayward, Wis MAXY persons in the and of the Middle Tennesse from a water famine Mus J W, Kixgs three children were murdered near Va the h f were party « Tie General Amembly of Labor was held at Toledo derly belug present Hesny ( aburbs of Nashville are sull= nL Calverton, use was set sumed by the CURTIS, colored, man named Waller near September 5, 18%), was hange 1 in the Portsmouth (Va Tnaner's i i for bis crim Jail yard, Disonanoxp soldiers arcaccussd of ro bing Postmaster Bniffen, of Port Clark Fexas, of $3300 with a pole and hook. Oa of the men has boon arrested. Evsrox KELLY, colored, agel twenty four, ing a wife and a ten montis } daughter, was hanged at HRogerville, Ten for the murder of Dan Carmichael at a country dance last Clhiristinas. A BEAVY rain fell over the entire St Teunessse and ended the suffering for water There will probably be a replanting of The sudden change is worth many t of dollars to the State Tux South Dakota Farmers’ Allian ts annual session at Huron, with the small | sot attendance in its history Tre most marvelous performance of the year of phenomenal harness racing was 1 perforfoance of Senator Btanford’s two. year id colt Arion over the Xiteshaped track at Stockton, Cal. He trotted a mile without » single break or skip in 3:108 thus lowering bis own record by 35% seconde, and provia sim to be the most wonderful bhorss ev red Jupax Jous Kuisuaw shot ani killel A | M. Sherwood the defendant in a case whic i wastris] bofore Kelshaw, at Paso al. Sherwood attacked the Julge who thot in self defence, Dox Piarr, the well know newspaper cor respondent ani editor, died at his home, Mac. O-Chee, Ohio. He was seventy-two years of age and bai bean ill for some UUme. A DISARTROUS wreck occurred near Me. lina, Tenn, No. 3 passenger train, south bound, collided with the north bound freight Both engines were completely demolished and four train men killed Tax official vote for Governor in lows | 20.214, the largest ever coast in the Bilal Boles's plurality is 7516 Westfall, Allin got 11S, and Gibson, Prohibition, 2 Foun masked men eaterad the store of tie Farmers’ Trading Company at Spokane Falls, Washington, and driving the clerks into a corner at the point of revolvers, robbed the store of sixteen gold and eight sive | watches, and took about 2X0 from the sale They then mounted horses and departed Tue remnant of Big Foot's band of In dians, under Red Cloud, numbering sixty | families, is in open revolt against the autho | ity of the agent at Cheyenne Agency, Dakota | Tux Madera (Cal.) Bank and the Califor | nia National Bank. of San Diego, Cal, have . W. F. Baird, until recently Vice President and Manager of the Bank of | Madera, is short in his sccounts to th amount of nearly §100,00C, WiLtiax Soxenset was hanged at Marion Court House, Charleston, 8 C,, for the mur der of EM, Fore in 1855, Anranuvr W. Borvixarox, Postaaster of Highland Park, lll, has been arrestad by United States Marshal Allen on a charge of embezzling $2000 of the [unds of the Postel fice Department He admitted his guilt. Jonx E. Tuonxrox, a jeweler, shot and killed his; daughter, Laura Amonier, » Krebs, Indian Territory. The girl wm eighteen years old, and had been married onl; six days. Thornton says she wrote a lette which displeased him, ave JOUSLn Woles Washington, | Tae Citizens’ Executive Committes on the National Bucampment of the Grand Army of the Republic to be held in Washinguo next year, decided to recommend the sec oud week of October as the date for holding the encampment, Ix the t Lefora the Bapreme Court in Wash on the Sayward out that an fn Port of New York after a | ‘ 4 Be : ” * | of Rio Janeiro, Brazil, which do not fully | Bor. | Oeoome sO serious that the Dictator has sent troops nnd war ships to that State, . Grand Army of the Republic, beld at the Ebbitt House,at which Commander -in-Chief Palmer presided, Beptember 20, 1502, was the date fixed upon for the next spnual meeting in Washington of the grand en- campment., In his suoual report to the Bocretary of the Navy, Colonel Heywood, bison! Io of the Marine Corps, speaks of the severs straip put upon the marines at Navy Yards by the increased demand for sea service, re- sulting in dissatisfaction and the loss of many old soldiers. He Urges an mmorease of the corps by twenty-five Bergeants, twenty. five Corporals and 350 privates Ixsrecron-Geserat, Dusoxt, of the Bteamboat Inspection Bervice, has made his spnual report to the Beeretary of the Treasary. There were thirty-three acc dents to vessels during the year, reculting in the loss of 8335 lives, an increase of ninety- three as compare | with the previous year, Opens were sent from the Navy Depart | ment to New York for the United States steamer Concord to sail at the earliest prac | tienble day for the West Indies to join the Philadelphia and Kearsarge. Foreign, BrTanvinG Russian peasants are now re sorting to plunder, A woman at Chela- | binsk killed her three children and hanged | herself on the refusal of = sch neighbor to lend them money to prevent their starv | ing. Foxsrca has compelled those newspapers mblica- support his dictatorship to Suspend ul has The revolt in Rio Grande do ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY persons have lied of hunger in the one parish of Kagzors Llussla ue Chilian Congress assembled, The nta has been requested to hold over until Montt is installed In an address to ( that its as Presi mgress the Junta mission bas been as » Fe ont ol announces complished. Tue discovery of a large deposit of vana Hum, a metal worth $150 per ounce, and used in setting dyes, Is reported from the province of Mendova, in the Argentine He public, Tur epidemic of typhus fever in the fam ine stricken districts of Russia is spreading rapidly. The daily mortality already ruas nto the hundreds A rine has destroyed 1300 houses in Han v, Chinas, and has rendered 1200 Poo; [t was believed that a number men and children lost thelr ls Ts avs afterwa 0 more houses » wnvel ose Manse di # Atlantic coast of Europ nd exosssive rains again did Spain gsstars wers rep INEPIRACY has ¥ to overthros nd M. Tricoupis. formwriy Pine i F them 24 i of the conspirators ne, Gra TRIcKIxm have been found is « at Solingen, Raenish Proswia AX explosion cocurred in the Konig fa { pit, near Essen Germany, and afeven fn met their death through th » nt Tur British bark Gyife, Capta from Quebec to L loadsd with t Den Wre sod al Ma here near Kinsale Cork, Ireland. § The captain and four r Wilson varpool, i | ber, has were lost, saved Governor of the Brazilian » Grande do Sul noial Gov Tax IR has been Ceposed . om has been form fithe —————— D IPN PROMINENT PEOPLE. Queex Vicromia is in robust health, Grapsroxe gets Afty cents a word for his magerine articles Tue Quesn of Denmark is seventy four years old and still hearty. Tue Russian roval sliver wedding was quietly celebrated at St. Petersburg De. Kexizy, the bichiciude promoter, has S00 to 1000 patients and gets $25 a week from each one Lawyen McCoany, of New York City, who won the case for the Tilden oeives $400. 000 for his fee Alsenxox CHanies Swisvnse, the English poet, is a shy little man with a very unIMmIATessiYe appearance Eranam W, Buri, who developed the Concord grape nearly fifty years ago, is still living near Concord, Mass Tar Bishop of Chichester, Eagland, is eighty-six years old, bul still performs his reguiar round of diocesan work, Eowanp Evenerr Hare, the author, has developed a mild passion for the collection of ball starved and vagrant cats CorLoxxl. Arxxasper K MoCrone, the famous Philadelphia editor, is six feet three in height and has a superd physique Tue nawe of Her Hawaiian Majesty Lilluokalani is pronounced Lil-lee-wokea lanny. It means Hierally Lily of the Sky Du WM, Barwox, of Cambridge, Bog land, who was born in 179, & the oldest surgeon and general practitioner in the world. Bano Anrava ROTHSCHILD, a nephew of the head of the great financial house, is serving his twelve months in the French army as a private soldier, Exreznon Wittiam, of Germany, is fond of shooting, but because of his withered arm be is not an aconrate marksman, It is with the greatest difficulty that he can shoulder his rifle. Panxzrt, at school, is described Ly the old lady who taught him, in a Derbyshire vil lage, as a silent, solitary child, repelling the | adv anoes of a kindly sympathy with his | early sorrows, Groner Kexxax is sid 0 have cleared | $75,000 from his writings and lectures on the Ruesdan exilesystem. Last season be traveled | over fifty thousand miles on his lecture tour | and spoke 200 times. Ancupves Jomanx, of Austria, who calls himself plain John Orth, and who was sup to have been drowned a Lone ago, "w now sald to be serving in the C army | under an assumed name, Micstant Moone, of Brooklyn, NX. Y, the oldest Second Lieutenant on the army lst, He was for vears a musician, was a Lisutenant in 1568, and two Inter was retired. He now draws three-fourths ($100 a month), and is mopossd to be gol A than pivety-one years old, THE SUPREME COURT, Business Done by the Highest Judi. cial Body in the Land, i | rieulture, probable increase in the value of agriculture UNCLE SAMS RARM, Annual Report of the Seere- tary of Agriculture. The Enormous Valuation of This Year's Big Crops. Becretary Rusk has presented to the Pres. dent bis annual report as Secretary of Age The Becretary estimates the al’ products for 1801 over 1800 at not les than §700,000,000, Our exports in cereals alone have aggre- gated in value over $76,000,000, The indica | tions now are that the sales abroad of the surplus from our farms will during the pres- | ent year largely exceed those of any pre vious year, He notes the increases by some $25,000,000 in the imports of agricultural products dur. ing the first ten months, though they are largely confined to articles not competing with the Lome products, such as sugar, tes, coffee, ote. He also notes a decrease in tobacco from | $17,000,000 to $6,000,000; a falling off in for eign barley of nearly $2,500,000; in eggs, §1.- 250,000; in horses a falling off of $1,600,000, and a gradual declioe in the imports of all live stock, Referring to the import of hides, admitted | frees of duty, be states that this causes a great | depreciation in prices realized for hides of | home production, and earnest! recommends that the duty provided for in the reciprocity section of the new tariff law be imposed in all cases were the countries from which such Eides are shipped have not granted equal | Cuncessions The Becretary, in speaking of the with. | drawal by the Governments of Gersaasy, Denmark and Italy of the prohibition { American pork, expresses his high apprecia- | grand result | velop them, but that there was » | making some | IDOALS tion of the President's personal interest in the matter, without which, he says, “this could never have been at tained He reviews the subject of meat inspection, stating that it was not only demanded in order to kesp our foreign markets and de Very gen. eral demand for some such inspection by the poopie of our owa country. He pojnts out the fact that for mor A year there has been no well authe case of transmission to foreign « & singie case of pleuro-pneumoni can cattle, He says we have far fication for the exclusion from the States of all animals coming from and its dependencies than the ie interposition of any obstacles to © tie exports from the United States The Secretary devotes a paragraph to 4 middleman, and the extent to which he is enabled by warfous conditions, especially prevalent in America, to absorb a large pros | riion of the prices paid by the consumers or farm products, thus unduly limiting the profits of the farmer Admitting the difficulty of remedying this evil, he points out that a partial remedy, to rovide which is the duty of his department, A to keep the farmer fully informed in re- gard to the market values of his wares Touching the experiments in produsing rain, be states briefly that they have been made, but that be bas no data vet at band which would justify him in expressing auy concussion on the subject The Secretary concludes his report by suggestions as 0 the best of maintaining the usefulness | of the department and still further devel | oping its opportunities | fo fully carry out his views will | tionably involve liberal expenditure, ; down wili have increased the value He points out thet ungues- but be wavs that within twenty years the efforts of this department on such lines as be has laid of our | sunual agricultural products from between threes and four thousand million dollars to at least twice that enormous sum, NATIONAL heirs, re- | perity which has crowned the years | boon as wide as our « device of his mind ! Shanhagiving | providence, I ' permitted to enjoy | servation | eivil The Annual Proclamation by the President Regarding the Day President Harrison bas iseuel f fogton the annual Thanksgiving Proclamas- tion, which is as follows: By the President of the United States —~a Proclamation, It is a very glad incident of the marvelous pros yw draw. ing to a close that its helping and reassuring touch has boen felt by all our prople It has watery, and so special that every home has felt its comiorting in fluence. It is great to be the work of man's power and too particular to be the : To God, the BeneSomnt and the Allbowise, who makes the labors of men to be fraitful redesmms their losses by His grace, and the measure of whose giving is as much beyond the thoughts of as it is beyond kis deserts, the praise and gratitade of the people of this favored Nation are justly due Now, therefore, I. Benjamin Harrison, President of the United Stats of Awmerios, do hereby appoint Thursday, the 25h day of November present, to be a day of joyful 10 God for the bounties of His ww the peace in which we are them, and for the pre thowe Institutions of and religious liberty which He gave our fathers the wislom to devise yn Wash oo nen of | and establish and us the courage to pressrve, | Among the appropriate observanoss of the | day are rest {rom toll, worship in pable congregation, the renewal of family ties about our Amerioan firesvides, and thought. ful helplulness towards those who suffer lack of the body or of the spirit in testimony whereo! | bave hereunto set my hand and caused the seal! of the United Mtates to be afxed. By the President : Janus G. Braixg, Secretary of State, FAMILY CREMATED. Five Persons Burned to Death at Co Iumbus, Ohio gait i HH fii
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