el AAA A —— —— "The New York Press marvels that * Her’ man Oelrichs's offer of £500 to any one who can prove that a human being has ever been bitten by a shark has not yet been claimed.” In Germany 05,500,000 women earn their living by industrial pursuits, in England 4,000,000, in France 3,750,000, in Austria-Hungary about the same, and in America, including all occupations, something over 2,700,000, It is said that the majority of business men in Paris, France, give up their busi. ness at forty, if by that time they have acquired even a modest competence, and do not trouble themselves about commer. cial pursuits for the future. The Scientific American boasts that the finest world, elegance in design, are made in the United States, often bulky and clumsy. French engine stationary engines made in the for economy, durability and English engiues are are erratic in design and fragile in construction. frequently The Agricultural Dezartment, Victoria, Australia, has imported thirty varieties of with samples of American ¢ and millet, together rn American can-growi flax and hemp, as well as Russian flax for experimental purposes. Farmers willing to cultivate these samples and furnish re. ports of the results are being supplied with seed. General O. W. Howard, commanding the Department of the speaking of the Chilian are in much better condition for attack than many people dream. have only to mention new cruisers, ne a, torpedo boats, abundaat torpedoe ing batteries, new guns of reaches and heavy caliber, splendi tars, new mortar batteries rece: structed, not forgetting our lant and ambitious navy.” Courier-Journal re. UCaited The Louisville marks: ‘“No less than six of the States of America have at various become railroad proprietors, but in every stance State ownership has proved a failure, and the properties have been conveyed to private owners, This fact - is of considerable interest at the present time, when so many ill-advised enthusi. State management It attending asts 8% a panacea for all ills. that the difficulties management of propose may be added the Gov. ernment railways in Bouth torious.” Africa and Australia are _——— The Adjutaat-General of the States Army has written a let Presidents of military colleges, sayin “The Secretary of War is of of that the law of Congress an authori I of the college under the in W.ArtDS AD i ammunition the detail of an officer the army the purpose of mil tablishes the national tary instruction, { COaracier of Under these facts he institution, siders that the National Government has should the right to require and that on all occasions when a flag would be required by United States army ta tics or regulations the national flag the United States be used.” Southern California has had fever and the real estate craze, hip it sees riches beyond ‘‘the dreams avarice” in oranges. here is the Cajon Valley, thirteen miles south Ban miles by four, and under the blessed in. Diego, for instance. It is eight fluence of irrigation begins to exhale the sweetness of orange blossoms and ripening fruit, A short time ayo it was a parched wilderness. Water is supplied by the Riverside charge the agriculturist $120 a year for fumes of two the companies, the and Allesandro, which 4,730,400 gallons, a quantity sufficient to irrigate ten acres planted with orange trees the year round, and frost an iofrequent visitor, The air is balmy Land sells for 8150 to $300 the acre. Orange culture begin wit the shipment of young trees from Florida, and raisin growers are now plowing up their vineyards and planting oranges, because the crop is easier to harvest and the income from it greater. A ten-acre orchard will con. tain about 750 trees, plaated twelve by fourteen feet apart, Each tree when twelve yoars old will produce say four. teen boxes, which sell for $2 to $3 a box, according to quality, each box holding 200 oranges. The buyer pays so much for the grove, and pucks and ships at his own expense. Trees begin to bear st five years, but the product, which in. creases every year, is then only two boxes to the tree. From the fgures given above it can be estimated that ten acres of twelve-year-old trees would be worth $21,000 to $31,000, less expense, to the grower every year. This, of course, if the maximum showing, but, admitting the cost of labor and materials to be no small item, a very comfortable margin of profit would remain. goes | 8 bicycle escapes serio | clined to | just rendered a decision { thousand | section would be filled contrivance. as much as one of brick, aad the of | : the | Wheat harvesting in Egypt this year showed that the crop of the world’s ane cient granery to be excelleat both for quantity and quality. The great problem of picking cotton by machinery has been solved, announces the New York World. The machine in- vented by Willis Lispenard is a glorious triumph ‘of human ingenuity, A plague of locusts have besn worrying the farmers in the Argentine Republic. Late reports state that the locusts have completely destroyed the flax, wheat and potato crops in San Geronimo and Santo Tomas, Out in Mashonaland, South Africa, butter is $3.10 a pound; jam and milk, £1.50 a tin: cheese, $3.60 a pound; and brandy has been sold for $19.50 a bottle. And with this prospecting is very poor, no gold being discovered. R. 8. Witherbee, who is known as the King of Montana," ‘Inside of five years I thoroughly believe “Sapphire says: the value of precious stones produced in Montana will equal the vawue of the an. of produced in the country. all the precious metals nual output Mexico and its of tropical location are both agricultural, the lack of energy Although the soil favorable to of } working population, combined with the its lack of a sufficient water supply, neutra lizes its geographical locstion, and the production of corn, beans, coffee, sugar, and other kinds of products are barely sufficient to supply the home demand. The head of a Lond conviction that the clerk wh ween his home ¢ bet 18 Len countered by travelers on "busses, and »d for business, time in waiting at ertion of ge makes hin v0 out to clubs or billiard sa g loons, aud for these reasons he thinks bicyclists to be morally superior. The City Court of Winona, Minn., has the cease of who was Willie na Susan Jones, a school teacher, tried on the charge of assauiting Forb, ‘ he i piis. The { me misd ) had whipped him for s and the prosecution held that sh i had no lawful right to do so. The court de- cided that the teacher had a right whip the pupils, at her discretion, long as the punishment was not bruta and excessive, They are talking in Cleveland, Obio, of drawing fresh water from the lake by building a steel tunnel two and miles out from the shore. An er representing s company went before the i J Joard of Control the other day de done, scribed how the work could built and The tunnel, he said, would be of steel, one-half inch thick, in sections one font CCL in length and eight and one-half feet in diameter, Balkheads in at each joint. Each 1 would be put with air and couid be floated out to the place where it it. All would be joined together by men work. iw necessary to sink the sections ing on rafts, The entire length of two and a half miles would be sunk in a solid piece by opening the manholes and pull- ing out the bulkheaks, The be closed by a The tunnel would cost hall manholes would then mechanical com - pany offers to lay it in the lake ian four months, It has been estimated that the construction of a brick tunnel would take four years, The Board of Control is dis. posed to favor the proposal, The cultivation of the thin shell pecan has, according to the New York Post, become one of the most profitable in. The tree bear nuts when six years old; at eight dustries of Texas, begins to it more than pays all expenses of grow. ing, and at ten yields a handsome profit. The demand the market greater than the supply. The following glittering prospect is held out to the farmer by a pecan-grower ol experience: “Fifty acres in pecans will, when ten years old, bring him an income equal to a bank with a capital of $300,060 earn- ing ten per cent. In California, fruit lands sell at $300 to 8500 per acre. At these prices the value will be earoed in five years; in six years they earn tea per cent. on a valuation of $4000 to $5000 per acre, and in ten years ten per cent, on a valuation of $10,000 per acre. When I say the pecan exceeds these figures largely, I am only saying what others who have lavestigated the profits on peecan-growing will confirm, The pecan nut is a favorite everywhere, No fear ot growing more than can be sold, for, when the markets of the United States are sup- plied, the markets of Europe will be opea for them. At one cent per pound they pay better than cotton will at ten cents per pound, Ten acres in pecans (the Texms thin-shell) will ears more clear wrofit than 500 will wn cotton.” in is much | it being | to te receivable for taxes TELEGRAPHIC TICKS News of Interest From Domes. tie and Foreign Sources. Eo W. J. Florence, the Actor, Dies Suddenly at Philadelphia, William J. Florence, the actor, after being critically {ll for a week died at 8:30 o'clock at night in his room at the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, Penn. He passed a very restless night, and gradually grew worse all day, but it was not until 5 o'clock that evening that the doctors saw that the pneu monia would kill him, He was very weak, as little or no nourishment could be given him, and when his lungs began to fill the physicans could do abrogtoly nothing, He sank rapidly, and when he disd it was without a struggle, The first intimation the watchers had death was that he had ceased tw breathe, Proprietor Kingsley, of the Continental Hotel took temporary charge of body. His wife is in Europe. A week before his death, after having “Helr-at-Law” with the combination at the Arch Street Theatre, he gavea supper at the Continental Hotei in honor of Mr, and Mrs, Kendal close of the festivities he was taken ll physicinns called fn. He had congest the lungs, and after danger from that had practically ceased the patient was too weak to rally, death being attributed to heart fail ure It was at 05% ’ On Ok N. Y.. in 1831 that Williams: J. Florence first saw light. His right name was Conlin, His earliest pre pensities were for the stage, a nd he joins the Murdock Dramatic Axsoziati when quite y He h debut as Pet in Katasoues ro mantic play of “The Stranger” at the Rich mond Hill beater, in New York City, December 6, 1549 He next played Mae 1 to Edwin Booth's Macbeth Is sh oon 1a 1554 he salled for Ei and in the Drury Lane Theater they Albany, Ung aly with great suoco arope wi | vol A Dine WoskE sngagen » who is a sister to ns. was known as Mrs J aiden name was Malvina re tt A NNOUNON m the stage as uded thea what had Lee the Jefferson-Flore com! Oetot 15, BHeATADCS appearal m an TWO Years § the i the t star joint stars SOT “rT = To be Senator From Maryland swwernor Jacks ex- Ha dn Washingt i oointment to {aryiand, uati i» ydered to Gilson United States Nenator from 2 the Legislature fills the vacan the death of Senator Ephraim Colonel Gibson accepted the formal appointinent is eX Cour Mr. Gibson at contest for the sworn in as a Beaator a Aid Congress, His sors March 4, of this year | I t bold « » until a successor ’ ¥ Atisi DY K. Wilsons fer nnd x a fy LA ted i withdrew {rom the and he will be < ni of th opening of the anes oristpp. the and he will 5 is alec nor Jackson is a candidate ormerly held by M Wilson Dew Oe r wili try to ves again fr He has been First Marviand mt rosontat Fastern Shore Distr times from the sumed that the Howe o " three trict man of agreeal great pe ¥ "wt 4 noointaent ppointmen The pew Senator and attractive mann Ona be well received yd of popularity where De Das Teen 8 DP aut and conspicuous figure in social and § Mr. Gibson lives in Easton, Md s inwver by profession, and belers entering Congress held many Lhaportast loca in Eastern Maryland ens ’ r life "1 Olss . The Debt of Virginia The State Delt Commission and the Oloots Committee of New York, the latter repre wnting the holders of Virginia bonds, who have been in conference at Richmond several lays upon a plan of sottietnont have come to an agreement The commission's propos. tion wasas follows To issue a maximum amount of F100 000 of bonds to be ex changed for the outstanding obligation of the State mentioned in the Riddisberger act jother than those held by schools and col. leges) now in the bands of the public, but not including bonds already funded under this act, such new bonds 10 rua for 100 years and to bear two per cent. interest for ten years, and three per cent. for ninety years, distinctly understood that the coupons or other interest obligations are not The proposed be exchangeable for the new bonds shall | outstanding obligations in the proportion of | nineteen of the former for twentyeight of | the latter The Olcott Committee, representing $23. | 000, 000 out of BIR 000.000 of debt outstand ing, state that the proposition would go to | their constituents with their cheerful recom | mendation, new bonds to bear istersst from July 1, 180i, The Presfdent’'s Outing, A dispatch from Bengies, Md, says: The members of the Presidential party arose at 5:30, and after breakfast went to the blind, Fortune favored them, and they sucoseded | in gosting twelve ducks, making a total of 2 twenty-eight killed by the party during the three days visit, This is regarded as fair sport, when the unfavorable conditions are considered The President accompanied by General W, J. Bowell, of New Jersey, left for Washing. ton in H. F., Keuney's private car at 1:20 vy. 8. Before his departure he visited the talegraph office to answer a telegram re ceived earlier in the day from Mrs. Harri og with the family of J, o was not North Charles street, as sncosssiul as previous ones t his eciation of the of the | played his part of Exskiel Homespun in the | Jeffarson-Florencs | Boon after the | and | A tidal wave has enused great loss of life and damage to property throughout the group, Eighty people were drowned upon one of the {slands, The Gilbert Islands, or Kingsmill group, are of ecwral tormation, all low, Tho group Is the southermost in the Mulgrave Archipel- ago, and the southermost in Micronesia. An Iron Concern Assigns, The Rockdale (Tenn,) Mining and Manu. facturing Company made an assignment to the Safe Deposit, Trust Company, of Nash- ville, Liabilities, $100,000, The assets con wist of G00) acres of ore lands, heavily tim. berel; a furnaces costing $50,400 and $40,000 worth of pig iron, The property was recently loawed at 39200 per annum, The failure was caused by the low pries of fron. All Were Asphyxiated,’ An entire family wero at Lapelle, Ind, Mrs, Mary Huffman and | hor two sons, Petor and Newton, both grown, retired for the night and left the rat] burning at high pressure in the stove, Some. how the draft was imperfect and the blazes was extinguished during the night. The gas poured into the room and asphyziated the whole family, suffocate! by won A Fagitive Kmbezzier, Dr, Bumner P, Bmith, of Lowell, Mass., Treasurer of the six months beneflt order known as the Rising Sun, is a fugitive and technically he is an embezzior of $59,000 The State Treasurer, however, holds $30, 000 of that sum and the remainder is in the posscsssion of the mis ing Treasurer. Firemen Killed, Chief Tillis and Assistant Chief Packing- bam of the Tacoma (Washington) Fire De- | partment were run over by a hose cert and fatally injured. Both are dead, ————— THE LABOR WORLD, » ’ SEW THERE are children wh ther read por write in Fali River, Mas thelr earnings are ab their own =u wt and that of Eiourees labor organizations ware formed in Anstris this mont Hn f plicians, CR he the twentyaeven mills of HOT have stated that dutely necessary for their families r them, uni nong mw IRE OT "n Mogweal insta ments, wateoamaker LAs makers, MACera Fas) Imire CINTrEs, mes soaprmakers sad shop girs Ux the (hin Valley Radlroad graph operat are oblighed to boliers of pumps, and at trains, and re for 8% per mont seeping whi five to thirty day th Lanes ATH 131 per « organization 113 per ssiving fifty oonis a 3 ist, and the differences in hours rE rr weak we that i= 3 3 > ny les | bows for th LOST IN A TORNADO. Property Destroyed and Crops Dame. aged in the Argentine Republic, A tornado passed over the province of San ta Fe, Argentine Republic, The town of Arroyo Seco was entirely dee stroyed. The number of deaths is reported to be forty and of wounded thirty. A traan of eighteen coaches was at the | station when the tornado swept through the | | town, | The entire train was overturned and many of the passengers were buried in the Wreck There is Jauch damage to crops throughout the entire proviace of Hanta Fe, situaled on the left side of the Parana River, and has an area of about 35 000 square miles | aid a population of about 100,000, SE ————— TORN BY BEARS, Desperate Battle of Six Farmers Whe | Had Captured a Cub While John Crawson, Samuel Weatherly, Richard Specht, Frank and Robert Minn and Robert James farmers near Helfenstein, x living were hunting in the mountain, they discoversd a cub play. ing near a cave They captured it and were departing when tae mother made her appearance, A terrible han! to hand conflict followed, the hunters finally retreats ing to the cave, where they came in contact with the male bear, Ihe animals attacked the lhrinters, who wore terribly laceratal and torn before they could bring their Winchesters into play. Jutnes was caught by the mother bear and #0 badly injured that he died, Weather loy's right arm was torn from the socket and Spechi's one eye was gouged out, OUT THEIR THROATS. A Crasy Woman Murders Her Theeo Daughters and Attempts Suicide, Penn. about | It caused great | destruction to property and loss of life, which is | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, A near end collision between freight trams occurred at Bergettstown, Penn, Brakeman Hardy, of Pittsburg, was cre mated, Thomas Whitesides, engineer, aod Fireman John McFarland received fatal in- Juries, Bixry-xixe families wers made homeless and $200,000 worth of property destroyed by a disastrous fire which occurred on Nos trand avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. Rear Apsmmar Geonce H. Cooren, United States Navy, died at his residence in Brooklyn, N. Y., of neuralgia of the heart, Heo entered the navy in January, 1836, Thy one hundred and twenty-third an. nual banquet of the Chamber of Commercs was held in New York City, Bpeccaes wers made by Secretary Foster, on the currency question; Bishop Potts, on the concentra tion of wealth; Professor Briggs, on educa. tion and theology; Congressman Wilson, of West Virginia, on business men and law makers, nnd Chauncey M, Depew, on poli Hos and the state of the country A TORNADO swept un the Jersey const, wrecking buildings, injuring people, and doing much other damags Now Newark, of the United left Boston, Mass, bound for Tine white cruiser Fiates Navy Bouth America Boxe of the town clerks, recognize Governor Bulkeley Governor of Connecticut pigeonholed their his Thanksgiv proce lamation. The copies of Fast Day proclama tion received the same treatment, Two who refuse to as the legal copies of ing fies Xpress trains ool " Hay A Peun., and Lum Barg were instantly kill inms was fatally injured were Injured FRANK ( murder u Wards ALMY has Leo H AOYeT weer y hang of Dex OF Tog Wilke 8 MiLorep Born and IRORGE ( partook of a | and died it Tue MALIAY ini ” 1 (yx suguratod J sixth ter ral has declined mination for Congress, wouldn't ran for ver and declar that he » Mayor of Baltimore than President of the United States ALVIN Duvalr, ex tacky, died at Frankfort . is would rather Ken He was born J nutica of RY. UDeorgetown in 1531 iz and Heoeiv. iA, Pay t of New Or. Hank, od as a misding causing a loss o Las and wife were {« I gas red Hoon Mentoga, Teun, a sawmill boiler ex instantly Killing two young sons « pristor, T. B. Hatiens. A sawdust r had his leg broken, and Mr 84 a0 arm broxen in two paces Farmers © » nde its w oul stops; Ue iL reasury pian nvention, at Indianapo rk without taking any Alliance divided on the Frnaam H. Frazaie, wife murderer, banged in the jail yard at Abilene For some time Fr bas been different to his fate Abilene Corns al Lhe banging. utleriy in Washington, J. 8. Mouvrrox, of New York Lal Cuerk to We LConmissoner has resigned, Tur Episcopalians of me United States held their annual congress in Washington. Tax United States Patent Office has issusd a patent to Emile Berliner, assigoor to the Bell Telephone Company, for a combined telegraph and telephone, which has been pending in that office since June 8, 1877, Tae Lighthouse Hoard has ordered the manufacture in Fran of a fourth-order flashing jens No 93 for trial at Robbins Reel, New York Harbor. The lens will cost about #0000, and the experiisents will dem onstrate waethor numerical fashing signal lights oan be substituted [or the present ays. tem of lghts Ture Treasury officials have discoverel a dangerous counterfeit of the twenty-dolinr gold certificate, Bren an investigation of charges of in. human treatment of the forty United States prisoners in the Arkansas Penitentiary, At. torney-Ueneral Miller has ordered their re- moval to the Columbus (Ohio) Penitentiary, Tux Treasury Department has awarded the contract for the construction of a tank and coal house at the immigrant depot, Eills Isant, New York, to Sheridan & Byroe, of New York, at their bid of §23,%0, The contract for the construction of howpital buildings at the same was awarded to E. L. Ryan, of New York, at his bid of $14,470, A CAPLRGRAM to the Na Shanghai, China, an. death from cholera morbus Marthon, United States Navy, commanding the United States stoner Palos in that port, Toe annual report of Bupervising Agent Tingle, of the Treasury | uty was made public. Some of oo fiden. Veusions, ’ ol He requested that the | t Band be permitted to play | 4 Battens was | exas, } { can't { lors ———— —— preserve order at the scene of the big minery strike in France, Arter putting the British Vice Consul ashore at Arosa Bay, Crunna, a barge, be- Jonging to the British flagship stationed there, foundered and five sailors were drowned, Noppueyen & Micnavisex, a firm of bankers in Hamburg, Germany, have failed with linbilities amounting to 84,000 000 Tur Rio Grande do Bul Junta is said to have discarded the flag of the Brazilian Re public, Two persons ware killed and ten injured by an explosion gas during a stereopticon exhibition in a church at Ilkeston, Eng- land Ixvrvexza has reappears! in maoy places in the southwestern part of France, A TORXADO has passed over the Philippine Islands, cousing many wrecks Wirn the exception of the formal scrutiny by Congress, Admiral Moott has been unsn- mousy elected President of Chill, The new President's characteristics sre modesty, firmupess and taciturnity Kp Mw about a fr ON has in itzeriand which the Ninances of brought iW seriously a taal country. the presence of the royal isters and the Cardipal ducoess Louise of Tus wl, with Prince Freder 3 all claims to the Austrian thy Fis step was taken price to the marriage of the CTs ecting Vienna in their mi Ar ounie in question, PROMINENT PEOPLE, rand bandbox like and delicate and inverpationsd H described as a rick gentie 3 He is small be made to discus Tux bealt) ted Nia a uaracter the Sa raska is George 1} 4iyY Years Y f the Haves has beer NEWSY GLEA INGS are dul - ur yr NINGS, Tn in England Tre Mississippi is unusually low famine in Russia is extending 1H COAL costs £23 per ton in Venezuela, Tux revolution in Brazil is spreading. Missouns has 6 72 Treas are 74,000 Germans in Loadon. Frasce jost 81.572 inhabitants in 1800 LOOK acres in corn Fromipa strawberries are in the market, COxXXcnicre's a valuable one, Tux pew Portuguese tariff is strongly pro tectionist TwexTry polis, Minn BANOA = preparing for another Metoatia bas Leen declared a rebel onion crop is NE railroads center in Minoes war Tax loss to Poland alone by the failure of the potato crop will be $15, 000,000 AX exodus of Germans from Rusia ha Legun under Government pressure Tug grip ts waking great headway in New England, especially tn Connecticut Jlowa and IHinois have gone to law over a question of boundary in the Misshusipp Moooy and Saskey, the Awerioan evan gelists, have agreed to make a tour of Soot auc lure price of Nevada range cattie has in creased thirty-three per cent. in the past Twe yeurs Tie Choctaw Tegisiature bas voted to ex pel colored immigrants from lands of the vation Tune are 72,700 depasitors in Ve Ver mont savings banks and they have one §31,. O00, 000 oa deposit, Ixriuexsa fs now operating with more Jose vigor mn Australia, tropioal Amerke, and parts of Europe. Miss Bassin Brossox, one of the pretti st iris of Genco, Nev, bas sloped with an In jan of the Washoe tribe. River, found
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