dd Mo sts sins 3. Wy Bomoseen Sea wn Wd WY Wy QUEEN OF THE NAVY. Successful Launch of the Ar- mored Cruiser New York. A Description of the Greatest American War Ship, ————— The armored cruiser Now York, designed to be the most formidable Jargest man-ofswar in the Navy, was launched with ceremonies, at Cramp's shipyard, delphia, Penn, ns well as the Unitod States appropriaty Phila- The oruiser, named in honor of the Empire State, and christenal by one of the fair est of the daughters of the metropolis, Miss Helen Page, plunged into the waters of the Delaware at 3:20 o'clock in the afternoon. Painted snow white above the water lin ». the huge vessel, the largest by tons ever launched in the United States, movad down the ways much as a big ywslide glides Irom a steep roof on a sunny winter morns ing, Fully 25,000 persons saw the launch. Not only was it the launch of the bigges vessel ever built in this country, but it was the most imposing of the 205 launchings in the history of the Cramp shipyard. The as sembled company was distinguished and heterogeneous as wall, There repre sentatives present from the highest official wireles of the country, from the Four Huo. dred of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, Nearly a thousand of these people distinguished citizens of New York, by a patriotic interest in the graat v appropriately named after their i . Among those present were Vice-Presdeat Morton, Secretaries Tracy and Noble, sev Senators and Representatives, i A crew of twenty-five men from the yards went out on the launch trip to drop the § anchors and thus hold vessel near the || shore. From her anchorage s! will towed to of the wharves, whers she lie for nearly a year while workmen fasten on her steel armor, put her boilers and en. gines in place, and fit her out for sea duty. 15) nm 4 wore wera drawn me ¢ Dimensions and Armament. i The new cruiser is a veritable nava! giant, | ¢ with the greate iver. | ¢ saries that may be sd against | 1 tended for su od lesigned to cope 000, 000, onee a poor Lisutenant. who has creato City, practices from eight to ton hours a day, and never eats before one of his con- certs aged wrote a letter the day Vaioee he committed | suicide addressed | simply: ’ aged millionaires is D. O, the fashions in male attire very closely, wears his clothes well, and is altogether a model for a metropolitan Crassus to pattern after, banker, | Years, be reique paysiqus, will | per white, and his eyes hundred shots, PROMINENT PEOPLE, Quen VICTORIA has a grea faces, t memory for Saniky, the singing evangelist, has grown stout and gray, CUHAUNCEY Depew has had 2000 American infants named after him. Tux Princess of Wales has j her forty-soventh birthday, Jor, Mayes, Chief of Nation, eannot speak Cherokee ust celebrated the Cherokee -R OXE of the most successful cattle raisers in Wyoming is Frank Sartoris, Nellie Grant's brother-in-law, Mure, Axxe Mane Mazzixy, of Milan, Italy, has been announced us a candidate for Parlinment by her party, Tur Russian Prince, Gussor off, who died recently, is said to have been worth £230. His heir is his daugh Tue Polish jplaste, Ignace such a furore BALMACEDA and Boulanger mother, it appears t to his mott ter’s husband, Paderewski, in New York each left an hat each man wr which said ‘f go on a long journey.” Tue Beau Brummel of New York's middle Tug Cesar of Russin has the peasants in the famine stricken dist STORY, the sculptor, and Mr ares among Americans in Rome, the Iatt shout 2000) GexERAL Jous PALxER, n-Chicf of the Grand A ic, isa man of medium busmess-like hair and m are steal ! Fils Craxrion-Snor Fury m American soil to kill a bund wealthy, = mndsome sum each year ¢ tf his hobby, He is about fiy shes in height, of build an nanners Tur l AD, t is the promine ‘ bdomen { waistband t) marvelously gr i apportioned as to enabl ) arrion : cruise 13,000 mi fhe line gixty-two fect beam is sixty! draught twe f inches than 1X) tons The New York will carry for its comple. ment 475 officers and men, and will have a maximum speed of twenty knots an hour, while she will be able to maintain a sustained wl of 183 knots an hour and run 13.000 » than half the distance around without being obliged to stop for ner thas New York will bs 82943 will be added a boous o : INrter-gno above K y knot spee! lors, confident nity knots an b house four separate ongines power, Two will w starboard and two the port screw, and are so arrangsd that they may nected, iitting the vessel to wo power, The main battery of the New sists of six eight-inch i rifles, firing an armor-pi 20 pounds weight The protected by shields of thick The they be Kk on hall disco. per York gunn stee inter late firin barrels each, ‘he arm of the New Y didships and 23 in od about the t will he had from 700 ine lamps and four thirty-inch and the New York signed and will be fitted for a flagship 8 there is a great deal of work yet npiete the ogean warrior, eugines Hive andescont sgaren is especially de COTW to be done t NEWSY GLEANINGS, BRrazrv is again quiet Maxx has nineteen cities, A mG cider crop is reported, GERMANY bas 102,000 Socialist votes, TE sugar crop is 500,000,0000 pounds, FRANCE bas £200 000,000 in circulation I¥ Denmark influenza is rapidly spreading GronGia’Ss cotton crop is 2000 bales short Raiv-maxing in India failure, Tur water in Lake Michigan is visibly | sinking, | bas prove! a! Goar meat is now being sold in Chicago as mutton ; Nerruen Germany nor Prussia will require loans in 1502 SMALL POX is again epidemic in Guatemals { and Honduras i SMALL POX In tries of Georgia THE famine stricken area in Russia is hall as big as the United States Tux Bellamy colony in California has proved to be a amentable fallure, “STATENOOD" clubs are bein formed in all the cities and towns in Arita To complete the census work will require a further appropriation of §1,000,000 La omirre has boen alarmingly prevalent in Australia for the past few months. Tue State Treasury of Arkansas ia with out a dollar to pay the many demands made upon it, . Gensax soapmakers will use ofl made from American corn, fostead of Hussian Howse oil Tux wheat harvest in the Argentine Re public this year ls likely to be the heaviest over known, Russian peasants, not being used to » meat diet, have been made ill by eating the of animals, Tur experiment of trephining to curs fn- sanity, ‘nade recently at Cinclonati, bas proved raccessful, A cEnraix Mrs Bittenbander received Fotes for Bupreme Judge at the last election in Nebraska, THERE are forty-eight public schools for the deat in this country, with, in 19%, 6308 papi And eleven private schosls with 379 Peau will not be tod at the World's Fair in Chicago, because of the re- fusal of the Congress of make 8 suitable a pose, Wank retord Hens hethetn New York and bean on ” a train on the Pennsylvania Raton, train covered the 337 miles in four hours and eleven minute, beating the record by seven devastating the coast coun fluctuated per ounes . necessary to at an momical rate poet fOr |g who becomes *'4 sn ary War Hon, Ira Mix, was a Member mont Legislature prior to the War of 1812 Ira J. Chase was born in Clarkson, Monroe County, N. Y., parents subsequently removel. shook the country f tervals and a mass and in the mass of man bodies battery be twei ¢ Beeves, .... Milch Cows, com. to good | Nh } TAME IE 20 0000es Hoge Live Flour—City Mill Extra. ... Cheese Ntats : « alwa rs was so lar when seated & 31] } ., ar cut « rr his accommo Swabian r ne of his LarurExaxt Goverxon In Acting G rnor Alvi wy the death of Gov lecendant fh a ‘hase, one of the patriots his materoal December 7, the most Mills, who follows ordered that | about §25,000,000 be taken from the revenues { of his imperial estate and placed at | posal of the central committees of relief ii dis for cia, the Hooker, the onspleuoas or gentleman having lived in the Eternal City about forty The American colony there numbers the Commanders the Repub he' man rds at a Te ui devoles a the ve ge around tl at 1 LE linner froa A J. vernor™ n of Samuel Chase, a r of the Declaration of Independence, and Rufus ys Ravoluti grandiather, of the 1534, but hie FIVE BLOWN TO Fifty Tons ot Dynamite a Haverstraw (N.Y A terrible £0 ORION it thie of the Clint Haverstraw, N. Y., killed Jynamite nl thirty : § ele od 1] A second and third explos vrs A fl timbers ros { ten seo When citizn disaster a Near the AFD an Ba ing, hundred rms When t faut legs and heal having beer a Grand Army veteran, a and family, Carlos also | Williams ani Adelly single Perry Lounsiwrry's 4 culiar He lived at came from there with a two had fished all day straw Bay, and had rowad int L ry wy dl Fastenal missie mpany s dock aye ber dock whale his fr was struck by a flying killed, mies ATOMS, Explode in Min Compan five around ollowel at ane thie als ine ul wu i fool debris were the He + Nn Al famil "rs was | | }. and friend. Ths in Haver. he dynamits sox on the the at He end instantly Among the other helpers wears thre boys named Farrell, Dondero and M badiy cut and bruised The ruins the factory night ani were A frame structure, fifty by 10 it were manufactured cartrid forms of explhwives, Several tures were about It anil thes shatters, No one « mm acoount ‘or the satirely consume | tt All were until It was ot, and in gs and otaer smaller stra » were badly burasl } fe explosion, as the only ones who knew the cause are dead, THE MARKETS, 40 NEW YORK, Eee ’ alves, common to prime, Dressed. ... Patents, . Wheat—No, 2 Red. ......... Ryo—SHtate ITT TT Pope Barley Tworowed Ntate, Corn Ungraded Mixed, ,... Uats~No, | White, Mixed Western. Hay «dood to Cholos Straw--Long Rye... Lard-City Be Butter—8tate Creamery... om Finan Dairy, fair to good, West. Im. Creamery Factor Actory Skins Light Western Egze-Btateand Penn... . RUFYALOD tanan RORTON, ITTTTT ITT EE ER ® @sm n © sa PH aI m0 @ Hs Oil 1 09nd wid 0 oa wn WATERTOWN (MASS) CATTLE MARKET DostDressed weight, , ..... Live weight... ...... A A ET IT Hogw— FREES rr nrann PRILADRLIFHIA, Sin ibaken Poeun heat—No, 3 Red, Dee, ,,, raded Wi $e shew Ee Fhransnns LE] 104 wa ‘ia a he £7 aon «REET EFFR wll EXPRESS CAR LOOTED. Bold Work of Train Robbers Near St. Louis. They Use Dynaiaite and Seoure Over $20,000 Booty, A bold and successful train robbery took piece on the Bt, Louls and road near Glondaie station, about ten miles from St, Louis, Mo., shortly before 10 o'clock a few nights ago. The robbers had thelr plans well laid, and they escaped with money and valuables amounting to $90,000, and possibly more, The Adams Express Come pany was the victim, The men used dynamite with fearful effect. Six men took part in the robbery, When the train reached Old Orchard it is supposed that four men boarded the express car, two them Jimbing front platform and two of them the rear. The other two, it is bee lieved, boarded the train at Glendale Shortly after the train loft Glondale two men silently made their way over the heaps of oal in the tender toward the engine cab, As soon as they secured a good footing they opened the heavy duck® shield which does duty as a door during the cold seas nn, and placing revolvers at the heads of the mgineer and fireman, with a stern Voioe sid: “Hold up hands.” When this was done, the spokesman said to the engi neer, Wagner: “Stop the train.” And the ragineer complied with alacrity. As soon as the train came 0 a standstill the engineer and fireman were taken to the express car. In the meantime the express messenger, who had suspectad that some thing was wrong, had closed and bolted the loors of the car and stood Inside ready to lolend the property intrusted to his cars But the odds were against him and the poor lellow was latally shot ¥ hen the two robbers had piloted the en gineer and fireman to the they placed them under guard and began, first by FURNIYS IDeans, to try to induce Muirenen to open the door of the car Hut the latter was urate A stick of the ex plosive was then nlaced against the car and fuse lightea la & quarter a minute a loud “bang” reververated through the surrounding woods, an flying splinters indicated that the dynamite had " ormed its mission. As the door fell in ae robbers entered the car and, taking the fr ® messenger, soon had pen Everythin 1 the safe wast Ban Francisco ’ of the Car [rey M eanon gor Ol wn the wale 0 and sino the messenge ¢ 1 watch Eastin ates as to the an int seon widely, ra: 5) to 850 While tw the EE Work at the express oar bandits Eeapt th ! and pase by firing were fired oking fortunately its in was hurt The railroad officials believe that one of the robbers is a railroad man, ax he is sald to have the firecoan not to put any more coal in the furnace. A nrg posses made a search for the bandits and th city officers strained every nerve to uncover the hiding place of the outlaws THE LABOR WORLD, IXTHA servants _ i. a santh New Yonx New Exar tng Were the « into the none of Dates instructed 19 : $l has 13 15) telegrapt AND loom fixers ar Ismraxarous Temple INDIARAIOLIS BR unon IXDIAXAPO laundry in Bgitat ng bicycle makers have Tan have a o-operative New Yous Cry bs an makers’ anion Italian cabinet VONTANA has instil: + AZninst the (°} A HB» has | Tux Eight | intive Asseomt y large ma Ins Mutua abmt UN ted an altwolute boy oot Te THERN of Electrical wen formed in St. | urs Hill { New THM stro {teen e boy Panis has | oe ar thing the « LOX tra Armen nge thommwives five wages to creates strike f ing National Union. of France, has petitioned the Chambers to os tablish Gove Mmment abhow stores Ix a Kansas City Mo church debates are held between workingmen and capital ists on the economic questions of the lay an fl Commerce MNhoemakers Trot Chamber Is to receive a twelve city the influence of the London : ur day 10 that the montas trial LUFrICALs of the United Mine Workers’ Union have found women working in the mines at Houtedale, Pen: d six. teen hours per day Tux bours of labor which duosd to eight per day in the conl mines of Hungaria, where the © wernment is the owner, bave again been increased to twelve IT has beens supposed that Swedes were the best carpenters of the ninetesuth centary, but it seems now secording to authority, that Italians are pressing them close for first place, fifteen a had been re Tur Government of the Argentine Repub. lie owes several thousand of ite employes and laborers from three to five months’ wages. and there are strikes in many Gov oro. ment shops and offic «= AROUT 57) unemployed workmen recently gathered under the windows of the Due of Genoa, at Venice, Italy, in the dead of night, shouting: “Weare starving and we want work.” They wore dispersed by the police Tux Chinese in the fruit districts of Cali. fornia are having a hard time They have been driven out of a balf-dogsn towns in Fresno County and now Placer County bor. Honlturists have decided not to rent or chards to the Mongobans. The Chinese sre interested solely in getting the largest possi. ble crops, and fail to take proper care of the trees, There bb a demand for good white men with small capital to carry on orchards In Placer County EE —— MORE NAVAL ENGINEERS. Commodore Melville's Report Says We Must Have Them, The annual report just filed of Commodore Melville, Engineer -in-Chief of the Navy and Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, states that the number of engineering of floors is insnfliciont, and emphasizes the fact that unless measures are at once taken to remedy this condition we shall long haven ser yas breakdowa or scoident ou some of our vessis, The number of engineer oMosrs should be At lonst 30, Upon the training of the ene listed men of the engineer force depends the efficiency of our ships as fighting machines, in ha a discouraging ex | of { whe | She sister of DOM PEDRO DEAD, The Ex-Emporer of Brazil Expires at DOM PEDRO, Dom Pedro died in betes, a Paris, France, of dia. His Princess Isabells, was at his bedside when his lns®. The late Brazil was called Dom Pedro hecause that was his father's official title. He was born on Decembm } , At Rio de Janeiro, and became Emperor on the abdication of his father in Ape 1831 He was declared of July, 1 and wer few nights ago daughter be breathed Empero> he “4 ign p Ae fifteen assumed the 1541, he was cor ns BOVEr In July Venrs YW TM late; Princess Francis | 10 of the marr mar ied to Maria Naples Princes died « aed Was " . i horesa Uhristina ate King of he fan And Lwe ung. Dot 3 in nis manner, was well N and soo FP Princess The Princes 1 Pedr t from The rev THE PUBLIC DEBT. The Monthly Statement Issued by the Treasury Department The monthly public debt statement mused from the shows a reduction in the debt during the last mouth « There was a reduction $1. 040.09 in the n interest bearing debt, and $034 460 in the debt on which interest has cegsed sinoe maturity; an increase of $1300 the interest bearing debt, and a de crease of $545 0081 (8 in the surplus cash tn the Treesury. Theaggregate of interest and non-iuterest bearing debt, less $39 196 917 90 tet cash balance of surplus and the $100,000, . 0 gold reserve, fs SRS 618 008 15 Of this amount $585 000 S70 is interest bearing debt, made up of #50 573.650 1 $25,561, 500 two per cont onde, and four per cent. refunding certificates The cash in the Treasury acy eZntes $748 856.750, made un of #271. 544.188 In gold coin and bullion, 341% S98 340 in siiver coin and bullion, M3 10s bh In 3 ng ny and $20. 506. 011 ainst Habilities to rency oertifios £ pint to $060, 231 Tn, amounting to #4 The gold coin and bullion fund Treasury ngaregatos $271, 84 lL an of pearly 8 000.00 durin vember: the silver fund, amounting to 12,808 340. i» about $3 000,000 more than it was a month Jumt Treasury Department, bonds $88. T2 r' per oent MY, this vd cur amouniing Habilities mi S04) current Os 1Z in the norease Uovernment receipts from all sources dur. ing November aggregated $24,917,162, against $38,086,124 in November, 190) Government receipts during the five months of the current fiscal year, or up to December 1, aggregate $147,512 301, against SISTATA308 during the corresponding mouths of the pre-eding flecal year—a fall ing off of nearly $40,000 we pension charge for the flve months of the current fiscal year amounts to 2 LULL 408, aguinst $00 248 558 during the first five months of preceding fiseal year. The inter. et charge during last month amounted to only $360.245, and for the last tive months was $0,290 245, against 83 557 em during No vember, 1800, and $20 5.3, 910 during the five months of the preceding fiscal year, x NAVAL ARMAMENT. Annual Report of Chief Folger, of the Burean of Ordnance Commodore Folger, Chief of the Burean of Ordnance, in his annual report, estimates | of the Bureau for the next flaca! your at $L7850.201 of which M ISA3Y f+ & be applied toward the armament of new vessels authorised to be butit, The number of guns required to arm the new vessels fx placed at 347, ranging In calibre from four to thirteen inches, [he guns completed number 155 of which 117 wore sixdnch ealibee Commodore Folger thinks thet some form of smokeless gunpowder will soon be used excludively in oalibres of sx inches and Jom; also that oar navy will soon be equipped with ante-mobiles torpedoes, equal, if not m perior, to those possessed by Europsan na thon Tha Bureau will recommend the arming of vessels with a short gun for firing gun cotton projectiles and has given an order for 5,00) pounds of gun cotton to the Duponte, who will have a gun-cotion plant in operation in two months, The use of the sabmarine gun on rams ls favored and a submarine boat for naval usw od! In snggosted, The resisting power of the Harvelssl nickel steel plate armor is commended high iy. The establishment of a National gus factory on the Pacific const is advisad, MARCHING ON PEKIN, The Imperial Troops of China Mave Beon Defeated in Nanohuria the expenses — AUR SABBATH INTERNATIONAL LESSON DECEMBER 13, For Lesson Text: “Christ Risen” John %, L18.Golden Text: Rom. vill, 34 “Commentary, 1. “The first day of the wesk cometh Mary Magdalene eariy, when it was dark, unto the sepuicher, and sesth stone taken away trom the sepulcher.’ was one of thoss who saw This death and burial, then with the others returned and prepared spices and ointments, and rested the Sabbath day according to the command - ments (Mark xv., 47; Luke xxiii, 35. 55 2. “Then she runneth and cometh to Bimon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sspulcher, and we know not where they have laid Him There had been an earthquake and a resur. rection not only of the body of Jesus, as He bad foretold, but also of the bodies of many of the saints (Math, xxvil., 51-53), and when Mary and the other women rea wd the tomb an angel sat upon the stone by the mouth of the tomb and sald that Jesus was risen (Math, xxiii, 1.6 Mary Magdalens was the first to run with the tidings to the disciples, but she did not take in the word that He was risen any more had received would rise 3 yét ths Mhe Angel's than Lr Joms's own word that How fearful is unbeli “"FPetor therefore went f wrth, other disciple, and came to the sepuleher 4. “Bo they ran both to other disciple did outrun Veter to the sepulcher 5 “And be, stooping down in, saw the linen clothes lying not in.” Joseph and Nicod the body in linen clot dred poun of myrrh ar (chapter xix, Had His taken away by either friends would not likely have disro! would not, and enemios w careful to Jeave the cic they disrobed it 6. “Then cometh him, and went Int the linen « the i before he would deny Him: wi on the water to Him, and wi 1 the boat in vel it in H '¢ that ' i other; aud and came dem fies with » is weight vo ) Bimor the senulch othes lie Fouled ve mine Meter who w | OLY Was Mary's was taken away: but amily risen from the dead youd seem 10 ten won 4 us they “For as yet they knew that He must not “Then the disciples wont away own home Had He 1 | preaching and faith would be ali people would be yet in their sine, all the dead | bave perished (I Cor, xv., 13.19. and vet this | great fact being all but proved to thess f most disciples, they go disconsolate to 1 { homes. Ob, what patience our Lo | with them and with us, Let | with all who still cling to earth | heaven 1} | aicher weeping - us But Mary stood without at and as she win and looked into the wep Him greatly was truly His were Peter and John, but it wa sad, her Nhe was wept, whe : i loved sihye tors 0 unbelievis was joad when she ought ip 10 sew the i sorth tw anges one at the head and where the body Jesus had ais When He died He committed His spirit foto hands of His Father; the angels kept guard over His body We wonder what they thought of that other guard wh ne of them caused almost to die with fright (Math | xxvidl., 4 What have you nmitted to 1 Jesus's care and how tally are you persuaded | that He does and will care for you and keep all you have committed unto Him 13. “And they say unto ber, Woman, why weepest thou Nhe saith uoto them, Because they have taken away my Lord and | know not where they have laid iim.” 4. And when bad thus | turned herself back, and saw Jesus stand. | ing, and know not that it was Jesus” Why | 3id she turn? Did the angels look up and | thus call her attention to one behind her? Possibly! And now she sees Him whom she | sought, and does not know even Him Oh, | bow blind we are made by grief and unbe | Bot! 15. “Jesus mith unto her, Woman, why woepest thou' whom seskest thou' She, | supposing Him to be the gardoer, saith un | to Him, Sir, if Thou have borne Him henos, tell me where Thou hast laid Him, and 1 will take Him away." In apswer to “Whom seekest thou or “What seek ye” chapter L. 35 may our hearts say, “Jesus, alive tor pver more.” See inJer. xxix, IA how we shall find Hin, But observe from this verse in our jesson that He may be speaking to us and we may not recognise Him 16. “Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself and saith unto Him, Rabboni; which is to say master.” She seems alter turning from the sepuicher, and supposing Him to havebsm the garduer, to have turned back to the sepuloher again. But that one word “Mary™ reached her heart 17. “Jesus saith unto bar, Touch Ms not; for | am not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My thren and say unto them, I mscennd unto My Father and your Father; and to My God and your God” What grace and love heyoud desaription, that on the way to the Father in His risen body, He should wait to se and speak with Mary Magdalene, Oh, for such heart longings for Him as she had, IX “Mary Magdelons came and told the uving | the mm said she she disciples that she bad seen the Lord and that He had spoken theses thiage unto ber” Her tears are wipal away, hor sorrow is gone, her heart Is at rest. The risen Savior did it and a word from Him, and now she bears the first glad tidings from » risen Christ, — Lesson Helper, Ir the pulpit really desires the ald or co-operation of the press in an earnest endeavor to make the world better, let the ministry begin by weeding out the disciples of Dives, whose alleged peccadilloes are too often overlooked simply because they contribute liberally to support the church. Such a movement would be regarded as an earnest of good faith, EE ——— - SINCERE friends of temperance win -— A ———— 1 W—— os ——. | fruit, whic h compares | in te mperate | Are something | covered THE WONDERS OF ALASKA) LOVELY GARDENS IN THE MIDeT OF VAST FIELDS OF ICE, Fields of Luscious Fruit Along a Glaciers Edge--EKxperiences of an Exploring Party, Btrawberries and mosquitoes seen to bes equally plentiful in the neighborhood of Mount St, Eline, ne ording to Lhe tes. timony of Mr, Israel C. Russell, who has Just returned to Washington from thas region of eternal ice and snow in Alaska, where toe highest peak in North America rises to an altitude of 19,000 feet froma glacier 1000 square miles in ares snd as ig as all those of the Alps put together, Along the edge of the giacier, all tl way from Icy Bay to Yakutat } extends a strip of green coast w with luxuriant Strawberry vine cover the 1 . RIT hip : : , and the verdant fields re : ground ldened luscious 1 point inest grown ati ' are hug as far the eve of size and flavor w KiC- berries, too, and ¢ 1 berries,’ wich Detwoen isck berries and | raspberries, but of gia | DeRriy two inches | lowlands are « | | : rover & ba Two men Sudder rht, having 4% wl, Mr. Rus- h he had an CROT- gone, unk JWT leaving hi iis men was o1 feet iy because thick ol ils er interesting IOUS size, ) OY renson of the fact t) at it is ply one now in existence of the same type as the glacier which formerly covered all of this continent as far s uth as Philad« iphia and St. Louis, leaving that are visible to this day ia scratches on the rocks traces Where the land in that region is bare he attains an almost + and the Arctic jun. 10 the ex- One of the chief « bstacles en. vegetation tropical luxuriance gles are well plorer, nigh impasable | countered in threading them is a plaat | | | | ribs of | spines, known aa the *‘devil's club.” which grows 1o a height of ten or fiftecn feet. its stems running along the ground for some distance and thea turning upward, Every part of its surface, even to the the le is thickly set with which inflict painful wounds, snd, breaking off in the flesh, cause fes- g sores. In the Lucia Glacier oe- curs a most interesting feature, in the shape of a glacial river which comes out from a mountain through an archway of ice, flows fora mile and a balf in plain view, and then is Jost to sight in another tunnel. Where the stream emerges fioally unknown. No explorer has as yet been bold enough to enter the tunsel and drift through, after the fashion of Alisa Quatermain and Umslopogass. The greatest risk in such an undertaking would be from falling blocks of ice. At the mouth of the taanel there are al- ways confused noises aad rhythmic vi. brations to be heard from the dark re. costes within, The air is 8'ed with pulsations like deep organ notes, and is requires but little imagination to trans. form these strange sounds into the voices and songs of inhabitants of the nether world. Tt used to be supposed that Mount St. Elias was 0 voleano, and sea captains sailing on the Pacific have often id what they imagined to be smoke imuing from its summit; but this is mistake, and it is probable that the ale loged smoke was really avalanche dust hows upward by the wind. New York ives, ———— Adnlterated Howey.
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