is r China's Emperor has got tired of eounting with the abacus and is now studying English arithmetic, The six new States, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wash- ington and Wyoming, will have, col- lectively, twenty votes in the next Elec. toral College. Slavery still exists in Portuguese In- dia. A Brahmin, at Kalloda, possesses a village of thirty-two hut, where every soul is as truly his slave and property as in the olden days; and recently a Portu guese, traveling from Goa, spoke openly of the slaves on his estate. A New York preacher, who preaches among the most ignorant of the city’s population, employs many devices to en- force his meaning-—using rats, frogs, pumps, snakes, electricity, and chemicals in object sermons. The Australian city which was founded less than fifty years of Melbourne, ago, has already a population of nearly half a million, and stands fifth the cities of the British now a great shipping port, and i empire. quarter is small. No colors can be ‘‘nailed to the mast. head” of a new steel warship. Douot less, suggests the Chicago Herald, Se retary Tracy and Clark Russell and the gallant jack tars of naval tradition may feel one pang of regret at this impenetra- bility of a metallic mast. Fortunately the metallic bulwarks are equally inpens able. Aconite seems to be the favorite p of physicians who seek t The death by this lass, in Kansas City y take their Dr , will means of the memory of newspaper read fact that within the last six months have been four or five cases ymitted suicid medical men who have com by the use of this same drug. A curious fact revealed by the figures th of the recent census is that while are in the United States three cit over 1,000,000 inhabitants each, one between 800,000 and 900,000, three between 400,000 and 500,000 gach, 30( each, there is not a single one having 20 { sine of between 200,000 sad tween 300,000 and 400,000 inhab A Russian journal reports an ing case of a philanthropic physician. Visiting the patients of his district, the | found doctor that their sickness was caused by hunger, in many instan To the most needy he prescribed six pound of pure rye flour in doses of two He the medicine at a day. ordered his patient the drug store of nearest village, where it would be issue free of doctor made arrangements with t gists to supply the flour at h In this way his patients will be kept charge every day. he drug is € Xpeuse from starvation the whole winter, According to the Boston the wood cutters of England object to the methods of the Salvation strongly : Army in interfering in their business. One of the avoecations to which General Booth has assigned a part of the outcasts and unfortunates he is reclaiming jis that of wood cutters. The enterprise, backed ap by benevolent « ontributions, has been extremely successful, so that General Booth is now of the merchants of London. one largest wood He is, of course, able to undersell those with smaller cap ital who have noone to set them up in business. What is needed is not greater competition, for it ig that They need competition which has overthrown them, a country where is loss fierce and the chances of success for small capitalists are greater, built a small steamboat for the Magda. lene River, in the United Yombia, says: “They get $2.50 per 100 for freight 380 miles, and $60 for pas. sengers, $10 extra if they take a room. But there is hardly one who waots a room, They all carry their bed with them. It consists of a straw mat. You will see them come aboard with beds un. der their arms, Along this river there fs some very fine land. Everything grows without aid. They never plow or hoo, but just put the sexd in the ground and go off and leave it ull it gots ripe. They can raise three crops of corn a year, and fine potatoes, Vegetation of every kind grows the year round. The climate is just the same, nover varies more than ten degrees, It is now sev. enty.five degrees. Mosquitoes and alli. gators are plentiful on the river. It Is amusing to see the monkeys playing on the trees as we pass, and the alligators plunging into the water. There Is no system about boating down here. They are never in a hurry and take ro care of anything. If they had a full crew of our steamboatmen they would get rich ia » alior!, time," { | cause gencral regret to the | the restorers hand | coveri | up. interest. | The ood | Cultivator | | humdrum, | mostly in villages, an for England | | " ana dispersed in forest districts of An American boatbuilder who has just | States of Co. | wisn ion President Dwight, of Yale College, while not favoring the admission of women to study in the classes with men, does wish Yale had a woman's annex, and the only objection he finds to its establishment is that the university hasn't the money to put into it, George W. Bmalley, London corre- spondent of the New York Z'ribune, suys that a very high naval authority in Eng land recently declared that the Baltimore of the Uaited Navy, could knock the whole Chilia and Charleston, States navy into a cocked hat in half an hour. It the Mayor to form a committee and raise is in contemplation by fund for sending outa selected number of Lot don, England, to the Chicage Exhibition to their representative working men from in 1803, with a view makin bits reports on the industrial ex as was done on the occasion of tl two exhibitions in Paris. The great damage done to two of the picturesque old mansions in Southern California by a recent windstorm will thousands of Eastern travelers who have admired the mottled walls,quaint belfries and crum- bling cloisters. It is to be hoped that may be | these missions belore it is too late, It is hard to believe in careless financiering that in transact) a period of seven years amount £13. sh exceeding yald have been bt and that Neverthele . Que en honors them * (so the official euphen feed hey must snd clot! selves. — A novel verdict was rendered by a Northamption Count y jury at Easton a After finding the de- day or two ago. of the charge, the = fendant not guilty costs were divided in four equal parts, The prosecutrix was directed to pay one fourth. the defendant one-fourth, the constable who made the arrest one-fourth, . ; the justice of the pt who made J and “Verdicts of (Peon. ¥ + : AF CS O00 return one-fourth, ' says the Allentown a salutary id of going a) to law 3 IM ’ on justices who send cases of nature to court; but will it hold law A «Statistics show,” York Tribune, ‘‘that more insane asylums comes from wn any other source proportionately and a very large per cent. of The The {farmer's wife, contrary to nature, spends thes women. cause is evident, most of her time in comparative isolaticn, | anc ber wakeful hours are all passed in wearing, nerve-exhausting There are few to with wn bor. converse her thoughts outward, away from Her mind herself. to le a i herself and her environment, r tumned inward, upon strain In live This, long continued, becomes a and the mind eventually gives away. foreign countries, where farmers insane woman is a rat ity, because her condition is natural. Thoughtful care for ‘mother’ on the part her husband and the other members the family would oft deprive the vlum of a new victim.” Among the starving people of Russia, the most pitable are the Tchoovashes, a Finnish tribe, numbering about 500,000, the Governments of Kuzan, Simbrisk, Oren. burg and Oofa. They bear their misfor- tunes with perfect stoicism ; they do not clamor for food on the roadside, as their Slavish neighbors do, nor do they sur. round every new comer, begging and re- lating their miseries. A special corre- spondent of the St. Petersburg Novosti, traveling about to observe the famine. stricken people and to study their con. dition, draws a most impressive pen pie. ture of the poor Tehoovashes. He found some of them literally ‘‘swollen with hunger,” others too feeble to leave their huts, patiently waiting for death to re. lieve them, but he heard not a sigh nora groan nor the least complaint of any of them. They spoke to him in monosylla- bles and answered his questions briefly, as though they were afraid to utter a word too much or to betray their miser. jes. **And it is no wonder,” the writer adds, “that they behave in this man. ner. They are the most oppressed of the Car's subjects, The police authorities always suspect the Techoovash to conceal something, on account of his searcity of words, and treat him accordingly. May God judge them [® — ————————— oe - DEATH'S HARVEST. Cardinals Manning and Simeon’ and Prince Albert Vietor. Brief Sketches of the Careers of the Distinguished Dead. CARDINAL MANNING, double ol ang The people of England sufferel a affliction Cardinal Manning, the aged Prince Albert Victor, the heir to the British throne and Avondale expired at 8:15 o clock In the morning, his death being preceded by that of Cardinal Manning, who passed away just | an hour earlier At almost the sumne hour | the death of Cardinal sd irred at Jome, Italy in the death on the same day praiate, presumptive The Duke of Clarencs Bime Cardinal Manning Cardinal Manning's iliness began in the | form cold. His weakness after a | wook's (liness was extreme, and toward the close was #0 great that he can hardly have of a slignt ment of these young f | curred next month, been aware of | vthough he re. A | tained hi Chus he WAS eT sufferis HISTOR ERS # ared excessive il y AWaAre o while he was fu f end Bog } onroaching | bis approactung | that t! nen of the Archbish FE lock the Bishop rd ing a marked change in the Cardinal, menced to repeat the prayers for the dying The Cardinal smiled on hearing the familiar words, and moved his lips At into a quiet deep, and remained in dition until death came at when, gle, he vielded up bis spirit lothed in the archiepisoonal preparatory to the lying in state in the Pro-Cathedrs where the Cardinal's hat and other losignia of his high of asa Prince of the Church were added Cardinal Manning left a will, brief and simple in terms, for his propevty was smal The little he had he gives nearly all nearest relative, a aged ninety fw yoars The body was placed in the reception room of the building in which the Cardinal died, pending arrangements for its lying in state in St George's Cathedral, fn the Westmin ster Bridge road His Bminence Henry Edward, Cardinal Priest of the Roman Church, Archbishop of Westminster, was the son of the late Wm, Manning, Ee, Member of Parliament, merchant, of London He was born at Totteridge July 15, 1808 was educated at Balloil Ce in first ty" » we J H of Ball —. oom. that con with »A mater, Hertfordshire, Oxford, wher he graduated B.A class honors in 1530 and came Fellow of Merton ( He was for some time preachers in the University was appointed Rector of Lavington and Graff ham Sussex, 1834, and Archdeacon of Chi chester in 1540 These preferments he resigned in 1851, joining the Roman Catholic Church, in which he entered the priesthood, and in 1857 founded an ecclesiastical congregation at Bayswater, entitled the Oblates of Ht, Charles Borromeo, The degzroe of D.D. was conferred upon him at Rome and the office of Provost of the Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster, Protonotary Apostolic and Domestic Prelate to the Pope After the death of His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman Mgr. Manning was © ated Archbishop of Westminster, June 8 15865 Pope Pius 1X. created him a Priest March 15 the title assigned to him being that of 88. Andrew and Gregory on the Uoslian Hill The same Pontiff vested him with the Cardinal's hat in a oon sistory held at the Vatican December 31 lege, Twn ollege { the f Oxford on Nh 1875, He was the author of a large to his | 9 HE | oreat-granddaughter of 25 he fell | | mantic stories | favorite Harrow and | sdect | | Cardinal | i= number of | religious books, besides numerous sermoas | aud pamphlets Cardinal Manning only for his work was well known, not LE) a Roman Catholic | prelate and divine, but also for his exertions | ip the cause of temperance and social re form He had taken a leading part in the ment of the labor disputes with which don has been troublel for several past, The celebration of the Cardinal's Episco- pal jubilee took place on Sunday, June 8 1800, setbie I 4] yours Duke of Garenoce, The Duke of Clarence and Avondale, eldest son of the Prince of Wales and heir pre sumptive to the British throne, died at San. dringham Hall, London, at 9 A, M, ben the last moments came the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Prince and Princess of Teck, and the Princess Victoria Mary, commonly known as the Princes May, the betrothed of the Prince, ware grouped at the bedside, The Frincess ay bad passed a sleepless night, but she bore herself with courage in face of her terrible affliction, Her ayes, red with weeping, and the heaving breast told of her broken heart. The Princess of Wales phed her deep grief and ber heartfelt share in their lose, The Lord Mayor received a dispateoh from the Prinew of Wales that “Our beloved son passed away at 9 4 0" The Lord Mayor at ordersd the great bell of Bt, Paul's tdlled, accordin to custom when a member "of the royal family dies. The bell, which wa on nally known as Great Tom, ones hung in the tower of the House of Parilament, but, by perm 1, was removed to Bt Paul's on New Years — ——— and tical engagements were Also oan. - The Lord Chamberlain, soon after the death of the Duke of Clarence was made known, formally and officially telegraphed the news to the crowned heads ot Earope, to the President of the United States, the President of France, and to the Presidents of the less important republics All the evening newspapers at once issued extras, with black-bordered columns, an nouncing the sad intelligences, By the death of the Duke of Clarasn co and Avondale Prince George of Waies comes the heir of the Princes of Wales therefore helr-presumptive to the throne Albert Victor Christian Edward was the eldest of five children of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and thus heir presump- tive to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland and the imperial disdem of India. He was born at Frogmore, Janu ary 8, 1564, and educated under the supervision of Hav, J, N. Ualton, who, as a reward for his services as tutor, was in 1885 made Canon of Windsor at a salary of §5000, The Prince entered the navy as a midshipman in 1577 and passed tw board the man-of-war Britannia he went to the West Indies with bh Prince George, on the be. and ) YORI's on In 187¢ 8 brother, Bicchante ind dor ing 1880-82 they traveled extensively, ing much time in South America, Australia and South Africa In 1888 Prince Albert Vietor Trinity C am bridge summer of the same year berg. He studied in shot in 1854 and was made the Tenth Hussars in the He was promoted to a Captais in 1580 became third Major, to the peerage Duke of Clarencs Athlone The dead Prince wasn y emplary private life though never so n brother, Prince him as heir presumptive known as “Collars an peachapt for wearing agrerated height and widtl Heo loaves to we pon h in the parson of Pr Teck, only daughter o Louis, Duke of Teck and Her R Mary Adelaide W mins, Da and cousin of Que spend. enterel and in ti went to Helde P lege, C Htary sciences al Alder in na ach yenr ge Fin. KS grew « Jove affair, and the we t 5 ng was a : Many preity DUKE OF CLARENCR ANT f their wo London. The young peop habit of having surreptitious me like an ordinary Mary and every Hyde Park in the early morning rendezvous Richmond, ad} As Princess Y i stings J lay 4 win Is a George 111, and the Prince was a greatgreat-grandson, they were what is commonly Kuown as cousins.” Her title was not “Serene” Highness, Nhe is Imperial Order of the Cr of the new orders created Queen Victoria, She in Kensington Palace Beside his military Clarence received a liberal bis father, whose in 1850 increased to $375 to enable him "to pr vide for his children “yp yal” wn was Dore PRINCESS VICTORIA The dead Prince leaves in line of three sisters, Princess Louise, the Da Princess Maud Prince George is a light-hearted young fellow who bears his inherited honors graes fully, He is a Lieutenant in the navy manding the Thrush on the North Amer station He was even more popular than his more sedate elder brother, Cardinal Simeon A oablegram from Rome Italy, says: Cardinal Nimeonl, formerly Papal Secretary of State and Frefect-General of the Propa ganda is dead. His death was due to an at tack of influenea, from which he had boen suffering for several days, Giovanni Simeoni was born at Paliani, July 23, 1816, and having been ordained a priest, he was, on account of his learning, employed in offloss of importance. In 1847 he was Auditor of the Nunciature of Madrid, In 1857 he was appointad Domestic Pre late to the Pope and was sent again to Spain as envoy for the affairs of the Sea. The next year he was made Pronotary Apostolic in full. Por years he acted as Bcoretary to the Oonghigaeion of the for the Affairs of the Oriental Rite, In 1575 the Pope created him Cardinal, re. serving him , and later in the same yoar he od him in Consistory On the death of Cardinal Antonelli ia 1576 he was appoiittad Beoretary of State to Pope Plus 1X, which office he retained until the death of that Pontiff ot I — - OF TRCK. hie primogenitare, Pra Princess \ hoses of File, baile in and oom oan Tur number of persons who committed sulcide in Paris, France, during the past was 8X0, and of these suicides 243 wera hanging, 205 by drowning, 104 by as yxiat 138 by shooting, sixty dive by ng from a window or monument, thirty-three by poisoning, twenty-four by stabbing, five by being run over by trains and thirteen by other methods, Tur American Ball Telephone has forwarded its 0 i Saparimin jie { THE NEWB EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. Tne New Jersey Lozislature organized at Trenton, James J. Gergen, of Bomerset, was elocted Bpeaker, Tue Sibley seed bullding, and a chapel in Rochester, N, Y,, were destroyed by fire; loss, $125,000, James A. Barney, of the iniley show, has purchased of the Adam Forepaugh show estate of James E, Cooger, of Penn. Cuigyr Jupor WiLLiax C Court of Appeals, died a Lh) He was born at Bridzewnt N. Y., about fifty-el; ACCORDING to the heads of departments Cott, the total receipt York City last year were ex enditures { revenue ¥ nis rex ton CHARLES AUGH or ol the Helat Belence to the Christian He Oriental and Old Testament Literature, Princeton, N. J., College, died a fow morn. arnum & the full rights owned by the Philadelphia, Ruaen, of the vracuse, MN, Y. ar, Oneida County annual to P of the 80,5 reports of the wtmaster Van joe in New 105 952.08, total wid the South and West, while s | biridg | the « Romenr 1. ( jdest ving J | fow days ag | Chester was Dor go» AA Tux ret rivet was | the United State great | “third | | the embassy in Wasa Works 3 ey and many uavy were preset Trem eT HEY the o reetta H Hexay Cx A Mere GG wered wn hanged ut wurder of Harben was An old man Harben and Harben t ae his countrymen, hanged at Poplar Biuf named Smith said a farm took his notes part pay murdered him to Joss Brow the mw as Washington, Tae President White House to t REPRESENTATIVE mats (Or Nii. the department srgresting a Si ay In Was! Hill, of linner at r David B e laid for eighteen, » guests seated luded Senators Wa thall, Black! ockerell, Gordon, Hiscock, Hoar, Platt, Vilas, Sawyer, Casey, Daniel Squires, Faulkner, Carey and Vance, ave fn wry isle, ( Tae Chinese Minister gave a reception at ngton, which was the nt of the season Int nm purpose Foreign, Tne gig of Commander Evans of the United States cruiser Yorktown, was stoned at the Valparaiso h passenger mole by rowdies. Commardsr Evans complained to the Chilian naval senior officer, who app ok gizad for the insuil Mu Axp Mas Fraxois Wears were found dead in bed at Wood Green, London, Eagland. Their only child, aged three, iny dead near by, its little body being horribly mutilated. There wera no marks of viol on the parents bodies, and 1t is supposed that while temporarily insane they took poison and k fled the little one. Taz French Chamber of Deputies at Paris re-slectod M. Floquet as President of that body. A GREAT fire, which cause! a damage of $4. 500,000 broke out at Watson's soap works, Leeds, England, and raged all day, destroy ing the depots of the Northwestern and Mid land rafllways and a large number of other buildings. A fireman was roasted to death before the eyes of his associates, Five more refusess from the American Legation at Santiago, Chile asd two from the Spanish Legation were taken aboard the United States cruiser Yorktown, The American, Spanish and Italian Ministers acted as thelr escort, Anan slave traders in Nyassaland attacked a British outpost, killing Captain Maguire, commander of the South Africa Company's foree of Sikhs: Dr. Doyle, Mr. McEwan, the engineer of the company's steamer, and nine Sikhs Many more persons were wounded F100 Tue new census of Newfoundland and Labrador shows a population of 202,000, Firry army officers have been arrested in Sofia, 1 with being implicated in a the lives of Prince Ferdinand, flotef or of Bulgaria, and M, Stambulof, whe Bulgarian Prime Minister, Hav floods have caused enormous age in the Provinos of Huelva, Spain, Tue band of revolutionists who were for. A NEWSBOY-GOVERNOR. North Dakota's Chief Executive Origs inaliy a New York Walf, | of North Dakota, is | of New {| Boclety of that city has provide | the West. GOVERNOR ANDREW i. BURKE Andrew H. Burke, the present Governor one of the 75,000 wails ldren's Ald nes in York for whom the Ch n Andrew West many years age Young Burke was sent mand was ado | geutieman named Butier, { was employed | neapolis and was married | peapolis be went to a su | New York Mills, on the | Raliroad, and took charge « { and sawmills, Afterward Casselton, N. D., and after dence became Cashier of the Bank there, Three year: elected Treasurer of the © the position for six years tion he was elected © Uoan ticket ik B&B Whos Fre DY AT TIN EWALKING AT A TIGHT-ROP ING. Men Dead lace How as the Result of a Three in a Village w A riot ¥ ] Lal t it put hm in : AL 2 « atl the Jali ana eared ut and clock in i An nu Ve Murase banged him in ¢ THE MARKETS, KEW YORK wi, com. 40 goo , comanon to 'wo-rowed Ntate ~Ungraded Mix - Nt White Mixed Western Hay~Good to C » Straw Long Hye Hops, State, 159] Lard City Steam Butter—State Creamery Dairy, fair to good, West. lm, Creamery Factory ‘ Cheese—State Factory Kkims—Light.. Western chile Bgge—State and Penn Beans, marrow, 1841 per bust. Green pons bush Apples __. , pet 1801 King Npitzenberg, per RC Baldwin, per d. WN bis Greenings, pet bb Grapes— Western N tawhba, 5 i Western N.Y cord Poultry, Live-—F Ntate and Hooters _ per Lurkey per in LICK N J. per pair ce nens Geese, Western, per pair, Pigeons, per pair Potatoes—J ersey State Hose and Hebron, 180 ih 1 State, other kinds, L. 1. in balk, bbl Bweet potatoes, Jersey, bbl. 1 BUFFALO, enn ans ie Medium to Good, ... Lan beFair to Good. ,..... Hoge=00d to Choloe Yorks Flour Best Winter Wheat--No. 1 Northern. .... Corn—No. 4 Yellow. ...... Onte<No, & White, ...coveee Barley=No. 2 Westera PRILADELPRIA. 2 FURR AYD SKINS, Eastern & Koudhern # Northwest pra Soul wertrrm, Black bear. .... 085 00@RS 00 §8 OZN5 0 Cutmand y'riings 5 00215 00 4 Oa 10 0 = = 838s ¥ T 4 2 i 1 00a al 00u Mo H "ne log pH —- ERzEsEasI3ea » b 2 : i 1 1 1 m om ow mw ", 2 0 om 0 20 1 0 “ » 0 w nw 1s
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