The cost of- the great German army for a year uuder its present conditions 18 said by military authorities to be $120,000,000. So delicate is the adjustment of the most powerful cannon that allowance has to be of the made for the curvature earth before the discharge. The New York Mail and Express eal. culates that a subscription of $32.27 every from inhabitant of the United States would wipe out all form of public indebtedness—National, State and muni- cipal. The city of Cincinnati has for many years been a favorable abiding place of Hebrews, remarks the New York Press, At a Wise said that after the Zion America.” - - - recent celebration there Rabbi “Cincinnati would here. be of Judaism in There is mueh in the lingo of the Wyoming war, confesses the New York Commercial Advertiser, which is ¢ plexing as some of that in the Bea quarrel. A rustler appears a person who gains a livelihood by ing other people's cattle, lator is a geatleman whos rustlers inr barrels of oil oil used about four resembles for grain, whicl by the starch Sq) Ore IH preg particul arly serviceabie fo as it will not be expansion and tickets, passenger transportation on the Panama Railroad was being in Ame and $10 in gold for sec Pan 20) x $0 gers between about fifty cents trate. in one boots throw! he receive such a spreading. The papers reported a case in whi pointed litigant kicked in open own for wh lawyer, ch he may some excuse, and assaulted the reg for which there tion. The remarkable progr gaged in business affairs is instru set forth in Bureau to the figures there of Labor statist there were oniy about engaged in industrial there are more Han thirds of these work thirty years of Ze, proportion has been maintain during the half dozen years, it idicat that marriage constantly ter the ranks. ments tha be little pendence of the g lopleta “Sach being the | New X fear ' com ustrial inde will resalt i an iocrease of old The New Eng! 15 publis ed in and Courier, a German American week Boston ’ Mass. gives some very interesting figures the elomaent In Illinois one-half of the foreign born popu- showing how great aad influential Teutonic race has become as an { immigration into this country. jation is German, In Minnesota the pro- portion is one-third; in Nebriska and Iowa more than one-third; in Wisconsin one-half, or one-eighth of the whole population; in Indiana, the banner Ger. man State, out of 244,000 foreigners, 80,000 are of German birth, or fifty-five Out of 12,000, 000 immigrants into this country since 1820, 4,500,000 have been Germana, Coming from the most thrifty and best educated country in Europe, observes the Boston Globe, these people, constitu. tionally endowed with patience, skils and perseverance, have engrafted a sclid, thoughtful, industrious, and peace-lov- ing element into the composite structure of the Union, per cent, of the whole, need | guese was the | M i Disappointed genius may comfort it. golf with the reflection that Columbus was over four hundred years in attaining bis present popularity. The colored population of Now Eng- land increases so slowly, notes the New York World, that the race becoming deeadent in those § appears to be sh WH A recent State report children, sixty per chil | Of colored children le Kentucky's white cent. are enrolled, and one in two goes to ool, UU) than forty-five per cent, have their names on the school records, and only one child in three is really under instruction. Writing of the poor children of J WCC | Scribner's magazine, Riis remarks that we h wml the York in AV account that *¢ poverty, the ig- the cities of norance and helplessness of the Old World is dumped at our door by immigration,” while the procession of the strong and the able move on to the West. pneumatic tubo is | I LL being per- Nt . Louis mail and on the in the h mors 10 dangerous Aralne. mnt ia Africa exer lomir oast for many rival in Portu- } guage on the west « years; now English is spoken continuously from Sierra Leone to over 500 miles, the Ban Pedro River, a distance of The Nile and Niger and the Great Lakes are already Eaglish; the Congo and Zambesi will most probably It is therefore difficult to see what can prevent English from be. end by being so, coming the common language of the whole world, Omitting sll mention of India, where English has spread with unexamplod rapidity, Japan is said to be adopting English wholesale, the sign. boards of the shops being very genersily, and the names of towns and villages always, inscribed in Eaglish as well as Japanese characters, has done and will do the most to make English the universal speech is coloniza. tion, and the agents are Eoglish-speak. ing colonists, The agency which | miutes, | ration in the Auditorium Buliding before X00 people, AN ISLAND LAID WASTE. | A Hurricane’s Fatal and De- structive Work at Mauritius. Enormous Damage to Buildings, Shipping and Standing Crops, Baron de Worms, Parliamentary Secre tary of the Colonial Of the British House of OMMOons, fully confirming the news of the read a telegram in London, | terrible dis- | aster at third of was destroyed, wrecked were Mauritius, he dispatch said that the pits v. Port Louis, | Among the buildings | the Royal College and twenty. | four cl Many mils in country were completely The special correspondent of the Times says that the loss of life in Mauritius is not less than 15,000 In the city of Port | wore k In the vari tricts at the time the dispatch » known to lntast official killed It was » who were One Lies the | nis alone 600 pe try Ons fled iis us Was sont persons wer have lost t [he persons were many of th The h rilowing with the inj sotand the bh WENO estimates were Jue v Port 1. ired, and tent ground in juries In Port mpitals In Qi we tal on wl ernment schools printed there, to that of other British « he G LIBERTY'S Celebrating the FIRST Sigming 1 of the Fi mous Mecklenborg aration that m tors Ramon Alexander and « arty ming was met at lon mposed of zat s and citiz the b The signing of this declaration has always been oslebrated in Charlotte The osleh tion of 15875 attractad the largest attendan sver known in the history of the town, tu the assemblage gatherod this year wa dderably larger than that one, was profusely lecorated ani the arch that spanad the Tour oorne wincipal square of the town was ¢ ularly handsor na object Thirty thousand visitors were on th dreets. The day opened with the firing of A sham battle was the feature olf he morning exercises and was participated 0 by 1000 troops, Benator Hill and party seviewad the military parade from the Cen ral Hotel balcony at eleven A. uM At one o'clock Nenator Hill delivered his 1 goneral 24] te KILLED THE MESSENGER, A Calitornia Stage Meld Up and lobbed ot 820,000, The Redding and Weaverville stage was agnin held up in the suburbe of the tows of Two massed either side of the road, orderad Driver Boyes to halt and to throw down boxes, Messenger Buck Montzomer was inside the stage, oponsd Khasta, Cal, men, ons on tae « Wao fire on Riamenugar named Bahr t not fatally, The treasure boxes, securing | throat, rmolished , V | soluti THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern ana Middle States, SECRETARY Bramwe has appointed ns Junior Counsel for the United States befora the Bering Sea arbitrators Russell Duane, of Philadelphia Mr. Duane wm a memb the class of 1801 (n the law school of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, snd attracted Mr, Binine's attention vy hi masterly oration at the commencement on ‘The Cass of the ward." JUST after a train le a well dr 1 man parlor car and ' plunged th nnd loft cut hi instantly, Now Jorse Tur Del tion hald delegates or of Ay ft Hyde Park, i + mie! ware | at DD { Th ernor ileyno W. Caus ns s was no inatio south yA " rd tas islogat t st) present t ft Uh Pr ng sidency, Wis NEABORN Cavington, Burr, Lm, Kira. Washington, e National Art As n Washington, pases admission of woras Tae Congrom of ti thon, in ss n lution favoring the free of duty. Juerice Hantax and Smator Mor: have formally notifiel the President oo. their willingness to serve as arbitrators on bahal of the United States in the Bering Sa matter, Tie body of Benator Barbour, accom nind hy the ( ‘ongrestional Committees, hi immediate relatives anl a few parsons friends, all In charge of Sergeant-at-Arm Valentine, was taken from his house af Washington and conveyel to Poslar Hil Md. where it was buried beside that of his wife, Ine National Baptist Educational Con. vention at Washington elected these offlosrs: President, Professor G. W, Hayes, of Vir ginia: Vice-President, tha Rev, Isaac Tolli- ver, of Texas; Second VieePresident, the Rev. P. T. Maloy, Joux M. Lackey, Private Beeretary of General Rosecrans, Hegistor of the Treasary committed suicide by shooting bimeelt through the heart while laboring Gnder temporary aberration of mind, Miss Manoaner Surra pamed away at the Baptist Home in Washington after bay. ing lived in the National Capital since the year 180, Bronerany Fosren has written a letter to Ropresontative Lond, of Californias, say. ing that it will take §160,00) a year to en. foroe the new Chiness law, This estimate is ' based upon the cost of the arrest during the present fiscal year and 2500 Chinamen H WW. Bwoovaerr, . ge of Btates Court for Lilinois, has been sel sol for the 1 1 Stat a ration, Thi fue President, Harrison and party returned to Washington from their trip to Fortress Monro their deportation of the United wrn District of 1 of the coun Bering Bea fist nits completes the A PROCLAMATION wa the Presi. dent announ th Grunts A BILL t FA recipe v LO take } PARCE on the of $20 a ath, a, formerly a disti tate, was report Marple at and was immedi ’ oasned , Fine President sent to t ennte the ition of Nathan A. Morford, of Arizona r of Arizona ' Foreign, decided y remove the on ( lian products | and to gi via bait PERSIA has refused Rus for paying the indemnity poration, and will raise the | land DISP AT 1 » 11 p capiure of nes from Vener Bolivar by th 'ne death Is anniuncs (remeral George Klapka Louis Kossuth, He wa Hungary, 7, 1 military career, Joux A sui RN AARP D CONGRES In the House y RR ip Reg Me. ana o— DYNAMITERS IN SPAIN. Nineteen Persons Blown Up in an Ex. 1] A I i plos on at Goldocano dynamite An factory explosion took Tae in a at Goldooann, Spa causing the death of sixteen men and thr women, The 3 report of the explosion ¥ beard a distance of twelve miles The scenes witnessed of the workmen assembled on the spot were heartrending. One woman, seeking her husband, found only his head, while another found the corpse of her hus band with the head blown ok at a great dis tance from the factory. The explosion was causd by two small boxes of nitro glycerine, Two workmen wore dis barged from the factory for insubordination, They threatened revenge, and the superintendent saw them running away from the baok of the smaller of the two buildings in which a large quantity of nitro givesrine was store], A few soconds later there was a terrific report, both buildings were lifted about forty feet Into the alr and then went to splinters All the people in the immedi. ate neighborhood were stunned by the shook, In Bilboa, five miles away, the ground trembled as if shaken by an earth: quake, and the people ran ito the streets in a panic The scene of destruction is appalling. For hundreds of yards round the factory only ruins are left, Splinters of the rained fac tory coversd the ground, but not a plese of or beam ans large as a man's arm coud be found, Trees wore split down the tranks, outbuildings wore lal! fat an | not a chimney wae left standing within a radius of a mie and a ball, when the families wore | the IO Te WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. is to show a’ to manner its ind social reform, Tur Salvation Army mm Exposition ’ whole schemo orid's Fair Bail al of a exnin #ylvani number of a XT ATES LY SKOW IN New England and a Por York Experien a Win od 1) whurg Warr ih WAS A & the Catahill Mounts nl a b i ns HORT wos deep ROW In ground in many covered The fields in the eastern part ounty, New York, wer oh of snow Tie mint Riga wm Valley, ¥ 1 DEATH BY ELECTRICITY. Successful Execution of Tice at the Anburn (N,. ¥ Joseph Li. Toe, the Rochester w derer, was executed by electricity at 6.39 o'clock a few mornings ago In Auburn (N, Yo Prison The exscution is oess, There was nothing revolting about it, The witnesses saw no burning of flesh, no exhalation of air from the Jungs, no strug. gling of the victim, The murderer met hin fate onlmly. He was apparently unmoved while being strapped in the chair, and be had nothing to say at the last [he electric current was turpe! into the body four times, eaclhi contact being brief, The physician in charge believed that better resiits would be obtained in this way than with two long contacts, The complete time of contact was ify I'rison fe mur consideral a great sae
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