p—— Frank Leshe's Weekly notes that the tide of immigration continues to pour in upon us with unabated volume, Uncle Sam's biggest 444 keeping line 1s the care of the Capitol, job in the: house. on which he expends $65,000 a year, The advancing civilization of China is that dynamited demonstrased by the fact an un popular shopkeeper was there, The use of the bicycle in Massachu. setts has brought about a reform move looking to the permanent improve- ment ment of the roads. Adver. have The New tiser fears-that this generation will to the labor at perhaps a heavy cost, York Commercial settle problem of The Detroit Free Press “tone trouble with the Au that when the wes not need better roads, mud is hub deep there is build better ones.” The receut British tions have cost £12, 000,000, Every shilling has to | accounted for in sworn statement cording to the Chicago tion of impossible by Heral Re voters has been rendered so) rir Y w [4 the stringency of formed elections legislation. the Adirondacks that m dee ie from starvation Ther Inspectors from any other cause. so well pre New York St ale have multiplied the woods to sustain Bish 14) AO were n on the rane been able ripe {ruit from piers to warehouses in 35,000 trucks are ke £35,000, extra tax, Jersey City hats, London. model, each may in the correct, Carroll D. Wright, United States Com. missioner of Lab wr, says in the Pop y Beience Monthly that the deorease in size of families is a subject which ca Taking the United St found 1850 ih much alarm, 8s a whole, is figures that consisted of 5.55 been a gradual decreas 8.28, in 1570 5.09, in 1800 4.94. geographical divisions, rs Lookin fr Af this rule holds true ern division, whore the Average size of the family has risen from 4.18 in to 4.58 in 1890, the teady through the interme 1850 Increase having been Hate de sles, This result would have been expected, of course, on account of the ww tlement of the West in the fow ant years, the population having increased rapidly and the single in dividuals or young families settling in Western Territories, being more sad more brought family basis instead of that of fo The small average size of the family in Oklabome, now a Territory just openel for settlement shows the influence of new wottloments In Oklge homa the size of the family will {nc rease upon the size of the family, until population becomes Inirly dense, until, when it will follow the rule of older communities and decrease, When Population becomes more or less urban dn character the maximum fs reached, and after that a constantly receding aver. sage will probably be shows at each suc. oeeding census,” Mortality is greater among the Alas. kans than among any other citizeus of the United States, _ In the expenditure of money for edn cational purposes direct from the Trea- sury Kentucky is the third State in the Union, Free baths are advocated in St. Louis as a means of preventing the loss of about forty boys who are annually drowned in the Mississippi at that point, In his speech at Omaha, Neb., the other day, General Armstrong said that no dead American has a right to lie un- der a gravestone costing $150,000 while a live American woman is st arving in a garret, The present Mayor of Huelva, Spain LJ where Columbus first met Queen Lubella, is of the same name and lineal descend ant of the man who was M ayor of the place when Columbus sailed to dis the New World. ver New Yorkers have formed a society, with branches in Philade Iphia and other American cities for the suppressi ’ the ‘‘intolerable ann Vance creates NOIsY cinngit or commerci taleph less Paris comb Louis. ta th iron fire, pipe with the nozzle; yw fr yn the pi gan to fl J light, and the first gas lig existence, Wide as his use! il invent on has spread, and great as the blessings that have resulted from it, how many people ever heard the Murdock? name of William T ) the gestion that prizes should be offer London Lancet is due the LI i for the best ¢ ip of tea or co a much as | for the be at Hee show of fruit and flowers. Here is an idea for o monty fairs, cooking school competitions and mission work, ‘here iss reely hs t ¥ There is scarce y a hamlet in Switzeriand, France, Austria or Italy where one In is sa rare as in England, oan this Yot there Is nothing «i npier or easier to make, pot find a good cup of coffee, country it Perfect coffee oan be made with an old oyster ean and a clean rag or a horn of drugglist’s filter paper, It should be uanecessary to plead such a reason, but the nerve-sustaining power of black coffee, particularly for people who lead sedentary lives, should make it at least as accessible as bars and so Ia fountains, In fact, as the Lancet mys, iu urging its “To many of the daily increasing number of use total abstainers a oup of coffee is perhaps more wholesome, as well as more palatable, than a too free uso of aerated waters; while many who are moderate drinkers would prefer coffee in the middle of the day, or at soy other times whea on Guty,"” really good CONGRESS ADJOURNS, The Fifty.second Ends Its First Session. The Bill Giving $2,500,000 to the World's Fair Padsed, Aftor session of A session of the Filty actly 11 o'clock ». M eight months, the first first Congress at ex adjourned to the first Monday in December alter the next, nnd four minutes the two gavels de ‘nded in Benate and House, indicating inl northwus d, wife at 1. irnment, a spe urney Ite train m resident bearing t to his sick won Lake, N. Y I'he principal ev f the day passage of the World's Fair bill appropriat ing #2.500,000 and the presentation to the House of the reports of the special commit drinking, and the Homestoad I'he ordersd to be but Action upon them wil next nts ware the tive | mgrewsional working 1's strike at reports were printed, be deferred until Capitol was crowded d ring the last hours of the with curious sightseers, hundreds « AERO f ladies remaining in thelr seats for mg hours anxious y miss the | rent soenes that usu 4 y Igress in the ar ke not t ALY precayie gnlleries i he utmost good valled on the floors of both Houses ring the closing hours, and many exprassior good will were exchange | Democrats ANS AD } RIK Republi hen w oF + nt int t w H Fair bill was re 2 amd frarwa thrown The House An InCrease O gion of the last gros, In the interim wiwaon the tranwmotion the House devoted itself rlief bills, and passad at lo furt. er business rivate pension and r n we ook the Secretary of the Ses that the Senate had adopted { the House, agreed 0 last ad jon neat st 3 with an amendment irnment should take sat nigat, The resolu ate reportad the wong t viing for Inst Monias ng toast Wi a at 11 Rk 3 resointy ’ prov tiie AIAN MM mtei t Wt the committee Wl the Senate that Congress was ita duty, he had not! ADH nmities R97 in mm! “l n ready to aaj performed an ithe | ing tarther 1 "twas Fee : aid t at ) 11 when a resoln tion was off i ng the President to invite repre Via of the Nations of the Sarth toatten the International Arnitration Congress to b #4 in Chicago during the World's Fai wet } went throng without objection. It Incked five seoonts of 11 when a members shouted wildly for recognition Waving papers In thelr hanis Hut they ware ton fate Renator ( rep announced that the hour of 11 o'clock had arrived, and, bringing his gavel down on his desk with " bang, declared the first session of the Fifty. second Congress adjourned without day A great shout went up from the members Aopen oft the floor; great bundiss of waste "Der Were thrown high into the aftr and fell in showers on the bappy Congressmen, while from the proes allry ame the ron: nanos of Daxology, “Praise God from whom all blessings flow.” Then thers was a handshaking and many Food-byes, and in half an hour the House of Representatives was deseriad, The President at the Capitol, The President spent considerable time dur ng the « Benate lah in to hands with Mrs, Harrison \ Yariou Hilis were presents i with unusus!l ceremony th nate brought in the bil immediately al sIgned, priating 2 NX) hd the Chica exhibition HN Inn recoption room off the Senators And as r hill him An about y signin whnke wWhici wa npr O DG | 000 10 wid's F ple to | ! ! | 1" | nke the W rthy of the AT 1 name About 10 | notify the completed | Was Com} * the o nittes appointed nyr Gorman and Heproese Vi MeM lison lows and O | President r ciared that he | in his life that was mor A pile of pension bill President's table by 1 had attached hi Brose w th 5 ah and, ac panied y | | entersd the White House WAS in waiting at the | i ast | Just three minutes late that drawy ti | up aiongs s the tra Potowma I'ibbott 0 " President's prang oul ar ale wife at beard WO00D ELECTROCUTED, A Well Conducted Ene ation at Clinton (N, ¥.) Prison, Wood of Warren C wanty sev day ra. at Clint V GAYS ago, a in a th first to ier 1) ATKIS 2 r af al mother ITHRRE eg and onrr in th t nents turn finist ing of hous IT Is anserte | that the av trainmen on ons the the month of May act 8235; fromen, $100) al brakeman, 813 Ine droath in Mexios is driviag laborers across the border ivtas, where they offer to work for almost n Hun lreds of theses pauper laborers ars living on mad huts on the river tmlow | lexns rag Tex ws Wars as Kineers, ductors mio thine Ming Vas forty women to Square, piok Foam the match ies and rast saat y 7 o'clook and got abou Eras in ths BERLIN enploys weep and rin th up the eaves that ini treme and keep the walin tidy. They work from 0 FLA a week ————. ws. - CONRERVATIVE sstimater are that 42.000 abiorers will be within the next month in order to harvest the immenss grain crop of the Northwest, The acreage isn little Joss than Inst your. but the yield promises to bs equally great, if only the orop oan be secured. In order to Induce Inborers to come 10 the relief of the wheat farmers of the Northwest, all the railroads in that section have announced a special rates of 86 from Chicago 0 the Dakotas for farm laborers, nea lod | —— ORORGE HM. MAYNARD, & sRIOOURODEr we Fan Francisco, Cal, was killed in a drunken brawl by two hoodiume. What makes his death noteworthy is that a while » hin brother was killed by a blow on the : An examination showed that his skull was the thinuest that aver ove Into the hos Bale fight THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle Staten, intent stile Rirman of GIT Lee » made the ’ f nem hare Is in the walca Mr f sponsible for Watkin knew Citier J New Mex HE resignal ¢ Magn a Tus : ArFrants » ght, reach thom of #2 20 bon Tux ™ ng « ai Minnesota ( Foreign, wiehratins th the sailing of ( rors Exencmes AliDIVversary the port of Palos, 1a Spin, Msteor, lefeatol tur vagh te Quasen's Exrenon WILLIAM'S vasht ths formerly the Thistie wae A Gime allovancs in tas raw fo Cap at Cowes, Engian) GENERAL Leoxanno has been completely saoosmsful mn te Hon turasian revolution, and ex-Prediont Brogan has been shot, alte having bee imoprieme | tor some time in Santa Barbara. Dr. Bonilla | Provis Tent mal Prasident. and A new Govern has been organised According te Inet re rts the country was fairly trang sil, AT “winemude Pomerania, sight Persons MM Ye hown irowned by toe foun fering of two fishing smacks SIXTY THOUSAND acres of fore in the Hie "ict adjoining Frankfortonth Dw. In ‘fermuny, haves boon swept Ly fire and the trees charred of dedroved Tux Rassian famine in regarded oMoially as over, Talstol is sojourning st Raigen, tn wind up his famioe labors ant aljuet his Aooounts Tue Reitish ars said to have eslest uvon Harbor, Namo, as & o station, * harbor was formerly used by Americans as a hosting lows of their SADE In Apia new Hr I WHR 8 Mr. presented to the nent a NEWSY GLEA! LHE corn « ILE iliion A GREAT ; built in th IK CHINAMEN are ME years ago Gil apie, wi Mets nis to pinay for 2150 ted that he coul Per Bene making about a dolliar a day at ing. CRICAGO 8 whi) players Fin, ( demith, Ans PlefTer. Burns Willis romn Dalrymple Gore and Kelly Is considered by experts the best team ever put together wm grand con rooran, bination Ling of the gratifyis g results of the n sol mbion is the dim iprhine and good behavior that now prevails am mz the players {be centralisation of p w r in the han * of the magnates has lod to ths simination of the rowdy eement that conor made life in the sine hotel with a ball player a terror to al the other oocupants Ban pars ea prealiar business and the Brits who PAY Mt are merely transients When their une ulness is at an end they are bundled off the sporting earth with but scant ceremony, Onos Now York raved over Ewing Iwo years ago he oould Lave strangled the Brotherhood, Now the threat 10 put him off the team arouses po Comment whatever, RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUS, Very Pe Chute, Wor, Low, “ Chute, Won i et, (leveland 18 3 728 Cinclanati 8 80 Boston i 6 860 Weshing'n 8 11 421 Brooklyn, 18 ¢ Pittsburg. 7 10 412 Sew York 10 7 8s hinge... T 11 Baitinore, 10 8 Aw Louisville, 6 12 20 Philadtp'a. # » 300/85¢, Louls, b 18 Ro A PARADE of children is to be made ono the features of the New York Colum October 12, Baodag -
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