Canada has about dounled its railway mileage in ten years, One child in every five in the north. ern half of the United States dies before it has lived a year, The number of fires in London has in. ereased fifty per ceut. since 1882; twen- ty-five per cent. of the fires occur in un- Insured premises. save that the $00,000,000 The Farmers' Review United States pounds of wool per annum sod produce use twice that amount, Cites as The New York World tance of the vastness of the insurance that Louisville, Ky., alone to 81,000,000. business the premiums paid in this year amounted The aim of the University Seltlement aid the citi- ‘twithout it,” and » Society of New York is to in. gens of a neighborhood, fringing on their sell respe no patronizing airs are assumed, the esti. Twenty million dollars is est mated worth of flax products imported last year, and our farm- the New York to have destroyed 1,070,000 tons into this country ers are said, records World, of flaxstraw, joint committee of A of the English Parliament and and reccon y two has electricity a suitable of motive power, electric railway constructio: aged throughout England. What is now North Berwick. Falls \ } erx says th Me., knownas D ughty's thirty years ago. A postal occasion. ally are even now Doughty's Falls, and that within one such in his hands month, Galvest United Says the ple of the Ww \y 1 not take a week to standing armies into very and ef. The or. parties activ fective armies ready for battle, bezins ganization and ruas all ith political the way down to amate baseball clubs.” The Ch o Herald 1s aston although the Uni possessing cag ted States is a country immense timber tracts, pears that it imported w products to the value o the year ending June rted expo i Simligr $44,511,004 time the same to the value A woman voted at me tion utary elec ner t New Y the tin Se Sil oods from by rail, to if brought via twenty-six part steamer, pay being about fort ship round be laid down the tim The Secretary of quested the Secretary of the United States consu struct everywhere to refuse to certif of goods on and after Septembe less the merchandise is it This a ved fr metric syste information rece and Ly Paris me, wh Yaune” system of meas now use in France on e Us frauds on the Custom H goods invoice tended forth vd St we, aod that the metric system would greatly simplify commercial transactions a comparison of invoices and prices, from Ve culling A man where they up nezuela, have been one aanoth throats in a revolutionary of that unhappy “Falstall's ragged regiment with the soldiers down there. the hungriest looking saw, [I've given peanies to them on the street. They wear linen breeches and an undershirt, and when they come lato town they wrap their blankets around them to nakedness. They carry old flint-lock muskets. There aro a few Remingtons and Winchesters, but mighty few. They have machetes, A machete is a sort of big butcherknife without a point. It three inches wide and thirty inches long, and pretty heavy, They cut wood and kill snakes and enemies with machetes, Bome of them have shoes, but the most of them wear a leather sole with a strap across the heel and toe. The bare heels sod toes stick out.” matinee, country’s warriors wasa't in it They are creatures you ever cover their is about an in. shed that' | chance is | would give him the opport nity of | ! Aye | | of One man out of every twenty five oc. cupies his own house in England. In many of the Italian Uriversities, the are only once the most celebrated in Europe, students are so few that there four pupils to every professor. According to a published guide to the Inited States, there are. different varying from two railroads of the lately gauges in the country, or were, seventeen feet to five feet seven inches in width, New York Cc calls *‘an excellent There is what the ymmers Advertiser at Harvard cial rule” University which prohibits any student from participating in ath- { letic sports unless he maintains a certain udies. standing in his st great question in Paris, learns the ['ranscript, | The | Boston [2 a World's Fair in 19500, is and great agreed that the such buildings as survive fro: he 1869, | shows of 1878 ar 9 shall not there are now ,OU0 | States Fish Co | the boneless n aad well ns est but tw ical attendance tained work, Although C. expect to live den lan tirely deper water, bterves the New Orleans Picayv ine, the loss from the destruct TH] of the ditch will great, The success of irrigation demonstrated, waste ’ verted into fi more painfu shutting off turned back an amusing ire a regular daily routine is obs and where no breaking the who wanted y, thinking it Riven eo of monotony. It is of a man to stay in a country house pro- posing to a girl with whom he had been for alo to last a tonight, but the in love ng time. His visit was Inst evening had chance alone with her during the As (ot course he was at the opposite end of came without his having one of being whole time, he sat at dinner the table to where she was), he felt the time was fast passing away, and io a few hours be would no longer be in the same house with her, When the ladies went to the drawing-room, he would have to in His host might allow him to look in at the draw. sit on the dining room, ing-room for a few minutes that evening, but after that his presence would be re. In utter lesperation he took up the menu card, and on it wrote: “Will you marry me!” He doubled it up, telling the utler to give it to the lady in question, He did so, She read it, and, with the per cot sangfroid born saly of the nine. teenth century, said: “Tell the gentle. man, ‘Yes,'"” quired in the billiard room, UNCLE SAM'S GOLD TRAIN. Francisco Ships Twenty Millions to New York. Guarded by Amel Me During the Transcontinental Trip, Nan The undertaking of the railway posta) £20,000 00 in goid from the United States Bub Treasury service to transport safely ) San Francisco to the Bub-Treasury in | New York City has the the been successfully ac. 20mplished, vast troasure now being locked Wall street, I'he shipment was the largest of the kind ever attempted for anything like distance involved, and the pre | tions taken for its safe transport were of an extraordinary « making robbery practically tion. The treasure cars then and supposed to be a hundred and more aboard the train, each ar Arrangems had b authorities of the up in massive vaults in the MU. haracter, out of the ques. Neives ware of ab proof, Half trusty guards were ned to the teeth, and made whereby the postal service £ olen bon nis on wars ine formed by telegraph of the train every time consu Th 0 et been v al Y h ti t tr iocation of 1 Ts ’ { he oO nes quarter or bie ned in the J train made the! made between Nan Francisco and ork, covering the distance ir urs. The train followed me, buteverything eiss had to give » it. From San | ip was made over tl} Uma astost run that has the wm y Contry henner to use It was « hours wax tric stra was made over the Burliagi Buffalo was reached with the hours behind time, but under Vies Webb's instruction was brou zi York City almost or the run was made at a mile a minute, No a if there was any pl not come t It dev n thi causei by Ihe trip time ETE eat Ven assis Phe tral vate « | a (Grand sire) ster-(rener by Assistant Lowrie Bell ar ferred ma boxes we CXDress Wag ting. ware loaded i A time tachment was oo etied Wall street On WRLON Wer the armed guards and sach sworn 1 ber of the Postal Down Broadway The » re i= and t started off pectacie peared to wagon guarded displavod weap» astonishment ar As the first w trance t of police wus ready t livery, and back gath As th crowd increase att bothered in keeping the d to ses what § street or f the rod. oS DOwWs SOT until want NEWSY GLEANIN has been oe sands rm has Leen the ne to Bpanis ravages of phyl p India wheat than those of {f new or rast are less year {iors pen ary sol Tenn ws of Revslutio of the Knoxville Bevex wil are om the rolis « ng in their crops in Utah, will move to Mex gather m (amiiies y in autumn, Ture Chilean Senate will try the jsters of Balmaoeda on charges of and corruption inte Min treason Tux salmon pack on Columbia River, in Oregon, for the season just closed amounts to 445 000 cama Fourn Daxora is overrun with tramps, Farmers tried without success to hire them They are now beiag driven out of the coun try During thelr concert tour through Ger many the New York Arion Hoclety sung to | over 30.07% persons and added $500 to var. | lous poor funds, COMPLAINTS are heard from Omaha that in many sctions there are few or mo grains of wheat in meny beads which look plump and promising. Asrnoxomens throughout the United Hiates expect great scientific results from the otwervation of the planet Mars, while in opposition to the earth, UnivEDd BTATES troops are driving “eon. ory” and cattiemen out of the Cherokes Strip. The latter are using all possible means to delay eviction, Provesson Koon has gone to the cholera jnfected districts 3 Russia to rensw his ine veutigations into the eaass of the disease, saying special attention to the comma pacillue Tur New Vork Ban's sstimate points to a whine fold in Minnssots and Dakotas at iJon om 10 ) 2000000) ba bushels if the ister sown erop rants holy 1 hd 1 Ie | r oP THE NEWS EPITOMIZED Kastorn And Middle States, Breer KxLLy, aged twenty-one, of Bhenandonh, Penn. committed suicide by saturating ber clothes with kerosene oll an J setting herself on fire, Tie Now Jersey Prohibitionists held thelr convention at Trenton and homas J, Kennedy, of Hudson Counts Governor Epwanp, nominated for aged seven, and ten, Frederick Bennett, N. J., were drowned in the D a few altern William, aged of Trenton, clawnre River Ihe boys, with their father but separate! from him, I'he vo unger fell into the water and the brother jumped in to save hin Enxesr Nye, aged and killed his sister Mau 3 urteen, at their home in Brookline 2 He didn't know the rifle wa i Brie McKs stenographer Exchange Bi sons of m ago were fishing, became sixteen #h ot aged employed on the fifth floor of the Hiding tories down an el ost A distan killed instant Mi Lazziy DEN was a Muss, od with ¢ Hiver nurder of her father and | Bria South and West 2 ha on, © way § their xe. H crer MiLary in B. Sate and his tw x Riv boys wa th al Girigoom re ha Ca wm! and hen al ne official count an lerritory gives Jo oandiiate for princi rity. and gives ut { twenty re; miatives Nati nx wal Counad Georgia Republican State ( tion met at Atlanta and refassi © Any Nate tickast Debates showed a = feeling in favor of the Party t An slectoral ticket, bh wa Ss upon, after which the © People's IWevyw K mvenlion ad jour In a stampede at Bannock Butte, Liaho, which was caused by hungry prospectors attempting to capture a oall, two cow and 31 atthe were swept over a cliff and dash) 10 prin we W. I, ¥ nn for Moore PFammel were killed Hartford Ulty, Ind A. Prion and Arthur Korte, each eight yours old, were found dead at Lansang, Mich, in an lee-chest. They had evidently erawied into it in play snd bad been smothered GOVE Albert Inman, Alex. Bawyer ani Jack by a Inlling wall at MEMAN Lharies Washington, General, Jawes W, Desxven, of Wil mington, Oblo, ale! In Washington of urnemic poison. Hix fines was of brief duration, General Denver was born in Winchester, Va. In 1817, Sronerany Nowix has appointed as a rommission to negotiate with the Yankton Indians of Bouth Dakota for a cession of thelr surplos lands, J, C, Mau of Web ster, Bouth Dakota; W, Browe, of Chi oago, and John J. Cole, i Ht. Louis Thess surplus lands aggregate about 164 000 mores, Larrens have been sent by the Postoffies Department to about 2500 postmasters at county sats neking them to repeat this year, some time between August | and Decen ACTING Brourrany Ni sued a circular tw others concerned, enlling fon ment of the laws ior the salmon fisheries of Alaskan DISPATCHES mrtment from hile had azreed to the Claims Commission, to for the settlement of ci Tue July report of the Treasury Dopartment the month the expor aggregatod ¥14.2067 40, as 201 during July, 159] ABBISTANT BECKRETARY pleted plans for the e pursued by officer Corps who Naval War College. tTLerox hax is customs officers and ali arid enfored received by Ministen the State Dr. Fgan said that establishment of & moet in Washington aim inst hat Chief of Statistios during Na ANNIE nea t Marine will be atl the Foreign, Prussian igned Fualenbu Min Hern Henrounrtn the Interior, has res weded by Count von of the Prussian ( Hexny B at Copenhagen embezzlement, perjury " { and council of Riper, Unit Denmark, argery an VEXEZUKLA eral Urdaneta tator of the We Lt Carupano ¥ aut to dean Ww batting with when bunting and I» runnis has ost entertain ng Z2 be las the Hee A ig evar belore even if heavy sluggin tn, of Pittsburg, INLry who Goss not when playing behind the bat. He has pel veral shades the bet matched agvinst the redding a rubber bag inflated with air. king only eatcher ) » ro : est p eetor AvVicie wi has » ter t whee jowers of A TWELVEANXING ball game in Brooklen resuited in a victory for the Boston © Btivetis really won it by m wing a home-ran bit in the twelfth inning, while Tucker was on base, thus making the score to 0 in lavor of Boston. Kelly, Tucker and Nash sna ts a triple play in the fourth inning. Haddock pitched for Brooklyn and Stivetts for Bos ton, RECORD OF THE 1LEAGUR CLUBS ad Tost, ol Clute Won, Last, A Pittsburg. 12 11 64 ‘hieago.. 10 4 aN encinoati10 14 MI Nash nb My Loulaville, § 15 bd st, Louis, 7 16 EE ———— SOLDIERS DROWNED. They Wore Practising in the Military Swimming Sohool, Seven soldiers ware drowas l at Nelew, in Prussian Silesia, while practisiog in the mil itary swimming school, The men wera or. dered to go into the walter beyond hel a ; the pares stor supposing them to be 0 crently Foractised to Do able $0 swine This jet] not to be the oases, and they sank without making any sign that tiey were drowning. The fact tual they were drowned was net for some moments, until they it was thea Cluln, Won Cleveland, 17 ? Philad® ipa.lb ¥ Boston ,....14 9 New York 13 9 Brooklyn. 13 11 Baitiowore,. 12 11 {i of u BLOODY F [GET ING, 500 Men Killed in a South American Hevolation, Abou The fallen into the hands eity of Dolivar, Venezuela, of desperate and bloody battle, has Jognlistas after a The legniistas, some 400) men strong, were under ¢ of Generals Hernandez and Gil They appeared before the city early morning and demanded of the « ronment forces that he The reply wasa prompt refusa This precipitated the engazement, Her. nandez and Gil at the head of their forces sndvanced on the position of the Govern t troops and attacked in the face of a murderous fire Phe attack was with Courage, and was resis witli mand in the yusraander surrender, ie Lov en made IeRperate ted Pgual vigor For a time was suce, but numb 5 void at ernmentals gas every inch the d in the bal and th OWiYy OO not unt senerais UArrera Lauialta Hed ut the r roo od Ir ing on th your uf sads Ir persons killed were killed or trains in motion. Th vania Rallroad tw atly lessened th Gast pa railr iroppel off made was Late Whol Prodace Quoted AN A pret CRens SONA, per pair DRESSED ™Y Turkevs~8electad hens Mixed weights fair Phila L. LL. brollers Fowis—8L and Fem Western, per Il Ducks Wester: « Per Eastern, per 1b at Rpring, L. 1 per Ib Gesse~ Spring Kastern, per Ib Bquabs Dark, 1 oman pr Chi t Kens i... wer VRGKTARLES Potatoss-Southern, seconds Norfolk, bis Eastern Mbore L L, In buik, Cabbage, L. 1, per Norfolk, per bar Onioas-- Westaro, per State, per bhi Bquash Marrow, per barrel, le L, yellow, barrel. ..., L. L, white, barrel, Peas, 8 Jorsry, \ bbl. basket Long Island, per bag. . Cucumbers, Norfolk, orate, Jersay, por box String beans, I, 1, bag. . Tomatom, So. Jersey orale, . Maryland, per bu. orate, , GRAIX, RTC Flour ~City Mill Extra... Patents Jot Jt 100 bi» a ey | BAS | | SIARE - a SEE 28EE SEE Aes Wheat-No, 3 ie Ryes—State. ., TTT Trae Barley Two. rowed Mtate, Corn=Ungraded Mixed. .... OstewNo, 8 White... ...v. v0 Mixed Wooster, ..ovuvee Hay «tool to Onoboe oii. Straw Long Rye. ...000 ois Lard «City Steam... ...0.0 LIVE STO0K. Beever, Clty dressed , ..oo0is Milch Cows, com, 80 good , Calves, Ulty a, RRL or 100 Tha... on AAA EAL EEE ERR LS ry 2BEE “ : ’ g8:8=1g Fusesa Fy SAS4RE2a480 RASCAL LA EN. = gi “
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