Netra we Ps ——— There are 7,500,000 young men in tae United States. Chicago has begun a canal to cost $30,000,000, which will carry large vessels from the lakes to the Mississippi. It is said, by the New York Mail and Express, that the wealth of the Russian Church is almost incalculable; it could pay the Russian National debt (some $3,500,000,000), and would then enormously wealthy, be A Fiji missionary says that ninety per cent of the Fiji Island population, which fs 110,000, is found in church on Sun- That is much better than many boast, comments day. civilized Nations ean the New York Mail and Express, The average duration of lives in the United States is: 41.8 years for store- keepers; 43.6 years for teamsters; 44.6 47.3 for 48.4 years for merchants; years for mechanics ; 82.5 years for farmers. seamen ; yeurs for lawyers, and 64.2 year, The postal telegraph system of Great Britain the gigantic and complete organization the of world, says the New York Commer Advertizer. The the sunual amount expended 1n salaries and Ireland is now most transmission messages in staff numbers 3453; and wages is £322 960, and the total number of telegrams passing through the office per annum, 32,537,779. Mexico is now in an era of economies, declares the Boston Transcript, and the first be army, and probably there will also be a step will the reduction of the reduction in the number of officers The topic is the high price of provisions, « Yor ieriog now on the pension rolls. all-absorbir to drouth, which causes great sul } ' n ! , thowgh no actual cases among of starvation have occurred in the city. iness continues very dull, receipts have fallen off couside as merchants re not importing are not importing * . he most familiar objects in ices is the stock ticker with It has supposed that this thin tape its endless convolutions of tape. +] long bee Was a necessary evil, and that the record "n no f the little type wheels could not ceived on any other medium; but Amer- rk Post, has, as usual, grappled with the pr i good market for ican ingenulty, anvoun es the New Y would be a capable of delivering the message paper rather than upon the objecti band, which is d ' to ki ik, under easy macaineg In a put in this country, the page, by carried uring a typewritten telegraph, appears to have been to practical perfecting, The message is received in the form of a printed page, 4 41 asi eight inclies wide, by an instrament that is automatic its action and is under the )l of the operator at the dis patching end. may be said to correspond to that of the A A in contr The practice involved every-day typewriting machine. f v forty words a minute to speed of over on 200.mile circuit is said have been 4 reached, No stronger evidence of electrio afforded than the fact that a great many the safety of lighting installations can be t explosives factories are now being lit by electricity. that a build. ing wherein the preparation of inflam. It is obvious mable or highly explosive substances is | carried on very special care should be taken in order to avoid even the small. est risk, and powder manufacturers now fiad that the electric light adds a con siderable percentage over gas to the chaoces of safe operation, tricity increases the safety of this branch of industry in one way it lessens it in another, electricity thrown off in various stages There is a great deal of free of manufacture, and the disposition of removed out of The charge of a powder cake press with ebonite plates may practically be con. sidered as an cloctric pile, aod a large amount of friction or electric influence from outside may cause a sufficient elec. tric charge to give off sparks, Several undisputed cases of this kind have been known, Another source of danger from friction occurs during the glasing, rounding end sieving off gunpowder, The powder is subjected to a constant rubbing of its particles against each other, and during the glazing especially there is danger of eloctrivity accumula. ting. Therefore precautions should be taken in order to convey away any charge that may accumulate in the gles. ing barrels, this, so far as it can be harm's way, is a serious question, While elec | | | another ! obliterated by friction, while a silvos i book. | around the Malay Peninsula, has given | to the world an account of his trip, | illustrated | received from the various dairy schools | dairy quality of butter previous to the holding of these schools are now seading | affections of the throat. Of the 20,000,000 workers in the United States, loss than 1,000,000 be. long to labor organizations, the Medical Record yawning is by no means a useless act, for it other According to often cures catarrh and A gold coin pa from one to 2,000,000 times the stamp or impression upon it becomes before ox 25 coin changes 3,250,000,000 times belore it becomes entirely effaced. - Another royal personage has written a The King of Siam, after a trip by the best of the peninsula that has ever been published. map “Very encouraging reports are being i of Europe,” an- “The n pe wr heid in different parts nounces the American Dairyman, districts that produced butter to market much improved in quality, as well as producing a much larger quantity We our from the same amount of milk. should like to hear from t} some of readers in this country as to the benefits derived from dairy schools or farm in. stitutes that have been held throughout the dairy districts during the last two years," he Russian Government One of the t secret papers has which Bulgarian succeeded in getting hold of | illustration f Ru interesting as an frankly unscrupulous methods It ber, 1887, by the diplomacy. was wri Chief lema wae it appears, was a traitor Major had Governu suggested th and ammunition to Mace to support a rebellion there, and this + | refused by the Russian Goverament or | revolution ia Mace- | the ground that a donia, even if saccessfal, to Russia's interest. *‘The result o Mities, autonomy caar The Powe would 18 view of the appears that ilgarian Goveramer poucy family, of New has set many people to pursued by the Astor! the World, thinking York, says f the powe r of f } the snd the Although iaadiord evils primogent entailed ure estates are not re the Astors have and ff a at defiance cultivation tradition under which nearly al real estate is be. que athed to the olde This keeps the land intact, and as it is continually be ng a lded to the territorial potsessions of the Astor family have come to form a menace to the interests of a great major. ity of tue population of the city of New Yorks The best solution of the pr wilem presented by this vast accummulation of land in the great city, thinks the San Francisco Chronicle, is that offered by Frederic R. Coudert, the distinguished New York lawyer, who proposes that the State of New York adopt the French law, under which all the children must receive a distributive share of the whole estate, real and personal, in spite of any attempted the testamentary disposition Had New York since to law been the the lands of to would contrary, this in ol force in John Jacob Astor in 1548 the Astor death would be limited much more modest holdings, and be vastly more diversified. It is perfectly Legislature take away altogether the power of disposing of property by will, or to direct that a will shall divide property equally among all the children of the testator, or to make any other regulation whica may be for the best interests of society, If the Astor accummulations of land go on much longer the family will find itself compelled to make a change 1a the dis. position of its real estate, and may think itself fortunate if it be not saddied with a legacy tax which shall exact ove half of ite lard as a condition precedent to its dolog what it likes with the other balf, competent for a to THE PEST FLEET The Normannia’s Passengers Released From Fire Island. ——————— The Sandy Hook Refuge Ready for Quarantined Immigrants. On the fourteenth day after the pest ships from Hamburg were quarantined in New York Harbor the Health Board of the city issued a bulletin which showed that up to that time not a single oase of cholera had appeared in the metropolis, and Dr, Jenkins, the State Quarantine Inspector, also an nounced that no deaths and no new cases had occurred on board the infected vessels the Moravia, Normannia, Rugia, Wyoming and Scandia. Up to this report the total deaths on these five plague ships had been At, sea, sixty-three; in port, twenty-two; total number of sick, 178 But although the plague bal thus appar- ently received a check, the danger of infec tion which threatened the first and second- class passengers on board the Normannia and the other quarantined steamers was as great as ever, and the piteous appeals from the imprisoned tourists to be removed to a sacs of safety were heartrending, and the Rational State and local authorities re doubled their efforts to provide a point of sequestration, begun by the purchase for $210,000 by New York State of Fire Island, and the setting aside and fitting up of Bandy Hook Point by the local and Federal gov eraments, I'he purchase of Fire Island, to be used as a place of refuge for the Normannia's pass engers, caused deep indignation on Long Isl and, and hundreds of baymen congregatel from all along the coast and threatened porate resistance to this contaminati one of their favorite resorts, The 4885 passengers on ware transferred to th Cepheus, and a start f refuge but the of dese un of the Normannia #teanmboat made for an iron Was haven « Rother the situation regarding the Fire Isl. and plan was extremely complicated, and not a little sensational, At sunset the Cephus lay rolling in the surf, two furlongs off Fire {atnn I, while 400 armed baymen refused either the privilege of landing or the succor of blankets to keep the shivering, wealthy outcast wvoyagers warm, Governor Flower issued a proclamation at noon directing the Sheriff of Buffolk County to resist any interference with the Htate Authorities in taking possession of : Fire Island, and warning ail opie not to interfere with the use of Fire Ininnd ns station, While the Governor his proclamation, granting his injunc a quarantine Was Judge Barnard tion. Issuing wits vernor Flower issue! an order calling out the Naval Reserve. The order instructed the reserve to assemole under o ymmand of Captain Miller on the pler of the Providencs line when: at once by tect the Copheus, oamer to Fire Island and pro- passengers while landing from the The Governor in his order said the reserve must not hesitate to use forces if DOCOSEArY, Captain Miller, after the or had a conference with Governor Flower Immediately after the conference the cap- tain issued instructions © First Battal lon of the reserve to be } on hand with thirty rounds of as ion and three days rations, lor was issued, I'he Passengers on Fire Island, The fifteenth day the cl tine dawned with the weary gers of the Nor wn sen, about 500 rods awaiting to n oilers quaran cabin passes. about on the Island, still rowd of y preveut m wi AAO A | I ng an i n Long Islanders grouped on shore t them from doing + But the information ordered to the scene 4 that trooos ba | Leen ffoct a landing by | when, in addition, t force dismayed the indignant baymen, and they Ju lecided ued by they Ju welion dissolve opp Justice Barnard's orde th Term Lhe sitting in Br MILIVD, and t which had spent the Hay, 4 wo > i ig wition o Goneral South Kleam DOO tir the atlem ne for Ra RiN Where a Camp Wa "EYE alos were rng cramped quarters all n as there os welled to remain sleep wore n wither 10 Cophens i he fromt « AN the nearest point on arated by an panio-stricken axa crowd » prevent the | the westerly end of | the {| and « . Se NIGNALLING AN INCOMING STEAMER 1 he ple living slong the shore made a Ae terminal effort to prevent the landing It was well understood that a desperate re sistance to the transfer would be made, but it is doubtful whether any one looked | ward to such a hostile demonstration as was that afternoon made toward the Cepheus Armed men stood on the Fire Island pier and, at the command of their leaders aside the hawsers which had been thr to the pler to secure the landing of the trans for steamboat The efforts of the police on the Cepheus to awe the determined pro cast hn nd | soldiers or sailors when they and the 5 men, Juarters h progres hotel clerks that comfortably situated wade for the d's thon all a lottery Every one was wen jumped abs The second-cat wat mal within § Nu A ol were was ’ It * Was no gruambiin and gray-haired » sand like boyy ” mau War But t * were put and the mio nger in tal, passengers in the east y end Atl 6: supper was Hifficuit to find a lining room { cast aside. Every one mgrataiation every quarter of the Not strict quarantio Had they thought of it goers condd have : Wael mile, hired oat boats rvet : than Htiow hao nvents KEDaW svYary one wereld room WAS we-hal ip the sh ani satlsd maintained [ the passen re hall » to the shore Iwo regiments o the Naval Reserve went and to force a landin ; if Normannia's passengers militia was on its way, and that the ine junction forbidding tae landing of passes gers bad been dissolved, reached Fire Is and before the troops did, however, and thers was no mob to oppose either the State's arrived, the National Guard and down © Fire Id The news that the phame ais Ss 313 3 PBINDA RYE YIEW OF FIRE 1RLAXD. Where Quarantined Passengers Are Quarts on the Cholera: Infected Ships That men on the pler were unavailing, Neither | were the piteous ories of the pal faced, hollow.ayed women, smilfering as they must have Leen the most terrible mental anxiety, successful in raising pity within the breasts of the men who forbade them to land an seek shelter and comfort within the quarters provided them by the Ntate, Fwice was the Cepheid driven from her pler, and, floally, bafiad and beaten, she was compelled to anchor off Fire Island, while a moh ol at least one thousand men held Jonsiution of the pler and threatens! | the life of any one who attempted to gain the shore, in the Brookiyn Supreme Court in the meantime Justices Barnard graoted the Board of Health of Islip, Long Island, an | in junotion retraining Dr, Biukine | hie Agents or an rom passengers or Rein) sider plover | ship on any part ol Islip town, which in oi des Fire Island, vovernor Flower when he was informed of the situation sald that were he the cap tain of the Copheus he woul! disregard the injunction. Dr, Jenkins 4 to uovernor Flower asking tor Btate to enforce a landing ou Fire Island . | try to brin I After Their Release from [Imprisonment Are Anchored in New York Hay. The boat containing the nitty WAS une able to get nearer than Alftesn miles to Fire Isian!, and put back, The Tairteenth Regiment of Brookiyn and a few of the Naval Reserve men went 0 Babylon by Secretary Foster warned the steamship companies that they must stop bringing im. migrants from (afected ports, and must not slosrage passengers into the or the guise ol second oabin ! tradn, country u passengers, The state Board of Health has taken oon: trol of the Fire Idland Quarantine, | Normannia's Passengers Released, All of the Normannia's cabin passengers necagsary for the | lar terrible experiencs san begin to realizs | bow glad these people were to be released from imprisoament They danesi and {| shouted and sang and cheers, For more {| than two weeks they had been penned up in a cholera-stricken ship, in which people were dying every day from the deadly pestilence For another week, they had been tossed on heavy seas, deprived of nearly starved and floally confronted with an excited mob that threatened po injury if the | passengers were Inndod where the State au thorities had decided to temporarily eonfine them, The last night of their detention was something of a july f{ fa In the big parlors of —r—T—— v ~ 4" - ~ ! ¢ OM “ a v '] wisep, onnl Ny LA Cm—— ids iid rr AL Tal ~Y Fthawp p. i \ | | | | | | being officially ac CHOLERA IN NEW YORK CITY (It Jumps Quarantine Barriers and Seatters Death, Every Precaution Taken to Pre vent the Plague’s Spread, Cholera has broken quarantin peared in New Y (now ledge | of Health, two other deaths of it} | picious cases reported, i offi three Tw cially admitted and | within the space of eight days they were to proceed | MAP BHOWING LOCATION OF VIRE ISLAND AXD SANDY HOOK the Burf Hotel music lowed by dancing, an erings, at which delivered fle wore i there were also very pre try member gat were ship's crew or so when wWiu { PR } y X ’ ially earned the gr tu ie of was presented with a g watch ome cash contribution ngers a nand the passe or Hook of Camp Low The Sandy letnge The opening SAanay N. J.. which had been ception of immigrants 1 Hoff man days af ter por fry vessels and from Quarantine Against New York Norway aad w » Immigration, { New York Cit a week before omy J strangers reviv The fish docks and as the demand fog letely extinguished, Only cent. of the usual number loading at the port of Ham shipping b vasssis are Lied up to thelr remain so until Octo fish has been © about five per vossals are ne burg The water Ir employed men, making work would be resumed at the docks of them cried when they were told that for two or three weeks al least they could not eX pect employment Six children an! tw women in the harbor district are reported as having diel of lack of nourishment "he official report of the municipality was pabtisuad afew days ago. The total num | Dar or, aT w ot was filled all day with un ingairies as to when Many of cases is given as 14,100; the number of deaths almost exactly 8000, The highest death rate is said to have been on Augunt 50, whoo 454 fatal cass were reported, The City Council recommends that aries. ian wells, to replace the inferted water works, be drilled in all parts of the oity, | The total exodus of citizens 10 escape in. | fection I» estimated 10 have amounted to $5,000 persons, Unly incomplete returns from raliway officials are the basis of the eatimate, The numoer of furitives has been probably nearer 43,00 or 530,000, The through passenger service on rail ways entering the city has been redoosd, as the accommodations now are far beyond the re quirements of the few travelers w and from the oily, | The Prefect of Police in Berlin has been appointed Imperial Health Commissioner | for the Elbe District. Bremen has beens of ficially deciared free from cholera SIX AT A BIRTH, The Wite of a North Carolina Moun. taineer Beats the Record, The wife of Charies Billings, a poor moun. taineer, living in Ashs County, North Care. lina, twenty eight miles from the nearest railroad station, has just given birth to six children, all bo That weigh from four and a haif to un and all are { at her hot who boarded with his sister at | married | band fut thirt f the dend yv-one years old V0. 1704 Becond aven % than twenty-f i Aan unmarried stableman, (0, 318 East rious of years Following is the Charlotte Beck dis 1%, DAY ~ ing been ill les Peter Callaghan ar i ire Forty-seventh str , died afte any a duratioc He was 1 under two Fast | tw yOArs xth id Minnie Lavinger. a chil died at street “hie had bie bout Charles McAv plasterer of age InY#s Tenth av { about twelve hours William Wig: enue, diel sn lied in He yt in Ww gman liam's wife holers about fied evidence wine had hee “a NO 0 Health Board Cholera Cire wing is 1 eat hor and e safer { emy oss they IE waler mw Don't eat or handic hands, or recsive it * ) ua the m ten His in eating been have the the re re recent fond $i1 wrehed Ig Aang sieaang r and thorog a 1 ventiisti iM waters aid be b ref err on wets, sir Are, etc. sh present Hea'th Board at shouid woe and remed FRECATTY The sucoesmiul treatment ani nol the spread hat 11s earliest oanif eoognized and treated; therefor Don't doctor yourself! for ix piaint, but go to bed and sen | for est physician at rnoe Sond for physician, send to a dispensary send to the Heith Department nearest police station for me ties Don’t wait, but send st onoe If taken 111 in the street Iragstore, d spoosary, hospita n, and demani prompt INARY MEASURES OF { thi liven ue ns O " t t outa I 5 naar mt police atten. weve sali tn Don't permit vomit or diarrboe charges to come in contact with fo or cwothing, These discharges sb ceived in proper vessels and kept until removed under competent rections, Pour boiling water on them, put & strong solution of oarbolic acid in then t lems than one part of acid to twenty of hot soap sade or water Don't wear, handle, or uw any of clothing or furniture that are soiiel with holera dive mrges. Pour boiling water on them, or put them into it, and them with the carbolic acid solution mentioned above and promptly request the Health Board to remove them Don't be frightened, tut do b and avoid excesses and aunecresary m . sl dis irink, i be re veored r n ie crutious, eXPo- | sures of every kind, By order of the Board of Healt) Unantes G, Wasox, Presi leat. ExMmoxs CLARK, Secretary, Ir is estimated that 2500000 bushels of corn have been shippad into Mexico from the United Bates during the past seven months, | The Mexican raliroads are blockaded with eAtly relies by the Gove
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