—————— Aun observer says that man's dress m head to ankles consists of a col Qection of stove funnels made of cloth. / The pension agency in Topeka, Kan., §s the largest in the country. It pays out annually fifteen million dollars to the weterans of Kansas, Missouri and Col- wrado. It is estimated that during the busy peason in London, when the fashionable set are not away, £10,000 worth of cream and $150,000 worth of milk are consumed daily. Says the New York World: Con. gratulations are due to our sister Repub. lic of Mexico on the completion of its eighty-second year of independence; also on the of which President Diaz recognizes in his address to the Congress, condition prosperity It is estimated that in the United States the annual expenditure for public charitable institutions is fully $125,000,- 000, and not less than $500,000,000 is invested 1n buildings and equipments for carrying on the work of these insti- tutions, In is taken of penitentiaries and jails. this estimate no account The New York Post states that the Russian language is to be taught in two of the Paris colleges, and that if the ex- periment succeeds, Russian will be placed on the same footing as German and Eog- lish in secondary education. The appar- ent intention is that if one day French- amen and Russians fight side by side they shall be able to understand each other. There is a good deal of profit in the prophet business in Java. A prophet of that island has been paid £400 a year for the last fifteen years ‘‘for not predicting a tidal wave which will sweep clear over But, after all, he caunot New the island.” be very enterprisio York Tribune. ready at hand to work upon, credulity he could get $1000 a year as easily as not. An American biologist, who returned recently from a year's study in the Ger- man laboratories, Wood's Hall (Mass, doing more research w fnstitution of its kind Naples Station alone certair nent of foreign profound interest in to Dr. Whitman, the testify. ich Benedict planned his trea. wh The rnold is said to have little house in make It stood in was son has just been demolished to room for a lager bt Market over 125 years old. that Arnold invited Clioton's be sent from New York to meet him; it niding. street, Phiiadelphia, and It was to this spot agent to was here that he lived. A mob chased him to this some unpopular measures with which he house once on account of awas supposed to be identified, and from its windows certain celebrities of the city gaw him hanged in effigy in 1780. Washington met Jefferson snd Hamilton in this cottage in later years, separately, in an endeavor to patch up a truce be. tween these two statesmen, A tunnel, the longest in the world, has been projected and begun, practic- ally, under Bimpion, to supersede the mountain cone The the Simpion” is thirty-caght miles in length; the tunnel will be a trifle less than twelve miles and a half, The wagon road is 6592 feet above sea level, over the famous structed by Napoleon. roaa “Route of is twenty-five to thirty feet wide, crosses 611 bridges, aod passes through several tunnels, It takes eight or nine hours to cross the mountain by the wagon road; the tunnel quarters of an hour. The power to run the drills, light the workings and venti- late the tunnel is to be derived from the River Marsa. The cost is estimated at about 1,240,000 a mile. can be traversed ia three Buffalo, N.Y., seerns to be the magnet for Poles who come to this country, No other city of its size, the New York Post avers, Polish colony, and two hundred are continually arriv- ing; and although they bring no mosey with them, or at best a trifle with which to make a new start in life, it is not long before they find some employment and manage to save something out of their earnings. Their versatility often excites surprise. One Pole who sppearmd in Buffalo with $100 five years ago is now worth $50,000, which he made as » steamboat ticket seller and real estate agent. The business of selling tickets to Polish fmmigrants, by the way, is done for the most part on this side of the water, and furnishes means of sup. port to many a shrewd exile with a large aoquaintance in his native land. The Polish population of Buffalo at the pres. ent time is said to be 50,000, has so large and prosperous a Parties of between one It is estimated that there are from thirty to thirty-five thousand voters from the Southern States who have settled permanently in New York. Britain’ and Ireland cover in all about 20,000 The railway lines of Great miles. The money invested in them is returned at something like $4,500,000.. 000, Lowell, Whitman, Parsons, Curtis and Whittier have all died within a year. Never before, probably, muses the Chi. cago Herald, have so many great men of letters passed away in so short a time. hey are finding it hard to decide on a Stato flower for, the State of Washing- ton. The difficulty is, the New York Sun, tira any flower that will grow in one-half of the State won't grow explains in the other half, Hand-woven tapestries are now re. produced in such a perfect manner, de. clares the St. Louis Republic, as to make a most satisfactory substitute for the real and vastly more expensive fab. | ric, and constituting, in fact, an indus. trial art of positive importance. Many of the dairy schools of Englanc have artificial udders made of India rub- ber for the boys and girls to practice on. A facetious exchange of the American that the cows have Farmer remarks cause to be thankful that the children have something as tough as rubber to do their pulling on. A bulletin issued by the Census Bur. D. C there are 3,240,354 communicants in the Methodist Epis Uni. States, repres ean at Washington, , States that pal Church in the ented in a, It has 22,544 ith a seating the ted CApACILY lued in agregato appropriated last year for public schools by the Russian Gov. i “How nent was fully small this is for a great country like " New York it by Russia,” observes the expended f State of New York was 815,214,068 r the publi sc} -~ » «9 in its rep. I maintains the New York The snake does not y ‘go upon his belly,” Scripture to the coa- trary notwithstanding, but upon his side and his motion results from cles ia ribs on A nd i COR ANG in but only for a short time. He is quite un. . 3 - nih able to glide upon a perfectly smooth surtace, nor is he able, as most people suppose, to pr pel his whole body far. ward and 1a air when striking. The other day at Springfield, Mass, a bicycle rider named Zimmermann smashed the records of bicycle riding in- to flinders by making = mile in the mar. 4-5 attempt, on the same day and track, he 00 1-5. These records put Zimmermann so conclusively of the hig time must velous time of 2:06 Ona a previous made a halfl-mule ia 1 at the head of the procession world’s bicycle riders that be «¢ ympared with something e what it really is. Nancy Hanks is prob- the se to show ably the fastest trotting horse in world, end yet, marvels the San Fran. Zimmermann oa his one-fifth of a second less than she has troted a mile on cisco Chronicle, bicycle has made a mile in a regulation, that is, an elliptical race- track. It seems hardly credible that a man mounted on a seat between two wheels on the same plane should be able to propel himself faster than the speed. has gone, but is indisputable, jest trotter ia the world the the the record The rise of bicycle in its present shape, that is, kind known generally as the *‘safe. ty,” would be a very interesting study, A few years ago wo were accustomed to see boys and young men perched above a high wheel with a smaller one trailing along after it, but the sport was not in the best of repute. There was too much danger attendant upon chmbing so high, and the frequent ‘“*header” was a thing not to be despised. Now every corner we turn we come across safeties ridden conditions of by all sorts and men, Ladies are among the most delighted and enthusinstic riders of safeties, and ride them almost as Safely bicycles have been tried in military man. the mail-carrying service of ways, until their has become an established It is always fortunate when a children learn to soon as they oan walk alone. euvers, in and in a variety usefulness fact, thing can be made useful and pleasur. able at the same time, and this is pre. ominently the case with the safety bieycle. All riders cannot be Zimmer. manos, but all can derive a vast amount of healthful ahd pleasurable exercise from the wheel, | 30 betrayed to | eminently proud, CLEVELAND'S LETTER. Accepting the Democratic Nom- ination for President. The Issues Upon Which the Bat- tle Will be Fought Discussed. GROVER CLEVELAND The letter of ex-President Grover Cleveland accepting the nomination as the Democratic candidate for President of the United States has been made public. It is as follows: To the Hon, William L. Wilson and others, Committees oto, GesTLEMEN In responding to your for- mal notification of my nomination to Presidency by the National Democracy, I hope 1 may be permitted tosay at the out. sot that continued reflsction and observa tion have confirmed me in my adherence to the opinions, which I have herets ly and publi dy declared, touching ths ques. tions involved in the canvass This is a time above all these questions should be o light afforded the principle is based, an relation tha fore plain. thers, when idered in th prehension taxa earnmgs lar form milion re r dally Hb of directly hto We foal the paipatky that they 30 purpose { maintain furnishing the mo ment of its Jegitim tions, This is tazation of a tariff for revenue, It ac professions of American free in and its justice and bh oly Answer suppliet by a correct appli ciples upon which t his theory of tariff legislation man enjoins strict economy in public expendi. tures and their hmitaticn to legitimate pub. lic uses, inasmuch as it exhibits as ab : extortion any exaction, by way of taxation fron the substance of the peoples, beyon i the necessities of a caralul and proper ad minstration of Government, Opposed to this theory the dogma is now boldly presented that tariff taxation is jas tiflable for the express purposes and intent of thereby promoting especial interests and enteryrises. Nuch a proposition (4 clearly contrary to the spirit of our CoHastitation and #0 directly sacourages the disturbs ance by weifishoess and greed otic sentiment, that its statement rudely shook our people, if nad not already allured from the safe landmarks of prin. ciple, Never have honest for Na. tional growth, patriotic devotion to country, and sincere regard for thos: who toll, been tha support of a doctrine, In its ° behalf, the plea that our infant industries should be forstered, did wservice until discredited by our stalwart growth; then followe | the exigencies of a terrible war which made our people heedless of the op. portunities for ulterior schemes afforded by their willing and patriotic pay. ment of unprecedented tribute; and now, after a long period of peace, when our over. burdened puntrymen ask for relief and a itu the t s thom of the pris wae institutions rest Hemtly they been losidioudy desire pernicious restoration to a fuller enjoyment of their in. | comes and earnings, they are met by the claim that tariff taxation for the sake of protection ls an American system, the ocon- tinuance of which is necessary in order that high wages may be paid to our workingmen and a home market products, These pretences should no longer deceive, The truth is that such a systear is directly antagonized by every sentiment of justios and fairness of which Americans are pre. It in also true that while our workingmen and farmers oan, the least of all our people, defend the themselves against the harder home life which such tari taxation decrees, the workingman suffering from the Importation and employment of muper labor insti. gated by his professed friends, and seeking security for his interests in organized oo operation, still waits for a division of the advantages secured to his employer under cover of a erous solicitade for his wages, while the farmer is learning that the prices of his products are fixed in foreign mar.ets, where he suffers from a competition invited and bulit up by the system he is asked to support, o for unearned advantage at he the doors of the Government tramples on the rights of those who patiently rely upon asurances of American equality, Every governmental concession to o'amorous fas provide! for our farm | ana sound Brincipies to equalize to onr peo plo the blessings dus them from the Govern. ment they support, to promote amonz our countrymen a closer community of interosts cemented by patriotism and National pride, and to point ont a fair fleld where prosper. Ous 8an diversifiad American enterprise may grow and thrive in the wholesoms atmos pharsol Asmerioun industry, ingenuity and Tariff reform is still our purpose, Thouzh we oppose the theory that tariff laws may be passed having for their object the grant ing of discriminating and unfair govern. mental aid to private ventures, we wage no exterminating war Against any American interests, We believe a readjustment oan be accomplished, in accordance with the principles wa profess, without disaster or demolition. We believe that the advantazes of freer raw material should be aocorded to our manufacturers, and we contemplate a fair and careful distribotion of necessary tariff burdens, rather thao the precipitation of free trade, We anticipate with eaimuness the misrepre. sentation of our motives and purposes, insti. gated by a selfishness which seeks to hold In | unrelenting grasp its unfair advantaze under We will rely upon the acim tariff laws, intelligence of our fellow countrymen to re Ject the charge that a party comprising a majority of our people Is planning the de- struction or injury of American interests: | and we know they cannot be frightened by the spectre of impossible free trade, The administration and management of our Government depend upon the popular will. Federal power is the instrument of that will, not its master, Therefore attempt of the opponents of Demoeracy to faterfers with and control the suffrage of the Btates through Federal agencies de- volops a design, which no explanation can mitigate, to reverse the fundamental and safe relations between the pseple ani thelr Government. Bush on attampt cannot fail to be regarded by thoughtful proof of a bold determination to secure the asoendency of a discredited party in reck- less disreguard of a free expression of the popular will, impulse of Democracy. At all in all places we trust the people. As against a disposition to foros the way to Federal power, we present to them as our claim to their confidence and support a steady cham- plonship of their rights, The people are entitled to sound and hone est money, abundantly sufficient in volume to supply their busines: needs, But what. ever may be the form of the people's ¢ rency, National or silver of paper-—it sh and guarded the qr « tate—whether gold, ald be so regulate] governmental , be consta rnembered nvonlence or loss that might uch a situation can d han the universal distres liseredited ' generous F have impressed upon their Grover Therefore all patriotic and just it commend libera wisi deratio t veleran soldiers and the of those who have diel N should be made of the paid to thos» sctually lependent by res chiaractiaristics ocompiaint of public money dimbled or made son of army service, But our pension roll should be a roll of honor, uncontaminated by ill desert and uninvitiated by demagzogi use, This is dus to thoss whose worthy names adorns the roll and % all our people who delight to bonor the brave and the trues It Is also due to those who in years to come should be aliowel to hear, reverently and lovingly, th story of American patriotism and fortitude, illostratal by our pension roll The preferences accorded to veteran soldiers in public employment shoud be secured to them honestly and without evasion, and when capabls and worthy their claim to the helpful regard and gratitade of their coun trymen should be ungrudgingiy scknowi. edged A genrrous hospitality ’ pinent of amount which is our National charact us to welcome the wort y and moustrious of all lands to homes an | citizenship among us, This hospitable senti. ment is not violated, however, by carelu and reesonable reguiations tion of the public health, nor does it Justify the reception of immigrants who have no appreciation of our jostitations and whose Mnpts presence among us is a measce to peace and | [4 wal or jer Tue importance of Nioaragua Bhip Canal as a means of promot. ing commerca bet ween our States and wito foreign countries, and also as a contribution by Americans to thé enterprises whica ad. vance the interests of the world of civilize tion, should commend the project to govern mental approval and endorsement Our ecuntrymen not only expect from those who represeat them in public places a sedulous care for the things which are directiy and pal. ably related to their ma terial interests, but they also fully appreci. ate the value of ecaltivating our National wide and maintaining our Naticoal honor foth ther material interests and taeir National pride and honor are involved in thy success of the Columbian Exposition: md they will not be Inclined to condone any soglect of effort on the part of their Gov. ernment to insure in the r of this event a fitting exhibit of American growth and greatness and a splendid demonstration of American patriotism, In an imperfect and fucomplets manner, { have thus endeavored to state some of the things which accord with the cread and in. tentions of the party to which [ have given my lifelong allegiance. My attempt not been to tends to § willing wo countrymen upon homely fashion, for t truths are be acoussd of trite topless a in I beliave that im» found on the | driving the mall wagons | office and the railroad stations, To resist such a scheme is an | times and | { the for the protec | the construction of the | THE NEWB EPITOMIZED, fastern and Middle Staten, Terpivic wind and snow storm prevailed on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, the wind reaching a velocity of 100 miles, Wire communication with the Glen House and the Bummit was cut off and trains could not get down tho mountaln on account of snow and lca, As the result of a quarrsl about $75 Fred- erick Mellenburg, a septusgenarian, mur- dered his wife) seriously shot his stepdaugh - ter and committed suicide at Paterson, N. Jd Goverxor RusserLl was renominated at the Massachusetts Damocratic vention at Boston Tue New York People's Party Btate Con. vention was called to order at Syracuse, Nominations were made as follows: For Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, Law- rence J, McParlin, of Lockport; for the electoral delegates at large—Thaddeus B, Wakeman, of New York City, and 1. E, De2an, of Honeoye Falls, Cuigy Postar Ixspecron EpGArTON ar rested at Philadelphia, Penn, , six coonspira tors who have sucoseded in robbing the mails of over $10,000 worth of articles of all sorts The men were drivers in the employment of the Union Transfer Usnpuny, ‘ 1 in DEAE yatw een the Yost Stats Con- Mus, J. B. Tosser and her six-year-old daughter, Annie, were burned to death in their home in Westbury, Long Island, N.Y, Tur woolen Warren, Mass, mill of Bayles & Jenks at and the buildings attached were burned The loss is estimated at $300, 000, The large plant of the Binger Manafscturing Company, at Elizabsthport, N. J., was for the second time within two years partly destroyed by fire, Loss, esti- | mated at §250,000 men as | Tuner men were drowned in an sttempt to run the rapids in the Connecticut River a { fow miles above Turner's Falls, Mass, Tug freight steamer H. M. Whitney, of the Metropolitan Line, was sunk by oollis- fon with the steamer Ottoman, of the War ren Line, in Boston (Mass) Harbor, That same day the steamer Watertown was burned in Boston Harbor; a w was fatally injured dedicati iment Hampshire nemory of of t VINA n of the Matthew by the Biatls ind the town of Marrin Matthew Thornton, he Declaration « y at Merry erected by the extra ros valid or of the Kpubl tion Cases { extensive mouniain A XUMRER of fires raged from Tin Cup to Texas Creek, ( il... and fully twenty square miles of valuable tiw ber land were burned over Atkinson, ne ¢ by lightning, a and their two of ie house was buroped stage was held up abou Crease, ( by a} He my by him in singe | gs of thar Peambarior was rd zen pAfsongers pass 1 disgorge the teat m the driver, Mas ured Elif be mall pon ix the first heat of the great fr sat Terre Haut , Maw mile in "1 ng the pa rd, Ing South Convention met at Unium iam electors wasn nated and a adopted, No Stat: ticket was nb Tux famou sutamit of Pike's burned, While the building was used by the Weather Bureau it highes point of observation in the United States J. WW. Burr fatally shot his wife and cu his child's throat at Uestelis, Co The child is dent, Smith is fa custody. No cause is assigned onl Carolina Hepublican State A fall set of piatiorm aoa ted at the een saation baikding Peas Lo has \ was Lhe Washington, Tar Becretary of the Interior has ape woved the allotment of laads to the Seneca [odians and the eastern band of Shawnees in the Indian Territory. here ars 155 of the former and 20 of the latter, who will receive sixty acres of land apleca, aod, in some oases, an additional eighty acres where the land is used tor grazing or » Dot fertile. Tue Interior Department announces that the Caerokee Commission bas opoasd nego tiations with the Kiowa Comanche and Apache Indians for the sale of their reser vations in Indian Territory Uspenr the authority conferrel by the last naval appropriation bill, providing for the construction of two new vessels for the navy, one a sen-going battle ship of LON) tons’ displacement and one an armored cruiser of 800 Led displtcoment, proposals bave been issued by the Navy Department for their construction Opens have ben isusd from Washing ton to have all the vowels of the Hering Sea fleet repairal for sea services immetiately upon their arrival at Sas Francisco, Thu is dons in order to have thesy ships ready for any emergency in the absence of the vessels of Rear Admiral Gherardi's special squadron, Thur last jacket has ben placed on the t thirtesndnoh gun feng made at the ‘sshington Navy Yard ani! the rifle now pearly complete), It will weigh 158. RE 100 pounue will penetrate 20% inohes of solia steel, ALL the great nava! Powers and many of the smaller ones to whom invitations wers J NEXKOR DE LOPEZ, the new Lipanish Minis ter, was formally presented to the President by the Beoretary of Btate, The tosles were exchanged, Tuy President aocsoted the resien Judge Lorenzy Crounss as Assistant Secre. tary of the Treasury, to take off diately, asual cour tion 0. nme Tre following appointments to fi vacancies were made Orlando H of lowa, Consul at Copenhagen: Ha MeCrillis, of Massachusetts, at Dan H. Drake, of South Dakota, at Kehl CC, Bundberg, of California, at Bagda H. Lowrie, of Illinolr, commercial age Friedberg, John P. Eirich, of Pierre; Jasper Smith the Columbia, at Turin, Mr. B piace of Consul Rider, rec tion, existing Baker wots § of ti Foreign. Tue British Consulate at Mozambique has | reported to the Foreign Office the drowning of an exploring party of two Eng on and five Germans at the mout! Moma. By the explo i mill Canada, Pierre Btone and J. B. Lazure ware instantly killed and other badly in- jured, The mill is a tots Tie Italian by royal decres uver boiler in at Enbram mol a of Joseph Lalonde AW. Village, five Parliament ALDERMAN RK NIL Mayor of London News has bosn recely | Bouth Africa, that Capt | bark William Halles and, N.Y , and his dered at sos. Tur ports of Niearagus we world on account of the fears cholera GEXERAL Cart Muri wines in Hanover, Germany nine years old, and the Jas { officers who fought at Water) Shed] He Tae Pan Presbyterian ( to, Canada, closed its session Tue cholera situation in Kurog improved NEWBY GLEANINGS, Corr AG ¥ reports are dis ID Crop of u« COLUMBIAN STAMPS New Series to be Issned to Discovery of Ames Moe Department wil The Post fess what = be known as phan i by the American Bank Note Co df New York under a contrac Tha denomination of all o have not As vot bean Tally dstermine { un but they will smbracs all of the present series and probably some other Toe new stamps will be of the sam as the pressnt srriong, bat twice» as inoreased size bing thou tht necessary in order properly to dlspiay the astrati sas, bese are inten Jod to exmme norate the dis. covery of America br Columbus and several of the llastratons © e already been decided upon, hes wre the “Discovery of Amearion by Columbus First Sight of Land” “Columbus's Fest at Bea” from Revista de ia Mina, “Land. ing of Columbus ™ atter the Van der Lyn plotuse ia the United States Capitol; “The Santa Marie.” Columbus's fAagehip, alter Alfred Harrie, “loam ome Ascine Ald of Queen Iwmbelia” and “Columbus Racitiog toe Bory of Hie Discovery to Ferdinand and Isab lla on His Retarn From His Fan Voyage " Ononeof the depominations will Appear a portrait of Crlambus, {t ts expected that the satire series will bs pus on sie Jannary 1, 1804 and ducing the rucossding year will en irely supereade the present series. It is expectel that the net revenue 10 the Government from the sale of these stamps will be very large, and that their sale to collectors will largely exosed any previous issue. It is ale { ¢ porios of postag» stamps, 1 height long, the believed that this issue will greatly stimulate igterost in the exposition, both abrond and «8 home — - MAIL TUBES. The Offar of the Pacamatic Transit Company of New Jersey Accepied, The committee appointed t4 examine the poeumatic mall sevies bide ommended the ascoestanss of of the Posumatic Transit Company of New Jersey 5 connect the Palladel phia office with the East Chestnut street branch without expense t) Lhe deparimen® and without charge for a your's use of the Slenoral Wanamater has noth. ervey Company that its offer have re the offer Now
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