— —— Philadelphia has 23,000 more women than men. The Chinese postal service, which Is slow and crude, is controlled by many private companies, According to life insurance statistics the average of man's life has increased five per cent. during the last twenty-five years. Lord Dunraven values the English “pleasure fleet” at $50,000,000, and says it finds employment for six or seven thousand men at sea, besides those on shore. A woman writer for an Eastern pub- lication attempts to explain why so many rich American girls marry titied foreigners, It is, she says, because the young society men of this country ape | foreign manners, and the girls prefer the | genuine article to the imitation, RE — - | The Rural New Yorker says: The | day is coming when every milk dairy | man will be compelled by law to have a | veterinarian examine his cows regularly and give them a character for health, Why shouldn't we know there is health | in our milk as well as wealth in our | fertilizer? It is a curious fact, muses the Chicago | Herald, that the father of Alexander Grahame Bell once devised an alphabet | of ‘‘visible speech” to represent all the | sounds of which the human voice is capable, and that his son, from teaching deaf mutes, should have enlarged the | possibilities of sound almost to in- finity. A food enthusiast has arisen, who says that the banana is the universal food and clothing of the human race. He claims that before long bread, muffins, ridge, soup, pies, and sausages will be made out of bananas, Besides that, au indelible of the skin, and a beautiful cloth can be made out of the fibre. por- ink can be made out Says the Boston Transcript: ‘‘Few geographies mention the district in the South known as the ‘Poor Man's Beit.’ It is a tract of country generally very sacdy and producing little timber save the long leafed pine. It begins not far | south of Richmond, Vs., slong the Atlantic and Gull coasts into Texas, miles, while it is from 50 to 150 miles in width. The soil is poor, but the forests produce lumber abundance, but also large quantities of pitch, tar and turpentine. It got a bad name during aati-bellum days because and extends Its length is not far from 1800 not only in no cotton was raised in it, but, since the South is beginning to than to the cotton field the ‘Poor Man's Belt’ come one of the richest pats of Bouthern States.” look elsewhere for its wealth, promises to be. the One of the most remarkable schemes of the day, in the opinion of the New York World, is the plan of Sir Cecil Rhodes, the Premier of Cape Colony, South Africa, to build a telegraph line from the Cape to Egypt. Sir Cecil, it is said, is now on his way to Cairo to look after details, and the project, chi. merical as it may seem, has been indorsed by many public men in England. Sir Cecil's proposition takes the British fancy, because his telegraph is intended chiefly as the first thread upon which « great British empire in Africa is to be strung, It is believed in England that the Germans will yet get out of Africa | snd leave their extensive possessions on | the cast coast to the Union Jack. Then England will have the unbroken right of way from the Cape to Cairo, by the way of Zanzibar aad the district of the Great Lakes. The Society for the Protection of Birds | appears to be making headway in Eng- land. According to its second annual report, which has just been issued, the number of members bas increased from 1200 to 2500, There is evidently plenty of work for them to do if they wish to preserve birds of bright plumage from the annihilation threatened by the de. mands of fashion. It appoars that even 80 common, hardy aad prolific a bird as the goldfioch is in danger of extinction. The fashion of mounting whole birds on hats and bonnets has been peculiarly fatal. What the society is anxious to bring about is the extension of the wild birds protection act, the operation of which begins too late and eads too soon in the year to be of much practical ben. efit. The report points out that it Is not only the direct slaughter of birds for which fashion is responsible. There is an enormous demand nowadays for real winter berries for the purpose of ferninine adorament, As a result a good many birds which escape the snare of the fowler dio of starvation for lack of their natural food. Artificial berries last longer than the real and look just as pretty, while the manufacture of them would provide employment for many destitute women. - . | are | lowing down everywhere. “Let us have a National quarantine, and let us have it without delay,” saye the Chicago Tribune, The average revenue per ton per train mile last year was just a little less than nine mills, In the Bouth, states the Atlanta Constitution, it was away below the average. Some one says go where you will over the Continent of Europe you will find some dentist successfully established and everywhere quoted for professional ability, American In France the Government pays the pastors, not only of the Catholic but of the Protestant Thus rule obtains also in the colonies, so that Mohammedan mosques are maintained by the State. It There is a strong disposition to abolish denominations, costs millions of dollars. the arrangement, notes Public Opinion. Dr. Henry G. Byer, surgeon in the Naval Academy Annapolis, tested the breathing capacity and the leg, arm and back strength of five foot. ball teams and made strength of each team, and he concludes that the result ot the game is deter. at a formula for the mined by the absolute strength of the | | and Miss Frances Hayes, the ex-Frosideat's | children, | dial team. A passenger must pay fare on a ral road train, whether he is given a seat or not. of the Old Colony Railroad Company va. C. 8. Rackmann. A car was crowded, and as Mr. Rackemann was not given a seat he declined to pay his fare, and suit was brought against him to recover fifteen cents. Au appeal will be taken f and the case carried to the full beach of the Supreme Court. These great steel warships to ever invented, for those them. { moderr device seem be the deadliest engines on board They have never been known far as to do any particular damage anybody else. The Chisina Kan was one offthem, lately built for the Japanese Gov- ernment in France, at an extravagant cost, and fitted out with all the modern improvements, It had a collision not long ago with an ordinary steamship, the Ravenna. The Ravenna proceeded on her way without haviag to put into port for repairs, but the Chisina Kaa went to the bottom with such inordinate speed that of her crew of ninety souls If one of be brought agaiost us, the only thing nec but sixteen could be saved, these tremendous engines could essary, it seems, woukl be to ram it with a skiff, and send it to the boom. The papers in the Northwest say that everywhere in that region water powers are being taken up and utilized to create So cheap is this process that of the No light and no power can be 4 electricity. the use of coal is out question, created so stream What cheaply as that where a mountain has been made to do the work. ago has was an experiment a short time pew become one of the most remarkable industrial developments of the time. In nearly all the Northwestern States which hilly or mountainous these water Swift streams are These are Find- ing a streapr anywhere within five or ten miles of a thriving town, they are ready to light that town and furnish power cheaper than it could ever be furnished by the use of coal, powers are abundant, just what the electricians want, | extent, is the practical solution of the question of cheap light, heat and power, Early in the present ceatury George Rapp founded an Eden in Pennsylvania, | and named the settlement Economy, The | settlers had to live up to the apostolic rule of holding all things in common, sod they were, moreover, prohibited from marrying. From time to time the society received enough to keep it alive, and at the present time the members number twenty-five men, With no families, these men natursily fell into habits of hard work and close Their property increased in now worth accessions economy. value, and it is from forty to seventy million of dollars, The head of the community died a few weeks ago, and John Duss, a man of thirty-three, who joined the society only six years ago, is likely to be his sue. cessor, If Mr, Duss outlives his associ. ates, all the property will be his, and he may by the time he reaches the age of sixty find himself in possession of an estate worth from ¥100,000,000 to $1560, 000,000, People who have followed the progress of this remarkable society of velibates are mking the question: ‘Does it pay to be single!” Perhaps it does in exceptional cases, but it is the belief of the Atlantic Constitution that *‘the average man would mther be jn the penitentiary than in the pious little town of Economy, Better a crust of bread and love in acottage than such an un satural life with all its millions of joy es wealth” auywhete Md., | i at his home near Fremont, Ohio, at 11 o'clo That is the decision of the Muni. | cipal Civil Court of Boston in the case | | Delaware, Ohio, on October 4 1822 This, to a great | RUTHERFORD B, HAVES, | The Ex-President Dies After a Brief Illness. President-Elect Cleveland tends His Funeral in Ohio. At. | chamber in HAYES, ex: President of the | RUTHERFORD B Rutherford B. Hayes, United States, diad of neuralgia of the heart a few nights ago, aftera brief illness lutherford B, Hayes Jr., Wabb C, Hayes the time he had been failed to ware with him at Boott Haves, another son summoned from Cincinnati, bat arrive bafore his father's death, Sketoch of His Career, Rutherford Burchard Hayes was born in The founder of the American branch of Lis fam fly was George]Hayes, a blacksmith and ear. | mter, who left Scotland in 1680 and feettied | in Windsor, Conn Rutherford B. Haves was months after the death of his His uncle, Sardis Birchard, superint his education Hes wa and was graduated study { law in the ITs sent College, began tha Thomas Sparrow, afterward attended a © in Harvard Collezre, and mitted to the Bar at Marietta, Oh Shortly after he began to pract fession at Fremont, Ob having into partnership with Mr, Ralph VP iand, of that to In 1840 he ro Cincinnati, where be in time acquired fair practice In 1858 he was nominated for Judge of Common Pleas, but declined the nomigation In 1858, the office of City Solicitor becoming vacant by the death of Judge Hart, he was thas, 0 ’ arse of law le unexpectedly elected by the City Council to | | unter fill ths vacancy, and in 1859 way reslectad by the people for a full term, votes ahead of his ticket, He until the spring of 1801 I'he attack on Fort Haves to arms. Judgs Hayes raised a regiment which called the Twenty third Ohio Infantry. onel Haves was swnoted to general “lor gallant and meritorious vice in the battles of Wine Hill and Coadar Creek.” to take rank fre October 19, 15864, and was brevetted mak general “for gallant and distinguished ser. vices during the campaigns of 18% in W ginia, and particalariv in the battles Fisher's Hill and Colar Crook In 1804 Mr, Hayes was ole gress and he was reelected he was nominated for v his opponent being Allen GO. was elected, He was renor ernor in 1860, and was agair opponent this time og Renator George H the close of hisseo he was again nominated Cincinnati and defeated by Gu Ia June, 1875 he was for Governor, and af} feated William Aiien | At the National Repub whih met in Clacimmati was nominated for Pres ballot, his principal oppone i. Blaine The election I the pomination was the MYREION grave erisis in the histore of the countr Two sets of returns on Presidentia tors received rom the Florida, three from Louisiana, two Oregon and two from South | Oa the face of the original ret from the various Stat the Dem candidates had received 28 of the 30 toral votes and Hayes 18 The election turnsd on contested votes of running held t} Sampter called Mr Mathews and Mr Was 140% V I I bester, Fishes 1hernat for ( orn re 1 ~ were Ntat rt aras the Caroline, Louis wteste 1 in twanty Houth inna and Florida and one volts « Oregon | The Constitution provides that the President shall count the Electoral votes in the nressnce of the members of both Houses of Congress The acting Vice-President was a Republican. The Senate was also Re publican. The House was Democratic, A law was enacted providiag for the ore ation of an Electoral Commission to be com« d of two Democrats and three Repub jeans from the Senate, three Democrats and two Republicans from the House, and four Justices of the Supreme Court, two Democrats and two Republicans, The Jus tices were 10 slect another member of the Supreme Court Bench, who would thus hold the balance of power, The Democrats who voted for the bill ex pected that David Davis, of llinols, would be the fifth Justice on the Commission an the fifteenth and last member of that body Davis was elected to the Unite! States Keoate, resigned his Justioceship and bee ume ineligible. Joseph Bradley, of New Jersey, became the balance of power, He was a Republican, The vote on each contested quastion in the Coramission was eight to seven In favor of the Republicrn tion, Hoth partics being pleads! to abide by the decision, this resuite | in the declaration of Hayes's election by an elecipral majority of one vote, On the expiration of his term Mr. Haves retired to his home at Fremont, Ohio, The degree of LL.D, was conferred! upon hin by Kenyon College, Harvard, Yale and Johns Het ins Universities, o was made Senior Vies-Commanier of of the Military Order of the Loyal Logion, Commander of the Ohio Commandery of the same Order; the first President of the Hoclety of the Army of West Virginia and Prostieat of the Twenty-third Regiment Ohio Voluotesry' Awociation, Later be became President of the John F. Riater E inoational Fund, one of the Trustees of the Peabody Elueational Fund, Pros - dmt of the Nacosal Prien Heform | cote, | Prayer repeated impressively and the simnle { tary. | procession moved was as follows | Brice, Major E, C. | President IH. *H. oral J, | ens and Houston: | mem Der | victims | sixty yours of age that be could out a gool swath io any granger’s meatow, The Funeral Exercises, 4 H Business wag suspended at Fremont, Ohlo, | and the schools wers closed, on account of the funeral of ex-President Hayes, which took place during the afternoon. Many public and private buildings were drapsd with black, and displayed flags at half mast and other evidences of mourning. Thou- sands of persons went to the Huyes residence at Bplegel Grove during the morning to view the body of the dead. On the dead man's breast rested the decoration of Com- mander-dn-Chisf of the loyal Legion, and on the left lapel of the dress cont the dec- oration of the Ariny of West Virginia At nine o'clock the children of the public schools marched there in procession ; President-elect Cleveland arrived at 12205 o'clock on the Lake Bhore train, He was nccompanied only by his Private Secretary. The train was two hours late, and a great crowa had assembled to see Mr. Cleveland Company K of the Sixteenth Rogiment was drawn up in two lines, extending from the train to the carriage. Between thess lines Mr, Cleveland was escorted by Colonel H. C. Corbin, followed Ly Webb and Birchard Hayes, and members of the committes of funeral arrangemouts, Mr, Cleveland was at ones driven to the Hayes residence, The Ruest was given rooms on the second floor, I'ie wide rooms of the mansion wers fille with a distinguished company when the sim - ple funeral services bagan at two o'clock. In the south parlor and the large bei- the rear of it were President. elect Grover Cleveland and the members of President Harrison's Cabinet, representa tives of the United Bates Ssaate and House, and officers of the Army and Navy. Tae | members of the family were also seated there, Ihe Rev. J. L. Albritton of the Methodist | Episcopal Church of Fremont, standing be- tween the doors of the parlors in the expan | #ive hall, read the 241 Psalm, after a hymn, | and was followed in prayer by President J, | W, Bashford, D. D,, who some forty-five years ago united in marriage Lucy Webb snd Rutherford Barchard Hayes in Chilli- Ohio, Another hymn, the Lord's wlemn services at the hous were over. The remains were then taken to Oskwoold Cane The order in which the funeral Honorary ill bearers, Hon. Charles Foster, Governor Viliam McKinley, Hon. J. LIL. M. Carry. ex-Minister to Spain: Senator Calvin 8B, Dawes, General Wager Swayne, General M. F. Force and Hon. W E. Haynes: members of the family; ex Grover Cleveland, sc by Hon William Henry nearest friend of the fon { the Cabinet: Attorpey-enera Mille Postmaster-General and ; representative companied Smith, the rem Der Ww od Wana Buk Senate Neacrelariess of the nake a delegation of the Hous sentatives, representatives of the officers the Army: Cx Henry ‘orbin, Ger C. Breckenridge, Get | George | M. LL. lLuaddington, Car ker N. Bliss, of Gener] Schofield’s representalives f the United Captain Howell, Commanders D reg resentatives of the sev the lLowval and ex-officers of the Association of the Twenty-third Infantry; officers and ex« rs of of Obie; Governor William members of the General As ia, and all the civil officer: of the State in the trder of nrecadenc Then wed the municipal offirers of Cleveland, Toledo and Sandusky. military escort, consisting of the Military lroop, the Sixteeatn N. Gand Battery I) of 1 by | KH. 8. of the Gc. A. KK. and Sons otherwise assiZzoe! oom. prised part of the escort, The p of howor was held by the First Troop of Cavalry of Cleveland, of which Webb , Haves is » The body bearers were eight men- General Hayes's old Twenty thir he Ohio ( unandery of th was represented and f the Raputi ford B f the United one ples, Lienera Riates + SAY Legion legimenta Oho i mmanderies of eral « Moers i he Cleveland Regiment, © e130 wan Bunker. Members {f Veterans not mmanded pat bers of Regiment Loval Legion After t brid Grand Army « mortal of Ruther Presudent mitted to the tomt fhe d ritual of the all that was Haves, ninetosntl States was Lie simple tished mourners were driven to town Mr, Cioveland went Wu Toledo to spend the night, the Cabinet of- floars returned to Washington nmeliately alter the funeral, and Governor McKinley and his Legislative and offivial party went back to Columbus in their special train, sling whenos DOUBLE MURDER, A Thriftless Son Shoots His Father, Mother and Sister, A tragedy was enacted at Chester, Penn, a lew alternoons ago, witlch will result in $ the loss of two l'ves and the conviction of Thomas Rodgers as a double parricids is twenty-four wd, and the are his father, Thomas RK wlgers, bis mother, Martha Ann Rodgers, of about the same age, and his married sister, Mra William Kildey. Ax Thomas sat wack of the stove in the kitchen of his parents’ home, just after the noonday meal in the afternoon, bis father reprimanded him for his laziness, and, deciar. ing that be must go tw work, Taomas an. swered, “You can't put me out,” and, going up stairs, secured his brother dn law's revol- ver, The wife and daughter attemptad to save Mr. Rodgers, but Thomas pushed them aside and deliberately fired two bullets nto his father at short range, The first shot entered the thigh and the second lodged in the heart, while the powder scorched the old man's clothing. After his father had fallen to the floor young Rodgers kicked him in the face, The motner attempted to sscape by the oellar door, but a bullet from ber son's revolver struck her in toe back and penetrated her Jeft Jung. The sister, Sir Kildey, flad from the houss by the front door, and her brother, whose bloodthirsty passions had been thor. oughly aroused, pursusd her to the street and, standing on the doorstep, shot ber whiie she ran, in almost the same places that he bad wounded his mother, The balist glanced on the shoulder biade, and this saved the young wo.nan's life, KILLED HER SON, Mrs, Taggart Suddenly Gave Way to an Angry Impulse, In a adden fit of ungovernable temper Mre, Mary Taggart, of Philadelphia, Peon. stabbed to death with a single knife thrust Thomas Davis, a saventesn year-old son by a former husband, The Vears Rodgers ’ THE NEXT SENATE. New Faces in the Upper Branch of the Coming Congress. Smith, New Jersey; Lodge, Mass- achusetts; White, California. There will be a pumber of new faces in the United States Benate when it convenes in March to witness the inauguration of Grover Cleveland as President, and the installation of Adial E. Stevenson as its own presiding officer. Below are given pletures and bi- ographica | sketches of three of the post re cent addi tions: James Bmith, Jr., whom the Legis lative caucus of New Jersey Dem. ocrats selected to succeed Renator Rufus Blodgett; Henry Cabot Lodge, who has been elected by the Massachusetts Legislature a successor Lo Senator Henry 1. Dawes, and | Stephen M. White, the Californian lawyer | Just chosen to succeed Bsnator Felton by a majority of one on joint Legislative ballot, | | apostolic delsgation, | was no doubt the bearer «f the Papal bull | creating the delegation and confirming AN APOSTOLIC DELEGATE, Monsignor S8atolli Made the Popvs Representative in America, A dispatch from Home says that “the Pope has decided to establish a permanent apostolic delegation in the United States, and has nominated Monsignor Batolll, who recently went to the United States as the Papal representative, to be the first dele. gate, “Pope Leo is sald to be greatly interested in the situstion in America, and desirous of putting an end to the ecclesiastical differ. ences existing there, With this purpose the Pope is preparing an encyclical to the American episcopate, advising harmony sad union. Monsignor Batoll, the Papal ablegate, re- ceived at the Catholic University, Washing tan, the following cable message from Dr, Connell, the American Secretary of the Propaganda, who accompanied Bawlli to this country, and recently returned to Rome: “The apostolic delegation is permanently established fa the United States, and you are confirmed as the first delegate.” Information sas also received that the | Rev, F, Z Rooker, of Albany, N. Y., bad been formally appointed Becretary of the and stating further had left Bome for New York, and that he all | the powers of Monsignor Satolli, las a Ablegate, which meant that be bat lim | power in a few special causes | Delegate he represents the Pope, pre | a Mmister Plenipotentiary represent | country at a foreign court { bishops SMITH, In, James Bmith, Jr., was born in N.J., and was educated at private schools in his native city up to the time he went to lege at Wilmington, Del, After graduat. ing be located In New York in the dry goods business, his father having | for many years oot like the busin turned to Newark, where nufact patent leather, To<day be is the inrgest [ens Hoe having the Counc was Republican; onte became a joa fall retused a unanimous nomir Mayor. He bas had offered to offios in the gift of the people of county and State, but bas always declined to accept any office except that of President of the Newark Board of Public Works. Mr Smith is no orator, but talk He has | a dignifie] and easy # ar shrewd as any of them in deals h men His gray bair gives him an appearance older than bis actual age. Personally he is popu- lar and naturally amiable, He « married and has several children, Newark, ma that in b a t been elected | was a tie 'y he Was jor, and ward be elected | well HENRY AROT LODGE Henry Cabot Lodge was bora in Boston, Mase, May 12. 185 He was graduated from Harvard in 1571, and from the Law School three years later. In 1875 be re | oesived the degree of Ph, D. for Ris thesis on the land law of Anglo-Saxons. He was university lecturer on American history from 1876 to 1579, and about the same time | edited the North Americin Review He served two terms in the Massachusetts Legislature in 158) and 188) For two years he was Chairman of the Republican State Committee, and was a delegate to the Repub- lican National Conventions of 188) and 1884, He was defeated as a candidate for Congress in 1854, but was slectad in 1858, and subse. quently reelected. Mr. Lodge has been an Overseer of Harvard College since 1884, and be is a member of various scientific and his torioal societies. He has published several books, them being “Life and Letters of George Cabot,” “Short Histor; of Eag- lish Colonie: in America,” “Lite of Alexan- der Hamilton,” “Life of Daniel Webster,” and ‘Studies in History." tH 3 EH : g £1 v1] i i Archbishop Batolli cams to this country mere Papal representative at 1 SBuldenly hs became ne an ited Now as a delegate Apostolic be takes rank over entire hierarchy of the United States, As Ablegate he was a minor officia World's Fair. wii As soly ag nis As far a of the United BStates are cerned he is the Pope himsesif in the trans action of church affairs, He could have but one higher office, that of Cardinal Legate, a rare appointment in these days MANY BSOLDIERS BURNED. While Tie OO - Takes tunning at Fall Speed A Mallway Train Fire A fatal railway accident THE MARKETS, Late W holesale Produce Frices Ounoted in New Limed FRUY Baldwin Lire ning, «= Grapes Ww Ww Cranberries, Btate--1802, fair to choice IBUL., Prime...coecoinie INE, common to good. Old odds, , .e .e AVE POULTRY Fowig<Jerser, State. Venn Western, per Ib .e Spring Chickens, local, iu. ., Western per It Roosters, old, per lb Turkeys, per 1b Do<ksN, J Geese, Western, per pair. .,, 13 Pigeons, per pair. . DRESSED POULTRY DRY PAC Turkeys Jersey, por ib... Chickane~ Phila per ib Ny Western, per ib, ......... OWisSt and West, "ib Ducks ¥air to fancy, Pe Ib on, per Ib Rpring, 1. FOrte Western, per Ib Squabw- Dark, joe doz, White, per dos...... VEGETARLES, Potatoes State, per bbl... EREBAKEESEASR Flour City Mill Extra,.... 41% BEE Saas woah Anns “on Patents, Wheat No, 2 as ge xz - SARA ET EEE] bhi hii tS ELE EEE Quen Ungraded Mixed... ize Weer: 1 rr Cm LIYE STOCK, ray Mo com. togood. Is ou por 00 ac 4 » per 103 i, 0 TT @ 8 Bibb dds oh hh TT |2unEEes “ 2 grse Fa = esses 5 foie:
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