Sixty thousand acres of Florida lands are to be cultivated by Swedes, - The Netherlands are sald to be worth $4,985,000,000 and Belgium $4, 030,000,000, Australia has just completed the first locomotive ever built on the island continent. . Jt was constructed at Mel- bourne. The colored people of Virginia pay taxes on real estate valued at 89,425, 686, and on personal property valued at 83,342,950, A Brooklyn (N. Y.) inventor says he can propel a big steamship across the Atlautic in three and a half days with and sulphuric acid, chlorate of potash. powered sugar Although we have the poor always with us, a two-cent British Guiana, 1850 issue, postage stamp, was sold at auction in this city the other week, muses the New York Independent, for $1010, The New York Sun shows that while in the country at large the proportion about only 2.60 per of foreign-born inhabitants is fourteen per cent., it is cent of the total in the fourteen South- ern States. not altogether into Cornwall Spinning wheels are things of the past. Go or Wales, or to the Scotch Highlands, the Herald, and Chicago feral find cottages declares of where the spinning wheel is as much you will plenty fl piece of household furniture as are the h and the kitchen scrubbing brusl broom. ilroad fro; nsalem is Passenger trains make sevents an hour. The rails ea land, the ties Philadelphia, from France France and the heavy by Arabs and Egy not yptians likely to yield a j + rrr tO come. a fanciful but pretty conceit, the New York News, that lnmbian Liberty far diffe imagine tions, solile Chronicle lygamy is now preseribed by rigid laws, and though the spirit of the laws is v 11 still the fear « mpris h to check on of the tures of the systen "he younger mer th at vy many Mormans, iment has dor mu worst fea tho am bh AV th have gr i marks the N¢ “ordinaries” for entertainment o and beast have There way given nam is Jennings Ordinary in County, Smoky Ordinary Brunswick County, and others in the regi too, that local shopkeepers, the millers and the black- Oddly for MAIN maps immortalize the smiths of an earlier generation, enough, one looks almost in vain names growing out of the bloody struggle from "61 to "65 has Indian A sort of mythology about the American he wanished 100 The popular names of many plants ine grown up i regions whence YOArS Ago, elude the adjectize Indian. Few per sons in Amerion say Indian corn now, but Indian cakes is a term still strongly intrenched south of Mason and Dizon's is even a plant known The brilliant canna is called Indian shot be- black, bullet like Indian traditions line, and there to children sa Indian tobacco, cause its seeds are pellets, pre- served with a sort of reverence in the South, travelers on a certain road in Worces. ter County, Maryland, stopped at a point in the remote conn. try, reached under a bush at the road. side, drew forth a stone mortar and pestle used by the Indians 100 years before, showed the relies to any stranger in the company and carefully put them back. A whole neighbor- hood knew the wher abouts of these in- struments, but they seemed as safe ao in 8 museum. are Twenty-five years ago local commonly NAVAL REVIEW. Magnificent Marine Pageant at New York. GREAT WAR-SHIPS IN LINE. President Cleveland Reviews the | International Fleet, All the World Out to See Afloat and Multitudes Watch Spectacle From the Shores-—At Night a Splendid Show Search Lights Rive the Mists and Colored Fires Outline the Anchored Ware. Ships—~The Grand Ball-Unique Land Parade, The Columbian Naval It rk Harbor was a grand sucee nt, joined in by all the f his It view in New Y«¢ WM, peaceful naval eve naval th leading tory bigger marks an ep fiself. The collection greatest ov wh, t ore than Bo large a raft and rated] inthe Hud |] Sal ha powers, is that of now a part an untry, of warships was Ten Nations were rop- 10.000 officers number DONS Wis im River [rposit A Ht of ata] Tort roses lay the Unites vin swalng the f the third &tr wid Tau Ar Ihesd ot wor | f the Presid and om allem of th ree Ww — ait arn HEill further ug Ranta Maria and fleet, lay the United ! Dark the > int aro nDAYY 1} the privy the b ut 5 | SNiatow ind whist uid be permitted to turn wn the New 2 rk side of the having sdvanoed northward al I'he warships were lined Enterpris Manta Maria COLUMN KTARBOARD F NTATES UMN ira (her GREAT BRITAIN Vie Admiral Sir John Hopkim manderdn.Chief, Blake (flag Australia Magictenna, Tartar NURNIA Vie Admiral Konna. koff, Commander ind hie Dimitrl Donskod (lag) General Admiral, Rynda FRANCK, Rear-Admiral De Li bran, Commander. ind hist, Joan Bat (fag). Aret huss, Hussard, iraLy, Rear Admini Pinta PORT I'S Rear-Adw ardl ind hief Philadelphia Newark ( lag Atlanta Ran Francisoo, Banoroft Bennington Baltimore Chirag Yorktown Charleston, Yosuvius, Conoord ARGENTING, Rear- Admiral Howard, Neuve de Julio, HOLLAND, Ca Arrious, Van Spi, EAMANY, Capt. Buchsel, K Angunta, Hoondler, UNITED SEATS, Nina COL nander fing) flag). Mag ined hiet, Eton ( fag), Glovaan! Ba A Clty the | Our greatest | bh in the chronicles ofthe globe | Com- | RPAIN, | Rear-Admiral Gomez y Lono, Commannd- er-in-Chiet, Infanta Isabel (flag). | Diplomatic Reina Regents, Nusve Espana, BRAZIL, in-Chief, Aquidaban (fag). Tiradentes, tepublica, 9 o'clock, a cordon of seventy flve tugs, rev. { the | Veragua, descendant of Columbus and in loar-Admiral de No- | ronba, Commander- | erton, carrying | The had waited so long and that toid them the re view had begun, Behind the Dol phin eamo the United Btates Const Burvey steamer Blake, bearing the | Corps; the Monmouth, with United States Benators and Representatives | General Melgs, bearing the Duke of vited guest of the Nation, and the W, CO, Eg the municipal government the Committes of One Hundred, thunder of the Miantonomoh's signal not oeased to and had Up the mazes of rigging that looked like huge | enue cutters and launches, under the contro | geometric spider webs against the gky, ran of the National, State and city governments, | hundreds and hundreds of sailors, #piek and Swing rad | servios the ontir lines ha natr pats lock and n pair northward a f wr fui { war ship ’ mpact mass irom fount in f the (ene ne the Hr iy 5 N b) Le — us THE CHICANO, FTEEL-PROTROTED CRUIRER, —— © —— the National saluta, “Up anchor I" was the pext order, and as the vessel fosted free with the tide she fired a single gun as a signal to the waiting Misntonomoh, Down under the deck of the great monitor stood a Lieutenant, hold in his hand a rab ber bulb. As the Dolphin fired the signal | gun an offiear on the monitor's deek signaled to the Lisutenant below, Forth from a huge tendneh gun sprang a pillar of Are and smoke that extended 200 fet over the son and hid the ship, A crash and a roar that naghl, Commands | shook alljthings on land and ses came over | the water, It was a torrie concussion, and | 1 took 280 pounds of powder to make it | That was the signal for which the multitudes with the flags of and the Hooretary decorated axoept the President United Staten, The Blake her own bunting and the General Meigs floated only a few flags with the Stars and Miripes astern, Thess five boats carried the official began saluting the uproar with Repu ilos and ! guna of her great battleship Aquidaban shoo Iv earth. Germany, scross the channel, | joined in with the lor and the Kaiser. | fn Augusta. Spain, on the other y | Bpeyk, took 1 up, ramble from shoro to | | shores when the whole aspect of that noble Around these forty vessels was formed, at | vista of north stretehing ships was changed. | of the Navy and the glorious ensign of the | wan decorated | with a rainbow of color, The Monmouth had | penith y. | Brazil, on the New York side of the fleet, | Tirndentes, and in a moment more the heavy | ho i | clusion, the operators gave some examples FoADOng iro Lh cf the Nueva Espanl, th the Infants Ysabel, Ar ovo de Julio, and Hol Italy H land, with the Van continued it wish the (Hovann! Bausan and the Fins, A gront pall hung over the salut and through it, from the head of the ¢ and from «either shore, mld be bursts of flame at each harge, wit) and then the hazy outlin f in a thunder cloud of its « brief pau betwoen the rolling over the waves the choers of sailors as they clung to the yards Throug it all the Dolphin moved slow stead) majestically At Mrst the tho witnesses fn whip In there came wn making, firing th the hearers ine made they were kllenoe hy thie 414] But t n'y soeasion nt Inst, nnd 3 tT th titads was Bhi, search proud Enslish with a briditant "Ns ue! » pon the perth sy LE LBL : I rifser 1 hit wat lis ir which i LS re background of At the end of sll the I Jemgrthe the English Vie to onrry his friendly feeling by fas the deek which he scstnmands a He of Washington, the man who lad thes in war upon his Ringdom ¥ the sullen My Was LE oe ] wd hae of brillant Name and horison served a8 a backround oc lorad signal lights and glortous pyrotech pion, The Amecioan ships showed the many wave in which the Hgts are need in active war fare to protest themselves from attacks of those marine terrors, torpedo Dosis at certain spots on shore, then turnod far ug the Hudson, making objects plainly visible at a distanos of lve miles Following came another signal and simultaneously every Hght in the flost was turned toward the Klowly tha rays converged until they formed the apex of a slivery prramid of inssloulable height, Ex port sald Bt could have bosn ssen seventy. ve miles away in any direction. It was a sight never bators wean and Bever tole forgotten by the lsad lubbhers, In cone of high art in ray-prajesting ani varlous figures om the heavens, It lsoked but an bour of midnight when the black for | At | times the projected rays were concentrated | brillant | — Oladtbered sid ca “ turning the glory of ired memory, The ball at the Madison Square Garden was the crowning festurs of the day. Hand- some women in beautiful dresscs, Hrave men in glittering uniforms from many lands and distinguished citizens in sober garb Were The company was reckoned in t} and ne in untoward event nares dd the evening The snd the Ad- and the captains sent here by id th Mi Ga } the Gay alo frien there, 1snnds oo | the pleasure f City of New York was mirals, their staff officers squadrons of war ships Front of the w i in the host f the Nations in BR _ Ww Yar & th hin in y his aspiration 1 ! | ideal voulh of Gotha ablated his throne whan he god married = oad ! fn We Wm and 4 Wye Lak | “Wa u Ha + Necnerany Cancinis » advises ar young yoars an | of even youn par app famiin, First Assistant Sesretary Treasury, Is thintrsis and looks | Bokals, Comptoolier of the Treasury, is thir. { tyfour, amooth sharen and bovish, and W, | E. Curtis, the webu ant Macretary in thirty.oight Five years ago no ane ‘wlievad that Robert Gharrstt, then President of the Raltimors and Ohic Rallroad, would live through the year, Ho was sald 10 be jfocurably insane, The last time his New York friends saw him be was in Detter health than be had bean for years, and is contents] and frase from mental or physical pain, { Goveason Woaaaw J Nouruex, of | Georgia, Is consderad probably the most re | Hgbous Governor (nthe Unton. He ie 4 reg nr on ihn Shasth aid an prow in rein t Magid conventions [and other denominational | Ng 1 tho thirty ol Mypinr
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