/ - —————— ot 4 the First Vice-President of the Commissslon, | Counts Balu, mieoy and Hopesoein, pee | [HE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Rhode Island legislators get one dol- lar a day. THE FAIR OPEN » | i | i | | | Forest fires in this country destroy every year $12,000,000 worth of tim- ber. A statistician, quoted by the Boston Transcript, finds that the death rate is lower among clergymen than among any other class of workers. modern Blade avers, Notwithstanding improves ments, the that it costs more per 1000 feet to manu- facture lumber to-day than it did forty Yankee years ago. At a meeting of the largest exporters | of Mediterranean fruits, recently held | at Palermo, Italy, it was unanimously decided not to ship fruits this season on steamers carrying immigrants. There are estimated to be at present 40.000 elk, 1500 deer, 300 buffalo, 1000 black-tailed deer, 300 mountain sheep 1 and other Deaven and plenty of bear, of varieties animals in Yellowstone Park. Once A Week is of opmon tl proble m of what a man posse sed plenty of money not earned by hin shall occm do for a worthy and hone ation, is certainly not y« In the course the Cape May (N. that he \ p wnersiip of ¢ compendium of condition of European roads has sued by the nent at Washington. this report should be of especial in- terest to In highways of France, consular reports American farmers, A fair sample his point is that of one of th MONS in He “The roads of France, always passable and reachin France BAYS: wagon g all centres of Pe pulsation, no matter how the chief eo WAVE, AS means are mpetitors of the rail on by I'he other point which onght to interest Ame rican of communicat water are not numerons,”’ farmers, adds the Chicago Herald, is the effect which these splendid roads have had prosperity of the on the price of land and on the small landowners. The New York Post tates “Biblical students the world over take great interest in the reported dis- covery by Professor Harris, in Convent of Mount Sinai, of a complete Byrian text of the Four Gospels. It the of y obtained was from ignorant and that Ti weeretive Sinai sehendarff his smons Codex Sinaiticus forty years ago, and Professor Harris's find is even mor: precious, if the report is correct, since this Syrian | version doubtless antedates any extant New Testament manuscript in Greek. It promises to be of the highest im- portance to Biblical scholars in the light which it will that which now so earnestly debating-—the evolution of the text of the New Testament as we it. Professor Harris has already gone far towards fuifilling his own prophecy, made in his recent edi tion of the new-found apocryphal Gospel of Bt. Peter, that the next generation would see more important discoveries in Christian antiquities than the past four centuries put together,” shod upon question eritien are now have State Depart- Two features of | the | hat | that | will | the | President Cleveland Stars the Exposition Machinery. A GREAT THRONG PRESENT. Brief and Simple Fxercises at the Grounds, The President Opens the Great Fair | by Touching an Electric Button, | Address A | and Makes an Short of Noted and Foreigners Procession Americans tion ot the Ceremonies. Grover Cleveland, President of the United | smbers of of the distinguished the Btates, surrounded by the 1 his Cabinet, by high ofMelals by a m epresentation r various States, and ACTORS ex-Governor Waller of Connecticut, the First Vice-President of the Exposition, Ferd, W, Peck, and Commander Dickins of the United States Army. The fair sex appeared for the first time in the vehicle that followed, the Duchess of Veragus being escorted by Detailed Descrip- | OAS, | GROVER CLEVELAND, Mra, Potter Palmer, wi ( President of the Board of Lady Manager by Mrs, Dick wife of the Cor the sixteenth Barboles, s { molt tween the plattorm and the sudienee betore it every Nation and avery tongue seEmsd Lo be represented to the honor and glory of the Columbian Exposition, All was now in readiness for the mauguras tion of the exercises proper, of 600 musicians under the direction of Theo dore Thomas performed a Columbian march composed for the ococasion hy Professor J, K. Pains, Not a tenth part of those in view of the platform could determine yhat portion of the exercises was in progress without the aid of opera glasses, At the conclusion of the maren the Rev, Dr. WH, Milburn, the blind chaplain of the | United Btates SBennte, offered prayer Miss Jessie Couthoul, an elocutionist. in clear, distinct read W A poem “The Propheoy." Hearty greoted the reader as she retired ones, | ture of “Rien ! Hivered his history | Start and sg After the orchestra had played ' Director General Davis (Je nddress which he traced the of the enterpr the awe sk os n Bul b Mines and Mining Building, strati re Xerainos hedght, su A. Baldwis Cavalry, w livis ead, to clear the handsome charger ted South Park | their brand new tachment of city them, and five al st Next in Hine was Company B, of the enth United States Ony airy, and Company K, States Cavalry he fourth division was Chicage Hussars, headed by L. Brand and Adjutant Th Quincy They appeared for the time In their Americanized Russian uniforms, There were six wm them, mounted « nagnificent black hargers, and every nw a Twenty trumpeters heralded of the Hussars, and bringing the military division was of the Illinods National Guard The f onrringes vehicle containing Nations! Commissioners PF. A, B. Widensr, of Pennsyivania, and Bradley R Smalley of Vermont, with Directors Thomas B, Bryan and James W, Ellsworth for company. In nd ear riage were Commissioners Corton W. Allen nnd George H Barbour, Directors Charles Henrotin and William B Kerfoot, Nest to them rode Commissioners Groner and Hodges, Directors Ketcham and Lawrence, The fourth and Afh earringes were alsa jointly occupied by Wasa | f the Seventh United Captain J nas 8, frst re of giant was lod by a procession the son commissioners and looal directors while In | the sixth the Director General and Director of Works, George I. Davis and D. H. Burn. ham, rode vis-a-vis, It was the seventh oar riage, however, that brought out the enthu ainam of the onlookers, In it, his face toward the south, sat the President of the United | States, and on the opposite seat Presidents T. W, Palmer, of the World's Columbian Commbssion, and KH. N. Higinbotham, of the World's Columbian Exposition, dent Stevenson rode with two World's Pair ox-Prosidents, Lyman J. Gage and Willlam T. Parker, Beoretary Gresham rode with Na tional Commissioner Davidson B, Penn, Bee. Jotary Carlisle with George V. Massey, of Delaware, Beoretary Herbert with Charles H, Schwab, Secretary Hoke Smith with J, W, Bt. Clair, of West Virginia, aud finally Beore. tary Morton with Director H. B. Stone, American having thus led the way, the thid or Krein. division wha luaugurated with the fon I carriage, “his wan yvevoind by the Duke of Veragua, , Wine East YieoPresi. ' | Mme, Romet fyOvers Harris meth bers LrOCSessslon nN » Ans ii 4 ng, and the | NCO Pass ing the wooded island the Ch Hall, and the beautiful = re devoted t ines ra 1 tothe sam, deseribed v insiadiat track, and the west r {f the Ad istration Building ] platoons of cay airy had or v drawn between this and the terminal station, and be tween these passed the guests as [ast as they alighted from their From the center there radiated a spe wore chairs for President Ste YERsOL his party and offi rir ouree t anv structure Arringe { the platform proper ial stand, and upon this President Cleveland, Vies 1, the Duke of Veragua the higher National and ers of the Fair. Immediately in rear were the sections assigned to the f the diplomatic corps, while to and left the other ofMicials and the ocossion were arranged. De hind these were placed the orchestra, In front of all, occupying the two wings on the right and Jeft of the speaker's stand, was for some three hundred representa who represented nearly civilized Nation the face of th and MOOR the memiwra © their right ¢ Fuentes of provision tives of the ao yery [rrome on | globe In the assigned to celebrities Ir foreign intries a remarkable group ot tracted general attention, One was a gen India Bajah, Dado Su Ana, who oomipies the distinguished position of Becre tary of State for the Sultan of Jehore, on the Malay Peninsular, Near by, clad In long, back robes, their heads surmounted by curiously shaped hats were Ye Chayum, Jeung Klung Won and Yi Bhing Bu, the Royal Commissioners wpace from Corea. With these was Caesar Uondra, | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plend- | wotentiary of the Republic of Paraguay, and lis Excellency Prince De Gloukhowkoy, Chamberiain to His Majesty Cesar and General Imperial Commis. sioner of Husain, Baron Fava, Italy's Minister Plenipotentiary, sat a Hitle distance away with the Marquis df Rudind, Hepresenting the Dominion of Canada was a notable group comprising the Acting Pre mier, MacKenzie Powell, Minister of Public | | fore the demonstration subelded Works Quinet and Minister ture A. KR. Angeans, In the centr of the group of ay manegers the Princess M “hao Clakay, maid of honor at the court of the Cam, and Hopkin Sepkin, Consplduous also In the forefront of the the throng below the pistform were such distinguished fo ers onthe Duchess of Buck ho Berl and Countess of Craver a of Agricul tha {that was clos the | { of the stand, The roof of the Manufacturers | Bullding was gorgeous in rod were ham, | 11 our guests from the we oo operate in 4 terprise devoted 1 and in the undertakis we exemplify in t} hood of Nations, ‘1.4 us hold fast to the ment aderlies this coremon n f this LAR 1m pros veness we machinery that give sosition Is now set in 1 natant jet our hope roo which in all time t : ¥ its i t r ’ i * and asap ’ 1 Tuanoce the wellare, the dom of mankind As the President was ! sentence his wandered | eft band ign “Ys " hie the wp the machinery =» Ex) wition an rds fel was the bution was to sant the opening of the itahed fact As the last w President slips he pressed his the button This was the signal | n nsteation, in fact, difficult of and Infinitely more so of deseription At and the instant the into a thundering shout poaled forth the strains of horus the wheels { the engine in Machinery Hall 0 rev the electri fountains the lagoon threw their torrents toward sky, a flood of water gushed forth from the MoeMonnien fountain, and rolled back again into the basin the thunder of artillery came fom the vessals in the lake, the chimes in Manufacturers’ Hall and on the Germs Building reng out » merry poal At the same moment hundreds of fags, of all Nations, and all color were unfuried within sight of the platform. The largest was a great “OM Glory,” which fell Into grace folds from the top of the conter staff in from pressare Imaginnt sudieno the the wan OM WY etics ive, wonfalons while the Agricultural Bullding was dressed in ensigns of orange and white It was» | wonderin] scene of transformation, and amid it all eannon continued to thunder, and the crowd to cheer, It was fully ten minutes be. Then the band played “Ameries.” and the exercises wore at an end. The Columbian Exposition was open to the Nations of the world, The throng of people was so great dur ng the progress of the exercises that a num. ber of persons fainted and bad to be re moved to the hospital, The total citendancs on the first day of the Fair was given ont us $40,000 people, A big orchestras | Croffuti’'s appinus y | Enstern and Middle States, Tur Spanish flagship, Infants sats the Nueva Espana in her wake, steamed of New York Harbor, These were the fir the vitor to oo MEMORIAL exerci James G, Bh were held in Boston, Mass Maine, delivered the addr Tur Mary Hitchoo erected by Hiram Hit wife, was dedicated oa mentor Frye t Har ation Fon Tus Fpis Opa t nve 1 Wall street Cordage mth and West Forelgn Canren ided |} erfeal . { Ar i suleide Gresflord ttle, a 1 her gro killed hi Wittaan an welcomed ROR Germany wer or and he ir Humbert « silv Riva Benaxzix, of Dahomey, Alriea surrendered to the Frenel King Behangin agrees to abdicate the throne of Dahomey, the French Government to give him a pension and Ax his place of residence Our of 1000 Russian pligrims journeying 10 Nazareth the majority perished of expo sure daring the terrible weather encountered on the way way 1 r wedding hn finally ue burning is reported of the hip Khiva, carrying pligrims for Arabia. Hundreds perished Tur Colonial Bank of Australasia, Vitoria, has suspended payment British Moon, Revororionpers in Nioaragua are gaining They have captursd three (mportast cities and are now investing the capital of the Re. public, *~ Coon, damp weather has retarded . tion over a large section of country, ro the Northwest seeding was Interrupted by snow, In Kansas and a fow poring tates the damage to winter wheat been beyond repair, EE ————— ji shares of the Keeley Motor TE aoe i yt Cotthangs York City for #4 for the lot. | called the department SIX MEN BURNED. An Iocendlary lelleved to Kindled the Blaze. Have Bhortly after 2 o'clock a. m. thefire alarm and police to a large brick tenement st Burlington, lows, which wis found to be in Aames, a number It was learned that of persons wore in the bulldin 6 transien ist arrived ; ulder maker, kno £ DACREO 3 J Ne he R THE PUBLIC Heserve DEBT. 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