The farmer in Japan who has ten acres of land is looked upon 8 ING nopolist. The New York World concludes that Philadelphians believe in life insur- ance; Wanamaker has taken out poli- cies aggregating $1,500,000, Hunilton Disston $600,000, and J. B. $515,000, Sietson, In California, Vermont, Idaho, Utah, and Wisconsin days of drafts, Oregon, grace on maturing notes, ne. ceptances and bills of exchanges have been abolished, unless there is express stipulation to the contrary. Professor Vambery has been lectur- ing on the ‘Fashion of Languages” be- fore the Buda-Pesth (Hungary) Eng- lish Club. now be called the “English,” he said, “may most fashionable language in all the five parts of the world.” Chicago is now the fifth greatest sea port in the world, and yet, remarks the Farm, Field and Fireside, the trade of the great lakes is only beginning to sibilities show its pos Twenty years from now, at the prescut rate of it will be among the three gr not the greatest of all. The increased from country’s money cireunls 26. Of ¥), 000 a ~ oi to over 81,600,000,000 at the time, creased The coinage of silver from 84.000, 000 in $40,000,000 in 1890. hearly was no silver in the tre eulation in 1873 £490, 000,000 service 1n and ths in the tering There is no om such is the while the ability, most women can department cle rkship tempt any young man and talent, but m any sucl both of such a career. jualities in the dispirit : At this time « 3 body is fretting about | and all the other penury in a f says Kate Fie tire Nati served fc Bing is and a half w yeni to ence sum in such c« densome, and befor try the National currency changed into them at th nearest or the shop vi : . and feathers what ver. such a coin, to the exis An structed fron phia will carry trip, ninety ears at the will so Chicag: Already, a conflict between ole stu Constitution cirie tric and st the An railway inter: mark Ntlanta need deep cuts hi y 1 ous locom« 1 hey can be r , and hence their charge Yery « heaply will be lower than tho milways, Naturally, these formi lable eo m pet tors of mos, aud in granting charters tl will be oid Legislatures will have so we diffienis questions to consider Connecticut bas just adopted a general law which | provids for the control of » ich ents prises by local communities. Xo speed is allowed higher than twenty five miles an hour, and the railway com before any eleetrie road ean be constructed mission must grant its consent which substantially parallels a steam road. gnge are not allowed to be csrried on the electrie curs, and the whole LE bem is under the rules of the railway commission, Steam vy always bo a factor of transportation, but it goes without saying that the cheap eloctrio railways will revolutionize travel and tralic, Merchandise and heavy bag The statistics of crime thron the country show a marked {nore the number of murders during rece: years 1887 to 1891-— while for several years prior 1887 the number fell short of 2000, from 2335 in 5006 According to the Shoe and Leather Reporter, a convict in a certain peni- tentiary, whose erime was dishons sty, Tl compelled to spend his days cutting | out pieces of pasteboard to be put be tween the outer and inner soles of sho which will be sold as made of solid leather A statement recently published by of Munich, gives some startling information as to the authorities Bavaria, the increased consumption in that city | of dog flesh. So seems to have developed for t great an | declares the Chicago Herald. that | thought it time t the protection of | authorities have terfore for owner “It has passed in | racing is the sp truth be trotting sport of th true that few Southern flourishes w but country and i throu Visitors to the Fair at Chi ng ready to do thei of fifty or ¢ Guides honors of "Cond tween The ex} loration, Speke Bir Sam Progress vod ory more while it has served in ki wavs to brin bout of the fn truer large lakes than was k aud Baker, and to estatnish tl hi positive claims of the Victoria ’ aad not, until Dr. Banmann's } answered the still significant ues regarding the position of the hea ters of these lakes; other words, Nile i* how in the actual fountain head of th This shown to be on the eastern face { the “height of ders Lake Tanganyika on the north the of the Ravuvy, a western, and the most Powe ful, tributary of the Victoria Nyanza, This position was reached by Dr. Bau. mann on the 19th of September last, With its source thus placed between the third and fourth parallels of month Intitude, the Nile traverses thirty-five degrees of latitude, and becomes n rival in length of the combined Mis sisaippi-Missouri system of rivers. had yet to be discovered land” which closely bor. east, sOuree Kuge ™, or { | | | | | | | | | | | SWIFTEST OF CRUISERS, ALL SPEED RECORDS, She Reels OF 83.3 Knots in Three Minutes Less Than Four Hours and Wins Than $200,000 Prize Money for the Cramps Perceptible Vibrations. in No More A di pat h from Gloucester, The United New York tri- umphantly upheld, on her trial trip, her title to be called the floetest in the world Btates cruiser vessel War Over a measured course of 82.65 knots the magnificent ship steamed at the astounding spead of 21,07 knots an hour, winning for her builders the largest premium ever paid in any country When twenty-one knots was predicted as the speed for the new crulser many hog few believed her engines would eve to drive such an immense ugh the water at ¢ i } A rate BOO Will 1 € THREE WERE DROWNED. Melancholy | nd of a New Boating Boys rip of n Young ———— - Js SCORES KILLED Farm Houses Buried In a Landslide In Norwa; A serious Iaundalide has salen, Norway, Just of fare were recent) An the where a number 1 under an avalanche of { slime extent of land, five kilometres by ten, in Valley, became dislodged and slid down on the soll below, destroying twenty-two home stoads and ANY cottages A vast area was flooded and it was feared many had perished The missing included Tessom, President of the district and his fam ily ; Road Inspodtor Rostad and his family and about 100 thers The Government sent 400 soldiers to the loonlity to assist in the work of roseus and to presorve order IRE sugar teason in Cuba may now be ronsidered virtually ended, as the yield of the few estates still grinding will have no Ap prociable affect on the total production, It I estimated that the yisid of the whole sl. and will amount to between 750,000 and #00. . 000 tons, a very large decrease from the aver age total production, ci nn — Tur United States War Departmant haa promulgated a new set of rules to insures strictor physioal examinations by medion om recruiting service, Mass. » YD Levanger | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. 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Nat ) Aghting, South and W Tux Miner ¥ EE 11 national strike to ngress ir wth ny oe] Mx hg ht ir ) (Z2ERXOW]) Husted 1} Myer Pp f Bak est, Brassals sind for an Int establishment Austria has heen Wiha ruth visited by a disastrous flood, Five persons ware drowned and Hany re Queen Vi was oolebrated in England where Her Majesty rosides with fags and banners of Grenadier Guards troog A maval parade took and st Eton the volunt ORIAR seventy thers port Tue Royal Thames Club Regatta w by the Prince of Wales's y the Valkyrie, built to contest lon's Cup, was second and t} Fug police of Warsaw, I'o coversd a great Nihilist ploy arrests baes boon made have been arrested in Naples plicity In a dynamite plot ilered | mevveral mejess fourth birthday Windsor Castle was decorated The First Batalls od thelr colors place at Daven ors pared won net Dritannia for the Amer e Iverna third land, have dis more than 1% Anarchists Italy, for com Tur wedding of the Duke of York and Princess May of Teck, In 1. fixed for Julv & Ar Frankfort, good time, EE —— Ky.. the conviots have a The snclosed eriminals are now wmdon, has been allowed to play football, baseball and other games, and when mn from. the h oy "Hing to people w ROAR Saas say Who live n nt Ia gained the uiiods that go up are Doar and tan be NEWSY GLEANINGS, 'ne first steamboat fr ) Gale Trinity River has arrived ut Dallas, Texa intry in Eur or external turmoil Turn is not a single oon actually without interior rtugal have Lhe Brak and P whi lending to bankrupt Tus in a gon winge slam 1 oare boy Kins Fini A BOMEMIANS jridi statue of the is I. at Pragus WORLD'S FATR BOMBSHELI Seventeen Forelgn { Withdraw Their om miss Exhibits the Insting ut Hingra refore OTHER WORLD'S FAIRS, Showing That Chicago Hest of ALL Comparisons Has the I'he following Ws teresting a Tumishing PRper, = in whieh t mpare 1 ( with the World's Fairs that have g ho Attend ’ . 8 EFT JRL UIRT TS iN Vienna EH Philade phia. 1%0 Paris IKT8 Kydney Ino elbourne 50 3 48 82302 Paris IRN T6415 a0 Chloapn FRY 00S IR3 i 1 104 ald ow 111] CRE FN] a2 55% Xx LSE 11! ‘Ri " Ih 238 630 YN O00 CRETE 1,21 1s LE LITE « Ta H0 Gx EE ————————— “TH% Isa temperance hotel, fsn's IL?" asked one guest of another, *1 think It must be,” was the reply. *1 never knew it to be full," Browning, | King & Co.'s Monthly, i Lam! 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