Over 1,000,000 Germans five Jl urge American cities It is said that the King and Queen of Greece set their subjects an ex- eellent example of strict economy in royal high places. The New York Marine Journal spins a yarn to the effect that a whale at Nantucket got entangled and excited and ran away with a bell buoy. The estate of the late Richard Jessup, of San Francisco, Cal., valued at $140,000, was completely absorbed in four years by the lawyers of the young heir, The Lewiston (Me.) Journal relates that a Perseverance wins every time, Deering woman severely scalded. an approaching pedler with a dipper of hot water-—-but he got in—and sold her a rug. The Capitol was laid September 18, National 798. It is proposed to celebrate the centen- corner stones of the nial anniversary of this event by a parade, addresses, fireworks and a night illumination of the Capitol by means of twenty-four search-lights. While the Western movement of population in the United States for the century aggregates 505 miles, the extreme Northern and Southern variation is a little nnder tw miles, and the finishing point of line is only some six miles south of the starting point. A ten-thousand-mile a Russian project that is well under attention Ihe border of railroad line is way, and is attracting the of engineers all over the world. road starts on the eastern the Russian Empire and ru sand ns ten thou- until it reaches Vladivo- stock on the Siberian coast miles The Prince of Wales is said to pre- tacle of to in sent the extraordimary spec man in danger of sucenmbing still about g y \ ie, AD age while his prime. He h Years into every one of mother is MM Tow 14 d il bas, it is said, had fun en ) : : sole him for missing hrone. A scientifie authority now comes to the front with the argument that rail- way trains of very high speed, under certain circumstances, safer than are slower ones. The point made is that speed implies the greatest great kill, the prudence, the highest ski most periect constructy The subject is o davs From 1851 t 2 the emigration to 3.518.8 ty-one per cent In 1852 185 f lan ia States, M1 OR) . in 13,00 ir the figures wer was 1 140,000, 50,807 Irish birth r all for in one central building.” eral supply features will that each house will have but thes its chen and dining-room, be set apart, say in the center of block, and connected with the rem alin f ing rooms by mesnis of corridors. A it ete. , ! It is claimed that three-story houses could be erected on the basis proposed to Ix sold for 84500 central plant for light, he also the included in plan, The long drought of last vear warnal the Florida orange-growers and track farmers that indispensable in the maturing was almost as of their erops as it is found to be in the Pacific Coast States, the New York Post. At Oviedo, where some of the Florida, irrigation fully tested, whistle of beard daily irrigation observes there mre finest orange groves in been Maitland ol irrigating engine | has WN ooous and at the during the dry season The cost of the machinery required for an orange is well within the means of the average grower, grove A plant at Lake Chorns which ean be bought for 83000 and gives satisfactory results is thus deseribed : has a twenty-horse power, working » ten-inch pump attached to a four inch main ranning through the centro of the groove over 1200 feet, and having two-inch bngnech pipes equally long at stated points. The pump flows over 400 gallons of water a minute, and this supplies seventy-seven hydrants in the grove, to each of which ean be attache l a fifty-foot hose for spraying or whier- ing. The upright In ler "HAN AND HIS WORKS. ETHNOLOGICAL WONDERS AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. Strange Races of Primitive Men, Tiv- ing and Dead, on Exhibition— | Habits of Life of CU Dwellers, ! Aztecs, Esquimaux and Other | Queer Inhabitants of the World. | All thoss who wish to study “Man and His Works,” as the motto over, the bullding has i it, will find in the Department of Ethnology. at the World's Falr, wonderful facilities, ! showing the works of man from as far back as any trace of him can be found down to the | present day, | he falled st reaching a high latitude, { landers, | snow house has been prepared and an | andthe method by whichthe E CLITY DWELLERS" MOUNTAIN, A —————— —— Professor F, W. I'utnam, of Harvard Unl- versity, has charge of the et hibit. It takes in ethnology, and anthropology, history and natural his- tory. This, says the New York Herald, is a very wide fleld, but the different bran esanted and the department ma: ial source of delight to students of | man and the uatamed barbarian ot of land one thousand feet long m one hundred feet to two hundred feet wide Professor Putnam bas pitched his camp. It adjoins the lake front and looks upon the lagoon in which floats the New | Bedford whaling ship, The quaint convent of La Rabida, n 1 after the original Palos, Spain, in weary feet and s has are foot on the borasr of the agoon and extend ing 100 feet back, Tha Btate has erected al council house of bark 30 feet by 5) such as were usad for political caucuses by the Iroquois when the whites arrived upon the scene to take charge, In this structure the Iroquols will carry on their strange and im- pressive ceramonies, beating the tomtom and Jumping about in their untamed way. free of all charge to the spectator In a bark house 10 feet by 15 live a group of New York Opeidas who have been sub- Jocted to an expensive process of being tamed. There are round bark houses 16 feet in diameter Inhahited by Mohawks, Onon- dagus, Cayugas and Tuscaroras who are all of the Iroquois race, On the border of the lngoon is a hunter's lodge and on its bank all sorts of canoes and a big war canoe The exhibit altogether is most pleturesque and reflects great credit upon the Empire State, Camped near them are a group of Hye | Minnesota and loaned for the Fair A lot of | | Navajos have beat sent on by Colorado and they are living in their native way, British Gulana sent a lot of Arrawaks, and the Do- minion of Canada was good enough to spare | 6 quantity of thelr aborigines. Theres are Flatheads, Blackfeet, Pend A'Oreilles. Neg | Porces and Kootenats, One of the features | of the redskin display is the C dian Band of sixty pieces, Enginger Robert E. Peary, of the United | States Navy, has a collection of FEsquimau | things that illustrate life in the Arctic re gions, During his sojourn in the Whale Sound region of North Greenland, although he was able to get together skin tents, kavaks or canoes, and tho weapons of the “Arctic high- | ' a8 the most Northern tribe of peo- the world are called. An imitation | | 8 ro sub- lamhbiar numbian ple in t mada out The chas berg nu stance of a very oling of the white bear is s) juiman ont and hoary of the enna | the the walrus and sits on the fee wend I'rophies narwhal teeth and reindeer ski 1} are particularly interesting | fthe tever for 1 al being 100K & ply dramatis | trived soener To those 0 more aris A tame nm in this al Building, the that It was d ie HO tures merica, {8 part of the ethnoio it It is namignoad to the Latis wif and white walls | They were 1 n of Edward H. nsul in that (RAL asts taker juced in “‘stafl.’ ost all the fair! ingenuity N the had riinas a sort of 114. | stall the n, “House of Thor es ed to Yucatan » around the up is a facsimile of Utah, ( and occupied long those 18 resounded with the monotonous repeti. nn of the marriage ceremony and arguments for free silver, The cliff dwellers’ homes are operated as a ‘concession,’ the bullder put. ting them up at his own expense and reim- bursing himself by selling tickets of admis sion. This is the only money making section of the ethnological exhibit, except the Esqui- maux, who can only be seen after the pro- duction of twenty-five conta, Of course there aren't any life oliff dwell ers, as not even Chicago can resurrect them, but there ars plenty of savages, The wild man of Borneo has now come to town, but { the homes worado before ellers the wild man of America has—exclusive of purely lay visitors to the Falr, some of whom appear loss cultured than the Indian, whose face, daubed over with colors and looking like a pen wiper, sees that none of the work that f# to be done escapes the notice of his wifa, The savages (those on exhibition be it un darstood) are placed in habitations such as | YUCATAN RUSS, they oooupy when in a state of nature, Per. the most elaborate of the ethnolo | tions of Ohio, Missouri, C | 6 number of little gods, among them Centot!, ; the “Great Producer Ltd AL( | and juv | oral Elestrio Company paa) THE INDIAN ENCAMPNENT, In the still life department are alse re mains of all sorts of fa Hans, Canadian and United States, There are the State colle olorado and Utah the results of the Hemenway Southwest ex pedition, Mexico and the Houth American republics sent singular seuiptures and strange tablets of hlerogiyphics, The ox sloraMons of Professor Putnam's envoys in uador, Chile, Peru and Bolivia gave valu Kbie results, showing the arts and customs of ancient people Similar ecoliections como from British Guiana, Paraguay, Brazil and | the Argentine Republio There are special exhibits of folk jore and | the games and religions of all countries. In | the latter in the collection of idols of William | J. Gunning, which contains four hundred | mre s mens, From the Gaboon River | comes Po-Po, the “Goddess of Matdenhood,"” and Ipa, the “God of Deliverance,” supposed to be three thousand years old. Ipa was found by Livingstone, Alaskan Indians of the Thiinkest tribe have queer gods and fetiches, From British Columbia ars shown 1 spirits and hobgobline and from kota the medicine bag of the Sioux, whieh no Indian will consent to part with, Mexico Is represented in the Gunning collection I "and Votan, the “God of Culture. From Thebes is a sacred jackal, Man lived in the glacial period, as the sol. lections show, » ara relion of that time as well as spacimens from the ohili shell heaps of Maine and | continont, i psychology, The Peruvian finds faclade the best assort- ment of mummies ov r an this The psouliar methods of bura are shown. In some of the graves wore found work baskets, bends, flues and, most import ant of all, bags of peanuts. showing what the Peruvians did with people addicted to the peanut habit, From Gustemala are lie size models of natives in correct costume with original ore naments and toinkets, The anthropologioal lahoratories show an immenss quantity of instruments and appa ratus. This end of the department is sub- divided into anthropology, neurology and Anthropological tests will be applied to the visitors on Lhe payment of » small fee, They will be measured, weighed and all the statistics obtainable about them selves noted on a card, They will also, if they are women, be able to ses wherein they differ from the shape of the Veuus de Milo and remedy the defocts, i Chippewas and Sioux owned by the State of | | | It has exhibits oflive men and dead men of | | the moat strange varieties of color and cus. | tom, and it presents remarkable collections “Ne Tes, / op A] ei +14 rT In-| 14 JUIMADTX PAMILY. Pr aboriginal | fessor Put ——— FAIR NOTES VY A'S Bi Ki rearieg Ar finahie Lo has have the bed and fitted with ers interest ured efit ER nn wi the Orel bens we fl r alia {les and ted will be used exts Fair wi have ehildren can N hild under two vears tad Che Japanese « him given a args number literature hay been furn mers, Hilin building was er The playground Is on the furpishad with swings and porps of nurses will ldren nA ved f dolls, ahed by Kiving tod at the German | A of 845.000 aich Is A trained s in tant attendance on the Tn formal opening the Electricity Building has at last taken place, The feature of the display was the unvelling and Hghting of the big Edison tower erected by the Gens Thin shaft is sif. uated in the exact contre of the building and represents the highest achievement of the in- candescent lamp, It extends into the groined arch formed by the intersaction of the pave and the transept, reaching a height of about 100 foot The methods used In construction have resulted in showing a perfest solumn, as though the entire shaft were hewn from one massive hlook of stone, It springs from the roof of a pavilion surrounding the base, and the entire interior is strewn with thou sands of incandescent lamps, as many hued a8 the western sunset. The colors are ar- ranged hy mechanical methods, capable of being flashed in harmony with the strains of music, The column is crowned with a wall. proportioned replica of an Edison incan. descent lamp formed from a multitude of eos of prismatie orystale. Upward of 30, oo of thess beautiful jewels are strusg on a frame, and are all lighted from the interioz by a largo number of incandescent lamps. he effect produced is marvelous, and can be appreciated only when seen, ———— ————— PROMINENT PEOPLE, Sxxaton Hraxrondp's income ls $400 por hour, Tur Infanta Euialia has eleven Christian names, St¥uaran Ervrr's annual income is 81.- Irie said that the readings given by the Iate James BE, Murdock, the hd elo cutfonist, In atd of the Sanitary Commission during the Civil War, produced $250,000 for that organtyition a I'he of | DISASTER IN WASHINGTON TOTAL COLLAPSE OF FORD'S OLD THEATRE BUILDING, While Crowded With Nearly B00 Government Clerks Three Were Suddenly Precipitated to the Killed More Than Fifty Injured. Floors Cellar Over a Score and Ford's entre, in whi Abra building in Sass nnted Many yours geon mornings ago ju terrible result in olneiden os that this w BY when the r preast tragedian (renernl a | ath the uo darkensd by Visited nis bred her 1 never washin being borne t their ir (Lk) “Ont i loath rvived heard a r their rash carn Tear the ping in rwayt the great rales and then and the every limb, and with in thedy fees { the ne sight they Rr wnfoty aii LIne #f thrii lo affair was the sight wore left in & corner « yn a he Captain Dowd, the southwest Hu to a depth of two or three fest wtar, He had nin urs, but a falling beam had Bim in such a position as to of the brick and timbers, snd when Hfted an be raised his band, showing that he was son. When he was lifted into the Garfield Hospital ambulanoe the crowd saw that he was alive, and cheered again and again Every few minutes during the first two hours after the scotdent, dead and wounded | men were taken out of the debris. All the | oarts and workmen that could be secured | wore pressad into servies to clear sway the Aelia The laborers did not thelr efforts until about 7 o'slock, ty thes time they had reached tae | bottom of the excavation fu the basement, and farther search soemed useless, as the | debris in all parts of the bullding had been | entirely clonred away. The work was there. fore stopped, the streets roped close to the | building, and a police guard placed there for | Lhe night, The President was informad of the anol. dont just as he reached the entsanoe to the White House, and he 51 Gaco interested him. self In relief messures, At a meoting called by order of Commissioner Ross, was submoribed, of which President Cleveland contributed #100. Briel addrosses were made by Bishop J. F. Hurst, Rev, Will Bartlett had in am Allein Smith " ey . ha phon a devant. La uh who f the we pipe of Indiana, was ¢ af tha) ding amiwring 4 aorner vered wit hriek their or ti rey lodged near hreak the fall and sous et. Lo] | has gone into {| hundred and fifty-nine THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Enstern and Middle States, Tare Infants of Spats left New York Clty for Chicago by the Pennsylvania Ratlrosd Tax Canal Btroet Bank of New York City voluntary liquidation, Yigh east wide merchs have #436.601 deposit, All wi paid in full XN on Italian Marsi« Baviose Manrerea, the dered Giovanni Parello st 1 was electrocuted ANIL South and West, Ww wshington Anvices from Koti the River Koti, on the slate that an explosion resuits irred at tha steamer Houthandel? wore kiile i Dusrar that the Argentine bad |] gee from Buenos Avres i Cabinet has resigned re were exchanged between the and revolutionary soldiers in Managua aragua. Bix of the police were kilind Desravorivy fatal floods contin Austria Sie Riemann Weseren finished in behalf of the British « Sea Court st Paris ; « lawyer, followed him Wan has renewed in Dahomey, Africa, King Belianzin having repulsed the French in a sharp conflict, A "ior to blow up the Government bar racks in Honolulu, Hawall, with dynamite was frastrated on the night of May 81. DOCTOR'S SUICIDE. His Patient Had Died of Heart Falls ure In His OMee. Mrs. Colton, a widow. weat to the offices of Doctor Elderkins, at Chautauqua, XN. Y., to receive professional treatment, Put an hour afterward Mrs. Harwooft, who lives in the house in which the dootor has his oMoe, found Mea. Colton lyieg on the floor dead and the dostor ou a lounge dying condition, ine A letter found Iying on his table read “Me. Colton died of heart failure and 1 have my own life with used hyo- dermionily. No use, can't save mo ; no need of autopuy smust die, but hate to leave my found a» bundle and ase bhelfore Iolduson basivny
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