Art adays made out of wood pulp. Among the industries of the United Btates that of paper making now holds fifth place, In the twenty years that have elapsed ‘since the close of the Franco-Prussian war Europe has doubled her military atrencth. Although worth 835,000,000 at the the time of his death, Leland Stanford rrowed money all his life, md said t he could have profitably used more, A remarkable discovery has been made at Carrog, near Llangollen, Wales. While a number of workmen were carting stones from the bed of the river Dee, they discovered the re- mains of an ancient church, which was washed down by a heavy flood 300 years ago. The scientific investigors at Munich claim to Have discovered that “‘Asiatio cholera is essentially a poisoning with with nitric acid generated by Koch's comma bacilli.” This is enteresting. If we can’t kill the bacilli, perhaps something can be devised to neutralize the poisonous acid. The largest use of was prior fo the Paris election in 1889, General Boulanger had 15,000 bill- stickers, who put up 45,000 daily, in all 900,000. In some places, when they were torn down after the election, there were found sixty layers of bills alter- nating with those of Boulanger's rival. placards on record The collection of postage stamps has brought into existence a pro- fessional stamp repairer, who, for a small fee, dexteriously repairs muti- lated stamps. His storing the margin to envelope stamps that have been cut to shape, and have thus lost of their value, specialty is re- much philatelic Dispatch that the very objectionable bit of sla ‘the wind blew through | ,. : bg, ind blew through | tined, if not to render war impossible, his whiskers," is not American at all In fact, it was first used by an Eng- lishman, one Dan Chaucer, who wrote the “Canterbury Tales.” of “The Shipman” occurs this remark- able line, ‘With many a tempest had | ne! 3% nk oh space of fifteen minutes, each of which | his beard been shaken.” The Central Peruvian Railway across the Andes starts from sea level | at Callao, It crosses the Andes range $0 Oroys, 136 miles from the coast. At the mile it above the level of the sea. At the fiftieth mile the elevation is about 6000 feet and the ascent \ 18 steady and rapid until it reaches its highest point at the 106th mile, when the height is 15,665 feet. seventh 18 The originator of the Concord grgpe is still living in Concord, Maes, Ephraim W. Bull, now eighty-sever Years old, and one of the prominrs .t men of the historic town. He is He was a friend of Emerson and Alcott, and has | adise, been greatly honored by distinguished visitors to Concord, and by hortienl- | turists at home and abroad. In his garden at Concord he still shows the old mother vine of the Concord grape which he developed from the seed of a native wild grape planted just fifty Years ago. The conservative University of Vir- | ginia could not permit a woman to at- tend its lectures, observes the New | York Telegram, but it did saffer Miss Caroline Preston Davis to stand its ex aminations in mathematics at the close | of the year, and as she passed the whole course successfully the faculty bestowed on her the certificate of ex cellence and made her practically the frst female graduate of the university. Dr. Thornton gave to the graduating | class the privilege of conveying to her | the honorary diploma snd the boys did it with a yell. Bays the New York Press: Four die tinet invasions of the frozen mysteries of the Arctic region will be under way Rhis year. Lieutenant Peary will en- deavor to map the northern coast of Greenland and to investigate the archipelago which lies beyond. Jf conditions favor he may make a ven- turesome dash on sledges across the frozen sea toward the pole. The other American explorer, Gilder, will ox amine the movement of the magnetic pole. Two avowed attempts to reach the North Pole will be made, one by Doctor Nausen, of Norway, who pro- poses to drift with the ice in a craft especially designed to resist pressure from floes, and another by Mr, Jack- son, whose effort to eross the ice on slodges assames that there is no open Polar Sen, and is supported by the Royal Geographical Society of Grest Britain. | be talked about throughout the {and in places, too, where all { is the native custom in | at any rate, to render the In the tale | | throws & | of States where the practice of medi 100 feet i is a signboard hung outside the | distriets and the provinces Twelve different kivas of iu are preached in four langusges iu tho eight churches at Wahoo, Neb. ry Whaling in the Artarctic seas this season is reported to be a failure, Grampuses, seals and gen lions are nu. merous, it is further stated, For some unexplained reason, states the New York Tribune, seem to break out on Sunday morning than at any other time of the week. more fires The success of the three experiment farms in Manitoba, British Columbia is causing Canadian farmers to urge the Government to establish a larger number. Assiniboian and When people talk about bad times the Baltimore it would be well for them to remember that there is about seventeen hundred million dollars (81,700,000,000) of de- posits in American thinks American savings banka, Savings banks are pretty good financial thermometers for telling the real con- dition of the country. The Cincinnati Times-Star exclaims: Chicago and executing an that sncceeded in planning architectural and artistic and a mechanical triumph of which the most imaginative Homan poet in Rome's Aagustan age could | never have dreamed, will continne to | world other American cities are unknow Sars the New York Independent: Tt Tinnevelly marry with a necklace instead of a ring, and the Church of England m there change in the marriage service so “With But with a delicion IS810OnN- Aries have consented to the 3) it shall read : this thee wed.” sularity some of the Angelicans at home f the [SEL are protesting against the crime | change, The new invention of M. Tarpin, to f a : | whom the Mr. Dobbins writes to the Pittsburg | discovery of melenite, the most power. ful explosive in existence, seems des artillery now in existence altogether superflu ous, and carriage drawn by two horses, and four charges can be fired within the ¥ 25,000 bullets over a surface The the gun is about two miles of 20,000 square yards. range of Connecticut iz now added to the 3 ine 1s regulated by law. but where the practice of this professi Ther: now States in nine n absolutely unrestricted by ans whatever, and, the Boston Herald | grets to say, that Massachusetts Ihe is essential f of the delinquent States that practice of medicine in Massacin equipment phy this is fre Maassachu setts is the irregular practitioner's par sician's office, and even quently dispensed with. ? asin the Where has the duster gone Philadelphia Press. 1t is still worn in the West, lines of travel. It still appears on longer its manifest and sen sible convenience endears it to middle aged men. But on a short | that between this city and New York the duster has disappeared as com pletely as lust winter's snowflakes. | The clothing stores keep them on the The hig back shelves, Few are sold wholesale dealers do not sell a dozen where they once disposed of bales, a fow short years this convenient gar ment has been relegated tothe country mers, our abundant duet and long rail- road journeys the duster ought to have become a permanent article of clothing for all travelers. “Kyphosis bieyclistarum” is ap parently knows in the West as well ne the East. “Why mw it," asks the Chicago Journal, “that as soon as ao young man learns the graceful art of bieycle riding he must forthwith attempt to undo the work by which he was made in the image of his Maker and sock to transform him- self into a hideons mesozoie dinosaur or some other unesuny creeping thing? The head goes down, the back ir humped, the arms assame the position of forelegs, and all that is wanting is a croak to pass for w broken backed frog. There is no excuse for this abomination. An erect attifude gives the rider a much better coramand of the wheel. It is merely a habit dus to too much pernicious and nnhealthy “scorching.” Women who ride wheels do not stoop, Out upon this frog squat, this homp-backed disease, “kyphosis bicyclistarum I" usefil and THE JAPANESE BIT to | at necklace i i world is indebted for the It consists of a very light gun tl ling | are | line like | In | Yet in | our climate, with our hot, dry sum IT. ORIENTAL FARMING PROD- UCTS AT THE FAIR. Japan’s Section of the Agricultural | Building 1s an Interesting Placo to Visit—Various Tea Exhibits—-The Japanese Honey Industry--Do- | mestie Fowls of the Country, Agriculture Is the occupation of the greater part of she people of Japan, The mountain. ous and voleanie nature of the country ren- ders large portions untillable, For probably the same reason the soll is not naturally very fertile, but it can be, and is, made so by the abundant uso of compost, Moreover, not even half of what is fairly fertile is under cultivation ; but the amount of cuitivated land is gradually increasing, and the harvests are becoming richer, Bat it ean be readily understood that If, Jor any reason, the erops | fall, severe suffering will be widespread. The | prosperity of the country depends upon the ! prosperity of the farmers, | to location, sharacteristios and utility, | forage JAPANESE VEGFTANLE PEDDLERS, i The front entrance to Japan's pavilion in the Agricultural Building, says the Chicago Record, ia st the south end of the Japan section. The doorway is constructed of tive woods in the style of a native gateway, | with a gable roof, Just inside the entrance 15 a booth devoted to the exhibit of tea from Bhisuoka Kem (prefecture The Shizuoka tea i= of the first quality fine flavor has been developed through the | cultare of many years, The annual produst | is 25,000,000 pounds, w_ich 20.000 000 | pounds are exported to the United States, A small sample of this tea Is gives away, of which a tiny cup may Japanese toa house, Mr. M. Hoshita is the noka exhibits ; Mr, T, HifTerent exhib Tawars is chie! sgricultural bureans always pleased to ms visitors I'he sample paper dipped In the ts fmmon tO preserve it m moist Fatanabe {8 “purveyor « Majesty's Court of Japan Just beyond the Shizuoka booth 8 the ax- 1a Its of package of the , pe isture tea tO his Loperial | fowls, | which are kept mostly as pets, though the | flesh may bo used as food, | tadled fowls, | oties, and the birds for | of bird-limed ropes stretohed | facen anese agriculturs bureau has published a little pamphlet explaining the way of using the hive, the method of collecting honey and giving the numes of the pants from which the bees get honey, It is there stated also that one swarm will produes 13,582 pounds of honey and T4907 pounds of beeswnx, and that honey sells for nine sen (cents) » kin (1.325 pounds), and beeswax at thirty sen a kin, An interesting feature of the Japanese ag- ricultural section is the exhibit of domestis One coop contains some bantams, being almost as delicious as that is Inrgely used as food, is about two years old, of turkey, weighs almost ten Another cages | | contains Blamess game fowl, whose flesh, The cock exhibited | pounds and has never been defeated, A good | fighter will command from twenty to clghty | yon (dollars), The eock, four years old, has a tall measuring 1034 feet in length, The The high coop holds long- | black cock, only two years old, has a tall five | feet long, Tho Japanese have likewise on exhibition fpecimens of their wild birds, both useful and injurious, and of their forage plants, of both birds and plants, The former are divided into three classes: The benefleial birds of forest and farm, twenty-one varie { ties ; the birds used for food, thirty-five vari. miscellaneous uses, fourteen wariotios, are numberad consecutively, and are carefully described as These plants, similarly pumbered, are | | | | | They have published descriptive catalogues | Ths | minutely described with referenos to durs- | tion of growth, helght, flowering, seal. ripening and cutting times, produce to the acre, composition and locality Last, but not least Interesting, aro pictures which hang in the southwest corner of the Jasaness pavilion, and represent methods of hunting, One shows the way of ecatchine small birds by hanging cages of de coy birds near bird-limed twigs, Another represents sporismen, in the sarly morning or evening twilight, when the wild ducks a five { are flying low, catching them in nets at the end of long bamboo poles, The tw at the extremes portray { ostohing wild methods of Tega in Chile prefecture pictures two allied duck on Lake One is by means over the sur other is by a number ward which the ducks remaining ose hawking, which former times Or the of the water; the ¢ sproad-nets t {ven by ire ilinstratos J SE Was A very popular sport in en — WORLD'S FAIR NOTES, hunters Ihe rest Town, hw exhibits wl that Frvoexe Sscon, of F inted judge in the Canine Ts] City, honey Hr ARY has decid rely siti ar the Ine Bos rat JAPANEAE LANINIT IXY ™HR hibit of Ise tea, above which is & series of pletures Sllastrative of the different stages and kinds of lalor amployed upon the leaves from pleking to shipping. A gr up of photo graphs of similar scones may also be found at over the front entrance, Ise is the name of a province famous for its traditions and Ha ten. It is the place where, according to Japanese history (unfortunately not oreds bie), Jimmu Teano, the Japanese Romulus in 660, B. C, laid the foundations of the Japanese empire, It is now the most sacred spot in all Japan, the seat of the anctent and popular shrines where the ancestors of the present emperor are worshiped It Is also the place where, according to tradition, the tea-plat was first discovered and cultivated Other important agricultural prod€ ls ex. | hibited by the Japaneses are rice, barley, wheat, buokwheat, beans, sweet potatoes firied ), dalkon (a large, bitter radish, which a staple article of diet) and tobacco, A great many kinds of jellies and sweet. meats are made by the Japanese from vege. table products and are harmless and de. | Helons, Several varieties of bottled, boxed and canned fruits, jellies and confections are on exhibition, The sembel is a kind of wae | much Hked by both natives and foreigners, | Many kinds of ame also are exhibited, The advertisement of one is a curiosity “The manufactare of the Aws-Ame is per. fected by my house with experiments of many years and scientific principles, It con. | tains more nutritive materials, That taste js | very sweet, Persons who have tasted it ale ways would taken the cheerful feelings, “The Okinakan, a cake, is made of the Awa-Ameo again, It is most delioate in taste aad especially excellent quality for tea-cake, There is no slightest danger for the change of its taste kept long, | “Both are #0 honorable that obtained modal at onoh tine of National iu seteial ox- Mbitions, mo nal manulactured by Osugi Kureul- and hives, | tom, Db. €. | Michael Oden, Notre Dame, Ind. . W, M. a pillow of fee brings rest to his waking pl. throbbing brain, brastan idea of Justico wrought out ate AGRICULTURAL BUTLDIES, Maxaorns of the Virginia and New York Buildings are much troubled by the work of vandals, who have written and carved thel names all over the walls of these splendid structures, It may yat become “weosssary to exolade the public from portions of the build ings i these petty outrages continua, Tux offles of W, I. Buchanan, Chief of the Department of Agriculture, was thronged a few days ago with foreign commissioners, who came in response to an invitation from the exhibitors of agricultural ma hinery to to make a tour of Inspection through the ma shinery annex. At night the commissioner wore dinsd at a hotel, seventy-five of thes being present, with nearly one hundred ex , hibitors Exuinirons in the galleries and upper floors of the Jarge buildings complain that vistors will not climb the stairs to view thelr | displays, and they sit idly by waiting for the crowd that never oomes. Many of these | persons have gone 0 great expense in far nishing and finishing up magnificent booths in which to show their goods, and they do not feel that the attention given them war rants the outlay, Ernvex of the judges who will pass upot the exhibit in the Elestricity Department and award the medals and diplomas have been appointed by the National Commission, They dre: H. 8, Carhart, of Ann Arbor H J. Kyan, of Pennsylvania; BF. Thomas Columbus, Ohio, George F. Barker Philadelphia: T. C. Mendenhall, Washing Robert B. Owen, Lincoln, Neb, Stine, Chicago Samuel Reber, U, 8 A: IL A Rowland, Baltimore , E. P, Warner, Ohi | cago Tur boat has nad a vory queer effect o the people of the Midway Plaisance, wild man of Borneo, the Dahomeyites, Hand | whieh Islanders und the Javanese bask in the hot sun and grow spirited ax they recognise in the hot rays and penstrating boat the st. mosphere of thelr pative olime, while the poor Lapinnder as he lane his perepiring reindeer vemogos his fate and prays to do liverance from the flery furnace into which he thinks he has been drawn, Nothing but ayes Ix the Nebraska Building there is a Ne “ THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. A YOUNG girl who was employed as a do meatic at a boarding house and George B Frame, n boarder at the same place, wer struck by a train while they wers mttempting to eroms nn rafirond bridge on the outskirts o Watertown, N. Y., and instantly killed, A vrov of convicts st Dannemora (N.Y. Prison to murder the guards and BROMIDE Wi exposed by a prisoner ; he was pardened by Governor Flower, Miss Lazzie Byram cottage, Ashury Park, N the result of the slight black and tan dog, Aled at her father's d.. of hydrophobia bite of a surly po Pupsivext CLeveLaxn started from Buz zard's Bay, Mase. on a fis hingtrip In E, © senodict's steam yacht Oneida, A pvixxenr was given in honor of James H Eckels, Controller of the Currency, at the Union League Club, New York City. Tue corner stone of the 04d Fellows Temple, which will cost 81,000,000, was laid at Philadelphia, Penn., with impressive caeramanies, Presinent CLevELAXD retu Ginbles, Buzzard's Bay, Mass, trip he sald that i health endid aad that his rheamatio trouble roned to Gray from his fish ing was had airy farm near Carteret, w Thomas Sta destraoved ng seven acres, and caused of about #£30.000 fod 1 28 iildings cover on loss Brare Sexaron Epwanp IL Osponse, the Fifteenth District, died in Albany, N.Y. | residence, of paralyeis of Vv nearly eighty y the old atthe ut his n's ivath, A. J. Drexel was filed for lindelphin of [ro bate in bey i | Was on « i art gallery Postmaster of Ovid, N. Y South and West, doom » § sationna the tion he To 000 Gira mmissioners 1 Slates ition salliag [ oontrol and in wession ! ’ ianta, puss LIADta, pas dontion of opti & and regulation o sale of Fystem { manufacture commer srtilizer SwEpeEx ss day at the World's Fair was celebrated by a big proosession and a imbia’s Bullding was opened onthe “Hh A xoxeen of striking with their wives, attacked the strip pit miners in one of the mines noar Weir City, Kan, A 8 fght ensued, in which clubs and firearms Were Uns About 100 shots were fired and a umber on both were injured, N one was killed niners ee sides Ir is timated that ten thousand persons in Denver, Col, and twenty thousand out side of it have been thrown it of work by the cessation are i Rreal disteoss, of silver mining. They Washington. Tur absence of the Proside=: and his fam lly at Buzzards Bay is being taken advan tage of thoroughly renovate the White { House, and to make some changes in the are | through her machinery ; the story rangement of the interior IT was reported that the warship Mohican was disabled on June 25 by a shot from the soal-poaching steamer Alexandria passing ) was dis greviited in Washington Tux Navy Department formally accepted the craiser Detroit and authorized the pay- nent 10 the builders of reserved funds | amounting to about $225,000, Tre mavalatare of the new army rifle (the Krag-Jorgensen) Is being pressed vigor susly, and a large number of special cutters and sharpers have already been procured. It is believed that the first lot of completed arms will be ready for delivery and fssue to the service about September 1, Ture Department of State has just issued a register containing some new features. One of these Is a historieal sketeh of every Recre. tary and Assistant Secretary, Another fs a record of the parsons in the diplomatic and consular service, Foreign, Faexon marines have captured two Ria. meke forts on the Upper Nekong River a Binmoese force was repulssd with grest Joes by Annamite militia; France has not dis avowed Admiral Humann « action in enusiog gunboats to ascend the Meinam, Tue court martial of Captain Bourke and the other survi officers of the Vitoria immediately after the Victoria, ‘It was all my J i | A ————————— —— Bean Avwraar, Manxuss, in hie testimony before the Maite court martial, said that Sie George Tryon's command was fu possibile to follow with safety, Tue Infants Falalis, of been visiting Parle, left en r whers she will visit the Dui his bride, Princess May. Co —— PROMINENT PEOPLE. of who has England, rk and Bpain, ie to oi ¥ Goverxon Hossein, rides a bleycle, GuxEral Avsasxono Rovmiovez Governor-General of Cuba, is dead, Gexenat Meviiner, aged ninety-five, still holds a commission in the French ar ¥, bo ing stationed at Nantes, Gexenat Epwann Janpixe, hero of battles and the New York draft riots, a New York hotel a few days since, Coroner, C. C, Joxes, Ju. historian Georgia, died a few days sgo of Brig) disease at Augusta, He was sixty-two yeas oid, Massa hustrg Aniz, many died at Coroner Jaxes Cray, of Bourbon ¢ Kentucky, owns more blue grass any man in the world, being ass 4205 acres, Tre decadence of the p pularity of the bull fight in Spain Is largely respon ¢ for the Duke of Versgua's threatens cy. He raises fighting bu Mason Evian W, Havroxn, who w vate Becretary to President Hurriso: stationed st the Department of the bhesdquarters, Omaha, Neb. , as assistant pay master A ROYAL personage has been added 1 list of operatic singers by the detrt in of the Princess Ahmadoes, who is sa descendant of the house of Delhi tan rest of her immediate family, t} aristocrat Is a Christisg 70) | MLL Tar inventor of the now thography, Alvis Benefel Prague in 1771. Hs at Munich in 1834, havin his discovery. A mons died Minister a: ihers of the Presi and Mrs, ¥ itor x selves with Christianity i of their first child Corean 1 ne yieria Or the 20.000 | City 10.000 are permitted irs the streets Cucaco has last six months and clearings in the oo taker = Bb intry Tax Nicaragua Canal ( pany is out of funds and ha upon the Nicaragua Canal i ag ! Tux total value of the ex; hog products from the Unt June, 1888, was $10 098. 5 Tux Canadian Domini year ending June 10 was expenditure was 880 652 453 Tue American choles abroad st thirty-five 4 land hay is now selling at a ton, Tar scarcity of fodder inthe mnd has become & are fending their horses rice, w than oats, Are pressing that Lhe Tar railroads ha of a cent a mile to delegates to Grand Army encampment Ind., in September A swowen of millions of toads at Grand Falls, Me It was th came from the water spouts that up a few days before, ——— THE CROP OUTLOOK. The Secretary of Agriculture Thinks the Prospects Are Good, J. Sterling Morton, Secretary of Agron) fure, in an interview states that the crop prospects “are good. The outlook for a flue erop of corn in all the cora-growing parts of the country is good. The reports also indi oate that the whest and oat crops will be large, “A demand for large exports of hay and other forage comes from all parts of Europe, France, Germany and Belgium will take the Inrgest quantities, Wo are making an efor in the Agricnltural Department 10 secure some statistios as to the amount of beef con. sumed in this country. It = a difficult thing to do beeauss of the abwence of any figures on the subject. Ths farmers have suffered groater losses on beef in the last ten years than on any other product, and still the strange fact remains that bes! is the only roduc of consequences which does not figure | the speculative markets, Thess Is no dealing in Matar’ or ‘options’ on boel ™ STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. Children Killed and Their Father Nearly Blinded. While James Watt and two children, aged nine and eleven yours, were driving from a neighbor's to Mr, Watt's house, a short dis. tance away, they wore overtaken by a shower o agre Two
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