Trade journals are noting the fact that the price of wool is the lowest in its history. The ‘‘trusty” prisoner in a peni- tentiary belongs, in the opinion of the Washington=Star, to the same general class as the gun that nobody knew was loaded. There is one place where a woman get's a man's pay for doing a man’s work. It isthe Township of Marsh- field, Maite, and any wishes to work out her road tax ean do woman who go and have her day's work count for es much as a man's. As an instance of the wonderful growth of the English language, it may be noted, observes the Detroit Free Press, that, whereas Noah Web- ster could not find 80,000 words to put in his compilation, the recent Century Dictionary comprises more than 200,- 000, At the beginning of this year there were 1168 submarine cables in exist- ence, of which 880 belonged to different dominions, and 288 to private com- panies. The former possessed a length and the latter thus the total of 16,652 miles had a length of 144,748 miles, length was 161,395 miles. The Terra Haute (Ind.) Gazette « claims: ‘“Take all the noted cathedrals and public buildings and monn: nd colossal statuary of the and modern world and the Elysian fields and one the equal in beauty splendor of the 1 group them ir might and radiant White City as Manu- Building y White City gem in the magical viewed from the top factures and Liberal But until that will stand alone : diadem of the centu - is done The annual loss of human life lightning shock is very great througl out the world. In European Russia, from 1885 to 1892, no less ti persons were killed in this wa Austria during the electric fluid killed 1700 persons. LS thousand persons are reported as hav- same fine by lightning during ing been struck the past twenty-nine years, with 225 deaths, in France, while in States 202 deaths fron g com and partial sight or hea urned superficia Navy, @ leading nas has expressed an opinion gardimg the most particularly fo he United H« buil ’ il | Oui ships, armored shops, States 1 3 available types of war says that we battle crn they will be what we bouts, 1184 shall need in case of any war we States he wonl Nati go to enon the b possil le up this superior ns with whom this cot would th rh battle ships to be war, and ttle sl of or any enemies, and continu build fast cruisers, should | be armored New York for example 3 vessels and then, addition, fast torpedo boats as a means | of coast defense. The "Pre sident of recentiy insurance company has made public some interesting facts cone It said that rong suey cide. in 1877, of the peo ple whose lives were insured, 1.28 per | cent. died by their own hands, Sines then the life insurance companies have practically discontinued the poliey of | refusing to yay in case of snicide, and the result is that the ratio of suicides to theinsured » vmlation has increased The President statements we have quoted whose “14 is passing strange that men will deli. erately the own destruction in alarmingly. contrive means of their order to get the best of a life insurance company and leave money to those who come after them. Perhaps there is nothing very strange in it, comments the Atlanta Constitution. 1u this conutry there aro plenty of men who aro afraid of nothing in this world or in the next. The only good thing about them is the natural affection they feel for their families. They belong to the utterly hopeless and desperate class. They see no chance of providing for the im- mediate wants of their loved ones un sess they insure their lives and step out of the world. Free-thinking in religion and oar social conditions are largely responsible for this state qf affairs. The life insurance companies will have to change their regulatigns when they find that a very large per centage of their customers do not com sider life worth living. ers and torpedo | 1D |} Mora children are born in Greeco and in Spain, in proportion to popu lation, than in any other Caucasina Nations, From recent revelations made after the disaster to H. AM. 8. Victoria, it would seem to the Chicago Record that the British navy is considerably more powerful in picture books than on the briny sea. New Zealand's has begun to publish the Journal Labor Department of Commerce and Labor, a monthly jour- nal to contain oficial reports on the state of the labor markets throughout the oslony and Australasia in general. Tt will be distributed free to public bodies, trades unions, and all applicants, The mistletoe will be more difficult to find next winter, exclusively from the orchards of Nor- it flourished The French Government It comes almost mandy, where on the apple tree. has decided that all the mistletoe must off the the ground that it sucks the sap and im- be cut trees at once, on pove rishes them. The death of A. J. Drexel, of Drexel, Morgan & Company, in no way affects | the business of that great corporation, but it | millionaire eo W. Childs Thodwo men were removes a ranked wit 100rg ublie benefactor. + brothers, and rivalry betwee: er twenty i Belgium, France, Germa Netherlands wept 10 cases tria, Britain, gwitzerland, factories run cont ex The hours of labor cen In doctor's only are allowed pations a certificate for be + quired in all countries and children. Mobley, roe I Jn ize ama, ei apparent ended July 1st onl; road were buil less than we Kansas Kentu Louisiana, Maine KY Washington Ww Minnesota k2. w Massarh'ts 5 Virginia. .7 1 4 young It will be observed, says the Journal, from which the above table is taken, that not a mile of new railroad has been built in Georgii this year, last led all the States of the Union in raflroad The fact that does not appear in the list printed There now rail though Georgia year before construction, Gieorgin above is not to be regretted. has been no recent need for roads in this State, and money has been found so tight that none of it has been ready to go into experimental enter- prises of this sort. A similar state of affairs in the other States is the ex- planation of the small new railway mileage, Railroad building hae been overdone in many States, and it will be a long time before some of the lines that have been built in Georgia during the last five or six years will pay. The general falling off in rails road construction m a healthful sign. In the first six months of last year there were built in the United States 1367 miles of railway and the con struction for the year was 4200 miies The same ratio of increase for the last six months of the year would give us about 3000 miles of new railroad for | Ing a horsecar will { son Park, | time, | to engn iinh | bas an experience lke that o { there before night if he ke # | 6X {| SUMMED Atlant : | DISTANCES AT THE FAIR. IMMENSE SPACE COVERED BY THE EXPOSITION, | ways of humanity say it is A Visitor Must Walk a Great Miles to See All the Wonders the White City Route of Average Sight Seer Some hibits of Foreign Countries, The World's Falr is exposition of the globe's Industrial, mechan Many of the Ex not only a wonderiul feal and artistic progress, but it is a ‘city of stances,” Speaking of the covered by the Fair, the Chi cago Record says magnifieen® Immense space Bome poor weak woman who could not travel four blocks downtown without board- walk five miles at Jaok does not it nt the All the time something is happening ¢o the mind, The long jaunt is taken meopathio doses, 100 yards at & time, It has often remarked, and thers 8 no harm in repeating #t now, th things around gives delusive ideas of distance She realize barry ou the general the Exposition I'he visitor tenderfoot™ bigness of walk over to nnd after id that he wi { moving ist at the Fair often forms ¢ he oan see nearly ove fterward he is re who before in the Rockies A certain traversing a fov v n le fraud peng on k fast miles ist ars aay to Plaisance, for Girove the nan or the instanoes, gute to the Minds is ex AVOnUN main gr WOmaL, Bownay wanders ts of the and then t H fan samo distance without knowing it. | IED main nisios understand why you were 80 night and wert to sleep on the way home, your head resting on the shoulder of a pers fect stranger, Any man who started af Madi- son streat nnd walked to Jackson Park would think he was performing a fest of endurancs, Ie comes to Jackson Park and covers the Why is it? Those who studied the Hecause buoyed up and exhilarated by novel and kept on the prance by rousing His mind is so busy that he forgets about his jours How far must a man walk to see all the Fair? This is a hard question to answer, but here are some fairly accurate fgures on the larger bulldings, If vou wish to tfaverse the main nls in the Manufactures Bullding, Just to get a good general impression but without edging around thousands cases, you will find nine main aisle west, ench 750 feet long, a t 6750 fest, The north and se in number, are each 1750 fost Jog a total length of 19,250 feet 26,000 foot, un trifle less than ite for the basin 12,5600 tes allow for passing throug of have he is sights muse, Less of show # cast and | length of , eleven !, maxing uth nisl five m minimum ostin Kaliory BRIS Ad Open exhibits might properiy be nues, Furthermo doubling up visitor must see time, Machinery sleles, each 1 these requires 6500 fet of trave Hall 00 fet long north and so ¢ 4000 ndditd the bullding thor aisles should he sary traveling feet long, t BOO in all, “do tran On this bas theses % thie i Ae 1 lowed int Manufactu Mauufactures nee is aii La habitual entrance it) cover or at the dome 0 De wing a tran Up at the narrowed north inde, it is 2000 feet from the nth street gate over to the lake, yet iminary stroll Is unnoticed by those the State Bulidings and then turn ward for the main pa@ of the show, In keeping track of distances It is always woll to remember that ones around the Manufao- tures Bullding lacks about 200 feet of being a mile Suppose you land from a boat at the Casino pler, walk over to the peristyle, turn north and pass through Manufactures Building, straight through the Government Bullding and then proesed Ly the shortest cut to the art palace, How far dd you sup p you have traveled? A mile? More thal that. 6500 foot, if you kept as near a bee line as possible, But if you selected some of the winding paths and reconnoiterd in sido alsies theough the two bulldings, you walked one and one-half miles Follow the average sightwear through a day's walking. Plek out a roate whioh is common, He alights from a train at the ter minal station and goes to the Administration Building, whenee he drops south to the Ma- chinery and Agriculture Bulidings, merely passing through them to reach the peristyle, along the length of whieh he passes to the Magulactures Bullding. By the time he reaches it he has covered, at the lowest, 4500 | feet. Through Manufactures Buliding once, then through the Government and Fisheries Buildings and over to the art palace easily makes 6000 more, If be follows the much traveled route from the Art Bullding down past the southerly Btate Bulldings to the "inisance entranos it is just about 2500 feet | to bw added, ’ Then the Plaisance, Perhaps he will not | walk to the extremes west ond, but he will go three-fourths of a mio and return, making | an actual ohalk-line distanoe of one and one half miles with another mile to be added be | cause of the zig-sag course, making it 18,000 feet on an easy compromise, Leaving the Plalsance, suppose that he passes through the Horticulture and Transportation Build. | lags to the court of honor and the gmnd basin, around which he walks slowly during | the iNumination and band concerts, finally | directing his way to the terminal station and | a train for home. Any tapeline measures men. following hia steps would show that | acother 9500 feet had been credit, He had not erossed the wootled island, had not looked into the Mines or Klee } tricity Balldings and had not gone farther | = od of t end Fifty LAs soul | has ever boon soon, The largest Incod to his | tal ia r near ame time the estin ont or private | ys wed and no account is taker ng jumps from one building Lot the reader figure for whether by walking forey milea he could sen every nook aml corner of the Exposition from the washy bead of the pler to the west ward end of Midway Piaisar The moral of this is: “DD everything in one at try to ww day THE EXHIBIT OF ITALY, Italy has reason to feel proud of the un equaled exhibit she has made in the various departments of the Werld's Falr, No other country of squal size and commercial in portance bas done #0 muwoh to make the grant Columbian Exposition a sneoess, In the Manufactures Building, wost side, seo tion A, Iwiy's main exhibit Is to be found The liberal art section contains 15,000 square foot, and in looted on the interior floor in the north-west gallery, This space is de. voted to the exhibit of books, photographs musion! instruments and other articles that may be included In the category of Hberal arts, but nothing, however, of an educational nature, except, of course, what is contains in the books, Italy is jealous of her book. making art, and many Ans specimens of book making and pristing make this part of the exhibition one of the most interest. ing. The malin section on the foor proper of the Manufactures Building is, perhaps, one of the best arranged and most unique dis. plays of a country s handiora’t and ingenuity to be found In the whole building. There are specimens of hand-carved woodwork so delicate and wonderful as to command the highest praise for the artist's skill, but not this alone | #0 perfect and so exquisite i= it ax to make one question whether its superior | bas relief ever carved from wood & among the articles, It is twonty feet long and threo feet wide, and is made from a single blosk of wood, What is more, it was made expressly for the Columbians Exposition, There are specimens of Italy's beautiful ohiseled marbles, Florentine mosalos, so sn. or to anything ia this line shown as to ve them withomt a competitor in this branch of Industry, An enameled silver coffe set for twelve | persons Acquires ite great value from a very complete history of the world sngraved on porth than the art palace nor farther south | the platter and cups, All the detail of the than the Agriculture Buliding. Add up the | figures and it will be found t he wplkad | 85.500 feet, or a trifle lows than seven with hardly any allowance for incidental foraging to the right or left, As a matter of | fast any one following that route would walk ten miles, persons have covered the ground in Perhaps you have, yet you souldn't | principal events of the world from the days of eroation to tha pressst are worked out {a Lace, sald 0 bo worth $1000 yard, with broondes aad tapestry of old value and exquisite design, forms an attractive fersture and salle forth many (los, | the Anest line, aspientions from lady two majolioa paintings in fromt of the strange | { and displa tired out st | pavilion are mach admired, and are valuosd in the appraisement at £20,000, and glassware, the figures in wilt, the stat- unary and earving in wood, the beautiful colleetion and display In marble and bronze, make the Italian exhibit not only one of the most valuable, ¥ut among the most Interests ing. The pottery ALOGERIA'S EXHIBIT, Algerigt is a French colony, | given a distant place and large space in the Agricultural Bullaing, Th t prominent object in the. exhibit fs what is called the Moorish room, which is » production of an apartment in the palace o he G nt Alglors Inelosed by Maori imitation of marble, Is a central « offices of Mr. Montells, the from the colons Is situsted at one corners, the rest helng to ou display of the pro the country. FPlotures by on the walls, showing the Algerian, a street geens in Algier subjects A fine eabinet shown, tobacco, manufacture and spe ne read from w mac, Woods in the form oft} it it has bean pVEPrnOr in art aon wsioner of the if the ApaRon nd art w Aang art ‘ rimens of t mo Tne of the nu sooth 1.200 000 & whi Years Algrering rend \ ni onsen First Vieo jent, fer i awards in the De and Fine rect the on ) getting to w arts judges wil Jury pian, whi e and satis! th & depart n Awards is discouraged early all the agricultural participate in the Univtw re entered for the examios { Among the uik of the as expressed in the Charman Thacher, i» success in that branch of 2 lected triofty ol ion nent harvester not favorable so the exhibits at east —— WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. New Yore cheese manufacturers have se ared three first prizes, Founteayx separate and distinot congresses wore ln session at the Art Institate the othet day. The most largely aMendod was that of the college fraternition Avevsros Huxexwar, of Caton, Mass, has invited all the schooma'ams In town to to the World's Fair at his expensa, There if them gO are dwanty-ix Tue Department of Awards §8 now busiest branch in the great Exposition, sad Mr. Thacher, ita chief, has inoreased his siorioal forve from five to 10 A mio map showing the educational lianties of the Pennsylvania public » colloges and academies, has boon shipped the Fair, It is fo in slae and contains 112 Tur Masonic apron worn by Washington inthe lodge room as wall ss the valuable and interesting lodge smblams of Gouom Lalaystte form na feature of the exhibit ip the Government Ballding, beneath the great dome I% the dome of the Hartionitural Bailding pecu WOOls, rteon Ly eight Tem jane food of Canvas the | | there ia a perfect fassimile of the ( apitol at | Washington, done in immortellos gromnds surrounding the Capitol ars also The | shown, and ® forms a unique and interesting | exhibit, Tar World's Yoush Congress, a gathering made up of the brightest young people bee twosn the axes of twelve and twenty-one, and representing schools, aon leomios and colleges throughout the country an various | institutions of learning in Bagland anion the Continent, has Hall of Washington Ir is generally conceded that forthe limited amount of money expsvied on ita buildings of artless made, the State of Arkansas jeads all the rest, The minoeml and wool exhibits in (he State Ballding ars sapeciaily interostiog, both from thelr num bor and completeness, ns wall as from the unique manner in which they are arcane, Canpirat Gianows has goo si the invie tation of the Comaittes of the Maryland Htate Commission to make the and boasdiotion on ths occasion land Day at the World'a Fale, Soptenber 12. That ish the dts Bist ot he. a in Chis ago rohbmbops holla Cliurch, Cardinal prinuate of the United States, will Bsn In session In the the 1 i § THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Fastern and Middle States, Moon damage to gardens and farm was done by a storm in New England, narkatie On Turre have boon some ror tions of temperature in Maine, the mercury was shade, There was also s hall story ter which damaged crops, furnb encugh fora enowballing the temperature down from grees to fifty-six degroes wis a doeclded snow Burry was as cold as in October pinety-six degre match ninety Try silve nue Hot Tue Erie Rallw of John King « calivers, the Ju {ge Lae "ny Court, New Yor Trenor 1. Park mortgngee bonds that the barras " a ger BL FY creditor Orricens Ir XNishoilal 1, visit where the Ney Enea BEVERY ie " Ous § ' ates, South and West, Washington. : irre Exechequor wont gaye net jos ution to blockade the & , the French Minister, gave his nti haul down h fag and leave Bangkok Firry deaths Louis, Remogal, Naples and vicinity Asin Minor M. Pavix loft Bangkok are reportad in lisease also prevails ia Italy n Smyrns and AR the French Minister-Besident, Kir Edward Grey, the Parlia- mentary Secretary of the British Foreign OfMoe, assured the House of Commons that England would protect her subjects in Siam. Ime Spanish steamer San Jusn, loaded with kerosene for Amoy and Mantia, was de stroyod off Hons Kong by fire. Out of 250 people on board, only twenty-nine were saved, A xEw treaty of annexation to the United States has been prepared by the Provisional Government in Haw all, Tux stoamship Pearl was run into and sunk by an unknown steamsaiiip off the Irish const. Seven people were drowned Tar revolutionists of Nicaragua captured the city of Managua, the the Republie, Tue Victoria court-martial! resderad a vor. diet that Vice-Admiral Tryon was response bla for the Joss of the flagship, and exoner ated Captain Bourke and the other surviving officers, Great excitement attended the enforce. ment of the closure on the Home Rule bill in the House of Commons ; blows were struck and the utmost disorder prevailed : all the clauses exoopt the Afeenth and sixteenth were adopted and the bill reported from come mittee, hava capital of TERRIFIC EXPLOSION, A Number of Chinese Villages Dee stroyed and Many Lives Lost, Hong Kong newspapsrs give details of a terrifle powder explosion at the Goverament powder magazine at Canton, China, saioh killed many, injured over 300 people and wrecked 400 houses, : - habitants of the Sam Fog A Ahk the mugazios stands, were startiod hy a tre mondous report, which was aver a large area nnd was followad volume of smoke, Very quickly it a terrible
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