They are proposing to pension teach- | ere in England, | Crime is rapidly increasing all over | Argentina. Statistics show that it has more than doubled during the past | two years. The School Board of Auburn, Me, has decided that it takes six children to make a school, and they intend | closing up all schools having less than that number. . — A California man offers to give, with- out charge, to the city of San Fran- eisco a flow of to 190,000,000 gallons daily and bring it about 120 miles from the forks of North and Middle Yuba River. His only condition is that he should have water amounting the privilege of leasing for a period of twenty-five years the horse power to be developed from the water. of the is being adopted in A method meeting chinch bug pest Minnesota, where these insects appear novel in such large numbers as to destroy the crops. as entomophahera, which is deadly to hundred of them with it There is a disease known the bugs. Several are caught, inoculated and turned loose. These give it to others, and in the epizootic the bugs disappear. consequent A controversy is raging in St. Louis about the identity of the last surviving soldier of the Revolutionary War. The facts seem to indicate, concludes the Atlanta Constitution, that this obscure individual was John Gray, who died at Hiramsburg, Ohio, March 28, 1868, an almost 104 and was a and who lies buried there in unmarked He was old Bt the time of his death, grave. years Continental soldier when only sixteen years old. More than eight thousand pers the exact number is 8180 coma The propor. tion is twenty-one to every 100,000 of guicide in Paris in 1801, the inhabitants, and the increass 1881 is twenty-five the increase in over What enormous percentage per cent has caused self-destruction in ter the New York Mm Apparently life is of years, wonders and Express, harder and its condition no mo couraging than they were 8gO. Herald : “The country taverns are reported to be Says the Boston getting 8 good deal of custom from bicycle riders this summer, who make long journeys into the country, put ug for a day or a night, and the: Any rural districts that has good r be custom, aud 1a time it for hotels keep or or return home. town the ads is gure to benefited by this sort of than the will more make up the losses which country and boarding are likely to experience on ac the Let the town authorities bear in mind Is are the prime requisite this prevailing business depression that good roa for ever. business, how encouraging One of the pensions granted by the nendabl British most com (tov ernment - during the the New Orleans Picayune thinks, was that of $600 to Miss Lucy Garnett is rit nition of her literary merits past vear, recog and to enable her to prosecute her researche Oriental Other worthy pensions bestowed during the in folk-lore, notes year were one of 8370 to the widow of Professor Minto, and one of $250 to ", Adolphus Trollope's widow The ladies, indeed, fared Mise Margaret Stokes receiving 8500 for her very well, researches into early Christian art and Mrs novels. The archaeology in Ireland, and Cashel Hoey 8250 for her Rev. Richard Morris, to whom every student of early English literature and philology is indebted, receives 8700, The English, who are trying to anglicize Egypt, are very much an noyed by a recent decree of the young Khedive to the effect that the Arabic language must be used in al! branches of the eurriculum of the Government schools. The study of this language has always been required of every pupil, and they attain considerable proficiency in it, in order to pass the necessary examinations, but under the present order it will become practi cally the vernacular. The English consider this a long step backward, and say that all the text books on the modern arts and sciences are in the langunges of Europe, and that all at tempts to teach them in the Arabic have resulted badly. This, perhaps, was dus to the fact that the teachers were not so familiar with the language as they might have been. At all events, no one can blame the Khedive for using sll the means in his power to keep alive the National institutions and feelings of his people. Egypt is these : | in very exhausting. almost a British coluny now. ean raise wheat for another thousand | years before exhausting the necessary properties of the soil. The Greek style of building, modi- fied to modern needs, has been most successfully used in Paris, where many palaces are seen of this construction. A New York music dealer says that the composer of “After the Ball” will Many other authors of popular songs have failed to make $100,000 out of his song, made nothing because they take ont copyrights, Some time ago an Iowa eyelone fol- lowed the route of a railroad for sev- eral miles, and now, the Chicago Her- theorist these 18 A on to ald learns that there deck who proposes steer storms, by means of rails laid and wires strung for the purpose, of spend their force without damage. into open sections country where they can Prince Henry of Orleans, who is not of much account most things, has m shown wisdom in advising the scions of French roval houses to assist in the colonial development of France, since add sion if they take part they can but confusion to confu- in polities It was upon his advice that the Duke of Uzeo went the pe dition, which proved fatal to ham, young Congo ex on f him aro If half the true, Lord Crome yr, % 1.1 stories told « : Iritish diplo- Ae ‘ Egypt, He divides his leisure matic agent in is an original individual. between lawn tennis and Homer in original Greek During Egyptian erisis Lord Crom the Khedive to dismiss ister within troops from nergen AL €1 nni playe d te The pancity of Americas United States Navy Af great ors in the deal of comms Herald, A recor of the seamen serving in the navy sine cited serves the Chieago the establishment of this evs that not more than four the lads who are grad: apprentice training EY than one-half of those wi receiving ships are native CRIA, The interesting fact is shown in the emigration and immigration returns of Ire land last Britain and the (ire at VERT that, while leaving i this country and there 18 8 consid grants into the 1 Kingdom, nt settlement and Irish KTeatl majority, United State Frcs filens continent o arrived United . tiement K mgr H+! Western ra this vear's corn that be 3000 O60) ilroad PA crop (My) that that bushels the Cron the wat 100,000, 000 bus on ont 50.000. ( 1 cron will ¥ ] v 1 ROCIR smaller. thant and to hog erop will he 4,000 ( Wi Inrge v will have haul than in 1802.92, Mohler has isened a egpecial report on He puts nly 600, 0600 that all roads vastly more State Secretary the corn prospects of Kansas thie under the areaat 6,296,000 acres, wonderful area of 1888 when the yield was 278.000. 000. and that the condition this year promises a 3 eld exceeded only by 1889 The New York Post re that ‘Few people have any conception of the brought to bear upon every Executive, of Missouri, least 500 applications before him, and 1 MATKS pressure for pardon which je Governor Stone, has at declares that it is not an exaggeration to say that one-half of his time is ab- sorbed in listening to such applies. tions, which are presented by mothers, wives, daughters, lawyers, friends from every part of the State, singly, by twos and threes, sad often in larger delegations. Moat of these applica tions he has to refuse, only nineteen | having been granted during the first #ix months of his term ; but it is easy to accept his plea that ‘an undue pro- portion of my time is consumed with matters, and the strain upon | mocvous vitality resuiting from the pas thetie incidents connected with them It is obvious that i : 3 | some ehange ought to be made, either by the establishment of a Board of Pardons or otherwise ; for it is absard that half of an Executive's time and strength should be exhausted in cons widering petitions that he will set aside the findings of the courts.” Cap fy A Western geologist says that Kansas | | son Park than the Empire of | shan exhibit —ittle chooolatedy wn | and here are onsen of the most | enamel, iE FAIR, THE (ZAR'S EMPIBE MAKES A GORGEOUS DISPLAY. Arte and Industries Shown in a Char acteristic Pavillon--The Russian Fur Exhibit Alone losured for One Million Dollars — Beautiful Products of Siberian Mines, No Kk valuable or more interesting display in Jaek- This was done at the particular request of the reign power makes a Inrger, more { Russin, Czar, to express his gratitude to the entire | its generous help earnad for the of “Starving republic of America for famine that intry the name during the late snow-white co Russia.” In that great and the liberal arts, a large and imposing is occupied by the Russian exhibit. The pavilion in which this great display of Hus. sian arts and industries is housed, writes Catherine Cole in the New Orleans Pleasuue, is made of dark, carved wood, wrought Into those peculiar ornate arches and that even the most casunl observer reo nizes directly as being charncteristic of Rus sian churches and Russian palsces, How ever, only the initiated know that this gor- geous pavilion, with its richly stained glass windows in the vestibule, is » reproduction on a small scale of the fasade of the in which the august Peter the Great opened his eyes to the light of the Russia sun, Entering this section through the corner opening under the high arched grand tower that surmounts the pavillon, one pauses just & moment 10 pote two superb windows mexhaustible buliding eT rine WwW first Cross Hlustrating by figures of richly clad men and | women, Russian life of the aristocratic circies, Beyond this smal! vestibule is » sort ter. race with a double Sight of easy steps load ing to the main floor, on which, In stands and shelves and against the walls, (he treasures of fur, enamel, brounge, papier mache and marbles and carvings are housed, This terrace itsal! Is a Sus display, | about it, here and there, are sel enormou basins, vases and pedestals of | porphyry At the further cabinet nicely decorsted, mache work for which Hossian artists famous Iw Biberian yield mals Jade, and lapis lazuli and rhodonits phyry, each rare and precious, finite suffering by the veral me of lapis lazu ‘ of UN valy end is a superb ' : ar of Pi pg re 8 that nite and and por. quarried Hore mines and exlios ’ VA ¥ ornloes | pias | with gold, Tt Las a ball cover of jaae, very thin, with a gold miter for a handle, A set of salt cellors were of thin lapis lazall, mala ehite, rhodonite, a lovely pink, veinad like ngate with black moss, and also one of por- ph These were cut into thin shells, and indi sandles of twisted gold set on the edge with emeralds, Thus it is that luxury reigns supreme in the jsnd of the Czar. A little shallow pin tray of jade has handles of solid gold, and is worth #300, Among the church decorations is a virgin and child finely painted and set in a gold frame ; the virgin is completely robed in poearis, This small ornament 18 worth seve eral thousand dollars, and its duplicate is owned by Mrs, Potter Palmer, It 18 sald the Russian fur exhibit is insured jor £1,000 000, It includes the rarest furs knows, snd among the wonderful fur robes, the attendant displays with pride a cloak lining of sliver that is marked $6000, Only ther Hke it has been made, and that was for the Empress The fur rugs are | trimmed with borders of elder duck breasts, and, are made the duck breasts entirely, There are several such in the Exposition ;a particularly fine one in the Norway fishing exhibit has had a great hole worn in it by the curious hands visitors, who persist in touching it The peasants take the seraps © ports and colors, and make of it a curious “orazy quilt” sleigh hese are tremely odd, very valuable and rather pretty, In the fur section is also acolisetion of chalrs | made of horns and f skins, [hese ugly things are greatly prized in Russia, sand | are to be found fo simost every home, In the dark corners of this section are ranged household goods, utensiis and a of dolls in all the National costumes, A little room is finished up with rags, divans | and low tables of Hussian Incquer, of which we had 80 much at our own World's Fair, | Moving about among theses things were the | black-bearded, white-faced native Cossacks, some wearing thelr fullekirted costs and around their walsts narrow chains of ecnamsied gold, fo one « in fact, some of of f fur of all robe, ate © ars long, In the bronzes, that are finest inthe world, sculptor ranking | AIWAYS AMOng the groal artists, are he same designs of gaunt, besten, starving horses, of | big bears, of peasants at their domestic avo cations, that are familiar wherever Rossisn bronyes are, the best pleas repre- sents A woman going to market In a oart, GArrying goose I'he horses are crossing « marsh, and here 1 thare are still pools of shining aud water, It is all of bhrones in part eToctive Miene Lronges Russia Hore is a cart and carrying that reiains ite e women st work iu be 8 hall except the Japanese, the One « ICURTIY “a + A) nf ' | TEL 7 stihl k : = | { 22 blige the finer th tone a finest ple inpis lazuli in the wid § globe surmount ing the grand high altar In the Chu Paolo in Yineo in Rome It rests pedestal of g , 1 Aas Yen | Crar, Malachite w wright isiy 80 ner and shattered handles ut and a ork oryvela and other prec I'he jade Inin One Bs a punch how of ioariy and ut ha In the is valued at SEN in Jems im with goid ¢ a Yery LR paid Fran thinly ut woron | edges osing 1 bandies paz, It Fron of or single pie HE and yet clear as wator fthe ministry ot 8t. } abinets made of vermiiid fabric, and ywwored with f bard st ning pletures o delicate vines, Sowers, birds and trees imaginable Their long, graceful ten drils of hioom, a ne the finest ferns that wander over an exquisite surface © turquoise blas 1 ie iit to believe oan hay son done in o The sitive fronts of abinets are made of this famous 1 one of them to make took 14 581 Each cabinet has a value of they are chief features of this of treasti res belonging tothe and which exhibit was se “little father” himself The vermillion wood in which these cabinets are mounted i= a sort of finer and harder and pinker mahogany wood, In a case against one wall of this pavilion is hung just in long bireadths, lsngthe of those famous and most gorgeoas brocade that are woven nowhere else in the world as they are in Russia, sand which are so exooedingly valuable that only the Emproas can woar them, These are used for court trains, for religious vestments and sometimes for draperies They are stiff enough to stand alone, and are woven the sane on both sides, One ploce Is valued at £500 sn inch! { these hrooades oa three yvely nos, I 4 wat fice ’ diffe ries t howe TH Owens an working days 240.000, and Imperial exhibit Russian thron loeted by the Ihe yvalas of bes in the fact that they are Lhe same on both sides, and that very wide, heavy gold and silver thrands are used, All over the Falr one may see vases, furai ture, jewairy, in fact, articles of all sorts marked sold, Sometimes one phece will have & douen cards on It, showing that it Is to be reproduced that many times, The pitoher and teapot and cup und ssacer collections are revelling in this opportunity to buy specimens from simost every country under the sun, There are lovely things In the Rus. ups, covered with gold half-moons : plates painted to imitate cardboard embroideries, in frade blues and reds; In fact, nearly all the pot. tery desorations imitate the designs of Rus. sin emi volderion and brooades, The silversmith is a great artist hn Rossla, urgeous sil. ver and soamel work, Reon wins revived the Almost lost art of enamel ing on silver and so great is the skill regaired that the smallest alter-digner coffee spoon | and the simplest made s worth st least 84, The process is to oteh the spoon or artlels | with the required design and thea Jou over it, no that it will run only jo the little grooves made by the etcher's knile, the melted If any runs over the edge, na it were, of the pattern, the pleco is spotied be. | yond use, In these onsen froighted with gold and sil. of fabulous wine, one a card case, the enamel on the Rus | ASIA ing the exbhitit of the Im r Manuistory hie exhibit was made 1st of the Czar It shows all the various materials used in papermaking, =u ws hemp, ram flax ott ot fibre. Hore are of drawing ad photographs and nd iron slectroty pos ) hinds tal Par ag st the reg a, and WA by Rubens, Op per wear tmionging t and eurious and the w ina rating arg rniing wi jomeor “The kit garden upslairs t the didren’s Dullding forty girls put on whit fei M housekeaping “very OOK In Low tates and Hitie be in ail put upo thom signa rie dome theer through the performance of bods hey turn and f rods ow (hey spread the hewn: the right wa hey ie aad the spreads oe movers 80 that the a wrinkle can I» Can w in this garden of the room fotnils, ar i the little g Any people as wenter ton he! nines alowed nt nth tus lines are of raight I'tien they pat on the pillow-slips and arrang shams Out of confusion ttle maids a bed that = restful 10 look upon Sweeping and serub- bing and even washing of doll jothes in sinall tulsa ollow, I'he children think it is great fun, and so do the visitors who go to sou them, Yet it is educational in a direc tion a good deal neglocte] these iatter days Down stairs in the Children’s Batlding ia a gymnasiom, More Hitie gichs from Turner soctet ies swing Indias clubs, put up dumb bells, climb poles and vault horses, When there isn't & dogen visitors In the acres o space devoted to the school and college © exhibits In Liberal Arts Bullding you will find people standing on tiptoe, stretching their necks and worrying one another with their eMows in tha sfforts to the daily per ‘ormancos at the Children's Building, It 2 the life of the Fair that draws THE UTAR aInLs, In tho Art Hall of the Woman's Daiding hangs a wolleation of photographs of remark. | ably pretty Utah girls all Mormons, It is | much marveled at, Dut the interest the | photographs excite is nothing to the rush to {soe the real live Mormon girls in another | part of the same building. Utah, to the as. wen the 3 these rot « | tonishmont of some people who thought they ware well informed, has boon making silk for { thirty years, And Mormon girls have somo | to the World's Fair to show how it is done, | One of them fesds mulberry leaves 10 hin. | deads of worms on a large tray, Another | reals upon spools the silk from the cocoons, Two others manage a hand loom, and vip | tors seo the silk woven while they . | This Utah silk looks well, That it will wear | is shown by the exhibit of shaws made by Mormon women (wenty year ago, The first sik dross nead fn Utah and worn by the favorfie wife of Brigham Young, more than [thirty years ago, Is shown, Feo look | omen at the silk making and several times at the Mormon girls before they pass on, Si ————— , * Tur Algerian village and thaater are In the hands of the Sheet. The solzure was made on a sult by the Exposition to coliget #6190, sald to be dus os a peresntage from the concession, findusing country in the world, | Cortainly not, GREAT SILVER DEBATE OPENING ADDRESSES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE QUESTION. Mr. Wilson Introduces a 131 for the Repeal of the Sherman Law Mr, Bland Proposes a Free Colnage Substitute — Speeclies of Rayner and Bland. Messrs, The discussion of the silver question at the special session of Congress Is attracting the attention of the country, The Asbate in the House ns Mr Yirginia, offered a bill to repeal DegRa SOON HH Wilson, of West the silver clause of the Ki oan law irtion of the IMhorizges the retary of purchase provides for the repeal of tl act of July 14, 1850. which purchase of sliver bullion by t! tha Treas and that *‘thiss in any manner affect the le inlities of the stands are Leretelore coined iared that the United ain the parity of the two silver is he shall ga wd \ at the vsta be established 1 of Missouy viding for the f16t01 opened the Wilson's Yeore Marviand Mr sald he was In Invor i of the pur ing iil without He was not lo fas ounce os sliver rt of of the CLLRS condition the present ratio orany 1to add that | whet} Keeping the rm by the atch word of polit nventions guided by a higher and purer faith, He be lieved in forever striking from the tenets of ur eread the superstition that a Nation grew rieh ln proportion to the worthilessnoess of the money it ¢ In place of that sup- erstition ! 11d u the inseripti that we ¢ i#h our honor as much as our bert MR. Wi Mr adv ber of glittering He wae uid asus, 1} 3 substitute ASD PLEADS FOR Biand (Dem... Mo the great silver wie, expressed his regret that a nus gentlemen bad changed thelr opinion on this sliver The Sherman law wat the only law on the statute books that looked to the use of sliver as a money of country. The repeal of the Sherman sot was a part of the Chicago platform. An other part was a declaration for the use of gold and sliver as the money of the untry Speaking for the people he rep resented, he understood that the free coin aie of sliver In accordance with the platform necessarily repealed the Sherman law, The two laws conld not exist together, They wore inconsistent, Members were now asked to repeal the Rherman act and take their ekances of securing something in its place which would mest the pledge of the plat.ors to coun both gold and silver # Mr. Bland then reviewad recent silver an | financial legislation, anl contended that it was the fight on silver which had precipi tated the panic, It has boon brought about desigznedly and for a purpose, There was no doubt about that I'he panie had begun and was alarming the country : but he declare | that if the demands of the bimetallists were not complied with the panic would become one in earnest, He appealed to members to stand by bimetallism and not to obey the de. wands of the Bhylocks, France had afforded un medium of exchange for all the world dur. ing seventy years at a ratio of 15% of silver to 1 of gold, At that ratio France had been able to maintain the parity of the two motals atl over the world, That was a proof that FREE OOINaAOE, question the both | the Government of the United Siates could | do so at a ratio of 16 to 1, If Europe refused to ing that ratio, the effect would be to divert from Europe the trade of every silver. Could agland withstand this withdrawal of trade? It was bimetallism that made t manufacturers of Eagland =» strong and pros ut. Western Europe would have to come to the American stand. ard, or abandon the commeres with the Untied States and with all clvilined countries, Mr. Biand here sent to the clerk's desk and had read an extract from the report of the British Parliamentary 10 the effect + in tn op Popetl OF the Sherman be Shinieho | eansi | of | Othiors roreiving serious in lures, - - i EN —— a ——— | be followed by a further depreciation in the price of silver, “And yet we are deliberately asked here," he said, “10 vote to bring about | n decrease of 15 conte sn ounes in the price of sliver before providing for the restoration of its coinage. No man can defend that before his constituency which is in favor of free coinage,” Mr. Bland declared that the money require. ments of the United States, with the vast wealth, Industry and energy of its people, wers und 10 those of England, France and Germany combined, and that the whol civilized world would have to to vite beats pik { country for its future monetary supply yout,” sald be, vehemence, ‘we y hand o ypuislion in « Will « down with mre asked os Lo-day 10 Iny the blog on millions of our { cont RANE rder to ongr the I i tion sutinfy the groed of England it? Will you trample your own peopls and the precious 1 is, al ¥ the greed of Wall = ft. & Io of Lombard street? It cannot ; it sha be done, the do Gaesty es great {the people of § the poopie west of § it, Renewed applause party that undertakes 18 name, be tr ne dust of « ning back to gold an ut that Fran MOoCTal) BES und to settle it intes I THE NATIONAL GAME. erest ir versa nancial condition of 1 orable state, the sttes games increases rather than baseball mment In spi Tavion bt his bat and strik po th it dr Other players try carry it out first | exociient trick of ne the ball with in front the same plan NS an turning the handle f the piste but do not Baltimore 1 ve wt ’ F he ar 80 ASCIMALL, late, W Hi? n ' 2 698 Cineclnnst Pittsharg 61581. Louis Lieve HRT Balti RH Ching and Philadel b New York 4» Brooklyn 48 Me is ix S518 Logleville 459 Wash'ng'n ————— THROUGH A TRESTLE. A Train Falls Sixty Feet Into a Vir ginia Creek. Jost aast of Milton, Va m.. two , at Passenger oom hows broke through a trestle and fe! below, a distanos of sixty fest, killing w persons outright ot here I'he train was the regular bound for Ports mouth, After passing through Milton and going over the trestle, the engineer. Peyton Tunstall, who says he wes running at the rate of ten miles mn hour, felt the brides giving sway, He threw open the thro. tie, and the engine, tender, and a bos ear got sale over, but the passenger far was too iste, and the span went dows under its wolght, the second passenger car and siooper following. The cars were shat. tered to plooss, The water in the eresk had and injuring s number | risen to the depth of teslve or more fost, and It I= the general belief that the rise had un dermined the foundation of the iran plore, the trestle to settle, On the train at the time were about six. | teen parsons. including the train hande, but only one of the latter Condustor H. Morris, ortamonth-<was killed, none of ths In the siecper were Mrs, Harvey Qierseh, | two children and nares, of Winston, N. (, ; | Condunstor J. I. Riser, of Richmond, and J, I. Townes, colored
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