r The way to stop the grade-crossing slaughter is to make the railroads pay flos killing people. Over §1,000,000,000 of the securities ©f the United States, such es railroad, Btate, municipal and United States bonds, are held in Europe. The Atlanta Ceastitution thinks peppermint must be a profitable crop. It is stated that a Michigan farmer made $41,000 out of it this year, The Chicago Times figures it out that all civilized countries are suffer. ing because of a rebound from extrav- mgance, speculation, and wild dissipation. overproduction The new pastor of the Duryea Pres. byterian Mission in Brooklyn, N. Y,, has tried, unsuccessfully, the experi- ment of having young lady ushers in the church in order to get young men fo attend. In the United States 9,000,000 farm hands raise half as much grain as 66,- 000,000 in Europe. Thus the "proper machinery makes laborer in this country worth three in Europe. use of one farm A physician maintains in the Medi. eal Journal that it is not poverty of diet so much as monotony of diet that exercises an unhealthful influence on the poor. “stronger” food than the rich, As a matter of fact they eat more bread, meat and simple vegetables, but their cooking is rude, and they eat the same things the whole year through. People who are well to do, or who are ret with fewer things, and always have some- Soup ean be made ta resemble greasy dish better cooks, more variety thing to tempt the appetite, water, or it can be made a really savory and nutritious thing, snd there are a kundred different ways of serving pota- toes. The physician thinks that free cooking schools would be a first rate thing in the tenement districts Bays D. Broek, in the British Fort- *“The American peo- ple are now the most comfortably housed, the best clothed and the best fed people in the world. nightly Review: This won- derful progress has never been more marked than it is at present. In the field of science there is an active re- search and investigation, producing results that are a constant surprise, Inventive genius is continually de- veloping new and better methods and appliances by which labor is lightened. There is wonderful activity in all lines which of industry, turns out finer products in greater abundance from the looms, the mills and at lower price than ever before. and the factories, The opportunities for eduestion by schools, colleges and free libraries have been constantly increased. Never before has religious and philanthropie thought been more awakened and gen- ero—s efforts relieve the suffering, to more freely exerted to provide for the needy and minister to the unfortunate. All of these facts indicate a great ad- vance on right lines to a higher, better and purer civilization than has ever before existed in the world's history Experiments that made with the point to the profitable industry from the prolific scrub growth of the Florida forests and flelda It has been proved that the leaf of the saw palmetto csn be grouwd into a pulp which makes an ex- cellent article of hollow-ware for do- m®tic and other uses, and the present experiments are expected to prove the adaptability of this material to the making of all kitds of paper. For some time past the peculiar cabbage- like substance in the top of the cab- bage palmetto has been nsed with the tender tops as weil, as a fibre in the manufacture of parchieent. It is now proposed to obtain cheap paper fibre are now being palmetto in Florida growth of a new and Some of this pulp has been successfully from the ordinary serub plant, worked up by as manufacturing eon- cern in Boston into pails, tabs, basing snd other hollow ware. The supply of saw palmetto is practically inexhaust- fble in Florida. Millions of seres are covered with it, and when eut down to the ground it grows up agsin two or three times & year. The Florida Times-Union, commenting on its pro- jected use, says that for a plant that grows without cultivation, and in seh inexhaustible quantitios, the saw pal. metto bids fair to have ‘more money mn it than most of the cultivated crops of Florida,” and adds: “A fibre ade from tho leaf can be used profitably by upholsterers wherever curled hair, mois, or ‘excelsior’ is used ; the rood ean be turned into brushes of simost «endless forms and innumerable uses; and the poplar and other wood pulps of ecommeres are now likely to find » dangerous rival ia palmetto pulp.” AVR 5 governed | veloped and | cannot annex | local politicians interpose objections | a i ——— essen Nothing yet has happened which ean change the belief that the republic is au established institution in France. Pocahontas did not save the life of John Smith. It has been ascertained that this worthy man was the most | able-bodied prevarieator of his cen- tury. Science is causing us to pick up new { superstitions for our old ones, observes | the Atlanta Constitntion, accused of hypnotizing a witness on A man is I ES . » oe | tae stand in 8 court at 1acoma. Chicago attracts vessels | Atty per cent. more by to its docks than does New York, and its clearances and ar- rivals are, in the aggregate, a fraction { those of half a dozen of the big sea- board ports, | The German Emperor frequerttly has | & week's retirement from the bustling world, and hides within the depths of the forest of Prockelwitz, where a | small cottage is his abode, nestled be- | neath asplendid oak, with forest around him for miles. There, while the dew i on the forest, he starts forth, gun in hand, with a brace of dogs and a sturdy | forester, and at 4 o'clock he is at the | best spot for sport. Then his majesty | bangs away till 11, when he wends his way homeward to his cot, eats and sleeps awhile, after which he puts his sigusture to all the documents which require it, and have been duly warded to his lon retreat from Berlin. The extensive nse of wood in mak- ing the cheaper grades of paper offers one of the most serious obstacles to forest preservation, scecording to the New York Post, In the three years the growth of last two or wile pulp industry has been enormous, a the wo dozen great mills, each manufeeturing fifty to 300 tons of pulp fa day, having built principally The spruce, aud the especially disastr effects of the industry on the fo been feed forests, on the Hudson River. to on the Adirondack wood chiefly used results not only from the extreme de mand for the lumber, but from the fact that while the demand is especially for trees of thirty to thirty-five vears' cut. In 1881 the eapacity of the pulp mills growth, the yoang trees are also in the United States was about 72,000 tons per annum. The present capacity is 700,000 tons. And in this re mark- able growth the industry has been ae- companied by these three desirable things: increase in quanfity, decrease u price and no diminution inthe con pensation of labor ase, the The sound of the and the grinder is States The neighborhood of Niagara sad the Ad. barker, heard in twenty-two irondacks in New York, the territories of the Kennebee, Androscoggin, and Maine, tl Fox hills of New Hampshire and Vermont, and the belt of greatest pulp-producing regions of the United States. About wood are required daily to & 1pply the Penobacot Rivers, in River valley of Wisconsin, the Indiana are the natural-gas 3500 cords of demand of the milla, The 1] inieipal government, great trouble with Americsx Saye a writer in the Engineering Magazine, is the IRCR Uf UVIGORCIIEY 15 Lh0 ETeat Sitios Fach city starts ont independently and on a better plan than any other, and yet with very little thought of profit. ing by the experience of older ones American politicians are apt to plume themselves on the advances they haw made in their own departments, and fome even go so far as to point with pride at the growth of their particular city. Yet with all our boasted pro gress the fact remains that the best the thoroughly broadened cities, most municipalities sre the old cities of the | new world, in which the necessity for new growth and complete change from | the old have been so wholly recognized | ns to compel the introduction of a now | | order of.affaira. Nothing of the sort | 1% to be seen in even the most active communities in America, New York other districts beeanse which have no foundation save their own selfishness. Boston is hemmed in with so-called rival municipal. | ities that hug their civil privileges and imagine independence with absard pretentions of might and power, Philadelphia has, in trath, added vastly to her territory and stands quite distinct among seaboard cities in this respect, but she is wanting in the metropolitan spirit and capability of development which alone would make this increase of terrivory valuable. In the Wost a different feeling ‘may be noted, and this, as well as their more tapid rate of increase, tends to me .0 our Westorn cities more prosperous ae | Uhieago corresposdent | seen real thunderbolts made ably-de- | BLECTRICITY BUILDING WONDERS OF ELECTRICAL SCIENCE AT THE FAIK. | The Long-Distance Writing Machine ~Electrical Appliances For Cook- ing and Cloth-Cutting ~Hatehing Chickens in Electric Incubators Submarine Telegraphy. After a person has examined the exhibits | of the Electricity Building, he might well bid adieu to sensation of astonishment, writes a New York He is In a mental attitude which ae- When he has and launched, facsimile Jotters and drawings transmitted by electricity, even chickens hatehed and oi the Post, ca ts all things as possible, | rousted by electricity, credulity is likely to | be his chief characteristic, and nothing after. i : wards can seem very surprising, {of over sixty per cent. as much as | In the west gallery the Gray National! Tol sitograph Company makes an exhibit of the | last and, one might almost say, greatest elec. | | trienl marvel, | been know to the world many years for Lis Professor Elisha Gray improvements in telegraphy, but his latest Invention, the telautograph or long-distance writing machine, quite eclipses his previous efforts, More or less bas been heard of this device In the last few years, but it has 3 recently been perfacted for commercial uses, It consists of two instruments, a transmitter and receiver, each provided with a roll paper of convenient size writing, 1} together are about half the size of writer, In writing at the transmitter, an or divary pencil is used, near the point of which of wh a types for two small cords are fastened at right angles | the Cen to each other, These connect with strument, and, following the me of the pencil, regulate the current which guide the recelving-pen at the di sation. The paper is shifted forward Fa Httie lover. an Aric which mov in in MAN paper in recoiver af th end of the ne, The receiving Inry glass tube supplied with ine Impuises giving ou like Den Pe a 3 ing and in the same dire sender, and an ind 15 is loft y mt he wish he has written his mus sender record’ SOC recy tapped for is are se r the message mssary, andany kind Chitirse jus As it soconn almost short.-ha with « tabis adjacent table a pet the same a eproducing instant has | only } nin | tant | a Rp——— No — a" -- —-— — By another diwetrieal machine the spesd nnd direction of a ship are Indiented. This instrument is connected with the compass in such a manner as a continnous chart for exch fifteen minutes of may have taken place in the course, In submarine telsgraphy the Commercial Cable Company make a very instructive and intoresting display, After the several fails ures of 18067, 1858 and 1865 of the attempt to connect Europe and Ameriea by cable, sues cons was achieved In 1866, electrical communication has remained une broken between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, and submarine telegraphs have multiplied, until now the different lines of the gloves have an aggregates length of 139.600 miles, The Atlantic Ocean ont spanned be tan po hila HE continuous use, The Commercial Cable Company's system is composed of two main cables from Cape Canso in Northeastern Nova Beotin to Waterville on the southwest Oust of Ireland, From the latter port the cable is In'd to Bristol, with aerial lines to the ohiet cities of England, Wales and Seotiand, ard another to Havre with an underground line to Paris, At the American end a double { fove cable rang from Cape Canso to Rook por Mass, with aerial lines to Boston and New York, and a second cable ranning direct from Canso to New York, The efMieacy of { the last line was well demonstrated during the blizzard of 1888, when it was the only | one open from New York to the outer world, | and messages to Boston and other places | Were transmitted by way of London. The total length of cables operated by this come pany is 6035 nautical miles, In the ext hit { here the wholes process of transmitting messages between EB shown, An artificial | ertios Atlanti | 8ignals an nlone Ix at pres. 1 . ahh MAME rd of the real if thro recording instrun and occupy the samme ie of the pavili ide of the At One ors are permitte hes through hing their : vod n r i 3 © operation, CRTHIMNS Are re Heht } TORTAL OF THE LI miliar writing points ich aaperd telegraph, and it is g considerably Hon tions might be cond Wit y separsisd places ana contra and exchanged without their eon ng to. gether, or minate insira tions be given to bankers or brokers without any room for misunderstanding or dispute, In the north gallery another recent and clever appiication of electricity fs shown by its use in cooking Electrical ovens, models of convenienocs and neatness, are ex. hibited, They are made of wood, Hued with asheston to prevent radiation of heat, and are lighted inside by an incandescent Insmp. The temperature of the oven is Indicated by a thermometer, and a large mica-colored door shows the progress of the cocking within Wires offecing resistance to the Prassage of the electric current, and thus producing the heat, are disposed in the oven, and switches placed at different points enable one to ap- py the hoat wherever desired, If a turkey roasting more rapidly on one side than on another, instead of taking it out and turning it about, a second switeh Is closed and the temperature is raised as required. All sorts of utensils ure provided with attachments through which a current may be passed | coffen is bolled and steaks are grilled with electricity ; fAatirons have small silk-coy- ered copper wires fastencd at the back so that a high and even heat is maintained at the bottom, while the top, made of a non heat-conducting substances, remains quite cool. In faet, conditions seem so changed that the kitchens becomes almost a parior and cooking a pastime, In this display there are also registers from which rooms may be electrically heated, In the south gallery chickens are hatehed In electric lneubators, and the records of othey processes, or even of the maternal ben, ave sompletely broken, Wires are lod throvgh com ments where, by means of switches and thermostadts, an atmolately uniform temperature is maintained through. aut the period of Incubation, The time is lowered from twenty-one to ninetesn days, and almost avery agg produces a lusty ohiok, Another contrivance is an slectrio sloth. cutting machine, This is for ues in clothing manufacturers’ shops, and # is said 10 save une-hall of the Inbor while giving better results than are obtained by any other method, it does its work with the groentest tase and precision, and costs for motive power loss than 85 month, An wleotrie boot This In rt vention in many either ¢ ne or Hie sure t domain toted between parties in ¥ ON their a - . : ERT TT ine, In one of the cases the Vato. af tigi. is shown by cont & Moves ver ol 1863 with th roach | the Negotin- | RAL = BUILDIXe irrent at that piace sistance, and by dividing thes | remains by the number of ohms pe FEBOT pince of Injury i known extraordinary spood in One Roe ihe hadi od of cabling are recorded mentioned in which | instructions were sent to London broke | the business done, and answer recoived, within sis minutes SAS was sent Lo { tained in forty | conjectured, wee je rs, all In another case a mes. London and an answer ob “five seconds, This, as may be ie the fastest time on record In all quarters of the Electricity Buil ling are new and astonishing uses to which the | suble Auid ts put, sometimes when only the | slightest foros is desired, at others whens » mighty and irresistible power is applied, There are splendid exhibits showing the ap plioation of slectrielty to mining, | Leavingthis building, one watohes the sles. fine trains glide niong the intramneal road, or the aleatrio launches dart silent and smoke ives about the beautiful lagoons ; tarning city~wards, he sees Chicago coverad by the lowering impenetrable pall of smoke belebed from myriad chimneys, asd wonders when the equivalent of Hight and host will be gen. erated at the big coal flelds and waterfalls and sent brosdoast throughout the when cleanliness and quiet shall prevail, NOVEL MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT, The most novel musioal programmes yo given at the Fair attracted a large audience to Fostival Hall, Wagnerian music, Irish ig dances by pipers and the rade tomtom wating by Oriental tribes followed in rapid succession until the audioncy was dased, This was one of the popular attractions ar ranged hy the special committee to inoresse the attendanos at the Exposition, The first nuraber on t TORTAMInS was “Tannhuuser,” by the Infantry Band of aGorman Village. This was owed rish melodies singers from Lady Abe an Irish oh Then thers was “gods ling” by the Bwiss mountain trio, Fifteen Javanese musicians beat by oharne teristic songs and dances by the Indian chiets and squaws of the Plalsance, The grand concluding feature was a dlcine song sad PEREIA AT THE PAIR, The Imperial Poralan section in the Agrk eiitammi fiding bas been opened to the public " the Commissioners without cores mony, T\ estibjocte of the Rhah have togethor a magnifioont display of tapes: Fags, carpets, art wares in brass and and wnolert modsry) aptind chased inlaid Nh ith rage EEE i —————— not to interfere with jig | movements, ind at the same time to show the distance traversed and avy variation that | Binee that year | land fo —————— | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, Maxy fron wills in and near Pittsburg, | Penn. , havo resumed operations, Mus, Suaxw, charged with the murder of her son, was soquitted at Trenton, N. J, Jexxix Wanox and Minnie Bplans, aged twelve, of New Haven, Conn., wers drown + fu the Quinepine River while bathing. They had waded out beyond thelr depth, Onpens were issued to shut down the Ed. | gar Thomson Bteel Works, at Braddock, | Penn, because of lack of orders, Wireiax Goss, while confined in the Mar. tinsburg (Penn.) jail for drunkenness, set fire to the cell in which he was confined and wis burned to death, The lockup was #n- i tirale dostraved Rurmunrexpeer Raxnonx snd other old Old Colony Rallroad oMeinls were sentenond tos month's imprisonment in the House of Correction for rioting st Abington, Mass Tur police broke up two anarchistic moet. ings in New York City, at one of which, in a synagogue, Incendiary speeches were mads The Industsous unemp re generally orderly and measures for thelr rellet were pushed forward, Brave Bask Sevremisrexoesr Presrox's statement the affairs of the suspended ¢ Madison Bquare Bank, of New York Oits shows that the capital impaired In $971,812.08, and that the loss to stockhiders nmounts to $5604.512.08, A Lanoe mesting in favor sliver and against the reponl of the “Sherman act” was held in ( voper Union, New York City. of wk in nt South and West, A capix 8 miles north of Mo., was destroyed by fire, It was oe by an old colored woman and The old woman and was burned to ao ¢ old child was so badly burns three hours later, and one old, was believed to haw EM. Dx missing He was President Trust Company of Slou failed, Marion, examin and is {| the ye Charleston pg several sma ehifidren Wak a paralyti rise a f Ma ¥ALDROX, ¢ Donaldson has ably in Mex f at least 26 smount Excessive rains have | { Mississips Mayor of Brunsw o that eit w fever Oto ris Tus Vi Hen Were shared vo ithe Chortew Nati were shot by ran #oniing estlie, New 3 Y reinia elobrated at Govenxon Boi Democrats Des Moines pr Wesrenx mine silve Taene is a fa Texas, and ov the ban Washington, MK $4 " Nur free dally ¥ in ihe } has resigned. and A sistant Superintendent 10 the yaran ¥. ery Untras Department to all 8g ROId over the : iassen practically § availiable Troasy Tex Hon, Minister and Special Comm isnt wall, arrived in Washingt Rhorehan After & brie Biate Deg art ment have boen jee ! mons James H. B t. of Georgia, ner to Hae 2 and went to the ’ . i reat he went to the ment, had an inter Gireshiag 4 in Mr. B and referred all wh Greahan ’ 1 4 & disappeared Ine President sent pointment of Josh be Assistant + A. Maury Tux President has ag proved Giution making mediate appropriation for paym Senators and men { the H resetiiatlves the avaliable the n Nit ros in t milage 1 p— se of § it | SECRETARY of 5600 { as is int India Reservation orican Asphalt Company Fux ofMioial o oY ¢ made Mn the Bering Sea Board of Arbitration has bee reosived af the State Departament Ir Hon, John W. Foster, agent of ths States at Paris, Ru ved the le Lo ACTOS he Uintah {the decisl n the Forelgn, Trxne was anti-French rioting in Italy the French Embassy in Rome was attacked. The diplomatic world of Europe is anxious ly watching the developments of she trou bles between France and Italy which are growing out of the Alguss-Mortes riota Croreas in St, Petersburg is epldemie There is no emigration from M4 Petersburg The Russian authorities do not allow emi grants to pass out thal way Ix the French elections the Repuldicans | there will be | have gained eixty-thres seats rebaliots in 150 districts, party has melted away. The socialists have made substantial gained, but a saMeient number of liberals and opportuniss have beet returned to make a moderate Govera- ment possible, Tux steamtug Doroas, with the barge Etta Stewart in tow, coal Iadog, from Evdney for Halifax, Nova Scotia, was wrecked nest The monarehisal Threa Fathom Harbor, and all hands, twelve | : the city from fear of yellow fever in number, were lost, Lares French election returns show that 815 Republicans, 30 Socialists and Socialist Radisale, 18 “Conservatours Rallies” and 34 Conservatives have been elected. Second ballots will be necessary In 17% distriots, i Lomo Dosmavex's cutter Valkyrie, the | challenger for the America's Cup, salled | from Southampton for the United States, Two cases of cholera have accurred in Rot. tordam ; there is a conse In Rio Janeiro, with | twenlpdwo tases in Sao Paulo, Brasil: | Turkey has established quarantine agains | Russian ports, Tur Duke of Baxe-Coburg and Gotha is dead ; the Duke of Edinburgh has taken the oath as his puccessor, Tre Duke of Edinburgh has resigned his position as British Admiral owing to his ao. oeptance of the Coburg Duchy, Vent were 171 now onses of cholera in Moscow, Russia: (WO Bow oases wore ro. ported the suburis of Berlin and two in | prio, United | | also, disabled or has thrilling stories 10 tell of the | tase of the sector, PIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. The Senate, 100m Day. Mr, Jefler offered a subsiitals | for the bill to increase National bank eireu | 188100, mes Mr. Btowart offernd x resolution, | which was agreed to, eallitig on (he Beore. tary of the Treasury for a stasement as tothe ver bullion purchased In July, “G5 with and as to Lhe sliver bullion ofered for sale in the month, with the prices asked Mr. Morrill spoke in flavor of ARUN ( {the ” Mr, a joint h was rolorred to the Pi thon of the offioer repeal of the purchas THAN aot ry Da resoiation, whi Committee, for the of all vern ment above 1000 Mr the Finance Committ es floune her Pefler introdueed salaries snd omployes Chairman of then at 12.25, took the rosy A 3¢ Y or h oes and aldAvisnnd bi. f the Wl reported by Lr purchase of sily continued by Mr. Dy tl and by Mr. Pain port of the bill 12vn Dav, Mr, Pasco zuv stitute to Mr, Vest's bs the ratio of 20 to 1 by Mr, Peller inquiri Treasury as to the o 10 pay the cheeks of thelr and an i to rele er bullion besa in refusing ot wing he hour exp | _ J NM Payne bt Mes Mr, Ring i ver a Le. the izing the LATER NEWS, A camp [ apparent poisoning "rom ealing eras, resulting in ur deal he was covered In Jersey Cir, N. J... the victims hee ing Mr. Annie Augustus Hassle ored, Lewis, Carolin Coline John Morse, col the rk wen Evinexces of rand Bareau of Weighers and Gauges City, wore discovered Ly the Commission, extensive in New m HB Cus Tun known dead of the great storm ou the | second day after, numberad nearly fifty pore sont and the missing were fully that number Each ship coming to port is sillier storm, Avr the inhabitants of Prusswick. Ga.. except about S00, wre reported to have hit Ar Ran Francisco, Cal, the jury in the MB Curtis, ‘Sam’! of Posen,” for the murder of Policeman Grant, returned a verdict of acquittal, Bexaror Hire, of New York, argued in fa. | vor of the repeal of the Berman law and doe elared bowas in favor of! tree coinage of silver at & smaller ratio thun sixteen 10 one, a Coxmixon, of New York, Chairman of the House Committers om Naval Affaire, bas organised Bis committer, J. CO Baumer, who served with Seoretary Herbert while Chairman of the committes, was appoimed Clerk, . Tuenr was continued fighting batwosn strikers and troops in Naples, Italy, Tux report stage of the Home Tale Will we closuarad in the British House of Commons , olghtorn amendments propose by John Horley wore enrvied by thirty-eight majority, A raTar cane of Asiatic cholera Is reported at Hull Bagland douths oocur duly in Ant. ) din —— sh cri. } x
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