r IN » 3 5 Bi a The puiitical situation in Europe gontinuesto grow darker, The Japanese eat more fish thai any other people in the world. With them moat eating is a foreign innova. tion, confined to the rich, or rather to those rich people who prefer it to the National diet. The farmer who is feeding his wheat to his horses should, in the opinion of the hold © both his wheat and his horses until he digests the fact that wheat will be the world's markets during the year ahead of us, Courier-Journal, wheat in The new warships are a credit to the Nation. Recently the Philadel- phias made the run from Rio deJaneiro to Callao, a distance of 5000 miles, in twenty days and eighteen hours, with- This was a speed of 242 miles a day and a out stopping anywhere for coal. continuous run of twenty days one without stopping at coaling sta- tion. any A poor old man, who Ones wis well-to-do merchant in Wiscons likewise was of much State reno: a public speaker of force and persua siveness, has been taken to house in Baraboo, weak poverty-stricken, and past eight “The poorhouse 18 hospital of age, when all other friends fail’ 15 comment of the New York limes Doctor J. T. B yd, of Indian spol has added his voice to that of ant Totten, and declares that the end of the of his theory Lienten. world is at hand In Chronological Society noted scientific men, has the same conclusions as the by Lieutenant Tot that all prophecy the date of final ar 3 HORI sIDAsLUD. assumed in this country may be gained, New Orleans Picayune, that there United States uy declares the from the fact are in the ipward of 50,000 hotels, exclusive of what may properly be termed inns and taverns, and what commonly known as apartment-hon Intter stances conducted although the are in Many } } ; } R88 DOTEIs, In that they have a common kitchen and din ing-room. Deer and bears are reported to be more the woods” of Oxford Co inty, Maine, plentiful now in Horeat than at any other time during the present i MIR extend, 10» generation. These wi belt from from to six miles Dixfield trodden four wide, the is of Northern Maine a has seld 0 AWAY iD int un wilderne and mn of the are visited by the Lake the is, and | sted, : Driven hunt Ran WOO there mols The New York the #pleer Ne ws observes surgeons have cut ont bloo i, an i will, it one hi r known al the office not a vi eased and very tion to remove it Mauy writer in Chambers's Miscellany con splenectomy. gm tended that the spleen was the mann factory of the white blood corpuscles If that were so, the veins and arteries would have soon faded in in patient, Athlete Bhort, of Yonkers Are the spleen and the vermiform appendix, the red corpuscles in vividness the which are declared to be useless, left as hints of the evolntionary process? Was man differently constitated when they were useful to him, instead of Who can being as now unnecessary ? my? George Vanderbilt is one of nature's He is the of any of the enormously wealthy men of New York. He must be worth yt least 835,000,000, but he might walk the length of the entire eity without being recognized by half a dozen per. sons. He has never been prominent inany public movement. He has never attended » public funetion where erowda of people congregate, and when he goes to the theatre or to the opera he hides himself in the rear of a box, says the New York Herald, Vanderbilt has many fade queer freaks, least known Young First of all he is a bookworm and is in a way a weman-hater. Formerly he was rated as being, next io John Jacob Astor, the wealthiest young bachelor in the Uni. tod States, having $1,000,000 in his own right and control for every past year of his life. Now, as John Jacob Astor in a husband and father, George Vanderbilt stands at the head of his class alone, {| Canada, BIO, 360 Years, { only 125 came out alive. The creation of money order offices in the small postoflices is advoeated by the Springfield (Mass) Union on the ground that such offices would greatly facilitate the transaction of business in rural neighborhoods. A business man of Caunda, of an ens established nu Lake, steamer which terprising nature, has “floating bank” Kootenai It on iE] im n f journeys from place to place along the lake ; thus enabling its owner to sup- ply the inhabitants of the lake villages a“ . .. 4 » tia Wilh BOKER aviation, Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes that the largest elm he ever saw Oxford, tw nty-five BAYH Wns measured England, and feet in in circumference, There was an elm of abont the same size in Springfield, Mass, , Years The Doctor estimates the life of some 200 and be the American elm at between If any survive to 300 it 1s as wrecks, liable the years, he thinks, to go to piece in first heavy storm, of greats bonanza ranch The method harvesting wheat on the kotas is gn Agricultural ( the World's Fair the sald to have 1 rie Ommissioner ap 640 150 with part rapid work capital, notes the Statistics made ing of the Nat Underwriter taking no see and that they j snunally to the death losses, Though m with thirty-two t of provided for, as Persia appears had kis The The his Majesty suffered from a decayed tooth and had to subjects offer has just tracted. phenomend plained. first time Eastern number of to ten thou ag thus supply fi whenever he little presents the glow of fri of his having an laimed by parts presents begin idertaken an. Fy ¥i of the andia, in heart Ihe Preiiminary sure Ihe lin Egypt, the Soudan, been made } He region of § great lakes, and the East Africa Com- pany's territory, German East Africa, the Portugnese possessions, Mashons land, Khama's country, Bechuanaland, State the, Transvaal, the Orange Free and Cape Colony. Contracts have I already beer signed for constructing half the dis being rapidly the line for more than tance, and work is pushed, sc that the whole is expected to be in working order early next year, The Atlanta Congressman Constitution of vivid recol- a he Browius, Pennsyl- vanin, is a man who has a lection of his experiencs during the war. He came near losing his life in the fight Pickett's forces at CGireen Plaine. He was one of the 300 with men who charged across a wheat field, a third of a mile in width upon a Con. | federate rifle pit and of the number The Confed- erates waited until the storming party | was within twenty-five yards of the pit and then they opened deadly fire, he tells, nineteen, Brosius, who was a boy of slopped to pick up a wounded comrade, and as he did so a rifle ball pierced his shoulder, shat tering the blade and making bim a evipple for life, He still carries a mememto of that day in the shape of a pocket diary, which he wore in his vest. There is the mark of a bullet in it that would have gone through the young soldier's heart if it had not beex stopped by the book. | | display, GOLD NUGGETS AND METEOR- | ITES AT THE FAIR. Fac-Similes of Huge Chunks of the Precious Metal Worth Many Thou | sands of Dollars Meteorites ters of the World, For the benefit of Fair, has on exhibition a collection of fac- rads 10 gals lery. When the people come past and see the | shining chunks of what seems to be pure gold they stop to investigate, says the Record. Most of them overlook the card “Fac-Similes™ that shows the nature of the When they see the small signs, reading “Value #20000," they gasp at the thought of wealth concentrated In one spot. i hes they get out note-hooks and take the full deseription of every rich pleas case, And the des fons tell very esting stories of valuable discoveries, Apparently the department was unable to secure data from which to Ukstrate the his tory of the American gold flolds in this 1 ticular line, M if the specimens she are from Victoria, Austria, Australis rom the Siberian m Ww | of the such rij wn and ving fu 4 “ay arnt, Yietoria, enters of gold pro huge, ragge the cypress troes mg att and who found nn an are the best of ¢ wit} he exhi valges ranging fron in shape from the fantasti of the array nelderabils ard 1o realize pies of be } That is ben rather than on of meteorites and facsimile rites fr the Ward muse After a man bas seen them he Is ine to think eret lentifle ' itn. ined FALLEN METRORITRS that shooting stars are good things to dodge, One of these aerial wanderers from Chupa deros, in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, is aa big as one of the Java summer homes on the Plaisance, Ata romgh guess it might weight two or three tons, [ts outer surface is peamod and punctured with holes such as | one sees in broad when if ‘rises’ very mpidly, Tha holes doubtless owe thelr existence to Just such an escape of gas from the inside as marks the process of bread-making, that Mexican meteor when it broke loose and started for the earth he would have thought some heavenly farmer had tipped over a load of hay that had caught fireon the way down, Han Gregorio, which Is also in Chihuahua, sends a contribution that draws astronomers and mineralogists as & molasses barrel draws flies on a hot sammer day. It is an aloiost sot cone, and could easily be mistaken or a atic spgar-loaf painted black, Like the other meteorites it shows where the gar has bubbled out of the molten mass, leaving | the irregular holes that look Hike miniature voleano oraters, It weighs about a ton, Its shape i» attributed to the cushing »ffest of contact with the earth when i came hurling out of the sky, It struck on rosky forma. tion, fattening thy base end driving down the apex (nto the shape of a cons, just as bullets sometimes spread at the base and take a conieal outline, Mexico Las plenty of company in the me toor business, Cases are ranged all about the gients of the Louthern ble and pop. resent numerous States o this country, as woll an separated on old con. tinents, sends a small specimen , New From Various Quar- the uninitiated Chief | BkifY, of the Mining Department at the World's | came « Chiongo | i Hal | timid man had been in the neighborhood of DEPARTMENT OF MINES | Mexico, Kentucky, Arkansas, Fast | poe, Colorado are in company with {innd, East Indias snd Continental {In some cases are cross-section exhib of the meteorite, | { shown on laminated steel, such is | ns for gun barrels { muskailonge fish, while the one from Wichita { County, in the Rio Brazos region of Texas, | bears a card saying it was ones regarded and | cherished by the Comanches a8 an worship, object of The Indians thought that sines it ut of the sky and got into thelr sent to them A warning onmp direct by and token it must have been their deity to serve vi divine guidauce, MODEL wt The modnsl erected In oo is thus de High in the seription strange jeneath It on the rest back and { From inkirs XDAY 8 Bun HOOL Bt ny Be mination with the by the Chie air lots on fag to Stony Isl the dust joss ore ribed LO with and sidewalks dr nu HVE, thst oeaselossly forth e the Falr groun the snd Ww tion l parasiti then Is RIG mv nt the tion al snd was #30.000, : ir #108 ficiency is being he butlding terior with a ren terior Architecturally ire, although there suggest a Bunday-school reality, the building is a church whi be thrown open for a Sundarech inna few minutes either main auditorium are polygonal wings divided from it by siding partitions, Extending under the rear gallery is another section separated from the main room by sliding partitions Thus, when all the partitions are down, the andforium is the eonventional oblong shape, with a spacious gallery extending around three sides, In use, the partitions are ralsed, They | slide up and under the gallery seats, giving the main floor three times the seating capac. ity it had before the partitions were raised For Sunday-school work the aaditorium is used for the Intermediate department, the junior and senior departments are in th polygonal wings, and the primary departs | ment is under the rear gallery All these departments can be subdivided into class. rooms by curtains hung on brass | pended from the gallery, The gallery ftaoif can be used for classrooms if desired, This flexible arrangement throws the entire Sun dayschool into one body or divides it into | lassen, onch class having its own individual room when desired, the changes being made | in a few minutes, gradually taken uj ornamental arranged = a handecn iittle about it to church it strum “an yoorl of the On side of Every Sanday afteruoon, beginning at 8 | is held in the | {o'cloek, a Sundayschool | bullding, The pupils are adults, jor the Hunday-school is something of a normal | sohool order, It teaches teacher, The les. {son for the day is taught by some noted | worker, and is pri on | which are alo | | make people think, The libs | large enon and the states, halls and lobbies are broad, to | afford easy exit In ense of fire, Tolletrooms | ate prov for visitors as well as sobolars, {and to all appearances thers fo all that can | be desired fn the way of light and ale. The building will easily seat 1500, bit twice that number ean be accommodated, for there is noarcely a place under the roof that cannot bo seen from the piatfores, si I — . wr at. Port Townauds Washington: 1s 300 on doo & ceson, This Is a twenty per cent, decronse from last year, io * Tennes- Groene Europ. tn, | showing the poculine steel like stratification i Bome of the sections have | been polished, bringing out the figuring on | the metal which in some Instances jooks very much lke Damascus work and in others fs almost exactly identionl with the markings used The contribution from Babb's Mill, Green A Collection of | County, Tenn. , is n grotesque imitation of a rods sue. ¥ leafiots, upon ! tod something which is to | y between the two entrances, fy | 10 Le used as a reading-room, | | | | | | A Dummy Train Sent Out | TWO OF A BAND KILLED AND FOUR IN CUSTODY. From St, Mo., With Force of Men Inside A Battle in the Fx- press Car One Bandit Betrayy His Fellows, Joseph, " and Counell Bluffs Road folled a night attempt to rob one of its The Kansas City, Bt, of its passenger trains, killed two rot OL AT a atsaer DAMES A Rots fe The Ths ramen of those eaptured are Charles Fred- avg, x. a. Hurst, Henry and Wil Ham Carver j Train Xo, 31 fans p. m., and arrived elals of the road robbery Pr ee train ws Signin igs 2 DOs adil and a half miles from Bt, Jos dead are Fred Kohler and Hugo Engel, Gleltze as City at § Ri [& +! TRaTTI an = Tog f Avia Mw throes feet | the trails it was at A LETTER The BY CLEVELAND. President Explains His Position on Financial Matters, Northe : oY that f LH] { our people, 1 will not Snow joated in a ndition Phat in the Aegree Answer inhorsr or (sgmer in the United shrinkage in the purchasing loliar he has recaived for a full ME Wo work, or for a good 4d srs worth of the product of his toil niy. want mrrency 1 aracter that all kinds of doliars { equal purchasing power at home wef I Want 1 be of such a character as will t abroad wisdom and good fait) thus placing us upon a firm foundstion and credit among the Nations of the eartl pot of the nat rate our [I want our financial condition an MWS relating (0 our currency safe ar assuring, that those who have money epand and invest It In business and new snterprisos, instead of hoarding #. You cannot care fright by calling it foolish and inreasonable, and you cannot prevent the frightened man from hoarding his moneys | want good, sound and stable m hn condition of confidence that will keep - “Within the limite of what IT hve written Iam a friend of sfiver, but [ belay. its proper place in our currency oan only be fixed hy a read just ment of our currency lagl the insucuration of a consistent prehensive financial scheme ‘I think such a thing can only be entersd upon profitably and hopefully after the re. peal of the law, which is charged with all our financial woes, In the present state of the public mind this law sannot be built upon nor patohed in such A way as to relieve the situation, “I am therefore opposed to the free and anlimited colnage of sliver by this country will MY, and | alone and independently, and {am In favor of the immediate and unconditional I of the purohasing clause of the so.eallnd Sher. man ‘aw “1 confess | mm astonished by the oppo. sition in the Banate to such prompt astion as would relieve the present unfortunate situs. Hon, it dally prayer Is that the delay coon. sloned by sush opposition may not be the cause of plunging the country into deeper depression than I have yet known, and that the Demooratio party may not te justly held rismponsible for such a catastrophe, Yours vary traly, Groves Creveuisn,™ I . PREstoRN? arias, of Mexico, In Kia referred TRAIN ROBBERS TRAPPED. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States, Tnexe is great excitement around New | Canaan, Conn,, over the discovery of gold in mying the Wod, A xvsner of prominent citizens of New York Oity met Mayor Ghiroy in his office by request, and after & full discussion of the matter, it was decided fo have a Manhattan iny at the Chicago Fair. October 21 was the day agreed on JW urer of faulted in logs DD. RB enste, | BAF 1arryic quantities on farm of Beth © f Treas hine Wasupuny, of Boston, Mass the Old Colony Rallrosd, the de the sum of $66,000 the Bian CREVFRLLER, bought land ara Ol South and West, ih } rd af Washington. » 1” ispatched by the 1 vessels whit ir L) in sary rise repealing 1 » a sale and al ne areas y Nel! Melani Chihual City. X. J e, ut Barbados Thomas Keefe riney Hixson IERODS crank. & white man abo twenty-eight years of age found his way int the lower regions of the White House, He was in search of President Cleveland He threatened to seize upon the Presidentis chair by fair means or foul, and tried ¢ gecure a pistol Snonevany Heanor has issued a genera) order complimenting those in the naval ser vice and civilians stationed at the Port I Naval Station. South Carolina, for their de volion 10 dusty during the late hurricane, va Foreign, SIXTY lives were Jost by the burning of the Russian steamer, Alphonse Jeeveoke, A rorMiDABLE Anarchist plot coverad by the Austrian police, arvests were made, me insargents (a the Argentine Republi aptured the elity of Rosario a<1 foroed the Nutional troops to retrent Abminst MeLio's leet renewed the hom bardment of Rio Janeiro, Brazil, doing seri damage dis many wae and ous Tue people of St. Paull, a suburb of Han burg, Germany, attacked a sanitary corpse and killed a policeman ; there were five new onsen Of cholera, with one death. st Ham. burg : a death was reported In England | eholers Is ravaging the Eastern shore of the Persian Guilt, Reronts of damage done by the floods al Gltu, Japan, state that 652 houses were swept away, 14.025 houses were flooded, 238 pects were killed and 30,201 rendered home. ee Avorn advance in the price of soxl was made in London | 20,006 women and children Aro on the verge of starvation as a result of the miner’ strike, Ma Grapstonse made a bargh, attacking the Britssh House for rejecting the Home Rule Will Tur ofMosrs and erews boats which attacked the Argent ment naval were o onal { custody, and the will be shot as a trator,
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