IN ————" arrive far ahead of the two-minute trotter, observes the New York Re- order. Some one has figured that there are so many railway lines, steam, elevated, eable and horse cars in New York City | playing war that the New York Teles that a person may ride for six hours at a total cost of fifty ceuts, According to an election return just made to the British Parliament, there | are 6,220,120 voters in the United Kingdom. There were Irelend and 619,091 in Scotland. F. P. Loomis, formerly says that from an investigation he made he finds about 95,000 Americans | visit Europe every year, and that they spend about $100,000,000 annually abroad. Cardinal Gibbons has rechristened Chicago with the title “Thaumatopolis,” wonder city. classie the The appellation is deserved, but the New York World thinks it will hardly displace that of *‘the windy city" in | I 3 J popular parlance. The name of Gay Head, applied to a famous promontory of the Massachu- setts what it seems to mean, and is peculiarly ap coast, means exactly provriate. The headland, as seen from the sea, is gay with many colors run ning in strata, the result of chemical qualities in the earth of the cliff. A like variety of color is presented by many rocky islets and headlands in the Bound opposite Pelham Bay Park. The Woman's Library at Chicago contains 7000 volumes in sixteen lan- guages and twenty-three repress nts countries. It is to be placed in the Build. ing, which is to be erected in Chicago x permanent Woman's Memorial and will form a nucleus for the eollec tion of the literary work of women in the through eatalogue soon to be issued, a complete future, as well as, its bibliography of women’s writings 1 p to the present time. There Arms in Europe are 22,000,000 soldiers in If all Long Island were a drill-gron ecalenlates the New York big enough for n i, Recorder, it wouldn't be ld maneuvres If they were to march in a street pa- rade, files ten take the line of 2000 miles 100 days to of abreast, pass a given point at fair marching In Indian file rid. Hudson a mile of its length. speed. r would reac around the w would drink the There has been a remarkable revival of interest in the “sbandoned farms" of New En closed their doors. many mills nd since so A large number made to the Board of of applications have been Massachusetts State Agri. calture for its descriptive catalogue of the abandoned farms of that State. It who are out of is believed that some of the men work think of taking up farming as a mesns of livelihood “But will a mechanic be a successful the New York Tri- farmer?” queries bune, Now dog power of the United States shall comes the suggestion that the be utilized for draught purposes, as it is in that there are 7,000,000 dogs in this country, Belgium. A writer estimates and then figures out their aggregate pulling capacity. The idea may be new as to dogs, but the New York News recalls that humorist John Phoenix suggested the utilization of éat power more than forty years ago His plan was to ran sewing machines by eat power. The be placed in harness connected with motive works. A suspended just beyond the cat's reach cat was to mouse was to he The cat's jumping for the mouse would propel the machine, Says the Boston Cultivator: There is n deficiency of 34,000,000 bushels in the German rye erop this year, and this comes with a deficiency of 18,. 000,000 bushels of wheat, Ry» bread is the staple food of a large part of the German people. They prefer it to wheaten bread when they ean get both, Owing to tLe tariff war with Rassia importations of rye from that country ere out of, 1‘ is Russian rye that has heretofore supplied the deficiencies of what Germany requires, There is sure to be a large demand for all the rye American farmers ean produce daring the coming twelve months. It is ao erop much less exhaustive than is cheat. It can be sown Ister in the fall, and if fertilized with mineral owsuvres it responds to liberal treat ment quite ws frecly as does wheat, (n many places the demand for rye ftraw makes the crop worth growing lor the straw alone, The two-minute bicycle promises to 4,502,482 in | England, 270,276 in Wales, 747,271 in | | Club,” | skulls are seen, United | States Consul at St. Etienne, France, | j : | great truth when it says that ‘‘it seems of | it would | Bince the beginning of the century France has fallen from the second to the fourth place in point of population among Eutopenn countries, Emperor William, of Germany, is keeping his soldiers so hard at work ping suggests gram they possibly might welcome the reality as a relief, _-> There is a club in Berlin ealled “The Giants," every member of which is six feet tall no member of which does anything for “Baldheaded where nothing but Vienna has a “Lazy Club,’ a living, and London a poliskied "he Medical News VOI008 n very strange that people will submit to the the thousand are outraged in order that indignities of noise-makers, A one or a few may possibly be benefited or relieved of a trifling expense, The New York ; chool Journal pub- of gre at biographical of You may or chapter of the the past four centuries. lishes a sketches teachers learn that to Woman's name in may not be surprised there is not a he list, although there have been women educators quite as distinguished in that particular line as Thomas Jeffer- son was, to say the least, and he has a ace among the number, prominent pl ms to the New of There ses York News be an to prevalent in t epidemio his country at ent time, fo to pick it 18 impossible up a newspaper without finding some ease in wh trust has been of either by the treasurers LIGA, I'he Se emezzien private f{ or shortages, as they Are someti : : 2 less harshly called, in the of ATe cases the result of reckle ture on the part of the defanlt Regis The w wndering St. who are found in camps and vy on both sides the St. Lawrence, retain their own language, most of them speak English an French. their of them They address another and beasts horses in the Indian cording t The and shapeless i men are fat and idle, after the m 7 of savage males brought un izing influences, California co-o 1wown as “The Atl Edward Atkins last to have a trial, Its Kern C Sq UAre perative i i of be near Poso, of ten gation has been secured in a tract miles paid down for 18 to be pr wpeot is , hat the Fran niner professes to have seen yf th No ives an account ms and hopes of the colonists, to be barred Women are to be admitted tom ship, and the promise of wages as high as those them colony paid to men is held ont to to the Payments for all services and as an inducement join exchange of commodities will be made by means of a system of eredits given at the conclusion of each day's work, A colonist who can show by his book that he has credits will be entitled to merchandise af ie colony store, Bkould he desire any article not in stock it will be the duty of the mer- chant to order the article and charge The profit will go to the common fund, which a reasonable price for it. the Board of Directors will control. A marked point of difference between this experiment and others is that in- dividual ownership of land will bo per- mitted, the community interest ex tending only to the products of the soil. The fands from the sale of crops will go into the treasury until the regular dividends shall be declared. The articles of association explain that | employment will be furnished to every | colonists, and that the members will receive full value for actusl labor and no more, so that no one or more men in the community will be enabled to absorb the product of any number of his fellow-colonists. To meet the “anearned increase” problem the colonists propose to ‘divide the in- creased value of the lands on which colonists settle among the setusl workers every six montha.” One pro- vision in the articles prohibits sale of liquor within the colony. Schools will not be established, the children availing themselves of the instruction furnished by the State. The colonists are to take possession of their land next aud live in tents vatil they aro able to build houses with their, own bauds, THE FORESTRY BUILDING. WooDS OF THE WORLD ON! EXHIBITION AT THE FAIR. l Immense Blocks of Timber From South America and Asiatic Couns tries~=Native Trees Fromthe Vari« | ous States-<India’s Teak Woode- Largest Plank in the World. As the tree furnished the first shelter for Adam in the garden nf Eden and wood was the first material for man's handiwork, so the forest and its leafy inhabitants come in for a share of honor in the Exposition, says the Chicago Record. Thy Forestry Building on | {| tha lake front inthe southern part of the ! | grounds Is built of wood and is filled with | woods, It is wooden and it is wooded, Wood was the primitive material for bulld- ing and still possesses qualities which sclence and invention have not superseded but in some ways have glided. There are blocks of | wood immense in sige, hewn in primeval forests of Bouth America and even the far- | | sway shores of Burmah and Japan. Awmerios { bas come in for a good part of the forestry { exhibit and California with her big trees { leads her forty-three sister States, The | woody Northwestern States show that their forests have not all been hewn down. Huge | blocks, one side beautifully polished, with | the other side still in the rude state, with the | bark on, cedars, pines, ashes, onks and their hardy brethren together hold up the roof of the bullding and serve as columns for the { support of the porticos all about the vaild- ny Each Btate of the woodad belt has furnished three tall trees of thelr native kinds which stand together in the rows of columns Virginia has given her American linden, arbor vite and tullp maple; lows her | West ove tree is O a ye Is tacked seculns giabre,’ prefers the common Rows of ¥ sliy order and some for a pavilion, make Forestry bulldiog Siam, the South and Central A publics and France and Germany among the European Governments have contributed exhibitions to the display Teak is the wood of India most universally n Europe teak is used for the wond. and ir is, ali into some ished w iabwind, cen semblanes of used gs the material up the interior of the British In arranged imos Used, work of iron ships and war vessels, India tor the construction of houses, The | Bouth Arcot and Nello re districts of Barmah furnish the greatest supply of teak. There is a carved doorway in the Forestry Baild- | ing which is a marvel of the wood ecarver's | art. It was executed by a famous Mandalay carver, Maung Shevi Daing, and requirsd yeas of labor. The detall work is eiabo mite, The work was done under the diree. tion of the conservator of the forests of the eastern olrele of upper Burmah, and by him exLibited, The general autline and design of the doorway ia the same as those used in | the thrones and in different parts of Manda. lay palaces, The doorway is about nite feet { high, The earving in a trianguisr space over the door represents the eity of Manda | lay with the king and bis courtiers in the | foreground, The lowest tier shows the sity | walls with one of its seven-roofed gatewnys, about which stand the guardian “Nats” and | other mythologioal figures. On the tier | | above are enrved the king s ministers, while above all are the king and his queens in the | palace, : The oarving was dond in teak wood and | has a strong odor of sandal! oll, There are | tables and mantels delioately ssrved in ori | ental designs. One mantel in the exhibit is of shisham, redwood, walnat, book wool and teak wood, and was raised from the ruins of Vijianager, near Bellary, in Madras, The teak is 600 years old, and the shisham dates baek before the Christian ers. The mantel was designed by three Sikh earpen. ters, Aurman, Utam and Gopul, sabjects of | the Maharajah of Kapurthala, Here als® are slate of ebony from Indian forests and | dyoss and tanning substances used by the | indoos, A doorway of padouk wood forms | the sutrance to the British India exhibit, | The wood in solot Is between mahogany and i echotry, and in the beauty of the grain i= more perfect than either, The woods of Japan differ from those of | any other Nation, The grain of the trees ox. | hibited is excondingly fine, Among some of | the most beautiful and valued woods are the | flo-masa and saghmokn, The “o.maes in | straight-grained and hard, while the sag. moka bas a beautiful wavy grain and tesofter than the ito.masa, The yearly rings of the sugh-moku form In saves, aod the wood fs furnish a purplish red wool, + whioh takes a Iautitul | oruamental pos | make joe cream by machinery, stocks of bamboo shown range In diameter from half-inch 16 one foot and from five feet In length to over 160 feet, Eaisums, noted for its bamboo, furnishes the largest part of the display, Hpocial varieties are used for spoolal purposes by the Japanese, ‘The yushio-tautsi ji is knotty and is used for the #15 the oha-shitsa, or ceres monial tea-room, of the Japanese mansion, The lotus wood, which grows in all parts of Japan, bat is found in the greatest quantitios in the central part of the main island, is used for the ornaments! posts of the toko, or place of honor, in the Japaness parior, On the south poreh of the Forestry Buildin isn mahogany lag thirty-one fect long an forty-two Inches square, the largest slab of mahogany in the world, It was brought from the mahogany forests of Mexico Orsgon's lumber men nave built a house inthe space allotted to them out of thirty five varieties of native woods on a blook from 6 tide land spruce tree which stood sixteen foet in diameter at the butt, was 805 feet high and 800 years old, The block on ex. hibition was mt twontv.fiva fest fram tha butt and is nine feet nine inches in diameter, Among the huge logs in the building is a Douglass fir saw log from Washington, which Is twenty-four feet long, seven feet in diam. eter and cortains 7400 foot of lumber, The largest plank in the world was eut from a California redwood tree in Humboldt County, and is sixteen foot, five inches long, twelve feet nine inches wide and five inches thick. It is highly polished, Cubs and Trinidad have large displays of native woods, | COLLECTING BOUYENIRS IN MACHINERY HALL, One thing in the bullding (Machinery Hall) which seems to have an abiding inter est for the crowds is the pavilion where they Not that there Is anything wonderful in the process, Perhaps it is because so many people are ac- customed to the old-fashioned way —that is, stirring the mixture in a erock, putting the lea ln a grain sack and beating it with the fiat of an ax, afterward filling It in around the can with handfuls of salt, aud finally Rrinding on a weary handle until! some ons Bays Rt is frozen and ready to be packed | CL ——— A fe —— ed Steg - i Hage pM TT hitman — * A taste, Where hh breathless Pinos low mbes irr . and whe r a Bower his has man ls the for he will nes VEnIrs seeker, qu demire rattling a high spead, pon thread of the Exposition badge had a picture of Christopher Columbus and some fan ry letter. ing in red and blue And people were buy. ing theses badges as they came hot from the looms ity people—women in the malo a knitting machine the making of a SOUYeRirs were A STREET IN CAIRO, MIDWAY PLAIRANCE, offered, but across the aisle was a chatterd inachine which lay hold of a piece of straight wire and twisted it Into a corkscrew, with a ring at the top to hook the fager through, At some of the booths they were giving away pleture cards, aluminum medals and Japan one fans, Tuess did not seem as attractive 10 the average drift of sight-soes as the wr hand-tills printed an the fret pros ever In New Hampshire, The rickety old veteran squespes out two hand-bile at ssch Impress | DISASTER IN A MINE TWENTY-EIGHT IRON MINERS | DROWNED IN MICHIGAN, A River Burst Through the Roof of | Of Forty Six Men Their Tunnel Only Fighteen Escaped the Wild Rush of Water -A Calamity Ex pected for Years. With a terrific rush the water of the Michigamme River broke through = weakened by mining into the Mansfield Mine six miles from Crystal Falls, Mich,, Letwoen 0 and 10 o'clock at night, drowning twenty. elght men who were at work bed directly under the eave-in, There were forty-six men in the mins when the aceldent occurred, but eighteen of them, who were working in the lower levels, managed to escaps, The names of the | drowned are : Bam Peters, married ; James married ; W. H. Plerce, Pohl, married ; Ole Carson, Kohls, married : Swan Johnson, rington, Frank Rocko, Al Joh Peter John Btrongman, married ; Charles Mike Hur. Torresani, Frank n, Bamuel Johnson, Bhellimo Zndra, Furry, Nisolo Foutani, John Regula, Holmstrum, Ross Fortimato, John Kirsche, John Warner, John Arcan rly, Aug ust Cologna, Vigilis Zeadra, John Randala, Oscar Landquist, Anto Steffanc, OO. Con stant], Celesti Negri, None of the bodies have been re and itis od it will vert the channel of the red, When the night shift went on d noticed that o nine than the men at the koep the “drifts utes alter 9.1 overpowering felt the avalan sovered, be neo y 10 di river bel: ey can To re 1h be mone ity It was re walter was going into the but Bo alarm was feit by pumps froe, as they dpudden was a loud report and sh the hore of mised vi } ’ i « gan, Ives wr S600 0 rn — UNCLE SAM'S PAY ROLL, The Total of Salaries inthe Executive Departments is $13,364,100, 1 a partial report , the President the #9000 wt ve 1 salary eo. Prosident salaries, Exes Depart ment 620 Dapart yi Department of the Treasury £3. 369 08 Posto am Department of Justice .e ' "19 ie BRATION, » Department 655 salaries, $774. 108 salaries, $167. Department of the £260,770 Department of tae Interior $4,150 454. Department of $411,830, Department of 020 Civil 36,400 Fish Commission 167 salaries, $172,120 Inter State Commerce Commission, 6 wal aries, $41,000, Under Smithsonian Institution «The salarios or compensation of all necessary employss on account of the Natioual Museum, Bareau of International Exchange, North Amerioan * Ethnology, National Zoologloal Park, and the Astro-Physieal Ob- servatory are provided for in general ap propristions, without specifying numbers or amounts, Governinent salaries, £15,100, Library of Congress Thirty salaries, $43. Navy 21% salaries 8537 salaries Agriculture 323 salaries, - Labor--75 salaries, #101 Service Commission 22 sai. ries Printing OfMos — Seven | 800 District of Columbia One thousand nine hundred and sixteen salaries, $1,562 150, Grand total. 818.864 198 ————— TREASURY STATEMENT. | & Falling Off in Recelpts and an Ine crease In Expenditures, The United States Treasury Department ? i i : ii i: BE il : : married ; Joe | i ment of Rio Janiero THE NEWB EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States, Ar New York City, ths fury in the case of Frank Ellison, charged with bruts iy beting Broker Henriques, brought in 5 verdict of assault In the second degree i fence, which carries with it a penalty lenst five years’ imprisonment, and second ¢ of ut Turnry was 6 Inhor riot in A non-union shoemakers Lelng strikers Carnamive Froovuary, wile Fitzgerald and sister of Polies In Laughlin, in New York ( ity the wife of Polleoman James Vonrsall she charged with having ippl ber husband's affections. shot nted I'ne international ericket mateh delphbia, Penn. , was won by the hor who defeated the Australisns by runs y Hainnwiw Vuorw & Oa turers, and allied in New York City, A nero of thirty-five valuat w owned by Philip Rineman, while crossing the rajiroad tracks st Buttonwood, Penn. ¥ slruck by a train and eleven nsiantly killed, The loss will Se firmns made au » ie Jersey » LL OURY Prince Ruporen Pavrry Ferdinand Leopold Ps burg, Hungary, killed himself a. 3 About four years ago ( fell in love and married a I against his peoples wishes, herited Owisa to a mistake of the pil the new cruiser Monty or the navy, that vessel sndon, Conn Agen that will po efinitel A stator of Alexander ‘ Ha Hamiltor niiton ( Washington. ve Hesor Yen ager ) RY 6S u Tt rihe irrent fiscal year ie State Department bas beer t Mey Hou act with ot {ay the Senate itive sess) ue Secretary of "tate has re ia pateh rom Mr. Fishback, Secretary «f the United States Legation in the Argentine Re- Jrubile, saying that the tio: has sandal and the country is at peas in exe jos revo Onpens have been sent by the Nary De jan ment to Rear Admiral Belknap st New ondon, ( directing him to send out the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius on the un que and nasgardous duty of blowing up fourteen derelict vessels that endanger navigation, onn., Foreign. Tur Golden Dragon, a hotel at Konigewir- ter, a resort of Rhine tourists, collapsed, | killing seven persons, MuLro renewed the bombard. Twenty persons were killed in the firing on Nictheroy, and there is danger of a general aprising in Brasil, ADMIRAL | where there js great saffering on socount of a poarcity of provisions Tux rebellion in the Argentine Republio is reported to be entirely suppressed A ProMIxexT merchant of Kazan, Russia, Novoshiloff by name, has boon found guilty | of wholesale murder and sentenced to hard labor for life in Siberia, He killed his parents, three spectators, his wile and his wile s parents in order to secure their prop erty. Tuene were 400 cases of cholera, with 200 deaths, in Palermo, Italy, during a week . five death balleved to have bosn doe to the plague occurred a: Bradford, England. A CAPTAIN'S SUICIDE. Kills Himself When a Court Martial Finds Him Guilty,
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