Roarly 1000 children are born year ly in London workhouses. Life insurance companies coming the holders of masses of capital. are be enormous Paris statistics show that out of every thousand bachelors forty are eriminels, and out of every thousand married men only eight. This gives a ratio of crime five times sz high with unmarried men. Between S000 and 2000 conviess from English prisons are wnnually charged on ticket-of-leave, and of these | over seven hundred are apprehended for fresh offenses and 120 for failing to report themselves. The City of London is sacred from intrusion by the Royal only two regiments in the British ser. troops, and vice have the right to march through it in martial array, with bands play- colors dis- ing, bayonets fixed and played. The thoroughfares of Rio de Ja- neiro are so narrow that people can lean out of windows and shake hands across the street. Events, however, remarks the Washington Star, do not indicate that they feel like doi ng this very often. Theodore Roosevelt day is not far distant when the luke Minnesota will be famous as the summer resort of both the Eastern and Western States, thinks that the country of Wisconsin and and that a trip thither will be as pop ular as one to Ne wport or Saratoga now 18, he “from New Y wsts that the figures furnished by the Btate Board of Equalization it appears that the apparent value of real est ate, plus the assessed value nal property, make an aggregate of nearly six billion dollars. This is equivalent to about one thousand dollars for every man, woman and child in the State, or five thousand dollars for an average family, The London Standard correspond. ent at Shanghai that Viceroy his 1 legraphs Chang, notorious for hatred of foreigners and for encourag- ing natives in the barbarous treatment of Europeans, is reported to have ad dressed a petition to the throne openly advocating the extermination of eigners in China, and especially partition of Chins among European powers. The hostility to foreignersin the provinces is unabated Statistics are said 4 how young Hi do attain full physical that average, maturity until they arrive age of twenty-eight 1) years, Professor Scheiller, of Hae- yar A Asserts. as the his ob. do not at- » of their men servations, that young men tain to the full me tal faculties before twenty-five years of age. A that Are shrewd has said they and little bovs until they “most men thirty, are twenty-five,” and this secords with the standard of manhood whie was fixed at thirty among the ancient Hebrews snd « ther races The stocking of Alaska with reindeer is a pronounced success according to the Doctor Sheldon Jackson, United States General Agent of Fdu eation Of 170 reindeer brought to Alaska from Siberia last ey, in Alaska. year but eleven died, while eighty. eight fawns were born, of which seventy-nine were living three weeks ago. several trips across the straits The revenue steamer Bear made this summer and transported thirty-seven more reindeer to Alaska. The purpose of the scheme is to furnish a reliable supply of food for the natives and also to establish the use of the deer for work purposes, A Peruvian inventor has endeavored to provide against the danger to which vessels are exposed when in the viein lisions by designing a means of stop- ping the vessel suddenly, the vessel has on its sides wings waich will expand transversely when required. The wings are held in their normal position by means of chains attached to a forward projection of the frame, and other chains connect: ing the free ends of wings with the vides of the vessel. A wineh, the mechanism of which is under the eon. trol of the officers in charge, is placed on deck, and hold the chains or ropes which actuate the wings. As soon as danger a pronches a few turns of the wineh will throw open the wings and a resistance will thus be offered to the foraard motion of the ship which will bave a material effect jn bringing it to ® standstill, dis- | | own $13,684,518 worth of A vertioally | sliding frame on a post at the bow of | pivoted | in na single season the locusts or grass-hoppers have cost the Western farmers $200,000, 000, Tacoma, Washington, is not likely to become popular with tramps, as the | Common Council recently enacted an | ordinance requiring all vagrants to be subjected to two baths a day, All the standing timber in Michigan | and Wisconsin does not amount to a the State of “No one need worry," {| quarter ns much as in | Washington, observes the Chicago Herald, ‘about av . ue . Fo . WRUEr ising 10 vais counulry. A Baltimore invention is designed to ! outwit train robbers. It is a double safe lock for express car safes. Should the messenger be attacked he throws | the combination on lock No. 2 and the safe can then be apened only at the | terminal station. Az interesting experiment is now in practical operation at Fatehgarh, In- dia, It train up in honest habits the children f the known in India as thieves and de pres consists in the endeavor to Sansia race, who have been dators for ages past, Statistics gathered by the German Imperial Commissioner on labor show that in many parts of the Empire the luration of work exceeds fifteen hours In Northwe stern German ¢ th ring laboring health official inst the government away all decomposing anim matter, all obn stances which there ar means of removing. report has just been made to the French Aeads my of Beience by M. Lagnean. Hi strates that, whereas, for the whole of the years, for Paris it is but twenty-eight A very startling demon France average of life is forty years. This is due, he save, 10 the enormons mortality among new-born infants put out to nurse, to the great mortality of infants in general, RPE ially among the poor, from suthrepsy, diphtheria and measles, and to the among adults and other tuberculous juipmeont So far as the income and « go our American universities con pare very favorably with some of the far famed European ones, For iustance, Cornell and the University of Halls had each about the same number of Hall 8 116,080, of students last year. however, had an income of which $170,000 were derived fr State yn the and 875,000 from in ts vestimer while Cornell had sn income 000, 850,000 of whiel Government and 350,000 from ins ed capital. Harvard had an incom: last year of 8066.000 to 8700. 000 for Paris, 8628 000 for Berlin and 8610, The New York Journal declares that the showing 000 for Columbia. one of which Americans may proud, the Indians, There are to-day, according to Washington Star, 243.584 men, women and children in the United States, and of this number seventy-six per cent. or 185,574 are self-support- ing and receive no subsistence supplies 8] the total number, 188,417 are known whatever from the Government as reservation residing ae 20 diflerent reservations, in twenty States and Ter. Indians, wards of the Nation on ritories, the reservations being made either by law, by executive order or by treaty and subject to increase or diminution by the These Government at pleasure, reservation Indians horses, mules, swine, sheep and domestic fowls, which with their other property and the trust funds owned by many of the | tribes, place them far above the reach ity of icebergs or other impending col- | of want, The non reservation Indians, of which there are 110,117, are in an even more enviable condition. All are immensely rich as tribes and the de- gree of enlightenment and civilization they have attained is a startling revela tion to the uninitiated. Of this classe 60,000 belong to the five civilized tribes in Indian Territory, 10,287 to the Moquis and Paebles of Arizona and New Mexico, 6208 to the Six Nations of York, 2885 to the eastern band of Cherokees of North Caroline, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama, and 17,000 to the Navajos of Arizona. Their lands were acquired by purchase, settlement or treaty, their trast funds by the sale of their mrplus lands and their other property by the personal exertion and labor of the tribes, assisted in their efforts by the Federal Government. spin ship remarkable fast VIGILANT VICTORIOUS. THE YANKEE YACHT CON QUERS THE BRITISHER., Fhe English Contestant, Lord Dun Valkyrie, Races raven's Straight and the I'he Last Race the Most Ever Salled In Loses Three Series American Waters T™ 3 iment and 1 over saflead f vt he Cup was w by in a half gale # Valkyrie was only led ati n of time third and what final race, in the series of for international supremacy A thirty COU re off wont hor benten, mont fav threes Le and windward and Hook N. J and the Was saiing over niin foward Heavy Valkyrie wu posed 1 heavy WY Was reased grade hal! a gale defeated Bandy prevailing, under nditions rabies for her A ranniog, and the wind in ually until tt blew nearly The Vigilant had previously challenger for the cup In light and § erate weather, bot it remalosd for the raoe to prove the complete superiority American yacht The cup shown that abe outelassed ord ter at remching weit food a was y defender has Dunraveu's and ye a8 outpod : and i her running before the [hese races represent 1 ighth attemi lerthe Britieh flag to recover the Ameri a’ won fortytw nthe B YORrs ago fr England and since rs This was re to the x orty eight se i 3 Sony i a twentydhree knot breeze the Vigilant again beat by ules, twenty from which the time allowanos of one min ute and forty-eight weconds was dedurted he Mee Wis what has Valkerie wonsther iL =, what alla big wind and satlors atus irement fwenty-nine m ' uleen knot breess ive min five seconde, last galled in Hie] ' smen would « a gale, or, by itysix to Was a beat windward Sandy Hook MN. J lightehiy ies and a run home before It was a closes race from the start, a ite last Ing or return ran was al- of breathless in ita interest The English cutter never showed her racing qualitios to such advantages, and the seamanship dis. piayed by her crew was something. in Fachtamen's past ali prales. What would have been the result had she not with in fNfteen minutes of the split her aker it is bard to say, but few English men will doubt that this was tue only reason for her losing the race I'he English skipper Yankee at first, thirty-fs Mn half 1 aL eyes finish vat-mancuverad the and got over the starting line fides ahead. In the beat to the mark, Afeen miles away, Valkyrie gained one minute, thirt yA wo seconds, turn ing the stakeboat two minutes, seven seconde & Be outer ahead of her opponent Ou the run back to the Sandy Hook Hght- time was made, OM yachtsmen agreed that it was the tnost exeit- Ing run ever seen in these waters, For miles the boats wore within a few lengths of each other, and it was only at the risk of the safety of her spars and rigging, If not of her hall, that Vigilant managed to eros the finish line ahead of (Ly Boel cutter Two of Valkyrits spinnakers were torn into ribbons on the home ran by the fleros wind, and she sndouttedly lost some time by the delay, On the other hand, Vigilant got the block on her balloon-jitopsall hal yards jammed, and a delay of fully twenty minutes was caused In setting the sall The Vigilant people complain, 100, that they had great trouble with thelr sent reboard, for it was jammed jo the trunk for a large part of the race, and could not be raised or lowered. This held her back many seconds on the last leg, Vigilant made the fifteen mile ran home In one hour, fifteen minutes, twelve seconds, an average spoed of twalve knots an hour, She Bnished at three hours Afty-one minutes thirty seconds, just two minutes, fifteen seconds ahead of the Valkyrie, Deducting the corrected Hime allowance (one minute, thirtyhren seconds) from these figures, Vigilant wins by foriydwo seconds, time over the course was threes hours, twenty. four minutes, thisty.nine seconds, Valkyrie was three hours, twenty.six mine utes, fifty-four seconds, Mr, Iselin and his crew risked the safely Of their eralt--and, for that matter, their personal safety, toon ons desperate af. tempt to win the cup. It was “neck or nothing ’ emu exhibition of photo. Ted the Paris on hu Pats year. Ap international will be Kupy- Her | That of | "THE VIGILANT. CHICAGO'S BIG DAY. ald Attendance at the World's Breaks all Records. Exciting i ’ and rdered fed 8 When 1} E00 0x wl madd stati » inke tickets me] at 4 o'cloek nitted, and 181.600 ¢ At mid nate place the aftendance ay ar 700.000, The total n the opening greatest been ad in the next three hours servalive sat the imber of pald admission yf the Fair is 16. 402.070 iay at Paris was ing was the nn wan ross his side stoo His dress « 8B headdress ( of beaded 1 i ® and oo oid 5 i he nan _ fi the War. bh, aithe peace, stan the Chi ALO fodny age, who came frot vation, paar Miles, All Nations that his father, nan cago “Where the sku The gre aot be seen filed I. In front of the the chorus of 2000 volces, uns the « tion of W, L. Tomline, an orchestra, { united Exposition bands and Eighth Cavalry Yi xian Bagd sccompanied chorus in a mighty melody which aroused the people to a high piteh of patrictie i enthusissm, Following this great | onited bands of the Exposition joined in playing the music of the Southern States and | the chorus, orchestra and band joined in “Columida, the Gem of the Oocsan A notable features was the ringing of the | how liberty bell at noon by Mayor Harrison, | accompanied by a blare of trumpets and erash of dramas by the united bands, The ‘horus sang ‘Die Waeht am Rhein.” “Mar. seilinige.” the Austrian hymn, the Russian hymn, the “‘Starepangied Banner,” and other National and patriotic hymas At the same time thousands of people erowded the stock pavilion to withess the exhibition Arill of the Chicago Hussars, who entered by the Midway and paraded around the grounds, The Reunion of the States was the specta ele which the great crowd assembled to wit- ness. As the States in the afternoon passed in review around the Court sf Honor, each represented by young ladies bearing pens nants, cheer after cheer attested the gratif- cation of the vast audienocs, The review was divided into five sections, At night the most gorgeous pageant ever produced took place, and it was followed by a most wonderful display of fireworks, Twenty-five groat floats fllastrated the arts, Bolences, Pesce, War, Chicago, and the Nae tions, Each was a magnificent and costly production, and the spectacular effect wav gorgeous, —— LED BY APACHES, A Postmaster and Two Other Men Murdered. Fears for the safety of George Waterbury, fipecial Postoflies Inspector in Atizona, hrve been allayed by the arrival of his report. At Monitor postofios, fn an isolated part of Arisons, he found the body of A. 4 Potter, Postmaster, about “five yards from bis canin, with the of a comrade named of a young Mexican, All were Kil. by Apache Potter had ordered which he wa ind tas the burst of song the then | shape the cars were | without » LATER NEWS, ’ . ¥ ti Ar Toul nm the French weleomed the Rus. sian squadr with extravagant enthusiasm, I —— KILLED IN A WRECK. Terrible Rear end Collision at son, Mich Jack eh nd Lacka + head Jacksor } at 240 Ls ag The cars were the tracks and the ez ond train smashed yf the se 6 trains were day coach ex The frss saction had =f ys © passengers take broak last WE At the station o second section cam i semaph wae inser says that twenty ope oross the wr was driven oon dely through a: aked upside down, 8 she them being tra two il Kinds Within twenty minutes after the rd A Ny arred six dead boli i accident oo os had ps taken out of the wreok Rome of ars were no wracked to kill any of ti but it i= mirmoul left in, that any Tr i88E soTious in Following = a corrected list of killed and injured : Maggie MoMasters, Penn Yan, N Y.. Mm, I. N. Peardsloy, Canton, Penn Mise Harriet Breece, Pine Ofty, N, ¥ Susie Headley, Warrior Ran, «Penn James Woodbury, Bath N X.. baby of Mrs, Harrington ; Mm. Lloyd Wood bury, Bath, daughterdndaw of James Wood bury; Mre. J. H. Kesler, Hammon N.Y. i George H. Hoffman, 1 : Mrs, Charisse Starr, Elmira, N.Y Anna I. Gitte, Almond, N. X Engineer Whaley died that afteraoon, The first section of the excursion train was ealied the “Oswego” and the last section the “Webb” special. F. J. Reid, conductor of the Oswego special, has sent this despateh to the officers of the road in Detroit “1 was stopping at Jackson for break fast and had just started when the ‘Webb cial going west struck my train in the rear part and broke three coaches, | cannot ase cortain how many were injured, My train was protected in the Jackson yard by the semaphore.” Engineer William Whalen, Jackson, was running the jast said bwiore he died “1 saw the signal in the yard to keep back, and had my engine ie hand, as 1 thought, but when | onme down hear the train, which wus still, my air brake would not work, and I ran into the coaches. The failure of the air made it fmpessible 19 stop, 1 never had such an experience beiore,” Ono of the most hottie sights in connes tion with the accident was a woman carrying a head by the bhatr around through the crowd, moaning and weeping and apparently a may. Ing maniac, She wis taken care of by the police and the head which she carried was taken to police headquarters, the Yue enon ped more ye Jury Ee who lived at section He ng in tackling 1 “five Jenn ARO NE Aigin. The whole loft aids hag nearly useless since then, His Is hesitating, his motion difoult, but his ess of his mind is ne active as aver, Professor ris now seventy yours old, AT the prosent ime There are. wlio butidings in course of contraction tn United States, and the pianos for forty. | Cabbage, L. 1, P 100 hin | Onions St. & West, ¥ bli | Cucumbers, I. 1, #100, .. | Squash, marrow, # bbl, , | Tomntoms, near by, 9 amte | Tarnips, Russia, ¥ bbl. PROMINENT PEOPLE, Queen Vicvouis is a g¥ilful knitter works at it indefatigably, Foun Mavpox Baowy, the English printer, died a few days sines in London af the ngs of sevent y-Lwo yours, Bevex pusopury Hye larks Queer present Isteir sept by Italy to the German En peror Bexaston Woroo hoe the reputation of gourmet par exosis ence of Congresw, snd his tips are so geners ous that the walters grow rich or them, Ture late Arthur Elder ix said to have made it #12.000 8 year writing dime and bhalf-dime n didu’t waste any of it on pistols and bowie knives wo go hunting bears and Indian and constitutes the the King of of Colorado being the Nelson aly vols, and he Tex Queen of England has v approved the avierb eben cut of Sb We . y is the eldest son o ap dia in Jan died in office November, tr > of India, The new of the elghth Earl gin, wh pointed Governor-Genpers! of In uary, 1862. and whe was country is sald Justion of Skiahoma. He is Yen 1. Afthe age of twenty- woster of the land offices st prime uprems eral legal reese Irom half a dozen edited a paper as sal States, practiced law in Kansas . and narr times 4 Territory THE MARKETS, Late Wholesale Prices of Country Produce Quoted in New York. BEANS PEAS ihe and pails, sec 1m, extras We Welsh . Western In W. Im. creamery, seco WW. Im. creamery x Western Factory, tu creamer ns Part skims Fall skims (reson varie Red varieties Pears Other kinds Bartiett Granes, Del Con Niagara Jorany Pencrhes Cranberries, Os State 1892 1%92 YY odds Old Fowls—Jarsey, Stale, Western. #0 Spring chickens, local, | Western, #00 Roosters, al Turkeys, § Western, ¥ pair Goose, Western, 9 pair. ... Pigeons, ¥ pair. . TT DRESSED POULTRY-PFREUEN KILLED, Turkeys, #8 . es “ee La Chickens, Phila, ¥ Bb. } Western, #00 Fowls-St, and West, #0 Ducks Fair to fancy, #0. Eastern, $1... ..c0000e.0 Spring, L. L. 9B... .oovivn Goose Eastern, P15 ...ov.ue Squdte Dark P dog. .coveess Fhite, ¥ dos. chutes YRORTARLES, Potatoos State, 7 180 he Jorsey, ¥ bbl... ...00u0.. L.L,in bulk, P bbl. ...... I > EERE! Eastern, red, ® DW ........ Eastern, white, 9 bhi “r Li L & Jersey, yellow, P bbl et TE » ~ 3 Bi} J Lima beans, ¥ bag. ... ee - $ Hubbard, Bob, ....... “Ss White, ¥ bb! . Celery, L. L, ¥ dos. bunches COauli smi ogg . Swost potatoes, So, Jersey | Parsaips ¥ bbl ‘ou BRAIN, KTC icun-<Winter Patents. ...., . Ont, .. oo LEE TET or es di Ryefate........ ol Barley Uneraded Western QoPi-Non &. .vviie. nisin Onts~No, 2 WHE. . couvinvnn Mixed W. i i “ “aes th dh Bends «Clover, Timothy, ¥ 100. .0v, 00s + Lara Unity Neumann ane JIVE FTOOK. Aavansirnn good... 08 BSgregsssi us ges eT Er EY «3 : of a ge8%zaianany Saw « > Oy
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