i Walter Besant, the English novelist, ihinks that Chicago will some time be #0 America what Babylon was to Asia. Says a St. Louis doctor: “When the sunflowers ripen and the morning glory vines begin to die in the back yards, then is the season of malarial and catarrhal troubles at hand.” That part of Boston known as the north end is strictly of a tan On a there are displayed signs in Italian, eosmopoli- character, certain street Bpanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, Hebrew, Norwegian and Danish, Everywhere in California the Chi- nese are now working the gold mines on their own account. The metal is sent directly to China, and is smug- gled out of the country in the same way that opium is smuggled in. Since 1860 the Chinese have taken from Cal- ifornia mines the of §141,750,000, enormous sum One of Boston's newest notions, and, in the estimation of the New York Times, one of the best of its many good ones, is the establishment of a mechanic arts high school, to supply a connecting link, as is explained, be- tween theoretical and practical eduea- tion. Its that this school will be the crown and climax of friends claim the city’s common school system, Probably in no other country in the world are banking facilities so exten- sive as they are in Scotland, remarks the Chicago Herald. In every town, large or small, there is a branch of one or more of the great city banks, and even every village with the least pre- tension to While in England there is a bank or a branch bank to about every 10,000 of the population, in Scotland there is gize can boast ol one one to about every 4000, There is something weird even in the reminder that ‘‘the white-eyed boy of Boston" still lives, as appears from the discovery of a fresh attempt to escape from prison. ers of Not many read- this day remember the atrocious erimes of the Pomeroy youth abou He born with a satanic instinet for horri- There was no apparent motive for his erimes, His thirst for blood was as insatiable as that of a young tiger. His sentence of imprisonment for life, in solitary cozfinement, was a relief to the publie mind, and thought of his escape is enough to cause a shudder in Boston. twenty years ago. seemed to be ie cruelty and even murder. the mere The owner of a sandstone quarry on Lake Superior conceived the idea of sending to the World's Fair a shaft that should far overtop the Cleopatra obe- lisk in Central Park, New York City, and all the similar works wrought by He fully accomplished his purpose ata cost of about $15,000, 110 feet long, ten feet square at the base and tapering to four feet at the top. The tallest of the Egyptian obe- lisks, that of Karnak, is 105 feet seven inches. But the could not float his the ancient Egyptians. SUCCESS The shaft was Minnesota quarrier to Chi- cago, as the Egyptians used to float the Nile moving the monolith their works on rafts down The great stone to the lowest for Fair was 825,000, The money conld not be raised, and the disgusted quarrier has begun to cut up the greatest of obelisks into building stone. estimate Nearly every large hotel in New York has an individuality, observes the Jour nal, which is stamped on the facade of it by the people of different climes and ports of this country and in diferent trades who patronize them. English. men and Canadians would not think of putting up st aay other place than the Brevoort or Branswick, The game of politics is indelibly imprinted on the Hoffman and Fifth Avenue. when he steps into the Coleman and Gilsey, and an insider would not be surprised if he saw a man ranning for ® base or au umpire eslling strikes and ont” in the The corridors of the Imperial resemble Sturtevant. a sociable club in some Western city. The Vendome is the home of prosper. ous Hebrew merchants from all parts of the country, and there is just enough of a theatrical flavor about the clien- tele to make it interesting. The Me- tropole is nothing more than a large snd comfortable bachelors’ quarters, In every part of the Gedney House the eyes are blinded by the glare of the footlights, This hotel is the home of the actor and the manager. The jingle of money and the elipping of coupons ean be heard in the Windsor and the Plaza. An sir of serenity and comfort that riches beget permentes every nook and eranuy in the spacious corridors of the Plaza, New Netherlands, Savoy sod Hoilaad House. cident.” | the new hearse. “Three Experiments made in tobacco eulti* vation throughout Europe have not given much promise of success. The Harpers, the great New York publishers, are said to have on hand more than 850,000 worth of accepted | manuscripts. Welsh newsboys have a pienio in tue opinion of the Chicago Herald. Im- | sgine yelling ** "Ere’s yer wuxtry Gol- cuids, Gwyliedyyds, Genedls and Ser- .W All fn wih daw buat i mA Faia sated ES - There are yet a million acres of : {| Government land in Kansas open to settlement, not a little of which was ’ tramped over by “‘strippers” in order | to take chances on getting lind in the | Cherokee Strip that is no better, and | in many eases is worse, which they had | to travel further to reach, and which | is very uncertain property to its pos- BOSSOT. Justice John M. Harlan, of the | United States Supreme Court, and one of the arbitrators of the recent Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration, stated in a private conversation in St. James's Hall, London, at a Sunday mission meeting, that he personally believed that on the oceasion of a future differ- ence between England and the United States the of would not be invoked, but an equal intervention strangers oumber of the judges of the highest courts of both countries wonld be ap- pointed to settle the difference. A keeper at the London Zoological Gardens was employed on account of his supposed fondness for animals, He was soon found to be disliked by the nimals, who exhibited their aversion in many ways. It was suspected that while outwardly treating them with kindness he must secretly hurt or an- He done anything of the sort, and his general noy them. denied having manner seemed to bear out his protes tations. A watch was set upon him, It that he never spoke to the animals, with a curious result. appeared snd for that reason alone his presence was intolerable. A Mexican paper predicts an that American tourists this winter, and mense invasion of country by says that the railroads are already pre paring to handle the expected throng. It thinks that the of cholera in Europe is sure to thin ont the ranks that they must have somewhere to go prevalence of tourists thither, and “The to escape the winter's cold the New “seams to prediction,” adds Orleans Picayune, be founded on reason, and the same causes will doubt the who will seek the delightful climate of less contribute to swell aumber our own State and of the Mississippi coast. We may prepare fora specially large invasion this winter.” the of New Jersey at the time of the recent Since the loss of lives on cast great storm there has been an agita- tion in the seaport towns and summer resorts along that coast in favor of an extension of the time of employment of the men in the United States Life. Saving Service. wrecked schooner Mary F. Kelly were Four seamen of the drowned at Asbury Park, for instance, within thirty feet of the shore, whils hundredr of people stood on the beach unable to help them. Twenty-four seamen were drowned off the New Jer- sey coast in a range of ten miles, where there were then four unoccupied life- saving stations. The life-saving crews are discharged on May 1, and do not get employment again until September 1. It is argued that violent storms ooour in August, and that the life-sav- ing crews at least should be employed from the beginning of that month, An electric funeral-car is a California | i innovation. | from One can | almost hear the beating of horses’ hoofs | About nine miles distant San Francisco are four large cemeteries and a erematory, and it was to bring them near the city that an | electric railroad company introduced Its first patron was a benevolent organization, one of whose members nad died. At the time ap- | pointed for the mourners to leave the city the electric funeral-car, appro- | pristely draped in black, was in readi- ness. The body was lifted by the pall- bearers from an undertaker’s wagon to the car, and the bearers took their sents in a section reserved for them. The conductor rang the bell twice, the motorman clanged his gong to clear the track of a mob of interested spee- tators, and the faneral procession started, the mourners in cleetric cars following the hearse. The ran from the starting point to the cemetery was made in an hour, The ear was switched off on a track inside the cometery gatos and the pallbearers lifted ont the coffin, Then the funeral procession was re formed and moved slowly of towards Lae chapel. | excapt | must | take part (no the festivities, | ome In | MANHATTAN DAY AT THE COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, Sm n—— The Attendance Second Only to That en Chicago's Day Parades and Pageants, Decorations and Fire works Made the Grounds Breillia nt by Day and by Night. Chicago enthusiastionlly joined hands with | the great metropolis of the East to make | Manhattan Dav at tha { The event proved a notable one not only in | the splendor and perfection of the Arrange. | ments, but also in the enormous attendance, the day's attendance standing second to none Day. This considerad all Chicago's attendance be the more | striking from the fact that the guests of the occasion had to travel a thousand miles to Probably 25 000 the grounds Mey fast as the rafiroads Every track between New Yorkers were on train loads, as could earry then HOW NEN YORKGLORIFIED The crowning feature ook pleon ju Festival gathered Gotham's me and prominent | life, The great galleries of the hall were faced with sliken flags of ali the arlaan i | and the Nations American States of the earth, intersporse { with the National emblem. The rt { platform was richly ara po: can colors and decorated above with #1 pleces, Iu the platform chairs wore many distinguished men Manhattan Island Sack the platform wus arranged the Coluaiblan Chorus of 860 vols 8, conducted by Willlam L. Tomlins, and Innes's Thir teenth logiment mnd of New York. | which awoke the echoes of the hall with their patriotic melody, one of the TAA Bain Was taken the exer- mes began, and hundreds of people were turned Away from the doors. The band | began the programme with the overture to | “William Tell,” which was followed Ly | prayer by Chaplain Brown the Old Guard, Mayor Harrison was well received when he arose to address words of coe to the New York behalf of the World's Fair City, | There was a great outburst of when the Mayor of Chicago, after his ad. | dress of welcome, turned to the Mayor of New York and presented him to the audience of the celabration Hall, There was #t Hustricus orators oltizens from all walks of oral pentod of Every before of wel peoples on enthusiasm as presiding officer of the exercises. Mayor INE XEW and New York for thre overed with a pro fave before of trafus onditions Ife In New York Park t High Bridge was kiyn sent her OA wd { process nel ri Then ~an the ocratie Marching Clud shalled by Capiain J. H of the [ilinois Legisiat marched behind a detach y hirago Hussars, u Brand, of 1 iors, 20 strong, Farrell, a re rent nder presented A little i rut inlegrat wsoorted by the Ol me time the valongeide ver N# fork Rtate flag + Star« and Stripes that always hang f Liber Thirteen iv for liberty and New York {inner at ng given the N 5 Mayor As TUN ug the embiem « Mroxes wore the New x York Giiir and his dinne roles at Festiva Mayor Gilroy sat at the head of the With him were Seth Low, the Res Diz, Chauneey M Genera rier, the on thers was a te Bulid innit yosts tore the toe ere Dropow Foley TMs Kena and al { the State Co RY, Ra { : ! J the » Pain un the ake wk Stato the rf Was s was Hlaminated with « in who were ili | r IF the 8 oidies passe and rm pal Plasa giving a dress parade The display of fireworks was arrang re Amy jiberty Enlightening th portrait of Mayor Gilroy, Brookivn DBeidge, Father Knicker Boker and a Tema representing ago with a mott “Khe ft B nt 200 floating and hanging lights The entire Midway Plas ance was aglow with toe same HHluminstion, s and New York's Building dazzled the eyes of thousands with foods of red fairy mmps tary [ores where they why LS GOP Were " World,” a! the § ge ws fre ‘hi indernestt Can Beale Fhe entire lake Ir vor tights inside and out BATTLESHIP OREGON, Launched at San Francisco in Presence of 20,000 Peeple. the The United States battle ship Oregon was launched at the Union Iron Works, San Fran- 2isay, Cal,, shortly before noon in the pres ence of 20 000 people On the bay yachts, tugs, steamers, and all avaliable amall boats were crowded to their | atmost capacity, All were gayly decorated, The shores wero black with an enthusiastic | throng awaiting the moment when the tide would be highest, General Ruger, commanding the Depart. mont of the Pacific, and staff ; Captain Howi- son, commandant of Mare Island Navy Yard ; Governor Markham, Mayor Ellert, General Compson, of Portland, representing Gover. nor Pennoyer, of Oregon, and other dis tinguished personages were present, und in addition there wore Miss Daley Ainsworth, | representing the State of Oregon, and Miss Eugenia Shelby, representing the ofty of Portland, | Two minutes before noon the cord con. necting the dog shores, instead of being or by the historic hatohet, was out by a guillotine, sot free by the pressing of an electric button by Miss Shelby, The guilio- Hine in its ful dovuted the cord, which held wo twenty-five-pound w % in fon, Thess welghe struok ig eh Li and, knocking them out, sot the vessel in motion, At the same moment Miss Alnsworth presesd snother button, allowing & bottle of Califor. nia champagne to crush against the bow and spill its contents over it, The big ship thus christensd glided futo the bay. Cheers and bands snd steam whistles from all the oratt made plenty of on. thusiasm, The Oregon, when completed, will cost ex: elusive of armament, $4,000,000, Kho will hava a ent of 10,208 tons, & maxi mum of horse power. snd a of ten and two-tenth knots per hour, er ieath over all will ba 348 foot her breadth six? Jad three incon, her dmught twenty-four Hho fa siilar in all : sinters, tha Mastachneekts and the Tadiass, PROMINENT PEOPLE. Juries Vexxe, perhaps, has earned more by his pen than any other living author A. J. Daexzr, Ju. son of the late million. aire banker, has withdrawn from the three banking firms with which his father was entified | Groner W, Worms, for twenty-five | secretary or charge d'affaires of the United | States logations at Rome, Madrid and St | Petersburg, has returned to this country J. A Dexxane, the founder of the Knigsts | of Honor, and for many of a hemorrhage, Ky. Mist Herex Rup, who wae recently or | dained a deaconess by Bishop Nichols in 8 order in California. Sexavon Srewanrt, of Nevada, 4 the larg. ost consumer of coffee in the Senate, When day addressss he absorts threecups an hour, binek as your hat and strong enough to float an fRE. Tux Duke of York has become a tenant farmer upon the estate of nie father, the Prince of Wales, and, according to President Shaw, of the Cheshire oultural Society, the first thing the Duke did after taking pos session was to ask for a reduction of rent, #0 as to keep in (ouch with his fellow agri ralturists, Exrenon Wintian, ol Germany, scent! unveiled in Bremen a statue to his ernnd. father, In his address at the banquet he clatmed that to Lis diather alone was due the fran condition of German ually; that w others assisted him most ably both Initietive and successful accomplishment routod with him, Ancamsnor Reowoon, of New Zealand, ie an necomplished and enthusiastic violinist, violin of 1 with the Ameri- and women from | years | | exchange, about 728 cepts per re one of the | | lending officers of the Order, died suddenly | at his home in Louisville, | he is under full headway on one of his thirty | He varries with him on his travels au old DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN LATEST DISPATCHES FROM AT HOME AND ABROAD, On a Burning Ship at Sea The Gel. lert’s Passengers Have a Thril- ling Experience An Aretic Ex pedition Miss Garland a Sulelde Fall in Sflyer x = he steamer Gellert, which arrived at New York City from Sam irg, brought Afty-tour CARDID Bnd 221 steerage passengers who had a thrilling experience on the Bh voyage, the officer that there was a fire ju the alterpart of the ship, The captain was immediately [nf . hands ordered on deck, ~ When the afterpart of the ship they fo ind of the ventllntors which reports that on Sunday af noon, on watch received Iniormation med, all eto and they can £0 itu smoke the slocrage The ventilators and were immediately eo water put « the 10 extinguish the out 1 ett or all other openings ana steam and stesrage and lower hold fire, After this bouts wers made ready for uso deck put un water, All the cabin passengers and thelr effects were removed from the afterparn of the vesse and the cagine stopped to avold any while efforts were made to discs ; abouts of the fire ’ osed nto N 1 Was done and the cabin or draught verthe where Holes were then driited rom the sabin deck to the ste rage, but this work had to be abandoned on a count smoke coming out of the holes, trinl made to descend ! verdeok to the fire hy way of the but this als Close AL In wit bs wore made to enter the sO, 4 increasing Another the ¢ hat Woe had to be givey up onthe the onenines Wer the Le inthe deck seams passengers 1 with rem ame wild with be wore over he be hive k and a franti soon filiad An Arctie Expedition Anros hingston, of « Garland a Suleide. Coal Production inthe United States, i fins iefion in W. Parker 1 000. West Virginia fo dna with 5.500 000 ! Kansas, hen Wyoming produced in Wa the neigh rh I'he production n the Indian reached the mil wark, Te of this product eam fain r 2000. 000 tor n millien ton from the Rocky Mou on Fall in Silver Rilver is on the down grade y | The quoted price as sent tothe United States Treasury Department was 33% oanoe in London pence per This is a ball-penny lower than the former price. In our money this fs. with ounce, With sliver at this low figure the dilion ’ | the standard sliver dollar is 1.81 value © ght cents Bismarck's Prince Bisnarck has completed kis moe moire covering the years from 19846 10 1870 The memoirs are devoid of netinat jon Memoirs, si reve {| Intlone, and are chiefly historic, and a justi | fleation of his policy, ; | Stephen s Protestant Episcopal Church, San | Francisco, is the first Indy to receive that | tI — AMERICAN HAY CONDEMNED. German Chemists Declare it Less Nu tritious Than the European. The State Department has received a re port from T. M. Stephen, the Consul of the United States at Anneberg, who says that the exelusion of Russian hay fgom Germany by Ministerial deere has heen ®ollowed by a condemnation of Amerioan hay in the Inboratories of or Shainin He says that Dr, J, H. Vog loges t er iy hay contains much Joss nutrimont than Eoropean hay, and also that thers is great danger of introducing now insesty with the hay from Amerion. Irie senontad that Trios Bismarck is ale lowing his beard to grow, not being able 10 handle his razor, hilp to prevent the ol a that those who | and his execution was pre feel {| vas Ranjeet Singh | Potsdam, Summary of the THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, Tur Vanderbilts have socursd contro! ! the Deleware, Lackawanns and Western Raile of | road Wannaxrs were issued fn New York Clty for eight Directors of the failed Maudie Fquare Bank, and several wore arrested. Marin Pov, the WIL electricity Dannemors, (N Y murderer, killed Ly ut ) prison notunesd be tors the most suconss vit : ful v BExaror Davio B. His opened the Demme eratioc campaign in Brooklyn by sddressing a mass meeting in the Academy of Musi He reviewed the whale polities! situation, Fed oral and Btate, and cresertod a Adotenss of the candidacy of Judes RoE and Willia fiver, NX. ¥ ther Maynard n Winegss Afed 1! hort bret hers within a few mis nessa f ench 5 oradirond smash resulting I three tramps and serious in another tramp and to an denth Cnr of Isanc H. of Appeals Democratic State and M inietnal Ron wae held Tam nany wer presided in Hall G South and West, an Le estimated, the business 4 the Fair rajir BRires at arris Whee the rol hairs the different Hagges. the ¢ er tanks, and all jay the r ira saurants ~ el jE 1 Iran “yr . ! inning ¥ * ALUM Haw. ARtEnAn Oe, 153 ARAL - 012, leav. Kilver Senators fria K Tr against repeal of the abd that the the Senate aw mesure {ssn Gesemal Witiiaw Sire in his annual report {f War, shows that the pay past fiscal year amoun (Other TER during the 05%. 021 g the total expenditures uj Mileage disbursements unted 10 11,7235 the new United States guinbost vod her to be 8 phew 1 ng test Machias pr Tur speech of Senxtor Allen, in of which he alo has appeared in Congressional Reo. It i» the Jongest speach ever printed ix xtydwo pages of 124 the delix ory Oocus ied ost ffeen hours flacord, and fills = ITRus Foreign. Tar Russian naval officers in Paris were guests at & luncheon at the War Office, at na great banquet on the Champ de Mars and st supper at the Military Ciub;: there were river fetes and a fine display of fireworks, Mamanasan Deveienr Srixon died In Paris the effects of a paraistio stroke. He was horn in 158% He was a son of the fam- Rajah of the Punjat Tue Russian naval officers left Paris for Lyons : they were entertained at luncheon by President Carnot, and attended a gala performance at the Opera, Tuene i= a water famine in many Great Britain, Tar banking house of Pedro Martin & Son, of the city of Mexico, bas failed for £1,000 . Dod {rou parts of Disparcaps from Rio, received in London and Paris, say the Brazilian insurgents are losing ground, Uxiren Staves Ammpassanon Rusiox pre sited his credentials to Kaiser William at The usual exchange of diplomat speeches accompanied the ceremony ———— NAVY BUREAU OF ORDNANCE. Annual Report of Commodore Sampson. The annual report of Commodors WT, | Bampson, ohie! of the Navy Bureau of Ord. { nance, of the year's work of his bureau has | boon made pablie, His estimates for the next fiscal year are $7,145,501, of whioh #46. £00,000 ju for arming vessels already author. imed, Out of 453 gone of salibres from four inch to thiftesn-inch orderad, the forgings of 36% have bon deliverad, while 188 guns are afloat and 29% completed, the Inet includ. Ing twenty-five ten<dnch, eight twelvedneh and foe thirtoen-inch, OF 49 Hotehkises an Driggs ans ordered for the secondary bat terice, 300 are completed and 204 are afloat. sc tctm—— Pio losses in the United States doring the first nine months of 1808 were $26 540,000 greater Than in ths Rrteponding Jeriod of 1502, and not less than a dozen Srng Som. os are preparing to go out of n Jow rates, heavy losses, onerous Stale beagle. ation are driving oapital int fitable folds of
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