— - - I¥ cost 82,423,522 to feed the United tates Army during the past fiscal year, Business worries are said to be the eause of twelve per cent. of the cases of insanity. The farmers of Iowa have ap. parently enough money in banks to pay off all the farm mortgages in the Btate. Rev. Dr. Jenks, an Indiana preacher, pays that he can give seventy reasons ._ -on ~ *come to an end” years, has a - hails within the next ten | J LS wenuld will Dain ¥ aie ES FF SHE, $54 Out in Maine, where, according to fhe New York Recorder, “they wro now catching herring to put up as Italian sardines,” they lure the fish into the nets at night by a blazing fire on a pole. New Zealand is the first of English eolonies to give women equal political A bill giviag them It gives to all women, married or single, rights with men. such rights has just become law. the same right to vote as is now pos. sessed by men. The only other State in the world in which men and women bave the Wyoming, in this country. same political status is Electricity is gradually taking the place of oil for locomotive headlights, notes the St. Bt. road fourteen the namber every week. end of the road would probably n Louis Republic. One Vandalia ] equipped adding to the Louis the 188 locomotives with new light and is The recent rear- Illinois t havi collision Cent: had the engine of the second sect been provided with an electrio The psper mill at Salina, Kan. made tons from sunfl of experts in the East, wer stalks seve paper, which will be se: The paper i= re- arded as superior to straw paper and ¥ } I 3 max marks a great departure in paper ing and sunflower raising industries. The mill proposes to make sunflower paper a spec ialty. On is now buying sunflowers and a recent evening the Balina Daily Republican ran its entire edition on the sunflower paper. The theory that times of depression in business are peculiarly favorable to religious development, has some justi- fication in experience, concludes the Ban But, the other hand, there are more suicides Francisco Argonaut on in hard times than st any other. Sta. been a New York City during the last month, the tistics show that there has noticeable increase in suicides in aggregate being thirty-four against twenty-two for the same period during the previous year The statistics are but tendency nggestive, The growing ; hardly conclusive. suicidal is certainly but it derives its stimnlus rather from what may be called fixed eonditions of our life than from te: porary and exceptional incitements The New York World observes: Wa are apt to imagine that America is the land of progress and Asia the land of regress. This is doubtless true, as » rule, but every now and then we are startled to find that the Mongolis have ns ideas also and sometimes act on them. This stategent is borne ut by a recent report made to the on the state of agriculture in that country, and advo- Japanese Government cating, among other things, the es- tablishment of agricultural insurance. that ship, the gingle members of which are all insured by that same fellowship” is also advoeated Mutual insurance is, “a fellow- The re port shows that the Japanese are wide awake, The recent disbandment of several companies of Indians, who had been enlisted as soldiers in Uncle Sam's army, seems to have been due more to the difficulty of finding recruits than to any real opposition among officers to the employment of the red man in the ranks. The Indian himself does not take kindly to the restraints of discipline, and misses the freedom of his roving life; hence, he will no longer enlist, but while he is in the Government's service he appears to discharge his duties as well as can be expected from him. He does not like the routine of drill, and he esnnot be depended on to stand in live of battle, but he makes a good seovt and skirm. isher-—in short, he shows all the weak: nesses and virtues of the savage, great argument in favor of taking him into the regular army is still as strong as it over was, the experiment with him nqt having weakened it in the feast. It ix cheaper to pay him for being on good terms with us than to fight him, and, even if he will not take kindly to rules snd regulations, he is sure to become a more tractable being by subjecting himself to them even T he All the money in the world foots uy over 810,000, 000,000, wealth of the world Europe sand the United States alone foot up $250,000,000,0600, The aggregate is not known. 360,000 So. cinlist votes in Germany since 1890 is The increase of nearly an astonishing gain, and the total So- cinlist poll of 1,800,000 distances by half a polling strength of any other party in more than million votes the Germany. *‘It must not be expected,” comments the New York Independent, CL Lb While emaaba ‘s # woill 3 [ETT SFE : SUR Ss 63 kept but studies the German politics has got up, nevertheless one who 4 to keep his sharpest eye on the progress and platform of Socialism.” The well-known fact that wor live longer than men 1s illustrated follows: The excess of females in England and Wales is on ages about 34 per cent., (in round figures, 15,000,000 minus 50,000 to 14,000,000 plus 50,000.) But when we begin t compare women over sixty with men becomes over sixty the female majority much greater, and when we once pas " eighty-five the old men are nowhers The double the over ninety-five to 3564 men, and to own to a century. female DONOgeNATIADA NEATLY male there are 854 women gammers forty-two gaffers In view of the epidemic of which seems to have set in of late, different coms The interesting to see how tries stand in this respect. lowing figures give the numb s in the various armies rer 100,000 men: Au seven ; Italy, ¥, sixty ‘rance, Belgium, twenty-nine; ty-four; England, twenty-three sis, twenty ; Spain, fourteen. & somewhat curious list, neither nor climate having spparentl; to do why should Austria have nearly twice with the relative figures, « as many as Germany and Germany nearly three times as many as En land? One of ocean vessels is likely to be obviated prolific cause disaster t« before long, predicts the New York N¢ WH. hat is, the difficulty that ma- riners experience in seeing or d tinguishing coast lights on stormy or foggy nights, Many wrecks near this port, on the Long Island and New Jersey shores, have resulted from this But electric science is bring CALIRG, ing relief, It has been demonstrate that electric apparatus capable of project lighthouses are practica! with ing hight a distance equal to several hours’ sail of average craft. A light house is about to be erected at & point 1 the northwest coast of France will illustrate the wonders of the method. It termed a “lightning flash” of will contain what rey million candle-power, and will cast » beam that in clear weather can be seen sixty-three miles away. Even in foggy weather it is expected to be visible at a distance of twenty-one miles, Says the Atlanta Constitution: Dr Hertzka, a prominent German writer, makes the prediction that 50,000,00 whites will some day occupy the high piasteaus of Central Afrios and civilize the races of the Dark Continent Peters has spent many years in Afries, and in his judgment the country will, at no very remote day, have Enropear settlements in all localities where they will thrive. He does not speak very There, the nights are like winter and the days like Sach do not favor vegetation. highly of the central plateaus summer, rough extremes The whites settle ments in Africa, and the conditions of are steadily increasing their health improve as the colonists advance and clear the forests and cultivate the soil. Bat the country is not promis ing from an agricultural point of view, will not induce white men to settle | outside of the towns in large numbers, | Dr. Peters thinks that mining, lumber | and other industries will, in the course | | of time, swell the white population to | several millions, but he rejects the ides | that they will civilize the Africans and | utilize their labor, hopelesa task, and the whites will prob. | ably kill them off as they push their settlements into the interior. few attractions for white immigrants when compared with the rest of the world, Still, it must be admitted that there are loostions on the continent that wonld suit Earoprans, snd there is no reason why their colonies should not grow and prosper. When this is suid it does not earry with it the state. ment that even one-third of the conti- nent will ever be fit for white occupa. | the Annsxationists that and cattle raising and ostrich farming | To overcome the | | sayagery of the natives would bo a Even | under the most favorable conditions | | that ean be reasonably expected the | doctor declares that Afrion will possess OUR POLICY IN HAWAIL | SECRETARY GRESHAM'S RE- PORT ON THE MATTER. i In on Letter to the President, He Fa vors the Restoration of Queen Li lonokalanl to Power A Wrong is to be Righted of Report. Great Synopsis After a Cabinet meeting held Le White House duration Washington {which was inusual lasting ver threes hou hall), Beeretary Gresham, with rence of the President, ge tion a report on Haws aan sis of which follows ment to that offect aoco of this most sumed that the in ter Wil loft Hawall just abou affairs, a synop hough no direst state npaniesthepubliostion important d« structions iment. it ix as » Minis for his post of duty at this time being iolnved it iis given nfter Vice depar ° LP onance with "WE therel sumed that th sige of in command at Honolulu of Admiral Irwin for Admira nde to take effect co Hiss arrival Vv ihe sahstin trrett, whic L POTR IIa | had ser ther f nded that as ted §t should Minister Willi | per ' Pesto {the Hawa ne f the nt. and afterward sional ( vor the Imetan duty and oxidered Ly the United States, the Queen yielded, and sont to the Provisional Government the paper whieh has already boon made publi At the beginning Mr promised a= soon as they on, that her case Preaident f the Blrvens ols tained possession of the Government Batlds ine, and there read a proslamation, he would at of ognize them as 8 de lncto Govern ment, and support them by landing a foree from our war ship then in the harbor, and he kent that promise “This assurance wae the inspiration of the movement, “Should not the great wrong done toa foehis but independent State by an abuse of the suthority of the United Biates be undone by restoring the legitimate Government? Anything short of that will not. I respect. fully submit, satiely the demands of justice “Can the United States consistently insist - re | that other Nations shall respect the indepen deneow of Hawaii while not rrapeeting it them. selves? Our Government was the first to re cognire the independence of the island and it should he the inst to acquire sover dgnty ovor them Ly force and fraud ‘W.Q. Gamanan, EER — LYNOHINGS One Taken From OfMeers and Shot and the Other Hanged, Henry Bogue, ones of the colored men who admitted taking part in (“6 murder of W, J, Duncan st Lake City Janetion, Fla, was taken from a Sheriff's posse at midnight at the doors of the town jail, He was enrried off a quarter of a mile and riddled with bullets, C.) special says AN (8 To apron Kenned IN THE SOUTH. | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. At vow York the Yule College eleven de. feate dl the New York Athletie Club at loot. ball by forty two points to nothing won from Wesleyan, and Princeton Orange, {rescant Dent A raver who assaulted a near Lambertville, XN, J. v umped into tho river snd wi; Fuavers H, Werks be ment in New tenead to ten years young womsa pursued ww drowned, pleaded guilty to Aa York City and Imprisonment Pangan, the of North Amer home in Jamalea Plain, n of peritonitis, Heo was b tember 16, 1829, Fuaxcm histori | ] 1 i colonial days 1 { | | | mr 13 rn in Boston, S A MEETING Of eltinens { Broo CPresenting ma ren leans, appo mm itt oe 8 meeting to decide upon the ection to be pursued i . MeKane, the Willian South and West, vi emenpod fr bheria wera pleked Washington. d In nl your 440.793 it Foreign. f . Wail ish-white } bright eves aie, alr Janes York Herald, wi room Ly the sehing » ident in Paris, lato { ora. but his friends reported hopeless Chat Oxn of the ineral of Marshal hia brother.in-arms, Now that MacMahon = the last Marshal of title dies with him Ex-Sexaron Epmuxpe, Vermont, de rives an almost prinesly income from his practios in the Supreme Court, and still finds time to fish In Florida In one and Canada in another season of the year, He i= a devoted fisherman Puttar D, Anxovn bas given his personal check for $50,000 to the Armour Institute st Chicago, and authorized Dr. P. W. Gun. sauius to spend the whole amount at Jack. son Park for scientific apparatus aed col Iections for the institute, be taken to the Ris are he will ever recover, most interesting figures st the MacMahon was that of Marshal Canrobert gone, Canrobert ia France, and the famous ' of HANGED BY A MOB. I——- A Quadruple Lynching in Tennesses on Mere Suspicion. Four colored peopis were lynched by une known persons at a late hour in the night on the Booneville turnpike, one mile from the town of Lynehburg, the conaty seat of Moore County, Tennessos, Threa were men and the other was & woe man, They were Ned Waggoner: his son Wil w ner | his son-in-law, Samuel Mote low, and Notions wife, Mary Motiow, The lynching was on the farm of Juok Daniels, and was 80 quietly done thet no one 1a the neightorhood was aware of the fast until the driver of the stage conch, who was the first Jowear. of the road next day, discovered ® four les dangling from the sams tree, The victims were charged with burning Svetalatate and bru fn Moore yo . There It uo clue to t perpetrators ynehing, | BOMBS AN OPERAROUSE MANY PEOPLE MURDERED BY ANARCHISTS IN SPAIN, Two Bombs Thrown From the Gal. lery in the Second Act of “William | Tell” right and Fifteen People Killed Out- Fatally Injured - Mangled, Many Hemalns Terribly A dastard Barcelona ernzy desire { qualed, The Ly fn pera H i [ nt mueh nan Mal sorne of the outrage I's opery season of this hous ( [here wns a +» Went LO BENGULA DEFEATED. of His or Wounded on the One Thousand Koldiers Field Dead aed ut fora ers Fairy have bee e traders sa tromied Buiaway re, alter L is and oxy NEWSY GLEANING 00 frame ol Ks i lan w, A y dent h at Tell prospector wns ride, Ox cattle killed at January 1 is 786 972 Tie town of Tekoa, Wash, has adopted the balland-chain remedy for tran pe Ur to date, in New York, this has been the worst theatrioal season for many yeam ’ INE of i number City, Mo. since Kansas Brows Usxivessity has an saroliment of 607 students and a faculty of sixty-five Mone than 1500 tramps crossed the Calle fornia line going south from Oregon during Omtober Ganners Erunarox, a Missouri miner, re. contly sent out a lump of conl weighing 2180 pounds, A soxsren gas well has been found near Findlay, Ohio, that breaks the world's rec. ord with 50,000 feet & day. Barwox fishing ls prohibited in the Biate of Washington between 6 p.m. on Saturdays and the same hour on Runday Gimaxp Ravine, Mich, bk offerad free city telephones and the public the service at #24 a year, if a franchise shall be granted a new Company, — Trey (laseax, Emperor of Moroseo, is lord of life as well as lord of death to the opie of his Afrionn dominton. *'f am the ing of kings. 1am the prince of paradiss ; then obey me without 4 marmur, as my oamels do.” rans the magnificent . slons of this ruler. He oan violas with im. punity the Mobammedan law / g Jnst strong drink, because he is such a hoy man thet whet Hauor comes In content with his per 830 1 dunes all Its fGery intoxioating wall t : EE ——cmm— to Heattle a few da Be first white onfid int 5 River, Alaska, It wite Jot Eastern border of Tanix hae aixty labor papess, Bryoxrayyns have 511 uni Loxpos has 9600 union Avy Fall River 1 Fart RB Tue Chickasa print AMMAN ERE Dave cramenro, Cal eal clu Burra miners riots have ¢ UNESKLAND hay sixteen is CEnMaANyY union A #TOXE saw placed ir and, Vt. ¥irry nen on Government does (he ent { Penns prer ve bes in 0 garden workers the THE MARKET Whales: " auc ale Prices Qu ted hickens alia Western, ¥ 10 vin--8t. and West Ducks Western. # 0 Spring, Eastern, § Spring, Lo L.®¥®. ovvivie Eastern, #0 ...... SqualsDark ¥ dos...... hite, # doz ‘ YRORTARLES Potatoes State, #1850 Ms Jersey, ¥ bhi . . LIL.inbulk, bl... Cabbage, I. 1.7 100 . 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