-_— ———————— © — - "The phrase in Chicago used to be Before the fire.” Now il is ‘Before the Fair.” A mile of hedge and ditch equals an acre of land. The amount of extra dand that would be rendered available for crops, were all the hedges in the United Kingdom trimmed properly, would be equivalent to 600,000 acres. It is apparent to the Toledo (Ohio) Commercial that the law must furnish moro severe penalties for the crimes of train wrecking and trein robberies, These crimes are becoming so numer- ous, and it is so seldom that the per- petrators are canght, that the most severe punishment should be dealt out when once the outlaws are brought to justice. Texas raises 1,200,000 bales of cot- ton, which yield nearly 850,000,000, The cotton seed product exceeds 600,- 000 tons. The sugar plantations on the Brazos alone produce 12,000,000 pounds of sugar and 1,200,000 gal- lons of molasses. Texas has 5,000,- 000 sheep and clips 25,000,000 pounds of wool. The pecan trees of Texas Yield every year 9,000,000 pounds of nuts, There is a cross-country stage line from Abbott Village, Me., on the Pis- cataquis River, to Bingham, on the Kennebes, the only intervening settlo- ments being Kingsburg and Mayfield, both such small villages that th y are scarcely distinguishable from the sur- rounding country. route is over twenty-five miles, and it is doubtful, declares the New York Post, if there are mar fty occupied dwelling-honses on the iy more than fi road along the line. It appears, according to the regis tration report of Massachusetts, that nearly twice a8 many women as men in that State live to be This explains the Chicago Herald, by the greater exposure of men to accidents, to weather agencies, to the constant over eighty years of age, is accounted for, } | i i | i | | 1 | | i | | | | } | | | swindle | to dream of, to d The length of the i A medical journal commends the invention or discovery of a method of treating certain diseases by a doctor in Trinidad, West Indies, that “‘anfortunately” he is debarred from putting it into practice in his country owing to the scarcity of these but says particular diseases there, of Trinidad The people will not where the misfortune comes in. probably #0 In area Australin equals the United States, 1801 équare miles and a population of 8,. 801,050, British, religious profession, the cen sus of 8,075,088 According to Australian contains This population is strongly Especially is this true of the The all slips from the English planting— the Church of the P terians, the Methodists, the Japtists, The Lather Of the 2,608, socts aro wibhy. England, the Congregationalists, Ans are an exception. to the Church of England, Ilastrated for the Tondon What an admirable place all Exolaima News: chevaliers kinds of industry of must Tunis be! dream there th whoever drank of the water in he cholera, 20,000 people (at couple of day $, passed through her premises OQ, Santa Simplicitas! what a town that mast be for the con- tvick and y that have idence all the other littl fallen under sn pi ! What a place, if not i 1 } Clon elsewihier: ream in! The Christ the United Stat stands first in p ing 51,000 org communicant &; ’ ond, and have 43, 0) organizations an ! | 8,743,000 communicants; the Pre by terians are third, with 13,500 organi- zations and 1,278,000 ¢ Catholie mmunicants ; the Roman organizations number 10,270, with 6.258 000 indi- | viduals in them; the Lutherans have 8505 organizations and a communi | eant membe rship of 1,231,000, strain of business life, to the anxiety | of providing for the family, all of which tend to shorten the life of wen. The deaths by accident among men are more than among women and nen commit snicide in about a three-fold ratio as compared with women. "Our neighbor on the south, Mexico, gives us a great deal more trouble,” maintains the New York Sun, “than our neighbor on the north, Canada. If gangs of Canadian rebels were in the habit of entering our territory as the Mexican rebels enter it, Canada would be brought to order upon short notice. We put up Mexico. Troops of our army are in service against her rebels half the time. It is absurd in Minister Romero with a great deal from to say that these rebels are Americans. We have arrested lots of them, and all bore Mexican names, spoke Mexican Bpanish and boasted they were Mex- icans, Among the 65,000,000 people in the United States, the Chicago Herald thinks there are probably not 500 ont- side of the locality who are aware that at the mouth of the Mississippi there is » little village built upon wooden piles standing far out into the water, This village, which is called Balize, is reached from the mainland by three-fold greater than | | the railroad station at Dover, in | land, carries with it a | terial, it seems : i If any vanguine prophet ten yoars ago had predicted that early in the last deesde of this century the world would | seo a railroad on the Congo built by g the Francisco the natives o country, muses the Chronicle, he would have been set down as & wilder crank than Wiggins, of figures out when the Western railroad San Montreal, who the prairie, eyclone will smite At first the had difficulty to secure labore re. ns contractors great the native would hays the work. Now, begun to take an nothing to do with they interest in the enter. however, have prise and about the ne scores every day gather wiy-graded road -bed and work for nothing at laying rails Bavage Africa will soon disappear from the American desert if this work wo By the maps as completely as great wl On. The sudden fall of the iron roof of Eng- lesson to our ’ iron bridge constructors, snd especi ally to the management of the elevaied railroad system of this city, remarks the New York Tribune. The question was old, having been , roof in oon structed some thirty years ago, and. notwithstanding re peated coverings of other that print and of protective ma the metal was | eaten away to such an extent by rust canoes or boasts, and its inhabitants | have to climb a kind of pole ladder to get to the doorways of their homes. This is probably the only place in the Dnited States in which ‘‘pile dwell ings” ocour, but all along the Venezue- lan coast and at the mouths of the Ori- that it ended by falling of its own ac cord, and without the slightest warn- ing. the iron girders of our elevated rail road system and the steel cables of the | Brooklyn Bridge will be able to with- noco and the Amazon, similar villages are frequently met with, many of them inhabited by the Indian fishing tribes of the Amazon estuary, The New York Press has compiled from the census report a table show. ing the wages paid in 128 cities as re- ported by the census of 1800, The aggregate in the 123 cities was 2,451, - 879 operatives and $1,318,077,618 wages paid. The number of hands and the wages paid in tho cities of the eountry, where over 25,000 appear in the list of employes, are given in the table following : Fame, Operatives, Buffalo oo 49,998 Brookiyn.............108,05 Boston ......... co 90,178 Baltimore... ........ 83.001 Cleveland ........... 48,TH Cinedonat!., .o........ £9,529 Chicago vs oun + 208,158 Wages Pala. $24,617 408 61,975,700 54,635 095 85,977,588 21,505,401 43,974 484 110,146,857 19,277.04 10,605,545 16,522,018 19,299,998 34,565, 961 228,587,205 48,808 152 10,069,087 182,436,263 16,524. 410 29,960,057 0,502,680 leer Tr Minueapells.......... 82.017 Milwaukes, o.oo... $1,027 Rewnvk.... .. 43,502 Now York City. ....... 251,751 Plttsbuse. ............ 085,488 Providence........... 88,671 Philadelphia. ........ 258,078 Roohestor.... ........ 81478 Ban Francisco ........ 46,500 dn LT non | | | stand the wear and tear and vibration, as well as the atmospheric influences, to which they are subjected. What is supposed to be the only | frostless belt in the United States lies between the city of Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean. | bas an elevation of between two and In breadth it js The ‘waters .of the Pacific are visible from it, and the proximity of the ocean has, of conrse, something to do with banishing frosts, During the winter season this tract produces tomatoes, peas, beans, and other tender vegetables, and there the lemon flourishes, a treo that is pe- onliarly susceptible to cold. Tropical trees may be also cultiveted with sno. cons, and in connection with this fact it is interesting to know that a part of the favored territory hasbeen noquired by Los Angeles for par} purposes, and it is oily a question of time when the city will have the unique distinetion of possessing the only tropical park in the United States. Strange to say, only the midway region of the Oa huenga range is free from frost, the lower part of the valley being osen- sionally visited, # four hundred feet. perhaps three miles, It remains to be seen how long | It traverses the foothills of the Cahuenga range and | | | | brings inte | Viet HAWAIL IS DEFIANT. PROVISIONAL PARTY WILL RESIST REf TORATION, Froops Fortifylng the Government House at Honolulu and Making Barricades of Sand Bags — Big Mass Meeting Held Significant Speeches Made by the Leaders, The Australian Hawaiian British upon entering the straits Arawn, whisk news, has arrived at steamer ria, umbia, Immediately she was boarded by a reporter, who was informed that Queen | Littuokalani had not been restored and that | nsture have happenad there, | Honints there had been no trouble in Honoluln, Since the arrival of the lust reports from Honolulu only two things of a slenificant Tho annexn- held a «meeting on November ¢5 and adopted resolution { gress over President Clove) , Boorotary Gresham and Mr, Blount, and on four days (ass 01 Gli = { preceding the sailing ‘sf the Arawa the troops | of the Provisional Government were busy | bags principally, | the harbor the troops of | | (Now | passenger of the Arawa of A lady having had a P r cistern would escape | a penny a head) ina | | loaded or fortit ] 629 Protestants more than hal? belong | fortifying Government As formerly And and barricading or the Castle, as it ws The work was being done with As the Aeawa sailed fr paid fro neck of the steamer © islly engmred in up the breastwork Walker Butoher, Wales) Eveni House, walled, «Bann ng James Nouth ALBERT » Aransisco. Hawaltan waiting for the 1 £0 on record by the annexationist in the United States be a alenrly define Government to § | rommitting dn ant The Castle at Hou »f and sixteen mounted in front of it. A correspondent in Honolula, dor date of December 4, unanimons and urgent de ean citizens the Provision decided to resist to the atmos extremity any sitemipt to overthrow them by the United States foroes without authority from Con gross. Leading oitizens generally have an nounced their intention to be foremost in defence. Twelve hundred volunteer rifleman are ready to call with Largs Maxim and batteries, Minister Wills is } i wernment 10 take no astion before the return of the Alameds on De winber 21. His instruclioss are still con oonled.™ President Dole stated that as rescives] two bona armed assistance from the + for servios at Hon vislonal Govern } ne 1h and the other for four thousand “While we do not nead this aid Preside the fact that it has us shows what the Maton The H thorized to Queen hae Minister Wiilis ‘ winister Willis has at any time referred th Provision 4 restoration ORLHBONS are writing u: SEYS: “At the nd of the Ameri rovernmen! has the the Govern fide : ment h Hers rien of ent nt. * fanll al Government Queon Queon s Pr has had any visional Govern subject thousand persons were at siready mentionsd, which “tate ons fa vorabie to tation The royalists say the of the Pi enthusisam was of F. NM : onal Gov anne rmsd ment, a prearranged order, Hateh, Viee-Presiden romaent, and President of the An nexation Club, presided and made the ing speech, He appealed to Congress agains the utive, and beld that Secretary Gresham did not know international Jaw He declarad that the Provisional Government had never submitted its right to exist to the United States, and was, therefore. not bound by the policy of President Cleveland W. RB Castle, one of the Annexation Com missioners to Washington, made en argu ment to prove the authority of mass meetings of the Provis Dey pen | He quoted recent American opinion that the Revolution of 1776 the work of « minority Hawall, be sald, was surely trending toward the goal of unfon with {ts Was Lilinokalasi, Queen Emma, Kalakaua, Kamehameha 1. Luanalily HAWAIIAN MOXARCHS, “Cait rog I mothor country noross tne wa'er, Becretary Gresham stop the onward ross of Hawali?' he shouted. Mr. admitted that President Cleveland and Mr. Gresham were trying to execute justion and to do what fs right, but ehemier of thelr ears with lies clared that the : States wore eninst Hawaiian policy, He sald that the President of the United States is ncwhere authorized to bogin war, Mr. Castle attacks Commissioner Hiount, Foy with twine javiting tha spporters Queen to revolt the Provisional He ng was packed by representatives | and that all | { the regret the recommendation of the Recretary of State of the United States to the Presi dent to restore the monar thy Intely existing in Hawall, “Resolved, That we condemn the assump tion of the Rearetary that the right of the Provisional Government to exif was termine nted by his refusal to resubmit to the NBenate the treaty of the union pending between thes two countries, und also his nssumption thst the Provisionul Government at that time subs mitted the fquesticn of fs continund exis nee 10 Me wrvrament ol tae President or of any other power “Resolved, That woe support to the best of our ability the Provisional Governme nt, to resist any attack upon it which may bo made eontray to the usage of Nationa ® A New York World correspondent at Hon olula called upon Mr, Willis, the Ajerican Minister to Hawaii, at Mr. Willis said “1 eannot the natere of any in structicus 1 may have received from Wash ington, or I may have brought with me. nor ean I say whether I have gent any renorts t Washingto: Many statements are reported purporting to rom are pot true, This, however, 1 did arrived here | found the town in a great excltament, many young and others not accustomed to it, ing guard nightly with arms. I: relieve this tension, I notified all partion that during this period of waiting I would allow no rioting or bloodshed, If any such tempts were made I would land the tro from the United States war vessels and press rioting promptly.” “I suppose the British Minister could his resid noe, discloses heres but they When | sate of CIIrLe me o stand iron’ 1% operate with you in ich mens h - forense with the British ther subject protection The war vos a are the Ameriont 4 i strikes in ts yea : s discharged § fax M tion at Pittebarye | to the poor Ixpianay Hive tev pot unemployed, Prrrsnvia rey AO-Operati ve com pany the unen ploy ed sta th that trades workers lown the lengtl the idle un show ind sroot r repairs on its line in or Briupixa Ohio, will cut in order to giv Allway Tur Indianapolis mpany has began der to give work to the unemployed New Rovrs Wares ourts that employes mast not be worked lay afternoons without compensa’ ion Ampnicaxs will establish a clock factor) smploying about thousand hands, at Tokio, Japan, where labot is very cheap organization in the world Wf Free Porter the thirteent! Jovrend wi Satur have ten Tur oldest labor is said to be the Pellowship f London. It dates fron ontury. Axormer cotton mii has just | ’ pleted in North Caroling, being the ninti this®sar, It is at Long Shoal, and will hav BODO spindles, To such an extent hae machinery super seded hand work ie the gra'n farms of the Northwest that it stimated that the labor of one man will raise enough grain to support 1000 men for a year Ix Rhode Island, Olneyville’s 6000 textile strikers have returned to work, The re. duction was compromised at fifteen per wont, the oid seale th be restorsd in prosperous times, Wage loss, $200,000 In six weeks, Tue promoters of the British National Free Labor Association, encouraged by the success of a conference In London, have undertaken to organize a free Inbor move: ment in the jeading ports and industrial sentres of Great Britain, Dasven, Col, had to go back to tallow dips, lamps and gas when the electrionl workers struck against a ont of from ten to fifteen cent. They were getting from #60 to $100 a month, Not a street Jamp in the city was burning the first night of the strike, je Ee —— and in round order to | | | { | | and Hannah, | Bodalla, Mo. | Taylor, the murderers of Captain Cooper, EFFECT AT LOUISVILLE, The False Work and Iron Superstructe | ure Give Way Planed to the by Huge Iron lottom of the River Girders ~Hunt for the Dead and Injured, bridg: f and Jeffer t of vietlsn rked ever carried down ond ehannel hat night at BR o'e # Jittie 4 * guilty « say the setting for LATER NEWS, ubmarine te we shook of the explo Wi feet away, ado diff New York Harbor Ly stoamers were delave ashore, x Was 0 i=ait and dan the fog ; ooean ferryboat rar Five alarms were sent fn for a fire at Thossen’s farniture store in New York City. Loss, #500,000. Many adjoining buildings ware wrecked by the blazes and falling walle More than two hundred persons wers driven wr from thelr homes, Tax grip bas stricken the Swayne house hold in East Marlborough, Pens.. with ter rible effect. Threo sisters, Louise, seventy-two yoars: Elizabeth, seventy-six, seventyJdour, who lived to gother, all died within thirty-six hours, aged CoxrraoLien Eoxxis reports a oash bal. | anos of $34,707.43 on hand of the Preedman's | Bavings Bank, Dick Romixsox was hanged for murder at Arthur Courtney and Henry | wore executed at Princess Anne, Ma. Ike Guoxsxis, sheep boss, Arthar Davie and two of his herders, have been killed on the Pecos River, nearly 200 miles from San Angelo, Texas Tue Bragilian ports of Rio Janeiro and Santos are said to be completely blockaded by Admiral Mello's warships, Ta" German Reichstag passed the com. mercial treaties with Bpain, Bervia and Ru mania. Fovnreex people were killed and thirty wounded in a railroad collision noar, Son noyka, Russia, ; WHILE PLAYING FOOTBALL, The Tee Broke and Two of the Play« ers Lost Thelr Lives, While a number of young mon were play Ing football on the foe on the Susquehanna River at Selingsgrove, Pann, the fee broke and one of vite party went through into the A BI BRIDGE COLLAPSES A SPAN FALLS WITH FATAL | Many Waorkmen | { in Plymouth (England THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, Hesuy B, Coonnas x4 hin! ‘vigher o the Philadelphia Mint. whe cently convicted of r B145.00 { bullion fr institution rit bis —- re wien X 1c South and West Washington. Hawail via Jape: Provisi ernment declares that 18 will resist any attempt to restors WYueeg Say tae openly the gal Go French vesas! Gama formerly Rio ADMInAL Merio seized the Parahvba and Admiral de asstimed command of the rebel ships 1 Harbor, Bra A BOAT from the trox pship Tamar apsized Harbor, Five of occapants were drowned, ite Re On A THaw has set in at St, Petersburg sia, and with t an incroense of cholera, { one day there wore thirty-eight oases and | Diteen deaths, Tur Japantse steamship Matsuvemaras | Mrack on the rocks while bound for Sh: we. { chara, { ‘wore drowned, and founderad. Thirty passengers TL) vant of Major Forbe's command was at- | Incked by King Lo Bengula’s warriors in | Matabaland, Africa, and foresd 10 retreat. M. Pau, formerly Swiss Minister to the United States, has bean oloctad President of ! the Swiss Federation Trrnreex men were drowned by the sink. | dng of the coal schooner Parry. which traded between Dublin, Ireland, and Holyhead, EXECUTION AT RIO. Five of an Insurgent Ship's Company Killed, The British steamer Nile, which salled from Pernambuco, Brazil, on Dessmber bth, has arrived at Lisbon, Portagal. She was boarded wt onoe by a correspondent, who ob. tained the following news from the ofosrs and from mail advices, crew of the guardship harbor, carried ashore soldiors fired ith the fist volley they killed five. The rest of the prisoners shouted “Long live Mello ™ The saldiers rofased to fire again, and the rast of the mae rine Abs to ha still site leland and
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