A—— ——— Even little Belgium spends every year $9,000,000 on her army. Ohio produces fully one-half of the tote! quantity of iron and steel roofing sold in the United States, The St. Louis Globe-Democrat states that the honse property of Australia is more valuable, compared with popu- Iation, than in Europe, *1t is somewhat of a joke,” thinks the Chicago Times, ‘for bankrupt Spain to talk of building a navy big and powerful enough to stand any show besides those of England or OL Russias.” The total value of the crops of the at §3,000,000,000, of which the larg: | United States during 1892 is estimated | | est item is §750,000,000 worth of hay. The animal products, including meats, dairy products, poultry and eggs, and wool, are placed at $965,000,000 more. | A consignment of about thirty stall- ions, broodmares and some trotters for road and campaigning have just been sent abroad, notes the New York World. Some of the animals have | been already sold, and others are taken on gpeculation. The idea is to intro- | duce the American trotter to the notice ©f foreign horsemen. Owing to the ruthless manner in whish ropeans have devastated the fauna and flora of the domains of Sarawak, Rajah Brooke has decided to prohibit tke oollecting of natural history specimens within his territories. of valuable plants native to that re- gion were in danger of becoming ex- tinct, orchid hunters and other Eu- Many species Sixty per cent. of the Hungarians, more than half of the Italians, thirty- five per cent. of the Austrians and Bo- hemians, of the British, eighteen cent. of the Germans, forty per cent. of the Irish and ten per cent. of the Scandinavians who came to the United States between 1880 snd 1890 returned to their native lands in the decade. twenty per cent per In spite of the substantial nature of the buildings of London fires in the great metropolis are not infrequent, obaarves the San Fraucisco Chronicle. The most destructive sro those which occur in large store and ware honses, but they are generally confined to the premises or block in which they origin- Jon" » > Lb z " rT ATT 3 don, although the ‘English seem to think it is perfect, does not begin to : approach the degree of ed in many American Comparative drills show that Ameri- can fire laddies torn out with much more celerity than the British. Per. hap. when the latter cultivate spry- ness to the same extent as the Yankees fires will be less numerous and less de- structive in London. efficiency cities, The early and deep snows in the mountains of the Northwest are cans- ing a wholesale slacghter of deer. The animals, compelled to leave the hills, are the easiest kind of prey for the sportsman, the pot-hunter and the wanton slanghterer, ith four dogs killed twenty-four deer in one day, and a total of » six days’ hunt in the Elk Creek dis- triet, Oregon. driven to the tidewater along Puget Bound, and great numbers are being killed all over the Sound region. The Indians over the border in British Co- Five hunters fifty-one in The animals have been | tribes about | never can { have to be given in pledge, The annual increase of house prop- erty in New York is $32,000,000, Denmark has the greatest amount to the inhabitants in the savings banks, the pro rata being about $50 to each. The walue of the railroads of the United States is greater than the com- bined railroad valuation of Great Srit- ain, France and Germany. « Mulhall says thst of our National wealth $31,150,000,000 are owned by native born Americans, This sum be- ing over six-sevenths of the whole. Holland does the largest business proporticned to population of any The total of equal 8226 to of the country on the globe. exports and imports each inhabitant, while that United States is but $25. Spain expects twelve million dollars | indemnity from the Sultan of Morocco as indemnity for outrages by the Riff Melilla. But declares the Morocco New Yord Independent, and territory will pay it, another slice out of Africa, The much disputed question of the loftiest mountain on the North Ameri- | can continent has at last been settled, - Announces Cultivator. John of the Geographical Bociety of the Pacific, the chief of and geodetic B.C, Mexico, is the Boston Secretary the Partridge, has received a letter from the United States coast survey, Washington, that Mt. highest, stating Orizaba, in Mt. St. Eline, Alsska, has for many years past been considered | the highest, but Orizaba has been proved to be the higher by 299 feet. The Secretary Partridge, are: zaba, 18,314 feet; Mt. St 015 feet. forwarded to Mt. Elias, exact figures, as Uri- 18, - The journeys of the Emperor of Ger- ‘many cost him a great deal of money. | handsome sabres, three lambia are slaughtering the deer in | droves simply for their hides, leaving | the carcasses untouched. found over two hundred fresh skins in one camp of Indian hunters a week or #0 8gO. A French engineer named Bozin comes to the fore with a scheme for a steamzhip on rollers or drums. These A trapper | rollers are to be supplied with paddles, | or creepers, and driven by engines, so | that the craft will progress more like o street roller or a locomotive than an ordinary ship. This scheme is spoken of as something novel and startling. In fact it 2ppears to be identical with ua scheme invented and carried forward $0 an experimental stage some two or three years ago. The inventor ap. peared somewhere in the West, and later was engaged in building & oraft on this plan not far from New York. Of late nothing has been heard of him and his drum ship. Did M. Bozin stesl ‘the idea from the American, or is this another of the instances in which great dissoveries ere made in- dependently and almost simultanconaly by different persons far removed from ene another? Be that as it may, we may depend upon it that the Ameri: oan, if alive and compos meniis, will bob np as a claimant in ease M. Bozin os a success of his ocean high- According to sn article recently pub- lished in a German paper, over $200,- 000 were spent on the trip to Italy and | Austria undertaken soon after ks as- | cended the throne, A heavy trunk, in charge of a privy councilor on that | oceasion, contained eighty diamond | 2 rings, 150 decorations, many of them | jeweled ; fifty scarf pins, thirty neck- | laces, with diamond pendants; six large graphs of the Emperor and his family, | framed in gold; thirty gold watches wpe [Mand 100 gold cigar-holders, with dis | i photo- f i i L 3 mond ornaments, The Emperor pays | his own expenses when traveling on German railways. An Odessa correspondent says that the Russian orthodox missionaries have so failed in their proselytizing efforts among the Khirgese that the missions | will probably be shortly withdrawn. Nearly the whole of the steppe tribes, | enerally described as “heathens, "are E J ' now adopting, almost en maas, the | ! : Mohammedan faith, which is spread | among them chiefly by Tartar teachers, The Mohammedan Tartars have always | enjoyed the right of free proselytizism | among the natives of the Steppes. According to a report just issned by the All-Russian Orthodox Mission Socieiy, during the last twen- ty-five years it missionaries have made 85,000 converts among the heathens Khirgese | : of Asiatic and European Russia and | of quarter Japan. The cost during the of a smounts to 3,146,763 rubles, Bays the New York World: From all the cities there goes up the ery of the thousands of anemployed. their efforts to house and feed these homeless poor. That eminent evange- list, the Rev. B. Fay Mills, writing the Outlook, a Congregational paper, mentions a unique plan sug gested by a Chicago pastor in a recent meeting of the clergy in that city. “Why not take take some of the home- in | less people into our churches through the nights of the winter 2’ ““Thisplan,”’ writes Mr. Mills, "seems to me to be #0 easy, so practicable, so in harmony with the spirit of the Mastor, so well adapted to relieve. untold misery in these coming months of poverty, and one so well adapted tv produce the beneficont effect of bringrag together the prejudiced masses and the mem bers of our churches, and destroying the well-funded or unfounded prejuo- dices against ths churches on the part of the laboring men, that I csanot bat hope that the example of these earnest Chieago churchos may be followed by scores and hundreds throughout the land. Since 1 wrote the above these nine Chicago churches have decided to take one large room together, capabie of lodging 2560 men and koep it warmed and cared for, aud give the lodgers sandwiches for supper and breaklnst,” these missions | century | | chance ter i 3 i i The | " ; { up that purse. churches are united and earnest in | 1 ones SERVICE AND SONG, “Iam worn with work and watching; My home is humble and lone | Why lift up my volee in singing For no human heart but my own?” Her notes stirred a passing poet ; Hosang to a mighty host ; And the world ls glad and better For the musle she counted lost ! ~@G.T, Packard, in Youth's Companion, I — A SNOWSLIDE. PADDLE-HOSS Pete's record in the mining-camps of the Ban Juan District was as un- | eavory as his crouching form was unsightly and his hoarse voice disagreeable. He was a short, thick- SAVED BY built man—if man he ‘really was, for | he had more the | appearance of a boy-—who shuffled | about and leered | ut you with a fiend. | ish grin which made you feel un- | easy iu his pres- | ence, His brain was! quick though his physical movements were slow, and he | was strong as a beast. His record was that of tin-horn gambler and all-round | thief. Added to this ke bore the repu- tation of having been run out of Lesd- ville for horse stealing, and having es. caped from Tombstone's ready-made justice, charged with a like offense. Thus he came to the mining camp ly- Ing in & pretty basin under the shadow of old King Solomon, of the grandest mountains of Southern Col orado, Nine-tenths of the population had departed before the first storm had come, as was the custom in new Camps one in the early days before the railroads had broadened the trails and opened the passes through the Rocky Moun tains. Only about one hundred men and women remained in camp that winter, and they had little else to do than amuse themselves They were law-abiding and had little nse peace officers. So the town and cotunty officials took their usual vacation with others who did not feel like facing the rigid winter which was predicted. Saddle-Hoss Pete did not go out with the majority. He usually formed a minority--of one. But he was not disappointed at their leaving him. He thought he would be able to stand it for one season. But Paymaster Bill and Big Frank, who seemed to be looked upon as guardians of the affairs of ihe emp, pinitly told hie that he must go out—that the penalty of his return would be sudden death So Baddle-Hoss Pete departed before the second storm had come whither no. “body knew. Parson Tom had come to the camp in the previous spring and had made a good impression on his own kind of people, though the present remaining population knew little of him, and did not care whether he remained or not None of them were church-going peo ple. But as the parson said he had Lo idea of preaching, nobody objected to his staying in camp He gave a reason for staying that in case of death his service would be needed Bevond that he would not intrude his offices The extreme length of the winter had led Paymaster Bill to inquire into the parson’s finances; and, learning that there was a probability of his running short before his parishioners should return, Bill proposed to the | men in the camp that a purse be raised. His suggestion was acted upon, and | Paymaster Bill himself presented the hatful of money, accompanying the presentation with an Rppropriste ex- tempore speech, in which he advised Parson Tom of the appreciation of the donors. Parson Tom declared he conld not accept the money unless he should have an opportunity to earn it. “But we don’t none of us want ter die,” objected Bill, *‘jist ter give yen earn the money. We'd rather pay ye ter pray fer our econ tinued good health, jist as we drinks ter your good health w'en we makes! for Parson Tom langhed, and said he had no desire for the demise of any one, but merely wanted to give them some return for the money. That night Parson Tom appeared in Big Frank's saloon, where the entire | male population was endeavoring to | break the bank, having cleaned up the | Cornor saloon early = the evening. | The appearance of the parson created a flutter, and one or two superstitions | players lost every bet they made for | the balance of the deal. When the end | of the deal had been reached, the par. | son asked their attention for a few mines, and, mounting the platform | which held the look-out ohair, he! thanked them kindly for their gener | ons donation, and said if they would | come to the little sehool-house on Sun- day evening for a half hour he would endeavor to entertain them without prosching asermon. He declared that e conld not accept their money with. out earning it. Upon entering his cabin, Parson Towa stirred the fire, thinking of his visit, and, after sitting by its warmth till he had thawed himsel?, he went to his trunk, which held his treasure, to look at the little hoard of gold and silver which these rough men of the mountaine had so Kind) donated, It was not there! Perhaps, in his exoitement at bis good fortune, he had hidden it from himself and forgoiten the hiding-place. But, no, it was not in the cabin! was troubled, He conld The not that any of the men who | other { Bill arose sand reminded his compan- | a church. { the guich above, , he eat through the long, black night | by the ghost-like appearance of Parson | | Frank ; that's a purty | ye've got on yer face, had been so kind to him would be | he had been born without speech, guilty of robbery. And yet the money | while Paymaster Bill demanded that was gone. The long buckskin bag, in | he prove his innocence, and the erowd, which he kept his money and which |led on by Big Frank, sneered at and bore his name worked in silken thread, | reviled the accused. he found behind the trunk. During this trying ordeal for the When he met Paymaster Bill on the | parson, three men, selected by Big | following morning, he mentioned his | Frank, had gone to the parson’seshin, loss, Bill was astonished. He did not | and there, upon the floor, had found a believe that any man in the camp was | nugget of gold belonging to Big Frank. mean enough to steal, ‘at any rate, not | This they brought and flouted in the a pargon’s money,” | face of the trembling vietim. Well he The story of the loss of Parson Tom's | knew how it had come there, but it money was told about the camp, and, | was idlo to sssert or protest. His while it was a mystery to some, the words—if he could have more irreverent smiled and said they | would have been, to these infuriated guessed the parson was excited, and it | men, like the screech of a wild bird would turn np all right in time, Ou Sunday the san shone out bright | “Ye hev no proof o' yer innocence,” and clear, and old King Solomon was | said Paymaster Bill, hotly, “‘an’ we a8 glorious a sight as one might wish | hev this proof yer guilt. to see. His biblical namesake in all | say now?” his reputed glory could not have fur nished a grander inspiration. | lost, but with dying hope his speech Every male person was promptly on | returned, and he said with evident ef hand that night at the little school. | fort: house, and there was a sprinkle of the sex—women who had not listened to a preacher's voice since they were little girls, The half-hour was devoted to read- ing stories, which were responded to by hearty laughter and a few pathetic exclamations, When Parson Tom had finished and was about to say good-night, Paymaster ‘“‘Gentlemen, I see no hope of estab- lishing my innocence ; but still main- tain it. That nugget of gold must have | been dropped by the robber in our | struggle in the cabin, If 1 could re eall the voice I should convince you. { It was none of you who did the deed, but one who has once lived here among you, though I ean not tell his name He cau not live far away-—perhaps st one of the idle mines or in some de serted tunnel. He toward the guleh, for had he come this way he would have had to cross my body, as 1 lay there in the snow, That all 1 have to Do with me you must.” ions that on the night the person had called on them, it had been proposed that a fund be started toward building The n he added . “I don’t reckon none of ye has got a notion o' backin' down on thet ther’ propersition, Ef ye has, let's hear It was useless to search the gnleh— it. the he avy not permit here was not a dissenting voice, And, then, these angry men had n though the amount of gold and silver donbt of the guilt of the parson, Only dropped in the parsons pretty bnek- | the production of the man he claimed large ns it iad robbed him not belief in his sngrier as the minutes passed, ““The parson bed,” coolly re marked Big Frank, whose faith in the pre ac hie r sort had never bree n “He's ungrateful master Bill added. “Hang him!" yelled a crowd, The increased like the roar of the wind through the gulches in the coming of a storm. A more and the infuriated mob went 18 BAY. ns would SNOW skin bag was not so have been had the his first winnin'.” The moon had dropped down be- hind the peak of King Solomon, leayv- ing the camp in darkness, snow fell with that indicates a heavier fall to come. Parson Tom had yust opened the door of his cabin to step in, when a heavy hand was laid upon his throst and a hoarse voice demanded : “Give me that money! Quick!” The parson was by n coward. He straggled with his assail aut, snd together they fell into the cabin and rolled into the light cover of fresh snow which had fallen on the frozen crust. Muttered curses and a tighter prip upon his throat met his resistance, rye bed AEE AR would destroy their “lost parson guilt, The erowd RTew lias while soft which Kt ur rong monotony an robber,” Pas man in the excitement minute who, in the absence of a court, had tried, con- vieted, and sentenced the acsused, was eager to execute the sentence of death. Like wild men they flew to the upper end of the camp, dragging the | parson with them. Convinced of his guilt, and maddened by thoughts of { his ingratitude, no hand could stay Parson Tom knew not how long he | them. had lain there, and, the Quickly the preparations for the ex- warmer temperature, he was numb | ecution were made. Two barrels, each with cold when he crawled into his ©f which supported an end of a brosd cabin. He was so completely over- | plank, placed under the stout limb of coiie Uy the struggle with his assailant | ® grest tree, formed the seaffold, One and the cold that he lay upon his bed | end of the rope was fastened to the iv a stapor far into the night. no means out despite When he aroused, the show was fall- | aud placed over the head and sround | Roeets, Xe drifts, from Yhe neck of the trenibling pafeon. He opened the door | *“Atre ye ready?” cried the leader He vonld see noi | of the mob to the two men who the blinding storm and the stationed at the ends of the plank darkness which was scarcely subdued | ready to lift ii out from under the by the ghastly whiteness of the snow, | feet of the doomed man. He dared not venture out. No man “Give him one more chance ter tell could live sn hour in that terrible | Who robbed him,” demanded Paymas storm. ter Bill Rebuilding the Sire, the parson sat Standing there upon that plank, down and tried to think—tried to | with the death rope around his neck, think where Le had heard that voice | Parson Tom's memory returned. The before it demanded his money. If he | ugly face of his assailant, which he could only recall that, he wonld be | could not see ithe night before in the able to identify the man who had | darkness, was now plainly visible, and robbed him. Without that recollec- | the couched form of the robber ap tion, his clsim that he had been | peared as plain as on the day he had robbed the second time would be only sneaked out of camp at the command ng in and fooked out. were bint the ¥¥ DE SS laughed at by the men who had been | of these same men The crowd waited almost breath. | 80 generons in their gifts, But it was impossible to recall it, lessly. though he knew he had heard it and “Quick !” remarked its peculiar tone. And there | was leader “Saddle -— Horse shouted the parson, The crowd broke out in jeers. “Oh, no!” they said, ‘‘that can't be shouted Big Frank, who ~ Pete!” almost hoping against hope It was broad noonday when he | uwoke, sitting by the dying embers {on the hearth. The sun shone brighter | He was drove out, an’ he's not likely than it had shone for weeks. Its hot | to show his head anywheres 'roun’ this rays melted the snow on the roofs of | camp. That won't do. Guess agin.” the honses, and the day was like a day “Ye'll hev to perduce ther body of in spring. But it brought no joy to | Saddle-Hoss Pete afore the court’ll | the heart of Parson Tom. | admit ther evidence,” said Bill. The habitaes of Big Frank's saloon! “Once agin. Aire | ye ready?’ | {bud hardly settled themselves down | shouted Big Frank | to the pleasures or pastimes of the | “Yes,” came the calm but determ- | day--their morning hour being the | ined voices of the two men st the ends | noon-time--when they were startled | of the plank. “Give him time ter pray,” begged Tom. In a trembling voice, he told | an unwilling participant, his story, { “Pray then!” shouted the leader. “He plays it well,” sneered Big | Parson Tom stood erect with bowed good make-up | head. Slowly and with firmoess he | [e'd ought ter | lifted his voice, Suddenly he faltered, | be a performer. There'll be chance turning his face toward the mountain. | fer ye when the variety show opens| Hark! Look! The excited group | up in the spring.” | of men stood there riveted to the | This speoch was greeted with langh- | ground. The hands of thase who held | ter by the crowd, sud the poor parson | the plank were frozen ae if in death's | was domb-<but not deaf with morti- | elutch. The tongue of him whose | fioation. How could he face these men | word was law was paralyzel. The | who disbelieved his very first utter: | sound which filled their ears earried | ance? He tarned to go. more terror to their souls than the | “Hold on ther'!” eried Paymaster | awful roar of battle, the rushing of the | Bill; ““this is twicet yer say yer bin | mighiy waters in a storm st sea, and | robbed in this camp. Both times it | the rambling of an earthquake, all | wis Our money as ye was robbed of — combined, conld have inspired, money ‘at we give yo. Now ye'rogot! On, on it came, tearing from their ter prove it; fer we don't "low no man | roots great trees that had withstood | t' accuse none 'o us 'o robbin’ him the the storms of generations; hurling second time ‘thout he perduces ther | heavy branches, logs, timbers and proof.” rocks a hundred feet above the heads “Ther proofs w'at wa | of the frightened witnesses. shouted the crowd. Groat clouds of snow filled the air Parson Tom stood as still as desth. | and hil from view the surrounding mountains, all huddled He could not speak, “An’ thor's another thing ye've got | Nota man in that grou together like so ani- mals, but in an instant. the 3 wants!" fet prove,” continued Bill, as ho sew the parson wonld not : “ye've ter prove thet ye x i gut other fen Toodon : one whe Inst night ; an’ of veo ain't ther burglar, then These men who were brave of heart to have fought with battle, or faced the ocean's the SE — spoken | { borne on the wind in a howling storm. Wat d'ye | Parson Tom saw that all hope was | { limb, the other formed into a noose | | you did? spiration of patriotism on the field of | | Bwift as a meteor it came, and, like {the bursting of s thunderbwit, had | spent its wrath; and its dreadful har- | vest lay seattered far and wide, like | dead and wounded soldiers on a battles | field, And when the sky had cleared there Iny, at the feet of them who held a life | within their grasp, 8 dead and frozen | human form, Tight against the breast, | the clutched and stiffened fingers of | the dead held the buckskin bag of money—the evidence of Parson Tom's mnocence | The crowd fell back, aghast ! | It was Baddle-Hoss Pete! | naut, - ———— SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, Argos | Two hundred and eighteen thousand tons of phosphate have been mined in { Bouth Caroling during 1893, | There are fifty miles of electric railway and 1600 telephones in use in Grand Rapids, Mich., a city of 90,000 inhabitants, A deposit of iron ore has been dis- covered near Chipman, New Bruns- wick. Specimens are now being tested with a view to working mines, P. Bilvert, of Dohlen, Saxony g of pro- glass pipes 3 ines grooves or flutes, and using a core wo complete the formation of the pipe or | tube, The that Ironwo ’ poses the manufacture by rolling 1 » $5 ! 4 IGE QOwL moiten in said to be or Borneo sira; ORK. timber “bilian strongest 18 known 1 Od, as whose breaking nis that of English It becomes of ebony blackness ander 1 ng 1.52 times exposure, The Yale M« dieal Sehe ceived a new respiration invention of Professor It is said that imnovation smong the of the ¢ mantry. | has AppAarstus, Vort, it will ” re- an of (3¢ Te make an » 1 3 1 EFL dical BCRO0I anv W Petrified horse trac Are the enriosities attributed to tras Ks rd oS ATN« n Missouri, n bot- ity. The ty ut thus nd in Ray Cour fq They are said to by tom of creck iB ancient bird tracks « the onnecti have present ay rivals, The highest pressure drive a water wheel J near Grenoble, feet perated since oR feet A ive gallons of water per se force of 1500 horse power ten bine th iia WW flow ud gives On French canals boats have apparatus by means of which they pull themselves along, drawing in (and dis- charging behind) a chain eable thst Jies along the bottom of the canal Formerly the machinery was worked by but electricity has been used, with a trolley system, for the last two months on t Bourgorne Canal, Thousands of photographs of light- ning have been seenred ing the inst few wears, but until last month there was no known record, made in [this way, of the globular form of BOI steam ; fe dn thighining. Such a one 1s said to have been obtained by Dr. Kemphill, of Kingstown, England, on during a terrible st tive exhibits both th ous flashes, and, on t sea, a number of fireballs, join gether by horizontal and resembling “the cours i of wool played with by a kitten Nove mber 9 This rdir rin. ry he ines o 3 a Under the Thibetan system of poly- andry, as observed by Mrs. Bishop Isabella Bird), the eldest son alone of the family marries, and the wife ac cepts the brothers of her husband as secondary Spouses. The whole family is thus held to the home. The children belong to the elder brothe r, while the { other brothers are ‘“‘lesser fathers.” The natives are strongly attached to this custom. The women, in particu- lar, despise the monotony of European monogamy, and the word “widow” & term of reproach Children are very obedient to their fathers and their 1 the family feeling is strongly developed. ———— The Coat Fitted, Deacon Ironside service) “Elder, I got in a little this morning, but I don’t think you had any right to take it out of me your sermon.’ Elder Keepalong you? How?" “Get back at me. Ain't that what I hadn't hardly got inside the door when I heard you say: ‘And now comes the worst of them all, the chief rebel againgt the government of heaven." And then you went on de- soribing my character, and putting all failings in the worst light yon possi. bly could. You didn’t mention no names, but I knew who you was driv- ng st, and I mast say, Elder, that I didn’t like the way of —" “But, my dear Deacon Ironside, yoo totally misapprehend. The subject this morning was ‘The Rebellion In Heaven,” and when you came in 1 was trying to picture the depravity of La. cifer, the archapostate. 1 am truly sorry, deacon, if I seemed to" ‘Never mind, elder; never mind. We'll--h'm- we'll say no more about it. Rather a nasty morning, ain't it?" «Chicago Tribune, - CC ——— “ Following Her Example, It is often remarked that an unac- customed traveler can get on pretty well if he will keep his ayes and oars open. A native of Ireland landed at Greenock and wanted to take the train for Glasgow, Never having been in a railway station before, he did not know how to get bis ticket, but he aw a ing in and determined to follow hey .. The Indy went to the Sicha bigs and, putting down her is among them, t Let mothers, late In id “Take it out of
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