The sugar beet industry is being | rapidly pushed in Australia. : , { The countries of the world where | women already have some suffrage | have an area of over 18,000,000 square miles, and their population is over | 350,000,000, Says Texas Siftings: Seven out of every ten railroad accidents are settled | with an annual pass. Some men would | be run over by a whole freight train for the sake of a few free rides. As the result of statistics showing a | large increase in the number of youth ful eriminals, the German Ministry of the Interior is discussing a reorgani- zation of the system of compulsory education. The New Zealand the most prosperous in the world. Within farmers are the past ten years the agricultural re sources have been developed until the dairy and frozen-meat industries have attained enormous proportions. An bought English a ticket After traveling without having had a chance to get off at passenger Lo twenty-four recently from Vienna. hours any food, the traveler stopped Dresden rather than continue his journey for the remaining twelve hours in starvation, German railway company nis ticket, ping privilege buy another. LAs not Australia financial troul ] } OAS § from her economy een practices banks has | savings By 2. 23 v§ 10 three per cent married living toge harmonious and subject to life, has often been o The Photographic Society, of Geneva, recently took the pictures of seveuty- eight couple for an investigation of this subject. The re twenty-four cases i h eC ult was that in killing horses in order to secur surance money. They rented a stal filled it with fine hor nesses and carriages insurance up possible, horses, worn substituted and the The gang is known more than a d the death of law clutches, it is t them that warning to others 10) having g be given A writer in ti commenting tor's page int “Jones” instead of up mi hie boy the ground that he Know the did no was married, contends that was not to blame so much as our own Mon ought to haven prefix, she says, which lingual deficiency in the matter, should indicate at once whether they It doubtless, are married or single. would be more convenient, for the feminine world; but some married men, writes James Pavn, wonld not like this plan at all. Th: only chance they have of being received with civ ility by the other sex doubt of More- be true the Indies have to libate condition, is this for matrimony, their eligibility over, though it their “Mrs.' their connubial or eo ' and ““Mis' donole there is nothing to indicate it in their epistolory communications ; sist in they per withholding this information from their correspondents, who conse quently never know how to address them, Editors, of course, stautly placed in this embarrassing position. It is safer to write “Mrs.” ; most women, unless they are advo | cates of female rights, prefer it to be | supposed that some male has fallen a yictim to their bow and speag, . Are con There are 68,000 postoffices in the United States, and of these 67,000 de not pay the expenses of operating and maintaining them, Ex-Secretary of the Navy Tracy ie quoted as saying to a friend that iv addition to the work and worry his £30,000 year above his salary of 88000, cabinet life cost him every “Worth its weight in gold" is 15) enid to be an inadequate expression when | applied to a copy of the first of Walton's “Complete Angler.” The amount of gold its value represents in | England would outweigh many copies. The Japanese Government has is. sued an ordinance for the purpose of restraining and regulating emigration from Japan, and has made a rule that | no emigrant will be permitted to leave his own country for a land where his in violation of coming would be law of that country. If the inheritance tax law, just acted in England, had been in fore this country at Jay Gould's death, estate would have paid to the Govern Mr. Rockfeller's es pay £10,0 ment 85,6 1), 000, tate would have William H. have paid £186,000,000 to Vanderbilt's estate Supery has sent t Afrairs a deni ““Apache Kid, tric railway and to con way that ¢ and carriag: as by cars great saving in horse such roads are used, since far heavier loads can be drawn on steel with the same of Ohio tem the be said th ith m1 with m TEIATrss Census was and habi married Harried were S15, 49,101, « habitants 126.196 wer widows an number than the much larg married men, and the proportion of widows is three time great as the proportion of widows the of larger than the and number divorced wome much number « vorced men, shows that the men who are widowers and divoreed more fre quently married again than women in the shown same condition, Again, it is that, by comparing the in habitants of fifty principal cities with the country at large, the greater pro the conniry portion of married men are the This is contrary to expectation, and in cities rather than in the percentage of married males in the cities is one per cent. higher than it is on the average in the country. In classifying the divorced persons, it is found that they are most numerous in the western division, snd least numer. ous in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, the two Carolinas, Georgiaand Florida In Maryland the proportion of mar. riages is exceptionally high and yet in that State many widows as there are widowers. Divorces are more common at the West than in the East, These aro a fow of the facts that appear in the study of the Census [rom the point of view of the conjugal relation, there are thrée times as edition | . DECORATION DAY NOTES. MEMORIAL EXERCISES IN HONOR OF HEROIC DEAD, Soldiers Place Flowers on the Graves of Thelr Fallen Comrades — The Way the Day Was Observed at Varlous Polnts — Parades, Ban quets and Speech Making, Decaration Day was celebrated through- out the country in an {mpressive manner by strowing flow rors on the gra ves of the heroes, and by of various kinds. In New York City a more perfect day could by military and olvie parades oom- maemarstive exercises roarcely have been Grand Army parade ans of a hundred its skies and balmy brees orderad for the annual The wrinkled veter- rejolesd in sunny as they gatherad in enough to Central Park odors wrose from meadow, preparatory to forme ing ranks for the observation of Memorial Day. The tattered which they awrried | the names of tiyshurg, An etam, Falr Oaks, Spottsylvania, Peters r, Cold Harbor, Chickamauga, Look "wh ¥ ’ ni | £4 which onsale Ore the City Ha smand of their | ol and Mu, wok part nument, onducted axor- on Mount Me- FTIAN J M Ean, wmkor Fhe exer. Wheeler Post and Ernest Be ng and Farn The sh i mW fren also t exercises at the sol t MoKean, (1, A. R os at the Grant Cottage, HN ral Th Now York, was the » ted by iors m (dene . 08 Were dn Rons of Veter » COrMmmon ie grave « John st North E A Y.., wore largely at i. Hundreds of New Yorkers who are ping at the hotels in the vielnlty were " vdelphia olwerved Memorial Day with and ceremon I'he wonther bt and eheerfal and Grand Army other patriotio ftizens turned out In great numbers 10 do honor to the memory of fallen heroes, The city was extensively teen rated In the cometeries the singing of prhool ohildren mingled with the beat of muMad drome and the booming of sannon without, the marching of yelerans«, martial strains of namerous bands, was men und to TA The un slaborate exercises wore econduotad in Laurel Hill Cometary, over the grave of Goneral George OG. Meade, and at Morristown, over the grave of General Wine field 8, Hancock, Members of the Haneook Vetaran Amociation and others also visited Trenton, N, J., (or the purpose of decor. ting the tomb of General MeClelian, Every cemetery and burial place in Philadelphia and its vicinity was visited and flowers and flags were distributed over graves by the thousand, A handsome flag was ralsed ost {| over the grave of Betsy Ross, the colonial Indy who made the first Stars and Stripes, Hor grave In Mount Moriah Cemetery was the seens of a touching ceremony, which was condustad by the U, 8, Grant Camp of the Sons of Veterans, At Gottysburg, Penn., Memorial Day a the battiefleld was observed with the usual | oration, A { heroes | Confederate { militia | and | began, {| fedoerates | Veterans | There { Martin, of : , | sdmitted to the bullding wheres the body rined a spectacle that wis Intensely inspire. i gust of the Benators and Deputies of Seville, | balmed and sent with a guard gpproprinte sorvices, colored school ahildren decorated the graves of tho colored vetsrans, Inthe afterno yn, nt 20'clock, In the Boldiers' National Oeme. tery, the children of the public schools strowed the thousands of graves, and Post 9, G. A. R,, performed their ritunlistic services, At the rostrum, after a praver by the Rey Dr. Milton Valentine, of the Lutheran ’ logical Beminary, J. B, Dolliver, member of Congress from lows, delivered a brilliant large crowd visitors were Jnltimore, Washington and In the morning the "heo of present from other cities, At Washington Decoration Day was oh- served by the suspension of all public busi. ness and the decoration of the st of war and the graves of both Union and dend, Flags verywhere halt must, The district paraded in the noon services in the Many public men, including ex-Con- and diplomats, attended these, The decoration of graves and yents was done by the G, A. R., and the WAS a groat the Arlington Cemetery tinguished people there Cleveland, Becretaries Carlisle and nith, and ex-Pension Com- missioners Black and Tanner, Chairman the House Pensions C toe, and Representative Martin Colonel Johu A. Joyvee ier entative English Represantative Cousins sj Home, Simi the ior Creok Cemoteries, (0 hung at 1000, at comotoriog monun the # Relief arowd of peop the di Among President wore Gresham Morton, Of Women's mmit- snoke poKe, onre ir exercises w Congros Ravers! different Gir { fra Ce BRT . paraq otery ———— THE LABOR WORLD. Ralirond Union’ over the Bailroad Company. thant are more musioal Federation of Labor Ws : National there arican Te je ald unions in the A Al un L wun H M Fe L] jer the jurisdiction of the and the chiels of ing orders attended Brother! motive Engineers, PP. M. Arthur, Chief Brotherhood of Locomotive Miremoen, F. P Sargent, Chief | Brotherhood of Tralnmen KE Wilkinson, Chief Order of Raliroad Conductors, E. KE. Clark, Chisl; Order of Railroad Telegraphors, E, GO, Ramsey, Chief | Switchmen's Mutual Ald Society, John R Wilson, Chief, Arod delegates III 5. ———— BULL FIGHTER HONORED. Thousands of People Admitted to the Bullding Where His Body Lies. The death of the matador, Espartero, who was killed In a ball fight at Madrid, Spain, has stirred the interest of all classes to an almost Incredible extent «housands of persona, from the highest to the lowest were fa osad, surrounded with tapers and watehed sy matadors, Tus Madrid authorities aceaded to the re. Mpartero's home, that his body be em of matadors to the city, Reville was even more stirred than Madrid by the story of his tragic end, and preparations were made there to bury the body with high honors, —— Rexaron Parrox, of Michigan, is a broad shouldered, well-bullt, athiotie man, with a fine fos and a handsome mustache, Like Kenator Dubois, to whom he bears a resem blanoe, he has a swarthy complexion, These two Yale mon, together with Senators Wol sott and Higgins, who are also uates of the gollps. have formed a» litle society whioh hold monthly reunions, GREAT WESTERN FLOODS LOSS OF LIFE AND MUCH DAM- AGE IN COLORADO. A Cloudburst at Pueblo Fills the Night With Horror A Large Part of the Clty Under Water The Rallroads Cut Of From the Town ~Other Cities Suffer The walter A dispateh from Pueblo, Col, says eloudburst which sent a vast torrent of down the valley and into this city, eaused many deaths and rendered widespread d struction, The work of rescus had a recurrence of the slon of the work, and many bodies which wers wu under debris would never be re list of the dead and missiog co ly before midnight was as folld Dead Dave Rafferty, ste sephi ( ) iy reg teen 1 below drowned in Missing Harry Bu an inf III A— NEWSY GLEANINGS. : Yare w Eanes, Wakerreenp, Mass, birthday | spitentiary sin v released The r has boon found diana won of 8 1 wetive i A pone . anstern shore of Marviand wr #750 Last trees, it sold Tax prosp at Ingleside sold three years ago with the same namber of #25. co — a A VICIOUS STALLION. Farmer Garside Injured While At. tempting to Subdue the Animal, Milton Garside, a farmer, living In Lower Preakness, N, J... was aliacked and seriously injured by a stallion om his farm, He roloasad two of his stallions ia pasture and their playful pranks soon parious fight A lattie of teath followed. the stallions biting and striking each other with their fore fest Gamside attempted to separate then, when one tarned upon him and bit him in the rignt leg, chewing the muselns of the calf clear to the bone, He tore his lege from the animal's mouth, The ciallion reared and in dronping upon all fours selgad Garslde's right wrm, showing the thumb from the hand and laying the | right wrist joint bare. The hand had 10 be | pmputated MOAT A I ——— Five war ships wero soll out of the service by the Deitish Admiralty a few wooks ago, being unfit for further employment, One was a woodon battle ship bullt sixty years ago. Three of the others were also wooden ships, and one was an fron troop ship, ———— Nerrauer Missouri, Texas nor Arkansas a worsted mill or a carpet fastory, nor has Texas or Arkansas a single . mon of a paper mill or an tron or in- dustry i | and bl elties Like hansas City an i st THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States, Tne Presbyterian Assembly adjourned at Saratoga, N. Y., after selecting Pittsburg as the pines of protest was made against the admission of o Bate, A PROTROTIVS air Medina, N. ¥ in the vielnity, who belle the flooding of thelr farms, thelr next mosting iam, built by , was blown up i that it contractors, {nr mert Kexxerun F. Bt fugitive ex-Justice, N. Y., from Car THERLAN] returned to sn and surr Khor IY South and West, Mlntes Columbia vont Taal ix United peraped the river bottom aooepial trial and re Foreign, SHED BLOOD. Strikers Seize a Traln, and Have a Fignt With Deputies [28 Do SL LLN 2D Victor, them awoke to Wilbar y resting in oy wanted Lan atios CAMO stios guarding a bridge. i fire Wilila Hahbideau and was the heart. p wooks they wides eputy, wr three miners 4 by a bull Rabideau was driven out of the oar ago, and was especially otmoxi to the loaders. In this skirmish Hiram Crowley and two other miners and a leputy, whose name is undown, were killed, Four miners ware taken prisoners and conveyed to Fior- I'he miners retarosd with their stolen tinin, while the deputies retired farther down the road to awail reinforcements, Governor Waite ordered out the militia to sup press the rioters at Cripple Creek, though in ng it he took strong sides against the Gepulion wound noar us enon, CASH FOR CHEROKEES, The Sum of 86,840,000 Will Be Dise tributed Among S4,300 Indians, Cherokees por capita dis 24.200 Indians at This Inrge sale of the tha Unt States Govern The ami ald to each Cherokee will be about $280, and the heads of each family will draw or twelve Bildren, Noariy all the surrounding Sates Louis and next Starr, of the sod the Treasurer E. FE Nation, has commer bursement of 88 849 000 ¢ Tahlen gmount is the pr Cherokees Ririp ¢ pent Inst aah, Indian Territory sods of the yen for ten will feel the affects of this parm times will contin ae Bush there for the yoar at Joast Tur Cear of Russia fs sald to have an un derstudy, who is singuiarly like him in ap pearance, to take his place af the windows of railway earvinges and show hims~if about the palace when bis Majesty docsa'’t wish to disturb himself, Ar Malden, Mo. , the city marshal blows a horn at # o'clock p, m. to warn the young people on the street to retire to thelr homes,
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