— er W——— Y_— EARTHQUAKE I¥ TURKEY. HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY CAUSED. r More Than 150 People Killed by the Shocks—Ruln in Constantinople~ The Jewelers’ Quarter in the Grand Bazaar Tumbles—Mer chants Flee in Fright, Four earthquake shocks were felt at Con. atantinople, Turkey, buildings feli and others were on the verge of collapsing, Many Many inmates of houses and shops and pers by the fall It was ime sons in the streets wero caught ing walls and killed or injured, possible to ascertain the number of the dead | and wounded, but it was known that moro | than 150 people were buried beneath tho | ruins The jewaslers’ quarter of the Gran 1 Bazaar fell burying a number of persons, At Galata ten persons were killed and many houses damaged, Eleven persons were buried by the falling of the Catholic shureh and astery in the village of 8! no It was res ported that tho village of Adabazanr had been completely destroyed, Reports of serious damage eame from nearly all the vil stantinopie, The least dan about the Bosphorus, The down, and no news was to be | provinces, A large tobacco factory was wrecked at Djouvall, and several pers wore killed, Th was extremely sey Prince s Islands, The Orthodox many fine houses at Prinkipo wore All the buildings on the Island except the monasteries, were wr Monastir the Orthodox church sr the seminary fol Juring several others Nearly all the houses on th were wrecked, The Ottomar collapse SX people several! others injured, No Englishmen ported to be a houses and villas occu; Soyt and Missi wer It was feared that ( the center of the earthquakes there was a terrible vuleior for. The panic in The public gardens, looked like monster people were huddled vished from sheets ble for the purposs The shoek had rem Sea of Marmora, intense alarm of passengers ceded from the shores force, non and loss of life wes near Cone was de wires wero n had from th TO me TA shoek : a . killing one priest Americans y Killed, by 1 | estroy THE LABOR WORLD. I ce got 86 a week. oulders now use a | ; has fen farm Derrorr, Mich., has a Past Byracrse, N. Y.. has a labor Iyceu Co-OrERATI ALLeoRexy Tux Frene long. IrgLAxD's persons, Cricaco eight hours, 81. Louis, Mo., cents an hour, Hovsexaios in Engiand receive an averago of seventy-five con's a wrek, Ix a Mt. Carmel (Tenn.) coal mine only one native American is employed, A vevunes In St. Petersburg, pald #12 a month, with board (a! Tune tn out of work the strike Rie int YE potteries are increasing. Pann.) polies h working r is » have a eight hot linen industry employs 100 painters and decorators work carpenters get thirty-five | Ruassia, is aker £9.60 vsAND fron an oiters were thrown at Butte " Montana, because Genxax Postoffice mitted to marry with gion of the Go verun 81x HUNDRED in Now York City tempted reduction 1st Tux tin plate scale burg, Pean., at a con ers and workmer men were affected and took place Tur Society neering E lucatd gineaers e¢ Uni terested, will hold lyn from August 2 CossibERanLy among seamen all proposed international aan saliors nu it is reckoned that 78 PT 0 Fous IE y ing w {Ind.) laundries, by putting their s together and borrowing the rest o ey, established the Union oo perativ dry two years ago. They now valuad at $4000 ol incambranes V. Dees, who ordered nan strike, is under forty years of o, and was selling sugar in his father's store in Terre Haute, Ind., before he became & raliroad fireman. Debs, as President of the American Rallway Union, gets a £3000 L 5] lary PRIZE BABIES PARADE, Asbury Park’s Annual Exhibition of Infant Prodigles. af th nber a! w the sea fora li @ aun wn a plant aar the big ' Much interest was manifested In ex-Seas. tor Bradley's baby carriage parade at Asbury Park, N. J. About 125 mothers entered their | babies to compete for the prizes. A hand some gold bar pin was given to the youngest mother wheeling her babe in line, The carriages were decorated with flowers | and pational colors. Two silver cups were given to the finest pair of twins, wails & prize | was also given for the handsomest doll and the prettiest doll carriage, The procession | was headed by ex-Senator Bradley and Chalrs | man Dilley, who each sarried a handsome | bouquet, A grand stand, profusely decorated with bunting, was erected on the board walk st the foot of Asbury avenus, The visiting edi. tors and thelr wives reviews] the parade from the upper portion of the Asbury avenue pavilion, which was specially reserved for them, GIRLS HURLED TO DEATH. Struck by a Train While Driviag ins nn Baggy. Three young ladies named Lizzie and Leaa Breytogle, daughters of ex-Senstor I, W. Broyfogle, and Miss Carroll, who reside about a mile northeast of Lenexa, Kan, met with a sad death, They were in a bagey driving to Lemex, and were crossing t Kansas City, For Boott and Memphis Railroad, near their heme, when thelr buggy was struck by a fast worth bound passenger train, kiliag them lostantly, \ | Potatoes, ¥ bbl | Green corn, # 100 | Tomatoes, Jersey, ¥ box NEWSY GLEANINGS. Tur cherry crop is lmited, Curcaoo has 90,000 Swedes, Cuioaoo has 127,871 dwellings, Loxpox has 12,600 policemen, JANANAS aro abundant and cheap. Cuicaao street cars carry the malls, Texas isto have a colony of Hollandors, Frost damaged Washington's hop arop, Tux Georgia peach crop is a total failure, Axenioax rallroads stretoh 172,000 miles, | | Tur summer barley is poor, with a medium crop. Cuovena has reappeared in St. Petersburg, | Lussia, Axornen insurrection has broken Bluefields out at | Sino 1876 there have been 180 executions | of eriminals in Toklo, Japan. eight were women, Tux prospects tor a large yield of corn are favorable, us the area planted {s much larger than It was in 1808, A pronree has been order against allowing possession of arms, Of these only issued Sicilians to retain revoking the Tue mackerel catoh of Norway and Ireland, | like the catch of the son, has been a fallure, American fleot this sea | Boxe Feajoo tribes rebelled against British | rule and resumed cannibalism, but whipped into submission, Bixce March 1, the packing ot Chicago shows an Inersase of 343,000 head as compared with last season, were | hogs at | " " | Tax Legislature of Louisiana has passed a g bill providing for the employment of blood- hounds iu tracking criminals, Taz Gorman Government has decided to | extend the commercial department plan, in view of its success at Chicago, Da. Freovenicx A. Cook and his sixty excursionists salled from New the Miranda for the polar regions Tux faculty of Yals has approved the re- port ofa committee recommending aboli- tion of the annual commencement exer- cises, Rarneoap officials have discovered a ocon- spiracy among thelr own detectives by which the Western Indiana was robbed of property valued at more than §50, 000 arty of ork on THE MARKETS. Late Wholesale Prices of Country Froduce Quoted In New York. VA MILE AY Ly Market s the AM | State Fall Stat cream. § Fart ry r Part skims, com, . SAL AACE. » sn +2 20 anni ankaR nos, State & Pann Frosh | Joraey Faney Weosturn Frosh, boat Dueck ages Sout BEANS ANY Roosters, old Turkeys, #1 Ducks, ¥ pair, (hoor ¥ pair Pigeons, ¥ pair DRESSED § Turkeys, 1b . Chickens, Phila, broilers Weastern,, Jorsoy, #0 Fowla, ¥ Ducks, ¥ ™ Gorse, ¥ Ih Bquabs, ¥ doz YRORTARL RS, eo be - = ow Sweets, No, 1, ¥ bol Cabbage, # 100 Onions Jersey, ¥! crate Egyptian, ¥ vag Bquash, marrow, ¢ crate Tarnips, Russia, ¥ bul, Beets, ¥ 100 bunohes Asparagus, ¥ doz String beans, ¥ basket Gross pons, ¥ basket CE - 2 3S ~3 So =F 3 BEISIA= BD a Cacumbors, ¥omte. ....... GRAIN, ETC, Flour Winter Patents Spring Patents, ,... Wheat, No. 4 led. ..... I SP Corn No. 2 . Onts-No, 2 White....... Track mixed Rye—State...........co00 v0. Barley —Unuraded Western Beads Clover, $100... .... Timothy, ¥ 100......... Lard City Sloan anh LIVE $TOCK, Booves, olty drossad,........ Mitch (lows, som, to good. .., Calves, oity dressed. ........ Country drossod ,......... h W100 1DB...oveenssse: Lam H g STIRNIZR38Bs3 R ww ww D3 S i ie 99999009 999920090908 00909000000099 EL EE -w® IBS 11211 LET 1008... .oovvnnns. gs —Lire, #10 B8.sses.. Sew BEE aal eo | been traveling in China, | with : Hicks. , proclaims the man, THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. ETORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS, Mamma’s Curly Haired The Audience Applauded Been Through It, KEte., Ete. A sigh he drew and a tear ho shed As ho watched the poor man’s children play ; “Oh, how I should like to be," he sald, ‘A dirty boy for a single day !" New York Press. Darling — «Had HAD BEEN THROUGH IT. Teacher— “What little boy can tell me the name of the worst nation on earth? Bobby?" Bobby— “Vaccination Judge, AN INDICATION. ‘‘Has the editor read my poem?” asked the long-haired young man, “I don't know for sure,’ replie | the office boy, ‘‘but he's sick in bed to- day." THE FLY AND HIS FEET. “Don’t you think it is rather coward ly,” said the bald-headed professor to the fly, ‘“‘lor a six-footer like you to jump on me in this manner?” — Wash- ington Star, RAPIDITY ““Are these colors fast?” of the new clerk “Yes, indeed them when they Washington Star she asked to run.’ ought wrt to Keo THE AUDIENCE APPLAUDED. Friend ceived?” Lecturer—**It was stoppe 1. the andienc ] plauded.’ New York Pre “Was your lectare well re Every time I boarder butter? eral of N 1} 4 1 everything, unc n ef yntrolia- tear." “Whose funeral is t “Gashwiler's “What! Is Gashwiler dead?” ‘“Not that I know of. He 1s probs bly riding around in the hearse for the fun of the thing. Truth. CHIEF VALUE OF A COLLEGE. Quidaune learned in piece of “Of all the things you college, what particular knowle lge do ou value most? Distinyuished Graduat “How lit other g tle the men Know Plankington going 10 have vq Witherby printe Plankington going to Judge. the 1 white have A BASIS “Papa,” said the colt pranc don't belie vi 8 horse “Why not, “Because he ! ass. "~~ Harper's Bazar MIGHT HAVE BREEX B® ‘Whai Dum He has hard ly eaten davs to keep him TH First Boarder back’s appetite ? enough for two alive.’ Second Boarder “It's love or policy «I don't know which. He's courting the landlady’'s daughter.” Chicago Tribune RiiS OBEYING INSTRUCTIONS “Is the editor at home?" «Yes, but en Stranger Servant gaged.” Stranger "Will you please tell him that his house is on fire?” Servant—'‘Impossible! He gave strict orders that he was not to be dis- turbed. "Judge. sir, he is MERELY A COMMERCIAL PHRASE, ‘“He is very cultivated,” said Maud. “I don't see evidence of it," replied | Mamie. “Why, he has been all over the world. He just told me that he has " “I know it, Washington Star, FAMILY PRIDE, “Jack, you must stop quarreling Jimmie Thomas," said Mr, “Well, Iwas right,” said Jack. “I don't believe it," said Mr. Hioks. | | “What were you fighting about?” “He said his papa knew more with his little finger than you did with both hands, "Harper's Bazar. HISTORICAL DISCUAKION, Mra. Wickwire--' ‘Wasn't it Shake- speare whe said that ‘the apparel oft or something of the sort?" Mr. Wickwire— ‘I don't remember, but probably you wre right. I sup pose they had clothes loud enough to He is drummer for a | crockery house,” make proclamations in his day the same as now. "'--Indinnapolis Journal, STRANGE, “No, sir,” said the busy man, *“1 don't eare for your verses, I don’t understand the stuff and I don't like it." “That,” said the man with lengthy { hair, “is a peculiar fact about poetry.” “What do you mean ?" “Everybody that isn't up in it | seems to be down on it.” Washington | Star, AT THE CIRCUS. “Well,” remarked the royal Bengal tiger from his cage, ns he observed the elephant reach up to the t Pp | wagon and get an apple, ““if Thad tc put up my trunk for my board, I don't { think I'd let ov rybody know it “Don't worry about me,” retorted the elephant with characteristic bon homie, “I'd a blamed sight rather put my trunk up for it than have no trunk, and get it by wearing stripes,” and the royal Bengal withdrew tothe farth- est corner of where he might not hear the elephant smile, -—Atlanta Constitution of na his eel) HER FAVORITE BIRD. Damsel, at her delightful it is twitter and flit Praises in sweet s Ahe bir Is, Miss » R iral ‘How birds Bobberly (t | father's farm here! How the and pour forth t ig! D nt youl wing air Baral Dax hey bile d Brownin and ropped and amid the {4 AW INDER D lear? Cora—‘Yes, how do wou like it Dora 0, hink & ke | It's yet stylish.’ “I'm so glad rn IVelyv 80 sweet and simple and Dora (complacently you are pleased with it Dora""How ean I be Is thos the first time you have had it on*” Cora-~*4 I wore it last night when Jack F ack called Dora-- "Ob pleased I — Death«Dealing Shell, invention is In that thirty yea: designed a shell, the object of whi was like Tuarpin's to cause nor poisonin The Mi Was submitie on death by suffecati inver- secret com of Lord then was) and Graham, nite of the Mint tecret kept, and of thi the Speaking of the de ssion in Eagland consisting « Playiair (Sir Lyon as it Mr Ihe th h no use has been made available for invent War Office the pois composition of i ities enter into such as those 1 by Dundonald and Turpin, Lord Playfair in a recent interview with a representative of this service declined even to mention their names are,” he said, *‘so deadly, so terrible in their effects that it ia to be hope 1 that it will never occur to any one te use them."-—New York Advertiser, ci — - How a Snail Breathes, shells Vise “The v The breathing operation in a snail is one of the queerest processes imag- inable and is carried on without the least semblance of lungs, The orifice through which he takes his supply of | “the breath of life” of course, called the moath, notwithstanding that it is situated in the side of his great sncker-like foot. The process of breathing is not carried on with | | anything like regularity, as it is in | most ereatures, the mouth simply | | opening ocoasionally to let in a supply | of fresh air, which 1s expelled by the | saI0e opening as soon as the oxygen has been exhausted. |ouliar mouth is provided tongue, set with hundreds of | teeth. —8t. Louis Republic. | - on ———— - “Gorman Emperor.” The actual title of the sovereiga | whom yon have in mind is ‘German | Emperor,” not “Bmperor of Ger- many.” The German Empire is a confederacy consisting of five king- doms, five grand duchies, five duchies, seven principalities and four free cities. Within its own limits, each State is sovereign, except as to its army and its power of coining money and imposing duties; in those matters the Empire controls, as well as in all international matters. Trenton (N. J.) American, 18, The suail's pe- | with =a fine otherwise? ——— Dresses are sold by weight in Japan, Belva Lockwood is sixty-three years | | ranging | teenth to a quarter of an inch, are { coming into use. old. Tiny pocketbooks are now the prop- er caper, Girton (England) College a bicyele club, Mrs. Kate Myrick has been appoint- ed river observer at Girard, La, girls have There are 10,000 more women than {| men in the District of Columbia. Miss Laura Creighton has been re appointaod State Librarian in lows. The plain swivel silks in light tints are used for lining disphanous toilets, Snowflake erepon has a very attrac- | tive sound for a midsummer fabric, as it is Miss Balfour, sister of the Conservative leader, is now in Africa. English traveling In Victoria, women have been sub- stituted for men at no fewer than 200 railway station, The Chicago Woman's Ciub has ad- ded a woman suffrage section to its other departments There are now 797 prisoners in the Kansas State Prison, and of that num ber fourteen are women Miss Willard and Lady Henry 8 erset are two celebrities in the skills, of New York, Many ladies find the ruffles quite too expensive, fore buy taffeta silk and own, 118 sea A young lady named sixth wrangler in the al class at Cam Ber y Dridge progress of effective Wale Wears =a , 48 & body, d CBS Maud, of ie only royal lady who Husband und wife as law partners is something unknown Great Brit- ain There are no less than twenty- one such firms in the United States, Tho grandmother of the Kaiser was, in early life of marked ability, and many marches for the Prussian army. The Association for the Advance- ment of Women will hold its next an- nual meeting in Atlanta, Ga., with the supplementary congress at Tuskegee in German musician compose i bh: There isa demand for the old fash- joned taffeta ribbon of our foremoth- ers. It is made in three or four inch widths, and is used for skirt ruchings. English papers say that Mrs Hum. phrey Ward has made $80,000 from “David Grieve,” $80,000 from ‘““Mar- cells,” and $40,000 from “Robert Elsmere.” One of the ways of telling whether the temperature is rising it to watch a girl's front hair. When it begins to lose its curl and grow straight it is a sure sign of achange of temperature. Very lovely are the open fronted Parisian tea gowns in Directoire style, made of flowered taffeta or China silk, and worn over petticoats and blouse vests of white or yellow guipure lace of Baltimore, y has founded a European fellow- sholarship, of a value. of $500 a year, and five graduste scholarships, worth $200 a year, at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania Miss Mary Garrett Md ship s The most heavily insared the United States is the wid ator Hearst, or California cies on her Li aggregate Mrs. E. B. Crocker, of probably comes next with 8150, Mrs. Henry woman, whose Woman in yw of Sen- The poli- £300,000, ita, XN. X., yw fo Irish Calla She Irving is an maiden name, ban, effectually proves it lives very quietly in London with her two sons on the 85000 a year which her dis tinguished actor-husband allows he An extreme style of the sailor hat shows a brim of mottled brown and white patent leather, and a white crown of the same shiny material This mode is a trifle too outre to com- mend itself to of fastidious tastes Miss Herbert, daughter of Secretary (Herbert, has been selected by the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association as Vice-Regent for the State of Alabama, which position was made vacant sever: al years ago by the death of her mother, Mra. Willian Waldorf Astor wore at the recent drawing room in London the historic diamond coronet comb, of which she has lately become possessed. It is the one that Louis XIV. gave to Mme. de Moutspan, and our wealthy country woman, it is said, paid $100,. women | 000 for it. It is said there are 2133 women writers in France. When thie was re. peated to the editor of a New York magazine he said he thought France was in luck; that there were not less than two millions in the United States and he had the manuseripts of a million of them. Mrs, James Miller, of Stanton, Minn, is a prosperous farmer and business woman, and, in addition to taking care of her farm, purchases poultry and ships it to market. Dur. ing the last sixty days she has shipped to Eastern markets 102,000 od of poultry, and has paid out to the far- mers over $8000 in oash therefor, Mrs. Miller has been iu business for herself for the last fifteen yours. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, There are 4500 species of bees. A locomotive lasts fiftecn years and | earns about 8300,000, The Earl of Dunmore proposes to cross Bering Btrait the ice next winter. Steel ou sheols One Six from from barrels, made in thickness Leuenhoek says that 4,000,000 webs | spun by young spiders when they first | begin to use the spinneret are not, if twisted together, ns great in diameter | a8 a hair from a human head. The fibre the claimed to four or five times strong as silk and not inferior in tre. The production of a nettle hemp thiread as fine as No, 100 is now re- ported. of be nettle hemp is na LIAn~ that of the ere it be electrician, can boast such a won ful growth in the past quarter century as that of bacteriology, which | 1 veloped with remarkable rapi since Pasteur made his initial inves gation. : ‘ No science, unless h has de- A company formed some for the purpose of constructing electric railway on the Bwitzerland, now propose to establish a scientific observatory at the upper end of the line, at a height of alious 13,000 feet. The latest theory c cause of the aurora b deducted from a eareful analy that light thrown through a s scope. This unique experiment cle ly establishes the fact that it is by an electrical discharge particles of meteoric iron tained in the stmospher time ago an Jungiran, yncerning IreAlls Las i Binol Harvey Bejim, a medical & Ann Arbor, Mich., has ining two living dogs to It was from r thet Foc Diamese twins, strips of flesh mn for | riy day on rails in with or may be or ps ripened. of the hoth Uses creased by this plan For the lighting novel plan is prop f distributing water from steam pumping stations at a pressure of 775 pounds per square inch, and using it at small district sta- for driving namos by means of turbines. The stations id supply local consumers through a low pressure, two-wire circuit system. The cost of coal per sixt power per hour is placed at cents, George Jimson, of Jimson's G Wis., astonished his father, m and seven guests by eating an lowing in rapid sncoession th spheres of what appeared to glass, Old Mr, Jimson was about send for a physician, when showed that the spheres were merely frozen of water, made after Professor Dewar's method. The elder Jimson was greatly relieved by the discovery of Antwerp the { wad tions iy Be w bid " dis son | bubbles sti — To Get Rid of Flies. Flies are the pest and tidy housekeepers, and room of them 1s an uns to many. This is quit plished by taking ad flies’ habit of flying to i place from which light is admitted, and to accomplish this, darken all &} windows with a heavy shade, material, ontting a hole in one of shades, over which is firmly pinne sheet of the common transparent fly paper, and, if possible, bave this located at one of the east, south or west windows, from which the most light may be obtaine It will be bat a short time ere the in the room will be sticking to this paper in their effort to be pear the light This is far easier and more cleanly than plac- ing paper about the room for them to accidently light upon, or killing them with poisoned liquid or pyrethrum powder, —8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. - A Engineers Fight, A remarkable oase soon to be heard at Longtown. George Glen denning, a stoker on the North Brit. ish Ratlway, has summoned John Blythe, an engine driver, for assault, and Blythe has taken out a cross sume mons for (lendending for a similar offense. The two men were in charge of a passenger train to Carlisle, They quareled, and while the engine was running at the rate of fifty miles an hour they fought on the foal plate. (Glendenning asserts that Blythe knocked him to the engine floor and battered his head against the lever. On the other hand, Blythe maintains that Glendenning was the aggressor. This new peril to the safety of passen- ger trafic is attracting much atten tion, and people who write to the newspapers are suggesting various means for the prevention of quarrels between engine drivers and the stoke ers, New York Advertiser. —————— The Bacillus of the Influenza, The microbe of the *‘grip,” others wise the ‘‘influenza bacillus,” was dincovered by Dr. Canon, of Vienna, who first detected it in the blood of one of his patients. It is a curiously shaped organism, many times smaller than the microbe of any other known germ disease, and was only revealed to the haman eye by using a micro scope with a [ing foust of worry of all how to rid a ived p or 1 14 flies is 1000 diameters, —
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