- The rate of taxation has nearly quad- | rupled in France since 1830, The centre of population is now mid way between Cincinnati and Indians apolis, The Slav has not turned ont an in- | dustrial or social snocess in the coke regions, confesses the New York Tri- bune. President Harper says that he en- tered upon his duties at Chieago Uni. versity opposed to co education, have ing great misgivings because of the Heo clares that the young women's depart presence of the girls, now de- ment of the university is the only one that never gave him any trouble. The world’s tunn ls are estimated to number about 11 42, with a total length of 514 miles. There are about 1000 railroad tunnels, ninety canal tunne Is, forty conduit tunnels, and twelve suba- aogregate having an 350 queous tunnels, length of about miles, seventy miles, eighty-five miles, and nine miles y University of Lille, France, » the first institutic Continent the WAY & pap« 1s California will aid out, and this year it 1 that £650,000 will be ne As the covo IALe satisfy the claims. slanghter on jack-rabbits, th pest will simply lead to the inc There more valuable lace than any Europear » American ladies who have potentate, The laces of the Astor family are valued at $300,000, those of the Vanderbilts at $500,000. More in New York The ope’s lace treasures are said to be orth $875,000, , of England $375,000 and those of the £250,000, The was trimmed " i) $500 lace, it is said, is bought han any other city in the world. ose of the Queen Princess of Wales Queen's wed ling dress with a piece of Honiton costing Maine has produced men of ishing vigor and longe than more notable in Westbrook Farrer, 3i Way In Are the stories told of is said to be a though practice, old, and, still more remarkable, the habit of visiting his in regularly on a bicyele. H stional vigor at this advanced patients attributes use of wintergreen tea, of said to be an ardent advo ge of Quebec has a law of Government fiery father of cres 3 2 X land of a far r who has twelve living children. Up to the present time 174,200 acres have been given under this law Not all these fathers, however, are satisf with families the amount of this bounty, of twenty children sre not rare, and the fathers of these want a One of proportionately higher reward. old gentleman, Paul Belanger, wants S00 River recognition of his family of du Loup, acres in thirty “81X living children. The Ban Francisco marks: When Colonel Sellers in “The Gilded Age” spoke of the mense sums of money he proposed to Chronicle re- im- make by dispensing his eye water to the orientals he hint which inventors have been slow to act threw out a upon. The conditions of life in the Orient are very peculiar, and the peo- ple have certan wants which we in the Western world are hardly more than aware of. Among these is some rem- edy against the of white ants. These destructive insects make life a burden to the Europeans living in China and other oriental countries. They eat everything made of timber, and ns a consequence it is almost impossible to keep a house or ite adjuncts in repair. A correspon- dent suggests that the known faet that these ants have an aversion to lime may put some ingenious American on to an idea which if properly worked out would baa benefaction to people living in the Orient, especially Euro- peans, who would pay liberally for some practical remedy for the nui- #ADCOo, .. onoroachments Spain spends £100,000,000 to maine- tain its army and $1,500,000 to « lu- cate its children. A war cloud in Asia throws a shadow over all Europe, the end suggests the New York Tribune. Little Korea may in upset a half dozen thrones, It is perhaps not generally known that the Lord Mayor, whoever hq of subject within the jurisdiction of May othe I the Even the Prince of be, take 5s precede nea evi ry City of London. Wales is not an exception An anti-lynehing committee has been formed in ts John E. England, including among Duke of Argyll, Sir Gorst, Justin members the McCarthy and others, to join with a similar commit- tee in this country to remove the prev- alence of lynching. f each merchant of San Frane says the Commercial News of that ei had subseribed to the Nie the ragua Car when project was they will be as to appesd to Lhe as to the 3 course, in order 10 ape 11 well Rp The New York Tri 00d many mundane telosco erge on Mars, most as that ang w canal ns juAtor and as wide as th gain exhibits polar snow- magnitude and logie al phe nomens show. groat agitation in th of a the and planet, wns of its inhab point still an. cohort of Martian observers, notwithstanding the longi- tude of their tel aC ypes and the lati- tude of their sidereal speculations. Of late two brilliant points of light have been signalled in the vicinity of ils antarctic pole, and the question of their origin and import just now ab- eal of tention and gives rise to a great variety sorbs a good astronomical at- of opinions and speculations concern- ing them. Whether they are volea noes or signal towers or fire balloons, or the reflection of the Martial moon upon the snow clad Martial monntain is not yet positively determined, and perhaps will not be, and it may be that they are neither, but only some wandering astral will o' wisp flicker- ing there in the midheavens bewilder- ing to the saullunary star-gazer, and promising no influence whatever on our own polities], social or financial conditions. But as we inhabit the sis. ter planet of that bloodshot orb, heaven's earbuncle, shedding the ray and the madness of wine through the stellar deeps, we sannot, of conrse, es- eape a certain interest in its phenon:- ens, though it somatimos rany be ovor- worked, like Rualas Choate’s celebra- ted participle, THE TARIFF BILL A LAY. THE PRESIDEN I' NEITHER SIGNED NOR VETOED IT. Ina Private Letter to Representativ Catehings, of Mississiopl, fle Kx plained Why He DId Not Approve the Gorman Compromise Measure Substituted for the Wilson 13111. At 12 o'elock, midnight, the Gorman bill, passed by the House of Re on February 1 and by the 8 , became a Inw without the sign dent Cleveland flad approval, letter to Rapresentativa of Mississippi. As intims that letter, the President was dispo the bill the law withon ment whatever from him. The Spex Catehings, Mr, Clarke, of Alabama, an tariff reformers yf President to sign, proval, even if andam imperfect bill's effect in modifying and with only OXProsss become sottine in stimulating to renewed effor gun by the 1 ADO materinis 100] tariff id by their the oost of With fron product ened, Thereupon the consamer wo dom rare, wereapondingly and Inirness femand that the mana must be 1%tice fartur submit to sach a re adjustment and mo ation the tarift upon their finished goods nas would a re to the people the benefit of tne reduce cost of their manufacture, and shield the consamer against the exaction of inordinate profits, It will thus be seen that free raw mates ra ho ol "Ha | sls and a just an | feariess reguintion an iro. tariff to meet the change] sarey to every humble blessings of Increased dustion of the conditions woud home in the land the | eomtort and cheaper living The millions of our countrymen wio Have fought bravely and wall for tarifl reform, | should ba exhorted to continues the stragiele, | boldly ehallenging to open wariare and cone stantly guarding against the treachery anl half-heartedness in their eamp, Tariff reform will not be settied until it is honsetly and fairly settled in the interest and to the benefit of a patient aad long Sule fering people, Yours very truly, Grover CLEVELAND, —— Etonr earloads of frelght, consisting of potatons, oranges, applos, snd onlons, were distributed among the people of Winnemucca Nov... the other day. The goods wore all ip an edible condition, buat as the rallroad com. ny could not move the oars, it was thought wat to give the goods away before they spoiled, NEWS EPITOMIZED. stern and Middle States, of hrokers at v, to withdraw w Tariff inw. tha tate Convens Lalo” fr ury Par Washington, BATTLE WITH PEASANTS. Four of the Count’s Servants and Six of Thelr Opponents’ Killed, Count Tyszkeewion, whose estates are neas Krottingen, in the Government of Wilna, Russian, has been on bad terms with his ten ants for several months, fused to pay rent, The Count seized thirty head of their eal tis as security, The peasants were Intensely exoited by the appearance of the Count's of- ficors and let the oattle go only after having boon driven with clubs from the sheis, Early in the morsing about 100 of them, armed with old muskets, seythes and pitoh. forks, marched to the Count's castle, They lomanded the cattle back, Some twenty servants and foramen trdered them to leave the neighborhood, In the fight which followed four of the Count's employes and six of the peasants wore killed and many others wers wounded. The peasants remained near the park all the morning, but did not rencw the attack, They threatenad to burn the castle, ———— ach Several tenants re. Acoonpixe to the report of Commis sioner Seymour, 21,406 patents wore Issued during the year and 13,167 expired, | days’ fighting, | sulting, as before, in favor of A CYCLONE OF DEATH IT SWEEPS ACROSS THE SEA OF AZOV, The Flest Estimate Was That 1000 People Had Perished Peril Whole Destroyed — Russian Nearly Amer. Villages Fishermen feans In Drowned, A hurrie stoners Ans in many tion and k f A sp sin, says * yal O ean deseribe the eve the Bea of Azov It is almost e have pe i. 80 Fished 4 TO HARVEST COTTON. Nhitney's Grandson Ell Invents a Wonderful Machiae, 5 grain operafd A HERO'S DEATH. le Gave His Life Tor Indianapolis, Ind, wo Childre WAR IN THE ORIENT. aapan's Army Lost Thirteen Hundred Men at An. Foo from OC ring wore de Thirte pinstean War shit Tatong Ris thousand men When 1 and their object attacked in dividix parts, / on poured a Leavy fire in eroating almost a panic treated in disorder to the . advance of the Chinese was soked by th ire from the guns of the Japanese fleet, The Japanese lost 1300 men A FRENCH REVERSE. Report That the Tuaregs Have Dee feated Them. on Japanese A despateh from 8t. Louie, capital of the | French possessions in Kenegambin, Africa, sur. threa the Tuaregs recently French pursusd them to Timbue« too. where another fight took place, res the Taaregs. The French sallled out of Timbuctoo, but wore overwhelmed with numbers and foreel to retire, In the Iater Aght threes sompanies of the French soldiers were eompletely cut to pieces, that the says prised and, after —— A. TP. Laxe, of the Geolorieal Survey, fs making an egplor ation throagh the middie of Labrador, * It is reported that he has made some very important discoveries, and that inner Labrador is not the barren waste it has been reported to be, At Flora, Ind, Wattar Long, In a spirit of brs endo, jamped into a bin of wheat, which wan loaded tor an elevator into a oar, He was drawn In and saffueated, | chaneos to win the peanant.” GOVERNOR WAITE ARRESTED Taken Into Custody for Retaining & Police Matron’s Letter. A warrant was issued the arrest of Gov the serious AYE wo Baseba from the tog Nearly all ‘ who have vis ited Washing "3 that was erected have trind 18 gonerally sup- posed beyon 14, ie the oniy vors suffering the misfortune of a hroksn log to va rend His lag never troubles him, other we al ) npiainad of wonkness and wore aiways fears soldent in their base ranaing. beso entirely thougt tomporary fan a pinay WAYS inl 0s Some wooks ago a Baltimore newspaper telegraphed to Anson, of Chisago, thus “Send us, not to exeead Aifty words by wire, giving your opinion of the Baltimores' The response came back in much briefer form than was anticipated, The “special” when set up and printed, read thus: “Nona. A. C, Anson.” Cuanvie Bexxerr, formerly oatoher of the Boston team, was given a rousing reception at the South End grounds, Boston, by 9000 of his friends, who had gathered for his “benefit.” The ‘King of Oatchars” came | on the field, supported no crutches, and sar. | rounded hy | Captain Nash, Pitoher Nichols and the whole Champion James J. Corbett, Boston team. The game realized $7900, OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS Por Clube. Won. Lost, of Baltimore 68 36 Poston... . .69 87 New York.68 39 Philadel, . 57 46 Cleveland 55 48 Brookiyn 56 49 N ARCORD Clube, Wos, Low S54 Pittaburg 58 M 651 |Ohiengo. . 40 58 L686 Clnolanati 48 60 S53IS, Louis 44 63 S84 Wash'ng'n 87 60 538 Loulsville .82 74
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