The New Zealand Maoris own about 10,000,000 acres of land. The spring and autumn maneuvers of European armies costannually §10,- 000,000. In twelve months American railread companies have paid $239,616,284 as interest on bonds and 805,337,681 as dividends on stocks. The Egyptian Government pays in- terest on $60,000,000 Nile Canal debt and $30,000,000 Suez Canal bonds, squeezing the money out of the farm- ers, The most unhealthy city in Europe, according to statistics recently issued, is Barcelona, Spain, one of the love- liest places in that part of the con- tinent. One who lives in Barcelona increases considerably his chances of | death, The statement that a child five and 8 half years of age would not have more than one hundred and fifty words in its vocabulary that it was able to use understandingly, led a careful mother to note for a month the number of words used by her child. All the parts of speech used were recorded, with the result that in this case the child appeared to have a vocabulary of 1528 words, * A young man of Lewiston, Me., who prides himself on his attractiveness for the gentler sex, got on a train the other day and saw a good-looking young lady, who seemefl to have no- body with her. He approached her, relates the New Orleans Picayune, and did the masher act. She was re- sponsive, and he was having a very nice time when a man came in and thanked him for having made the task of taking a lunatic to the asylum easier than he dared hope. An estimate of the charitable be- guests in England during 1893 puts the total sum at about $7,000,000, This is held to be about one-tenth of the estates upon which probate duty has been levied. Among the larger amounts given are the following: Earl of Derby, $100,000 ; Richard Vaughan, of Bath, a retired brewer, $225,000; the Rev. James Spurrell, 81,300,000; John Horniman, a tea merchant, $450, - 000; Henry Spicer, the well-known paper dealer, $750,000; Sir William Mackinnon, $300,000. The largest legacy of all is by Baroness Forrester, 81,500,000 » N. 8. Nesteroff, an atts she of the Russian Department of Agriculture, is in Michigan inspecting methods em- ployed there in cutting and market- Ing lumber. His object is principally to get imformation respecting im- provements machinery, Mr. Nesteroff pronounces the Saginaw Valley mills the finest he has ever seen. He was especially interested in the maple sugar industry in the epring, and spent a month in 8 New York State sugar camp. This busi- ness was entirely ‘new to him, and he will try to introduce it into his native country, which has, he says, an abun- dance of sugar maples, in sawmill The Chinese trade unions can trace their history back for more than 4000 years. The Chinaman does not dis- cuss with his employer what he is to receive for the work he does; he sim- Ply takes what he considers a fair and Proper remuneration. He levies toll On every transaction according to laws laid down by his trade union, and without for a moment taking into consideration what his employer may consider proper. He is, therefore, says a correspondent of the Philadel- phia Telegraph, generally called a thief; but he is acting under due guarantees, in obedience to laws that are far better observed and more strict than any the police have been able to impose. It takes 8200 mail cars to distribute Uncle Bam's mail, and the New York ivision alone requires 819 railway | post clerks to handle it. Last yoar these clerks handled 1,207,220,577 | pieces of mail bound past their divi- | sion, of which 758,976,835 were letters. To get un clear idea of the immense amount of rail matter in this number | of letters, suppose tbsy average four inches in length sad are laid end to end. 2075 miles long. All railway post clerks most be quick and intelligent snd have a thorough knowledge of the whole country. In the second divi sion there are 18,000 postofices, and This sys | tem of railway postoflices has proved so | valuable, says the writer from whose | the clerks know every one. interesting article in Harper's Young People these facts are drawn, that it is now being operated on the transat. Jautic steamshivs, They will strotoh over a line It is estimated that the world's can- non have cost over $40,000,000, Daring the year 1803 the steam sur- face railroads of this country carried 628,065,978 passengers and moved 757,464,480 tons of freight, Within the last ten years Great Bri- | tain has decreased the ratio | port duties, while tho rest of the world has increased it nearly ons- | fourth. of im- In the mountains of Kentucky a ma- jority of the log houses are built now just as they were in the days of Daniel Boone. There are no windows, no carpets, no whitewashing, often but one room, and many of them not even hewn. A Brooklyn schoolboy amused him- self the other day by tickling the hind | legs of a mule with a stick. He is no | more a schoolboy. From this the Now | Orleans Picayune draws this moral; | When you want to tickle amule’s legs, try the fore legs. | With the growth of the new taste for | out flowers the cultivation of small | flower gardens may become a source of unexpected to | homes. Many valuable plants can be | made profitable with care, even in a | small back-yard or ina sunny room, | and certainly no more agreeable home industry for women can be imagined. The work and unremitting care, but it pays rich dividends for the amounts invested. revenue countless demands fitness, patience Because Captain of Nettie for Bray, schooner Langdon, Jamaica Philadelphia, slept o deck in the tropical moonlight, he to- tally lost his wrecked his vessel, or such, at least, is the report of his case, sight, and almost In the tropies, the statement runs, such an ocecur- rence rare, but it is heard of so far north as the latitude of is not seldom Jamaica. In Demerara, the same an- thority declares, many such cases oc- cur, especially when the moon is in its strongest phase. It appears that Mexico is now en- gaged again in exterminating the Yaqui Indisus and with the usual sue- cess, Cortez tried his hand at it in vain, and ever since*his day the vari- | ous Governments of Mexico have been engaged in periodic attempts of the same sort, and with the same success. The troublesome fellows won't exter- mwinate. Secure in their strongholds, they maintain their own inde pen lence, nountain aud sooner or later re- pulse with great loss any force sent against them. They have lately met the Mexican troops, greatly to the dis- couragement of the latter. Says the Atlanta Constitution: Proofs that the South own supplies to a greater extent than 1s rasng its ever before multiply on every hand. The Raleigh ports that there is much more North Caroline bacon in the markets of that State than ever before, News and Observe r re- Much more beef is also coming to market than formerly. Oar contemporary com- mends this tendency, and urges that it be carried still farther. to the Western shipped to Richmond and Atlanta for through the ““the next step is to raise our for which it thinks North Carolina well sdapted. Referring that horses announcement 30,000 draught will be distribution South, it says that horses and mules,” a business The New York Tribune remarks: There is a good deal of talk in certain quarters, mainly from who think themselves wise what is written and who take keen delight in their half-knowledge, adverse to the The charge that it is immodest for women | to ride the bicycle is not deserving of | serious attention. A modest woman | is as modest on a wheel as in a draw- ing-room, and even if she wears what are collectively classed as “bloomers” her costume is not as deserving of no. tice as the bathing suits which women wear unchallenged at all our seaside resorts. Tho question whether bi- eycle-riding is jurions to women's health is a most important one; the answer can only be given as the result of experience. Undoubtedly harm has been done by excessive riding ; but so it may be eaused by too much walking or rowing. The general tes- timony seems to be that the use of the bieyele in moderation is beneficial to women, and in some cases the results have been found exceedingly good. Exercise on the wheel is 80 exhilarat- ing that beginners are doubtless often tempted to ride too much. Against this they should be warned; but the bieyele rightly employed willin all probability promote health and hap. paces, people above used of the bicycle by women. FATAL FOREST FIRES. HUNDREDS PERISH AMID THE | SEETHING FLAMES. The D ‘1 nie In Heaps in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Mlcehigan—Fright ful Fate of Hinckley-—Destrue tion In Pennsylvania and New York, Naver in the history of the Northwost, ox- eept at the time of the fires In the Michigan pineries in 1871, has there been such a terrl- ble loss of life and such suffering as has just | baon cansed by forest fires in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, The loss of life has been awful, At a late hour it was estimated that between eleht haundead and fifteen hondrad persons had baen burned to death or suffocated, and the widadiseropaney in those flgures was nroat of the utter Imnossibility of getting reliable information, Property losses already reach up into the millions, Ona of the most painful! festnres of the whols affair {s the charge that these Aenth dealinz fires wore started by {nesndiaries | among the woodmen, who were lad to som. mit this terrible erime hy a desperate desirs to get work, as the conflagration will nesessi. tate the immediate cutting of a vast quan. tity of scorched timber to save it from total loan, Tha work of recoverine srorohad and blackenad bodles and identifying and bury. ing them went forward in those distr! a whera the flames had spent their fury, while in other parts men were fizhting grim deanth all day Jong in towns threatened with like destruction, The ngeregate loss will ran into millions, but it is absolutely fm possible to give anv trustworty estimate, as 50 wide an extent of country was devastated, The largest sincls loss was that of the Brennan Lumber Com. pany, of Hinokley, Minn,, which is placed at $400,000 by the oMolals of the company. The agaregats loss fs variously estimated at from threo to five millions and this A | elnde the standing tim! not or destroyed, wns in the Northwest hava or partially destroyed by Hinckley, Rand. itladge, Mansfiaid been sither tot the flames okeg stons, Mission vB and Milaca, in Minnesota ; Bashaw, Barron. Banolt, Cartwright, Piflold. Granite Lake, Grantsbmrg, GHdden, Marengo, Mus. eado, Bhell Laks, Range, Poplar, Bpenonr, Highbrid Junetion and Washburne, {1 en and Trout Crook, In Mie! . The Iatest ad yn the big fire indioated thers would be a total of nearly 400 lives lost, This included the fa. talities at Hinckley, P Bandstone and all the ered ottn pons of tha keg Rutledge Area nflagr 3 untry eov by tha ng for ) Beare} tha dead un only begu gathered in ing burial, of naked were wait. honps iy 200 dead 'metery at Hinkley Thera were two had Kroat sharrad los In every cone There were siz. kegama, There 1st villag ha outivi: eaivable torted attitude, 5 dead at P Ban ! rom t Td ] it must be remembered that the fire covered a largs area of pountry, soma ol it very hard to get over by searching parties. There are many (solated families liv. ing in the sountry ; and all saffered to so ne extent. It will take at least a wok to ascertain how many are lost, and many of them will be fdentis fiad, Many families are being cared for at Pine City and Dulath and 8 At the former place there are abog meloss poopie, and it is esti od that at least 1000 peopie will have to be takes sare of nati they can got a newstart in life, The wounded in hospitals at Pine City were all ds The surgical staff was supple number of physicians from - : Cition, It seemed that forest and een maging within ashort distanoe ¢ a a we aver 8 he ying well, ted by a the “Twin pont fires had f Hinok~ ks, but » apprehension REET ita 4 sight of the red, became panic.stsl the town and tions. They ran whe could find refuge. A large number ran to a 3» three or four acres in extent and or four feet desp, W and ohil. drenman s eattie into the poad an rouched close to the water, forthe smoke hung low and the flames wore danger PT The largest erowd rushed to Grindstone River, a Small sha wW stroan th would afford protect the water was too perished, Thera the o ! rever thert threes men is by side with 3 yusly of people i yueht trampled by Just as the train arrived and 500 peopl godsend i poo ho prayers of thar the train at rap ing town and bw Another party had rushes or the limited on the St, faci an but as the fire cut off thelr way in that direction they ran to a shallow poad near by, There, like rats in a trap, they perisiiod one and all, One hus. died and five bodies were removed from the miserable pond by the Relief Committee, where they had been literally roasted to death. There was absolutely no escape, East of the village there was a stagnant pool of rain water, Over one hundred peo- ple sought refuges there, and these only ons man is known to have porished, The im- menses plant of the Brennan Lamber( npabY with sawmills, planing mills, stables and 28. 000,000 feet of pine lumber, was wiped out in Almost loss time than it takes to write it, With the stables wore consumed ninety head of splendid horses, As the flames subsided ant the shadows of night closed down over the illstarred town, the people lot their places of refuge and made their way over the smouldering embers through the one street of the village, The fire had spont its 1oree, but the ruins still glowed red through the dense cloud of smoke, marking the spots where a few hours ago were the homes of a prosper ous and happy people, Guided by the weird Hght, men moved about as if daged, loss ting the spots where their homes had stood, The alr was filled with moaningy of the wounded, for whom no assistance could be had, and with sobuings of thoss who had lost friendu or possessions, or both, When the terrible night was ended and the light of another day dawned upon the scene of deso. lation a few energetic spirits recovered ar It was a ofared engineer sent up ness as the od away fro from the blow and began to organize for the | work of recovering the bolles, Two han dred and thirtydhrea bodies were buried, only twenty<throe of whieh could be identis fled The reporter ploked his way through dee rerted avenues of Hinekley Minn, , encounter. Ing the bursting romains of horses, cows, oats, chickens, and dogs. He overtook Hans Panleon, an employee in the Brennan mill, “I am going out to tha cemetery to seo if T ean find my wife and four children,” he sald, “1 lost them all” The rain was pourige in sheets, At the coms story, a mileand a half from town a hall doren men were digging a trensh, A heap of bodies Iny on a knoll In the middie of the cometery, There were ninetyaix naked hodles, men, won and Sti irmatedebiad:biashaued dis orted, brains protruding, han ohed their final agonies, hair singed from heads | | souls, | the flames sounded like thunder. and with | rapidity did they come | pew town | ofMoee, | nelghborhood are homeless, | their old, young, mf®.ile acad, male and female, all in nn promisenous heap, In another carner of the cometery wore forty-lvo other bodies covered with quilts, A malority of those lost wore Seandinavi ane, and many of these, distrusting the banks sines Inst year's panle, onrrled their savings fn their pockets, and where It was in paper money it was, of course, destroyed, teports continue to come in from the vicinity of Bkunk Croek of added dizrcoveries of burned victims, Fifty-eight dead were | found lying in the streets and inthe immedi. ate vieinity of this village. The total In the vielnity will reach fully 490 dead when all the returns are in, Identifieation is an ex- condingly diMeult matter, J. D. Markham, of Rush City, says that the population of Pokegama ageregated 113 Of this number sixteen are known to be burned, Sandstone, Minn, is In completa rains, thera being but one buliding standing, a shack used by thequarry company. Crowdsl into this building and the ferry, the relief party found over 200 people who had lost thelr homes and everything they possessed except the clothing they wore, All those saved at Bandstone were in the river while the eyelone of flames passed, and they only managed to escape by wading in the water as far as possible and throwing water over each others’ heads, The coming of such that who waited to save property or negleetad to seek safety inthe river perished in the flames, As far as can be learned between forty and fiky Deonle peop | people are dead, Broad Park, Pokegama Station, Minn, a on the Bt, Cloud and Hine branch of the Great Northern, was totally destroyed, The flames burned 500.000 feet of lumber, a sawmill, hotel, stores, school houses and section house, Twenty-five familles fn the Immediate y The total loss of property Is estimated at $300,000, In accordance with an order issued by General Merritt, commander of the Depart. ment of Dakota, Company G, of the Third United States Infantry, stationed at Fort Baelling, left on a special train way to Hinckley under command of Captain Hale, The principal purpose of sending the Federal troops was to fur. nish tents and blankets i Hinckley, The soldiers were equipped wi am nition and guard protecting property and sapplios, Not since 1571 has Michigan Kley POSte on were to do { awlul devastation by forest fires of the extent of damage can be gained the fact that more than 1000 squa territory bh bur: foot of S00 000 000 18 hoen standing e lands have nding ¢ HER | wis [ro on the narrow auge stated that ware on fire for would be heavy un fires nail poinls the woods around iring the Later Detalls, r~urns receival of Minnesota, Wise wing are tho t m owns and counties ia townstotally destroyed Ranistons Partridge, Hiaok- Randatone Jana. Cromwell, Curtis, 1 Creek, Partly destroyed n, Mansfield, Rutledge, Milaca "He, ine, Tartle Lake, Rie . Bashaw, 8h+11 Lake, South Range Wisconsin counties partly burned - ron, Washburn, Florence, Ashland, Tavior, Chippewa, Burnett, Marinette, Price, Grant, Dongias, Marathon, Bayfield. Michigan towns ‘partly Creek, Ewen, Sidnaw Michigan counties partly burned Hough ton, (almost total except In towns Macomb, Tha Exseutiva Con charge of the relief work made a report of he dead ho lies recovers] as follows Hinckley, 271 (Sandstone, 77 : Miller (often salled Bandstone Janotion), 15; betwen fkunk Lake and Miller, 12: Pokegama, 25; in lamber camps, 50, Total, 450 Everything at Sandstone has burned, the only thing left standing being the school house walls aud big bank safe, One farmer, who lived about hall way Lake, Bare burned--Trout Ontonagon ), Huron, Goneral mitten In | betweon Miller and Sandstone, killed him- | solf when he saw his wife and three chil. | dren, and his son-in-law, wile and eobild all | burned to death before his very eyes, and nis home, stock, and savings of a lifetime swept away. NEW BICYCLE RECORD. hh BP - 5, Bliss Makes It in 1:52 5 Paced, With Flying Start, J. I. Bliss role at Hamp len Park, Spring. flold, Mass, , the fastest mile ever made on a establishing the record for flying start, of 1.52 3.5, and Incidentally lowering the thre quarter-mile record to 1.98 He was pneed by three tandem teams -—Githens and {ams len, Cooper and Blivie and Arnold and Warren, The previous records for tha dis tances ware 1.58 4-5 for the milo and 1.3 40 for the three-quarters, made at Waltham on July 28 by H. CO, Tyler Bliss has become well known to bieyellsts by the records establiched Ly him on the sama track on August 22, when he rode the paced half-mile, with flying start, in 54 3.5 seconds, and made the same distance, with standing start, in 58 1-5 seconds, A ————————..———— Ir ls quite a question whether thero was ov aod I Ty consecutive woeks ns much cloak business as has boon Now York Clty durlag the past fortnight. bleyale, the paced mile, to the people of | BRAVE AS THE BRAVEST THE HERO OF THE NORTH- | WESTERN FOREST FIRES, Engineer Root's Story of His Train's Backward Race With the De vouring Flames-It Reads Like of Herded Like Sheep In a Swamp, a Chapter Horrors ’ ' I'he exporienco of Bnsinser J the doomed trale whi BOY 1 80 mu during the devastatin forest fires N rt hw wt with moro his home | first reid f who met hin Pine Cit not o wera ing fro were Ir awiul physical ordeal went He suffered } wenker men we and all the way was compelled to fumes of mnsist of burns ) the nial strain through eat tld have died (rox luring that feariu breathe the OKe Hin le night { 4 80 binck was it, The from the falling gl nt mar is to so futenss Its that its on h neck s% of his cat and th throug are n he nee pull ute 11et At ymew hat 1 r darkene | « hone and Fifth sire ) she At tha Duluth sp s UM the t is a man of the rugged, | foarioss type so commonly met with in his walk of ile, He is Alty-one ysars old and has run an engine on the Duluth road seven years, and during most of that time pulled the Dalutl limited passenger trains, Engineer Ro MURDERERS HANGED. Two Criminals Executed the Same Day in New Jersey, At Jorsoy City, N, J., Bernard Altenberger the murderer of Katie Rupp, of Rome, N. Y was hanged at 10.04 o'clock a. m., on the day fixed for bis execution, Uawyer Salinger at 8 o'clock hal applied to Judge Lippincott for a writ of error, This was refused. At the gallows Altenbargsr wis ple, bat econ, At 19.23 o'clock he was pronounced dead, The boly was erematedat Presh Pond, Long Island, Alten“wrger made a statement, say: ing he had no Vea of killing Katie Rupp un. til he reached Jersey City from Rome, N, Y., with the intention of getting married, Then, he said, It occurred to him that if he got out of work he could not support a family, and he asked her to live with him without being married, She refasad and hs shot her, At Meant Holly, N. J, Wesley Warner was banged for the murder of Liszis Peak. The drop fell at 10.36 ua, m., The orime was com mitted September 18, 1882, in a jealous rage, Warner's only defence was that be was very drunk at the time, | two | Riry leader and was on he has | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Two persons were killed, three seriously hurt and many slightly injured ina rear end collision in Camden, N. J, Ix the Eastern and Middle States Labor Day wus generally observed, workingmen's organizations having many parades, A strike of several thousand garment workers in New York City and Brooklyn was begun, with the object of abolishing the “sweat” system, Vermont elected the entire Repub ticket by sn majority of about 25,000 Mises Manion GLENDENING Kutz, both of Brooklyn, N. ¥ and fifteen years, drowned near the me River, Baybrook, Ccnn. ros ut { Boru legs and one arm of William Care new, a coal Inspector at Midvalley ( iliery, Penn., wero eut off by a train, His sixteen. year-old son saw the ace but lustead of summoning ald ran to his home in Mount Carmel. ident, in nffright Mr. Curnew was | dead when his body was found an hour later. F He was rich and leaves a widow and four children, Gexenal Groner BroweMax falo, N. Y. at the residence of } senjamin H, Willlams, He w 1 Governor « fornia, Tux Republicans of New Hampshire z | inated Charles A, Busiel for Govern Tee New Conventior Henry O. K Noes Masson Penn., for the Porice Carraix Jonx ” rer disminsn Hampshire Demoe at Concord nor nt for Governor, WAR + for accepting bribe ‘oremax In Washing LEE a2 8 TH eprenttert Gexenan Hexax Mujor-General, United s Volunteers, is dead. Rear-Adwiral Eroen was retired. Rinte Foreign. HKEvEX poopie have n summarily shot in Hawt for murder President Hypolite's daughter Srarx has eanocelled the reasipr between the United States and ( Moons have looted the Hebrew quartors in six towns in Morocco, killed many and sold women and children into slavery. Ture Vigilant lost her centreboard while proseeding to Cowes, England, and the race tor the Cape May Cup was declared off, Exrenon Wintian, of Germany, anveiled A monument to the memory of his grand. father at Konlgsberg. Taxnx have been 3000 deaths from cholera ie the Austrian provinces of Galicia and Bukowina. Tan Japanese claim to have completely routed the Chinese st Gasan, Korea, Tae fishing schooner Rigel arrived at North Sidney, Cape Brentoa, with Dr, Cook's Greenland expedition on voard, The Mi randa straok a rock and later founderel at son, Tax Spanish Bishop of Urgel proclaims himsell ruler of Andorra, the pigmy republic, CE —————s ORUSHED BY A REDWOOD. Two Women, Who Walted Atter a Warning, Were Killed, A party from Ban Francisco, inclu ling W, W. Higginson, second officer of the steamer Oakiand, his wife ani daughter, William Spohn and B), Reed, wore campod on (ar ola River, ton miles from Point Areas, Cal, Early in the morning they wero awatened by the erackling of a large redwood tres, 0 men ran, but the ladies stopped to dress, The tree fell over both tents, killing Mrs. Higginson and her daughter Sadic, and : a leg of both Bpohn and Resa, attempting ity treaty 109A
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