——— R ans" OFFICIAL CROP REPORT STATISTIOS FROM THE AGRI- CULTURAL DEPARTMENT. The September Condition of Corn, Wheat, Oats, Rice, Tobacco and Apples—The Area Under Clover Heavy Decline In the Corn Aver- age. The roport of the statistician of the De. partment of Agriculture for the month of September shows a decline in the condition of corn to 63.4 from 62.1 in the month of August and 95 in the month of Jaly. This is an decline of 5.7 Irom the August and 51.6 from the July condition, Tha change is marked in nearly all of the great corn Btates, The present condition is 75 in Ken- tucky, 70 in Ohlo, 58 in Michigan, 80 in Io- diana, 78 {a Illinols, 51 in Wisconsin, 60 in Minnesota, 40 in Iowa, 70 in Missouri, 45 in Kansas, 15 in Nebraska, and 16 in South Da- kota. In most of the Southern States the con dition has risen and a good erop is cer- tain, In addition to the unfavorabls prospects arising from the low condition of the grow. ing crop, reports from eight States, viz., In- diana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota, in re- sponse to a special inquiry, show that out of an aggregate of 40,873,084 acres plaated In these States there have been cut up for fod- der or abandoned 15,506,000 acres, or 33 per ecent., which Is a little over 20 per cent. of the entire area planted In the country, The ue of that cut up or abandoned by vorting 18 as follows : Indiana, 06; Wisconsin, ¢ lowa, 35; Mis- raska, 81; South pn tates reg Illinc is, gourd, 16 ; Kansas, 53; Nel of! wheat, considering both ities, when harvested, 4.0 last year and 85.3 in od conditions from the core lonts i reo Ww. nna, 103 llows : Ohlo, Illinois, 101 ; : ta, 84 ; Iowa, 92 ; Missouri, | ska, 40 ;Sonuth Dakota, 82 Callfornia, 88 ; Oregon, In the East : New York, 8 ; Penne ad, 98. Virginia re gas, 5 Dakota, 74 2; Texas, 92. Btates there has t ) ment Ir sonditi RI THE LABOR WORLD. Macmixisrs have 450 lodges, Tuzae are 9000 Union Bostox has sixty-fiv kera, Tuzrz are 160 barber Caicaoo has 1500 Unl Oxana has a Polis! Nasaviree hasa Lovisiaxa Cntteano painter OHARA Tex s 100,000 France. Kaxsas Crry (M a Union. Post gnla of i ricen % Chinese Bax Fraxomwco go cents an hour APrrr ers aren! Kawsan (1 y, ru Haxw In six 1 Rey. Da. 1 nest lo servat Fanvens features of the Nashville Taz Eoglish gin kK wore a Labor Day parade Amalgamated Sole cers has a yearly ine A Loxpox gas company distributed £100, C00 of Its profits for a year among its hands Wasnixarox (D, CC.) plate printers wore a £1 bill as a badge in the Labor Day parade, Tunee clergymen made adliresses at the Binghamton (N. Y.) Labor Day demonstra tion. A Nasavinre athletic club pecupiad a float on Labor Day and gave a continuous per formaner, Irattaxs are desorting Calllornia, Many are going home and not a few have embarked for Alrien. | Trene nate 7000 people in Paris who are employed in the preparation of for the market, Tue trade unions congress at Norwich, England, sesolved to demand that the Gov. ernment prevent the landing of destitute aliens, Tae Marquis of Lorne is a sympathizer with strikes where the men have a reason. able complaint, He has often been known to contribute his mite to a strike fund. Ovraasags by unionist sheep-shearers are causing mueh concorn in Brisbane, Aus tralln, Since the beginning of the month five Inrge wool sheds have been burned, Jomx A. Howarp, Democratic candidate for Congress in the Wheeling (W. Ya.) dis. trict, bognn his life as a glassSlower and de voted his evenings to study in a commereial college, Tue petition of the eollar, shirt and cuff operatives, 76,000 ln number, recently pro. sented to Congress, have heen bound In one mammoth book, 72x48 Inches, weighing 322 pounds, It is said that when the book Is open a boy of twelve years of uge can easily eraws through the back, - — . Daisy Masons, a sixtesn.yoar-old girl, who has acted ns Postmistress at Wampum, Pena, 1s found to have embezzled $1500, - A ———— " Tux Chicago policeman who served as model for the Haymarket status has been dismissed in from the foros, human hair | tobacco nor liquor, and is | engaged in dictating his | his secretary, but they lished until aftor his death, | the distinotion of | who never missed a roli-eall in the House I statue PROMINENT PEOPLE. Kixo Lzovoun, of Belglum, ridesa bleyele, Justices Dower, Drown anil Yale graduates, Tur first throo sons of Emperor William, of Germany, are learning to ride bicyeles, Sexaron Daxier, of Virginia, Is figuring as a writer of short stories for young people, Tun Crown Prince, Frederick of Danmark, has oolebrated his silver wedding, He is fifty-one, AvovsTix Dany, of New York City, has Just completed his first quarter of a century of theatrical management, fexaron Hi, of New York, uses neither sald to be {a magnificent physioal condition, Gexenat Covsset, Baxter, of the Louls. ville and Nashville Baliroad Company, re- colves for his services £490,000 a year, Banxey Laxoray, the Damoeratio candi date for Secretary of State in Kansas, owns a ranch of 18,000 acres in Chase County, Sexaronr Pack, of Ohio, some time ago walled up the front door in his house in Washington so as to have nothing but a Bhiras are | carriage antranoe, is dally tions" 10 to be pub. Horses “* Beoolleo Da, Oravern Wexperrn Are not Coxapessaax Ih Goorin, on joy ng the only membe Representatives last session, Promrx uxt Hobrew residents of New York are preparing for the erection of a bronze to the ry of the ate Seligman, the banker and philanthropist Da. F. E Endeavor While men J ows Rev, Christian for CLARE Europe duce the society and Scandinavia, rost Exren ini i and wil ing sxe ne, . aps SHEEP OVER CLIFFS. The Animals Fell = hous and Feet Into Parachute Creek. 4h ab ¥ a We WN ' ep herds Wn 4 1 John Miller wers brought t was shot in the hip while defending he raiders oft word that they more simply they | They promised to return and The settlers are divided in sen noaay Heys oe i 4 ne for yours, and a rou AN OLD CHIEF'S ™ Ae ve resuliod, EXPLOIT. He Schooner. ywigh Seventy-seven Dragged Hose toa Burning pondering hisl Joseph Swan, Or the nast with the hose m the thickest of the was easily loudly choored by fire Ho waa sctators on the shore, out then ” ihe I — J A NOVEL BLACK LIST. Position of the Crane Determines the | Standing of the Applicant, Omaha rallroad wo much alarmed over the discovery of what they regard as a novel black lst boing worked on all Western lines, ployment ar required from their last company. The men olaim that all companies are using n sheet of paper on whieh to write the recom mendations pt worked in it and while the writing may In- dente that the bearer is all rignt the position of the animal on the paper, which i= invisl. ble exenpt to a close observer, really defers mines the applicant's standing, In this manner, by a scoret code of sig nals, the rallroads, the men say, san write them a favorable letter and by using pap with the figure of the crane intieating dis mtisfaction provent thelr securing work. Tho men are very much alarmed men Tax watormelon industry is realiy a groat one in Georgia and an important one for At- Inatn, which is the greatest watermelon mat kot on earth, From all over Goorgin water molons have been shipped to Atlanta, and through Atlanta dealers, sold in other cities, Nearly 800 carloads have been shipped from that point to other eltios this year, nl —. Tue Spanish Government has issued a de. eroo ennoslling the rect prosity treaty bet woon Spain and the United States on the applica tion by the United States of the new customs tarifr, . EE — Oven 820000 was turnel back into the United States Treasury on account of dock ing Members of Congress who have been ab- sont from thelr seats, | to | twoentydwo {| #ither nu major | their! | ning Since the strike ail men seeking em. | to bring a elearanos | int have the figure of 8 erane | THE NATIONAL GAME, Hamrurox, of Philadelphis, lod matter of stolen bases, in the Lacuaxce first base for piayed a4 wonderiul nt Brooklyn, Lame Buovruens fell off in his batting, but his flolding has been brilliant, Tne Boston tea onrried o trainer on its Western trip Danvex, the Chieagn shortstop, covers lots of ground and does it well Bunxery, McAleer and Blake makoan out- finld Jor Clavelnnd that is hard to beat, Carraix Nasu playad nn better game thi season than when he went to Doston In 1886, fifteen men and It sooms in possible to properly strongthen third base, the weak spot of the Brooklyn team, Tur Loulsville Club gay lnltimore Pitcher bonus of #2000 Buffalo (N. 1.) Club has a record o straight tho best for or minor league clu! Plteher Homing Inks and a for rash Tu t viet ux Cleve 1s took an awhul slump in tinge if the game In whieh they were cons rod strong at the begin. of the i fentara Benson the MA ons it and wry have bosn fant iaring ths wint RK is the add plays iarted out v and now that on wenr them Wee will win first place in batting this It is jusstion impossible to answer, ET \ en indioats that down het ween hn o eae. 1 $ & L068 Waah'ng suisville, “ a “ Brooklyn. .65 Cleveland 60 terminating Russian t Tax Bouth has been ex > flood and pestilence tt is year sas men swing REragaExTATIVE busin York City say trade is impr Tape reviews report remarkable provement in business in the Wast, Tur Chiness are manifesting the utmost enmity toward all English residents in China, Cia Powers, throwing the upon Japan, the blams for inne wil , at Washington, FF dg t made in the daring the rocess Hriont bo Capit oft frouth, losusts and heavy cold rains i a loss of 500.00) sheep to look: fn Africa, Tun distribution of tho Krag-Jorgonsen magazine rifis to the Unite! Btates Army is progressing satisfactorily Tre have oases men of Sout Tuene are reports of a very short apple orop not only In England, but throughout continental Europe this year [xvEsTiG ATION shows that the cholera fe spread by the pligrims to Moora, Arabia, which Is a nursery for tho disease, It has boon setimated that from €30,000, 000 to $40,000,000 worth of property has been destroyed by the forest dros in Wisoon- sin alone, mostly lumber and standing time ber. Iris reported that fruit canners on the Pacific const, though working at thelr fall eapacity, are unabio to taka in the immense shipments of groen fruit, and large supplies are boing transported East and across {0 Europe, sisi I i 55500 Lixx Waosaoxen, a noted deperado of North Louisiana and Eastern Texas, was shot to death In his eeil in the parish jail at Minden, La, byamo's, Waggoner was a porleot type of manly beauty, and ns brave asallon. For the past five years he had been a terror in that country. Innumers. ; blo murders are laid at his door, | the Unite | tered the army with the rank of | voluntears, { Clollan's staff til the conclusion of the cam | palgn in Virginia, io June, 1882, when thoy { returned to Europa, | Paris was, after somes delay, admitted a mom- | ber of the National | ander M, Thiers, President | Republie, | 1480 ! biddin | riod his cousin, | Francoise d' Assis | oldest daughte a 6 de | on May 80, 1 { report of the oo im | has swt a note 1o the European | war A. ‘or {| Bquals, ¥ doz COUNT OF PARIS DEAD. The French Royalist Leader Sue- cumbs to Cancer of the Stomach, The Count of Paris dled at Stowe House, London, shortly befors elght o'clock, a few mornings ago. He began to sink visibly at midnight, but at intervals was olearly con- solous, recognizing the Countess and his children ns they bent over him and murmur- Ing words of affection for them, All the mombers of his family wore around him when he died, The offfolal medical certifi. cate says that death was dae to intestinal obstruction, eancer and exhaustion, Louis Phillippe, Albert 4'Orleans, Comte de Paris, son of the Isto Due 4'Orleans and grandson of the late Louls Philippe, King of the French, wana born In Parls, August 24, 1838. He was only ten years old when the revolution of February, 1548, broke out, and ho accompanied his family into exile, Hoe was educated at Claremont, in England, In the autumn of 1861 tho young Prince, with his brother the Due de Chart res, accompanied by their unoie, the Prince de Joinville, cameto States, and the two brothers en- captains of They served on General Me- In 187% the Comte de Ansomily Versailles, ot the French December 22, 1572 restitution ot Alter Am . which the great ma- ncknowlodged successor in In nut and, on the Assembly voted the property of the Orl the death of the Comte do ( oocurred on August 24, 18 jority of the Comtea ris as his his claim Franch t the French passad + tha sof hrone, and | Of- sot heirs of families th t I'he moRsurs wns | Comto de England Paris m Isabe th + Autonia Lo i N ntpoensioer, y i \ AX children two sons, Prince i I sy Ro rn ort, In i Tux Supremes lopted t f Con trol of the endowm nmending that no Insurances a! beneficiaries of sul THE MARKETS, Late Wholesale of Country Produee Quoted in New York. MILE AXD CREAM. Prices 1] Bomewhat demand gave a the past week, readily affectad, the various mi platforms surg 40 quarts, Receipts © Pe fb gals Condensed no Crea: § sesranand raced sub & jecronsed receipts betior tone 1 als Creamery — Je Woestorr Western Woosst ory Western Daley Hamlfea, Factory, June, firkine HOt SR, CHEESE, State Full eream white lanes Fall cream, good to § Btate Factory-—Part chojee Part skims, Full skims Riate & Penn - Jorsey Far Western Fres? Duck egps--South / Goobe ogee BEANS A PEAR Beans Marrow, 1893, cholo Modigm, 18 p Pea, 1563, chol Bed kidnes White ney, 1 Black turtle sou; Lima, Cal, 1553 Green pens, bi FRU Plame, ® 10 Watermelons Peaches, #1 Cranberries, ( Muskmelons, 3 Aj ples, green Pears, Par Grapes, Del NAT 0 Turkeys, ¥ Ducks, ¥ 1 Goose, ¥ pair Pigeons, ¥ pair, RESET Turkess, ¥ ™ iene Chickens, Phila, broilers, . Western, ..... Jersey, ¥ Ih Fowia, ¥ Ih, Ducks, 8 Goose, ¥ 1h POULTRY YEGETABLES, Potatoes, Jersey, Sweets, ¥ bhnl, Cabbage, ¥ 100 Onions Yellow, ¥ bbl, Red, ¥ bbl . Bquash, marrow, ¥ bhi Tarnips, Russia, # bbl, Ege plant, ¥ bbl, ....., Celery, ¥ doz roots Btring beans, ¥ bag Groen peas, ¥ bag Green corn, # 100 Tomatoes, ¥ Lox Cucumbers, ¥ 100 ve Lima beans, # bag ........ Cauliflower, # bbl GRAIN, BTC. Flour--Winter Patents, .... Spring Patents, .... ..o.. Wheat, No. 2 Red... coe. Beptomber, o ...coooiivine Dorti=-Mo, 8. ............00 4 ORts<No, 2 White, ....... cous Track mixed Rye-Sinte, . INR LR Baroy Ungraded Western Larde-Clty Steam. .....cov on LIVE STOCK, Booves, city dressed... ...... Mileh Cows, com, to Calves, city dressed... ..... Cotutey dressed 0... RIUO IDS. ..oiovnins PIOO IBS. .....i00nee H ive, ¥ 100 Be....... at EE ELE REAR bbl ia u w Mymw we {0 as isss ana your THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. | STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE | FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS, The Wrong Species — Sarcasm — A | Sweet Danger—Slow Collections — | A Real Herolne—A Hint, Ete, , Ete, | Bhe fell upon his neck, In wild affright shrieked he, This plenle Jouth with the pale, sweet face A caterplilar she, «Detroit Tribune, A BWERT DANGER, He — “They healthy.” Bhe-*‘Everything has ite risks.” Puck. say kissing is un ! town, but we intend | for one of these nearby ~ cor handsome house next door is {0 sovage, I presume?” Dencon De Good~ “*N—o, Fact is, the parsonage is some distance up to make an offer ' par residences soon.” “The price will be high, nodonbt. “Um~I think not. We sha'n’t try to buy until after our new chimes are put in.” New York Weekly, A BEVERE ORIDEAL, The two ladies had not met for some timo and they were vitally interested in each other's welfare, “l hope your health is better than when I saw you last,” said the first “No, I grow worse every dav,” re- i sponded her friend, des pondently, SARCASM, Barber—'Yon have a tender skin, sir.” : Customer—*‘I did have when I came in here. You bave it now.’ —Judge. A REAL HEROINE, Ho] expect to make you the heroine of my next novel.” She—*On the strength of the fact that I read your last one.” —New York {| Sun, BLOW COLLECTIONA, “What's Cholly doing? “Trying to collect his thon “Poor fellow. He isn't the first t lebts, "Wash + have tre ble with bad d¢ EFFECT OF Johnny weon cannibals “Cannibals CIVILIZATI -“Pa. what's the and other folk eat their ies ; other people generally wer than to live my son, enon furt and on relatives, me money LO DAVEE SOme new cl 18 And some shoes 24] "” and 1 a hat and a wrap. Hub! - ‘Gracious, ing a minnte)—"“Well, I'll compromise on the money." —De- troit Free Press A GOOD ENOUGH SPEC, Neighbor Whetstone—"D’'ye think { it was a good spee to send your son t re and give him larnin’!” ACESOnD In ”m sir. Bat unles can't see you. ething now," s that to do with 't like ¢ yw York San. ERRAND, tre CONTRAST, how fat you are I've been camping ont for the last three weeks.” Briggs—*‘So I heard. But I've seen the members of your party and they are all as thin as rails.” Griggs—"1 did the cooking." ~New York Herald cther A HINT, “Why don't you get a boy to keep desk in order?” inquired the caller. “It looks awfully littered ap.” “I keep it this way,” said the man | ab the desk, “to show that I'm always busy." “Bat why--Oh, I see! Good day!” ~ Chicago Tribune. A SUDDEN SHOOK. Looking up suddenly she beheld before her the bearded face of a man, with a gleaming knife between his teeth, Then she fainted. It was no wonder, for she had been carefully reared, and had never seen any one eat pie in that manner before. ~«Indisnapolis Journal, FILIAL: RESPONSE, “Harold, my boy,” exclaimed the | proud, indulgent father, “I'm glad to see you! How you havegrown!” The blood mounted to the pale, in- teilectual brow of the young man who had just returned from college, and his voice trembled, “Father,” he said with deep feeling, “Too bad! too bad! to be the matter?” ‘No one knows, and say they eannot tell till mortem,” “Why, how awful. You poor, thing! In your weak state, you « never live thr ugh that ! Life, What seems the do after the po EX OF HIS RY It was s little New lage among the country store served as circulating library, shoe store, dry good goods store an that brightly : neing 3 had occasion t ) quote [4] Shakespe lines about ““uneasy lies the head that wn,” ete. At the con wion of his sddress he was approa sched cing. WOAIS RR OT¢ by a Scotchman, who expressed his ’ H pleasure at the talk, Hut took occasion I'to say that his approbation of SHARES | speare was only limited “There's that bit you said about the uneasy head and crown. 1 dina like it. It's foolish. Now our Robb id 2 i staff.” svi k] 23UCKI0 Burns w it wer ® chal ing in." —Harper’s Magazine. A “Lost Atlantis” Clue, head of baked in the sand here it was ntl asa a snadl, Tih Haworser sacrifices were flayed aliv giar idol has been deco wed wita g mica. This the old yin between and the Indians of C “lost Atlantis discovery sure {oo re- theories of a primitive the Phoenicians uiral America by -New York ive connects way of the Times, A Simple Optical Aid, The introduction of the mumple pho tometer, brought forth by a Russian inventor recently, is claimed to meet an important desideratum as a means for testing the power of the eye. It is described as consisting of a pamph- let of twenty-four pages, the first page being of a clear gray tint, the next of a double intensity, and so on to the twenty-fourth, the tint of which 1s | nearly black, being twenty-four times | more intense than thet of page one. On each page are printed a few phrases in black letters of ss many different | sizes; with snch an arrangement, it is | stated, the degree of ease or facility | with which the words are read on dif- | ferent pages, when held at a certain | Qistance from the eyes, wili indicate the precise illaminating power of light | prevailing inthe room, or, on the other hand, the power of the eyes thom | selves, — Detroit Free Pross A Birds Linon Nest, i | A housewife at Langholm, Scotland, | bas just had a somewhat novel experi- {enoce. She had just washed sone chil- dren's collars, and hang them ou =» hedge surrounding her garden to | bleach. They were missing anl conid ‘‘your handshake is twenty-five years | not be found, but have now been dis behind the style I""~~Chicago Tribune. A BEAR MOVEMENT, “Your church is a beauty, That covered as forming part of the founda tions of a thrush's nest situated in the cleft of an ash tree in a wood close to the gar len, —(lasgow Times.
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