The army worm has cost this coun- try more than the Revolutionary War. The great canned goods center of industry of the world is Baltimore, Md. Ballington Booth says that the Sal vation Army has grown in twenty- eight years from two persons to over a million, The islet of Massown, in the Red Bea, where Italy is sending its An- archists, is one of the hottest places in the world, and escape from it in that sterile region would be very diffi- cult, The only school in the United States for the teaching of the art of letter. writing is said to be at Chautauqua, N.Y, B. Calloway, has pupils ranging from The instructress, Miss Frances the Texas cowboy to the aristoeratio society woman, and in age from four- teen to seventy. The British postoffice has recently introduced of notation The letters from A to M are used to represent the hours and of ninutes a new system for its date stamps. also twelve intervals of five each; thus A A means 1.05, A B1.10, and so on. A. m. and p. are expressed by A and P after asterisk ; thus M C*A means 12.154. 1 Edward Atkinson, the statistician, testified before the Royal British Com- mission on Agriculture that on of his in this country had r one single order for ox 25,000 plows for the Argentine Repub He said that there were er ] wheat Parana Rivers world. on The war be thot cans, will igh not interest TEINAT KS has been no pro and it remains to the greater advance has | weapons of attack, smokeless powder and tor; in mean { defe nse, plates, turrets, bullet-proof this war may teach us n Tt apuears thet England ig the great est railway-traveling coun; va enn In 1880, the extent of land being then abo the numbe 6804 ’ re than PII TY TIAN Y » wo, U JO, 000 persor COZers was over Edward Bellamy shudders when the name of If yon wish to make a Francis Bret Harte don't mention “The Heathen Chinee.” Will Carleton wonders how people can read "Over the Hills to the Poor House," which he considers one of the poorest Mrs. F. Hodg- does not wish to hear he Backward.” hears friend of poems he ever wrote, son Burnett ‘Little Lord Fauntleroy” praised in her vicinity. Charles Heber Clarke has taken a very strong immediate aversion to his once famous nom de plume of ‘Max Adler.” recognizes him as anyone else, Bat no one “The Opening of a Chestout Burr,” by E. P. Roe, was considered by him to be an inferior work. Our pestiferous friend, the bicyole, continues to grow in favor, and it is being put to very practical uses, notes the Chicago Record, In the German army estimates for the present year the sum of 825,000 is included for the supply of bicycles to the infantry, Two wheels are assigned to each bat- talion and an instruction has been js sued dealing with the bicycle service. These machines are to be used for communications between columns on . | pardon if they would abjure their the march and for communications between advanced guards, fulfill the functions of orderlies, es. cavalry from relay and intelligence duties. In fortresses all tho duties hitherto devolving on cavalry as mecmago-bearers are to be trans ferred to bicyclists. In the military service of our own country the bi cycle bas already begun to figure cons spicuously with admirable results, great When | |, | this, troops are in quarters bicyclists are to | _, Cs | Bines 1885 Christian mission work, . | Protestant and Catholic alike, has been pecially where mounted orderlios are | A tod. but th i of 2 | unimpedod, but this recital of ite in wanting; they will also relieve the | io ’ hy 1m of sugar to every pound of salt in the United States, We use seventy-five pounds The population of Italy is very dense, there being 270 people to every | square mile of territory. relative population as Japan, 000 people, “The Comte with him dies forever the hopes of the the de Paris is dead and French Monarchists,” exclaims New York Commercial Advertiser. Herald : for the people Says the Boston This is an auspicious time South to be inviting immigra- thither, They point with pride to the fact th the year where the Crops are down tion can truthfully it iL is one section of the country this as | untifal as ever they were. A Cleveland (Ohio) dry goods chant is proposing to pay his salesmen a commission on the goods each instead that the profit by the of a fixed salary. would arrangement, and says most of them expects no serious opposition to the plan on the part of the employes. He will pay six per cent, The n using a Jersey Central young woman who pass on & Pennsylvania Railroad is a livin locument } papers bearing sters in a public ad partly occupied by an electric railway are some of the Arp nbe aT aa gaint this new factor in civilize placed with him in His he mand, and to the ¢ some his coffin burial, irs fulfilled his com- almost 80,000 were pt fla with the dead dentist. If archaeologists of a future cen- to he will have “food for thought” tury shall happen the grav open 11 mn lde i some difficulty, perhaps, in the presence of so many teeth. York “Christianity appeared in Korea in advance of missionaries in 1777, some of the natives having received Chris tian books translated from the Chi- nese, in which the Jesuit precepts and teachings were set forth, In 1704 a Chinese Jesuit went thither and or- ganized a little company of the faith- ful, but in 1801 he was slain. There- after, for thirty years, no missionaries came ; but in 1835 they appeared again, French Jesuits this time, disguised ae mourners, which in the Korean cities keep to the obscurer thoroughfares, and neither speak nor are spoken to by others. They ministered secretly the New Tribune | to the little flock which remained, per- forming their religions ceremonies at dead of night in the Christian houses, | but in 1839 were found out, and they, | too, were destroyed. After an inter- val others eame, and in 1866 these were | also sacrificed, together with a con- siderable number of believers, men, women and children, who were offered faith, but not one was found to do and they were all beheaded. itinl steps will serve to show the bit. terness of the way these traversed and the courage, fortitude and fidelity of the early workers there. If the blood of the martyrs is yet the seed of the Church the harvest in that far-off and mysterious land ought to be anabound- ing one.” HOWEATE 1S CAPTURED. | FOR TWELVE YEARS A FUGI- TIVE FROM JUSTICE. Accused of Stealing $370,000 From If the United States had as great a | they | would have a population of 960,000,- | the Government While Chief of the Signal Service at Washington Fscape and Subsequent Remark. able Career, Captain Henry W, Howgate, formerly Dis the United States Signal rice, who usad his official position to om- ursing OfMeer of ut §370,000 of Unole Sam's money, since 18 arrested a fow City. nis arrest is wore than (welve years { rita on the part authorities to apprehend of the carver of one and interesting 4 During tha ind 52 has bee foo, York nn fugitive from jus- in the wins days ago cule (8 the close pletures jus Meinl hist EMBRYO GENERALS, The Number of Enrolled Cadets at West Point A report ree at the Department Military Ac shows that padets were + aroliad at the The first, embers ; beginning of the aeademie lasting ond, seventy-four members: the third, thirty-seven, and the fo 106 mom. bers, The leaders in first three classes are Schule, of West Virginia; Burgess, of Mississippl, and Gurney, of Michigan in the first ; E. KR. Stuart, of West Virginia ; Hoffman, of Pennsyivania, and Callan, of Tennessee, in the second, and W, D. Connor, of Iowa of Coanecti. cut, and Oakes, of New York, in the third The standing of members of the fourth class has not been determined. Two eadets, both in the third clase, are receiving instruction under joint resolutions of Congress, They are from Salvador and Yenezuela, ESCAPED yoar lass, has finty-t the Chenery, cn — FROM SIBERIA. Two Thousand Prisoners Overpower | Guards and Make for Korea, By the steamer Rio Janeiro, from the Orient, nows was received of the escape of | The | two thousand prisoners from Siberia. men were employed in the construc tion of the Siberian Rallway, and had, as iste developments proved been planning to escapes for severn months, Meagre advices received at Yokos hama concerning the break for liberty state that the men overpowered the Russian soldiers who were guarding them, and, securing all the arms they could, lad. When Inst hoard of they were making their way toward Korea, and it is believed that they are now safely within the borders of that country to secure passage te more distant parts, — A ————————— LL — Jonna in dry goods state that thus far this season's transactions have exoced those of two years ago, and then the demand was the largest ever experienced. AN INTREPID MARINER, A Small Schooner, With a Single Sailor Aboard, Crosses the Atlantic. The little schooner Nina arrived at Quoens- town, Ireland, recently, from New York, Captain Frietsch, the only man aboard, roports that four days out from New York the Nina sprang a leak and he had to build and rig a new pump. In doing so he hurt his right leg : Off the banks of Newfoundland the Nina encountered a gale and was hove to thirty- eight hours, The rudder was sprung and the Captain lowered himself over the stern | was ” (re pe a TITY | tain Prietseh brought his boat by th aft, was brought to New York last June from Milwaukee, where Captain Adolph | Friotsoh bullt her, Bho salled from New i York August 5th, at 4 p. m., and made the | voyage noross the Atlantic in thirty-sight days, only eleven days behind the time of | Lord Dunraven's yacht Valkyrie, when she returnad from Ameren, Leaving Milwaukee without a cent, Cape Cireat Linke, the Erie Canal and the Hudson River to New York, Here he put theeraft on exh bition, raising mousy enought to fit her out with now salls, new rigging, charts, nautical Instruments and supplies, In shipping clreloa considerable ex prossod doult as to the Nina's sbliity te ih SLIT 7 3 t sy bid ou fy ' § ‘RE ! : 9 5 tr hai icsorkers In molale, SIXty pet cont sf sons sition fle pt —— EMPRESS OF CHINA. The Great Celebration in Her Honor Postponed on Account of the War Stories hav botnet enorn birthd press of was harshiy eriticisa | as reves character of the Empress however, that injustice has heen as she has ordered t money voted to prosecuting the war wil Pr. T.F, Seott, an who returned from Tien tain, said “In consequence of the war the Do Empress will not eelebrate the sixtie niversary of her birthday this your ceremony has been lonked forward to several years, and 20,000,000 taels have been raised for the purpose, that the event might be otwerved with all splendor, “Now the entire celebration has been abandoned at the request of Dowager Empross herself, Sie has requested that the 20.000.000 tasls raised for the purpose be utilised ja prosecuting war with Japan” JAOK'S NEW TGS. | Our Sallors Will Have a More Come fortable Uniform Our jack tars are to woar a Dew an 1 more comfortable uniform so soon as the order signed, a fow days agn, by Secretary Herbert goon into effect, which It will do when printed | and distributed to comman ting ofMoeors, The principal change is nthe eut of the trousers, | whieh are madeto conform closer to the sallor | boys’ nnatonloal curves above the knes, res | taining thelr flowing generous proportions | atthe ankles, A dark-blue jersey for cold woather is added to the outfit, and the white | hat is replaced by a white cover tor the reg- | uiation eap, The departures from the old style are not radial, but they mean considers | able inerease of comfort, and the boys will look more nautical than in the past few yoars, fsajoanr 3 the the R OLp Amborst College. at Amherst, Mass. WN ' . woll this year, having 500 students |r ie the Insgest number in its history. Tux Gr sORRON Car GoveERwon C Ro! deavor 10 provi siricken dluriols CREE, OTN URAARY, will en 3 Hat # Shim gnans olen +8 Caollel jor Ths arougs nx War Depart ut has issued an ord« neentrating the army and doing away wit} is sotion was taken in view { larger foroes within react minent places in the East, as instance pre Pittsburg an several posta T of the necessity © of of pr in Chicago and elsewhere viousiy In cnn I — “ON T0 PEKIN." This is Now the Rallying Cry Through. out the Japanese Empire, Mail advices from Japan received at the Japanese legation at Washington say that the Progressionist party in Japan has issued a manifesto giving its views with regard to the prosecution of the war. The most inter esting announcameants are thase “Of the various powers in the world capa. able of being ths most dangerous anemios to Japan Is Chim, after whish come Grest Britain, Pranes, Russia and Germany in the given order, **To settle the contest decisively ani te ine sure the permanent peace of the Orient it is poocssary to strike a blow at the heart of the en*my, 'ekin, “Ia three months more the mouth of the river on which Tien<asin is situated will freegs, thus blocking up the passages till the next spring. Therefore, it ia essential that Pekin should be attacked within the next three months “Pekin once taken the Chinese army in Korea would surrender at discretion, and, therefore, whenever possible, fighting in Korea should be avoided.’ Complete harmony provalls among Jape anese of all sorts and conditions, irrespecs tive of party or faction. "On ‘o Pekin" is the national rallying cry. ———— Dovaras Luce, the oldest person in Cham palen County, Ohio, died saddenly, agel | ninetyonine years, He was born in Virginia, | and came to Urbana when a boy, He was ' Amistant Commissary in Hall's Army, and had known many Indian chiefs, among them the famous Tecumseh, Coronana’s gold output for 1804 will reach $12,000,000, the Jargast in its history, Its hoped to mine $25,000,000 in 1895, wrecked | tenead to hard lade THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Joswea 8, Hermen, Inte President of the Lockport (XN. Y.) Bask, was o r fu Auburn State Prison li= for five years, Tur Connecticut Democratic Biante Cone rention nominated Ernest Cady for Gove rin rival, rris BB. Boards. second ae the on sountry from Brazil, accor receive] Washington, 1 stock ofthe re . " & wy a t a t LOLARS n famine, China, is Are fre. publie i the Ger. \, sant against of Withool, ol escaped, Tors of peace to the Garman co ie Lieuten- ant Diestel and «igh 1 LrOOPers were killed Gexenat Eovequiza President of Paraguay A pisrarcs from Shanghal, China, says that Li Hung Chang is to be superseded as Viceroy of Chi-Li by Wa-Ta-Cheng. Rio pr Jaxsino, Brazil, has bad five days of rioting, Da Gama reports, Portaguese and other foreigners being attacked by Peixoto’s soldiers in dis *aiee The number of killed and wounded is stated In hundreds, Tar members of the University of Penne sylvania's Labrador expedition left Halitax, Nova Sootia, for New York, Winisox, has been aleoted of the House ee, was banqueted body of he made a from tariff Cuamuax W, L Wars and Means ( in London by a representative eminent Englishmen, to whom speech on the benefits acoraing reform. yt CHOLERA PATIENTS BURNED. Houses Destroyed in a City Where the Disease Is Raging. Sixty bouses in the oily of Disszkl, in the | District of Kallah, Rassian Poland, where the | sholera le making fearful ravages, wore set am fire and completely destroyed. Several of the Inmates, who were suffering from the disonse and who were too weak to try to save themselves wore burned to death, A ———— Goveaxonr ALrarid presented to the [ill sols State Doard of Equalization Agures showing that the Pallman Company essaped taxation on $40,000,000 worth of property, or about one-third of its assets,
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