—————————— ———— The population of Europe doubles once each 660 years, The total cost of the Chinese mis- sions amounts to about $1,250,000 an- nually. In times of war the armies of Euro- pean nations can be raised to 9,366,000 men, and the daily expenses will be nearly $20,000,000. Farm land in the northern tier of counties of New York trings less money now than it did fifteen years ago, avers the Mail and Express, po In Australia horses and cattle are | now being branded by electricity from storage batteries, The temperature tistic, China has only 200 miles of railway in actual Japan's total length of railway lines, for which con- cessions are granted, is 2520 miles, of operation, which 1912 miles are in actual opera- tion. A Western health officer is interest- ing himself in' the cultivation of mushrooms. He “] that thousands of tons of mushrooms BAYS suppose go to waste every year in the State of Ohio alone, while hundreds of ponnds of the same edible are imported into the State from France,” A new monument to Garibaldi, and the finest in Italy, is to be erected in It is said that there of any in Italy which has not a statue of Rome soon, is not a town considerable size Garibaldi and one of Victor Emmanuel, A to now in course of monument Victor Emmanuel erect’'on at Rome is to cost 85, 000, 000, It is said that seven suicides is the normal daily average in New York and vicinity. Facts collated that poverty, which is usually considered a prove prime canse for self-murder, does not figure as the motive in the majority of these suicides, for most of the persons comfortable are those in stances. circum- Those who have theories about the of beginning a literary career in early youth will find no con- necessities venient illustration in the biography of Mr. Du Maurier, muses the New York Tribune. When ‘Peter Ibbet- son” was published the aanthor was elready fifty-seven. Years have not destroyed his freshness of feeling. One of the most delightful things in “Trilby"” is its atmosphere of wital euergy. One needs only to turn to the ree- ords of the Pension Office in Washing. fon to realize how rapidly the men who fought in the Union Army thirty Fears ago The latest report of the Commissioner of that the of applications for pensions has fallen from 363,799 in 1891 to 40,148 in 1894, while about 37,000 were dropped Are passing away. Pensions shows number from the rolls during the last fiscal year because of death. The assassination of President Car- not has made the fortune of the hard- ware dealer in Cette, where Caserio bought the knife with which he com: mitted his crime, Guillaume knife passed without Guillaume’s receiving for the The man's name is Since the origin of the became known, has no day orders “Carnot These orders Franee, but poignard.’ come not only from also from foreign coun: tries, in such numbers that the dealer cannot fill them. sels alone ordered 300 One house in Braus- Women are certainly driving men from many flelds, notes the New York Tribune, In of Fieber- brunn, near Innsbruck, Tyrol, a few weeks ago, match for tives of the fairer sex showed their strength 400 spectators, who cheered the victors lustily, tion, the town there was a wrestling women. Six represents and agility before It was a disgusting exhibi A visitor, in describing the struggles, says that the women quickly lost their tempor, and pulled out handfuls of each other's hair. The Students’ Movement fis now or ganized in more than 400 colleges. It was started in Philadelphia five years 8go, and its purpose is defined as fol- lows: the universities and fessional school, so that each college shall have suitable rooms for social and religions advantage, that young men coming as strangers to the oity ean be introduced into good homes, to attendance upon church, and to be surrounded by healthful, social and religious influences, and that the social and spiritual pide of the student's life should be looked after as carefully as the intellectual.” | lution. . sented. is uniform, and the brand safe and ar« | i iner, Brazil cannot help but | thriftily if she got enough fun for the money. | jets are passed. ‘To organize the students in | every great pro. | for wheat thus to grow, for the germ | sare, Experiments are being made with compressed hay soaked in a drying oll for paving blocks. The of life people show that within insurance the twenty-five years the average of man's statistics last life has increased five per cent., or two whole years, from 41.9 to 43.9 years, The adoption of a universal postage stamp, which can be usedin any coun- | try, will be the gnost important pro- | posal at the '07 Postal Congress in Washington, announces the St. Louis | Star-Sayings, Brazil has long been having a revo. Now the bill has been pre- It is for $40,000,000, and, cording to the San Francisco Exam- LL wonder Census returns of the Indian Ter. | ritory show that out of its population, | 178,007, only 25,055 are Indians, these belonging to the five civilized tribes Cherokee, Creeks and 109,393 whites, and 82,724 Chickasaw, Choe: There of the women taw, Seminoles. are out total population Are and girls, The United Commission has shown that our forest! States Entomological lrees are hotels, where a multitude incects board and lodge The oal provides provision and a home for 300 species of insects and lodgings for 15 The for the wants of sixty-one speci The rting more, elma makes full provis harbors thirty others, the of own vitality 151 species, while t burden supp more love its shady retreats M. Casimir-Perier, President French Republic, during his rece: tour in the provinces, drove about 1 CATITIRL un especially constructs seat of which was so high that an dinary person could the from street, the Caserio incident would have impossible. The President was al accompanied in his drives by a large force of gendarmes, and at the various raiiroad stations the public was care- fully excluded from the platforms. Colonel Dulier, a Belgian officer, has discovered that steam precipitates the soot of which smoke is composed, He has invented a chimney with two connected flues, into which two steam the The passed into the drains, where its dis. purifies smoke. soot is sinlly val. ied infecting qualities are spe This inventi to introduced The London Counts cil is favorably impressed witl Hl a i : uavie, a CAn De aj pi at all cost any build has been with Glasgow, sanguine people hope it of may delivering Londot means fogs, The New York Among recent I'ribune rer “silly season” the London press was that of mum my wheat” and its alleged germina tion. The discussion was, unlike most such, « st, the fact that peopl with pretensions for it revealed many some to scientifio knowledge, nctually believe that ao yf wheat taken from mummy grains " 11 Of years old have to stalk, Why frogs and toads have been not, they found solid rock for after being imbedded in thousands of years? And that such been unquestfoning ( lence, animals bave thus foun i, they have Doubtless the one is as and true a? reasonable as the other. But neither has the least foundation in fact " be nbedded must have lived the toad found i in coal, il in earboniferons which was probably of Bat all animals of that age have long ge, miliions, rather than thousands, YOATS ago been extinct, while the toads alleged | thus to have been found are identical So it alleged in species with those of to-day. has come to pass that the “mummy grain” which has actually | "4 000 sprouted and grown has been either oats or Indian corn, neither of which is indigenous to Egypt or was known there in the days of the Pharaohs, In the second place, it is a bioclogieal im- possibility for animals thas to survive, aod it is also a botanical impossibility is known, observation by actual to | perish in about seven years, and final { ly, to clinch the matter, numerous ex- | | periments, conducted with all possible that senled vp immediately and invariably AVE proven tonds thus perish, and numerous test plantings | have been made of grains of wheat, pens, beans, lentils, almonds, peach. pits, olives, dates, poppy reeds, eto,, found in mummies and ancient tombs, of which not one has ever germinated, | Colerity | Bongehhon, | but | Yang, | occupied a By this means he | sinding | | the pursuit of the KOREAN BATTLE FIELDS | DETAILS OF THE GREAT FIGHT AT PING-YANG. With Which the Japanese Surrounded the Entrenched Chi nese—~China’s Losses Since War Began—The Emperor's De- cree Degrading LI Hung Chang. The correspondent “I Just reached the front in time to record | the first serious fighting between the op- | posing armies, which had other for were well been lying op- several days, entrenched In Bamdeung and Chunghwa, strongly of all at Ping where 20,000 of their best troops most advantageous position. They had been fortifying the place and nd- ench Chinese posite The most | ding to it= natural strength for weeks past, | On the 11th Chunghwa and and 12th finsts,, Songohhon Samdeung, wers occu- | pled after some resistance, and Hwangju, a town south of the ung, and from which is dated, was also taken, jut the present objective point, re possession of the Chinese, River this Tat MORAL Ping-Yang, mained In On the 16th inst, {| the Jupaness main army, after crossing the previcus day advanoed, and a general attack was made upon the chief Chinese stronghold, the last one in Korea. A good deal of resistance was met with, The Chinese had the advan- tage of fighting behind protected earthworks and bastions, but after a series of desperate battles they were driven from their defences and utterly routed, The Japanese, who fought with splendid determination and gul- lantry, won a complete vi tory. “The siege Insted nearly all day and night of the 15th, and it was not until the morn- ing of the 10th that the victors took un- disputed possession of the town. Of the 20,000 pleked Chinese who fo the garrison, the entored rest were either killed, taken pris. oners, Among od was General river on the ad | re The or ann tha Teo. Thon Sores taker loss in kill Ping-¥ A surrounded the eo 1 the NNER 4 iy ording Major General Osh ’ DAST the enemy were encamped | ng itself and on both sides of ft. rtion were at Benkort (on the right bank). 4 had constructed a pontoon across the river. Judging from the result of the at- tack, the enemy's cannon must have bhsen less than twenty, According to natives, the enemy's strength was aboat 40,000, “The main body was slightly delayed in erossing the river, and in the attack on the 15th over 100 horsemen were killed, but the result of the attack on that day was not com plate, The attack was resumed ¢ n the morning of the 16th, Major-Gen- eral Oshima's brigade had six officers killed and twelve or thirteen wounded, while over 300 of the subalterns and privates wors killed and wounded, and as the ammunie tion ales began to fall, compelled to desist from the attask. The battle In other directions, however, was in our favor, and at about 8 a f Ping-Yang fell completely into our hands, A larg» nt Ganeral Teo, thir co killed, 5 pr wounded at Ping-Ya her loss on land has? atid hor loss at son | It is said by native that Vieeroy Li i ! land and Russia to put an end to the pres. ent situation, but the E ww and Empress Dowager were fur they heard the suggestion and refuse From a telegran the 16th sough noerning it Is evident that or side the stoughtost Aghter was Maj t Oshima, When the was abou oross the river the ( ywded to their earthworks on and began to fire as Jag ALOE, The Gener men to reply « the mean tim» to the river, which they 4 i It any difficulty They marched up t iver and commenced their attack, The Ch were taken by surprise, but fought desperately. In the midst of the flght cannons ware heard on the left and rear. These were Gionsan troops, The Chinese were then surrounded on all sides, and, after four hoarse’ flehting, they wore complataly routed They flod toward the Yalu River, Fifty-six of the prisoners were put to death as they turnad upon their captors after they had taken, Among other articles of war tured by the Japanese army at Pine-Yang wars 2000 tents, 3000 rifles and 1700 horses The skill shown in the convergencs of the Genasan body with the threes other columns, and thelr opening fire at the same time, was A triamph of mobilization, The naval suceassos have diverted pudlle attention from thy military movements In northern Korea, an! litle has been heard respecting the progress of the Japanmse army since the captures of annonnend, No conclusive siatemont as to the strength of the Ohbinese troops gaged has bean published, and no ofMolal attempt has boon made to reconcile the confiloting estimates of the various Ganarle, General iines® or other side they saw egough * Raa the La the in wn nese one n the been ae | | whish allow a speculative mange from 12,000 Raports of prisoners sapturesd have been dimintshed to a fAgare weil within the hundreds, The general opinion is that the army was practieally wiped out of exist. ence, an’ that it might hare bean held oap- | | tive had the Japanese so desired, The list of Japanese losses at Ping-Yang is now mada | up. Eight officers were killed, none higher | than captains of infantry ; 154 non-commis- | sionad oMeers were wounded, the highest a | | major of artillery, | sloned offlosrs and privates only forty are Out of 381 non-sommis. missing, Telagrams from the front say that vigorously continaesd until the Japanese eivalry reached Kasang, atown of the north. | eastern inlet of the Yellow Soa, Shanehal newspapers report as an undis- | puted fast that news has been received of the mutiny of 6000 Chinese troops near tha Pin-Yang was | one | Ohinoss fagitivea wae | | tion was formed, whieh Is expected to be a i | i i | the | “Upon LI Hang Chang, Imperial High Commissionor of the Pol Yang, having chief control of the forces there, rested the entire onus of belng prepared for emergencies, But, instead, he Bs boon unable to act with spond and promptness in his military preparations, #0 that much time has siapsed without any important results, deed, failed In the trust reposed in him by us, “Wo therefore command that his decors. tion of the threo-eyed poscock feather be plucked off from his hat and that he bo stripped of his yellow riding jacket as slight punishment, It i8 necessary, then, | that the sald Imperial High Commissioner | exert himself The steamer Clty of Pekin, just from the { Orient, brings details of interest from the | scene of war in Korea, | of the China Gazette telegraphed to his paper | n® follows in reference to the battle at Ping- | Yang; | and to the utmost and decides what should be done; that he direct netan troops o yarijua Drovinamss to the front, in order that all may put forth their best stroagth to chase and root out the enomy. In this way LI Hung Chang may hope to redeem his former errors, Japan’s Diet Meets. A telegram was recolved at the Japanese ; logntion at Washington saying that upon the brigade war | border of Korea and thelr fiat rofasal to | marah in the direction ordered by the ofll- oars, TA Hang Chang's Disgrace, Mere in the decrees degrading 4 Hang Chang t “The hjen (Japanese) having broken faith with Korea and foreibly oscupied that eountry, China, through sympathy with its tributary k om In her distress, 1.ised an army to the common enemy, the assembling of the Diet at Hiroshima, Count Ito, the Prime Minister of Japan. made an elaborate spocch in the House of Lords, fn which he explained at Jength the oauses of the war between Japan and Chios. During the course of his speech he read the correspondence which had passed between the Japanese and Chi. nese Governments before diplomatio nego tiations wore suspended and war was do clared, Tho speech made a very deep im- prossion upon the House, The feeling unanimous in sued by the Go pression Is thn ously pursusd triumphant cot fested the g everything ask« Houses pn introdu ! war expend of 150,000,000 BANDITS WRECK CARS, Outlaws on the Warpath in Indian Territory. Tho Kausas City and Memphis expross, on the Missouri Paciflo, was wrecked and robbed by the Cook gang of desperados at Correta, abll iding, lve miles Waconer, Indian Territ running twenty mi south of oP of an hour, out fron y switel train was When near “INA X Cars tinual f press ear, securing all the money in the | They commanded Momsonger open the through safe, he expinined that the locked at the main office not ba opened until BR reached its destination, they left the car, The two men on the front platform then started through the soach, demanding monsy and valushies, As soon as thay reached the rear end of the conch, the two men on that platform started through the second coach, When they were about half way through a freight train following close behind whis- tied, and Bill Cook, the leader, who had all the time remainsd outside esulng commands, swearing st the passengers and shooting, oallod for all hands to come out, The men on the cars jumped out, and when all ware on the ground fired a last volley at the train and disappeared In the darkness, There were eight or ten men in the party Two of them were white and the others were half breeds, Jack Mahars, advance agent for Mahara's Minstrels, was hit the forehead by a bu let and dangerously woun Jarnes, of Yan Baren, Ark., was also sli Injured by a buliet striking him in chook, 8; rs Helmick and Dick. inson, of the Miss Pacific, were on the train ; also United States Deputy Mar. shals Brunner and Casavor, but they were covered by Winochesters in the hands of the bandits before they had to Casaver Jost a wateh az The entire train was oo bulists. Fully 200 shots fod eofal OM un time oter, idied with Express Messenger W. T. F to say anything further than that bers got everything they could lay } outside of the through safe, The was not mobested, The loss of the sompany will not exceed $500, — NEWSY GLEANINGS, Tre potsto ore hort Caxani's dels @r Lox: New Y mall oar expross 0 000 000, has 12.60 BK tor Besaxia has La Ament London and Paris AY buggies are larity CORuat distress is reported Labrador and outlying islands Tux Louisiana orange Jured by recent storms, * Jarax figures that it will cost about #150. 000,000 to conquer China, op was badly in Waotrsare grocers of Chicago are leaders In a revolt against the sugar trust, Tue number of life Issamnes agents in the United Btates is stated to be 40.872 Tur Ameriean League of Professional Football Clubs has proved a allure and dis banded Twvs far this season sighteen tourists who Rot out to elimb the Alps have lost their lives in the venture Broavex of numerous train robberies the Pacific Express Company will handle no more money in Indian Territory, Fraxcr's naval estimates for next reach $47 400,000, against the Triple Alls ances joint estimates of $40,200 000, Ar Philadelphia nu new baseball associa. strong rival to the National League, Tax new diphtheria cure fs 8 very costly article, the serum require! for injections in each vase being worth from #7 to $20, I A Curcaco publisher advertised for ‘a ithe bosuty™ to exhibit dross patterns In a show window, Eight women answered the advertisement, not one of whom enme up to the standard, The publisher now asserts that while he found no difisity to get “beauties” In New York, none out of work are to be had in Chlengo, CL ——— Mina Moxnox was awarded $5000 In her Fut against the New York World for prema turely publishing her World's Pate ' Ho has, in. | year DESTROYED BY FLAMES, It Was a Well of Fire Mr. SBuved His Wife and One Two of His Boys Escaped From Windows-—-His Other Four Chil. dren Were Lost, Taylor A terrible firs occurred at South N. Y., which destroyed the flue now resi dence of the Rev, Ross Taylor, son of the Rov. William Taylor, Bishop of Afriea, Four of Mr, Taylor's echilldren were burned to death, and three workmen wore seriously Injured. The house, which was situated on the Bouth Mountain, in Nyack, is a consplenous place, was bullt quite recently and was a handsome stone structure, It stood near the top of the Bill, Just west of Hillside ave. nue, It seomed to when, at 4.19 raised, In a soemod aflame By the time the the bloze lit up much country, and when the firemen tears and spectators arrived near ing house it was envelopal | am the dreaded work of the complished, Bo far as ean be learned, Mrs, Taylor was tho first person in the house discover that it was on fire, Aho roused her husband There was no time for investigation, The room was already filling < wn the' door was ware seen to be reach of the house, It was a question oat with their own for the door, half spark-charged smoke, getting out, When they their house they saw that it wa suid knew that in all probability children had perished among the fi Their agony was lesseno it was learned that two « Stewart and William, had got « fow on the third floor, and that Mullady, a laborer, ar ward Valenta and the same 9 darkness fire was house absolute a ery of the whole be in o'clock, moment la wars on the stroots of the surrounding and volun the burn # es, and fire to ODenG ng through every part whether they could ge Hives, They made a rush stified by the ck and su turned to mds of isd in look a vonius wg th iin ade if the Av had to § body had t , were only slight tie his brother own a board, But m« untime, 1 i had been only two weeks when the terrible fire of thelr four children and t Ihe house ily rived then J the two ehla Mr. and Mra, Taylor an bouse with 4 barely escaped from the Lives, THE LABOR WORLD, Bosrox has an actors’ union, Eaxuas Crry has an enginoers’ Cary axis has Chinese hop-p! Prrrssvno has twenty blast furnaces TKOers, New Youx has a culinary trades Some London taflors got sixty cents a day. Day lghorers on Southern levees got $1.50 a day. Tune hands, eounell, are 30.000 union street railway Mant AY lecture on Ix Mitinong rosntage Mier than th ' Tux Kalama at asked counciia t it Hoenses, TI Kel shines, itlantie ’ PassExorn agents ers declare that the nu or « Inborers who visit Europe and ret country is on the Inorease { trans f prosperous urn to this Tux Indianapolis Sentinel says that, as a result of investigation, it finds that there are only one or two factories in the city now shut down that are usually open at this time of the yoar HARVARD'S OBSERVATORY. Its Filoe Equipment in Peru Sald to Have Been Destroyed, Advices from Lima report that an ast of vandalism bas been comgitted at the Are quipa observatory, on the summit of Monte Bianco, In Pera. It Is supposed that the highwaymen who ars infesting the counter under the guise of revolutioniots are at the Lottom of the business The costly Instruments are said to have been stolen or rained and the balliding was | miso destroyed, Ihe stservatory was established by Har. ward University, The United States cannot fall to enter a protest and demand ample | reparation for the destruction of the build. ng. "he observatory was placed there becuse | the location was a desirable one for solentifie research, and Peru was botind by the coms pet to protect the piace, - em — w Miss Evszaners Famnrax Gaines, of Ware renton, Va, was married the other day to Chief Justice Thomas Smith, of New Mexioo, Four clergymen ofMointed in the seremony and there wore twenty-six bridesmaids, —— Raxavaroxa, Queen of Madagasoar, ime ports all ber dresses from Parle, Hhe is thirty-three years old and very bask, and ber dynasty been in power sines 1700, SAW HIS CHILDREN BURN. REV. ROSS TAYLOR'S HOUSE Child | | 8t Watts's Flats, N, ¥ Nyack, | | an | Eckels says the recent ad THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, Prestoesr Creveraxn oft Gea Ginhiles Buzzara's ’ Bay, Mass,, for Washington Parniox Rerury, employed in building a sewer in New Rochelle, NX. Y.. arranged n dynamite bomb to destroy u shanty in which f hundred of his fellow riers housed, Just as he was about to « xplode | he was discovered arrested, narro escaping lynching, Aroxzo P, Bony and his w ehlidren were driving seross the we nnd and two Erie tracks they werd four when struck by the Chiengo TAmited were killed, together wi Presipexr CLeveraxp their way to Washington, with FE. C i ul na all th the tear and LJ fal wenediot at Greenw AX equestrian statue of Genera MeClollan was unvelled at | Penn Puestoexr Creveras York City and ren house of his frier D. Bryant, where he interview with Les ised to make one speech; | Mus, Hramaxx, from Chicago to Committees in Now it Jersey Cit who wae a polis and two Lexow South and West, fying army or previous uths ended Prusipext Ci LANE arned pan) Mrs During bis stay City he received no o Wash- i and r York re and 1 noth- ington in the childres vinil« ing bearing i the political situs Foreign. Fonry bodies have been ree | the colliery at Anina, Hungary, explosion of fre-damp oc persons were seriously inju Arownen mill Six workmen area eX] were torn Jarax is sald 10 have TROOPS ASKED FOR. To Suppress the Reign of Terror in Indian Territory Becretary Smith asked the Seer tary War to ser appre letter that he ne { the Mics with ner Brown CAVAIrY be pent into the Indian 7 assist Agent Wisdom at Muskeg ‘erving the peace. It is expected roops would be used to hunt down irive out marauders Agent Wisdom Fired the Indian OMee, ¢ Xing aut? rity to ficur the necessary traveling expenses of he Indian police in assisting United States Marshals rity has been granted, Genoral Seehof " mmanding the army, Ma recommended that the legal aspects M the matter be thoroughly examined bee ore the troops are ordered to act in Indian Perritory, The Judiciary has not yet been ippealed to, and this the posse comitatus Aw makes a necessary preliminary to the mpioyment of the military, The majority Mf army officers think that the express com - nies have not gone as far as they should bh guarding the property confided to mised these and hase Such auth | hom, IRI —— THE BUSINESS REVIVAL. | Comptroller Eckel: Calls Attention to the Increased Bank Reserve, Comptrotier of the United States Curreney marked of business is by no means confined to the great financial “The last eall revival centres of the country for a statement from the National banks were made on Ostober 2. sald Mr, Eckele, “It showed an inoreass in the reserve oities since Jaly 18 of £38,000, - 000 of loans and discounts We estimate that, In addition to this, there was AR Inerease of B20,000.000 In outside ofties, It was wot confined to the financial contres, but seemed 10 coms trom every section of the country, indioating a very general and healthy revival. Come pared with the statemont of one year ago, however, the tnereass is phenomensl-—mors than £100,000,000, AU this Indic tes a rose tortion of publie confl fence, and more lite oral invest merits,” - C—O —— - Neanny ail the available Connalleville fhenn.) coke ovens are reported in blast. number now aggrogates 15.500. an fn- crease of about 4800 In a month, The de mand for coke indioates a heavy increase in pig fron production, '
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