There are fewer deaths by railway accidents in Persia than in any other country. The French have invented an occult science of arithmetic which they call ‘‘arithmomancy.” If the United States had as great a relative population as Japan it would have a population of 960,000,000 peo- ple. Scientists say now that beauty is more than skin deep. Half of the charm of a pretty face, they claim, is imparted by the little muscles of the skin, When civilization reaches a higher standard than has yet been attained, the New York Advertiser is convinced that there will be a law making ita penal offense to fry instead of broil a chop. The number of American horses in | R100, ents have expired on the Italy, England, France, Germany and Russia is already quite large, is rapid- ly increasing, and the result of cross- ing them with the native stock has al- ready proved far than almost any one anticipated. i ] i { more satisfactory | From a tabular statement published in the Japan Gazette it appears that Japan has altogether 39,601 doctors, of whom only 10,553 are qualified on modern principles; the rest, over two- thirds of the total, being old stagers of the purely native school, the cham- pions of frogs’ toemails and burnt joss paper. Of -t There are 20,000 woman cycle riders in New York and New England alone. If possible, the latter staid and con- servative locality is more wheel mad than New York, maintains the Dis- patch. The enthusiasm has spread to the tiniest towns, and a little moun- tain hamlet of 800 or 500 souls will have its quota of wheel women, It is said that horses are cheaper in Idaho, just now, than anywhere else in the world. Ordinary unbroken, ranch- bred horses have been sold at auction, in Boise City, during the last sumuer at seventy-five horses broken saddle as low as 82.50, farmer remarked, team they are surprising! cents a head, and to harness and the although, as a “if yon want a good vy scarce.” To reach the north po'e, an archi-A tect, M. Hauin, has proposed tq the Geograplriesi- Society of Paris the | constriction of wooden huts one or two days’ journey apart. He considers (Greenland the most favorable locality for an experiment of this kind, Each of the huts would become in its turn a base of supplies for the construction of the next. As the distance to be covered is about 900 miles, a score of huts would be necessary to establish a route to the pole. The sacred cattle of India take more readily to American ways than do the people of that land, according to the caretakers of the National quarantine for cattle at Garfleld, N. J., where there is a small herd of the animals, Imported for Oliver H. P. Belmont. Baid one of these men: “Mr. Bel. mont sent over for the cattle some of the native feed. It is a grain or berry which when ground up ground chicory. The cattle ate itall right, but after a few days here they became sickly, The superintendent gave them some Yankee feed, on which they immediately began to thrive, and now they won't touch the feed sent over with them.” resembles Among the reasons for the almost | ninterrupted success of Japan in | prosecuting the present war with | China is the spirit of sacrifice and | generosity exhibited by her people. Voluntary contributions amounting to almost $15,000,000 have been re- beived by the Government. The | Bank of the Nobility, which has given $1,000,000 outright, has also placed $15,000,000, interest free, at the die posal of the authorities. The noble- men and wealthy merchants have been | most patriotic, and a number of them have contributed more than £100,000 each. Vietory under such conditions is comparatively easy and certain, Public spirit in China with reference to the unfortunate conflict presents a melancholy contrast. Unhappily for the Chinese, the same epirit of indif- ference—to use no stronger word woems to pervade a great part of the army sod navy, Admiral Ting him. self had to report that seven of his ships remained concealed during the fight on the Yaloo; that several offi- gers had to be court-martialled for cowardice, and that it was deemed es- sential to behead Captain Fong, who fled before the beginning of the bat- tle. It appears to be a hopeless task | library. { the short histories and biographies; vA LO, | who | few years ago, for the Chinese to fight the demorali- gation in their foroes, | ered, The 250,000 Indians in the United States hold 90,000,000 acres of land, exclusive of Alaska. i erable quantities gold, silver, lead, | The Chinese are getting most of the lead, adds the New York Recorder. Japanese mines produce in consid- | iron, eoal, sulphur and copper, the | farming is Home and Farm believes that greatest aid to success in sheaper production. This means that | the erops should be increased by the ase of fertilizers in order to decrease | the cost of the labor. The larger the srop the lower the expense and the greater the profit, There are enormons profits on type- writing machines, Herald. faeture most learns the Chicago | 815 to manu- that sell Now that all the essential pat It costs about machines for | standard machines and anyone can manufacture | 4 writing machine, there is a fortun awaiting the man who will put on the | market a good tvpewriter to be sold at 850, Rey worts to from all parts of steady tendency toward n business circles, Net Southern railroads ar the I'he EASE Over corres last year, leading N¢ pany havin in building South ’ several tabi The AVETage following transportats countries, 1 for the Unite “Jumping beans,” says the Phila iY Me | delphia Record, "threaten rroat a fad with those wi R l pets us chameleo [O. As mos this time, 1 od YEA ag go man has coll f shnv and ha A Of them, and Das 604 The chrys=alis, worms are said to be tin CTRZS and i If the out before the Indians and the n butterflies. ing bean agents have collected all ti worms, Mexico may be minnsa species The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of butterfly at a certain season to Animals probibited the sale of the chameleons, but has not yet taken any ¢ action f { or the protection of the acro batic worm of the embryonic butter. fly.’ The religions newspapers are wrest. ling with the question of the ‘‘best for a Buanday- The New York secured lists from one hundred books school library.” Evangelist Presbyterian many and feat. | The favorite book, which ap- Sanday-schools, these lists show some curious ures. pears upon ninety-one per cent, of Wallace's “Ben Prentiss's the lists, is General Hur.” Mrs Heavenward” ‘Stepping is second, Bunyan's | “Pilgrim's Progress” ranks third, and | Edward Everett “In His | Name" fourth, The great change that bas come over the young reading public in thirty veas | Hale's is the taste of may be seen in the utter neglect of | the books that were once conspicuous | on the shelves of every Sunday-school Among these neglected an. thors are the Abbotts, who furnished the to" aun VO interminable books and B wrote the moral tales and who re- English woman cently died in India at an advanced age, and E. P. Roe, whose semi-reli- gious novels had so great a vogue a In their stead wo find the books of Louise Alcott, Kate Wig- gin, Margaret Sidney and Mrs. Alden, the author of the *‘Pansy” books, The stories of these writers are infine itely brighter than the prosy tales of the older authors, They are full of human nature and the moral is not dragged in, bat is made an integral part of the story. In a word, the Lit. erary taste of the BSunday-shool scholar of the period is to be cousid- THE WHITE CZAR DEAD. THE AUTOCRAT OF ALL RUS- SIA EXPIRES PEACEFULLY. The Only Emperor of Russia Who Has Died a Natural Death Since Peter the Great—Sketch of His Career—~The New Czar and His Betrothed, The long struggle Is over, and Alexander IIL, Czar of Russia, lies dead in his palace at Livadia, The Czar died m., surrounded very peacefully at 2.15 p. by the members of his fam- fly. He was fully conscious up to the time of his death, The Czarina was at his bed- side to the end, When all was over the Crareviteh, Grand try ho loved so well as to earn for himself the Sppaliui oy of the ‘Peasant Czar," The night passed with an aggravation of all the symptoms and a continuous distress. ing cough, The doctors nnd the Cearina re- the night, only snatching brief intervals of sleep in the ante-rooms, The morning broke with rain and wind and heavy clouds and the weather much colder, As the day advanced the weakness inerensed so rapidly that the Czar himself, still consclous, recognized that he could only live a few hours, ment, which was administered to him by Court Chaplain Yanisheff and Father Ivan in the Frosence of the whole family, The Cezar then conversed long and sarnest- his family to again gather round him, He spoke to each member separately and at the grontest length with the Czarina, He blessed ull his children present, ing in tears, All this time His Majesty was sitting up in an armchair, After leave of bis family he grow graduall y weak y aslight mm AF remains The Prince he Prineess of { Wales, who, tog Wales, was ent L adia, telegraphed the intelligence from | Yienna to the Queen and to the Duke and | Dachess of York. The Queea immasdiately ifspatebod a telegram of condolence to the arina, Premier Dupuy, as Minister Perfects rother with | wate to of the Inter of all the if mast an the National az r, requested the announces th \REOF 10 ddents, ating 4d was also sald that the life of the lovely g Princess Alix of Hosse the bethrothed new Czar, who expected soon to be npress, was certainly to be taken by th reine murder ILE murderers § ryiny nents ne Sketch of the Late Czar. dead Czar was the second son of Aiex- ander 11. and was born in 8t, Petersburg on 26th of February (modern style), 1584 He and his eldest brother were aducated un. fer the general direction of Count Stroga- he | nov, who had for his assistants M. de Grimm | | Teesareviteh, in { formally as the heir to the throne and wis i {| Princess Dagmar, daughter of the King of DOROYEA, THE CZARINA, ortly after 4 o'clock the members of the Palace Guard were marshalled in the square in Iront of the palace for the cere. ony of swearing al to the new They were the first to take the oath, Wy ehape ’ leginnoe GRAXD DUKE NICHOLAS, | brother, { bis sympathies were understood to ba with and M. Pobiedonostaer, the present head of | the Sacred Synod. Upon the death of the 1865, he was recognized | resented to the Cossacks as thelr Ataman on the following year he was married to the who bad been betrothed to his During the Franco-Prussian war Denmark, | freedom of private conversation THE NEW CZAR. The Grand Dukes were the next to swear allegiance, and they were foliowed in the srder of precedence by the high court func tionaries, court officials, military officers and civil ofMieclals, When the doctors informed the Cear that there was 00 longer room for hope, His Majesty composadiy walted for the end e tending to necessary Stato and tamily affairs in the short intervals of consciousness and freedom from pain, These were necessarily brief, the dostors having had recourse to sedatives to procure sleep and allay pain, On the day botore his death the Crar was still able to be taken to a window of the palace, whonee he gazed out upon the coun- the French, although his father favored the Germaoe, Inthe war between Russia and Turkey Ia 1877 he nominally commanded the Twelfth and Thirteenth Army Corps and was present at the hard fighting around Sehumin and Rustehuk and the bloody struggles in front of Plevoa, The murder of his father by the Nihilists in Mareh, 1881, threw the whole Russian Nation into a panie, and the state of the public mind was far from favorable to the execution of the plane of liberal reform whioh he was believed to have at heart. Up- on his accession to the throne, he fssued a manifesto simply asserting his absolute and t withdrew to Gatohina, mained in attendance upon him throughout | He expressed a desire to recelvothe sacra. | ly with Pather Ivan, concluding by asking | The scene was one of deep pathos, all be- | tanking | erlod, until his public coronation, 8 earliest Count Ignatieff for Genersl Loris-Melikof Ss sna sh H Among nets were the substitution of | SHOTHERED 10 DEAT { as Minister of the Interior, and the elevation | of his old tutor, Pchiedonostzey, to his pres { ent ponttion. Ho also appointed M. de Glens Min ment of the veteran Gortehakoff, His nex stop was to cement the friendly relation: | { existing between Russia and Austria and stor of Foreign Affairs, upon the retire | A FATAL TENEMENT FIRE IN NEW YORK CITY, Germany, but from the first he exhibited ¢ | tendency to keep himself free from the com | plications of European { aveld entangling niliances, diplomacy and te | His poliey In Asin was more aggressive | and he entered into negotintions with China, | which resulted fn his obtaining important | | Seven Persons Suffocated and an Eighth Mortally Burned The De. struction Caused by an Incen- Alary-—Secores Rescued by Heroes ~Panle- Stricken Tenants, mercantile concessions and the extension of | his frontiers to the boundaries of Afghanistan | and Thibet, This excited anger and appre | pointment of special commissioners to set | tle all frontier questions As regards the interior affairs of his em | pire his relgn was marked by great activity | on the part of the Nihilists and the adoption | of a vigorous policy of repression, not only | students | and all young men exhibiting anv trace of | The natural | consequence of all this was a succession of | | plots against his life, resulting in a condi- | tion of nervous strain which finally proved | too much for even his glgantic strength and | against open revolutionists, but the modern progressive spirit, iron constitution, Twice officers in shoot him, rowly escaped death in a rallway accident near Borkl, supposcd to be the work of | Nihilists During the last year or two the financial relations between Rassias and France became very intimate and a political friendship was established which led the French to believe | that the Czar was ready to become the al of the republic in a European war An { terchange of naval courtesios provoked y y= in both « countries, nnd in Paris the { travagant auticipations of com | upon Germany wer | however, threw cold | patriotic aepirations and proel still the friend of peace, public career he exerted . cherished water u me as one of the pean confidenos © the Ar Was levoted t & A ~y nan ia his 4 “poy t Alexander Ii.'s + Til ri i time to ses PEIXCESS ALIX OF HESS, tle qaslities and a kind koart, besides a very stroug will, Born 11s This scientific gentleman pronounced the youth a concenital idiot, and was nearly killed for his frankness by the OAT, As a boy his appearance driving through | the streets of Bt, Petersburg in his Cossack gniform, and seated in a small sleigh, was listinetly insignifloant, His masters, charged with the duty of ed. | in the | used to | testify to his intelligence and application. It has been stated that he has no know! | gonting him for his great position, | Inst five yoars he has been in the habit of | presiding over the Counsil of State, a duty which his father’s Jaginess made irksome t him. jucted the business with surprising ability and tact. Muoch more tact than his father ever showed His father tried to marry him to one ofthe | taughters of Nikita, Prince of Monteneg vo, but the youn: man resisted successfully, and with a spirit much at variance with the general idea of his character, His engage ment to the Princess Alix, which took plaoe | inst summer, at the silver wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Baxe-Coburg, seems 10 have had more of the slement of mutual attraction than generally appear in such matches, tI PROMINENT PEOPLE. Jomx Waxanaxer had saved only #100 at the age of twenty-three, Tus last book read to Dr. Holmes was | “Alice in Wonderland.” Tax Rmpress of Germany rises at six and makes her husband's coffee with her own hands, Puree Mixysren Rosznea: declared for the curtaiiment or abolition of hereditary Ingialative privileges In an address at Brad. ford, England, Ir Is said President Cleveland did not register in New York because he was told bry his advisers thet he had lost his right to vote there, By removal of estaract Giadstone's righ eye is good for the finest print, but upon his left an immatare cataract prevents his using that eye in reading ordinary type. Guxxnat, Bur 8, Parzen, a fall blooded Henoon, is the only Indian who held a com- mission in the Union Army during the war. He Is a lineal descondant of the great Chief, Red Jacket, Donuax Wurre Sravexs, the American Secretary of the Japanoss legation at Wash. ington, of the power, where he in retirement for a long ted Reoretary rr RR gl Tokyo when he was twenty years old, hension in Great Britain, but the threatened | { danger of a conflict was averted by the ap | his own army tried fo ! In 1888 he and his family nar. | in 186%, he developed so slowly and | showed 80 few mental gifts, that his parents | | enlled in a specialist to pronounos upon { health, | ths night before, frascible | Czar, who gave him a swinging How on the | Beven people were smothered to death by fire at 216 West New York City, Af third-story win. injured. The and cut off nll eRCADS ov the stairways. In the Intense excitement all who were aroused looked only to their own safety and plunged down the fire escapes. Those who were not awakened were smotherad as they slept, The dead are . George Friedman, fonr venrs : Loll Friedman, three years: Arnie Applebiatt twenty-two years ; Lena Mitohell, twenty-four years: Mrs, Margarst Killian, seventy years ; Jacob Killian, her son, forty years ; George Lovey, Mrs, Killian's grand. son, twenly years, Lenn Frisdman, mother of the dead dren, jumped from the third-story rear win- dow, Bhe was “adly crushed and mangled being fatally injured, Just whet caused the ruddeniy at a time when the tenants of the house were nll is not positively knowe, although Fire Marshal Mitchell's as sistant declares that it was of incendiary origin, The honse sontained seven families two on floor, the top story, where jnnitrens, Mra. Eberwein, lived alone, | thers were probably forty per pons nieen in the house when the fire start ed in the eceliar prompt rescue alone saved then smoke in a tenement house Thirty-second street, woman from dow fire n fatally suddenly jumped and Came was ehil. un fire to start up so nulory oe each exoopt nnd foryry 1 0 eath * penstrated the rooms on every five minutes after the » roofward, and in two nan Powers reached the narrow fire sgcape, that rap tre the of the half 5 4 fidren, slender is up Was swarming with wo and umes of front men Yoi gemoke nt windows, and the cries of the for safety with the the she combined fire engines and caused s oon! ibable, ned ase the 0 i] € any wae goods fear own aneinep but Bm spding on a Powers ressivead iry the is and then passed ape to oor of Van. nthe front of the house es iis they were being rescued a tragedy was being enacted in the rear apart. : tt 1 fic where XNathar was making a ug family an fmsel! enned Fat wd Apr out w ments on TR eer rae : yor, na 4 fr Aumes {rove intense reached him blistered a + ent wife and the woman / obey Friedman fn former window, nes a slender iron jer ran the roo! He rapidly descended this expecting that his wife wor fo buf hardly had be reschod the hen he heard ber screams, The poor wan turned arouad just in he form of his wife shoot downward from a window of the kitchen Mrs, ¥riedman struck the bottom of the elinr area, just ouside of the point where the fire Is supposed to have started, say, had sustained and ran up the area {the yard, Her clothing inge, and boforo it could i the poor woman was {stally be handed his ily ome of the amily escaped bbs je) lad fron yard t ladder low, w the ground § tho no she man, uusceralehed, an adjacent house, 10 pet his two other It was too lal permit i crazed husban a near-by house, where oli burns, Her | , the dene sinoke wounid not agony of spirit haif- helped his suffering wife intc was applied to her enrt-rending cries for her chil dren were pitiful, She was removed to Roosevelt Hospital, and there swathed in oli-sonked bandages * Meantime the sagines had been IR the house with water under Deputy Chief Purroy’s direction and hook and ladder trucks had lined the front of the bullding with sealing ladders and in an hour's time the last spark had been extinguished and the house cleared of smoke, The two Priedman children, George and Levy, were found lying dead side by side in their little bed just as they had fallen asleep Not an hair of their heads had been singed, and none of the bodies had beon touched by the flames. In a bedroom in the Friedman apartment were the bod. jes of Lena Mitchell, a cousin of Mrs, Fried. man, and of Aunje A pleblatt, who bosrded witn the family. Neither of the the floodin | girls had woved apparently, and their faces looked peaceful enough Death had evi- | dently come to them painlessly On the floor above the destrover had not been received so quietly, Jacob Kilian was lying doubled up alongside of his bed, as if | be had made an effort to crawl to a window | and been overcome in the act, | edge of polities. This is not correct, For the | George Lovey had also managed to get out of bed, and bis body was found on the floor. Aged Mrs. Killtan had died just as she slept, and | & peacelul smile rested on the furrowed face, At these meetings the young man con- | ce a—————— LYNCHED BY A MOB. Eddy Martin Died to Save His Friend Goode. A special from Princeton, Ky., reports the Iynching of Eddy Martin in Crittenden County by & mob ol Kentuckians, 3 It is claimed that Martin was called upon at his home after midnight and asked to get | up. Opening the door, he was seized and asked for information of Bill Goode's erimes, The mob told him that if he would tum State's evidence upon Goode he would be spared, “If these are the only terms, gentlemen,” | said he, ‘“‘let the hanging prooesd, Bill | Goode has been my friend and I will shield | him." The mob quickly did ite work and left the body swaying from a limb upon a lone coun try road. The hanging is the reanit of the Goode-Rich lawlessness in Crittenden County. 112 DROWNED AT SCA. Dashed on the Rocks Off the New Zealand Coast, The Union Line steamer Wairarapa, bound from Sidney, New South Wales, for Auckland, New Zemland, was wrecked on Great Barrior Island, off the northeast coast of New Zealand, The steamer had a ‘argo Sumber ol passengers, and 112 of thom were $d ren Sagtnin, Melutosh, the at the ti H : me, He, together with most of
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