Germany hes $£2,175,000,000 in- vested in foreign countries, A North Georgia farmer proposes to make a fence around his land with cot- ton bales, French physicians assert that men whose only meat 18 horseflesh are in better health more variety, than those who have Porto Rico if to have a gold stand- ard of currency, announces the New York Independent, the Mexican dollar to be retained as a basis of weight for the value of silver. The Minnesota Supreme Court has decided that bicyclists have the same rights as horsemen on the streets. ‘Now, let us have a decision giving pedestrians some rights,” suggests the Atlanta Constitution. The Crown Prince of Germrny is a very precocious boy, according to the Chicago Herald. When the court chaplain told him all people were sin- ners he said: ‘‘Father may be, but I | know mother is not.” Professor Rudolph Virchow told the convention of anthropologists at In- nesbruck the other day that the Dar- winian theory of the origin of species, commonly known as “‘evolution,” was unproven, unscientific, and evidently false, Vermont is restocking its forests end streams by good game laws strictly enforced, and the people find that land is worth more all over the State than it was before this policy was adopted. It is also noticed that more sportsmen visit the State than formerly, In one of the New York apartment 226 pianos—one to besides a whole houses there are every four persons, orchestra of piccolos, violins, guitars, cornets and old-fashioned Those who live across the way that it America. an melo- aeon. Bay is the noisast house in Andrew Lang, the English essayist, says that the idle, the imitative and the needy had better adopt some other calling than literature, and advise all not to try to write a novel, unless a plot, or a set of characters, takes such irresistible possession of the mind that it must be written. The St. James Gazette (English) as- sets that the “railway station speech,” or, as it is called in this country, ‘the rear platform speech,” was invented by Mr, The New Orleans Picayune believes this will be news to Americans Gladstone, » Who are pretty generally persuaded that it is a» peculiarly institution. The Gazette declares it a nuisance, American Says the New York Ledger: “Wherever Americans plant stakes, we hear of political agitation. The speeches at the great mass meeting of Alaskans at Juneau had the true American ring. There may have been other political mass meetings in Alaska, but the news of them has not reached us. The Juneau meeting was the first important political demon- | stration in that part of our domain, the northern shores of which are laved by the waters of the Arctio Ocean.” There are in successful operation in | the South a number of cotton factories constructed with money raised on the installment plan, the payments being | made a¢ in a building and loan associa- tion. Among the mills established | under this co-operative scheme and now in full operation, the New York | Ledger mentions the following: The Ada Cotton Mill, with a subscribed capital of §128,000, producing chain warps and skein yarns; the Alpha Cotton Mills, with a capital of $100, 000; the Highland Park Gingham Mills, with a subseribed $150,000, the Gaffney Cotton Mille, enpital subscribed, $150,000; product, print cloth. capital of and In view of the groat number of post. office burglaries and highway mail robberies recently, the Postmaster- General has deemed it proper to offer rewards for the conviction of persons concerned in such transactions, which embrace $1000 for conviction of rob. bing the mails while being conveyed in mail car on a railway; 8500 for conviction of robbing the mails while being conveyed over any post route other than & railway; 8200 for an attempt at such robberies; $150 for breaking into and robbing a post office, and $200 in the latter case, where the amount stolen exceeds $500, The Trenton True American thinks these rewards ought to stimulate the work of detecting and pursuing post: the chicken is the office robbers, A westward ocean trip, between Ene tope and New York, is usually soven per cent, longer than an eastward one. In the City of Mexico every well wducated person speaks at least threo anguages. The Mexicans have a crazo for mastering languages. In Mexico the custom is common of sxcepting new manufacturing enter- prises from all save general taxation for ten to twenty years. The Argentine earthquake occurred | the night before one of the “‘eritical | lays" in the list of Professor Falb, the ! Austrian earthquake prophet. London pays forty-two per cent. of | the income tax of England and Wales, | and its government and management 0st about 855,000,000 a year. More than two hundred French sities have resolved to erect statues in | honor of the late President Carnot, | ind it is expected that soon almost | every French town will have a Carnot street or square. There ean be no doubt, maintains | the Chicago Herald, that the talk of grape seeds and appendicitis has af- fected the price of grapes unfavorably, | in spite of the fact that the grape cure a few years ago was in high vogue. Ornithologists do not tell us that most wonderful of | birds, yet the fast remains, avers the Chicago Herald, that in proportion to weight, it is far more important to the human race than any other animal, The refrigerating systems for the transportation of fresh meats, fruits, ete., and more ex- The New York World thinks it is too early to pre- ATe coming more tensively into use. dict the future instore for this scheme, which is still in its infanoy. Judge Child, of Newark, N. J., aside a verdict which awarded a 84000 for the killing of his son street car. He said that the am was preposterous and that if the plain. tiff would accept $1500 he would dis- miss the case. The father refused, The greatest obstacle to the growth of the lemon industry of this country is the fact that the fruit is not prop- erly cured, aud will not keep like the foreign . article. The lemons them: selves are equally good, but the curing process has yet to be learned. It has been estimated that of the $1,.500,000,000 of property held in New £300,000,000 the hands of women, bat this is certainly facts (since the women of Boston pay taxes on $120, 000,000), York is in well within the real this would make, at the presout rate of es timate, over $600,000,000 of property owned in New York State by women. adds the Dispatch. Even so, however, About twenty years ago Germany adopted the system of compulsory in surance of workingmen against ao cidents., Since that time, declares the Hartford Courant, there has been paid into the reserve fund about $88,000, | 000, of which about $20,000,000 now forms the capital. In the year las 7,500,000 paid in indemnities, and more thas £3,000,000 was added to the reserve fund. the system to apprentices and em reported more than wa It is now proposed to extend ployes whose wages do not exceed $476 a year. The annual report of Dr. W. T, Harris, Commissioner of Education, says that twenty-three per cent of the population attend school during some period of the year, The period of attendance during the year average however, is only eighty-nine days for each pupil. The "if would seem to be the purpose of our | in the elementary schools to every child the ability to | road. When he is expected to conti. e his education by | report says: system to give he leaves school reading the printed pages of news The great increase of public libraries in the United States is significant of progress towards | the realization of this idea. In 1804 we had over 4000 publio libraries with more than 1000 books in each. The sehools teach how to read; the libraries furnish what to read. Bal far surpassing the libraries in educa tive influence are the daily newspapers and magazines, We are governed by public opinion as ascertained and ex pressed by the newspapers to such » degree that our civilization is justly to be called a newspaper olvilization The library and the newspapers are our chief instrumentalitios for the continuation of sebool and the univer sity. Lecture courses, scientific and literary associations aro assisting papers and books, | solitary | quite | tueky. | osased to speak and write his largely. THE CALL FOR BONDS. BIDS ASKED FOR FIFTY MILL- IONS OF SLOURITIES, Secretary Carlisle Offers an Issue of Ten-Year Five Per Cent, Gold Bonds—The New Series to He a Continuation of That of Febru- ary--To Replenish the Reserve. . s gl fn 1 N porots 1s ) t : Becrotary Carlisle has lssued a eall for pro posals for the purchase of five per cent, ten- year bonds of the United States to the par valus of $50,000,000, The formal elrcular inviting proposals for the bonds was drawn up in the Treasury De- partment, and was carried by Secretary Car- Hale to the Cabinet meeting at 11 o'clock, where it was discussed by the President and his advisers, The Secretary remained at the White House after the other members of the | Cabinet had left, and the official announes- | ment that & call was to be issued was made late that afternoon. The circular is as fol. lows t Yerasuny DErARTMENT, 1 oF tenyxatox, November 18, 1804, | ~Byo¥tne of the authority contained in the'det of Congress entitled ‘An act to pro- vide for the resumption of specie payments,’ npproved January 14, 1875, the Becretary of the Treasury hereby gives public notice that sealed proposals will received at the Treasury Dopartment, office of the Beoretary, until twelve o'clock, noon, on the 24th day of November, 188, for United States five | percent, bonds in either registered or coupon form, d i Fabruary 1, 1884, redeemable in coin nt the pleasure of the Government after ton ye ym the date of their issue, and bea nlorest payable quarterly, in soln, at rate of five por oentum per anoun | “RBldders whose wiil t bo ite ars ir the proposals are aseeptel ¢ required to pay twenty per oent, In gold gold certificates, upon the /Amounts « oir und to pay in Hke coin « an additional twenty per cent, expiration of each ten days therasafter, until the whole is paid ; but they may ot their option pay the entire amount of thelr bids wien notified of acceptance, or at any time when an instalment is payable, The first payment, however, nt less than twenty per must when the bidder receives n acceptance of his proj “The denominations of the bonds will be $50 ana upward, and bidders will, ia their proposals, state the denominations desired, whether registaed or coupon, the prioss which the bid proposes to pay, the place where it is desired that the bonds shall be delivere! : the office, whether that of the Tr ithe United States or an As sistant I : f the United States wheres it will be t convenient for the bidder to dep wit the amounts of his paymants “The bonds will be dated February 1, 1804, in order 10 make the pr issue uni form as tf ) the existing issue, but Interest vill begin November 1, 1894, and bidders will be required to pay ao- erusd interest at the rate of Ove per cent, on the face val { thelr bonds from November intes of payment, The total , in pursuanos of this notice, ween] the sum of £50 000,000, Bacretary of I'reasury bhersby expressly reserves the right to re; wt any or all bids, All proposals shouid be addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury, Washing ton, D. C., and should be distinctly marked, ‘Proposals jor the purchase of five per cant, bonds. Blank forms for proposals may be had on applieation to the Secretary of the Treasury J. G. Canviste, ‘Secretary of the Treasury,” ——— CASSIUS M. CLAY MARRIES, | The Eighty-four-Year-Old Kentueck- | ian Weds a Girl, Aged Fifteen. General Cassins Marcellus Clay, of Kon- | tacky, has just done on he most aston thing hi na in, or bids, i] ut ne be of the cent, tice posed i inte wi thereon i so | aning eareer, Unviag the reparations Clerk's iat Rio { elally for | REV, DR. CHARLES H. PARKHURST. Tha been elected norary member of was added 10 the number there were just a the only clergyman to honored, varnn and elvio refor of the New York Legislature, an he the Ur be he thus Cae mt ftton Rev, Dr. Charles H, Parkhurst, the and it i rey : ntil Dr, Parkhurst's 30 on ch membor Dr. P inkos 10 his efforts in h the Lexow Investigating arghurst n tribute 3 in cot ————— a ———— NEWSY GLEANINGS. w———r Mmsovn: has 365 coal mines, Ar Hulley, Idaho, bay is #2 a ton, New Your Crry bas 212,768 families, Barrons, M4, , has a sanitary lea Tazazx are 307,000 blind people in Crxorsxar: gots bread for three loa’, Ar Birmingh ston. Tw raoreaxd ofl wells in West Virgls Carnaoe sells at 85 per ton Island piskie factories Deavont horses aro bringin abroad as well as in Americs, Two wild boars were killed at a hunt on the outskirts of Paris recently. Tacoma 5000 tor a in 1596, Brnotans in New Jersey and in the vi fiy of New York show Increased activity Exrzarte estimate the yield of som at 1.- have eabaeribed 1 ROE Wash.) ile Bp ’ ’ “midsummer alr in- GREATER NEW YORK. Preparing a Measure posed Consolidation. 407,000,000 bushels on an area of 72,500,900 | | tag Faaxce spent 824,000 to sand a spocial representative to the funeral of the late Rus. | | stan Oar artillorymen wers shot nt y refusing Twexry Brazilian fo Janiero of thedr « for orders Ax slectric road 5 New York and Ph wl business, SExavoR Stewant says ti the will not ally themes either of the old parties, Senate Neaney in York ona of Now to ove grammar sch anti-cigarette league, - Doex's Review or Trae says the expactad revival of business after the slections has not been realizs! In any "wn Expanoo on American works hardshios Hambarg City ra han 38 hed sot! sattio by Germany SOM Ta 6 ympanies | who had busit ships for the toade | Ing that of 188] by three per ¢ Tux cotton erop of Egrpt 1s ofMislally esti- mated to amount to 1,575,000 bales, excond- nt Caazep by a Pepper, a Louisville protracted debaush, Peter Ky.) barber, tore out | nis tongue and disd In tarrible agony | Oal,, report poor luck this season, Szarino vessels arriving at San Francisco, foals | are becoming soarss on the Ramian side Tux Pope bas authorized Monsignor Sa- | tolll, his American representative, hereafter CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY, Richardson. He was secompanied by the girl's brother, Danlel, who gave his consent as guardian, She has no other relatives, The cersmony was parformed at Whitehall, where General Clay bas been spending a life for years, abandoned by nis kindred, The girl Is an orphan, and be longs to a poor family in the neighborhood, General Clay has been oduoating the ohild, but his great people from supposing that he wo arry her, He is eighty-four vears although surpris. ingly strong In body and no She Is of ordinary appearance and intelll | ind Kenoe, General Clay, the Tion of W hall,” as he has bean called for years, has | had the stormiest career of any man in Ken Ho is a distant relative o! Henry Clay, but his branch of the family Is a more | aristoeratis ona, He was born upon his farm which his great-grandiather bought from the Indians, Cassius, a large slave owner himself, became an Abolition | fst In early fe, when to do #0 re | quired 4 man to take his life In his hands, Ho was repoatedly nssauited, and killed three men with his own hands before the war, tut he hever | abolition sen. | timents, To boasts that he first suggested to Lincoln to Issue the Emancipation Proe- lamation Lincoln made him Minister to Russia during the war, He took an aotive fant in publio affairs up to a lew years aco, {» has lived all the time upon his splendid Blue Grass farm, upon which he re/ses the finest Southdown » oop In Kentucky. His nephew, Cassius M. Clay, Jr., Is a Domo. erat, and one of the leading eandidates for the nomination of his party for Governor, LIBERIA OPENS FIRE. One of Her Gunboats Kills Twenty. five Persons at Settra Kru, A dispatoh from Sierra Leone, Wost Afrioa, says that the master of the British steamer Ambriz recantly notified the Li berian ofMalals at Monrovia of his intention to nnd a cargo at Settea Kru, The ofMelais forbade him to do so on the ground that Aottra Krae Js not a port of entry, and it would be a breach of the revenus law to land eargo thers, The master deflad the “Od vite. | | proportions | tinguished parsons, to collect the Peter's Ponce contributions Taz Ocvernment of Drazil has abolished the botus which It has been paying the steamship companies for Lringing over im- | migrants Tune being no law against the sale of horse-ment in Chicago, the slaughter of horses for that market is assuming large TRANSIT OF MERCURY. Observations of It Made at the Naval Observatory. The transit of! Mercury, as witnessod at the United States Naval Observatory, Washing. ton, was made an occasion of some inter ost through the presences of a number of dis Invitations ware sant hy Secretary Herbert to the President and Mee Cleveland, the members of the Cabinet, ant the ladies of their households, Several Cab. inet officers drove out to the observatory in the afternoon, but the President and Mrs, Cleveland did not attend To ether than solentific paople thera was nothing particularly intersating in the event, Photographs of the sun were taken contin. uously from the time of is first contact with the planet until the Iatter hal disap peared from the sun's surface, however Hitle interest the transit had from a popular and unscientific stand. point, it was of the greatest importance to | sstronomionl selenca, Astronomers have known for a long time that the dally run. ning of the earth was somewhat uncertain ; that ja, the earth and the moon do not enep time together, The mo. tion 0 Mercury, however, ne observed in its transit, can be utilised in | showing whether it is the earth or the moon | which is not exact in its movements, Pro. fessor Harkness, who had charge of the ob. | servations, sald that it may be six months | before all the data necessary to make the de. termination are worked up, The beginning of the transit was observed at 10.57 a, m,, about two minutes later than od, The last otservation was made at 4.12 p. m., when Niarqunt dian from the surface of the sun. No more transits of Morcury will take plase during the present 14, 1861 150s, on November HAL 6, 1978, Novembie 7, 1881, aud 2 — a — Le ————— Tas Southern Exposition, at Montgom- ory, Ala, was formally opened by the Governor of the Stats, with great and elroumstance, Governor Hogg, at Waeo, Texas, delivered an address to {housands Bon ra To ee ANDREW 0. OREEX, Mr. Groen ac gin work i eo) of ronselidat shad the STORM IN EUROPE. Many Lives Lost and Enormous Dam age to Property. Floods raged in various parts of Eagland, In Buckingham the houses in the lower por tion of the town were floo and roads blocked, he Avon overflowed its banks a Bath, and thousands of persons were conse quently, imprisonad in the upper stories ol factories and dwellings The gale along the Eaziish Channel was the most violent experienced this year, Th Cannel steamers report having had fearful Jrasagn. The war ships anchored at St the fad alo, France, were in serious danger, and | Cher | put out to sea firing distress signals, bourg and other ports were crowded with damaged eraft, The steamer Preusssn was torn from her | and | moorings at Hamburg, Germany, damaged many other vessels witn which she collided. The storm was very violent in Paris, Much damage was windows, Three persons were falling chimneys and several more were injured. The velocity of the wind as re corded on the Eiffel Tower, was sightytwo miles an hour. Deaths and injuries due to the storm were reported from Nantes, Rouen and other towns in Pranece, killed by in Prance, Delgium and Germany. The loss of property and live stock by the floods in Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Bomorset and elsewhere in Ergland is snormous A terrifie wind, rain and hall storm pre- vatled in Drussels, Belgium, and wielnity, doing immense damage to property and in volving considerable loss of lie, So far, fifteen deaths are reported, Daring the storm the roof of a factory at Ath was car ried away, kililog four persons, The hurricane which prevailed along the fyrrman const of the North Sea did a groat deal of damage and considerable loss of life was reported. —— ee] ROBBERY IN OLD STYLE. Instead of the Express Car, Bandits Hold Up the Sleeper. Bat | Missouri, Kansas and Texas train No, 13 was held up by the Cook gang near Masco. gos, Indian Territory. The two Wagner arson the train look as If thay had been through a battle, The bandits intimidate) | the passengers bafore entering the cars hy firing a fasiliade through the windows, The robbers securad over #500 In money and about forty watches and other articles of Jewelry. he Wagner conductor and train vonduotor were relleved of a little over $40 each, The express oar was being guardel by four men when it was stopped, and they opened fire at once, driving the bandits back, The robbers consulted for a few moments an! withdrew to the rear of the train, The train crew thought they were well rid of them, when the firl on the Wagner oars, Wagner Oar wotor M Was Com - pelied to carry a ganny sack by the robbers, th 3 5, pron Pear i to divest rou p and drop them into the sack, They oes oh ‘aay ov, vt appRG any one, when the Rasssh ger Parad to eOPPahthe first roll na, his hands were for the Pro- done to chimneys, roofs, and | Tele graph and telephone line were blown dowa | THE ST. LOD{S LAUNCHED | MRS, CLEVELAND CHRISTENS AMERICA'S GREATEST SHIP, Ihe Queen of Our Merchant Marine Slides Gracefully Into the Water at the Cramps’ Shipyard, Philadel phia~The President's | The New Greyhound’s Dimensions Speech | | The new steamship St. Louls, of the | American Tine, was successfully launched 3 i. Pi 1.02 p. m, The affair was wit. Mrs, Cle | ot Cramps’ nt ! nessed by fully ship yar iladeiphin, | Penn, , 50.000 persons. the | it glided Though the stenmship is | than any that has ever Tee and, wife of President, christened he vessel ns down "5 Fl ihe wave, fort longer bean iaunchsd at the yard, the feat of getting her into the water was aconmplished without a hiteh Mrs, Cleveland was acoompanied by President and a party which ineladed most nf the members of the Cabinet families, who came on a special trails reached the yard at the and thelr which Inthe about noon party were Beceretary Herbert, Attorney -Gen- | eral Olney, Secret Mrs, Mra Gres ry Morton, ne Lamont, Secretary and wie, Mr. and Mrs, Thurber, Ambas rd | and Mrs, Bayard, Assistant Secretary Ham lin, Rear Admiral Walker and Miss Walker, Commodores Melville, Matthews Dewey , of New York City, has | isnt Cleveln At the econclus President Navigation ( | master, proposed the } Oris of the United States cheers Pres I would 1 acknowledge the extremes no y nfl ient Cleveland ot be entirely tior { me by the re steamship ever buy in . i Wilh 1wWo except in th ar phere, an | reasor he fact notwithstand untoward ndit) such an achieven built on American plans by chanics and of American mu must not forget that our g congratulation is found in promise these incidents furnish of the vival and development of merce and the renewed American flag this vessel ha mer! ont, an oF ait ivi, wg aio! catse ol and bg ie. the h pe ‘Thers shou work of relw 3s pot only br the | evenis as we | by such legislation a mechanical industry enterprise, Con a nation and no 3 poverishes it can reach a mandiag position among the na! earth. Our flag not on'y tells ol istence, but it is a symbol of all that A | can institutions represent,” The St. Louis is chiefly remarkable that she is the largest merchant-marin vessel ever built in the United States is also the pioneer vessel in what prom to become In time a spirited oon tween the present English-bull greyhounds” and those waloh will 1 out from American shipyards. When pleted, she will take ber place among vessels owned by the Internationa! tion Company, which inciude New York anda 8t, Paul, the last now under going construction in the yards of the Cramp Company, The construction of the 8t, Lonis was be. gunonJaly 27, 1808. More than 6000 tons of steel have airendy been worked into the steamer, which, when completed, will ex. ceed in length and tonnage both the New York and Paris, and equal that of the largest of the other great transatiantie liners, Her length over all is 554 feet 2 inches ; length be tween perpendiculars, 585 feet 8 inches ; ex- treme breadth, 63 feet ; depth moulded, 42 feet ; number of decks, 5; depth of water bottom, 4 feet ; number of principal water tight compartments, 17 : distance of collision bulkheads abaft of stern, 88 feet. The ar rangement of bulkheads and watertight compartments is such as to make it prac- tically impossible 10 sink the vess When completed the St, Louls will have accommodations for passengers as follows First cabin, 820, second cabin, 200 ; steer age, 500: crew and employes, 400; total, 1770. To insure the safety of this large nume- ber, the ship will carry fourteen Cham bers's collapsible life boats, fourteen ordinary life boats, one cutter, one gig, and four metal boats, all on the shade deck. For the ovme fort of the passengers there has besa supe fad in the plans a saloon, 110 feet long by foot wide, which is 10 be finely decorated, Over the oantre of this saloon rises a dome 352 eet long by 16 feet wide, and 28 feet high amidships above the dining-room deck, The dining-room tables will be set fore and aft. The normal compirment of officers, sen men, engineroom, and fretoom bands and attendants will be about as follows: Captain 1, officers 6, seamen 48, firemen 120, engineers abd machinists 30, otiers 830, mew. ards and cooks 124, stewardessos 16, ohels de cuisine 2, mall oterks 2, doctor 1, purser i, printer 1 ; total 881, I ——— KILLED BY EARTHQUAKES, Violent Shocks tn Bolivia and Along Chile's Northern Coast. There bave been violent shocks of earth quake along the northern cosst of Chile and in Bolivia, One hundred people have been killed Ly the selumio disturbances within a radius of forty miles from La Pas, Bolivia. The he oathedral has been rendered unsafe. One tower was thrown down.
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