a —————— - PROMINENT PEOPLE. Patri. the cantatrice, 18 now in her fifty third year. Kiso Huspent opened the Itallan Parlia- ment with a ten minutes’ speech, Ex-Goverxonr Asnert, of Now Jersey, left 8 fortune estimated at £300,000, Davo Curisrie Murray prides himselfon baing nble to write a three-volume novel in five weeks, + Iris said that President Cleveland is plan- ning to visit Europe at the expiration of his official term Lorn Worsery, who is now a fleld mar- shal in the British Army, has received his baton from the Queen's own hands, Erastus F. Beaprg, the publisher of dime novels, died at his country home in Coopers. town, N. Y., aged seventy-four years, Avrnovan Jules Verne's works have earnod untold fortunes for his publishers, they have brought to the novelist only #5000 a year on an average, Proressor Freperick W, Boarwrionrt, who has just been elected President of Rioh- mond (Va) College, is only twenty-seven Years of age, Coxanessnax Hanpsox, of Alabama, is so very like Dr. Parkhurst in face, form and manner that he might very easily be mis- taken for the great reformer, Tue death is announced in England of the Rev, Solomon Cuesar Malan, the greatest Hnguist the age, He was thoroughly familiar with more than eighty languages, N. A. Mozury, a Missouri Republioan, will be the youngest member of the next House of Repregentatives, He is {wenty-eight years old, He isa lawyer, an 1 has been a school teacher. James Waircoms Rivey has made himsell extremely popular with the children of the country by his poetry, and he gets many letters from them, not infrequently asking for pictures AT Dresden recently a great public meet- ing resolved that an imposing monument should » Prince Bismarck, and that the cos ould be defrayed by volun- tary contributic Vice-ApMIRAL Brive, retired, served fifty years under the British flag. His first en- agements were against Chinese pirates, He § done service in Mandalay and on the coast of Afriea, who has been put in supreme is said to be a physical king, to whi is grief, when his enemies verthrow some time ago. of he erect us he four Czars of ors of! Germany, two \ wr of minor Kings u! sovereigns in Spain, and a and several Republics in seen oe sma'es wil tie and discharged him on pay hal tO his ory thirty-sove that 16 nditions } earns above $4500 a year rs till they shall have received nts on the dollar. THE KOLB CONTEST. The Alabama Populist Transfers tha Fight to Washington. Cugrame tierra F Kgl, sallliaiama Pop. | ulist, who claims he was elected Governor and who recently took the oath of office in Montgomery, has transferred his contest the National Capital. W. 8B. Rees by the Popu Legislature KILLED IN A 0OLLISION. The Manchester Express Runs Into a Goods Tralos Near Chelford Fifteen persons were killed jured bya ce nm in England Manchester express and a goods train, The and fifte and fifty list hetwoen th express train was filled with persons going home for the holidays and was proeseding nt high speed for Chelford, the next stog fourteen miles distant, The Crewe freight train was switching across the main line The engineer of the axpross did not ses the other train until his locomotive was olose upon it, The brakes were applied instantly, but without perceptible effect, There wasn terrific crash, and several oars want to plecos like pastebonard I'he injuries of twenty per SONS Are severe It Is reported that the aseldont was eanse | by the high wind overthrowing part of the froight tral: I —— MURDERERS KILLED. One Shot in a Cotton Fleld, Other Lynched, the Jake Copp, aged seventy-five, a highly re. spectable citizen, with his aged wife, lived near Perkinsvilie, Miss,, a small village, where they conducted a country mercantile store, A few nights ago two shots were fired through the windows of the house, In which the pair were sleeping, Instantly killing Copp. The murderers then plilaged the store and attempted to burn it and the resi dence, Neighbors were soon In search of the gullty parties. BSusplelon pointed to a col- ored man named Dan MoDonnld and a half- breed named Will Carter, MeDonald at- tempted to escape when he espled the armed men, but was riddled with bullets. The haltbreed was taken to the swamp and | saverely from thestorm, EUROPE STORM SWEPT. Damage Done in Great Britaln and Continental Kurope, Roports of death snd damage to property in the last groat storm in Great Britain nnd Europe are received constantly, Three fish ing smacks wont down off Stornoway, on the Beoteh const, and all three crews, numbering twenty-two, were drowned. The British bark Kirkmichael, which was driven on the breakwater at Holyhead has filled, Twelve of her crew were saved with the breeches buoy and seven were drowned, Many ters on the Donegal const have thelr huts in the storm, At Teelin un house collapsed and the three occupants wore killed, In Stranoriar tWO persons were killed by a falling chim- ney. The brig Loven was wrecked in the Firth of Clyde, near Androssan, and her crow of five were drowned. At Lochwinnooh, near Palsley, part of a three story cabinet factory was wrecked, Forty persons were buried in the ruins, Four were killed outright and twenty were injured seriously. The proprietor was struck fn the back by a falling timber and fatally hurt, Only five persons escaped injury. Numerous oases of death or severs injury by falling timbers, trees An i chimnoys have been reported from all parts of the United Kingdom. Despatches from the Continent say that Northern France and Germany have sufferad At Hamburg many vessels wont adrift and collided or grounded I'he tide was the highest seen since 1882, The storm has done great damage in Balglam and Holland, The Dendre over- flowed its banks at Termonde and the in- habitants were aroused at midnight by ringing bells to flee for thelr lives, In Rotterdam the water rose twelve feet above the usual high water mark. The stroets were under two or three feet of water and the iahabltants paddled about on rafts and in boats, The dykes of the Mouse and Yssel were strained severely alongthelr lower courses, At one place a large break let in n flood which covered a wide area and did enormous dam- Age, Throughout the Netherlands and Jslglum many persons were injured and a few wero killed by falling chimneys and timbers, The pilot cutter Lamaneur capsized off Dunkirk, and three of the crew were drowned, COl= lost I — NEWSY GLEANINGS. — Diruruesia is spreading in London. REINDEER Are NOW 0 Alaska, Diaxox: have nania : nd yasana rss New Yore Crry spends a hal! million dol lars a vear for coal and wood for the mun! cipal depart ants, ExT statistics from Paris show the a! su-utive effects of anti-toxine in to RTS ne of the } mired bheneatt was the its B isapg Pi canic a lage, with all with it CEDARCR , the histori Bayard Taylor, Penn. , includes an #8000 library and brace situate has been destr A YAuAl REV. DR. M'GLYNN. Deposed Divine Restored His Priestly Functions, The to Fully restored to his priestly funetions, and at peace with the church from which be was 80 long excommunicated, the Rev, ward MeGlyan Dr colabrated three masses and preached two sermons on Christmas Day in the Church of the H ly Cross, in New York. It is olght years since Dr, MeGlynn, then the pastor of Bt, Stephen's Church, and one ofthe most noted Catholle priests in the city, took an aotive part in the came palgn of Henry George, labor oan didate for Mayor, He became an apos- tie of anti-poverty dootrines that brought down upon him the dlspleas ure of Archbishop Corrigan. He was removed from his pastorate and ister was sxeommunioat. od for contuamacy, Two years ago he . made his peace at REV. DPR. MOLYNYY. Rome, with the re. suit that he was taken back into the fold of the Catholle Chureh, but he could not cele brate mass publicly unless he obtained per- mission from the Archbishop of some Jo- oese, Archbishop Corrigan recently gave him this permission, and the masses he cele. brated at the Church of the Holy Cross were the first he had celebrated in publie sinoe he was cut away from the Oatholle Charch, Many of the Immense congregation were Dr. MeGlynn's old parishioners at Bt, Ste. shen's and all were wrought up to a state of ntense emotional axeitement, Women and oven men shed tears whan he emerged from the sacristy, and an exuitant murmur, that would have been a shout of applause but tor the restraining Influenses of the environment and the oeoasion, broke from their parted lips, Notonly werethe pews csouplad to thelr fullest capacity, but every inch of space in the aisle and close up te the altar rall was packed, “e n.d SABBATH SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL: LESSON FOF JANUARY «, “John the Baptist De Mark vi, 17-20 Text: Matt. x., ~Commentary, Lesson Text: headed,” Golden a8 17. “For Herod himself had sent fort} and aid bold upon John and bound him ir prison for Herodlas's sake, his brothe Philip's wife, for he had married her.’ This statement is made in explanation o the fact that when Herod heard of the mighty works of Jesus he, with the fears o! a gullty conscience, thought it might be John risen from the dead, The whole story of the ]son to-day Is that of the apparent man, 18, “For John had sald unto Her>d, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife." John lived before God, he was great In the sight ot the Lord, he feared no man's frown and coveted no man's favor; henee he fearlessly reproved Herod for his sin in this matter, With like courage Daniel urged Nebuchadnezzar to broak off his sine by righteousness and his iniquities by show. ing merey to the noor (Dan. iv., 27.) The man who stands for God befors men is ex- pected to have the courage of Daniel's friends, who, knowing the right thing to do, did it and left the consequencas with Gol, 19, “There’oro Herodins had a quarrel against him and would have killed him, buat she could not.” Both Herod and Herodias stand for the world, whish will be good friends with those who say nothing against it or its ways, but such fellowship means en- mity with God (Jas. iv., 4; I John i1,, 15-17), If we are faithful to Christ, we must stand against the world and its ways and expect to be hated by It even as He was and warned us that we should be (John xv., 18, 19), It is ofttimes more easy and peaceful not to testify againat the world, but it is a dearly bought peace, which robs us of His peace which He bequeathed to us (John xiv,, 27). 20. **For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy and observed him, and when he heard him he did many things and heard him gladly.” Of the two, Herod and Herodias, many would say that he was the best, but both were gulity before tod and enemies of righteousness All who | Are t savex] are lost, but the lost shall suf- fer according to desert 21. “And when a some, that Herod on supper to h satates of Galllee" venient days tor they desire, and to make great convenient day was his birthdbhy made a is lords, high captains and chief Che world ean find pretty much everything on 12) i. went il 8 “And sb her mother, W i, I'he head of John i a. ihe had murder in heart continually, and now It was ber hour and the power of darkness, and she was quick to seize her opportunity, It is written-o Aaviad Ihat Bie nolbos. sounsslor to do wickedly (II Chron. xxii, 8), and this mother that pattera, a true { and faithful child be dest r | 25. “And she haste unto the that tho 4 head pro obeys haste she is a true her chiid of God Mark it we she oay man n Ho fer My erthysins has als sald, niet out thy transgressions re's sake and will not reme “And imme exacutioner { brought, | the prison “abtwent from Lord,’ em iy in glory, with the 80 wiloked wo His ways are “Be still | Perod's birthday, | Jonn, too on f kt i Kno AD it It was a gos his first day in heaven, “And brought his in and gave it to the damsel, and gave it to her mother.” with #7? Did ever a daughter give such grewsome gift to her mother? Yet doubt. less the mother was glad to have the assur ance of her enemy's death, Satan was giad to have got 80 good a man off the earth, and no doubt John was glad to be at home and at rest, for he had finished his work which God had given him to do. and no power could touch him till he bad fAnished It 20. “And when his disciples they eames and took up his o pase and Iaid ft In a tomb.” The body sles ps, but John was more alive than when in the boldly. He may have been one of those whose bodies rose after the resurrection of Oorist, If not, his body will surely rise after the coming of Christ for His svints (I Thess, Iv., 16-18) and he will have a place of honor anwar tod fo him. In Math, xiv. 12, it ¥2 sald that his disciples, after they buried Als body, went and told Jesus, He can rest and comfort all who are in trouble, and He only oan. Let all weary ones come to Him (Math, xi., 28) wloas0n Helper heal a charger the damsel What could she do heard of it ——— Triamph of Antl-Toxine, The first praction] tost at St, Louis, Mo., of the benefits of the recently discovered antitoxine as a cure for diphtheria was made, a fow days ago.and was proved a suo cons, The rahject upon which the experiment was made is the three.year-old ehild of Fioyd Sehock, The ehild’'s condition was such that tracheotomy had bean decided upon nen last resort 10 save ite life, The fparents, however, consented to the experi stantly apparent, The anild breathed easier, and in twelve hours all diphtheritio symptoms bad passod away, —————— Death Came NDefore the Penslon. Presloy Orr, of Chilllooths, Ohio, an ‘old soldier, who had besn an nppiloant for a pension for a long time, and had given up All hope of ever getting it, has Just died from paraiysis, Flv: minutes after he was stricken, the postman delivered a letter, which contained a voucher for sonsiderable back pension, | over. victory ofan ungodly woman over a righteous | a AORSES’ PONDNESS POR ROLLING, A very common stable vice among horses is » tendency to roll completely In a state of freedom this is not attended with any danger, though sometimes, when the ground is hard, the withers have been injured by con- stant attempts to roll over. | soem to regard the process as fun. | When the attempt is made in the stall | the horse is often completely thrown upon his back against the wall and is unable to get back again. —New York World, HOW TO WATER PLANTS. One reason why plants fade so soon in ordinary living rooms is because due attention is not paid to them. The mere supplying them with walter is not enough ; the leaves should be kept perfectly clean, for plants breathe by their leaves, and if their surfaces are clogged with dust, respir- ation is hindered, or be gether prevented. Plants perspire by their leaves. too, and dirt, of course, impedes this perspiration ; and as they feed in the same manner, it evident that there can be no thriving and growth withont real cleanliness, Cast the the foliage of plants kept in the ordinary sitting room, then draw a white handkerchief over the leaves, and it will that they are far from being as clean as their nature required. —8t. Louis Star-Sayvings, may alto- also it) eves upon be seen TO KEEP THE NESTS AND EGGS CLEAN, which are the cleanest and brightest los bring the highest price marketed, the keeping of the nest clear k | W As those eggs JIKINR usually when , 80 that the loubt OLB WAY ue hay, straw, or seed al about Are cieaning | out the nest in this manner a good ides ; Re : Hh hi Of { { whitewash. This will make I better and will also drive away from the vicinity of the nest the lice, which Are the #0 troublesome to laying. — New York Witness once » week. hen yon hens when THE PEEDING VALUE OF There ATe any sabDstance animals will re to ent the altogether, or fail to do well when restricted to them, writes H, W. Mumford, of Mich it is ortant, then, that foods should be that the y relished by the stock cannot consistently articles of foo 1, siderable eatent, profitably produ comparatively reasonable markets I'he chemical analysis of KAD should at roots has proven satisfactory, they are relish by stock, they be profitably grown, and when fed out to farm ani mals experience has that the results obtained have come up to all reasonable expectations, 1 find them food for all farm stock learn it has been a custom a CAL shown valuable ns » Horses soon to like them and with me to feed about two good-sized roots to a horse avery day. All the rutabagas, seldom pounds of on the young cattle get more than sixty ont roots a day, depen ling and of the animal I aim to feed the cows on what sugar beets they will eat up cle The brood sow gets a few roots every day and seems to eat and relish them ns well as grain Poultry are fond of a light feed of finely ¢h pped beets at frequent intervals While I advoeate roots to all farm where sue- culent food in some other form 1s not available, yet I believe that roots are pre-eminently a most valuable and an economie food for sheep. At the Michigan experiment station, in an experiment conducted to ascertain the ange size an the feeding of animals, ‘relative walue of ensilage and roots for fattening lambs, the roots gave much the most marked results Not only this, but the economic value of roots as a factor in the ration of fat- tening lambs was conslusively proven, It is very expensive to construct a silo and get suitable machinery, while {in raising and feeding roots no great { initial outlay 1% cconsioned and the ] ta ft i ble sucenle meat of antitoxine and ita effect was in- | FOO arnish valuable sucenlent food. ~-Ameriean Agriculturist THE CULTIVATION OF VIOLETS, Violets grown entirely in cold frames will require considerable care to in sure a supply of flowers during the winter months, If leaves have not al. ready been packed about the frames for additional protection, this should be done at once. A litter of manure, straw or hay affords fairly good pro. tection. but none of these keen ont | Horses | it look | cold na well as leaves, and they are al less tidy-looking. If a frame is prop erly packed with leaves and protected with mats and shutters a temperature { of zero or lower can easily be resisted. Instead of straw masts we use those { made of Bingapore-fibre, They cos! | but little more than the straw mats, | {are slightly heavier, and far more durable. They are impervious tc] moisture, and mice do not gnaw and | destroy them. The mats we have usec | for three winters are but little worse | | for wear, and eared for properly should Inst eight to ten years. Snow should not be allowed to remain over the panes longer than twenty-four hours | at & time if it can possibly be avoided ; the plants need all the light and air they ean get during the dark months, and if the frames are covered over for a week or ten days at a time the plants suffer greatly. Mold will quickly spread among the crowns and the loaves weak and spindling. The plants ought to be picked over once a week, and any diseased or de- eaying foliage removed. Ifany green slime appears on the surface of the beds it should be scratched over. The Lady Hume Campbell Violets are entirely free from spot this sea- son, and this variety seems equally clean in other places. It does not, however, bloom as freely as the Marie Louise at this season of the year, and the flowers, while of good size, are somewhat paler in color than those of Marie Louise. Swanley White is also free from spot, but we have had some little trouble this Marie Louise, and especially on lifted plants. The plants grown in frames during the er made the most vigorous As a rems tree ol become ith disease on have waler- freezing | point, if the sun shines on the frame, 4 §! e [ies (C%i gn ‘ “hy | run up the temperature with an reing the «ri Shed idea blooms. —Forest and FARM Have the fruit in a co The English » acid AND GARDEN NOTES, i place. farmer buys his phos- at so much a pound had corn and field answer very well fox 1d which has n it will tatoes man that does not apply all the weible every YEeAr 18 like a wiring himself and benefiting yn the farm if sold int up quite rapidly ind out Ings » have fo by need ¢ the y will leaning poultry their time often w, As ut quite % of spend a great deal to keep from the wind. I is injnrious to poultry to give great If fed A ia & quantity their s It more } fs bis make to & Ismet rues, 80 that they best the for their be able affords, have an advantage is in the fact that they oan On ranges w here it w yal 1 be ntier- iseless to try to keep other stock When yon the from the different seedsmen, 1t might pick out one or two ties and ineclnde them in your order me see ay market Where over eattl sheep live ly receive catalogues be well to novel Annual We would rather risk the loss of fer- tility when spread in the field than un der the eaves in the muddy barnyard, no odds what the character of the soil may be If you have common heas which do not pay, grade them up with thorough- bred males; then clean up and feed loss corn, and you will soon be on the road to better results, The 400-aore apple orchard of Judge | Welhouse, in Leavenworth County, Kansas, yielded 47,8374 bushels of ap- ples this season, which were sold at » | net profit of about $12,000, It is not diffioult to keep hens and sheep from getting sick, but it is not so easy to cure them when they are sick. It is usually cheaper and better to kill them than to try to save them. The Pittsburg Dispateh tells how money TAY be made by growing po toes, One farmer made 87500 out of fifty acres of potatoes, and another one got $3000 for 5000 bashels of po- tatoes raised on twenty acres of land, Promptuess in marketing is always advisable. A man had better not raise so mnoh and dispose of it to the best | ndvantage than to strain every nerve | to raise everything possible to be dis- | posed of in an injudicious way or do | wo to loss unwarketed A ——— SCleALLFIC AND ISDUSTRIAL, Imperfect clothing isa cause of much bad heslth, A Bwedish musician hss had a violin made of alnminum, In Berlin they are making nuaitri- tious bread from flour and sawdust, An English paper contains the sn- nouncement of a cure for blushing. The very latest astronomical works catalogue between 6000 and 7000 “‘donble stars.” The Bomerset Railroad of Maine has purchased a snow plow weighing twenty-three tons. If a can of milk 1s placed near an open vessel containing turpentine, the smell of turpentine is soon communi cited to the milk, Bulbs of incandescent lamps are now blown with artistic designs in re- lief, thus obviating the use of a shade and increasing the beauty the lamp. of An electric street sprinkler is in nse in Philadelphia. It has two thirty horse-power motors, holds 2700 gal- lons of walter and runs fifteen miles an hour, Platinum has been drawn into smooth wire so fine that it could not be distinguished by the naked eye, even when stretched across a piece of white cardboard. In Sweden a new electrolytic pro- cess is being used in the extraction of zine from ores which have hitherto been consideretl worthless. It is said that pure metallic zine has not been produced in Sweden for thirty years. The greatest astronomers, in specu- lating upon what there is in space and the distance of external galaxies, oal- culate that the nearest external uni- verse 18 so far distant that light from it, travelling at the speed of 186,000 would take nearly nine million years to reach us. INUCE a second, A Mexican paper states that a new project for the sanitation of the sew- ers in the City of Mexico, at a cost of about $25,000, calls for the building of some twenty-five windmills in differ- ent parts of the city to rotate paddle is in th apd quicken the current to or per sec whe @ sewers metre ond. » humane slaugh- 8, four for horses Jonnaecticut ho »d which which when immer pierces the ] leath, i ALAd Ca 186 pounds, has been foun marsh east of Mulga dowas, Northwest Australia. ron-stained mass of bright, i the salt particie of stone be- and when struck with any rings like an anvil, It , one foot at its great. eight inches thick. a — Uncle Sam’s Farm, est width and - he 10 Owing are De Dumbers o miles in each State and the Territories: Alabama, 052,200 square Alaska, 577,390; Arizona, 113,020; 53,850 ; California, 158,360 ; Col i 03.5 ; Connecticut, 4990; District of Colum- rida, 58,680 ; Georgia, Illinois, 56, - miles, Arkansas, R4 ORO Montaua, 1446, Nevada, 110.700; 9305 ; New Jersey, 152,580; Carolina, 795; Ohi th 3 ; Oklahoma, 3% Oregon, 96,030 ; Pennsylvania, 4 Rhode Island, 125 South Car 30,57 : ] 77,6560 ; Tennes- 260, 80; Utah, , 9565 ; Virginia, 42,- West Vir 69.180: United States is 3,60 New York Dispatch ec — High Smokestacks tor Factories, Aside from the fact that tall neys are better for the public health, by lifting the deleterious product of combustion far int ar, it m that technical considera tions alone might recommend them. But there has been a fad lately for low chimneys in factories, and W. B. Le Van the ighty opinion that they sare a mistake As to first cost, there is no saving over a high, well-proportioned chimney, and the entire drift of manufacturing require. ments demands the building high chimneys so as to enable more fuel to chime- he upper would see expresses we of be burned in a given time and space, thus inereasing the power and output of the boilers, A rapid draft is equiv alent to a large fire-grate area, and bas the advantage that the heat transmitted much more rapidly to the boiler by reason of the higher temper- ature obtained. Moreover, in many industries, the goods produced are liable to be spoiled by smoke and smnt permeating the lower strata of the atmosphere. — Atlanta Journal, Wild Animals In Texas, Sheep and eattle ranchers in Sonth- west Texas are asking the State to help them to exterminate or keep down the ¥ild animals that are playing havoo with stoek in that region. Bo (ar from the advent of settlers thinning out the panthers, wolves, and coyotes, the animals are increasing greatly in numbers through the plenty of ood afforded by the vast herds of eattle and sheep. The ranchers have spent thousands of dollars in trying to abate the pest, but without aval, and now they want the State to take a hand, — Chicago Herald, Is
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