The United States now furnish more than half the hardware imported by Mexico. According to Major-General Tul- loch, oi Victoria, New South Wales, de- pends for its defense on ten obsolete torpedo boats, Mortuary tables show that the aver- age duration of the life of women, in European countries, is something less that of this fact, the Scientific American notes that of the list of lected by the British Association a than men. Notwithstanding col- centenarians fraction over two-thirds were women. The New York Independent says: In Kentucky and New Tennessee the actual number of white Mexico and illiterates is greater than that of col- ored; but the percentage is decidedly in favor of the whites. Everywhere, however, a most encouraging reduc. tion in the percentage of illiterates among the colored population is indi- cated, San Francisco Chronicle re- “The Actors’ Union, of Boston, has nnder consider- The marks: Protective ation a plan for securing for 50,000 the Cot National actors of the laws whereby they will be allowed t ntry amendment to vote in the place where their profes sion may call them on Election Day. At present they are unable to vote ex- cept at the I rown homes. The tion is a plain and simple one paris of said th with the and ever acted they have laws hav not always accom- plished theend in yiew. In this State, for example, through the influence of Governor Flower a law was passed two Years azo waica 1% tion or result county, tage of is plain, therefore islation is dem do its duty in providing good is a go in the those tions of lurther res immigration, and it is that asked to nmend the present law, facts se all u ikely Congress will in a circular just out fron half the that the i from countries whose pe for ns, ple are not good material the of making American citize one-third of the males over twenty-one vears old naturalized, and about the same pro- nearly already here not having been portion not speaking our language, These are grave facts and well worth considering, There is no doubt that many of those who these shores ought to be kept out, but it is extremely difficult to draw the line between those that are not. land on those that are desirable and It will not do to require that an immigrant shall have #0 much he is per mitted to come, for the poor but in- dustrious ncquisitions than the may have a few dollars, money before are far more valuable indolent who A racial dis tinction might be made between im- migrants from Europe, as we have al ready provided in the case of the Chinese, but it would be diffiealt, if not quite impossible, to mete absolute justice in that way, While the vast majority of the arrivals from a certain eountry may be extremely bad material, there is sure to be a minority who should be made wel. oowe."”’ out Spain puts ont 8,000,000,000 corks | per year. Even in tu poorest quarters the streets nre Berlin has no slums, paved i { with asphalt, and are kept faultlessly olean, Pure Food Exhibi tions in all our large cities The holding of 18 doin r i great work in ealling attention to the immense benefit to mankind conferred by the plucky, sag gacious men have first produced a pure article, the 1 second, made all world wan buy it, 18 stanton that the Evidence accumulating, the New York Mail and Expres Marshal Ney not shot, as Bourbons ordered, but that he really the American schoolmaster who was was dwelt in the Carolinas after the fall of Napole on. His alle gi d pres rvation 18 attributed to the ¢ Wel- lington. nnivance of A wide-awake Australian Legislature profit of 875,000 on a ship made n ment of Western Aus- He probably had had some y of the wants of pe H has onions to the mines in tralia, experier freshly opent 1 gold fle 1d ample has been followed by na of other enterprising traders, and cording to late advices there i a smell of onions about the Coolgardie fiel ia IASKA 18 T'¢ that city improved on deci ledly only gennine notes Of course buyers had no trouble in working them off, and soon his wares came into great demand, and he received orders by the score. All meetings for the delivery of the goods werearranged to take frontiers, place at solitary spots on the When small amounts, Shapira allowed them the ur lors were for to go, as baits for more business, but when the sale was large, the transfer would no sooner be consummated than policemen would appear and arrest the parties, confiscating all the money, The swindlers would be held, but the swindled would be allowed to go, ms having suffered enough by losing their money. The police, who were confederates of the swindlers, would then return the money to the office of the firm. Bome of the dupes canght on to the scheme, but they were afraid to complain, ns they were criminally connectea with the transaction. When rumors of his erooked work reached the ears of the authorities, Shapira sbsconded, Ho was arrested recent): in Rotterdam. A. OCEAN HORROR (he Atlantic Steamship Elbe Sunk In a Collision, HONDREDS OF LiVES LOST. Struck at Night By a British Steamer in the North S Fhe Disaster Occurred Fifty Miles OF Eng land's Coast, and the Elbe Was Sent to the Bottom In Twenty ¥ ihe All but a Hand 1ifed Fales the Sarvl ite Strugglesfor LifeAmong nnd Crew Lhe HE twenty v till the nite r throes r pure thar the Hi Ihe pn Their few : hair and anxiety and effort had exhnusted npletely that they had to be helped ashore he oMeesrs and sailors were fully dressed, but their clothes had been drenched and frozen and they had been ale most paralyzed with cold and fatigue, min N LETH with the shiy I lothed wile 41] nly ball frosen stiff their Was vith joe ied them # ir mor ous WHEN THE CRASH CAME. CAPTAIN AND VESEEL. nilorman re Were Lowered pumander a Vine of the sng in Bed, and the Firs Elbe's ( Was Swamped, History Lost Liner | al Lm. tho wi nen ning Hy win Engl why [| ILL + rave ber of kedd Whe thie Ship wd hed her agailr which had A f the collision alm ost lous that the boat was swam ped ther boast was got I to k y boy into it and 1 that he had remained by my side, but just as the boat was lowersd 1 found that he had disappeared e had been away int 1 : t at the | mir mast time board migraty the ebb, and Mily 1 a Gort 5 w {i Aah passenger traf ss It gene mewhat ight have anh o ‘ had arred In May X of Gorman fmmi The Elbe might have passengers, 180 second ore, and 1000 steerage pases sason she has a crew ut 180 men and w HU pene rush and serambile fo I tried to got back, but bos rn with a jump and the 1 the water the sali Buecker, the only w interview I was in wrs struck, 1 was amo ra=h, followed by sh feet on deck ’ ’ ) n ¢ uost mon ity re push sald th wed by a great uts and the trampling of It was dark when 1 reached the | sade sling to t} ack i mt two of the lfebonts wera being = has a Doi and ma to Mi in An man =a L bed when aten Ocean Liners, Inunched, in 1881, there Disasters to Other the Elbe was i y found y lowered 1 r king already low in the water hoved me into the boat, which lowered, We had hardly reached before the boat 4 and n vere thrown was #} y after she left Liver As that part of the Elbe was partly | pool, on March 5, 1864 The stoam submerged. most of the others managed | ship Pasifie of the Collins line, which left to got back on the doamer I wont | Liverpool on January 28, 1856, with 186 pas under and when 1 came clutehed the was never heard from bow of the capsized lifebont, 1 clung to It Prowident and Pacific Ocean met a desperately until another lifeboat that had fate. Within the last six years the been launched pleked me up. We suffered | big old freighter Erin of the National terribly until the Wild Flower rescued us, [| line and the fine new modern twinsorew lost all my clothes, but | saved my money | freighter Naronie of the White Star line, each and wateh, whieh I had in the belt around | with about ninsty persons nbonrd. vanished my waist, | from the sea without leaving any record of one of then ‘ ROI i than forty : Kradunsily One more ' men jo all fron i thet presumably wrsons aboard Wine A 41 Whe the water | a st Bhe never Win with Wome ut up A ships similar 1 & big liner sunk with so many | YORrs | ited) « | York City, with a Victims of Cowardice vt} of an As way's Rusning Fifteen Men K 1 that fiftes ot unded stiletto i Over 1 pia i ail five badly i Aah Deen arrests Killed by & Gasoline Explosion, . rred 3 explosd red A Home Bush, aged nine you brother, eleven yoar | The boys attempted to HEht a line The explosior " among the other child ut order wm finally restored Willie Du lothes wary burned from his body and his body burned & A CTis} which Willie and his ally a | with gaso stam pede Logansport, Ind in ATS killed Whe was | ¢ A Ponltry Show, exhibition of the New Pigeon Association (Um pened at Madison Square Garden, New large attendance. Mon The sixth York Poultry and annual than 5000 birds were displayed, reg Rpt ng ] ! » The steam- | | larger varfoty, it is said, than wore ever fore exhibited in the city Anarchists Expelled From Switzerland, Righteen Italian anarchists of Lugano, one of the three capitals of the canton of Tieng who have boon ¢ in smuggling anar ohist literature in Italy, have been expelled from Switzerland,
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