It is gaid that the late patent de- According to the New York Tribune, cision ie likely to cheapen telephone service amazingly. mer is raising a wail of distress, Farm products are too cheap. in every country of the globe the far- | | Athletics are said to be languishing in our colleges, Football is under bap and baseball is too slow. American carpets are being intro- | duced into Switzerland by a German | firm of Stuttgart, and the American | Consul at Zurich reports that United | States great | field in Europe for their fabrics. { There are about 12,000,000 houses in this country, with less than six manufacturers have a people to each on the average. ‘Ninety-six per cent. of our trade is confined to market,’ es timates the Atlanta Constitution, To the Pyramids by trolley may the home goon be a possible trip, announces the Electrical Review. The Egyptian Government has just granted a con- An hereafter be required of men seeking enlistment the United States Army, educational qualification will | cession for an electric railroad in Cairo, and the Pyramids are only m eight miles away, rn There 4912 The world’s chief supply of alabas- country last year, were suicides in this Nearly one-half ter comes from the quarries of Vol. were caused by despondency, 457 by terra, some thirty miles southeast of Pisa, in Italy, where has been tions, insanity, 218 by liguor, 270 by ill i indus y : ai this industry | yoann, 241 by domestic troubles, 232 handed down for genera- by disappointed love, 122 by business losses and 1310 were unknown. Schools of stenogiaphy and type- ; : i It is predicted by Collector of In- writing turn their pupils to use by a of Chicago, that | : : ronal Revenue Mise doing at rather low rates typewriting ternal Reven ‘ ’ ! the income tax from ( hicago will not exceed 81,000,000, fall be- If is correct, York for lawyers and others. The copying the and incidentally brings in considers | § | serves the New : and may sakes good practice for pupil low £500,000, he ob- , Times, Chicago able revenue to the school. ’ is very much poorer than the world bad been led to suppose. The B« relieve ston Transit Commission will | the and crowded streets by a subway, begi narrow, crooked 3 —— — : : oh The cost of the Baltic Canal is esti- 4 8 37.440.000. 8 812,500,000 “-yh ’ mated at The subway will be | tributed i perial Prussia con- and the Im- double-track and partly guad- | d © the rest Wie | It singular fact, comments the | New York Mail and Express, that, al- | though this canal is about twice as the Manchester the t 875,000,000, ning in the Public Garden and ending at Park street. partly Treasury raise ruple, and will be lighted na tricity. by elee- England is not generally thought of as a gold i long as Canal, i producing | latter cos Knowle 1ge BAYS | haps few countries which the metal tributed. The Wales, now abandoned Roms an Superintendent of | is 1 } ‘ 2 yre generally dis- | ton says that the gres principal mines in | the export trade in apples ted that { We The Southern Florist and Gardener The last census shows that the earth yields to the Southern were worked States is the codling moth, bat as long ago as the the entire ¢ conld be made by season with occupation, rimless spraying at the proper a solution of Paris green. BAYS: He says that Great Britain alone dur- farmer | ing the nine months ending with Sep ; 1] | twenty-five per cent. on his capital | orchards of the United States 82,500,000, i tember, 1894, paid the annually, against a yield of only four- teen per cent. to his Northern brother, | If the value of machinery and live | Harry Havward, of Mion to kill Miss Ging for the insurance on her life, is the apolis, rank included ar aati ha 1:4 > . >t stock is included as capital, the i- | who induced Blinx ference in f{ avor of the S hern mer is even greater, eecond man found guilty by an Ameri- | ean jury of murder in the The | eam ted throw Re morn controlled,” ty { While a loyal subject of | introduced into our courts. Her Majesty of Great Britain and Ire land, he was j first degree, New Voanmle Ono . Li i p al characters, > But, marks the St, Louis Star-Sayvings, the Minnesota he example of the Sap re-eminently a Seotch Supreme C cided ¢ arr : art of man, and opposed with de estness all influences 5) ’ : nore or ie an the things English an listine 1 things ad n } very great; upon the voung in contact ‘wi i : in ite i iveisiands ; Union group, three ymputation, ningman, Fanning, Washing- islands ; ton, Palmyra, Jarvis, Christmas, Star- Vostok, Flint, Pen- rbyn, Dodosa, Rule, Coral, Gardner, Johnston, Danger, the highest prize to which metallur- | line While g15ts may aspire, to Henry Howe, of | aries, sailors and commerce have been Boston, =» of Mrs. Julia Ward in the Howe. “This bonor,” it adde, ‘has last half century, no attempt has been been conterred on only four Ameri- the United States hith 8. Hewitt, Alexander L introduced the Bessemer this country, and John F signed and built the great B The plac Mr. Howe 1 the | William medal for his writings and investiga. | Penn on the Philadelphia City Hall tions into the scientific features of | has inspi~ed a proposal to perpetuate ston Transeript says that the buck ’ Maiden, British just awarded the Bessemer gold medal, Iron and Steel Institute has Suwaroff and Caro- islands, American mission- 80 3 ' on familiar in the Pacific islands made by Govern- cans rto-—Peter C . - reer ment to annex any of them, remarks the New York Tribune by way of con- ork Post says: J iron works. receive ing of a colossal figure of steel making, Among the European the memory of Roger Williams in the recipients of the medal are Sir Wiil- | same way on the dope of Rhode Isl- iam Siemen | hearth steel-making Joseph Whitwortl strong, of gun Thownas, the inventor Bessemer process.” and’s new State House. It is now re- called that the Roger Williams Mon ument g,the inventor of the open- process ; Sir and Lord fame, Association started a fund thirty-four years ago to erect a mem- Zach- ariah Allen in his diary of that time says with amusing ignorance of the problem presented by the convexity of the earth: *‘'A statue on the top of this column would stand nearly 450 feet above tidewater, It would be conspicuous from Newport and Block Island, and, I think, the State | House at Boston.” Thus, it was sug- gested, would the capitol of the col. ony which disgraced: its intelligence by the banishment of Williams be for ever doomed to find his figure still within night, The association failed to raise enough money to put up the column, but the sum was deposited in bank, and has now increased to a con- siderable sum. There scems to be an impression that the top of the State House would be the appropriate place for Roger Williams, and the associa tion is advised to transfer its fund to the State if the Government will agree to thus honor him and will also bind itself to erect a statue elsewhere to another great Rhode Islander, who has been neglected, General Greene, of Revolutionary fame. Arm- G 8 basic and ol the orial column on Prospect Hill. The St. Paul Pioneer-Press remarks : While the farmers of the Northwest are deploring the advent of the Rus- $ian thistle, a new forage plant, also of Russian origin, has made its appear. ance, which promises to prove such a blessing to farmers as to more than atone for the damage done by its pestilent compatriot. sncaline, from It is known as It requires no cultivation. Once planted, it propagates itself in any soil, in dry, sandy, barren or in wet, alluvial swamps. It stands the droutb, for its roots eirike deep. It drinks in the rain, when there is any, like a camel loading np for a journey through the desert. It isas nutritious a8 any of our grasses. It possesses a combination of remarkable properties, which adapt it wondeclully well tor the conditions existing in Minnesota, and especially the Dakotas and beyond, Our ilnpression is that the Minnesota agricultural college is trying it, o¢ has arranged to try it on the State experimental farm. | ing | Brito, by three | of the ocean tides | estimated by the FOR A NICARAGUA CANAL. Oficial Exhibition of Thie Country's Interest in the Project THE ROUTE. INSPECTION OF Three United States Commissioners to Be Conveyed to Greytown for the Purpose of Investigating the Feasibility of the Waterwny---Deseription of the 'ro- posed Course of the Canal, d has deter OIE Poss +, and the Government ’ the canal roulse ut vil bill made $20,000 is to he ant yard a United States war this American onoern of Gove H HE CANAL, I3y Which the Atlantic Oceans Will Be Joined, UA . » } i NICARAC I Lake Divi inted | re of Lake Nicaragua lot of rock blasting ire the ne ry be made ’ niles a NANOS Is § f the lake bys Inke love level of 106 onsiderable 1400 foot Ti ti " im nvyer ¢ Inke ¢ juired for Fourth, the Western Division comprises the remaining 17 iles from the west shore of Lake Nicaragua--9 miles excavation ecut- through the western ridge, 5 miles across the flooded Tola basin, and the re- maining 3 miles to the Pacific Ocean at locks (Noa, 4, 5 and 6) with lifting distance of from 106 to 114 feet, varying in the last lock according tothe rise and fall Here it will be necessary to artificially improve the harbor of Brito by a “breakwater,” part of which hasairendy | been constructed, The estimated time of transit from ocean to ocean is 28 hours for the 16014 miles, The passage of the Suez Canal, 100 miles, requires 24 hours, The cost of all construction is company to be $65,084,176. The following persons have been appoint. | ed Commissioners to investigate and report upon the feasibility, permanence and ex. pense of the Nicaragua Canal on the route roposed by the construction company: From the Army, Major William Ludlow, Corps of Engineers; from the Navy, Come wander U. T, Endicott, Civil Engineer, and from civil life, Alfred Noble, of Chicago member of the American Boeciety of Civ Engineers, The Commission will receive formal in. structions from the Secretary of State, and then proceed to Mobile, Ala, and sail on the warship Montgomery for Greytown, 108 Killed by Trolleys in Brooklyn, Irene Madden, a pretty little girl who would have heen six yoars old next day, was killed by a trolley ear, almost in front of her home at 176 Sackett street, Brooklyn. She fa the 108th victim of the trolley care since electrical propulsion was introduced on the surface lines in Brooklyn, about two years and a half ago, THE NEWS EPITOMIZE Washington ndred New Engl in the East Items, Your ht Add Ors were Vrooes ved White House by Pre were members of Maine, New Ham chusett Treasury ofMeial Treasury | ing the pres better now Ad of the nt he member the White H at W Hey, X where they later in the , and her ( the all n just | Waller by the Fre mmander ie Domestic Near Oklahe ’ 2 dren in ( Judge Rand Sessions Court, heart failure, apa died in iperinduc Train robbers boarded an California and a battle Sheriff Bogard and one of killed, Joux A. Browx. & York merchant, shot himself in Philadelphia Mrs. Eoxa Rexves, aged forty-five, and her child met their death in the burning of Israel Higbie's house, near Northport, N. Y. Axprew J. Camraevi, Secrelary of the Lexington (Ky.’ Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the A. P. A., was found dead on his own porch. It was believed he was as sassinated, express train in followed, in which the robbers were salesman for a New his wife and killed A Connecticut Sunday Regulation, Connecticut has a law forbidding railroad companies to oarry passengers on Sunday for less than the highest regular fare col. lected on week days, Neither commutation, season, nor mileage ticket can be wsed that day. Can't Print Postage Stamps, Attorney-General Olney bas decided that the printing of fae similes of foreign postage stamps is a violation of the aotof 1891, which Inhibits the counterfeiting of foreign obliga. tions or securities, From Poverty to Affluencs, E. C, Coffin, a New York telegraph oper. ator, who was on the verge of sulaide be cause of his extreme poverty, has just in. herited §10,000,000 from a Brazilian uncle, of whom he had never heard, Chance for Mexico's Oranges. The Florida freeze is giving Mexico a chanoe to place its oranges in the markets of the United States, CHERRING FOR“ ANERICY Honors to Dr. Smith, Author of Ci National Hymn, THE ORIGIN OF T Exercises Held In Boston's Music The Author Tells How He Came Compose the Words Addresses Music in Honor of the Occasion ebrations in the West and South UiAriy # patural on | were patriot) Central Italy Shaken, Tuscany, Italy, has been shaken by earth At Tredizio houses collapsed. Beven dead bodies have been removed from the ruins, At Monte puleiano roofs were shaken down and three buildings were wrecked, Two persons were killed and ten or twelve were injured, quakes several times, a dozen Newsy Gleanings, Spain exports 1,450,000,000 oranges a year Montana's gold output in 1804 was 84 500. 000, Great Britain has only 40,000 volunteer sol- diers, The Salvation Army is still stoned in the streets of London. Britain's belligerent attitude France causes concern in Europe, Relief was given to 137,000 destitute per- sons in London during the week just passed. A large deposit of asbestos was recently discovered twelve miles northeast of Dilion, Montana, and ean be traced for a distance of 2500 feet, Melbourne, Australia, has eighteen cable road systems, The Minnesota Legislature has refused to remove the capital from St, Paul to Minne apolis, Plymouth Church, of Brooklyn, has com- menced a crusade against the slaughter of people by the trolley oars, Rook salt has been discovered on the land of Joo Jefferson, the actor, in Southern Louisiana, The Royal Humane Soociet wards last saved 580 1 August Swanson, of Clinton, lo be. headed his seven-year old son, using a hand ax to commit the murder, toward issued 831 re- Jens to persons who, collectively, ves, \ fs or iL YE, MURDER MYSTERY the Murder York City. Confesses William Cw Martin in Ar Mury New is REP > fn AND ep 10.000 1°] Lippitt ernor hy Over rrality, FRER His TEENS After ters Kills Two Boys and Attacks Their Newto Wai ward winter seventeen 3 , |, keeps X He had ts song. George { Jamey” see nineteen 3 welve, living womens, altars, about nineteen veare old, and a son 6f James Walters, was infatuated with Dolly Cox, but latter did for hin Waiter hha 4 i AL the WACES An Improvement Indicated in the Indus. trial Situation ent. in wages about Notices have been | incing a restoraty rate I'he Cleveland Shipt has reached an agreement with and they are all back at work again For the first time this year all the found dries in Millvilid, NX. J., are in full operation, and the prospects for the remainder of the season are good, Ors anng aiiaang Company its employes, LAKE IN THE DEATH CHAIR Emma Hunt's Murderer Killed by Eloo- triety in anbura (N. ¥.) Prison, William Lake was executed by electricity at Auburn {N. Y.) Prison about the murder last October of Emma Hunt, a domestic employed by Joseph Van Camp, a farmer lving near Albion Lake walked to the chair and seated himself with- out onoe elevating his downoast eyes. He submitted to the buckling and pinjoning in a dazed sort of way. As the preacher was in the midst of a comforting passage the deadly current was turned on. e voltage reached the 1740 notoh, and was almost instantly re- duced gradually to 150 volts, It was the unanimous opinion that death was instan- taneous, Upon moving the mask the eyes were found elosed, the lips slightly apart, and the face ashen pale. Lake confessed that he committed the crime, noon for The Labor World, A Texas telegraph operator has fallen heir to $2,500,000, Any number of New York saleswomen work for 2 a week, The Bon Marche, at Pariz, gives employ ment to 15,750 perscns, The ave pay of tel try over is § od per month, The carders and spinpers of Fall River, Mase, have organ a federation, Alabama miners, in convention at Birming- ham, decided to join the Unitad Mine Workers, from which they withdrew three years ago, hers the coun
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