We pay a million ported potatoes. h Year for in They are going to ereet a monu- ment in New England to the memory of the win apple. man who discovered the Bald- New York schoolmasters are urging that children be taught vertical hand- writing, as it then to encourages sit up straight while writing. Michigan people will have a chance to vote a Constitutional amend- on ment limiting the right of suffrage to those vble to read and write, It is noted in England that Lord Rosebery, Mr. Balfour and Lord Elgin, as well as Mr. Rhodes, who between them rale the British Empire, are all fif men under fifty vears of age. The nnder belt line Baltimor } to trains acros tannel just ] opened was undertaken order avoid the transferring the Patapsco River, 18 seven and a half miles lor one of the long ever driven Gladst » 18 a believer in the theory a man can do better men to extreme f his mind tal work er as the | T lan bh great excitement in 1 ¢ he discovery that Birming- ham metal manafacturers have been engaged in 1 the heathen subj of India. English er tonishe | ine, Other o much faster, and Ys while going al ag “N WwW, wiat vou can quietly, let ug fre- brace up; He is r asked whether the propelling his feet Wherever he goes do comes from or his he And mnas listen to his preaching if they can only ; limpse Lhe h 0 ths seds | catch a glimpse of the horse that needs | crosses the neither grass nor grain, The center of our population in 1790 cast waa about of Baltimore; 1810, about forty miles northwest of Washington ; in in 1820, about sixteen miles north of Woodstock, Va. ; in 1830, about nine- teen southwest of Moorefield, W. Va. i in 1840, sixteen miles south of Clarksburg, W. Va; twenty-three miles south of Parkers burg, W. Va.; in 1860, twenty miles south of Chillicothe, Ohio; in 1870, forty-eight miles east of Cincinnati; in 1880, eight miles west of Cincinnati; in 1890, twenty miles east of Colum. bus, Ind, Perhaps the most remark- able feature in this march is the directness of its westerly progress. In the full century it has not varied half a degree from a due west direction or gone north or south of a belt about twenty-five miles broad. Yet in this century it has moved across more than nine meridians, or a distance of 50D miles westward, In comparison with the center of population we may note the center of ares, which, excluding Alasks, is in the northern part of Kansas, miles in 1850, { wonld in Philadelphia. Ai | Brooklyn, ] ed tw £ 1 il " 1 ! enty of people willing to come a : pl Yo pe pif ill ng so ym ) i | are nothing to a without « twenty-three miles | . " | perity they seek, but simply a wast A Spanish statistician has figure out that since the beginning of the sixteenth century Spain has lost 600 hipwreck, that it will centre of Chicago thinks goon he the nilding the coun 6000-ton steel vessels are avs in South Chicago, The Railway Ace finds that in 1830 there were twelve robberies by brigands or **hold- "in 1891, six- 1892, sixteen: in 1893, thirty teen; y 1804, thirty in three, and in Joston Herald : that it not at all sarprisinzy if {o the next ten yvenrs the South than in The he should be more any ther se try. New York City {| Iacturing centre, 000 of product Chicago, with over R600, 000, Of AF Ht. pli d for. cure the York Re { 4.000.000 >t, ’ . 1 a high coll children of hat the Un “ return whatever, Ther | ropean héiresses marrying poor § American scions of noble f ed the conquest of Holland, when the Germans recognized the h pele OT ance, but they resolutely never to acquiesce to the invasion They said, The the G frontier we moment rman will cat | dykes and let loose the sea upon ou: So the shall find not the fertility and pro towns and pastures, invaders of relentloss waters.” The New York Post says: The Cot- ton States and International Exposi- tion, which will open at Atlanta, Ga., next September, and continue the rest of the year, will be an affair of and greater magnitude than most people have begun to real- importance ize. Coming as it does so soon alter the Columbian Exposition, it is nae turally dwarfed in the popular imag- ination by comparison with it; but, though of lesser scope and more Limit. od in its undertakings, it will present much that could not be secn at the World's Fair, and it promises to give entertainment sud instruction of no inferior order, buildings will be arranged in the midst Twelve principal of Piedmont Park, fronting upon a beautiful lake, the Clare Mer. More than £300,000 has already been ex- pended in brightening the picturesque features of the landscape, and about $2,000,000 will be expended in all te make the exposition, the rate of progress | | clares that the “Speaked of A SENATORIAL MUDDLE. End of the Long Contest in the Dcla- ware Legislature, A VERY COMPLICATED AFFAIR. After a Deadlock Lasting Four Months J. Edward Addicks Falls of Election] as Successor to Ex-United States Senator H. A. Yowder Manufacturer, the Dark Horse, Higglins---Colonel Dupont, the Assombly of Delaware ad- The General | Journed sine die after balloting all day for a suocossor to ex-United Btates Benator An thony that their leadin a, Col A. Duy | will prob jenate ublicans claim nel He ntter I's Rep ney n the other hand, the Den r Watson say that the law distinet!y de. the Seusiel Therefore, if Mr. rom the it me Governor hall bao Watson withdmes hie Rr. LAST SPEECH TO A JURY. Ex-President Harrison Delivers a Farewell Address at Richmond, Ind, Harrison, ex-President Richmond he just made at J the last address will jury It BOT will was in The for five the ex- illness deliver before a» case, "4 on months ago seized with was an DENIAMIN HARRISON, that awakened the gravest apprehinalons for his life, An intimate friend sald that the former President hoped to live to practice law for many years, but he did not expect ever again to conduct a jury trial, Before the Court House was opened for the day nearly one thousand persons were athered under the shade of the trees in the Jourt House yurd. Boon the people living in the city began to flock towards the Court House, and when the doors were opennd, an hour later, 10,000 were waiting to secure places in the big hall, The Court House was packed with people during the entire day; and hundreds could not getin, General Harrison was in splendid condition, when he made this, the last speech that he ever expects to make to a jury, He as practically retired from his long career fore the bar, "COIN'S FINANCIAL SCHOOL.” Career of the Author of 8 Work Which Has Created a Sensation in the West, William Hope Harvey Is the Colin's Financial L" which just n author “ 8ohoo creating much sensation the West, Tw wns publishing his week] Coin, he had a little old-fashioned building stenographer attends To-day Mr. Ha suite MOIS Dearh 0 Years ago stable and fAnancial Power lik bas the right to } | tect RUNNING AWAY FROM CANADA. Had Business Forces an Increase in Emi gration tot I anited States SAVANNAH HAS A CALA DAY. A Big Military Governor and Review Witnessed by the 20.000 People As * (3 n | ended Hossla Wants All Korea, The Moscow Gazette says that a military Russia alone old K that if any Power sh i holding that ¢ ntry it woul Wa avowed unfriendliness with would know how to deal, The Novoe V mite of K Russian mer petition rea, The paperadds lussin's mark of which Russia remya says that a Russian pro- rea Is necessary to protect hants there from Japanese com. The Brooklyn Handicap, The Bro mile and a quarter, for horses three yours old and upward, worth #3000 to the winner, $1500 to the second and $500 to the third horse, was run at the Gravesend (N. Y.) track of the Brooklyn Jockey Club. Hornpipe, owned by Messrs, Keone, won, Lazzarone was second and Bir Walter third, Time, 211%, kiyn handicap, a race of a Prominent People, The Czar bieyele, Queen Victoria still suffers greatly from rheumatism, Bismarck says progressive women subdue the Socialists, James Whitcomb Riley is writing a novel on Hoosler life, The Mikado of Japan is fond of football and ean kiok a good game, Kate Field has bocome a member of the Chicago Times Herald staff, The London Spectator wants William Wat. gon appointed as Poet Laureate of BEogland, On his farm at Lebanon, Mo., Congress. man Bland has 5000 Ban Davis apple trees in good growth. Their fruir selis for forty oonts a bushels and the trees boar about five of Russia has taken to riding a | the Louisville team, bushels each, FROST IN MANY STATES With Crops, THE GRAPE BELT DEVASTATED. Aretle Weather in the Northwest---Grain Thought to Be Safe..-Western New York and Pennsylvania Vineyards Saf fer Beverely-.-¥Fruit Blossoms Froren Heavy Snow in Michigan, ing are said not suffered \ansas esoapod the frost 1 uthern part of the State and the I i the Arka: except in the erally along as, Walnut and wt He Was Murdered by a Woman Asleep In Bed at St. Louis. While The State Ser to Morrissey t mittes to attend death The first rate have Legisia- fonts the end | was makes the ORE 00 The National Game, An Indian baseball team | BOS, Beckley is n team, WwW captain « Comiskey and Mullane Paul's first base, Weleh will do the bulk of the catching for alternate at Brouthers has been reloased by Baltimore and signed by Louisville, Smith, of the Roochestors, is nineteenth year on the diamond. Ewing at present leads the Cincinnati team in both felding and batting Manager Hanlon, of Baltimore, has offered New York &500 for Pitcher Clarke. Washington released Pitcher Krom, and then regretting it recalied the release, Plefler carried his threat (oto execution and voluntarily retired from the Louisville team, Schriver has been assigned by Captain Davis, of New York, to catch Rusie regu. larly, Farrell will attend to Meekin as usual, Captain Nash, of Bostoa, never put up a better all-round game than this season. Bannon replaced Burke in New York's left fleld, and proved the change a good one, The “Rainmakers” and the “Trolley Do ere” are the latest terms used by base writers to designate the Philadelphians and Brooklyns respectively, At Liberty, Mo., Osoar Hummell, fifteen yours of age, was almost instantly killed on the public sohool grounds by a baseball hit- ting him over the heart, Two umpires of the National League bee lieve that Hawley, of Pittsburg, will be the star pitcher of 1885, far surpassing Rusie, Meekin, Nichols, Stivetts, ot al, Hart, of Pittsburg; Smith, of the Philadel. hins; Phillips, of Cinclansti, and Hoffer, of timore, seem to be the best “fAnds” in the pitching department this season. playing his lowlands | THE MARKETS, Late Wholesale Prices of Country dues Quoted In New York A Remarkable Cold Snap Plays Havoc + } umbers, Fla, ¥ orate clery, Routhern 4 one PRIS AND ONERS istratio he 1 Indian Territ { his luring a ¢ dant it death Newsy Gleanings. Yeorm California has 72.472 Farkey has 3135 miles of nt has 200 creamerios Chinese, railway, France has a deficit of $11,000,000 The Obie pottery tru ’ t is smashed for gold bonds « The rush ntinues, Italy has twenty-three crematorfes, Loudon has seventy-five daily papers, An ofl trust has been formed in Russia, Wall street shows remarkable activity he Chinn, Salvation Army proposes to fnvade Cuban Insurgent Leader Macoo has more recruits than arms Japan will keep troops in China until the full indemnity is paid. Brooklyn letter oarriers have boen ordered to salute the Postmaster Fish have mysteriously disappeared from the waters of Lake Michigan Arrangements have bden made to carry the malls on streot cars In Boston, Governor Hastings, of Pennsylvania, has approved the “Greater Pittsburg” bil All indieations point to a large tourist travel to Yellowstone Park this summer, There is still rutstanding 6.805 417.42 of the fractional currency of 1862, 1563 and 1864. Spanish ofMoers no longer conceal thes alarm at the spread of the Cuban insurres tion, The Gloucester ( Mase, ) seiners report that Southern mackerel has been almost a total allure. Three million dollars of Northern capital has been invested in Alabama and Tennessee this year,
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