A prominent military man says that beans kill more soldiers than bullets, In Europe where eleotrio lights arc used, the poles have to be ornamental, in the United States have are not per: mitted. London Truth thinks the mail con tracts of the Cunard Line should be | canceled as a punishment for refusing | to allow a colored bishop to bay ¢ first-class ticket. Dr. Roger A. Tracy says twins and triplets are increasingly common New York City. 1803 was the Year thus far, 847 pairs of twins born and five sets of triplets. in banne The of of whom there are a great many in the North and West, are said to be mak- Norwegians Amerion, ing active preparations to give sup- port te their country in case of a very possible war with Sweden. It is libellous to oall man *"Methodist” in Canada, notes the New Orleans Picayune, n Au editor in Que- bee has got judgment for $200 dam- ages against another editor for having applied that name to him, The mat- ter was taken to the Court of Appeals and the judgment was affirmed. irier Everything in the town of Wis., except the school Morse, has wate of Bose 10us88e, been purchased by a syndi ton capitalists. The p posed to be in the $2,000,000. The Cay lish the id is sup- I giving Phillips 8 10 extent, burg, Montana aud a new r Ny Ts | ie, { taliite, The idea that wealth in held by a the ¢ a the United Btates is large ly few finds no support in reached nclusions recen tly | by careful etatistician, Henry Gannett. He finds that only five per cent. of the total of the coun try is held by millionaires, twenty eeven by people worth from 81,000,- 000 to 8100,000, twenty-five per cent. by those worth from $100,000 to 810,- 000, thirty-seven per cent. by those less than 310,600, and six per » holding less than 81008, an} hal v ACH Indaba it, A colonizing scheme which contem- plates taking some five thousand fam- ilies, comprising about thirty thon- eand persons, from Ohio, Indiana, Illi- nois, Iowa, Nebraska and Wes tern States to settle in Georgia, is said to be near fruition, and it is that by fall the backward tide o cmi- expected f gration from the West to the S east will be well under way. uth- The land to be settled is in Wilcox and Irwin Connties, Georgia, and has already been purchased. Tho colonizing com- pany numbers about seven thousand stockholders, very many of The col artisans and fruit growers, as well as whom will be settlers, ny is to include farmers, and it is contemplated to at some time build a town, with schools and factories, if the scheme turns out as well as isanticipated, The Engineering and Mining Jour- pal prepares an annual table of the world's production of gold and silver from original sources so far as they are aocessible to private investigators, re- lying on the Mint reports for other countries. Its statement for the cal endar year 1894 is published in its is- It finds the pro. duction of gold equal to 8177,642,346, The latest corrected returns of the Di- rector of the Mint were 8181,500,000, The difference between the two is less than 24,000,000 and cannot sidered “The Btates,”” says the Journal, ‘‘contines to sue of June 20th. be con- important hold the first place as a gold-producer, | its production exceeding that of Ans tralia by 81,412,085, of the Transvas/ 81,877,042 less than that of the United Btates, aod it still holds the third place. The remainder of Afr ea pro duced only 81,072,073 of gold, so thal the United States’ production exceed. ed that of the whole African continent, probably, however, for the last time,’ The increase in gold production over 1808, according to these figures, was $10,204,700. The production of sil ver declined 134,084 kilos. The com mercial value declined wuch more, viz.. 828,812,087, United | ! The production | was $37,883,263. ot | a | | electric light but with In bankruptey ne'll never sink Who puts his trust in printers’ ink Native whites born of native parents form fifty-two per cent, of our Na- ; : | tional voting strength. Buch hideous things as many streets | The city of Chicago is erecting an plant of its own, and | proposes to light itself, Florida has a smaller valuation than most of the Southern States, being es- | timated at ouly $30,038,300. Up to the end of lat year Philadel- phia & new city hall had cost 815,699,. 064.67, and it is not quite finished yet. The trolley reigns in Philadelphia, not such murderous sway, The last ins been re- apparently, as in Brooklyn. horse car in Philadelphia } Lire d, Chicago parks no one In the is ybliged to kee p ofl the grass until the grass 18 worn off the ground, Then people are kept off till it Again, RIrows back The New York Mail and Express ex daims: ‘‘Having harnessed nity Niagara, day the Yo lley, preparatory to ct May some r Mountains to fill in building lots, y being in France have increased ¥ years at a ratio The number of from sixteen to twenty-one age has increased by 247 per 8 ngularly enough, muses the Chi. eago Times-Herald, the editor of the men's department of edition of the St. Paul (Minn.) Dis- patch heads her the column ““The Lords f Creation,” and there is notl ser text to show a trace . - ng yea Assn jcarcely more than half narvels the New Orleans Picayune, hey are talking of stand- of the The present examinations are raising the ard examinations for admis. aon. uly in the rudiments of education, ut require a very perfect mastery of these. The the slature so amended the sot cor last session of Illinois Leg- neerning children that train- for boys is to get 810 a ty every un for every boy use | women's | DEFENDER HOME FIRST Outsails Vigilant Off Sandy Hook by Two Minutes and Forty-five Seconds. LED FROM START TO FINISH. The Contest Gladdened the Hearts of Bellef That the American's Cap Will Stay on This Side of the Water---The Syndicate is Satis fled With the Yachtsmen With the Boat, Theo first fair and square “try out” of the new America’s cup candidate Defender took place off Sandy Hook, N. J., in a race with the 1808 champion The Defender defeated the Vigilant two minutes and forty-five seconds. Vigilant by A fitter day for a yacht race never dawned, Not a and the wind, unwavering cloud marred the beauty of the and from true, briskly in one direction set. It seemed as dawn to THE NEWS EPITOMIZED Washington Items. Fire destroyed the building oecupled by the Young Men's Christian Association, on New York avenue, also damaging bulldings adjoining. Loss about £6),000, The State of Florida has deeded to the United States Dowditeh Point, Estero Island, for lighthouse purposes, W. E. Curtis, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, returned to his desk after an ab- sence of six wesks in connection with the de. Hyery in London of £30,000,000 United State bonds to the Belmont-Morgan syndicate, The President commuted to imprison for life the sentence of deat m Thomas J. Taylor, who wi hanged for killing his wi I'he President amen rules by putting certain place States Geological Burvey le sorvice, The Units been orders off the Fi bustering expediti on ent Becretary Herbort turrets for the now | An order from promulgated, pl voral pens | under civi ber bot woe Munster Soy Domestic, THE LEAGT ith we re Kile H Alexander H, Rice, o of Massachusetts, 441 at his hom bam. He was born! in Newton, August 850, 1818 Delia Smit} Instantly kills | Bsters ina The raoe was | per in the fleet ras i 1 sommitted to its charge, whether the | county Board has agreed to it or not. As there is a profit for the schools of | 35 on every boy, the training schools have agents out gathering in depend- mt boys, acd as the definition in the “" wot as to what constitutes a *‘depend- mt boy" is very vague, they are gath- ng in a good crop. The county an. shorities have resolved to take the natter to the courts The Bupreme Court of Louisiana that a child of tender pears cannot be guilty of contributory ans decide d jegligence so as to be in part respon- ible for any accident or injury that 4A might suffer. A three-year-old child and been injured by a street car, and + verdict had been given against the ‘ailway company in the lower court. Ihe company appealed and pressed the point, raised in the lower court, tbat the chi/d was in the way of the sar by its own negligence sud there- {ore responsible for its own injury, I'be Supreme Court ruled that such a ¢hild could not be negligent and the enilway company could not be exonsed for any lack of care or watehfulness on the part of its employes on that ground, Buch employes are bound to awe extraordinary care and watchful ness whonever there are ineapable persons in the vicinity of the railway, and if they dosnot the company mast suffer. This decision is good sense as well as good law, | engineer to keep | shaped his course t It was a grand race to finish, in a hreess at, and that held fy a nN water that yacht B it whi 12) paratively wler gaine the beat to wis nds in the run ho r lanlin i tw me head ft jotie syndicate that built her satisfied with the Defender The Defender proved her ability t sall better than the Vigilant and to foot {aster She also has an easier tion | through the water, and she beat the Vigilant in conditions where it was thought she would ~viz., A head sea and a good breege But posts y the most creditable part of her per. yrmanee lay in the fact that she also Deat the conqueror 14] the run down wind ! A conservative view of the race would seem to be that, while the Defender's performance was a good ane, it will require the greatest efforts of the Defender folks to work her to a cup winning form, The result of the race bet ween the Defender and the Vigilant may be sald to mark the downfall of the centroboard as an American institution. The Vigilant was peerless two yours ago. Dut last season she made but a sorry showing In English waters The challenge for the eup made It necessary to build another yasht that would show the world that the science of yacht bullding progresses (on this country with able strides, In days to when boys of to-day will be graybeards, they will recount this trial Yesmuse it marks the time when a keel boat was put forth as the ablest product of American yacht designing, This the culmination of a series of unbroken vietories, extending over nearly fifty years, victories won by center boarders, sald eriectly WITTY Ul of Valkyrie in ome FOUR MEN KILLED BY A TRAIN. They Were Taking a Drive and Did Not See the Engine, A pleasare party of five men, while driving across the raliroad track between Willlame- town, Mass, and Pownal, Vi, a few alters noons ago, was struck by tein No, 157, on the Fitohburg road, Thres of the men were instantly killed, one died soon afterward, and the remaining ocous pant of the carriage, William Prindle, forme erly a ftatbuig brakeman, esonpsd njury by jumping. The party had waited for a freight train to pass, and did aot sen the passenger train coming from the opposite direction, The names of the men who were killed could not be ascertained, but they Nur said to have been Frenchmen Hving in orth Adams, Mass. They were trighttully mangled, | who had been w up | | detective sergeants to the | eleven other detectives, bi Tork. mare in defeating People’s Convent Mine owner in in Massachusetts Mem? the council in Washington on Cuba Josephine Sherdol, the daughter of Beaver Rherdol wis killed by her unele rking | ore { twalvacvear