The for steadily on among the European Pow- ers. “scramble Africa” goes Arizona is looming up as a honey- producing Territory. The shipments this season will, it is estimated, be not less than 123 tons, The remarkable growth of business is steadily illustrated by the activity of the railroads, the South, West and Southwest sections, especially in Chief Justice Fuller, of the United States Supreme Court, said the other day in the course of an interview: “If we want to live to a green old age The dry we should stay in harness, rot of aimlessness eats out existence.” France reports 213 centenarians, all They the tables of except sixty-six being women. are generally ahead in imes explained, by the of their lives, but longevity, a fact somet the New York Tribune superior tranquility states, this does not hold good in the case of H the women of France. of the school By act of the Legislature State of Ohio a clay-workers' has been established in the Ohio State where the in Andi University, } UAanism chemistry, ne wimpnual work of every- thing conaected with clay ind: is tunght. Professor Orton is the di- f tr for every Ss roceeds It is claimed that line ever operated opened at ary, the in America first trolley was Richmond, Va., in Febru. then 1 “Tag ’ 1888, Since writer in the Engineering Magazine ‘there have been ed States n TRILIWAYS » ble Dr, Dean, He labore ngkok and after then aoa i, when her Dr. Dean ntion to translation and other Hongk intil 188 ive land. the Bible writing of ¢ DOOKS, | ymmmentaries, standing his than fourscore more Years, he has been well until within » n fT, few weeks, wl suflere 1 an ac- cident at the age of eighty-eight. Ti wen he us was more serious than had he been o and he © younger meu; Diego, Cal, died at Ban The Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture has, for the last five or #ix years, been experimenting upon the connéction between ticks and the Texan cattle fever. an infusorian which quickly destroys the red blood-corpuscles, and the same infusorian has also been detected in the body of the tick, It has been repeatedly transferred from diseased auimale to bealthy ones by means of | The presence of this in- | fusorian is regarded as diagnostio of | the tick. adds a writer Nature, the efleot of its corpuscle. destroying powers is scen all over the body, as well as in the red-colored urine, giving the name of ‘‘red-water” to the The "louping-ill"” or “trembling,” of the north of Britain, bias been traced by some directly to tho presenco of ticks upon the sheep; and the samo may be said of s disense enlled [“‘heart water’ at the Cape of Good Hope. It is quite possiblosthat cortain other obscure cattle diseases in different parts of the world are caused by ticks. the disease, and, disease, In the blood of | cattle affected by this disease there is | in | ~leetrie light is to be 1mmtroauneed in Dosie, Switzerland, at the expense of the Government. Duchess and the danghter of a reigning Prince A Princess, a Countess, =n were among the 4000 thieves, profess sional and vnprofessional, arrested in first months of Paris during the si1X the year The (General Federation of Women's Clubs and the that are doing so much to acquaint Ameri- with State federations CAN women w hint being done various of be introduced into Now Post, where countless individual enterprises is sisters 1n to l, says the by their linex work, have yet Englan York exist, having little or no knowledge of each other, and the 1 Inck ng that strength and knowledge come from nnion and a comparison of ways and means, A few vears ago most of and o this ] nitars, har instruments sold 1 al annfactare yrond by h 4 furnished by the newspapers; the cessive production of books, many which published for ACCOun WAS total Faliway number 251 coupling and uncoupling ecark, 43) to empl yes, falling from trains and engines, fifty to overhead obstructions, 143 t col the 108 to lisions, to derailments and balane« varions other causes not | n lassified, it To show the ratio ol be stated that employe was killed out of every 42% in easily casualty, may one service and one injured out of every thirty-three employed, The trainmean perform the most dangerous service, one out of every 156 employed having killed and having been one out of every The ratio of cssualty to phssengers is in that employes, one passenger having been killed out of each 1,012,618 carried, or for each 44,108,218 miles traveled, 204,248 4,700,771 miles A distribution of accidents to the territorial groups exhibits the diversity in the relative safety of rail way employment and of railway travel in the different sections of the coun- try. twelve been injured, striking contrast to of railway and one injured out of each earried, or for each traveled. FOR THE KMERICA'S COP. Great International Yacht Race Be- tween Defender and Valkyrie III, DETAILS OF THE FIRST RACE, Defouder Won in a Hreeze Yacht---A Favorable to the British Multitude of Vessels and Present---The Vessels Compared... Story of the Cup, The first of a serio f the bast three {n five races betwoon the American yacht Defender | the | and the Dritish for America’s Cup was sailed outside of Sandy Ho of ¢ able ures was from a point off Beabright, N. J. fifteen miles to wind- ward, east by yacht Valkyrie kin a light breeze, and a sea ynsidere weight, uth, and return, one-half added ) she at ale Thousands of Spectators event in yacht racing to equal that moment when the Valkyre, of the believing she to try it and found that cross hers instead, and so made haste to turn tail and run away, The yoll that wore standing on tiptoe to watch the crossing was something the like of which has never been heard off Bandy Hook, This was the turning point in the race, and thence for ward the Defender drew away from her opponent and rounded the turn for home well in the lead, tunniug for the finish, the Defender scurried away like a joyous bird, adding minute ater minute to her lead over the sad Valkyrie, Looming through the mist, which now swept in from the southenst with a sprinkle of rain, the Defender swept forward to lorious vict Just neared the find line the sun through a rift in the clouds and Inid a sparkling golden path for the victor's prow. Down that avenue of nature's glory she moved majestically to her triumph, | while astern of her the besten boat moved silently fu the gathering fog, It was a sub- { Joot for a painter and a theme for a poet, | A great fleet of vessels carried to soo the frst of the strug gle | by the scene at the finish, all ry ns she shiing broke spectalors w, and, juaging believed the halin a taf 1 ns the Defender, was » pry He vigorously waved the yacht's mas . 8 little yellow do while Mrs. Iselin to the end f the nima and niet f the De. nd I's chain I. Nat Herre + 4 aptain, ner sptain Hatt we SETErYOone Differences In Their « America’s ( onstruction ap, Won in 1831 Story of the VALKYRIE IIL The victory was most decided and by n margin that was wholly unexpected, All the yachting experts who had exp an opinion at all had declared it to be tholr be lief that the Valkyre could win fn a light brooze, and Ler fame In Rog waters during her brief career there was made as a light-weaths or boat. A fow old ynohtsmen on this side bad sald that In a light broese and a rolling soa the Defender would win, and these proved to be cagrect (u thelr judgment, conterboard, instead of a movable one, as on the Vigliant, and relies, like the De. fender, on the enormous amount of lead, placed very low down, for power. She has su tremendous overhang and a great shoer, Viewsd as a whole, she might be called a modified composite fin keel cutter of great beam and enormous sail power, She is the ninth vessel bullt expressly to capture the Ameorioa's Cup, Her sail spread is the Inrgest ever carried on a single sticker, and contains about 12,500 square feet of duck. | For thrilling interest there was never any could cross the Yankee's bows tacked around | the Defender would | There are mary new wrinkles in her con- struction, in riveting and bracing, of n- forest only to bomt-making experts, Her mast from deel to head measures 9 feet, broke | from the tens of thousands of spectators who | HAXK HATY, un of the Defend | waters in 1851. | man shortly after her o ry of t , when Comn York Yacht Club, George Steers, of the most famo The America was a § while the defenders sloops, with a single mast abroad and beat She 38 evYeryil Was . and was turned into a blockade ru ing the Civil War, She failed in this escape capture was sunk in the St } River, Florida. After the war she was raise by the Government and put into commis as a training school for naval cadets, W) the Cambria came over 1 race the cup in 1870, the America refitted ne a yacht and peted, winning fourth place, wl the Cambrian got only tenth Khe was finally sold to General B. ¥. Butler of Boston, and is now mn possession of hi spon Paul. All the defenders in the races of 70, "71, ""6 and "81 were yachts built for their owners’ pleasure, with no idea of de fending the cup. The first trial racest choose a defender were held In 15881. Bines then ®0 much money has been spent on the yachts that now they wre merely racing machines, there being scarcely any accommodations on board, A reaction from this “machine” style of yacht is looked for before long. Here gre the ua challengers: 1870, Cambria, keel schooner 1871, Livonia, keel sohooner; 1876, Countess of Dufferin (Canada's representative), centers board; 1881, Atalanta, sloop; 1885, Genesta, cutter; 1886, (ialatea, cutter; 1887, Thistle, cutter; 1893, Valkyrie, outter, The defenders have been centerboard schooner; 1871, schooner, and Columbia, centerboard schooner; 1878, Madeline, centerboard schooner; 1881, Mischief, sloop; 1885, Puri tan, sloop; 1888, Mayflower, sloop: 1887, Vol unteer, Soop: 1803, Vigilant, sloop, ' fohe J yor Of the | 1870, Maggie, Sappho, keel The Kucheng Massacre, A dispateh from Hong Kong says the lead. or of the Kucheng massacre has been cap- tured by the authorities, The total number of parsons thus far arrested for parttei pation in the outrages at Kucheng ix 180, of whom twenty-three have besn convicted AWARDED TO DEFENDER, by th Hace, The American Host Was Fouled Valkyrie 111, in the Second wonsms—— | The second meeting of the Dritish ! nd m ng | Valkyrie 111, and the American series of ra x for the i jer inthe _ ES ow ton w r nt 3 i ence in the gail area of the two hos the Defender act WARS Sach on ned on ex hinit = ally re ney Ar i far 1% ny f Af the ili hind ist ating as large artual measur in circumferen and large holes w hail cut the leaves Ir were rained in the path the tree {the st Drowned While Salling Toy Yachts, Bernard Fay, the 2 Th Fay, went to Hospital Pond, at Providenoe, L., tosail his toy boats, which he had named Defender and Valkyrie. In the excitement attending a race he was super intending the boy fell into the water and was drowned ve-voar-oid som of mas Rather Be Editor Than Congressman. Congressman Samuel Ely Quigg (Republi. ean), of the Fourteenth New York City Dis trict, has resigned. He wants to devote his whole time to the daily paper of which be is editor, Two Deserters Shot, Privates Williams and Coffee, two deserters restrained at Fort Sheridan, twenty miles Chioago, were shot while trying 10 aeon pe, Coffee was instantly Killed, while Williams was wounded The National Game, Harry Wright has a high opinion of Orth, the Phillies new twirlor, Tiernan, the New York's right-flelder, did not make an error in seventeen successive games, No shortstop in the League is putting ap a better game or hitting harder ine Fuller of the New Yorks, . hey % America’s
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