&ROUNDTME WORLD INHJIRTY-TIJREE DAYS The world's record for swift travel around the world will soon be cut in twain. Prince Hilkoff, Russian Minis ter of Communication, stated at the recent meeting of the European rail way managers that when the new Siberian railway is completed it will be possible to travel around the world in thirty-three days. At present the best possible record is sixty-six days. PBIXCE HILKOFF'S TIME TABLE. Days. Bremen, by rail to St. Petersburg St. Petersburg to Viadivostock 10 Viadivostock to San Francisco 10 San Francisco to New York 4!^ New York to Bremen 7 I Total 33 gOOOGOOOOOGOGOOOCOOOOOOOOO g PHILIPPINE TRIBES I | ' COMPLETELY CLASSIFIED. § ft An Ethnographic Map. n ooooooooooooococoooooooooo A simple classification of the Philip pine Archipelago's population may be made with the assistance of the accom panying ethnographic map taken from Harper's Weekly: 1. The Moros, or Stilus (Mohamme dan Malaysioccupy the small southern islands, the southern and western coasts of Mindanao, and the southern extremity of Palawan. Their capital is Sulu. As for their number, the estimate in the Nouveau Dictiounaire j tie Geograpraphie Universelle, bv M. Vivien de Saint-Martin, is 200,000 to •500,000. ■ ~JI. The islands of the central group are inhabited chiefly by Visayans (Roman Catholic Malays). Of the Visayans proper there are about 2,- C 00,000; but if we include the cognate tribes scattered from Northeastern Mindanao to Mindoro and the Calami anes Islands, the total number is prob ably much greater. 3. The Tagals, Tagalogs, or Tagalos (Roman Catholic Malays), from whom Aguinaldo has drawn the larger part ~T 1 AN ETHNOGRAPHIC MAP OP j TIIE PIIIIrfIPPIXE ISLANDS : > , 112 SHOWING THE Of m l'sjT CkaMil) [ PUI.ICITAL JIATITE TUBES ' i •CAI I Of MlLf* '' © j •a M too 1» J® so w» . / j'% ioj VI 'r.>o» $f MAMJUOS WILCOXftm U« a* «w*i t§ 1 p. 9. Imtai, Dm* C »'«r«K«r, A Xajb— »l Trib— »r» letter*! Um. QadStum- " "*'•* ° I i ' 5 i! 1 # ** < l . V.. 7*2 „ n T* —~ fry ' m { *ZZy W w yVniuow ifuao , O ww^Q 0 j 1 /■>*{ JU -*«-v J! Ik splp sra: i vt* n / ' clii „,ss> •* /.' V s jW 'j IOKNIO- ~•»*' 1 » » •* FCEIEBtS j » w|l«i<f hiihi "| y of bin forces, inhabit centra! Luzon. Their number is uncertain, though for the present we may accept Saint-Mar tin's estimate—l,2oo,ooo. 4. Tribes of Malays, which are numerically of less importance, are not always clearly distinguished from Tagalogs and Visayans—e. g., the Ilo cauo3, Pampangos, and Zambales of Northern and Western Luzon, the Bicois (or Vicols) in the extreme south east of Luzon aud in adjacent islands, the Suhanos of Southern Cebu, etc. 5. Non-Malayan savages, remnants of an earlier popo'ation which was dis placed by the Malays, are widely scat tered, and the common name "Indo liesiens" is given to these tribes by the writers, who regard tlyem as repre sentatives of a race which the Malays drove iuto the mountains, somewhat Prince Hilkoff arranges his thirty three-day itinerary. In calculating this run Prince Hil koff estimates speed on the Siberian railway at the very modest rate of but forty-eight kilometers, or thirty miles, per hour. Faster communication both by sea and land will doubtless soon reduce the minimum time to thirty days. rnESENT TIME TABLE. Days. New York to Southampton <> Southampton to Brlndisi 3% Briadisi to Yokohama by Suez Canal..42 Yokohama to San Francisco 10 San Francisco to New York Total 66 as Saxon displaced Celt in the British Isles. That famous band of the Igor rotes who trusted to charms and bows and arrows in the battle of February 5 were of this class. The accompany ing map shows the names of a dozen different tribes in Northern Luzon alone, with others in Central Minda nao, Northern Panay, and Negros, etc. Little reliance can be placed upon the estimates of the total number of "In douesiens" who have never consented to stand and be counted. As an ap proximation, some of the authoritives have suggested 300,000 or 400,000. 6. Of the aborigines called Negritos (little Blacks), or Aetas, only 10,000 or 20,000 remain. They are "as near an approach to primitive man as can any where be found,"says Professor Brin ton; audtlieyareso far inferior in phy sique and intelligence to the civilized or semi-civilized Malay or "Indoue sieu" that they seem destined to dis appear altogether before lone." 7. At or near the principal ports are about 100,000 Chinese, and per haps 15,000 whites —not including General Otis's army. The present distribution of the na tive tribes has evidently been occa sioned by successive waves of inva sion. The aboriginal Aetis (Negritos) as a less vigorous branch of the human family, were unable to resist attacks from restless and progressive neigh bors. The first people from the main land to appear as conquerors on a large scale may have been the so-called Indonesians; but these in turn were displaced, in the more desirable por tions of the archipelago, by hordes of Asiatics coming from the Malay Pen insula by way of Borneo—the first incursion being led by Tagals, and the second by Visayans. The third and last wave of Malay invasion cul minated about the middle of the six teenth century, not far from the time when the Spaniards arrived upon the scene and established themselves in the Visayas and Luzon. The editor of the Dictionnaire de Geographic Universelle estimates the total population of the archipelago at about 9,000,000, but fails to give con vincing reasons for this opinion. In view of the statements which have been repeated day after day for the last ten months, that the Philippines support a population of 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 persons, it may not seem that our question is too pointed if we ask. How is this information derived? A little scrutiny of figures given in the foregoing paragraphs will show that perhaps 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 have been accounted for. Within a limit ed area, conditions which allow half a million of people to live by hunting are not usually such as to allow 8,- 000,000 or 9,000,000 more to live by agiiculture and commerce. Why, then, does it seem probable that the population of the Philippines is so dense? How has it been possible to GENERAL MASCARDO. (He is the Philippine insargent leader who has most influence with the savage tribes of the island.) secure trustworthy information on this head?—Marrion Wilcox, in Harper's Weekly. An American Girl's Romance. The news that the Viscountess Deer hurst has just given birth to a son and heir recalls her strange but romantic history. As is knowu, the young Viscountess occupies an enviable posi tion in English society. She has been twice received by Queen Victoria, and she has won many friends by hei charming personality. She was first known to English society as Miss Virginia Bonyuge, the daughter of C. W. Bonynge, a California millionaire. Virginia Bonynge became the inti mate friend of Princess Christian, and was patronized by all of the royal social leaders. Shortly after her presentation she became eugaged to au English nobleman, aud after all the arrangements had been made for the weddiug it became known that she was not the daughter of Mr. Bonynge, but the daughter of a California miner who committed murder, by name William Daniel. William Daniel was au English gardener who married a housemaid and emigrated to America. The Daniels journeyed from the East to Illinois, where they began farming on a quarter section of laud, ami it was during their sojourn in this State that Virginia was born. When a mere babe her parents started for the Rockies. While in a mining camp on the Pacific slope Daniel quarreled with a num ber of reckless men and killed his man. He was tried aud convicted aud sentenced to life imprisonment. Soon after Bonynge, also a miner, met Mrs. Daniel and persuaded her to get a divorce from Dauiel. which she did, and married him. Thereafter Virginia became known as Virginia Bonyuge. The Bonynges prospered aud became rich, and eventually went to London to live. When the facts of Miss Bon ynge's antecedents were made known to the prospective bridegroom the en gagement was broken off by the scion of the noble British house. The Princess Christian, however, re mained the iair heiress's friend, and she challenged her right of eutre into VISCOUNTESS DEERHURST. the most aristocratic British society. The chances are that Virginia Bou ynge cared little for her first noble love, for she soon forgot him and mar ried the Viscount Deerhurst, who loved her in spite of the fact that .she wan the danghter of a miner and a convict. Bridgeport, Ohio, has issued bonds for $70,000, with vhich to pave every street in town. 0000030000000ooooooooococo § tyost Wonderful § 1 of Gas Wells. I O n S INDIANA'S "OLD VESUVIUS." § O G OOOOOOOOQOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO "Old Vesuvius," at Anderson, Ind., is no more. The greatest and most remarkable gas well of them all was packed a few weeks ago and from a thing of splendor, attracting sight- I seers from almost every State in the : Union—drawing the American Asso j ciation of Scientists all the way from j Boston in a special train—it has suuk I to the level of a common, every-day, deep-water well. It was an expensive I thing of beauty. Figuring ou a basis of coal at ordinary market prices, it is estimated that $2,300,000 worth of natural gas was wasted every year that old Vesuvius might rule as one of the greatest gas wells of history. The Indiana natural gas fields were opened iu 1830, aud Vesuvius was brought into activity in the following year. The discovery of the ludiaua deposit was due to the grandeur of the Korg well at Fiudlay. Ohio, which up to the time ot the discovery of Ves uvius, was the greatest of them all. So wonderful were the illuminations from the old Korg well that excur sions were run to thrt point from every section of the central States, while many went even a greater dis tance to witness the display. It was this, iu fact, that started the great natural gas fever which spread all over the couutrv between 1831 and 1888. Among the excursionists from In diana were a d:>zen or more from a hamlet called Eaton. Eaton, then as now, was only a speck ou the map, while many maps did not even give it recognition. Twenty years previous to this a party of Fort Wayne capital ists had drilled at Eaton in search of coal. After getting down 000 feet, they were compelled to abandon the driller because of opening a deposit of "most maladoious vapor." They gave up their search for the coal vein and iu order to shut off the "stink" they drove a long wooden plug iuto the opening. Then the woll was forgot ten. The excursionists from Eaton who went to Fiudlay to witness the great Korg well display, notice the peculiar odor of the escaping gas. It struck them that there was some similarity between that peculiar sm?ll and the smell which they had found around the old well, twenty years before. AT T< "OLD VESCVIPS" IN ERUPTION. They returned, home, out down the brambles from around the old hole, pulled out the plug and found that the smell was the same. They applied a match. It burned and from that three-foot blaze which leaped from the old stand-pipe came Indiana's greatest wealth. It was in the following spring that Old Vesuvius came iuto being. The j drill was sent down under the city of j Anderson and the roar announcing the I opening of a well that, took all before ; it awoke the city early one morning, i The pressure from this new well was i astounding. The roar of the escaping | gas could be heard several miles and t when put on full force and lighted the pressure was so great that it would i blow out the flame. For this reason , and because of the deafening, roar it i became necessary to pipe it to White ! River, running the pipes to the ceuter ! and the deepest portion of the stream, so that the gas might be disseminated and the pressure broken. When the gas was turned on the water would be gin to boil and as the pressure was in creased it leaped iuto the air, a white, seething foam, surging aud plunging until a geyser was formed, reaching to a height of twenty-five feet. Then when a burning newspaper was floated down the current and came within twenty feet of the place there was a flash and the groat fountain of sectu iug foam became fire, leaping far above the surrounding trees aud spreading out until it wits thirty feet across. Like a great caudle it lighted the sur rounding country. An eighth of a mile distant it WAS possible to read s newspaper on a dark r.ight, while the roar of the wule.* and flames sounded like that from N'ia.»*ru. It wnsasigot to justify the pilgrimage which many trainloads of people made from dis tant States. The population of Jerusalem has been rapidly increasing- of late, and is now about 45,000* of these, 28,000 are Jews y.A!4.A\.AAAA A. A. A. A. A A [FOR FARM AND GARDEN.] Teaching Calve* to Lend. jit is often a great inconvenience when it is found that a grown cow caunot be led, bnt must b« driven. The accomplishment is one that should always be acquired in calfhood and once learned it will never be for gotten. If there is any pulling back while the calf is being taught its first lesson, some one behind to urge it forward will be needed, and may be a turn of the rope around the animal's nose, so as to make a halter of it, will be advisable to prevent the calf break ing away from the leader. A hole bored through the nose aud a ring in serted will make the teaching of the calf to be led still easier. The ring in the nose is often a great convenience as the animal grows older. Growins Watercress for Market. A good deal of mouey may b<s se cured from many small streams where watercress either grows naturally or could be made to do so by judicious soediug and planting. The cress seeds abundantly after its season of growth is over, and whoa a stream is once stocked with it the growth of the plant is apt to increase. In some places gardeners have made artificial beds which they have planted with the cress, running from the stream into little coves which can be easily kept under water. The first cress of the season brings fancy prices at the largo hotels and restaurants. The cress has a sprightly spicy tasto that is almost universally liked, audit is believed by many that it has medicinal I virtues that give it especial value as a tonio to the stomach when it first make 3 its appearance. Tltfl Value of the Separator. A. X. Hyatt tells in the Indiana Farmer his opinion of the separator after using one five years. He bought it that ho might be able to feed better the twenty calves a year that he de sired to raise, aud he says: "The separator gave us at least two pounds more butter a day than wo could got by deep setting. We got from luree to five pounds more butter a day by running it through the sep arator fit home warm than we were credits i with for the same milk at the creamery. Two hundred pounds of mill: fresh from the cow and warm from the separator seemed to make more gain with young pigs and calves than double tho pounds as we got it from the creamory. Microbes and flies aud rinsings do not seem to set well ou the stomachs of young stock. The separator would save us a trip every morning to the creamery, and often an hour or two waiting for our milk. It would save our aerating and cooling our night's milk. It would save three or four cents for making our milk into butter, and we could get three or four raoro cents for our but ter if we made it than Elgin prices, or from the factory." That is strong testimony from a prac tical dairyman, and he adds that the first year he raised thirty-six calves instead of his usual twenty, and the extra sixteen could have been sold for enough to pay for the separator.— American Cultivator. Well Bred Bfes. The apiarist is usually a very care ful breeder of bees. He rears queens only from choice stocks, those that have the qualities he wishes to more fully develop, and thus produces a strain of bees much ahead of the or dinary. All breeding iu this line ceutres iu the queen. If a colony of bees do not come up to standard re quirements the queen suffers the peu altv, aud when she is dispatched au entire change of stock takes place, providing a new queen is introduced in her place. Great is the difference in colonies of bees or bees produced by difl'ereut queens. This is true not only of different races of bees, but colonies of the same race or variety. Since the introduction of the Italian bees iuto this country, color has be come an important factor in breeding, as by color only can we designate the Italian bee from any other at first sight. Color of itself is not the only difference, however, for the character istics of the Italian bees are quite dif ferent from the native bees. It is geuerally conceded that tho Italian bees have mgre desirable qualities than any other race) Slid the exjSert breeder adopts this race as a founida tion to breed upon and thus improves iyi the Tyie qualities he wishes fo attain. _ f-' 1 Mauy*goo<S points may be obtained to considerable degree in careful breeding, namely, energy, prohfic ness, gentleness, non-a^rrirmiug, en durance, color, etc. Soma colonies of bees are more energetic thau others, and tho result is they store a larger surplus of honey than others when the conditions aro the same. Some queens and strains of quoeus aro more prolific than others, and fill their hives with brood aud bees rapidly aud early, and aro iu the field with more laborers when the houoy season opens and naturally storo moro honey. The gentle bees allow themselves to be handled aud manipulated iu the hi>*e without resistance, and a much better job of work can bo dono with them. Tho non-swarmers continue to store honey as loug as they have a place to store it, aud do not lose any time swarming or attempting to swarm if tho apiarut does his part.—Farm, Field aud Fireside. Cultivating: Asparagaa. A moderately ligl-.i soil is prefer able for tho culture of aspaiagus, but any good garden sjil will answer. Put ou all tho well-rotted manure you can plow under; and work the aoii fine to a depth of eight or tan inches. If the soil is well prepared on the start it will require less work to keep it good condition. Plants one or two years old should be used, never those taken from an old bed. Set the plants 18 inches npart in the row, and the rows three feet apart. This uaay seem like considerable room, but it will be found sufficiently close, for the roots will entirely fill the soil in a few yeirs. Make the holes large, so that tl» roots can be spread out in their natural position. Set the plants so that the crowns will be from five to eight inch es below the surface, according to the character of the soil. The heavier the soil the less covering they should have. Cover only a few inches deep at first, firming the soil well about the roots, and allowing the remainder to be worked in by the aubse iuent cul tivation. Give thorough cultivation during the growing season, and in the fall cut the tops and burn them on the ground to destroy the seed, which, if allowed to grow, will make a mess of young plants—the worst kind of weed in an asparagus bed. The following spring put on a good coating of lino manure and spade it in with a spading fork as early as the ground will work well. In spading, care should be taken not to injure the crowns of the plants. This treatment should be repeated each succeeding year. If the plants have made a good, strong growth the first season, the.v may be cut a few times the following spring, but it is better to let them grow two years be fore cutting, that they may become well established and have a good, strong root system. In cutting, use a sharp knife and sever the stalk a couple of inches below the surface of the soil. Always cut everything clean, even though it is not fit for use, be cause when a few stalks are allowed to grow up, the plant will cease to throw out uew shoots. For the first few years the bed should not be cut for more than three or four weeks, but after the plants have become strong and the crowns lurge, the cutting may be continued until the middle or last of .Tune with out injury. Then a'low the tops to grow and assimilate food to be stored up iu the roots for the succeeding crops. Fifty or 100 plants, if well cared for, will after three years' growth produce all the asparagus an ordinary family can use. It comes early in the season, when everyone is hungry for something green. It is very easily prepared. The stalks are in the best conditiou for use when they are from three to five inches high. When they get too old they become tough aud woody. They will be tender when cooked if they will snap readily when bent. —American Agriculturist. Fragrant Flowering; Plant*. Some flower lovers c.ire ouly for dainty colors in flowers, while others I find pleasure oaly in the fragrant sort. In many flowers dainty coloring and delightful fragrance are combiued. rtoiue of our most showy flowers pos sess no fragrance—such as the hibi scus, hydrangea, dahlia and'gladiolus —while some of tlie tiniest flowers emit the delightful fragrance. All of the spring flowering bulbs and most of the lilies are very fra grant, but whan we think of fragrant flowering pot plants,they are not very numerous. Of all our fragrant flower ing pot plants there is nothiug more universally popular than the helio trope, with its dainty blue, purple and white flowers and delightful perfume. Where one can eare for them over winter, they will live for years and ! grow into large plants. I find the best treatment for plants that have baen bedded out over sum mer is to cut back all the branches to within a few inches of the ground; they then branch more freely aud give a greater abundance of bloom during the second summer. . Heliotrope is valuable either for pot culture or for beddiug out iu summer. When bedded out and given rich soil, sun shiue aud plenty of moisture, small plants will grow into large specimens by the end of summer, and attain the height of about three feet. Although all heliotropes are fragrant, the flow ers of some sorts are larger aud much more fragrant than others. The carnation is one of the well knowu,fragrairt flowering plants which combines both beauty and fragrance, and is so free flowering and easily grown that almost anyone can succeed with it. There are litany excellent' varieties catalougect and new sorts are being added each year. The rnost im odor."' Here wt find Uli the sfiides foKnd in other flower except blue. We* find thcg; A'Wu tTie crim sou To tlje sea shell pinks. Then there Bro some few whites, as white as sa'i'r; most whites are slightly tinged wiftk color. There are some clear yellows, but most of the yellows are penciled and blotched with other color, usually red. Then there are jasmine, the swest ost of all flowers, the bouvardias, with jasmine-like fragrance, And the tall oleanders, with vani!l»-like fragrance. Some of our annuals are very sweet ly scented. A few of the verbenas are very fragrant, but not all. A vaso filled with flowers of the phlox drum* moudi will perfume a whole room with a very agreeable odor. Nasturtiums, with their distinct spicy odor, have lost none of their popularity,although they are'old fashioned plants. Late of A summer evening a bed of single petuuias will perfume the air with a very pleasant fragrance. The pansy, sweet-alyssum and candytuft all possess some fragrance, nlthough it is not very distiuet iu the first two. Oeraniui »s must not be forgotten, aor violets, disputiug for the crown with the rose.— Laura Jones in the EpitomisL
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