% i to the young man, ask her to lot me off this time. 3 won't care.’ . mast drink your tea. ‘tle is nearly at the boil. . dame whoo syes shone Wee stars-snd | My dears, when I was young like you-= ©, days that long ago took wing!— Ihad your wit, your sweetness, too, And loved, like you, the spring. Fondly do I remember still How dear to me were fields and flowers; "How dear the hearts in lighter hours _ Made captive in the gay quadrille: + A merry childlike you, my dears, “And such was] at fifteen years. Later, my heart, less wild and gay, To one devout espousal moved; And wedded joys, how sweet are they, “To love and to be loved! But sometimes pensive and apart, I prayed in secret sighs to heaven, That some dear angel might be given To stir in me a mother’s heart; ‘Wife and fond mother, too, my dears, And such was I at thirty years, O later! Onward still and on Time flies, like an advancing wave, + And summer, autumn, both are gone, ‘With all the joys they gave! Vet, while we droop with age and pain, The heart that to our babes we give In their sweet innocence may live, And with their babes te young again; And such I am at lengtb, my dears, With my full span of eighty years. ~George Cotterell, in the Argosy. HIS MOTHER. BY AMY RANDOLPH, . HE cold-gray shadows of 8 the wintry ¥a twilight had enveloped tree and meadow and sluggish torest streams in their uncer- tain mist, the factory. chim- neys flung their fiery banners of smoke against the leaden sky, a basso relievo that would have made Rembrandt himself rejoice, and the hum of never-ceasing machinery in the little town rose above the rush of the river, like the buzz of a gigantic insect. Charles Emery, the day foreman in the rolling mills, was just retiring to his home, having been relieved by John Elter, the night official, and as he walked along, his feet sounding crisply on the hard-frozen earth, he whistled softly to himself, as light-hearted as a bird. ‘You're going with us to-night, Charley?” cried a gay voice, and two or three young men came by, *‘Do you mean—!”’ ‘I mean to the opera!” : For upon that especial evening there was to be an opera in the little town of Crystalton, a genuine New York com-. pany with a chorus, a full orchestra and all the paraphernalia of scenery and cos- | tume which provincial residents so sel- dom enjoy, and the younger population were onthe gui vive of delighted expec- tation. “I am going,” said Mr, Emery, slow- ly; ‘‘but not with you!” *‘But you will change your mind, though,” said Harrison Vail, ‘‘when you hear that Kate Marcy is to be of the party. Kate Marcy and the Miss Hal- lowells and Fanny Hewitt. There are eight of us going. We've kept a seat on purpose for you!” “I have engaged myself to another lady,” Emery replied, after a second or 80 of hesitation. Vail laughed. Well, I'm sorry fcrit,” said he, ‘but Miss Marcy is not a girl who need pine for a cavalier. We'll keep the seat for you until a quarter of eight, in case you should see fit to change your mind. Only let me give you a word of warning, old “fellow! Kate Marcy is a high spirited girl—it won't do to trifle t00 1 much with her!” + Charles Emery went on his way rather graver and more self absorbed. He had asked his mother, the day before, to go to see ‘‘The Mascot,” and his mother’s eyes had- brightened with genuine de- light. «$¢Your father often used to take me, Charley,” she said, ‘‘when we were young people and lived in New York. But it’s twenty years and more since I have been to an opera. = And if you're quite sure, dear, that there is. no young girl whom you would rather take—" whose cheeks rivaled the September “Going with some one else!” said Kate Marcy, rather surprised and not exactly pleased. She was a tall, beautiful maiden, the belle of Crystalton, and rather an heiress in her own right, with all the rest. She certainly liked Charles Emery, and she rather surmised that he liked her also. And when she had been studying up her toilet for the opera, she had selected a ‘| blue dress, with blue corn-flowers for her hair and ornaments of turquois, be- cause she kad once heard Mr. Emery say that blue was his favorite color. ‘‘Going with some one else?’ she re- peated. ‘Well, of course he has a right to suit himself.” And she kept within her own soul the fevered fire of girlish resentment, the gnawing pangs of jealousy that disturbed her all the while that she was sitting waiting for the great green curtain to be drawn up. Until, of a sudden, there was a slight bustle on the row of seats beyond, and Mr. Emery entered with his mother. And then Kate's overgloomed face grew bright again. She drew a long breath of relief and turned to the stage; it was as if the myriad gas-lights had all of a sudden been turned up; as it all the mimic world of the opera house had grown radiant. i GOING HOME FROM THE OPERA. Never was voice sweeter in her ears than the somewhat thin and exhausted warble of Mademoiselle Rosalie de Vigue, the prima-donna; never did scenery glow with such natural tints or footlights shine more softly. Kate Marcy declared that the opera was ‘‘per- fection!” ¢Yes, but,” said pert little Nina Cum- mings, ‘‘do look at Chariey Emery, with that little old woman! Why couldn’t he'have come to sit with us!” Kate bit her lip. In the crowd now surging out of the aisles of the little opera house she could scarcely venture to express her entire opinion; but she said, in'a low, earnest tone: +I don’t know what you think of it, Nina, but I, for my part, respect Mr, Emery a thousand times more for his po- liteness to his mother.” And, almost at the same second, she found herself looking directly into Charles Emery’s eyes. For a moment only. The crowd sep- arated them,almost ere they could recog- nize one another; but Kate felt sure— and her cheek glowed vivid scarlet at the certainty—that he had heard her werds. ¢Charley,” said little Mrs. Emery, looking into her son's face, as they ‘emerged into the vail of softly falling snow, which seemed to enwrap the whole outer world in dim, dazzling mys- tery, ‘‘who was that girl?" “What girl, mother?” pardonable hypocrisy. «The one, Charley, with the big blue eyes, and the sweet face wrapped in a white, fleecy sort of hood—+the cne who said she respected you?” «It was Kate Marcy, mother.” ‘She has a face like an angel,” said Mrs. Emery, softly. The next day the foreman of the rol- ling-mills went boldly to the old Marcy homestead, whose red-brick gables, sheeted over with ivy, rose up out of the leafless elms and beeches, just beyond the noise and stir of busy Crystalton. with a little 4 *As if any young girl in the world ! could be to me what my own darling ; little mother is!” replied Emery, smiling | across the table to her. “Then I snall be so delighted to go,” said Mrs. Emery. And her voice and eyes bore happy witness to the truth of her words. But now that a regular party had been orgavized, and Kate Marcy had promised t0 ; join it, things looked very diffrently For a moment he almost regretted that he had engaged himself to take his mother. : _4¥She would be as well pleased with : any concert,” he eaid to himself, ‘‘and I should have the opportunity of sitting all the evening next to Kate Marcy, I'll She ‘But when he went into the little sit- ~ ting room of their humble domain, and saw his mother, with her silver gray- hair rolled into puffs on either side of her almost unwrinkled brow, her best black silk donned, and the one opal brooch which she owned pinned into the white lace folds at her bosom, his heart misgave him. 4] have beer trimming my bonnet over with some violet velvet flowers,” said she, smiling, *‘so as to do you no . discredit, Charley; and I have a new pair of violet kid gloves. And now you I’ve made some of ur favorite cream biscuit, and the ket- Oh, Charley, you'll laugh at me, I’m afraid, "but I feel exactly like a little girl going to her | first children’s party. It’s so seldom, you kriow, that a bit of pleasure comes in my way.” | And then Charles Emery made up his mind that his mother was more to him, ‘her helpless old age and sweet, affec- epende ace, thar blc CHARLES EMERY AND KATE MARCY. ¢¢Miss Marcy,” he declared, ‘‘without intending to be an eavesdropper, I heard what you said last night.” “It was not intended for your ears, Mr. Emery,” said Kate, coloring a soft, rosy pink. “Bug,” he pursued, looking her full in the face, “I cannot be satisfied with mere cold respect, Miss Marcy. I want a warmer, tenderer feeling toward my- self. If you could teach yourself tolove me—"" The dimples came out around Kate Marcy's coral-red lips, wreathing her smile in wondrous beauty. i “The lesson Js. already learned, Mr. ve ov pho a And the foreman: oe Chong went home, envying neither king nor prince that day. “But I never should have. loved you so dearly.” his young wife ' told him af- terward, ‘if you hadn’t been so good to that dear little mother of yours. In my eyes you never looked half so handsome as when you stood bending over her gray head in the crowded hall of the opera- house that night.” ‘You see,” said Emery, laughing at her enthusiasm, *‘I agreed with the hero of the old Scotch ballad: 7%: + Sweethearts I may get many a one, But of mithers ne'er another. 27 "he Ledger. ee eee Intestate. Facts About Expressing Money. Some interesting facts were recently money in the United States. Ths amount so conveyed 'is estimated to be $2,500,000,000 a year, of which four- fifths are carried for the Government. The Adams Express Company formerly acted as 1ts agent, chargicg twenty-five cents for each $1000, but recently the contract was awarded to the United States Express Company, which. offered to do the work for fifteen cents per $1000. The packages of money are 1n. trusted to 5000 messengers, who'are for the most part middle-aged ‘men selected from the working force in the main offices. ~The messenger has not the slightest idea of what his packages con- tain, so that he understands his respon- sibility is always the same. Before ac. cepting a package for shipment he sees that 1t is securely fastened with wax and For Government moneys he is provided with a safe. Packages for corporations and individuals are put into canvas bags. As soon as his run of twelve hours be. gins, the messenger stations himself near his charge, and he must not allow his eyes to close, at the risk of dismissal from the service. So dangerous, indeed, are a messenger’s duties considered, that insurance companies will not issue poli- cies to him except at a cost that is almost prohibitive. But the express companies if the latter are injured while on duty’ assistance. Recently, as large a sum a3 $12,000,000 was sent out by express from the Treasury at Washington, and five messengers were assigned to take care of it in transit. At the end of his run the messenger invariably takes a re. ceipt to protect himself. In spite of the great responsibility he is under the mes- senger’s pay does not exceed $100 a month. To frustrate the designs of thieves, the companies often change the run of messengers, and make it a rule te instruct their men to accept no convivial invitations, even of the most innocent nature, before going on duty.—New Yor! Post. Yaluable Violins. ¢“What is the highest priced violin?” a Chicago Post man asked of Mr. Free: men, a practical violin maker. ¢¢ ‘Tie Messie Strad,” or, in more finished language, ‘the Messiah'of Strad- ivarius. It was sold for $10,000 cash. It 1s a magnificent violin. Itis perfectly preserved and hence it is very valuable. Its tone is most beautiful. It is the Stradivarius.” Mr. Freeman is now figuring with a gentlemen to buy a famous viola, the finest viola by Stradivarius in exis- tence. Its known as the Ducal viola, for the reason that it was owned by the Duke of Edinburg. The cost is $6000. * What makes the value of a fine vio- lin?’ “*A. good. deal of the value of a high. priced instrument is largely fictitious. An old violin is like the painting by an old master, It is so valuable because the violins are so scarce. The intrinsiq value is very small. I presume that the actual cost for wood and labor will nof exceed $75, but the art in making the violin brings up the price of the article, Stradivarius. lived to be ninety-three years of age and became one of the wealthiest men in his city.” violins?” ‘Age and use impart a fine tone to an old violin, It cannot be roughly handled or exposed, ncr can it be broken and mended and retain its tone, That idea was long ago exploded. It must bs cared for like a delicate infant.” ———— I eeer—— Books for the Sailors. A practical-minded and misinformed citizen of the Republic was heard to ex- press an opinion noi long ago that, in- stead of clocks, bronze warriors, and services of solid silver, gifts of libraries to our naval vessels would be of more solid benefit to the recipients. Libraries, of course, are very useful in comparison with some other gifts that are bestowed upon naval vessels by their namesake cities, but those furnished each ship by the Bureau of Equipment are complete and excellent. The books are issued for the use of all attached to the vessel and the list is a long and varied one. For those in search of gen- eral information, British and American encyclopedias are furnished. For those interested in astronomy and meteorology, various works on that science are pro- vided. The young Farraguts can find food for reflection in the various works on navigation, seamanship, and naval and military history. Numerous works on hydrography, geography, natural history, chemistry, naval construction, ordnance, and so on, are available for all seeking information in those directions. For lighter reading there are travels and explorations, biographies, memoirs and a number of others which are not on the regular allowance list, but which are issued on special requisition. There are, all told, about 800 volumes supplied to Times. = ee Seema South Carolina produced more than one-third of the entire amount of phos- phate rock mined in the world last your, the output being 600,000 tons. gleaned about the business of expressing stamped with the seal of the sender. treat their employes so generously that they may confidently count. on financial finest violin ever made by the hand of *¢ What makes the beauty in a those old each vessel in commission. — New York * A snail has 30,000 teeth, Spiders usually live two .or tare years. A coal black deer was recently. seen by a party of hunters in the woods’ of Maine. - White deer, which was once e extremely rare, are now said to be plentiful in east- ern Maine.’ A prominent Indianapolis (Ind.) busi- sess man has two, cats that are better tetrievers than most dogs. Each year about $50,000 is expended m sprinkling the asphalt- paved streets of London, England, with sand to prevent {he horses from slipping. A valuable find of skeletons belonging to the fourth dynasty was ‘recently made n Egypt. This is the earliest; known ate of Egyptian rémains. Chess was played by the Chinese 170 years before the Christian era,and proba- oly long before that, for the ancient Persians are supposed to have known it. The Hindoos have a cocoanut festival svery year at the end ‘of the monsoon. During the festival athletic contests take place and wandering minstrels recite their :ales and poems. Zsop’s fables were not written by their author. They were related and handed down until the fourteenth cen- tury, when they were collected and pub- ished by a monk. | A cribo snake is one of the interesting sets at the Central Park (New York), nenagerie. . It has a taste for devouring ather snakes and it is feared by them all, sven the poisonous. Acorns are prized as an article ‘of ‘diet mong some tribes of Indians. They dre pounded into meal,’ which is mixed with water and kneaded into dough for baking in the style of hoecake. An enormous crab of the Malay Islands lives upon the fruit of the coconut.which it secures by climbing the tree. It breaks the nuts either by hauling them down or by beating against the rocks. On the old Boston and. New Haven turnpike, in the southern part of New London County, Conn., isan old mile- stone, notched and mossgrown, that was set there by Benjamin Franklin. A number of the mining companies operating in the Black Hilis; South Da- kota, have adopted a system of aggrega- ting their shipment of ore, and sending to the smelting works in Illinois -a long train of loaded cars of ore drawn by two locomotives, and each car decorated and marked with the hme of the mine from which it came. The first iron mined in this country is generally - supposed to have been in Saugus, Mass., about 1643. Iron ore and smelted iron have just been found in North Beverly. This puzzles the ‘oldest inhabitant,” as no person living ever knew that iron existed there. The smelting must have been done at an early date, very possibly before 1643 as there were settlements there as early as 1640. The female wasp spends the winter in a torpid condition, and when spring arrives she hunts up some sort of shel. tered spot appropriate for a nest. Having selected the retreat, she proceeds to lay within the formation of a home. For this object earth will not serve her turn. The substance of which the walls and chambers of the house are to be composed must be none other than the finest paper, made of wood pulp, mixed with a sort of sizing, worked to a paste and finely spread into sheets. A Congressman’s Romance. The war furnished a crop of romances that never seems to be all harvested. Congressman Oates, of Alabama, with his fifty-six years and only one arm, has a romantic story that surrounds the loss of the other arm. During the war he served in the Confederate army, and iit was before Richmond that he received the wounds that necessitated the ampu- tation of the right arm. At this time it was that Oates was. obliged to lay off on sick leave while he reco¥ered from his injuries, He was received into the house of a Southern family and nursed by the eldest daughter, During the. fever she attended him, and when he pulled through Oates felt that his life had not only been saved by her, but his future happiness was in her hands. The young officer told his story; but the young nurse did not favor his suit, whether because she thought it was pressed simply from gratitude or wheth- er she did not return his affection is not told, Oates was still too weak to re- turn to his command, and, between fret- ting over his rejected suit and at the de- lay in his return to the front, wasina most unhappy mood. .One day when more despondent than ever she mother looked up and said: = “Never mind, Captain, you just wait for so-and-so,” pointing to the baby in the cradle she was rocking. ‘You can have her by and by.” The Captain laughed. The baby be- gan to grow to girlhood and Oates was interested in all she did. When she be-! came of marriageable age he reminded her mother of her old promise made over the baby’s cradle. There was no oppo- sition to the match and the couple are unusually happy. This accounts for the difference in age, at which many people have wondered. Mrs. Oates is a pretty woman with Southern grace and hos- pitality and devoted to her husband,—= New York Sun. : —— a at Yarious Names for Corn Bread. Corn bread has various names in dif- ferent localities. The goneral name of the article is Indian bread. In Deiaware griddle cakes made of Indian meal are called corn cakes. In Maryland they are called cookies. Pone is the name for Indian bread an inch or more in thick- ness and baked fo a crisp crust top and bottom. In parts of New England corn meal, baked into a thick crisp cake, is called Indian bannock. The Puritans, it is supposed, learned the art of making ‘that bread from the Bannock odisut. Boston 1 wndarigh; > HOW THEY ARE PROMOTED BY THE M'KINLEY TARIFF—HARD FACTS FOR FREE TRADERS TO ANSWER. Free-trade journals are declaring that the McKinley tariff is a failure, and al- lege as a proof thereof that the amount of duties collected under the tariff act has not decreased as was predicted. The conclusion is deduced from ‘ this that thé statute has not succeeded in its purpose of promoting American industries in competition with’ foreign. The real reason for the apparent increase of duties is not that the McKinley act offers bet- ter opportunities to foreign manufactur- ers, but that valuations are higher under the Administrative Customs law. Mr. Wilbur F. Wakeman, Secretary of theAmericanProtective Tariff League, was asked his opinion as to the effects of the recent tariff act by a New York Recorder representative. He said: VALUATION FIFTEEN PER CENT. HIGHER. ‘‘In the first place, the position taken by the Recorder regarding the proper qualifications of imported goods is ex- actly in line with what was “anticipated by the passage of the Administrative law. TItis difficult to say what percent- age of increased valuation this law has produced, but it is safe to say that the valuation of imported gouds is 15 to 20 per cent. higher than before the Administra- tive law was passed. It is unfortunate that the gegulations of the State and Treasury Departments prescribe that the contents of invoices filed by foreign man- ufacturers with our consuls abroad are in all cases to be regarded as confidential. Under these. regulations ‘no one but a duly authorized officer must be permit. ted to have access to the consular re- ports.’ It is a. fact that invoices filed by for- eign manufacturers are in the majority. of cases under the actual cost of . produc: tion. In many instances goods are in- voiced at such low prices that the duties under the McKinley bill have littlevef- fect to, prevent injurious competition with the home productions. WHY IMPORTATIONS ARE HEAVIER. ‘‘How about this apparent increase in ‘importations?” asked the reporter. ‘This is due almost exclusively to the Administrative law and not to the Mec: Kinley bill. 'Our importations are neces- sarily larger because of the large inoréase made in the free list ‘by the “McKinley tariff. The duties collected are now showing a falling off," owing’ to’ home production of “articles which heretofore have been furnished -by foreign’ manu- facturers, Take the ‘manufacture’ of plushes, for example. ' The Superintend- ent of the new works at ‘Bridgeport, Conn, tells me that with a duty five per cent. less’ than under the McKinley tariff ‘the new works could not be operated. In: this line there is a' large falling off of importations. ‘“Pake the cutlery trade from fhe Sheffield district; which has now nearly reached a normal ‘condition since the large influx of manufactured goods just prior to the operation of the McKinley tariff. These importations have been cut down nearly one-half and our Ameri- can factories are furnishing the goods at lower rates than existed before the enact- ‘went of the new tariff. THE PEARL BUTTON INDUSTRY. ‘Again, take the pearl button indus- try. If I am correctly informed we now have between fifty-five and sixty facto- ries in this country. In this line of goods, taken as a whole, the price has slightly increased, owing to the fact that in the McKinley law the manufacture of prison- made goods is prohibited. A large por- tion of the pearl buttons imported into this couatry were manufactured in. Aus- trian prisons. The large pearl buttons which are used upon ladies’, dress goods bave decreased in price since the opera tion of the McKinley tariff from about $40 to less than $28 a gross. These are made right here in New York City, form- erly they were made in Austria. Upon this point observe this notice of a con. cert to be given at Birmingham, Eng- land, on Tuesday, April 28, 1891, which says ‘The proceeds will be devoted to the relief of the Operative Pearl Workers’ Scciety, who are ‘suffering from the ef- fects of the McKinley bill upon the but- ton trade. -Admission sixpence.” TRUTH ABOUT TIN PLATE. “How about, tin plate?” “I notice that the free-trade papers are not saying much just now about the manufacture of iin plate in this country. I wish that they would keep up. their barangues upon. this subject, for when all the works now building are in operation they will appreciate their mistake or at least their readers will. © ‘Let me show you how a (tin plate boxmaker was eonverted to protection. He made blacking boxes and bad been running steadily on English tin for years, A short time ago he was furnished with American tin, with the result that the amount of breakage was decreased over one-half. American tin plate has greater elasticity than the English. ‘Upon this subject I quote from & copy of the Western Mail of London, “under date of November 17, giving the report of a meeting of Tin Plate Work- ers held on the evening previous. ''Mr. J. Hopkin John said that ‘the outlook for trade was at present not satisfactory,’ and the same sentiment was expressed by almost all the other delegates present. ‘“There is no reason in the world why we should not make tin plate here. It is a simple process; we have the coal and the ore and free pig tin. Let me impress upon you this point that most people do not recognize that the tin or pig tin used in coating tin plate is free of duty and will continue free unless on and, after July 1, 1893, it appears that the Americ can mines have produced at least 5000 tons during the year previous to that date. ¢‘T suppose you have a list of tin plate miils now ruining, which include those at Demmlor and Apollo, Pcnn., Phila delphia, 8t. Louis, Cleveland and Piqua, Ohio. Iam informed that a company : has been formed: in Mitwaltkes, with a : Saliaty the control of gio ‘| Milwaukee. ALL LINES OF INDUSTRY ‘Every line of indastry which given proper protection under 3 | Kinley tariff is developing: as . the most sanguine friends of pro ex could expect. . It 1s simply a questi whether Wwe shall produce our own | or have the foreigner produce them fi us. Take away the importing and foreig: influence in favor of the'tariff for revenue only, or practical free trade, and To po- litical party would dare to propagate the un-American and unpatriotic policy of reducing our producers and wage-earners to the condition of those in o ther coun: tries.’ Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, of Rhode 2 Island, who had charge of the Tariff bill in the ‘Senate, was asked while in the city recently ‘as to what he ascribed the increased’ importation under the Me- Kinley act. He said: ho FACTS FOR FREE TRADERS. “In view of the statements that were made regarding the prohibitive character « of the Tariff bill of 1890,” said he, *it “may be well to state that the value’ of our imports and exports of foreign mer- chandise “for the five months ending” February 26, 1891, wa $769,000,000,as comp ared’ with $744, 000,000 for the corresponding period of last year under the tariff of 1883. The unnatural relation between import and export, which, it is said, must exist under a protective system; has a been a great source of anxiety to © free trade friends. They have assum that if we decline to admit certain fo eign manufactured articles © into United States except'upon the paym of equalizing duties foreign. purcha will refuse to buy American produ that our export will decline and that shall be deprived of the only avail market for our surplus product. “4/By an examination of the free period i in our political history it will ‘pear that for every dollar of dutiable in ports in the years 1847 to ‘1861 we ex- ported 98 cents in value of domostic pro ucts, and that ‘da. the years. iit fo 1890 we exported $1.71 of domestic products. In other words, ou were 2 per cent. less than our imp under a revenue tariff, and our exports were 70 per cent. greater than our, io ports under a protective system.” CAPITAL AND LABOR DorNas. A Few: Items of Interest to the Wage- 5 Earner and Others. ——l The Riverside Steel Gompany at Wheel- ing, manufacturers of cut nails, will suspend owing to competition by wire nail factories: The Brooks Iron Company, of Birdsboro Pa., notified its employes of a general re- AGRiog in: wages. Puddlers are reduced from $3 50 to $3 25 per fon; sheet mill em- ployes fron 40 to 36 cents a ton, and nailers about 10 per cent. The firm employs over 400 hands. ! The. strike of the Indianapolis sirest oar employes was declared off, President Fren- zel, of the company, agreeing to hear a committee of the union. In the event of an aon-settlement, the matter will be subsaifs ted to arbitrators. Fi About 40 of the union wood carvers em ployed in the furniture factories of Rockford IIL, have struck, and it is probable that the strike will extend to all the factories. ‘ The trouble arises from an effort of the employefsito have the work done by the pieceinstead of by the week, to which the workman. object. The strike of the employes of the Tegmyer box company, Chicago, threatens to become general. Thetrouble was caused by the discharge of 12 men for alleged incomptency: There are 17 factories in the aity, employing 700 men. FOREIGN FRAGMENTS, Interesting News By Cable Boiled Down to Brief Notes Neville Barton, a bogus officer of the. British army, who by means of forged let- ters cut quite a dash in American society and married a Brooklyn heiriss, - has: just been rentenced to 12 years imprisonment for buglary. The village of Rychonwaldan. ‘Silesia, has = been entirely destrayed by fire. The inhabi- tants, in their homeless and destitute condi- tion, are enduring much suffering. : = The population of Rome increased during ! the year 1891 by nearly 20,000. The city now contains about 433,000 people. Fire burned the large flour mill of Seth : Taylor, Tooley street, London. Animmense amount of valuable machinery and 280,006 bags of flour were destroyed. Several firemen narrowly escaped death. ; Influenza is rapidly spreading in northern 2 Italy. Four hundred cases were reported in Leghorn and the peopleare greatly alarmed. The mor tality from the disease in the city is very great. Many deaths are reported from influenza in Mantua and Savona. An explosion of fire damp occurred in the Wolfsbank coal pit at Esson. Six miners were killed and seven terribly burned. The Reichstag is discussing the bill for the suppression of drunkenness, which is one of Imperor William’s hobbies. The clause of the measure which has caused the 2 most widespread ‘objection, empowers the officials to prosecute all persons denounced tothemn as habitual drunkards, and te cause themto be imprisoned until they shall. have obtained a medical certificate stating that they have been cured of the liquor habit. Their property, also, may be seized and applied to the support of their families and of themselves during . thet imprisonment. Her Child Left to Perish. Freeport, Ill., Jan, 13—The little son Mrs. Gassmond perished in a ‘burning building yesterday. The mother had house for a short time, and when 8 turned found it in flames and the little: dead. : The first overhead trolley ele street railroad in England is construction in the suburbs of by an. American company.
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