THE REAL OF FASHION
WHAT . TO
: MAKE IT,
- A Pretty Dress For a Girl Between Eight
and Ten — Other Novelties.
ICTURED here is a
very pretty little
dress for a child of
8to10. It may be
made up in almost
any material. You
finish the skirt in
front with bands of
embroidery. There
is also an embroid-
ered plastron and
collar. The plastron
is framed with fold-
ed braces and the
belt is also madé in
the same style.
While simplicity
should always be
the key note in
fashions for chil:
drén, for nothing
looks more ridicu-
A PRETTY CHILD'S DRESS. lous than an overs
dressed child, vet if tastefully applied and
the tones be kept quiet and subdued, a cer
rr
WEAR AND HOW TO
. children’s hats.
aSaturday night hop, which may be made of
up in any filmy, gauzy material, the cut-
ouf being trimmed with lace, as shown.- The
ribbon corselet ends at the side seams.
At the back there is a Watteau bow with
long ends, If made up in pale blue, a pas-
sementerie band of silver crosses the bust
and meets at the back under the bow. The
laced Swiss belt isa very pretty novelty in
leather of various colors. At the back and
front, the two pointed edgesare laced with
a silk cord. On each side there is a buckle.
This belt goes with silk vests and blouses,
so much worn at summer resorts. The
lacing cord should be tied at the bottom.
In the way of headgear for little heads
the mothers should be careful not to make
ehoice of large flowers for garniture, so that
the child may not seem to be wearing her
big sister’s hat. In the illustration is given
a very good example of a becoming hat for
a little miss—a yellow straw ornamented
* with a garland of daisies and bows of straw-
colored ribbon. Certain flowers have a-
young look about them when full blown,
and they are the ones to make choice of for
All wild flowers go well
with youthful faces and are particularly
becoming for such as' have the wild wood-
land air about them. No one would think
of getting orchids or peonies or tulips or
| poppies or tiger-lilies on a child’s hat. ‘Would
not daisies or heather or wild roses or forget-
me-nots or pansies or apple-blossoms be
more appropriate? A very becoming bit of
headgear for some children is the wide
brimmed fancy straw with a Sicilian crown,
which is of silk or woolen stuff, striped
something like a liberty cap and has a
silk tassel that falls gracefully over the
brim. x
Long skirts of the Kate Greenaway" style
a "TOUR 1000S x CTS.
The Navajo Indians shun a building
where a death has occurred.
A human skull ‘turned up among the
mail matter in the New York Postoffice
he other-day.
Gunpowder was discovered from the
falling of a spark on some materials
mixed in a mortar.
Wellsville, Mo., has nearly twice as
many dogs as inhabitants. It has 1740
residents, and 3400 dogs.
Charles Brandt, a dairyman of Leban-
on, Penn., has a four-year old daughter
who milks six cows every day. :
The emeralds of Mexico and the Andes
region of South America are of better
color and often superior in size to those
found in the south of Asia.
It is said that the Eskimo alphabet has
only five characters, that the language
itself is not very difficult, but it is the
only one the Eskimo ever learns.
There is a surface of 5000 acres in
Silesia, Prussia, which is usually dry, but
which every thirty years fills with water
in some unknown way, and becomes a
lake.
Two neighbors .in Rutherford, N, J.,
went to law about a rooster, which it was
asserted one of them had maliciously
killed.
cents.
$200.
The * rooster cost twenty-five
The case cost the two families
The celebrated ‘Emperor's goblet,” a
valued possession of the municipality of
Osnabruck, has been sold ’to Baron
Rothschild, of Frankfort, for $50,000.
"JOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
: HINTS ABOUT RICE.
In boiled rice, if you wish the grains
separate and white, in must boil rapidly
in plenty of water. The motion of the
water in hard-boiling water washes the
grains apart, and an abundance of water
keeps it white and prevents burning. HH
stirred often while boiling, it will be apt
to stick to the bottom of the vessel. Do
not cook rice in a double boiler unless
using milk. In that case the caseine of
the milk gs apt to attach itself to the bot-
tom of a single vessel, and scorching re-
sults. A test for good rice used by an
importer is to lay a few grains in dark-
blue paper, that used around macaroni
or loaf sugar; 1f a blue shade is noticed
through the rice, it is of good quality.
Good Carolina rice is said to equal that
imported from India. The Japan rice is
whiter.—New, York Post.
¢' PROFESSIONAL’ BEZF TEa.
«] watched a five-dollar-a-day trained
nurse make beef tea the other day,” said
a woman, ‘‘and this is how he did it,
for it wasa man, nursing a patient in
the last stages of consumption: He cut
up two pounds of lean, juicy sirloin
steak into pieces about two inches square;
then he put a clean skillet, which was
very lightly greased with butter, over a
very hot fire of red coals, and, as soon as
the pan was hot, tossed the beef in.
with a fork he turned the pieces over and
over, letting them sear on every side;
there was scarcely a drop of juice in the
pan while he was doing it, so quickly
did the strong heat accomplish, its work.
«When the pieces were heated
Crime and Penalties. »
While trying to arrest two unknown
thieves some miles north. of Greensburg,
Kiowa gounty, Kas,, A. W. Balfour, a con-
stable of that town, was shot to death. The
officers are on the trail of the murderers.
A man named Thompson killed his wife
and an old woman with a butcher knife at
Arlington, S. D. He expects to be lynched.
George Benger. accidentally shot William
Ochs at Louisville, Ky., and then killed him
self in remorse.
Capital, Labor and Industrial,
The wages of miners at Pine Forest col-
liery, Schuylkill county, Pa., have been re-
duced 10 cents a wagon.
The Amalgamated association has dedlar-
ed off the strike at the Pottsville, Pa,, iron
and steel company’s rolling mills, which
was inaugurated on July 1, 1890, the work- |
men refusing to sign the scale. It is thought
that most of the strikers will be taken back,
The rolling-mill of the Crum Creek Steel
and Iron Co., of Chester, Pa., is shut down
owing to a misunderstanding between the
firm and the puddlers, and the refusal of
the former tdsign the scale of prices.
The has
| asleep, was crushed and the three
killed. #2 1
Faaad Washington Neivs, =
' The Senate committee on appropriations
finished the consideration of the r
i | civil bill, and reported it to the Senate. The
amonnt of the appropriation made by the
| bill is $37,797,798, being an increase over
bill as it passed the House of $11,674,816.
There is an appropriation of $5,
aid'ofthe World’s Fair anda r :
that the Fair shall not be kept open om
Sunday. 3 >
Speaker Crisp has received a telegram
from Cordele, Ga., announcing his renomi-
nation for Congress by acclamation. : g
The July returns io the Statistician of the
Department of Agriculture make the aver-
age condition of cotton 86.9. The June re- :
POTt was 85.9. Kor the purpose OI compari-
son the returns of July, 1891, are given:
General average. 88 6. al
Political. ;
he New York Democratic Anti-Snap
Convention State Committee has decided to
continue itself as a permanent organiza-
tion. =
Personal. :
Cyrus W. Field, upon whose head mis-
fortunes have fallen 50 fast in the last ine
months, is lying unconscious in his home,
Ardsley Tower, N. Y., and his death is ex-
pected any moment, Lene
Miscellaneous. Std
The Confederate Veterans of the State of
Missouri have formally adopted and official=
The proceeds will be expended in build-
ing a new theatre. The goblet is of
solid silver, superbly chased and orna-
mented.
should be used with great discretion even in
cold weather. Such gowns are really not
fitted for walking purposes at all, and
through, he took them out one by one trouble at Homestead, Pa.,
and rapidly squeezed them through a
wooden lemon-squcezer, which had been
ly announced that this year and hereafter
the first Wednesday in June will be observ:
-~ed as Confederate Memorial Day. = =
thrown 200 men out of employment at the
North Chicago rolling-mills, Chicago. The
. you have no longer an Eton coat.
A STAMPED FOULARD.
tain araount of garniture is always to be
commended. I'or summer costumes, how:
ever, all appearance of heaviness, all over
weight effects should be carefully avoided.
Aboveall things should a child's costumes
be in strictest harmony with its coloring.
Soft tints should be chosen, such as melt
into the pink and white of the complexion,
match the soft golden of the hair or the sky
blue of the eyes.
A DANCING GOWN,
Nothing can be prettier than a stamped
foulard for a young person, and nothing
more appropriate for summer wear. The
illustration pictures such a gown. The skirt
has three ruffles made of bias stripes. The
charming little guipure figrro is outlined
with ribbons set off with a double bow, as
" indicated. It is exactly the same at the
back. There is also a ribbon belt, the
sleeves carrying out the same scheme of
garniture. The Eton jacket has developed
intooneof the rages of the moment, but
very few of these garments are Eton except
in name. Tlie trne Eton has small close
sleeves, and should invar ably be worn with
HEAPGEAR FOR LUIT E HEADS.
4 sleeveless vest, for if you make its sleeves
_ large enough to go over an ordinary gown,
The true
Eton has tailor made turn-down collar and
lapels. Norshou'd it ever be made use of |
‘as a wrap for muffling up purposes. This is
ridiculous. The correct summer girl never
makes such a mistake. Her Eton ‘coat is
“merely a separate, bodice which she wears
t vests and matches her skirts,
sts run in different materials.
aust fit the figure snugly. To do
oid have long openings for
through. flag
n charming b
many a cold gets its first lessons in stiff
and awkward carriage by being rolled up in
these so-called picturesque costumes. Every
child in good health has far more vitality
than he or she has any use for, and it must
be worked off in swift motions and semi
boisterious play, the limbs. particularly, be
ing left free and untrammeled. Short
skirts, therefore, should be the rule asthe
warm weather comes on, and gowns should
be straight and loose and not loaded down
with heavy sashes. Very pretty cffects are
attained by trimming the skirt and cuffs
with bands of velvet ribbon of a darker
shade than the dress, the ribbon also being
used to stimulate the yoke. You will find a
charmingly picturesque little gown repre-
sented in the illustration. It may be made
CHILD'S GOWN.
up in various materials, but more appropri-
ately in crepon, si:k or printed goods. The
blouse and tight sleeves should be of plain
goods. The particular charm of the costume
lies in the original use made of a fichu ef-
fect. You get here a back view of it, show-
ing how it discloses a round yoke. In front
the two ends cross and termina e on the
shoulders, where the ends hook. There is a
straight ruched collar. The upper sleeves
are made very full and are gathered on the
tight sleeve at the elbow.
THE NATIONAL GAME,
ANsoN is playing a poor first for Chicago.
THE Baltimores have yet to win their first
game from Brooklyn.
HANLON is back in thefield for Baltimore,
but is not yet quite his old self.
MULLANE, Staley, Gleason and Weyhing
are the leading winning pitchers,
. WELCH, late of the New Yorks, is pitch-
ing winning ball tor the Troy Club.
S1nCE Decoration Day the attendance has
materially diminished in every Eastera city.
GLEASON is still pitching winning ball for
St. Louis, and is casily the star of thatteam.
‘WARD and Corcoran, of Brooklyn, maxe
double plays wita wonderful precision and
quickness.
THE year of a Presidentlal election is
usually an off one for. baseball. It is the
case this year. ¥
g RICHARDSON'S work at short for Wash-
ington has been simply phenomenal. He
leads the country.
Four opponents have outbatted Boston in
their series, viz., Brooklyn, Philadelphia,
Cincinnati ani St. Louis.
Many of the high salaried stars will ba
asked to accede to a reduction in their sala-
ries under the new order of things.
THE Bostons recently changed from the
time honored red stockings to blue. No
wonder they struck a streak of bai luck.
It bas been suggested that if the profes-
sional baseball managers would set their
men to playing lacrosse in the spring there
would be less bellows-mending in running
the bases. <
CLARKSON, Nichols, Lowe,” Quinn, Stiv-
etts and Tucker, of the Boston team, hava
consented to accept reduction of salary.
Kelly was granted further time to say what
he would do.
At Washington, Richardson accomplished
a very pretty tripld'play. He caught a line
hit, ran and touched sscond base, and then
threw to first to cat off the runner who was
trying to return back to that point.
ArT Cleveland, during a prachbice game of
baseball, Joan Carey, while at bat, was
struck in the neck by a swiftly pitched ball
from one Sells. ‘He fell to the ground and
died in a few minutes. Carey was twenty-
one years of age and a peddler by occupa-
tion.
Tarne has been lots of talk that the
double cnampionship season is not popular,
but there is no such complaint from’ the
company'of tail-enders. * To them the sec-
ond season is but the opening of the gates
to the promised land from which they have
bee ed on account of hard luck, bad
k players,
that is a mistake.
of Iceland they fairly swarm, and a man
may get all the bites he-can take care of
In Paris, in Vienna, in Berlin, the
small house or hotel is the luxury of toe
wealthy, and the great bulk of the popu-
lation live in flats.
the most modern of European cities, all
the houses are flats. The modern Italian
in Rome lives, as tire ancient Roman did)
in a flat.
[on St. Petersourg,
An amusing institution among the
New Jersey summer resorts is an asylum
for dogs, kept by a colored man, who
charges $6 a month for large dogs and
less for the small fry. The canine
boarders take a swin or a run every day,
and are sent back to their owners when
they return to town.
The custom of using more than one
Christian pame was -introduced inte
.Eogland with the coming of Henrietta
Maria, the bride of Charles I., after
whom a large number of British infants
were soon loyally christened. The
rolling resonance of the double name so
tickled the ear of the public that soon
other combinations of the same kind
came into fashion.
The following test of genuineness in
diamonds is said to be effective: Prick
a hole in a card witha needle and look
at it closely through the gem. If it ap-
pears as a single hole the stone is genu-
ine; if double it is glass. Put your
fingers bebind the table of the gem and
look through it as through a microscope.
If you can distinguish the grain of tae
skin clearly it is glass; if pot it is a
stone.
Apropos of the report of United
States Consul Denby, of Peking, on the
export of tigers’ bones from Ichang for
use in medicine, it may be said that what
purport to be tigers’ boues are sold a3 a
matter of course in nearly all the Chinese
shops in New Orleans, La. A specimen
brought there was submitted to the late
Dr. Joseph Leidy, who at once pro-
nounced it to be the bone of a ruminant,
and not that of a tiger at all.
—
Pensioners Weli Scattered.
Tt is not generally known that the op-
eration of the Civil War pension laws
carries money periodically to men of all
nationalities who live in all quarters of
the globe. They are men who were dis-
akled in the service of the United States
and have not since the war taken the
oath of allegiance to auy other Govera-
ment. * To begin near the fountain head,
there 1s paid out of the National treasury
$125,000 dnnually ‘to residents of Can-
ada, many of whom have not seen the
United States since they were mustered
out at Washington at the close of the
war. Ireland has 250 pensioners on the
rolls, who draw on an average $12 a
month; and a single county in England
—Lancashire—has fifty pensioners who
draw nearly $2500 a year.: The dark
contineat has a round dozen peusiouners,
living principally in Cape Town; South
Africa, while Liberia is represented by
one lone widow, whose husband was
freed by the emancipation proclamation
and who died of the injuries he received
in fighting.
Guiseppe Osboli, away in southern
Italy, draws the modest little sum of $6
a month for the fighting he did some
twenty odd years ago, the Richmond
(Va.) State says. Away down in the
Mediterranean Sea, in the little island of
Malta, lives a Greek of the name of Am-
abite Feneck, who gets $12 a month to
remind him of the time when he smelled
powder in the far away land of America;
and his case is matched in Finland,
almost on the shores of the Arctic Ocean,
where lives one Alexander Wilson, who
served twenty years in the United States
navy, and now draws a pension nf $17 a
month, which in that land is an income
‘worth having.
ee eee OY
The Ubiquitous Mosqnito.
‘I have been as far south as Patagonia
‘and as far north as Iceland,” said Captain
Prank Bowers, ‘‘and I have yet to finda
country that was not infested by mosqui-
toes. It is the general opinion that these
pests are confined to warm countries, but
In the short summers
in the Strait of Magellan if he goes there
at the proper time. Mexico was a terra
incognita to the mosquito until a few
years ago, but he is plentiful enough
there now. It is said that they were im-
ported, with much other undesirable ir
stock, from the United States.”—Bt.
Louis Globe-Democrat
standing in boiling water, into a china
bowl, which was also in hot water.
Tossing in a pinch of salt and laying a
thick folded dinner napkin over the
bowl, he carried off quickly the strong
hot juice to his patient, having been in
the kitchen barely eight minutes.
«The tea can be made in this way
with a chafing dish in one’s own room
if access to a kitchen is difficult. He
told me he sometimes froze beef tea if it
was distateful to the sick person when
hot. This he did a few minutes by
putting it in a small covered pail, setting
that in a larger one, and filling the space
between with salt and cracked ice. In
fever cases the patient will often take the
frozen beef juice when he will absolutely
refuse it ina liquid state.”—New York
Times.
CANNING VEGETABLES
Vegetables, with the exception of
tomatoes, which are properly a fruit,
cannot be preserved in. the ordinary her-
‘metically Sealed jars. Their chemical
composition is different, and simply
heating them will not sufficiently expel
the air to prevent fermentation.
Sweet corn may be canned with toma
toes, and makes an excellent dinne
dish. It mustbe cut from the cob, and
about one pint allowed to one quart ol
‘tomatoes. These must be thoronghly
cooked together, with a little salt anc
pepper, and sealed as expeditiously us
possible in new tin cans or in the self.
sealing glass jars; if in the latter keep ir
a dark place. To prepare for the table
bring to a boil, and if too acid add a
half teaspoonful of soda to a quart of the
mixture.
The canned vegetables put up in fac-
tories are preserved by the addition of
certain harmless chemicals,and one form-
ula which we obtained some time ago,
but never tried, it as follows:
Dissolve four drachms salicylic acid
and eighty-four grains soda sulphite in
one gallon of hot water; add four ounces
salt and pour over the uncooked vege
tables until they are completely covered.
‘With this preparation air tight sealing
is not necessary, and in preparing fo:
the table a little more cooking is
required tian when the vegetables are
fresh.
We would advise some preliminary
experiments with this recipe before
attempting to put up any considerable
quantities of any kind of food.—3t.
Louis Republic.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Mend broken iron yith equal parts ol
salt and ashes. we
Emery powder will remove ordinary
stains from ivory knife handles.
Spots are easily cleaned from var.
nished furniture by rubbing with spirits
of camphor.
If the hands are rubbed on a stick of
celery after peeling onions the smell will
be entirely removed.
A piece of sponge fastened to a stick
or wire is a good thing with which to
clean lamp chimneys.
A little horse radish or a {ew nastur.
tiums placed in your pickle seeds jars
will prevent mould from forming on the
top of the pickles.
All such ingrediznts of soup as rice,
vermicelli, macaroni, etc., should be
partially boiled in plain water before be-
ing put into the liquor.
When you boi! a cabbage tie a bit of
dry bread in a bag and put it in the
kettle. You will not be troublel with
the usual disagreeable odor.
When eggs are scarce, put away at
night a teacup of mashed potatoes in
which has been strained a tablespoonful
of sugar, and mix it in the coracake bat
ter next morning; you will find the cakes
light and sweet.
Always mix starch in cold water until
free from lumps; pour on boiling water,
stirring well until of the proper con-
sistency: boil ten minutes, add a little
lard; butter or shavings of spermaceti ot
prepared gum arabic; then cool.
Take she rind and the thin white
skins from oranges, cut them into 1irreg-
ular pieces, beginning at the outside and
cutting togard the core, leaving the
seeds like the core of an apple. Sprinkle
with sugar and squeeze eaca core for the
juice. Serve with any, plain cake.
A petrified cance is said .to have been
found lately iu Wyominz,. :
‘mgn are heaters, rollers and helpers: Their
vontract or scale expired July .1, and the
[llinois Steel Company who owns the mills
jecided to make no arrangements for a fue
{ure scale until the result of the eastern
strike became known. '
Nailmakers to the number of 1,000 in
Montreal are on strike for an increase of
wages.
The Amalgamated Association at Pitts.
burg, Pa., received advices that the follow-
{ng firms had signed the scale: Wetheral
Rolling Mill Company, Findlay, O.; Car-
pegie, Phipps & Co., Beaver Falls; New Al-
bany (Ind.) rail mill; Nixdorf-Krein Manu-
facturing Company, St. Louis. :
The Moorehead-McCleane Company sign-
»d the Amalgamated scale Saturday. About
500 men returned to work. The following
ndditional firms signed the scale: Ohio
falls Iron Works New Albany, Ind.; the
Columbus Iron Works; which also includes
the P. Hayden Saddlery. Hardware Com-
pany and the Oliver & Roberts Wire Com-
pany. Ei red 47,
Two railroad strikers named Rodgers and
Benson were shot down by a man at Sumner,
Cal, for calling him a ‘‘scab.” Rodgers was
killed and Benson seriously injured.
Fires
At Duluth the Catholic pro-Cathedral and
Bishop McGolrich’s residence were burned-
Loss on both buildings, $10,000,
At Providence, R. I, the storehouse of B.
B. & K. R. Knight, together with 6,700 bales
of cotton and 1,000 pieces of cloth. Toss
about $500,000.
AteMontgomery, Ala., the wholesale dry
goods department of George Etter, Weil &
Co. Loss about $300,000. .
At Baltimore the large furniture manu-
facturing establishment of the P. Hanson
Hiss Manufacturing Company. Loss on
the stock, $150,000;insurance about $100,000.
Loss. on building, $45,000; fully insured.
The rolling mill of the tin department of
the Niedringhaus Mills, at St. Louis, was
totally destroyed by fire. » The loss will be
about $75,000.
At Rockland, Mich., 30 buildings, includ-
ing stores, dwellings and the Masonic hall,
were burned. The loss will be up in the
thousands.
At Greenville, Tex., the Greenville furni-
ture factory was burned. Loss, $50,000; in-
surance, $8,000.
At Pocomoke, Md., thirty-eight business
places and one residence were destroyed by
fire and the loss will not be less than $20,-
000. :
The greater part of Arcola; Miss., burned
Wednesday. Loss, $30,000, insurance,
$20,000. 3
A largé part of Shoshone, Ida., was burn-
ed.
The new mining town of Biwabik, about
80 miles from Duluth, was burned, causing
loss of $20,000.
Disasters. Accidents and Fatalities.
Herbert Slater and Mrs. Kellert ‘were
drowned at Kingston, N. Y., by the capsiz-
ing of a pleasure skiff. {
Two men and eight horses were burned in
a fire, which destroyed a New York stable.
Joseph, Zacharia and Henry Martin,
three brothers, aged 29, 17 and 15, wer
drowned in Kings River, Cal., while bath-
ing.
At Spring Park Lake, Minnetonka, a row
Ihoat occupied by Oscar Sandell, Rufus John-
son, Laura Lewis and Ida Swanson, all of
St. Paul, Minn., was upset and all but San-
dell drowned.
Four people were killed at Kansas City on
the Fourth: Henry Hoover, Ettie Leslie, Ax-
tell Patterson and Clara Westerman.
A hand cab on the Central railroad, of
New Jersey, jumped the track when onan
embankment below Seawarden, and three
of the men on it were instantly killed.
By a fall of coal in the South Wilkesbarre
shaft of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal
Company at Wilkesbarre, Pa., two civil en-
gineers and a timber man were instantly
killed. The dead are: John Williams, aged
25, civil engincer; John McCaffery, aged 21,
of Philadelphia, civil engineer; William
Tvans, aged 15, a timber man.
A wild steer broke loose in St. Louis. The
aim of the police was poor, and their bul
lets killed Albert Folsch, aged 15, and badly
wounded several others.
Two explosions in the furnace room of the
Illinois Steel Works at South Chicago, re-
sulted in the death of one man, Peter Lind-
strom, and the injury of three others.
A wall 300 feet long and 30 feet high,
BEYOND OUR BORDERS,
The Stars and Stripes hoisted over the
residence ofthe Rev. G. A. Yeomans, &
Presbyterian minister at Wharton, Ont.
were torn down by an angry mob of eciti-
zens, because the flag was larger and floated
higher than any English flag in town.
At Madrid, in the riots against the new
tax three policemen were killed and 80 to 40
injured. The civil governor received some
severe bruises. About a dozen of the riot
were hurt. The Madrid newspapers tak
the ground that the riot was successful, and
that the taxes will probably be abolished.
Herr Geyer,an Austrian landed proprietor, :
attempted to make the ascent of the Grim-
ing mountain, near Aussee, in Moravia. He
missed his footing, fell’ into a chasm and
was instantly killed.
The miners in Prague who caused the e
plosion in the Brahenberg silver mine, by
which 300 lives were lost,have been sentenc-
ed to prison for three and two years.
A Ne Brel a Deny BE i
An unknown sloop supvosed to be &
Chinese smuggler, capsized near Victoria, B
C All on board were lost.
Near Quebec prayers are being offered.
for the cessation of rain, while in Rimouski:
the supplication is for rain. ;
The steamship City Jf Chicago, which,
went on the rocks near Kinsale
Queenstown, is now a total wreck.
coast is strewn with boxes. ;
In a battle between a troop of Chilian
cavalry and brigands, 31 of the latter were
killed. 4
The recent flood in Fukeshing submerged
1,000 houses, swept 600 bridges away,
drowned 35 persons and inundated 4,000
acres of rice. Hed
FIVE MEN KILLED.
Serious Damage Done by an Explosion
at a California Powder Mill.
San Francisco, July 11.—An explosion at
the works of the Giant Powder Company
this morning caused a loss of five lives and
the injury ‘of many men. The company
loses $200,000 and the San Francisco Chem-
ical Works were destroyed at a Joss of $150,=
000. The cause of the explosion is said to
have been the upsetting of a bottle of acid
‘in the office, which set fire to the building.
Three white men who were working in the
nitro-glycerine house were killed. They
were John Bowe, Wallace Dickerson and
Charles Guberlige, The others killed were
Chinamen. Windows were broken all over
San Francisco and surrounding towns.
' NEWSY GLEANINGS.
YeLrow FEVER prevails in Honduras, i
THE iron ore trade still remains stagnant.
THERE are fears of a cholera epidemic im
Europe. vo
THE oils wells in this country supply 130,-
000 barrels a day. Y ppy
HEREAFTER all telegraphing in Spain will
be done by military operators. ;
THERE were no less than five stage rob-
beries in Montana during June. o
THE next President of the United States
will receive about 7,000,000 votes.
THE pack of canned lobsters is expected to
fall off fifty per cent. compared with last
season.
A TUNNEL to cost $1,000,000 has been
~started at Leadville, Col., to drain the min-
ing camps.
James MULLEN, of, Louisville, Ky., bled
to death from a hole in his tongue about the
sizs of a pin.
Tae chiefsof the Arapahoes and Chayenns
Indians refuse to accept the beef issue from
the Government. ;
THE embezzlements of the first six months
of the present year amounted to the large
sum of $3,805,814.
ReLIEF boats provided and provisioned
‘by the State, have left New Orleans for rhe
flooded district of the State.
Droutn famine in Northern Mexico and
Southwest Texas looms up as one of the
great calamities of the year.
ADVICES from nearly all business centres
show a gradual growth in contidence, though
not in the volume of business done,
THE Governments of Germany and Aus-
tria are acting in concert in the adoption of
measures to prevent cholera from entering
their countries.
UNITED STATES cavalry to the number of
four hundred are encamped near Douglas,
Wyoming, presumably to take a hand in the
rustler troubles.
. H. L. Lincks, of Huron, South Dakota,
Vice-President of the National Alian
succa L. Polk, deczased, as Presiden
of the organization.
THE estate of the late Father Molli £
Pittsburg, worth $800,000, ani Sabposcd of
have been given to the curch, is claimed by:
+ poor cousin living in New York.
THINGS are going to be lively in the B
ing Sea this season, The ats herds
are now near the passes in the closed sem
them,
: ani the cruisers are f