TT PE TESTI, Church pastorates are still sold to the highest bidders in some parts of England. ! According to the insurance tables expectation of life at ten years of age 18 greatest in England, 49.2. It is estimated that the chinch bug, Hessian fly, army worm sand cotton worm have cost the United States more than the Civil War. The Trustees of Tufts College, in Massachusetts, have decided to estab- lish a medical school in Boston. The school will admit students of both sexes. The New York Press feels it is rather discouraging to be told by Mrs. Emma fwing, who is an authority, that while improvements have been made in all ther directions, practical cooking stands where it did one hundred years 8go. A Boonville (Mo.) man has estab- lished a chinch bug station similar to that of Professor Snow, of Lawrence, Kan. ‘‘In another year,” predicts the Chicago Herald, ‘‘Missouri’s name will be put in the bright lexicon of bug- less States.” : Professor Virchow, the great Ger- mean scientist, reafftrms his belief that no trace of ‘‘the missing link’ between man and the lower animals has been discovered, either in the human skulls which are believed to be most ancient, or in the physical structure of modern savages. Aluminum is to be used wherever practicable in the accoutrements, arms and equipments of the German army. By its nse the weight carried by in- fantry soldiers will be a trifle over fifty-seven pounds, where now it is slightly more than sixty-eight and one- half pounds. The - people of Marlehead, Mass., have hung up in their town hall Na- tional colors, which they have bought for the new war cruiser, which has een named after their famous town. But Marblehead will not end her gift to the warship with this one. Now it is proposed to place in the cruiser something more substantial, perhaps w silver vase; and it is suggested that a fund be started to be called the “‘citizen’s gift,” to pay for the new gift. The worst feature of a flood is the fact that the river is apt to leave a de- posit of sand, varying in thickness from one inch to ten feet, over a large extent of land that was formerly fer- tile. In the flood of 1858 a great many farmers in the American bottom in Missouri on going back to their premises after the subsidence of the waters found their property covered with river sand in beds so thick that two or three years elapsed before good crops could be raised. In England the ‘‘collegce by past” wystem has enrolled about 4000 students and over 200 teachers. In this organization, explains the New York Sun, women of leisure volunteer to teach girls who have not the means or time to attend school. It is all done gratuitously and by mail. Girls wishing instructions in any special branch write to the head of the system and are assigned to some volunteer teacher in that branch. In this coun- try the same work is carried on by the King’s Daughters, under Miss Kate Bond. Truth thinks it ‘odd that Emin Bey should be so little of a hero in the eyes of the general public. He was a man who stood head and shoulders above many of the mer who have won undy- ing renown in Africa, in courage, executive ability and a genius for or- ganization and Government. His physique was by no means robust; he bad the stoop of a student, and the tra- ditional spectacled face of a German physician. Yet he was in reality a man of heroic courage and unquestionable force of character. He did not start across the continent of Africa with brass horns, reporters, and hired mer- cenaries, but recruited his soldiers from the savages themselves. He taught the barbarians to build mills and factories, and held the Arabs at bay, even when so great a soldier as Gordon failed. It seems to me in- credible that this marvelous pioneer should have been killed, but the evi- He had reason to complain bitterly of his treat- ment in Africa, and he had pot even dence seems overwhelming. the solace of fame, which has come to many of the other men who ventured into the wilds of that still ered country. undiscov- But in the future it is certain that Emin Bey will stand near the head of th: list of heroes who have civilize the savages of the Dark Continent.” given up their lives to TICKINGS OF THE TELEGRAPH -———— FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. What is Going On the World Over. Important Events Briefiy Chronicled. ——— Disasters: Accidents and Fatalities Mrs. James \ hitebead and her daughter, while on a claim in the Cherokee strip, Kan., were overtaken by a prarie fire. The mother placed her daughter on a pony te flee. Before Mrs. Whitehead could mount ber own horse the flames reached her and «he was burned to death. The daughter es- caped. Two children were burned todeath in a fire en Soho street, Pitisburg, Pa. They were Ella, aged 9 vears, and Rosa, aged 4 vears, daughters of John Gannon. Six men were horribly burned by acid and steam at the Ashland, Wis, Sulphate Fiber Company's plant. The burned are: Joseph Heron, Charles Eurdick, F. Weshl, Joseph Reisner, Stenz Berdick and George Constance. The recovery of any of the vic- tims is doubtfal. Engineer Beaulein, Fireman Albers and Brakeman Mulligan were killed and the bodies of the two former completely con- sumed in an accident on the Toledo, Ann Arbor and Nortbern Michigan near Ham- burg. Mich., Thursday night, - - Crime and Penalties. At Clayton, Mo., the trial was called of Train Robbers ’innock, Ray and Robert- son, who held up the Frisco train near Pacific. Robertson pleaded not guilty and was held under bond of $10,000. Pinnock and Ray entered pleas of guilty and were each sentenced to 14 years imprisonment. A terrible and fatal battle with knives occurred at Orlando, Ark., between James Trammel and a peacemaker,name unknown in which Trammel’s wife beat to death the wife of Doc Trammel. The victim gave premature birth to twins before dying. The screams of the woman attracted a neighbor who in turn was attacked with a knife by the husband of the murderess, for interfer- ing. ie Washingion News, Mr. Hicks, Republican, of Pennsylvania, offered in the house a bill providing that no pension claim heretofore or hereafter allowed shall be annulled, suspended or set was obtained by fraud or perjury. Rev. Mr. Haddaway, chaplain of the house of representatives, died Thursday morning. The honse adopted suitable reso- lutions of respect. Capitnl. Labor and Induetrial. At Columbus, O,, between 500 and 600 street car employes on the street car lines in that city struck Tuesday morning and not a wheel was turned. The sirike was caused by the discharge of two of the union men. -— Financial and Commercial, The Puget Sound National Bank of Ev- erett, Wash., ana the First National Bank, of Ellensburg, Wash., which closed their doors recently have reopened. a Judicial. The illinois Supreme court in a short opinion written by Justice J. P. Shope, de~ clares the weekly pay law passed by the last state legislature unconstitutional. LAE Miscellaneous. ‘Theodore Vost was given 6d days in jail, fined $200 and costs and ordered to give a §2,000 bond not to repeat the offense for seiling a bottle of beer at Emporia, Kas. Judge Randolph, who imposed the sentence is an enthusiastic Prohibitionist. Vost's pardon will be asked for. Theact of the last Michigan Legislature permitting women to. vote at municipal elections has been declared unconstitutional by the State Supreme Court. The dead bodies of the following addition- al victims of Friday's wreck on the Grand Trunk railroad at Battle Creek, Mich. , bave been identified: George Dawson, Fssex, England; Robert Finley, Hamilton, Ont.! a man named Wend, Louisville, Ky.;: J. S. Strube, a sailor,residence unknown. Albert Abbink, at the St Louis Ciub Hos- pital, is suffering from a disease called an- chylostomum dodendale the effect of which i8 10 render him as white as marble, Even his tongue, gums and finger nails are devoid of all color. ga BEYOND OUR BORDERS. Emile fenoel,vice president of the French genate, is dead. Senator Lenocel was born in 1827 and entered politics before he was 3). He was elected to the Senate in 1870, Dublin is suffering from such a drouth that the great breweries and distilleries have been forced to close down. A BIGJOB ON HAND. The Difficulty Now Confronting the Co- ; lumbian Exposition Managers. It cost £30.000,000 to make the World's Fair at Chicago. The officials would like to know just how much it will take to un- make it. The Fair officiais are under a bond of ¥1,000,000 to have all the buildings and other appurtenances removed and the park returned to its former condition by January 1, 1894. ; To do this 1s now practically impossible, and they have asked the park commission ers for at least six months’ ex ension of the time, and if possible 12 mouths. This re- quest wi!l be granted probably, but there are other difficulties. The buildings are so large that it will be an expensive and in some particularsdangerous task totear them down. Contractors who have looked at the Manufacturers building, which covers 3L acres, say that the man whorazes it will have to be as skijlful as the architect who planned it. Still there will be more salvage from the Manufaciurers’ building than any other. Many contratcors say there 1s very little materia! in the buildings worth hand- ling. Entire Families Die. A dispatch from Harttord City, Ind.,says. Typhoid fever is creating awful havoc in his section of the State. It is more deadly than smallpox. In several instances en- tire families have been annihilated. The death rate is frightful. lhe schools fo: wiles around are closed. —I17 1s estimated that the World's Fai concessionaires have cleared $4,000,000. The Ferris wheel alone has made $260,000 gbove the cost of construction and the por- tion of the receipts paid into the Fair ireas- uLy, aside, unless it is shown that the pension OUR CRACK WARSHIP. The Oregon, the Most Powerful Vessel In the American Navy is Launched. Shortly before noon the battleship Oregon first vessel of her class contructed on the Pacitic slope, was launched from the ways at the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, in the presence of one of the greatest crowds of people that ever assembled there to wit- ness a similar event. The Jaunch was entirely successful, and the new battleship now liesin a little lagoon in front of the nion iron works awaiting her completion, which will be pushed as rapidly as possible. The Oregon is what is technically known as a sea-going coastline battleship, and is the most powerful ship in the United States Navy. Her dimensions are: Length over all, 348 teet; load water line, 320 feet; breadth, 54) feet 3 inche-; draught, 24 feet; displace- ment, 10,298 tons: maximum horse power 9,- 000. She will havea maximum speed of 16.2 knots and will carry a crew oft 460 men. Her cost, exclusive of armament, is &4,000,- 200. The armament consists of four 13-inch, eight 8inch and four 6-inch breech-loading rifles; also a secondary battery of one 26- pounder and six 1-pounder rapid firing guns, two gatling guns and six torpedo tubes. The 13-inch and 8-inch guns are mounted in turrets. The Oregon armor is very heavy. There is a belt of steel from 3 feet above the load water line to 44 feet below it, extending 196 feet amidships, protecting the engines and boilers. Above this belt is another, five inches thick extending to the main deck. From the ends of the 18-inch belt, to the extremities of the ship isa protective deck three inches thick. and auother armored deck 2% inches thick. The turrets for the 13-inch guns are in two parts. under a redoubt 17 inches thick, and above this is an inclined armor of the same thickness. The 8-inch turrets are similarly built with inclined armor varying from 8} to 6 inches in thickness. There is also a complete system of coal protection, cellular, sub-division and gun shields.Under the engines and boilers are four bottoms and double bottoms elsewhere, The coal capacity at the designed draught is 400 tons but the bunker capacity is 1,800 tons. ——— ms BRIGHT HOPES FOR BUSINESS The Promise of the Early Passage of the Bilver Repeal Bill Injects Fresh Life Into Trade. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Trade says: Port is in sight after a long and stormy voyage, and the prospect of a speedy end of the struggle over silver repeal has brought, bright hopes to business. Stocks climbed rapidly for three days, banks relaxed re- straints, commercial loans are more freely, sought and made, and reports from all quar- ters show the prevalence of a more hopeiul feeling. This of itself tends to produce some revival of consumption and of industry, which, nevertheless, has made but moder- ate progress as yet. It is still too soon to expect much effort in trade and manufactures, and though mone- tary obstacles are to a large extent removed,’ there still remain other legislative questions which create uncertainty. A fact of real encouragement is that rail4 way earnings for the third week of October show increase of 3 per cent. over last year, the first increase for a longtime. Notwith? standing the large sales, the markets con- tinued unusually strong, As yet there is seen only a continuance of the faint and slow increase in distribution of products which has been, noticed for some weeks. Nor does even this gradual revival in demand extend to all branches. The New York banks still accumuiate money, and commercial loans are more largely asked and obtained. This enables merchants to take goods out of bond and may increase customs receipts, which have amounted in 25 days of October to $10,208.- 091, against $16,266,559 for the full month last year. Apparently the month's de- crease will be about 25 per cent. Internal revenue has been better maintained in the same time, $11,052,528, against $14,152,891 tor the full month last vear. The number and magnitude of failures decreased Jess than hai een expected, the liabilities in three wecks of October amount- ing to $15,072,920, against about $7,000,000 f: r the same weeks last year. This week there have been 352 failures in the United States, against 187 last year, and 44 in Can- ada against 20 last year. A BIG STEAMSHIP WRECKED. The City of New York Struck