Y.ondon loses more inhabitants by fire every year than Paris or Berlin together, The London firemen save on an average about 100 lives every year. A recent writer says regarding the notorious maelstrom that the inhabi- tants of the Lofodens are not in the least afraid of it, but fish right in the middle of it. Everything points to a continuance of our excellent export trade in Deel cattle, with England, our best buyer, requiring greater numbers each year, ‘notes the American Agriculturist. ’ Sweden has its Klondike, with a similar forbidding climate. The covery in the northern part of the state of new gold fields is announced. Af the Bommelinsel there is already au English company nearly 100 miners, The 79,000,000 pounds of tea im- ported into the United States in ten months had an average value of only 13 cents per pound. What a lot of refuse stuff there must be consider- ing the average price farmers obliged to pay over the retail counter, exclaims the New England Home- stead. dis- with are Ex-Governor Morrill of Kansas once said, that his ambition was to create in Kansas the largest orchard in the world and leave it as a monument to his memory, That hope is about tc be realized, as he has turned his farm over to a man with the stipulation that 65,000 fruit trees, mostly apples, are to be planted there. For the benefit of a conductor had suffered an accident which dangered his earning ability, the Con- solidated Electric Railway of Santa Barbara, Cal., receipts of its line for one day while he was in the hospital. pealed to his fellow workmen and the public, as he had been a faithful em- ploye and was the sole support df his mother.” The other company on the same day gave their day’s earnings to him, and patrons of the road and conductors ring up sums ranging as high as $20. ceipts amounted to $327.05. who en- Jompany gave the gross His case ap- employes of the The car re- Lord Charles Beresford has been making some plain speeches in Lon- don. He declared the other day thaf the boys who robbed orchards and were generally mischievous and bad made the best soldiers when they grew up, and later, at a banquet, he said that money was everything in England. Tt would buy access tec what is known as the very best so- ciety; and let anybody go to England with enough money, no matter whether it had been gained honorably or dis: gracefully, there was no door which he could not hope to enter. He prophe: sied the ruin of the country unless the dominion of money was overthrown. The fetitement of the Rev. Dr. John Hall from the active pastorate of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church has excited widespread interest among members of all the religious denomi- nations, says the New York Sun. ¢‘Dr. Hall has long been regarded as one of the conspicuously representa- tive men of the metropolis. The quali- ties that have raised him to his pres- ent eminence are well known. Perhaps the most distinguished one is his man- liness. Although he could not be de- scribed as a brilliant preacher, was always a strong personality be- hind his spoken word, and this made him effective at all times. Although parson of the most democratic of church bodies, Dr. Hall has taken precedence over his brethren of the Presbyterian ministry. There was a real truth in the humorous descrip: tion of him as the Presbyterian Bishop of New York.” a gn Says the New York Post: ‘‘Medical circles are inclined to pooh-pooh the reported discovery of the sex secret by Dr. Samuel “Schenk, professor in the Vienna university. Nevertheless it is exciting wide interest, in view of Dr. Schenk’s position as an embryolo- gist and the importance attached tc the announcement even by the Aus- trian government. The professor, so far, has only stated that for many years his experiments were limited. to the lower animals, that by a system of nourishing the female he produced a _ disposition to bring into the world male young only, but that recently, by advising wives what food to take, boys or girls had been born just as desired. This disposition, however, when established cannot be changed. The offspring of the same parents henceforth will be all males. Profes- gor Ohlshausen, the well-know gyne- oologist, thinks the -whole thing impossible, also Professor Virchod holds to tbe same opinion. there Smith, and on their way home the horse . Miss Smith went home with a neighbor, - producing wells and the Robert Harper (EVSTON STE NENS COMENSED NECK BROKEN. Horse and Rider Killed at New Castle by an Electric Car. 4 Plummer Simpson, of Coaltown, was instantly killed by an electric car the other night at New Castle, He had been attending church with Elizabeth buggy so frightened, breaking the abandoned. badly that it had to be and Simpson started to ride the horse. Just as a car came up behind, the horse jumped on the track, was struck and instantly killed. Simpson was thrown on the track and had his neck broken. He was 23 years old. The following pensions were granted last week: Charles Lineman \ Fern, Clarion, $6; Frank Nicholas, Erie, $10; R. Martin, Allegheny, $6; James S. Duncan, Seneca, Venango, $6; Levi J. Miller, Beaver Falls, $8; William Smith, Pittsburg, $6; Israel W. Stern, Riddles Cross Roads, Butler, $6; James C. Kershner, Sunbury, $6; Philander Jat8s (dead), Meadville, Crawford, $4 to $30: Charles Powell, Corry, $6 to $8; Harriet Sprague, Kendall Creek, Mcs Kean, $8; Lucinda M. Brown, Plattea, Erie, $12; minor of William McMillin, Chewton, Lawrence, $10; Sarah E. Gates, Meadville, $8; Mary C. McCart- ney, Thomas, Washington, $8; Eliza Dunkle, Washington, $8; Charlotte Deck, St. Thomas, Franklin, $8; Chaun- cey Lawrence; Conneautville, $12; ISaac Shimer, Altoona, $10; John Klaus, Soldiers’ home, Erie, $6; Henry IL. Grayson, Clarion, $6; Adam Bible, Girard, $12; Charles H. Matteon, Fox- burg, $12; Charles H. Grove, Browns- dale, $; Esli N. Houk, Energy, $6; Wil- liam H. Jackson, Erie, $30; Susan Black, Pittsfield, $8; Laura N. Brewer, Punxsutawney, $12; John C. Green, Gibsonton, Westmoreland, $6; William Anderson, Wilkinsburg, $6; Harvey Mc- Kim, Wampum, $8; William Cranston, Allegheny, $6; James McClarren, Sol- diers’ home, Erie, $12; Richard W., Jones, Braddock, $6; William Lloyd, New Brighton, $6; William T. Niel, Ho- mer City, $6; Patrick Donahoe, Pitts- burg, $6; John Slater, Etna, $10; Martin S. Stewart, Elenora, Jefferson, $8; George Sargent, Marietta, $6; Michael ¥ravel, Blanchard, Center, $6; William C. Sutton, Franklin, $6 to $3; Henry S. Dell, Norrace, Huntingdon, $8 to $12; Elizabeth Meaher, Ford City, $8; Emma Trimble, New Castle, $12; Mexican war widow, Martha Colmer, Pottsville, $8; Josiah A. Kinter, Kipple, Blair, $6; Henry M. You, Duncansville, Blair, $8; John Walker, Butler, $12; Thomas Riley, Punxsutawney, $8; William B. Harman, McAllistersville, Juniata, $6; Charles Hause, Soldiers’ home, Erie, $10; Henry Brewer, Soldiers’ home, Erie, $8; William Brannan, Patterson, Juniata, $10; Isaac Baughman, Mt. Union, Huntingdon, $6; William R. Griffith, Philipsburg, Center, $8; Chris- tian Tithein, Allegheny, $6; William Shaw, Stewarts Station, Westmore- land, $8; Thomas Porter, Connellsville, 86; 8S. Dean, Canan, Johnstown, $12; Thomas Jervis, Ebensburg, $6; Clark McConnell, New Brighton, Beaver, $S; John R. ROSS, Sharpsville, $6; Augustus G. Winslow, Winslow, Jefferson, $8 to 312; William O. Arter, Corry, $12; John Burnworth, Ohio Pyle, $14; Elizabeth Gates, Altoona, $8; Margaret H. Pot- ter, Wilkinsburg, $8;. Mary S. Baldwin, Hector, Potter, $12; Hester Sohweis, Somerset, $8; Ellen Fair, Johnstown, $8; Amanda A. Murray, Punxsutaw- ney, $8. Michael Rabor, of Birmingham, sev- eral miles north of Altoona, ‘was the victim of a daring hold-up and attempt- ed murder Tuesday night. He had been at Kittaning Point and was walking home when he was stopped by three men at the point of revolvers. One of sthe highwaymen fired two shots at him. Rabor threw his hands up when the shots were fired, and the bullets, in- gtead of crashing into his brain, lodged one in each hand. The desperadoes then knocked him to the ground. His pock=- ets were searched and $8, all that he had, was taken. The robbers then fled. ~Rabor was brought to the hospital. Martin Cocley, an employee of the Canonsburg Coal Company, left a few days ago for his former home in Paris, France, where he will spend six months with his friends. Mr. Cooley was di- vorced from his wife in the French capital before coming to Americar sev- eral years ago, and now returns to re- marry her, and both will reach Canons=- burg next summer. W. H. Walker of Butler has sold to J. C. McKinney of the South Penn Oil Company, Midland division, a property on the old Troutman field, Butler coun- ty, for $321,000. The property consists of the J. I. Campbell farm, with six farm, with four producing wells, and known as the Campbell and Iman prop- erties. George R. Robinson, aged 62, a prom- inent resident of Franklin, fell dead the other morning while leaning over the cradle in which his grandchild slept. He was born in Philadelphia and serv- -ed in the United States navy from 1859 until the close of the civil war. His mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Sommers, is a resident of Pittsburg. Mine Inspector G. M. Williams of the Third anthracite district, at Wilkes- barre, reported the total number of tons of coal mined in the district during 1897 as 7,448,415.13. The total number of per- sons employed was 25,630. There were sixty fatal accidents and 269 non-fatal. A human life was lost for every 124,140 tons of coal mined. Mrs. Harriet Walters, alias Harriet Lee, of Pottsville, colored, was taken to Philadelphia recently, having failed to furnish $1,000 bail, after a hearing before United States Commissioner C. H. Woltjen, to await trial before the United States District Court on charges of making false claims to secure a pen- sion. Frederick Bardsley, of Pleasant Val- ley, was killed at Irwin last week by the Uniontown express. He was going to Stewarts, and got off a train be- cause it did not stop at his destination. He started to walk and slipped as he was getting out of the way of the train that struck him. _ A few days ago Mrs. Joseph Havice, of New Castle, an apparently healthy woman, had a premonition of death. She told members of the family that she was convinced that she had only a short time to live. Friday night she dropped dead. She was 37 years -ohd: - Frank Murray, aged 19, of Biairsviite, committed suicide the other night by shooting himself in the head. He was out of ‘work and despondent. County Commissioner Neal Murray is his uncle. Fire in the six-story building occu- pied by Blumenthal Bros., wholesale clothiers, at Philadelphia, the other night caused $75,000 loss; insured. Mistaking a can of powder for an old and useless box, John Burkholder of Mt, Pleasant threw it in the fire and was badly burned. David H. Johnson, of Greenwood township, was caught under falling timber and instantly killed a few days ago. ENRIQUE DUPUY DE LONE { re (Spanish Minister to the United States who has resigned because of the publication of a letter in which he criticised President McKinley.) BARRIOS ASSASSINATED STANDS OFF MOB OF KLONDIKERS. United States Army Captain Protects Food at Risk of Life. E. Hazard Wells, the special courier who brought Captain Ray’s dispatches from the Yukon, has reached Washington. He did not bring the full copy of the dispatches, these having been expressed by General | Merriam from Seattle. : Mr. Wells said: ‘I cannot properly say anything as to Captain Ray’s report, but 1 can say that Ileft him in a rather critical position, and the sooner the Government gets support in to him the better. Captain Ray had only one man with him, Lieuten- ant Richardson. They refiched Fort Yukon somewhat ahead of a mob of between 80 and 100 of the toughest men that could * be picked out of Dawson, and when I ‘left the captain he was standing off this mob from the provi- sion caches, largely by virtue of a small American flag. and his own ‘magnificent nerve. When the food pante struck Daw- son this mob of toughs left for Fort Yukon, knowing that the Weare Company and ths Alaska Commercial Company each had a cache of provisions there. The Dawson men intended to appropriate thesesupplies and let the rest of the camp shift for itself. “Captain Ray learned of this and he osted himself at one of the caches, while ieutenant Richardson guarded the other. They were in uniform, and each of them had a small American flag. The mob tackled the Captain first and ordered him}to give up. He refused and for a time it looked as though there would be shooting, but between his uniform and the flag the mob was overawed. ‘‘Ray then established himself as a sort of military dietator, superintended the sale and distribution of provisions and will make an- accounting to the companies when it is all over.” WORDEN’S CONFESSION, He Says He Was Only a Tocl of Harry F, Knox in Wrecking the Train, Salter D. Worden, under sentence of ieath in Folsom Prison for wrecking a train, which cost six lives, during the great railroad strike in California in 1894, has just made a confession to Governor Budd, which is a remarkable document, It pur- ports to give in minute detail the story of thetrain wreck near Sacramento, and the ingidents which led up to it. Worden asserts that he wasused as a tool by Harry F. Knox, leader of thé Sacramento Lodge of the American Railway Union,who, he says, was the real head of the zonspir- acy. He tells of amessage that wasbrought him while at Stockton from Knox to go to Sacramento, hire a team, and take eight | men out onthe line of therailroad. Worden | says he was not told of the plan to wreck | the train, so he made no effort to cover his | own movements in hiring the team or go- | ing out of town. When he reached the railroad track Wor- | two chosen by the Congressto {lll the presi | dency in case of a vacaney. armed and, by threats to kill him, forced | him to join them. He avers he did nc | den says he refused to join with the others in tearing up the track, but they were all work and knew nothing more of their plansuntil the train. approached and the | THen he returned to Sac- | wreck resulted, ramento with the boy who drove the team, He was convicted because he had hired the team, though others were more guilty. Warden Aull, the truth. several others will bé arrested and tried and that Worden’s sentence will be com- | muted to ten years or maybe to a life term | THE CYCLISTS’ CONVENTION. L. A. W, on First Ballot. Isaac B. Potter, of New York, was re- elected President of the League of Ameri- can Wheelman, at the National Assemby at 8t. Louis, Mo,, on the first ballot, by a vote of 212 to 107. The following ticket was elected: First Vice-President, Thomas Keenan, Pennsyl- vania; Second Vice-President, E. N. Hines, Michigan; Treasurer, James ©. Tattersall, New Jersey. Providence, R. I., was selected as the place to hold the next annual meeting of | the League. - During the past year 54,793 new members have joined the league, and 48,017 of the old members have renewed. But as in former years, the percentage of renewals is by no means satisfactory. New York’s Population 3,438/899. An official estimate of the population o Greater New York was given out by the Health Department, as follows: Number o! persons in all five boroughs, 3,438,899, of which 1,911,755 are fn the borough of Man hattan; 137,075 in the Bronx, 1,197,100 ir Brooklyn, 123,042 in Queens, and 62,927 ir Richmond. A net of spiders’ webs is being manu- factured at the professional school at Antananarivo, and will be used as an experimental covering for a navigable baloon by Mr. Renard, the head of the Ffench military balloon school at Chal- 8 ¥ a Guatemala’s President Murdered the Capital v0 Oscar Solinger. SUCCESSOR ASSUMES A Brief Dispatch Announcing the Affair Says Calm Prevails in Guatemala—Suc ceeded by the First Vice-Pr esidemn .Manuel Estrada Cabrera—Barrios Suc ceeded President DBarrillas in PANAMA, patch from Guatemala, Guatemala, firms the report of the assassination Jose Marcia Reina Barrios, President of the Guatemalan Republic. The despatch say: the assassination took place at seven o’clocl p. m., within 150 yards of the President’ palace. Oscar Solinger. | killed in 1885. of Folsom Prison, where | Worden is confined, believes Worden tells | It is thought that Knox and | JOSE MARCIA REINA BARRIOS. First Vice-President Manuel Estrada Cab- rera has assumed the Presidency. quiet in the city, the despatch says. The new President, Mr. Cabrera,is a man o prominence in Guatemala and is one of Sketch of the Dead Plesident. General Jose DM. Reina Barrios, Presl dent of the Republic of Guatemala, wat born in San Marcos in 1859, thirty-nine years ago. He was a nephew of the forme) President Justo Rufino Barrios, who was The General was educated abroad, and after his collegiate c¢ourse he made a trip around the world. In his ideas he was alwayz liberal, and when the Con- servative party was ousted he was a close adherent to his uncle’s principles. Nine years ago General Barrios was con- sul in Hamburg, Germany. In 1892 Gener: | al Barrios succeeded Barrillas as President, { his term of office being six years, expiring f. B. Potter Re-elected President of the | in March of this year. FLast June he pub- licly declared himself dictator of Guate- ; mala, and from all reports he enjoyed the - |- fullest confldence of his party. His partis- ans say that under his administration the country prospered and developed exten. sively, but on‘the other hand his enemies claimed quite the contrary. Barrios dealt savagely with a revolution which broke out in Guatemala last sum- mer. Many of the rebels were captured and were shot by order of the President. Among those whom Barrios had put tc death was Don Juan Aparicio, the most prominent exporter and importer in Cen. tral America, who was shot. because he refused to give moral and financial aid tc Barrios. President Barrios’s wife wasan Americar woman, Miss Algerie Benton, of New Or: leans. They were married in New York eleven years ago. An Alabama Coliege Building Burned. Seay Hall, one of the handsomest build: ings of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, at Normal, Ala, hasbeen destroyed by fire. Twenty-five students who were asleep in the building Barrowly escaped with their lives. Japan's New Move, > Japan has decided to hold Wei-Hai-We! permanently, and China has notified the Powers Sesordingly that no foreign loan" is required, The assassin is a German, named | ne t {;Pullkskims.............%. . All i | FAMOUS PREACHER'S BRIDE. Mrs. T. DeWitt Talmage, Formerly ol Pittsburg, is a Social Leader. Dr. DeWitt Talmage’s bride, to whom he was married recently, is both handsome and wealthy. She is thirty-nine years old and had been a Vidow for seventeen years, MRS. T. DEWITT TALMAGE, | Her home was Pittsburg, where she is a .black hair, slightly tinged with gray. social leader. Mrs. Talmage is a pro- nounced brunette, with a mass of wavy She is tall and dignified, with a graceful and striking carriage. This is Dr. Talmage’s | third matrimonial experience. Visitors to Paris should be warned | ngainst purchasing celluloid cigarette- { holders and mouth-pieces now being | turned out in large quantities by the | an eye and explode In Late W! 1802 | Creamery—West. extras. Colombia (By Cable).—A des. | con | of | | Goose eggs, Green peas, | Apples, Ben Davis, ®bbl.... 300 @ : { Grapes, Del., | Cranberries ,Cape Cod, @ hl. Government cigarette works. The cel- Juloid may blaze up in the twinkle of It is hara to resist the unkind temp- tation to notice the occasional mis- print and we succumb to-day. In the report of a fashionable wedding in a Tames-side suburb the local paper says that the bride ‘looked charming in a long-trained shirt.”’—London Globe. THE | MARKETS. :olesale Prices o of « Country Produce Quoted in New York. a 7 MILK AND CREAM. T'he average price paid for the surplus on i the platforms has been 2%{c ® qt. net to OFFICE | shipper. * | different railroad distributing points in and | near the city for the week have been as | follows: Receipts of milk ‘and cream at the Average daily receipts of the week, Auld milk. cans. ........ ...c.i0e Condensed milk, cans..........ceeevus Creo CANS: ee Sin rsa BUTTER. 23,159 163 406 @% 2 18 @ 144 @ 14 @ Firsts... 0a nil Thirds to seconds. . Stote—Thirdsto firsts. .... Btave Dairy tubs, extras.... Imitation Creamery Factory, fresh firsts......... Low grades... ........... CHEESE. State—Full eream,new,large Small. Part skims, good to prime. EGGS, ! State and Penn—Fresh Jersey—Fancy | Western—Choice...,........ | Bouthern—Choice......... . Duck eggs, doz........... Bdoz. iri. = BEANS ‘AND PEAS. Beans—Marrow, choice, 1897 Medium, choice, 1897, Pea, choice, Red kidney, choice, 1897... White kidney, choice, 1897 Yellow eye. . esa] Lima, Cal. 0 80s. oi 1 ‘bags ye FRUITS AND BERRIES—TFRESH. @ @ @ N= © 65 2d 30 @ 30 @ @ Pd pd pd fk fk fd fk 180 OO UY oT bt pd 00 QARUSOD Greening, ¥ bbl.......... 300, @ Baldwin, 8 bbl........... , 300 @ B basket...... @ Catawba, 8 basket....... . 7 @ PF" Concord, B® basket. — 00 @¢ 50° @ ow LO “oo SoC | po Jersey, © bbl State—1897, choice, # 1b 1896, pri | Pacific Coast, 1897, choice.. Good to prime Old odds...........:......., LIVE POULTRY, | Fowls, % Chickens, # Ib Roosters, # 1b Turkeys, % Pucks, 2 pair............. . Geese, P pair Pigeons, @ pair DRESSED POULTRY. Turkeys, © 1b Chickens, Phila Western, dry picked.. Fowls, State & enn., Western ducks Geese, Western, # Ib Squabs, ? doz HAY AND STRAW. Hay—Prime, $100 Ib........ Clover mixed.......... ve: Btraw—Long rye Short rye Oat R Ib. VEGETABLES. Potatoes, Jersey, 2 bbl...... ulk 3 Cabbages, #100 Onions, white, B® Phi. Red, Green peas, Va., ¥ pasket., Egg plant, B bbl. Tomatoes, 8 carrier... String beans, ® basket...... ¢ Squash, $b Hubbard Turnips, Russia, @ bbl Celery, ® doz Carrots, # bb ‘Cauliflower, ¥ box Beets, 8 bbl Lettuce, basket Spinach, ® bbl Kale, per bbl Spinach, per bbl Brussels sprouts, 8 qt GRAIN, ETC. Flour—Winter Patents Spring Patents Wheat —No. 1 North 3 Y. Red Track mixed Rye=—Western Rarley—Feeding.... Lard—City steam LIVE STOCK. Beeves, city dressed 7 @ 814 Mileh cows, com. to good. +20 2% @45 00 Calves, city dressed. 0ls@ 12 Country dressed. . wv @ Sheep, 1b Lam Hogs—TLive, P 100 ib Country dressed.......... | to give { sponge bath of this sort is of UGANDA'S KING IS A BABY. Only Two Years ola, but. His Country Ig Well Governed. Among the infant monarchs of the world should not be forgotten David Cwa, the baby. king of Uganda. This little chap will be two years old next July. He was crowngd when he was three months old, because his father, Mwanga, was such a wicked old man that he had to be deposed for the good of the community. After the wicked king had done about everything that he conld think of to make things unpleasant for the people, who were trying to civilize Uganda and had been by turns pagan, ‘Roman Catholic and Protestant, the chiefs got together and declared that Mwanga had lost his job. The little fellow, David, was thereupon solemnly enthroned. Most of the inhabitants of Uganda are now Christians, and there are nu- merous Roman C atholic and Protestant churches scattered about among the villages. The Namirembe cathedral holds 5000 people. On Sundays the average attendance of worshipers at the cathedral services is 3500 and about 1000 on week days. When the collection is taken up one is reminded of the old-fashioned ‘‘do- nation party’ which was one of the perquisites of the country parson in years gone by and which is still not obsolete in some parts of the country. I'he offerings at the Namirembe cathe- iral consist of fowls, potatoes, plan- tains, sugar. cane, shells tied up in banana fibre and other products of the country. ‘His royal and dusky majesty, Kiug David,is called by his subjects Daudi, an affectionate substitute for David. He is just as cunning as any other lit- tle colored baby, only a trifle rious, as becomes a king. The affairs of the kingdom ducted by a regency consisting of (teneral Apollo Kagwa, prime minis- ter; Stanislaus Magwanga, prime min- ister of the Roman Catholie province, and the Rev. Zachariah Kizito. New York Press. Se- more are ¢con- Best Protection Against Colds. While every one admits the sity that exists for guarding axposure, especially when sudden changes from heat to cold, there are very few persons who -take these imperative precautions in the proper way. They are chilly when the weather changes and immediately seek out an overcoat, a jacket, a scarf or a muffler. The shoulder cape comes into use and the feather wray that is pulled up close about the neck and covers thechest. This is precisely the region that needs the least protec: tion in these changes. If, instead of this, thicker shoes and warmer hosé were put on and a warmer cover- ing for the limbs were afforded, the trunk of the body could take much better care of itself. Cold and ex- posed. extremities and too much wrapping around the body create cou- gestion and pave the way for disease. The hygienic and sensible method is e the throat, chest and arms a dash ‘of cold salt and water every moruing upon rising. An entive areal advantage, but this treatment of the neces- acainst there are boa or | throat and chest is almost absolutely | the system. -- | to the | { made in the shape of | Fourth of July-—was religiously {up all day. necessary if one would avoid a multi tude of ills that affect this portion of New York Ledger. A Mexican Custom on Good Iriday. Mrs. Sara Y. Stevenson contributes Century an article on ‘Maxi milian’s Empire,” one of a series de voted to the French Intervention i Mexico. In describing the scenes that followed the Siege of Puebla, Mrs, Stevenson says: It was a Mexican custom on Friday to burn Judas in efligy on the Plaza Mayor. Judas was a mahikir the person whe happened to be most unpopular at the time. It was quite admissible to bur Judas under different shapes, sometimes these summary autos-da-fe were multiplied to suit the occasion and the temper of the people. At the same time, rattles were sold on the streets, and rts bought, alike by children and adults, by rich and poor, to grind the bones of Judas; and the objectionable noise—seécond in hideousness only to that of our own sending off of fire crackers on the Kept In the year of our Lord 1863 Judas was burned in Mexico on the Plaza Mayor under the shapes General Forey, Napoleon III, last, but not least. M. Dubois de ligny, who especially was roasted with a will amid the wild exeerations of the populace. ( TOO and of ano Sa Days and Months to Grow Longer. Professor GG. H. Darwin lectured ir Huntington hall to a Lowell Institute audience on the suunject of tides in the earth. He showed with the aid diagrams that the frictional retarda tion of the earth’s revolution by the actions of the tides is to lengthen the period of the rotation of the earth, au at the same time to lengthen the period of the moon’s rotation round the eartl —that is, to lengthen both. the day and the month. But the lengthening of the day will be much more rapid than the lengthening of ths month, and thus it will come about that when the change has reached its maximum the earth and the moon will each re volve once in a period of fifty-five of our present days, the moon haviuc always the same face toward the earth. A similar cycle of changes had bee gone through by moon and earth ir the past. There was once a time when the moon revolved very nem to the earth’s surface, moon and earth going round one another in from three to five hours. The total period of the change was estimated at from 5,000, 0600 to 6,000,000 years. ~Bostor Herald. : O
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