The London Vegetation Society has committee of women to assist in promoting a knowledge of the artistic cookery of vegetable. The latest sharp game reported Is that of a New Yorker who advertised a handy method of writing withont pen or" ink. It costs the inquisitive publio 3 apiece to be told to use a pencil. The United States Navy now ranks seventh among the world's fleets. It consists of forty-one vessels. During the past year nine ships were launched nd si completed and placed in com mission. According to Beerbohra figures ahipments of wheat to Europe from America, Canada, Russia, India, Ar gentine and Australasia were 321,400, 000 bushels in 1893 and 499,800,000 Bnehels in 1892. The current work of Congress is looked after by 141 regularly accredit ed correspondents in the press galleries of the Senate and the House, and they serve 171 papers. New York is repre sented by twenty-one correspondents, who serve fifteen papers. In the shifting movement of this (restless country some people yet have been content to abide by the ancestral roof tree, muses the Chicago Herald. Dr. fleorge Adam died at Canaan, Conn., a few days ago at tho age of eighty-one years in the same house in which he was born and in which ho bad lived all his life. Hays the Atlanta Journal: Edwin Atkinson, who is very careful with figures, and who investigates thor onghly before he gives Bti opinion, thinks that the number of unemployed persons in the United States has been greatly exaggerated. He writes to the New York Journal of Commerce an interesting letter on the subject, in which he estimates the total num ber of unemployed in the country at 1,150,000 and says that this includes the large army of permanently and voluntarily idle. Mr. Atkinson's esti mate is the lowest we have seen, though another statistical expert, in the same issue of the Journal of Com merce, places the number of the un employed at 1,200,000. The meagre and unprofitable resulU ,f the sturgeon fishery in tho Colum bia River this season shows that the iturgeon as well as the salmon is fast being exterminated in thoBe wateri liecanseof wasteful and entirely im proper methods of fishing. A few years ago it was believed the Columbia Jiiver could easily supply the entire ICast as well as the Pacific markets with iturgeon, but this year the catch hai not been a tenth so large as in forme! years, to the great loss of fishermen nd packers. But on the Frazcr River, in British Columbia, where adeqnat laws for the proper protection of the fish exist and are strictly enforced, the catch this yoar has been bettel than ever before. One big packer hai removed his business this year from 'Washington to British Columbia, 'The rapid increase of crime in this country is largely due," main tains the Atlanta Constitution, "to th delay and uncertainty of criminal justice. In 1889 in the United Statei 35fi8 murders were committed. Id 1890 they reached 4290, and 5908 in 1891, while for 1892 the total is 6700, an increase of nearly ninety per cent, in fonr years. But although we had more than 20,000 murders in four years there were only 331 legal execu tions. Judge Lynch, however, took o hand in the matter and disposed ol 6S8 criminals. This lynching record pnts our lawbreakers and judges upon notice that the people demand speedy justice, and when they have reason to believe that they will be disappointed they will sometimes dispose of the business in their own way. With murders increasing at the rate of ninety per cent, sinoe 1889, it is evi dent that something must be done to heck the rising tide of crime or general demoralization will be the re sult. The certainty of punishment without unnecessary delay is the best remedy. Many a criminal who is reckless enough to court death at the bands of a mob shudders when he eon templates the prospect of dying on the gallows in a jail yard in the presence of only a few officials. These quiet, orderly, private executions have better effect than publio hangings or lynching. They inspire awe as well as terror. Justice surely and speedily administered in the courts will stop lynching and reduce the number of murders. If a murderer can be con victed in England and legally exec a ted within thirty days after the com mission of his crime, why cannot we be equally pr3mpt in our methods?" A FATAL TRIAL TRIP. TBIRTY-NtNB MEN KILLED BX AN EXPLOSION ON A OCR MAN WARSHIP. The Bursting of a steam Pipe on tht Brandenburg, a German Ironclad, 'While on a Trial Trip Causes a Terrible Disasters, A terrible accident occurred on board the (icrman Ironclad Brandenburg near Rtoller irund, three miles from tht Duels, light bouse, at the entrance to Kell bay. The big vessel fur tome time past has been In Klele't Fohrd the chief war harbor of Germany undergoing experiments. Mondsy was selected for a forced draught trial. To get the Ironclad In first class con dition from the test 40 artittcee were sent aboard from the Imperial dockyard. While eleven of these artifices were In the engine room a tremendous explosion took place, The main tleampipt of the starboard en gine had buret. Kar above the noise of the creeping ttesm were besrd the heartrending cries of the injured and dy.ng. Panic temporarily spread among the crew, but after a mo ment' t hesitation every effort was put forth to rescue the unfortunate men In the engine room. It was then foand that eleven of the artificers all but one bad been killed. The man who escaped owned his preservation from the fata of bis comrades to the fact that at the moment of the explosion lis was standing on a ladder near the top of the room, lilt companions were sll on the floor of the room. W hen the steam had cleared away and the panic bad subsided a further search was msde among tbe crew for the dead and injured. It was then tllicovered thst thirty nine men in all had been killed and nine ininred. 'J his list Includes the ten dead artificers. Thirty seven of the men were killed instantly. Two of the wounded died a short while after receiving their Injuries. Four steamers were promptly 'dispatched from Kiel to tbe scene of the disaster. 1 hey Carrie I a number of physicians and surgeons and a large quantity ot Jmedlcal supplies, the guard ship I'eliran, with Prince .Henry of 1'russia on board, also put off r Instantly to the Iliandenburg's aid. I lie dead and wounded were carried from t lie Hranden burg to the steamers and conveyed ta Kiel. Hie inured were taken to the hospital. It is believed that they will recover.1 The details of the accident art very bard to obtain. It Is said that at soon as the ex plosion occurred all hands were summoned on deck and the pumps were ringed. It was not tnen known what the accident amount ed to and fears were entertained that the Brandenburg was in danger of sinking. All day long the most intense excite ment has prevailed in Kiel. Most of the dead and Injured lived here or in thenelgh borhood ami; many of tliera were men ol family. The wharves were crowded from the time the steamers left for the scene of tbe explosion until they returned with the victims. As the dead "and wounded were borne tenderly from the vessels to the shore the air resounded with tbe cries of the bereaved, while those who had not lost any friends nr relatives uncovered tiieii head. A strict inquiry will be made into the cause of tbe disaster. 160,000,000 IN GOLD. The Produotion of the World Is the Largest Know for Years. Returns received at the Treasury Depart ment indicate that the gold output for lH'.l.'t will reach the almost unprecedented amount ot H7, 000,000, an increase over 1W2 of H.000,000. In Colorado the output has increased from 3,0OJ.UOO in WJi to 5,000,000 in 18IW. while the gains in the other gold producing sections are unusually large. Tbe Australian production will carry the production of the world, It is thought to loO.OOJ.OCO, which is a gain ol tlL'.ouO.OOO for tht year. Willi one or two exceptions this is the largest output ever known. The gild fields of South Africa seem to bt rapidly taking the place of the California and Australian llelds as the bonanza tinds of tbe present decade. Reports from the Vitwatersrnndt region alone show a total product for 1HH3 of 1,478,47H ounces of ore, yielding a product of refined gold of a value In excess of 12.'), 000,000. The produc tion In this region is increasing at an aston ishing rate and South Africa bids fair dur ing the present year to push her way to the head of the list cf gold producing countries. The figures tor 1802 put Australia . at the head of the list, with a production of t.'U. 870.7000. tbe the l ulled Htaies second at tltt.OOO.OOO: Kussia third at 1)24,800,200 and Africa fourth at .:), 700,000. The full re turns from South Arica for 18113 will prob ably show a production In excess of (30, 000,000 which will force her Into third pluce and if tbe increase continues she will pass Kussia during 1804 and will be beaten by the United States In aggregate production only by means of a large increase in to is country. Tbe production of 'silver, according to the reports received at the mint, baa fallen off during the past year and will nut exceed 185,000, in coining value for 1893. As the coining value is now more than twice the market value tbe actual mercantile value nf the silver mined will drop below 00,OUU,. 000 the smallest figure for many years. W. H. PECKHAM H EJECTED Tbe Senate Befusea to Confirm Him Foi Justioe. By a majority of nine votes the senate in executive session rejected the nomination of Mr. Wheeler 11. Peckham to be an asso ciate justice of tbe supreme court, THE VOTE WAS AS FOLLOWS! For confirmation: Democrats Bate, Blackburn, Briue, Bullock. CaOery, Faulk ner. Ueorge, Uray. Harris, ilunton, Lindsay, Mul'herson, Martin, Mills. Mitchell of Wis consin, Palmer, Pascoe, Itaiuom. Koch, Turpie, Vilas. Voorhees and White oi Louisiana. Republicans. Dixon, Hale, Mitchell of Oregon; 1'etligrew, Plait, Proc ter, Squire, Slockpridge. Populists Kyle, Against Confirmation Republicans Aldricb, Allison, Cameron, Carey, Cbandlei Cullora, Davis, Dolph, J-'rye. tiallinger, Hansbrougb, Hawley, Higglns, Hoar, Lodge, Manderson, Morrill, Perkins. Power, Sboup, Stewart, Teller, Wasburne, Wilson. Democrats Berry, Call, Cockroll, Coke, Daniel, Gibson. Uoraian, lrby, Jones of Arkansas; McLaurin. Murphy, Hill, Pugh, Vest, White of California, Populist-Allen, 1'effer. Total 41. The proceedings of tbe executive session prior to the taking of the vote consisted entirely of spsechraaking. Senators, Vilas. Mitchell (Ore.), Ueorge and Uray speaking for confirmation and Senators White (Cal.j and Hawley against. All the addresses except those of Senators Vilas and Ueorge were very brief and consisted mainly uf explanations of tbt votes of the sptasers. A CHEW TOMAHAWKED. Soutb SeaBhip Disasters by Natives and Btorma The Iron steamer alert, while on bei voyage from Port Albert to Melbourne re cently, sank during a terrible gale, and of tbt IS men aboard but one managed to reach land and tell the story. Another outrage tas been committed by tbe natives upon a trading vessel oft Coast Pentecost. The natives are stated to bave attacked tht schooner Petrel at or near this port, where Ueorge I.ifou was killed a few months ago. They boarded her and tomahawked several of tbt crtw. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. ummarlsed Proceedings of Our Law Makers at Washington. rorrvrtoHTtt Fiat. Rbvats Discussion of the Hawaiian uestton occupied the entire session of the enatetodav. Horse Mr. Bland announced fn the i House today that he would more at a later day to amend his pen ling bill so that silver certificates would be Issued only as fast as liver dollars were coined, with the added authority to the secretary of the treasury to Issue the certificates in advance of the coinage If he so desired. The measure, therefore, went over for a time After some routine business by special order, the re mainder of the dav was consumed in pay ing appropriate tribii'e to the memory nf the late Senator .Stanford of California. At the conclusion nf the eulogies, as a further mark of respect, the house at 4:15 ad louriied. roKtv-SIXTH HAT. Senate. A bill was reported in the sen ate by Mr, Coke, of Texas, and passed, continuing In force the act for the protec tion of tisb In the Potomac river. The sen ate bill making Labor Day, the first Mon dsy of September, a legal holiday, was re- ?orled by Mr. Kyle from the Committee on Question and was placed on file, Mr. Uray, of Delaware, then resumed his argu ment on the Hawaiian resolution. Horse. The debate on the llland Silver Helgniorage bill was resumed to day in the House , some routine business preceding It. The speaker laid before the house the Ha waiian message from the President trans milted yesterday. At the request of Mr. Iltirrnwk It was read and then referred to the Foreign Affairs Committee. rirtiitH pat. PrsATB. Alnio.t the eatirt time of the Senate to-day was consumed In the discus slon of the House bill compelling the Hock Island Railroad Companv to stop Its trains at the new towns of Enid and Itouud Pond, In Oklahoma The whisky tax. and the position of the W. U T. It. on the question, were then brought up by Senator Frye and discussed until adjournment. House. The entire session of the House was consumed to-day in debate upon the bland bill. rirTT-riasr pat. Sfsate The House bill providing for railroad stations at town sites in the terri tories was passed in ttie Senate toduy. witn an amendment requiring an election in two counties in Oklahoma Hint are affected by the bill to determine the location of the county seats. An amendment was offered by Mr. I'efTer. populist, nf Kansns.allowlng women to vote at such elections. The amendment got the support of only 15 Senators and wus lost. Jlui'ssj Committee on Foreign Affairs reported toilav the bill to protect tbe isignia and name of the American National Jted Cross Association. The bill makes it un lawful for any person or association of per sons to use the symbol of the Red Cross Society. This Society wr.s funned for the purpose of mitigating the evils Inseverable from war. The debate nil the Bland's seigniorage bill then drug along until ad journment. rirrv-ssroRii pat. Sf.sutf Tbe s-nate adjournal a few minutes after 4 o'clock this afternoon after Snding the whole dsy considering the nomination of W, H. l eek bain ot New York to he associate justice of the supreme c mrt. The vote to confirm the nomination resulted in a rejection ny a vote of 32 to 41. Hot se All day long Mr. Bland or Mis souri struggled to get a quorum to pass liis coinage ol tne teigniorage dim, out witn 2.V1 members present and answerable to their names on a call of the House, he was never able to musier more than 103 on bis motion to close debate on the measure. PROMINENT PEOPLE, SattAToa Pasco, ot Florida. Is a native ot England. Ilr.v. W. P. Fife Is called tho "Moody of the South." Thr King ot Italy Is not much over five feet lu height. The King of Bavaria has a salary of il, 412,000 a year. The Princess of Wales denies that she has Withdrawn from soolety. Tns friends of Br. Nunsen, the Arctia ex plorer, entertain gravu fears for bis safety. Mas. Colfax, widow of the former Vice President, is said to be practically peuuiless. Mas. Hetty Ohf.xx, thn richest woman In America, Is said to pay tT a woek for board. Ex-Empress Fhedkhic, mother of Emperor William, bears tho distinction ot being tbe most unpopular person in Berlin. Mm. Kavarbo (Mary Anderson) Is staving ut Nice, Italy, this winter. She Is III with a uervous nfTection, and oho neither visit not receive visits. Ex-United States SENATon Mobto Smith Wilkinson, President Lincoln's con fidential adviser, diod, a few days ago, at Mankato, Minn. Cat-tain E. L. Zalinset, tho Inventor ol the dyuamlte gun, haa been placed on the retired list of the army ou account of dis ability caused by paralysis. The Prince of Wales, so It Is said, has to haudle his bat so much in acknowledging tbe honors done him on the street that he has to bave a new brim to it every fortnight. Joseph Keppler, the cartoonist, first at tracted the attention of an employe of Frank Leslie's publishing bouse by some clever cari catures on the back and margin of a restaur ant bill of fare. Miss Harbiet Lame Johnson, who presided at the White House, during Buchanan s ad ministration, has purchased the old Travis mansion In Washington and will make it hei permanent home. Lieutenant John H, Alexander Is the first colored man to hold the professorship of military science and tactics lu any institu tion. He was recently appointed to tbls posi tion in tbe Wilberforce University, Ohio. Buffalo's blind lawyer, Louis L. Ullmno, has been made a United Status Commissioner. Heia thirty-one years old and was made, blind by an attack ot scarlet fever wbeu be was five years of age. He was educated at the Institute for the Blind lu BAtavia and tho Perkins Institute in South Boston, Muss., and at tbe law school in Buffalo. Senator Colquitt, ot Georgia, who was Stricken with paralysis about a year ago, cannot walk. He is rollel into and out of the Senate Chamber in a wheel-chair, which be occupies during the sessions. Despite this physical Infirmity Mr. Colquitt is said to be a formidable candidate for re-election, lii term will expire March 8. 1893. Executed at Midnight. ''Budd" Stone, the notorious murderer of the Wratten family, was executed in the county prison yard at Jeffersonvllle, Ind. The cilme of which James K. Stone, or "Bud" Slone.'as he was familiarly known, wus convicted, was committed near Ci leu dale. Ind , on tbe night of September 18, li3 and wus the peculiarly atrocious and bloody murder of Mrs. Elizabeth Wrutteu. her sou, Denson Wratten and his wife and three children. All were killed instantly escept the little girl, Ethel, who lived for several days. AN AWFUL CHIME. White Fiends Scraps and Cut a Colorod Man. F'rom Agelthorpe, Ua comes a story of such a horrible murder that Oov. Northen lias doubled tbe reward for the criminals. Hob Collins, a respectable negro, was 1 ragged from borne by aeven white men, itrlpped, beaten with a buggy trace, scraped sua out with a blunt kuifeand left naked nearly seven hours in a freezing atmos phere. He dld 1 ist uller being found, NEWS OF THE WEEK. FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. What. Is Transpiring the World Over. Important Eventa Briefly Told. latitat. Laker an lariaatrlal. The strikers at the Olrard stove works In Youngstown, O., will resume work at tbe old wages. The miners at Cannalfon, Pa., bare ac cepted 14 rents per ton reduction agreed npon by the Columbus convention. Tbt car works of John M. Jones at West Troy, N. Y bavt shutdown fot an indefi nite period, Between 3.0 and 400 men are (brown out of work. Fires Fire started in the Joiner shop of the im mense Bath, Me., Iron works Tuesday morning Machine shop No. 2, the Joiner's shop, bending shop and ship tbop were destroyed. Los 1175,030. The company will rebuild. An Immense tannery at the village at and Bank, N. Y., was destroyed by fire The loss Is f 100,000. rime aaa Praam. ' ltiitnle Itaynor, aged 17, shot bis father, Charles Hay nor, three timet st tbell borne In Waukesha, Wis. Tbe boy, wbc Is In Jail, says lit committed the deed in defense of bis mother, and tbe latter cor roberatea lilt statement, William O. Dlmitk, agent fof the Mer chants Dispatch, at Buffalo, shot and killed bimseil in bis apartments. He bad bien suffering with tbe grip. At a negro dance near Rosedale, Mo., Jae. Pmitb emptied a double barreled shotgun into a wagon load of the revelers, wound ing five girls. Dr. Duestrow, of St Louis, one of tin llrnnile mountain millionaires, shot bit wife and B year old ion. Tbe wife still lives. The doctor was arrested. .Mertsmrv. James B. Scott, the heud of tbe firm ol lames B. Scott A Co., metal dealers, Pitta Dnrg, dieJ at bis residence, 2'7 Ridge ave nue, Allegheny, The immediate cause ol death was diabetes. Soon after the Johns low n flood, when everything was in chain here, Mr. Scott was appointed '.'dictator" with lupteme command. Washlntlna News. Tbe Senate bill making Labor Day. tht 3 rat Monday in September, a legal holiday, was reported to the Senate by Mr.Ky!e from die committee on education. Tbe senate bas confirmed Thomas B. Ferguson of Maryland to be Envoy Extra ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Sweden and Norway. HUrrllanenas. The Gloucester, Mass., fishing schooners Tuesday brought in tbe'largest catch of her ring for oneday on record, the total amount ii g to 5,075,000 in number and 0,081 barrels Milted. Tbt Massachusetts House by a vote of 100 to 51) passed tht bill abolishing Fast day In that State. BEYOND OUB BORDERS. Tht Turks killed I'.'S Armenians and wounded 310 during tbe recent riots at Yusgat. The right name cf the prisoner who brew tbe bomb in the Terminus restaurant I'trls, is Emile Henry, He is a decorative iculptor, but two years ago quit work to propagate anarchistic ideas. A rich English widow, whom he married, furnished the Money. AOAIN IN FLAMES. Another Mysterious Fire on the World's Fair Orounda. Fire again broke out in tbe colonnade be tween the Agricultural Building and Ma chinery Hall, World's Fair grounds. It gained rapid headway and tht tire depart ment available In tbe district was massed at tht point of danger. The tire started near tht point at which the firemen made a tierce fight against tbe flames last week. When first seen tbe flames were crawling up the pillars Quick ly they mounted higher and the fire grew butler and more dangerous. The first alarm was toon followed by a second call, but be fore the additional engines reuched tbe burning structure its destruction and that of tbe large buildings adjoining ou either aide was threatened. Another call was sent out and all the avullahle engines in Woodlawn and Hyde Park were soon hurrying to the scene. The drifted snow on the groundsjniudethe work of the tireman slow and before sufficient streams were directed toward the burning struc ture its timbers were cracking in a rapidly spreading blaze. The fire was lirnt seen about 100 yards west of the part burned lust week. It was Inside the colonnade and skirling the south end of the canal teparuting Agricultural Building and Machinery Hull. Tbe fire was west of the center line and nearer Machin ery Hall. Starting at a point nearly back of tbe Eiivntian obelisk, it snread east and west through the colonnade, covering a distance ot 60 feet. The light woodwork offered little resist ance to tiie flames and the pillars and or nate roof decorations along tue colonnade were soon in ruins. Three groups of animals In statuary, standing on the roof, were burned. Tbe firemen were hampered, not only In reaching the colonnade, by the snow, but the drills delayed them in fighting the blaze It wtsditticull to move tbe engines and lines of host were clogged in tbe snow. Tbe engines drew a water supply from the csnal and no difficulty In this supply was en countered. Shortage of coal, however, was some disadvantage, as the supply wagout mudeslow trips. The Firm of James B. Scott A Co. in an Assignee's Hands. Knox and Reed, attorneys for Benjamin O. Foliansttee una William I', Follansbee, surviving members of tht well-known firm of James B. Scott A Co., tin-plate and aheet-irun dealers, of Putaburgh, Pa., bate made a voluntary assignment lor tbt bene fit of the creditors of that concern. Tbt legal proceeding was entered within a few hours following tbe demise of Mr. Janice B. Scott, the bead of the firm, which oc curred a few days ago. Caught Disgulssd as a Farmer. Frank C. Brady, who in August. IBbJ, decamped from Portland, Ore., an embei teler from tbt Hunnysidt Improvement company of that city, to the txteut of ;.V uoo has been captured. Brady first went to England. Some months ago he returned to the United Stales, came to Kansas in disguise and settled on a farm near l.tareu wor.li where tit lived until captured. LAl'EH Mtuwa. rhlMES AND fenaltifs. Frank Harper succeeded In getting checks ftJrla.OO and DS,(Ki0 cashed at a Chicago bank and then made good his e-enpe. Checks had been raised from IT) and IJ, Mrs. Jennie line er, a white woman, was murdered near Ptatiton, Ala. Two negroes bave already been lynched and the aven gers art hunting for more victims. Near Bliss, Idaho, James Cross shot and killed two men wbo were going to testify against him In a cast of theft. Lynching Is probable. Tht Ftderalgrand jury tt Chicago return ed an Indictment charging Lieutenant Man ey with tht ninrder of Caiitaln Htdbtirg at Fort Sheridan. miasters, accidents and rTAt.mr. A cave in occurrtd In Bunker Hill mine. Idaho, by which Pat Curran, a ship boss, and two other miners wert killed and two severely injured. The steamers C'sdoxlon and C'lytha, both British, have been in collision In Harry Roads. The Clylba sunk and four ol ber crew wert drowned. WASniNOTOS). Dr. Daniel H. Williams, of Chicago, bat been appointed by Secretary links Smith at urgeon in chief to the Fre-dmen't Hospital in place of Dr. Charles B. Purvis who has held that position for several years. Dr. Williams is the leading representative of bit race in Illinois. CAPITAL AKB LABOR. Candee Rubber Company of New Haven, Conn , baa cut wages of its 2,000 employes. Fully 3,800 silk ribbon weavers at New York tre on a strike. Mill FLLANFOl'S. Tbomas 11. Blythe died at San Francisco without leaving a will. Ills estste It fjvalu ed at 14,000,003 and the State Is now claim ing It. Council at N'ewberg. N. Y.. decided to al low women to vote at the special elections. The Trant-Missi'Sippl Congress at San Francisco, after an exciting debate, adopt ed by a vote of 251 to 511 a resolution declar ing tbe right of elective franchise for women of the United Slatea. An Insane printer, who gave his name as lobn McDonald created a sensation in the Roman Catholic Church of the Epiphany at New York, by disrobing while services were in progress, The man was ejected with difficulty. SCALPED BY A LION. Horrible Entertainment at tbe Mid winter Fair. Carlo Tbeiman, attendant at Boone's animal show at the midwintei fair, San Francisco, was attacked by three lloos nd to horribly mangled that be may die. Jt was during the evening performance.Three huge beasts were ltd into tbe cage by fjTbei nian, preparatory to Boone's entrances. All at once the electric lights went out. Immediately a shriek of sgony came from tbe stage, followed by the crunching sound of terrible jaws and tbe groans of the man In tbe cage. The large crowd of spectators was pamc stricken. Finally lanterns were brought. In the tage lay I'heimun with three lions clawing and munching his pros trate farm. Col. Boone seized an iron bar and entered the rage. With shouts and blws be drove the beasts from their prey and dragged the unfortunate man from the rage, 'ihsiman was taken to a hospital. He bas 43 wounds. By one blow from a lion's paw he has been 'scalped from tbe forehead to tbe nape of the neck. Under each arm there were terrible bites, where tbe lions bsd attempted to reach a vital pot. One of them nearly succeeded, for he Just missed a large artery. The man's legs and thighs were also bitten and scratch d. At the hospital he recovered conscious lit St. Internal Bevenu s Meceipte. The receipts from internal revenue during the first ten riavs of the present montti aggregated 15,070,211 as against f4.5l4.MJ4 during the corresponding period last year, a gain of "i()l,fiU7. The tremendous increase is regarded by the Treasury officials as a sure sign of returning business activity. The significance of it will lie undersood when it is known that since the beginning ot the present fiscal year the receipts from internal revenue had constantly declined month by month until tbe aggregate receipts for the half year were fuliy12,ooo.(SM) less than for tbe corresponding period of 18:H THE LABOR WOBLD. There are 125 clerks' unions. A weaver in Germany receives sixty cents a day. Fio-paceers in Asia Minor, It skillful, can make twenty oenls a day. A confectioner Id Venezuela can earn from tli to I6 per mouth. Seven million persons are employed In the cultivation of the vine in France. The Meriden (Conn.) Cutlery Company has cut wages five to twenty-live per cent. The textile congress of France has decided to adopt u standard list of prices, as In Eng luu ). Inmates oT the State Trlson at Providence, fi. I., are making boots for tbe BraJUan sol dlcrp. A Nashville (Tenn.) labor lender wants the unions to employ lawyers to prosecute people who violate labor laws. An agricultural luborer In India Is sup pose 1 to receive five cents a day, but in gen eral his wages are not so large. . The average farm laborer In America doesn't make ti'iO a vear and a large pro poniou live on less than 150 a year. Moshcf (Conn.) mills have shnt down, bnt no reut will be charged operatives in the company's bouses so long as the factory is Idle. The Tortland (M0 Central Labor Union wants a law to prevent the employment of children uudcr fourteen, aud ua Employers' Liability uut. When a lioss In Luxemburg needs an em ploye he fills out a blank aud for five cents the news is postal in ail the postofflues in Wurtemburg. I'snxr. th English. Employers' Liability bill, which has p issid second reading, tbe bonne will have to pay damages to lueu in ured In their employ. John BrBNs aud other men prominent in Euuliah labor olrules are to oonie to this country to confer with their brethren lu the cause on this side of tbe Atlantic. The lute General Maltzeff, of Persia, was reported to tie one of the heaviest employers of help in tbe world. In his twenty-nine mines be gave work to 55,000 workmeu. Hillsboro, New Mexico, a new mining n.iinp, boasts of having no unemployed men. Work ia offered to all miners who go there. The gold ore runs from 46 to ai0i a tou. The Master Workman ot tbe Cooks' As sembly, K. ot L., at Omaha Is a colored man, and the Worthy Foreman la a white inuu. Tbe Treasurer is white, uudtbebw lutury colore., .. ... qililHT A5D tTRlOU Delaware lias no Htate prison. , French lovers have a sealing wax code. The Himalayas have been soon 224 miles away. The oldest collection of poetry la the book of Psalms. Out of every 1,000 births in Eng land twelvu are twins. The deepest artesian well is at 1'ots dnm, Germany, 5,500 feet deep. Home mahogany trees in Honduras) are worth from $500 to $B,000 each. Detachable heels for boots and elioea are a recent invention of au Knglinh mati. A woman of Hpring Hill, Mo., line baked a loaf of bread from yeast thirty years old. Three million American citizens of over thirty years of age were unimir ried iu 1890. There is a man in West Virginia who writes his name thus: Llewcllju 1'htholognyrrb. Roman treaties, laws and publio documents of importance were written on tablets of brass. The longest wire span is a telegraph wire over the river Kistuah, iu Indin. It is over 0,000 feet. A seventeen-year-old ginut in Aus tralia menNtires eight feet 3J inclieH, and weighs 800 pounds. It will cost 83.r),004,2."i7.fi9 to run tho government of New York city during the coining yenr. The bank clearings of St. Louis Inst year amounted to $1.1M,014,2!)1 against $1, 231, 271, 903 in 1S92. . Sliiguken, Oniika, Japan, claims to Love a dwarf thirty-six years old who is only seventeen inches in height. For bleeding at the tiose, Dr. Hut chinson recommends plunging tho feet aud hands in water as hot as can be borne. A rattlesnake killed by James Ora liam of Columbus, Ind., ineaNiired nine feet in length aud had thirty nine rattles. Lord Byron's coronet is said to have been transformed into a chafing-dish by its present owner, Mr. Chillis, uf Philadelphia. An increased impulse to flax eulturo in Scotland seems likely to be given by tho invention of machinery for scutching the flax. Before the Mohammedans took pus session of Arabia nine-tentha of nil female children born were immedi ately buried alive. The burning of Moscow by tho Russians in order to drive out the French, caused an estimated loss of over $ 20,000,000. An armless boy of Middletown, Conn., named William Mylehreet, ha completed the painting of a wagon. His feet did the work. From a lobster farm at Hon tli port. Me., twelve miles in extent, one mil lion of the crustaceans are annually shipped to nil parts of the world. Natural Food in Missouri. "Nature provided ns with thn beet of food for every one," said Col. J. H. Criap to tba corridor man tit tho Lnclode, "anil we have not preserved it. If tho wild turkeya had been pro tected in Missouri, and the hens nut been slaughtered and the young left t perieh, every stream in the state to duy would have thousands of turkeys along the bunks. If the does had been left and only the bucks killed, the forest would abound in deer. "Had prairie chickens been killed for food alone and not for wanton apurt, the fields would be full of them. Tho Government ought to establish a largo game park and raise birds and animals udnpted to this country. Theu estab lieli game laws and rigidly enforce them. It will be but a few years, ni,- Ichh this is done, before the game is entirely exhausted. The same is true of firth, and tlsh culture should lie es tablished npon a sculo commensurate with the capabilities of the ut reams. " St. Louis Globe Democrat. Our Courts In Japan. The proceeding in the United States Consular Court reoeutly brought i.ut a singular fact iu connection with tlio American courts in Japan. ' It seems that they are tinder the old common law of Eugland, which existed prior to 1770, and under this law some curious things may be enacted. For iiiatauce a verbal statemeut is enough to constitute a will. If a muu so de sires he cen if arraigned for certain oHctist s deuiaud triul by combat, while under another section of the law a muu may be hanged for stealing a shil ling, (Japun Gazetto.
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