Tho debts i(th! world arc estimated
kt $150,000,000,000.
Oermnny'n proportion of suicides is
larger thnn thnt of any other Europ
ean country,
It is oatimated thiit 1y improper
methods in tho Pennsylvania mines 30
to 40 per cent, of tho anthracite coal
was formerly lost.
A railroad train in Spnm rectiitly
made a run of twenty-five mile in a
littlo over an hour, ami, according to
the New York Trilmne, the papers are
full of jubilant article about the ac
bicvenicnU H. Eider Haggard, tho novelist, had
bought a weekly newspaper printed in
London, known as the African Ro
view, which he proposes to devote to
the interests of South Africa. Mr.
Haggard in an nncompromitiing sup
porter of British rule in Africa, aud
believe that the Boer power in the
southern part of the Dark Continent
in doomed.
i
A member of the Leeds (England)
Chamber of Commerce introduced a
resolution at a meeting of that body a
fortnight ago that the government be
asked to put the big, expensive navy
to some good practical uso, by utiliz
ing the ships for commercial purposes.
He suggested tho carrying of the mails,
or passengors, or any remunerative
work, "so as to make tho navy wholly
or partially self-supporting."
United States Consul Lastrcmskl,
at Callao, Peru, who has been con
cerning himself with the problem of
bettering the trade relations between
the United States and the nine million
people on the west const of South
America, ascribes to inadequate means
of transportation tho present small
trade relations, and gives some re
markable figures to prove how great is
the discrimination in favor of Europe
and against tho United States under
the present system.
The cost of erecting an office build
ing which shall comply with all the
provisions of the Building laws in
New York City is said to be about
forty cents per cubic foot, while ten
years ago it was estimated that the
cost of erecting a large building was
$2 per oubie foot. A natural result of
this reduction, brought about by a
varioty of causes, remarks the Sun, is
that capitalists have decidod upon in
venting more money than ever in big
buildings, and plans for several have
been drawn, each of which is to be
twenty-four stories high.
rhysician in New York City are
much interested in tho ease of a man
who had a malignant tumor in his
throat, involving tho vocal cords,
states the Boston Cultivator. To save
the patient's lifo the doctor removed the
larnyx and entire vocal apparatus, in
serting a metallio tube in its place.
Nobody thought the patient would
ever bo able to speak, and ho was con
sidered lucky if the doctor's makeshift
enabled him to 0 Midline to breathe.
But when the wound healed spueoh re
turned and the mkn cau talk iu or
dinary tones nearly us well as ever.
He addressed a clinic of surgeons re
cently aud told thorn ubout tho opera
tion. His only disability is an inabil
ity to shout, but we have all known
people who would be greatly improved
for suob a ohanoo as this.
Some one given to statistics has
discovered that, whereus iu 1H5H there
woro only Bevonty lines of iudustriul
activity opon to women, now there are
COO. If the next quarter of a century
sees a proportionate expansion of wo
man's opportunities, the New York
Mail aud Express predicts there will
be a demand for protective organiza
tions for the men. Women are grasp
ing creatures, there is no question of
that, and while men might bo induced
to overlook the minor invasion of th"ir
wardrobes, as illustrated fy the pres
ent mania for shirts, cravats, hats,
etc., etc., of an unmistakably mascu
line out, but it cannot be expected of
them to sit still while the bread is
taken out of their mouths, poor lad
dies. It is a woman, as some one in
the Ladies' Home Jourual informs
us, who has hit upon a quite new aud
very lucrative line of business, one,
we should think, which would pay
quite as well iu New York as iu Lou
don, where it has had its rise. It is
the business of indexing indexing
everything deserving that distinction.
A bright young English woman, a Miss
Bailey, is the first to open an iudoxer's
office, and she is makiug such finan
cial suooess that she is ulroady ousting
about for oompeteut assistants. It is
dry and wearing, work, but women
bread winners stop at nothing nowa
day that is olean, honorable ' aud
Vy."
Tho population of tho I'nitcd States
doubles in a period of about thirty
Mir years.
The finest mahogany in the world
comes from British Honduras. Over
5,000,000 cubic feet were exported in
1H90.
Ait-trnlin mined 4,037,920 tons of
eoal last year. Tho supply is appar
ently inexhaustiblo and is counted on
to be nn important factor in tho future
industrial dovelopemeut of the couu-
try-
A French writer points ont that
while Greater New York will cover
SI 7 square miles, equal to 83,100
French hectares, Paris covers only
T.802 hectares, Berlin 6,600, and Lon
don 80,000.
The confirmation of the news of the
linking of the great steel clad monster
Aqnidaban by a torpedo boat will, in
the opinion of the Philadelphia Rec
ord, serve to diminish tho confidence
of tho nations in their costly cruisers
and battleships. It has always been
lo. As soon as some Goliath gets his
reputation established, along comes
ume unexpected David with a sling.
In the German army promotion
from the ranks is practically unknown (
but in France about half the officers
become officers in that way. It is the
unanimous testimony of French sol
diers that officers who have seen scr
vico in the ranks do, as a rule, succeed
best in securing respect, obedience,
and efficiency in their subordinates.
Still, to get a commission from the
ranks is by no mesne easy. After a
non-commissioned officer has been fre
quently recommended he has to go
through a military college and pass
very severe examinations.
In the French, as in all foreign ar
mies, a company consists of 250 men.
This is commanded by a mounted cap
tain and has an adjutant, who is a
non-commissioned officer responsible
for discipline, a sergeant-major and a
quartermaster-sergeant. There are
four companies in a battalion and three
battalions in a regiment, A battalion
Is commanded by a "oommandant"
aud a regiment by a colonel, assisted
by a licutcnaut-coloncl. Authority
aud responsibility are not coutralizod,
as in the American sorvico. Each
captain, for instance, is entirely re
sponsible for his company, and upon
its efficiency his promotion depends.
Metal articlos manufactured in the
United States are crowding out imple
ments of English aud German make
in the foreign markets states the New
York Sun. A list of articles exportod,
and which rind ready sale abroad, con
tains the following: Tools used by
carpenters, coopers, curriers, masons,
blacksmiths, miners, plumbers and
cabinetmakers, all in great varioty.
Shovels, spade hoes, forks, axes,
saws, ploughs, harrows, roapers, mow
ers. Ordors for 10,000 steel ploughs
aro received at a time. Binding twine
and barbed wire, in enormous quanti
ties. All sorts of ship hardware.
Cut aud wire nails, tacks, brads and
shoe nails. Builders' hardware, such
as locks, knobs, hinges, escutcheons,
etc. Tin, iron and enamelled ware,
trble cutlery, clocks, lamps and ohan
doliers, stoves, ranges, heaters, plated
aud silverware. All sorts of rubber
meohauioal goods. Pumps, wood
working machinery, iron working ma
chinery, steam engines, boilers and
sugar working machinery.
In a publio address delivered in
Pittsburg a fow days ago, Rev. Dr.
Sheldruke, of Kentucky, related these
singular stories : "There was a mem
ber of the Kentucky presbytery, whom
I knew very well, who frequently went
into a sort of walking sloop. While
in this condition he would preach most
eloquent sermons, but whon he came
out he could not remember a word
that he had said. On oue oooasion
copy of the French Testament was
handed to him to conduct family wor
ship at the house of a well-known cit
izen of Frankfort Although utterly
ignorant of the French language, he
read a chapter and then commented
thereon at length in English. On an
other oceasion, while in this condition,
he remarked to his friends that a cer
tain minister, iu Nebraska was in trou
ble, and that he had just written a let
ter in Kentucky, detailing the circum
stances. He then proooedod to give
the oouteuts of the letter, and his
words were tuken down by some one
present. Two days later the letter ar
rived from Nebraska, aud it was iden
tical, word for word, with the oue the
minister had dictated while in the
waking sleep." The speaker oited
these iustunoes to show the life of the
soul independent of the body, and
argued therefrom the immortality p'
the former.
An Oi rYir.1 1 1)'.
The wnrm sun shines down on banks of
whit" elovnr i
Thfl honey Ism, Initen, flits by on tho wlng
And Jenny comes down where tho peach
trees ls-n. over.
And robin Kay rogue, Is beginning to slug.
Blue, so Mae, an the skies where the soft
clouds nre swimming,
And blue, yes, as bluo, nre tha mnlclon's
bright eyes (
But, sln! their fnir beauty with teardrops
nrn brimming.
While them's no hint of rain In the azure-
hueil skies.
The robin trills louder his rapturous singing;
The pink blossoms drift on the brsor.e that
floats by (
But Jenny's heart-throbs, and her thoughts
are a-wlnging,
As she spreads the white clothes on the
clovr to dry
There Is an empty nest In the apple tree hid
den i
There's a blacklierry vine that Is dead In the
sun.
It will rain, for the clouds by the breezes are
hidden,
And the linen half dry, and the washing
halt done!
But the robin sang on. And the wind, Idle
rover,
Still drifted the poach blossoms down to the
grass
For how could they know of a fnlthlcss
young lover,
And how could they read the sweet heart of a
lass?
Btlll on moves the day. The tun mounting
hign,
Reveals a new nest In the old apple tree,
And the rays reach the vine that seemed dead
and they spy
A promise of hope, that the Bummer will
see.
And Jenny, slow tripping where blossoms
bend over,
Finds that, silly maiden, that banishes tears,
As she plucks, with a smile, the hozol-ringed
olover
That brlngeth good fortune and drives away
fears.
Ah ! Jenny, the robin, his carol still singing,
Is watching the scene with bird-wisdom
wise,
And he notes, I nm sure, that the wind Is
a-brlnging
No hint of a shower, In the blue of the
skies.
Bo the peach petals drift, as the bee, busy
rover,
Flies home at the close of the long Bummer
hours.
And sees blushing Jenny a-greotlng her
lover
Where tho red robin nests, and the white
clover flowers.
The Detective's Story,
"Although the law protects a police
officer in the execution of his duty,"
said one of Mr. Byrne's detectives the
other day, "yet there are occasions
whon the officer makes himself person
ally liable by arresting a citizen. I
have had several experiences which
left me in doubt for a long time as to
my personal responsibility, and I re
member particularly one case where it
looked as though I would gut myself
into a heap of trouble 'by rofusing to
take the advice of my friends. That
was a very peculiar case, one that I
will not forget.
"I had bocome intorostod in trying
to work out the solution of a mysteri
ous case of theft, aud had become so
absorbed in my work that my curios
ity and desire to come to some definite
conclusion impelled me to go boyond
ordinary bounds, I had nothing but
suspicion and a sort of intuitive fool
ing to act npon, and had against me a
threat of suit for personal dnmnges
and the opposition of all those persons
who were interested in the matter in
one way or another. The facts were
simply these :
"A wealthy family living on the
west side, not far from Central Park,
lost a number of valuable articles in
the most mysterious fashion. I was
acting as the detective iu that precinct
at the time, and the captain sont me
around to ferret out the thief. I
found that the poople lived in a beau
tiful house, which was just full of valu
able articles that could easily be stolen
by a person who had aooess to them.
On the other hand, it was difficult for
burglar or a sneak thief to get in, as
the place was not only guarded by
good locks but had also a burglar
alarm, which was set whenever the
family aud servants retired. During
the day and evening there were enough
persons about the bouse to spot any
thief that might effect an entrance.
"The family consisted of husband,
wife, and baby, and there were four
or five servants, including a unrse.
The latter had it about as easy as any
servant could wish for. Her employ
ers were Californians, had lots of
money, doted on their child, and were
liberal to its caretaker. They had
boon absont for about a week, and it
was during their absenoe that the
thefts became so alarming as to cause
them to complain to the police when
they returned.
"I was so well satisfied after a short
preliminary examination of the house
aud surroundings, that the thief was
inside aud not outside, that I devoted
all my time to watching and oross-ex-amiug
the servauts. I had no diffi
culty with any except the nurse. She
was very uppish and short, and acted
as though she considered my questions
insulting. In this attitudo she was
supported by her employers, who said
that there was no reason in tho world
for suspecting her, while they wcro
not so certain of tho other servants.
The latter, however, were so direct
and frank in their replies to all my
questions thnt I became convinced
that they were innocent. I therefore
tnrned my attention io the nurse, and
watched her whenever I went to tho
house. Although I conld get no evi
dence against her, I became thorough
ly convinced that she was the thief.
Try as I would, however, I conld not
find anything to support my belief.
Finally.my ardor led me into formally
arresting her,although her master and
mistress protested against my doing
so. I took her before a police justice
sitting at Yorkvillo. Now, I had
known this justice for a number of
years, and, as a matter of fact, it was
through his influence that I had se
cured my place on the force. He had
always treated me like a son, and I
was therefore very much amazed and
put back at his conduct on this occa
sion. I had no sooner arranged the
woman and started to explain my
charge against her than he became
vory ind ff.ront, and said sharply:
"Yon have made a mistake, man. I
know thnt this woman is not guilty.
Why, sho was employed in my own
family for a number of years, and 1
know her to be as honest a woman as
ever breathed. You had no right to
arrest her, and if she brings suit
against yon I will have to testify in
her favor. Where is your evidence
against hor?"
"I still felt confident that I was
right, and so I braced up and said to
the judge:
'I will get the evidence if you will
remnnd her.'
' '1 won't do it,' said the judge,
very hotly. 'I will discharge her.'
" 'If you do,' said I, getting a little
excited, too, 'I will rearrest her.'
My manner must have impressed
him, for he finally di 1 remind her,
although very unwillingly. I workod
all that night trying to get some clue,
aud visited forty or fity pawn shops iu
the hope of finding tho missing arti
cles. Still I was unable to get a sin
gle bit of evidence. Tha next day,
when I was taking hor to court, I no
ticed thnt she carried a pocketbook in
her hand which had escaped my ob
servation when sho was searched in
the police station. I asked her to lot
mo see it, and sho appeared unwilling
to do so. I took it from her and ex
amined it carefully. There was noth
ing in it but a few dollars in money.
I watchod her closely while I wept
over tho pocketbook a second time.
I saw that sho was watching mo out of
the corners of her eyes. That con
vinced me thnt there was' some story
which that pooketbook would tell if I
only could get at it. Of course I had
no right to destroy her property, but
again my fooling that she was guilty
and that I must prove her so over
powered my sense of discretion, and
I began to rip the pocketbook apart.
Finally I came across a pawn ticket,
which had been slipped in through a
slit in the outside cover, which had
then been pasted down so that it was
not noticablo.
"The woman didn't scorn alarmed
even then, but I felt that I had come
upon a tangible cluo.
"'Where did you get that?" I
asked her. 'Oh, it belongs to my
sister,' sho said carelessly.
'Where is your sister?' asked I. She
gave me an address and I said noth
ing further.
'The Judge was angrier than ever
when I brought her up in court the
second day, and had to oonfess that I
had not secured any further evidence.
I had to argue with him a long time
before he would consent to remund her
again, and again he warned me that if
the woman brought a personal suit
against me be would - testify in hor
favor. After I took her back to the
station I went to the address at which
the woman said hor sister lived. It
was bogus. I then went to the pawn
broker and looked up the article rep
resented by the pawn ticket. Although
it was not down in the list of things
tuken from the house of the Culforni
ans, I knew at once that it did not be
loug to the nurse and that it must
have been stolen from somebody, I
tried a new policy then. 1 went into
the cell where the woman was and I
said to her.
"Iam sorry that I have caused you
so much trouble, but I see I have
made a mistake.' 'Yes, and you'll pay
for it, too. ' she said very sharply.
'Well,' said I, 'I hope you won't be
too hard on me, I was only trying to
do my duty. I went to-day to the ad
dress you gave me, but I found your
sister didn't live there. I caught her
though at your master's house this
afternoon when sho came there to in
quire for you, I got her dead to
rights, as sho had A lot of pawn tickets
for tho stud', nnd sho said that sho
took it when sho enmo to visit yon.'
"The woman caught her breath,
gasped, clenched her hands, and
yelled out in fury s 'She lied, she
didn't lake it I I took it I"
"Then, supposing thnt I had really
caught hor sister, nnd that the latter
had confessed in ordor to save her sho
broke down and gave away the whole
story. She had been stealing all the
time, hnd pawned the stuff, and left
the pawn tickets in the care of her
sister. She told me where the stuff
was pawned, and I got it together that
night. It included all sorts of things,
and made a big cart load. I had it
all in court the next morning, and
compelled the Californian to identify
it against his will. The best of all,
however, was the fact that I got evi
dence that she had stolen from the
Police Justice, too, when she was in
his family, and I had the pleasure of
returning to him the things which she
had taken, but which he had never
missed.
"Once I actually had snit brought
against me by a woman. She brought
one suit against me for (25,000 for
defamation of character, and another
for $10,000 for false imprisonment. I
had arrested her, and she had been
discharged for lack of evidence. I
followed her for four months after she
was discharged, and finally caught her
entering a pawn shop. It was a little
place out of the usual run, and I hud
never thought of going there before.
I got all the evidence I wanted then,
and re-arrestcd her. Her suits were
never brought to trial.
"In each of these cases, however, it
was only my persistency and determin
ation that saved me from trouble. If
I hadn't stuck to it I probably would
have got into serious difficulty, for I
was not acting strictly within the lines
of my official duty." New Y'ork Sun.
The Kuhamatis.
A most curious utensil of a Balm
man dwelling is a big cement oven,
like a cone at tho back of the house.
In this the family bread is baked.
Bnhamana are physiologically starved,
and their thin, attenuated forms show
it. An unvarying diet of fish and
fruit is not .nourishing enough, nnd
tho fact speaks for itsolf in these is
landers. The white Buhamaus are
homely aud snllow unless burned so
thnt complexion is a thing of the past.
They rarely some never wear shoes j
hence feet in those latitudes are feet
and not merely the ends of legs. I
used to gaze in admiration at the feet
that daily and nightly visited our
schooner. Tho owners of tho appen
dages could walk where a shod foot
could not boar to tread. The skin bo
comes tougher than leather. Black
Huhauinus are tho finest specimens of
the race to bo seen outside of Africa
strapping follows with magnificent
arms and chests.
It is inconceivable how simple the
Bahamans are. I saw old men in j
Spanish Wells who hnd never seen a
horse, or a cow, or a w heeled vehicle.
Nassau is their Mecca. "Why, boy,"
said Joe Piuder to mo (everybody
down here is either a Pindar or a
Johnson), "Nassau his a city. Hit 'as
six thousand people, hand tho streets
nre so wide carriages kin go along
band leave room for persons to walk
on beach side." Californian' Illus
trated Magazine,
Electric Search-Light.
Among the many interesting things
in the wonderfully attractive field of
electrical investigation, the search
light has, perhaps, been brought to
the notice of more persons than any
other single exhibition of this remark
able element. The thousands who
watched the manipulation of the
search-lights on the top of the World's
Fair buildings could scurccly imagine
the possibilities of its future. It is
not at all remarkable that this great
light is in a fair way to be used as a
pen to write advertisements npon the
clouds, With a densely black evening
sky, the light may be so thrown
through properly adjusted lenses that
a magio lautern effect on an extensive
scale may be produced. Letters one
hundred feet long are out in stencil
fashion from sheets of tin or iron aud
projected upon dark olouds or npon
the blackness of night. As already
arranged, these lights may be seen
for more than one hundred miles, It
is thought that in time lights of such
power may be operated that ships at
sea may be guided for great distances.
It will unquestionably be one of the
possibilities of the not very far dis
tant future to ooiumunioate informa
tion to a wide area by means of letters
projected upon the clouds.-(New
York Ledger.
tVlt THE HOISEWIFE,
SALAD MlKSSINH WHICH WILL KEEP.
Yolks of four eggs, four tenspoon
fnls of salt, four mustard-spoonfuls of
yellow mustard, a small cnr each of
t milk and vinegar, a pinch of Cayenne
pepper, a littlo sugar, one tablespoon
1 ful of butter mixed with atenspoonful
' of flour ; mix all together and stir over
the fire until it boils. New York Sun.
BUTTERMILK CAKA,
One cup of butter, two cups of bnt
I tormilk, three cups of sugar, half tea
spoonful soda, five cups of flour four
eggs.
Bent butter to a cream, add sugar
and yolks of eggs; beat again until
very light, mash the soda fine, add to
the buttermilk, stir nntil dissolved,
then add to other mixture. Add the
flour, boat until smooth, then stir in
quickly the whites of the eggs, well
beaten. Bake in moderate oven about
three-quarters of an hour. NeWYork
World.
CHICKENS STUFFED WITH CHESTNUTS
Draw and clean the chicken as usual.
Roast one quart of large chestnuts;
when done remove the shells and
mash. Put one-half the chestnuts in
a bowl, add a tablespoonful of butter,
a teaspoonful of salt, and 'a dash of
pepper J mix and fill the chicken the
same as with bread crumbs. Lard
the breast thickly with salt pork ; place
tho chickenin a baking-pan, add a half
cup of wnter and a half teaspoonful of
sa't ; roast in a quick oven fifteen
minutes to each pound, basting every
ten minutes. When done, dish, re
move the string aud skewers, garnish
with parsley. Put the remaining chest
nuts in the pan in which the chicken
was roasted, mix well, add a hnlf pint
of stock, stir nntil it boils, add salt
and pepper to taste and serve in a
boat. Chickens may also bo stuffed
with oyster or potato stuffing.
PEI.h'IOVS CINNAMON Bt'X.
A delicious cinnamon bun for lun
cheon or tea that many housewives'
are makiug for tho first time is made
from two ounces of butter, three eggs,
ono-balf cup of yeast, one teaspoonful
of salt, aud one pint of milk. Put the
pint of milk in a farina-boiler, and
whon hot pour it over the eggs, which
should bo beaten till light while the
milk is boating. Add the two ounce
of butter and let the mixture Btaud un
til lukewarm ; then add tho yeast and
salt aud stir in enough flour for a thii
batter. Beat thoroughly and contin
uously five minutes, cover tho bowl,
and stand in a warm place till morn
ing. A cupful of flour is then added
to the sponge, ami when it is well
beaten stir iu enough more flour to
make a soft dough. Add the
flour a littlo at a time aud work
it in with the hand. Take out on tho
breadboard and knead quickly aud
lightly for ten minutes. The dough
is not as stiff as that for bread. Put
in tho bowl, cover, and stand till very
light in a warm placu. Tako out half
tho dough, roll it into a thin sheet,
rolling from tho centre towards the
edges. Spread with butter, scatter
thickly with sugar, then sprinkle witb
driod currants nnd cinnamon. . Roll,
tightly in a long roll aud cut into?
pieces about two inches long. Pines
the buns tightly togothor in a greased
pan, the cut side up, and stnud in
warm place covered until very light.
Bake in a moderate ovon hulf an hour,
aud take out of the pan and separata
while hot. Use tho remaining part ol
the dough in the sume way as the first.
New York Post.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Rub a stove zino with kerosene. ,
Clean jewelry with prepared chalk.
Change graim d woodwork with cob)
ten.
Use wood ashes on discolored table
ware. For grease spots, equal parts of
ether or cloroform.
To olean a sewing machine of oil and
dirt, go over it with a rag wet witb
coal oil.
Gum arable and gum tragacauth io
equal parts, dissolved in hot water,
make the best and most convenient
mucilage to keep in tho bouse.
The correct way for serving bread,
aside from the individual plate, is to
put a doily upon a plate, pile the thinly-sliced
bread upon this, and oover
with another doily that all moisture
may be retained.
If a steaming hot cloth is wanted at
onee, and there is no hot water, dip
flanuel cloth in cold water and wring
it as dry as possible, then spread out
between two folds of newspaper,' and
hold it around the stove pipe J it will
be hot iu a inomeut. The paper keep
the flannel from being soiled on tie
stove pipe.