PESTS OP INDIA. Horriblo Realities and Possibilities That Torture One. A Rat Which Eats Your Hair at Night. "Along with the intense heat," says a returned East Indian, "there go many varieties of noxious insects. The mosquitoes swnrra the year round, Every bed is covered with a tont of mosquito nutting, nnd it is the busi ness of your boy, after having made the bod in tho morning, to senre out all lingering mosquitoes and then draw tin) gnnze enrtnins close and tuck them under the mnttrenea. On go ing to bed yon make a little hole in tho tont, get in quickly and draw it tight again. Uouso 11 les are a constant nuisance, and there oro great flying cockroaches two inches long, which sometimes bite, nnd at certain seasons leave thoir great wings lying about the house. They el one's patent leather shoes. Flying ants, great black creatures, come in swarms and nlno leave thoir great wings over everything. The centipede, an inch and a half long and moro venomous than that of this country, gets into the house and often crawls upon tho sleeper. So long as ono keeps still there is no danger, but the creaturo.if one moves, is likely to dig his claws into tho flesh, and makes an unpleasant sore. Scor pions abound. They come out of old -woodwork and you find them in books that havo long lain unused. Thoir Lite is poisonous and sometimes fatal. "Along with the insects come the orpents. The cobra is tho most dan gerous. It seldom comes into the bouses for some reason, though my -small sister slept upon a pile of mats ondcr which a sleeping cobra was afterwards found. The cobra, how over, comes into tho compound and often bites tho 'natives. Europeans are seldom bitten by the cobra or othor snakes, because the European goes about in boots that give the ser pent notice of his coming, and also porhaps protoct him from the bite. As a matter of fact serpents common ly met in India do not voluntarily go after human prey, but are probably more afraid of man than man of them A barefooted native, treading noise tossly, gives the serpont no notico of Lis approach, and may unconsciously -step upon him, aud then tho creature lites in sulf-dofcnce. I knew a na tive gardener to be bitten by a cobra. Ho filled himself with whiskey and walked to koop himsolf awake. An Englishman whom I know was bitten ty a cobra, and his friend promptly applied tho same remedies. They walked him all night against his drowsy protests aud his earnest prayer that lie bo pormitted to sleep. His life was aaved, but he never really recovered from the shock, though he lived many years after. The bracelet snake is a familiar and venomous little wretch 4hat takos ploasure in coiling up in one's boot during the night or in get ting into the holes of one's garments. One soon loams to shake one's boots before putting them ou. The natives have a curious aversion to killing snakes, and they have a superstition, -shared by somo Europeans, that if a cobra be slain its mate will oome to avenge the act Of coarse, there is no foundation for it, save perhaps that widowed oobra comes in search of her mate and incidentally meets the slayer. "Bats abound in India and get into houses nnd swarm aboard a ship. One great Indian rat, the bandicoot, with .a snout like a pig, visits one's bod at night and chows the ends of ouo's hair. I know a red-headed fellow on lioard ship whf used to grease his hair -with oil or bear's grease. He was visited ono night by a bandicoot, and name upon deck next morning with the oddest evidenoe of the baudiooot's barboring. The muukrat swarms in India, gets into the houses, as all sorts -of wild creatures do, since the doors are. merely unclosed openings. His smell is something tremendous, and when he merely crosses the cork of a soda water bottle he seems to scent the contents. "The bite of an insect, even though -slight, or a small sore of any kind that would soon heal in temperate climate, may hang on for days or wuoks in tho heat of India, and a slight illuess greatly weakens one. EuropoauB luckily seldom take the native diseases, id&, though cholera is constantly present in India, it is on'y in oases of peculiarly widespread epi douiics that it ' roaohos the Euro pean population. Tuero is no yellow fever there, but small-pox ravagos the uativos. If is unitizing to see how juany natives are pook-marked. The natives have small faith iu European doctors, but they always take the European cholera mixture. Of courso no European submits himself to a na tive doctor. Abscess of the liver is the great terror of tho European, though the land breeze comos laden with all sorts of horrible possibilities. "The change of climate as ono goes from the coast into the mountains is like magio. On tho journey up from Bombay to Matoran one starts with a pocketful of Indian cigars, trichino polis, cheap long rolls of tobacco with a straw through them that they may draw. This is because they are ex tremely wet. But when one reaches Matcran he finds his trirhiuopolis as dry at a punk. The thin atmosphere of the heights has sucked them dry of all thsir moisture." New York bun. t m i The Mirage. The mirage can bo soen nearly every day in the plains of Lower Egypt, and also to a limited extent in tho plains of Hungary and Southern Franco. Xow and then something of the kind can be seen in summer by stopping down and looking along our sandy coasts such as Morccambe Bay nnd the const of Devonshire, or over the Fen dis trict, at that season driod tip by the summer heat. We must remember thnt the mirage of the desert creates nothing, but moroly inverts bodies thnt actually c ist a little distance off; though iu tho Sahara, skylight rays descending are bent upward by the hot air next the Baud, and tho eye is actually deluded by an impression resembling tho re flection of skylight from water, the illusion being increased by tho flicker ing duo to convection currents, sug gesting the effects of a breeze on tho water. Many of tho descriptions given of tho miriige are "travelers' tales" in tho uncomplimentary senso. One of tho most absurdly extravagant ex amples of this is tho following: "This treacherous phenomenon deludes the traveler's eye with a regular succession of beautiful lakes and shady avenues, and then, again with an expanse of waving grass around a picturesque villa ; here is presented a grove of towering trees ; there a flock of brows ing cattlo." Chambers's Journal. The Tuscan Peasant. In Tuscany you will often find peas ants whose families have bcon on tho samo farm for two or threo hundrod years. They talk of themselves as gente (tho Roman gens) of tho pad rone (landlord), and take an affection ate interest in him aud his family. But tho Tuscan peasant is a thorough conservative ; he has not yet grospo l the changes brought about by rail roads, stoamboats and international communication. He hankors after a large exteut of land on which to grow wheat enough to provide bread for the whole year, and is inclined to regard other crops as accessories. With the actual low prioe of corn this does not suit the owner, particu larly as it is customary in Tuscany to grow wheat two years running on the same land, with little or no manure. So soon as the corn is carried (early in July) the stubble is plowed np, and maize or millet is grown for early autumn cutting as green fodder. The yield of wheat is of course wretched, from six to thirteen fold, and en lightened proprietors who possess the requisite capital are dividing theix larger farms and building the neces sary farmhouses. Mocmillan'a Maga zine. Dogs and Their Legal Rights. An English Judge recently fined a dog-fancier $125 for cropping a bull terrier's ears. He hold that the cus tom was a criminal one, nor could he be moved from his determination to discourage the extirpation of outlying bits of auimul anatomy even by the ingeuious argument advanced in de fense of the extirpator that if man didn't cut off a bull-terrier's ears, some other bull-terrier might bite them off in a wholly careless and un scientific way. The learned Judge, it is reported, made answer that "it it better to let the dog take the chance of having his oars bitten off by a brother dog, with a chance of a bite on his own account, than . to expose him to the certainty of having them amputated by a dog-fancier, without a chance of returning the compli meut" The Japanese 8 mile. The Jupanese smile is tho most noticeable thing about the island peo ple The people seem always good, natured, and smile like their own stone gods. . Once, it is said, the Buddha and the radinnoe of his smile lighted up all the worlds. But a voics came, saying: "It is not real. It can uot last," aud the light passed away, Nevertheless, many gods are carved with a hutting smile npon their stony features. New York Recorder. ion FARM AND UARDE. KKEPINd POTATOES ASSORTED. Potatoes thnt are piled in cellars need pretty close looking after in winter. Sometimes the dangor is from frost, but it is much more often due ;o a too warm atmosphere. Thore is rapid exhaustion of the vigor of pots :ocs kept for seed by having the eyes push forth pale or white shoots, ns ;hey will when kept in the warmth ind darkness of a large bin. It frost nn be kept out tho seed potatoes ihould be thickly spread on floors whero the sun can shine upon them. This cannot be douo in the cellar, out toward spring seed potatoes should be kept in upper rooms, and the tem pcraturo be regulated by a thermome ter and smoll stove. Boston Culti vator. hrkuit bide of unp.r.r nrsnAxnRY. Tho bright sido of shocp husbandry is emphasized by Frederick Chnmbers ono of tho most progressive of eastern sheep men. He claims thnt although wool has dropped from 40 cents to less thi.u 15 cents per pound, sheep, (including mutton nnd manure) have paid better than any other branch of agriculture except the dairy. Even at present prices wool pays better than wheat, nnd the decline in prices of what tho wool grower has to buy is as grent or greater thnn tno drop in wool v.tluue. Ho belioves thnt dairying is likely to be overdone, thnt tho rush to quit sheep husbandry is a mintake,and that wo shnll never attain a full degree of agricultural sucacss until tho wasto places nro made glad with shocp. "As with other products, a low price- has some to stay, but faith iu tho sheep business should not waver." Ameri can Agriculturist. TO START A BALKY ItonsK. An officer of tho police detail said recently: "When I was a mounted policeman I learned a most humane snd kind method of curing a balky horse. It not only never fails, but it does not give tho slightest pain to tho animal. When the horse refuses to go, tako tho front foot at the fetlock, and bond tho leg nt tho knoo joint. Hold it thus for threo minutes, und let it down, and the horse will go. The only wny in which I account for this ofiective mastery of tho horso is thnt ho can think of only ono thing nt a time, aud, having niado up his mind not to go, my theory is thnt the bend ing of the leg takes his mind from the original thought. There havo bcon some barbarously cruel methods ro sorted to to make a balky horso go its way, such as filling his mouth with sand, or soverely beating the horse. The humane societies would havo thoir hands full to care for all thoso cruelties to animals. If they 'only know, tho owners of the horses would adopt my treatment, and there would be no trouble with the erstwhile troublesome balky horse. "Farm and Fireside NEW ELECTBIO PLOW. A German firm has constructed a now form of eleotrio plow which has been found successful and economical. The plow bos a pair of wheels in the middle, and will ruu in either direc tion, and it is fitted with an eleotrio moter whioh possesses the same prop erty of reversibility. The motor by a chain and sprocket wheel drives the shaft over which passes a chain stretched the length of the field. Both ends of the chain are fastened to the ground by triple anchors, and when the motor is started it winds the plow over the fields by means of the sta tionary chain. When the end of the field is reached, the plow is tipped up and the motion of the motor reversed by a switch, starting the plow back aguiu, and at the same time laying the chuin sidewise for he next furrow to plowed. . When the anchors need shitting it is done by a crowbar. To bring the current to the motor from the generator the two wires are mount ed on a series of small rollers along the ground, and they, follow the mo tion of the plow very successfully. It is stated that a considerable saving might be effected by the use of this device, especially it several farmers should eombine and use it jointly. New York Mail and Express. BEES DCBINO CHANGEABLE WIMTBB WCATHEB, In many localities the weather has been very cold. Bees, like all animals, throw off moisture in their breath. During freezing weather this oongeals and surrounds the cluster with ioe, if there is imperfect ventilation. No harm may rosult until a thaw ocaurs, for boue can endure eold when dry. If a thaw is followed by a freeze, the bees will usually be killed, Close, well fitting hives have thus often resulted in the doath of a colony, while bees in old rickety ones, split from top to bottom, come out in splondid condi tion. To avoid damage in this line, in cline the hives to the front, so that the moisture will run out as soon as melted. Do not allow it to close np the entrance. Where bees are winter ing in the oellnr sweep up nnd remove all dead ones, so that the air will not bocome tainted, causing uneasiness among the living. Where roetlessncss is apparent look to tho ventilation nnd see thnt the air is changed. If this does not quiet them, plnco a suowbnll or wet sponge where they enn get at it, as they may bo in need of wntor. New England Homestead, FEEDING FAT INTO MILK. Thestatemontof tho New Hampshire Experinteutnl Stntion referred to, to tho effect that "by fecdiug foods rich in fat tho proportion of fat iu the milk is iucrensod, but thnt in time tho milk returns to its normal character, deter mined by tho individuality of tho cow, and tho indications are that the in crenso in tho fats of tho milk is not due to tho fats iu tho food, but to tho unnatural character of the ration," is one of thoso commonly met with ex cuses made to explain what is not pos sible to bo denied, nnd a sort of squirming out of a difficulty which is wholly impossible to avoid by fair and square discussion nnd proof. It is a tacit admission of tho prevailing dis position of somo tciontifio persons to avoid taking back mistaken state ments nnd ndmiting in a manly way thnt they were mistaken or misled. It is difficult to understand how nny un natural character of a ration can in crease the quantity of fnt in a cow's milk, unless it were by the action of tho fnts in tho ration, nnd if these fnts add to tho fnts of tho food ouco only, or for a time, tho fact we insist upon is distinctly proved. The simplo truth is really admitted by tho state mont quoted, and iu good time it will bo squarely confessed, if it 1b not now fessod, by all of this wriggling aud squirming of a fow of the experts. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES, Manure should be frequently re moved from tho neighborhood of barns. Tho barnyard and its surroundings should be well drained aud free from standing water and filth.' An old horseman declares that noth ing will sell as quickly as a fat horso. A poor horso is a slow sale, unless ho is known to have an extraordinary pedigree. With reference to the eradication of tho disease in herds already affected it is rocommondod thnt a thorough ex amination of the herd be made, using tuberculin test. Early breeding, late and continuous breeding, as well as oxoessive and in judicious feeding and milking are all' frequent predisposing causes, and should be avoided. Those who profess to know predict that pork will be high this year, Whether it will or not, the pigs can bo made to utilize many waste sub stnnoes that are of no value except as food for them. Allow no strange animal to come in contact with the herd without first making sure by tubercullne test (whieh is now reoognizod to be the only prac tical method of diagnosis) that they are free from disease. When the snow melts the farm is in a sloppy, disagreeable condition. Drains or openings should be shov eled out, if possible, and the water carried away from the barn and the stables as soon as it will flow. The sheep is not as hardy as may be supposed. Its wool is given as a pro tection, but wool will not keep the rain from chilling the sheep. They should be sheltered and given straw for bedding, which will also keep thorn clean. Boys who have not the pecnliat qualifications requisite for suocessful farming should not be urged to stay on the farm simply because they were raised there. Tho farmer ueeds spec ial qualifications just as much as men of other callings. All animals found diseased should be slaughtered aud the romaiuing an imals retested at intervals. The thorough disinfection and renovation of all infected barns is imperative and good drainage, light and ventilution should be secured. Warming milk iu the winter to a temperature of 120 to 130 degrees makes the oronin rise more quickly, ehurn more.oasily and improves the quality of the butter. If the milk is heated too much the butter will be soft as it is in summer and tho quality will also be impaired. BIVOUACS OF THE DEAD. SOLDIER, REST I The Boys In Blue are Steadily Dropping Away. Nearly Otty-ons hundred soldiers sleep lo the quiet cemetery at the Military Home, In Dayton, O. Ot the veterans ot the war whose quarters are at this Institution, fully a many bave passed away at still nnswer to theii names at roll-call. The solemn words "Duet to duett asbes to ashes," bave been uttered thousands ol time by the chaplains sines 1807. when the first burial took place there. This gnorou,hlg-nenrted Oovernmnnt hat shown undying trieudsblp tor the veteran slnee the war, and lue kiudly feelings which have been surred by tbe Unmet of the coun try's love will continue to glow fur nil limes. In view of the met tbnt hundreds of veter ans are burled at distant points, It Is a mat ter ol conjecture as to tue total number who have Uuisued the battle ol life. Iu auy event, however, Damp-It at; is tue must populous on tne grounds. It tuny not be ainlss to explain tbat there are tlilrty-llve barraeks peopled With veternue, and lb unlet city ol the uead hits been duuuied. "DiirmuK. so" la located on a gentle undu- luting section ot the park Immediately north veil ot the hospital. It overlooks tne Day ton aud aton pike and a vast farming ooiu uiuuity adjaceut. Kept scrupulously clean It a traets general attentlun. Huuureds ol row ol little quure marble stones u.ark tbs last resting place ut the nation's defenders. There it something Inexpressibly touching In the soldier's situpie fuueiul. Military cere mouy In itt niost uuustentatluut form Is here. Vet Its simplicity uinkoa It conspicuous, boa cely a day passes that the bulletlu boards at the Home do uot couvey tba news that an other ot the boys In blue has passed away. LsjhII;- the bodies ol the dead are Interred wliuiu twenty-four bouts after life has Med, Tne body l itikuu at ouou to the bnseuient of the hospuul, where It is prepared lor burial. Clitel burgeou Major D. C. Ilulliuau noti fies ibe relatives or immediate Iriends of tbs desd comrade. In many eases tbe body is tent away for burial ut tbe request of a daughter, a sou or some very dear Irleud, fot not a friendless soldier enjoys tbe freedom ol a lemrul Uraneb. Nollne of tue death of the comrade Is for warded lo headquarters, where the official announcement is made aud posted ou the puMlle cump bulletin. At any time iu the day a curious crowd maybe seen surround ing tbe bulletlu, where uot only tbe funeral notices are displayed, but all manner of geu ral orders auu information ot a publlo char acter. The assembly onll is sounded and the fu neral escort aud llriug party assembled. Flvs niluutes later Ibey tnnruh to tbe receiving vault, where tbe Uearse has already preceded tbeui. Tbe body is carried from tne hospital lasemeut tbrouifb a tunnel a merciful pro vision to spare tne feelings ot the sluk men in the building. Tbe collku is placed within the hearse, the firing party, meanwhile, presenting arras. Tbe comu is covered with the United Slates llair.the Sergenut in charge commands "Shoulder arms! lleverse arms! lly tours: right, lorward march!" aud to tbe buttering roll of tnuftted drums and tbe subdued musio of tbe Hit,, the procession marches slowly to "Barrack ail." In reverent silence ths escort stands beside tbe open urate, while tbe chaplain reads the solemn burial service. At the last words are snld and tbe mortal body of the comrade-in-arms it lowered into tbe grave, comes tbe Sergeant's tbarp command! "Attention! Shoulder arms I Iteady, aim, lire!" A crashing valley of musketry wakes the rattllug echoes ot tbe dlataut groves and re verbatet among the bll.s till the last souud dies away. U breaks upon tbe ear of the distant uity, bearing the message tbat an other loyal defender ot tbe Hag, wbo surviv ed the slaughter at Gettysburg, or tbe charge at Cblokainauga. bat passed to its final ae count A I tor ths quick, successive firing ths bugler steps to tbe uead of too grave aud souudt "taps." The grave is then filled aud a paint ed stake, wearing tbe name, company, regi ment and age ol tbe deceased, Is Uriven luio tbe little ruouud. In due time a marble slab Is received from tbe Quartermaster-General of tbe tutted States Army; tbe grave is sod ded and stone erected at the head. Evory burial It recorded at headquarters. a bomaxce or tii was. Much mora might he printed about Andrew Bee. one of the uaptor' of Jeff Davit, wbo died lately, Beet nlisted August kg, 1862, Id Company L. 4th Michigan Cavalry, com manded by Colonel D. li. Uritcbard, of Al legan, and be participated In all Its campaigns sad marches, and battles until tbe dltcbarge of the reglmeut at Edgefield, July 13, 1805. In "Tbe Evenlug Tribune," of El Paso, Tex., f February 18, 1838, E. P. Lowe pays tbe (ollowlug tribute to Andrew Bee: 'Andrew Bee, of Company L, was the first man to recognise Jed Davis as be emerged from the :eot wearing bis proper clothes and a waisrpoof oloak. The shawl, tt on, mutt have been removed In a Jiffy. At the moment of capture Jeff Davis saidi 'Haven't you better manners than Intruding on tbe privacy of ladlesy' To this Andrew Bee replied: We'll give you time to dress.' "When he got outside the tent Mrs. Davis held s ttn bucket in ber band fur him to get some water i but Mr. Bet taldi "No, you ean't; you're Jeff Davis, to whioh he answer edi "lioyi, you've got me." A few years after tbe war closed Andrew located en a farm In Mississippi, but not mak ing a success financially, he determined lo return to Michigan, with but little money lo bis pocket, While passing through a plea sant llltlt town he met Davis, who, immedia tely recognizing him, Invited him to bit borne, and learning bit ciroumstanuet. gave him 110 and an Invitation to call any time be abould be lo town. At tbe time of Jeffs capture Andrew Sot a pair of gold tpectaoles, winch ha vealuoe een lost, In September, 1880, Bee came to Martin, of wblcb plaoe be bad been an honored citizen till bit death. He lived with bit daughter, Anna In humble olrourostanoes on two and one-half acres of ground. Tbe funeral tervlo-s were oonduoted by ths Rev. Thomas Monteltb, under tbe ausploet of C. B. Wheeler 1'ott, of Martin. The pall bearert were old comrades ot Company L sib Michigan Cavalry. Since tbe beglnalug of the civil war tbs to tal peitslpoi paid to soldiers bave amounted to I1,77,uoO,OjQ. Tblt it a large sum, but it It 8u0,lW0,OuO lest than tbe amount paid at Interest ou tba publio debt. Thut, at the Rochester Post express puis It, "Tbe men who loaned themselves to tbe Government get lest than these wbo merely lent money, aud tbe latter get lueir money again." Of the two kludt of servio. tbat wblub the soldier gave Wat far tbs greater. Let their be no more complaint about soldiers' pensions. Tbey are essentially unpatriotic American Cultivator. Baoa Riot. Tbe levee along tbe river front at New. Orleans was Ibe teens ot terrible rioting, three negroes and two white men were shot dead. Two wounded negroet Jumied luto tbe river and are believed to be drowned, beven men were badly wounded and two ot them era likely to die. Others received slight wounds. Tbe riot waa tbe result of tbe loug ooufllot between tbs white union laborers on tbe levee and non-union eolored men brought to the city by the ship owners. Bait Lake, Utun, Is rsjololng over tbs ar rival o( natural gas, wblub ba been piped from tbs wolls, It miles distant. PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE Important Measures Oonsldsrsd by Oar Lawmakers. Mokdat. Mr. Fredericks, of Clinton, presenieu a bill providing for the ereetlou of an equestrian statue of Uonernl Hartranft on tue oapitol grouudt at Uarrisburg, It provides for an appropriation of 18,000. and that the governor, ttate treasurer aud auditor-general, with a representative of the sur vivors of tbe Fifty-first regiment of the Penn sylvania volunteers, and a representative ot eack of tbe Pennsylvania regiments, which Comprised tbe division under Hartrault's command at tbe battle ot Ft. Stundman, shall ooustltute a commission to procure tbe statue and attend to Its erection. Other bills presonted wnrei By Mr. Cul bertsou, Allegheny, appropriating 45,000 to ths Western Pennsylvania humane society) Mr, Mrckrell, to regulate and establish the to to be charged by constables Iu tbe com monwealth) Mr. French, Wnshlugton, per mitting religious societies to use the school houses in tbe several tchool districts ol tne commonwealth after school hours. The bill regulating tbe business of plumbing and gas Uttliig In cities of tbe second-class passed secoud reading. Tuesday In the sonate tbe bills to repeal street Improvement Inws In Allegheny were reported favorably. These bills were Intro duced: Hardenberg, Wayne, to authorise under the corporation act of 1874 the in corporation of a society for the Improvement of tne streets nnd publio places In; any city, borougb or township, their Income from real estate not to exceed 2D,0e0 Meredith, Arm strong, authorise the construction ot military highways In tbe state. The bill to establisu a superior court at an annual salary oi 7, 000 eaca, ws discussed at length an patted finally. Wehesdat The three Greater Pittsburg hills were taken up In the senate this morn ing and passed. Tbe bill appropriating 4500 for tbe Improvement of tbe Del iware and Schuylkill river channels passed flnallv, re reiving 37 votes for and 6 against All tbe Allegheny senators voted for It. Mr. Penrose Introduced Ibe I'ennywcll local option bill, known better as tbe lllsbop Fust bill) also one to provide tor tbe safety ot women and children employed Iu factories: also a labor bill providing tbat the proprietor or tnnnngor of every cotton, silk, woolen or other faolory where emyloyes are paid by the yard, cut or piece, shall supply wltb each warp a written or printed ticket containing specifications as to tbe work to be done auJrate of com pensation. Tnt-RiT The bouse spent another day wrestling with bills on second reading. Mr. Compton, of Crawford, Introduced a bill to provide lor tbe selection of a site and ereo tlon of a state asylum for the chronic insane at 'i'ltusville. It will be known as the Sec ond State asylum for tbe chroulo Insaue of Pennsylvania. Tbe bill asks for the appro priation of 4230.000 to purchase tbe grouud aud start tbe work. The bouso committee on education killed Senator Osborn's bill requiring tebool d I mo tors to purchase a bigb-priced pictorial chart. The measure has patted tbe senate, and If it had gotten out of committee an at tempt would bave been mads to make It a law. ' Newsy Gleanings. Tint business outlook Is good. Choleiu Is raging In the State of Mines Gereas, Brazil. Snirmxs In PI. Potorfturg, Russia, last year numbered 4!!. It Is estimated Ihnt 18,000,000 bushels of wheat will bo fed to live stock lu England this yonr. It has prnetlenlly Wn rteolded to hold an International Mining Exposition lu Denver. CoL, In ldW. Tress are twelve women enndlilntos for places on the London School Board this year twelve out of 1!W. EMrsnon William has called a meeting of tho State Council to devise means to aid the Prussian agriculturists. Silas P. CAiirnNTEn has Just boon electee Town Treasurer of Rlehtord, Vt., for the fiftieth consecutive year. The United States revenue cutter Corwin left San Frnnelsco for Alaskan waters to hunt for Illicit doalers lu whisky. Infxcekxa Is rairlnir with virulence In London and Berlin. The well-to-do classes seem to be tho greatest sufferers. The Rock Island Ral I r on 1 contributes 30,000 nnd free transportation for seeds for destitute Nebraska and Kansas farmers. Mob. KnnixiAN, the Armenian patriarch, says 11,000 of his countrvmen were butch ered by the Turks in the Bossoun district. Dexves, Col., is to bavo a coinage mint. It is reported thnt the richest gold strike In the history of Southern California has been mode about sixty miles east of Ban ning. The gold brick swindle was successfully worked In Blrmlnvham, Ala., on Mr. Dob bins, a hard-working market garJner, for 40000. The led. pendent X. of L. Master Workman W. L. Wlitou, of tbe In dependent K. of L., it very enthusiastic over tbe prospects of the new order. He state tbat originally the K. of L. had 65,000 mem bers, tno-ti. -dt of whom have joined the new order. Tbe only districts of any conse quence remaining true to tbe old organiza tion are located in St. Louis, New York and Brooklyn, Tbe tint general assembly of the new K. of L. will be held In Washington, D. C, in January, 188U, at wbleh time It will likely be decided to establish tbe headquart ers in tbls city. He alto ttatet that the pro posed action to get posar anion of tbe proper ty held by tbe old order wat in tbe bandt of attorneys and Intimated that nothing would be done in that line for a year at least. Hayward Sentenced. Barry T. Hayward, convicted of the mur ler of Catherine Glng, hat three montht to !v. Sentence wat pasted on him by Judge ieagrave Smith after a motion for an arrest )f tenlence had been denied. "Tbe sentence of tblt court," the Judge I Id, "it tbat you be taken to tbe Hennepin ail, and there oootlned until, after a period if three montht. a time be fixed by tbe gov iruor of tbls ttate. you be taken to tbe place if executlou aud banged by the neck until r ou are dead. NoBbtrt Released. Tbe Indian office bat received informattot tbat Indians No Hblrt and Little Chief, arrest ed on tbe UmatUla agoucy, and for wboti safekeeping tba Indian agent asked Unite States troops, bave been released and that at further trouble will follow. It Is expected that No Shirt and Little Chief will tltk Washington. Dissension In Cuba. The Balrs- band of rebels la Its last Bgbt at Los Negro bad several of Its members killed and a large number wounded. Among tba killed were one major and three other oltl cert. "La Chambre" report Increasing oon ttdenoe In the proilnoe ot Santiago de Cuba. Ths mayor ot Mansanlllo report to the oap-taln-geueral that on March V Estaban Turn ayo, lleleaarlo Bamares and Douiulu Cabal lero, the prluolpal Instigators aud leadei ot band ot Insurgent lu the Mausaulllo dis tricts, surrendered to tbo authorities uud their declarations of alleglence have had a good eieot. All report! agree that there ore. growing dueiulou among tbe rebel. It la reported from Uolgulo that the rebel leaden, V arena, father and son, have surrendered. The troop killed another bandit beiougiug to Malaga's band aud captured four borscsv Nicholas Bodwlu, aged 17, shot and kills! n lutiior at Ulauvapollt, as a result of a
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