AROUND TE WORLD IN The world's record for swift travel around the world will toon be out in twain. Trioce Hilkoff, Russian Minis ter of Communication, stated at the recent meeting of the European rail way managers that when the new Siberian railway is completed it will be possible to travel around the world in thirty-three days. At present the best possible record is sixty-six days. mtxcr. mLKorr'i timb tablc. Da: Bremen, by rail to Bt. reteraunrg, Ht. Petersburg to Vladlvostock 10 Vladlvostock to Ban Franulsco 10 Baa Francisco to New York 4l New York to Bremen 7 Total 83 oooooooooooooooooooooooooc PHILIPPINE TRIBES COMPLETELY CLASSIFIED. ; An Ethnographic Map, )OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOi A simple classification of the Philip pine Archipelago's population may be made with the assistance of the accom panying etbnographio map taken from Harper's Weekly: 1. The Moros, or Hulus (Mohamme dan Malays) occupy the small southern islands, the southern and western coasts of Mindanao, aud the southern extremity of Palawan. Their capital is Sulu. As for their nuciber, the estimate in the Nouveau Dictionnaire de Oeograpraphie TJniverselle, lv M. Vivien do Saint-Martin, is 200,000 to 30,00O. ... fi. The islands of the central group are inhabited chiefly by Visayans (Roman Catholio Malays). Of the Visayans proper there are about 2, 500,000; but if we include the cognate tribes scattered from Northeastern Mindanao to Mindoro and the Calami nes Islands, the total number is prob ably mnoh greater. 3. The Tagals, Tagalogs, or Tagalos (Roman Catholio Malays), from whom Aguinaldo has drawn the larger part of his forces, inhabit central Luzon. Their number is nnoertain, though for tbe present we may aooept Saint-Martin's estimate 1,200,000. 4. Tribes of Malays, which are numerically of less importance, are not always dearly distinguished from Tagalogs and Visayans e. g., the Ilo cauoa, Pampangos, and Zuiubales of Northern and Western Luzon, the Biools (or Vicols) in the extreme south east of Luzon and in adjacent islands, the Subanos of Southern Cebu, etc 6. Non-Malayan savages, remnants of an earlier population which was dis placed by the Malays, are widely scat tered, and the common nam "Indo nesians" is given to these tribes by the writers, who regard them as repre sentatives of race which the Malaya drove into the mountains, somewhat tm rrtotooftAmc m o 1 TUB PHILIPPINE ISLANDS tf t mmm m mmnm m m MMsJctaMsj rtuafAi iimi rata 1 ' ' . WMIWMI T o M ktl kM e M t IfcjwJWl V CT tta tC4 TtJIRTY-TREE DAYS Prince Hilkoff arranges bis thirty-three-day itinerary. In calculating this run Prince Hil kofT estimates speed on the Siberian railway at the very modest rate of but forty-eight kilometers, or thirty miles, per hour. Faster communication both by sea and land will doubtless soon reduce the minimum time to thirty days. rSEHIXT T1HI TABLE. Days. New York to Routhnmpton 6 Routhnmpton to Drlndiel 8) Jlrlndlsl to Yokohama by Rues Canal. .411 Yokohama to Nan Franolsco 10 Ban Francisco to New York i( Total.. C as Saxon displaced Celt in the British Isles. That famous band of the Igor rotes who trusted to charms and bows and arrows in the battle of February 5 were of this class. The accompany ing map shows the names of a dozen different tribes in Northern Luzon alone, with others in Central Minda nao, Northern Pan ay, and Negros, etc. Little reliance can be placed upon the estimates of the total number of "In donesians" who have never consented to staud and be counted. As an ap proximation, some of the nuthoritives have suggested 300,000 or 400,000. 6. Of the aborigines called Negritos (little Blacks), or Actaa, only 10,000 or 20,000 remain. They are "as near au approach to primitive man as can any where be found,"says Professor Briu ton ; and they are so far inferior in phy sique and intelligence to the civilized or semi-civilized Malay or "Indono sien" that tbey seem destiued to dis appear altogether before loup." 7. At or near the principal ports are about 100,000 Chinese, and per haps 15,000 whites not including General Otis's army. Tbe present distribution of the na tive tribes has evidently been occa sioned by snocessive waves of inva lion. The aboriginal Aetis (Negritos) as a less vigorous branch of the human family, were unable to resist attacks from rettless and progressive neigh bors. Tbe first people from tbe main land to appear as conquerors on a large scale may have been the so-called Indonesians; but these in turn were displaced, in the more desirable por tions of the arohipelago, by hordes of Asiatics oomiug from the Malay Pen insula by way of Borneo tbe first incursion being led by Tagals, and the second by Visayans. The third and last wave of Malay invasion cul minated about the middle of tbe six teenth oentnry, not far from the time whan the Spaniards arrived upon the soeue aud established themselves in the Visayas and Luzon. Tbe editor of the Dictionnaire de Geographic Uuiverselle estimates the total population of tbe archipelago at I about 0,000,000, bnt fails t? give con vincing reasons for this opinion. In view of the statements which have been repeated day after clay for the last ten months, that the Philippines support a population of 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 persons, it may not seem that our question is too pointed if we ask, How is this information derived? A little scrutiny of figures given in the foregoing paragraphs will show that perhaps fi, 000,(100 or 0,000,000 have been accounted for. Within a limit ed area, conditions which ullow half a million of people to live by hunting are not turns! I y such as to allow 8, 000,000 010,000,000 more to live by agtioulturn and commerce. Why, then, does it seem probr.ble that the population of the Philippines is so dense? How lias it been possible to (IRXERAt MAICAnnO. (He Is the Philippine insurgent leader who has most influence with the savnge tribes of the island.) secure trustworthy information on this head? Marriou Wilcox, in Harper's Weekly. An American Ilrl Romance. The news that tbe Viscountess Deer hurst has just giveu birth to a son and heir recalls her strauge but romautio history. As is known, the yonng Viscountess occupies an enviable posi tion iu Euglinh society. She has boon twice received by Quoen Victoria, and she has won many friends by her charmiug personality. She was first knowu to English socioty as Miss Virginia Bonyuge, the daughter of C. W. Bonynge, a California millionaire. Virgiuia Bonynge became the inti mate friend of Princess Christian, and was patronized by all of the royal social leaders. Shortly after her presentation she became engaged to an English nobteman, aud after all the arrangements bad been made for the wedding it became known that she was not the daughter of Mr. Bonynge, but the daughter of a California miner who committed murder, by name William Daniel. AVilliaui Daniel was an English gardener who married a housemaid and emigrated to America. The Daniels journeyed from the East to Illinois, where tbey began farming on a quarter seotion of land, and it was during their sojourn in this State that Virginia was born. When a mere babe ber parents started for the Rookies. While in a mining camp on the Paoiflo slope Daniel qnarreled with a num ber of reokless men and killed bis man. He was tried and convicted and aentenoed to life imprisonment. Soon after Bonynge, also a miner, met Mr. Daniel and persuaded her to get a divorce from Daniel, which she did, and married him. Thereafter Virginia became known as Virginia Bonynge. The Bonyngea prospered and beoame rich, and eventually went to London to live. When the foots of Miss Bon ynge's antecedents were made known to the prospective bridegroom the en gagement was broken off by the soion of tbe noble British bouse. The Princess Christian, however, re mained the lair heiress's friend, and she challenged her right of outre into VISCOUNTESS DKEHHUnST. the most aristooratio British society. The chances are that Virginia Bon ynge oared little .for ber first noble love, for she soon forgot him and mar ried tbe Viscount Deerhurst, who loved her in spite of the faot that ahe was the daughter of a miner and a oonviot, Bridgeport, Ohio, has issued bonds for $70,000, with which to pave every Wrest in town, . CHILDREN'S COLUMI A Queer Mole, t hare heard of a bov who lived Inns: ago For such boys are not found nowadays, you know Whose friends were as troublod as they could be Decaiise of a bole In his memory. A charge from his mothnr went In one day, And the boy said "Yes" and hiirrlnd swnyi lint he met a man with a muslual top, And bis mother's words throuKh that bole did drop. A losson went In, but ah me! nh met For a boy with a hole In his memory! When tin rose to recite he was all In a doubt, Every word of that lesson had fallen out! And at last, nt last! oh, terrible lot! lie spoke only two words, ,-I forifot" Would It not be sad, Indeed, to he A boy with a bole In his mnmory? Advocate and Ouardtnh. . Making the Beet of It. Bruno was a large Newfoundland dog. His owner was a busy bonne wife in a village of England. Mrs. Bradley sent him regularly to the bakery, with a basket, for bread and enkes. One day, on bis way home, he was attacked on all sides by four or five smaller dogs, bent on robbing him. Bruno was at a loss bow to defend himself from his enemies, and at the same time save the bread and cakes; for while be was punishing one dog, the rest bogan to eat from the basket. "I know the food ought not to be eaten," thought be. "But, it it must be eaten, I bad better eat some than let those worthless fellows have it all." So old Bruno chose the lesser of two evils. He began eating, and ate as fnst as be could with tbe other dogs scrambling about bim. As soon as the bread and cakes had disappeared, the robber dogs dispersed, and Bruno went home with the empty basket. When Mrs. Bradley saw this, she didn't understand, aud felt for a time that Bruno bad been unfaithful; but, when the truth was knowu, she liked her dog better than ever. Christian Register. ifalinnys Marble, Seven little marbles lay huddled to gether in Johnny's pocket. They rattled merrily against one another, aud when Johnny went hop, ski)) and junip, they went hop, skip and jump, too, for thoy were so glad that marblo time bad come again. Only the big green marble that Johnny called a "real" did not stir at all, and was not gtnd a bit. "Oh, dear, I wish it wos winter again!" said the big marble. "Then I could sleep all day in Johnny's play room, inxttMid of rolling about on the pavement." "I think that is fun," said the little brown marble. "What tun is there in bumping to gether and knocking each other about?" asked the big marble. "And as Soon a one game is done, another begins. It is so tiresome I" In fact, be began to feel so cross that he made up his mind to run away. So the next time that Johnny Bent him Hying agaiust n row of the other marbles, be contrived to slip down nuder the feuce; the green grass covered him over, and as it was just the same color as the "real," Johnny's sharp eyes failed to find hiin. At first the lazy marble thought it was Hue fun to lie stilt aud do uoth ing, but soon be was tired of that. He could hear the boys on the sidewalk shouting their funny jargon, while his brother marbles rolled v and fro, and had such jolly games! H w he wished that he was with them! One day Johnny was digging a flower-b.nl by the fence, when his spade struck something hard. "Why, here is my 'real!' " he cried. "What uiade you run away, you naughty fellow?" Then Jobnuytook bis other marbles from bis pocket, aud tbey bad a fine play all together again; aud the big. lazy marble was now as lively and jolly as the others, and clicked merrily against bis neighbors as if be quite en joyed the game. Youth's Companion. A Treasure Islam! Near Porto Rico, At the centre of the sea of the An tilles, in the middle of the passage which separates St. Domingo from Porto Rico, there raises itself above the waves a steep rook to which the ancieut Spanish navigators gave the name of "La Mona," or "Nonito," the little monkey. Among the sailors of the Antilles, La Mona is always called the Inland of Pirates, and is thought to conceal mysterious treas ures. It is an immense chalky block, seven kilometres long and four or five wide, rearing its summit, flat as a table, to thirty or forty metres above the sea. The wares, always agitated iu these coasts, have shaped this block into a pedestal of pointed cliffs, and, except on two or three points, where narrow stretches of shore advance, the iBlaud is almost inaccessible. Ships are kept at a distance, as mnoh by tbe violence of the wavos as by a chain of rocks wbioh surround it aud where alone qpen a few passages for small vessels. At the southern point of the island an enormous rock seems miraculously suspended from the oret of a cliff. The sailors have named it "Caiffo o no caillo," whioh means "Shall I full or shall I not fall." Iu spite of its peril ous position, the rock iu equilibrium has tesisted for many ages the attacks of storms aud waves. But one of the most curious par ticulars of this inland, so strange from many points of view, is that its chalky mass is throughout pierced by im mense caves, innumerable grottoes, iuhabited by bands of sea birds, were but lately, in part, obstruoted by gu ano, whioh has been nearly all taken away. The adventurer Intrepid enough to engage himself in this formidable struggle soou finds ' himself arrested by two very unexpected obstacles; in effeot, among the tangle of plants art hidden swarms of immense wssps, which at the least rustling, precipitate themselves on the intruder, and can by their dangerous stings put his life in danger; again, if he escapes from these guardians of the jungle, he has to brave the darts of opnritiae, a kind of dwarf cactus, which in fnouy places stud the earth,' and the pricks of which, without being as dangerous as those of the wasp, ore very painful aud cause a high fever. One can understand that this rocky isle, so well defended by the forces of nature, may have tillered a refuge to the daring filibusters who have been, during mnuy centuries, the terror of the Antilles. After having passed by secret passages in the belt of rocks, they sheltered their vessels in some intricacy of the cliff and established themselves in those grottoes which formed impregnable natural fortresses. There no one could reach them, and supposing that a daring assailant had succeeded iu forcing an entrance to their haunt, the bandits would fly through the detours of tbe inextricable labyrinth end would gain the impene trable thicket of the upper plateau, where it would be impossible to track them. Some of these caverns, in the vicin ity of Cape Caigo, present still the un doubted traces of pirates. One of them called Cueva Negra Black Cave from the thick coat of soot which covers the vault, is a vast chamber, around which spreads a network of other chambers and passages. The walls of this chamber are still graven with sinister designs, representing gallows supporting rows of bodies and above which are inscribed tbe names of tbe victims, nainos where are found represented nil the nations among which these rascals recruited their band and which are doubtless those of traitors or rebels executed by their companions, unless they were the un fortunate captives sacrificed by tbese wretches. Some cannon balls, still encrusting in the walls of the cliff, near the entrance, also prove thnt the place was beseiged, without doubt by some war vessel sent iu pursuit of the pirates. These grottoes did not serve ns places of refuge merely; the pirates used them as storehouses and kept iu them tbe products of their captures. So, when at the close of the lust cen tury, France and England had suc ceeded in destroying this breed.it was thought that the island must contain some of tbe immense treasures which the pirates hud hidden there dnring tunny years. Searches were made, but the extent of the caverns to be gone over was so great lliat lo result was obtained. However.about forty years ago, an American, guided, it appears, by a mysterious document, landed on the inland with a troop of natives from Snn Domingo aud succeeded in nuenrthing in one of the grottoes an iron box containing nearly $120,000 in ancient golden coins and jewels. Allnred by this r.esult, an American company was formed in 1880 and undertook to search methodically while taking up the thick bed of guano deposited by the sea birds on the floor of the grottoes; but outside of the pre cious guano, no treasure was gained. The Queer Postal Hervlee ( Ilavana. Under the Spanish system Mr. Rathbone fouud that tbe letter carriers received their pay by charging from three to five cents, and sometimes more, for every letter they delivered. It took only a day or two to have that system abolished in Havana, much to the relief of the merchants. The carriers were put on salaries equivalent to that which they were supposed to earn by the assessment method they were permitted to use nuder the for mer regime. The carriers under the Spanish sys tem not only charged for the delivery of mail matter, but they rifled letters freely, and made money by stealing stamps from mail matter and selling then. Tbe letters and other grades of mail matter would be forwarded without stamps, and the carriers at the other end of the route would col lect not only for delivery, but for the stamps that had been stolen. There was simply an unparalleled loosenesa in the conduct of postotfice business, and every man seemed to have license to steal wherever he could. Even newspapers would be stolen from bundles and sold for whatever could be got for them. Auother form of corruption was evident when the salary lists were ex amined. There was no scale of sal aries.. In one city a postmaster would receive twice the salary that the post master of a larger city received. Sal aries seemed to be arranged on the "pull" plan, with the possibilities of division with the appointing power afterward. Places thut under the liberal payment of the United States would rate at 81500 a year were worth frequently as much as $3000 a year. Harper's Weekly. , Haw Iloom Wns Made. A little black-eyed and nimble tougued Irish street car conductor in Dublin ciime into the car and called out, in his peculiarly penetrating voice: "Wan seat on the roightl Sit closer on the roigut, ladies an' giutleiuiu, an' mek room for a leddy phwat's atuud iug." A big, surly looking man who was 0"eupyiug space euough for two, said sullenly: , "We cnu't sit any oloser." "Can't yez?" retorted the little con ductor. "Begorra, you niver wiut coitin', thin." It is needless to add thut room was male "on the roight" for the lady, London Spare Moments. OOOO9OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO000 FARM TOPICS OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOl Keep Small Tools Sham. All the hoes and other small tool a Used in cultivating soil, including euli tivator teeth, should be sharpened at the beginning of the season and kept sharp thereafter. In stony ground, a hoe will need a little touch of the grindstone nearly every day. This may seem a small matter, but the time used in keeping smalt tools sharp is a not wasted, as it enables the workman to' work mora effectively for a day thereafter. To Get Rid of Weeds. Green manuring may be the means of cleansing the field from weeds, for which purpose, of course, only the crops of the most rapid growth are useful. It increases the store of or ganic matter in the soil, and so furn ishes the conditions favorable for the multiplication of earth worms, and these, as Darwin has pointed out, by their activities improve the soil in many ways, most important among which are better aeration, bringing of the finer materials to the top, pulver ization and increased solubility of its constituents. Professor William P. Brooks, of Massachusetts. The Os-Ey Daisy. There are many who admire the daisy as a flower, and even the large oxeye, larger and more showy than the common varieties, is not without those who think it beautiful. Bnt it hardly needs to be added that tbese are mostly city people, or those who have not beoome acquainted with the daisy's peculiarities. It is a most abundaut seeder, and onoein the land it is almost impossible to got rid of it. Yet there was a time when this vile pest was sent ont to be cultivated in gardens as a beautiful flower. Dur ing one of the last years we were on the farm, a handsome carriage with team, showing a family taking a drive through the country, called at the house, and the lady of the party asked ns in the most polite tones possible if we would be kind enough to alio) them to pluck a "few of the beautiful flowers" whioh she saw growing amid tbe grass aud clover. Of course con sent was readily given, though' w conld hardly repress a smile. Y it if ont early, before its seed is for-ied, the daisy makes a hay whioh stock will eat if forced to it. It has then rather more than half as mnoh nutrition as good bay. Boston Cultivator. Caet of Growing Cow. The lecturer of the New Hampshire Grange has beeu making an estimate of bow cheaply a heifer calf can be raised nntil it is sixteen months old, by which time the heifer may begin to pay her way. Assuming the calf to be dropped the first of October, he estimates the cost of feeding it on skimmilk thickened with ground flax seed and some hay for the first five months br twenty-one weeks, at $9.57. The next three months bringing it to the pasturing season cost nearly six-ty-fonr cents per week, or 38.28. Pas ture will vary with locality and is reokoned extremely low, calves being often pastured for $1.50 to $2.60 for tbe season. The last three months cost $9.48, making a total for sixteen months of $28.81. The leotnrer adds that if there be mnoh increase of ex pensive foods, like flaxseed, thejeost of growing the calf will be considera bly inoreased. These figures are strongly confirmatory of the belief of many old farmers that it does not pay to grow a heifer into a cow, and that it is cheaper to bny the oow after all these costs and tbe risk of loss have been borne by somebody else. It is a fact, however, that a cow grown on tbe farm and always used to it will be generally a better oow than she will it sold to be sent to some other plaoe. The cow has a great love for the home where she was brought up, and in stances have been known where they have been sold to a distance, of their escaping in the night and making their way to the familiar barnyard where the were reared. Popcorn as a Crop. It hardly pays to grow popcorn as a field crop, under ordinary circum stances. The consumption of pop corn is a considerable item, ano a farmer may be so situated that he conld grow it profitably, but we should not care to attempt it. It is not a certain crop, and it seems, for some unaccountable reason, to fail more easily in a large field than in a small Eatch. , It is capable of yielding fifty nshes to the aore, bnt it does not often do it. It mixes so easily with other corn which, of course, destroys its market value that unless planted far awav from other corn, we get a variegatd nothing. Hut if we suooeed in getting a crop, we meet with serions difficulties in keeping it, and to get the best prices it must be kept a year, and under the very best conditions. It mnit be kept dry, absolutely dry, and, with the ordinary farmer's facilities for large storage, that is not an easy thing. It there should be some place on the farm that will insure dryness, rate and mioe will be the next trouble, and these pests not only destroy a great deal of the corn, but will taint even more than they eat. The only practical way of keeping it from rata and mioe ia to cover the orib, which ought to be in some building, with flue wire netting, and that is too ex pensive. It is the practice of some who do not grow it upon too large a scale, to throw it npou the bare floor, shovel over every day for a week, and then barrel. Two or three inch holes are bored in 4oh end of the barrel for the admission of air. But this doea not always save the corn from mice.- The Epitomist,
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