ng ae wits ol s+ Co H— oe, Sane gL his career, and played Hamlet at the Ly. - # year will be: have been made, When he 1873 a= E fob lien he gave a performance | sugar ad tobacco mous siicrifice, va AN ACTOR KNIGHTED. : Honry Irving Receives Evidence of Queen Vietoria's Favor, The honor that was recently conferred on Henry Irving is one that his friends have long; expected for him. Various explanations why he has not received - it He was born with the patronyniic of Brodribb and assumed the more picturesque name of Irving for stage purposes, ; As an explanation why Irving was not knighted when Angustne Harris anil “Arthur Sullivan had heen so honored, it was said that it was contrary to prece- dent. to dub a mana L i ght by any other naine than that which his father had carried hefore him. among English actors for the past ten * years thre is little doubt that it would have fallen to Irvin. SIR HENRY IRVING. Mr. Irvidg went on the stage in 18356, but it wis not until his appearance as Matthias in the “The Bells.” in 1871 that he achioved a success that placed him easily in the front ranks of his pro- fession. Critical opinion has differe 1 widely as to the artistic merit of Irving's Mat- son to Sab its effect on an andience. eppeared ut the Lyceum in that addi to his f fame, thouch Lie was severally criticized. In 1574 Irving took the boldest step in ceum with an original conception of the part. The ¢ritics resolved themselves into two parties and waged o furious battle in the pablic prints over the mer- its of Mz. Irving's Hamlet. Public opinion may ¢ that sul; oct, that Irving has admirers enough of his Hamlet to “fill his theater when he chooses to play it. His harmonious stage management added not a little to his success. Inhis | tours through this country he has been received with favor, and by his scholar- ly mind nnd pleasant personality he bas won many friends who will rejoice with him in his new honor. . CUBA'S WAR EXPENDITURES. $0 Enoruious that a General Uprising May £ Rasult from the Hard Times, In a somi-official statement received in Wash noton from the viers of one “of the most inflnential elements in Cuba, it is shown that the war expenditures are beciming so enormous and the industries so nun- profitable that they believe a general uprising will result from the hard times caused. - The portion of the statement » concerning the terrible conditions pre- vailing 1 as follows: “The war expenses of 1365-88 were paid by Cuba. Spain furnished 212,367 men, bus not a single dollar, “Cabs. was loaded with nearly $2,000,- 000 debts, besidea yearly vdgetof $58,- 000,000 in those ten vears. (Gen. Ioveil- - ar'declared in the Spanish Cortes that the war expenses’have been $800,000,000 or an averagaof $70,000,000 a year. “Sug:r proddeed then with slave la- bor was sold at 6 7-8 cents a pound. The tobacco industry was in such a ~ flourishing ORI that the Minister of the € olonies, Romero Robiedo. call ‘the buil ling 5 of their factories ‘pala es,” tobacco was sgld 100 per Cent, abdVe to-day's prices. Per’ contra, sup gar sellt to-day at 1.88 cents a pound, or 30 per cent. below cost prodic tion, and is pressid to its last ditch by German beet smyzar. : “The tobacco yond reiemption by a industry is ruined bes tariff war. Leap #0 “does not: pay the cost of labor attp-day’s prices. The production of Cuba this Sngar, $32,000.000; tobac- co, $12,000,000; fruits and sundries, §3,- 000,000; total, 000,000, s‘Expenses: Budget, $25, 500400; ex- tra octroi tax, %3,500,000; imports, £35,- 000,000. municipal budgets, $10,000,000; gxtra war expenses at least £19, 000,000; total, $4,000,000, “A $16:000,000 deficit is the last straw on the camel's back. The budget of 1898-94 was closed with a $6,000,000 def- jcit, and sugar sold then at 2.825 cents a pound, while this year it sells at 1.86 ‘cents a pound.” Made a Fertune After i'ifty, ' Gerieral McAlpin, commander of the New York militia, is a rich man. Many of the (iovernor’s staff are millionajres, but none of them wear swords that cost $7,000. General McAlpin's father, at the age of 50 years, was employed in a tobacco factory. The war made him, The stockholders became frightened at the rnin which was staring them and the country in the face, and were crazy to unload everything they had at an enor- They fell among the alarmists, who believed that the South was going to break up the government. Ad MecAlpin, however, was an ardent Union man. He managed to secure nearly all of the stock, and when the price of to- bacco went kiting his fortune was made, if a popul ir choice for.the honor had been made tion for pardon inigh: Ce made | person belonging to tf {emy at West Paint in June, signed from the United States Army, diff April, 1861; and was a General in the GEN. LEE'S. AMNESTY. fis Appliontion fo President Johnson the Result of Patriotic Motives. Thirty years ago this month, (General Robert Edward the Confederacy, never greater than in the hour of the failure of his cause, ‘ § wrote to Predident Johnson a letter ap- | plying for the benefits of amnesty and | restoration to his civil rights as a sitizen of the United States, Johnson's proclamation of general am- nesty had been issued on May 29. Size teen classes of persons were Rp ifically American manufacturers a ! that on | excluded. Lee was excluded not.only because he was a West Pointer and military officer of the Confederate Gov. spent ranking higher than Colonel, but also becanse he belangedl to the to fa thirteenth class excepted. namely, those persons who had volt tat arily patti fpaied in the rebellion, and the valine of whose taxable property was over §10.00, The emnesty proclamation -of May 19. 1865, provided, however, tls! special applica- bv any (RES G reepted: and Gen, Lee therstor a the sub. joined letter: “Richmond, ¥n.. Tune 13. 1865. “His Exc'y. Andrew .! + 150m, “Pre: a gre Bid ns | ators of egal vane and pat it upon the best ho qtland | the wholesale mariet mm lige quanti-| twy offered | 'a consigned f. 104k jaachines to | their European agent, be was utterly ; dumbfou ; ; } | took their sale Ffande area lif{lebelpr 3 . Then there-is a heavy drop ail Asi nia, the Nefherldads, arg ne am reached; the sealq goesqital lt Jowey ig (Yermany where the rate is the sath 58. Ireland. Risdia, Seedan oY aly follow | Bere in thegr dif 1g ¥ding to the tabk:’ te Bald. ‘a an bia writy, . glasshlowers are the best paid mechanics in Italy, and paper makers the poorest, The rate of wages in Italy, low as it is now, was still [dwer twenty-five years | ago. In England the increase in the rate of wages has beenabout twenty per cent. in twenty-five years. A French bricklayer gets fifty per cent. more wages now than were paid for his work in France forty years ago. The Mean Thing. “David,” exclaimed Mrs. Fogg, as her lord and master entered the house on a muddy day, ‘I'd be willing to bet al- most anythirig that you didn’t wipe your | fact on the mat before you came in here.” “Well, I guess you're about right, Hannah,” replied Fogg; ‘but 1. did wipe my shoes on it.’ : And then the aggravating thing langh- od like a hyena, just as though he had said somethidg awfully smart.--Boston Transcript. Edmund G. “Row, ex- United States Senator from Kansas, whose vote saved Andrew Johnson from impeachment, is | now a job printer in Albuquerque, N. | | watch casts | been Casy ios INOS evs load — equivalent writer. Thera is to- day prac ti; ally. 10 yer ls vos 0s bid t ¥ . English machin « on the Eugl to comets th the America an pre For sone reas that i 14 difiio explain, the kaglhish have not yes been cessful ma ‘hit 18, 3 0 such an wwritérs in Europe as in this county, bat careful estimates in- incre sa an "mand in the nex? few years. Another Ams found reptar dye is tlh able to tarn our a sue Of course thers has Foo ppnow al tery accepualice ol Ly] the d (Lo entirely years, | lish 114 * ak J £8 well wera | Pt hans *superior to tle American however. the American manufacturers are tani ogt a ma- | S, and | in Wyoming, $768. In { chine that is not oniy hunter and | stronger but cheaper thay any made in dant the total average earnings are con- ! Europe, and, in conse puedes, -of this, 3 "within the last vear a lire number of | aC hie I We Deen se tom t try ard . 4 all the le:ding makers i have established Bm sncies, American watcd ! years ago, found that the demand for had sudden they went to work muicin, « relometers, ' These little machines woe selling ig! Eu rope al seven 5 Bde dollars 2 piece. Experi the mann- { fagturers that th sould mike eyelo- ties for about §1.25, under- msign- ment reiche » lor had Oflate years Amerionn mad have taken ed al- Most exclusives 11 A. 1s also the case With Ameria: agricultural machinery. Almost wll the larger Ainormicaar houses have of lute year ts : agencies, und Tis aunually reach a large Within the vear them nt reaper SENT A ship- of Taa- chines to the B r large consigr nents to the Bal ic and to Al: glers: The Amenc to the E hig { tO 100 carixuis s Yaoi id ah AUR Sed, alba Olle n shipped irket to be thence reshiy ped to staat parts of the world. Invalid Doctor, ‘1 should not fear death. but | am so afmad of being burned alive! : : Physician—You need have no fear of that with me attending von.-- New York Weekly. Batcher-— Will yeu steak, Miss? Young Honsekee pex—Cih, 1 don't care! what shape iL 1s »0 1Us teader. —Detroit " Free Press. liiz coun- 3 1facturers, | f when the depression set in about two Cullen off. Bod gouni sernbbing, wh » fem FArearms’ cae of ale aropean! lave a round REV, ROBERT COLL YER, “There were six of ug in thé enrlier years, also, to make gool the oll rue pt ! . r its now amd then: Four is good company. five iu Six is a family, seven 's Leo lars: bat I think she would have refitted the rhyme to the reason if there ha ! beer more, : “And now how did she raise us w that her sop mast fain wr ie down this WMEINGTY 7 3 ie, “The; re Was fai ir white linen and calice first to wear and sleap ir. And until we could ses to it ourselves, once a week therd was the tub where w' Ind a bid engugh ‘for the sad solewunit ¥, with yellow soap and things that fot into youreyes, gd a stout “harden tosy T i -harge, i > 0 dy off withal, { 5. so that ow, Ti 1 ¥ think of of Col 's Salurday tL the worms of the ‘Wha hath red eyes. who tion, who hath strife? and I can answer. I know whp hal wll thesw, uy Sats ye years ago, when | was tured dnio that tub, while there was Lut =1ani‘cambiag for me in the words she would say as a sort of benedi “tion, ‘There nw, children, gleanliness i next wo Go v “How did’ we fare, the six hearty children? There was oatinail, and what we call mush who kpow me Letter, and skiza milk in plenty, with oateake, ae mother would say, to fill in. also wheat- en bread fur more careful ure, and some- ties a {race} batier. Not much meat, for meat was dear, but sony with dump- lings, and what the ok York is z, A SS . RM FS RR Ie A SAO TL