oy i * L A the precioas metals, ‘ed up the encrma The men ne* returned from tha Klondike declaring themselves victims of misplaced confidence in that conn- try will doubtless have no infloence on the next crop of candidates for similar treatment, observes the New York Tribune. The Detroit Free Press remarks: *If the stream of foreigners coming in- to our Atlantic ports from every Ea- ropean land can be diverted from the large cities und distributed throagh- out the thinly settled west and the rapidly developing eomth, the illiter. acy will soon be overcome in their in- tense light of American civilization, their brawny muscle will find profit. able employment on the forme, in the forests and mines and factories and if pot thenyselves, 2¢ least their childrens will become gennine Ameri cans” Mrs. Barnett thinks she is writing “the Great American Novel.” and to prove it, discloses that it “‘hegins with the scene lad in a sx all iste eratic Soathern town. Then it shifts to the moantain: of North EE lis a mining region. Then it goes on to a fashionablsa Sonthern resort, some such place of which White Salphur is typical in Aierica. From thers the story goes to a manuls~iaring town, some sneh New Dogiand town as Springfield or Hartford, there to a snl] viliaze, Washington.” Is Mrs whether she istryin American nove! or a gazeiter? asks ths Loud Journal. to write the great It is not particalar] rly rarprising to the San Francisco Chronicle to hears that no new discoveries of gold have bean made 15 the Northwest fusing the last eight months. Had the ea gold hunters in California Er themselves to the singll stream whera Marshall foand his nugget their sue cess would not have been the amaz- ing thing it biscamea, [int ther spread out over the whole wioantain andriver ecoantry, explored svery Jikaly and watercourse, with the reenid that they added, ‘within five FEATS, 8 $300,000,000 to the world's supply of As for the N western treasare seciers, the concentrated at the Kiondiks and its elose proximity, leaving a o8 large a4 twenty C alifornias to bees . plored. Until they branch oat and prospect every promising ing can be really determined about tha richness and extent of the Northwest era placers. Aocording to the latest revised Oz. ‘ares, the bonled indebtedness of the warious towns and cities of the United States for the past calendar year foot our sam of 157,052, - 004. These figures are given cmt by the New York Commercial Chronicle sad are presnwably accurate. While they represest heavy burdens upon individual taxpayers, they also repre sent extensive improvements and show that considersble activity in this re- Epect is going on all over the United Btates. To sliow the manner in which ‘municipal indebtedness bas grown during the past few years, the {ollow- ing table i Bflece...c.................. Si o ns... * 5 iid Gi 823 ................... ... 0. Irene WB... a 77. 23 0% As the foregoing ¢xpenditures rep HE 40 080 resent permanent improvements, the do not suggest the idea of waste or extravagance, but ou the contrary re. fleet in somo measure the growing demazds of our American municipal Captain Mahan's prediction that all the great wars of the future will be fought mainly on tha sea has ita prob. ability greatly strengthened by the present policy of nearly every power. ful] nation, maintains the Atlanta Journal. England is spending more money on her navy than ever before at one time. She is constructing a number of battleships, each of which is more powerful than any now afloat. The naval expenditures of France and Russia have recently been increased more than twentyper cent. Germany proposes to expend §200,000,000 in naval construction within the next seven years. She will build no less than seventeen battleships anda large aumber of cruisers, torpedo boats, ete. Italy would strengthen her already powerful navy if she had the neces. Sary money. to take a plaue among the great pow. ers, is expending vast sums of money on her navy. She bas plans for enough modern warships and cruisers to make her second only to England in naval stiength. « straction, but very little as compared ) Pp : with Eaglanid, Javau and three or four other coantries. Men talk of Jove that know pot wha We are doing something in the way of naval con. WHAT 1S LOVE ? Far coal we krow what love may bee Mode feed in the rales of higher roason read { rot the word 3 revealed, grace of such a plarinny Warr to Kn the mou 4 sede A CONSPIRACY AND WHAT CAME OF IT. bigonie Egy redrean? ¥ ® x JAA : HET LO RB ony sof ih GR Polis of Font. an y farmialate plans Hentid Wing her liver ot That Lis Roow wigs af Ler Suspiracy, a gf 2 - * That { % 2. Mz. Clarenes he is . . Curtis suddenly inquired EE . Been over mb $EE oF wag wi Wo en wo? 4 Branddons trains “ ber eves as Mre “1 hipe you'll £355 348) : Rendals are drawing i Lites Two hours 1a Mr. Clarence Cue CAR wgrel heater, orm nen, | rim? frevians 1 Cartan, iis Irie ad Hidwerg “Why. os ive, theres Sid Las ror Oe] Wihn Lropw big und BINT hes] Winier $m] eanrt is, : a Torre allel Then he ogre. lo has a right to go where and with whom # le [leases i In spite of the indi®erent tuanser a tf careless tone, Hoberts noted that his theaterdoving friend took far less in terest in the play than | le who ocrapled one f 2 106 pond axes Dear » x 1 % LODposite from where they were seyteor Lu bad surely never looked so quisitely dainty and leautiful as Right. Khe seemod the embuadiment bear all aglow with happiness the lovely face and graceful figure ir ritated him hy the very beng ty of which be had always been nreand | This radiant piece of flesh ant Sod | Japan, in Ler ambition did not seem eo exactly his PRODOrtY as io ¥ ue ¥ on Y formerly, Was it lecanse 8 duey Law Felice: Wag so attentive’ They Lad berry children togvihiet ated La and be know she bad always regarded the 1 tet iy i ye 3 3 studions, Rim Bile wey dre] 8 elder brother of her Youur eam. How Yoears ago, when Sk sad exes and tren) had rejectest hin! ax best be oul Lhe Thonen tif ly d TY ho poss esRed he navel unashed, gusoveht. Sirapee that his | possession never seemed quite so value! ¢ able as en fir? ie wrtp der { We would wot have onr minds «0 Jed amine | SHluey was With idle toys, that waston bomosd 1 what 10 munke her and blush so deeply. Well, wonld moon bee aver anid then ¥ Robwrra wonld mo amd see sive the public wo anderstand 1 tors were ae Buta] Leln Miss Brandon With this thoueht he reRointely MirnedG Bis sffeiting on the tage, gpd iF »y pt “wins # sat EAE hearty ave . teh toy rely iw Onang Contmertw Four a formund hiv is * hil Fan ‘a $3 pe § Ye hi heated Ww fraukiv replind that : 4 & TE “iy Um and hit whe apd # pa "y 5 IY aor pffes Np Ren wi ¢ gm Re hring ote about, bat miei hin elated hwefare Peps did in seew rite the na interview At last Tel eRl INR sane w an? iach desires WX 3 elas He 3 Rij rntively bar allowed to sen er rivately 1x ; was hrief = iy # BE rewt ox} 1 elas *Prear Lulu’ he sahil taking he ¥ Rix, Ui have Some this even NEF Ane AN early J narriage. 1 want ny wife as ae aka ¥ $4 : 3 gliowed him 16 retain tthe wit deepened nono PoeeRE ax whe ronlied ares, 1 have somierhi which may give vou pain, During thu ant for years | have been dimly con that we are Dot exactly suited to nx to sax her, althouh month have indignantly plication frog any one ele gow Oly eenving should pat be Preis ® T poke “I have teen mi aien in the ob x my affection, and 1 now know have never raly loved any one Gad Sidney Lawrence.” Spwwec lens at! pale Clarcnee’s ex sought hers Marra At Last realised the magnitude of i he woman Lis selfishness Lae ever fram Bb ry HE 4 CELIA 43 . i» {ATR Wile id RINTR MOO # wang ws i 8 wk Pas 3 Crow togeiovl. | TRAINED CIRCUS STEEDS | A REALLY COOD RINC.MORSE iS VALUABLE PROPERTY It Takes Three Years' Training Dafore the Animal Pecomes Perfor? in His IDu- they ww “Liberty” Harses — The Circos Horse's Strong Potut—An 1 Hastration. Those who are partial to the time honored pirons ars on the whole pretty hberaliy coatared for daring this win. ter, for w Barnum & Balley's show at Olympia, Herr Wall 1» miving an exeellent ex. hibition at : ie thera are three rings al poses wonld, if hastory is to be credit. ed, appear to be no new invention; for in Queen Elizabeth's day Bankes’ horse Morocco seams to have heen tanght a good many wonderful feats, | and that saracions animal wonld ales, from all arson nts, be =O disgrace to a movlern cirane propristor, tT : 1 To the ordinary spectator, the ring | harass is 3 com iparatively uninterasting x 1.3 3 3 ANNA; he goes ronda 20 a steady can. S ib. is . tor, willie the rider op ~ f 3. #% * . or jess 1iflenir Tas LANE thy. arly Mare proprietor wold tell ne that a really good ring horse 18 ane of hig most vali- ‘ nate propertine, In rider that the performer may exesnte hia femts with acenraey, the horse mast travel at one even speed: for if 11 were 0 make a etart or sleken hus spesd tf oO 138 Tenn the ran i # ty Sy $ laAy sarprisp years’ piper prriaps, ent tas contin onston sus, : to appear ij GF tee in the pablie sxhilations, bat they are requisitioned tia! new i Th frash hands taught thew hearsals, 1n be practiced fy business, whila in bareback got thar cigs Are freely rubbed with resin in order thet the performer may have 8 goo bold It is parbaps x in the cap of Philip Ast) ey wy ssi newiint hf ETL Lye ponversant than other peovle with 3 4 3 & 4 TR Te 5 » UTeaing ang traimang Yao Daring recent years the greatest advance has perhaps bean in the train. | of what are salled that 1s to say. horses introduced” instead of being rv Within the memory of a are scarcely mora than muddle vinra than ane horse was seldom Favor seen in the ring at once was brought and want through his performances the great delight of ha assenihles otatars, whareas we And ARy or sixty 6% 1D al ona mst be Seine 13k % Fe thing hike Hfty ¥ ‘ x sme, and he made no secret of his most diffenlt was to make the ponies tn Fann ¢} ® wh POL way ula along the ring fence while the bigae Lovaes were going through their ave tions inside the r The ponies used to tumble Y they hecane frichtened, and eventually had to be | held up, but patience at last proved | victartons, and the tout ensemble was remely good. It is universally ad. Batted the memory is a horse's strong point, and it ia oun this that trainers work. A remarkable example of a Lorse’s memory occurred mm the case | of a pony once owned by the late Mr. | William Cocke, who for many years | In the early days of | was ai Astiey's Lis carear he owned a small pony, whieh he sold when his establishment inervasemi he was tenting near Bristol, when a the Crystal Palace The | art of horse.breaking for trick par. | but the sirens | Neariva dozen years later | A CREAT BASEBALL PLAYER, Adrian C. Anson. ¢ the RB seently Betired Vets | eran. Has Played 26538 Gumnes., With the retirement of Adrian C. | i ' Anson from the management of the! i Chicago Basball Club passer the most! interesting Soave ever known in the sia by aan 3 QED ODT ANG wail il a= player, captain aud manager, and kep! up an active connection with the game to au age fur | exerci ng that of most players Hie! temperate mode of life, combined with physical gifts beyond the ordinary sept Lim in the game for wore than 3 quarter of a century His career hegan | a IRTH in Roek ford. Ii, on the nin He sour fattracted attention. and went to the Philadelphia fetys In 1X74 he accompanied th sling } is Atiantic inp. | He was even then | Known as a strong | piaver : His fame, however, came sines Ins {oonnection with the Chicags elub, winteh he ined 1m 1878, and which ander his lead won the Nations Isagae penn in 1X78, 18%. IRS}, f 1%R0 IXRS aml INRE. In the '3iVs n : (10 WE on thip skinga. He year swath thes Bins ¥ Jdiaiva the cial held almost sy ¥, Kaliva sd Jahn men 341 sw jodged ny atl years blood, has heen petifed nuestion wi in participa od $ Ha was at made A034 base grand average at bat for years was 312. Frou ren tae avaiable regards he. Pan, ll the elose of 1807 he hal 17.800 pat onts, 953 assets and 054 Thaw gave kim a Jeldineg aver twantyvtws years of (471 Beld 071 and lay in leagn bats that hard Ia2or. Laoagie 3 amin /rrors, iam Bitier AVEry v8 1847. whey foi iy sa fad, wd sixiy-earbth, srogmi zed as a bra sportanian Yai, Sonoral Be game will ansence, and bail erawd every league ity will mass tl red-fa 4 bionde haired snrnal, Latest Musical Prodigy. New Yorl HTrespon pile that oiascal cireles rergarkania girl pianist older, Sha is #10 05 ia ia Yat TORS Kilgman wal that has faimiiv authing about waxie, branch of neglected nlx case shiest iu view hae set aban | taxing lessons, so that he could teao! bis cluldren what he Sri learned hime sell } Litt'e Honrietta too piano directly it was bret home, purchased liv the saving i" 3 3 oy ¢ ar, and as tue alter irved of edunoation Hiterest in tha to master the art It gir: at us sade watohed sid when he loft the IAG to amitate Mis movements, ! ees tue about the meaning of thew noticd ‘As tagen child ! i : father nian came to Bim to ask whether he was Gpen to lay a suai] pony He atid that he was and, on inguirtag iy EEN old the pony BI ht he, was told ; + five years On the steed being an hronght to him be at once recognized it as the old pour, oi d suggested to | he man that it was a Uetle more than | ’ five years old he itl nu vandar was indignant at lus doubted. “Weil,” sasd Mr. Cooke, “I had this pony something like ten | or twelve vears ago, and I think I can prove it to you.” He then gave the | practicing with poy his cues, and the little fellow i - went through his performances as though he Lad been doing them daily, thongh possibly in the interval he had never once heen asked to perform. — Londen Fiel i Across China on Bleyeios. The thres English bicyclists who left London tn July, 1506, for a ride | ' across Europe aud Asia have just ar rived in Shaaghai, having traversed | 14,322 miles. They say the roads are very poor in the Celestial Empire, and that they were obliged to carry their wieels hnndrads oi miles on their backs. Armed with voluminons pass- | ports and red wmsiting cards several | iaches long, with their names In Chinese characters, they went from town to town, aaterviewing mandanias and missionaries, and living on po rk and ru They penetrated China! fro Tor per Barmab. Thronghont : aaroey an officer rode on ahead, giving orders a their safety shonid be looked after. The worst the cyelists had to contend | against was the desire of the Celestials to show what they ceald do in the way of eyching. word being | at all military posts that | : had veen slow! tring for weeks, and then succeded oo mastering serlect) Professor Wm, Rheem. master, chaneed {0 hear hey Fanteersd to pmive her oently she played at difenit mus : Nhe x attending : publ . and when not plawing with dolls as gargdesinoss taal | never tires Gradasl Development of the Mind, Sir H. Holland savs “Whatever theory we hold as to the functions of | the brain or mind, it is certain that { the powers of the brain are oniy grad. | nally developed, and, if forced into preiature exercise, they are impaired (by the effort.” This 1s a maxim, n- | deed, of great import, applying to the eondition and oniture of every facnity . and fanction of body or of mind, anid wingmlariy so to the memory, whiel forms 11 one sense the foundation of | mtetlyctaal life A regulated exer. i c18e, short of inducing fatigue, is un peating to it, as, indaed $3 faonities and fasetions; but bonnd to refrain from woading : : enstant and iabonons edoris in earl { life, and Defurs the strengthensd to its work, yx oar bands New Y Helping Digestion, One of the fertile German manniacs turers has pat apon the market a snb- | stance eased gasiromyxin, which has the virtue of oeressing the natural { yteld of the pepsin 1a the stcanach, mstory of ‘the game He served the and Bos. | x i Lae coaugiry Rb —— A SIMPLE DINNERS COST. {It Represented $300, 000.000 in Capital | and the Employment of 3,000,000 Men, Recently a gentleman who is fond of arithmetic made ap his mind that | be wonid find out how much a dinner really enat, This gentleman asked how much a simple dinner that he was | eating cost, and he was told seventy- five cents He contradicted this, and then made out the following statement abont the eout of that dinner: The pepper, be sand, came from 10.000 miles away, It grew on a jittle bush about eight feet high, which must have bad » growth of at least five years. The ; pepper was picked green; it had to be dried in the sun, and this meant em- ploying women. It took one ship and 1000 miles of railroad to bring the pepper to the United States. The flonr of which the bread was made came from Dakota; some one owned o land, and thas meant the investing of ital and then he had also to pay wages to workingmen. The flour had to be ground, and the building of the mill, and the plant, or machinery, sant more money invested The millers har) to be paid, goopers bad to be paid & maki Td barrels, and, Stree. tlie La whieh the bar. be cat and shaped, and this meant the more men. Then the siipped ayer the rail. sandled azn by cartmen ne int y the honse ae. talde came from paffas pom Nanth Wine wars ; ) PHORLNZ and % » . fiacd Io make a ONrneY The salt came from ‘he indian fasnrvation the northwestern part rake came from the Spice [slands in the Indian archiy they, ton, represented the smploy- ment of capital and labor The little Lirpetiv, the employment of 85400 0H) - 3 af New York ‘State The spiess in the hipelago. The canned pesches came from Caltforuis, and Linner represented direstly or in- Wi of capital and ve million men, Peeolinr Wille, several lawyer friends of stherad in a hotel 2Orri. onrt in oa Penny. coven years ago, I te odie iis that said as ald court Judge Tow Farrell said he wax ealled on gnos to wituess a oul. whish read: “atve all to ny wife Pusnjuk ‘1 Had a last testament offered for probate in my court, said an ex-connty ong sho was then practicing law, ‘whiel eat the mdge’s for brevity, It con. tard four words apd enbiadied this torae behest: *'Retuy pots my farm © Me farm being tho deceasnd’s only iad fad tlie whole sory.’ This raminded Albert Posten, a visiting lawrer, of a will which he ¥i a ob iia » tYeaITaVOer Lhe fi! Y cartiily goods, he | en saw written on a postal cand, Another mamber of the ‘party rengs ferent’ satd he s3w a will, while ram sing throggh some old papers in a clerk's gtfion ih the Parchase, » idugthy teseription, Hieenor twenty solider Had write hin will od the tstde of a panier cold in he lay dying on the YoRTA babe EL 6, feeder ta Seid of battle iu Tennessee, and it was this bloal dyad belest tual ho SAW as a part of the connty record. But the most utngue will of them all was one mentioned hy a lawyer who had bean connsel for the children who tried to break the wil It was writ- tent by an eccentric oll farmer in his own way on the margin of a newspa- per, whieh had been pinned to the in- side of a bolster slip "Louisville Post, The Use of the Great Tos, The Africans of the West Indiesuse the grast tos coustantiy ip climiung, Several vears ago, while spending some titaa at one of the famons resorts ia Jatagiea, | had opportunity ta ob. serve the skill with which the colored ramen, who do a great part of the menial labor, carried stone, mortar sid other bmdding materials on thew Heads to the top of a Hrvestary thwer a part of tl ie hotelaot then fAnished, Much of the anerrigg accuracy with which they (women and Bir chased each other ap and down the long lad. lars, with heavy loads skillfully posed in their pates, was Jue to the frm. uess with which they grasped each rug of the jadders with the great toe. They dud 2 Jf the foot on the rug, bat the groove at the jnnetare of the great tos with the body of the foot, and they held fast by making the back of the other toes afford the other gripping surface, In much the same way the Abyssinian native cavalry grasp the stirrup. Aad I Lave seen a one-armed Santo Domin. | gan astride the near ox ina wheel yoke, guiding a lead mule with a rein held | between his great and second toes, while his only arm was devoted to cracking his teamster's whip. —Over- land Monthly. 553 it pl gee the ball or hollow A Bird's Odd Death. The spike-studded ball which sur mounts the Manchester Town Hall i» { said to be the third or fourth highest architectural point in England, and a keen sighted person recently noticed that a large bird was hanging from it, | prerced through the body by one of spikes, npon which it while dying lie northern amd evidently been caught at a great rate of speed. African Monkey Skin, i Africa's monkeys are giving out, | In the neighborhood of the Gold Coast they fave been exterminated, and last vear the colony could collect oniy 67,6680 monkey skins, whereas in 1884 165.400 skins, valued op 8265,000, wale exported,
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