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Tribune l'r.nting Company, Limited. { . I Common fairness demands that those States "which propose to tax bachelors In order to promote matrimony should nlso provide a penalty for the maiden who says no. It is claimed that the son of a Kan sas farmer is the rightful heir to the throne of Servia. If the young man will go on farming and behaving prop erly he may, however, be able to live It down. According to an apparently authentic article in a French periodical not less than 110,000 aristocrats are at present confined in the prisons of Europe. Rus sia stands first with 12,000 blue-blood ed law-breakers. If the operations iu South Africa shall prove, before they have ended, to have cost a billion dollars, to what fiscal expedients must the United Kingdom resort when she enters upon a coutcst with such a power as Russia in Central Asia? Duels illustrate as well as anything else the difference between the Slav ' and the Gaul. The Slav, if the duel ing pistol goes wide, betakes himself | to the rapier and a finish. The Gaul betakes himself to a coffee house and drinks to his opponent's dreadful valor. The manufacture of illustrated postal cards iu Germany is a productive iu- | dustry. It is said that the Govern- i meut derived a daily income of $10,545 j from this source alone last year. This j country ought to bo able to get up a | much more attractive set and make | more money out of the issue. The French Government is to have nn official residence erected in Wash ington on a two-acre tract located on u high knoll commanding a line view of the National Capitol. The famous French architect, Carre, will design the building, which, it is expected, will be the tinest specimen of French archi tecture in the Western Hemisphere. Who hut Uncle Sam would have thought of supplying dentists for ins soldiers? Who hut Uncle Sam's sol diers would have created a demand for such a supply? It brings hack Spanish war memories when the toothbrush in the hat of every American private created more of a sensation among the foreign attaches than many of the mil itary manoeuvres and tactics. An article in the Cosmopolitan calls attention to the advantage of a "no fence law," and presents the startling figures that Indiana alone has fences whose computed value is §200,000,000, and which if placed in a single line would fourteen times encircle the globe. These figures suggest the enor mous amount of capital invested ! .n fences throughout the United States. Do Fein Itrccd in the Ken? The '■ cdi'ig of i els Is a mystery. No body e ,'er saw any of their eggs. The auric H:s us dto have a notion that eels were developed from liorse-halrs, An otic : theory was that they were the j i-ic.r a kind of bert'r. it i.s now known that they must spawn in tlie ocean. Eels put In land-locked ponds do n • breed; they must go to the sea in order to propagate their species. Ho \V s iio :dy. A fruitful and humorous explanation of sue - ss i.s given iti this little dialogue from I'r.ck: I- ac stein—Vol!, you vosn't oud von Fortune !■ nocked at your uoor. (' nhei'stciu—Meiti friendt, site didn't h:if to knock at all. i vos hoiditt' tier door open vaitln for her V.ontlftti rains have fallen In South Xlttssia and a splendid harvest is as su red. The Sultan Ihraliam, of the prov ince of Wadai, in the Soudan, has been assassinated. ite I.e.viand steamer Assyrian, front Antwerp for Montreal, with 2,000 toils id cargo, went ashore off Cape liace. IF I KNEW, If I "knew the box where the smiles aro kept, NO mutter how large the key Or strong the bolt, L would try so hard— -I'would open, I know, for me. Then over the land and sea broadcast I'd scatter the untiles to play, That tlie'childron's faces might hold them fast For many and many a day. | TROUBLE WITH A PYTHON. | MS - Mg By William T. Hornaday, Directorof the New York Zoological Park jjj? M.xx.xx.\xrS.xi.xx.xi.xx.xxxx;\x.sxSi.xx.Xx.xi.vx.xC^.xC.x\.XC.xt;vx.xCxT.xx = xx2S THE superb reptile-house of the New York Zoological Park xvas rapidly Hearing comple (, tioii. Its great main hall was swarming xvith workmen, xvho were concreting the alligator pool, finishing the big wall cases, dividing the eeu- J tral "installation" for turtles, and do- I ing a hundred other things. The ' opening day was relentlessly drawing j nearer and nearer, and we were anxi ously assembling live beasts, birds and reptiles with which to till the various installations that would be opened to the jiublie on that occasion. Down at Battel's place we anxiously examined his stock of live serpents, and made many purchases. The most Important acquisition was a black tailed python, between fourteen und Bfteen feet long, fresh from some East Indian jungle; chosen because its size, its perfect condition and ravenous ap petite combined to make it a genuine prize. Ja a collection a snake which feeds freely is worth about twice as much as one which docs not, for it will live twice as long as one which requires to have its food forced down Its throat with a ramrod. Pending the completion of our rep tile-house, bird-house, small mammals' house, hear dens and a dozen other things, we quartered all our live stock In a closed yard at the rear of the storehouse. A cleared space iu the for est about one hundred feet square had been enclosed by a tight board j fence, and in this were dozens of tem porary cages and pens of all sizes, filled with wild eraatures, impatiently awaiting the opening day—and better quarters. In one corner of this yard we had hurriedly erected a cook house, which in appearance was similar to a Western claim shanty. It stood low ! upon the ground, and the most con spicuous object within it was a live- I ly, great nut-eater, whose wire house extended quite across one end of the room. In that portion of the yard where sov eral dozen gla OS-fronted snake-boxes were arranged under a shed one of our carpenters built for the python, under -Mr. Ditmars's direction, a large box cage, with a front of wire netting j and glass. Compared xvlth the other I inake-hoxes it was a very pretentious ; affair, ns befitted the "star boarder." The python was expected by express j on a certain day, but when I left the [ park at nearly seven o'clock, ft had not arrived, and seemed very unlikely to do so tl/fct nignt. | I reached the park the following j morning at half past seven o'clock, and was just opening my desk, when In came my ofiice hoy, red in the lace ) and breathless from running. I "Good morning, sir! Mr. Dltmars would like to have me help hunt for die snake. May I go uow'f" j "Hunt for what !" "The big snake. It escaped last | night!" ! "What! That big python?" "Yes, sir." | "Horrors!" said I; and we turned ] and rau. I Words could not do the situation lustice. The stupid carpenter who built the python's cage had left a big hole, four Inches square, carefully con cealed behind a rafter in an upper corner of the box. The serpent had arrived late the previous evening, and during the night had found this open ing and joyously glided through to ; freedom. ; To think of that big serpent at lib ! orty in tiie Zoological Park! I had no ; great fear that it would harm any one, hut the publicity! The busy place was humming xvith gossipy workmen from idl parts of the city; the report | ers would surely learn of the python's escape; before my mental vision rose columns upon columns of newspaper articles beaded: "Terror in the Bronx!" "Monster Serpent Loose!" "Panic in the New Zoo!" and the thought of all tliis was more appalling to me than the countenance ol' any wild boast I had ever met. Great would be the surprise and chagrin of tiie Zoological Society, and the humiliation would be almost unbearable. Truly, tliis was a i pretty way to start a new Zoological Park! At the auimnl yard I found a dozen ! men and hoys at work very quietly, like sensible fellows, trying l find the vanished python. My first act was j to send for several more men and start them searching systematically, but without any noise or l'uss, through I every square yard of the law hushes ! outside. Their orders were to search j In over widening circles, discover the snake if possible, and in the event of doing so, silently to mark the spot and bring word to me. Leaving tliis part of tiie hunt in full progress, X returned to the yard. It seemed probable that the python had crawled under some one of the many cages, platforms or buildings, "tuder several of which it could easily have found refuge. If it had gone un der anything else than the big, sprcad- I ing storehouse budding, which was thirty-five feet wide by one hundred 1 and thirty feet long, xve might find it I before it could escape into the forest. If I knew a tax that was Targe enough To hold all tiie frowns I meet, I would try to gather them, every one, From nursery, school and street. Then, folding and holding, I'd pack them in And turn the monster key; I'd hire a giant to drop the* box To the depth of the deep, deep sea. —Dora Sexton, in the Book World. 3 If, however, it had hidden under that - extensive building, we were in a - quandary. • The men continued to look under * various things, likely aud unlikely; : and presently they discovered a broad mark which seemed to be the trail of ■ the serpent, leading under the cook house. A close examination confirmed this theory, and then It was also re ported that no similar trail could he found leading out. A carpenter was hurriedly scut for to remote the boards from the floor. Now mauy courageous men have such an inborn aversion to snakes that tiie touch of a serpent's body seems to create in them an entire now system of nerves, and I wondered how my men thould act if we should really encounter that creature with the beady brown eyes, forked tongue, and teeth ••ill pointing inward—the wrong way for an assailant. Up to that point the search had gone on as quietly as if we had been seeking a lost piece of rope. Fortunately the floor boards of the cook liousp were nine inches wide, and in a short time one of them was re moved. Down went four heads, and all four came up again, very hastily; "There he is!" Close beside the opening in the floor lay about a bushel of big brown and yellow coils, and above the pile hov ered the massive head of the python, threatening to strike the first living thing that came within reach. The noise and jar of the carpenter's efforts in removing the board had greatly ir ritated the reptile. Mr. Ditmar \ our curator of reptiles, had provided himself with a large bug of heavy cloth, hoping to be able to throw it moutht downward over the coils of the serpent—the usual way of capturing snakes at large. liut there was not sufficient space between the floor and tiie serpent to carry this plan into effect; aud moreover, tiie serpent's head was altogether too threatening. Pending further efforts, we procured boards and endeavored to cut off the python's escape, front and rear. The python waited until we had placed the boards to tbo best possible advantage, then uncoiled himself, shoved the hoards out of position as if they hud been so many straws put there for his amusement, and quickly disappeared under the ant-eater's cage. The carpenter l'eil to work again to remove several other boards of the floor, while the messenger hoys were stationed outside the building to see that our quarry did uot get out and es cape to the forest. In a short time the python'o head again appeared at one of the long, narrow openings made by the carpen ter, but as Mr. Ditmars took a favor able position for grabbing ilio crea ture by tiie neck, close up to the jaws, it struck at him most viciously. "Look out!" cried some oue, em phatically. Clearly, it would not do for an™ of our men to bo seized by that savage creature; for although the python was of course not poisonous, and although we might even prevent it from wrap ping itself around any one of us, the laceration of a man's hand by that big, muscular mouth, filled with four rows of hook-lilte, backward-pointing teeth, w*iuld, have been a serious matter. Presently the snake left its place un der the nut-entir's cage, gliding along the side of the building farthest from the door, alert, aggressive, aud so ready to strike any one who came near its head that I forbade the men to take risks. As its five yards of length scmieir cled around the cook-stove, part of its body passed under one of the floor openings. This was our opportunity, and in an instant two of us seized it aud triumphantly hauled up about six feet of the serpent's body and tail. How big and muscular it was! Its skin was as smooth and glossy as sat in and gleamed with rainbow irides cence. It writhed aiul worked in our grasp, and pulled downward with such power that it required all the strength of the chief forester and myself 10 retain any portion of it within our grasp. We braced ourselves, heaved hard, an,i by main strength tried to pull the python out backward; but not one inch could we gain. On the con trary, inches were drawn away from us iti spite of all we could do. I be lieve that ten men could not have pulled that python out backward, al though they "light possibly have torn it in two. All this time Mr. Ultmars kept trying to seize the python by the nock, hilt it was constantly alert, anxious to seize him, and gave film no opportunity whatever. It was evident that with our unaided hands we never could master that savage creature without an accident to some one. Bidding a keeper take my place at the "tail hold" and bang on with all his strength, 1 ran to the storeroom, and with two yards of mason's line, a long, thin haininer-haiiule of hickory and a staple Hurriedly driven into the end of it for the line to pass through, i I quickly made a very serviceable noose Back I ran to the cook-house. Mr. Merkel and Mr. Munzie, red in the face and perspiring ' profusely, were clinging desperately to the last two feet ol' the python's tail; and the python was in a perfect rage. It dart ed to and fro under the half-demol ished floor, striking out viciously whenever it seemed possible to reach a man, and manifesting great willing ness to tight any otte. At the same time, however, it most cunningly kept its head under cover. I readjusted the loop of my line at the end of my stick and put it close to the python's head, expecting the snake to mako a strike through the noose. He refused. I waited pateiut ly. Inch by inch the tail was going under the floor. "We eau't hold oh here much long er!" exclaimed the forester, desperate ly- At last tiie python started to move straight toward my face. As I shifted my noose into line, he ran his head through it, the noose flew taut behind his Jaws, and he was caught. The instant I jerked the line taut the python drew back and endeavored to retreat, pulling with the strength of a man. I gave him about a yard of my line and then held him by main strength. "That small line will out his head off!" cried Mr. Ditmars, in real alarm for the safety of our prize snake. "Better let me cut it!"_ He whipped out his knife and poised the open blade over my precious bit of line. "No, no! Don't cut it. We've got to control ids head this way or we'll never master him without getting hurt. Let go the tail and grab up the body through that next opening." This new move again brouglit up the original six feet of body and tail which that reptile had, by sheer strength, pulled out of the grasp of two strong young men. The snake now moved forward once more and as lie came I pulled in my line through the staple until presently I coaxed and pulled the head into an opening, hold ing it quite safely at the end of my stick. Instantly Mr. Ditmars seized the neck with both hands, and the snake was our. Dropping my line and stick I, too, took hold close behind the head and we began to walk away with our cap tive. As that magnificent and wonder fully, powerful body emerged from un der the floor, the oilier men laid hold of it at intervals and here it along. "Keep it out straight, boys, and don't j give him a chance to get a coil around I any of tis!" Truly, it must have been an odd looking procession that wo made as ! wo marched across the yard with that ; big snake and dumped it into its cage. I Tiie hunt had lasted nearly an hour. No one had been bitten and the snake was quite unhurt. "Now, boys," said I, "let's say noth- | iug about this iittfe incident for the j present." They did keep quiet and the unex pected happened. Not one of the newspapers of New York heard a word j of the affair until fully three months had elapsed, and then the story was ! so old that as a sensation it was as | dead as Barneses, and the zoo did not suffer a hit from reference to it. To-day that python occupies the sec ond cage from the alligator pool, and Is the handsomest, although uot the largest, of our mauy constrictors.— Youth's Companion. AH They C hose. Wiiilo waiting for tho train the bride and bridegroom walked slowly up and down the platform. "I dou't know what this joking and guying may linve been to you," lie re marked, "but it's death to me. I never experienced such an ordeal." "It's perfectly dreadful," she an- I swered. "I shall he so glad when wo get away from everybody we know." I "They're actually impertinent," he j went on. "Why, tiie very natives " | At tills nnpropitiods moment the | wheezy old stationmaster walked up i to them. "Be you goin' to tpke this train?" he i asked. , "It's none of your business," retorted j the bridegroom, indignantly, as he guided the bride up the platform, where they condoled witli each other over the impertinence of the natives. Onward came the train, Its vapor curling from afar. It was'the last to their destination that day; an express —nearer, it canto at full speed, then in a moment it whizzed past and was gone. "Why in thunder didn't that train stop!" yelled the bridegroom. " 'Cos you sed 'twarn't none of my bizness. I has to signal if that train's to stop." And as the old stationmaster softly stroke'd his heard there was a wicked twinkle in his eye.—London Spare Mo ments. A Cemetery Pol- Pets. London and Paris have long had cemeteries for dogs and eats, but New York lias been without one until lately. Now, however, a burlnl-ground of three of four acres lias been opened at Hartsdale, in Westchester County, and is being immediately taken advantage of by the bereaved owners of pets, nearly seventy burials having already taken place there. The woman with the pet cat was foremost. "Toby," a splendid Angora, rests In peace in the new cemetery, in n plush-lined mahog any casket (costing some SSO), and un der a marble headstone commemorat ing his pedigree and ids virtues. An other pedigreed pet, a French poodle, was buried witli liis silver collar and loader beside him, an embroidered blanket about ills aristocratic form, aud a silver bracelet upon his leg, as in life. Two or three carriages not infre quently accompany the dead canine or feline to the grave,—Harpsr's Bazar. HOUSEHOLD | ART IN THE HOUSEHOLD. Decorations That Arc Novel, Modish and Beautiful. j In lino with tlie present fad for brass bouse decorative pieces one clover housewife* lias chosen a huge brass pot to stand on the hearth of her living room fireplace, that holds wood in i winter and a pot with a growing plant | in summer. It is unusual aud effective | in the extreme. | APPKOPIIIATE FOR THE DINING-ROOM. | Conventional treatment is almost al- I ways best for a dining room mantel, and a pair of candelabra especially ap j proprlate as decoration. By the way, these candelabra when used as decora | tion never have shades on the caudles. ! HOW TO HANG TnE TROrHIES, I There is an unwritten law In house- I furnishing ethics against tlie means by which the groups of trophies, arms, I swords, knives, etc., so popular for j usual decoration these days, are liung ! showing. Hooks and strings are not j permissible, but nails should be used I so disposed as to lie invisible. A piece j of drapery behind tliese groupings is j much liked by many artistic decora tors as enhancing the effect. THE VOGUE OF GREEN. ! Green is such a very fashionable j wall covering just now that it is apt to be used indiserminatcly regardless of I other considerations, light in particu- I lar. One in a position to speak author j itatively states it absorbs at least i twenty-five per cent, of light, so bouse j wives should be careful about choos ing it for a room unless it has a great deal of light. PAPERING TnE CEILING, j Another suggestion for the rejttvon : ntion of wall covering is to paper the ceiling of a very low-ceilinged room in | white or pale ivory, and run it down a i foot or so on tlie side walls to a white | or cream picture moulding, as the case | may lav This adds very much to the I effect of height. The plain white ceil ing thus loses itself above you and never accentuates its own limitations. WINDOW DRESSING. Half sash curtains are entirely passe. The most approved window dressing | at present consists of lace or thin stuff curtains, window sill length, hanging | straight down against the glass. In- j side ones of soft silk hang over these, I pushed close to each side, but with a j balance in the centre across the top to I form a continuous line. Green and yel- j low are tlie preferred shades, but un less much care is shown to get a de- ' cided gray green it is apt to throw a j rather ghastly light, while a soft, pale yellow is always uieliow. A REVIVAL. Old-fashioned ball frlngs is redivious ! for adorning bed hangings. Dimity | spreads are very fashionable just now, too, as are Anatolians.—Philadelphia I Record. SPHHs '.HOUSEHOLD RELCIPELS Crumb Tie—Soak a pint of bread crumbs in milk. Beat three eggs; add half a cup of sugar. Line two pic plates with crust and sttew over j enough raisius to cover bottom. Add j the bread crumbs to egg and milk, sift- I ing in a bit of cinnamon, pour over the j raisins and bake about thirty minutes. ' Frozen Apricots—Boil two cups of i sugar and four cups of water ten min utes. When cold add one can of apri- ! cots cut iu small pieces. Freeze as j usual, and when nearly stiff stir iu two j cups of-wlilpped cream, measured af- I ter whipping. It is delicious without I the cream, but, of course, is not so j rich. Plecotta—This Is the national soup of Italy. Cook a half cup of rice in a pint of stock and rub through a sieve. Thicken a quart of boiling milk with a tablespoon of butter and two of Hour; add a cup of grated cheese and the rice stock, a teaspoon of salt. Serve quite hot with bits of toasted brown bread. Kiee Cakes Two coiteecupfuls of sour milk or buttermilk, one teaspoon fill soda dissolved in a little hot water and beat in Hour enough to pour; add two well-beateu eggs, one cupful of boiled rice and cue teaspoonful salt. These require a little longer time for frying than the plain ones do, but are very nice. Alabama r.catcn Biscuit—One quart of Hour, oue tablcspoonful lard and butter mixed, teaspoouful salt. Mix into a stiff dough with water. Pound until the dough is soft or blisters. Boil out until three-quarters of an inch thick; cut out with a small biscuit cut ter; mark with fork holes. Bake in moderate oven until pale brown. Puree of Fruit and Onions—Use any dried fruit, peaches or prunes. Take one cup of chopped onions, one cup of the preferred fruit, cooked soft, and one of era el; lings, one-half cup of pearl barley, oue teaspoonful each of salt, grated lemon peel and cardamom seeds and three pints of weak stock. Cook until It can lie sifted; reheat and serve with croutons. | CUARDiNC THE ( Locomotive Sentinels Which Precede and Follow tlio Train. When the President travels the per centage of possibility of accident is reduced to a minimum in the selection of cars for the train. New coaches, which have just left the shops, are preferred. Axles, wheels, springs, journals, brakes, couplings—in fact, all of the important factors in the make-up of a train—are carefully ex amined and tested before being al lowed to depart with their precious human freight. The engine selected i is the best in the service and is ruu by 1 the most reliable engineer in each di- I vision of the road, the man upon j whom the company can rely for the | exercise of caution and of the best 1 judgment In time of emergency. In no ease, however, is lie allowed to bear i aione the responsibilities of bis import ' ant position. On the opposite side of ! the cab sits a man less grimy, per haps, and without overalls. He is the i road foreman of the division. Neither i tlie engineer nor the road foreman ' speaks to the other as the train rolls | swiftly along. Their eyes are on the i loug line of steel mils that stretches 1 away into the distance, but tbey are j thinking of the smooth-faced, dnrk | eyed man who is in the rear ear, siuil j iug and conversing with ills friends, i and in whom all the greatness of the republic is personified. They feel , their heavy responsibility, and tbey [ give a sigh of relief when the end of their division is reached. * ♦ • 1 As the train glides besides fivers, [ through valleys and over mountains, j new faces appear. Quiet men, who i seem to know no one except the con ductors and other railway employes, | slip into some vacant scat in a sleep -1 ing car, or sit and smoke in the com | binatiou car just behind the engine. ■ They chat with each other, occasion ally glancing at their watches, and | are always alert. They are the di ' vision superintendents, masters of transportation or men holding other responsible positions, j "Suppose," I remarked to one of j these officials, when we were together | on a President's train, says Henry I Litchfield West, "that some evil-dis | [iosed person should displace a rail lor tlie purpose of killing the Presi dents" J "Any attempt to wreck this train, i with design upon the life of the Presi | dent," was the emphatic reply, : "would have to be carried into execu tion in less than five minutes. Just before we left the last statiou, an en gine, with two men in Hie cab, slipped [ out upon tlie main trnek, and is now ' just ahead of the President's train. If | anybody lias displaced a rail, or set | lire to a bridge, or opened a switch, | the engine ahead will feel the blow. it is our'picket line. Between tlie j passing of that engine over the track j and the coming of the President's train j there 1s not time enough for any oue j to displace a rail." "The track is clear, of course?" "The track is not only clear at the present time, but it lias been for the ] past twelve hours. Not a wheel of a j freight train has turned all day." The pilot engine ahead is on tho j lookout for danger. Three miles be hind the President's train is another j engine, following steadily so as to be | available in ease of any mishap. J "And yet," I remark, during a lull j iu the conversation, "something may happen that you cannot foresee?" The ! answer comes from the strong-visaged ■ I man over in the corner. lie is tho master of transportation of tho road. | "Oh, yes," he says, witli composure, j "something may happen, but after we have reduced tlie chances of that 'something' to a minimum, we can only trust iu Providence."—Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. Cliapel of the Pyx. The ancient Chapel of tlie Pyx at Westminster is to be thrown open to tho public. Tills is oue of the oldest and most interesting parts of the Ab bey, the greater part of the fabric belonging to the reign of Edward the Confessor. It was used in early Nor man times as a royal treasury, nud a robbery from the chapel iu the reign of Edward I. of treasure valued at £IOO,OOO, created a great deal of stir. Later it was used as a record cham ber for the treasury, and more re cently as a receptacle for tlie appara tus necessary for the trial of the Pyx —the standardizing of tho coin of the realm. The' documents formerly de posited in the Pyx chapel have been removed and henceforth tlie public will have tlie privilege of penetrating the recesses of this mysterious cham ber.—Newcastle (Eng.) Chronicle. Tlie Largest Ship in tho World. The Celtic weighs 30,700 tons, the Park Row building only go, 000 tons. She measures 700 feet, only uiuc feet longer Hum the Great Eastern, but will draw eleven feet more water. She will carry 3712 passengers and crew, and 12,000 tons of cargo. She will draw too much water to come into New York harbor when loaded to the mark. She lias twelve decks, and tlie cap tain's bridge is 100 feet above the keel. . She is one-fourth larger than the Oceanic, hitherto tlie biggest ship.— New York Journal. French Subject! or Great lirltain. At a recent sitting of the Cour Itoy nle of me Isle of Alderney, the oath of allegiance to his majesty tlie king was administered to tlie judge, jurats, king's procurator and other officials with due and fitting ceremony, says a London newspaper. As each present took the oath the whole court, rising, exclaimed "Dieu Satire le Itoi." Estimated national wealth at the be ginning of the twentieth century n00.000.000.000.
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