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A Voice from ttie Lxtcutive Mansion.
Mr- A. W. Hawkes— Dear Sir: Tho
pantiscopic glasses you furnished me
some time since, give excellent satisfac¬
tion. I have tested them by use, and
must say they are unequaled in clearness
and brilliancy by any that I haye ever
worn.
Respectfully,
John B. Gordon,
Governor of State of Georgia.
& Business Man’s Clear Vision.
New York City, April 4, 1888.
Mr- A. K. Hawkes— Dear Sir : Your
patent eye glasses received some time
since, and am very much gratified at the!
wonderful change that has come over
my eyesight since I have discarded my
old glasses and am now wearing yours.
Alexander Aoar.
Secretary Stationers Board of Trade of,
New York City.
All eyes fitted by J. M. Lavy, Coving¬
ton, Ga.
These glasses are not supplied to ped¬
dlers at any price.
A. W. HAWKES.
Wholesale Depotfl, Atlanta, Ga.
Franklin B. Wright,
COVINGTON, GA.
Resident Physician & Surgeon.
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and all Chronie
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my city practice.
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LATEE NEWS.
An express train, while passing through
Johnstown, Penn., struck and killed two men
md fatally injured another. They w n re
walking on the track.
Mrs. Ida Walkeh, a saloon passenger on
ihe steamship British Princess, which arrived
n Philadelphia from Liverpool, committed
rnicide by taking laudanum, and was buried
it sea the following day.
The count of the votes in Philadelphia
ihowed that John E. Reyburn has been elected
to succeed Judge Kelley in Congress.
A sensation was created at McKeesport,
Penn., by the arrest of Mrs. Giles Collins
md daughter for shoplifting. Mrs. Collins
® the wife of a leading politician of McKees¬
port, and is well known.
A boa p.DF.R who was living at the house of
William Taylor, near Phillipsburg, H. J.,
placed a dynamite cartridge in the oven of
• he kitchen stove. Mrs. Taylor was cooking
breakfast, and ns she was about to dose the
oven door the cartridge exploded, fatally in¬
juring her and her two children.
•T is proposed when the status of General
Robert E. Lee reaches Richmond, Ya., to
place it in a wagon to be drawn through the
city by a rope a mile long. Men, and women
“ven. are clamorous to have a hold of the
rope.
Homer H. Brown, a man sixty years old,
who had been confined in insane asylums in
Seattle, Wash., for twenty years by his rich
brothers, has been declared sane.
The bill establishing the Australian system
if ballot has passed the Washington Stat«
Senate.
Mardi Gras was celebrated at Mobile,
kla., by elaborate parades, illuminations and
I i costume ball.
i He President has approved the joint res¬
olution congratulating the people of Brazil
'n their adoption of a republican form of
I government.
Joseph Gills Biggar, the well-known
I Irish Home Ruler and member of the House
I of Commons for the west division of the
I County Cavan, died at London, aged sixty
I two years.
In the Canadian House of Commons Mr.
I Bausoleil’s amendment to Mr. McCarthy’s
I bill for the abolition of French as an official
I language in the Northwest was lost. The
I amendment Was that affairs should remain
1 exactly as they are.
1 Russia has demanded of the Government
■ M Bulgaria the payment of 3,000 000 roubles,
■ arrears of money due on account of the Rus
■ iian occupation during 1878 and 1879.
The Covington Star
THE CALIFORNIA GRIZZLY.
OHARAtJTERISTics OP A PAST DIS
APriABINO BRUTE.
Well-Behaved if Let Alone-, biit A Ter¬
rible Antagonist Wlieii Ariiidyed
—Thinned Otit by Strychnine.
ha California grizzly is a most inter¬
esting animal, says a correspondent of
the New York Post. As Bret Harte used
to say,he has but one ungentlemanly habit,
that of scalping with his fore paw, and
this he caught from the wicked red man.
Otherwise, unless aggressively assaulted,
he is the pink of good behavior, He
will walk off the trail and give you the
right of, way, he will gather salmon
berries on the same patch, or dig roots
on the hillside while you are sketching
or writing not many yards away. If it
were otherwise—if the grizzly had the
temper of the royal tiger—thousands of
the pioneers of California would have
perished at his claws, for a full grown
grizzly when aroused is a terrible antag¬
onist.
When Americans came to California
grizzlies were ve»y numerous. General
Bidweli saw scores of them in the Napa
Valley. General Vallejo saw them feed¬
ing like sheep in the Santa Rosa. In the
acorn season Under they were to be found in
droves the .oaks. The Spaniards
learned to las30 and kill them. The
Americans found great sport in shooting
them from horseback. When the Mis¬
sourian stockmen came they poisoned
thousands of grizzlies, and the work is
still going on so steadily that the great
Pacific Coast bear is already scarce, and
certain to become very rare in a few
more years. At present the finest skins
that come to San Francisco are from the
high Sierras and from Alaska.
Forty-five years ago there were griz¬
zlies in the Santa Clara Valley, and in
the foothills within, twenty miles of San
Francisco. They were in the live-oak
forests of Encinal and the Contra Costa,
where Berkeley, Oakland and Alameda
now stand. They were occasionally
brought into the old mission of San Jose
and turned into rings to fight Spanish
bulls. But they lived for the most part
in contented obscurity. When the pio¬
neers came, few of them understood the
nature of the animal, and so the early
stories that linger in the valley have ele¬
ments of surprise that the later bear
stories lack.
Old Captain Valpev, a Nova Scotian
sailor, sold his sloop at an early day and
bought a foothill ranch. There was a
deep gulch on the tract, full of oak,
madrono afid CUSppafSL Pretty soon ho
discovered that a large grizzly lived
there. The old Captain went down to
the village for advice, 11 He will kill
your steers,” said old Kester, who
owned a stock ranch. “Buy a bottle of
strychnine, and the first time you miss a
steer go out and poison the carcass. -'
Captain Valpey bought the strychnine.
The next day he climbed up the hill,
over the gulch, with an old spy-glass
and looked down. He saw a great
brown body moving along the trail, and
soon the bear passed within fifty feet of
the rock where he sat, The Captain
was delighted at his appearance. The
next day at the village he declared:
-I Boys, nobody shall shoot or poison
that grizzly of mine. He walks like an
old salt, and he’s as big as a horse! I
ain’t too poor to let him have a five-dollar
Spanish 1 steer whenever he wants it.”
Under tt j r. these circumstances • a the xt, Valpey
grizzly , , v_ became x famous and j ay. throve i for
several months. But one morning the
old Captain was up P on “Maintop Knob
with his spy-glass. He saw his drove of
cattle was in the wooded pasture below,
huddled up in a bend of the creek. Be¬
fore them, marching back and forth,
occasionally rearing up aiftl growling,
was the great grizzly. He was selecting
his dinner, much to the amusement of
the Captain. Suddenly the bear charged
into the band and struck down with one
blow the only blooded steer the Captain
owned. The rest of the cattle escaped
wild with terror. The grizzly made his
meal and went off. The Captain swore
awhile, then he got his strychnine bottle,
and, late in the afternoon, cautiously de¬
scended the slope to where the body of
his hundred dollar steer lay with broken
neck. He poured the strychnine over
the carcass, saying wrathfully: “Wasn’t
Spanish beef good enough for you, ye
old native Californian?” So he poisoned
his bear after all.
There was a family of pioneers who
lived in the hills of Alameda County, not
far from Yalpey’s. The elder, Zachariah
Cheney, took his son Joe and a young
man named Allen and went out to kill a
grizzly.
They all knew very well w-here to find
him, in a wild and broken canyon, or
about the rocks at its head, where oak
trees grew. They had come across his
tracks many times, and had seen him
grubbing camass roots on the hillside
when they were hunting up cattle. So
they thought very little of the danger.
Each of them had a gun and a revolver,
Suddenly they met the bear at the head
of the wooded gulch, who, seeing their
warlike preparations, immediately charged
them, and treed all three in less than a
minute. There was so little time for
choice of a tree that the elder Cheney
and young Allen got into scrab-oaks hard
ly larger than respectable quince trees,
In less time than it takes to tell it the
bear had Cheney on the ground, scalped
him with one blow, crushed his arm
and shoulder-blade with another,
and left him. The bear instant
iv turned his attention to young
Allen, seized him by the boot leg, and
jerked him from the tree so violently ;
that the poor fellow rolled thirty feet
down the gulch and under some willows, !
where he lay in silence. The third man !
was beyond reach, so the grizzly to his master full |
of tho circumstances, rose .
height, gave a roar of triumph, and j
walked leisurely home. Not a single ;
shot was fired by any of the three men! :
hastily shoot the !
Yet let no one out con
temptuous lip, tor ninety-nine men of ;
100 might have done as badly. The 1
rush of a large grizzly from his chap
parai shelter is a terrible thing ° to face. I i •
dictrust most of the current stories
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. TUESDAY, MARCH 4 , 1800.
about successful hand-to-hand encoun¬
ters with full grown grizzlies. There is
an oak tree in Shasta County under
which a miner who had fired upon a
jrris«ily tfrfts killed by one blow from the
enraged animal, and when his compan¬
ions killed the bear it was found that the
man’s bullet had passed entirely through
the animal’s bedy.
If it were not for poison placed for
him in his haunts, the great master of
the California forests would still walk
.. alone as a rhinoceros” in almost every
wild canyon of Coast Range and Sierra.
Men learn to give him the track when¬
ever they can, and if they go on the war¬
path, it is with profound respect foT their
antagonist’s strength and courage. I
once met five or six San Luis Obispo
farmers who had shot a huge grizzly.
They took their guns and went down
into the gulch where the bear lived.
They found him where he was compelled
to cross the ravine to get to them, and so
they were able to put over twenty bullets
into him before he died ah their feet.
They had just skinned him and spread
the great hide on the rocks when I rode
up. I asked them how they felt about it,
and the leader said: “We none of us want
to tackle another. If he had been on our
sice of the gulch, instead of on his own,
most of us would have been killed before
we could pump enough lead into him.
And that seemed to be the general con¬
viction.
Chinese Metal Working.
The metal smith’s trade is very power¬
ful and influential in China, wroughl
metal being a favorite decoration foi
houses, altars in churches, town halls,
assembly rooms and business places of
the more weathy business firms. The •
metals used are brass, white bronze,
which closely resembles Britannia metal,
gold bronze, ordinary bronze and silver.
The work of the Chinese metal smith is
greatly superior to that of our own in va¬
riety, originalty of design, and in artistic
finish. The smiths turn out bowls,
vases, urns, pitchers, ewers, basins, cup
standards, pipes and other smoking
utensil*^ salvers, lamps, candelabra, lan¬
terns, bedsteads, chairs, tables, church
furniture and numerous other articles,
all of substantial workmanship and
standard material. The metal smith
makes good wages and has a good social
position in China, but the industry is not
a healthy one, the Chinese not under¬
standing the physiological action of the
metalic oxides on the system, .and not
knowing how to prevent or remedy the
injuries they suffer. The Chinese S 3 ? sterD
of casting is very similar to ouis, but in
cleaning and polishing they use £oehc“ad
cal agents, relying almost entirely on
manual labor and the use of lathes fitted
up with polishing brushes. They under¬
stand oxidation, and produce malachite
and azure effects and the like very effec¬
tively. They secure these, not by the
direct action of acids and acid vapor
baths, but by burying the objects to be
treated in various kinds of decomposing
organic matter. This is, of course, a
slow and expensive process. In one re¬
spect the work of the Chinese smith is
peculiar. The soldiers in many parts of
the Chinese Empire still wear fine mail
armor, helmets, breastplates and shields,
and the same articles are worn by the
participants in civic processions and
official pageants. As a consequence,
such armor is still made, and the armorer
. . Chrna about , ... the position
occupies in same
A suit h f e of <¥, brass 111 Euro armor P e “ worn Z by one of
the . Black T) , , Fla^ leaders a m the lonquin H •„
» and
^ haye rcsisted bullets
Q b t thrust deliv .
« ed . . b ? ? Powerful , , French marine.
ec ; ianlca 1 p '7 ress
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Photographing Plant Growth.
It is well known that all animal life
upon the globe depends directly or in¬
directly upon the formation of proteid
and protoplasm in the living tissues of
green plants. -The process is really con¬
fined to the green chlorophyll corpuscles
which are contained in these tissues.
The first visible product of the assimila¬
tion is starch. This is, to our view, tho
beginning of life.
The formation of starch takes place
only in the presence of light. The pre¬
sumption is that this process is carried
on through the agency of what are known
as the chemical rays—the violet-colored
ones. The energy of the sun builds up
proteid from the carbonic acid of the air,
which is taken up by the leaves of the
plant, and the salts and water of the
soil, which are absorbed by its roots.
If a thin-leafed plant be placed in the
dark over night, and then brought out
into the light next morning, the leaves
being covered with a sharp and well
developed negative,starch will be formed
where the light passes through, and it
will be formed in the greatest quantity
under the brightest areas. In this way
positive picture in starch is formed,
which can be developed with iodine.
Another way of showing early pro¬
cesses of growth is to take advantage of
sensitiveness to light shown by the
swann-spores of some sea weeds.
A thiu glass plate is fitted to one end
of a water-tight box. The negative to be
printed is placed against the glass, film
(fide nearest. The box is filled with
water containing the swarm-spores,
When the glass end of the box is ex
posed to the light, the swarm-spores swim
toward the light, and where this is strong
e st they gather in the greatest numbers.
In this way a print in green swarm
spores upon the glass may be obtained.
Albumen will fix it, and varnish will pro
tect it.— Youth's Companion.
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0rl ^ . !n of . 14 1°^™
of postoifice _
Aitch is the name a in
Huntington County, Penn. Hie ongin
of its name is somewhat curious. How
ever, it arises from civilized sources,
There were five prosperous fwmws in
that portion of the county wnere tne
postoffice is now, and their names were
Anderson, Isenburg, Taylor, Crum ana
Henderson. Each of them wished the
office to be named after himself. But
they could not come to an agreement
and finally, as a compromise, the first
letter from each name was taken and
placed 1 together and thereby originated—
Aitcb.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and .Middle Staters,
bought A syndicate of English camtaUsts Trenton, N. have J.
the rubber mills of
for *750,000.
The body of Hiram F. Sawtelle, a missing
fruit dealer of Boston, was found in a wood
dear East Lebanon, Me., and many strong
pieces of evidence against his brother Isaac
are in possession of the police.
John Campbell, of Newtown. Conn., a
wife beater, was taken out at night by four
masked citizens and flogged until unconscious.
The National Bank at Lincoln, Penn.,
which was plundered by f ashier Bard and
F. W. Hull, has closed it* doors under the
orders of Bank-Examiner Greene.
The King of Italy has seut to Mayor Hart,
of Boston, a communication thanking the
Board of Police and Captain Cain and his of
fleers, who risked their lives in rescuing
Italians at the recent fire in the city.
A trust in farm implements was formed
at Utica, N. Y., with a capital of $1,000,000.
Five large concerns form the combination.
South aiid West.
The color line has resulted in a split in,
the Louisiana and Mississippi Department of
the Grand Army of the Republic. There are
now two sets of officers.
Jim Butts and Ed. Johnson, both colored,
were hanged at Perry, Ga,, for the murder
of Captain Miller.
A Deputy United States Marshal was
waylaid and shot at Quincy, Fla, by men
accused of election frauds.
The National Electric Light Convention
which met at Kansas City expressed opposi¬
tion to executions by electricity.
The Salem (111.) National Bank has been
robbed of $10,000 in cash and some securi¬
ties. The burglars drilled thremgh the vault
door, entered the vault and blew open the
burglar proof safe.
Dennis Hardrick, colored, while fighting
drunk, Rosa fired into n Fla., crowd and of shot dancers at
Santa County, four per¬
sons, two men and two women, One of the
latter is dead, and the others fatally hurt.
A passenger train on the Monon route
collided with a freight train two miles north
of Mitchell, Ind., and three men were killed.
Two Cincinnati Southern freight trains
collided at Melville, Tenn., William and Engineer H,
Crow, killed. and Brakeman caused by Gray the were
The collision was neg¬
ligence of the flagman.
One wing of the insane asylum west
of Little Rock., Ark., ha: been burned.
The loss is between $30,000 and $40,000. The
four hundred patients were ’removed to th(
ground floor, and although i n indescribable
panic prevailed, there was no lora of life.
The Terre Haute Milling Company's burned. flour¬ Loss
ing mill in Indiana has bee>
$ 100 , 000 .
It was discovered in Salt -ike City that
an attempt had been made o steal the re¬
cords of the Utah Comndsskn.
The steamer Louise,of the Jacksonville and
Mayport Hunter’s line, ran into John’s an obstruction River, Fla., near and
Mill, on St.
was sunk. One man was dr ,wned.
Smallpox is spreading In , exas. On one
died of the disease. There v i i great scarcity
si nur«:>. aau physicians. »*
A local freight train jumped the track at
Founding Mill, va., and the enginner, brake
man and another man were killed, and the
engine and five cars were wrecked.
A seminary for girls has been burned at
San Marcos, Texas, and three of the girls only
were seriously burned, and thirty others third
escaped death by jumping from the
story windows to a gallery , from which they
escaped on ladders. Ml any were hurt in
making the jump.
Napoleon Laval called at the store of B.
Feldeman & Co., Charleston, S. C., and
asked to see his wife, who had been separated
from him for some time. When the woman
came down, Laval shot her, and then, enter¬
ing the store, shot Feldeman. Both of the
victims were fatally wounded.
Latham Sholes, the inventor of the
typewriter and a pioneer journalist, died at
Milwaukee, Wis., aged 71 years.
Ellison Mounts was hanged at Pikeville,
Ky., for participating in the murder of Miss
Alafair McCoy and her brother.
J. B. Kelly was arrested in St. Louis and
identified as J. B. Simonds, wanted for com¬
plicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin at
Chicago.
The tobacco establishment and stock of
Black & Co., Wheeung, W. Va., estimated
to be worth more than $100,006, have been
seized by United States officers on account
of alleged overfilling of tobacco packages.
Washington.
The House Special Committee on World’s
Fair has reported in favor of building an
International Exposition in 1892.
The Judiciary Committee of the House
has ordered a favorable report to be made on
an international copyright bill.
A call has been issued for a convention
of colored business men of the United States,
to be held in Washington, for the purpose of
establishing a permanent organization of
colored business men.
The Senate in secret session confirmed the
following nominations: Charles Emory
Smith, Minister to Russia; J. Fenner Lee, of
Maryland. Secretary of Legation at Rio for de
Janeiro, and George W. Irvin, Marshal
Montana, and a number of census supervis¬
ors and army officers.
Secretary Windom has terminated the
contract between the Government and the
Commissioners of Emigration of New York
city.
The President directed Major Calvin C.
Sniffen, Paymaster, to temporarily perform the
the duties of Paymaster-General William of
Army, vice General B. Rochester,
retired.
The President has issued a proclamation
directing the removal of all cattle from
grazing upon what is known as the Chero¬
kee Outlet" in the northern part of the Indian
Territory. Tho removal must be completed
by October 1.
Foreign.
The beautiful University building of
Toronto, has been destroyed by fire, The
fire broke out while preparations conversazione. were being The
made for the annual
University buildings cost $500,000. The
library was valued at $100,000.
The British steamship Ludgate Hill, bound
for London from New York, collided with
the British steamship Deeside. The latter
vessel sank and seven of her crew were
drowned.
^"('otonial At the Australian^ ion’' . fi® '
F&lerat was unanimously
adopted.
a wedding party at Pontivy, bride France, bride
the vehicle conveying the and
"whok'panv o7twe7ve S n ''' er< H '
precipitated into the river and drowned,
A lucent election in Hawaii has resulted
in a sweeping victory for the native party.
1^'^. The new Hultonof Zanzibar, Seynoid AK
“JJ* formally hmStod his flag,
The passenger steamer Duburg foundered
m a typhoon in the China Sea, and her 400
Chinese passengers and crew were drowned,
^ ^ »tta? tot
(>argt>
count Julius Andrassy, the Hungarian
statesman, who has been ill for some time at
Volosea, is dead, aged 61 years.
A duel between two officers ofdhe Czar of
^^th ^wStd, T ^
one
iTeat jy incensed the Emperor, who intends
;o make an example of the survivor.
the pas-enger steamer Coral Queen ha«
reon sunk off the River Tees, England, m a
collision with the steamer Brinio. It is re¬
ported that sixteen persons on the Cora
Queen were drowned.
At Muhlhauseri, in Saxpny, there was a
fight at a socialist election meeting, called which
went so far that the soldiers were to
restore order. Thirty persons were woundea.
THE LABOR WORLD.
Mayor Davidson, of Baltimore, wants
lliat city to build its own gas works.
Labor prophets predict that next summer
will be one of strikes all over Europe.
There are seventy lodges and 4195 mem¬
bers in the Ancient Order United WoTkmei
)f Iowa.
The Waiters’ Union is hard at work in its
ittempt at uniting all waiters of New Ycrl
li one organization.
The Bethlehem Iron Company, at Betlile
Hem, Penn, has advanced the wages of cm
ployes fifteen per cent.
The combined labor organizations ol
Brooklyn are about to establish a genera
smployment bureau in that city.
A Bill before the Massachusetts Legisla
lure will abolish fines for bad weaving. Ii
wme cases men have been fined $3.50 out ol
4 pay of $6.50.
There are 2,000,000 organized farmers ir
the Alliances, principally in the South anc
West. They run co-operative stores, mills,
warehouses, etc.
Senator Collins, of New York, will in¬
troduce a bill into the State Senate which
has been requested by the labor organiza¬
tions of the State to abolish prison labor.
Twenty-five Central Hudson Railway en¬
gineers, who have been in the employ of the
company thirty years, will take a trip tc
California April 1 at the expense of the com
pany.
Claus Sprbckels, the sugar rofiner, has
decided Brook, to J, build another refinery at Bound
N. and put it in operation as soon
as possible, and will employ not less than 500
hands.
the Many American New York Federation labor unions of Labor belonging to
are in
tavor of making that city the center of tin
eight-hour strike, instead of Pittsburg, or
May 1.
The condition of the unemployed at Syd¬
ney, Australia, is serious. On a recent night
500 men and women were counted asleep in
tho parks of that city, all without money oi
homes.
At a meeting of the Amalgamated Build¬
ing live Trades appointed Council in confer Boston with a committee the Master ol
was to
Builders’ Association in regard to the estab
lis’unent of eight hours for a day’s -work.
Four hundred thousand miners in
Great Britain have decided to adhere to their
demand for an increase of ten per cent. in
their wages. It is probable that the men
will strike. Should they do so the coal out¬
put will be decreased three-quarters.
Thirty-two conductors, the entire force
of the People’s Street Car Company of St.
Joseph, Mo., went ou strike. The cause of
their grievance was that tho company in¬
structed them to use a new cash fare register
shaped like a coffee pot. The company gave
orders for the men to present the muzzle of
thi$ peculiar contrivance to the passenger,
wh-j would drop hisjUckeJ in the slot.
NEWSY GLEANINGS, K,
During 1889 4014 books were published in
the United States.
The republican cause is said to he increas¬
ing in strength in Portugal.
The outlook for the Illinois wheat crop ij
reported to be up to the average.
The Eiffel Tower in Paris will be open to
the public again from the first of May.
The Irish societies of Chicago have decided
to have no parade on St. Patrick’s Day.
Russia has renewed the lease to the Alaska
Commercial Company of her seal islands in
Behring Sea.
The sanitary commission of Vienna,
Austria, hanging has recommended execution. electricity in¬
stead of for
This year’s census, according of N t to thebesi Y
estimates, will give the State ew ork a
population of about six millions.
The Legislature of Maryland proposes to
diminish the use each of retailer cigarettes who by sells levying them. a
tax of $50 on
It is the Intention of the Russian Govern¬
ment to commence the construction of sev
eral large Ironclads and cruisers this sum¬
mer.
Switzerland will act as arbitrator of the
dispute concerning the boundaries between
the’ Portuguese possessions and the Congo
Free State.
The burning Hawley of Secretary Tracy’s house
has led Senator to start an inquiry
into the condition of the fire department at
Washington.
Forty-nine inches of rain fell in one week
in Queensland, Australia, overflowed the
river banks and more than a score of per¬
sons lost their lives.
Destitution is so great among the nine
hundred Indians on the Devil’s Lake reser¬
vation in North Dakota that it is said that
few of the Indians will survive.
Thirteen prominent business men of Hel¬
ena, Mont., have been Indicted for stealing
coal from the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company. The company claims to have lost
210 carloads there in one month.
The actual imperial revenue of China is be¬
lieved to be about 85,000,000 twice taels a year, but
it is estimated that at least this sum is
actually collected, the half which is unac
rounted for being absorbed by the provincial
iftieials.
The number of ounces of silver used in the
minage of silver dollars from March 1, 1878,
jo December 31, 1889, was 300,727,969, ana
ihe cost $287,995,107. The numlier of dollars
mined was 349,938,001, and the seigniorage
561,942,893.
keep tt dark.
Master Bobby Henpeckt—Papa, what
Is a bachelor ‘
Papa Henpeckt —A bachelor, my son,
is a man to be envied, but don’t tell
your mother that I said so.—[Boston
Courier,
a proverb well indorsed.
<( Remember, my boy, that time is
money, and you must use it to the best
ad-antage,” siid old Parrott to his
nephew, at the conclusion of an hour’s
harangue. will to,” replied tho
“I try scape¬
grace. And as he looked at tho kind
old man’s fifty dollar check, “Eighty-three in the hall¬
way, he murmured:
cents a minute ; that hour’s been well
employed. ”—[ Life.
xortune 'A'eUing.
Fortune telling is traced to the early
astrologers, by whom tlie plane!s Jupi¬
ter and Yenus were supposed to betoken
happiness. flourished The in Sibyl different ae were women of the
who parts
world, and who were said to .have been
inspired by Heaven. telling In England the
laws against fortune were at
one time \erv severe. A declaration
was published in France, Jan. 11, 1C8C,
of exceeding sever ty under against which fortune
tellers and poisoners, sev¬
eral poisons suffered death. Fortune
t ilers, although liab’e to be imprisoned
as rogues and vagab nds, still flourish
iu England.
VOL. XVI. NO, 15.
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
In the Senate.
39th Day. —About sixty bills were taken
from the calendar and p'assed, among which
were the following: of Providing fW an Of Assist¬ $4500.
ant Secretary the War, with a salary W. J.
Authorizing acceptance by Dr.
Hoffman of certain decorations from foreign
powers. For the relief of soldiers Or sailors
who enlisted or served under assumed names.
Appropriating $125,000 the for a revenue with cutter head¬
for services on Pacific coast,
quarters at Astoria; Ore, Providing for
thirty days’ annual leave of absence for offi¬
cers and employes in the Customs service of
the Government who receive per diem com¬
pensation. Also the concurrent resolution
to invite International arbitration as to dif¬
ferences between nations.
40th Day.— The Pacific Railroad Funding
bill tee____Mr. was reported Blair continued front the his Special Spe'cch Commit¬ the
on
Educational bill----The Senate Dill to estab¬
lish two additional land districts in the State
of Washington was taken from the calendar
and passed. The Senate then proceeded to
business ou the calendar, and passed about
two dozen bills, among which was a bill to
amend the Revised Statutes concerning the
regulation of steam vessels, and another to
enable the Secretary of the Interior to locate
Indians in Florida Upon lands in severalty
... .Mr. Dawes presented Over 240 petitions
from Massachusetts stating that more than
800,000 nually gallons exported of intoxicating from'the United liquors States are an¬ to
Africa, and praying that that sort of thing
shall be stopped. —Mr. continued his
41st Day. Blair speech
on his Education bill____In executive session,
the British Extradition Treaty was ratified,
with two slight —The amendments. offered by Mr.
42d Day. resolution
Chandler, calling on the Attorney-General W.
for information as to the assassination of
B. Saunders, Deputy United States Marshal
in the Northern D istrict of Florida, was
taken up, and Mr. Pasco proceeded to ad¬
dress the Senate upon the case____Mr. Blair
continued his speech on the Education bill.
In the House.
44th Day.—A fter the journal had from been the
read and approved, Mr. Chandler,
Committee on the World’s Fair, submitted a
report, committed____The which was consideration ordered printed of the and rules re¬
was then proceeded with, and after a long
debate they were adopted by a strict party
vote of yeas ’Day.—M 161, nays 145.
45th r. Duimell, from the Com¬
mittee on the Eleventh Census, reported back
the Senate bill providing for the ascertain¬
ment of the mortgage indebtedness of the
country. Mr. Dockery offered an amend¬
ment providing that Sections 13 to 16 of the
original Census Act shall apply to the pro¬
visions of this act. The amendment was
adopted, and the bill as amended passed.
46th Day.—A resolution of the Special
World’s Fair Committee, that the World's
Fair bills be made a special order for the next
Thursday and Friday, and that Monday, balloting for
site be begun on the following resolutions ] v. ■
adopted____A number of bills and
were introduced, and some were passed.
47th Day.—T he Pension Appropriation lip of the fol¬
bill was reported. It is made
lowing items: For the payment of pensions,
$97,090,761; fees and expenses of examining
surge-ms, $1,000,000; salaries of agents, $72,
000; clerk 'stationery hire, $220,000; fuel, $7,to; lights,
$750; and other necessar i ex
penses, $25,000; of rents, $18,200____The discussed House the
in Committee the Whole
Oklahoma bill and the Senate measure pro¬
viding for an Assistant Secretary of War.
48th Day. —Mr. Adams, from the Judi¬
ciary Committee, called up the bill to divide
the judicial district of North Dakota into
four parts. The Senate bill bill, was with passed, amendments, as was a
corresponding providing for the division of South Dakota
mto three parts____In Committee of the
Whole the Oklahoma bill was considered, the
Senate bill War providing for an Assistant favorably Secre¬ and
the tary majority of and was reported minority reports in the
contested election case at ’Atkinson against
Pendleton were submitted.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
General Rodrigues Arias has been ap¬
pointed Governor of Cuba.
Will Carleton, the poet, is getting stout,
lives in Brooklyn, N. Y., and acknowledge!
to five and forty.
The Mikado of Japan is described as a coin
pulent man, about five feet seven inches talk
lie is forty-five years old.
Vice-President and Mrs. Morton are ex
peering search to of spend rest and several pleasure. weeks in the South
in
Lord Stanley, the Governor-General ol
nered, Canada, and is broad nine shouldered, patrician man
and forty.
t t is gravely asserted that Lord Randolph
Churchill, London the English Bri politician, has nevei
crossed ige nor visited the Tower.
King Carlos has subscribed $45,000 to th<
Portuguese Queen defence fund. The Queen am
dowager have subscribed $20,000 each.
President Gilman, of Johns Hopkim
markably University, well writes and from Algiers that he is re
delighted with his travels.
When Ezra Cornell opened his first tele
graph office in New York he was so jioor, ii
is said, that he could afford but one meal a
day.
Mark Twain expects to go to London tc
participate which he in been the reception to Stanley, tc
has invited by Sir Francis dc
Minton.
Secretary Tracy has recovered suffi¬
ciently able from his his recent severe affliction to be
to resume duties at the Navy De¬
partment.
Russell Sage, the New York millionaire,
is said to pride himself ou keepi more
ready money on hand than any other"man in
the world.
The last surviving signer of the Texan
Declaration of Independence, Colonel S. IV.
Blount, has died at his home in San Augus¬
tine, Texas.
General N. P. Banks began life as a bob¬
bin boy in a Waltham (Mass.) factory, ill:
afterward became an editor and then a danc¬
ing master.
John D. Wii.liamson, who is at the head
if the Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus
Railroad, is the youngest railway President
n the couutry.
Count Herbert Bismarck, the Chancel
or’s oldest son, has strongly chiseled feat
ires, waring a heavy his father. cavalry mustache, and the
of
The death of Sappovonao, the most influen
ial of the U tes, calls attention to the fact that
fitting Bull is now the oldest Indian of prom
nence in the country.
It is announced that James R. Garfield,
lecond son of the late President, is to marry
Hiss Helen Newell, daughter of John Newell,
President of the Lake Shore road.
Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, un
;il recently the Commander of the Pacific
Squadron, his but now in waiting orders, has taken
ip residence Boston until he shall be
irdered on duty again.
Ex-Emperor Dom Pedro's mind is partly
inhinged by nervous disease. He lives in
laily expectation of being recalled to Brazil,
ind refuses to diminish his former expendi
-ure. He is in danger of bankruptcy.
Baron Rothschild, the Paris banker,
ives in fear of the Commune. His cellars
ire almost impregnable, and his pictures and
jewels are protected in such a way that the
nost grasping mob could not reach them.
Right Rev. John Rhanley, the new
Roman Catholic Bishop of North Dakota, is
laving iis episcopal a railroad visitations, car buiit in which to make
so scarce are spare
reds and accommodations for strangers in
lis diocese.
John Rogers, the noted sculptor, began
ife as a clerk in a drygoods store in Boston
md not until he was thirty-one year?
ild. after he had run a locomotive, workec
na machine his shop and been a surveyor, did
le produce first group, the “Slave Auo
ion.”
HF,,*£HE OR ITT
X met mother with a babe that WW ^8fsf
perfect joy.
I said, to win her favor, what a charming
baby boy.
I saw her flashing glances and her lip In
anger curl.
In crushing words she told me that the in¬
fant was a girl.
1 met another mamma with a bright and
charming child
And murmured what a lovely girl—the
mother never smiled.
X knew I’d made the blunder which mother*
sadly vex.
She said in tones quite frigid: “You’re mis
taken in the sex.”
And so it didn’t matter how kind the words
I said,
They'd always tumble censure on my inoffen¬
sive head.
But now those blundering* of speech I never
never more commit.
To me a baby never has another sex but “it.”
fe* —Chicago Herald.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Misers ought to be large buyers of chest
protectors.
Wicked sinners are a direct tax on the
truly good.— Picayune.
Kind words are like bald heads, they
can never dye.— Siftings.
The sick man wants a constitutional
amendment .—Merchant Traveler.
If you should happen to want baby.—Item your ears
pierced, just pinch the
Siftings. ,
The family stovepipe was never meant
for a pipe of peace .—Binghamton Ite
puWican.
Married life is not all thorns. You
strike a nettle once in a while.— Phila¬
delphia Inquirer.
Evergreen trees are the dudes of the
forest. They make the sprucest boughs.
—Home Sentinel.
“Whtft is a laundry, mother?” “It is
place, my child, where your father
sends his shirts to be torn into ribbons.”
■Boston Gazette.
(i Is it crime to be woman? ’ said
a a
the pretty agitator, . - If it is, it’s a very
capital crime,” rejoined a gallant audi
tor.— Munsey's Weekly.
Jimpsou— “Did you ever have suit
brought against you?” Jampson—“No;
but I’ve had many a bill for a suit brought
sgainst me.”— Lawrence American.
Incorrigible. “What did you and
Smith talk about? “About fifteen
minutes, it “I mean, what did you talk
sver? »» a The telephone.”— Harper's
Bazar.
A lecturer is out with the subject,
“The Coming Man and What We Owe
Him. ”. Tho coming man is the collector,
ind he is after what people owo him.—
Picayune.
A. —“How is your grandfather com¬
ing out?” B.—“My grandfather? half.” Ha
has been dead over a year and a
A.—-“Ah, that explains why I see him
10 seldom of late.”— Texas Siftings. i
In the summer, it is pleasant
’Neath tho moonlignt pale, to stroll;
Now it strikes me I would rather
Stay in doors, and kisses gather, coal.
While we burn her father’s j
—Kearney Enterprise.
Young Mrs. Newbride never told but
one ol her feminine acquaintances that
she returned the skimmer indignantly to
the store from which it was ordered be¬
cause when it came she found that it was
full of holes.— Somerville Journal.
George—“The ring doesn’t seem to
fit very well, Clara, Hadn’t I better
take it back and have it made smaller?”
Clara—“No, George; an engagement
ring is an engagement ring, even if I
have to wear it around my neck.”-—
Judge.
i - Lizzie,” remarked Sir Walter Raleigh
to tho Queen, “wherein do a man’s sins
resemble a bill collector?” “In good
truth I know not,” replied her Majesty.
“Wherein do they?” “In their pro¬
pensity for finding him out,” quoth Sir
Walter.— Munsey's Weekly.
“Master Charlie, you are to go home at
once. If you stay out a moment longer
you will be punished.” “Was it mom
or pop trho said I should be punished?”
“Your ffiamma.” “I’ll be home in an
hour ot so. A fellow can take care of
himself, 1 guess, when he’s ten. Phila
delphia Society.
Gentleman (to young lady from Rich¬
mond, on the cars)—“Beg pardon, but
t am a physician. Your companion is
very pale. Is she seriously affected?”
Young Lady—“Painfully so, I assure
you.” “Ananeurism, perhaps?” Jones.’ “No;
I think his name is Arthur —
Richmond Recorder. l
A correspondent writes to ask a
conundrum. He says: “What is the
difference between a pair of suspenders
and a bread knife? We give up tne
conundrum and recommend that, if the
correspondent really wishes to learn the
difference, he essay to cut bread with a
pair of suspenders and try to keep his
trousers up with a bread knife.— America.
Electric Light and Plants.
In the course of a recent lecture before
the Royal Society, England, Dr. Siemens
placed a pot of budding tulips in the full
brightness or the electric light in the
meeting room, and in about forty min¬
utes the buds had expanded into full
bloom. Dr. Siemens’s experiments have
been made with quick-growing seeds and
plants, like mustard, carrots, swedes,
beans, cucumbers and melons. The pots,
the lecturer stated, were divided into
four groups, one of which was kept en¬
tirely in the dark, one was exposed to the
influence of the electric light only, one
to the influence of daylight only, and one
to daylight and electric light in sueces
sion. The electric light was applied for
six hours each evening—from 5 to 11—
and the plants were then left in darkness
during the remainder of the night. The
general result was that the plants kept
entirely in the dark soon died; those ex¬
posed to the electric light only or to day
lio-ht only throve about equally, and
those exposed to both day and electric
ii^ht throve lar better than either.