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CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE¬
GRAPH AND CABLE.
(THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAV TO DAV
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
EKOM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Great inundations ure reported through¬
out northern Italy. resigned.
The Spanish ministry has
Senor Sebasta will attempt to form a new
cubinet.
About fifty men attacked the temple of
the faith healers, in 'Tuscola, Ill., Thurs¬
day, and smashed its windows with
stones.
The Belgian government has stopped the
the exportation of coal, owing caused to by the
scarcity of that commodity,
Strike.
Juge McConnell announces that, the ap¬
plication for a new trial in the Cronin
ease will be taken up by him Monday,
January 13tli.
During the past ten months the imports
if woolen goods amounted in value to
$47,107,428, against $44,010,890 during
the same months of 1889,
'Fhc conductors’ and switchmen's strike
an the Evansville and Terre Haute, and
Evansville and Indianapolis roads, of the
Mackey system, still continue.
Twenty two Russian officers have been
arrested charged with being members ol
a secret soc iety, the object of which is to
establish a constitutional monarchy.
A disastrous fire occurred on Tuesday
.atthe industrial school in Westham, Lon
don. Twenty-four lives were lost, The
buildings were almost totally destroyed.
Jt is stated that the steel trade of this
country is to be revolutionized by a
new process for making open
liearth steel as cheap or cheaper made than few
Bessemer steel. A test was a
days ago ut Pittsburg, Pa., which lt at
fairly satisfactory to those interested.
Jt is estimated at the treasury depart- of
incut that there has been a decrease
nei uly $4,000,000 in the public debt dur
itig the month of December. Reduction
for the calendar year, ending Tuesday,
is $81,481,258, against $91,030,148 for
the calendar year of 1888.
Geo, H. Jack, ex United States deputy pend¬
marshal, against whom six eases are
ing for burglary and larceny, M as con
vieted in the circuit court, at Muskegon.
Mich., on Saturday, of larceny in one of
tlie cases. This trial lias been one of the
must sensational ever held in that city,
and has cost the county $15,000.
Baturdav was the sixth day of the strike
of all employes ou the McKev system at
Terre Haute, Bid., except engineers and
firemen, causing a complete -tie up. ’I lie
strikers claim that eight men, chiefly con¬ of
ductors, have been relieved by Master
Transportation Hurd, because of their
connection with the brotherhood.
Four loggers were burned to death at
Beebes cump, up tlie Tennessee river,
seventy-five miles from Paducah. Ky.,Sat¬
urday night, by their cabin taking tire.
Two of them were brothers mimed Dyer,
and others named Coltouund Somers. It
is supposed they were all intoxicated and
flu- cabin ignited from the chimney.
Charles E. Pearce, of 8t. Louis, read a
statement before the Congressional Washing¬ com¬
mittee of ways and means in
ton, on Saturday, showing that the jute
mills in the country can manufacture
70,000,000 yards of cotton bagging, while
the total amount required by a seven mil¬
lion bale crop is but 45,000,000 yards,
having a surplus of 25,000,000 yards.
Henry M. Pfeefer & Sons, editors and
proprietors of the Daily Sentinel, of Car
lisle. Pa., were on Saturday arrested on
the oath of the postmaster of that city,for
alleged libel. Damages amounting to
$10,000 lire claimed. The Sentinel
charged that the postmaster, while county
treasurer, was a defaulter to the extent of
many thousands of dollars.
A dispatch from Topeka, Kan. says: and
The Farmers’ Alliance. State Grange
Knights of Labor there have formed an
offensive and defensive alliance according
to the recommendation of the recent fann¬
ers’ convention and Knights of combination Bailor con¬
vention. The object of the
is co-operation in Kansas business and
polities, ’l’lie combined alliances number
in their ranks over 125,000 members.
A dispatch of Tuesday, from Loving- prevails
ton, 111., says: Great excitement
here over an attempt of male members of
(lie Pentecost band to decoy t mo highly
respected girls from their homes. There
was almost a riot at the depot when with the
faith healers tried to take the girls
them against the wishes of their friends,
aud knives and revolvers were shown.
The feeling against the faith healers runs
very high.
The western passenger rate war is now
fairly begun. Reduced rates from St.
Paul to Chicago went into effect Thurs¬
day, and to make the fight more interest¬
ing, the Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul
road has ordered a cut of $2.50 in the
first-class rate from Kansas City to Chica¬
go. Tlie evident object of the cut is to
punish the Burlington aud Quincy for the
action of the Burlington and Northern.
A dispah from Nebraska ( . Neb.,
-i ity.
says: YS Mmpson ex county treasurer.
lias been arrested, charged with ember
zhug the funds of the county. bnupson
had similar completed eharge.his a four term years expiring sentence luvsday, on a
when he was arrested un two other
counts. The total amount of •
embezzlement will never be known, but a
shortage of $£8,000 was fouud.
Stephen Implant, at Haverhill, N. II.,
a Frenchman, aged eighty, while visiting with
his son's family, at Centre, was left
his wife, iu charge of two grandchildren,
aged ten and five years. The old man
became enraged from some trivial cause.
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and killed his grandson, aged five, with
a hammer, fatally stabbed in his grandaugh
ter. aged ten. aud xvas the act of at
tempting to kill his wife, when a passer
by entered and seized him.
Collections of internal revenue for the
first tive months of the present year were
$1,178,962, or $5,085,227 more than col
lections during Receipts the corresponding from spirits period
last year. were
$82 628 344 an inerecse of $3,321,777;
from tobacco $13,389,911, an increase of
$1 Q 9 4 094- from fermented liquors $11,-
246,998. an increase of $81,405; from
oleomargerine $289,468. a decrease of
$24,184 . from miscellaneous $22,171. a
THE GA • • FRIDAY. .TAYFAIiY 10. 1890.
aecrease or $155,418. $1,045,861; Receipts for Novem¬
ber, 1889, were greater than
for November, 1888.
One of the made largest eon tracts for ship
plate ever in this country was con¬
cluded at Duluth, Minn., by Captain
Alexander McDougall for the American
Steel company, with a representative of
Andrew Carnegie. steel The contract plates, calls making for
about 5,000 tons of will furnish for
over $1100,000. It plates
seven great vessels of the MoDouga.II type.
An option was given to Captain Mc
Dougall for -1eel for three more vessels
and this will probably be closed in a few
days, making the whole order for about
7.300 tons and calling for about $450,000.
TRADE REVIEW.
DUNN * CO.’S STATEMENT OF THE CONDI¬
TION OK THE PAST WEEK’S TRADE.
K. G. Dunn & Co.’s review of trade for
the week ending Jan. 4, says: The new
year opens with a most confident feeling
prevalent, in all parts of the country, and
yet with some features which suggest
es] necial caution. The volume of business
in progress, thougl i a little more curtailed
than is usual near the end of the year in
wholesale and jobbing lines, was nearly,
if not quite, the largest ever known in
holiday goods, and on the whole close to
the maximum. But in several important
trades profits have not been coimnensu
rate with the magnitude have of caused transactions,
and slow collections many
failures, with apprehensions The markets of more in
the near future. money are
strained at the east, close at Chicago,
Cleveland and Detroit, and closer than
before at Kansas City and Omaha, but at
other western points fairly supplied. The
chief industries are, on the whole, unusu
ally prosperous, A fuller statement of
cotton mills’ dividends for 1889 indicate
that they were larger than The in leather any previous trade
year of specie hopeful prices. and the consumption
has become
of boots and shoes is prodigious, but over¬
product ion profits. pushes The prices iron trade too low for at
Healthy firm pauses
tliis season, but prices are at previ
ons i juotations and, though sales at an
advance are scanty as yet, there is general
confidence that the, demand will prove
equal even to the unprecedented cloud supply.
The woolen business is still a in the
sk v. Stocks carried over at the chief
cities prove tube 22,000,900 pounds more
than a year ago, aud the sales at Boston
for 1889 were 134,000,000 pounds against
166,000,000 pounds for the previous year,
a decrease of nearly 20 per cent. Product
markets have been dull. Wheat has risen
half a cent, with sales of 8,500,000 bush¬
els, and oats as much, but corn has de¬
clined three eights with sales of nearly
8 000,000 bushels. Oil is uu
, but pork is half dol¬
eighth higher, and lard declines shade. a
lar lower, a
Foreign trade continues heavy, exports
for five weeks at New York falling only
1.8 percent, below those of the $20,000,- previous
year, which indicates excess of
000 or more in exports over imports l'oi
December.
Failures in 1889 numbered 10,882 in
the United States, or one in every ninety
seven firms, and 1,772 in Canada, or one
in every forty-five firms, in 1888, fail
ureswerc 10,079 in tlie United States, and
1,677 in Canada. The aggregative of lia¬
bilities was $148,784,337 in tlm United
States, against $123,829,973 in 1888, and
$14,778,223, in Canada, against $14,081.
Rut the average liabilities for each firm
failing was lower in Canada, $8,279 last
year against $7,396 iu 1888, and tlie in
crease in the United States, if an unfavor¬
able indication was still not enough te
denote an unhealthy stale of commercial
credits for the average in 1889, was but
$13,672 against 11,592 in 1888, $17,371
in 1887, and 20,(132 in 1886. Failures
occurring throughout the country, during
last week, number for the United States
291, Canada 31; 322 failures against 288
last week
SOUTHERN HISTORY.
PAPERS HEAD BEFORE THE AMERICAN
historical association.
'Hie American Historical association,
which has been holding its annual meet¬
ings at Washington, devoted Tuesday, the
last of its session, to hearing papers ou
southern history. Among these, was one
entitled, “Materials for the Study of tlie
Government of the Southern Cohfeder
aev,” by John Osborne Summer, of
Harvard university. lie stated that much
of this material of value lmd been de¬
stroyed during the closing scenes preserved of the
war. Documents were also
which are not yet accessible. There were
many executive messages and de¬
partmental reports obtainable, aud
journals of the confederate congress
ore said to be in existence. After some
reference to tl o histories written by Jef¬
ferson Davis and Alexander II. Stephens
as well as to other recent works, the paper
closed with a plea for information as to
the existence and whereabouts of docu¬
ments bearing upon confederate history
that of are session as yet unprinted. delivered The final paper
the \\ as by Professoi
William E. Trent of the University of the
South, Sewauee, Tenn., comprising a
series of notes on the outlook for historical
studies in history. He gave an account of
a great collection of materials for a south
fru history now being made in New York,
, kt . u . hcd \ hf . l( , 1K lition of various state
j hist ,, rieal pieties iu the south, deploring
j : t jj e j !U ,^ 0 f ^ public enthusiasm in the work,
j but citil ons why historic duties will
rwe i ve more attention iu the future, and
eS j, ros# ing t )„. hope that southern history seJ
I MY be ttudi.-d by the peopto 1 * of all
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PUZZLED THE DOCTORS,
4 strange death, hie cause of which
baffled all the doctors.
A Charlotte, N. C., dispatch of Satur
says, l’hc very strange aud venv.uk
»ble death ot" Nathan Morgan, of ( aba¬
j rous fraternity county, of is that now section. puzzling Mr. the medical Morgan
* ja< * keen gradually declining iu health
j }. tars ' t ' ul wa< with ne
j specific disease. He , t had been examined
j thoroughly tiou, by all the doctors of that sec
j and all of them failed to find any¬
t thing organically wrong with his system.
v Morgan \r. went - - to Baltimore ’’ ’ last 7 SUtU
•
j m n -. s ; ld ^re examined by eminent
.
! 'Rians,M ho also failed to find anythin;.
wrong with him. He took to
; in October, and gradually wasteu
i aw *. v until his death.
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
points in the soi:tii
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA¬
SON’S and dixon’s line.
A lire at Wilson, N. C., burned the
stores of M. Harris & Co. and VV. Corbett.
Loss, $20,000; insurance, $10,000 on Har¬
ris & Go’s stock.
The grand secretary of North Carolina
states that there are in that state
12,000 Freemasons who are members of
280 active lodges.
The 'Times-Democrat pronounces the
gravel roads of New Orleans a success,
and fur preferable to the shell roads which
were first tried.
There were 1,140 negro exodusters on a
special train that left Wilmington, going N. C\,
Thursday Mississippi. night, all save fifty will leave to
Thousands more
Goldsboro at once.
Ex-Governor FitzhughLee, of Virginia,
was on Saturday elected president of the
Pittsburg and Virginia railroad. This
line will connect the ore beds of Virginia
with the furnaces of Pittsburg, Pa.
The executive committee of Hollywood
cemetery, Richmond, Va., have written
to Mrs. Jefferson Davis, tendering her of the the
choice of any unoccupied section for late
cemetery as a burial place her
husband.
A large delegation of citizens of Wak®
county, N. C., called on the governor
Saturday and urged the commutation oi
the death sentence of Claude Parish, the
white man who is to lie hanged next Fri¬
day.
While four boys, between the ages oi
six and eight years, were playing undei
the edge of a sand bank in Jackson,
Tenn., on Tuesday, the bank caved in,
burying them under about ten feet oi
sand. They were dead when extricated.
Conductor Frank Layton, of the Ala¬
bama Great Southern railroad, was
knocked from his train by a water leaning tank
and killed Friday night. He was
out of the door of the caboose too far as
(lie train passed the water tank, and Mas
on the head.
Sales of new leaf tobacco in the Dan¬
ville, Va., market for tlie past three
months was 8,437,442 pounds, an increase
over the same period of the previous manufac¬ year
ol' 4,857,532 pounds. the Output
tured tobacco for year 1889 was
7,532,854 pounds, an increase pounds. over the
previous year of 2,251,771
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch Karlisli, says:
S. M. Adams, It. F. Kolb, T. J.
.1. 11. Harris, delegates to the recent alli¬
ance convention, have issued an address
to the alliances of Alabama, resolution assuring
them that nothing iu the
adopted there, is intended to influence
their action as to party. The address
aiso’urges democratic alliancemen to stand
by tiro democratic party.
The Okefenokee swamp, of Georgia, and is
to be sold at what is it said will bring, be twelve and as
yet the best offer to
a half cents an acre. If no better comes
it will go at that. General P. M. B.
Young, of Georgia, is at Asheville, N.C.,
trying to do better, General Young s
mission is to negotiate the sale of the
Okefenokee swamp, whieli is to lie sold
by act of the legislature, and Asheville
may be the residence of the purcher.
A special from Birmingham, Ala., says:
A frightful accident, resulting in the
death of two men and the injury of twen¬
ty others, occurred Thursday morning on
the Brierlield, Bloekton and Birmingham
railroad, forty miles south of that city.
An unfinished trestle, about two hundred
feet long, and from twenty-five to fifty
feet high. fell, carrying down with it
twenty-three carpenters who were at work
on the structure. Carl Clark and David
J. Webb, two of tlie carpenters at work
on the trestle, were killed, aud twenty
others injured. There were numerous
broken legs, ribs and arms, aud several
of the injured may die.
A HOLOCAUST.
A LONDON SmOOLHOUSE BURNED—TWENTY
SI X BOVS PERISH IN THE FLAMES.
A London dispatch says: The boys’
section of Papers’ school,in the district of
Forest Gate, in connection with White
Chanel and Popular Unions, took tire
Wednesday night, while the inmates were
asleep, and was burned, with terrible re¬
sults, twenty-six of the boys, who were in
the upper stories, being suffocated before
they could be rescued. Fifty-eight other
boys were safely taken from the burning
building, amid of terrible institution excitement. Two
of the matrons the escaped
in safety by the sliding down the water in pipes.
Several of boys escaped the same
way. The superintendent the repeatedly of the school
rushed through flames and
brought out a number of inmates. There
were 600 persons iu the institution. The
tire was started by tlie overheated stove.
The female department, in which were
250 girls, was not touched. The boys re¬
tired in the highest spirits, having been
promised presents at the New Year's fete
on the morrow. The scenes in the main
hall, where the bodies of the dead boys
lav. were harrowing
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BURIED UNDER SNOW.
A SNOW SLIDE IN WHICH SIX WOMEN AND l
A BOY WERE KILLED.
A dispatch on Saturday from Sierra
City, Cal, says occurred that a fatal and destine
live snow slide there on Friday j
by which six women and a boy Mere j
killed; two other people may die and
several houses and a Catholic church were ,
wrecked. The slide swept with ternhc j
force down the valley, carrying everything j I
iu its path before it. Several people had
narrow without escapes the from slightest death, warning. as the slide As j j
came
soon as possible after the slide, a numbei :
of men began the work of digging out i
the unfortunates who had been caught in !
it, aud in few hours had taken out the ! ,
bodies of Mrs. Rich, her two daughter!
and a son; Miss Ryan, of DownieviUe, j |
and Mrs. J. T. Mooney, with her daugh
ter. Miss Libel Langton. The last two :
named from the were still but breathing efforts when resuscitation removed j |
snow, at
proved e... unavailing. ' Search for others is j
still going . on, ami , it ■ is . feared , , .. that . _____ more
than is now known may have been swept out
of existence in the av:tianche.
FLORIDA S EXPOSITION
Wir.r, OPEN IN GREAT SHAPE AT .1ACKSON
VII.I.E—THE SHOW BOOMING.
' The Sub-Tropic exposition will open at
Jacksonville Thursday with a grand pro¬
cession and trade display. The procession and
will be headed by Governor Fleming
Florida. his staff and The the four highest days’ carnival dignitaries.of begins
Friday, and magnificent preparations for
it are now under way*. Jacksonville will
appear in holiday attire. Beginning with
the morning of the 9th, and continuing
for two days—probably into the early
hours of Saturday morning—the f:itv will
be in holiday attire, and will present one
grand continuous round of festivity. The
exercises of the Sub-Tropical opening day,
with their accoinpaning procession, trade
display, music, speeches and grand demonstra¬ enter
tainment, will inaugurate the
tion, and this will be followed on Friday
by the masque-carnival, pyrotechnic dis¬
play building. and masque The ball at in the this Sub-Tropic procession
presence all sections the state
jf masquers from of
will tend to greatly increase the interest
in it among all classes of spectators, and
Jacksonville will be proud to march en
masque with her sister cities and towns of
Florida.
DIED IN JAIL.
WILLIS GAYLORD, ONCE A PROMINENT
RAILROAD MAN, COMMITS SUICIDE.
Willis Gaylord, for years a heavy ma¬
nipulator of railroad securities and organ¬
izer of railroad corporations, committed
suicide Friday night, at Philadelphia,
Pa., lord in a cell in under the county prison. Gay¬
was put arrest on a warrant
issued on the 18th of November last on a
suit in assumpsit, involving a claim oi
$30,000, the plaintiff being Frederick A.
Baycock, of New York, with whom Gay¬
lord had been interested iu New Orleans,
Baton Rouge anti Vicksburg railroad
bonds. Babcock alleged fraud on Gay¬
lord's part, in the meantime Gaylord
had remained in custody. Saturday morn¬
motion. ing was the Instead time set of for going a hearing with on the
on the
ease, Gaylord’s death counsel announced the
tragic of the defendant, causing
quite a sensation in the courtroom.
T AXING RAILROADS.
the north Carolina legislative com¬
mittee INVESTIGATING THE MATTER.
A joint committee was appointed by
the last legislature of North Caro¬
lina to examine into the matter of taxing
railways, which claim exemption from
tax. It is an important matter, as the
two largest railways, among others, claim
exemption. The committee will confer
with the attorney-general. There is a
which large and clamorous powerful element in the state
is for a railway commis¬
sion, and also for tlie payment of taxes by
all railways. The Farmers’ Alliance will
speak on these subjects. It will be an is¬
sue in the next legislature.
FEEDING THE HUNGRY
WICHITA, KANSAS, REMEMBERING SUF¬
FERING FAKMEns.
A train of eighteen cars left Wichita,
Kansas, Thursday night for tlie suffering
districts in Stevens, Morton, and Hodg
mar counties. The cars M ere loaded with
clothing and food. Reports recently re¬
ceived were to tlie effect that several
hundred persons are suffering at present.
People at the end of the railroad at Lib¬
eral and vicinity were ready with wagons
to make an attempt to transport relief
from forty to seventy miles to where it is
needed. It is believed the weather may
get extremely cold and thus increase the
suffering.
A STRIKE ON HAND,
SWITCHMEN, BKAKEMEN AND CONDUCTORS
TO HAVE A WALK-OUT.
On Saturday night, at Evansville, Ind.,
it was learned that the switchmen, brake
men and conductors on the Peoria, Deca
turand Evansville and Air-Line roads,
part of the Mnckay system, were ordered
out and those two roads are now idle, sc
far as freight traffic is concerned, It is
also rumored that the strike will extend
to the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan,
and the recent purchase of tlie Mackey’s
and that should an attempt be made to run
freight trains by other than the present
force, men on connecting lineswill refuse
to .handle freight.
THEY WILL REJOICE
THE ADVENT OF THE BRAZILIAN REPUBLIC
TO BE CELEBRATED APRIL 7th.
Letters and papers from Brazil, under
date of December 12tli, say that the gov¬
ernment has immediately urged all political parties to
constitute some kind of a
representation from the different states in j j
view of the rapidly increasing discontent disorgani
zation aud dictatorship. prevailing advent with the
military The of the j
republic will be celebrated April 7th. !
Some citizens of Rio Janeiro are forming
a society to assure Dorn Pedro an annuity
equivalent to the interest ou 15,000 centos.
HEAVY SNOWS.
THE SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS COY
ERED WITH SIXTEEN FEET OF SNOW.
Southern Telegraphic reports to the office of flit
Pacific company, at . s aeraintnto.
Cah, state that the fall *of snow on the
Sierra Nevada mountains ou the line of
the Central Pacific railroad is unpreee
dented. At the summit there is sixteen
on a level,
FLORIDA PHOSPHATES.
A dispatch from Jacksonville. Fla.,
says: There is considerable excitement
throughout the state over the recent dis
eovery of phospate deposits in Mqnon
county and counties lying south of
it. Land owners iu the vicinity are ad
yancing imug the prices country. and prospectors are exam- J
Australian papers report that the long
rabbit-proof fence now being constructed
between the New South YVales and South
Australian borders is Camels rapidly pre^essmg being Jtii
toward completion. are The
to transport the fencing materials.
f eucss when completed will be 3oC
mites long.
JfEWS AND NOTES FOR WOKEN,
The flaring Medicis collar is again
popular. changed
Patti, the opera queen, has
her raven looks to gold !
Mrs. Grover Cleveland is said to be
struggling with French conjugations.
Margaret ftliphant, the tireless pro¬
ducer of novels, etc., is sixty-one years
old.
Silver cloak buckles of the most ex.
quisite pierced workmanship are in great
demand.
One may be independent this season m
choosing ribbons, as all kinds are used to
a greater or less extent.
A woman may think a man is a
genius before marriage, but she calls him
bv some other name afterward.
It is an admitted fact that fashion pays
as much to keep her dog in ribbons as
she does to keep herself in gloves.
Opera-glass holders in stained ivory,
tortoise shell, chased gold and silver de¬
posit are shown by the leading jewelers.
Simplicity, or that studied art which
has the appearance of simplicity, is the
keynote of fashion in hair-dressing just
now.
The long wraps imported this season
for evening wear are described as being
the most elegant ever sent out from
Paris.
Chenille fringes and trimmings are in¬
creasing in variety. When used in black
upon colored woolens the effect is very
pretty.
Little Princess Wilhelmina, heir to the
Dutch throne, has mastered Dutch and
German and is now diligently studying
French.
Threads of bronze and copper f oven
about the rubber gas tube give that part
of a drop lamp a decidedly snake-like ap
pearance.
Turbans, toques and small bonnets
promise to lie more extensively worn
than large hats, notwithstanding early
predictions to the contrary.
An unusual wedding ceremony occurred
not long ago iu Dublin, where a well
known artist was married to his second
wife by a clergyman who was his son by
his first wife.
One of tlie daintiest devices in station¬
ery this season is a pretty note paper in
shades of richest mazarine, cream, opa¬
line, silver gTuy and the inner tint of a
pale pink rose petal.
Lady Sandhurst, upon whom the free¬
dom of the city of Dublin was con
ferred, is said to be the first woman
upon whom that honor has been be¬
stowed for 300 years.
Long mantles of the Russian type,with
plain loose coat sleeves under the long
hanging sleeves, are the models most fre¬
quently shown in the cloak departments
of the leading houses.
The favorite cut for a velvet sleeve is
after the leg o’ mutton, wrinkled above
tlie elbow and nearly tight below, with
six small buttons and loops of braid on
the inside seam of the wrist.
In a school for young women, not far
from Philadelphia, it was a rule some
years ago that every young lady must,
before retiring, give her hair one hun¬
dred good strokes with the brush.
Queen Olga, ol Greece, i s particularly
fond of American literature. She is a
constant reader of the principal American
magazines and newspapers. Her favorite
of all authors iu Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Some fancy jackets of sealskin have
vests of natural seal, leopard or white
lambskin, with revers of seal, and others
have caps of Persian lamb, which begin
at the top of the sleeve and fall in tabs
down the front belovy the waist.
Queen Victoria is very fond of Scotch
articles of diet. She likes oatmeal in
every form, and eats it for breakfast and
dinner. She drinks beer for luncheon,
and at night, on retiring, sometimes
takes a hot Scotch whisky punch.
Madame Carnot’s dinners are said to
lie perfect; and the French President has
established the custom of euteriug the
dining hall at tlie hour mentioned for
dinner. This avoids all disagreeable de¬
lay, and it is a good lesson to guests xvho
are inclined to be unpunctual.
“Mrs. Ivate Chase,” says a Washing
ton letter, “is still as brilliant in conver¬
sation, as charming iu manners and ex¬
quisitely cultivated as in the old days
which she was the proud daughter of the
Chief Justice of the United States, the
unrivalled queen of Washington so
eiety.”
Bonnets for little girls from one tc
three years are of velvet, matching the
cloak in color. The large crowns and
fronts are all in one piece, laid in plaits
toward the front, and finished with
plaited silk around tlie face, with inside
( ;| , P S , ac<: looting . and white baby
ribbon.
A convenient little article to wear over
a garment of cloth or silk, not fur
trimmed, is a pelerine of astrachan, with
points to go between the shoulders and
over the bust, about Half the length of
the waist, and finished with a high open
collar, which allows free movement of
the head.
Buy a silver bread platter with a snake,
design running along the edge, spread it
w ith a doylie of drawn linen, put a loaf
of crusty bread on it, have the butler
pass it round the table, and the manner
in which yonr guest breaks off a piece
will be a measure for judging of his
high breeding.
Dove or quaker gray is the most rea¬
sonable and also the most becoming
shade of this most trying color. It com
bines well with Effel, pale rose, blue.
water green, canary yellow, flamingo
- ...... bright . and ,
red, and other shades of posi
tive color, with cream, pure white, b.ack.
silver and gold, copper aud steel.
p or a p heavy plaids and stuffs the
£ n gjj s ij skirt is selected. There are
three breadths or full gores, u-ith a per
fectly plain front and sides, barring the
few folds taken on each side, and all the
fullness massed in the middle of the j
back and laid pleat upon pleat This ar
rangemeni fills out the hollow left by the
bustle in so many figures.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
At the Paris Exposition a watch was
shown only a quarter of an inch in diame
her.
Thomas Ward assigns the causes of sub¬
sidences which have taken place at North
wich, England, to the pumping of brine
for the manufacture of salt.
Although it was written in French and
translated from that language into Eng¬
lish, Professor Guvot’s “Earth and Man
has only recently been published in French
for the first time.
Put pure olive oil into a deal glass
bottle with strips of sheet lead and expose
it to the sun for two or three weeks, then
pour off the clear oil, and the result is a
lubricant which will neither gum nor cor
rode, It is used for fine machinery of
all kinds.
There is a continual improvement being intro¬ no- •
ticeable in the machinery
duced into shoe factories. The recent
inventions in this line are great econo¬
mizers of time, and will, according to the
labor leaders, materially aid them in their
endeavors to bring about the eight-hour
system.
The latest report states that twenty
one observatories are now engaged in the
international undertaking of photograph¬
ing the entire heavens, Each observa
tory will have to take about seven hun
dred photographs iu the zone assigned to
it, and it is hoped to finish the work in
three or four years.
A Freueh scientist proposes to intro¬
duce a small apparatus that will represent
the face and gestures of the person speak¬
ing through Edison’s improved phono¬
graph. While the phonograph cylinder
is turning to register the speech, instan¬
taneous photos of the speaker could be
taken at the rate of six hundred per min¬
ute.
A remarkable specimen of amber from
unknown locality in Southern Mexico
measures four by three by two inches, is
perfectly transparent, and is said to ba
eveD more beautiful than the opalescent
or green amber of Sicily. The natives
who bring this amber to the coast report
that in tlie interior it is so plentiful as to
be used for making fires.
It is now regarded as a settled question
that the nitrogen of the atmosphere is
fixed in the soil for the use of vegetation
by the action of microbes, and that no
soil is destitute of these germs. It is sug¬
gested that the greater development of
the microbes by farm-yard manures such may
explain the apparent superiority theoreti¬ of
fertilizers over artificial manures
cally as good.
The authorities say that the duration
of a lightning flash is not infinitesimal,
but that the flash lasts a measurable time.
For example, if one sets a camera in
rapid vibration and exposes in it a plat®
so as to receive the impression of the flash
it is found that the impression appeal
widened out on the negative, showing the
negative to have moved during the tima
'.he flash was in existence.
No Warning for Germans.
An amusing illustration of tlie in¬
tensely bitter feeling of resentment which
the French entertain toward the Ger¬
mans since the humiliation of 1871 mani¬
fested itself, says the Youth's Companion ,
at the Qui d’ Orsay station of the little
railroad within the grounds of the Exhi
tion at Paris. On both sides of the line
there are shade trees standing very near.
In order to prevent the thousands of pas¬
sengers from every laud from being in¬
jured by them, warning notices, in dif¬
ferent languages, toiling people not to
put out their heads or legs, were con¬
spicuously posted at intervals of every
few yards upon bright green, red, pink
and yellow paper.
After giving a list of the warning
notices, which were printed in English,
French, Dutch, Spanish, Portugese,
Italian, Danish, Russian, and even Ara¬
bian, the writer of the article continues:
As I stood jotting down these odd
characters, in many tongues, the polite
chef de gare, or station master, came
forward to ask if he could be of any ser¬
vice; and I remarked that all appeared
to have been equally warned.
“Ah, yes, monsieur,” he replied.
“France takes care of them all.”
“But," I rejoined, “ho v does it hap¬
pen that among all these notices I see na
word of warning for Germans?”
The eyes of the official twinkled, but
his white, even teeth shut together in a
peculiar manner, and he g we an odd lit¬
tle shrug.
“Let zee German look c it for his ow*
head 1” said he.
Fast Ocean Steamers.
The feat of the steamship City of Paris
in twice beating, iu a single year, the
best previous record Springfield for a transatlantic
trip, is, says the (Mass.) Re¬
publican, something unparalleled in the
history of ocean travel. The Etruria
twice made fastest records, but the second
fast trip was three years behind the first.
Only twice before, moreover, has the rec¬
ord been twice beaten in one year. The
full list of “record makers” since thf
days of the old Savannah is as follows:
ISIS, Savannah, Savannah Days. Hours. -Vijfc
to
Liverpool.................. Great Western, 23
1839, Liver¬
pool to New York.........18
3845. Britannia, Liverpool to
New York...... .....14 i
1851, New Persia, York...... Liverpool to
.... 9 s
1852, Baltic, Liverpool to New
York,. .. .... 9 s
1867, City of Paris, Queens¬
town to New York........ 8 3 1
1869. City of Brussels, New
York to Queenstown...... 7 18 2
1879-. Britannic, New York to
Queenstown................ Queenstown 7 10 53
1879, Arizona, to
New York...... 9 23
1SS2. Alaska. Queenstown to
New York...... .... 6 ?! 10
18S3. Oregon, York...... Queenstown to
New .... 6 S 10
1885. Etruria, Queenstown to
New York....... .... 6 5 45
. ^
™
6 4 42
i8S8, Etruria, Queenstown to
New York......... .... 6 1 55
^ ^ Qaeea ^
3 ?i
eity of Paris. Queens
town to New York........ 5 3