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RUSSIA’S EXHIBIT
At Chicago to Surpass Them all
*■ in Grandeur.
Advices have been received at Wash¬
ington from St, Petersburg, indicating
that the Russian exhibit in the coming
World's Fair at Chicago will surpass any¬
thing of the kind ever attimtped by the
government and people of that country,
and that and it is likely to be the most ex¬
tensive varied of all foreign
exhibits. A company has been
found iff leading citizens, bankers
and merchants and manufacturers
cf &t. Petersburg and 31oscow
who have already subscribed halt a mil¬
lion pounds i $5,000,000) for this pur¬
pose. The Russian government has been
asked and, it is understood,' will con¬
tribute half a million pounds, and
will co operate with them in preparing
and bringing to Chicago an exhioit of
unusual proportions, which, among other
things, will include an ethnological ex¬
hibit, representing the condition, mode
of living, and religion, as well as manufac¬
turing agricultural products of the
oue hundred aud sixty-two races and
tribes of that vast empire.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
NEWS NOTES AND ITEMS FROM
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Proceeding’s of the Second Ses¬
sion of the 51st Congress.
SENATE.
On motion of Mr. Davis, the senate,
after the transaction of routine busi¬
ness, Friday mor.ing, proceeded to the
consideration of pension bills urn bjected
to. There were 130 pension bills passed
in forty-five minutes. The senate then
proceeded to the consideration of the
Nicaragua ca- al bill, giving a guarantee
of the United States government to the
company’s 4 per cent bonds to tliaamount
of $100,000,000. The bill was read Id
full, and Mr. Edmunds announced that
in the absence of the chairman of the
committee on foreign relations (Mr.
Sherman), it became his duty to take
charge of the bill. Mr. Vest took the
floor in opposition to the bill—not, he
said, from any hostility to the Nicarague
canal, but because he thought it of im¬
portance that in considering the pend¬
ing bill, the relations between Great
Britain and the United States in regard
to interoccanic communication across the
isthmus should be considered. Mr. Vest
argued that the bill throughout, from
the beginning to end, goes upon
assumption that the United
States is to control that canal.
Mr. Davis opposed the bill for the rea¬
son, among others, that the instrumental¬
ities by which it was proposed to have
the canal constructed were objectionable.
It was his opinion that, if the canal w as
to be constructed at all, it should be
done by the government directly in its
sovereign capacity, through its corps of
engineers. called Mr. Edmunds replied to what
he the earthquake theory of oppo¬
sition to the bill. The committee had
not been oblivious to the danger from
earthquakes. The committee knew that
earthquakes occurred in Central Ameri¬
ca, as they occurred in San Francisco and
Washington and Charleston, S. C. No
one had ever hesitated to go into any
public work that was deemed useful, on
account of the possible danger of a cata¬
clysm of nature that might overthrow' it.
He concluded his remarks with a general
defense and advocacy of the bill. With¬
out any action upon it the senate, after a
short executive session, adjourned.
In the senate, on Monday, an amend¬
ment to the public buildings bill wag pre¬
sented by Mr. Allison, to authorize the
employment of additional architects and
draughtsmen. This gave rise to a debate
in which Mr. Ingalls said he understood
that the practical difficulty was that em¬
ployment nical being skilled, artistic and tech¬
there was not a sufficient number of
applicants under the civil service rule to
allow the work to be done. He asked
Mr. Allison whether it was not competent
for the president of the United States to
revoke so much of the executive order of
July, office. 1888, as applied to the architect’s
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HOUSE.
The exceptional action of the house
Thursday, in holding two distinct legis¬
lative session on the same calendar day,
give rise to some confusion Friday morn¬
ing as to what journal should be. read. A
brief debate arose, which resulted in the
journal of Thursday night’s proceedings
being read and approved. Mr. Flower,
of New York, presented the petition of
H. B, Claflin and other merchants of New
York in favor of reciprocity with Canada;
referred. Mr. Cannon, from the commit-
on rules, reported a resolution for the
immediate consideration of business re¬
ported by the committee on judiciary—
the first bill to be taken up to be the bill
for the relief of the supreme court, with
senate amendments, and the next bill to
fix the salaries of United States
judges. Mr. Breckinridge, of Ken¬
tucky, raised the question of con¬
sideration. The house decided—yeas,
113; nays, 79—to consider the resolution.
Mr. Cannon then took the floor, stating
that he would say but a few words as to
the merit of the proposition. Mr. Mc¬
Millin inquired whether the object of the
gentleman in saying a few words was not
to prevent the forty-minute debate al¬
lowed under the rules after the previous
question was ordered. After consider¬
agreed able wrangling, the resolution was and finally under
to—yeas, 155; nays, 4;
its provisions the court bill was immedi¬
ately taken up for consideration. The
reading concluded of at the 2:30 senate o’clock—the amendment time fixed was
for the ordering of the previous question
—and the speaker put the question
whether the senate amendment should be
non-c >ncurred in. The speaker announced
that the senate amendment had been non-
concurrcd in and a conference was or¬
dered. The house then proceeded to the
consideration of the bill fixing the sala¬
ries of United States district judges. Mr.
McMillin opposed the bill as being ex¬
travagant in i’s appropriations. He had
never seen anything like the prodigality of
this congress in the history of the country.
Mr. Cheadle, of Indiana, also opposed
the bill, regarding it as a stepping stone
towards an increase of the expenses of
the taxpayers of the country. Mr. Cas¬
well, of Wisconsin, spoke in favor of the
bill, holding that adequate salaries should
be given to judges of United S’ates dis¬
trict courts. The house substitute war
withdrawn, leaving the senate bill in its
original district form, providing that the salaries
of judges shall be $5,000 pes
annum. Mr. McMillin offered an amend¬
ment this reducing the salary to $4,000. To
J. D. Taylor, of Ohio, offered an
amendment, providing that the salaries
of district judges shall be increased $500.
On Mr. Taylor’s motion no quorum voted,
and under the rules, the house took a
recess until 8 o’clock, the evening session
to be for the consideration of private
pension house bills. bad humor
The was in a Satur¬
day morning, and several lively little
tilts occurred among the members. The
democrats followed their tactics of delay
by demanding the reading of the journal
in full. Several times Mr. Fithian inter¬
rupted the skipping reading, declaring that the
clerk was some of the names on
roll call. This, upon authority of the
clerk, the speaker stated to be incorrect.
The clerk proceeded with his task, when
he was again interrupted by Mr.Springer,
who stated that he was reading only the
numbers of pension VUs passed Friday
night, and not the titles. After a brief
controversy the speaker s'ated that the
clerk was reading exactly what was fur¬
nished him by the journal eftrk. There
had been no time to fill in the titles. A
lively and somewhat heated debate fol¬
lowed regarding h: manner in which the
journal was made up. The journal was
finally approved, and the senate bill
fixing tbe salaries of United States dis¬
trict judges was taken up, the pending
question beiDg on Mr. McMiilin’s amend¬
ment, defeated. fixing the salaries at $4,000, which
was The bill was ordered to a
third reading and passed—yeas 148,
nays 89. The bill provides that the
salaries of the several judges of the dis-
trict courts of the United States shall be
be at the rate of $5,000 per annum. Mr.
Bigham, house of Pen: sylvauia, moved that the
go into committee of the whole on
the postoffice appropriation bill, wh'ch
was agreed to. Disputes arose over sev¬
eral paragraphs of the bill, but Bo amend¬
ment was made. The bill was laid aside
with a favorable recommendation, and
Mr. Cannon called up the deficiency ap¬
propriation bill, asking that its first read¬
ing be dispensed with. To this Mr.
Turner, of New York, objected, and the
reading wa3 not conelued until after 8
o’clock, and then a discussion arose as to
limitation of debate, but no determina¬
tion was arrived at. The committee arose
and the house, at 9 o’clock, ad journed
w ithout disposing of the postoffice ap¬
propriation bill.
NOTES.
The senate has confirmed the nomina¬
tion of Emerson Etheridge as collector
of cu-toms at Memphis, Tenn.
Among the papers presented and re¬
ferred iu the senate Monday, were the
resolutions by the state senate of Texas
favoring the amendment to the c institu¬
tion limiting the tenure of all federal of¬
ficers to a reasonable term of years.
The bill providing for increasing the
salaries of all federal district judges to
$5,000 a year passed the house in the rush
Saturday. It has already passed the sen¬
ate, and now only needs the president’s
signature to become a law.
Washington’s birthday was appropri
ately celebrated at the Capital Monday by
a parade of civil and military organiza¬
tions, which passed in review before
President Harrison. The “Oldest Inhab¬
itant Association” observed the day iu
their time-honored way by listening to
the reading of Washington’s inaugural
address. All the executive departments
were closed, and after 12 o’clock business
was generally suspended.
The nomination of ex-Gov. Foster, of
Ohio, to be secretary of the treasury,
which the president sent to the senate
Saturday afternoon, created little surprise,
as it had been generally expected. Irre¬
spective of party, the pullic men at the
capital commended the selection, and
from the number of complimentary things
which were said of Gov. Foster, it is evi¬
dent that he is quite as popular among
the politicians of other States as he is
among those of Ohio.
There was absolute quiet in both houses
of congress Monday. Everybody seemed
to be in a good humor, and the discus¬
sion quietly of the appropriation bills went on
and without excitement. But it
is probably the calm before the storm.
Just as soon as the attempt is made to get
up the subsidy bill, the direct tax bill, or
any o her measure of a similar character,
the storm wfill break over the capital, and
the fifty-first congress will expire in a
scene of wild disorder and excitement.
The storm is expected at any moment.
On Monday, Mr. Chandler, of Massa¬
chusetts. introduced into the house, by
request, a bill providing that in the build¬
ing to be erected by the government for
its exhibit at the World’s Columbian Ex¬
position, space shall be allotted to the
colored people of the United States to ex¬
hibit works of art, field products, live
stock, inventions, manufactures and other
articles raised, fabricated, purchased or
owned by colored people. The space so
allotted to the colored people, and the
exhibits therein, shall be under the direc¬
tion and control of the board of directors
of the Colored World’s Fair Association
of America, an institution incorporated
under the laws of the states of Alabama
and Georgia.__
PARNELL’S DENUNCIATION
Of the Irish Leaders—A Bitter
Speech.
A cablegram from Roscommon, Ire¬
land, says: In his speech in Market
Square Sunday afternoon, Parnell, who
was received with loud cheers, said:
“It is now eleven years since I ad-
diessed you here. We were then find parting
nationality. the ways between h Whiggery need Irish be
We .vc no to
ashamed of the decade’s record. To-day
we start with another parting of ways.
On the threatened road leading with to independence delay. I
you are am
sure there will be no delay, but if there
is we shall have the proud consciousness
that we have not allowed the Irish
rationality to be a trading post for petti¬
fogging lawyers. [Shouts' of ‘Down who
with Healy and Cummins. ’] Men
W' uld sell your birthright for a mess of of
pottage and become tlie kept slaves
the English party, but they have reck¬
oned without you and their plot has been
spoiled.”
_
GETTING READY.
Preparations Under Way for the
World’s Fair Buildings.
Order is being rapidly developed and out what of
chaos in the world’s fair matter,
has heretofore appeared confusion now
assumes definite form and purpose. The
managers of the affair have observed so
much discreet secrecy that the abandon¬
ment of th? lake front site came in the
nature of a total surprise to the people, would
yet at no time for many months, it
appear, has the placing of any buildings
on the lake front park Leen contemplated. of
The instructions given to the board
architects at the time of its formation did
not provide for any of the buildings
being placed there, but a contemplated
grouping of all the named buildings at
the south of Midway Plaisance, in Jackson
park, tbe land north of the pla sance
being reserved for miscellaneous struct¬
ures. such as state buildings.
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Epitome of Incidents that Hap¬
pen from Day to Day.
A fearful explosion in Spring Hill
mines, Nova Scotia, resulted iu the death
of 117 miners.
loan Subscriptions have to the new German
reached forty-five times the
amount of the loan.
Mr. Powderly has canceled all his
western engagements and returned to
Scranton, Pa. His health is very bad.
A phenomenal sleet storm has plastered
great areas of country with ice, from the
Mason Alleghanies to the Rockies, north of
and Dixon’s line.
John D. Knox & Co., investment
bankers, Topeka, Ivan., made an assign¬
ment $300,000. Thursday. Liabilities will reach
The stockholders of the Illinois Steel
Company at Chicago, have voted to in-
ci’ease the capital stock of the company
from $25,000,000 to $50,000,000.
The Pan-American Construction com¬
pany, with a capital of $10,000,000, has
been organized to construct the Corpus
Cbristi and South American railroad.
Ex-Secretary Gibson, of the whisky
trust, who is under indictment cor con¬
spiracy to destroy an anti-trust distillery
in Chicago, has given a bond of $25,000.
The Cypress roundhouse of the Missouri
Pacific railroad, in Kansas City, Kansas,
burned on Thursday with eighteen
engines. Total loss estimated at $175,-
000 .
A Little Rock, Ark., dispatch says:
Through his sureties, ex-State Tressurer
Woodruff has paid State Treasurer Mor¬
row and taken a receipt for $63,734, the
full amount of shortage shown to exist
against him.
Alexander D. Anderson, of Washing¬
ton, D. C., has been appointed special
commissioner in charge of the eastern
department of the world’s Columbia ex¬
position, with headquarters in New York
and Washington.
The fifth annual dinner of the New
York Southern Society was held Saturday
night at the Madison Square Garden ban¬
quet hall. Nothing had been left un¬
done to make the dinner the greatest
success the Southern Society ever had.
A cablegram of Tuesday from London
says: The Stevedores’ Union men, num¬
bering 5,000, have been ordered by their
council to strike. This step is supposed
to be taken as a means of compelling
other labor unions to declare themselves.
At 10 o’clock Sunday night a fire started
in Wells & Fargo’s < ffice, in Kansas City,
and quickly spread to adjoining build¬
ings of the Openheimer Jewelry Compa¬
ny, George Holland’s shoe store and
Sloss mi linery store, where, after a hard
fight, the fire was checked. Loss will
reach $125,000.
A dispatch via of Saturday, from Afafite,
Egypt, Suakim, says: A severe en¬
gagement was fought at Tokar, February
19, between Egyptian troops who recent¬
ly left El Tab and Osman Digna’s forces.
Nearly 1,000 lives were lost in the battle
which fobowed the appearance of the
Egyptians at Tokar.
The National Starch Manufacturing
company, of Indianapolis, has sent out a
circular to be signed by dealers, which
binds them to handle only trust starch,
not to cut prices, and allowing them 5 per
cent reduction of yearly purchases. The
circular wax of a confidential nature and
was so worded as t< a? icar to be a propo¬
sition from the deal rs to the company.
The truce between the shipping feder¬
ation and labor unions of London is ex¬
pected to end when the work being per¬
formed by mixed free and union labor
will have been finished. Labor organ¬
izations have issued a manifesto against
the federation’s ships in London and in
other ports of Great Britain, and a gen¬
eral strike is feared.
A Chicago dispatch says: The stock¬
holder of the Illinois Steel company
have voted to increase the capital stock
of the company from $25,000,000 to $50,-
000,000. It is said that the proceeds
from the new slock will be u.-ed in
greatly enlarging the plant and that only
a portion of the stock is to be put on the
market.
Richard W. Walker, of Huntsville,
was, on Monday, appointed fifth justice
of the supreme court ot Alabama oy
Governor Jones, under the act of the last
legislature in Florence, creating the March office. He was
born Ala., 11, 1857,
graduated at Princeton college and prac-
tired law for two years in New York
city He is the ablest lawyer of bis age
in the state and the appointment gives
great satis ac ion.
The superintendent giving of the census has
prepared a bulletin the center of
population of the Lnited States, together
with the movement of the center during
each decade since 1790. 1 he exact lati-
tude center of the Dres^nt census year js
given as 39 longitude degrees, 11 minutes and 56
seconds, 85 degrees, 32 min-
utes and 53 second®, at a point in south-
ern Indiana, a little west of South Green-
burg, the county seat of Decatur county,
Superintendent prepared Porter, introduction of , the ., census
bureau, has an to
a bulletin on the private indebtedness of
individuals and coi portions of the
United States. The report issued is for
Alabama and Iowa. According to this
report, the total real estate mortgage
debt in Alabama in force on January 1,
1890, was $39,027,983; average amount
of debt to one of population, mortgaged $26. In
1889, number of acres were
1,744,420; total number of acres in the
state, 32,985,600; per cent, acres mort-
gaged, 5.3, Interest charges The range from
1 to 40 per cent. rate. average life
of mortgages with no allowance for par¬
tial payments is computed to be 2 73 in
Alabama.
a royal pr jcfamation was published
in England recently calling in all gold
coins not of (he present reign. After
a certain date all such coins will not
be legal tender, but will not lose any
of their value.
NUMBER 8.
TWIN QUESTS,
The other day a chubby boy,
With wings and blinded eyes,
Came clamoring at toy door, and I,
To rid me of his criesi,
At last said: ‘Love, you nJ*y come in,
When, with dismay at heart,
I saw the rascal enter with
Almost his counterpart—
Except that while Love smiled, this one
Did mournfully complain.
“Where’er I go,” the blind boy said,
“Goes my twin brother Pain.”
They quickly drove calm Friendship out*
And what with tears and smiles
I can do naught but' comfort Pain
And watch Love’s pretty wiles.
And though sometimes in weariness
1 wish them far away,
Again so sweet the torments are
I plead with them to stay.
-Virginia Bioren Harrison,in the Century
PITH AND POINT.
"War fare—Hard tack and raw Indian.
Getting the best of a dude—Stealing
his clothes.— Washington Star.
The first figure is the last now, and
don’t you forget it .—Pittsburg Dispatch.
There would be fewer bank robberies
if more safes were protected by the old-
fashioned flint locks .—Buffalo Express.
“I am not in it,” remarked the poor
woman as she gazed fondly on a sealskin
sack in the shop window.— Washington
Star.
When a man tells you he would like
to have you criticise his faults, you have
found another hypocrite. — Atchison
Globe.
Though green as the rose-leaf,
Or red as the rose.
Money’s As a good it thing—
far as goes.
— Puck.
Modern Matron—“Who is this 3fr.
Hughard, my dear?” Modern Daugh¬
ter—“How should I know, nia? I’ve
only been engaged to him a week.”—
Good News.
Cobwigger—“What did you do when
you came to that part of your dream
when all your hopes seemed about to be
realized?” Merrit—“Woke up.”— Chi¬
cago News.
Rifle Gallery Boss—“There you go
again—shooting too high! What is the
matter with you?” Raw Marksman—
“Merely an oversight on my part.”—•
New York News.
Jim—“Tm just like a father of his
country—I can’t tell a lie.” Jam—“I
can—some lies. I can always tell yours
a mile off. For instance, this last one.”
—New York News.
I give her a kiss yester-evon.
This evening she said, “By your leave,
I’ll return it. I think it’s no better
To give than it is to receive.”
— Washington Star.
Mathematicians figure that a man sixty
years old has spent three years iu button¬
ing his collar. How much time has been
consumed by a woman of forty-five in
putting her hat on straight .—Chicago
News.
Knocked Out at Last: Mrs. Stanley—
“Will you kindly hand me my handker¬
chief from my dress pocket, Henry?”
Mr. Stanley (after a long pause)—“I
can’t find your pocket .”—New York
Herald.
High-minded Father—“My son,
choose a profession that will bring you
fame, and alter that wealth will come.”
Dutiful Son—“Very well, father, I’libe-
come a professioual baseball player.”—
Good News.
Blinks (during heavy rain)—“Did you
run over and ask Jinks for that umbrella
[ loaned him last night?” Office Boy—
“Yes sir. He says he’s very sorry, but
the umbrella is wet yet, and he wouldn’t
like to return it in that condition. He
says he’ll carry it home to-night and dry
it by the fire .”—Good News.
Story of the Mexican Arms.
The origin of the Mexican coat of arms
is to be found in ancient traditions. The
eagle was the emblem of the primitive
Mexicans, but when Mexican independ¬
ence was overthrown by Spanish con¬
quest new quarterings were introduced,
and only so much of the original symbols
remained as would serve to emphasize
the glory of the conquerors. When our
independence was restored a just regard
for tradition led to the rehabilitation of
the ancient coat of arms,
The law of April 14, 1823, directed
that the arms should be “The Mexican
eag i e resting on the left claw at the top
0 f a nopal tplant of the genus cactus),
The nopal on a roc t j Q the midst
o£ a lake . The eagle grasps a serpent in
hifl ri g ht claw and is in the act of tear-
. to ieceg with ite beak . Tw0
branches, one of laurel and the other of
ever0 ° rreen oak, adorn these arms, in con-
{orm it y ^ith the design employed by
^ ra ] er 0 f the first champion of inde-
Dendence >»
rp be a \i e gory thus depicted is explained
. b y ., fl . owing legend, .
The Aztecs came from a reraote ‘
try.called 4 Aztlan, and, a er 0 1
egnnation, rested m Ghapullepep. n-
asmuch as they were afflicted and aeset
bv £ various insidious enemies, wno at-
cunning ° of ser-
P eQt ?\ t ? ie .V P ne f ta sea J cbe ‘ P°
m which they might establish . themseh e i
permanently. Finally they discovered a
point on the shore of a lake where an
eagle, perched upon a nopal, was devour-
ing a serpent. This seemed a good
omen, and accordingly they chose this
point, believing that in so doing they
were obeying the will of their gods.
They fotmded there the City of Teuschit-
itlan, which to-day is the populous city
o£ Mexico.
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Don’t Bite Yonr Nails.
Persons who bite their nails might be
cured of the habit if they coul l ever
keep before them the fact that in the de¬
posit under the nails is an aggregation of
horrible things which includes a full line
of micrococci thirty kinds, eighteen
different designs of bacilli, and several
» nd mol £/pores, also assorted.
All of these terrible things are said to be
death dealing.— Boston Transcript.