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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 * * * 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. U8. ADVERTISE WITH IT WILL Pi Y NE W$ AND NO TES CONDENSED FROM TELEGRAPH AND CABLE. 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. - m - 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.