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’ The Chicago Nun^predicts that the standing armies of Europe will be dis¬ banded before many years, and the pub¬ lic debts wiped out. The Mormons are gaining a foothold (n the Canadian Northwest, and it is believed will make trouble for the Gov¬ ernment. During the past fiscal year exports from the United States reached the high¬ est figure ever known, viz., SS58,000,- 900; value of imports for the same time, $780,00 0,000. _ Dr. Junker, who learned in Central Africa to live on ants and various other delicacies of the savage nations, sat s that if white explorers would accustom t hem- selves to native food they would keep in better health and would not mind when their Emopean resources were exhaosto ’ Count Euppenheim, of Germany, has been compelled to choose between his American wife and his title, and has surrendered the latter. It may be said,” cynically observes the Detroit Free Press , “that the wife had money and the tithe did not; but, still, the Count is entitled to credit—a thing he could not obtain before marriage.” An official in the Census Bureau says that there are 134 religious denomina¬ tions in the United States and that it is estimated that the church membership will reach 25,000,000. The leading de¬ nominations will rim about as follows: Methodiats, 5,000,000; Baptists, 4,000,- 000; Catholics, 4,000,000; Presbyte¬ rians, 3,000,000, and Episcopalians, 2,- 000,000. Lawrence County, Tennessee, is plan¬ ning a monument to Davy Crockett, who began his remarkable career at Lawrence- burg as a Justice of the Peace, and ended it in glory at the Almo, Texas. He was a famous backwoodsman, an un¬ ique bordicr soldier and a politician of a peculiar and striking type. It was he who said, “Be sure you arc right and then go ahead.” If you have ever paid mouey to see s gorilla go and demand it back at once, is the advice of the New Orleans Picayune , for the most eminent naturalist in the country says that no gorilla—no genuine, straight edged gorilla—has even been captured by man, and that if he had he would never live to make the journey from Africa. They simply have been giving us out grown monkeys. During Senator Jones's recent exhaus¬ tive speech on the silver question, says the Pittsburg Dispatch, he referred to fact that in the ancient days of Massa¬ chusetts oyster shells were used as money. Mr. Hoar nodded his venerable head and whispered to Senator Gray: “Yes, and very good money it was. If a man in these days wanted to order a dozen on the half-shell, he could do it with perfect safety, knowing that he could pay for them with the shells.” Thc achievement of the naval ordnance officers at Washington in firing a pro¬ jects filled with emmensite through a two-inch steel plate and exploding it on the other side is something that the Times Democrat thinks will open the eyes of experts all over the world. This is regarded as one of the most im¬ portant developments in the field of high explosives. It is said that no doubt is felt that the explosive can be successfully fired from the new large-calibre rifled mortar which the Ordnance Bureau has under consideration. The Boston Cultivator says: “The use of air brakes on passenger trains is now general, and it probably soon will be on freight trains as well. It is much safer and quicker than the old-fashioned hand brake, and freight trains are now com¬ monly run at such rates of speed as to make them very uusafe without air brakes. The process of slowing up a heavily loaded train by hand brakes was always too long a job to keep it from running over an obstruction not seen some considerable distance ahead. By adapting air brakes for freight trains, the engineers can do the' work, relieving the company of the necessity of employing a large force of brakemen, who as they stood on the steps or platform were al¬ ways peculiarly exposed to danger. No¬ body need feel sorry to have the brake- men go. As many men will be needed in railroad work ns ever, and probably more, but it will be in work much plea¬ santer and much safer to life than I hat of the brakeman.” A dock hand at Fall River, Mass., has met with a singular mishap. H» laid down on the wharf and fell asleep. The hot sun beat into his face, totally destroying the sight of both eyes. In groping about the place when he awoke he fell into a ship and was badly cut and bruised. The German Emperor has sum¬ moned before him for investigation a young African prince, known as Al¬ fred Bell, from the Cameroon country, West Africa, who had been sent to Bremen to learn the trade of a carpen¬ ter, and who is alleged to have joined a gang of Socialists and Anarchists. If Bell should turn out to be rea’ly a Socialist, declares the Times-Demo¬ crat, he will not be allowed to return to the Camcroons, for fear ol corrupt¬ ing the natives. Although the country at war will Gua'craala is.set down in the gazet¬ teers, geographies and encyclopedias as San Salvador, Frank Vincent, thc well-known traveler, in his latest hook, “In and Out of Central Ameri¬ ca” says: ‘-Salvador, and not San Salvador, as we were taught at school, is the official title of the smallest of the five republics. San Salvador is the name of the capital.” To bear Mr. Vincent out in the statement that all the text books are wrong a fact may be cited which is of interest—namely that the postage stamps of that conn, try have printed on their face “lie publica del Salvador.” •State Dairy Commissioner Newton, of New Jersey, lias issued his annual report on food products of the State. A portion of it is devoted to adulter¬ ated food. He says that out of 2,507 samples of various kinds of food pur¬ chased in stores and markets in the * * tate, 1,078 were found to be adulter¬ ated. Bologna sausage was the most susceptible of adulteration. Twelve samples, purchased in stores in Jersey City, were found to have been boiled in a coloring compound. This gave them a brown color. They had after¬ ward been coated with a varnish com¬ pound of shellac, resin, oil, and alco¬ hol. The report warns thc people not to pnrehase cheap jellies. Most of them are made of starch, water, acetic acid, currant flavoring, extract glu¬ cose, and bad coloring matter. Says the Chicago Herald: “A cen¬ sus agent assigned to the work of col¬ lecting the statistics of the fish and fisheric? of South Carolina would have made a failure of it had lie not known how to fiddle. At the town where he expected to accomplish the largest part of his task every one was as dumb as an oyster. In despair of obtaining any information lie went into a store to listen to a man who wa« playing a fiddle. When the man had finished his tune he picked up the instrument and sounded two or three notes with the bow. The crowd insisted that lie should play, and he gave them two or three lively airs in the style of a mas¬ ter. From that time he was the hero of the community and everybody was only too glad to fill him witli figures regarding the fish interests of the place.” A large number of towns and cities continue to manifest an interest in the question of owuitig their electric light plants, chronicles the New York Fust, and the subject is one that is exciting a great deal of heated and angry con¬ troversy in electrical and civic circles. It was proposed to spend $300,000 in Philadelphia this year on a city electric light plant, but the experiment with ihe gas works has proved too discour¬ aging, and the plan has been aban¬ doned. The city of Milwaukee now lias a similar plan under consideration which involves an expenditure of no less a sum than 8600,0^0, with which it is proposed to buy a plant capable of maintaining 1,745 lamps of 2,000 Kindle-power each. One of the critics of municipal ownership recently called attention to the fact that at Bay City, Mich., dur¬ ing a thunder-shower, the city was left in darkness because the superin¬ tendent of the station was afraid to run the plant. Another peculiarity of the practice there is to start up the light it 9 o’clock iu the evening. One can readily imagine what would be t?/e result if any company furnishing lights under contract were to adopt swell measures for the sake of safety and economy. SIX NEW STATES -- Somethin? About the Late ditions 1,,. to . the TT111An Union. The Line of States Now Reaches From Ocean To Ocean. The line of States of the Union now extends unbroken from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. The admission of Wyoming and Idaho on the hourth of July made the number of ^ at cs completed the chain . fcrty-iour, and it across the continent, so that one may now pass from ocean to ocean without being aUny time beyond the limits of some" State. '^ c - ' Thc territory of Idaho was establish- ed in 1863. All of its present area was before that time included in the Territory of Washington, As origi- ualy organized, however, it embraced the whole of Montana and a part of Wyomiug. It was divided in 1868, and the boundaries have not since been changed. Its area is about ninety-one thousand square miles, or almost ex¬ actly twice that of Pennsylvania. For more than twenty years after its organization its growth in population was slow, but recently it has increased very rapidly. Wyoming was formed in 19G8 from parts of Dakota, Idaho and Montana. Its limits have never been changed and its area is one hundred and six thou¬ sand square ntiics. Notwithstanding its immense size there arc six larger states in the union. Like Idaho its growth in population is recent. In 1870 it contained but about nine thou¬ sand whites and in 1880 only twenty thousand. Wyoming is distinguished as the first state in the union to admit women to all the privileges of citizcn- ship. It is an interesting fact that the area over which the six 'States exercise jur¬ isdiction, which were admitted during the year ended on the Fourth of July, is almost exactly two-thirds of a mil¬ lion square miles, and is more than half as large again as the whole area included in the thirteen original States of the Union. Indeed it lacks but a few thousand square miles of the area of the Union after Mississippi was admitted in the year 1817, and Mississippi was the twentieth -State. Not only is thc admission of six new States within a single twelvemonth unprecedented in the history of the country, but it is a fact that only once before have three States come into the Union in so short a time. Florida, Iowa and Texas were all admitted during the year 1845. No President before General Harrison has been per¬ mitted to proclaim the admission of more than three States, not even one of those Presidents whose term lias extended to eight years. The material for new States is al¬ most exhausted. The only territory not now under the government of some State is the District of Columbia, the Indian Territory, including Okla¬ homa, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Alaska. Not more than four States will be formed out of these Territories, at least for a long time to come. The new sisters have moved still further westward the seat of empire. There are now Iwentv-iivc States east of the Mississippi River, and nineteen west of that great stream. AVliilc the population of the newer States does not give them a great representation in the House of Representatives, they are nearly a half of the Senate, and when the other Territories are admit- ted ihe Mississippi River will divide the Union almost exactly in two. so far as the number of States is cou- c-erued.—[Youth’s Companion. Siwash Canoes. “While visiting one of the smill towns along Puget Sound,” said J. II. Mallett of Helena to a Spokane Falls (Wash.) Review reporter, “I was greatly interested in the way the In¬ dians built their canoes. It is really wonderful how these dirty aborigines san with the crudest means and with a few days’ work convert an unwieldly Io S into « trim and pretty canoe. On Monday morning I saw a buck build- 5n S 3 fire 3t the base of 3 cedar tree, and lie told me this was the first * u Die construction of a canoe i )e intended to use upon the fol- lowing Saturday. lie kept fine fire burning merrily all that day and far into the night, when a. wind came up and completed the downfall of the monarch of the for- The next day the man arose be. times, and borrowing a cross-cut saw ’ the f ,. om a lo , rgOT> CIU tlle tmnk of tree in twain at a point some fifteen feet from where it had broken ofl, then with a dull hatchet he hacked a wav until the log had assumed the ^ of |h(J desired canoe . In this hc ^ heIpcd by his squaw . ^ ^ fe , |mv then built n re on the u t of the ]ogf guiding the com . sc of tho flre wit h" daubs of clay, ^ ^ ^ Qf timo the hl tcrior Qf ^ ^ ^ burned out> ^ & d . g WQrk with thc ha(chet the h)side smooth and shape . The canoe was now, I thought, com let u h it appeared to be dangerously narrow of beam. This the Indian soon remedied, He filled the shell two-thirds full of water and into the fluid he dropped half a dozen stones that had been beating in the lire for nearly a day. The water at once attained a boiling point and so soft- tened the wood that the buck and squaw were enabled to draw out the sides and thus supply the necessary breadth of beam. Thwarts and slats were then placed in the canoe and the water and stones thrown out. When the steamed wood began to cool and contract the thwarts held it back and the sides held the thwarts, and there the canoe was,com¬ plete without a nail, joint or crevice, for it was made of one piece of wood. The Siwash did not complete it as soon as he had promised, but it only took him eight days. Ilis Clerk Had Music. One of New York’s dry goods mer¬ chants, who has a flourishing business on 8-ixth avenue, gave the clerks in his employ a lesson in business methods the other day which they will not soon forget. On approaching his store shortly after nine o’clock in the morn¬ ing in question, he found his entire stair of assistants on the sidewalk en¬ joying the questionable melody of an itinerant musician across the way. Without appearing to notice his subor¬ dinates, the merchant crossed over to the musician and said: “IIow much will you charge tc come into my store and play until twelve o’clock?” “One dollar,” was the response. “All right,” said the merchant. “You may come in and begin at once.” lie led the bewildered player intc the back office, where lie set him tc work. Thc merchant's face was wreathed in smiles all that forenoon, while the clerks hardly knew what to make of the eccentric reprimand they had received. Their discomfiture was added to every time a customer came in by their employer remarking with his blandest smiie,— “You see, we have music here to¬ day. It is for the benefit of my clerks. They are all very fond of music—re¬ markably fond of it.” Andrew Carnegie’s .Maxims. Mr. Andrew Carnegie, wiio today, wields an influence in the industrial world as great, possibly, as that of any living man, had the following maxims: Avoid drink; avoid specula¬ tion: avoid endorsements; aim high. For the question, “What must I do for my employer?” substitute “What can I do?” Begin to save early. Capitalists trust the saving young man. Concentrate your energy, thought and capital, fight it out on one line. Mr. Carnegie is a genial cora- panion. He can sing a good song, make a good speech and teli a good story. In person he is rather short, but strongly made and active. His eves, which are blue, are large and sympathetic. An Important Discovery. An ingenious individual has discov¬ ered that when a train s'.rikes a bridge the shock is first felt in the cab of the engine. It is pretty much the same thing when it strikes a loaded freight train, or a pile of ties set up by accom¬ modating road agents. About the only thing that can happen without being felt in the cab is when the stock of the road strikes a rising market, or the lobby gets it in fat for a land grant. It takes a long time for such things to get around to the rolling stock, and when it does it is generally to take ofl a train or two, iu order to cut down expenses The Happy Man. By day, no biting cares assail My peaceful, calm, contented bre ast; By night, my slumbers never fail Of welcome rest. 8oon as the Sun, with orient beanii Gilds the fair chambers of the Day Musing, 1 trace the murmuring stre an* That wind their way. Around me Nature fills the scene With boundless plenty and delight- And, touched with joy sincere, serene I bless the sight. t bless the kind, creating Power, Exerted thus for frail mankind', At whose command descends the shy* And blows the wind. Happy the man who thus at ease, Content with that which Nature ^i ves . Him guilty terrors never seize; He truly lives. —[Chambers’ Journal HUMOROUS. The bridal path—Up the aisle. Blow their own horns— Music for the A slight of hand — Refusing shake. Something that always takes siflJ Laughter, In a joint debate the speakers siJ articulate well. It is thc early edition that catd the bookworm. Thc boot-black’s anxious qua “Rain or shine?” There is no sense in weeping spilt milk when it is Among the products of the Islands are sugar cane and Energy may bring success; there’s nothing like success one energy. ^ Even the patent, labor-saving, binding reaper goes against the during hot weather. Jack—lMiaw ’. money bring happiness. Ethel— sure poverty doesn’t. Will—Hello, what’s the Bill—Got a cold. “Taking for it?” --Yes, advice.” “Struck the right note at last!' claimed the persistent author, win received his first five-dollar bill j the publishers. We never know the full vala any thing until we have lost it. applies especially to baggage sms in a railroad wreck. “The new assessor is a very ba man.” “You don’t siv so! 1 has he been doing?” “Why, me lie often taxed his own Mrs. Gazzain—“All works Shakespeare shows tipathy to dogs.” remember he advised throwing to them.” “What a splendid wife lias! She’s got such a sunny tion,^ou know.” “Sunny tion? Yes, they do say she u hot for him.” “I hardly know how to take times, Miss Ophelia,” remarked? Mr. Eummix. “Why not take a better or for worse?” Ophelia, shyly. Mr. Blase—“You have no Marie; you can endure nothing 1 it is agreeable.” Mrs. Adolphe; Blasc-lj; judge me harshly, not my husband?” Sweet Girl—If ifis just the Mr. Mashuer, you needn't ^ ® I yourself to call any more. (earnestly)—Oh, thanks; it trouble at all—1 like to call- It is hard to say in public officer shows the dignation; in arranging » who may be innocent, or in charge against himself which true. Fair Tourist— Ah, what an lit is that of the peasantry, h communion with nature; tto . cares, no dues to pay to the c n of society. Practical Man 1 ®*] to the laundry. Jones, during his last visit t* 1 read over the door of a cheap .. ant that had been in its g oT ? Louis Phillippe, remains open Sundays, during revolutions.” He—And 60 your answer You will be mine? She" \ not solntely. But pray don’t go 8 your brains out. He—R ' s ° . idle attempt. People say if * j brains I never would have you.