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■ " *"■ Admiral Daaoat Show* Ita < R^7Adt^aT hTthe Gautote on Freffiffi and English navtes, says: •The speech of Mr. Chamberlain, the campaign waged againsb us in the Eng- Lto STSglls^’merehantJ 6 menaced every where in their interests, constitute dis quieting symptoms which it would bo puerile to ignore. The question naturally arises, therefore, in everybody a mind, is the French navy ready for an eventual struggle with the English navy# As re gards the numberoff‘ships now available, as regards facility at concentration of forces, the judisious choice and the pre paredness of naval bases, our inferiority is notorious. Since the application of the naval defense act our neighbors have dou bled their resources by constructing with a feverish haste. They have been able to launch within a single ?ear as many as five battleships of from 12,000 to 1ft,009 tons, eight large cruisers and 83 smaller vessels, so that the disproportion, already great, which existed ■ between the two navies has been enormously increased. England can now put into line •* battle ships of from 9,000 to 16,000 tons, 69 large cruisers and a very large numberpt smaller vessels, among which should be noted a numerous flotilla of very rapid torpedo boat destroyers. Besides these ves- serve to this already formidable force. ™ - “What have we to set against this array ? Sixteen new battleships, 8 good eqast de fense vessels, about 10 old battleships of mediocre value and 23 modern cruisers Reckoning on both sides the vessels that are of no use for service and taking into account breakdowns and accidents, we may say on the whole that the strength of our navy is between a third and a half of that of the English navy. The quality of the smaller vessels ih both navies Is about the same. The English vessels have in general a look of greater strength, they can go greater distances, and their ton nage is greater, which enables them to be better armed and equipped. Their guns are well placed, but less powerful at an equal caliber. The speed is usually infe rior to ours and can bo less easily kept up, in spite of the nominal figures to be found in the numerous lists published in both countries. “In a word, the value of similar types is approximately the same, but We remain in presence of a crushing numerical supe riority, and our inferiority Is Increased by the inadequate preparation of stations out side Europe. While‘ England is strongly posted at the outlets of all the great mari time lines of the globe, we are reduced to utilizing a few indifferently placed posi tions. “We shall patiently bide our time, and It will certainly come. Meanwhile we shall organize an implacable system of pri vateering against the trade of our eventual enemy. I know not what dlpiMnatiSta think of the convention of 1866, but as far us sailors, let the English be assured be forehand that we shall carry on privateer ing against them, and let them take the ruin of the maritime trade into their fuse casts,’’ —London Times. The Philippine Native*. However lacking in intelligence the natives of the Philippines generally may be,' they could not with truth be character ized as savages. There are in the Philip pines between 6,000,000 and 9,000,000 peo ple—probably about 7,000,000. Nearly half this number inhabit Luzon, the prin cipal of the group. The Tagals of Luzon are a copper colored people, and, like all the peoplq of the Malay family, are short of stature. These Tagals are the most advanced and influential element of the whole population of the islands. There are a great many very intelligent and. ambitious men among them, men who got their start in the schools estab lished by the monastic friars, whose po litical domination furnishes one of the many grievances which have given rise to the present insurrection. The Tagals are as industrious as the Chinese and Japa nese and more easily controlled and less criminally disposed than the latter. That they are entirely amenable to dis cipline when they have confidence in and respect for their leaders and advisers is evidenced by the fact that for over a year General Emilio acknowl edged leader, was able to maintain good order and comparatively good discipline among his 40,000 or 60,000 followers and under circumstances where chaos and dis order would be the most natural condi tions. lam not a sentimentalist—not the sort of man to go into ecstasies of delight over the profuse politeness and kotowing „ of the Japanese—but I have observed in' the leading men and women a charmingly courteous manner. Such characteristics os rudeness, assumption or boisterousness are entirely Jacking in their tempera ment.—Review of Reviews. Sunstroke Infectious. Dr. L. Sambon, who- is considered by The British Medical and Surgical Jour nal an authority on such matters, says that sunstroke Is infectious and is pro duced by a specific germ. Dr. Sambon’s theory is that sunstroke ns a germ disease requires great heat for its development, but is not directly caused by heat. He maintains that sunstroke is unknown in many of the hottest parts of the world, nor in the temperate areas is it prevalent in the warmest years or in the hottest season of the year-f:" -. Dr. Sambon concludes, from carefully verified facts, that the geographicaldis tribution, the endemiclty, the’obourrence of epidemics, the characters of the symp toms, the very definite lesions, Mie liabil ity to relapse and other pointe in the nat ural history of the disease are*strong arguments for regarding siriasia as be longing to the same category as yellow fever, dengue and certain other tropical affections universally acknowledged to de pend on specific ffta-ms—germsTor whose growth and transmission to man and from man to man high atmospheric tempera ture is necessary, but which, though oc curring in, as* certainly not created by, high atmospheric temperature. Hot Ctood For the Boya. The officer shook his head. “I think,” he said, “that sweets of that sort are not good for the boys. That kind of a diet gets them out of condition. Os course we are very grateful to you for re . membering us, but I really think ft would be a serious mistake to let the boys have them.” • “But what shall I do with all that I have brought them?” asked the visitor to the camp. 1 * Um—well—-ah—er—you miaht leave it at the officers’ quarters, youfcww.”- Chicago Port. >7 ow ‘.W 1 in fHfi IW? WOMAN ftABBI I I Mrs. HaanaU G. SoloaMat’a Appaarancd It tha Pulpit «f a Chleago Byaago t ue. I , The Jew,of Chicago are making history; | For the first time in the chronicles of Ju I daism, a woman has acted as a rabbi. Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon, who was ly before the congress of Jewish women, recently hold in this city, is the woman. incident took place in the only Jewish temple where such a thing could happen now, the Sinai temple, in Indiana avenue, Chicago, the temple which, pnder Dr. Htamh, has led the way in the liberal Jew uh movement. The house was filled, not with the young P«n»®> who might; perhaps be supposed to tl r ,nn T tlon ’ bat ta»»n elderly people, who perhaps never dreamed that their creed could get so far from the traditions as to tolerate a woman as a teacher. It was a new page in Hebrew history— a page as remarkable as that which chronicled the congress of religions at the World ’s fair, when a Catholic bishop prayetMjqfore a council of Jewish women. President Fisher, the head of the con gregation, and Professor Sohn of North western university, sat beside Mrs. Solo mon When she appeared in the Sinai pul sit. There was not a vacant seat ih the nopee, and there was not a disparaging comment on the new rabbi. President Fisher introduced tee “daughter of the congregation” and said that he was pleased that Sinai and its Judaism had advanced to the point where b “daughter” might Mund fn the place of a rabbi. He claimed ft te be a triumph for Jewish womanhood. Mrs. Solomon read from manuscript, tak ing the work of the recent council of Jew ish women as her theme. She was epi grammatte and logical. “The woman question is settled as far as J this country Is concerned, " she said. ! f is all over. There are a great many men who do not think it is over, but there are also a great many men who do not think the civil war is over. , They have a Tight to both views. There is no law against Ignorance of any kind. The man who sneers at woman’s work and woman’s higher natation sneers at most everything “ItYas necessary for Judaism that women organize and save the traditions of Judaism. The women confessed they were ignorairt of the traditions, and, the mothers being ignorant, there was but little hope that the coming generations would know of them except as memories. The cere monial beauties were becoming a closed. “It has come to pass Chat the world is asking whether any religion is worth sav ing. There are many who have lived aright without religion, but there are few who can live aright without its influence. It is the Jewish mothers who are going to save the traditions of the ages, the prophets and the philosophers of Judaism. Women are more emotional than men and religion Is the science of rational emotionalism. “Jewish women have organized for prog ress. They want to change the education •C Dm three M*S to the three H’s—hqa<> haadaad hgrt. The wontaujA iyttay ca« hot afford io live as her grandmother did. “ The ready made woman lias gone into the past with the self made man, taking with her the old subject for collegiate de bate: ‘Reeelyda, That matriteony unfits a man for business or a woman far advance ment. ’ “The‘hysterical woman has passed away. You will find her sleeping on a conch 100 years old and noting only each passing hour as adding one to the daily calendar. The woman who thinks, and, thinking, acta, has come upon the stage to take her place. "The thoughtful woman would not try to suppress gambling. She would first in vent something to take its place. Provide amusement better than gambling and there woidd be no gambling problem. It is a poor teacher who destroys and brings nothing to take the place of the thing de stroyed. Society can cure most of the evils of the world by ceasing to attack them and providing other things which shall make the evils stale and flat in comparison.”— Now York Sun. Some New Things. The use of a crossed drive chain run ning over a driving pulley and an adjust able idler pulley and then around a pair of drums r. t tached to the front and rear axles of the c-r, to be used instead of toothed Marine in vroceUinff the ear. has just Men patented. The power used is elec tricity. An invention which will prove useful to ticket agents or any one having a large number of tickets to be disposed of rapidly is a case to hold the ticket, in the side of which is a spring slide, which, when pushed toward the end of the box, brings the tickets out through a slot one at a time, one side wall of the box being held by springs in order to keep the tickets pressed against the side. One of the most novel excavating ma chines of recent date has been patented by a North Dakota man and consists of two immense earth augers, attached to a port able upright frame and operated by power, the augers bringing the earth to the sur face, where it can be shoveled to one side. When the excavation is deep enough, the machine is moved forward to a new seo tMM of ground. Another style of the same machine has a horizontal auger for boring under street crossings, etc. ■ _Wo* j)®event corrosion of collar buttons by contact with the neck a recently patent ed butteh has the back madenfeork. A reversible mall bag receiver and de liverer, for use bn single track railroads, has an upright rod placed tn the center of the oar doorway, which can be turned in either direction by the mail clerk the up per portion having an arm for catching tea-taati hag and the lower part A project ing hook to deliver,a bag to » receiver at the side of the track, the action, catching the bag on the upper arm, releasing the bag on the lower arm.—Chicago News. As Tlaey See Vs From Xnglaad. Here is one of WdRMTMee about American customs that find credence in England. It is from one of the leading so ciety weeklies: “The professional brides to tenor expense or to receive the cost of a (Jussta aaWE WIV uflW tedtas who belong to the crahede la creme oa New xcrir society me no,longer avail afite for this purpose. Some say they are not invariably up to the accepted standard So it comes about that a good looking, graeeful girl may earn W 0 and aIL expenses for appearing fit one of the fashionable matrimonial ceremonies of Fifth avenue, the other day a fair bride was followed to church by no fewer than 16 hired virgins to bear her company. An excepttonaUy charming young lady can command oven a bigger remunentkm, and one of the moot successful of these femi nine aeolytes is said to expect at least 9100. She has oflMated tm 200 occasions and sated 990,0®, m that her own turn may vusy J ' Vtteuplanttat Mateltg The wondere nf surgery will, it irnrr never cease. Among the most important 11 achievetaenta la the transplanting of , musclee. This has teen suocearfully - done in the case of a patient who had for half a lifetime been unable to use i one leg on account of paralysis occur- , ring in early childhood. The operation is thus described: "A six inch long!- tudinal incision is made on the inner side of the thigh, with the middle op- i posite the top of the patella. The sarto- , rlns is dissected out, cut off at its in sertion, brought forward and attached to the muscular fascia just above and a | little to the inner side of the patella. “The attachment must be made firmly by splitting the fascia and drawing the muscle through, so that it becomes ad herent to both inner and outer surfaces. Kangaroo tendon is used for sutures, being the best material. The wound is then closed, and the whole thigh is bandaged, and finally a plaster of paris bandage, or a long splint, is applied. The patient is kept recumbent for two weeks pt least, gentle motion is com menced at the end. df three weeks, and the plaster la entirely omitted at the end.of from five to six weeks. This op eration has been performed severaftimes with great success, the only failures oc curring where the muscles were imper fectly attached. This state of things was entirely remedied, however, in the Jater operations. ’’—New York Ledger. Guatemala. ' Guatemala might easily sustain ten times its present population. The soil is rich and easily cultivated, and, unlike the other Central American republics, there is plenty of labor. Some parts of the country are quite thickly populated, but the others are covered with dense forests and a variety of timber, which might be easily made marketable if means of transportation were provided. But, although Guatemala is much farther advanced than the rest of Cen tral America, her railway system does not exceed 250 miles; there is no inter nal navigation, and the wagon roads are in a deplorable condition. The mineral wealth of the country is supposed to be large, but it is only slightly developed. The mines are inaccessible, and, in the absence of modern machinery, which at present cannot be conveyed to them, cannot be worked with profit. The government offers generous in ducements to immigrants. The land laws are liberal, and efforts have been' made from time to time to secure the establishment of colonies and the pre emption of public lands by private set tlers. But all the accessible area is at present occupied, find no foreigner can expect to prosper in Guatenjala unless he has abundant capita* Whisk will enable' him to purchase at high prices planta tions already developed.—Forum. His Own Conaposltlsn. A recent article in Le Figaro of Paris Is devoted to the American colony in that city. It says that the colony has always played the important and bril liant role in society chiefly because most of the Americans were “ Ameri caines ” “It is certain, ” continues Le Figaro, “that out of ten ‘Americaines* residing in p ~~tforrrr is but one Amer ican. Affairs—‘business, ’ as they say over there—absorbs the sterner sex in tfae United States. In that country the men have neither the inclination nor the opportunity for much leisure, and only pay us very short visits. “While their wives install themselves here, the ‘good’ husband only makes fly ing visits and is very seldom referred to in the elegant salons of the wives. ” The writer continues: “I was at an official ball not long ago, where one of them was the hero of a curious ‘his tolre. ’ He wore on the lapel of his coat a brilliant star, which struck me as original and somewhat curious in form. Although very artistic, the order was unknown to me. Some indiscreet per son interrogated the Yankee as to what order it was. The Yankee replied in a phlegmatic tone, ‘lt is my own aopapo rition.”’ Saveratittora B«a»p*rtea. The Bonapartes always were super stitious, especially the mother of Napo leon. She always had a presentiment that the rise and fall of her.fomily would occur in the same century, that the glory which was prophesied for them would be followed by disaster. And the prediction was verified. She died in her eighty-seventh year, having lived long enough to see the downfall of all her children. Napoleon I always feared Deo. 2 as an unlucky day, and it is related of him that before every important battle he would throw dice to ascertain if be were to lose orwin. The "red men” whom he always saw going to battle with him was a delusion that caused him much suffering.—Toronto Saturday Night Net Worried About That. Her Father—Well, if you are deter mined to marry my daughter, I shall offer no objections, but before you take this irrevocable step X think it is only right to let you know that I have de rided to leave all my money to educa tional and charitable institutions. Glib Suitor—Oh, that’s all right. I’ve got proof that you bet on a bicycle road race once. It’ll be easy eneugh to show that you’re of unsound mind.— Chicago News. Am IndlMtloa. “Ha, ’* said tha ftatd but flwa iathsr, *is, I fear, a young man of extravagant Ikstes. ” “Yes,” daughter admitted “*« wants me for a wifs. ’’—Cincinnati En quirer. ~ The largest cofffo plantation in Bra ail and perhaps in the world is the Du mont plantation, established by a Frenchman in the state of Minas Ge raea. The number of coffee plants in 1896 was 4,718,000. The first sermon in Maine was deiir ered at Monbegan Aug. 9, 1607. .- ' • tilingfcfrMtbiSg last ■ week jn a Diamond street restaurant. A ; waiter upset a glass on tbo marble top ped lunch counter, breaking the edge of | the glass. The waiter carelessly tossed i it under the counter and got another i with a smooth edge for the customer he was sorting. “What do you de with glasses thus slightly damaged?’* asked the customer of the restaurant proprietor, relating the circumstance. “Oh, we give them away; have to •get rid of them; can’t endanger the lips of customers by serving them iu nicked glasses. But why are you interested?" “Why, I thought if you would give me a few of the old glasses my wife might use them for jellies. ” “Give me your address and I’ll sew. you some,’’ volunteert'd the restaurant keeper. The man with a longing for articles without price went away gleefully, cal culating mentally on how much he had saved on jelly glasses. Twe days later, when he went home from business, he found 13 barrels in bis back yard. His wife said she supposed he had sent them, and she paid the man |4.T5 for deliver ing them. When opened, the barrels were found te contain broken glassware and china of all soste. Nene of it could be used, not even for jelly glasses. Au ash hauler charged $2 for taking away the rubbish. The man who wants things for nothing has withdrawn his patron age from a particular restaurant in Dia mond street.—Pittsburg Ohronicle-Tele «»!*• . , - Questioning Is Not Conversation. The man whe imagines that the art of conversation consists in asking ques tions spoils conversation as much as the man who never asks any. People of this description will interrupt a speaker as frequently as they do in the French chamber, and run anxiously from sub ject to subject with their interrogatories, like a cackling hen that is going to lay an egg. Horace Walpcfle, when exiled at Houghton, bemoans the existence of such a pest in the person of an aunt. Writing to his friend Sir Horace Mann, he says: “I have an aunt here, q family piece of goods, an old remnant of in quisitive hospitality and economy. She wore me so down by day and night with interrogations that I dreamed all night she was at my ear with, a who’s, why’s, when’s ’ and what’s, till at last in my very sleep I cried out, ‘For heaven’s sake, madam, ask me no more questions.’ "a Dr. Johnson’s dislike of being ques tioned is well known, and he gives the classic refutation of the habit in his 9W iafodtabte style: "Sta, is not the mode of gentlemen. It is assuming a superiority, and it is particularly wreng tp question a man ebnesrning Wfcself. ”—Cham bers’ Journal Hope Cune to Him. A number es persons were talking about coincidences, when a clergyman gave an instance in his own experience. “When I was a very young man, before I entered the ministry,** said he, “I mei with a series of misfortunes and was nearly discouraged. One day I was seat ed on a bench in the' park of a foreign city. My head was sunk upon my hands and black despair covered me like a cloud. I had abaut concluded to strug gle no longer when a slight noise at tracted my attention, and I glanced up to see standing before mo and contem plating me with big, solemn eyes the most beautiful little girl I have ever be held. ‘What is your name, my pretty child?’ was my natural inquiry. *H«pe, ’ she answered in a clear, sweet voice. Then she turned and ran away, and the little earthly form whose lips had brought me a message of comfort disap peared forever, but the white spirit of her same she bad left In my heart, and from that day I prospered. My eldest daughter is called Hope. ’’ —Exchange. Corkers. At a London club there is the most unique pair of curtains in existence. This portiere is formed of hundreds of champagne, corks, taken from 'every known brand of champagne, each of which bears the tin top which adonied it when the cork was in its parent bot tle. The corks are made into strings, there being 66 of them to each string. Between every cork there are three big Chinese beads of turquoise blue. Alto gether there are 24 strings, and at from 12s. to 16s. a cork, the portiere repre sents a total expenditure of about £I,OOO. The corks are tied to a white enameled pole, with fancy ends, and big sashes of blue ribbon adorn the brass knobs. The total effect is distinctly pretty. What makes this unique por tiere doubly valuable is the fact that each cork bears the autograph of a fa mous actor or actress of the present day. —London Standard. Nothing Plebeinn About It. She was an honored member of one of the hereditary societies and was as tonished to learn that she was accused of wire pulling in connection with an election of officers. "Wire pußingl" she exclaimed. “Such an insult I Why, it is common, positively common. People do that in politico” "Very true,’’ returned her husband consolingly, "but in politics it is prob ably just common, ordinary wire, while I kava n« deatet in yanr so« the refk enos was to the very higheri gvade es f nsulated copper wire. ” Naturally that made it seem differ ent.—OMsago Post How Tjhey !>• la DawMß. “Up at Dawson City,” said a return ed Klondiker, "the people seem strange to yon. Now, while I was at a hotel up there burglars mitered and swiped near ly |600,006 in gold nuggets. ” “What did tha boarders do during all this excitement?" asked the clerk "Kept perfectly cool," was the quiet reply.—Denver Times. Castorift in Dr. Samuel Pitcher’s prescription for Infonts and Children. It contains neither Opium. Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute I for Paregoric, Dropa, Soothing Syrups and Castor Oil. . It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty yean* use by Millions of Mothers.* Cnstoria destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarrhfoa and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves . 1 Teething troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. Castoria assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomacb and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sloop. Castoria is the Children’s Panacea—the Mother’s Friend. Castoria. Castoria. j “CaMorl* is su excellent meSicine lor “CaMorla Hgo well adapted to chlMirc Z children. Mothers have repeatedly told me that I recommend It as Superior to any «• of He good etftct upon their children." acriptlon known to me." ’ ttr. Q. C. Osgood, Lowell, Mass. u. a. Ascwxa. .M.IJ , nrooklyn. N. v. *' . ' ?<Bl " The use of Castoria Uso universal and Ha "For several years I hare recommended I merits so well knawn that it seerns a work Castoria, and shall nlwnve continue 1., .h. | of supererogation to endorse it. 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