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TIIE OPPOSING FORCES. FACTS ABOUT TUB ARMIES OF KMG. I-ANil) AN I* IttMNlA. A Russian Ktnfl Olflrrr’a Rati mute of th® (Strength ol the Two Armies. A reporter of the New York Herald had an interview in regard tp the Anglo* Russian controversy, with a Russian captain of the general staff, who is now in New York city. The captain firmly declined to aay anything concerning his mission to this country, but spoke free ly on other subjects. “Which do you believe is the better prepared for war, Russia or England ?” asked the reporter. “Russia, certainly,” was the reply; “and you may easily see that that is so by comparing the forces of the two con¬ tending countries. As for Russia I will give you the following particulars:—The Russian army is composed of 192 in¬ fantry regiments of 3,500 men each, or 672,000 men all told; of the sharpshoot¬ ers, numbering 46,000 men; of the fron¬ tier battalions, comprising 27,000 men; of cavalry, 48,000 men, and of Cossacks, numbering 18,000 men. In the Russian artillery there are about 80,000 men, with 2,424 cannon of the foot artillery and 150 cannon of the horse artillery. Our engineer corps comprises about 27,000 men. Therefore the Russian army, ready to move, consists of 920,000 men. Besides, there are the artillery men stationed at different fortresses all over th© country to the number of not less than 50,000 men. There are also many local battalions for local duty. As to the reserves, I may safely state that th jy will amount to a half of the active army as stated above—that is, about 450,000 men and 1,200 cannon. There are also special recruiting forces, com¬ posed of experienced officers and men anA numbering 6,000, who would be able in a short time to instruct and pre¬ pare for service ten times as many new recruits. In the Afghan war the Cos¬ sacks would be of great importance. There are the Cossacks of the Don, of the Kuban, of Orenburg, of the Trans Baikal, of the Terek, of the Ural, of Siberia, of Astrakhan and of the Amoor, numbering 125,000 men ready to move at short notice. The Cossacks have &ad - experience in actual war, and particu¬ larly in Turkestan. So you see in the Afghan war they Would be particularly serviceable. You must understand that so far I have spoken of the ordinary or regular army. In case of need militia can be called hundreds of thousands strong. But I don’t believe that we will need it. “On the other side, in England,” continued the captain, “there are about 160,000 men under arms. We may ad¬ mit that the royal militia numbers also about 160,000, and the volunteer corps about 230,600. That will make 550,000 all told, and that counting'very liberally. Now yon have 1,545,000 on the Russian side against 550,000 on the English side. That is a big dfference, is it not ? Well, we will not overlook the’ Indian army,” continued the captain, after a pause. “That army is officially stated at 188, 000, and there are also 280,000 so-called soldiers belonging to different Indian princes who are under English rule. We should also add the Afghan army, numbering about 60,000. ! That will make 528,000 men, which is a good ad¬ dition to the English forces. This ad¬ dition, however, is far from balancing the large Russian army, to say nothing of the immense inferiority of the In¬ dians and Afghans to the Russian sci diers. Take, for instance, the Cossack, of whom it is said, 'he was born on horseback and loves war like his sweet¬ heart,’ and pnt against him an Afghan * Indian, who knows nothing abeut or an a rongh, regular war, and you will have a correct idea of the respectiv e forces." A woman went all the way from Port¬ land, Oregon, to set fire to a house which she owns in Vallejo, because she jjeard it was need for improper purposes. WIT AXH WISDOM. ■.........-- — | Domestic pnraniU—Ohaaing the man of the house with a broomstick. T» who OA-itin, ^ the office to ceek the man are getting awfnlly tired .—Texan Siftings, It is a bachelor who always knows how a child ought to be brought up, but he forgot it after marriage. El Makdi does very well for Egypt, | but a Niagara backman makes bigger falls prophets in the season. Mr. Vanderbilt says that he only lost §12,000,000 last year. This loss would have driven some men out of . business, It is much harder work for a man to care for his children au hour and a half while his wife is at church than to run a fox all day. “Pa,” said young Sevenoff, “what is a whisky straight ?” “Whisky’s trait ?” repeated old Sevenoff; “crookedness, my son, crookedness.” Panama has had four Presidents since the first of January, There is always room at the top in the politics of Gem tral American States. A singer in a Michigan college anx i°usly inquires: “ Why comes not my * ove r *° me ^ ’ Have you thought to chain , up the dog, dear girl t New Jersey sends wife-beaters to the penitentiary for one year. It doubtless, however, allows their wives to send them goodies during their imprison¬ ment. An exchange says Bismarck believes that a bald head indicates plenty of brains. On this side of the water bald heads generally indicate the best seats in the parquette. When a woman is giving her husband a bit of her mind he should try to imag¬ ine what it would be like if he was a Mormon and was having seventeen such bits served up to him. A new book is entitled “How I Made Money at Rome.” We advise our read¬ ers to have nothing to do with it. Three men were arrested a few days ago for making money at hone. “On Monday last the Vassar College girls took observations of the sun.” Well, it is a dark day when the girls don’t take observations of the son—if they get the opportunity. A Brooklyn clergyman says that liquors may soon be sold in skating rinks, and then “the result will be dis¬ astrous.” We should say so. It is hard enough for a sober man to stand up. A beginner in Latin was asked to translate a sentence wh ; ©h, properly rendered, would have lead, “Honey redolent of age.” But he preferred the freer translation, “This honey smells like time.” Professor at Columbia: “One can¬ not taste in the dark. Nature intends ns to see our food.” Student: “How about a blind man’s dinner?” Profes¬ sor: “Nature has provided him with eye teeth, sir.” The Buffalo girls have gone crazy over the good fortune predicted for them by a fortune-teller. Fortune-tell¬ ers cannot be too careful about leading young girls to believe they will marry newspaper men. An exchange advertises for a “good, upright boiler.” Boilers whose moral character is entirely above aspersion are scarce. There is apt to be too much of the “ total depravity of inanimate things” about them. “You ought to come and see us every evening,Mr. Trotter.” “Why, Johnny ?” “Because it makes sister Rosa so happy to have you go away. You ought never to miss an evening.” They missed Trotter for the rest of that evening. Th* Fibst.—B ob Hamffl, the author of the Anti-Treating tow, we* arreeted in Well., Neruda, on the 28th ult, for Woiw (ban Flrf«rnm. The editor of an Omaha paper, in oomuiouttng on rcveral canes in that city where children died from the effect* narcotics are more dangerous than lire arms. Mothers should note this aud furthermore that different Boards of Health, after making careful analyses have certitied that the only purely vege¬ table preparation of this kind, and one that is in every way harmless, prompt ^ effective, is Rod aSSIfto? Star Cough public'” Cure, endorsed this valuable discovery, A Sucl CiiKe «f l’oitouidK is that, of any man or woman afflicted with disease or derangement of Urn liver, resulting scrofulous in poisonous accumulations in ih> blood, of tho affections, kidneys, siek-hoadaoh lungs and dis¬ ease or by heart. Those troubles can be cured only going to tho , primary healthy cuus >, uiul putting the liver in a condition. To accomplish this result speedily itself and efficacious effectually Dr. nothing has “Golden proved so as Tierce's Medical Discovery,” which has never failed to do the work claimed for it. and never will. Half cents were issued from the United States mints for half a century. What can be more disagreeable, more dis¬ gusting, is than to sir. in a room witli a person who troubled with catarrh, and has to keep coughing which and drops clearing his it? or her throat of the nlucus into Such persons are always to bo pitied if they try to euro them¬ selves and fail. Rut if they get Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy there need be no l'uilure. Statistics show there is Japan. on© physician to every 383 inhabitants in * * * * Rupture radically cured, also pile tumors ana fistulas. Pamphlet World’s of Dispen¬ par¬ ticulars two letter stamps. sary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Th© A. V. R. $1,293,2(13.36. R. earned $3,18,883.70 last year; expenses, Frazer Axle (ircnie. One greasing- will last two weeks, all others two to three days. Try it. Paris Received Exposition. first premium at Centennial and Alligator steak Ims been added to the bill of fare at a hotel in Tanford, Fun “liuelm Paibo.” Quick, complete cure, all Kidney, Bladder an id Urinary Diseases, Scalding, Irritation, Stone, Gravel. Catarrh of bladder. $1. Drug¬ gists. ___ In Montana quails are exempt from the sportsman's gun for six years. ‘*i(ouirii on ttiuM” Clears out rats, mice, roaches, gophers. flies, ants, 15c Druggists. lied bugs, skunks, chipmunks, Mile. Emma Nevada is called in California the “Sage-brush Linnet.” • “Rough on Horns,” Ask for Wells’’ “Rough on Corns.” 15c. Complete cure. Hard or soft corns, warts, bunions. __ Letter carriers do not wear overcoats in the severest winter weather. Heart Pains), Palpitation, Dropsical Swellings, Dizziness, Indigestion, Headache, Sleeplessness cured by “ Wells' Health Re ne wer.” Elephants refuse to take medicine unless there is a drop of the “crayfhur ,s in it. Beeson’s Aromatic Alum Sulphur Soap is used to prevent, cure and heal skin diseases, and to secure a white, soft and beautiful complexion. 25 cents by druggists Pa., Manfr. or by mail. Dreydoppel, Philadelphia, Stanley, the explorer, has attended 150 compliment ary dinners. __ Mensman’s Peptonized beef tonic, the only preparation of beef containing its entire nutritious properties. It contains blood making force generating and life-sustaining dys¬ properties; invaluable for indigestion all forms of pepsia, nervous prostration, and general debility; also, in all enfeebled condi¬ tions, whetuer the result of exhaustion, disease, ner¬ vous prostration, over-work or acute particularly if resulting Hazard from & pulmonary Co., Pro¬ complaints. Caswell, York. Sold by druggists. prietors, New ( snnti 3 it mfe j ^Jlll|!=~s5s*., jfc .d KkJ THE GREAT III m ' *• A §rj RCmP " ATTv" c.rr. k hf i'mat i.m, \fi S3“‘a*tSS,*a.. ka m; ii,.<-MTrr a. IVopli* Going Wont, Hiking home*. nvreaUou, health, investment*, obtain era descriptive ploynu-nt or pimphlets and ntu information majw, about cost of ticket*. .1. W, by Horae, mall, freo, General uixm Passenger applica¬ tion to Agent Union Pacific Railway, Omuln, No* braxkn. Htaato whore you saw this item and whether you wish to H" to Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado,AVyoining, Utah, Idaho Montana, Oregon, Washington, Nevada or California. Thera have been nine wars in Europe within the last 80 years. _ Mr. A. Nichole, of this place, sjys he suffered from Catarrh for years. Re pur* chased a bottle of Ely's Cream Balm of us. He is now almost cured, and savs you can¬ not recommend it too highly. We are selling mere of Ely’s Cream Balm than of all other catarrh rente lies, can hardly keep a supply on hand. —Evehs Bros., Druggists, Indepen¬ dence, Iowa. The straits of Mackinaw are open and the grain fleet can pass through. When tatvu Important. ."lew York you visit or city, Mpr^SMscwnud oarri u: i hir», an 1 st op nt th > Or»ti l Union I total, opposite* Urand Uoiitr.il dopat. • '«t rooms, tiUnlup at a <;o« of on * million dollars, Hostftunint»uppl;o $1 and upward porilay. Kuropsan plan. K’.a. »ator. 1 with th.<l» »st I! >rs-» oirs. and «lovaWdr.idr.»vl to all dop its. Families can live bettri lor l.vt-t m mij >it thu Un i.l Uuioa Hotel than at auy olH.-r tirat-olass liot al ia thJ city. Miss Mury before Anderson October. will not return to 18 this country __ Sped a 1 Nolle®. AH afilicted with Asthm«, Hav fever, or difficult breathing, from any cause, will learn of an itntneal ato rolloi and ultimate cure by No, addressing, Clinton enclosing llloek, itamp, Dr. T. Uiuiumuo, 6 Syracuse, N. Y.______ Railway King Vanderbilt is now afraid of paralysis "in the muscles of his cheek. Humors in the Biood Often manliest themselves In tho spring mouths. Eruptions, such us hives, pimples aud bolls, sail rheum, scrofula or other affections caused by lmpnr ityorlmv state of flic blood, arc cured by Hood'® Sarsaparilla. It Purifies, vitalizes, and enriches th® blood, and Rives renewed strength to tho whole body, Try this spring medicine and blood purifier. "I was for some time troubled with bolls, having several of them at a time. After enduring about all I could bear in suffering, I took Hood’s Sarsaparilla, Four or llvo bottles entirely cured mo, and I have had no symptoms of the return of the boil*,"—E. N, NuntTiNUAUj, Quincy, Mass. "Last spring I was troubled with botls Two bot¬ tles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla cured mo, atid I recom¬ mend it to others troubled with affectlous of th® blood."—J. Sciioca, Peoria, Ill. "I suffered with boils f» years. Hood’s Sarsaparilla cured mo.”—It. M. Lank, Pittsburg, Pa. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; mix for $3. Made only by 0- I. HOOD AGO.. AiMtthnei&ta®, Lmwll. M»«v ___lOO^Doses On© Dollar_ This remedy contains no injurious tlrufis Ely’s Cream when a > lied into the doh‘ triln, will be absorbed, effectually cleansing the head of catarrhal virnn, causing healthy pocretlonp. It allays Inflammation, pro¬ tects the membrane from fresh colds, completely heals the sores and restores the senses of taste, smefl and hearing. It Is Not a Liquid or Snuff. A few applications re¬ lieve. A thorough treat¬ ment will Price cure. Agreeable to use. Bt> cents by ELY BROTHERS, Drugutets. Owcro, N. Y. World t of Good. Probably no other woman in tho World r&» coivessomany “letters of thanks” as Lydia E. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass. Mrs. B-, of En¬ field, N. H., says: “I will simply say that your Vegetable Compound is all you recom¬ mend it to be. It has done me Worlds of good Another lady writes from Ottawa as follows: “I have just to-day bought the sev¬ enth bottle of your Vegetable Corn j found* have used two boxe3 of Pills aud several packages of your Banative Wash, and think it but right to tell you how much good I de¬ rived from Godsend. your medicines. They and are a aches reg¬ ular AM the pains have almost disappeared, my stomach is much stronger, too, and I feel myself improved every way.”__ R. U. AWARE THAT Lorillard’s Climax Plug’ j/i*] bear ins? Leal'fine a red Hn tag ; that that Lori Lorillard’a 11 aril’s Hone cut; Hnufl’s, Navy (dippiuuN, and that Loriilard’s are tbo best ami cheapest, quality considered ? SSW ALL IMPERFECTIONS Feet, .Superfluous of the Face, Hands & ® Hair, Moles, Warts, Freckles, Moth. Red */=-! Nose, Aeue. Bl’k Heads, Soars, Woodbury, Pitting -^L>37 and treatment. I)r.John N. Y* 1 ^''Established N. Pearl tit., Send Albany, 1UC. for book. lsTO. MORPHiNE.SU: RAHILY BOOK FHKK. OR. J. C. HOFFMAN. Jeff erson, W isconsin RHEUMATISM Cured- I will send one bottle of tnr infallible rhea mafic cure for |1 X5. or two for fAdO, upon receipt 0 money sent bv register ut letter to fi. tt. UK If. Emit If Amplest (tsa. ~ * ifel ni > •> PFIfPII FEVER -