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FOR A STATE CONVENTION
A BIG WORLD’S FAIR BOOM AT
ORLANDO THUR8DAY.
Florida Will 1M Th*m Sara Oran Ire Conn
If RatkutMae Ov«r the Sekomc- A
VreJeet to Raise Funds bf Wssfclj
HatMcrlpLlon* Cominlninnrr Turnbull
r» the Pinos.
Orlando, Fla., June 28.—The Or¬
ange county World’s Fair convention
met at the opera house at noon to day,
nineteen delegates present, represent¬
ing every part of the county, and al
inoet every cross-road. The delegates
are prominent business men and fann¬
ers, about one-tbird of them being Al
liancemen.
Oapt. Geo. F. Foote, chairman of
the county executive committee, called
the meeting to order. Mahlon Gore
read the call. H. 8. Cftubb then nom¬
inated Mayor W.L, Palmer for tempo
rary chairman in a neat speech. Mayor
Palmer was elected aud escorted to the
chair amid a storm of applause. Col.
R. G. Robinson, of Zellwood, was
elected temporary secretary.
James I. Grabbe proposed a scheme
for raising funds by popular subscrip¬
tion in small amounts regularly. Every
one should give 10 cents a week. If a
man is too proud to give 10 cents, let
him give 25 cents. Local newspapers
sbonld be the custodians of the fnnd,
and acknowledge receipts through the
eolnnms of all subscriptions, and sys¬
tematically canvass the corporations
and wealthy men for large amount*.
He thought that by this plan $100,000
could be raised. He was cheered when
he sat down.
The secretary then read letters from
Governor Fleming and from Miss E.
Nellie Beck and Mrs. M. E. Bell, Flor¬
ida’s lady commissioners to the
World’s Fair, expressing regrets at
their inability to attend, and hopes
that the convention would be a great
success. ,
After considerable discussion the
convention decided to elect forty dele¬
gates to the Rtate convention to be
held here on October 7, leaving the
State convention to decide the fraction
of a vote that each delegate is entitled
to, aud this gives one delegate for each
one hundred votes cast at last, election,
and a committee was appointed to rec¬
ommend delegates.
Commissioner Bielby was then in¬
troduced and he said the Legislature
showed a lack of judgment in not ap¬
propriating money for the fair, but he
hoped the Injury could be repaired by
hard, united, willing work. Someone
must foot the bills. He was not afraid
of California. Though she may raise $1,
060,000 she can make no such display
as Florida can with $100,000. Our
phosphate is something the whole
world views with iuterest.
The committee on delegates reported
the following names : Nat Poyntz, W.
Pahuer, Geo. T. Self, W. A, Jewell, J.
L. Giles, J. L. Bryan, J. A. McDowell,
W. B Jackson, Dr. W. A. Heard, F.
H. Rand, .1. K. Ingram, W. P. Wood,
A. M. fhrasher, B. F. Wliitner, Ly¬
man Phelps, J. Y. Jenuess, Andrew
Aulin, Philip I saints, W. J. Proctor,
Andrew Wise, 0. J, Cox, R. H. Free¬
man, N. P. Richardson, R. B. F. Ro¬
per, J. J. Coombs, Henry Witlierlng
ton, Dudley W. Adams, Geo. F. Foote,
Henry Smith, Isaac Aten, L. D. Brown,
H. S. Chubb, A. MeCallum, J. S. Ca
peu, C. Kahne. There hi e a few names
yet to be decided upon.
Commissioner Turnbull was then in¬
troduced. After paying his respects
to the Legislature, he gave a glowing
account of the resources of the State,
and complimented Orange county
highly for having taken the lead in
this matter. Florida, he said, needs a
good display at Chicago, He showed
a diagram just received giving our pos¬
ition in the grounds, grouped with
Nebraska, Arkansas and Minnesota.
He proposed building a combination
building of four apartments at a total
cost of $20,000 for each State. He ap¬
proved the plan.
The executive committee was then
given the power to represent Orange
county in all matters, and directed to
act subject to the direction of the State
convention. The committee was also
instructed to fill vacancies in its num¬
bers. The delegates to the State con¬
vention were authorized to appoint
their proxies.
A resolution was then carried express¬
ing the conviction that such a conven¬
tion be called to consider the ‘most
important development of the State of
Florida,” etc.
The press of the State, the owner of
tlie opera house, the late executive
committee, 'Commissioners Turnbull
and Bielby and many others received
votes of thanks, after which the con
’*ution adjourned.
Every one seems hopeful and willing
to do his part. If other counties do
as well as Orange, Florida will be well
represented.
Indictee for Opening Letter*.
LaGrange, Tkx., July 28.—The sher¬
iff of Fayette county has been indicted
by the United States grand jury for un¬
lawfully interfering with the United
States mails, it has been the custom of
the sheriff to open all the mail matter of
prisoners in his charge, whether re¬
ceived or sent by them, and hence the
ndictment.
WORLD’S FAIR NOTES.
Twenty-four foreign nations have now
officially accepted the invitation to par¬
ticipate in the Exposition. Russia, Tur¬
key, Denmark, Persia and Egypt are
among the recent acquisitions.
H. O. Payne, special commissioner to
Mexico, says that country will probably
appropriate at the start $275,000 for the
representation at the exposition, and
that it will most likely increase that
amount to $2,000,000 later on. Mexico
voted $400,000 at the start for the Paris
exposition, and spent $1,300,000 before
it got through. Great enthusiasm is
manifested over the Chicago exposition
and Mexico will certainly excel all pre¬
vious efforts.
Louisiana is beginning to wake up on
the subject of the exposition. The pres
of that Blate predicts that the exposi¬
tion will far exceed any previous event
of the sort, and urges that the people of
Louisiana begin at once to prepare for
a creditable representation.
Minister Phelps has hopes of inducing
Baron Krupp to exhibit some of his im¬
mense guns at the exposition. Baron
Krupp hesitates, for, he says, it will
cost him $250,000 to make an exhibi¬
tion creditable to his establishment.
California may show at the Woild’s
Fair, as a part of its exhibit, the finest
collection of minerals in the United
States. Instead ol making a special
callection, as was done for the New Or.
leans. Philadelphia and Paris exposi¬
tions, there is a strong probability that
the state will send the magnificent col¬
lections belonging to the State Mining
Bureau Museum. The State Universi¬
ty has the collection of the State Geo¬
logical Survey, the Voy collection,
Hanks collection, Keene collection, and
several others. These are all classified,
arranged, identified and labeled. Each
county ami district in the state is prop¬
erly represented. Every department of
the mining industry litis its separate
place with locality indicated. No other
state or territory of the Union has any
such collections a belongs to California
now.
Tulare, California, proposes to fur¬
nish a very novel exhibit for tho Fair
From a gigantic redwood tree, 390 foe
high, and 26 feet in diameter, will lie
cut two lengths forty-five feet long, and
these will be transformed into full-sized
railway coaches by hollowing out the
niorior. The rough liark of the tree
will lie li ft on the roof, and on tho side*
and ends the natural wood will be left
unpolished. Tiie interior will lie fin.,
shed after the style of Pullman cars.
One will be a Buffet sleeping car, with
bath, barber-sliop and kitchen, and the
other a sleeper with observation room.
Ordinary car trucks will be put under¬
neath, and the men of Tulare, with
their wives aud children, will make the
trip to Chicago, in these strange
eoaches and live in them while there.
The intention is to keep these cars in
the exposition grounds, and to sell as
moMientos the portions of the tree cut
awsy in their construction.
There is a possibility that the visitor
to the exposition inay see the celebrated
Spitzer art collection, the most compre¬
hensive collection of European art in
the world, and valued at above $4,000,
000. M. Spitzemof Paris is dead and the
magnificent collection is for sale. It is
the hope of artists all over the world
that this treasure may be kept together,
and all are looking to America for the
purchaser, The legal adviser of the
Spitzer heirs iB anxious that the collec¬
tion shall go to America, and he will
do everything possible to bring this
about. The bringing of the collection
to the exposition must be the work of
private enterprise, and it is possible to
effect this, it is claimed, if the ownec
CRu be insured fiom loss. This coller
tlon includes everything iu art durfngs
the middle ages.
Gold anil Silver.
Washington, July 17.—The census
bulletin relating to the production of
gold and silver in the United States
issued to-day shows that the production
during the year 1889old, ounces,
1,590,869 ; coinage vaffle $32,886,744.
Silver, ounces. 51,854,851: coinage value
$66,396,988; total value; $99,283,732.
In gold this is nearly 28 per cent, of the
world’s production, and in silver 41 per
cent. The expense of production during
the year was $03,451,136. A table ap¬
silver proximating the distribution of gold and
products shows the following val¬
ue : Alabama, gold $2,539 silver $t0U ;
Georgia, gold $107,605 silver 464 ; North
Carolina, gold $146,795, silver $3.879;
South Carolina, gold 46,853. silver $232;
Tennessee, no report; Virginia, gold $4,-
100, silver $13. California produced the
greatest amount of gold and Colorado
the greatest amount of silver, and Colo¬
rado is second in gold production, while
Mont ina is second in silver. Nevada is
third in the value of gold production
and Montana fourth. Utah is third in
silver value and Nevada fourth. Next
in order of value of product come Idaho
Dakota, Arizona and Now Mexiuc.
A Fm» Place.
One of the finest places that attracts
the eye of tho tourist traveling on the
Ocklawalia from Silver Springs to Eu¬
reka, is the grove of Captain Howard at
Grahamville. He has 1,800 bearing
trees and a few weeks ago they were la
dened with this beautiful fruit. H
shipped the last lot a week ago. The
grove is situated on the slope of a hill
and terminates at tho water’s edge, A
magnificent residence graces the sum¬
mit of the hill. To view this grove
from the deck of a steamer, where the
trees are ladened with golden fruit, is
a sight beautiful to behold.
RDTJCATIOHAL.
An unknown friend of Yale has given
$87,009 for the erection of a new dormi¬
tory for the students
A course of lector^ pp physical train¬
ing will be given to (hfi teachers of the
Boston public schools
Three hundred specimens ef minerals
have been added to the collection in
Delaware College, NeHark.
More than 100 women who teach in
Boston are officially recognized by the
school board by their pet
In India there are 8,000 children learn¬
ing the English language because it is
found that it is far easier to reach these
children through the influence of Eng¬
lish literature than to attempt to trans¬
late our works into Kudu.
School gardens, of which there are
more than 8,000 in Austria, are being
laid in different parts of Germany.
Their object is to give methodical in¬
struction in the cultivation of fruit trees
to be used in the teaching of botony.
The department of public instruction
for New York State will award a gold
medal to the student in the common
schools of that State who shall present
the best essay on a plan for the most
profitable oliservanoe of Arbor day. ;
The trustees of Dartmouth Collego
have maC biennial offer, open to *>i
persons, of the Richmond Fletcher prize
of $500 for the best essay on a religious
subject, the theme in the present instance
being "The Right Observance ol the
Sabbath.” I
Edwin Conant, of Worcester, left an
estate valued at $300,000. Harvard Col¬
lege is made residuary legatee, and it to
estimated that it will receive about $100,
000, which is to be put into a new build¬
ing to bear the testator's name. The
college also gets real estate worth
$ 20 , 000 .
The Russian Prince Mestsherski re¬
cently declared in the Orashdanin: “All
popular education is an evil." This opin¬
ion has been indorsed with unusual
unanimity by official circles in St. Peters¬
burg, especially in consequence of the
prevalent conviction that radical, if not
revolutionary, ideas are invariably the
result of teaching the common people
too much.
Professor W. R. Harper, of Yale Uni¬
versity, whom wo suppose we may now
call President Harper of the Chicago
University that is to be, says they want
to open tho university October 1,1892,
with $10,000,060 in hand as the first step,
to lie followed in the second step with
$20,000,000 in hand. That is certainly
ambitious, and we hope they will get it,
The statistics of the attendance at tho
German universities for the winter term
just closed are os follows; Berlin, 5,527 j
Leipsic, 3,458; Munich, 8,382; Wurw
burg, 1,544 s Tubingen, 1,250; Bresslau,
1,246; Bon>, 1,219; Erlangen, 1,054j
Heidelberg, 970; Strassburg, 947; Frei¬
burg, 031; Gottingen, 890; Marburg,
855; Greifwald, 778; Konlgsburg, 682;
Jena, 6-40; Giessen, 649; Kiel, 489; Mun
stery, 885; Rostock, 871. The total num¬
ber of students to-day is 28,711.
In a recent article In one of the Eng.
Ush magazines Sir John Lubbock under¬
takes to prove by statistics that educatioil
in entirely responsible for the vast de¬
crease of crime in London; that, taking
into consideration the increase of popu¬
lation since the passage of the free school
act by parliament, the falling off is 50
per cent in adult criminals, while in the
case of juvenile offenders it has been
even greater. From these figures he
argues that there is no more economic
way of spending money than this of
training the mind, and that eveiy penny
devoted to schools and public libraries
will profit tho community at large many
fold, oven if viewed merely on the lowest
of utilitarian planes.—[New York Re¬
corder.
SOMEWHAT PECULIAR. „
The thinnest and at the same time one
of tho toughest leathers tanned is a frog¬
skin.
The Japanese administer the oath by
cutting the witness’s finger and taking
blood to seal the swear.
In the matter of sleep, Benjamin
Franklin said six hours for a woman,
seven for a man, and eight for a fool.
A Shreveport, La., beet of tho blood
red variety weighs 46 pounds. It grew
on Silver Lake soil.
A flowing well from which a strong
current of cold air constantly gushes is
the latest curiosity near Greensburg, Pa.
A Georgia editor has 27 children. He
positively refuses to insert an advertise¬
ment that a boy or girl is wanted.
The oyster is one of the strongest creat¬
ures on earth. The force required to
open an oyster is more than 1,300 times
its weight.
An Atchison, Kan,, man, during a
recent case of sickness at his house, paid
a doctor $4 for giving the medicine and
his child $7 for taking it.
The really long named society is to be
found in Germany. It is the German
Society of Volunteer Doctors and Nurses
for Care of the Wounded iu War.
By way of diversion a distinguished
hostess of London gave a dinner to a
number of bachelors, with ladies dressed
ns maid servants to wait on them. An -
other dinner is expected soon, .the women
to dine and be waited on by gentlemen
Attired as footmen.
The ladies of Dover, Me., who are
members of the Congregational Church,
have been sawing wood, shoveling snow,
and heaving in coal to earn a little money
for a fund to be used in repairing their
church. One woman had a spat with
tier husband because he would not allow
her to earn five cents by hauling the
week’s washing home on a sled.
Tlie king of Italy has a beautiful
estate near Pisa, upon which he keeps
2,000 horses. He also has a large herd of
camels, the pedigree of which runs back
to the animals in the tune <sf the Medicis.
The Indians never will settle down
while the old settlers are keeping them
riled up.—[New Orleans ]£icayune».
Ft* etroplatcd the Cat.
Rutland, Vr., July 21 — A freak of
lightning probably more remarkable
than any hitherto recorded has occurred
near the small village of Salem, at the
foot of Heldeberg mountain. Arent 8.
Vandyk occupies an okl mansion, in
the parlor of which hung a collection of
revolutionary swords, some of which
were heavily plated with silver. A ter¬
rific thunder storm came night before
last and one terrible crash aroused the
household. All vvtre stuuni-d for a mo
ment, but recovering they hastened to
discover what damage was done.
Suddenly tho younger Vandyk jointed
to an old-fashioned sofa. Upon it Jay
what was apparently the silver image of
a cat curled up in an exceedingly easy
and comfortable position. As far as the
shape and posture of the animat were
concerned it might have tie en a live cat
Each glittering hair was separate and
distinct, ami each silvery bristle of the
whiskers described a graceful curve as
in life. Father and son turned tqward
the swords which hung upon the wall
just above the nr ,fa and there saw that
the sword had been stripped of all its
silver. Ihe hilt was gone and tlie scab¬
bard was but a strip of blackened steel.
Tho family cat had been electroplated by
lightning.
In one of the panes of glass in the
window was found a round hole about
the size of a half dollar, where the
lightning had evidently entered. There
was a charred streak across tho sash
where the electrical fluid had made its
way to the sword, down which it p:iased
to the cat, carrying with it the silver
which it deposited upon the animal. Of
course the animal was instantly killed,
and therefore remained in the position
in which it was quietly sha ping when
the ilaBh came. It is thought the pla¬
ting of the cat’s body wifi prevent decay
and that probably it may lie retained
among the collection of curiosities,
which is more remarkable than all. Lo¬
cal scientists are puzzled by the occur¬
rence, and one of the members of the
Albany Institute is investigating the
case.
MAR'ANMA MENTION.
Col tun and Corn Oropi. The New Road.
Marianna, Fla., 21.--The| cotton
and corn crop of this county are in ex¬
cellent conditon. The reports from ev¬
ery section indicate an unprecedented
cotton yield, but the low price of the
staple has a depressing influence on busi¬
ness in general. Merchants are buying
carefully in consequence. The melon
crop, it w as expected, would put some
money in the hands of the fanners, but
as returns come in they generally read :
“Sold tor charges.” There must be at
least twenty-five or thirty carloads lying
in the fields in this neighborhood, rot¬
ting, from tho fact that growers are
afraid to ship, as all the markets soem
to be glutted. This season has certainly
given the melon-growing industry in
West Florida a “black eve.”
The pe&ch crop was a complete failure,
owing to late cold weather, and the
pear crop was cut off at least two-thirds.
Nevertheless there is a heavy shipment
of them from this station. The few
vineyards planted out two years since
are having a splendid growth, notwith¬
standing that numbers of vines were
killed entirely by the March freeze of
1890, and tlie growth killed back three
times this spring.
The Lake Chipewa Railroad com¬
pany, which obtained a charter at the
last session of the legislature, held a
meeting yesterday, and will put a sur¬
veying corps in tlie field at once. It in¬
tends building the road at once from the
lake to the Alabama line, where it will
intersect the Alabama Midland road.
The projectors are among the most en¬
terprising men of the county, and are
able to build the road without any help
from outside.
This road will develop one of the fin¬
est agricultural sections of the state
north of Marianna, and will penetrate
some of the best of pine lands, and its
southern terminus will be Lake Ohipe
wa, a body of water five miles in cir¬
cumference and surrounded by high
hills. It is the intention of the company
to make it both a summer and winter
resort.
Alliance Encampment.
Baltimore, Mil, July 18.—The
American says that the National
Farmers’ Alliance will hold its encamp¬
ment in Maryland, near this city, and
the annual encampment will be held
here certainly for the next five years,
and it is probable that a site will be
purchased and the encampment locat¬
ed here permanently.
This year’s encampment will be held
in September. About two hundred
acreB of land will be needed for the en¬
campment and an auditorium will be
erected which will seat twelve thou
and people. The encampment will
last two weeks and 250,000 persons may
be expected to be present.
The Pennsylvania and Baltimore
and Ohio Railroads have made liberal
offers to secure the encampment along
heir lines.
Florlrta’s Tobacco drop.
Washington, July 17.—The census
office to-day made public the tobacco
statistics of Florida. The total number
of planters in the state during the cen¬
sus year was 629; tho total area devoted
to tobacco, 1,169 acres; the total product,
467,293 pounds, producer, and the value of the
crop to the estimated on the
basis of actual sales, $104,631.
PEOPLE IK GENERAL.
Mrs, Stanley is a direct descendant—
the seventh in line—from Oliver Crom¬
well.
Senator elect Peffer wears no necktie.
He does not have to. His whiskers hide
the lack, and tho wind is not singing any j
requiems through them. i
The Empress Elizabeth, of Austria, is I
having built on the island of Corfu a i
palace that will contain 128 rooms, and
will cost nearly $1,000,000.
Queen Marguerite of Italy, owing to
the great distress now existing in Rome,
has ordered that 200 soup tickets be daily
distributed to the poor in her name.
Mr. Gladstone does not smoke and dis¬
likes tobacco in every form. He has also
a profound contempt for smart attire and
a deep rooted dislike for new clothes.
Charles H. Yerkes, formerly of Phila¬
delphia, and now a afreet railway mag¬
nate in Chicago, is the man who paid
$40,500 for Millett’s picture “Waiting. ”
Judge Hammond, of the superior court,
Boston, said at a recent dinner that ho
did not believe there was ever a judge
who felt himself fully competent to per¬
form the duties of hid office.
Emerson always believed that it was
fatal to your cause to talk down to peo¬
ple. He held that so long as you kept in
the region of common sense you could
never be above your audience.
Tho story that Carlotta, of Mexico, is
still insane is untrue. She lives in
Laeken, king’s palace, near Brussels, and visited not far from tho
is by somo
members of tho royal family every day.
Mine. Adam, tho noted woman editor
and author of Paris, is graceful and
fascinating at 54. She has a large for¬
tune and an immense capacity for work.
She dresses simply and in tho best of
taste.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton declares
that women were supreme in the affairs
of mankind from the beginning of tho
world’s history until about the sixteenth
century. Who says they are not still su¬
preme ?
General Saussier, the present military
governor of Paris, is the person selected
os the chief of the French armies in case
of a new war. General Saussier is now
02, but as fresh and vigorous as when ho
was 40.
Tho earl of Albemarle, one of tho few
remaining survivors of tho battle of
Waterloo, has just died in England in
his 83d year. He fought as an ensign in
the Fourteenth Regiment and left school
to join tho colors.
M. Renan says that the dying Prfncd
Jerome could have written a better his¬
tory of the second empire than any one
else, and that if he had eschewed polities
ho would have made a great place for
himself in France.
Bishop Paddock, of Massachusetts,
was regarded by the late Richard H.
Dana, of Boston, as the best presiding
officer in a convention that ho ever knew.
The bishop was a ready offhand speaker,
and knew how to dispatch business.
Elijah Kellogg’ tho man who wrote
"Spartacus to tho Gladiators” and “Reg
ulus to the Cartlmgeninns, ” once so fa¬
miliar to every schoolboy, is still living
in Harpswell, Me. He is a clergyman,
81 years old, and even now preaches oc¬
casionally.
Mrs. Crawford says of the ex-Empress
Eugenie: “I think her profile, from an
esthetic standpoint, more beautiful than
in tho triumphant phase of her strange
life, because of the purifying effect of
sorrow and, I doubt not, contrition. Its
harmony is marvelous. ”
Ned Buntlino, one of tho most rapid
writers of novels and sketches (of which
he was the author of between 300 and
400), is said to have once earned $11,605
in six weeks by hard writing. Sir Wal¬
ter Scott received $40,000 for “Wood
stock, ” tho work of three months.
Mrs, E. D. E. N, Soutliworth, the novel¬
ist, is still writing, though over 75 year*
of age. As to her full name, which is
Emma Dorothy Eliza Neuetto South
worth, she says: “When I was bom my
people were too poor to give me any tin eg
else, so they gave me all thoso names.”
The widow of Jacob Thompson, who
was Secretary of the Interior under
Buchanan, and who was a prominent
IKilitieal figure in Mississippi, leaves the
bulk of her estate, which is valued at
nearly $1,000,000, to a granddaughter,
Mrs. Kate Thompson Klrkman, tho wife
of Van II. Kirkman, of Nashville.
A Boston puzzle editor printed a fac¬
simile of Jay Gould’s signature and asked
his readers to guess whose it was. Among
the persons to whom the autograph was
credited were T. Reed, Ingersoll, Ike
Weir, Baron Hirsch, EL Greeley, Jubal
Early, and Inspector Byrnes. Six experts
in handwriting guessed the riddle.
Sankey, tho evangelist, has written a
book containing an account of how some
of his most famous gospel songs were
written, and incidents connected with
their conception. One of his collections
of songs has just been rendered into Ger¬
man, for Sunday school use in German
schools, both here and in tho Fatherland.
Mayor Pettibone, of Cincinnati, says
that notwithstanding tho profound peace
which this country en joys, that city alone
turns out on an average 10,000 regular
army swords every year. Tho finest
swords in Cincinnati were a complete
outfit for tho late King Kalakaua and his
retinue. Swords range in price from $8
to $500.
Almost fabulous reports come from
Asheville, N, C., with regard to the work
which is being done by George Vander¬
bilt on his estate near there. The nat¬
ural beauties of the place are being en¬
hanced by every artificial effect that
money can buy, and tho $400,000 already
spent on tho mansion and grounds te
said to be only a part of the proposed
outlay.
Princess Elizabeth, of Ilesse, Queen
Victoria’s granddaughter, has joined the
Greek Church, though it was specially
agreed when she married the Grand
Duke Sergius, of Russia, that she should
not give up the faith in which she had
been reared. Notwithstanding her as¬
surance that she had taken the step of
her own free will, much irritation is felt
both at Windsor and Berlin,
RELIGIOUS ROTES.
The Methodist Church needs 1,000 new
preachers every year to keep its pulpits
supplied.
French Protestant missionaries have
been invited to settle in the French terri
tory on the Congo and havo been
promised protection.
There are 608,000 Catholics in Vienna,
There are more than that in New York,
Next to Paris, New York is tho largest
Catholic city in the world.
There are in the United States 4,980,240
Methodists, 4,292,291 Baptists, 1,229,912
Presbyterians, 1,086,048 Lutherans, 480.-
170 Protestant Episcopate, and 491,985
Congregationalisms.—[Zion's Herald.
The supreme court of Pennsylvania
has just decided that the funds held by
the trustees of the general assembly of
the Presbyterian Church, amounting to
nearly $500,000, are not subject to taxa¬
tion.
The congregation of the historic old
First Presbyterian Church, on Washing¬
ton Square, Philadelphia, which is nearly
200 years old and is the resort of Presby¬
terians from other cities and countrire, is
seeking to secure an endowment to per
petuato its existence.
From the last statistical year book of
tho Protestant Church in Prussia, pub¬
lished by authority of tho government,
it appears that in 1889 no fewer than
3.125 persons Irecame converts to the
Evangelical Church. Of these, 2,317
were from the Roman Catholic Church,
525 had been Dissenters, and 283 liad
been Jews.
The chaplaincy of the English house of
commons is about the easiest ami best
paid office that a minister can hold.
Archdeacon Farrar holds that position
and its duties are to read at tho opening
of each session a manuscript prayer
which has long been used for this pur¬
pose only. For this service tho chaplain
receives $2,000 a year.
The Salvation Army has opened a largo
room in Amsterdam, Holland, and is do¬
ing much to relieve the distress of that
city. On the second night the building
was opened for the purpose over 200 out¬
casts were sheltered. The king of Den¬
mark has given 50 krones to Major Wil¬
son of tho Salvation Army, to help tho
work of the drmy in Denmark.
Representatives of the various Luth¬
eran bodies met in Philadelphia recently
to prepare a revision of the English trans¬
lation of Luther’s Small Catechism.
Three of the general bodies were repre¬
sented, as also one independent synod.
Considerable progress was made and a
further meeting has been arranged for.
There are fully half a dozen revisions of
the catechism in circulation, and it is
earnestly desired that one common text
should be used by all the English Luth¬
eran churches.
The provinces of Alsace-Lorraine, ac¬
quired by Germany in 1870, have a
Roman Catholic population of 1,191,974,
served by about 3,000priests and prelates,
while tho Protestants nomlier 288,895
souls. These are divider! into 238 par¬
ishes and 118 preaching places, (filiate).
Of the former 199 are Lutheran and 30
Reformed. The Lutheran pastors num¬
ber 223 and the Reformed 139. The gov¬
ernment is by a church consistory* In
addition to tlu>so there are 25,000 soldiers
in tlie provinces, served by 12 clergymen.
Sir W. Muir has been analyzing the in¬
fluence of Mohammedanism. He makes
the evils three: (1) polygany, divorce, and
slavery are maintained and perpetuated;
(2) freedom of thought and private judg¬
ment in religion are crushed and anni¬
hilated ; (3) a barrier is interposed against
tho reception of Christianity. He adds:
“No system could luivo been devised
with more consummate skill for shutting
out tho nations over which it has -sway
from tho light of truth. Tho sword of
Mohammed and the Koran are tho most
stublHirn enemies of civilization, liberty,
raid truth which tho world has yet
known. ”
CURRENT CURIOS.
Mr. Gladstone’s idea of bequests is thus
set forth: “ What is wrested from mo by
the grip of death I can in no sense lie said
to give. ”
Mr. Depew Is said to have been offered
$100,000 a year to edit a newspaper, but
ho is so busy editing a railroad that be
can’t accept.
Miss Yvett Guilbert is the present rage
In Paris. She is slim, has green eyes
and auburn hair. She can not sing and
does not try to, but chants.
The richest man in the next Congress
will be John L. Mitchell, of Milwaukee,
who is credited with a fortune of $40,
000,000. But he inherited it all from his
father, and could not help it.
The wife of Councilman John Halloran,
of Cincinnati, has just received through
the mail a small box containing tho
wedding ring which was stolen from her
12 years ago. She has no suspicion of
the identity of the conscience stricken
person.
The three most eminent literary women
in England were old maids—Miss Aus¬
ten, Miss Edgeworth, and Miss Mitford.
This fact ought to encourage the ladies
of the present, who are hiking the ad¬
vanced ground that a husband is more or
less of a nuisance anyhow.
That public taste is changing in the
matter of circus attractions is seen in the
fact that P. T. Bamum is trying to buy
Nelson, the fast equine, for $150,000, and
starring him with his show. The public
is no longer satisfied with trick horses or
woolly horses, but demands something
entirely different. ,
Miss Mabel Goddard, who has given 10
years to studying the relations * between
industry and matrimony, says that tho
proportion of marriages is greater among
trained nurses than any other class of
women workers. The daughters of mercy
nearly always marry well aud this is also
noted of Yassar girls.
Queen Olga, of Greece, presented the
Crown prince with a chapel and altar for
use in the field upon the occasion of his
assuming command of the first regiment
of infantry recently. Tho small church
can be divided into numerous pieces and
carried in bags. It can be set up on low
or mountainous lands.