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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.