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“Millions for cotton bagging—not
one cent for jute.” That, announces the
Atlanta Constitution, is to be the farm
ers’ shibboleth in Georgia for the com
ing campa'gn.
W. J. Applegate and John Bryant, of
Chicagy, have a patent to make coal out
of the slack by means of a chemical
composition and compressing machine.
They take the refuse coal and press it
into a Lrick, The pateantees have al
ready sold their right in Engiand for
SIO,OOO.
The Japanese are rapidly turning to
Christianiiy, asserts the New York
Times—not simply Christian civilization,
but organic Christianity. Nearly 7000
converts were baptizel last year, and
the net increase of members was nearly
6000, or about thirty per cent., while
the contributions of native Christians
advarced more than fi'ty per cent.
The formal acceptance by Chili of the
jnvitation of the United Statesto the
Congress of American nations soon to
be held in Washington, followed by
that of Ecuador, which has just been
received, and by that of Peru and Bo
livia, which will undoubtedly follow,
completes the list of nations, and makes
certain the participation of them all in
the great American gathering.
James W. Romeyn, our Consul at
Valparaiso, in reporting to the Depart
ment of State upon the trade and com
merce of Chili, comments upon the fact
that while the imports into Chili in 1887
amounted to $48,630,000, only $3,200,-
000 came from the United States, and
that while 15,000 vessels entered and
cleared at Chilian ports, the American
flag waved over only 221 of them.
¢Jt is a curious coincidence,” said a
New York detective to a Sun young
man recently, ‘‘that ne:rly all the tene
ment-house murders occur on the top
floor. In fifteen, years’ experience I
think I can count on my fingers all mur
ders in tenement houses that did not
sustain my statement. The most fruit
ful cause of crime is poverty, and the
poorest people live in the cheapest rents,
whice are, of course, the top floors of
the big tenements.” :
The first Arbor Day was observed in
Nebraska several years ago, when 12,-
000,000 trees were planted. There are
now growing in the State 605,000,000
trees. In other States many millions of
trees have been planted, and at the pres
ent time thirty-four States observe an
Arbor Day. A hundred thousand acres
of valuele s dunes on the Bay of Biscay
were planted with trees by Bremontier,
which now yield France an annual in
gome of one hundred and thirty thou
sand francs.
The way of the transgressor is hard.
A vagrant who died in New York hos- i
pital the other day’ turns out to have l
been Ellery C. Daniels, who, in 1870, |
was the cashier of a Boston bank. He
stole $86,000, served a year in prison,
was pardoned, traveled for a piano fac
‘tory, embezzled SBOOO and then went
t 0 New York. He descended from
bookkeeping to clerking during a term,
-and finally became a common vagrant.
Yet twenty years ago he was a brilliant
.social star in Boston. ;
' John Doe, a famous forger who was
'released on parole from the Ohio peni
‘tentiary recen‘ly, has asked to be taken
back, as he finds it impossible to gain a
- jvelihood outside of the prison walls by
reason of the fact that he is known to
be a convict. Doe is a fine accountant
and writes a beautiful hand. He would
~ have gone to California, where his
~ patents are said to be wealthy, but he
~ was not allowed under the terms of his
parole to leave the state. When sent to
prison in 1878 he was a splendid speci-
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Observes the Philadelphia Telograph:
“‘The practics of holding secret sessions
for the consideration of executive busi
ness is & relic of what may be called
parliamentary barbarism.”
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German coal mines are threatening to
deprive England of her valuable coal
trade wtth outside nations. It is worth
over one million dollars a weck. The
Germans have spent $382,000 in making
| navigable a river that reaches her best
~mines, and the traffic has grown greatly.
If the Kanawha, Tennessee, and a few
other rivers were improved, says the
Chicago Sun, it would greatly increase
our coal traflic. ;
Some years ago an American sailor
named Carl Benjamin was wrecked on
one of the largest of the Caroline Is
lands. He decided to make the island
his home, as there was no work to do
and plenty to eat. The natives, who
are very good natured, took kindly to
him, and have made him their King.
He is a somewhat scholarly man, and is
diligently teaching the natives English
and the rudiments of civilized life. He
has twenty wives and fifty children.
Ncthing, he says, would induce him to
go back to his old home, Newburyport,
Mass.
One of the peculiarities of Chinese
civilization is the annual contest for
learned degrees. Age is no bar to this
competition, and in the last examination
seven candidates were 90 years old and
twelve were 80 years or over. A me
morial has been presented to the Em
peror of China praying that he grant de
grees to all candidates over eighty who
have been present at three competitions
and whose papers show that they have
fair acquirements. The feature of this
competition is that it touches on no prac
tical subject and is simply an index of
the literary cuiture of the applicant.
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Manufacturing co-operation does not
seem to be an overwhelming success in
England, states the San Francisco
Chronicle. 'The balance sheet of the
English Co-operative Wholesale Society
for the last quarter of 1839 showed that
on a gross production in the manufactur
ing branches of $303,295, after charging
an interest of five per cent. on capital,
there was 2n actual loss of $47.31. The
manufacturing departments embraced
biscuit works, shoe factory, soap works
and a woolen mill. If this showing in
dicates the best possibilities of co-opera
tion it is not likely to prove a panacea
for the woes of the masses.
Although the production of coal in
Great Britain is constantly augmenting,
it is a remarkable fact that so perfect are
the safety appliances now in use that
the number of deaths from colliery ex
plosions in 1888 was the smallest known
since 1851, when records first began to
be kept. In 1888 the deaths only num
bered 43, and in nearly every case these
could have been preventel by proper
care. The lowest number before this
was in 1884, when 65 lives were lost.
The highest number ever recorded was
in 1866, when no less than 650 lives
were lost, 350 being in a single colliery.
The main cause for the lemarkably low
record of the past year is said to be the
stringent provisions of the Mining act
passed in 1887, and which went into ef
fect Jan. 1, 1888.
The New York Zimes states that ¢‘the
breeding of horsee bas attracted much
attention in some of the Northern and
Western States, and there has been a
large increase in the business during ten
or twelve years past. The large breeds,
the French Norman and Percheron, the,
Scotch Clydesdale, the English cart
horse, and the Belgian draught animal
have become popular, and the demand
for this class of horses constantly in
creases for the supply of the Northwest
‘ern farms, where the heaviest farm
machinery is in use. In the Central
States more attention is given to Clydes
dales, Cleveland bays, and French car
riage horses, while the Morgan and Ham
bletonian strains are popular in New
England and northern New York. An
entirely different style of horse is needed
in the south, where the saddle is mostly
used and where the farm and other
heavy work in donebymulm The fin
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AN AQUATIC CITY.
Siam’s Capital and Its Fifteen
Miles of Floating Houses.
Glimpses of a Country About
Which Little is Known.
Siam, says Frank G. Carpenter in a
letter from Bangkok, is one of the out
of-the-way countries of the world. None
of the great steamship lines of the Paci
fic or of the Indian Ocean stop at it.
Few glcbe trotters visit it and it is
about fifteen hundred miles out of the
regular line of travel around the world.
The great Biamese peninsula juts down
from the east coast of China. It con
tains half a dozen different countries,
the chief of which are Burmah, Siam
and the French States of China. Siam
itself is at the lower end of the penin
sula and it bounds the greater part of
the mighty body of water known as the
Gulf of Siam. It is 1300 miles long,
and at its widest part it is 450 miles
wide. It is almost as flat as your hand,
though it has here and there a few
mountain chains, It has many big
rivers, and the country is as much cut
up with canals as is Holland. During
the rainy season it becomes a mighty
lake, and the people move here and
there from one city to another in boats,
The greatest river is the Menam,
which the Siamese know by the same
name as the Indians knew the Missis
sippi. Itis ¢‘the Father of Waters,”
and it forms the great highway of the
Kingdom. This river flows into the
Gulf of Siam at its head, and it is about
forty miles from its mouth that I sit
Lere on its banks and write this letter in
this floating city of Bangkok. Imagine
a city as lurge as Chicago, of which
ninety-nine. hundredths of the people
live on the water. There are fifteen
miles of floating houses on the two sides
of this river, and these, with the King's
palaces and a few foreign buildings on |
the land, make up the capital of the
Siamese people.
There are six millions and more of
‘hese Siamese, and their country covers
a territory of about twice the size of
Colorado, four times the size of New
York, and it is about five ' times as big
.as Ohio. Itis a tropical country, and
the click of my typewriter falls upon my
ears mixed with the songs of thousands
of birds which sing in the branches of
the treed outside of the Oriental hotel.
The doors and the windows are all open,
and the lightest of white duck linen is
oppressive as clothing. It is too hot to
go out in the middle of the day, and we
have all the surroundings of the tropies.
The cocoanut and the palm tree line the
banks of this Menam River, and the
boats flit in and out of jungles
which remind one of the swamps of
Florida, save that you may see the mon
keys upon the trees, and the plumage of
the birds is more splendid.
I wish I could give you a picture of
ourride up the Menam to Bangkok. The
sides of the river are lined with these
small floating houses. They are an
chored to piles and they lie half hidden
by the great palm trees on the banks.
Here and there a canal juts off into the
jungle, and the houses on it make this
a floating street. These houses are
made of bamboo, with their sides and
their roofs thatched with palm leaves.
They are sometimes on piles high above
the water, but more often they rest on
its surface. They are tied to poles
driven into the bed of the river, and
they rise and fall with the tide. Their
average height is not more than ten
feet, and each looks like two large dog
kennels fastened together and covered
with palm leaves.
Here and there is an opening in the
palm trees and you get a glimpse of the
country; it is flat as the waters of the
river and where it is ploughed it looks
as black as your hat. The only beasts
upon it are ugly water buffaloes. There
are no fences, no barns, and only these
thatched houses on piles.
The viver is winding. It is perhaps a
quarter of a mile wide, and every turn
brings new surprises. As we near Bang
kok the waters are alive with craft of all
kinds. _ Little,naked, brown, shock head -
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yau enter Bangkok the crowd increases.
Instead of one line of floating houses
along the banks there are three and
sometimes four, The whole river is
alive and you turn your eyes this way
and that, meeting a maze of new ob
jects at every turn, ;
The Ignorance of Russian Police.
From an article by George Kennan in
the Century we quote the following:
“‘We heard many funny stories from the
political exiles in Siberia with regard to
the ignorence shown and the mistakes
made by the rural police in dealing with
supposed revolutionists. Four or five
years ago, just after the assassination of
the gendarme officer Sudeikin (Soo-day
i-kin) by the terrorist Degaief (Deegy
yefl), photographs of Degaief were sent
to every police office in the Empire. On
the back was printed an offer of 10,000
rubles’ reward for the capture of the as
sassin, and on the face were printed six
photographs of Degaief, showing how he
looked in a cap and without a cap; with
a full beard and without a full beard;
and with a mustache and without a mus
tache. A hard-drinking and ignorant
police officer in a village of Western Si
beria, into whose hands a copy of this
card fell, arrested four unlucky way
farers who happened to look more or
less like the photographs of Degaief, and
committed them to jail; then he went
about the village, and to the dram-shop,
in a half-tipsy condition, boasting that
he had captured four of those accursed
Degaiefs, and was going to hold them
until he could find the other two, so
that he could turn the six- together over
to the higher authorities. He had no
doubt that he would get not only the
10,000 rTubles’ reward, but a ¢€ross of
honor.
‘‘Another police officer, equally ig
norant, arrested a scientific man, a mem
ber of the Imperial Geographical Society,
who had gone into the country to pursue
his favorite study of ornithology. The
unfortunate naturalist was accustomed to
note down every day the names of the
birds of which he had secured specimens,
and the sagacious police officer, in look
ing over his prisoner’s diary, found on
almost every page such entries as ‘June
13—XKilled a fine crown snipe this after
noon; or ‘June 17—Shot a silvia hor
tensis today.” Regarding these entries
as unmistakable records in cipher of
nihilistic murders, the officer sent the
captured ornithologist under strong
guard to the chief of police of the dis
trict, with the note-book as documentary
proof that the prisoner was one of the
most desperate and bloodthirsty of the
terrorist assassins; the entry with regard
to ‘crown snipe’ he said was plainly a
reference to the most august family of
the Gossudar.” : :
Origin of a Famous Porcelain.
In the periol (954-959) of the Heou.
Tcheou dynasty of China, Emperor Chi
tsong gave his nickname of Tch'ai
(Tch’ai-yao) and the qualification of im
perial (Yu-yao) to porcelain that came
from the country of Pien, now Khai
fong-fou, in the province of Ho-nan,
and an artist having asked him for a
model, he replied: ¢Let the porcelain
destined to the palace be blue as the
sky appears to us after the rain in the
space between two clouds.” The order
was executed literally, and the charm
mgly-colored porcelain was called Yu
keuo-thien-tsing, (blue of the sky after
the rain.) To quote from a Chinese
chronicler: ‘lt is blue as the sky, bril
liant as a mirror, thin as paper, sonor
ous as the Khing, polished and lustrous,
and remarkable for the delicacy of its
veining as well as for the incomparable
beauty of its color.”” After the death of
the artist, fragments of his work were
eagerly sought for and used to decorate
caps of ceremony or to be worn like
beads around the neck in a thread of
silk,—New York Times.
To Save Time.
Anything tosave time is New York's
motto. The newest thing is a shop
where men and women may have their
shoes mended while they wait. Custo
mers see- the latest shoemaking machinery
in the window, and behind the machine
arow of lasts, at which men prepare
the work for the machines. ‘A woman
goes in, has her shoes taken off, put on
the lasts, trimmed of all tatters and
shreds, fitted with new heels and soles,
put into & sewing or nailing ‘machinés.
and made good as new almost - half. as
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Cornish Lullaby.
Out on the mountain over the town,
All night long, all night long, y
The trolls go up and the trolls go down,
Bearing their packs and crooning a somg;
And this is the song the hill folk eroon
As they trudge in the light of the ‘misty
moon—
“ Gold, gold! ever more gold—
Bright red gold for dearie!”
Deep in the hill the yeoman delves,
All night long all night long;
None but the peering, furtive eives
See his toil and hear his song;
Merrily over the cavern rings
As merrily over his pick he swings, &
And merrily over his song he sings,
“Gold, gold! ever more gold—
Bright red gold for dearie!”
Mother is rocking thy lewly bed
All night lonz, all night long—
Happy to smooth thy curly head
And to hold thy hand and to sing her song;
"Tis not of the hill folk, dwarfed and old,
Nor the song of the yeoman, stanch and bold,
And the burden it bareth is not of gold;
But it’s‘‘Love,love—nothing but love—
Mother’s love for dearie!”
—Chicago News.
' HUMOROUS.
Who kills all the dead letter s?
Bound to be read—New books.
Not real timber—The ship's log.
““Wrapped up in themselves” —Mum
mies.
Paying cash for a suit of clothes is a
no bill deed.
Like everybody else, the money
lender must have an interest in his
business.
The barber who shaves boys would
make a good city editor. He learns to
cut down.
In Central of South America, when. a
man has a Guatemala letter he puts a
Paraguay stamp on it, before his friends
can Peru’s it.
Henrietta (lecturing her wayward
cousin)—Some young men never can say
“No.” Jack (unabashed)—And some
girls never can say ¢‘Yes.”
On the Hunt.—¢‘Doctor, why didn’t
you kill that snipe? He came just right
for you.” ¢‘But, my dear fellow, he flew
zig-zag, and I had no sooner fired zig
than he was zag.”
Not so Funny.—Editor (looking at
joke)—¢‘That's funny. Contributor—
“ Yes, I thought so.” Editor—*l don’t
mean that. It's funny that you should
think sucha thing as that funny.”
Winks—Has your wife a cheerful dis
position? Minks—Oh, yes; very cheer
ful. Last night when I was dancing
around the room on one foot, after hav
ing stepped on a tack, she laughed until
her sides ached.
Artful Amy—Algernon, in parliamen
tary usage, what does the presiding of
ficer say when a matter is to be put to a
vote? Unsuspecting Algeinon—Are you
ready for the question? Artful Amy—
Y-yes, Algernon, I think lam.
Mrs. Reclass— I have sclected this
bonnett, ‘Frank. ¢“lsn’t it a beauty,
and only $13!” Frank (hurriedly)—
¢““Thirteen dollars? My dear, sl3 is an
unlucky number. You musn’t think of
paying that for a bonnet. Try ome of
those $5 beauties.’’ : {
Here is a new story of Hans von Bu
low, the composer: An old acquain
tance whom Von Bulow wanted to drop -
met him after a long absence, saying:
‘‘How do you do? T bet, though, that
you don't remember my name.”
“*You've won that bet,”” replied Von
Bulow, ani turned on his heel.
Peach Stone Fuel
It has been demonstrated in Vaca
Valley that peach stones will make as
good a fire for houschold purposes as
the best kind of coal in the market, says
the Vallejo (Cal.) Chronicle. The fruit
growers, instead of, as heretofore,
throwing the pits away, dispose of the
stones at the present time at the rate of
$6 aton. A sack of the stones will
weigh about ecighty poumds, and will
last as long as an equal number of
pounds of coal, and give a greater in
tensily of heat. At many of the or
~chards in the valley may be seen great
stacks of peach and apricot stones which
will eventually find their way to San
Francisco and other places to be used for
fuel. The apricot stones do not burn as
readily as the peach, and will not com
mand as good a price. The fruit faisers
~will undoubtedly be pleased to learn
that they now have another sonrce of
revenuo open to them. A largo number
‘of peaches are dried during the summer
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