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THE *1 a liner -^Jcsscugcr, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY -BY A.. 3SDGAH Niac. The British Government proposes to build a very extensive barracks at Hali¬ fax, which, in case of war, would be oc¬ cupied by troops on their way to India by way of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The site for these barracks has already been selected. . • One of the greatest modern industries, asserts the San Francisco Chronicle , is the production of beet sugar. Its crea¬ tion has given employment to a vast number of persons, and has so cheapened sugar that it is within the reach of tbs lowest-waged workman. The farm products of Vermont this season will realize $30,000,000, which, declares the New York Commercial Ad tsertiser, is the best year’s showing for the Green Mountain State farmers since the war. Improved methods of culture are largely credited with the prosperity. The civilized nations of the earth have agreed to oo-operate in taking a photo¬ graphic chart ot the heavens. Some twenty telescopes are to work four years, and will result in mapping proba¬ bly twenty-five millions of stars; with longer exposures probably two thousand millions could be photographed. An expert (Hoard's Dairyman) says: ^‘The cow is winning her way into the hearts of the Southern people. One in¬ stance in proof thereof is the first con¬ signment of cheese ever received in St. Louis from Arkansas, which reached that market lately from the Grand Prairie Dairy Company, at Stuttgart, Ark. ” Canada gives to its geological survey only $60,000 a year, while, contrasts the Chicago Herald, the various geologi¬ cal surveys in our own country absorb nearly $1,000,000 annually. Yet Can¬ ada makes a fine showing with this modest sum. The annual geological records are in part records of original discovery and research, and, with their line maps and photogravures, etj as in¬ teresting as many books of travel. Can¬ ada contains the largest unknown areas of the American continent. Savage or half-civilized princes often prefer death to exile in a foreign coun¬ try. Malietoa, the King of Samoa, jumped overboard when the Germans took him to the Gilbert Islands, and was not rescued with his own consent. Three chiefs of the Comoro Islands, off the East African coast, were taken away from home three months ago on account of the revolution which they headed against the French, They were very un¬ happy on board ship, and when the ves¬ sel reached Obock they tried to jump overboard, and were placed in irons tf prevent further suicidal attempts. It is said that a few years ago some of the members of foreign legations it Washington gave the police no end o! trouble. Thjy knew that they could not be punished for any ordinary misde¬ meanor, and frequently raised a row or the streets. Whea arrested they had to be released as soon as identified. Fi aally the police tried a new dodge. They had a few sluggers loafing around the station, who made it a point to pitch into the foreigners, and give them black eyes and bloody noses. This quieted the riotous members of the legation, aud foi some time past they have given the po¬ lice very little trouble. Californians now engaging in the cul¬ tivation of prunes find the profits very tempting, being about one dollar a tree, or $100 the acre. This rate increases as the tree grows older until the fruit each year is worth almost two dollars. Ex Secretary of State Thomas Beck ha 1 ! given ap everything else to engage in the cul¬ tivation of the prune. The Pajaro Land and Fruit Company was recently formed for the purpose of raising this fruit in large quantities. It has bought 600 acres of land in Pajaro Valley, an! will plant an orchard of French prune trees. They will be from four to six feet in height when put into the ground. The stock of these trees is to be two years old and the grafting one year. Next year they will begin to yield fruit. The av «rage Ufa of a tree is thirty years. REV. DR. TALMAGE the BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬ DAY SERMON. flnbjeet: “The Wonderi'M* Athens." Text: "While Paul waited for them at Athens the his city spirit was stirred in idolatry.”— him, when he saw wholly given to Acts xvii., 16. It seemed as if morning would never come. Wehad arrived after dark in Athens,Greece, and the night was sleepless with expecta¬ tion, and my watch slowly announced to me one and two and three and four o’clock; and at the first ray of dawn I called our party to look out of the window upon that city to which Paul said he was a debtor, and to •which the whole earth is debtor for Greek architecture, Greek Greek Greek sculpture, Greek and poetry, history. eloquence, prowess Greek That morning in Athens we sauntered forth armed with most generous and lovely letters from the President of the United States and his Secretary of State, and dur¬ ing all our stay in that city those letters caused every door and every gate and every temple and every mightiest palace to swing open be¬ fore us. The geographical name on earth to-day is America. The signature of an American President and Secretary of State will take a man where an army could not. Those names brought us into the presence of a most gracious and beautiful sovereign, cordiality the Queen like of that Greece, of sister and than her was more a the occupant of a throne room. No formal bow as when monarchs are approached, but a cordial -hake of the hand, and earnest questions about our personal welfare and our beloved country far away. But this morning we pass through where stood locality the Agora, the philosophers ancient market U8ed place, the where to meet their disciples, walking while they talked, flung and where Paul, the Christian the logician, laugh many a proud impertinent stoic and Epicurean. got The market on many an social political place was the center of and life, and tell it was the place the where people went to and hear news. Booths and bazaars were set up for merchan¬ dise of be ail kinds except meat, but everything be must sold for cash, and there must no lying about the values of commodities, and inflict the Agoranomi who ruled the place could severe punishment upon offenders. The different schools of thinkers had dis¬ tinct places set apart for convocation. The Platoeans must meet at the cheese market, the Decelians at the barber shop, the sellers of perfumes at the frankincense head¬ quarters. The three market place was a space hun¬ dred and fifty yards long and two hundred and gossip fifty yards wide, and it was given up to and merchandise, and lounging and philosophizing. order All this you the Bible need to when know it in to understand says of Paul, “Therefore disputed he in the market daily with them that met him.” You see it w r as the best place to get an au¬ dience# and if a man feels himself called to preach he wants people to preach to. But belorewe make our chief visits of to-day wo must take a turn at the Stadium. It is a little way out, but go we must. The Sta¬ dium was the place where the foot races oc¬ curred. Paul had been out there no doubt, for he frequently uses the scenes of that place as figures when he tells us, “Let us run the race that is obtain set before us,” and again, but “They do it to a corruptible garland, we an incorruptible.” The marble and the gilding have been removed, but the high mounds against which the seats were piled are still there. The Stadium is six hundred and eighty feet long, held one hundred and thirty feet There wide, and forty thousand spectators. which is the to-day the very departed tunnel from through the defeated racer Stadium and from the hisses of the people, and there are the stairs up which the victor went to the top of the hill to be crowned with the laurel. In this place contests with wild beasts sometimes took place,and while Hadrian,the emperor, sat on yonder height one thousand beasts were slain in one celebration. But it was chiefly for foot racing,and so I proposed to my frieud that day while we were in the Stadium that we try which of us could run tke sooner from end to end of this historical ground, lookers and so at the side word side, given but by before the on we started by I got through I found out what Paul meant when he compares the spiritual race with the race in this very weight.” Stadium, My as he says, “Lay aside every heavy overcoat and my friend’s freedom from such iucum brance showed the advantage in any kind of a race of “laying aside every Acropolis. weight.” We come now to the It is a rock about two miles in circumference at the base and a thousand feet in circumfer enee at the top and three hundred feet high. On it has been crowded more elaborate architecture and sculpture than in any other place under the whole heavens, Originally a fortress, and afterward and a congre- pillars, gation their of temples statues which ruins an enchantment from no observer ever breaks away. No wonder that Aristides thought it the centre of all things—Greece, the centre Greece; of the world, Attica, the centre of Athens, the centre of Attica, and the Acropolis the cen tre Veins of Athens. Earthquakes have shaken it, plundered it. Lord Elgin, the English Embassador at Constantinople, got permission of the Sul tan to remove from the Acropolis fallen pieces of the building, but he took from the building to England the finest statues, re moving them at an expense of eight hundred thousand dollars. A storm overthrew Morosini, many of the statues of the Acropolis. the General, attempted to remove from a pediment the sculptured car and horses of Victory, but the clumsy machinery dropped it and all was lost. The Turks turned the building into a powder magazine where the Venetian guns dropped a fire that by explosion sent the columns flying in the air ana falling cracked and splintered. But after all that time and storm and war and iconoclasm have effected, the Acropolis is the monarch of all ruins. and before it bow the learning, the genius, the poetry, the art, the history of the ages, I I saw it as it was thousands of years ago. had read so much about it and dreamed much about it that I needed no magician’s wand to restore it. At one wave of my hand on that clear morning in 1889 it rose before me in the glory it had when Pericles ordered it and Ictinus planned it and Phidias chiseled it and Pro togines painted it and Pausanias described it. Its gates, which were carefully guarded by the ancients, open to let you in and you ascend by sixty marble steps the pronyke, Thebes, which Epaminondas wanted I to glad transfer to but permission, am to say, could not be granted for the removal of this architectural miracle, in the days when ten cents would do more than a dollar now, the building cost two million three hundred thousand dollars. See its fiva ornamental gates, the keys intrusted to an offi¬ cer for only oue day, lest the temp tation to go in and misappropriate the treasures be too great for him; its ceiling and a mingling of blue and scarlet and green, the walls abloom with pictures utmost in bought and coloring. Yonder is a temple to a goddess called “Victory Without Wings.” So many of the triumphs of the world bad been followed by defeat that the Greeks wished in marble to indicate that victory for Athens had come, never again to fly away, and hence this temple to “Victory Without Wings’’—a temple of marble, snow white and glittering. Yonder behold the pedestal of Agrippa, twenty-seven feet high and twelve feet square. But the overshadowing wonder of all the hill is the Parthenon, in days when money was ten times more valuable than now it cost four million six hundrod thousand dollars, It is a Doric grandeur, having forty-six high 1 columns, each column thirty-four feet and six feet two inches in diameter. Won drous inter-columniations! Painted shields porti- of cos, architraves tinged with ochor, gold hung up, lines of most delicate curve, figures of horses and men and women and gods, oxen on the way to sacrifice, statues of the deities Dionysius, Prometheus, Hermes, Denieter, Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, in one frieze twelve divinities; centaurs in battle; wea ponary from Marathon; chariot of night; chariot of the morning; horses of the suu, the fates, thefuries; statue of Jupiter hold ing in his right hand the thunderbolt; silver footed chair in which Xerxes watched the battle of Salamis only a few miles away. Here is the colossal statute of T liners In full armoi*, eyes of gray colored stone, figure of a Sphinx on her head, griffins by her side (which are lions with eagle’s beak), spear in one hand, statue of liberty in the other, a shield carved with the battle scenes, and even the slippers sculpturedand tied on with thongs of gold. Far out at sea the sailors saw fbls statue of Minerva rising high above Here all the temples, glittering in the sun. are statutes of equestrians, statue of a lion uess, and there are the Graces, and yonder a horse in bronze. There is a statue said in the time of Augustus to have of its own accord turned around from east to west and spit blood; statues made out of shields conquered expeller in of battle; statue of Apollo, the locusts; statue of Anacreon, drunk and singing; statue of Olympodorus, a Greek, memorable for the fact that be was cheerful when others were cast down, a trait worthy of sculpture. But walk on and around the Acropolis and yonier you sea a statu© of iygeia, and the statue of the Theseus Hercules fight in* the Minotaur and the statue of slaying serpents. No wonder that Petronius said it was easier to find a god than a man in Athens. Oh. the Acropolis 1 The most of its temples and statues made from the mar ble quarries of Mount Peatelieum, a little wav from the city. 1 have here on my-table a block of the Parthenon made out of this marble, and on it is the sculpture of Phidias. I brought it from the Acropolis. This specimen has ou it the dust of ages and the marks of explo lion and battle, but you can get from it some idea of the delicate luster of the Aero polls when it was covered with a mountain of this marble cut into all the exquisite shapes that genius aud could aflame contrive gold. and striped with silver with The Acropolis in the morning light of those mcients must have shone as though it were m aerolite cast off from the noonday sun. The temples must have looked like muSt petrified have foam. ’The whole Acropolis seemed like the white breakers of the great Deean t ,i mG But hill we cannot stop longer here, though for there it is a near by of more interest, has not one chip of marble to suggest a statue or a temple. We hasten down the Acropolis to ascend the Areopagus, or Mars Hill, as it is called. It took only about three minutes to walk the distance, and I the two hilltops are so near that what said in re¬ ligious discourse on Mars Hill was heard dis¬ tinctly by some English Hill gentlemen pile on the Acropolis. This Mars is a rough of rock fitty feet high. It was famous long be¬ fore New Testament times. The Persians easily and terribly assaulted the Acropolis from this hilltop. Here as¬ sembled the court to try criminals. It was held in the night time,so that the faces of the judges could not be seen,nor the faces of the lawyers who made the plea, and so, it instead ef the trial being cool one justice. of emotion, But must have been one of there was one occasion on this hill memorable above ill others. A little described man, physically by himself weak, contempti- and his rhetoric as ble, had by his sermons rocked Athens with commotion, and he was summoned either by writ of law or hearty invitation to come upon that of pulpit of rook All and the give wiseacres a spec- of imeu his theology. Athens turned out and turned up to hear him. The more venerable of them sat in an amphitheater, the granite seats of whica are still visible, but the the hill other and people the swarmed on all sides of at base of it to hear this man, waorn some called a fanatic, and others called a mad cap, and others a blasphemer, fellow.” and others styled contemptuously “this Paul arrived in answer to the writ or in¬ vitation, and conirontei them and gave them the biggest dose that mortals ever took, He was so built that nothing could scare him, and as tor Jupiter whose and Athenia, the in god aud the goddess, images were full sight on the ad joining he hill, had he had not so much regard for them as for under the ant his that was In that crawiing audience in the sand the first feet. were orators of the world, and they had voices like flutes when they were passive, and like trumpets when they were aroused, and I think they laughed in the sleeves of their gowns as this insignificant man rose to speak, Scholiasts, In that audience were who knew everything, or thought longest they did, and from the end of the hair on the top of their omniums to the end of the nail ou the longest toe, they were stuffed with hypercriticism, aud they leaned back with a supercilious look to listen. As in 18S9, I stood on that rock where Paul stood, and a stab of which I brought from Athens by consent of the queen, through Mr. Tricoupis, the prime minister, and had placed whole in yon der Memorial Wall, I read the story, Bible in hand, What I have so far said in this discourse was necesseary in-order that you may un¬ derstand the boldness, the defiance, the holy recklessness, the magnificence of Paul’s speech. The first thunderbolt he launched at the opposite hill—the Acropolis—that moment all aglitter with idols and temples, He cries out. “God who made the world.” Why.they thought that Prometheus made it, that Mercury made it, that Apollo made it, that Poseidon made it, that Enos made it, y^ade Pam irwcus made it, that Boreas < it, that it took all the gods of the Parthenon, yea, all the gods and god¬ desses of the Acropolis to make ecclesiastical it, and here stands a man without any title, neither a D. D., nor even a reverend, declaring that the world was made by the Lord of heaven and earth, aud hence the in¬ ference that all the splendid covering of the Acropolis, so near that the people could standiug hear on the steps of the Parthenon it, was a deceit, a falsehood, a sham, a blasphe¬ my. Look at the faces of his auditors; and they are turning pale, and then red, then wrathful. There had been several earth quakes in that region, but that was the se¬ verest shock these men had ever felt. The Persians had bombarded Hill, the Acropo¬ lis from the heights of Mars but this Pauline bombardment was greater and more terrific. “What,” said his hearas, “have we been hauling with many yokes of oxen for centuries these blocks from the quarries of Mount Pentelicum, and have we had our architects patting op these structures of un- paralleled splendor, and have we had the greatest of all sculptors, Phidias, with his men chiseling away at those wondrous friezes,and peii ra ents and cutting away nation’s at these the have we taxed the resources to utmost, now to be told that those statues see nothing, hear nothing, know nothing? these oh, startled Paul, stop and for overwhelmed a moment and auditors give time to catch their breath! Make a rhetorical pause I Take a look around you at the inter esting landscape, and give your hearers time to recover! No, ho does not make even a period, ( or so much as a colon or semicolon, )U t launches the second thunderbolt right after the first, aud iu the same breath goes on to say, God “rtwolleth not in temples made with hands.” Ou, Paul! Is not deity more in the Parthenon, or more in the The seum, or more in the Erechtheium, or more in the temple of Zeus Olympius than in the open air, more than on the hill whore we are sitting, more than on Mount Hymettus out yonder, from which the bees get their honey? “No more!” responds Paul, “He dwelleth not in temples made with hands.” But surely the preacher ou the pulpit of rock on Mars Hill will stop now. His au dienco can endure no more. Two thunder bolts are enough. No, in the same breath he launches the third thunderbolt, which to them is more fiery, more terrible, more de molishing than the others, blood as nations.” he cries out: Oh, “hath made of one all Paul 1 you forget you exclusive are speaking to iu the proudest and most audience the world. Do not say “of one blood.” You cannot mean that. Had Socrates and Plato and Demosthenes and Solon and Lycurgus and Draco aud. Sonhocles aud Eurioides and -cEschylus and Pericles and Phidias and Mil bades blood just like the Persians, like the lurks, like the Egyptians, “Yes,” like the common herd blood of humanity? nations.” says Paul, “ol one all Eurely that must be the closing paragraph the sermon. His auditors must let up from the nervous strain. Paul has smashed the Acropolis and smashed the national pride oi the Greeks and what more can he say? Those Grecian orators, standing on that place, always closed their addresses witn something sublime and oumacteric-a paror ft tion and i aut is going to give them a p©ioration which will eclipse in power and majesty all that he has yet said. Hereto ;? re ^ as burled one thunderbolt at a time noW u e nl close by hurling two ’ mi: RIi ouce> *“e iittie old man, nnuer the power of his spee«^ has straightened b ‘ mS S ®,ih p ~ U0 AT S°°£ three Kf* to]i pr (-hnn than wi, when he began; and fl am Z of fGe• 1 .Tvfpff« which ; J? ecam0 was calm *7° in the ’ W irI ~ Kta wind of Irt wS «« h<* «« ° thUnd a f,' r ^ tL at * f be . • lncons crowd “ mabIe now ^.bolfafof ^nt and L t “‘ <■ Jud t^' ^ Hi , nW ®5 n cau .?f annrh wtaa « . Lnwlinm 1 aiS.s °!f ne ? by hmh^ivX Hr bath f 60 hfm frr^te^H th&t H e hath raiseB l h m ft dad ' d thoughts were to them a ^ P r °™Chnst the de "P 1 ®!? r COn \ 0 t0 be thelr J“ d ? e> and tile T should have to get up out of their . cemeteries to stand before Him and take their eternal doom. Mightiest burst of elocutionary of power ever heard. The ances¬ tors some of those Greeks had heard Demosthenes in his ora'iou on the crown, had heard ..^JSschines in his speeches against Timarchus and Ctesiphon, had heard Plato in his great argument for immortality of the soul, had heard Socrates on his death¬ bed, suicidal cup of hemlock in hand, leave his hearers in emotion too great too bear; had in the theater of Dionysius, at the foot of the Acropolis (the ruins of its piled up amphitheater and the marble floor of its orchestra still there) seen enacted the tragedies of ASsehylus and Sopho¬ cles. but neither had the ancestors of these Grecians on Mars Hill or themselves ever heard or witnessed such tornadoes of moral power as that with which Paul now whelmed ttis hearers. At those two thoughts of re¬ surrection and judgment the audience sprang to their feet. Some moved they adjourn to some other day to hear more on the same theme, but others would have tom the sacred orator to pieces. The record says, “Some mocked.” I sup¬ pose it means that they mimicked the solemnity of his voice; that they took off his impassioned gesticulation, and they cried out: “Jew! Jew.' Where did you study rhetoric? You ought to hear otir orators speak! You had better go back to your business of tentmaking. Our Lycurgus kuew more in a minute than you will know in a month. Say, where did you get that crooked back, aud those weak eyes from? Ha! ha! You try to teach us Grecians! What nonsense you talk about wnen you speak of resurrection and judgment. Now, little old man, climb down the side of Mars Hill and get out of sight as soon as possible." “Some mocked.” But that scene adjourned to the day of which the sacred orator had spoken—the day of resurrection and judg¬ ment. As in Athens, that evening in 18S9, we climbed down the pile of . slipperv rocks, where all this had occurred, on our way back to our hotel, I stood half way between the Acropolis and Mars Hill in the gathering shadows of eventide, I seemed to hear those two hills m sublime and awful converse. I am chiefly of the past;” said the Acropolis. “I am chiefly of the future;’’ replied Mai-s Hill. The Acropolis said: “My orators are dead. My lawgivers are dead. My poets are dead. My architects are dead. My sculptors are dead. 1 am a monument of the dead past 1 shall never again hear a soug sung. I will never again see a column lifted. I will never again behold a goddess "Mara Hill responded: “1, too, have a his tory. I had on my heights warriors Who will never again unsheath the sword, and judges who will never again utter a doom, ° r Rn°t r Lr^fl ft eveT WiU wL^in ne - V f ii tho^t.^The lgain mak « a future than words that missionary, Paul, uttered that exciting and day in the bearing of the wisest men the populace on my rocky shoulders have only begun their majestic role; the brotherhood of man, and the Christ of God, and the peroration of resurrection and last judgment closed his with which the Tarsian orator sermon that day amid the mocking crowd Acropolis shall I vet revolutionize the planet. Oh° 1 have stood here long enough to witness that your gods are no gods at all. Your Boreas could not con¬ trol the winds. Your Neptune could not manage the sea. Your Apollo never evoked a musical note. Your god Ceres never grew a harvest. Your goddess of wisdom, Min¬ erva, never knew the Greek alphabet. Your Jupiter could not handle the lightnings But the God whom I proclaimed ou the day when Paul preached before the astounded assemblage on God my rough heights is the God of music, the of wisdom, the God of power, the God of mercy, the God of love the God of storms, the God of sunshine, the S3 SSS/ u ‘* ”*■ “» Then the Acropolis spake and said, as sacysysrsi myMiltiadS Socrates praised virtue, and at Marathon drove back the Persian op pressors.” “Yes," said Mars Hill, “your THK reportg from Italy indicate that Sns5»tupon1hUtKgo 0 /SS Plato laboriously guessed at the immortality of the soul, hut my Plato, straight d'T™®' W, from * n " spired, declare*’, it as a fact God. Your Socrates praised virtue, but ex¬ pired as a suicide. Your Miltiades was br ,ve against earthly foes, yet he died rrom a wound ignoininiously gotten in after deteat, But my Paul challenged all earth and all hell with this battle shout, “We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but againt prmcipal ities, against powers, against the rulers .or the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places, and then on the 29th of June, in the year 68, on the road to Ostia, after the sword of the headsman had given one keen stroke, took the crown or martyrdom." moment’s silence by both hills .... After a moaned in the darkness, the Acropolis out “Alas! Alas!” and Mars Hill responded, “Hosannah! Hosannah!” Then the voices of both hills became indistinct, and as 1 passed on and away in the twilight I seemed £o hear only two sounds—fragment of of f\sn tel icon marble from the architrave the Acropolis dropping down on the ruins of a shattered idol,and the other sound seemed to come from the rock on Mars Hill, from which we had just descended. Butwe were by this time so lar off that the fragments from of sentences were smaller when dropping fallen Mars Hills than were the fragments of marble on tie Acropolis, and 1 could only hear parts of disconnected sentences wafted on the night air—“God who made the world”—“of blood all nations 1 ’— ap one will judge the pointed a day in which He world”—“raised from the dead.” As that night in Athens I put my tired bead on my pillow, and the exciting thought scenes of the dayjpassed througfcimy mind, I on the same subject on which, as a boy, I made my commencement speech iN Niblos Theatre on graduation day from the New York University, viz., “The moral effects of sculpture and architecture,” but further than I could have thought in boyhood, I thought in Athens that night that tne moral effects of architecture an i sculpture depend on what you do in great buildings a, ter_taey of the are put up, and upon the character men whose forms you cut in the marble, Yea! t thoU ght that night what struggles the martyrs went through in order that in our time the Gospel might have full swing; a nd i thought that night what a brainy re¬ Ugion it must be that could absorb a hero iik© him whom we have considered human to-day, a nia n, the superior of the whole race, the infidels but pigmies or homunculi com P ared witn him; anJ 1 thou S bc what a ra p ~ turous consideration it is that through the , game grace that saved Paul, we shall con front this great apostle, and shall have the opportunity, amid the familiarities of the skies, of asking him what was the greatest occasion of all his life. He may say, “The ship wreck of Melite.’ ,. , 1 He may say. “The riot at Ephesus.” H« ina T say. “ M y last walk out on the road tc Ostia.’’ But, I think he will say, “The day I stood on Mars Hill addressing the indignant Areopagites, aud looking off upon the tower ing form of the goddess Minerva, and the majesty of the Parthenon and all the brill iantdivinities of the Acropolis. That account m the Bible was true. My spirit was stirred within me when I saw the city wholly given THE CONGO RAILWAY. Over Two Thousand Men Employed in this Important Enterprise. A cablegram of Monday from Brussels says: On July 31st last, 1,719 workmen were engaged upon the Congo railroad. A little later 500 new laborers arrived, and the actual number employed on Sep¬ tember 15 h was 2,220. These workmen, who are largely Zanzibari, Krumen and Haussa, are under the charge of 200 white men, including fifteen civil engi¬ neers, nine superintendents of grading, seventeen boss carpenters, ten keepers of machinery and supplies, twenty-one blacksmiths, three machinists, three boss stonecutters, nineteen masons, a number of physicians, and other heads of departrmnts. The track has been laid from Matadi to the Mapozo Valley, and some distance up the valley toward the Palaballa highlands, and this point once attained, the railroad will encounter few other engineering difficulties all the way to Stanley pooh Three locomotives are now on the tracl^, and all the mate¬ rial is transported by sjeam. Foundations have been laid for a large bridge across the Mapoza river. The work is making the most favorable progress. The health of Europeans is excellent. FIFTEEN RAILROADS n»T© Secured an Entrance to th« Grounds of the World’s Fair. A Chicago dispatch says: The Balti • and Ohio railroad is the prime in the scheme to secure an entrance ‘“ e south end of Jackson park to the fair, for all lines running south the Union, Van Buren street and p-ii. 0 k i-t/cet stations as «, well n as those . from c BnhOls Central station. Under the of arrangement, fifteen great rail will have di ect entrance to the n‘; f-ii- o-ron, d • Gmh.din™ " ^ rh» 6 ’ Central, i Michigan l • Central, , , Balti- , - more and Ohio, Big Four, Chicago and Trunk, Wabash, Atchison, Topeka ^ b i? a ra° and Erie, Lake Shore, ' n ittsburg, r ort Wayne and Chic igo, Pan Handle, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and Alton aud Rock Island, l .'! ie /' x P ()si[i,m management will assume obligations for a lease of the grounds which the tracks pass, THE MAIN BURST Fifty Thousand People Without Work. A dispatch of Monday from Brooklyn, Y., says: The city is having a water famine, due to the bursting of the con¬ duit Saturday. The Brooklyn bridge cable is stopped and locomotives are used to shove people across the bridge. All factories, elevators and hotels using steam have had their water turned off, and, as a result, 59,000 people have no work. MINNEAPOLIS CHOSEN 18 «» f« Holding tta Republican National Convention. ^ IlnneH olls <”»!>.!<* -wr nat >onal convention. P g ets tbe republican held It will be June 7, 1892. General James 8. Clark fon manage the republican presi ^ year<