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PERSONAL MENTION. .
Bishop Foster (M. E.) has lately preached
and lectured in the City of Mexico.
Five-sixths of the Irish' people, according
to Herbert Gladstone, are followers of Par
nell.
United States Senator Dawes for some
years edited rural newspapers in Massachu
setts.
Mrs. Talmage, the wife of the Brooklyn
toreacher, lectures every Sunday to a class of
three hundred men and women.
Dr. Fillmore Bennett, who wrote th
hymn “Sweet By and By” in 1868, lives a
Richmond, 111., and is quite poor.
Princess Ibabeau, who recently inherited
$1,000,000 from her mother, keeps in her Par
isian palace twenty dogs and twenty cate.
J oseph Lilley, the oldestex-United States
Senator, finished his ninety-fifth year heartily
and in happiness recently at Nottingham,
N. H.
Ghand Master Powderly, of the Knights
of Labor, has been urged to become a candi
date for Congress in the Scranton district,
hut declines because he is too poor.
The richest men in Russia are two Swiss
brothers named Noble. bought up im
mense tracts of oil lands and now control
more petroleum than the Standard oil com
pany.
President Cleveland reiterates his in
tention not to attend evening parties at all
while he is in the White House, and will only
accept dinner invitations from the members
of his cabinet.
Rev. Dr. J. B, Hawthorne, the eminent
Baptist preacher of Atlanta, is very tall,
straight us an arrow, wears long black hair,
and a curl is trained to fall carelessly over
his forehead like a “bang.”
Ex-United States Treasurer Spinner,
whose signature on national bank notes mys
tified thousands of persons years ago, is now
in Pablo Beach, Fla., in the enjoyment of ex
ceptional health. He has passed his eightieth
year.
Leonard J. Thomas, of Salisbury Cove,
in the town of Eden, Me., being over eighty
Jeans old, is probably the oldest postmaster
i the United States. He has hold the office
almost continuously for nearly half a century,
* under the different administrations.
General Htoneman, the once famous cav
alry leader, who is now governor of Califor
nia, has lived for most ol the time since the
war at San Gabriel Mission, near Los Ange
les. His health was oompletely undermined,
ami it has taken, almost twenty years to over
come his severe dyspepsia.
The residence of James G. Blaine is only
100 yards from the Kennebec, and he is one
of the most pereistent of ioe-yachtors. Clad
" in a big fur overcoat and a fur cap, Mr.
Blaine always insists upon steering the yacht
himself, and his ice-boat, the Ketuiebecker, is
one of the fleetest crafts on the river.
President Cleveland never attended a
college of any kind. The acting Vice-Presi
dent, John Sherman, is a graduate of the
common schools of Ohio. The secretary of j
rtatis, Thomas F. Bayard, never got further
than a Delaware mml academy. The speak
er of the House of Representatives, John G.
Carlisle, is a* self-educated man
Prospective New States.
A CHANCK FOB TIUIKE TICUHITdHIKS
dKNATOR YOOBHKES' ATTITUDE.
United States Senator Voorhees, who has
introduced bills to admit Montana and Wash
ington Territories to th© Union, lias been
asked by a t Washington correspondent if he
intended to make the admission of Dakota
conditional on the admission of Montana, as
it has been reported that the Democrats were
disposed to do. He replied; “I can speak
only for myself. I think the best arrange
ment that wo can make is to admit Da
kota, Montana and Washington together.
They must all oome in soon, and they
might m well com© in now. 1 do not see
how wo can prevent Dakota's coming in. She
has a voting population of 80,001), and is
certainly entitled to admittance, I thought
at first that I should oppose the division of
Dakota, but Ido not how 1 can. The
Territory has an area of five times my own
State, and Scthth Dakota will be about as
large a* Ohio and Indiana Montana has a
voting imputation of 26,000 and Wash
ington a voting population of 40,-
<XM>. There are not fifteen con
gtoMdonal dirtrtete in the country with the
population of Washington, and not a hundred
with that of Montana. Dakota is Republican.
Montana b Democratic, and lam confident
will remain ax Washington b close and mav
be won by either party. If she comes into the
Union by Detnocratio votes under a Demo
cretic administralhws, our chan.vs in the new
State will be all the better It arems to me
much the liert ptau to take in three three Ter
ritories at otx-e. They are entitled to it,
and politically it will be *» fair and equitable
an ammgeme® t aa can be matte."
Several iwotninent Dm* ni(» are reported
to agree with Mr. Voortwa Mr. Springer
expire®* the opinion that the Houm*
mitt**** on T<hftftorif* will report favorably
«• the division abd adnuadon of Dakota un
tew the part y shall hold a caucus upon the
•abject in that event it fat tn* -pnuxi that
the tecttUMi would be adverse.
Patti U aaid to have lost fifteen the us
and dollars by not being able to keep
her in Holland.
THE Bl'S MGEAHT.
VICTORIA OPENS THE ENGLISH
PARLIAMENT IN PERSON.
Her Majesty Sits Calmly Upon the Tlirons
While Her Speech is Being Read.
The British parliament is again in session,
having been opened by Queen Victoria in
person. Promptly at 1:30 p. m. , says a Lon
don dispatch, the royal party left Bucking
ham palace for the house of lords. The route
of the royal pageant had been covered with
gravel. This prevented the horses from
falling and enabled more rapid progress to
be made. Her majesty rode in an open car
riage drawn by eight horses. The Household
cavalry acted as the escort to the queen.
Large crowds lined the street through which
the royal procession passed, and her majesty
was greeted with hearty cheers all along the
route. The scene in the house of lords was
very brilliant. Peers and peeresses, judges,
ministers and bishops were present in
large numbers in full court .dress. Gaslight
was used in the chamber, owing to the ab
sence of the sun. This enhanced the beauty
of the scene, as it showed more fully the
brilliancy of the jewels and splendor of the
dresses worn by those present. The queen
looked as if she were suffering from a cold.
A cluster of princes was about the throne
in the house of lords; princesses were in front
of the wool-sack, and all were standing in si
lence to receive the queen. The procession
entered with Lord Salisbury bearing the
sword of state, the Marquis of Win
chester the cup, and the Duke of Port
land the regalia on a cushion. The Prince
of Wales went to meet the queen, and bent
to kiss her hand. She ascended the three steps
of the throne assisted by Princess Beatrice
and the Prince of Wales, then seated herself,
and her ermine robe and crimson train were
arranged by the deputy lord
chamberlain. Princess Beatrice took a
position at her right, and Prince
Albert Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of
Wales, took one at the left. The lord chan
cellor stood next to Princess Beatrice, and
then came the Prince of Wales. Lord
Salisbury having laid the sword down, tho
oueen bowed three times—in front, to
the right and to the left. The house of com
mons was then formally summoned, and
came rushing into the bar headed by the inace
and the speaker in his gold-braided robe of
state. The members with him were drawn
by lot owing to the limited space. The lord
chancellor, salaaming to the queen, then held
the speech toward her. She touched it as
a sign of acceptance, and then he read
it with abominably dry elocution.
When he had finished it he salaamed a-jain.
The queen then rose, assisted by Prince Al
bert Victor, from the throne, and the pro
cession re-formed and retired. From the be
ginning everybody save the lord chancellor
was absolutely mute. The ceremony lasted
Just a quarter of an hour. The queen said in
ter speech:
My Lords and Gentlemen: My rela
tions with other powers continue to lie of a
friendly character. The difference which ex
isted when I last addressed you between my
Sovernment and Russia on the subject of
io boundaries of Afghanistan has been satis
factorily adjusted. In pursuance of a conven
tion which will be laid before you, English
and Russian commissioners, with the full
concurrence of my ally, the Ameer of Afghan
istan, have been engaged in demarcating the
frontier of that country. I trust that their
work, already far advanced, may tend to
secure the continuance of peace in Central
Asia.
The rising in Eastern Roumelia has given
expression to a desire of the inhabitants for a
change in the political arrangements under
which they were placed by the treaty of
Berlin. My object in the negotiations which
have followed has been to bring them, accord
ing to their wish, under the prince of Bulga
ria's rule, while maintaining unimpaired the
essential rights of the sultan.
Under a convention concluded with the
porte, commissioners have lieen appointed on
liehalf of England and Turkey to confer with
the khedive and report upon the measures
that are required for securing the defense of
Egypt and the stability and efficiency of the
government in that country.
Greatly to my regret, I was compelled in
November to declare war against King Thee
law, of Burmah. Acte of hostility on his
jart against my subjects and the interests of
my empire has since nis accession Iwu delib
erate and continuous. These had necessi luted
the withdrawal of my representative at his
court. My demands for redress were
systematically evaded and disregarded. An
attempt to confiscate the property of my sub
jects trading under agreement, and a refusal
to settle the dispute by Nitration convinced
ma that protection of British life and prop
erty ana the eosition of dangerous an
archy in Upper Burmah could only be es- J
footed by force of arms. The gallantry of my
European and Indian forces under General
Prendergast rapidly brought the country
under my power, and I have decided that the
most certain method of insuring peace and
order is to lie found in th© permanent incor- I
pomtion of th© kingdom of Ava with my 1
empire. »
An agreement has been made with Siiain,
securing to this country all commercial rights
granted to Germany in the Carotin© Islands.
Your consent will bo asked to legislative !
measures rendered neces.-a.ry in the convan
tion on the subject of international copyright, i
to which I have agreed.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons— ■
My Irds and Gentlemen: I regret to
say that no material improvement can be
noted in the condition of trade or agrioul
tore. I feel th© deepest sympathy for the
groat number of persons in many avocations !
of life who arc suffering under a pro-sure
which, I trust, will prove transient
I have seen with deep sorrow the renewal
since I last addressed vou of the attempt to I
excite the people of Ireland to hostility
against the legislative union between tliat
country and Groat Britain. lam resolutely
opposed to any disturbance of that funda
mental law, and in resisting it I am cou
vinoed that I shall be heartily supported by
my parliament and my people.
The social no less than the material con
dition of that country engages my anxi<xu
attention. Although there has been during
the last year no marked increase of serious
crime, there is in many places a concerted
resistance to the enforcement of legal obliga
tions. and I regret that the practice of organ
ised intimidation continues to exist I have
caused every exertion to be used for the de
tection and punishment of these crimes, and
no effort will be spared on the part of my
Svernment to protect my Irish subieete in
b exercise of their legal rights ana in the
enjoyment of individual liberty.
If. as my information leads me to appre
hend. the existing provisions of the law
should prove to bo inadequate to cope with
these growing evils, I shall look with coafi
dence to your willingness to invest my gov
ernment with ail the necessary powers
Bills will be submitted for transferring to
representative rouncils in th© counties of
Great Britain local business which w now
transacted by the courts of quarter s ssions
and other authorities. A msavuro for the re
form of county government in Ireton * also
in preparation Tbe<' matters will i.i-’olve
the consideration of the present inrtd*.*.i e of
local burdens
A bill for facilitating the sale of glebe lands
in a manner a«ianted to the wants of the rural
population will also be submitted to you; as
will also bills for removing tho diffi'ultiea
which prevent the east «fid elnao transfer
ot land; fur mitigating tbit dbtnmued
condition of the pwrer idaww in the 'viwt
era Highlands and the island- of Scotland;
for the more effectual provenU-'U erf art-aleut#
id mines for extending tho powers of tho
Railway Comniisssou in respect U> th.' regain-
in
to your fflgli functions I earr.estl®
you to tie? keeping and guid.nr-L?
God.
AT WAFttifITsTRIKERS.
1
FATAL CONFLICT BETWEEN A HUN
GARIAN MOB AND THE POLICE.
A Battle in which Women Use KnlVcs in thn
* Defense of Their Husbands.
A Pittsburg (Pean.) dfepatch of the 20th
says: A fatal battle occurred between the
Hungarian mob and a posse of deputies and
special officers at the Morewood mines, near
Mt. Pleasant, to-night. One Hungarian is
known to have been killed and three or four
wounded. The Hungarians this afternoon
marched from Bessemer armed with
clubs, pistols and hatchets. They were
accompanied by women armed with knives
and stones. As they approached the More
wood company’s store they encountered
about fifty deputy sheriffs and uniformed
policemen. The latter were drawn up along
the edge of a big ice pond. The Hungarians
pressed closely together and inarched slowly
across the pond, bearing an American
flag and yelling a Hungarian war cry.
Sheriff Stewart with an interpreter stepped
forward and told the mob that he had a war
rant for the arrest of some of them. He or
dered his posse to take them. The officers
surrounded the strikers, who at once made
a fierce attack. The policemen used their
clubs with terrible effect until somebody be
gan firing. Then the battle began in earn
est.
The women screamed and ran and the men
fought like savages, till the superior skill of
the sheriff’s men forced them to run. They
hurried across the lowland and up the hill to
their houses, from the windows of which they
began a fusillade with revolvers and rocks.
Part of the mob, which was 300 strong, retreat
ed up the hill and surrounded their leader,
Steve Stannex, a Hungarian of giant size.
Here they began a fierce fire on the officers,
who returned it and forced them to retreat.
One officer, Mcßoberts, was surrounded by
the mob and terribly beaten. He clubbed his
way out, and in getting over the hill fell and
hurt himself badly, breaking a leg.
Thirteen of the strikers were captured,
handcuffed and placed in a special car, ana
taken to Greensburg jail. The prisoners are
all Hungarians. One of the attacking party,
named Jabalski, was killed. As the Hun
farians scattered to their houses it is not
nown how many of them are wounded,
though blood tracks show that some of the
officers’ bullets did not miss the mark.
The hills around the Morewood works were
covered with spectators during the battle,
which occurred just before dusk. When the
fight was at ite height, Father Lambing, of
Scottdale, appeared and tried to make
peace, but was not successful. He had to
content himself with soothing the fright
ened women and children. The Hun
garian women fought beside their hus
bands and brothers, and when driven to their
houses fought from the doors and windows.
None of the sheriff’s posse was injured seri
ously. A consultation was held between the
operators and the sheriff, and it was decided
to raid the strikers at the Standard works
to-morrow. The hills are filled with enraged
Hungarians to-night, and further bloodshed
is feared.
The Hungarians have been arming them
selves for several day, and growing more and
more demonstrative. They are clamorous
for an advance in wages. ' The wages now
paid are twenty-seven cents per wagon for
digging coal and fifty-five to sixty cents per
oven for drawing coke. The demand is
thirty cents per wagon and sixty to sixty-five
cents yer oven. The wagons are supposed to
hold thirty-three anil a half bushels.
Thirty-six hundred of the 10,000 coke ovens
are, shut down. This morning about 300
strikers again left Morewood and marched to
the Alice mines, where they found men at
work. They caught some of them, stuck
their heads in the hot oven doors, removing
them only after they had promised not to go
to work again. They then marched to May
field Mines. They chased the mine, boss,
J. B. McCabe, from the yard after beating
him. They assaulted a bov named Mentzer,
and cut him badly about the head and face.
From thence they went to the Rising Sun
works, and forced the men there to join them.
About 2 o’clock they reached Scottdale, The
men marched down the street carrying fence
rails, clubs, pick-handles, crowbars, gaspipe,
and other weapons. They visited the saloons,
arid many got drunk.
A negro named Stewart fired a shot at the
strikers, when they rushed to his house,broke
in the doors, and smashed everything in the
house. The negro barely escaped with his
life. At Donnelly works the Hungarians
cleared out the yard and beat several of the
men. Wherever the strikers have, gone in a
body they have left ruin behind. Smashed
oven doors, overturned coal cars, and broken
tools show tlfe effect of their rage.
This evening another ear load of policemen
from Pittsburg were sent to Mount Pleas
ant, where they were sworn in as deputy
sheriffs. The members of the Fourteenth
and Eighteenth regiments of militia,in Pitts
burg, have been ordered to hold themselvoj
in readiness to go to the coke regions at short
notice. _
A Siezure of Opium.
THREE THOUSAND POUNDS CAPTUR
ED BY COLLECTOR UtlH HER.
A Portland (Oregon) dispatch says that
after the seizure of opium on the steamer
Idaho some tune ago, collector Herbert
Beecher received information that opium was
stored on Kaasan bay, Alaska, awaiting
shipment to Portland and San Francisea
The collector at once telegraphed to
Washington, asking tluft the steamer Wol
cott be sent in search of it. The orders
reached Portland on the 10th, and the rev
enue cutter left on a cruise, accompanied by
Collector Beecher. She arrived Thursday at
the bay and anchored. The collector and
eight men -from the steamer went
ashore to the cannery, which was in
charge of two men. Fourteen barrels
said to contain furs landed on the
last trip made by the steamer Idaho were
opened and found to contain 8,012 pounds of
prepared opium, valued at $45.W0. The
opium was taken aboard the cutter. There
is no doubt that this smuggling has been
earned on for years. It is evident that some
smuggler has exposed the business to the au
thontiea Collector Beecher's (son erf Rev.
anl ® eect ‘ er! will be about
Fearful Hog Scourge.
TRN THOUSAND lIKATIIH IN WISCON.
*IN-THE PLAGUE SPREADING.
The hog plague which has prevailed in the
vicinity of Beloit, Wis,. this last season and
is still causing great loss, is probably the m<»r
disastrous disease which has ever affli 'ted stock
in this vicinity. Scoree of bogs are dying
every day. and it is estimated that fully 10,-
000 have died from the plague within a radius
of fifteen miles of Beloit. The best autbonty
on the matter does not name the disease to
the general satisfaction qf stock men. but
many are satisfied that the disease is measles
and not cholera. w
It is said to be* gr-at damage to lani
to raise two crops a year, yet Up
poorest do it. One crqp ia weed*.
■ ■pßTFrws.
HBWting Happenings from all Points.
EASTERN AND .1111)III.E STATES.
Burglars blew open the safe in the county
treasurer’s office at New Castle, Penn., and
carried off S2OO in money, slo,oooin notesand
$45,000 in county warrants.
Five members of the Hausmeyer family at
Tarentum, Penn., have died ’of trichinosis.
The lives of three other members of the fam
ily suffering from the disease were given up
A strike for an advance of wages among
the miners and coke burners of the Connells
ville (Penn.) region has involved more than
5,000 men, and has resulted in trouble. A
body of 200 Hungarian and Polish strikers
compelled g, number of men to quit work and
did some damage to property. A squad of
thirty police was sent out from Pittsburg,and
the sheriff called upon the governor for
troops.
A dispute about wages has resulted in
fifteen large New York cigar factories shut
ting down, thus depriving about 9,00 J per
sons of employment.
A fire among a cargo of cotton bales on
Staten Island, N. Y., caused an estimated
loss of SIOO,OOO.
Charles Rolinson (colored) has been sen
tenced to death at Wilmington, Del., for as
saulting Mrs. Gardner.
Austin Sheldon, known as the Pike
county (Penn.) hermit, is dead. He had lived
in a cave for more than twenty years.
A. second encounter between police and
strikers in the Pennsylvania coke region re
sulted in the probably fatal shooting of a
Hungarian and the arrest of several of his
companions.
A young lady named Reser and her es
cort, James Marshall, were drowned while
skating on the Youghogheny river, near
Pittsburg, Penn.
SOUTH AND WE-it’ .
Holly Epps, the murderer of Farmer
Dobson, was taken from jail at Vincennes,
Ind., by a crowd of masked men and hanged.
A tank burst at a lard rendering establish
ment in Creston, lowa, resulting in the death
of two men and’injuries to four others.
A fire which destroyed the house of Eman
uel Johnson in Columbia county, Ark.,
burned to death six children who were sleep
ing in One room.
William Eldridge, of Livingston, Tenn.,
aged fourteen years, saw his sister abused
by her husband and killed the latter with an
axe.
G. L. Hopkins, a Kentucky farmer of un
governable temper, charged his nineteen
year-old son with laziness, and receiving a
reply that he did not like took a shotgun and
blew the boy’s head off.
The Maryland legislature has re-elected A.
P. Gorman to the United States Senate.
Eleven men have lost their lives in snow
slides in Colorado.
George Foster, the most notorious
burglar, highwayman and bank thief in
Ohio, was killed the other night in Cleveland
by an officer, after a desperate struggle. He
escaped from the Ohio penitentiary last Oc
tober, and when found in Cleveland resisted
arrest.
A band of carousing cowboys attempted to
take possession of the town of Montague,
Texas. The citizens resisted, and four of the
cowboys were killed ? the remainder escaping
into the Indian Territory.
Mrs. Annie Reid (colored) and her two
children, aged respectively eight and six
years, were burned to death at their home
in Booneville, Mo,
A grelt storm has been raging on the
Pacific coast, and much damage has been
done to property of all kind. By the collapse
of a two-story building in San Francisco two
women were probably fatally crushed.
A Newburgh (W. Va.) dispatch of the
21st says “that a terrible explosion occurred
,at the Orrell Coal company’s coal mines at
this place at 3:20 this afternoon. At least
thirty-five persons, and in all probability ten
more were killed, many of the dead being
our most respected citizens.” Later advices
stated that the number of imprisoned men
was probably thirty-seven, and the prevail
ing opinion was that all were dea l.
The United States revenue cufier Walcott
has captured three thousand pounds of opium
in Alaska.
President Cleveland has signed the bill
providing for the performance of the duties
of the President in case of the removal, death
or inability both of the President and Vice-
Prtsidesfc'
appointed by Secretary
M-nnirig in making an actual
c4Dt ounational bank notes in
United States treasury,
aWunting to about $75,000,000. Ten export
counters from the bureau of engraving and
printing have been detailed to assist in the
count.
Somebody has sent to the treasury depart
ment $2,500, saying that It was next to the
final payment due. The money has been
turned in to the “conscience fund.”
The President on the 20th nominated
Charles J. Canda, of New York, to be assis
tant treasurer of the United States at New
York city. Mr. Canda was treasurer of the
National Democratic committee during th®
last presidential canvass.
The Senate has confirmed another largs
batch o£ presidental nominations. Among
them are: Wnt A Garesche, of Missouri, to
be consul at Martinique; Isaac H. Maynar d
of New York, to be second comp
troller of the treasury; Anthony
Eickhoff, of New York, to be fifth
auditor of the treasury; Adlai E. Stevenson,
Os Illinois, to b® first assistant nnstsxiAKtar
general. Collectors of customs —Walter God
dard. at Fairfield, Conn.; B. R. Tate, at New
London, Conn.; J. C. Byxbee,at New Haven,
Conn. A large number of postmasters were
also confirmed.
■
F BRRII3N.
France is suffering from a murder epi
demic. The Paris newspapers record eleven
murders and five attempts at murder within
six days.
A girl named Collins was recently buried
alive at Woodstock, Canada. The terribl® <
fart was discovered when the body was ex- ’
burned for the purpose of removal.
General de Courcy, the French com- j
mander in Annam, has been removed.
An enormous haystack at Lemberg,
Bavaria, used in cold weather bv vagrants as
asheltermg place, caught fire' during the
night while a large number of homeless wan- '
derers were under it asleep, and was de- ;
stray ad. Twenty dead bodies were found, !
and it was thought many more had been
burned to death.
• The Belgium chamber of representatives ;
has passed a bill imposing import duties on
cereals and cattle.
William Sheehan, convicted last Decem
ber of the murder of his mother, sister and
brother at Castletownroche, Ireland, in 1877,
was banged the other day at Cork.
On M. de Leesepe' return from Panama a >
company will be formed in Paris for flooding
the great Sahara desert.
Peter Jepsen, of Petersburg, D.L, has
been expelled from Germany ~ '
I am sure that the fell power of intern- ’
perance must and will be restrained some :
day, yet I do not know how it will be ■
done. None of the methods I see advo
cated seem to me to promise absolute ’
victory, but I say “Godspeed"’ to every i
effort. Happy and good to live in is the ,
age in which any man may permit him- S
self to be grateful for any good thing j
tliat any good man is doing.— Rev. PhiL .
By a recent law in Indiana, any per
j son who knowingly permits Canada
I thistles to grow an 1 mature upon h's
! land, or land under his charge, is liable
to a fine of not less than $5, or more than
S2O, and double the amount for a second
offence. Subject to the same fines are
supervisors of the highways of the State
who allow these thistles to grow on any
road in their districts; or roadmasters
of railwav lines, through whose neirii
gence these thistles grow about stations
or along the right of way under their
supervision.
The use of natural gas as fuel is one ot
the possibilities of the near future. This
is true, not only in regard to Pittsburg
and other places where gas wells exist,
but also in towns situated at distances
remote from the supply. How to force
the gas beyond the limit to which its
natural pressure, *as it escapes from the
well, will send it, is a problem which
seems likely to soon be solved. It is
proposed to place at the limit of the
natural flow a pumping station, so that
the gas-fluid may be forced to indefinite
distances. This fluid is likely to be
sought after, as it is cheap, cleanly and
possessed of labor-saving qualities.
Manufacturers especially are interested
in obtaining a supply, as it is said to be
cheaper than any other fuel, and capable
of improving the quality of many articles
produced by iron workers.
The Chicago Times asserts that “the
popular impressions concerning the bee
must be revised. It has long been
praised for its industry and sobriety, but
it has recently been learned that in these
respects the bee is a fraud. As a matte ■
of downright, cold fact, ‘the little busy
bee’ work s but about three hours a day
and is a most thorough going loafer the
rest of the time. Its reputa
tion for sobriety is as little deserved. Its
propensity for the bowl, indeed, has be
come a sort of grievance for beekeepers.
Wherever hives are kept in the neigh
borhood of a cider mill the bees always
neglect work, go off and get full, stay
out nights, and get boisterous and dis
orderly. So addicted arc they to cider
that in some parts of the East beekeep
ers are said to have asked cider makers
to fence in their mills with fine wire net
ting. ”
The extent of the islands attached to
Alaska, and commonly known as the
Aleutian archipeligo, is so great that the
extreme western limit of United States
territory is situated in east longitude,
while the extreme western point of the
j continent of Asia, East Cape, in Behring’s
■ Strait, is in west longitude. The in-
I credulity of the average citizen will be
taxed when told that the extensive do
main embraced within the Aleutian
Islands is inhabited by a Christian, civil
ized and industrious people, who are,
by the provisions of our treaty with
Russia, entitled to the protection of the
government of the United States, having
become citizens thereof without the cere
mony of naturalization, and who live in
a climate as genial as that of Italy or
the south of France. Their claim to
Christian civilization is based on the
fact that they are members of the Gre z x
church, and that their customs nd
habits are identical with common' vili
zation. Their dress is in cons .mity,
they live in similar houses, they ,ive and
take in marriage, they send their children
to school, they eat with knives and forKS,
they get drunk and whip their wives,
like other civilized people.
A flood of light is let in on the sin
gular spread of socialism in the German
capital by statistics showing that in Ber
lin no less than 91,000 families, compris
ing 400.000 individuals, have to live,
sleep and often work in “suites” of a
single room. In 3,000 of these rooms
there is neither stove nor fireplace. One
fourth of their tenants are poor lodgers.
Twenty-five thousand families live in
cellars under sanitary conditions that
are characterized as absolutely shocking.
Speaking about this matter the New York
Tribune says: ‘ ‘Such meagre accommo
dations as our New York tenements af
ford, with their two or three rooms to
each family, are at a premium, and
would be accounted a great boon
by thousands. Only of the poorest
and the best classes of dwellings
—those renting at 10,000 reichmarks a
year or over—is there abundance, for
the Berlin builder is a speculator, not a
philanthropist. The poor have not
even the chance of going to church of a
Sunday to meditate on better things to
come, were they so minded, for all the
Protestant churches and chapels in Ber
lin have together hardly seats for 50,000,
while the servant girls alone would
number over 60,000.”
The Story of the Rain.
You can accurately tell tha man who’s mar
ried,
If you’ll notice now he acts some rainy day,
And observe how o’er his lady friend is car
ried
The umbrella that should keep the rain
away.
If you find the lady hisstrong arm gripping, i
And is walking very closely by his side,
Whue the water is upon his shoulder drip- ■
ping, *
You may know she is a maiden or a bride, i
It the drippings fall, however, on her bonnet,
And he walks about a foot or so ahead,
Then she’s nothing but his wife, depend upon >
it.
And they’ve been for half a score of win
ters wed.
—Colu nlnu Dispatch, t
Prospectus for Sir
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