Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1892 — Page 4

®|)f itMOtroittStwiinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. XW. McEWEN, - Publisher.

f A Georgia town has an ordinance Imposing a fine of $5 for shouting within the corporate limits. The convivial aldermen are growing sensitive. The new comet is said to have an unusually large and numerous tail. If ever the cobwebs are to bq,-.swept from the sky now is the time. The proper implement is at hand. The Sixth Avenue Railroad Company, of New York, has leased its franchise to a corporation for 800 years. The renewal clause probably reads for one year longer than eternity. It appears that the Board of Lady Managers is taking a lively interest In the erection of a hotel to be tenanted “by women exclusively.” This would apparently bar out members of the Board of Ladies exclusively. » Allen Forman, editor of the Journalist, who confesses himself a cigar-ette-smoker, says the “worst feature” of the habit is inhaling the smoke. This is a very common mistake. The worst feature of the cigarette habit is Its unspeakably nasty stench. Pitcher Stagg, it seems, has signed with the Chicago University as Professor of Athletics. If Inventor Edison can be prevailed upon to take charge of the electrical department of the Chicago University, the battery, so to speak, will be complete.

Mb. James Berry, retired hangman of England, has a record of one hundred and eighty-three hangings. He is now delivering a lecture through England, in which he condemns capital punishment. His chief reason is that murderers are insane at the time of the deed' and truly repentant when they come to_be hanged. Mr. James Berry 4 repmitance 1s oeTter late than never. If every hangman and other executioner in Christendom wouid quit officiating at judicial killings the state would soon quit killing murderers and dispose of them in some more civilized way. ~ v -« rtfc- • -Or m-‘ \ Lane Theological Seminary, of Cincinnati, is bent on achieving orthodoxy. Lane, in brief, is going to have all the professors examined every three months to see if they still adhere to the dogmas of the denomination to which Lane belongs. That church is one of the conservative sort' and is already preparing to deal relentlessly with Dr. Briggs and other alleged heretics. Christianity has led the world into broader thinking without losing the great distinctive fundamental doctrines of Christ. The danger to Christian truth in this age is not so much from perverted doctrine as total lack of doctrine, and the negation seems rather one of the practical life than the apprehending reason.

The backward East is being stimulated to use inventions to supply the manifold wants of her teeming millions. The English for a long time after the conquest seemed to prefer to furnish India with all needed manufactures beyond the very simple native contrivances in use for untold centuries. Industrially the Hindoos are behind their the Chinese, and a great deal is to be accomplished to place them on the same industrial plane. What is wanted is Reemployment of-better tools ; and the mofe extended^use of machinery to assist in the preparation, manipulation and manufacture of tea, incligo, cotton, and the other products of the great peninsula. The movement Is of peculiar interest to Americans for the reason that if entirely successful it may affect the production of cotton and the manufacture and export o & the raw article as well as the export and sale of the manufactured product. »

The late earthquake in California Is made the occasion of some solid preaching by the press of that State upon the necessity of better building construction. The San Francisco Chronicle, calling attention to the flat that the effect of the shocks was greatest in the small towns in the interior where the construction of buildings was most defective, holds that “the proper way tc build houses and stores and similar structures is to put good materials into them and to put them together strongly.” It contends that “brick walls, which are only two bricks wide and held together with mortar which is little better Ran sand, cannot be expected to stand against an earthquake, and that such was the character of many of the buildings that were injured is apparent.” The Chronicle concludes in a strain of practical sense: “An earthquake is bad enough and terrible enough at best, and there is no need of making it worse than it is by attributing to it results which are due primarily to defective construction.” While numbers of American students go abroad yearly to complete their studies in special branches in the great universities of Germany, England, Scotland, France and Italv, it must also be remembered that the advance in the character of our own universities has not been without recognition on the other side. , An examination of recent university shows that practically every civilized nation in the world is represented by students now in America. In a single great institution, the University of Pennsylvania, there are students from twentyoight foreign countries. The Hassa-

chusetts Institute of Technology alone shows students of. eighteen nationalities, seventeen are represented in the University of California, fifteen in both Harvard and ‘Yale, fourteen at Cornell and Michigan, ten at Princeton, nine at Lehigh, and two each in Brown atri Wesleyan. Even remote countries like Japan send many students here, Yale having this year seven Japanese students, the University of Pennsylvania six, Cornell five, Harvard four, and many other colleges one or two. Our excellent professional courses are the attraction to most of these foreigners, the University of Pennsylvania medical and dental schools showing to-day seventy-five foreign students, chiefly Europeans.

Now that the latest opening of lands in Oklahoma Territory has been concluded, the railroad lines which were laden with “boomers” and “rustlers” going into that section are laden with disappointed men and women coming out. Fully 50,000 people secured rights in the new lands, but it is safe to say that not more than 5,000 genuine settlers and men of family have been able to locate claims. These settlers represent less than one-half the new population. Many of them are without means for every-day subsistence. If reports from Kingfisher-can be relied upon, they will have a struggle for life this summer in a contention with drought, sand, and hot weather, such as will discourage many of them. It seems almost impossible to make regulations for any Opening of Government land that is not attended by disgraceful scenes, riotous proceedings, and the pre-emption of land by men in the employ of real-estate speculators at town sitqs. Two towns have sprung up in the newly occupied reservations with the characteristic names of Okarohe and Caddo Springs, the former of which is said to resemble Guthrie in the early days of the first Oklahoma land opening, and tc have fully 10,000 wooden structures in process of construction. The thousands of disappointed "families~who failed to secure fertile land in the rush of last week have still a hope in the coming opening of the Cherokee strip, whose 6,000,000 acres may give them a chance to secure homes.

If the frailties of Christopher Columbus have deprived him of canonization due to his perils and prowess, that boon might justly be bestowed in commiseration of his posthumous vicissitudes and misfortunes. To begin immortality as the discoverer of a new world only to find it diverted 400 years later Into taming monkeys seems more than sardonic fate should inflict on any man. Giacomo Galetti, a Chicago monkey trainer, who by that magnanimous courtesy that prevails in a country otherwise somewhat cold, is designated “professor,” like many men of less laborious occupation, looked one day ait the bust of Columbus in Genoa on a public monument. “By lago,” cried the professor, “that looks like my wife!” whose nee name, as properly constructed obituaries say, was Col umbo or bi or Colum something, Then he remembered that Antonia, his cara sposa, was born in Piacenza, and forthwith he went to the doge of the town and got a certificate that he, Giacomo, had married into the family of the great navigator. The monkey trainer* is now urging his adoption of the family of Columbus upon the directory, with what view is not yet clearly known, perhaps only to secure a suitable spot in the fine-arts building to show the accomplishments of his artist*. It is too had to disslpate’any man’s dfeam, especially the dreams of one who is engaged in showing what Nature would have done had she kept right on making monkeys into men instead of turning around in her wicked glee to make so many men into monkeys. But veritas prevtelebit ruat ccelum; the Genoa monument bust Is a purely imaginary portrait constructed in 1862; and kinship claimed for the Genoese cloth-weav-er’s son with the nobility of the province of Piacenza was an invention of the dudish Ferdinand after his father had become admiral and he a courtier. The monkey trainer has married into areal Columbus aristocracy, and when he adduces the coat of arms of the navigator to confirm his claims, he only revives the pitiful story that Columbus was persuaded to ask their royal nibs of Spain to let him use that foppery in order to make up appearances wholly theatrical. There are less difficult and more profitable occupations than monkey training, among them marrying into European aristocracy. “Professor”Galetti should go right on training his guileless and docile simians. There’s both honor and money in that.

The Pint in America.

In a queer nook in New York City, amid scenes and surroundings strongly savoring of the Oriental, a journalistic child has been born. It is the first child of its particular nationality to be born in the United States. It has been christened Kawkab America, meaning the Star of America. It is a little four-page, four-columns-to-a-page paper and is printed partly in Arabic and partly in English. Upon its editorial staff can be found more good linguists than on that of any paper in the United States. There is not one of its members who cannot speak and write at least five different languages.

To Harden Tools.

It is said that engravers in Germany harden their tools in sealing wax. The tool is heated to whiteness and plunged into the wax, withdrawn after an instant, and plunged in again, the process being repeated until the steel is toe cold to enter the wax. The steel is said to become after this process almost as hard as the diamond.

STYLES FOR SOMMER.

GARMENTS THAT ACCORD WITH THE LILAC’S BLOOM. The Jacket Will Continue to Be Ftahlon’i Most Striking Exemplification that Grace and Utility May Be Succeudully Com-bined-Outdoor Gown*. Fashion’* Latest Fancies.

S in London and Paris, so in New York, the month of May is the bright particular season during which the woman of fashion unfolds her early summer plumage for the delight and edification of her townspeople, writes Clara Belle .from New York, i During May she is quite content to display her magnificence upon the fashionable av e -

nues and thoroughfares, but with the coming of June flag and asphalt grow too warm for her dainty feet, and she gets restless like bees when the inclination to swarm seizes upon them. Nowadays, the big cities 6ee less and less of the gorgeousness of summer toilets, for the reason that the outing season begins so much earlier and lasts so much longer; and then comes the supplemental season, which keeps the fair creatures out of town until late in the autumn. However, May is queen now, so, long live the Queen! . The fact is, too, that the latter half of May often affords the woman of fashion a softer light and more favorable atmosphere than the much lauded Juno weather, for the reason that the first foliage, the first flowers, the first greensward, springing as they do from the cool lap of tearful April, are the most tender, delicate and fullest of earth's sweetness, and therefore It is that to-day I sing the early summer gown, the garb that accords with the lilac’s bloom and perfume. In my initial Illustration you look upon a oharming specimen of that garment which has been well named the “style giver.” I mean a becoming jacket. This season, more than ever, the jacket will continue to be fashion’s most striking exemplification that grace and utility may be successfully com-

LACE PELERINE.

blned. This particular garment may be made up In serge or cheviot, black or blue; and be embroidered with braid laid on as indicated. The jacket closeß all the way down the front, and the braided design is contained on both sides. The collar and yoke should be of velvet, the embroidery covering the seams. In front the yoke peaches nearly to the bust line. If I am right in maintaining that Lowell should have located his “rare June day" in the latter part of May, why then the very stylish young person represented in my second illustration wears a vqry appropriate garb tq do hfasr to day—a lace pSilrTne of marked distinction. Upon a muslin or grenadine yoke, round and well-fitting, you gather the lace, which must be about three yards in length to give the requisitefullness, and the pleats must be close together and sewed to the yoke in such a way as to form the ruffle shown in the picture. The collar consists of ruched lace set off with a bow of double-faced satin ribbon with long ends. As there is always a great deal of marrying and giving in marriage at this season of the year, I am sure you will be glad to know not how the bride must be dressed, for every one knows that, ,but how the bride's mother should be attired. Of course, if I were writing for men I should take good care to suppress the mother-in-law, for ever since the day that Simon Peter’s wife’s mother lay sick of that fever, mothers-in-law have, justly or unjustly, I’m not prepared to say, been more or less objects of banter and ridicule. It is very ridicu-

bride’s MOTHER IN BROCADE.

lous, for brides will never grow on bushes or drop out of the clouds, even though the marriage be made in Heaven. The altogether lovely gown worn by this charming mother-in-law that, is soon to be is a silver-gray brocade with sliver spadgles. The middle of the skirt front and the saw-teeth of the lower edge are ornamented with silver wire ribbon. The saw-teeth fall over a

flounce of gathered lace. The train calls for three breadths of the brocade. It is rounded and forms two large box-pleats. The corsage closes at the back, being round in front and pointed at the back. There is a draped celnture starting from the side seams and a draped lace effect over the bust, and the upper sleeves are also gracefully draped with lace. Fan and hat to match, with flowers aigrettewise. To listen to (he enumeration of summer stuffs, foulards, batistes, crepons, grenadines, you would be tempted to cry out: “Why, these are the very same materials that you offered us last season." But wait till you see them; wait till these dainty fabrics are unrolled before your eyes. Then you’ll find that there has been no furbishing up of old styles or old patterns. They are new

ARTISTIC OUTDOOR GOWN.

creations, absolutely. Solofnon himself would be obliged to confess this, ana the lilies would be forced to hide their quaker heads, so bright, so beautiful ore these tissues for summer wear. In my fourth picture I present an extremely stylish outdoor costume in silver-gray crepon, with a lace jabot. Be careful to allow extra length of skirt for the tucks indicated. At the back the train Is hooked to the waist, and to accomplish this there must be an opening in the basques, which are sewed on. The under fronts are made over fitted linings and are covered with pleated crepe de chine or silk muslin. The jabot effect is very original and stylish, as you will note, being gathered at the neck, then dividing into parts • and cascading to the waist line, where they run to a point. The pointed belt, like the plastron, is sewed on one side and hooked on the other, and made over buckram. The lining of the collar closes in the middle, the pleated material at the side. The outer fronts of the corsage fall quite straight with a shawl collar trimmed with silk. There is no seam in the middle of the back, and you must therefore hollow* out the side seams more than usual. The leg-o’-mutton sleeves have a narrow bias of silk at the cuffs. With this charming costume you may wear a bronze-colored rice straw hat trimmed with a band oi watered pink ribbon, a bunch of roses and green grain-heads. It will be hardly possible for you to find anything in the line of stuff gowns for outdoor wear more tastefully and prettily designed than this.

If our only indebtedness to the Orient were the fan and the sunshade, it would be a hard one to pay off, foi these two articles of the feminine paraphernalia enter so closely and intimately into a woman’s every-day life that they grow to be part of her. In "her hands a fan becomes endowed with life. It lives and almost breathes. Only a little imagination is necessary to regard It as a wing growing from the hand instead of from the ankle oi shoulder. It keeps time with the holder’s heart, beats in unison with her feelings, now waving gently and slowly, now fluttering wildly, now beckoning

AN OUT-DOOR GIRL.

towards her, now bidding adieu. True, a sunshade is hardly capable of so much feeling, but yet a sunshade is a potent weapon in a woman’s hands, not only against old Sol’s rays, but against milder beams, too. Or it may cease to be a weapon and become an encourager of glances by timidly and coquettishly raising its edge to let these glances in. In my last illustration I picture a figure that becomes very familiar before the summer is over—the young girl with a sunshade—and a glance at the drawing shows how easy it is to increase by a graceful touch the close relations existing between girl and shade, by which movement she bends an arch ot silk between herself and some one else’s self. The young lady in question wears a .striking costume of brocaded woolen material, with a belt in beaded passementerie. The gown is cut princess at the back. At the front it consists of corsage and skirt. It hooks at the back; the skirt opening closes with a flap which is hidden under the pleats. The back has no seam. The belt is caught into the side seams and the braces end with fringed rosettes. The joining of skirt and corsage is hidden under the belt. The corsage front has no seam. It is included in the side seams with the lining. The leg-o’-mut-ton sleeves, the material and lining of which are or the same width, have only one seam, whi:h Is on the inside. From the belt the beaded fringe reaches nearly half way down the front and runs somewhat to a point. The skirt may be lined with thin silk or satinette. Great care should be taken to avoid wrinkling in the back. The great designers are still exercising their ingenuity over the skirt, which in growing tighter at the top becomes wider and longer at the bottom. At first they were satisfied by calling it the bell, but that term no longer applies. Now it is the trumpet. This last form consists In making up the back with one breadth of wide material, the two sides of which are turned over shawl-wise from the top so that the’ middle of the book is in the straight line of the material, and thus the trumpet shape is attained.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can’t bring down.

A'TOWN BADLY SHAKEN

THE RECENT EARTHQUAKE IN VACAVILLE. CAL. Bulpharon* Flames Bunt from Fluures In the Ground—Twenty or More Town* Buffered In Varlou* Parts ot ths State, but Nobody Was Killed. Work of the Quake. A large part of the town of Vacaville, in Solano County, Cal., was demolished or damaged by an earthquake on April 19. The accompanying illustrations will convey some idea of the effects of that earthquake. On the road from the railroad depot to the town nothing was left standing, except a school which will need rebuilding, to a bridge over Ulatis Creek, a distance of about a mile. Main street, the principal business thoroughfare, suffered almost as much. Two hundred stores here were ruined. The Presbyterian Church and the Brunswick Hotel, on Main street, both of wood, were badly cracked but not destroyed. The house of W. J. Dobbins, on the Gibson Canyon road, considered the handsomest in the town, was ruined, as may be 6een. The roof was split in two and the building left entirely unfit to live in again. Several members of this family narrowly escaped with their lives. Miss Dobbins and her friend, Miss Hill, were rescued from under a pile of timber two feet deep. Their bed was immediately under the place where the roof was rent in two, and it is said that the greater part of a brick chimney fell through the gap upon them. Their escape was inexplicable. It is recorded that, while the Dobbins house and everything in the way of brick work in its neighborhood was wrecked, two great water tanks on poles sixteen feet high were undisturbed, and wooden outhouses were uninjured. Dobbins declares his intention of rebuilding his house, so that it will be proof against future shocks. The wife of L. C. Davis, whose house, a mile south of Vacaville, was wrecked, was another lucky one. A heavy partition fell over her as she

was in bed, but was held up by a loosened window frame. Garland Gates’ house was destroyed and several persons were injured, but they quickly recovered. The type in the Enterprise newspaper office was considerably pied by the earthquake. The fact that no one was killed and that so many people escaped from terrible danger are things that should make the people of Vacaville happy, in spite of the loss of their property. In view of the destruction done, it seems hardly credible that every persou concerned should have paissed serious injury. In several buildings two walls were destroyed and two others were left standing. A. C. Stevenson, the conductor of a railroad train,' said that some of the passengers remarked when they felt the earthquake that they were going over a remarkably bad piece of track. The first person in Vacaville probably to notice the approach of the earthquake was S. N. Bettis, the night watchman of the town. He reports that the morning was clear and starlight and that a cold breeze was blowing, and he was walking down Main street, from west to east, with his lantern in his hand, when his attention was attracted by a rumbling sound which came from the hills to the west of the town. The noise resembled distant thunder or the roaring of water which had suddenly been let loose by the bursting of huge dam-gates. Bettis stood still and listened a few seconds, while the noise increased to a roar and the ground beneath his feet

KEMPFER'S SALOON.

seemed to heave up. “The motion at first was from west to east,” said he, "and then several violent shocks passed from north to south. I felt as if on the deck of a vessel during a heavy storm, and I put my hands to the ground to prevent myself from falling on my face. After that brick walls and chimneys began to fall all around and the noise for a minute or so was deafening. Occasionally I could hear the shrieks of women above the din, and soon people? began to rush into the street in their night clothes. They were terrified and huddled together like sheep, but as soon as the shock passed away the men in the party regained their nerve, although the women still remained in a highly excited state and would not return to their dwellings. ” The Chinese quarter, consisting of wooden shanties, was not injured, and the inhabitants in very few places left their beds. One Chihaman thought the anti-Mongolian agitators were after him and ran out to seek protection from a policeman. When he found that merely an earthquake was taking place he went back to bed. It was an earthquake distinguished by the loudness of the noises that accompanied it. Sulphurous flames burst from fissures in the ground and this strengthened the impression that the shock was of internal origin. Two or three slight shocks, which did

little serious damage but were not felt without distrust by the people, occurred on subsequent days. Twenty or more towns and villages in the State were damaged. San Francisco was slightly shaken. It is reported that the waters of a creek were thrown out twenty feet

on either side, and that afterward fissures were discovered in the bed. The creek appeared to an eye-witness to explode.

MR. REID’S SUCCESSOR.

He I| a Bostonian and HU Name 1* T. J, Coolldge. Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, who has been nominated Minister to France,

minister coolidge. tered the East India trade, embarking in business under the firm name of Gardner & Coolidge, his partner being the late Joseph Gardner. In 1858, attracted by the manufacturing business, he accepted the presidency of the Boott Manufacturing Company, with large cotton mills at Lowell. The com-

MAIN STREET, VACAVILLE.

pany was then in a very weak financial condition, but before he left it, two or three years later, he had rebuilt the mills and established their trade on a sound footing. His public services include a representation of Massachustts at the Pan-American Congress, when his principal work was the bringing in of a minority report against the free coinage of silver, which was accepted. Mr. Coolidge has never taken a prominent public part in Massachusetts politics. He has always been classed as a Republican, although his partisan proclivities have never been of a pronounced type. He has amassed a considerable fortune, and is at the head of many charitable enterprises. He erected the Jefferson Physical Laboratory at Harvard at a cost of $116,000, and gave to the town of Manchester $40,000 for a publio library some time since.

COLUMBUS’ FIRST CHURCH.

A Movement to Mark the Starting Point of Christian Clvtllia lon in America. A movement, first broached by Mr. Thomas H. Cummings of Boston and taken up by the Sacred Heart Review of that city, to erect a monument to Columbus on the site of his first settlement in the new world, at Isabella, in Santo Domingo, has progressed so far that committees are actively at work, and the statue is being modeled by Alois Buyens. The figure represents Columbus in an attitude of thanksgiving to God and pointing to the first settlement in the new world. The statue and pedestal are made from designs drawn at the State Normal Art School by Mr. R. Andrew, under the direction of Prof. George Jepson. It contemplates a figure eight feet two inches high, Including the plinth, mounted on a pyramid of coral and limestone twelve feet high, which, in its turn, is crowned by a capstone of dressed granite, on which the statue will rest.

The Dominican government when communicated with readily granted the site and the necessary privileges, including the free entry of material With these concessions in hand a committee came to Washington, D. C. and obtained from officials there assurances of co-operation and support. Mr. W. E. Curtis, the head of the bureau of American republics, was added to the monument committee. A committee of citizens has been formed at Puerta Plata to co-operate with the Boston coAmittee in appropriately celebrating the quadrocentennial. It is proposed to erect the monument on the site of Isabella over the ruins of the first Catholic clfurch in the new world. In view of the increasing interest in the object for which the committee are working, it is hoped to make the monument even more worthy of the event celebrated and to have a colossal statue in bronze the cost of which will be about SIO,OOO. The original plan contemplated an expenditure of only $3,000 or $5,000. This monument is intended to mark the starting point of Christian civilization in America.

The phonograph is successful in diplomacy. When Muley el Hassan, Sultan of Morocco, placed the tubes in his ears and heard “Annie Rooney* he at once told the World’s Fair agents to take what they wanted in his kingdom and leave him the phonograph. The devil has a hard fight to hold hiß own in the home where there is a praying mother.

THE DOBBINS HOUSE.

is a grandson of Thomas Jefferson. He was born in Boston, Aug. 20, 1831; was graduated from Harvard and went to ! Europe, where he continued his studies; returning to Boston, he en-

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

One of the most beautiful of Patti’l possessions, which she showed to severed of her friends during her recent viiiit to Cincinnati, is her watch. Its size is not larger than a ten-cent piece. It is completely studded with diamonds,' so that the case is -one mass of brilliant, sparkling gems. Experts value it at not less than SI,OOO. It is a foreign, open-faced, stem-winding watch. There is no European country in which women clerks are more employed than in France. Indeed, it is rare to enter a French shop and find a man serving as an accountant. Bookkeepers are paid from £4O to £l2O a year, and accountants much the sameT In the commercial houses, where the women clerks are also employed, they often have an interest in the business. The British Government spends about $2,865,000 annually in -supporting the royal family. Of this sum Queen Victoria receives $1,425,000; the Prince and Princess of Wales $250,000; their children together, $180,000; the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of Connaught $125,000 each; the daughters, Princesses Christian, Louise, Beatrice and the Duohess of Albany $30,000 each. The publio schools in Deming, N. M., had to be closed recently because a violent sand storm prevailed. Little incidents like that indicate the inconvenience, distress and positive danger, not easly comprehended by Eastern dwellers, caused by the miniature simoons in the dry, sandy prairie and the hot-plain districts of the West. The storms come up suddenly, the sky is darkened as by a thunder storm, everything is enveloped in a dlinding whirl of tine sand, and seeing is impossible. The worst lasts for a few minutes only usually, but for hours the sand is wisked about in u most distressing manner.

The air-shaft, which was originally devised for the purpose of improving the ventilation and sanitation of the huge apartment and tenement houses, in New York, where scores and even hundreds of families are gathered together under one roof, is gradully being diverted from its original use. Instead of remaining an instrument of health and life, it is becoming an engine of destruction. It is by degrees taking the plaoe of po'son razors and pistols as a meane of suicide. The number of men and women who have sought the repose of death by hurling themselves down the air-shaft of the houses in which they resided is becoming akirming.

The disastrous effeot upon shipping of the storms that have been so frequent this past winter on the British coasts, and of such unusual violenoe, have suggested to the proprietors of the Daily Graphic, of London, to offer a prize of one hundred pounds for the dest means of establishing communication between a stranded Bhip and the shore. Many sketches and plans have been submitted already, but a few weeks have still to elapse before the various proposals will be submitted to the three judges, one of whom is an Admiral in the royal navy. In the mean time there is an excellent opportunity for Yankee ingenuity to enter the competition, which is generously open to the whole world, and perhaps to capture the prize. “More has been done in the way of irrigation in California than in any other State or Territory. That it does pay there can be no question. Large areas which, in their arid condition, could not be sold for more than from $1 to $5 an aore, have been made in the highest degree productive, and are worth to-day from S2OO to SI,OOO per acre. Figures clearly show that irrigation has added millions upon millions of dollars to the tand value of California. In some cases there are complete waterworks establishments, owned by corporations, which, by ditfehes'and conduits, supply water to the turrounding region at an average cost of only from $1.25 to $1.50 each acre per year. For orchards, vineyards and grain lands this is not a great cost. Irrigation is making thousands of men rich. As nearly as can be ascertained, the irrigated lands of California comprise three and one-half million acres. Irrigation has oost $20,000,000, but it has increased the value of the land $500,000,000, perhaps twioe that. The superintendent of the United States census has sent to press a bulletin on artesian wells for irrigation, prepared by Mr. F. H. Newell, special agent in charge of statistics of irrigation. The total number of artesian wells on farms in June, 1890, in the states and territories forming the western half of the United States numbered 8,097, representing an estimated aggregate investment of sl,988,461. Of that number 3,990 are employed in irrigation. The average depth per well is 210,41 feet, the average cost per well is $245.58, the discharge of water per minute is 440,719 gallons, or 54.43 gallons per well, per minute, the average area irrigated per well is 13.02 acres, and the average cost of water per aore irrigated is $18.82. Over one-half of these wells are in the state of California, where 38,378 acres of agricultural land were irrigated by artesian water. Utah stands second in the number of artesian wells used for irrigation purposes, and Colorado in the area of land thus irrigated.

It is well known that the United States are fast crowding Switzerland out of the watch market, and .there is no part of the world, no matter how remote, where the tick of the American watch cannot be heard. To-day American factories turn out 35,000 watches a week. Almost the only time -pieces imported are repeaters, stop-watches, and those having ipecial movements which bring a high price. Comparatively few key-winders are now manufactured in this country, the stem-winder being easily the favorite watch. The farming population in some parts of the country, however, still sticks to the old style. The size of watches has diminished, and only in the West oan the big watches of our fathers be •old. A leading dealer was asked the other day if there was a watoh trust. “No” he said, “only a combination between the larger concerns to maintain prices. There would hot be so many watches made or such ruinous competition if there was a trust, as the word is understood.”

The World’s Clove Caddies.

TwS little islands furnish four-fifths of the doves consumed by the world. The islands are Zanzibar and Pemba, and a little while ago Arabs found it very profitable to bring slaves from the African lake region to the ooast and smuggle them in the night over to Pemba to work on the clove plantations. These farms were very remunerative once, but the market has been overstocked and the price has fallen so low that the cloveraisers hare deoided to diversify their crops.—[New Orleans Picayune.