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THE centennials of important events connected with American independence are now all ended. A celebration of an occurrence, however, which has an especial interest I or everybody on this Continent, and in which all the rest of the world even should have some concern, will take place about three years hence. The year 1892 will be the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, and the event will be observed by an Imposition at Washington, in which all the Governments of the Western Hemisphere are to be represented. Columbus may not have been the first civilized man t© set foot on this Continent, but as he had the g'^od sense aud public spirit to wake his discovery known while* the others didn't, he is the man who is going to be honored.

Adventure oi'a Fat Pig.

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W. S. MONTGOMERY.

INDIANA

CANADA is meeting with a smaller

share

of success than the United States in dealing with the trust problem. The former is seeking to enact new legislation to meet the evil, wliile the latter, in the sugar combine case at leest, is attacking it by existing laws. The Sugar Trust has met with a reverse in the courts in New York, and while it has not been crippled as yet, it has lost its air of arrogance and jaunty self-con-fidence. There is a strong conviction in the minds of intelligent Americans that the "combines" can be regulated by the oidinary laws against conspiracies, whenever the gentlemen responsible for the enforcement of these lawn condescend to perform their duties.

A WRiLK ago the British Government asked all of its colonies if they would give their encouragement and co-opera-tion to a scheme of State directed and assisted emigration from the British Islands. Much to the surprise of the Colonial Secretary, only two colonies, Natal and West Australia, would listen to the scheme at all. Some of the colonies, like Canada, are doing all they can to attract a fine class of immigration, but in new countries, where pluck and perseverance are essential to success, ne'er-do-wells who have to be helped away from home are just the sort of people who are not wanted. The fact is that most of the regions into which Europe has been pouring her overflow for years are becoming a little more particular about the newcomers, and there are already indications of a time when Europe will be asked to keep her sons right out a larfin at home unless Bhe can send out pretty choice specimens. The probability that Europe's present dumping grounds for surplus population will before long be reduced in area probably explains in part her recent frantic scramble for new colonial possessions.

Liverpool Courier: Fat has its value, and here is an instance duly recorded in the municipal peporfcs of the Citv of Dover. On the 14th of December, 1810, a pig was buried in its sty through the fall of part it. of the cliff under Dover Castle. The sty consisted of a cave in the rock about 6 feet square, and boarded in front, and when the accident happened the pig was in good condition, weighing about 160 pounds. Five months afterward, on the 23d of May, 1811, some workmen, who were engaged in clearing away the debris of the fallen cliff, mentioned to Dr. Mentell, a well-known geologist of the day and a fellow of the Linhean Society, that they were sure they heard the pig whining. He thought the statement incredible, but ordered them to clear away the chalk as fast as they couM, and, sure enough, when they got to the sty the pig was there, weak and emaciated, fallen to only a fourth of hie former weight, but alive.

In 160 days he had been strictly selfgupporting, living on the stores of fat he had laid up in more prosperous times. There were, however, evidence of his sufferings in the wood that shut in the sty being nibbled away in places, while he had licked the sides of the cave smooth in his attempt to obtain the moisture exuding from the rock.

A "Painter" Let Go

Youth's Companion

Every sailor has his story of the mistake wkich "landlubbers" make over the names of things at sea, which always seem to be exactly the opposite of what they are on land. A sheet, for instance, instead of being something broad, like a sheet of cloth or a sheet of water, is nothing but a rope.

A new boy had come on board a West India ship, upon which a painter had also been employed to paint the ship's side.

The painter was at work upon a stag, ing suspended under the ship's sternThe captain, who had just got into a boat alongside, called out to the new boy, who stood leaning over the rail. '.'Let go the painter!"

Everybody should know that a boat's painter is the rope which makes it fast, but this boy did not know it. He ran aft and let go the ropes by which the painter's stage was held.

THE OLD SETTLER.

He »pins a Fish Story that is Probably True.

Ed. Mott in N. Y. Sun. But mentionin' catfish, I kin tell ye th't they'm pooty durn smart, too, but their smartness often shoves 'em inter trouble th't they hain't smart enough to wiggle out of. Th' usety be some 'stoundin'big catfish in the SugarSwamp mill pond, an' many a one hev I inveigled to the fryin' pan. One day I were fishin' up at the inlet, w'en all of a suddent a catfish with a mouth iike the openin' in the leg of a No. 12 gum boot sprung clean outen the water and jrabbed my line jist above whar the cork floated on the water, an', cuttin' it off as if he'd done it with a pair o' shears, down he went ag'in witn line, cork, an'all. The thing were so suddent th't it skeert me at fust, an' bavin' no more hooks, I turned to go hum. Then I seen a break in the water, an' lookin' back, thar were the catfish with bis head an? half his body st.ickin' bove the water. The cork were in the catfish's mouth, an' ez I turned an' see him he kinder winked one o' his eyes, give a gulp, an' down inter his maw went my cork. Then he winked t'other eve an' duv down to the bottom ag'n. "I'd often heerd my pop eav th't catfish were the conearndest things th' was for jokin' a feller en they took it into their head, but this were the fust time I'd ever see it. I got mad. I hurried hum, got some more hooks an' two or three big corks an' some nice fat pork fer bait, an' trotted back to the pond with my mind made up to fish for that ol' catty till he got tired o" jokin', settled down to serious business, an' got the hook in his jaw. Wull, sir, 'Squire, I hadn't scarcely chucked in 'foro that durn catfish snapped the line jifctas he had afore, an' went through ins monkey trick o' ewallowin' the cork. I didn say a word, but put on another hook, baited it, aa' throw'd in ag'n. Snap! went the line, and guipy-te-gulp went the cork down the catty's gullet ag'in, an' by this time he aeta'ly looked to me 'zif he were splittiu' his sides a larfin' at me, But I. kep' calm ez new butterwiUr. an' baited another hook, put on another cork, and give Mr. Catfish another chance. Jibfc the same ez afore, an' then I could see th't the catty thort he were liavin' fun enough with me to skake ali the water outen the pond. "That last dip took all my corks, but I wa'n't agointer to give it up so, an' I mosied over hum fer sum more. On my way an idee hit me, an' I busted

Meantime the captain wearied with waiting to be cast off. "You rascal!" he called, "why don't so had pretty Mrs. you let go the painter?" who served Presiden "He's gone, sir," said the boy. brisk- lemonade gathered in his presence from jy! "he's gone—pots, brushes and pill"

"'You've ben havinJ a heap o' fun with me, Mr. Catty,' I says, 'an' now we'll see bow ye'll like my bavin' some fun with you, b'gosh!' "I went hum an' didn't say a word to nobody. I filled a two-quart pail with big corks an' jogged back to the pond.' 'Now,' I eays. 'ye like corks so dnrn weil,' I says, 'I'll jis' set an' feed ye a few.' I says. "I sot down an' tossed a cork in the water. The catfish snapped it an' had bis same ol( fun with me a swaUerin' of

I kep' on tosstin' corks and he kep' on gulpin' of 'em, till I'd chucked more'n a quart to him. 1 b^gun to git oneasy, but were kinder braced up ag'in w'en I see th't the catfish wa'n't larfin' quite as much ez he had ben. Suddently, jist arter gulpin' down an' oncommou big un, an' goia' back to the bottom, he kim a raisin' to the topez if he'd ben a blow'd up pig's bladder. The minute I see him try to dive, an' 'stid o' divin' he stood on his head a secon' an' then popped up outen the water, an tumbled an' floated on the pond ez light ez any feather, I know'd my leetle game had worked. The corks he had swallered had made him so light th't he couldn't do anything but jist lay on top o' the water an' float an' wiggle. He laid fer a minute a lookin' at me kinder mournful like, an' then turned over on his back an' floated in to shore fer me to git him, much ez to cay: 'Yer too many fer me, an' I weaken. I'm your meat!' "An' yit folks say, 'Squire, th't th' hain't no fish no more 'cept trout.1"

The Century's Change in Women. MuconTolcgraoh. Of all the changes which have taken place in thft hundred years of the life of the Republic, one which is very marked is never spoken of —the revolution in the fashionable Bhapa of women's shoulders. Look at Blytho's portrait of Mrs. John Adams, painted when she was twenty-two, the one with the triple string of pearls about the throat. The shoulders are curved downward in a full oval. Girls in her day were trained to let their arms hang pendant, to depress the shoulders and to poise the head up on a swan-like neck. Look at the painting of Lady Kitty Duer, the friend of Mrs. John Jay and one of the belles of the inauguration ball. The points of the shouIders drop downward until the line of the arms seems only a continuation of the lino of neck and shoulders. Look at Mrs. John Jay herself, the wonderful American beauty, who looked so much like Marie Antoinette that the audience in a Paris theatre once roae to their feet to do her royal honor. She had lining shoulders, and

James Beekman,

who served President Washington with

her own lemon trees. Could you find a

sloping shoulder to-day? Fashion no longer eonsiders the loug, drooping line elegant or beautiful, and fashion, within a comparatively recent period, has evolved, by accelerated development, the full, square, high shoulder, bigger framed, smacking of the gymnasium, which is the present ideal. Square shoulders are almost universal.

TlMriKAME NOTES

Rhode Island has a local W. C. T. U. for every ten square miles of territory. The Minnesota Legislature has passed a bill declaring drunkenness acrime aud providing for its punishment.

The Minnesota Legislature, has made it a misdemeanor for any newspaper to print more than the mere announcement of a criminal's execution.

It is reported that there are now six female police officers in London and that seven others are about to be appointed.

The Northwestern Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee lias decided to refuse a life insurance policy to any lager beer brewer or to anv man employed in a lager beer brewery, 3taLing that the business is injured by the shortened lives ox men who drink lager beer.

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has ordered that no atamps be issued to liquor dealers intending to open business in Oklahoma. It is claimed that Oklahoma lies within the limits of the Indian Territory, and that the laws prohibiting the sale of liquor in the territoxv app'.v in consequence to the Oklanorna section.

The use of tea cigarettes is the latest freak of Parisian women. The effect on the nerves is said to be much more marked than that caused by tobacco. Some women who were arrested and charged with intoxication, proved that they had used nothing stronger than tea, which they chewed in large quantities.

Western Springs, Illinois, is enjoying what may be termed a tobacco sensat ion. The Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor, at a recent meeting, made an astonishing revelation of the amount of cigars and tobacco sold in the town by two local dealers, the facts having been quietly obtained from the dealers themselves. Devotees of the weed indignantly claim exaggeration but quite in vain. It is further shown that this estimate affords but a partial criterion of the whole amount used, many smokers supplying thomfcelves in the neighboring city.

The Palm Leaf, published at Bombay, says that the Maharajah of the State of Baroda and his entire court are total abstainers and do all in their power to discourage the drinking habits of the people, but that the British government is making success difficult.

A CHAXGE ~OF SEm"UH»T.

The Stars and Stripes ¥ow Greeted with Cheers When Oisplayed in London.

Pittsburg Dispatch. There is a significant aud remarkable change of late in the attitude of Englishmen, and particularly of the English press, toward America. All the London dailies since the beginning of the centennial inauguration ceremonies in New York have published leaders commenting in the most complimentary fashion on American events. Particular stress is laid on the fact that the Samoan conference in Berlin is carried on in English, and this conference is looked upon as the debut of the United States in European diplomacy.

The change in our favor in other quarters is decided. .Last year about this time the comedians of the different theaters were unceasing in their satire upon things American, and they usually had the sympathies of the house with them. Now the American flag is waiv ing in a number of London theaters, and it is greeted in a fashion that, is rather startling. At the most pretentious ballet that London has ever seen there is a parade of soldiers of different nations, and the audience expresses its sentiments as the flags are brought forward to the national airs. The British flag is of course cheered first then comes the German standard and hisses and shrieks of "Battenbe.rg," after which there is usually a more or less riotous demonstration against the Russian imperial (standard. At the tail end of the procession a score of Yankee middies bring the American (lag down to the flootlights. It takes.

Evreybody was surprised at the reception this flag received on the first night. Prolonged applause turned into cheering, and ever since the stais and stripes have played the moBt conspicuous part in the spectacle.

In the Gaiety and Avenue theaters the flag is also produced alongside of the British colors, with an effect that is the more striking, since the flag is so seldom cheered in public at home. American slang, in its anglicised and incomprehensible form, is increasing its foothold. I do not think anybody has a remote idea what it refers to, but it probably has some connection with a switchback road. v,

Liunehooii Carp.

London is to have "luncheon cars." Each car is to carry about with it a cook, together with a cooking apparatus and a good supply of the necessary raw materials, and to prevent the charge of obstruction or anything of the kind the public will be invited to enter ,tihe vehicles and take their cheap l^hcheon en route* soto speak.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Bedford will bore for natural gas. The city treasury of Crawfordsviiie contains $23,089.80.

Union county will erect, an infirmary building, costing $16,000. Columbus coopers are out on a strike against a reduction in wages.

The Muncie Gun Cluo has taken the enforcement of the game law in hand. Dora Dant, a real, live poet, has been elected a member of the Washington City Council.

In the recent town election, Argus was the only place electing an out-and-out Prohibition ticket.

The last election at Crawfordsviiie forever settles the cow question, and that animal cannot roam at large there hereafter.

Fred Steinman. of Chesterfield, has been called to Germany to prove his claim to the estate of his father, valued at $30,000.

Mrs. Mena Nelson, of Attica, injured by a fall from a Big Four train at Lafayette Junction, has brought suit against the company for $15,000 damages.

George Weaver, of Fayette county, ran a knife into his hand, severing an artery. He fainted from loss of blood, and in falling struct his head against an obstruction, causing concussion of the brain.

Geo. Roth, Democratic candidate for Marshal of Edinburg, who was defeated by one vote, will contest the election on the ground of illegal votes cast and that the insnectors were not all legally qualified.

William Guntie, "who is working on perpetual motion near Huntington, it, annoyed with warning letters from unknown parties, advising him to pay less attention to perpetual motion and more to his family.

The Delaware county enumeration of persons between the ages ox six and twenty-one, shows an increase over last year oi 856, and Muncie gains 412. The total population of Muncie and its suburbs is eetimated at 34,415.

Mrs. Ellen Moss, of New Albany, grieving over the death of her daughter, twice attempted suicide with laudanum, and on the 10th inst. she swallowed a dose of corrosive sublimate, and, after terrible suffering, died last Friday night.

A dainty young belle of Vineennes visited an undertaking establishment and asked permission to try on the cap which Grubbs wore at the time of his execution. I-Jer wish was gratified and the little lady walked off' contentedly.

Goshen is exercised over the fact that Harry A. Butterfleld and Anna J. Beck, society people, were married one year ago, and so carefully guarded was the tecret that it was not known until this week, when, it was made public by the principals.

Martin Flush, near Plea-ant. Valley, while digging on his farm unearthed what appeared to be a stone book, but inspection showed it to be a family Bible, bearing the date of 1773. plainly lettered. It ia claimed that it was originally a real book, but is now petrified.

Charles Huggins, Sr., of Elkhart, is eighty-nine years old and a da^ laborer, doing his stint with men much younger in years. For sixty-five years he worked as a shoemaker, never took a drink of intoxicants, never smoked or chewed tobacco, and he has never been sick a day in his life.

William Keller of Anderson, met his wife upon the street, Saturday night, knocked her down with a stone and attempted to cut her throat, inflicting several vicious gashes. The woman was dangerously injured. The parties separated some months ago, by reason, of Keller's ill-treatment.

Arthur Beeler aged nineteen, of Union Mills, was found lying in the woods Monday, with a gun clasped in his arms, he having committed suicide by blowing out his brains. The youngster had been disappointed in love, having been jilted by a girl with whom he was keeping company.

The Standard Oil Company will build a refinery at Whiting, just inside the Indiana line, seventeen miles distant from Chicago, which is expecied to be the largest refinery in the world, and which will control the western and southwestern trade. It will be used in refining the Ohio crude oil, carried by the Lima pipe line.

The oil boom at Terre Haute is assuming big prooortions, the experts from the eastern oil regions, who hurried there during the past week, having pronounced the oil to be of a superior qaal ity and the well continuing its output with no diminution, there is a rush for land on which to sink wells. No less than twenty stock companies are forming, to sink wells.

Congressman McClellaii, of Fort Wayne, has accepted an invitation to attend the parliamentary conference at Paris, beginning June 29, the invitation coming from a committee representing the legislative branches of England and France, and intended to include representatives from all the leading countries. The object is to consolidate and perpetuate peaceful relations by means of arbitration treaties.

Friday night while David Hetch and Mrs. Gas. Meyer were out driving at Evansville, they were attacked by Mr. Meyer, ber divorced husband, who attempted to drag the lady from the carriage. This was prevented, and as the couple drove away Mr. Meyer began shooting, the bullets missing the aim And one striking Hon. Jack Nolan, who was walking near, in the fleshy part of the leer. Mr. Nolan was a member of the last General Assembly.

The largest fish of the carp species ever caught, in White river was pulled out with a hook and line by Samuel Hupp, a farmer, who resides four miles east oi Muncie. The fish measured twentyseven inches in length and weighed fifteen pounds. The breaking of fish ponds throughout Delaware county that were stocked with German carp a few years ago has made this species of fish very plentiful in White river, a great many being caught that weigh from five to seven pounds.

A fine blooded horse belonging to P. K. McCarthy, of Vineennes, Sunday night attempted to leap over an iron fence surrounding the court house. The poor brute impaled itself on the prongs surmounting the top railing, and in that position see sawed backward and forward. The groans and moans of the animal were horrifying. An effort was made to raise the beast by placing pieces of timber under him on each aide of the fence, but he writhed too much.

He was .-finally shot by two policemen, who fired two balls into his brain. The people of Wabash are organizing a Citizens' Gas Trust, experiencce haying shown that it is practically impossible to offer substantial inducements to manufacturers while the gas supply is controlled by a private corporation. The company has a capital of $100,000. Upon payment of $50 eactr subscriber to the capital stock is given a certificate entitling him to gas in perpetuity for one stove. The stook is being taken rapidly, and the enterprise will be a "go." A committee has secured options on several tracts of land, the leases being favorable. It is the intention to furnish gas to consumers this fall,

Sheriff McDowell, of Vineennes, Sunday morning, had a terrible hand to hand encounter with two prisoners in the jail. He had gone in to give the inmates their breakfast, when Tom Hoffman, a burglar, and John Scott, a big, burly negro, pounced upon him. The struggle lasted twenty minutes, during which McDowell was divested of the most, of his clothing. Scott made his escape,but was recaptured by the Sheriff, who chased him ten blocks. None of the parties were badly hurt, though the Sheriff bumped Hoffman severely against (he iron bars of his cell. McDowell's escape from injury was as miraculous as his powers of endurance.

The "Indiana May Musical Festival" to be given at Indianapolis May 27, 28, and 29 is an event of unusual interest to lovers of music. There will be a chorus of 600 voices which have been trained carefully for months by Prof. Karl Baru3, and a large orchestra composed of members of the Theodore Thomas and Boston Symphony Orchestra?, and local musicians. 'Many eminent schists have also been engaged, foremost among whom are Miss Emma Juch, Signor Julea Perotti, and Herr Ernil Fischer,and others of almost equal noteIndiana talent will be represented by Miss Margaret Reid Kackly and Miss Hortense Pierse. Altogether a series of as fine musical entertainments as were ever given in the West is promised.

Patents were granted, Tuesday, to the following named Indiana inventors: Francis M. Abbott, JefT-rsonville, velocipede Chas. R. Becker, Evansville, guide for band awe Wm. N. DarnaH, Worthington. shingle machine, John W. Ferrinburg, Hege. churn Wm. C. Hoffman, Albany, washitg machine W. D. Johnson, Seymour, wooden dish: Orian S. Meeke, Evansvilie, and J. C, Brown, Eureka, plow Wm. II. O'Beirne, Ft. Wayne, insulation tubular iron posts Newton Rogers and J. A. Whardy, Terre Haute, dynamo speeder for gas engines, carburetor for gas engines, governor for gas engines, gas engines, igniter for gaB engines Wm. H. Shank, Huntington, forge tuyere, Edward Warren, Ligonier, thill for vehicles Jonah C. Wright, Cochran, vertically movable kitchen eafe.

U. S. SUPREME COURT. The Mvra Clark Gaines case, which has been iu the courts since 18'M, was decided by the United States Supreme Court, Tuesday. The court awarded the executors of the will the sum of 1576,000 against the city of New Orleans for the use of property sold by the city, but recovered by Mrs. Gaines after long litigation. The judgment of the lower court awarding the- executors $1,300,000 for the use of the unimproved property sold by the city was not concurred in. An other important decision was in affirming the power of Congress to exclude objectionable aliens irom the country in the suit of Chae Chang Ping, appellant, vs. the Collector or the Port of San Francisco. It was a suit to test the constitutionality of the ScottChinese exclusion act. Shortly after the Scott exclusion act went into efFec* Chae Chang Ping returned to the United States from China and endeavored to secure entrance at the Port of San Francisco. He had left this country armed with a certificate entitling him to return, but the certificate was declared invalid by the Scott act. The Collector refused him admittance and suit was then brought in the United States Court for the District of California to test the con stitutionalitv of the Scott act, in accord' ance with the provisions oi which the collector acted. The California court upheld the constitutionality oI the act, and from this decision tbe case came up on appeal. The court affirms that judgment. It holds that Congress has the power to abrogate a treaty, and in support of that view cites the authorities of the courts, holding that the propriety of such action is not a matter for judicial cognizance, but that it is a matter for the politicai department. Congress, it says, has power to exclude aliens from tbe" country whose presence is deemed inimical to our interests.

TEN MEN INSTANTLY KILLED.

A Car Falls Down a Shaft and Strikes an Ascending Cage Filled With Miners.

At Kaska William collier}', nearMiddleport, Pa.. Thursday evening, the cage containing ton miners was ascending the shaft and had reached a height of about sixteen feet from the bottom when an emptv car was pushed over the top of the shaft by two Hungarian laborers. The car struck the ascending cage with awful momentum, shattering it to splinters and instantly killing every one of its occupants. The cage with the ten victims was hurled into the "sump," a hole at the bottom of the shaft, where the water from the workings accumulates, and the mangled bodies were not recovered for some time. The Jiine is operated by the Alliance Coal Company. It is an old working mine, and the shaft is 500 teet deep.

The colliery employs about 500 hands, and is also" known as

4,Big

Vein."

There is intense indignation over the employment of stupid Hungarians in a position of such responsibility as at the mouth of the shaft. There is thirty-five feet of water in the "sump," and the work of recovering the bodies was very difficult. ')tald Knolibur» Hong.

The three Bald Knob hers, Dave Walker. better known in Christian county as "Bull Creek Dave." chief of the Bald Knobbers, his son, William Walker and John Matthews, were hanged Friday, at Ozark, Mo., for the murder of Charles Green and William Edens ©n March lltb, 1887. At 9:53 the drop fell. John Matthews fell praying. The stretch of the rope let all lall to the ground. The rope broke

and William Walker fell loose and groaning. He talked for three minutes when he was taken up by the sheriff and deputies on tbe scaffold. Dave Walker was drawn up and died in about fifteen minuses. Matthews lived about thirty minutes, and died with his feet on the ground. The scene was horrible in the extreme. Matthews and Dave Walker were cut down at 10:i0. The trap was again adjusted, and William Walker lifted helpless and groaning and gurgling and almost insensible, and the rope again adjusted and the trap again, sprung. This time the descent he came to a sudden stop with his feet fully thirty inches from the ground, and he died without a struggle.

TERRIFIC WIND STORM

Rages Along TLI*) Atlantic Coast, DDWB Va:r Amount of! Oamagre.

A terrific "wind Pterin, followed by heavy rain, visited Southern New York, eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delsware, Connecticut and Massachusetts late Friday afternoon. Many building? were wrecked and telegraph wires blown down. At Fkiir Haven, Conn., men were buried in the wreckage of a new house, while twenty-three working outside were hurled through the air with fatal results to some and severe injury to all. At Point of Rocks, Md.. twenty-five men who were working on the trestle over the river were swept off into the water sixty feet below, and at Palmyra. Pa., many houses are in ruins, and the inmates homeless, if alive. At Williamsport. Pa., Barnum's show was stampeded. Three cages of animals were overturned, an antelope was killed and the trumpeting of elephants caught under falling canvas caused intense fright and con'usion. Many oi the performers, men and women, were shockingly hurt. There are jnany stories of barns wrecked by lightning and numbers of animals killed. Several churches in the trail of the storm have been ruined. In New York the wind played havoc with cignsv and on tbe crowded streets there wai a panic among the pedestrians, many of whom were severely injured.

FOREIGN BOTES.

According to the Methodist Recorder, theie are 421,784 members of the Weeleyan body in Great Britain, the last year showing an increase of 5,000.

It is said that a Japanese line o! steamers will will soon be run ou the Pacific ocean, iu opposition to the Pacific Mail Steamship company.

A silver bell has been hung in tower in the village of Borki, where a railroad accident to the Czar'r. train happened, and it will be tolled every day at the hour of the accident.

The British naval programme for iht future is colossal. In addition to the 38 warships of one kind or another now in construction, 70 more are to be hud down at a cost of £22,000,000, making 501 war ships by 1894.

The annual brass band contest fn the northern counties of England is about to begin. Hundreds of brass bands will compete. The workingmen oi Yorkshire and Lancashire practise steadily during their leisure hours, an«J make immense efforts to win the prizes

Two Scotch tramps, man and wife, make a go°d living off of the baby, "We just gets 'im christened," explains the man, "in all the towns we passes and then, you see, parson makes us all comfortable wi' summat to eat and money for beds. On days orful bad we has to do'm twice."

The United Kingdom fisheries employ 250,000 persons. The money value oi fish landed in a year is nearly eight millions sterling. At the annual con ference oi the National Sea Fishery Protective Association foi thiB yea* the statement was made that soles, turbot, plaice and all other flat fish, once plenty in the North Sea are dimin ishing in numbers. rj

Anew sort of ram nas appeared. It is a boat furnished in the forward part with a heavy cylinder like that of ft steam engine, about fifteen feet long with a piston rod 12 inches in diameter The piston rod, which will extend through the bow of the boat, will be tiu:ram. It will be driven by a force of steam equal to 650 tons, sufficient to pierce the side of the heaviest ironclad with one blow. It is in fact a torpedoboat.

According to the investigations oi twv authorities iu the Agricultural Department and the Health Officer for Gloucestershire, the notion ib.it, skim, milk is a poor sort of food is a great mistake. For children whole milx is better, but for adult poor people it i» preferable to buy skim milk, and devote the difference between its price and that of whole milk to other foods, either in the form of cream or butter. The actual nutritive value of skim milk differs very little fro«j that of whole milk and it sells for half prize.

On the day after the death of the Crown Prince of Austria a Vienna undertaker was ordered to have an oak cattin ready for use at the palace that same day. He asked for more time, but was told that it,

must

be there before

night. Inquiry developed the fact that it is a custom of the Hapsburgs always to have a coffin in the house. The oak coffin in which the body of the Crown Prince lay was one that had been made years before, after the death of one of his relations and had waited for an occupant ever since. The new coffin ia now waiting.

The Richest Man In America. New York Sun. The regular income of John D. Rockefeller is $20,00000 a year. That makca him the richest man in the United States, perhaps the very richebt man in the world. He is a Baptist.