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Action on the Xiearagunn ennal will be one of the first questions pressed on the attention of the next congress. The subject has lieen canvassed by letter and otherwise, and there is little doubt that a canal bill v. ill be promptly introduced and passed. What the president will have to say on the subject in Ids message to congress is a matter that causes much conjecture. A prominent democratic senator, whose position entitles his views to weight, expressed the belief that the president would advocate the construction of the canal, but also expressed the fear that there would be in that message an implied recommendation that (ireut Ilritain be invited to join with the I'nited States in the great event. This senator stated our relntions with Great Ilritigin appeared to him to be drifting in that direction, that such a policy was advocated by Ambassador llnynrd and that ’t might be outlined in the forthcoming message. Congress, this gentleman added, would never pass a bill prov iding for the joint interest of the English government in the work which lie believed the I'nited States was destined to carry through to completion. Trustworthy information hits been received as to the contents of the report of the commission which examined into the. feasibility and cost and recommended a route for the Nicaraguan canal. The re[>ort is in the hands of the president, who is using it in connection with his work on his annual message to congress. The report indicates that a canal across the Isthmus via the Nicaraguan route is entirely feasible from an engineering point of view. The cost of tlie. project, us estimated, is $110,000,000, but it is stated this sum is too small by some millions. The commission was nearly three months engaged in its survey work. The route ns proposed by the commission is 73 miles long, or three or four miles longer than that which the canal company proposed. The commission, made surveys to the rigid and left of tlie company’s route and lias suggested some changes which it believes will Vie advantageous. The commission's waterway will be supplied with looks. The San .limn river and Lake Nicaragua will be employed, but the former will require considerable dredging. The lake is 50'miles across, from tlie San .Tuan to tlie mouth of the l.njas. Some dredging will be required on the west coast of tlie lake which is shoal for a distance of something like 1,350 feet, l.rito will lie the western terminus of tin- canal and the distance f">jjt this port is a little more than 17 inih sr The estimate lias been made that, in ortler to complete the canal which the commission proposes, six years will be required. and in order to finish it within that time a force of 20,000 men will have to be constantly employed. The commission also went to Panama and mnde a survey of the route there, and also refers to this project in its report. ANGLERS SAY CARP MUST GO. lliiH Almost Driven 1’tke and Hans Out of the Kkvera of IllinoU. Interviews held with men engaged in seining for the Chicago market and prominent anglers demonstrate that the government and state fish commissioners in placing German carp in the Illinois and other rivers of the state, with a view to furnishing a plentiful and good food for the people of the state, have loosed a weapon which lias already driven nearly every game fish from the rivers in which carp planting took place. Investigation shows that, whereas pike and bass, both black and green, were numerous in the Illinois, they are now almost a rarity, having been driven out by the ever-hungry carp, which lias multiplied so rapidly that one catch on Friday drew in five tons. It is said by the fisermen that the carp roots in the mud and sand at the bottom of the river in search of food, and eats the eggs of the game fish, thus making their destruction certain. MRS. CLEVELAND S GOOD WORK. She TakeH llcpp Intercut In n Movement to Aid the Needy. Tlie seventh annual meeting of tlie. Needle Workers’ guild of Washington was held the other day and was presided over by M rs. .1 ustice Harlan. Tlie purpose of tlie guild is to furnish and distribute garments to the poor and needy. About 800 garments were contributed from 200 members. Mrs. Cleveland was asked some time ago to Itetome the honorary president of the guild. She declined the honor to become a director. The directors pledged themselves to secure ten members and Mrs. Clveland has not only secured ten members for the guild, but she has taken sufficient interest in the work to see that tlie members contributed flicir garments each year.

IHgcxtlhlllty of t'hecHe. Tiic digestibility of cheese lias been tested by a German chemist,who placed the samples in an artificial digestive] fluid containing a considerable portion 1 of fresh gastric juice. Cheshire and Roquefort cheese took four hours to digest, Gorgonzola eight hours, and Hrie, Swiss ai^ ten other varieties ten hours. As an ordinary meal is digested in four or five hours, the common lielief that cheese aids digestion appears to l>e erroneous. Devil Fish. A full-grown devil fish weighs from 8oo to l.ooo pounds and has eyes as big as the largest dinner plate. Tobacco In FsyptThe cultivation of tobacco is prohib- ! ited iu Egypt.

OUR TITLED WOMEN AT HOME. Tlie Estate* and Kesidencr* of Former Aiuerlean DirJs ISoxv Fitffiaml. American young woi icn who marry titled or prominent Englishmen usually spend the remainder of their lives abroad. Their linnies are ail that money can buy. The new duchess of Marlborough v. ill, of coins ', occupy Blenheim, me of the most magnificent private residences in the world. Fortunes have already been spent in completing and repairing this magnificent castle, and another million or so could be employed to good advantage in put ■ tiiig tin* building and grounds iu order It is expected that a large |M>rtion of the marriage settlement will be expended in this manner, says the New York World. One of the largest castles iu Eng land, Coombe abbey, belongs to tli' countess of Craven, who was Miss Cornelia Bradley Martin, and who has just passed her 18tli birthday, though she has been a lady of high degree for more than a year. The countess of Essex, who was Miss Adele Grant, of New York, owns another of the English grand country scats The countess of Essex brought j her husband no fortune, but she is ucknowledged to be one of the most beautiful and charming of England’s rap-idly-increasing colony of “Ajnericaii princesses." She is the second wife of tlie earl of Essex. Her favorite residence is Cassioberry, in Hertfordshire. The building is the center of vast grounds, including some of the best deer parks in England. The grounds contain more than 20 miles of walks r,iid drives, all beautifully shaded. The countess need never go beyond her own preserves when she takes outdoor exercise. TWO GREAT RIVAL ARMIES. Trememlmirt Sacrtficen VVliU-li French ami llerniMii NatimiA Have Made. The knowledge that France would fly at Germany's throat assoon uaitseemed safe to do so has been a permanent factor in all international bargainings and controversies; tlie terror that some untoward accident might precipitate the always-threatened conflict, even against tlie desires and best judgment of the combatants, has never ceased to haunt the imaginations of men, says the London Saturday Review, if this prolonged anxiety has ruined the nerves of onlookers, what must have been tlie tension upon the peoples directly concerned! Statistics afford some slight conception of t he material burdens which they have been forced to liear. When the war ended, for instance, the Germans had 570,000 troops of all arms on French territory. To-day the regular peace footing of the regular French army, without counting gendarmerie or any reserves, actually exceeds by 30,000 that total muster of the Germans at, the time of their triumph. Tlie present standing army of the German empire, being formed on the theory of a defensive force, is a trifle smaller. It has only 685.000 men underarms. These figures are too vast to convey realities to the mind. The fact may be made a little clearer by saying the French and German peoples together have now some 800.000 more professional fighting men in active service than they found it necessary to maintain before the war of 1870. Yet this, too, fails to give an adequate idea of the tremendous sacrifice which both nations have been compelled to make, yea rafter year, throughout this weary quarter of a century. MACKEREL BRINE. How It Cured an Indiana .liiMtlce of Ktieuniatinm. Once upon a time, says the Peru (Ind.) Chronicle, there lived at Huntington a German potentate of the came of Louis Hitzfield, who from time immemorial was a justice of th*? peace. The squire grew into influence, wealth, gout, corpulency and sciatica simultaneously. The older he became the goutier, more dogmatic and rheumatic, until at length his sufferings were intolerable and relief was imperative to postpone the inevitable foreclosure on the tenure of his existence. He was advised to go to Mount Clemens, and went and took a course of treatment and returned greatly relieved. He had not only bathed in tlie pools, but lasted the w aters. In the course of time the affliction returned in all the various forms and degrees of torture, and lie resolved, having, as he believed, fully analyzed tlie water and become acquainted w ith its composite qualities, to prepare a bathing solution for himself. He purchased a number of half barrels of mackerel, took the fish out for family consumption and reserved tlie salt brine for bathing his rheumatic limbs. His experience, after testing both Mount Clemens brine and the mackerel solution, was that the latter was equally effective as the former, and he never went to Mount Clemens again. in Dogs. A dog fancier once took exception to Prof. Huxley's assertion that ’’one of tlie most curious peculiarities of tlie dog mind was its inherent snobbishness, shown by the regard paid to external respectability. Tlie dog who barks furiously ut a ireggar will let a well-dressed man pass him without opposition." He said that, in fact, only tnc dogs of well-dressed persons act so. Dogs accustomed to men in rags bark not at beggars, but at persons clothed in sleek broadcloth. Huxley may have been all right with Heavenly bodies, but lie did not understand dogs. The affection of tlie yellow dog for a nigger still remains unexplained. A StramlMmt on Wheel*. Sweden can boast of a step mboat on wheels. This unique vehicle makes regular trips overland from one lake to another near by. To leave the lake it approaches the shore with u full head of steam on, rushes over the rails ui the con Meeting road to tlie top of the eminence midway, shoots down to the other lake, and then its screw propellers merrily churn the waters again.

LOOSELY INTEKl’uETEO.

Canada Not Fp'.lttlrg Hairs About Shipbuilding on Groat Lake a li** Not !l«*ou C’j«r ful to AI»i«le S3 - Teriuit of the* Tr«*^iy » hr«**» Arin«*<l fruit* iTh l oiiAtru-utod on l-uk*-* Mnc’O 1891.

Opinion on the Canada side of the line i.p!>vars to differ from President Cleveland's interpretation of tlie treaty of 1817, regarding the rit .t of Canada or the L’nited States to in id warships on tlie great lakes, in deeming against the construction of new cruisers at Detroit. Sir Charles Tapper, the Can ad inn minister of justice, formerly minister of marine, says the treaty speaks clearly for itself. Heing asked whether Canavia has not infringed the treaty in const rin ting cruisers on the lakes, Sir Charles saivl they were only revenue cruisers. The treaty stipulates that the naval force of each country shall consist of not more than one vessel not exceeding 100 tons burden and armed w itii one IS-poiiud cannon on Lake Ontario, two such vessels on the upper lakes anti one such vessel on Lake Chainplain. A doubt has arisen over the clause in which it was agreed that all other armed vessels on these lakes should lie dismounted and that no other vessels of war should be there built or armed. The Canadian government has built three armed cruisers on the lakes since 1891, the Curfew, the Constance and the Petrel. Commander Wakel, of the Dominion fishery protective service, quotes in his report in 1893 the following description of the cruisers: “The Constance and her siXler ships are far superior to the boats maintained on the lakes by the United States revenue department. In ease they were ever needed for such purpose, they would make very forroidabln lake-com-merce destroyers. The frame is of steel and extra heavy, vviih steel plating for the top sides. The bottom is of rock elm. The main deckhouse and engines coverings, etc., are ail of steel, ns well as the protective turtle forward. Accommodations for officers and crew are divided by four steel bulkheads. The coal bunkers are carried along the side to protect engines and boilers. “She is armed with three quick-firing guns, one mounted on the turtle-deck forward and one on each side of the quarterdeck. The ram bow is a formidable weapon and in the Constance it is constructed with a view to severe service. The stem forging is very heavy i;nd is reinforced with heavy plates and angles, making it almost solid for some seven or eight feet back. Tin* Constance hasa registered tonnage of 12G tons.” It will be an interesting question to solve as to how far the equipment and armor of a revenue cruiser may be carried in her construction, and where the line is to lie drawn between a revenue cruiser available for revenue purposes only and one that may be put to more severe defensive or offensive purposes when national exigencies demand it. ARBOR DAY IN JAPAN.

.lluvenirnt on Font to Futaliilnh It as a Yearly Fe.ttvat In the Little lute. Minister Kurino, of the Japanese legation nt Washington, has translated and sent to Secretary Morton an article published in one of the Japanese papers on the subject of Arbor day. The article is quite lengthy, and was accompanied by the original, which Mr. Morton lias filed ns a curiosity. The translation shows that the subject has been treated in the most careful and painstaking way. and Secretary Morton sa^s he has never seen in any English or American paper a better treatise on tlie subject of tree planting. The author points out the necessity of doing something to prevent the rapid diminution of the forests of Japan, and indorses the idea exemplified in Arbor day. The paper favors either the 11th of February, the day Japan's first emperor ascended the throne, or April'!, the day he died, ns the best dates, both coming in the spring time. If the autumn is selected, November 3, the birthday anniversary of the present emperor, is suggested. ’ FEARED HIS GHOST. Wliy Mr*. Ida IlnmiUon Left Iter Second SjmiiAe in 4'altfornls. W. D. Staplin, of Rockford, 111., has received a letter from his daughter, Mrs. Ida Hamilton, confirming the report that she had left her husband at Levitn, ( oL, after being married only a few days. Mrs. Hamilton states that her first husband, Mr. Gant, told her before his death that if she ever married again he would haunt her until doomsday. She says she had a terrible feeling ionic over her on tin* way out to Colorado and could not shake it off. At the wedding everybody noticed her pallor, and she nearly fainted during the ceremony. Every time her husband came near her .she says, she felt a nameless horror steal over her. She could stand it only a few days, she says, and then, kissing his seven children, while lie was out on the ranch, left the place for Denver, and says she is now happy again.

RUNS A RACE WHILE ASLEEP. Exciting: Midnight Adventure Experienced by a North Side Athlete. P. J. Brennan is a member of a Gaelic athletic association of Chicago and excels as a sprinter. The other night while dreaming of running a foot-race lie left his home ut 2l& Cass street. When he awoke, he found himself at Ln Salle avenue and Chestnut street. His clothing consisted of his underclothing, a pair of stockings and an overcoat. Fearing he might not he able to teach his room without exciting tlie suspicions of some police officer, he went to the Chicago avenue police station and reported he had been walking in his sleep. He was sent home in the patrol wagon.

WON THE BATTLE. Sparrow. Torturr a Hormr to Save One of I'tielr Numtier. The other day, says a Shreveport (I.a.j correspondent, being attracted to the window by thccliattoringandchirping of a bevy of English sparrows, I found the little fellows making a most violent attack upon a horse that was nipping the grass just beyond my w indow . 1 don't think 1 ever saw anything more in earnest than those birds were. There was a great company of them, and they lit all over the poor horse, nipping and pecking at such a rate that there seemed scarce an inch of him untouched. He was very loath to give up the grass, and stood liis ground a» long as possible, tossing his head and twitching his tail frantically; but thci little tormentors were too much for' him, and 1 do not think he succeeded] in dislodging one during the whole affray. They would light and nip and lie gone before lie could yank his tail in their direction. The unequal combat kept up fast and furious for fully five minutes before the horse finally gave up and scampered away, glad to get out of reach of the pests, some of the little fellows chasing him tlie whole length of the block. What it could all be for I had not the slightest idea, hut when the horse was well out of the way the birds flew to the ground in n great sweep, chattering and chirping as busily as ever; so 1 went out to investigate. It was some moments before I succeeded in discovering anything whatever, the birds were so thick and eager; lint at last I found a poor little cripple fellow lying upon his side, unable to move, and half hidden in the grass. Evidently his friends were aware of liis helpless condition, and had driven the horse away to prevent ills Is'lng trod upon, and were now trying in some way to assist him to rise. This he was unable to do, however, as one wing was broken; so I picked him up and put him on a little shelf in my rose arbor, and there his little friends seem to lie taking tlie best possible care of him. They appear to take turn about in staying with him and keepinghlmcompany, while the others continue to forage, coming now and then with choice hits for tlie invalid.

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DAMAGED IN DRY DOCK. Serious Condition of the Itattleship Texan —Bottom of Vessel Itent In. Reports have been received ot Washington that the battleship Texas has been badly damaged at the Krooklyn nav y yard, and t he timber dock in which slic lies lias been partly flooded to prevent further disaster. The accident, though similar to that which occurred tti tin* Uolunibia, at Southampton, England, is stated to lie of a more serious character. It is learned that the bottom of the vessel for some distance amidship has been bent in, cracking tlie cement lining on the inner skin, and that at least 20 ribs or frames ore buckled. The full extent of the damage is not known, but tin* perplexing problem at present is how to save the ship, ns it would lie hazardous to pump out tlie dock without removing her guns and all extra weights. The Texas was put in tlie dry dock about a week ago in order to clear her submerged strainers, which were choked with seaweed and mud from her long stay at Norfolk, and to v lean the barnacles from her bottom. It was found that her propeller and blades were badly bent, necessitating ordering her spare blades from Norfolk, which w as promptly done. By the time tlie water was all pumped out, those in charge discovered that the ship was steadily settling and the keel was showing evidence of collapsing, so the order was given to flood the dock as deep as the propeller shaft in order that the water might partially support the ship. This was done, lint an examination of the interior of tlie vessel showed tiint she was settling and the dock was further flooded. An official report was sent to the navy department, where the matter is now under consideration. CHANGING INTO A MONKEY. Keninrliittilc Dl.fiifte Itron^ht to the Attention of New York ft’h.V.tf lit lift. A medical case of the greatest interest was presented to a clinic ut the .New York college of dentistry recently when Dr. F. I). Weise, one of the medical staff, introduced John M. Molunski. who is suffering front what is known in medical science as acromygalia. It is reg r arded as one of the rarest and most mysterious diseases to which human kind issubject. Medical authorities differ ns to theexuct nature of the disease, some believing that it is not really n disease, lint a form of physical atavism, or a tendency to return to the original species or a reversion to the primitive type of man. Molanski is undergoing a bodily metamorphosis. His face is gradually being transformed from its normal appearance into a strong animal typo, with protruding under jaw and overhanging brows, which a heavy beard and head of hair but partially conceal. His hands und feet arc growing larger and larger,und are already taking on the appearance of those of a monkey. ' liis disease, if it may be so called, is not contagious, being only a state of retrogression.

Foi ullur Theft in IiuIIriir. Two bold thieves stole u valuable span of horses from a farmer living southeast of Waterloo, Ind., early the other morning, and after taking a road w agon and harness, tent, butcher knives and an overcoat, they drove a mile away, where they stopped, killed one horse and skinned it, then drove to Fort Wayne, where they disposed of the hide and escaped. South African Diamond*. One hundred and fifty thousand pounds’ worth of diamonds are found In Kimberley every week.

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the?** impurities That most dreadful of al'. diseases, consumption, is a disease of tb: blood. The di« :=e shows in the lungs because of some inh -ited or acquired weakness there If the ’ lood were always pure and without germs, ’.he disease would never develop and in time weakness itself would be overcome. Germs and impurities in the blood float along through the body ujitil they and a weak ■*pot for lodgement. 1 * stick there and develop and people call the disease by the name of the organ afflicted. A* a matter of fact, the disease is always a disease of the bio >d. and if the blood be purified, the disease will be cured That is a perfeclh natural, rational conclusion, endorsed both by common sense and the highest medical authority. It is in accordance with these facts that Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery works. The first thing it does is to put the whole digestive system into perfect order. It stimulates the appetite, excites the copious secretion cf the digestive fluids and promotes assimilation It searches out disease germs wherever they may be. kills them and forces them out of the system. The "Golden Medical Discovery " has been used with unvarying success for over 30 years. If you -are !c know more about it, and more a' ut j wi body lend n one-cent stamps to

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To Absorb Greenbacks. Congressman Smith of Michigan has introduced a bill for stopping the misuse of greenbacks and treasury notes in depleting the gold reserve. * > His plan lias a merit which belongs to very few currency propositions — it does not cross the doctrines of any extreme political element in Congress and can be adopted. He would require a certain proportion of national banks to keep their reserve funds in greenbacks and treasury notes. T.iis requirement would cause at once the absorption of gold. Without waiting to make any radical change in the currency, the* Government would remove at once the continuous pressure of its debts on its gold reserve. Mr. Smith estimated that 8350,000,000 of greenbacks .i nd treasury notes would be thus taken up and held hy the banks in other words, withdrawn from the open market. The remainder of such paper would be scattered over tlie country or held in the treasury. Gold shippers could not get government paper and could no longer compel the Government to be the supply depot lor international balances of exchange. They would be compelled to get gold from private sources If any scat city of gold should occur in New York and threaten to send the metal to a premium, the Government would have sufficient command of gold to pay it out in large amounts and relieve the market. In view of the political perplexities that surround every attempt to deal with the currency, it is probable that the Smith bill or something like it will be the final resort of Congress.

HER JITTER TELLS A WOMAN’S STORY. ) — A Written for Eyes of Other Women. ’ [ertcui. to our t.A:>r rfaderh ] There is inestimable pleasure in doing good to others, and joy iu a grateful recognition of tlie act. On the old York Road, Huntington Park, Philadelphia, dwells Miss M. Downs, whose portrait we give. She desires that her case may be stated as a means of benefiting others. She says: “ Lydia E. I’inkham's Vegetable Compound has cured me of Kidney trouble, painful uieiistrualions, and head* ^ aclies. It is truly a wonderful medicine. 1 cannot describe my feelings before I took it. Tlie pain in my back was dreadful, ami during menstruations the agony I suffered nearly drove me wild; and then my head would ache for a week, and now ttiis is all over, thanks to your good remedy. I trust my testimonial will lead others to take it and be cured. They can find it at any drug store, r Our druggist says the demand for it is very large, it iu kvlpiug sv many sickly women,” ,

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