Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1899 — Page 2

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. P» E. BABCOCK, Publisher EpNSSEUER, - - - INDIANA.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

K|jphe correspondent in Guayaquil, .KcuaKlur, telegraphs that the custom house, ■Ran Jose Chureli and the theater block in Hpst city were destroyed by tire. The Ktotal bjowses arc estimated at 1,500,000 H'Tfae Supreme Court of Minnesota, in a Bjpase where a husband sought to secure Kjpposftession of his wife, agetl 13 years, deRnded that girls under age can marry Bprfthont their parents’ consent, notwitliEuanding the State law on age of conBent. | The Court of Visitation created by the Kansas Legislature at its latest session has been declared invalid by Judge Hook pf the United States Circuit Court at Topeka. The function of the court was to regulate railroads and telegraph companies. ■ Dr. William It. Brooks, director or Smith Observatory, has just been award *>d by the Paris Academy of Sciences the Grand Lalande prize for liis numerous and brilliant astrouomical discoveries. ';The prize is a gold medal worth 500 francs. j? ! The local lodge of Modern Woodmen at , Lushton, Neb., will contest the payment • of $2,000 life insurance on Sherman Me- { Faddcn, a member, who died there. M<.Fadden was a Christian scientist and re- ' f u«*d the lodge’s request to employ a whysiciau. - Yokohama advices say that a terrible f-condition of affairs prevails at New Chwang, Manchuria, with respect to the j bubonic plague. Hundreds of deaths are oeeurriug weekly, the mortality Touching i forty to sixty every day. The disease is j lM'ginniug to spread over Manchuria. The Pennsylvania company has aequir- - ed control of the Baltimore and Ohio. At the same time W. K. Vanderbilt, in the ■lnterest of the New York Central, takes over the controlling holdings of J. P. Morgan in the Cleveland, Cincinnati, < Chicago and St. Louis uud the Chesa- ; (make and Ohio. Captain Whalen of the schooner Harry f L. Belden, at Boston, reported the loss of | the Boston fishing schooner Sylvester i Whalen as the result of a collision with | the Portland schooner Major Pickands, i and the death of Patrick Powers and Mi- ; chnel Corrigan, two of the Whalen’s | crew, in the accident. The transport Manauense, with Limit. | Col. Webb Hayes and three companies | of the Thirty-first infantry on hoard, lias K arrived at Manila. She narrowly escaped ' disaster. The officers and soldiers were H for twelve days hailing with buckets. I Her engines broke down and she rolled ■ three days in a typhoon. The Donaldson Line steamer Hestia, I front Baltimore for Glasgow, has arrived fe- at Greenock with the crew of the Amort* R can schooner 11. and J. Bleuderman, |, from Hillsboro, N. 8., for New York. I The shipwrecked seamen were rescued in ;■ latitude 40, longitude (55, much exhaust* ed, having been for thirty-six hours in au I open boat. After suffering awful agony for two | days, Joseph Gibbs, aged 32 years, died f in the Chester County, Pa., Home for I Hydrophobia Patients. His wife is nff: tlicted with the same disease at her home. I Gibbs and his wife were bitten by a rabid | dog about two months ago. He was scut jp to New York, where he received the l’ns- | tour treatment. I? The difficulties under which the pttbi lishing house of Harper & Brothers, New 1 York, lias, according to rumor, been lu- » boring for many months, resulted in the ; entire business passing from the hands of the Harpers into the control of the State Trust Company, acting us trustees f for J. P. Morgan & Co., holders of $3,fr 500,000 in mortgage bonds.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Ou the run down from Boston to Hampton ltomls the battleship Kentucky : broke oil records for ships of her class. The average speed was fifteen knots an hour. Col. George It. Davis, most prominently known for his official connection with the World's Fair as director general, died at his home in Chicago of palpitation of the heart. Mnj. Gen. Miles, commanding the army, has returned to Washington after a tour of inspection, which included the fortifications ou the I‘ueific coast and the Gulf of Mexico. Ezra Moore shot and killed Constable William Smith and seriously wounded l>oputy Sheriff 4. T. Conklin, who tried to levy on an execution at his home near Chicago Junction, Ohio. At Sedalin, Mo., the jury in the ease of James 11. McManigal, charged with the murder of Capt. Thomas C. Young of Lexington, Mo., Sept. 28, 1898, brought ' in a verdict of acquittal. U* Charles Coghlan. the actor, who hod s Imh-u ill at Galveston, Texas, since Oct. 80, with acute gastritis, is dead. Mr. Coghlan was an actor and dramatist of ; ability, and was born in London in 1848. At .Fulton, Ivy., Flay Goldsby was shot : nud killed by John T. Moore. Both ' were clerks in the United States mail ser- ; vice. The trouble grew out of n dispute j; over a vucant run. Moore gave himself flip. g After killing the late Cherokee treaty, the Cherokee council took it up again the ?! next day and passed'the bill, extending I 5 the time for ratification by Congress and | asking that body to make certain changes ■ in the document. The Lakes of Killurney. part of the Muekross estate, were sold at private : sale at Dublin. A Dublin states that Lord Iveagli Guineas, the f pale-ale brewer, was the purchaser. The f reported price is £30,000. The Studebaker Manufacturing Company of Chicago and South Bend, I ml., has shipped 300 wagons to South Africa for the British army. I* W. J. Bryan has rented his home in f WfP I** 1 ** Neb., for the whiter, and he and { his family will spent the next three } months in Texas and northern Califor'V Jii;|. The Chicago department battled hard : with a fierce blaze in the Morse & John- " son storage warehouse at 182 Kinzie street, which, after nearly two hours' fighting. was subdued at a loss estimated

EASTERN.

William Magil), the Inventor of the atudent lamp, dropped dead at hla home in Amherst, Conn. Charles O’Neill was killed and seven men were Injured by the bursting of a gas main at New York. The horribly mutilated bodies of a Mrs. Hummed and her three children were found at their home on a small farm about a mile from Montgomery, I’a. A college for girls that will rival Girard College in benefieience and scope is to be established in Philadelphia by William L. Elkins, the traction magnate. The rioting of the wives and other feminine relatives of the striking miners at Nantieoke, Pa., was resumed and resulted in the arrest of one woman for throwing pepper in the eyes of a deputy. Against tide, wind and a heavy head sea for at least half her course the new battleship Kentucky made a record of 10.877 knots an hour on her official speed trial over the Government course from Cape Ann to Boone Island. The War Department is quietly at work on the problem of wireless telegraphy for the signal service. Capt. lteiber, at Governor’s Island, New York, is carrying on a series of experiments between that point and Touipkiusville. Petitions were filed in the bankruptcy court at Buffalo by John O. Manning and William H. Manning, members of the firm of John B. Manning & Sons, which became insolvent in 181)5. The schedule of unsecured claims is given as 51,496,477, and there are uq assets. William Anthony, widely known as. “Brave Bill’’ Anthony, the marine orderly whose coolness when the Maine was going down under his feet to the bottom of Havana harbor made him famous, committed suicide in New York. Marital unhappiness was the cause.

WESTERN.

Enos Rath, the night watchman of Hicksvillc, Ohio, was shot and killed by three burglars who were trying to enter a residence. Charles Fisher, who recently moved from Kokomo, lud., to Cowley County, Kansas, was acquitted of wife murder at Winfield, Kan. The warehouse of the Jones Brothers’ Hardware Company nt Little Rock, Ark., was destroyed by fire. Loss $175,000; insurance $125,000. Robert Freeman, at one time the owner of Rex McDonald, the champion saddle horse stallion of the world, died at his home near Mexico, Mo. An east-bound Oregon Railroad and Navigation passenger train was wrecked near Rooster Rock, Oregon, by running into n slide. The fireman was killed and the engineer severely injured. Colonel Richard T. Flournoy, n native of Virginia, a Confederate officer under General It. E. Lee and a resident or St. Paul, Minn., for nearly thirty years, died of heart trouble, nged 50 years. Several houses nt which non-union coal miners are boarding were blown op with dynamite at Huntington, Ark. Ten United States deputy marshals were sent there from Jenny Lind. No one was injured so far as knowD. Thomas Lindsay, aged 21, was shot and mortally wounded by his younger brother, Jesse, at the home of their broth-er-iu-law, Joseph Yeager, at Maryville, Mo. Thomas said the shooting was accidental. Jesse disappeared immediately after the shooting. Nearly one-half of the business portion of Weston, Ohio, was burned the other day. Twelve buildings, occupied by about twenty business firms, were destroyed. The amount of the damage is estimated to be SOO,OOO, and the insurance amounts to about half that sum. A street ear on the Seventh street line of the Springfield, 111., Consolidated Street Railway Company was blown up by dynamite in the north part of the city. The car was demolished, but the motornian, conductor and three women passengers escaped injury. Unknown parties entered the office of the Monroe, Neb., Mirror during the night, destroyed the presses and dumped the type and other material into a creek. The act is supposed to he the outgrowth of a hitter town fight. The paper is the State orgnn of the Liberty party. The State Supreme Court in its decision handed down at Bismarck, N. D., in Graham versus Graham strikes another hard blow at the divorce industry. It holds that residence in the State must be bona title and characterized by the intention to stay to give the litigant the benefit of the State low. The building occupied by A. Krolliek & Co., commission merchants, at 35 and 37 Woodbridge street, and the wholesale dry goods establishment of Strong, Lee & Co., back of it, at 153 Jefferson avenue, Detroit, were destroyed by fire. The total loss is estimated at S3UU,OOU on stocks and $30,000 on buildings. At Mount Vernon, Ohio, Charles Goldsborough, a crippled saloonkeeper, shot and killed his wife aud then ended his own existence by sending a bullet through his head. The tragedy was enacted in the apartments of the couple over the saloon. Jealousy on the part of the husband led to the deed. Near Coshocton, Ohio, a work tram returning from the Morgan Run and Wade coal mines on the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad collided with 9 freight train, killing three people, Asbury human, Squire West and Moses Caton, and injuring twenty-five others. The dead and injured live in Coshocton. The bank of Milton, Wis., was robbed the other night, losing more than $2,000 in cush, stumps and bonds. Government bonds worth $1,720 arc missing. The robbery seems to have been the work of professionals. The private deposit boxes within the vault were all broken open and the contents scattered. Frank and George Bailey, prominent business men of Stockbridge, Mich., were found iu the rear of their bicycle aud jewelry store, both shot through the head. George was dead and Frank was dying. It is thought that Frauk, who bad been under a doctor’s care for several days with a mental trouble, shot bis brother and then himself.

FOREIGN.

New South Walt**’ wheat yield will be double that of lu»t year. A special dispatch from Vieuua reiterates the report that the Ituaaiam bad occupied Herat. 4 M. ffcoderolf, * fouff* Rbssilb** claims to hav* inveuted a flying machine having • maximum speed of 108 miles an hour. Thomas Ifenry Ismay, founder fad

chairman of the board of director* of the Whit# Star Line Steamship Company, died at Liverpool. He was born Jan. 7, 1837. Gen. Wingate, with an Egyptian force, attacked the force of Ahmed Fedil at Afrinadil. Fedil’s force, numbering 2,500, was routed and 400 dervishes were killed. Advices from Tien-Tsin say that the negotiations of the American syndicate regarding the Hankow-Cauton railway have been brought to a successful conclusion. The Novoe Vreniya says that Count Mouravieff, the minister of foreign affairs, has suggested a revision of the treaty of commerce between Russia and the United States, which was concluded in 1832. At the expense of the government of China, the bodies of 65 Chinese buried in the ’cemeteries of Chicago will be exhumed and shipped to China, to be buried in sacred soil. According to Chinese religion, all who arc buried in foreign lands are doomed to eternal torment.

IN GENERAL

Mgr. Donnta Sbarretti, auditor of the apostolic delegation in Washington, D. C., has been appointed bishop of Havaua by the Pope. The American fishing schooner A. K. Whyland has been fined SIOO nt St. Johns, N. F., for breach of the colonial fishing regulations. The Canadian department of the interior has received information that at the smallest computation 15,000 Finlanders will arrive iu Canada next spring. Secretary of the Navy Long has received a cablegram from Admiral Watson informing him that the entire province of Zamboanga, island of Mindanao, had surrendered unconditionally to Commander Very of the Castine. The Epwortb League disturbcnce over the official conduct of its secretary, the Rev. E. A. Schell of Cincinnati, was suddenly terminated when he tendered his resignation to the board of control. The resignation was accepted. The Cherokee council by a vote of 16 to 22 declined to extend the time for Congress to ratify the late Cherokee agreement. This kills the treaty for all time to come and leaves the Cherokees under the operations of the Curtis bill in all its details. Postmaster General Smith in a formal order declares that ail mail matter passing between the United States anil Porto Rico, the Philippines, Guam or any of this country’s insular possessions, is subject to the United States’ domestic classification and rates of postage. The Commercial Travelers and Hotel Men’s Anti-Trust League filed with the Secretary of State of New York at Albany a certificate of incorporation. The league will maintain a meeting room in a prominent hotel in every city in the United States. The principal office will he in New York City. W. L. Thomas of Bradford, Out., a medical student at a Toledo college, met death iu a mysterious munner at Irouville, a suburb. His body was found under the derrick of au oil well. His clothing was wet and bedraggled, and there are contusions on his bead and face. It is thought Thomas was murdered. The American Association of Fairs and Expositions has arranged the State fair schedule as follows: Des Moines, Ang. 27; Omaha, Sept. 3; Hamline, Minn., Sept. 3; Milwaukee, Sept. 10; Indianapolis, Sept. 17; Springfield, Sept. 24; St. Louis, Oct. 1. The Eastern circuit dates are: Syracuse, N. Y„ Aug. 27; Column bus, Ohio, Sept. 3; Grand Rapids, Mich., Sept. 10. It. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: "Monetary anxieties have faded with sales of bonds to the treasury under the recent offer, the fall in sterling exchange in spite of dearer money abroad and easier here, and the receipt of about $750,000 net from the interior during the week. There is no trouble in (lie ’commercial money market, as there has been none, and loans on securities have ruled at easier rates. The iron industry shows no yielding in material, but a little advance iu Bessemer pig at Pittsburg, with large inquiries for next year. Sales of wool pass all records, having been at the three chief markets 61,694,203 pounds in three weeks of November; whereas October sales iu five weeks were but 68,314,980 pounds, and in only one other full month have sales ever reached 60,000,000 pounds. The trading is largely between dealers and leaves no indication of consumption. Failures for the week have been 191 in the United States, against 18S last year, and 22 in Canada, against 21 last year.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $7.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 05c to 07e; coni, No. 2,31 cto 32c; oats, No. 2,22 c to 23e; rye, No. 2,54 eto 50c; butter, choice creamery, : 5c to 27c; eggs, fresh, 17c to 19e; potatoes, choice, 35c to 45c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 05c to 07c; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $0.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, Tic to 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. ~H, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 5 c to 53c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $0.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,09 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2,59 cto 01c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats. No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, 57c to 59c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 67e to 09c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 24c; rye, No. 2,55 c to 57c; clover seed, $4.05 to $4.75. Milwaukee—Wheat, Na>2 northern, 05c to 07c; corn, No. 3,32 cto 34c; onts, No. 2 white, 24c to 27c; rye, No. 1,55 c to 50c; barley, No. 2, 43 cto 45c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep', fair to choice wethers, $3.00 to $4.00; ; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.25. New York-Cnttle, $3.25 to $0.50; hogs, t,%'a2^d,T2c; cori^NtkX 39c to 41c; oats. No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; butter, creamery, 22c to 27c; eggs, westera, 15c to 21c

PEEP HOLES IN JAIL CELLS.

Keeper Can Rea FrUoner. bat Cannot Himself Be Been. When the new Chicago jail was completed it was said to be the most perfect Institution of its kind in the country. But the new jail in New York, 'which is to supplant the old Tombs, will have many contrivances which are new In prisons. Here the perfection of prison arrangement has been reached. While the Tombs will have the outward appearance of being nine stories high it really consists of but three stories. The two main floors, where the cells are located, arer very tall, comprising four tiers of cells each. The prison offices will be on the ground floor. The top floor will be used as a recreation ground for the prisoners. The cells are novel features of the structure. Nothing like them has ever before been introduced In a prison. They are being constructed on plans made by Charities Commissioner Francis J. Pantry. There are 350 cells and each will cost about SI,OOO. Each will be eight feet deep by six feet and three inches wide, aud will be equipped with a steel, lattice - bottomed folding bunk, a steel folding table and shelf hinged to the wall, a wash basin and a toilet. The cell-tier structure will be of burglar-proof steel and the cells will be re-euforced with four-ply chrome tool-proof steel plate. On the top of the floor plate will be a finished floor of two-inch polished bluestone.Through the rear of eacH cell will be a peephole arangement whereby the keeper may see sll that the prisoner Is doing, while the prisoner cannot see the keeper. This Inspection hole on the outside Is only about an inch and a half wide, but it widens gradually Inward, until at its end it is eight Inches in diameter, flaring like the bell of a trumpet. By this arrangement whereby the keeper may a view of the entire cell interior, except two corners alwaysinvlewof the watchman In front of cell. Running along each tier is a utility corridor, used prl-

WATCHING THE PRISONER THROUGH A PEEP HOLE.

marlly for the piping, ventilation and electric wiring. Along this Corridor also the keepers pace to watch the prisoners through the peepholes. The steel floor is covered with rubber matting, to deaden the sound of their approach. Each cell is equipped with an electric light turned on from the outside. The cell-locking arrangement is new'. Each bolt is operated by a lever at the end of the tier. Every door in the tier may be locked or unlocked simultaneously or any number of locks may be operated at once. If when the prisoners are be taken out for exercise there are some who cannot be let out the lock on their cell doors is secured by a key, so that it will not unlock at the turn of the lever. All locks are on the outside of the cell doors, where they cannot be tampered with by the prisoners. Special attention has been paid to heating and ventilation. Heretofore the trouble with prisons having several tiers of cells has been that often the top cells would be hot while- the lower ones would be cold. The top cells would also catch the greatest pare of the foul air. These difficulties have been overcome in the new Tombs by an elaborate system of powerful beating and ventilating blasts.

HOW DEWEY REFORMED A DOG.

The Sheep-Killer Was Taught a Leison He Never Forgot. The following story of Dewey comes from Loudon County, Va. It happened while he was still a commander and when he was visiting an old acquaintance, Henderson Davis. Dewey has always been a lover of animals, in witness of which may be noted bis affection for his dog, Bob, now one of the members of the Olympia’s crew. During this visit in Virginia he saved the life of a sheep-stealing dog, and what is more to the purpose converted the dog to a better mode <ff life. The subject of the future admiral’s kindness was a big collie hamed Pan, a fine dog and a good sheep dog in the day time, but with the fatal vice that sometimes develops in collies of killing sheep after dark. When Pan’s Jekyll and Hyde mode of life was brought to light, he was condemned to death, the just fate of every sheep-killing dog, for the vice is a serious one, anji generally deemed incurable. Dewey was Interested in the case and beggged leave of Mr. Davis to reform Tan or at least to make the attempt. *' A stay of execution was granted and and the big -collie was led out- to the bara where about a hundred head of sheep had been driven in. Dewey took his patient and prepared for heroic treatment. All four of the dog’s feet were tied together, sailor fashion, and he was laid down Just outside the barn' door. The lower half of the door was closed and the upper half left open, making a hurdle that an active sheep could clear at a jump. Dewey then went Inside and started after the old Ixil-wether with a dub. The sheep l and landed with all ram iwrun inn; prostrate and repentant Pan., Every other sheep in the ham started, after she habit of sheep, to play “follow my

leader.” Every one of the bunch hopped over the barrier and every one landed on the sheep-kllllng dog out-’ side. Every sheep hit him with from one to four sharp hoofs, and by the time the barn was empty he looked like a doormat that had been left out all winter. In fact, there was some question whether he would ever return to active life again. He did in the course of time, but the most ardent persuasions could never thereafter get him into the same ten-acre lot with the mildest mannered sheep that was ever sheared. He was saved for a warning to all sheep-stealing dogs, but his career as a Shepherd was ended.

MAKING ARTIFICIAL SILK.

They Have in a Measure Supplanted the Genuine Article in France. The production of artificial silk has for some time past attracted the attention of experimenters in France, and it has been used with success to replace natural silk - in certain fabrics. Duke Du Chardonnet, who claims to be the first to have successfully carried out the process, exhibited some fine specimens of artificial silk at the Paris exposition of 1889. Since then he has perfected his system and at the present time a factory, of considerable importance fas in operation at Besancon, under the direction of Mr. Trieano. This factory is now capable of producing 150 kilograms of artificial silk a day. Natural silk is largely made up of a body called “fibroin,” together with other substances, such as gelatin, albumen, wax, coloring matter, fatty and resinous matter, etc., the cellulose of the mulberry leaf being thus trausformeebby the silk worm. The nature of these transformations Is of course unknown, and In order to produce a substance resembling silk a method is adopted by which the cellulose furnished by cotton is used as a base. The cotton having been transformed Into nitrocellulose or guncotton by treating it with nitric and sulphuric acids, this latter is dissolved ip a mixture of ether

and alcohol and the resulting collodion is filtered under pressure. In order to be successfully used for the production of artificial silk It is found that the collodion must be allowed to “age” for a certain period of time, the reason of which has not been definitely settled; howevefr, it is certain that the collodion, on being allowed to stand, undergoes certain modifications by which it Is better fitted for the purpose. It is then run into cylinders which have capillary holes in the bottom, and the collodion is forced out of these holes under a pressure of 40 to 56 atmospheres. It comes out tn the form of white, cylindrical filaments; these are united to form threads, which are put up In skeins and all traces of alcohol or water which they may contain are removed. In this state, however, the threads are extremely inflammable, partaking of the nature of guncotton, and to remove this difficulty they must be “’denltrated,” that is to say, the cellulose must be brought back Into Its normal condition. This part of the process, v.'hich is indeed an essential’ one, Involves considerable difficulty and has been experimented upon for some time by M. Du Chardonnet and others. How’ever, a process has at last been arrived at which accomplishes this in a satisfactory manner. The details of this process have not as yet been made public, but It Is certain that by this operation white, silky threads are produced which are not appreciably more inflammable than natural silk. The skeins which have been made up of these threads are then dyed by Immersing them In a heated bath of basic aniline color.—Scientific American.

Beginning of Next Century.

Hundreds of persons contend that the twentieth century will begin with Jan. 1, 1900, while other hundreds contend with equal positiveness that tlje correct date is Jan. 1, 1901. The 1900 contingent argue that, of course, the new century begins with its numeral date, and go on to figure out very deftly that with the last day of the year 1899 the hundred years will have*run their course. They argue that, if the first year ended with Dec. 31, of the year 1, the nineteen hundredth year must, of course, end with Dec. 31, 1899, and that the Ist day of January, 1900, is, therefore, the first day of the new century. And, curiously enough, this latter figure is correct, but only in a numeral sense.. These statisticians ov«rl<)ok one very important fact, however, that it requires 100 years to make a century, and it calls for no expert mathematician to figure it out that the full hundred years of the nineteenth century will not have run their course until 12 o’clock midnight of the 31st of December, 1900. Numerically we enter, the twentieth century with Jan. 1,1900. But nevertheless we must complete that entire year of 1900, and go through its 305 days, before the actual 1,900 years shall have run their course.—Ladies’ Home Journal.

Mice as Peis.

I Mice hare Ipng beenjjn demand as etett be tmibed to perform many tricks, are very fond of music and have been taught to dance gracefully to wait/, time.

Labor Worda

lowa ranks first In hogs. Syria has no factories. Florida has an ostrich farm. Coremakers have 47 unions. Longshoremen have 124 local anions. St Louis has {he largest drug house. Vienna policemen must be telegraphers. Grand Rapids Is to have a labor temple. City of Mexico is to have a department stdre. Philadelphia painters now get $3 for eight hours. New York’s factory Inspector urges the ten-hour day for women. Dundee (Scotland) street railway employes demand the eight-hour day. Grand Rapids’ tailors’ union includes Germans, French, Polish, Swedish, Bohemian;" Dutch, Jewish, Irish, English, and American citizens. The workingwomen of this or any other country are upon as high a plane of purity as any class In the communIty.—Carroll D. Wright. Chicago Federation declares “all the remaining public lands of the United States should be sacredly held for the benefit of the whole people, and that no grants of the title to any one of these lands should ever hereafter be made to any but actyal settlers and homebuilders on the land.”

THE OLDEST ACTRESS.

Hr*. Gilbert, Who Has Been on the Stage Sixty Years. Mrs. G. H. Gilbert, of the Daly company, who was lately presented by her associates with a loving cup and silver service on the occasion of her seventyeighth birthday, has been, since the death of Mrs. John Drew, the most celebrated old woman on the stage. Mrs. Gilbert’s theatrical career has been longer than that of any other living actress. She was born in England In

MRS. O. H. GILBERT.

1821, and as a girl became a ballet dancer, soon distinguishing herself. In 1849 she came to this country, with her husband, and they made a tour west and south. They met with poor financial success, hut Mrs. Gilbert’s dramatic ability was recognized and she soon played leading Slia&spearean roles with the Booths, . Forrest and other famous actors. Later she appea» ed in old women’s parts with Wallack and Billy Florence, and In 1869 joined Daly’s company In New York. For thirty years she has been a prominent figure In this leading organisation.

A Choir Boy of Paris.

To become a cboir-boy In Paris yon must be either one of two things—the pupil of one of the ecclesiastical schools in the city, or a youth of exceptional gifts as to voice and recommendations from the world beyond the shadow of the church. The scholars of the monks are the more favored ones, and from their ranks are supplied nearly all the vacancies occurring in the many churches of the capital. Besides standing high in his class, the applicant for altar honors must possess a good Voico and one capable of very high cultivation. The salary given to the boy singer Is merely nominal, but occasion for generous feeing on the part of an impulsive and highly emottonal people makes his earritags considerable, often running np to $lO a month for the best singers. The costumes worn by the boys during service are most, elaborate and costly, the colors varying from a pure white through red, violet and blue. Ifed Is much In vogue, as its richness harmonizes splendidly with the golden ornaments of the altar and throws elf to advantage the rays of light from the surrounding candles. Special colors for the cassocks, shoes and head-gear are reserved for particular churches and certain* saints; blue is sacred to the Holy Virgin, add la never worn except in her honor.—Woman’s Home. Companion.

Left by the Roadside.

An old woman as die passed a mile* atone on which was inscribed “Annan 7 miles; Carlisle 10,” was heard to remark: '“Annie, seven; Carlisle, ten. Puire wee things! Balth burled by the roadside!”—Answers. > '■<

Cabbies Aftraid of Electrify.

There, has been great difficulty in London in flndlßg drivers for electric vehicles and one company has dismissed Its employes and closed up its plant on this account, I—i - Ae a general rule you can get the Host work out of the busiest people. » • r* .ci .