Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 15, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 September 1892 — Page 4

_ 25.—The city this -j Is a blaze of light Along over i mile* of the business streets 75,000 electric and gas lights are shining through globes of many tints, producing an effect which baffles description, and which exceeds in brilliancy and magnificence anything erer seen In modern days or immortalised by the pen# of mfontal poets. The city is crowded with guests, and the universal expression of opinion is that great as is the reputation of St Louis as a carnival city, the metropolis of the west snd southwest has annihilated all records this year. In addition to the countless arches and clusters of many-colored globes, there are ten splendid set pieces. In which the latest triumphs of electricity are displayed. The most prominent of these is ou Twelfth street, between '’Washington avenue and Olivo. It is a great electrical panorama which opens up with a silent, but overpoweringly eloquent, description of the discovery of America, goes on to show how the country settled wp, and concludes with a magnificent burst of light with the words:

displayed in bold relief at a height of ISO feet above the heads of tens of thousands of enthusiastic spectators. At the corner of Broadway and Olive streets, within two squares of the site of the new two million dollar hotel, an enormous globe is, suspended in mid air, about as high 6s the fifth floor of the lofty buildings which adorn the corner. The globe revolves on its axis, and is studded with thousands of incandescent electric light globes which give the exact outlines of the two continents. When lighted up the effect is magnificent, especially when seen at a distance of eight or ten squares. Over the Grant statue, on Twelfth street, the Stars and Stripes and the Spanish flag are suspended, and here again electricity does the rest The other set pieces and designs are equally magnificent and daring. The special illumination nights of the season are: September X, 8, 5, 15, 32 and S3; October 1, 4,0, 13 and 30. The illuminations are but a part of the grand entertainment provided by St Louis. The great exposition, the only successful annual exposition in the world,opens September 7 and continues with four concerts daily by Gilmore’s band of 100 pieces, the greatest aggregation of musical talent ever seen or heard in the west Tim Veiled Prophet will arrive October 1, and will be accorded a military reception. His great annual parade will take place Tuesday, October 4, followed by a grand ball at the Merchants’ Exchange hall. All the railroads aro making exceptionally low rates to St Louis during the festivities, a programme of which will be mailed to anyono addressing the Vcstivitios Bureau, St Louis. —A curiosity was lately found in a boat load of lobsters brought from New Brunswick waters. The strange crustacean was of bluish white—one of the rare and remarkale albino lobsters. It -was aenj to WaeWnftbn, where it is to ^^beeome^i part of the exhibit of the United States fish commission. Only one other white lobster has been taken in these or any other waters. —Miss Emma Bradley, of Chicago, has established at her own charges a mission sohool in one of the worst quarters of the city. She lives in the rear of the school room and shares her food with a number of pensioners who coma to her table every day.

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The following discourse, selected by Rev. T- DeWitt Ta Image from among those delivered by hijn during his sojourn in England, is presented to the American readers this week. The text is: With twain he covered bis face: with twain he covered his feet, a id with twain did he fly. —Isaiah, vt. 2. In a hospital, of leprosy good King Uzziah had died, and the whole land was shadowed with solemnity,and theological and prophetic Isaiah was thinking about religious things, as one is apt to do in time of great national bereavement, and forgetting the presence of his wife and two sons, who made up his family, he has a dream; not like the dream of ordinary character, which generally come from indigestion, but a vision most instructive, and under the touch of the hands of the Almighty. The place, the ancient temple; building, grand, awful, majestic. Within that temple a throne higher and grander than that occupied by any czar or sultan or emperor. On that throne, the eternal Christ. In lines surrounding that throne the brightest celestials, not the cherubim, but higher than they; the most exquisite and radiant of the heavenly inhabitants; the seraphim. They are called burners because they look like fire. Lips of fire, feet of fire. In addition to the features and the limbs, which! suggest a human being, there are pinions, which suggest the lithest, the swiftest, the most buoyant and most inspiring of all intelligent creation—a bird. Each seraph had six wings for a.different purpose. Isaiah’s dream quivers and flashes with the pinions. Now folded, now spread, now beaten in locomotion. “With twain he covered his feet, with twain he covered his face, and with twain he did fly." The probability is that these wings were not all used at once. The seraph standing there near the throne overwhelmed at the insignificance of the paths his feet had trodden, as compared with the paths trodden by the feet of God, and with the lameness of his locomotion amounting almost to decrepitude as compared with the Divine velocity, with feathery veil of angelic modesty hides the feet “With twain he did cover the feet.”

standing mere overpowered oy tne overmatching splendors of God’s glory, and unable longer with the eyes to look upon them, and wishing those eyes shaded from the insufferable glory, the pinions gather over the countence. “With twain he did*'-cover the face.” Then as God tejls this seraph to go to the furthest outpost of immensity on message of light and love and joy, and get back before the first anthem, it doeB not take the seraph a great while to Rpread himself upon the air with unimagined celerity, one stroke of the wing equal to ten thousand leagues of air. “With twain ho did fly.” The most practical and useful lesson for yon and me—when we see the seraph spreading his wings over the feet, is a lesson of humility at imperfection. The brightest angels of God are so far beneath God that He charges them with folly. The seraph so far beneath God, and we so far beneath the seraph in service we ought to be plunged in humility, utter and complete. Our feet, how laggard they have been in the Divine service! Our feet, how many missteps they have taken. Our feet, in how many paths of worldliness and folly they have walked. Neither God nor seraph intended to put any dishonor upon that which is one of the masterpieces of Almighty God—the human foot Physiologist and anatomist are overwhelmed at the wonders of its organization. The Bridgewater Treatise, written by Sir Charles Bell, on the wisdom and goodness of God as illustrated in the human hand, was a result of the forty thousaand dollars bequeathed iu the last will and testament of the earl of Bridgewater for the encouragement of Christian literature. The world could afford to forgive his eccentricities, though ha had two dogs seated at his table, and though he put six dogs alone in an equipage drawn by four horses and attended by two footmen. With his large bequest inducing Sir Charles Bell to write so valuable a book on the wisdom of God in the structure of the human hand, the world could afford to forgive his oddities. And the world could now afford to have another earl of Bridgewater, however idiosyncratic, if he would induce some other Sir Charles Bell to write a book on the wisdom and goodness of God in the construction of the human foot. The articulation of its bones, the lubrication of- its joints, the gracefulness of its lines, the ingenuity of its cartilages, the delicacy of its veins, the rapidity of its muscular contraction, the sensitiveness of its nerves. I sound the praises of the human foot. With that we halt or club or march. It is the foundation of the physical fabric. It is the base of a God-poised column. With it the warrior braces himself for'foattle. With it the orator plants himself for eulogtum. With it the toiler reaches his work. With it the outraged stamps his indignation. Its loss an irreparable disaster. Its health an invaluable equipment. If you want to know its value ask the man whose foot paralysis hath shriveled, or machinery hath crushed, or surgeon’s knife hath amputated. The Bible honors it. Especial, care: “Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone;” “he will not suffer thy foot to be moved;” “thy feet shall not stumblev” Especial charge: “Keep thy foot wjh^n thou goest to this house of God." Especial peril: “Their feet shall slide in due time,” Connected with the world’s dissolution: “He shall set one foot on the sea and the other on the earth.” Give me the history of your foot, and I will give you the history of your lifetime. Tell me what steps it hath gone, what declivities and in what roads and in what directions, and I will know more about you than I want to know. None of us could endure the scrutiny. not always in paths of God. in paths of worldliness, feet, a Divine and glorious niafor usefulness and work, so often going God knowing saying: “Thou heels of my feet.” crimes of the crimes of the rimes of the rings of huwe not to go >re the all-all-trying seraphs do. How more we. “With twain be covthefeet."

Belgium never was. Unclean, unclean. Another seraphic posture in the text: "With twain he covered the lace.” That means reverence Godward. Never so much irreverence abroad as to-day. You see it in the defaced statuary, in the cutting out of figures from fine paintings, in the chipping of monuments for a memento, in fact that military guard mast stand at the grave of j Grant and Garfield, and that old shade trees must be cut down for firewood, though fifty George P. Morrises beg the woodmen to spare the tree, and that calls a corpse a cadaver, and that speaks of death as passing over to the majority, and substitutes for the reverent terms father and mother, "the old man” and "the old woman,” and finds nothing impressive in the ruins of Baalbec or the columns of Karnac. and sees no difference in the Sabbath from other days except it allows more dissipation and reads the Bible in what is called higher criticism, making it not the word of God, but a good book with some fine things in it. Irreverence never so much abroad. How many take the name of God in vain, how many trivial things said about the Almighty. Not willing to. have God in the world, they roll up an idea of sentimentality and humantarianism and impudence and imbecility, and call it God. No wings of reverence over the face, no taking off of shoes on holy ground. You can tell from the way they talk they could have made a better world than this, and that the God of the Bible shocks every sense of propriety. They talk of the love of God in a way that shows ypn they believe it does hot make any difference how bad a man is here, he will come in at the shining grate. They talk of the love of God in such a way which shows you they think it is -a general Jail delivery for aff the abandoned and the scoundrclism of the universe. No punishment hereafter for any wrong done here. The Bible gives us two descriptions of God, and they are just opposite, and they are both true. In one place the Bible says God is love. In another place the Bible says God is a consuming firis. The explanation is plain as plain can be. God through Christ is love. God out of Christ is fire. To win the one and to escape the other we have only to throw ourselves body, mind and soul into Christ’s keeping. "No,-” says Irreverence, “I want no atonement, I want no pardop, I want no intorVontion; I will go up and face God, apd I will challenge Him,and I will defy Him,and I will ask Him what ,He wants to do with me.” So the finite confronts the infinite, so a tack-hammer tries to break a thunderbolt, so the breath of human nostrils defies the everlasting God, while the. hierarch of Heaven bow the head and bend the knee as the King's chariot goes by, and the archangel turns away because he can not endure the splendor, and the chorus of all the empires of Heaven comes in with full diapson: "Holy, holy, holy!”

Reverence for sham, reverence for the old merely because it is old, rever enoe for stupidity however learned, reverence for incapacity however finely inaugurated, I have none. But we want more reverence for God, more reverence for the sacraments, more reverence for the Bible, more reverence for ttie pure, more reverence for the good. Reverence a characteristic of all great natures. You hear it in the roll of the master oratorios. You see it in the Raphaels and Titians and Ghirlandijos. You study it in the architecture of the Aholiabsand Christopher Wrens. Do not be flippant about God. Do not •joke about death. Do not make fun of the Bible. Do not deride the Eternal. The brightest and mightiest seraph can not look unabashed upon Him. Involuntarily the wings come up. “With twain he covered his face.” Who is this God before whom the i rogant and intractable refuse reverence? There was an engineer by the name of Strasicrates who was in the employ of Alexander the Great, and he offered to hew a mountain in the shape of his master, the emperor, the enormous figure to hold in his left hand a city of ten thousand inhabitants, while with the right hand it was to hold a ba n large enough to collect all the moun tain torrents. Alexander applauded him for his ingenuity, but forbade the enterprise because of its costliness. Yet 1 have to teU you that our King holds in one hand all the cities of the earth, and all the oceans, while He has the stars of Heaven for his tiars. Earthly powers goes from hand to hand, from Henry I to Henry II. and Henry III., from Charles I. to Charles II., from Louis I. to Louis II. and Louis III., hut from everlasting to everlasting is, God. God the first, God the last, God the only. He has one telescope with which He se everything; His omniscience. . Ha has one bridge with which He crosses everything. His omnipresence. He has one hammer with which He builds everything; His omnipotence. Put two tablespoonfuls of water in the palm of your hand and it will overflow; but Isaiah indicates that God puts the Atlantic and the Pacific and the Acetic and the Antarctic and the Mediterranean and the Black sea and aU the waters of the earth in the hollow of His hand. The fingers the beach on one side, the wrist the beach on the other. “He holdeth the water in the hollow of His hand.” As you take a pinch of salt or powder between your thumb and two fingers, so Isaiah indicates God takes up the earth. He measures the dust of the earth, 'the original there indicating that God takes all the dust of all the continents between the thumb and tifro fingers. You wrap around your hand a blue ribbon five times ton timea Yon say it in five handbreadths, or it is ten handbreadths. So, indicates the prophet, God winds the blue ribbon of the sky around His hand. “He ineteth oht the Heavens with a span.” You know that balances are made of ed in the middle o basins at the extremity heft In that way has been weighed, But all earthly manipulation com- _ 1th the balances that Isaiah saw suspended when he saw God putting into the scales the Alps and Appenines mt Washington and the 8ierra You see the earth had to be It would not do to have in Europe, or in Asia, or too in America; mountains

Another seraphic posture in the text The seraph mnst not always stand still. He must move, and ij mnst he without clumsiness. There Must. be celerity and beauty in the Movement “With twain he did fly.” Correction, exhilaration. Correction at our slow gait for we only crawl in the crevice when we ought to fly at the Divine bidding. Exhilaration in the fact that thysoul wings as the seraphs have wings. What is a wing? An instrument of locomotion. They may not be like seraph's wings, hut the sotfl has wings. God says so. "He shall mount up on win£s as eagles.” We are made in the Divine image, and God has wings. The Bible says so. “Healing in His wings.” "Under the shadow of His wings.” “Under whose wings thou hast come to trust” We have folded wing now, wounded wing, broken wing, bleeding wing, caged wing. Aye! I have it'now. Caged within bars of bone and under Curtains of flesh, hut one day to be free. I hear the rustle - of pinions in Seagrave’s poem whicl we often sing: Kits, my soul, sod stretch tby w.'djs. I hear the rustle of pinions in Alexander Pope’s stanza, which says: I mount, T fly, O Death where is thy victory? A dying Christian not long ago cried out: “Wings, wings, wings!” The air is full of them, coming and going, coming and going. You have seen how the dull, sluggish chrysalis becomes the bright butterfly—the dull, and the stupid, and the lethargic turned into the alert and the beautiful. Well, my friends, in this world we are in the chrysalid state. Death will -unfurl the wings. Oh, if we could Italy realize what a grand thing it will be to get rid of this old clod of the body apd mount the heavens, neither seagull, nor lark, nor albatross, nor falcon, nor condor pitching from highest range of Andes so buoyant or so majestic of stroke. See that eagle in the mountain nest It looks so sick, so ragged-feathered, so worn-out and so half asleep. Is that eagle dying? No. The ornithologist will tell you it is moulting season with that bird. Not dying, but

moulting'. You see.that Christian, sick and weary and worn-out and seeming about to expire on what, is called his death-bed. The world says he is dying. I say it is the moulting season for the soul—the body dropping away, the celestial pinions coming on. Not dying, but moulting, moulting out of darkness and sin and struggling into glory and into God. Why do you not shout? Why do you sit shivering at the thought of death, and trying to hold back and wishing ydu could stay here forever, and speak of departure as though the subject were filled with skeletons and the varnish dt coffins, and as thou you profered lame foot to swift wing? 0, people of God, let us stop playing the fool and' prepare for rapturous flight. When your soul stands on the verge of this life, and there ate vast precipices beneath, and sapphired domes above,-which way will you fly? Will you swoop or will you soar? Will you fly downward or will you fly upward? Everything on the wing this morning bidding us aspire. Holy Spirit on the wing. Angel of the new covenant on the wing. Time on the wing, flying away from us. Eternity on the wing, flying toward us. Wings, wings, wings! LiVe so near to Christ that when you are dead people stand by your lifeless body will * not soliloquize, saying, “What a disappointment life was to him; how averse he was to departure; what a pity it was he had to die; what an awful calamity.” Rather standing there may they see a sign more vivid on your Btill face than the vestiges of pain, something that will indicate that it was a happy exit—the clearance from oppressive .quarantine, the cast-off chrysalid, the moulting of the faded and useless and the ascent from malarial valleys to height, shining mountain tops, and be led to say, as they stand there contemplating yonr humility and your reverence in life, and your happiness in death: “With twain he covered the feet, with twain he covered the face, with twain he did fly.” Wings! Wings! Wings! —A second is the smallest division 01 time in general use, and when we consider that in one year there are about 81,558,000 of these periods, it would certainly seem as if it were small enough for all practical purposes. But, after all, a good deal can happen even in a fraction of a second. A light-wave, for instance, passes through a distance of about 185,000 miles in this length of time. A current of electricity has probably an even greater speed. The earth itself moves in its orbit at a rate of 20 miles a second, thus far exceeding the fastest railroad trains on its surface. A tuning-fork of the French standard vibrates 870 times per second to produce the note A on the treble staff. —According to a local tradition, probably invented, Sayville, Long Island, received its name in a peculiar fashion. The settlers were gathered in debate upon the shore trying to agree upon a name for the place, and one after another proposed his suggestion with “Say, how’ll this do?” After many suggestions had been rejected, some one, barren of imagination but sensitive of ear, proposed that the oftrepeeted word “say” be made the first syllable of the name, and that ville be added as the second syllable. The idea took, and, says the legend, then and there the settlement was christened Sayville. —Matches whfch would strike alight were invented about the year 1880. Previous to this, the flint and tinder were nsed. In many neighborhoods, there were but few of even these ap-' pliances. The fires were not allowed to go out, but were covered with ashes, which kept them over night In the morning the coals were raked off and shavings or small bits of wood were placed on the coals, which were blown into a blase by bellows. When sulphur matches were first introduced, the strictly orthodox were relnctant to use them on account of the smell of the brimstone, which, they declared, suggested Tophet. - —Do not allow yourself to he drawn into a quarrel whieh does not concern you. “He tjiat passeth by and meddleth with strife that belongeth not to him is like a man that taketh a dog by the ear."—Proverbs, xxVL, 17. —Love embodies all that is patent and all that is latent in the GospeL ’Tis secure in temptation, temperate in prosperity, strong in suffering and cheerful in good Works.—f^t. Augustine.

wmw .to increase production, to lower pricesand to raise wages. Tsri# reformers take a different view on all these points and base their opinions less npon the theory and more upon facts, that is, they have recently called the attention of the country to s list of 100 tariff trusts; to a list of 5c0 wage reductions in protected industries since October, 1800; to hundreds of articles on which both the duty and the price have been increased; to hundreds ot mills and factories closed by these tariff trusts to restrict production, and to numerous other similar facts. Readers of trade papers come across a multitude of facts on the tariff reform side of this question. Here are a few taken from the'weekly Iron Age of August 4, 1892. It should be remembered that the greatest of all protected industries is that of iron and steel manufactures: 1. It publishes a list of eight big iron and steel combines and of several smaller ones of recent date. These embrace the manufacture of steel rails, structural steel, crucible and open-hearth steel, steel billets, wire rods, wire, wire nails, boiler and tank plates, armor plates, cat nails, slabs, pig iron, bar iron, etc. , ” 2. It discusses “the tactics of the coal combine,” which has advanced prices of anthracite coal several times during the last few months and which will continue to make advances from “time to time In a sort of arithmetical progression, with the apparent, if not openly avowed, design of reaching a certain maximum—say, fS a ton for stove—-'be-fore the snow flies’ ” , Of course the duty on bituminous coal, which competes with anthracite, makes it easier for the coal combine to reach “a certain definite maximum.” & It says, “The latest combine in the. mercantile world is a fur pool with 110,000,000 capital, in which nearly all the firms in the trade have become interested.” This is the George W. Treadwell trust which has a monopoly of the seal fur industry of Alaska and also of the dyeing of furs, and which can adjust prices in this country up to the limits of a duty. 4. It announces firmer and upward prices for wire and cut nails and a reduction of 8 to 10 per cent, in the scale of wages for wire drawing for 1893 and 1893. Also that a large number of wire and cut nail mills are shut down. 5. It says: “The Continental tube works, at Frankstown and Pittsburgh, hare closed down for an indefinite period,” because “the firm did not feel justified in buying skelp iron in the open market at the recent advance in prices." 6. “On account of the depression in the iron market, the Isabella Furnace Co, operating the Isabella furnace at Etna, Pa., have bankeddown one stack and will probably bank another dfiting the present week.”

7. ’ AQaysion rjpa worKH, iue largest In the country, have posted a notice of a shut-down for, an indefinite period.” 8. “The Dunbar Furnace Co., at Dunbar, Pa., operating the two Dunbar f uraaces, closed them down on Saturday, July 80, for ay indefinite period.’^. Closing down due to the “present depression existing in the pig iron trade.” 0. The Keystone Horseshoe Co, of Philadelphia, have started upon threefourths capacity after a shut-down of three weeks, during which time the workmen concluded to make the required “concessions” necessary to resume work. 10. Recent advances, amounting to f3 and $4 per ton have been made in structtural steel. It There is a “better tone to prices” 'of barbed wire and “some of the manufacturers have withdrawn their quotations.” 12. “It is estimated that about 15,004 men are now idle, causing some eighty buildings in course of construction to be tied up” in New York City. 18. “It is estimated that during the present month a perceptible increase in prices will be noticed" for window glasa ^ ^ The Iron Age attempts editorially to explain the grave necessity which exists for “the leveling of wages” in the iron industry. It says both prices and wages have been on an artificial basis, and that “with the disappearance of artificial values the artificial standard of wages also falls.” These items—-such as occur every week—give a fair idea of industries propped up by a tariff. Unsteady and fluctuating prices and production, combinations of capital to restrict production, raise prices and reduce wages, labor unions to resist the reductions, strikes, boycotts and labor riots—all paid for in the end by the consumer who votes to sustain this unnatural and .unhealthy system of providing for our wants. _ Oar Miracle Worker. Right here in this United States in the year 1890 was wrought one of the greatest miracles on record. By a sort of jugglery of economic conditions a great statesman, William McKinley, Jr., by name, has enabled us to make manufactured goods cheaper by taxing them; to make ^rm products dearer by taxing them; to increase foreign commerce by placing barriers to stop it; to kill trusts by restricting competition; to encourage industry by advancing wages and reducing prices and profits; to find markets for our farm products in the farming countries south of us; to reduce the cost of making goods by increasing wages and the cost of raw materials; to collect our revenues by levying duties upon foreigners who seek our markets for their goods—except when out of pity we excuse them by means of our reciprocity clause, and to raise big crops when there are famines in foreign countries. And yet there are some who would have us go back to the old-fashioned humdrum life when people paid their own taxes, made goads cheaper by removing the restrictions to competition, and in general always expected that water would run down hill. But, then, no new invention or discovery was ever fally appreciated at first ^ > —Suppose that pauper laber goods would not only come in free of duty, but free of cost, what a disaster would befall us! Everyone who now produced these goods would have absolutely nothing to da This certainly would be the extension of the free trade idea to its worst possible phase, and yet whs among our protectionists friends would not bo hanging around the wharf at distrlbutitgktlme, Were he asked why he did not reject the good things, hit answer would be the free trader’s; “There is more fun in getting plenty with little or no work than in working bard to get few things.” His concern for the shoemaker and tailor would vanish as ho saw them imitating bis example. And then there would be time for him to study the reason why there ever was opposition to any approach to the millennium of industrial economy-—St Louis Courier, —Governments make hostile tariffs and suffering from the effects, the palliative reciprocity is suggested; and with a wild hurrah the American statesman enters the field as the discoverer of what to do, after we’ve followed his advice and-pat 0**r ‘fcet i« Jo** Courier.

since the world received Christianity. Woman is the Sunday of man; not his repose only, bnt his joy, the salt of his “Woman” must ever be a woman’s highest name, and honors more than “lady,” if I know right. Thebe is jn every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire which beams and blazes in the dark hours of adversity. O, woman! In ordinary cases so mere a mortal, how in the great and rare events of life dost thou swell into the angels! Pride in a woman destroys all symmetry and grace; and affectation is a more terrible enemy to a fine face than the smallpox.—Banner of Gold. The present holder of the title, Baron Fairfax, lives in Virginia. He is a physician and practices his profession. Stephen Maybie, who calls himself a general, is organizing a. rival salvation army in California and will invade the eastern states with it The only surviving child of Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat, is ■aid to be living in Poughkeepsie, mother of Rev. Rubert Fulton Cray, of that city. Gen. Grant’s mother, father and maiden sister are buried in a Cincinnati cemetery, their last resting place marked by a modest granite monument designed by Gen. Grant himself. Mil Henby M. Stanley has b&ome so angered at the flippant allusions in the American newspapers to his late canvass that he declares he will never set foot in the United States again. Ross L. Clemens, of El Reno, O. T., thoifgh only eighteen years of age, is slowly dying of ossification.. There is now scarcely any flesh on her bones and the weighs only twenty-eight pounds. IN EUROPEAN CAPITALS. Paris live in apartments. Thebe are ninety-nine different banking companies in London. The authorities of Berlin have decided to incorporate the suburbs in the civic boundary, thus increasing its radius to ten miles and bringing up its population to three millions. Pupils in an English technical school rowed across the channel from Folkestone to Boulogne recently in an ordinary- four-oared galley, covering the 'distance jn five and one-half hours and beating the record. At the beginning of the current year the police force of London numbered 15,038 men. Sixty per cent, of the force Is required for night duty. The Metropolitan police district embraces an area at about 688 square miles. . The increase In the number of regular annual American visitors to London Is attributed in that city to the fact that the London hotels o^the better class are-trying with some success to life. PERSONAL MENTION. a quarter of the people in be like good American hotels.

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