People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1894 — DEDICATED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEDICATED.

Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, lis one of the handsomest men in Euirope. He is six feet tall and of splendid physique. ‘ The shattered health and mental trouble of Lord Randolph Churchill will soon lead to the retirement from politics of that brilliant English statesman. Senator John Sherman has scrap books covering the history of the United States for the past thirty-eight years. He has been keeping his letters since he was fifteen, and everything of value has been saved. The British war office is considering a proposition that all soldiers should be instructed in the elements of anatomy and physiology in order that they might be able immediately to stop the flow of blood from a leading artery. Mr. Gladstone is quite generally credited with having a thorough appreciation of his own genius. His wedding gift to Miss Tennant of a full set of the works of William E. Gladstone attests this fact anew.

Box elder trees are said to furnish a sap so closely resembling the sap of the maple that it can be used as a substitute, and experts can not detect the difference. Successful experiments have been made in Nebraska. The British steamship Akaba the other day cleared at the Pensacola, Fla., custom house for London with a cargo of 2,021,000 superficial feet of lumber and timber. This is the largest cargo of its kind that has ever left a gulf port. In Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota and Wisconsin a man may vote before he is a citizen, provided he has declared his intention of becoming one. The unqualified success of Mr. Nathan Straus’ experiments in behalf of New York’s poor, particularly his pure and sterilized milk experiments, is already bearing fruit. A similar plan in l>ehalf of the poor children of Philadelphia is now being worked out bj’ Philadelphia philanthropists. The rate of mortality of London has steadily decreased with the introduction and perfection of adequate means of disposing of the sewage of the city. At the end of the eighteenth century the annual average mortality was estimated at fifty per 1,000 and in 18'02 it had dropped to 19.1 per 1,000.

A new brand of smokeless powder discovered Ivy a Virginian and developed by a Mr. Leonard, has been proven by experiments made by government officials to be the superior of any yet discovered. A petition has been presented to the house asking for an appropriation to allow further tests. The latest development in the milk business in London is to drive the cows around the route and have them milked in the presence of the customers. The customer is thus enable to judge for himself of the healthy appearance of the animal, and is sure of the freshness of the milk. The practice is a common and anciet one in Egypt. 1 11 ’ Fishermen at Wrightsville, Pa., on the Susquehanna, are talking of a novel swimming race between several kinds of fish. There is a great dispute as to which is the fastest swimmer, an eel, a black bass or a May sucker. They propose constructing a wooden trough 500 feet long, in shallow water, and then race the fish to decide the bets.

An international fire congress is to be held at Antwerp on June 9, 10 and 11, and will be continued at Brussels on the three following days. Representative fire brigades from all countries will take part in the displays and contests. A British brigade has been formed of picked men from forty-five brigades. At a similar congress two years ago an American team took first prize A much bigger wheel than the great Ferris wheel, which revolved in the Midway and is to be set up in New York, is building at Earl’s court, London. It is a 400-foot wheel, and will carry 2,000 people in fifty cars. Three restaurants will be built on platforms at varying heights on the supporting towers, and a big ball room will crown the towers at the axle. After January 1, 1895, no more days of grace will be allowed in New York state on notes, drafts, checks, acceptances, bills of exchange, bonds or other evidences of indebtedness made, drawn or accepted by any person or corporation, and no grace, according to the custom of merchants, will be allowed after that date unless there is a stipulation to the contrary. There is nothing left for the debtor to do but call at the captain’s office and settle or let his obligation go to protest on the day the obligation matures. It is not likely that we will soon talk to our English cousins by telephone across the Atlantic ocean. The trouble is, or at least one of the troubles is, that the cable to carry the wires must be quite a foot thick. It would be an enormously costly business, and a difficult one, to lay a cable of that size. To lay it in one piece would be ©nt of the question; it would have to be spliced more than once. And. safely laid, there is no knowing that it would not prove a failure. It is likely that, for a while yet, the telegraph will do for ua. A sub-marine telephone is nut yet a long-salt want.

The Field Columbian Museum Formally Opened at Chicago. Many Interesting Relics of the Great Fair Disclosed to the Public Gaze The Simple But Impressive Dedicatory Exercises. HAS NO EQUAL. Chicago, June s.—ln the presence of 10,000 enthusiastic Chicagoans the already famous Field Columbian museum, the epitome and memorial of the great World’s Columbian exposition, was formerly opened to the public at 2:30 p. m. Saturday. The dedicatory exercises were brief and simple, and at their conclusion the people took possession of the splendid gift presented to them by the generosity of Chicago’s philanthropic citizens. The doors just opened will not be closed on any day in the year, and this noble monument to Chicago’s enterprise and public spirit will always be accessible to all who wish to enter it. The inaugural ceremonies consisted of prayer by Rev. Dr. F.W. Gunsaulus, a brief address by Director in Chief Skiff, encompassing a history of the organization of the museum, followed by an oration by- President Edward G. Mason, of the Chicago Historical society. At the conclusion of the oration President E. E. Ayer of the Museum association arose and

formally declared the museum open to the public, and in a few moments the vast audience had spread over the entire building inspecting the great collections of relics and works of art gathered from every hind.

GEORGE WILLIAMS, Founder of Y. M. C. A.