Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1890 — Page 2

%ht Jlspothlxcau. - ' ' -' ' 111 * ““ G*o. E. Marshall, Publisher. ■ '.r ... ■■ - VJSMSSBLAER, INDIANA

Mss. Stonewall Jackson has applied for a pension as the widow of a Mexican war veteran. The Minnesota twins are now oalled by some of the papers, “Mine-Paul.” Such a combination is enough to apolis. - ’ ' New York seems of the opinion that had Columbus known Chicago would, get the Fair he wouldn’t have discovered America. A storm tower is to be erected at the top of Mount Penn, overlooking Reading, Pa. It will be 1,100 feet above the sea level. : ~ ; A scientist says cows’ milk can readily be reduced to a powder and that it will be greatly superior to condensed milk. There will be a new element in the population of tho next census. The Chinese will he enumerated for the first time in this country. Lord Bulwer lit on this superb aphorisms “A fresh mind keeps the? body fresh. Take in the ideas of today; drain off those of yesterday. Amatkdr harpists are increasing at a great rate in New York fashionable circles, and there are indications that the accomplishment is to be a “fad.” North Carolina has quite a war burden to carry. In the slate 1,200 disabled soldiers draw pensions and 2,800 widows. This is an example of local patriotism. Mr. Kerr, of Yakima county, \Vashlngton, has sent to Japan for a large quantity of tea cuttings. He intends to see what can be done with that plant in his own country. Rt. Rev. Mgr. La Belle, minister of agriculture of the dominion of Canada, is the only Roman catholic bishop in the world holding a cabinet office under a secular government, The curious discovery has been made that every governor of lowa since 1859 is alive, and hale and hearty, and the only democrat among them is the present executive. Mr. Gladstone’s new daughter-in-law, Mrs. Her.ry Gladstone, is not only young and’handsome, but accomplished in music and languages. She is an admirable performer on the All of the bank note currency of the Italian government is engraved and printed in the United Stateß. The notes are neat, but small, resembling somewhat the fractional notes issued in war times. Prince Eugene of Sweden has passed two years in Paris studying arl under the direction of M. Henri Gervex. .The latter has just had conferred upon him the Cross of a Chevalier ol the Order of St Olaf. One of the exhibits in the Paris Saloon this season will be the portrait o! Minister Reid, by the artist G. P. A •Healy. It is said to be more flattering than many of the portraits drawn o! Mr. Reid in this country. An absolutely well bred man will not smoke when walking with a lady land is more particular about those ol Jhis own family than any others. Th« (breeding that shows itself in courtesies Ito strangers only is a very poor sort o! veneer. ! Recently the jail at Moulton, lowa, :had a hole torn in the roof by lightning, through which five prisoners (escaped. Nothing providential about (that. They ought to thank God all ithe same—every ono of them—unless caught again. Some of the most recent new uses o! electricity are for purifying sea watei And sewerage and for improving distilled spirits. An English electrician has found that electricity softens some .wines by removing the excess of bitartrate of pot tsh. ■ A Those who like to be moved bj waves of patriotism will be glad t< learn that the first American Union flag was unfurled on January 1, 1776, over the camp at Cambridge. It had thirteen stripes of white and red, anc retained the British cross in one cor ner.

' A prisoner in Bohemia recently constructed a watch eight centimeton i (8J inches) in diameter, with no tooh or materials except two needles, a ,spool of thread, a newspaper and som< rye straw. The wheels, posts and ; oogpareof rye straw; the watch runs six hours without winding and keeps good time. ‘ The great monsters of mecnanica skill and genius call for the sacrifice of a great life and limb in their con struction. The greater the engineerlog feat the more extensive is the lost of life. In the construction of th* Eiffel Towor for instance, twenty-sit lives wero lost, while on the the grea Forth bridge in, Scotland a list of forty lives lost bee been published.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Kansas will quarantine against all eat; •tie. The Union Pacific in three months has earned $1,864,669 net. A tornado visited Gerone county, Ala., nine people being killed. Gen. Stiles, the distinguished Chicago lawyer, has lost his sight, A child having a set of perfectly devel oped teeth was born at Springfield, O. Miss Lena Woodruff, of Appleton, Wis., was robbed of S7OO while on a train Chicago bound. One thousand seven hundred and twenty nine foreigners landed at New York Thursday. An explosion of a boiler at the Etna 1 mills, New Castle, Pa., on the 23d, killed three men.

Twelve lumbermen were drowned while trying to cross the Otto river near Columet Mich ..' Friday. A cloud burst occurred over Gainesville, Texas, Friday, deluging tho city to a depth :>fseveral feet. Ono of the new war vessels of the United States Navy is named the Concord. It will help keep the peace. Officer Peterson, a St. Paul policeman, was attacked by a gang of thugs on the morning of the 23d and fatally injured. The G. H. Hammond Dressod Beef Company, of Chicago, has been sold to a syndicate of English capitalists for $5,000,000,

Talmagc threatens to leave Brooklyn if the Tabernacle is not rebuilt properly. It is said that he has a $20,000 offer to go to Chicago. : 7 • Jimmy Carroll, of Brooklyn, and Billy Smith, of Australia, fought at San Francisco for $1,500. Carroll won in fourteen rounds. Samuel Nelson, of Hesperia, Mich., shot his sweetheart, Annie Felson, and then committed suicide, because the girl would not marry him, - - - Tho Central Illinois Millers’ Association have adopted resolutions favoring tho passage of the Butterworth Anti-Option bill now ponding in Congress. Ground was broken at Bluffton, Ala. Thursday, for the new building of the University of Southland, an institution founded by the Northern Methodist Ohurch. Deputy Sheriff Colonel E. W. Davis, cf Newark, N. J., is an embezzler to the amount of $29,000 and has fled. He had bandied all county money for the past twenty-five years. The house and ship building trades have secured the adoption of tho nine-hour day lu St. John, N. B. A movement is on foot for a general organization of workingmen to make the nine hour day include all trades and industries. J. C. Conkling, the new postmaster at Springfield, 111., who recently'removed six mail carriers, 'assigning as a reason “a change of administration,” was notified Monday by the authorities at Washington that removals can not be made for political reasons only. There is no immediate prospect of the settlement of the Chicago strike, and it looked on the 24th as if it might extend to all kinds of business. The situation in, Pittsburg railroad circles is dubious. Both roads ha' e refused to accede to the terms offered and a strike is imminent. W. P. Campbell, Assistant Enrolling Clerk of the Kentucky House, has sent a challenge to fight a duel to Thomas H. Davis, editor of the Maysvilleßepublican. Davis published that Campbell had left debts unpaid when recently he went away from Augusta, Ky. Campbell threatens to kill Davis on sight if a duel is declined. Five firemen were plunged through the floor of a burning building at Chicago on the 23d. Three of them were badly inured. Damage to, the extent of $150,000 was caused by a fire at Rochester. An attempt was made to burn the town of Tonawanda, N. Y. Fire destroyed the entire business portion of Greenwood, Miss. Two lives wereTost. A Bayou Sara special says: Another break occurred on tho 22d Id the Pointe Coupe levee, and tho indications are that the entire Pointe Coupe front will be submerged. The waternow pouring through the crevasses at tMorganzia and in the vicinity will overflow tho greater portion of tho country between the Atchafalaya and Mississippi Rivers, and extending from Old River above to Bayou Lafourche below, embracing about 700 square miles of territory. The correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer sends this interview with Mi-Kin-ly to his paper: “I have no hesitation iti saying, in response to your question, that in my opinion Benjamin Harrison will be nominated for President in 1893, and I have not seen any reason to doubt that he would be e.gam elected. He has kept tho promises that he has made. Ho has not interfered by his vetoes with tho best efforts his pa rty is making in Congress to settle th e vexed questions before us. I think, with be great new States added to the galaxy In the Northwest, that the Republican pa rty is very likely to be again intrusted wi th power."

FOREIGN. The Freneh and Dahomians had a battle ’.t Ponto Noro on the 23d. Fifty Frenchmen were wounded and 500 pahomians rilled. A Russian company has obtained a concession to construct a system of railways in Persia. The company Is financially supported by a syndicate of French eapi--iliste. The strikers renewed their rioting at rropika, Austrian Silesia, Monday. They were finally dispersed by the military, but not until they had smashed every window n two of the principal streets. Iu the ■olHsion between the rioters and the troops many were injured on both sides and eon eyed to the hospital. \ Whenever William E. Glad stone-catches cold he at once goes to bed. This has been his rnle for fifteen years. It is an interesting fact, not generally known, that he wrote his eieotlon address announcing the dissolution of Parliament in 1371 in bed. A Belgian has lately invented e musical shirt, on the cuffs of which fragments of a score are printed, so that if the instrumentalist he a flutist, harpist or oomotist, he has hie entire part under his eyes, and need net carry say further unite stout Xsi~h hlaa.

AN EIGHT-HOUR DAY.

Labor's United D -muml nod the Plan of Campaign. An ominous cloud, says the Indianapolis News of Monday, hangs over the labor world. Organized labor, believing that the time is at hand when the eight hour day should be established, and that tradesmen should be able in those eight hohrs to make a fair “living,” is prepared to enforce its demands. In the recent years of comparative plenty, preparations for a contest have been made. It will be peaceably' but powerfully' fought. Labor is banded as never before. The plan of campaign has been made known. As outlined by Presn dent Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, the carpenters are to lead in the demand for eight hours (and an advance.in wages different in amount in different cities where different circumstances exist) if their demands are not acceded to in the several localities they are to be aided by the national treasury, and reinforced by kindred trades. The funds of all the organiza

tions will be available for assisting the strikers. As a last resort, a universal strike of all organized labor is hinted at strongly, Developments of the last few days are along two line: The carpenters’strikes, by design begun two weeks in advance of the general demand for an eight-hour day, and the railroad strike, local to Pittsburg and a few other points, precipitated somewhat earlier, perhaps, than was intended. The last named is an important element, because it has already developed a sympathy between the trades unions and the railroad men’s organizations. Many of the railroad men are now part and parcel of the federation. The Conductor’s Association (O. R. C.), will no longer be able to prevent a railroad strike from becomiug universal, as heretofore, because if the Conductor’s Association does not amend its conititution and abolish the anti-strike feature, many of its members say they - will unite with the Brotherhood of Conductors (distinct from the O. R. C.), which is already enlisted with the firemen, engineers, brakemen, etc., in the federal movement. It seems possible, in a work, for a strike tp become well nigh universal. As to the probabilities no one has more right to predict than another. In some localities and trades the disposition of employers is to grant the demands of labor; elsewhere the contrary feeling prevails.

“The eight-hour day is the sole idea now being considered by the labor world,” said Samuel president of the American Federation of Labor, at Chicago on the 22d. “In the history of the social and economic questions of the world there has not been one which received at once and completely the same ’sympathy that has oeen accorded to the eight-hour movement. It has covered Europe, and on May 1 the working population of that continent will demand the eight-hour day. “The labor organizations of this country are deveted solely to this idea. We think we can do one thing at a time better than a multiplicity of things. To the end of obtaining the eight-hour work day we are concentrating all our energy, all our abilis ty and all our intelligence. We are doing it with the least possible injurious results to business or commerce. We do not want to stop the wheels of industry. Wo want to help them work more smoothly. We want to remove instead of increase friction. So [ we proceed by des grees. We have singled out the eight-hour day movement as the first thing to be attained. Then we have selected only one trade for which at firs* this improvement must be secured. We have chosen tho carpenters as the first- craft for which to win this benefit. When the carpenters shall have won wo will demand it for the miners and mine laborers. Then other trades will be taken up and pushed forward. In this way the entire change of the industrial system to the eight-hour day shall have been accomplished with the least effect on the country’s business. There is no doubt of the suoces3 of the movement. In the American Federation of Labor, to which, by common consent, the beginning of the eight-hour movement is granted, there are 630,000 members. In the movement, besides these, there are more than enough to bring the force to 1,000,000 men. The movement lor the eigbt-bour day is on a different basis now from its status in 1886. Then we **ad an army of enthusiastic raw recruits. Now wc have a force of cool, trained veterans. The movement of 1886 was chaotic, disintegrated, unsystematic. To day it is methodical, organized, prepared. We will secure the eight-hour day for the workmen of the world, not if it takes all summer, but if it takes the rest of our lives.”

The efforts of the local labor dealers says a Chicago special of the 15th, devoted during the next week to an endeavor to restrain the strike fever which seems to have seized the workingmen of the city. Chicago was chosen as the battle ground on which the first general engagement was to be fought and the carpenters were placed in the advance line. It was intended that all other trades should remain at work until the carpenters should have won, Trade after trade has organized and de dared that it, too, must have the eight hour day. According to current reports the monster demonstration which has been arranged for May 1 as an expression of sentiment only, may, it is now feared, turn into the beginning of a strike which th e leaders will be powerless to direot much less control. Certainly many strikers will be added to the carpenters. Thu stock yards and packing house employes, the stair builders, mill carpenters, gas fitters, Iron moldersand harness makers have, already announced their intention of striking. Besides these the tailors, shoemakers, plasterers, lathers, cornice makers, metal workers, and many other lines of labor seem determined to join the ranks. It was rumored among.the men Friday morning that the building bosses would antioipate the proposed general strike by a total suspension of business Saturday night next. By this .move the bosses would put the men on the {defensive to a certain extent. The idleness nmaag the building trades consequent upon thpeamwlinfurikels increasing. The

president of the Bricklayers’ union called at strikers’ headquarters Friday and said that fewer than three hundred of the 4,500 bricklayers in the city Ws-re at work. The same state of affairs prevails in most of the building trades. y LABOR NOTES. - Two thousand spinners at Newry, Ireland have struck for higherVages. The carrying trade of Cork is paralyzed, owing to a strike of shipping and railway men. Several hundred shoemakers at Frankfort, Germany, have struck for higher wages. The barbers, bricklayers and cigar makers of Muncie have all organized unions. Carpenters and. plasterers exjSect to follow. Sixteen thousand Berlin shoemakers have struck. They demand a working day of ten hours, and wages not less tha n 18 mai-ks per week. The union painters of Indianapolis went on a strike Monday morning for shorter hours and better . pay. The strike was ordered at the meeting of the Painters’ Union on Saturday night. About ninety men are out, and as there are only .a few non union men in the city, but little painting is being done. The Indianapolis carpenters’ strike was compromised on the 23d by cenepromial, the basis being eight hours work at thirty cents per hour. This is considerable of an increase over former wages. In Chicago the strike is assuming a serious aspect. Non-union workmen were attacked by strikers, and several of the former- were injured. Several rioting strikers are under arrest. There is strong probability of an extended strike- oL- -the-—employes of the United States Express Company, whose wages are to be heavily reduced May 1. A general strike of rail roaders, beginning cat Pittsburg, seems imminent.

IS WILKES BOOTH DEAD?

All Improbable S:ory that the Assassin Yet Lives. The Chicago Times of Monday publishes a story from Birmingham, in which Louise Forester, at ope time a confidant ofJ. Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, is credited with saying that Booth is not dead. She declares that in 1807, two years after Booth’s supposed death, .she received a letter, without date or sign future, but unmistakably in Booth’s hand writing. This letter she says is still in existence. As to tho probabilities of the man shot by Boston Corbet being Wilkes Booth she points out that the body was closely guarded and secretly buried with0' ,t an opportunity having been given for identification by any of those intimately acquainted with him. She believes that the man killed was ono of the conspirators, and that Booth made good his escape, but that in the excited and clamorous condition of the public mind it was thought best by the authorities, if they knew of the deception, to allow it to pass unchallenged in order to allay the fever orexcitemeht, which tho assassination had aroused.

A Jealous Prince.

I saw Amadeo frightfully Jealous three years before he was called to hold the scepter which the ’‘innocent” but jolly Isabella held so unsteadily, writes Mrs. Crawford in London Truth. Ho was here on his honeymoon trip with a father handsome bride, who having been a good deal cloistered as a schoolgirl in a convent, did not ask better than to see a little life. Her intentions were all right, but she visibly enjoyed the attentions of another prince, who stood on the highest step of a great throne, and who had the charm of £ood humor, of a constant tlow of animal spirits and of good nature. The prince laughed and she laughed, he said something gay and in the nature of an agreeable truth, and she fltrngyhitn & rose, which no aaid deserved to be made the badge of n order. But he did not pin it on his heart. The duke of Aosta waspresont, and his eyes, which were very black, showing the white all around the iris, rolled as if in the head of a Christy minstrel trying to look ferocious. I never saw an uglier man than that royal bridegroom; but he had a gentlemanly air that was taking, and I de not know but what that showed him to be upright. He improved in appearance as years rolled on and he had a wider experience of life and of its sorrows. I thought him, on the whole, the roost seductive oi all the royalties who came to Paris in 1878 as heads of royal commissions to the expt sition, II tenait ccrcle, as the French say, with moro ease, simple grace and" cuiet dignity than any of them, and had a nico way of making thj ladies feel that he considered them his equals. With them he entirely thawed. The frightful face brightened up, as ha chatted for a few moments with each, with a smile of penetrating sweetness. It was the smile of one la whose life there had been far more of sadness than joy. To begin with, he hod the low spirits which'go with a narrow and delicato chest, an organic defect inherited *rom his mother, Alelah j of Tuscany, a princess who died of consumption. , Though one of the bravest men that ever lived, he ha' 1 a horror of death and of the possibilities'-f another world. His greatest sorrow was his first wife's death. As he was not whon next married the right sort of a husband for a young princess with, to auote her aunt Ma- ’ thffde, ‘‘the Ifvefv blocd oi' tie woman of her family,” the fatal 'Varactor of his attack of influenza may have sa fed him from more bitter grief th.m any that he ever went through.

A Courageous [?]an.

Miohael Hill of New York is a man of remarkable courage. "IV* other day he saw a mad dog chasing pe pie in the street, and tackling jhe ocast a. 1 one captured it, but not nnti 1 the rabid animal had bitten i m it. the :and Then, instead of killing the .*lloxll*. h* took it to the staticL-ka'tss hi be sb i by an officer who had a Jnens> t* «AI) dogs, supposing that i a ordlmi* eitfaen had no right Ip shoot t«U a mad aanina, —~” r " ” 7""

THE SILVER BILL.

The Republicans of, the House and: Senate have agreed, upon the basis fer tha preparation of a silver biiL The following is.the full text of the biU: Section 1. That the Secretary of the Treasury i» hereby directai $9 pun&M* from time to time silver buHion to th< aggregate amount of 4,500,600 ounces of pure silver in each month, at market price thereof, not exceeding $1 for 371 25-100 grains of pure silver, and to issue in payment for such purchases of silver bnllion'treasury notes of the United States, to be prepared by the Seoretary of the Treasury.in such form and such denominations, not less than $1 nor more than $1,900, as he may prescribe, and a sum sufficient to carry into effect the provisions of this act is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Sec. 3. That the treasury notes issued in accordance with the provisions of this act shallbe redeemableon demand in lawful money of tne United States, at the Treasury of the United States, or at the office of any assistant treasurer ot the United’Gtates, and when so redeemed, may bo-reissued, bat no greater or less amount of such-notes shall be outstanding at any time-than the cost of the silver bullion then held-in the treasury, purchased by such note 3; and such treasury notes shall 1 bo receivable for customs, taxes, and all public dues, and when so received may be reissued; and sucb note 3 when held by any national banking association, may be counted as part of its lawful reserve: Provided, that upon the demand of any holder of any treasury notes herein provided for, the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, and under such regulations as he may prescribe, exchange for such notes an amount of silver bullion which shall bei equal in value,'at tho market price thereof on the day of exchange, to the amount of such notes.

Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Treas. ury shall coin such proportion of the silver bullion purchased under tho provisions of this aot as may be necessary to provide for' the redemption of treasury notes herein provided for, and any gain of seignorage, arising from such coinage shall be account-' ed for and paid into tbo Treasury. Sec. 4. That the silver bullion purchased! under the provisions of this act shall be subjected to the requirement of existing law, and tho regulations of the mint service governing the methods of determining the amount of pure silver contained, and the amount of charges or deductions, if any, to be made. Sec. 5. That so much of the act of Fobs ruary 28, 1878, entitled “An act to authorize the coinage of the standard silver dollar and to restore its legal tender character" as to require tho monthly purchase and coinage of the same into silver dollars of not less than $2,000,000 nor more than $4,000,000 worth of silver bullion, is hereby, repealed. . j

FATAL FLAMES.

At six o’clock Thursday morning, fire was discovered in the large new building Owned and occupied by the Unicorn Silk Manufacturing Co., at Catasnque, Pa. An alarm was quickly sounded but owing to the hour, the fire companies, which are composed of volunteer working men from the different furnaces, factories and mills, were under the impression that the whistles as usual, were calling them to their day’s work, and did not respond until the fire had a headway of about twenty minutes. Upon their arrival at the scene of the conflagration considerable difficulty was experienced iu securing water for the fire engines, as the mill was built on the bluff overlooking the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company’s Canal and the Lehigh River, half a mile from town. They ran their engines down a hill on the other side to the canal and Boon had two streams of water on the building, which was by this time a mass of flames. In spite of th,e intense heat, the brave firemen worked like beavers in hopes of saving the storerooms and engine house, and here is where a catastrophe took placo, which his thrown this quiet townj into a state of excitement and cast a gloom | over the entire neighborhood. While the! firemen and employes were working hard[ to control the fire, an explosion of vitrol; and other acids took place and before thej firemen could escape several of their num- t ber were caught by tho falling walls, audj many were injured by the flying debris. Six or sevon persons were killed Sind many others injured.

CLAYTON’S ASSASSIN.

The Governor of Arkansas Knows, hot Will Hot Name Him. Not until Thursday was it known that, the Executive Department of had any direct information concerning thej Identity of John M. Clayton’s assassin. It was made known through Mr. Brecken-, ridge, at Washington, in an interview in which ho asserts that the time has arriyed, when the Governor of Arkansas should remove the seal of secrecy from his operations. It has been learned from a reliably source that Governor, Eaglo has collected through a private detective agency evidence which it is claimed will convict the assassin, who is known. Governor Eagle refuses to make any statement concerning the evidence lie has secured, aud uo part, of it will bo made public until the whole is submitted to the congressional investigalcg committee. It is said that the proof will show that the crime was committed by a man who mistook John M. Clayton for ex-Govemor Powell Clayton, and believed he was avenging the death of a relative who waskillod while Powell Clayton was Governor. It is claimed that at a proper time a satisfactory explanation will be made why the assassin is not now in the hands of the law, the ohief roason being that his identity has been known only a few days, and it has been necessary to his conviotion to soopre other evidence of oX bis guilt.

WINGED MISSILES.

Lord Tennyson re ce fitly wrote to a London friend lhatne would never again write i*s>oem for publication. , 1 Mr. Parnell has had to pay $3,000 to the Times as costs in the libel suit begun in Edinburg and discontinued. The consumption of American canned fruit is continually on the increase among the m iddle classes of England. The projectors of a tower at London that shall be from 203 to 550 feet higher than Eiffel’s are confident of success. Christine Nilsson is to come out of her retirement to sing at the farewell concerts of Sim 3 Reeves in London in Juno. An English firm is about to bring out a collection of what 51 r. Barnum considers his brighest aud freshest stories. Seventy illicit distilleries have been seized by revenue officials jn southwest Alabama in the last few months. Lieutenant de Salhanha da Gana, of the Brazilian navy, is in this country studying the armament of our man-of-war. The American hogs should “get together’’ and exchange grunts of congratulation. Bismarck can no longer interdict them.

There are in the state of Michigan 71,003 thoroughbred cattle, according to tho report of the State Board of Agriculture. The Duke of Orleans has let his friends the Dukes of Luynes and d’Alencon, pay his prison restaurant bill of 4541, frances France now comes to America for some of its social features. Oyster suppers after theater are now tho fashion in Paris. Queen Victoria has written two books, but shelo fears the critic that she will not have them published until after her death: Walking skirts become fuller and fuller, and a decided change is taking place in the style and general effect of the “make up. ” Rub black walnut furniture, or any wood finished in oil, with cloth slightly moistened with kerosene oil, to remove scratches and restore polish. The seven sages were Solon, Chilo,Pittacus, Bias,Feriander, Cleobolus and Thales. They lived in Greece ia the sixth century B, C. In straw hats for young women the mercury style, introduced last season, is put forth to have at least one more summer reign, j A very largo letter was mailed recently in Bechuanaland. It weighed 238 ounces, and the value of the stamps on it came to $55. The perfect figure of a human body has been found in a large elm tree trunk that was being cut up in a timber yard at Scarborough. " Thick deposits of ice are found in the Stevens mine on Mount McClellan, California. Geologists say that tho ice is 50,009 years old. At Sherlocks, Mariposa County, Cal., lions have killed aii tho hogs, goats, calves and donkeys that are not kept uuder lock and key. Some of the many scientific men we have in our midst declare the alum in much of the modern French bread is injurious te the throat. Ono of Stanley’s Akka dwarfs will be put on exhibition in London as soon us the weather is mild enough to suit his tropical constitution. Lord Salisbury’s unpopularity in England i 3 increasing. Even satirical topical songs at his expense are sung in London music hails. The management of the court theater ol Vienna has decreed that lioroaftor no women who are over 45 years old shall bo engaged for the ballet. Fermentation is arrested at.any stage by electricity. It is said also that electrified water is a powerful antiseptic, aud that it will arrest decomposition. Near Montpelier, in tho south of Franco, two skulls have been exhumed which, judging from their size, must have belonged to men over ten feet high. Nearly every town in Georgia is preparing to put up a cotton seed oil mill. And yet but a few years ago these seeds were considered worthless. French wine growers ’have a supersUtiuos appreciation of comets and expect good crops because four comets will be seen during the summer. In the neighborhood of Hart’s Road, Fla. live two famlies with sixteen boys one having nine and the other seven, and none of the parents are yet forty years old. ! A passenger car on the Boston & Maine Railway was ignited by steam beat a few days ago and it was necessary to cut out a part of the floor to quench the flames. The J ewish population of Palistlno has increased 10,000 annually in the last five years. In 1741 Palestine contained but 8,000 Jews; in 1883, 20,030; end of 1888, 70,003. A new : borax deposit was found recently twenty miles from Independence, * Inyo County, Colo. The lucky finders took 2CO tons from less than throe acres of the marsh. Striking oil continues to be a flourishing industry in Pennsylvania. During the, past month 476 new wells were opened, adding 10,459 barrels to the production of tho oil regions. The Siecle newspaper of Paris says that the French government has decided to occupy Whydata, a province of Dahomey on tho Slave coast.

An almost complots score of Wagner’s •Tannhauser,” written by Richard Wagner, and signed by him has been discovered in the ruins of the Zurich Theater recently burned. The Chineso of San Jose, Cal., lease property from a white man for twelve months in the year,and charge their tenants for thirteen months, there being thirteen months in the Chinese year. English and Fronch medical journals are engaged in a bitter ooutroversy over the death of young Lincoln, the for mer charging it to malpractice and the latter to the having removed the lad across the English Channel. The following curious advertisement appeared not long ago in a newspaper in Paris: “A lad/ having a pet dog whose hair is of rich mahogany color desires to engage a footman with whiskers to match.” General Sherman has once more given the country an oxample of his practical good sense by buying his own monument, a thousand dollar one, and he says: “The moment I am buried it will bo clapped on over me.” - The Madoc Star, a weekly paper, wa* but 3’£x3 inches, with four pages, devoted to general news; while a very bright and spicy journal called the Critic was onc« printed regularly on postal oarda and had quite a large sal*.