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mot have as patriotic an attraction on toe sth. Neither will the World's fair in 1898. Ignatius Donnelly has become what the schoolboy calls “sulky.” He haa .wholly abandoned his literary and political ambitions. Holding the world’s faiiHn 1898 instead of 1892 will deprive a great many the privilege of visiting it. The mortuary roll call must be -obeyed. The Italian faster, Succi, who is said to have abstained from food for over 160 days, is the attraction to the medical authorities in London now. Astbonomt teaches that the sun is * nearer to us in winter than in Summer. It is only a severe reverence for educational science that makes us accept it . The man probably 6poke, “full of sad experience,” who said, “A man is like an omnibus, when he is full of drinks he thinks there is room for one more.” "We know of no such stone As a black diamond.” says the -Chicago Herald queryman. He evidently never lived in the west and paid sl7 a ton for hard coal. An eastern belle took umbrage at the young man who declared his intention of going west to see the Cherokee strip] Disrobe would have, been more refining. . ■■ To prevent the siflell of cabbage permeating the house while boiling, place on the., stove a dish containing vinegar, or assafoetida, or onions,— either will do. Farmer Dalrepplh, of Dakota, has 30,000 aeres in wheat this season. Nothing Bhort of anarchy will ever enable the ten acre farmer to meet Anoh competition. In a cemetery near Detroit, Michigan, are the graves of three of the same woman—side by side. To think they should thus be kept continually in a row after death! A Pennsylvania hen killed a rat that was disturbing her brood. An old rooster watched from a safe distance till the rat was dead and then with a triumphant flap of wings, hopped to the top rail of the fence and crowed lustily. Now, that’s what we call a manly act Peru, judging from late dispatches, is still not much in advance of what jit was when Pizarro conquered and plundered it in the interest of civilization. More lives have been lost in one skirmish in a political campaign in Peru than sufficed to mark the overthrow of an empire in Brazil. 5 ■ = Senator Allison says the proudest moment of his life was when, as secretary of the National Republican Convention in 1860, he counted and proclaimed the votes which nominated Abraham Lincoln for President The chanoes are, Mr. Allison’s moments are just as proud over it now as they were at that moment An electrician, writing recently on the action of electricity on the human body, says that just what takes place in the human organization to produce death from an electric current seems to be an unsolved problem. One of the theories sometimes advanced concerning it is that when a being suffers death from electric shock it is a pure case of internal rupture or explosion from the generation of gas or vapor. A Washington man has discovered that tall, slender girls take to greyhounds and dogs of similar build, while short, plump girls are invariably Beeo on the streets with pug 3, poodles, imd canines of kindred shape. This is natural enough. It springs from the feminine love of symmetry. A short, podgy girl would appear doubly so by the side of a lean, long greyhound. A tall, tjiiu girl loading a pug would look like a broomstick. Lawybr Arman who recently died in San Diego sprang into fame in s singular way. He was defending a Chicago baker on a aharge of mnrdei by putting poison in his bread. The defense had in court a lot of the biscuit in which they claimed was the same kind of poison. Arman as s desperate resort seized and ate several of the condemned biscuits with zestful relish. Hia client was acquitted, and toe name of Arman was written high on the bar's escutcheon.

A Chicago architect has submitted a plan for the World's Fair building Id that city, which is somewhat noticeable. The World's Fair, if this plan is adopted, is to be compressed witfoii one building of a circular shape, ooutainlng an arm of 160 acres. In th« center of the building is to be an irot tower 1,492 feet in height, to mark tin year of the discovery of the net world. Thirty acres of plate glass an to be used in the construction of tin roof. The walls of the oiroular build lag are to be 60 feet la height, of brie! «r skma

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Louisville carpenters struck.on toe 2d. At New York on toe Ist 2,987 emigrants landed. * It is atfnounoed that Sullivan will fight Jackson. - _ J „ The Qt tnois Steel Company has adopted profit sharing. Colored people in Oklahoma ore in a state of destitution. Red River, in Texas, Ik higher than it has been for forty years. .Peatractive prairie fires have been raging on the Sioux Reservation. Numerous warrants for illegal voting have been Issued in Chicago. An English syndicate has put $1,500,000 into Florida phosphate lands. The Ohio law regulating the sale of boras butter has gone into effect. John J. O’Brien, a well-known New York politician, died on the 28th. Spotted fever is epidemic at Fountainhead, faun., ten of the eleven cases being fatal. * The New York House of Representrtives voted on the Ist to abolish capital punishment. The regular session of the Ohio Legislature adjourned Monday morning tiU next January. Three million dollars’ worth of property in the vicinity of Chattanooga, Tenn., has been sold in the last ten days, mostly to New England people. Onejof the new war vessels of the United States Navy is named the Concord. It will help keep the peace. There were 171 railway accidents report ed in March, in whioh forty four persons were killed and 165 injured. Two bricklayers were fatally and eight seriously injured by the collapsing of a scaffold at Chicago, on the 80th. The steamer H. B, Plant, running on the St. John’s river, Florida, was burned, Tuesday, and three colored men were lost. A boat containing fourmen was capsized on thelake at Newport, .Vfct on’ the night :f the 28th, and three of the men were ; rowned.

Four convicts tried to break out of the •amp at Black Jack, Texas, Monday, and were fired on, one being killed and another fatally wounded. The Hartford City Cresent pulp and , .aper mills, of whioh Major Zollinger i one of tne proprietors, is turning out &),00 pounds of paper daily. Tho bill incorporating a company to build a bridge from Jersey City to New York, has become a law. The company’s capital will be $60,000,000. Alice Brown ended her life, Tuesday, by taking a dose of muriatic acid, in New York. Five minutes after her death she turned as black as a coal. Lyman J. Gage has been elected President, and Thomas B. Bryan and Potter Palmer First and Second Vice Presidents of the World’s Fair Directors. The school act of Manitoba, compelling all classes to patronize the national secular schools, has gone into effect. The Catholics oppose it strongly, The Fanners’ AUian ce of Missouri propose the erection of an immense elevator, in which to store their wheat until it can be sold for one dollar a bushel. The bathing season at Great Salt Lake opened, Monday, at Garfield beach, and 3ome 2,500 from the city went out to indulge in an invigorating dip in the water. The report that Mrs. Delia Parnell, mother of the Irish leader, was left in destitute circumstances, is denied by that ’■’dy in a card to a New York paper on the ■wtb. Much damage was done at Baltimore Sunday, by an extraordinary hail storm, some of the stones weighing a quarter of a pound. Thousands of windows were broken. s The visible supply of wheat and corn is respectively 23,953,268 and 14,326,030 bushels. Since last report wheat decreased 513,584 bushels and com has been reduced 8,520,476 bushels." - -— ~— " A train on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, bearing a company of actors, was wrecked near Staunton, Va., on the night of the 28th aud several members of the company were injured, one of them, an actress, being'killed. Secretary McCombs, of the Relief Committee of Seattle, which has in charge $35,000 remaining of the funds donated to Seattle after tho great June fire, is charged with haring embezzled a portion. Imperial army and navy contractors of Halifax are asking for a rebate on American beef used for the Imperial forces. British soldiers and sailors will not eat Canadian meat, and say it is not good enough.

Thieves stole a tray holding $5,000 worth of diamond rings on the Ist, from Miehie & Co., of Cincinnati. Two men who were looking at them ran away with them, but a third, who was trying to hold the door shut, was caught. Union and non-Union fishermen had a fight with rifles on the Columbia xiver Tuesday, because the latter sold fish at 75 centsApifece, 60 cents less than Union price. One of the non-union men was killed and two badly hart. Out of 198 Presbyteries* 137 have voted forarevislon of the Westminister confession, sixty-one against revision and five have not voted at all. Tltt,re are yet twenty Presbyteries to be heard from, nearly onehalf of which are in foreign lands. Rev. William Barnes, who preached the funeral sermon of Daniel Webster, died in Jacksonville, 111., on the Ist. Mr. Bamea was born in Ohio in 1816, and was a graduate «f the same class that numbered among (ts members Charles Sumner and Inward Everett. (Shicage strikers were augmented in numbers very materially on the 3d. All the iron molders, the planing mill men in great numbers and many coopers laid down their tools and made demand for the eight hour day.' The strike fever is spreading hourly, and many other trades will be involved very soon. The body of Mr. E. IX Walker,of Brooklyn, K. y, # editor of the Cosmopolitan Ifaisdhia. who lias been missing from Walden, H, CL, Since Saturday last, was found nestling mi the surface of the Roanoke live* at Weldon, Thursday morning. Evidently he had fatten in white Ashing <

as his hand grasped a broken rod. He was : a deep student of literature and a prolific writer. He wrote many poems that have favorably impressed competent critics. A jury was called in the oase sf C. W. Cook, of New Haven, arrested for per*, mitting a nickle-in-the-slot machine to dispense cigars' on' Sunday, and after twenty-four hours deliberation, Mr. Cook was fined one dollar and costs. Although the machine stood in front of his place of business, Mr.jGook claimed no pecuniary n terest and he will appeal. Kemmeler, the murderer, who waft to kSvebeen executed by electricity, probably on the 30th, was given a respite until the third Tuesday in JunerThe writ, was issued by Judge Wallace of the U.S.District of New York, and the proceedings are to determine the constitutionality of the law under which Kemmler is to be executed. Two of Dr, William St. Hitches’ horses were taken from their stable at Laurel' Del., Wednesday night and badly abused. A negro was arrested for the off ease and found guilty. The Presiding Justice gave the doctor permission to whip the negro. At the jail the offender was stripped. _and.. tied to a wagon wheel, when the owner oi the horses gave him sixty nine laShes, wearing the whip out. This is the first time the Delaware whipping law has been so construed. - -■ -j About two-thirds of the buildings of the Albany, N. Y., stock yards were destroyed by fire Thursday night. Tnere were no cattle in yards and the few hundred sheep were removed in safety. Six hundred and fifty tons of hay, belonging to P. L. Eastman and John B. Dutcher, lessees 'of the yards, were destroyed. The buildings belonged la the CentTal Hudson Railroad Company. Incendiarism was the cause. Total loss is roughly estimated at from $300,000 to $400,000,. partly covered by insurance. About ten acres were burned over. , Intelligence from Tongue River Agency give a discouraging account. -The Indians have not sent their children hack to school as they promised to do, and but very few have returned to their farms. The jwhile people are industrious in circulating reports and telling the Indians they will soon be removed to another location. The Indians say there is no use in planting crops if they are going to be sent away and compelled to leave them. There is much dissatisfaction among the deceived red men and many believe serious trouble will result from the uprising of the river Cheyennes.

FOREIGN. A tree exposition is London’s latest. The Princess of Wales's condition causes uneasiness. Cold weather has damaged the Egyptian cotton crop. The Spanish Senate has approved universal sufirage. An JSnglish syndicate wants all of Canada’s cotton mills. A Swedish woman suffering from leprosy was taken from the steamer Cipholoma, at Boston, Monday. Revolution has broken out in Paraguay. Several persons have been killed and many wounded. Telegraphic communication is interrupted, and the details that have been received are meager. The experiment with sugar-beet seed from central Germany and Bohemia has been very successful in Ontario, and a large acreage has been sown this year. The value of the product of one acre of the beet is equal to that of the product of four acres of any kind of grain.

The Pope is said to feel deep chagrin over the failure to establish regular diplomatic relations with England, for it is now conceded that Lord Salisbury’s government will take no step in that direction although desirous of maintaining friendly relations with the Vatican.j The Queen will receive Stanley at a special audience May 6, when it is expected her Majesty will confer a title upon the explorer.. .Every effort will be made.by the Government to secure Stanley’s ser’rices for England as an offset to the employment of Emin Pasha by Germany, A bill has been introduced in the Spanish Cortes prohibiting the employment of boys under ten and girls under twelve years of age. It also prohibits children of any age from beifig employed in mines, circusses or unhealthy industries. The maximum time of labor is fixed at five hours daily. On the arrival of the Japanese steamer in Hong Kong, March 26, from Nagasaki, the bodies of eight dead Japanese women were discovered in a hole between the kte : engine room and the hold, having been suffocated during the passage. T .ey had stowed themselves away with four other women and a male attendant, being desirous of leaving the country and not having official permission. The survivors were insensible and much emaciated.

The evolutions of the United States vessels of war in the Mediterranean have been observed with no little interest by the naval authorities of London, and regular reports have been received from British agents at the points where the squadron has been sojourning. Expert opinion is decidedly favorable to the American navy both as to skill in seamanship and effective equipment, and the tone of the English press, in alluding to the subject admit s this. Just atpresent much discontent is exhibited with tbe large expenditures and poor results in the royal navy, and the rage for sea-going leviathans and guns of remendous calibre has been greatly dampened. A dispatch from Turcouring, France, an extensive manufacturing town in the department of the North, states that serious trouble has broke out there. The hands employed in twenty -six mills at that place weht on a strike Friday morning, and grea crowds of men gathered about the streets to discuss theirgrievances. The crowd was augmented by a body of 5,000 strikers from Roubalx, another manufacturing town a short dlitanoe from Turcouring, who marched in a mass into the latter place and soon all hands began to show an ugly feeling) which culminated in serious riottny which was progressing at noon, tbe time the dispaten was sent Military reinforce menu have been summoned to aid tlx authorities in restoring order.

LABOR'S DEMANDS.

THE FIRST OF MAY AND THE EIGHT HOUR DAY. Notable Demonstration* all over the World.—Peace at all Points.—Workmen Everywhere Moving to Better their Condition. CHICAGO. The procession (on May 1, in the interest of the eight hour day) started at noon and was witnessed by 500,000 people. Everywhere, as far as the eye can see, says a dispatch, the stars and stripes float, humanity in endless line is keeping step to the spirited music of brass bands, drum and file corps, marching, celebrating May day. Chicago is not on a strike, but celebrating, cheering, encouraging organized regulated labor. The streets are crowded everywhere; two-thirds of the population is out in gala Attire. The Lake front appears to be a vast picnic ground. Lunch baskets and lunchers are to be seen everywhere. The crowd is good natured; no ruffianism is found anywhere. Fully a hundred thousand persons are in the procession, headed ,by a platoon of 150 police. All nationalities and trades are represented. Many di visions hove gaudily decorated floats in the ranks representing members of the craft pursuing their daily occupation. There is no break or hitch in the procession. after 1 o’clock the first'divisions of the monster parade reached the Lake front, taking up the places reserved for the paraders. Three stands erected served for the leaders of the labor movement and thespeakers. It was three o’clock bofore the parade was over, and the monster meeting called to order prior to the opening exercises. The mass meeting was presided over by Mayor Cregier. Addresses were made by Tuley, Altgeld, Prendergrast, Tuthill, Congressman Lawler, and other prominent speakers. The carpenters’ strike was declared off on Xho 22d, by an agreement and compromisa. ST. LOUIS. Fully 25,000 men were in line, and was made up from all classes of trade. At the third annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor, held in St. Louis lsbcember 11 to 15,1883, resolutions were adopted naming May 1 as the d ate for the monster demonstration in favor of *n eight-hour day, but it was then in tended that all trades in the Federation ihould simultaneously demand the eighthour day. At the Boston convention, held last year, the action of the St. Louis convention was reaffirmed, but it was decided that the carpenters and building trades make the initial fight, the cprogram being to fight out the issue a trade at a time. St. Louis carpenters are now working eight hours per day at 35 cents per hour, and it is therefore probable that the planing mill men will take the initiative here. Trouble with the mill men would amount to a practical tying up of the building trades. It is known that today’s parade will be immediately followed oy active measures to secure the enforcement of the eight-hour limitation, MILWAUKEE. In Milwaukee the demand of the union carpenters for the adoption of the eighthour system Was not coupled with a demand for increased wages, and as the men were willing to accept eight hours’ pay for eight hours’ work, the movement has met with no strong opposition on the part of their employers. Although the Contracting Carpenters’Association declined to formally declare in favor of eight hours, many of the individual members of the association, including the President, have announced that they will conform to the wishes of tbs men. Those who have taken this stand include the leading contractors in the city, and the indications are that if any striking iB done by the Milwaukee carpenters it wiil be in cases where individual contracr* tors insist on retaining the ten-hour sys' tern • The masons’ and bricklayers’ union hasrfesolved to assist the carpenters by stopping work on all buildings under contract by men who refuse to accede to the demands of the unions. The average pay of a carpenter in this city is 22 cents an hour, and under the eight-hour system the men will receive $1.76 per day instead of $2.20, heretofore. MINNEAPOLIS. The eight hour day agitation is not likely to cause much trouble in this city. There was no parade, but a mass meeting was held at night.

KANSAS CITY. Kansas City is a non union town—notoriously so. Consequently there has been nearly no agitation at all of the eight hour question and there is practically no pros pect of the occurrence of strikes among the various traces. The Union tailors—a minority of the whole number -made a demand afew days ago for the eight hour day and as yet have received no response to it from their employers. They may strike. The packing house employes are called to meet, to form a union for the purpose of agitating the eight hour question . At a preliminary meeting Monday night only 300 signatures were obtained to a document pledging the subscribers to join the proposed union. It is not believed the organization will gather in over 1,500 out of 4,500 employes. The carpenters are practically unorganized and there is no prospeot of any strike in that trade. There was no May day demonstration here. The unions are able to muster so few compared to the whole number of workingmen (hat no demonstration wmsorem talked of.

BOSTON. The strike of the carpenters of this city for an eight hour work day was formally inaugurated Thursday morning. About 1,800 men are out and of this number 560 are new recruits, who Joined too ranks of the disaffected within the past day. It is estimated there are 2,000 men in the dty who have been granted eight hours by about 100 firms who are notmombers of the Master Builders’ Association. The men !n continuing at wsrk. An enthusiasticmeeting of eighty strikers was held Thursday forenoon to celebraie the institution of the eight-hour movement. Addresses

weAe made by several labor leaders, and the men were pleased with the state a affairs. A number of members of the Builders’ Association said to a reportei Thursday morningthat the strike was of much smaller dimensions than expected. will never secure their demands from th e Builders’ Association, and that this move by the jnen will have the effect of breaking up the Carpenters’ Union. - i PHILADELPHIA; ‘ The journ eymetr carpenters of this city went on a strike Thursday morning, as they had previously announced they would do. Their demand is for a nine hour work ing day with pay at 35 cents per hour, she present union rate of wages is 30 cents per hour. A majority of the master carpenters at a meeting Tuesday night, decided to resist the demands of the men for an increase. A few, however, including John Wanamaker, who employes 60 men, and Allen B. Rooke, a prominent builder who haa 175 carpenters on his rolls, notified their men several days ago that begin ning May 1 their wages would be increased to $3,15 per day. The number of men thus affected is something over 500.

CINCINNATI. This city is happily free from any labor troubles of any considerable magnitude. "The only thing that can be called trouble for to-day is a demand for 10 per cent, increase in wages by bench molders. This will affect about 500 men. There has heen no organized movement—at least) none made public—for securing any ohange in the hours of labor or of wages, except as above stated. j L-- NEW TOBK. —The city has been very quiet to-day find 7 no one would imagine it was a day decided upon as the greatest strike in the annals of labor. The American Federation of Labor are gayly decorated with banners and inscriptions referring to the eight-hour law. This is practically the only demon-\ stration 'to-'day,r_ VIENNA, AUSTRIA. -Despite the belief that the labor demonstration in this city would be attended by great disorders there was no disturbance whatever. There were no street parades, but meet- 1 ings were held in various halls, attended j by the larger portion of the working men in the city. No afternoon papers were’ issued as the printers are all taking part in ' the May day fetes. The strike movement in the provinces is spreading. It is calcuJ lated that throughout Austria and Hungary 1,000,000 men have already struck or threat en to strike.

BERLIN. Nothing of an untoward character occurred in connection with the demonstra-' tion by working men, except the arrest of one man who was detected by the police in the act of hoisting a red flag upon a telegraph pole. Work is proceeding in the usual manner in Munster, Wiesbaden, Strasburg, Nuremberg, Stettin, Dortmund, Neukirchen, Spandau and Zurickan. A few of the workmen in Leipsic and Halle ( went out on a Btrike but amajority of them were not in favor of making any demonstration, and they went to work Thursday morning as on an ordinary day. Two hundred and sixteen of the proprietors of the smaller manufactories closed their establishments and gave all their employes a holiday. * IN PRANCE. Dispatches from Marieilles, Bordeaux, Nancy, Rousaux and Lille say that no disturbances have occurred in these places and that tranquility prevails in the streets. There was no disturbance in Paris. The central quarters wear their usual aspect The shops throughout the city, with the exception of those devoted- to the sal6 of fire-arms and ammunition, are open and business being carried on as usual. The gas men and gas-stokers inaugurated tlieir strike Thursday. A large deputation of workingmen went to the Chamber of Deputies this afternoon and presented a petition asking that the Chamber makeeTght hours a legal’ day’s work. Large gathered on tne thoroughfares in the vicinity of the Chaim, bers completely blocking them. The cavalry, which is doing special duty in the city, quietly cleared the way for the deputation to proceed.

IN AUSTRIA. The labor demonstration at Pesth was marred by a scene of bloodshed. Early Thursday morning a large number of workmen gathered in front of one of the rolling mills. At first the men were order, ly enough, but, under the incitement of agitators, they became aroused and bitterly denounced the alleged tyranny of their employers. Finally they lost all selfcontrol and engaged in riotous demonstrations, which the police were powerless to quiet. Military assistance was summoned and a body of troops promptly appeared on the ground with fixed bayonets. The mob was ordered to disperse and upon their refusing to obey the troops charged. The crowd broke and fled in all directions, but not before many of the rioters had been pierced by the bayonets of the soldier-. The mill where the trouble occurred remains open and work is going on as usual*

IS ENGLAND. Five hundred disorderly men gathered on the Thames embankment Thursday morning, bent on making some demonstra. tion. A force of 2,500 police was on hand, however, and the mob was cowed by .tbeir presence. Dispatches from all continental capitals except Paris report everything quiet 1 . There is much discontent hero over the restriction of the right of parade imposed on the workingmen. The Royal Courts on the Strand and the Bank England, are guarded by troops.

is SPAIN. The reports received at Madrid concerning the May Day demonstration, showed that tranquillity prevailed throughout the provinces. The strikes in Valencia, however, are spreading. The employes in ail the trades there are Joining in the movement for the establishment of an eight hoar working day. is itaiA. and in tbe principal Cities and towns of Italy Thusday. Dispatches from parts of the oouhtry showed that order is being maintained.

WASHINGTON.

The President, tired of mob interference with United States officers in Florida, haa directed Marshal Weeks to enforce the' low, promising him the full support of the administration. Congressman Owen and Stomp and Senator Squire, of the sub-committee on immigration, have returned to Washington, Mr. Owen expects to have an immigration bill ready for Congress within thfc next! l two weeks. In speaking of the proposed | bill he said: “New York and New Eng land are suffering f?om the influx of a* class of emigrants who remain here only a] few years, living in the meanwhile likai paupers and intent only on hoarding and. scraping together every cent they can,’ and then returning home. This is particularly true of Italians and Hungarians,, and they do the country, far more harm than good. No emigrant should be permitted to land here who does not come with the intention' to build a permanent, home. The privileges of our institutions should no longer be offered to any. man who, after a certain tkne,: fails to' become an American citizen, j The bill will provide that the Seo-i retary of State shall forward to our con- j suls monthly the condition of our labor! market, so that it can be known abroad) whether there is any legitimate call for ( immigration labor. A radical ohange in j contract laws will be recommended. There* will have to be a system of inspection byj our consuls or by some other method on) the other side of the water, and the lawroust be changed soas to compel the of immigrants comiDg Into the country inj violation of law. There are probably fivehundred immigrants coming here every; week in violation of the intent of the contract labor law, and yet, under the present] letter of that law, it is impossible for the 1 inspector to detain them. In framing the] measure we Will have to consider that the character of our immigration has unfortu-1 nately ch anged, to a great extent, fnom-the-* hitherto wholly desirable class to a class, a 1 very large per centage of which, unfortu A nately, is not only extremely undesirabl e,’ but pernicious in its effect on our wage i system and our civilization. President Harrison sent to the House on the 29th a message vetoing the biLl to provide for the ereotion of a public building at Dallas, Tex. Postmaster General Wanamaker haa indorsed Cleveland’s executive order in regard to interference of offico holders in political matters. Henry Clay Gray, a prominent commission merchant of Washington, shot; himself through the head in a gambling house in Virginia Monday night, after heavy losses, The Hbuse has passed the bill providing for public buildings at various points. Indiana towns remembered include Lafayette, $80,000; Logansport, $50,000; Madison, $40,000; Richmond, $65,000, and South Bend, $75,000. There is apparently good authority for the statement that the governments of the United States and Great Britain are now further apart in their negotiations in regard to the question whether or not Behring, sea is a closed.sea than they have been at anytime. The United States maintains that it is a closed sea, and was made so by the treaty of 1835, while the British government contends that that treaty does not at all cover the case.;

It was stated in the room of the House committee on postofflces and post roads on the 30th, that no effort would be made to report a postal telegraph bill at this session. • It is not likely either that the bill pending for the construction of postoffice buildings, to cost $20,000, in .places where the annual postal receipts are $3,000 a year or more, will be passed at this session of Congress, bat members of the committee say it will probably become a law by the action of the next session. This bill car* ries an immediate appropriation of several millions of dollars, and contemplates an almost limitless expenditure in the future, and there is a fear that the appropriation will run up too high. The Southern Senators who are members of the committee on agriculture have fought with so much vigor the proposition to tax compound lard because it will injure the cottonseed oil industry, that there is very little prospect' now of any legislation of this character this year. Senator George of Mississippi and others contend that the proposition is unconstitutional in 'the first place, and, seoondly, they threaten to talk the measure to death it it ever comes up on the floor. Senator Paddock has hoped to have a general food bill passed, but there is little to. encourage him. President Harrison will go to Philadelphia on Decoration day, as guest of Meada Post, No. 1, G. A. R., the oldest organization on the Atlantic coast. He promised a year ago that he would make this visit.

The Director of the Mint reports that the gpld product of the United States was 1,587,000 fine ounces, of the value of $32,800,000 last year, against $33,000,000 in the preceding calendar year. Of the gold product of the United States, $32,959,047 were deposited at the mints for coinage and manufacture into bare. The silver product for the calendar year 1889 was approximately 50,000,000 fine ounces, of the oommerctal value of $46,570,000, and of the coining value of $84,646,474, against an estimated product for the calendar year of 1888 es 45,783,63$ fine ounces. lnaletter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives the' Secretary of the Interior estimates that it will require $83,905,758 annually to give a service pe iaion to every survivor of the late war not now on toe rolls; $6,642,617 annually to increase the pensions of those new on the rolls to $8 a month, and $7,776,768 to the widows ol deceased soUHfin, a total annual expend!* tore of $106,226(937. Postmaster General Wanamaker pro. paaes that the Government shall furnish bones to every house to saw the time of