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Newspaper Page Text784 Subscriber In Columbia County. ' HKXT -Tim-- n Leading Paper of Colombia Connty. Advertising Medium In Columbia Co. VOL. 8. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1891. NO. 46. Circulation, 1,( OREGON mm THIS OUMJON MIST. INNUBU KVKRV FBIHAY MUHNINU . MY ' J. R. BEEGLE, Publisher. Th County Oftlqlal Paper. Nubaerlplloa Mat.. n mil mi. r In wtnauea ......11 AO On.mp'.ll Month, , 7(1 Mlu ri A4v.rtl.lnii Mat.., Pmh-wlotial nard, on fur.,,.,,,...,. On milumii on. yrr IMtl citlumti on. r , Unaitrr onlumu u yar.,... , II . Inch him mnnlh.. ...... On llll'h IhllHt uimillil. ....... Ou. Inch ill mmiUw. noilHM, lfio.nl. ir tin Inr am lumr ilon; 10 o, nil w lln. tin .ark HtMwiieil In' I.. I adrertlxHuint., II. M) t Inch fur Br.t liiMirilim, ml ' out p I HH'0 lor n uim qu.in iiiwriinu. COLUMBIA COUNTY DIRECTORY. Count? ORI.era. Jinlirc. ,. ....... Ol.rk .... ........ Hh.rllT TnMuurer... .l. i. Hwtu.r.HI, II. Ion K. K HIIIKS, HI. Ill- .11. .,.Wiu. Mkr, HI, I Mum ......... .'I, W. Ciilo,!. Ilrl.il riant, ul KVIhkiI. .......J, (I. Walla, Srainno AMOMUf M Kurr.jor .... (.oiamlwleiwrt C. t. Iliinil, llalnlrr A. II, 1,1111., Ml. Il.l.n. jl.iul rtppiirnr, Vernon1. III, W, Harill-a, CI.U4.lll.. NaH.tr Nolloa. . ViHir..-L ll.l.n. U4t: No. !H -IUnlr cnutmunlratlim, Aral awl Third I4.tnl.tii rsi'li .mill .1 7 w r. m at Mamlc Hall. Vl.ltlug wmi-r. a .lanillnt Invllcd toatl.ml. M imiku;.- Ilaliurt aU Hn. w Muuxl I In.. iMIar'a. on nr lfu wb lull miuii at 1 M r. m. at Mauinls Hall, owr lti.iirh.r.11. .inr. Vlillliigaiaaitwralii food llanilliif lurllwl to artauri. n(liKl Aiu.ilnlm.nl.. riral Haml.r-lMwr Island, 1 1 . M. llekmi. T OD r H. Mwiiil Huihlar-Nwr Cliy.ll. H.I It.ulwu, 1 i c. a, - Third ttmnUy-illllton, It . M.i lluultou, 2 I . M. fourth Hula) Haarltt l.laiut (ulllaliau), II i,"!'l,MM,il..KU!.aAM.l-t0r. Vhm Malta. ' ' Pown rlrw (hoot) eloam at S . n. , l rlwr lxai) nlnam at I r. H. ' Th mall lot Vwnnnia aud rittaharg' Icarea HI. II.IiuTum.U, Tnur'l. and NUurday at a. . Th nail Inr Manhland. Clabk.nl and MIM Hirfia Uulou Monday, lu,l.) anil r'thl.r at VI p. Mall lr.ll war) north cIom at 10 a a : lor Porllaiiil al a r. a). Tra.alor' UMld.-ltlt.r Koal... t.ii. W. KHavaalawrM nr. tlalaiii (or rurllawl al II a 1'undar, 1 Uiirlr aud Mai ard.r ! HI. IIkIhii. Inr (,'l.i.k.ul. hub 4.. HXiwHlair and Friday to . a. ttriiaia Jiw.rH kRt,LHiulavr. Ml. Ilclrin Inr Porilasd dally airi Mund.f at 39 a. a. Hrwrnlm, laa.a fmU.u.l t J . r. a. I'ROFESHIOSAL. DB. H. R. CLIFF, Physician and Surg-eon, I. H.I.B., Or. DR. J. E. HALL, Pbyslolan and Surgeon, C'lal.kaal.. Columbia V., Or. T. A, M Hit, A. I, Damunta, MeBRIDE k DRESSER, Attorneys ': at '. Law, lii.f.i CHr. Or. fronpl altrntlun cl.tn Ui laud oltlr balnmu A. B. LITTLE, Surveyor and Civil Engineer, '' , ' ti. Hol.n. Or. f.'oantjf Biirn jror. Ijtnd iirrin. town nlal llni and nlnntrlii( wwk piumull. duiw. , W. T. Btiaxiv. ' . W. Oatra. BURNEY k DRAPER, Attorneys at Law, roa Cltr, Or, Tw.lv. mm" iHiimir aa RHl.tor'of thi Uulll tat Unit OBi liar rortitnm.nda u In our .pui'laliy ol all kind, ul bu.lunu lwlr th. Uud Otriu or Hi. ('.urn, and Involving lb liraatlu la th, (J.u.ral Utnd Orllo.. J. B. BROCKENBROUQH, ATTORNEY y AT V LAW, Oroa t'llri Or. (fU Sprclal A(nt ol General taud Ofllm.) lliiunxtoad, l'romillon and Tluibvr l.ud An iiU.anoiu and iillirr laud llltlc. llu.lunaa a Aiwolaliy, omr, Htoud Kloor, Und Olllc. Uulldlu. E. WINQERT, Hotary Public tud Seal Estita Agent K.uliaa, Colombia Co., Or. Th nnil.r.lKn.d will atlnd to and wrllly to II bn.lni'M iMiUlnliiii u til traiutiTrln ol ral cataUt, and anawer iounlrlM rvlatliiK to liH'allnn and advaiitavin. IxiUlntli. Inwin ol Noar, (Inlii or Kriilwn. will alo attend to r.ii.lnni'lalma, twlnar aHtlmrlavd to hr lHl raouioltluu limn th 6fparllil.nl n( lilt" r nr. , , . K. WINtiBltT. MI8CELLANE0C8. D. d. SWITZER, GENERAL INSURANCE AND- Real Estate Agent, St. Helins, Oheqon. - ' -(10 TO-. John A. Beck, Watchmaker and Jeuieler, , : , ; . -FOIl YOUR- ELEGANT JEWELRY. Th rluMt AtMtrtin.ut of Watobai, Clock, and . J.welty ol all lieni'iiniuni. OfPOIIlI IHS EtHOND, POIITLAND, OW EVERDING & FARRELL Front Street, Portland, Oregon, DKALKItH IN - WHEAT, OATS AND MILL FEED OF ALL KINDS, Hay, Shingles, Lime, Land Plaster. Also Flour, Bacon AND A UKNKKAL A8HOKTMKNT OF- roceries, Wliith we dell cJioitp EVERDING 01a,tstea,xiie Line. STEAMER C. J. W. SHAVER, Master. IifTUTH I'lirtliind from AMer-strcpt dock Monday, via Wcatport, Hkaiiiokttwa and Cuthluuwt, Wt'dnemlay and Friduy for CJatskanie, UnicliiiiK at HauvifH Inland, St. Hvlona, Columliia City, Kulania, Necr City, Kniniur, Ctnlitr Landing, Mt. Cotl'tn, Ilradlmrv, .Stella, Oak Point and all intermediate pointH, returning TuondnjTliuriiday and Saturday. HOW IS THE TIP -IN- qoyq Tliis (Ifhirklilo jirojxirty adjoins Milton Stationon the Northern Pacific Kail ONE HOUR'S RIDE And in only 1 J mil." from St, Helens, river. Milton week, a wautitul mountain stream, runs wunin 2i)0 yards of thin jroerty, furniBliingan inexliu ustiblo supply of water fur all puriMJHes. LOTS, 50x100 FEET, Banging in price from 50 td $100, can bo secured from D. J. Switzer, St. Helens, Oregon JOSEPH KELLOGG Joseph Kellogg FOR COWLITZ RIVER. Il uxU...MM4. Leaves KELSO Monday, Wetlnenday anafri II O rtnWGST day at 5 a. m. Leaves PORTLAND Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 0 a. m. JOSEPH KELLOGG daily, Sunday excepted, arriv ing at Portland at 10:30 a. m. Returning, leaves PORTLAND at 2:30 i m., arriving at l". m. F.L.P0SS0N W rarrv a th vanv SEEDS Trl, Bam, r.rtlllier,, Etc., B..K..p.r' Suppll, Ulv n. a tilal order. F. L. POSSON c SON, 209 Huroe.aora to Miller Broa. DON'T BUY YOUR DRUGS ANYWIIKRK BUT AT A ItEGULAR YOU WILL FIND TIIE-7 t Freshest, Purest and Best of Everything -AT CLATSKANIE v DRUG v STORE. DR. J. E. HALL, Proprietor. If TRY A EFFE and get MORE POWER .. and use LESS WATER , Writ, tor enr W.w Illoatrt.il C.tloo. of THE LEFFEL WATER WHEEL A ENGINE CO. SPRINGFIELD, 0U.8.A, fur ciibJi. Give m a call. 6l FARRELL. W. SHAVER. TO SECURE fl LOT et own. road, FROM PORTLAND. tho county-seat, on tho Columbia fi CO.'S STEiipRS and Northwest 1 SON. full atork ol. R.aT S..dl, Second Street. Portland, Or. Catalou. Fro. THE - Tnrro 8 lllLILsU "WHEEL PACIFIC COAST. Fine Lithograpic Stone Found in Utah. FRESNO RAISIN SHIPMENTS. Cl&us Sprenkels' Son Purohases the Entire Street Railway Sys tem at San Diego. ficarlot fever ii at E'ko, Nov. Pen 1 leton is cleaning oat the gamblen. Tortland ii determined to enforce the Sunday law. In Millard county, Utah, fine litho graphic atone ha been found. U Angelee is being flooded by "green goou." circular! from New York. The wreck of th. bark Charle Devena at Coo Bay ia to be removed at once. Rancher around Idaho Falls, Idaho, are offering potato e In the field at 10 nanta ner 100 ooundl. Rui.in ihlnmenta from Fre.no are now averaging twenty cirloadi a day. The total alnpment. nu reacn l.uuucarieaus. Tl.rt KM.nuJa it.m Ilia Amnfllptinn of . railroad from Salt Lake to Lo. Angeles are lair accoraing urepornuvreiH;iic bos Angeiei. . t, QnMr.WAl. inn a! Plana flnrar.k el, hsi purchaeed the entire system of . 1 . . i: -. u r.,. ,. ,1 M..II sireevcar uiiev ai. ou u.ugv, ... apply electricity in operating them. . nitlcAjfrt nnnrtlnir man, was robbed of nearly $8,000 be tween AlDuquerqu. nu ruiiuu. o .rriA.1 tha monev in a small handbag. Oeorze Clark, who ts charged witn tna killing 01 Bupennmnueu. vjiwm while the latter was taking a bar of gold tn Navada Citv. has surrendered to the . n ' . 1 . ,ll...,,l anthoritias. Prof. Martin V. Bampson. professor of KngllBa I" W0 OlW IIIITDIO". w , of English in the Leland Btanford (Jr.) University. rA .alLimnwn niinhlim at Portland chanre that there is a gambling trust in that city, ana tnai irom .j,wj U collected monthly and given to officials to insure the gamblers from being inter It Is just announced that three East ern parties, whose names are withheld, have donated 150,000 to the endowment fund of the Pomona College and 125,000 for a building to be erected during the coming spring. , The United States government has sent a told watch and chain to be presented to Csptain D. D. Boop of the British bark Norcros at Victoria, B. C, for the rescue ol the crew of the American ship William McUilvray in August, 1889. While the penitentiary commission ers were in session at the Santa Fe prison, three prisoners, with "wooden revolvers," wrapped with tin toll, held up the guard, and two escaped in a car riage which was in front of the building. La. Mnnvta r.a,tnrUi1 frnm frtllt TOW- ers in all parts of California south of r resno 11 is iouna mat mo wwi HJ""" rop in mat region mi. annuo n u ine-eiuhth of a full crop. In Pomona Valley it has been even smaller than that. Je'm Moron, a section bos on the i.lunilA anrl lai n lltllklt esiiu nvniv .vv--F - arrested at Albuquerque, and property .;..!. mram .tolan frnm ft Pullman .lefiDer onthe20tb nit. and belonging to Mrs. Mcuiernana 01 rori ningaio wo on his person. Specimens of ore which assays $14.68 in silver, with traces of gold, lead and arsenic, have been taken to San Jose by Charles Sohaeffer, who has located the mine In the L,lagaa, near iew Aimeuan, in Sunt Clsra county. The ledge is twenty feet thick. ri. nf ll,o V.m n I. In flnnAf. Alio op. latii. v. ...w . , 1 wa, caused by the settlement of lands .... . 1. .. : . uflavnallnn hnl tA rKlfh OUMUIO fcUCH Irani muvti, . - tliev lay claim, 01 Mexican iarnui. to. if ,i,noA fumlllp hAva been destroyed by fire, and the Vaquis have retreated to tna mountain.. The Union Pacific has decided not to f..ll.. il. ...mnla ii tbn NArthom Pa- IU1IU. , , ,u . . fi v. . - - cine by withdrawing one of its trans continental trains during the winter. The officials of the company at Portland say that the line is doing a big business and can anora two trains uaity. TheWeBt Coast Fire and Marine In- - nAn.Knn.. , TMnma lift. KoPn declare! insolvent, and Its officers will be criminally mulcted, tne company appearing to have been run in their , TUunwm ran hahlnd ii i - 1111113. . ..V'.iw... " ' , 000 last year, but paid dividends every three montns. Henry Villard In a speech at Portland thought the depression In railroad inter ests in the Northwest is due to so many new lines without immediate compen sating returns. He thinks the situation Is growing worse, and a crisis may be expected within the next six months, caused by competition and rate wars. The Santa Fe Company is making preparations to thoroughly develop the business of raising early vegetables in Southern California for the Chicago market. It is expected shortly to send solid vegetable trains through on the same time as passenger trains, the esti mate being that Chicago can consume and distribute 10J cars of vegetables a day. E. J. Livernash, the LIvermore editor who created a sensation in San Fran cisco by a masquerading episode, went to Cloverdale Wednesday night and shot four times at an old man seventy vears of age, named Etheridge, whom he imaged to be Judge Joachimsen of 8n Fmnclsco. The wounds are flesh wounds. I.ivernash is pronounced In ane, and will be taken to Napa. It Ib confidently stated that the Iron moldera' strike at San Francisco, which has been going on over twenty months, is soon to be declared off by the men. The terms upon which this will be brought about are not as yet known in detail. The molders will make large concessions, the principal of which is that in the future all foundries will be what are called' "open" shops, the union allowing its members to work in hops where non-union men are employed. PERSONAL MENTION. Bardiley's Occupation In the Pennsyl- VIHIIU rsiiiiviiiimf mnnx'H, Pepper Boxes. It is no longer good form to call the Emperor of Japan the Mikado. He is now called Kotei, and the Chinese Em peror answers to the title Bakudahan. Chsrlea Stewart Parnell according to Thorns. Biggar Harrison was the person who dubbed fnnce Albert victor, ijueen Victoria's eldest grandson, "Uoliars ana Culls." "Honest" John Bardsloy's present occupation in the Pennsylvania peniten tiary is making pepper boxes. He has gained twenty pounds in weight since his term began, Einile Orainer, a wealthy Frenchmen, has taken the liveliest interest in the building-np of the commercial prosperity of the Ktate of Wyoming, and has al ready spent $100,000 in the work, upon which he has been engaged for the past eight years. Von Mumm, the German Secretary of Legation and Charge d'Affaires, will con tinue to represent his government at Washington until a successor to the late Count von Arco-Valley is appointed. Milium is a very proper name for a dis creet diplomate. Of the land pertaining to the late Chief Jnstice Cbnse's home nesr Wash ington, D. C, called "Edgewood," about seventeen acres have been laid out for a villa site, but the remaining thirty-six acres Kate Chase still retains with the old mansion, which continues to be her home. Even the famous people have their vanities. Meissonier was proud of his shapely and delicate hands. He said that his fingers were so sensitive that be could with his eyes shut lay on the ex act amount of color that he wanted on a gi,en sp-t if somebody placed the point of the hruah upon it. Achille PerelH, who died a few days go in New Orleans, was one of the most dictingu shed sculptor, in the United States. He was born in Milan, Italy, and was a pnpil of Galli, a celebrated Italian sculptor. After fiVhting many battles while in Garibaldi's army he came to this country, and resumed his artistic work in Louisiana. Old man Adams, who founded the Adam Krnre.e Company, was aa a lad a staliln helper and bartender in Boston. An old iadv, who took pity on the desti tute six-year-old adrift in the world, got him nimn in a trrorerv. The whirligig of time has so brought t hinge aronnd, as th. story goes, that the dauguter 01 trial nn nl.l Iadv ia now said to owe much of the comforts of her life to Waldo Adams, the son ol the irienuiess Doy. Prof. James Hall of New York is a grand example of well-preserved powers, phveicnl and mental. He has been an incessant worker all his life, and at 81 h haaviimr and strength that msny men at 40 would envy. He is the Nestor of American geologists, and the recent I n trnutimia.l (ieoiMnhical Congress at Waahinnton. which he attended, hon ored him with a special greeting in writ ing, signed by many of the most emi nent geologisti iu the world. The skilled hand of Miss Abigail DoHge. better knuwn to the public aa i2.il Himiln.n mv the New York Prf: is to be eeen in the announcement that a petition for the pardon of Mrs. May brick, the American lady who was con YieteH nf noimning her husband in Eng land and sentenced to penal servitude for life, has been signed by Mrs. Presi dent Harrison and the wives of all the Cabinet members and sent for presenta tion, to Queen Victoria. NATIONAL CAPITAL The Assistant Secretary of the Interior Depatment Files His Report for the Fiscal Year. Assistant Secretary Bussy, of the In terior Department, has filed his report for the fiscal year. The report reviews the work of the board of pension ap peala. It shows that January 1, 1-91, there were 5,023 appeals pending before the beard, aa against o,wu juiv 1, isi. Mr. Bussey points out several defects in nenainn legislation, and makes a num ber of recommendations looking to their correction. He asks that Congress be rea nested to enact a law that shall ex pressly authorise the department to treat all improper, illegal aud excessive Momenta of nensions. whether caused by fraud or mistake, as payments to be charged against tne current pension, with a view to readjust or equal the cur rent nen.inn navments within the dis cretion of the Secretary. He suggests tnai in case 01 iiisnuo, miui.u; ui w.v, wiw. helnlejia children of deceased pen sioners, of pensionable age, the limit be ahnlinhed. so aa to admit such children at any date to the pension roll. He aim recommends that persons who .ervml in the Confederate army and afterwards enlisted in the navy of the United States be given tne same pen sion accorded those who served the Con federate cause and then enlisted In the army of the United States. Under the authority of. the act of Congress, approved September 28, 1800, the Director of the Mint has prepared a new design for silver coin, which has been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury. The design is intended for 1 , JllnM m,aura rwl in.Aft On 11n.11 UUUIIID. .,..,, 1 u m..v. v. the obverse lace of the coin is a female head representative of liberty looking to .. . . . -. 1 , , t .1 IY. . tne rigni Wlin an onvo Miu iiu3 naeian can on the back of the head. On the band, or fillet, over the front of the head is the word "Liberty," and over the head at the top of the coin, "in uou We Trust." Around the medallion are thirteen stars, and at the bottom the date of coinage. On the reverse side annears the seal of the United States, as adopted in 1782, an eagle with open wings, on tne Dreasi a buiciu arguni, .ii nnllets irules. a chief azure. In his dexter claw the eagle holds an olive branch, representing peace, ana in tne sinister claw a aheaf of thirteen arrows. representing war. In his beak the eagle holds a scroll containing "E Pluribus Unnm " entwined above and about the head with thirteen stars, environed by clouds. This will be the design of halves and quarters. The dime on the obverse side, in place of the stars, will have "United States of America." "In God We Trust" will be omitted from the dime. The reverse of the dime will be the same as the present dime in use. The reverse of the half and quarter ia a return to the deelgn of almost the first coinage of the ooantry. EASTERN ITEMS. River Making Inroads on New Orleans. ELECTRICAL PROCESS IN IRON Black Diphtheria Spreads at Alarm ing Rate in an Iowa Nor ' wegian Settlement Iron is to be made at Chattanooga by an electrical process. The Supreme Court of North Dakota sustains the prohibition law in every particular. The people of Broeklyn have sounded an emphatic call for another bridge across the East river. Nicaragua needs water badly, and American well drillers with pumping outfits are in demand. Georgia statesmen have resolved to return to ths eld custom of annual meet ings of the Legislature. A rich amber deposit, it ia reported, has been discovered in Ontario, the esti mated value of which is $7,000,000. Louisiana sugar men are objecting strongly to the appointment of negroes 1 inspectors under ine oouniy iaw. The inroads of the river en New Orleans continue, and may prove a rather serious matter for a part ol tne city. A canal to connect Jamaica Bay with the Great South Bay, on tue south shore of Long Island, is spoken cf as probable. Before the eloee of the year four new cruisers two at Baltimore, one as. Nor. folk and one in Philadelphia will have been launched. The number of DOStoffieea in the United States is officially stated to be 64,391, showing an increase of 2,000 over last year at tuts time. Bv an order tbe Secretary of War baa reduced from thirty-five to thirty years the maximum age at which army re cruits will be accepted. Iimatios Donnelly has begun two more libel suits against the St. Paul Pioneer-Preu. He ia not satisfied with the verdict just given to him. The Delaware Indiana have lust re ceived S454.000. being one-half of the sum given them by the government for lands in tbe Indian territory. An ingenious person in Chicago has invented an automatic Adelma Patti. It ia a life-sized wax figure, which imi tates her smiles, gestures and poses. Tmrino' the last eight months the number of locomotive engines exported from the United States was 259. against ninety-three in the corresponding period of 1890. The Naw York naval reserve artillery ia rapidly tilling up its ranks to the maximum, and is inaugurating a fixed programme lor tbe winter a arm. Ail the liauor dealers in Bar Harbor. Me., including proprietors of summer restaurants, have been lndtctetZ lor al leged violation of the liquor laws. The government propose, to build annlhdr timhor iloelr in the nAV vara at Brooklyn, the accommodations of the other two docks being maun eieni. it is to be about 600 feet in length. The Commercial Club of Kansas City has called a convention to meet Decem ber 15 and 16, to urge upon Congress systematic improvements of tu Mis souri and lower Mississippi rivers. The Governor of Tenneesee has oJered reward of S5.000 for the arre-1 and conviction of the leaier of the Brice- ville riot, and a reward of $25 each for the capture of the escaped convicts. An agreement has been concluded with the Tonkawa tribe of Indians of the Indian Territoay. by which the Indians cede to the United States 80,000 acres of land, the consideration being $30,600. Kansas City officials have been wrought up to a high state of excite ment by the discovery ol gold in samples of strata pierced by a drill while drilling for the water-worka tunnel under the Missouri river. President Noel of the Olympic Club at New Orleans has telegraphed Sullivan's agents in New York offering $25,000 for the Blavm-ouinvan contest lor aiarcn: also a solid gold pitcher emblematic of the world's supremacy. ' Black diphtheria is spreading at an alarming rate in a Norwegian settle ment lnooiuier vauey, Harrison county, Iowa.- Fourteen persons recently died of the disease. One family of ten lost six members. The place has just been quarantined. ' Attachments aggregating $700,000 have been issued against tue iron ana i.ana Comnanv of Minnesota at Duluth.' The nnrnnratmn is comnosed nrincinallv ol Englishmen, and it ia charged that the English holders nave a scheme to loos after their individual interests regard- less of the interests of the Ainericar holders. The Dormanent 'conrmittee ' at New York a uniform "bills of lading has adopted a new export bill of lading, em bracing the conditions ot tne present bill of lading and the conditions of the ocean bit's at present in use in New York. This bill will be used for all business originating in the West, and will go into effect December 1. , , ' Collis P. Huntington, the railroad king, is defendant in a suit brought by Perkins, Goodwin & Co., paper dealers, to recover frouitiim $15,627.40 for paper furnished in 1888 to the Star Printing Company. Mr. Huntington held $0J, 000 of the $300,000 of tbe capital stock of the company. It is now sought to hold him as a stockholder. The recent wreck of the EI Dorado on the Bahama banks has led to the dis covery of an ingenious method of cheat ing the government. Nine cases were marked linen goods, while only three contained toweling, the rest having costly kid gloves. The goods were dam aged, but being in bond were shipped to New York, and the government ap- traisere in seeking to ascertain the osa discovered the cheat. There is a hint that the San Francisco Custom house would be involved. EDUCATIONAL. Western University Student. In Alle ghany Abandon the Cane Rush, nd Substitute Boxing. New York has sixteen night schools. Missouri has 10,000 country school teachers. Onlv er cent, of the population of India can read and write. The Imperial University of Toklo. Ja pan, baa 2,000 scholars enrolled. An eleven-vear-o d Kansas boy waa granted a teacher's certificate last week. Members of the same family seem to have a tendency for the same kind of work. Of the 44,000 lady teachers 11,- 000 are sisters. Wantern TTnivnrsit.v students in Alle ghany abandoned their cane rush and substituted a boxing match for point between leading freshmen and sopno mores. It is now announced that the unknown giver of $50,000 to found a scholarship at Clark University, Worcester, in De cember, 1889, was the late Hon. George S.Barton.. The directors ol.tbe Lutheran Theo logical Seminary, now located at Get tysburg, have been considering lor some time the plan of removing that institu tion to Washington. . At the Northwestern University (co educational) at Evanston, 111., this year, the young women are not permit ted to receive callers except dnring the hour from 7 to 8 p. m. On Fridays the young men stay until 9 :30 p. m. October 8 Colonel Amos A. rarker of Eitzwilliam, N. H., celebrated his one hundredth birthday. Ho ur as is known he is the oldest college graduate in America, having finished the course at the University of Vermont in 1813. The Fayerweather bequest will go far toward meeting tho exjense 0 many necessary improvements in Dartmouth College. More apparatus, baths ami lockers will soon be aauea to ine gym nasium, and improvements in Reed Hall will also be made. The Methodist University of Wash inirtnn is ranidlv taking Bhape, and in a short time the fine site, which has been purchased by means of the contribu tions of the . residents of the Capital City, will present an active scene as the various buildings are erecieu. In 1642 Harvard graduated a class of nine members. A hundred years later the graduating class numbered twenty four. A century later yet the number hsd doubled sgam, and in lauo Har vard graduated her first class of 100 members. Twenty years later the classes hsd more than donbied again, and now the entering class 01 tins year more than quadruples that number. WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. The Lady Managers Decide to Establish a Model Sanitary Kitchen in the Woman's Building. Florida's World's Fair building will reproduce old Fort Marion. Nicarauga wants hall an acre tor tue lite of its building at the exposition. The government building lor tne World's Fair is making satisfactory progress. , A bill to appropriate $550,000 for the World's Fair exhibit has been intro- duced in the Brazilian Congress. The old curiosity shop which Dick ens immortalized will be one of the in teresting exhibits at the World's Fair. The World's Fair at Chicago will con tain a pumping plant of 40,000,000 gal- ' Ions per day, and its coat will be $15), 000. The Hamburg-Ameriean Packet Com pany, of which Carl Scburs is tbe New York director, has subscribed $5,000 to tbe exposition stock. Quartish, the noted London book dealer, intends to send to the exposi tion an autograph letter of Christopher Columbus, for which he paid $5,000. Commissioner Shufeldt has cabled from Cape Town, South Africa, that an exhibit of diamonds and feathers worth .$300,000 will be sent from Cape Town. Virginia's building at the exposition will be of the old colonial type, meas uring .13x76 feet, two stories high and surrounded by a plaza fifteen feet wide. Ita cost will be $20,000. The little old building on Arch street, Philadelphia, where Betsy Rosa made tbe first flag for the United States army, is likely to be removed bodily and taken to Chicago for exhibition at the World's Fair. The great imitation coast-line battle ship, which is to constitute and contain the government's naval exhibit, is in an advanced state of construction. It will ail be inclosed before winter weather seta in, and all the interior work will be completed by spring. Dr. John E. Owens, the medical dl rictor of the exposition, has promised Mqg. Potter Palmer that women shall receive official recognition upon the med ical staff. The number to be appointed has not yet been announced, but assur ance has been given that women phy sicians will professionally rank equal with men and share the duties of the exposition hospital. The art palace on the lake front, which will be built by the art institute, assist ed to the extent of $200,000 by the exposition- company, will cost about $700,- 000,000. Tbe designs and plans of 8hepley, Rutan & Coolidge of Boston, have been adopted. . During the expo sition the building will be used by tbe World's Congress auxilliary for some of its numerous meetings. -. California is the first State to respond to Chief Buchanan's request that each State coutributajhe trunks of three tt ita most characterictic trees, to be used in constructing a rustic eolonade for the forestry building.--'California's contri bution includes a sugar pine furnished by theTowle Bros, Company of Altaj a redwood by J. F, Cunningham of Santa Cruz, and a sequoia, by Smith Comstock of Tulare. .; One of the unique features of the Mexican exhibit at the fair will be the celebrated Panduza famly, consisting of five persons, who are probably the most expert workers in clay and modelers of figures in the world. The family will be sent to Chicago by the State of Guadala jara. It Is the intention to provide a Mexican house for them to live in dur ing the fair and a work shop, whese their work may be inspected, -