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1 784 Subscribers In Columbia Conntjr. . BEST- " Advertising Medium In Columbia Co. -THE Leading Paper of Columbia County. VOL. 9. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1892. NO. 13. Circulation, 1,000. TH OREGON MIST SESJ THE OKEOON MIST. ISSUED KVBBT FBIDAV SfORNIKO J. R. BEEGLE, Publisher. Ths County Official Papar. uhacrlvllou Hat... on, floor r"r I" l'v One oo.jr ai month Bin onyy to (V r Arirertlalng ltatea. Profnatenal onrdi out year .112 One oulumu on. year...,.,,. 1 Hilt oolninu ue year ' g mrtr otilmnu obh you... ..I... eU On Inch one month ; On. Innh three minitlia j On inch ill mouths Local notlow, llleeuta )r line for flret lnaer tloui loovnUpwilne lor each aabetqueut In- H!nl advertlaemenhi, I.W per lnfih for flr-t lniBriloii,.ii.l71couUp r limn lor own aubna qu.iii lntrilon. COLUMBIA COUNTY Dl RECTO County Odlotn. Ju,W. J. Hwl'aor, Ht. IM.na )'! . K. K Uulitk.Ht. Ho ena Mh.rllf..... ..Win. Mocker, Ml. Hol.ua Imuon Hpt. ( School..., Aa..Mor Surveyor CornmtMlon.n..,, ,. .(J. W. Colo, Ht, lIViDII. I. U. Watta,ak)aimre U. K. Moan, lUlnlnr A. it. Uitle, Holena In ... n)piinr, Vernoule It. W HaniM, fjlaukaule. - Hotdetr Notice.. -Masonic. Ht. Helena Iidirn, No. M Kranlar eom-nunli-atloui first and 1 IiIkI H.tanlay lu raith aionih at 7:IW r. a. at Mawulo Hall. Vlaltlug m.tiinra In good aUiidluK luvltwl tnatU-ud. M tannic lUlulnr 1,'xixe No. 24-HUted ine t ln i-eier-ajr on or bifore nach lull nioou at7:W r. tt. at Ma-oult) Hall, nv.r Ulanobard'a more. Vlaliiiifineuiberi lu food ilaudlug Invited to attend. Bvangslleal Appointment.. Pint Sauder Door laland, II A. a. I Ht. Helena 7:00 . n. ..ion.l Sunday Neer City, 11 A. K.j Keubou, 7:U0 p. It. Tulrd Saudar-Ollltou, 11 A. N.; Hoaltnn, 1 r. H. fourth Sunday Damrlw lalaud (CHIIehau), 11 a. a.; Heoier't, i r. m. II. HURUNOAMK, Paator. The Malta. Down rlrarfhoat) closeaat :S0 A. a. I'p rtr (boat) ohiee. at 1 r. . Tn mail lor Vurnonla an I I'llUhnrg WavM (k H.l.ua Tuawlay, TUuraday and Maturday at a A. W. Th. mall (nrMarahlaui1,(!labkiilaid Mlat l.araa Wolnn Monday, Wadneaday and Prlday al 111. Malta (railway) north, clow at 10 A M.j for Poui.ndatJr.il. Travalara' Oulila-Klvar Konta. BraiMaail. W. HHvia Leave!!, ll-lrua for Portland al II a. M. Tnsd.v, T Irir.itay aud Hal arday. Iava Ht. Ilvloua for Clalakaiila Mou da. Wclua-day and Krl lay at :W a. m. Hraaaaa Jimicril Kli."iiu lrf. Ht. Helena for Portland dally excu.t Huuday at t 'M A. M. KtnrnliK, leaea I'ortUud at 'i:DU P. H. MISCELLANEOUS. D. 0. SWITZER, GENERAL INSURANCE AND Real Estate Agent, St. Helens, Orcoon. GO John A. Beck, Watchmaker and Jeweler, -roR YOUR ELEGANT JEWELRY. Tha Plneat Aeanrtment of W.irhea, Clock! and Jewelry of all Deeorlpllone, OPPOSITE THE ESMOND, PORTLAND, OS PIANOS and ORGANS. Hallctt & Davis and New Scale Kimball Pianos and Kimball Or gans. ' I invite iiiBpcction, and defy competition. L. V. MOORE. 1 05 Washington St., Portland, Or. Write for eataloune and prices. Mention this paper. Olttslca,xiie Line. I ' '"iiiii'i STEAMER G. W. SHAVER. J. W. SHAVER,. Master. Leaves Portland from Alder-street dock Monday via Westport, Skamokawa and Cathlamet, Wednesday and Friday for Clatskanie, . Uui.vina falpriH St.. Ui'Ihiir Onlumhin. Citv. Kalftma. Neer bUUvllllln w tt,.v. 1 j 1 i City Rainier, Cedar Landing, Mt. Collin, Bradburv, Stella, Oak Point and 'all intermediate points, returning Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. DON'T BUY YOUR DRUGS -ANYWHERE BUT : YOU WILL FIND THE ' Freshest, Purest and Dest of Everything . . AT THE CLATSKANIE v DRUG . STORE. DR. J. E. HALL, Proprietor, PROFESSIONAL. DR. H. B. CLIFF, Physician and Surgeon, St. Il.lini, Or. , . DR. J. E. HALL, Physician v and v Surgeon, Clstakenle, Columbia Co., Or. T. A. McBaina, A. 8. Sksmib. MoBRIDE & DRESSES, Attorneys v at '. Law, ' Or.gou Cltr. Or. Prompt mention given tolaud-offl.ee bnalneaa A. B. LITTLE, Surveyor and Civil Engineer, t. Helena, Or. Cimnijr Bury, yor. I .aud aurraylng, town plai ting and engineering work promptly don. W, T. Buamv. J. W. Dairia. BURNEY & DRAPER, Attorneys ;.' at Law, Oregon City, Or. Twelve yaara' experionee aa Reilater of the United Hla'va l.aud Ollloa hera recommend, aa liiourapeelallyof allklndaof bualueaa before the l.nd offloe or the l euru, aud Involrlnt the praoiice in me ueuerai jauu uraoe. J. B. BROGKENBROUQH, ATTORNEY V AT . LAW, Orexon City, Or. rt Rpeclal A Kent of Oeneral fjiud Offlre.) Uomealead, Pre-einpllon and 'l imber Land Ap pll at out and other Ijind (ifllva Biulnea. a Alelaliy. Ullloe, Htoond Floor, land OOloa BailUlug. CHAS. W. PYGE1V Notary ' .' Public -AND- , INSURANCE AGENT, MA TO KB, OB. Popular Ubrmrlee. There la iiothini; that ao aroiuwa an Interest In an liutitution of thla kind aa a apirited couteat 07er the election of ofllcert. Take ' the Me-n-bniiU' Kxrliango, for Inatauce, or, the Comuierulal Travelora' aaaociatiou ; both ! are etrongor and better lu every way aftur 1 the exciting eh-otlona they al way. bold for' ofllcera. In Cincinnati one of the Inatltutloiu 1 of which they ore the proudest la the Mer- contlle library, and the honor of being lu preeUlunt for one year I ao highly priited that cxmtaiU of aui'h friendly flurceneas rage . ttiat the pniei-a are full of now. ul the cam-' palgn for wanks. Eminent cltixen are placed on the rival tickets, and thair frieude rally to their nipiKirt. 1 am told of one com where ao ambitious wa a wealthy tufty uiuki-r to Mcure tho coveted honor that on the day before the election he purchased yearly membership for bia 1,2UU employes, and they marched to hia aid in a aolld body the uext day. rJuuilar Uutiuices, but not quite to extensive, have been frequent, and the result of the agitation la to keep the library constantly before the people, with a result that lis membership It constantly welling, and It is, by ruaaon of Its wealth, one of the finest Ubrariua In the country. Librarian in St. Unit Olabe-Demoorat. The rarm.r'. Dollar. The farmer's dollar is heavy. . It is no waif to bitn. He know bow many strokes of bis labor it represents. His boDos acbo with the day's tabor that earned it. He knows how much land it rupresentA how much rain, frost and sunshine. Ha khows that in tho dollar be gives you so much discretion and patience, so much hooing aud threahing. Try to lift his dollar, you must lift nM " wpi'Hil Kmcinon AT A REGULAR PACIFIC COAST. Petrified Forest Found in California. NATURAL GAS NEAR 0GDEN. San Franolsoo Capitalists Purohase Mexican Gold Mine Rata War Begun. It is estimated that something like 20,000 rabbits were slain near Fresno in the recent drive. ' Five thousand people took part. A petrified forest has been discovered in Mendocino county, Cal.,on the Reeves ranch, about sii miles north of the town of Willets. The question of retaliation by the United States against Canadian goods is causing some excitement among business men of Vancouver, B. 0, General Eli H. Murray has begun a suit at Ban Diego against the Mexican Lana and colonization company lor $100,000 damages lor an alleged breach of contract. El I'eono mine in Sonora, Mexico, an excellent gold property, has been sold to Ban Francisco capitalists for. 1200.000. They will erect a large smelting and mill' ing plant on the property. 0. A. Warren, owner of the Butte (Mont.) Inler-Mountain, has just won his suit in the United States Supreme Court for the possession of the Comanche mine in Anaconda, valued at fz,uuu,uuu, Work is going ahead vigorously on the new road known as the Hants Fe, I'res- oott and rhuunlx, which starts from toe little town of Ann fork on the Atlantic and Pacific' aud runs a little west and south through the best portion of Ari son a. The transfer of the Seattle, Lake Shore and iutstern railroad to the Northern Pacific has been cjmpleted. A new Board of Directors was chosen, and Jos B. Williams of New York was elected President. O. C. Walters, a young man from Lou isville, Kv.. employed by the Fannen' Manual at Los Angeles as advertising solicitor, forged contracts and obtained tne commission on the in, and when be was detected he stole the contracts and left Los Angeles. The rate war between the Union Pa cific and the opposition steamboat lines on the Portland and Astoria route has been formally begun. The reduction of the passenger fare by the Union Pacific water-lines office to l was promptly met oy tne steamers leiepnone and Astonan, Natural gas has been found near Op aen. Alter rjoring six aays ana attain ing 200 feet a six-foot flow of perfectly odorless gas was struck. Oyden believes sue is in tne center oi a large gas region. Salt Lake and Ogden will be lighted with natural gas from the wells south of Salt Lake by September 1. Resident sealers at Vancouver, B. 0., are determined to take advantage of the refusal of the BritiBh government to re new the modus Vivendi, Snd are fitting an tne available vessels lor Bearing sea. Seven new boats have been purchased recently, and will be made ready for service without delay. The majority of the inhabitants of Fallbrook, San Diego county, Cal.. have voted upon 12.600 acres of land a bonded indebtedness of 400,000, which with tne interest will amount in twenty years, during which lull payment baa to be made, to the confiscating sum of $800, 000 or about $04 per acre. Natural gas has been struck near Los Angeles. It is pouring out in large quan tities under a high pressure, and appears to possess all the qualities necessary for heat and power purposes. The well has been bored by I. W. He II man on his ranch, mile or so east of Boyle Heights, formerly known as the Repette place. At Boise City, Idaho, in the case of Rumple vs. the Union Pacific railway for 120,0.10 damages the jury returned a ver dict for the plaintiff, fixing the damages at $10,275. Rumple was run over by a Uuion Pacific train, losing bis left log. The trial was one constant wrangle, and after the verdict Edgar Wilson, counsel for the railway, who took exception to tne aDusive remarks oi J. w. mager, attorney for the plaintiff, gave him a se vere drubbing. The famous Johnson estate case at Stockton, involving half a million dol lars, will probably be compromised. This Is the estate which was the cause of an amendment passed by the last Legislature, allowing a married woman to be appointed administra rix. The adopted daughter of VV. B. Johnson, de ceased, claimed the estate, but the con test was made on the adoption papers. and the decision wai for the blood rela tives, and an appeal was taken. The matter of the final settlement of the accounts of General Rnfns Ingalls aa exreutor of the estate of the late Ben Ilolladay's wife came up before the ref eree appointed by the Probate Court at Portland the other day. General Ingalls submitted an offer of $40,000, good for six months, for the assignment of Ben Holladay'a claim of $60J,000 against the government for Indian depredations on his overland mail service, which has been Deiore uongress tor many years. County division in San Diego, Los An geles and San Bernardino counties, Cal., this fall will be the Important factor in the choice of legislative candidates. Riverside and her allies, Banning, Col ton and Aleasandro, will wage a hard battle for the formation of a new county there, with Riverside as the countv-seat. The San Jacinto people are red-hot for a new county to ne tormeo irom ban Diego. Pomona will ask for a divi.ion from Los Angeles for the formation of a new coun ty, with Ontario and Aztia as allies. The Kern County (Cal.) Board of Su pervisors njipiinted de'e .a ei to the Nic aragua Canal Convention, and when a petition came before the board to pay the expenses of the delegates it was found there was no record of the appoint ment proceedings in the minute book, the board having ordered the clerk to tear the psge on which was, the order from the book, a disposition to change the names having taken possession of the board. The people were indignant, but the same names were substituted in another order, and something likeacalm followed. NATIONAL CAPITAL Diplomatic Relations Between Italy and tha United States Are About - to be Re-established. , William G. Gilbert of Oregon has been confirmed as United States Judge of the Mntn Judicial Circuit. Superintendent Porter of the census bureau appeared before the iiouse Com rv iif nA nry tha nlniian 4 V-i nanatiM snjl aI. ill I VI W Ull VisV C1C V vu III vvuailOi swiju ea vocated the permanent establishment of the census bureau. - The protect of a deep-water channel through the connecting wafers of the ureat Lakes has practically received tne approval of a majority of the House Committee on Rivers and Harbors, The House Committee on Reform in the Civil Service has agreed to report favorably the bill to exclude poll'lcal in fluence in the employment of laborers under authority ot the united mates, Tbe House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries has agreed to re port Fithian's bill for free admission to American registry of ships built in for eign countries after January 1, 1893. A minority report in opposition will also be made. Representative Hermann has secured pensions for tbe following old soldiers of the late war : George W. Blanton of On tario, Robert Koldeway of Corvallis and Gotfried Merker of Newport. He has also obtained orders for surveys in Curry county and also for the completion of the surveys in the fractional townships on the Nehalem river in Tillamook county. Senator Allen has introduced a bill setting apart certain land of the Fort Walla Walla militarv reservation for Dark for that citv. In a petition, which accompanied the bill, it ia stated that twenty-eight acres of this military res ervation are separated from the reserva tion proper by a county road and by a railroad track, and that, it it is im proved, it will make an excellent park, Senator George of the Committee on Agriculture reported to the Senate a substitute for Mitchell's bill for the en couragement of silk culture. The sub- s'i'ute provides for the establishment in different parts of the United States of not exceeding five silk experiment sta-tioii-, to be a part of the agricultural ex- ?eriment stations now established, here is appropriated $5,000 for each station. It is learned semi-officially that ar rangements have been made for the re establishment of full diplomatic rela tions between the United States and Italy on the same basis as existed be fore the New Orleans incident. General Porter, Minister to Italy, who has been in this country over three months, has been ordered to return to Rome. It is expected the appointment of an Italian Minister to this country win De an nounced soon. The diplomatic and consular bill as completed by tbe House committee con solidates the mission to Peru with that of Bolivia and Colombia with Ecuador. The salary is $10,000 each. Guatemala and Honduras, now one mission, is di vided, and Guatemala is nnited to Ven ezuela at $7,500, and Honduras is joined to the mission to Nicaragua, Costa Kica and Salvador. The Danish mission is loined to that of Sweden and Norway and the salary left at $7,600. Representatives Oates from the Judi ciary Committee of the House has sub mitted a report to accompany the bill to change the naturalization laws. It re cites tho shamful and illegal manner in which aliens are naturalized in many parts of the country, and declares Con gress should make laws to amply protect the states against the citizenship ot criminals, paupers, Anarchists and aliens. The name of American citizen says the report, should l esteemed as that ot a Koman when Home was mis tress of the world. Such pride can never be felt bv our foreign-born citizens until the process of conferring this great boon upon him la attended with great solem nity and scrutinized more closely than at present. The President has made public a reci procity proclamation with Nicaragua, which Republic agrees to admit duty free among other things living animals. cornmeal, fresh and dried fruits, prod- Hnia j"k t aulinn aarul too viAatn wiicnan. tine, coal, wood and lumber in the rough or prepared for building purposes, agri cultural and horticultural tools, wagons, carts and hand carts, iron and steel for rails, bridges and fence wire with or without barbs, all kinds of machinery for agricultural purposes, animal power. forges, metal water pumps, hose, sledge liniUMIVIO, U1IUIUN, UIII1D, UVU pSAUM, cracibles, iron water tanks, galvanized tawvs tv-vaa os-wi fca rttiy 1 S ..V tnin,i -s-vH tt nulnroil hoin m nro m ininia Heilla ipnn ti mm HUM 1U1 WIDf UW a 1 1 II V IJ11B IUUO HlUtOU matter, bolt of all kinds, gold and silver i i -. -1 . , iii uuiuou, oars or coin. Every effort ia being made by the friends of Colonel Compton to secure his Dardon. Colonel Comnton while in command at Fort Walla Walla, Wash.. did not take the proper precautions to prevent the troops under him from lynching a man in the city of Walla Walla, and for this he was court-martialed and sentenced to a year's loss of pay and relieved of his command. Ben ator Allen has made every effort to se cure pardon, and has passed consider able time with the President, laying the facts before him as he believes they ex ist and undertaking to show that the sentence of the court was more severe than the negligence of the colonel war ranted. The President promised to give tbe matter early attention. The Postoffice Department has just had reports from su ixmis that the trial of nouse letier-Doxes, just now getting un der way in that city, will almost surely prove the feasibility of house to bouse collections of mails. Similar experi ments are to be begun in Washington in a few days, and the best-informed postal officials both at the department and at the city postoffice believe that the re sults will be almost if not quite as satis factory as in St. Louis. These tests are the outcome of examinations made at various times during the past two years by the Postmaster-General's commission of some 1,500 devices for the delivery of mails at house doors without delay, and if possible and feasible, and without loss of time or money to tbe department, for house to house collections on regular delivery routes. It will be recalled that six boxes out of the 1,500 or over were selected for the testa. Of these only three have thus far shown an actual dis position to make the experiment. One of the boxes by a Boston inventor will be tried in Washington : another by a St. Louis inventor will be tried in St. Louis, and a third by a Wheeling in ventor will be tried In Washington as well as in Bt. ix)uia. EASTERN ITEMS. Jerry Simpson's Choice for President CHICAGO'S TUNNEL A FAILURE Postmaster Becomes Tired of Hearing; Kicks, and Proceeds to Put a Stop to Kicking. Expert engineers pronounce Chicago's big tunnel a failure. A new road is projected to connect Lakes Superior and Michigan. Washington is passing through an ep idemic oi murder and suicide. The Attorney-General is investigating rumors of a cattle trust in Kansas City. Ex-Auditor Laville of Daviess comity, Ind., is now known to be short $18,403. The President has made public the reciprocity proclamation with Mcaragua. Fred Douglass accepts the position of representative from Hayti to the World's rair. Fourteen indictments in all have been found against tbe Louisiana lottery offi cials. Legal proceedings will at once be be gun against an the lotteries in Ken tucky. Jerrv 8imDson's choice for the third- party Presidential candidate is Ignatius itonneny. Central Park, New York, is reported to be invaded by a lot of wild and fero cious dogs. San Antonio. Tex., is without money. It was unable to pay its officials for the past month. According to the recent State enumer ation New York would be entitled to three more Congressmen. Dr. Thomaa 8. Robertson of New York has a new treatment for alcoholism, and many patients testify to its efficiency. It is expected that the long-distance telephone line between Chicago and New York will be completed within a year. The relief fund in Philadelphia for the Russian famine sufferers now amounts to $101 ,206. It ia in charge of L esel & Co. The Legislature of Ohio has decreed that the car stove must go by September 1, 1893, on all roads over forty miles in length. The Standard Oil Company is said to nossess all the gas leases in Indiana. with the exception of those of Peru and Kokomo. The new Woodbridge gun under con struction at Watertown arsenal ia ex pected to throw a 500-pound projectile twelve miles.. George Francis Train modestly de clines to talk of his chances for a Presi dential nomination by the third party at Omaha on July 4. Fifty-eight negroes from Arkansas jailed last week from New York for Li beria. They were sent out by the Amer ican Colonization Society. A syndicate at Indianapolis has been given a thirty days' option on the Citi tens' Railway Company of Chicago. The option price ia $2,750,000. The widow of Jefferson Davis has . brought snit in tbe United States Circuit Court in Mew York to restrain the Bel ford Company from selling her book. , The New York Stock Exchange has placed in the unlisted department $25.- 000,000 of new sugar stock, which was authorised at the last meeting of tbe stock holders oi the sugar trust. Barrett Scott, Treasurer of Holt coun ty. Neb., haa been impeached by the Board of Supervisors and removed from omce lor depositing moneys in his own name and pocketing the interest. A deal haa been perfected bv which the Baltimore and Ohio railroad secures control of all the Richmond Terminal properties, the Richmond and Danville system with its leased linea and the East Tennessee system. , The emigration movement continues in Arkansas, and from present indica tions it is estimated that fully 2,000 ne groes will emigrate within the next two or three months, some going to Oklaho ma ana otners to i.iueria. . A Congressional apportionment bill. which as nearly as possible divides the State equally between the two parties, haa been prepared at Albany, and will speedily be passed bv the Legislature and signed by tbe Uovernor of Hew York. . . A number of light-weight gold nieces from California have have been received at the New York Subtreasury. These are stamped " L " and returned to the banks from which they are received. It is thought the Chinese are "sweating" the coin. Ex-Governor Thayer has made a move toward contesting the right of Governor Boyd to hold the office of Governor of Nebraska. He contends that no man date from the United States Supreme Court had yet been issued reversing the tiJ M VU VVUI UWtUIMNj. An unusual amount of inventive talent la now being used to prevent the occur rence of fires. The sour in this line is caused by the statement of fire losses in the united States and Canada during 1891, which aggregated $135,000,000. an increase of 29 per cent, over 1800. The House Committee on Naval Af fairs has made an elaborate report on the condition of the navy and the esti mates necessary to continue ship build ing, which, the report adds, haa been remarkably successful, there having been but few insignificant mistakes. At Cheyenne D. S. Griffin protested to the postmaster, because his daughter was unable to secure his mail unless with a written order. Gillispie, the post master, said he was tired of hearing kicks, and with a club smashed Griffin's head. Griffin is not expected to recover. Governor Flower of New York refused to sign the Cross-toarh Elevated railroad bill and the East-river bridge bill re cently passed by the Legislature at Al bany on the ground that the corporations thus created were exempted by the bills from the payment of taxes, and that in other respects the rights of the people uau not oeen auiy regarded in iramlng tho acts in question. WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. President Diaz Favors a Fine Showing f Mexico's Progress and Ad- : vantages at the Fair. Ceylon will conduct a teahouse or Midway Plaisance. Queen Margaret of Italy has promised to loan her famous collection of rare laces for exhibition at the fair. The grand entrance to the mammoth manufacturers' building wili be decor ated at an expense of about $12,000. Iowa in its exhibits at the exposition will show the various forms in whic'i corn products are useful as food and also tbe processes of their preparation. Regulations for exhibitors in the sev eral departments of the exposition have been issued, and can be obtained by all intending exhibitors by applying for them either in person or by mail. Sultan of Turkey bas consented to the erection of a mosque at the exposition grounds for the religious services of Mo hammedans who attend the fair. It is reported that $3,000 will be expended in its erection. The enormous steel trasses to sustain the roof of the manufacturers' bnilding are the largest ever made for architect ural purposes. They span 368 feet, and rise to a height of 211 feet. The contract for them calls for about $400,000. The total amonnt reported appropri ated by foreign nations and colonies for their representation at tht exposition so far as heard from is $3,951,053. Quite a number of those which have decided to participate have not yet made appropri ations. The Illinois State Board of Agriculture has offered a number of prizes, ranging from $50 to $250, for the best exhibits shown at tbe State ralr, to be held Peoria in September. From these ex hibits the board will make many selec tions lor tne world's fair. The United States Treasury Depart ment has decided that machinery im ported to the exposition from foreign countries either wholly as an exhibit or to be shown in connection with the u lustration of some manuiacturing proc ess shall be admitted free of duty. Any raw material imported for nse in such process must pay duty, however. M. Seranno, Mexico's special World'i Fair Commissioner, who visited Chicago a short time ago and made a thorough inspection of exposition progress and atlairs, haa made to his gevernment s report exceedingly favorable to the ex position. He advocates an elaborate narticiDation bv Mexico. President Diaz has expressed himself in favor of mak ing a fine showing of Mexico's progress and advantages rather than of her relics and antiquities. , A bill protecting foreign exhibitors of patented articles from all possible prose cution tor intringement has been passed by the Senate, aud is pending and re ported Bure to pass in the House. - The bill reads as follows : " That no citizen of any country shall be held liable for tbe infringement of any patent granted by the United States or any trade mark registered in the United States, where the act complained of is performed in connection with tbe exhibition of any article or thing at the World's Colum bian Exposition at Chicago." Jackson Park will retain ae one of its permanent attractions the building which Japan will erect for its headquar ters at the exposition. The building will be modeled after one of the most famous and architecturally unique of Japan's ancient temples, and with its surrounding garden will cost $70,000. Aoout 4AUUU square feet will be occu pied. The South Park Commissioners have accepted the offer of S. Tegima. representative of the Mikado, to give the structure to Chicago on condition that it be kept permanent and in repair, and that one room in it be devoted to a pub- 1 .' l. .- L .-, I x , . uu exuiuit oi Japanese worse oi art, which the Japanese government agree to replenish from time to time. PERSONAL MENTION. King of Greece Threatened for Dis missing His Ministry Ages ot Presidential Candidates. Baroness Bnrdett-Contts believes that sapphire blue velvet is the proper mourn ing color. ; . , General Palmer, like many other big men, haB a little wile. Mrs. falmer is described as a mite of a woman." Brother Joseph Cook intimates that Sunday newspapers are published to make money. Well, what is a Monday lectureship tor, anyhow t Collis P. Huntington thinks wood saw ing the best exercise for young men, Not that he used to think so in the days when he sawed wood nimseit. And now the King of Greece is threat ened in menacing letters for his course in dismissing the Ministry. The "King business." as A. Ward called it, la get ting de idedly uncomfortable. General Alger makes it his proud boast that, like Abraham Lincoln, he was born in a log cabin, and a great many people are wondering what excuse he can make for having come out of it. Governor Francis of Missouri is a stick ler for the " swallow-tail " coat at his receptions. Colonel Richard Dalton, who wants to succeed Francis,sayS that if ho is elected Governor the people may call on him in their shirt sleeves. Vice-President Morton is reported to be a man of many charities, who in a qniet way gives tens of thousands of dollars to tho poor, yet he himself has been the recipient of all uncharitable- ness from the partisan press. Mr. Cleveland is "5, Senator Gorman 53. Senator Allison 63. Senator Cullom 62 and Senator Carlisle 56, while Boies, liniv and snerman are past mtddle life. Grant, who was inaugurated at 47, is said to have been the youngest Presi dent. , . There is a vacmcy in the dime muse ums of ths country for the notorious Earl of Ailesbury, who seems to have exhausted all other resources of living and has accumulated 321,00 of debt. As a dime-museum freak he would be Immense. - John Jarrett of Pittsburg, at present United States Consul in Birmingham, England, has sent in his resignation. and hopes to be free soon to return home. His wife's health is not good, and besides he has the offer of his old place as Secretary of the American Tin Plate Association, with headquarters at Pittsburg. FOREIGN LANDS. Foot and Mouth Disease in Germany. KULLMAN DIES IN PRISON. Mrs. Parnell Has the Grip French Soldiers Experiment With Bioyoles. The Italian deficit is nearly $4,000,000 for 1891. Russia i rushing large bodies of troops to the western frontier. Spain by a decree prohibits the manu facture of artificial wines. . . Tbe British Parliament votes $100,000 for the survey of a railroad in Africa. Senor Br i barn has been appointed Minister of Finance in the Argentine. More than a million people are treated in the hospitals of London each year. The oronosal to ODen the Castle Mu seum in London on Sunday has been defeated. By an act inst passed in South Aus tralia all hotels are to be altogether closed on Sundays. , Bismarck threatens unpleasant reve lations about the Guelph fund if his one of it is investigated. The Khedive intends conquering the . Soudan, but England will back him np only so far aa recapturing Dongola. The Queen of England is having a life-sized portrait of tbe Duke of Clar ence painted for herself and another for ber son. Germans say the plans for the pro posed great cathedral in Berlin look as though the structure were to be a modern restanrant. One woman in every sixty in London is a gin-drinker ( and one in every twenty is a pauper, while one in every thirteen ia illiterate. -' The death in prison of Kullman, the cooper who shot Bismarck, is said to have been caused by abuse from the prison officials. - s Mrs. Parnell has influenza, and her former husband, Captain O'Shea, is ob structing the settlementof her pecuniary affairs all he can. A mountain in Australia was named after Mr. Gladstone last year. Another in that c untry has now been named Mount Salisbury. . ... The London Timet sneers at the ball it, saying that under this fetish of modern civilization only the workingman has risen in strength. Silver date owned bv Dom Pedro nnrl valued at $15,000 has just reached South ampton from Brazil, consigned to- the late Emperor'a daughter. . A red shark has recently been seen near Nice. They come in from the Red Sea by the way of tbe Suez canal, and are said to be very dangerous. The late Cardinal Manning left no au tobiographical notes. His executors will probably write the life of the eminent churchman and edit his letters. Krupp, the cannon king, pays taxes on an income of $1,5',000 ; Rothschild in .Frankfurt on $1,030,000. These are the heaviest taxpayers of Prussia. -Searchers of houses in various subnrbs ' of Paris for Anarchists have developed the fact that a number of trusted serv ants in large residences are Anarchists. - The French soldiers have lately been engaged in an extensive series of exper iment, with bicycles. That machine has now taken its place as an appliance Of War. ,t , The Duchess of Casta is building near Mentone, France, a home for Eugenie, -the French government having denied to the ex-Empress the right of erecting it herself. The orusade against the use of tobacco . ia kept up in France with unabated vigor, , and the country ia flooded with pam- , , phiets, in which the evils of the habit are presented..... Twenty-two cattle markets in Pchon- fliess, Marchow, Heiersdorf and Schonow ' in Germany have been closed for a month owing to the prevalence of tho foot and month disease. t The French revenue expert sent to the . United States to examine the system of American inspection of - pork has re ported that the system waa as perfect aa anything can be. , Out of the total of l,5S,8 miles of rail- ' roads in Austria 4,366 miles are operated ' by the government, and another line of 935 miles is about to come into the' pos-: session of tbe State. Tbe first railroad in India to be built and controlled entirely by natives has been sanctioned by the Indian govern ment. Tbe line will be about thirty miles long in the Hooghly district. : Accounts from Mogador give grievous ' details of the extensive spread of small pox in Morocco. Mellah appears to be the nucleus of the infection, and is de-' scribed aa being in a horrible condition of filth. The two largest lunatic asylums in England have combined accommodation! for 4.550 patients. One of these is at Preatwich, Lancashire county, and the other at Colney Hatch, six miles from London. A coolie farm hand at Fort of Spain. Trinidad, induced hia wife, who was un faithful to him, to go up the river to fish. He returned without tha woman and with a load of fish, and stated that he had cut her up for bait. - A Paris letter says the nice little snm of $400,000 has been handed over to the ' charities of Paris by the racing commit tee this month. Two per cent, of tha bets on the races always go to the chari ties of the districts in which the race are held. Banker Seligman of Berlin has been ordered by the courts to pay 3,000 marks to Gamekeeper Schaeffer. During a rab bit hunt recently Seligman emptied one barrel of his shotgun into Schaeffer' leg while the latter waa beating th bushes for him. It now transpires that Mrs. Osborne. recently convicted in London and sen tenced to imprisonment for nine months at hard labor, stole- her friend 'a jewel in order to pay tradesmen, with whom she had recklessly run in debt, and who were threatening suit.