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Newspaper Page TextVOL. 9. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1892. NO. 25. the oregon mist.;STi HELENS Nkt KOEVEHY t'HIDAV IflOHNIIM. THE MIST.PDBLISHINQ COMPANY, J, R. BE SOLE, Manager. OH ICIALf CQUNTY PAPp. JJ aawerlpilaM Ualn. (in copy on year In advance , II Ml Olio eojiy alt month. i 7 Winnie ouiy ,. 6 Advertising Hales. I'riifeaiilonal card, one year One eoliimii one year ,.... . Half eolumn una year , Qimrtnr eolumn one year Ou inch oii nifiiilh ....... .. )n turn three mouth. ...... Uu. Intth.lx mouth. I IS m 7 40 a ft Loeul notloa.. lncnitt. tier line fur Wr.t Inner tlun; 10 conn ft line lur each iiueuu.iil (li ven inn. , IKul ulvrllwmnlt, II.M per Inch fur drat IDMirunii, nn 70 cent, per men lor um ii .none tiientluwriln. COl, U Mil I A COU STY .IMUJCCTOK V. Cauutr Olllnera Jtidne... ........ eierlt , Hhrrlir. 1'rea.urer Hiit. ul Huhuuli.u A Meioior.. ....... Hurveyor Coinial..ldner. I), J. 8wlter, Ht. Helen. K, K. Uuirk.Mi. Helen. wm. Meaner, hi. Helen. '. Hole, HI. Helen. , J. II, Well.. Hcaiiponne 0. r. Hue.li, llulnler ..A. H I. line, Manner jl.ranl Hiiencer, Veriioula III. W. Hume.. Mayiicr. f -S-aS-S- ! !"5-E. Clir !!! Masohic M. Helen. Ite, No. M Regular foinmiiuloation. firm nuil thlnl Saturday In each inunlh a!7:Mr. M. .1 Manuiilo hall. Vl.ll Iiik ni.iubeni In ooU ataiiuiiis Invited to at- MAwiHIfl.-lUlnler I-fMlire, No. Jl-Hpiteil meeting. Nalurday on or hefure each full ioon f ?:HU r. . At Mammle hull, iivur lllanchard'. tore. VIhIIIuk uieinliera In good .lauding In- '. Vltl'li tOMUMul, ' i : a. 1 ' Iki mall,. Down river Omat) clo at K-W A. H. Dp river (boat) ekwca num. The mull fur Venii.nl. au1 IMtt.burr. l.avi fit. Helen. Monday, WediteMlay and Krlday at Ham The mull fur Mar.hl.ml. dat.kanle and Mlat leave, qiiluu Holiday, Wodnemi.y and. rrlday " .... M.ll.(rallway) north clnaa a' 10 A. a.; Jut fortlaud at a r. M. Traveler UulaeKlver Haalea. tnkO. W. SKiVii- Unven Kt. Helen, fur I'orlUnd at It A. M. Tuewlay, Thundav and H.tuMav. l-ave. HI. Helen, fur (,'lat.kanle Monday, Wedniwlay and rrlday at :0U a, h. mtkamir lAt.rA-lave. 8t. Helen, tur Purt land 7 4. H, rtturnlug al StM r. i Htm a MRU Ju.mN K ai.loon lave St, Helen, fur furtlaad d.Uy ept Hutnlay. at 7 A. , ar rlvln.al rartlaml at 10 X0; reinrnlnv, leave I'oril.nv at 1 r. .. arrlvlnn at Ht. Heleu. an. PROFESSIONAL. B. H. It. CI.IKK, rilYSlCIAN and SUIIQKON. Ht. lleleim, Oregon. R. K, II ALU , PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Clatekunle, Colli in bla county, Or. yy . bice, .:'.. S-A -' ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, 8T. IIKLRN8, - OttKOOff. Deputy Dintrli t Attornty for Columbia Co. 11 AH. W. MAYOKR, . ,-. aVOTARY PULBLIC and .INSURANCE AG EXT, , l- ., ' . ' . Muyger, Oregon, , ,.' , ,i . T. A. Mc'Datoa. ' ' A. 8 Dna.it. jyJrHUIDK DRKH8EB, ATIORNEYS-AT-LAW, Oregon City , Oregon . Prompt atUntlon gWen lund-oince bnainesa. A. H. LITTLE, SURVEYOR and " t : CIVIL ENGINEER, St. Helena, Oregon. l.,tr aurvavne T.iiml Unrvpvlllff. town lulling, and engineering work, prmnplly W. T . i'iY. J. W. Dbatkr. IJl HNKY PBAPRR, ATTORN liYfl-AT-LAW, Oregon City, Oregon, Twelve Veara' experience as Reglntcr of the United Htatea Linirl Offloe here, reconi nicnila ua in on. aiiecinlty of nil kimln of HtiMiiieHH before tlie Land Olltiie or the ( our In and Involving the Ueuerul Land Office. JROOKENBROUaH at COW1N0, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, : Oregon City, Oreuon. ( t.ate upeclnl tRent of Oencral Innd otnee. ) HotueBleiid, Pro-eraptlon, and ftn-ber Land application., and other Land Office ImnlnesH a .peclalty. OJBce. second llnor, Lund Ollh e Building. A. H. BLAKESLY. ) Proprietor of Oriental1-; 'Hotel. ST. HELKN3, OREGON. The house hn been fully refurnished throiiudiout and the bent of accnui- ; modiitinna will be given. CHARGES REASONABLE. fiTAOE rnh In oonnectlon with 'i the hotel contiecilng witli the Norlh em rauillc Hiiilroad at Milum. Mingo for Taconia truliw 10 p. m. ror l'ortlaml tridn at 3 p, m. Prescriptions ? A Specialty. ISDWIlSr ROSS, DKUGGIST. ( UKAMSH IN PURE DRUGS, OPTICAL GOODS, MEDICINES, TOILET FANCY GOODS, . t ARTICLES, CHEMICALS, STATIONERY, " I CONFECTIONERY, NEW NOVELS, ETC. PERFUMES And everything tisuully found in a FirstrCliiss Drug Storo. Physicians' Prescriptions carefully compounded at any hour, day or night, by a coiupotviit and EicrU'ncil DniKKixt, ' 1 IV1UCKLE Manufacturer of LUMBE R AND ptLK. GENERAL MERCHANDISE. ST. HELENS, OR. Joseph Kellogg & Joseph Kellogg and Northwest. FOR COWLITZ RIVER NORTHWEST leaves KELSO Monday, Wednesday, and Fiidity at 5 am. Leuves PORTLAND Tuesday, Thurs day, and Saturday at 6 a. m. JOSEPH KELLOGG Leaves RAIN I lilt at 5 a. m. daily, Sunday excepted, arriving at "Puitland at 10:30 a; m. Returning leaves Portland at 1 p. m., arriving at 6 p A Don't Buy Your Drugs -ANYWHERE BUT AT A REGULAR DRUG;I STORE, YOW WILL FIND THE Freshest, Purest, and Best of Everything , AT THE Clatskanie Drug Store. I DR J. E. HALL, Proprietor. CLATSKANIE LINE,- STEAMER G. W. SHAVER. J, W. SHAVER, Master. , Leaves Portland at Alder St. dock Monday, Wednesday, Friday for Clatskanie, touching at Sauvies Island, St. Helens,Columbia City, Kalama, Neer City, Rainier, Cedar Landing, Mt. Coffin, Bradbury, Stella, Oak Point, and all intermediate points, re turning Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. V I find a pnceioaa noon Nm Queen1. A ntl lialrlne II. per bottle, aent lo wfety malllnr boxen, poat.ae paid by u. (aecurelr ....... AhuH.ii..i anA n, ...mm Iit utter with full .ddrem written Dlalnly. Corre V, .. 1. K,KlAln. h Sontatna. W Invite yon to deal with n. and you will end everythlnn u JKPrIfd- Cut thl. out and andKMlay. AddreiaQUKN OHKMfOAL CO., 174 Kaoe Streat, ?A'.T'lJJJ.ViAii li real.ter lour letter at anv foet omoe lo ln.ure It. mfe delivery. W e will pay anpa for any ca.a I1 TBI. aaveniBemem ffallura or alightaal Injury to any pnrcha.er. Kvery bottle guarauleea. . . . . . m . mms aa imiIm MOuMiit AnU-Katrtna. , akaaaaaaaai afelikntealart IvawtaaM with ardar. DRUG STORE. Orders from the Country filled by Return Mail.' . BROS., Co. s River Steamers, HEW DISCOVERY ir accident In eompoundlng a Mlutlon a nan wa. aecldeniiy .ullied on the nam! and on wanbinr afterward II wu dlwuvereo tbat the hair wan com. plelely removed. We at ooo. put till, wonderful preparation, on the market and an areat ua. been the demand that we ar. now introducing It throughout the world under the name of (tueen'a ikaU-Ualrine, IT 13 PERFECTLY HARMLESS AND 80 SIMPLE ANY CHILD CAN USE IT. J&T the hair over and apply the mixture for a few anluatea, and th. hair dlnappeara a. It by maglo without the lla:htet pain or Injury when applied or ever afterward. II (.unlike any other preparation ever used fora like purpoM. Thousand, of LADIKS who have been annoyed with hair on their FACK. MICK and AKMS atleat It. merlta. O K N TI. K M E N ho do not appreriate a beard or hair on their neek. in vueelt'a Anti-nairinewoicn ooea away Mnrtwln. O fuLlim n,Wth IB Btter IDIDOMIbllltV. n wm, ,,u m,.,., ,i "' Vr , J Oood aalary or Ooaailalo to Agaaia. . I PACIFIC COAST. The Supply Department at Mare Island. SAPPHIRE AND RUBY BEDS. Mexican Gov.rnment Banishes a J Woman Claiming to Have Divine Power. Helena, Mont., sapphire and ruby beds comprtee 8,000 acres. The Santa Fe runs a potato train daily from Los Angeles to Chicago. A veritable silver bonanza has been struck at Meaa City near Phoenix. Complaints about the Soldiers' Home at Santa Monica are becoming frequent. Extensive niter beds have been lo cated in Death's Valley near Resting Springs. The turquoise stone (onnd near Phoe nix, A. T., has been pronounced of a superior quality. r - 1 The Arizina Board of Territorial Equalisers met recently, and will raiee the taxes on all railroads in the Terri tory. San Dieso is still striving for the erec tion of plant to work the iron ore from the Tempuatete mines in Lower Cali fornia. The supply department at Mare Island is being investigated. There are charges of favoritism which excludes legitimate bidders. The Kid gang of renegade Apaches are committing depredations In Arizona again. Murder and theft are their em ployment. The wood camps in the mountains in Nevada are opening up for the season's work, which promises to end earlier than uuil this year. Prospectors from the New river coun try ridicule the story that the Salton Basin would become a lake this season, limilar to that of last year. W. O. Bailey, who with his family vere supposed to have been lost on the Colorado Desert, have been rescued. The hardships of the party are described is terrible. It is stated that 3.000,000 pounds of rool will pass through the hands of a ocal merchant at Albuquerque, N. M., '.iiis season. The Monarch mine in Silver City, Tev , is being guarded by a shotgun bri gade. The property, which is very val table, is in litigation, and there are hree claimants. A combination of lumber dealers in Southern California has caused the stif ening of prices. The mountain dealers have had difficulty in competing with the Oregon trade. A Boston syndicate has purchased 1,600 acres near Deming, N. M. Ibe land will be irrigated through force pumps and wells and rendered valuable for farming purposes. The various Phuenix (A.T.) banks and mortgage companies have levied attach ments on the Phoenix electric-light plant, aggregating $10,50 J. The failure is said to be complete. O. W. Dunn, the California naturalist, has collected over 70,000 Insects belong ing to the horn-winged family, 6.000 of the cricket tribe and about 4,000 butter flies and numberless rare plants and an imals. The Yaqui and Mayo "ndian troubles in Sooora, Mexico, are assuming large proportions. The Mexican covernment la massing soldiers in the Ysqui country. Sixteen soldiers were recently killed in an ambush fight. , Benjamin S. Bailey, the man who swindled the United States out of a two cent stamp at Porterville a few days ago, pleaded guilty at Los Angeles in the United States Court, and was sentenced to pay a fine of $70. Work of rebuilding the Walnut Grove dam near Phuenix, A. T., has begun. When finished this reservoir will cover an immense tract of reclaimable land, and will also give a strong impetus to placer mining in tbat section. The interest in the North Side railroad Is increasing at Phoenix, A. T., and its completion in the near future is an as sured fact. By July 1 they will be lay ing the track on eighty miles of the grade, and by November the road will be completed, . In boxing up the remains of United States soldiers recently exhumed near Presoott, A. T.. three Indian spear heads made of hoop iron were found in one of the skeletons. One of the spears had entered the back, and the head was (onnd fast in the breastbone on the in side. t The Mexican government, so it is re ported from Nogales, a town on the Mex ican and Ariiona border, baa banished Santa de Cabora, a Mexican woman, who claimed divine power, and who is charged with inciting the Mavo Indiana to re bellion and murder. The woman is on the Arizona side at Nogales. The heirs of George Hearst Phoebe Hearst and William B. Hearst have brought suit at Phoeutx, A. T., to quiet tiwe w tue etui uv t. wuin.ns j gaJea land grant. This land includes thai occupied by settlers on the San Pt dio river, inking in the town of Fair lank wil the greater portion of the Mormon settlement of St. Davids, as well as other valuable valley land. W. W. Taylor and Harry Bailey, two notorious confidence men, have swindled several parties at Loa Angeles, and Bai ley siceeaded in marry ng a wealthy widow, although he Has a wife in De troit. The police ordered Tavlor from town, rod before Bailey could dispose of much oi' hie new wife's property he, too, had to leave. They are said to be oily men, pleasant talkers, with a fund of information, which they freely make nse of with tourists and susceptible people. The Sacramento police made search of premises occupied by highbinders, and recovered, hidden in the bneeinent. a looked box containing the records of the organization and all the insignia of the vicious society, tnciumng tne snort ticks paused around to memliers when ever the murder or robbery of a hated Chinaman isjroposed, to notify them of a meeting. The capture iaan important n, and may lead to much desired in formation. . NATIONAL CAPITAL, Captain Louis Kempff to be Assigned to the Command of the New Coast Defense Ship Monterey. The House has passed the bill giving (6 ,000 for a pedestal and monument to ieiieral W. T. Sherman. Senator Blackburn has introduced a bill appropriating $1,200,000 for the pro curements under contract of fifty mor tars and carriages for the defense of the Pacific Coast. The Department of Agriculture issues a statement showing the imports of American corn into Germany for the first three months of this yearcompared with a corresponding time last year, have increased from 1,110,000 bushels to 6,818,000. Mr. Caminettl has been unable to get his mining debris bill before the House, and the result is that if the House ad journs on July 4, the date which is con templated, there will be no chance for the bill to pass. It requires unanimous consent to bring it up, and that cannot be obtained. It is understood that Captain Louis Kempff is assigned to the command of the new ' coast-defense ship Monterey, which is nearing completion at the Union iron works in California. In order tbat be may superintend her fitting out be will receive preliminary orders to her during tne present month. The House went into committee of tl e whole for consideration of the agricult ural appropriation bill.; The bill was ream by paragraphs lor amendments. .). D. Taylor of Ohio took occasion to make a vigorous speech, which was answered in the same vigorous manner by Simp son of Kansas. The committee rose, and tbe bill passed. Representative Hermann has suc ceeded in passing a bill extending for three years the time of settlers who are purchasers of forfeited railroad lands, and whose time to make payment ex pires September 23 next. McMillan of Tennessee antagonized the measure, but when Hermann explained tbe history of the bill he withdrew his objection. Her mann read to the House resolutions passed by the Republican and Demo cratic County Conventions of Wareo county. Or., where many people reside on forfeited land along the railroad. He also read petitions from the State Grange and Alliances, asking for this legislation and stating that by reason of the failure of the crops many persons were unable to pay for homes. Senator Dolph has secured from the Committee on PuM'o Buildings and Grounds a favorable report upon his bill to increase the limit of tbe cost of a public building at Portland to $1,000,000 ; also a favorable report of his amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill for the same purpose. . The Senator says he will secure the passage of h's bill through the Senate at the fiist favorable oppor tunity, but hardly hopes for a favorable consideration in the House. He fears also, if he succeeds in getting the amend ment to the sundry civil bill, the House will refuse to concur and it will be dropped out in the conference, and he is not certain that it will not be better to defer tbe attempt until the next session after the Presidential election. Tbe Treasury Department has prepared a statement protesting against the action of the House in passing a legislative, ex ecutive aim juuioia.1 apprupriHkiuu mu with a clause requiring manifests giving detailed information, including values to be presented before cars containing merchandise in transit through the coun try will be allowed to go forward. The statement says tbe presumable object of the clause is to secure statistical infor mation regarding exports, but declares that the practical effect will be a dis crimination against American railroads in favor of foreign lines, as shippers will not submit to the. annoyance proposed in the regulation. It says a similar reg ulation was put in force some years ago by an order of the Treasury, but was re voked on vigorous complaints by Amer ican roads. EDUCATIONAL. Shorthand in Boston Schools Embossed Books for the Use of Blind Per sons St. Louis Schools. Shorthand is to be taught in the Bos ton schools. . There are 6,809 whole and 1,821 frac tional school districts in Michigan. The public schools of St. Louis give employment to over 1,000 teachers. New London, Conn., has been selected as the site for the Catholic summer school. Embossed books for the use of blind persons have been prepared in more than 250 languages and dialects. , Mrs. Sidgwick has just been appointed principal of Newnnam College, Univer se ty of Cambridge, England. There are 630 women students in the University of Michigan, distributed throughout all the departments. In one of the public schools of New York city there are 710 children, all but ten of whom are of foroign birth and language. In Paris the common public schools are provided with medicine cases, aud instructions are (.iven for the use of remedies. The New York Legislature passed a bill making the teaching of musio In the public schools compulsory. Governor Flower vetoed It. Jacob Gould Schurman, Cornell's new President, is yet a few years under 40, but a notel scholar. Twenty-odd years ago he was a clerk in a grocery store on Prince Edward Island. President Eliot of Harvard, not satis fied with tbe mess he made by his Mor mon speech, has again got himself in hot water by his disparagement Of the American puiilic school system. ; Cornell University has given Presi dents to three universities Schaefer to Iowa, Jordan to Stanford and Andrews to Brown. Eight members of its fac ulty have declined college presidenc-'es. The Bcliool of architecture of the Unt versity of Pennsylvania ia to have a "traveling scholarship in architecture," with an annual income of $1,000, which will enable the holder to study the beet models in Europe, t. It appears from the official weirds that last voar articulation was taught to no lee than 4,246 pupils in American schools for the deaf. In a large number of these cases the infirmity dated from birth and was inherited. EASTERN ITEMS. Methodist "' Minister Arrested for Jumping Board Bills. MINNEAPOLIS FLOUR OUTPUT Cotton Acreage in Tennessee Less Than Last Year A Jilted . . Woman's Revenge. The New York Grant monument fund is complete. Chicago has an elevated road, and is elated over it. .. In Minneapolis 7.877.947 barrels of flour were made last year. - The exports of (fold up to date this year have been exceptionally light. - The cotton acreage of Tennessee will be 10 per cent, smaller than last year. Chicago Board of Trade market quota tions will soon be distributed free to the public. A jilted woman in Chicago hired a prizefighter to spoil her former lover's beauty. The wall-paper trust has been incor porated in New York with (14,000,0u0 capital. A young Methodiet minister has been arrested at Atlanta, Ga., for jumping board bills. Gas is to be manufactured in' Long Island and pipedennder the East river into New York. Colonel W. B. Remy, Judge Advocate General of the navy, has been placed on the retired list. r - - Louisiana's 8up.me Court decides that tbe "Jim Crow" law does not apply to interstate passengers. . The New York R v,r I of Education is preparing to wii ...it all saloons in the vicinity of schoolhoutes. The Kansas crop report shows wheat acreage equal to last year, with an ex cess of corn, but backward. For three vacant chaplaincies in the United States army over 4,030 applica tions have been placed on file. For killing a negro Section Boss An derson of Greenland, Fla., has been threatened with a negro uprising. United States troops have been sent to the scene of the troubles between stockmen and rustlers in Wyoming. The city of Chicago, feeling that its attractiveness is somewhat at stake, has organized a society for the prevention of smoke. "; - - Mississippi planters in the river bot tom are moving for a permanent reduc tion of tax assessments on account of overflows. The crops in Kansas are in grand shape. Corn is growing well, and the wheat is heading out. In Nebraska, ion, the crops promise well. An ' ordinance licensing gambling houses in Omaha was signed by the Mayor, and they are running wide open in violation of a State law. - 1 There is talk of submitting the Lou isiana Stsnatorahip to a vote of the white people of the State, the Legislature be ing unable to agree on a candidate. The descendants of tbe immortal Davy Crockett will celebrate the lObth anni versary of that deceased hero and states man at Kutherford, Tenn., August 17. An unknown foreigner has created a reign of terror in Cambridge, Mass., by stabbing number of women, whom he accosted on the streets after nightfall. Owing to tbe long sea1 on of spring rains, much of the bottom lands in West Tennessee, heretofore planted in cotton, will tbla season grow corn or some otber crop. A New York insurance company will put up a building having twelve stories and a high gable, with a street frontage of 36 feet 6 inches. It resembles an Egyptian obelisk. Dr. Nagle of the bureau of vital sta tistics says that so cosmopolitan has New York become in recent years that more than 100 languages and dialects are spoken in the city. Governor John Young Brown of Ken tucky has signed the bill compelling all railroads in the State to provide separ ate cars for negroes. The law will go into effect in ninety days. Bev. J. W. Wilson of Indianapolis ha. entered upon a vigorous crusade against church fairs, grab bags, raffles and all other schemes to raise funds for church purposes in illegitimate ways. The labor organizations of New York city have begun war upon tbe Chinese. It is their purpose to arouse agninst the Mongolian such a cyclone of public ha tred as will drive him from the town. A large and finely equipped hospital has been dedicated in Atlanta, bearing the name of the late H. W. Grady, ed itor of the Constitution. This memorial ia the result of a popular subscription. The Interstate Elevated railway of Kansas City ia to be changed from a steam to an electric system at a coat of $5JO,000. It is expected that the recon struction will be completed so that the line can be run by July 1. One of the largest and hardest log jams ever known in the Northwest has been forming in the St. Croix river at Eagle Island. It is over five miles loug, and the logs are piled up in all shapes, and it contains over 150,000,000 feet. The Wigwam in Chicago, where the Democratic National Convention will meet, has a frontage of 600 feet on Mich igan avenue, and is 350 feet in width. I is the 4argest convention ball ever erected, and Its full capacity is 20,000. Prof. H C Adams, the statistician of the Interstate Commerce Commission, makes the statement that out of 153,23o trainmen in this country -1,469 were killed and 13,172 injured last year. Of these accidents 37.94 per cent, of the deaths and 45.67 per cent of the inju ries were sustained by railway employes while coupling cars or setting brakes. At Barnwell, S. C, the other day un der the grove of trees where eight ne groes were brought from the county jail in December two years ago, lynched anH riddled with bullets Governor Tillman made this utterance; '"There is only one crime that should bring on lynch"' ing. I at Governor would head a partv to lynch any negro that would assault a white woman." The remark has caused a sensation. . WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. Helena, Mont, Will Send to the Exposi tion a Meteor Discovered Near That' City-Mr. Childs. The Salvation Army intends to show at tbe exposition in a complete manner its whole scheme of moral and social re form. A relief map showing San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties, Cal., is being prepared at an expense of $10,000 for exhibition at the fair. Aa evidence of the great and wide spread interest abroad taken in the World's F.,ir it is announced that more than half of the mail now being received by the Slate Department at Washington is in relation to it. William Saunders. Executive Exposi tion Commissioner for Canada, says that a large and excellent exhibit from the Dominion is assured. It will be espe cially notable in the lines of agriculture, dairying, minerals and manulactures. The principal commercial organiza tions of New Orleans have uiited in a petition to the Slate legislature of 1)0 isisna, which assembles this month, to make a World's Fa'r appropriation of $j0,000. A bill making such an appro priation has been drafted. Georee W. Childs. the Philadelphia philanthropist, signalized his visit to the World's Fair grounds by planting a lin den tree on the "wooded island." Mr. Childs has donated to the exposition a number of rare and beautiful palm trees from his conservatory. He is very en thusiastic over the fair and its prospects. The New York State building at the exposition, as shown by the plan which the Uommisaioners rare approver, win be one of the most commodious and ar tistic of all. It will measure 97x193 feet, be two atones high and covered with "staff," treated to represent marble. The estimated cost is from $80,000 to $100,000. Prof. Charles D. Walcott of the United States geological survey intends to have at the World's Fair an exhibit which will illustrate a sevitou i intrwui.ua crust by specimens of the rock strata placed in their proper relative positions and by collections of the characteristic fossils shown in connection with the for mations in which they are found. President Harrison has accepted the invitation, conveyed to him by a com mittee, to attend the dedication cere monies of the exposition building next October. It is believed certain that every member of the President' Cabinet and of the Supreme Court and nearly every Senator, Congressman and Gov ernor also will be present on that occa sion. Helena, Mont., will send to the expo sition a meteor discovered near that city. It is composed of nickel and magnetic iron, and ia in two pieces of ninety and seventy pounds respectively. It is re ported that when found these pieces were in a hole in the ground large enough to contain s house, from which fact it is inferred that the meteor exploded when it struck the earth. Philadelphia's contribution to the Pennsylvania exhibit at the fair will In clude a number of articles of great his tnrlit interest. Amons them are the desk and chairs used in the Continental Con gress and tbe celebrated portraits ol too Declaration of Independence. In the art exhibit, which promises to be large, will appear the very va'uable painting. "The festival of the Brides ol Venice, by Giacomo Giacomelli, and a mosaic nicture representing the discovery of the remains of St. Marcus, the patron samt of Venice. The latter contains more than a million pieces, and required in its making seven years of patient work. The prospect is that the engineering congress, which ia to be held in Chicago in itvs under the auspices ot tne worm s congress auxiliary, will be a gathering of verv great scientific importance. Of . the $15,000 estimated to be necessary for its expenses $10,0 K) have been raised. Many of the most prominent engineers of the world have accepted memberships on the advisory conncil, among whom may be mentioned William H. Maw and James Dredge of the London Engines ing, Don Fernandez Ial, President ot the Mexican Society of Engineers and Architects, C. S. Gowzski ,0! Canada and others. PERSONAL MENTION. Edward Everett Hale, Jr., Made Professor 6f English in the Iowa State Uni versityRider Haggard. Mrs. Mary Russell Day has been made State Librarian of Kentucky, the Legis lature appreciating her eminent fitness for the place. Miss Hannah Fairchild of Westport, Conn., is in her 78th year. She has "eeu a member of Christ Church for fifty five years, and has not missed a service during tbat period. ; . f ' Hon. Andrew D. White is credited with having made a rare collection of' posters, including incendiary placards put up on the walls of Paris during the French revolution. Dr. Mary Walker appeared at the Cleveland snap convention attired in a frock coat, trousers and a silk hat. She v Aited to bo chosen a delegate to Chi uago, but was not chosen. Rider Haggard has turned farmer, and while delighted with his bucolic experi ences, is puzzled to understand why milk that baa had all the butter taken out of it should be called buttermilk. Edward Everett Hale, Jr.', who grail uated from Harvard in 1883, ba been made professor of English in the Iowa State university. He has been an in structor iu the same branch at Cornell, Vice-President Morton's . daughters have an active share in church work at Rhinebeck. They conduct a sewing school for poor children Saturday morn ngs and a little Sunday-school twenty four hours later in a room in Mr. Mor ton's house. United States Senator Irby was re cently collared bva policeman in Co lumbia, 8. 0.. and compelled to give np a revolver which he was carrying around with him. The only weapon allowed to be cariied in that city must have a cork in its muzzle. ; Count Leo Tolstoi, the Russian poet and novelist, whn.e serious illness is re ported, can handle farm implement n well as the pen, ami is wt'iat a skillful shoemaker. During the latt winter and spring he has worked incessantly among bis famine-stricken countrymen.