ORE lVllDJL. J or hjo. VOL. 10. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1893. NO. 3. THE OREGON MIST. iHicuEvuni raiAY moHnino THE MIST-PUBLISHING COMPANY, J. II. BEEOLK, Manager. OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER. , ubecrlpttati Hatea. ! Out copy on year In advance.,.,..... .tl M on. i'oj.jp an mouth,,...., 7e (limit tiopy ... ,.....,.. , A4vertltlMg Hales. "rofeaalonal earda tint year I II Out column out year 12. Half column una year 7A quarter column on year.,...,..,.,, 40 : Out Inch one mouth ,.... .. 3 Jn ' rh thrt. moMtli..,. I , vm. ineh.li mouth.,, I Local notice.,, IS rants par lint for flrat Inner- unu , luctuii par lint lur eaun suno,uetti in ; aertlmi. .gal advtrtlaamanta, .M par Inch for drat inn.rtion, and 74 o.uu par Inob (or eeou aulMt- COLUMBIA COUNTY DIKKCV CMnljr Officer. O U f ! liuwIUf IIIHUtll) UTIU W I Sa lit liter', II B Mi VI . :ir K. K. Uelck, m. Helena Sn.rllT ft. A. Mawlr, HI. Ilel.ua 1'r.aaur r K. M. Wharton, Columbia t;ity sept, of schooli T. J. tileeton, Varaonla aeuaaor W. II. Kyaer, Kalnl.r Surveyor.. A. H, 1,1 ill., Rainier C'ommlwIoD.r... ii. u. awnonuover, veruouiet U. w. Haruaa, Mayg.r. eaatr rlatleoe. Han tltJMIH eaea n Unmri.-Ht, Ilel.nt Lodft. No. WR. Hilar iMiiiiuicaiiona nrat aun intra naiuraay in u iiionth at 7 SO r, m. al Maaonle ball. V all. lui in.uibera In load .lauding Invited Co at- lend. NaaoKic.-nalnler Lnd... No. lastated In mi man Saturday on or before each lull moon at t M r. a. al Maaonle hall, ovtr lllanrhard'a atora. viaiiing in.nitxrt in oua ttanuinf in. .viiau w aiwun, i t,n Pai.Lo.re m. Helens Mat No. 117 Meeta every Kaiuiday alshl at 7:110. Tran.lent br.mreu in good atandiui cordially Invited to e.t.im, tlU.JJ.J i 1 1U1UJ tVtwu river (Imat) etoata ai 8:00 A. M. Ifb rlvar flMiatWtUuMh at 4 a. H. Ida mall for Varnonla and flUaburt teavea i t. Halana Mondajr, Htduaadav aud Friday at i It.).. Tlie mall for Marahland. riatakanle and M( leai ua wmuu Monday, nailueMay and Friday at it e. . . . M.ll.(rallway) north clow ! 10 A. H.i lor rortlatid at 1 r. a. Trarelere UaU-Hlrar Boale. Hratxaad, W. NHivta-Ieavea Hi. Helena I for Portland at II A. M. TueMlay, Thuradav and I Maturda)', lavea rit. Ilnl.na for t'latalianle I Mmlay. WedutMlay and Friday al 1:00 a, a HTttMita Uai.o lava t Helena for Fort- laud 7:4a a, a. returulnn at liKO r, a. Hrraaaa Jor Km.txio Leave. St. Helena I lor Portland dallv eirent Kunday. at 7 A. a riving at Portland at 10 So: rturiiln. leave I rortiany at 1 r. a., arriving at Bl. Helena Mi. I'KOFESSIONAlh jy. II. R. CLIFF, rnysiciAN and surgeon. Hi. Helena, Oregon. jB. J. K. HALL, HIVSICIAN and SURGEON. Clatakanie, Columbia county, Or. ijpH, W.C BKLT, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. j . , . Rainier, Orel 00. R WILLIAM GRIBWOU), DENTIST. Br. HKLKNft, Orkoon All Work Guaranteed. T. A. Mi-Bhipi. A. 8. Dmaaia, JcURIDR A DRESSKR, ATTORNEYS-at-LAW. Oregon City, Oregon. Prompt attention given land-offlct buainem. B. LITTLK, SURVEYOR and CIVIL ENGINEER, Bt. Helens, Oregon. Comity auryeyor. Land itirveylng.town platlliiKi and engineering work promptly done. W. T. Btaxay, , W. DlAPIR. TH'B iHRSKV A DRAPER, I -I ATTORNEYS-at-LAW, Oregon City, Oregon. Twtlve years' experience as Register of the United Hlalea Land Office here,, reeom n. in ons aiteciaUy of all kinds of k... i..,ne the Land Ollice or the c.iirt. and Involving the General Land Office. iTiftOCKKNtlROUUH A COW1NO, ATTORNEY-at-LAW, Oregon City, Oregon. (Late special aarnt of General land offlct.) . HonMsteud, Pre-emption, and iiniber Land application., " K,..lneH a specialty. Offlce. second floor, Land OlnVe MtilldiiW' ST. HELENS HOTEL. J, George, Proprietor. Tables always supplied wllhthebestedlblea j and delicacies toe maritet anortis. TERMS REASONABLE MR REGULAR BOARDERS., Having hton newly refurnished, we . nrenareil to give satisfaction te all our patrons and solicit, a BNira vi vur i , patronage,, .' ST. HELENS OREGON, W. H. CQNYERS & CO Real Estate and Insurance Agents Real Eatatt boii()it, told and managed on souiuilaalon, rent oolleoled aud euatrefllt insde. i ., AGENTS FOR THE Farmers and Merchants, German American And other Imuran" Cnmpanlea, with combined Auiela of (W.iuu.ooo, NOTAHIKB P17I3MO, cpalalianle, . 1 . Oregon. CITY BARBER SHOP -AMI) . BATH HOUSE. C. L. COLBURN, Proprietor. IlM Been Thoroughly Refitted Rearranged. and Only Baths ia the City. ST. HELENS. OREGON. TUB TUA.HKH IRAIiBA I now makintf rfRular round , tripe frutu OAK POINT TO PORtUf: Daily Except Wednesdays, I.tAlio OAK POINT,... ......4:W A. M oTKI.LA 6;00 ' KAINIKIt fl:!5 " " KAI.AM A . 7 :0u " ', BT. HKLKNS..' fl!fln " AaaiTiBOl'OKri.AMJ. .. 11:00 RETURNING Uatm PORTLAND .1:00 P. .7:44 Aaairi i)TKLI,A W. E. NEWSOM. The Gektrated French Cura. Warranted DUDnniTIMC or money to cure r. iiiivviiiiii. reruudod ralnuuo Jt Rold oit A POSITIVC OUARANTCC to cure ear lorn ofntrvouadlaeaso .: or any diaorderof the frnerativaor asn.oi euneraci,. whether artsluu.: .BEFORE Irom tbeeireiai v i naeol Htlinulauu, AFTER TblMuwoorOplum.or lhrouilivnuthfiiiin IIod, over Indulrcnce, Ac , aueh a. Lou of liraln Power, Wakcfului'Mi, ItrarliiKdown I'alnalntti lck,tlmlnalWakniw,Hvaterla. Nervoua J?me tratlon, Nocturnal KmlnktuL litumrrkn.. Blneaa, Weak Memory, Ixiaaol t'owerand Jmno- wncy. wnicn 11 ncttlcctednrten lead to prematura ld at and Imanltr. l'rli-o 11.00 a box, ebuiua V 1 .j u,al, rTv'i,i t, price' A H R1TTF.N li; AKA NTV ic ri. .1,... ...wunnrn. reiv.u, uirpTiinn me money 11 a reriuauent rnre I. not eTert-d. We have ii,u"ii,iaui iHiiiiHNiiaia iminniu anq younir, fir both aeire. who have Iwn nermanentlv run-d by theuaeoIApbnxlltine. Circular free. Addntaa THE APHRO MEDICINE f!fl Waateru lirauch. Uox 27. Poktiamo, Oa. For sale by EDWIN ROSS, DRuaaiST Kt. Ilelenn, Or. Saloon. I. TAN WOOD, Frop'r. ST. HELENS, OREGON, Choice Wines, Lienors and Cigars. Beer 5 Cts. -, AaaaaaaaaaaeaaMaa ' , . Billard and Pool Vabls for Cba Peaommodation of Patron CALL AROUND. OF COURSE YOU DO. SUCH BEING THE CASE. It behooves you to lind the moat desirable place to purchase vour invigorator. r JkJUJU AJAA1WMA Keeps oonatantly on hand the famous Cuban Blossom Cigars. The finest line of i Wines ' liquors and Cigars to be found tuts side ol l'ort- : land. And if you with to engnge in a Kanie of POOL OR BILLIARDS, ..M .BA..M Mn, i),ml fl u.- 1..,.. , 1. . bellt Uule jn town Everything new and nent ,, your j,ntronage ia respectfully 1 unn. solicited "THE BANQUET", 8t. Helens, Oregon. . tAPANESB GUJRB A new and complete treatment, constating of Buppnaltoriea, Ointments In Cnpaulea, also In Box and Fills: a Poaltlve Cure for Kxterual, In ternal, Blind and Bleeding, itrmii. (.ironic, Recent or Hereditary 1'llea. and many other laaea ana lemaie wenanewea: u aiwayae it benaflt to the general health. The Itrat mvarv of a merilnal cure rendering: an onera- tlon with tne knife nnneeeaaary b.renftor. Till a Remedy ha. never been known to fall. II per box, for aent by mail. Why tufl'er from thia terrible dtneaao wken a written guarantee la given with 8 bona, to refund the money If not cured. Bend stamp (or free Sample. Ouarsntee Umimlliv Wnmiiian. (;nA Co.. Whnltsale aud Retail Druaalau, Sole A.nl, VwUaad, Or. Model PACIFIC COAST. Assessment Roll of Oregon is Badly Mixed. PROLIFIC IDAHO FIG TREES. Lions and Coyotes Very Numerous About Elysian Park, South ern California. It cost Idaho 121.400 la ariDnrese the J,.. - ir iu)ut u Aiene note. Important exteosloni in Santa Rota's ireei-ratiway system are projected. It II predicted that the Burlineton will be running into 1'ortland, Or., in two years. The mineral production of Idaho for mri waa $13,075,000. falling off of over o,uw,uw. Another lam bitumen deposit has neen loana aooat twentr tnilea from eanut naroara, aown tne coast. Klg treee on v ranch in Washington county, Idaho, are amid to be prolific bearers. Xhli u at an altitude of 2,600 Oregon's assessment roll ia badlr mixed, there apparently being no regu lar method adopted bv the Assessors in the varioni counties. . There have been crave charsea made of bad treatment of patients in the hos pital at Ban Diego by U. I'hillipe and wwe, woo were nurse. JT. A. Mnsick hat aold hia one-fourth Interest in the Loa Angeles and Defiance mins in ifonemia to his partners, Uook, crauy cc jo., tor fOU,uuu. . The Republican and Democratic Ter ritorial Oeutral Committees of Arizona have passed a tolnt resolution nraintf Congress to admit the Territory as a Btattv., A new steamboat U to be bnilt to ply on the Kootenai river in Idaho next summer. It will have a speed of twenty milrw an hour, and will be the finest ves sel on Kootenai waters. The Navaio Indiana resent the rush' of wait men to the Han Juan gold fields in bontnern Utah, and there ia some indi cation of trouble. The Indians claim the gold for themselves. Baptista Plpsyno, an Italian aged 25 years, at Napa made a bet that no in- nry would result to him by touching a ive electric wire. When be nlaced Ida hand on the wire he waa Instantly killed. The reported fiitht between miners st the new Ban Juan nlacer dieeinm is probably sensational. Returned pros pectors have reached Flaestaff. A T.. and show some tine gold, but report no iron oie yei. ' The Lalande prize of the Paris Acad. emv of Sciences was awarded to Prof. Barnard of the Lick Obeervatorv on De cember 19. 1892. for his work in astron omy, and especially for his discovery of tne nun satellite oi j uptter. The Hons and coyotes are so numerous about Eiysian Park. Is Angeles conntv. Cat., that fonr months ago Mr. McCrea loet 100 pigs and as many turkeys and hens. Himself and neighbors have re cently captured four coyotes and five wildcats. A petrified man is reported to have been dug np in the westernpart of Salt Lake City by Blaine Sills. The figure is penect, ana was found lour leet below the surface. The weight ia about 700 pounds. A showman offered $6,000 for me nna, wnicn was related. ine niciei mines near Kiddie win re quire 3 000,000 brick in construction. and 15 0JO feet of wire cable will be needed to carry ore from the ledge at the top oi tne mil to tne reduction works at the base. Superintendent Will Q. Brown has forty men employed, and good roads are to be bnilt from the plant to Riddle station, tour miles distant. Klamafh county, Or., expects to enjoy a regular Oklahoma boom when the Klamath Indians will be allotted lands in severalty and the residue of their res ervation thrown open to actual settlers. While some of the land is comparatively worthless, yet a large portion is as good land as there is in the State, and will make good homes for a large number of ismiues. The heavy tnow has been a great bless ing to the producers in Eastern Oregon, and farmers are verv much encouraged. Sufficient moisture has already fallen, wttn tne nsuai rams m May and June, to insure a bountiful harvest next sea son, and this is very much needed to re vive business in every department, ae for the past three years crops have been verv meager in eastern Oregon, B. Gilliam, stock, inspector of TTm. tilla county, Or., reports In that county 200,000 sheep, which are in good condi tion, neing tree rrotn scan. iue number is fast increasing over previous vears. Wool and sheep are worth mora than for years. The- quality is being fast im proved by the introduction of higher KA.l a MvlMntnall XT-I TO.. M. wuv, s.ut,i'iij luQiiiim, Alia nvtir- age weight of fleeces is from eight and a nan to nine pounds, making between 1 700. OOii an 1 UOTk iVW ...1 , . V.., uwv Mu. A.ww.WV JIUUUU VI VT UU1 tor tne season just closed. superintendent sorter nas issued a oensns bulletin covering the western di vision of the States and Territories. In (his bulletin is a condensed table giving tne general results regarding population according to the sex, native and foreign born, white and colored. California, with a total population of 1,108,180, has 700 053 males and 508 071 females; 841,- 821 were born In the United States and aim ona n.i l . it tains 96,458 colored population, which incinues negroes, Chinese, Japanese and civilised Indians. Aria na Total pop ulation, 69.620: male. 86.571: females. 23.049: native, 40,825; foreign, 18,795; colored, 4,041. Utah Total population, 207.905; males, 110,463; females, 67,442; native, 154,841; foreign, 53,084; colored, 2,008. Nevada Total population, 45,761; males, 20.214; females, 26.647; native, 81,005; foreign, 14,708; colored, 6.677. Idaho Total population, 84.385; males. 61,290; females, 33,095; native, 66.920: foreign, 17,46; colored, 2,867. Wash ington Total ponnlation.349.3D0: males. 217,662 females, 131,828; native, 259, 885; foreign, 60,005; colored, 8,877. Or egonTotal population, 813,767; males, 181,840; females, 131,927; native, 2W, 450; foreign, 57,817; colored, 12,009. NATIONAL CAPITAL. A Resolution Calling for Information Re garding the Progress of the Public Buildings In the Union. The fourth-class office at Kallanell Mont., by reason of increased receipts has been ' raised to the Presidential class. ..: ., ' The Secretary of the Navy has ap pointed a board to consider and report a plan for the equitable distribution of the unman indemnity fund of 176,000. Senator Chandler has introduced a bill making it nnlawful for any body of men numbering ten or more to assemble, drill or bear arms as a military body unless cauea lor by tne properly authorized civil or military officers. It makes it the dutv of the President to disband and diaperse any such organization. This bill is aimed at the I'inkertonsand semi military Anarchist organizations. "One of 'the moat valuable publications ever issued by the government is a re port on the sheep industry of the United Btatea, prepared under tne direction the Hecretarv of Agriculture. It treats of the history and conditions of the in d as try from the early settlement of the country down to the present day, and is nanosomeiy illustrated, it is lor distri bution by the Secretary and throuirh memuers oi congress. .. . -. ... The President has decided anon the scope of the proposed extension of the civil-service law. He has signed an or der pnttlng all free-delivery postoffices under the operations of the laws. Only the largest postoffices are now under civil-service regulations. The extension will protect clerks and carriers in all the small offices which have free delivery. The effect will be to put fifteen or twenty postoffices in Northwestern cities under civil service. AH the work of the eleventh censns will be completed and the matter turned over the Secretary of the Interior by De cember 31, 1X93. This will be required bv the appropriation bill now being? iramect ny tne House committee, up to date the cost of the censns has been 17.260.0 O. Mr. Porter was before the committee recently, and urged the pass age of the bill appropriating $240,000 to carry him from March 4 to the end of the fiscal year. Porter explained that the expense attached to the taking of tne census was greater tnan anticipated, Because toe present census assmaed a much broader field of operations than any oeiore. All sorts of silver propositions are be ing talked over by members of the House. Bland has been approached bv a dozen members with suggestions of a compromise. A return to tne island act is the chief compromise proposition sug gested to him, but Mr. Bland at present relusea to listen to anything less than the coinage of $4,000,000 worth of silver per month, and to this the other side, of coarse, will not agree. Culberteon, a Democrat from Texas and Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has prepared a bill in the nature of a compromise. which he will introduce in the House. It requires the coinage and use as assets ot the accumulated silver bullion now in the Treasury. The present law is re pealed and the Bland law re-enacted. Representative Owen Scott of Illinois has introduced a resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for infor mation regarding the progress of the pubiio bnildings in vanous parts of the country, for which appropriations were made in 1890. Upon investigation and inquiry of the Supervising Architect of tne .treasury Mr. Bcott finds tbat ot sev enty-five buildings, improvements and extensions, for which appropriations were made in 1890, contracts for the erection of fifteen were let, and for ten others nartial contracts oulv were let, un ntty others nothing was done. Mr. Scott insists tbat contracts for pub iio buildings are systematically held np because ot the depleted condition of the Treasury, and be would have it appear that it has been the oolicv of the admin istration to avoid every step that would require casn irom tne government. In view of the necessity for the utmost precautions against the spread of the cholera next summer Mr. Outhwaite has introduced in the House a bill directing the Secretary of the Treasury to make the necessary regulations to secure the speedy and frequent redemption of all United states paper currency and all na tional bank notes which have become ml tntnnu nnnU. n 1 ..l. w.cvi., .... p ut uuuicau auu uiuni irm unfit for nse, when presented in sums of not less than $100, and for the prepara tion and issue of new United States pa per currency in place of such bills as shall be redeemed. Fifty thousand dol lars is appropriated, to become immedi ately available, to enable the Secretary to carry into effect the provisions of the ma. investigation has shown that old greenbacks and bank notes contain the germs of disease to an unusual degree, and there ia reason for apprehension oi them as the producers of disease. The Pacific railroad department ques tion is again before Congress, this time in a bill introduced by Senator Frve. authorising the appointment of a com- ujiBGiuu w eetua claims growing out oi the issue of bonds of the United States to aid in the construction of certain rail roads and to secure to the United States the payment of all indebtedness of the Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific, now forminu a nart of the Union Pacifln. tha uentrai ttrancn ot tne union raoinc, the uentrai racioo and tne Western Pauiuc, now forming a part of the Central Pa cific, and . the Sioux City and Pacific JKauroad companies, under tms Dill the President is authorized to appoint a commission of two Republicans, two Democrats and one member of the Peo ple's party for a term of one year, with authority to extend to two years at an annual salary of $10,000 each and the necessary expenses. These commission- era h required to i devote -their whole time to the work for which thev are appointed, their salary to be paid jointly, by the United States and the railroads interested. The commission is vested with authority to ascertain the amount of all obligations due or to be come due to the United States and to enter into au agreement with the com panies to adjust and extend the obliga tions aa may seem equitable and just. The intention of the act is to confer such power aa will enable the commission to settle with the companies, subject only to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior and the President. All existing rights of the government are to be pre served, and the commission is vested with authority to take testimony and in voke the aid of the United -; if necessary, , ' EASTERN ITEMS. Railroad Construction of Last Year in This Country. CHICAGO PACKING HOUSES. The Alleghany, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers Frozen dver Other News. The city of New York cares for 18.030 lunatics at a cost of $625,000 a year- Two companies in opposition to Car negie are to be established at Pittsburg. Mexico Is preparing to receive the im migrants which this country will refuse. In trying to corner wheat the North west is 60,OOJ,000 short ia the Chicago unmeet. The United States produced 10.000.000 gallons more of wine last year than tier- many aid. . The total value of the mineral nrn. ductions for Colorado for 1892 is $41. 865.114.2X The Adams Express has enoDlanted the American Express Company on the Burlington system. More murders were committed in tha State of Michigan last year than in any previous like period. The boundary line between Nebraska and South. Dakota is te be marked with blocks of jasper stone.- The Treasury Department ia sradnallv recovering the gold it loet bv tha nmnt heavy shipments abroad. The cigarette trust has blacklisted all anti-trust dealers with the tmrooee to drive them ont of the business. The Order of Railway Conductors do not anticipate any trouble with the road a now or during tne World's Fair. It is expected that 16.000 carload exhibits will be received at tha trronnda oi tne wona s fair Detween now and May l. Postmaster Harlow of SL Joeenh. Mn has inaugurated a system of electric street-car mail service to suburban points. Thirteen companies of United States troops, aggregating 700 men, are now in tne neio against guerrillas on the Alex. lean Doraer. The Alleghany, Monongahela and Ohio rivers are trozen over, and river traffic is entirely suspended for the first time in many years. A company Is beine organized in Na York city, with a capital stock of $25, 000.000, to improve the dockatre failitia oi ouuaio naroor. - - 3. H. Wade has presented the r.itr of Cleveland, O., his father's estate, known aa niue ram, containing lour acres. vaiuea at fiw,uuu. ; They are talking In Washington of pensioning jenereon Davis' widow; not for his services to the Confederacy, but in the Mexican war. The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce has adopted resolutions calling on Con gress to provide for the completion of tne Nicaragua canal. Negotiations are reported to be under way in unicago tor tne consolidation oi all the elevated railroads of that city un der one management. The railroad construction of last year in the United States is footed us as 4,062 miles, which is about 10 per cent, lees than the total for 1891. The nackine bouses of Chicago have reached a stage of dullness unparalleled in years. Over 5.000 employes nave been discharged recently. The difficulty is that the houses find it impossible to get nogs. A special .from Lexington. Kv.. save that the Kendal stable has seemed from the California breeder, Theodore Win ters, the refusal of a suckling stud colt, full tonhu in tha .t.. All. V.Tm bien, for the reputed price of $45,000, the transfer to take place in the colt's yearling form. , The Interstate Commerce Commission an opinion by Commissioner McDill has announced its decision in the case the Minneapolis Chamber of . Com merce against the Great Northern and others, involving rates on wheat from North Dakota and South Dakota points to Minneapolis and on flour from Min neapolis to Duluth and other Lake Su perior ports. The commission declines to go into the question of the legality of the flour rate, and declares that "rates on wheat from points in North Dakota and Hontn Dakota to Minneapolis, as compared with the charges over consid erably greater distances from the same points to Duluth and adjacent Lake Su perior porta, subject the Minneapolis millers to nndne and unreasonable prej udice and disadvantage. The defend ants are ordered to adjust their rates on wheat from said points to Minneapolis and Duluth upon the basis of the dis tance over the nearest practicable routes." :, When the final permits for exhibit space in machinery hall at the World's Fair are issued a ttorm of protests will be heard from every section of the coun try. Less than half the number of firms that made demands of Chief Robinson for room will secure it. : More thanl,?00 applications were received, and only 500 can be granted. The 700 disappointed applicants, some of them the most ex tensive manufacturers of machinerv in the country, will naturally object to Chief Robinson's distribution of floor area, but they will not be able to change his plans. Machinery hall, at first con sidered big enough to accommodate all worthy exhibitors, has been fnnnd tn furnish little more than half the apace the machine builders wanted. That is why Chief Robinson was compelled to decline so many reaneata for anam. Aa originally designed, the hall was 842x494 jeer, it was soon found that a larger building would be needed, and an anna-a- 651 feet long was added, making the total length of the ball 1,892 feet and its width 494 feet This was considered big enough for all demands that would be made for showroom ; but as the appli cations came in Chief Robinson learned that another extension would be needed, jo a machine shop 1,103 feet long and 86 feet wide was added. Even with these additions the space afforded is but half enongh to meet tha demands. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL. What It Costs Annually the Well-to-do People In America to Support Charitable Institutions. Very few boots and shoes are Imported into Mexico. There are many tanneries in Mexico and a superabundance of shoe makers making to measure. A drying house for timber has been erected at Ottawa, in which electricity is the heating power. This is the first establishment of the kind in the world, The cod-liver-oil magnate of the Lo no den Islands, off Norway, is Peter Mul ler. who employs 70.00 1 people in fish eries, factories, bottling, packing and so on. Champagne owes its analitv to the soil, a mixture of chalk, silica, fight clay anu oxiue oi iron, ana to the trrear. earn and delicate manipulation in manufact ure. - Mrs. Increase Sumner of Starke. Fla.. raises her own tea. She gathers three crops a year, and the bushes furnish her tea wnicn in China would coat her large sum. . An unsuccessful attempt baa been made in Paris to employ women in the teiegrapn omce in tne Avenue de 1'Op- era, ont tne work was found much too heavy lor them. The new brewery tax ia causing gen eral depression in the beer business in Uermany. The Altona Brewery Union has already raised its price three pfen- uiK we iiau liter. In England clerks of a large provincial bank jointly own a cottage by the sea, fifty miles away, where all pass their holidays, occupying it in detachments anring tne summer. Bishop Hurst says that ninety-two acres, nought in Washington for a site lor the proposed Methodist University, have increased in value until they are worth half a million. The fact was developed at the hearing of a case at the Tombs, New York, that hodcarriers can be fonnd in. that city 11,1 a. . . . a . J. wining to won tor zo cents a day and 1 . , . . a ,1 . . - wura. uu ounuay at mat. Waco, Tex., is ropvted to have the largest artesian well in the United Htaraa. It is 1,850 feet deep, with a diameter of ten inches, and throws 1,500,000 gallons a uay oi periectiy pure Dnt hot water. It is estimated that England's wheat crop for thia year ia about 55.000,000 iraauaiB.or less man two Dnsnels for each inhabitant. She mnst buy at least 150, 000,000 bushels more from some outside source. : . . This season's traffic through the Sanlt Die. Mane canal exceeds by 20 per cent, the tonnage of any previous year. In October alone 1,135 steamers, 395 sailing vesssels and 71 rafts passed through the Sanlt. Aluminium is found combined with 195 other minerals, and therefore con stitutes a large part of the cruet of the earth, but until recently has been very expensive because of the difficulty oi aeparauug it. It is estimated that it costs the well-to-do people in this country $125,000,000 annually to euppirt charitable institu tions, whilfc at least $500,000,000 is in vested in permanent buildings where the needy are cared for. The people of this country usd dur ing the last fiscal year more than 12.000.. 000.000 postage stamps, and paid nearly $30,000,000 for them. They are ail man ufactured by the American Bank Note Company in New York.- The cotton mills of the South, as well as those in New England, have closed one of the most prosperous years in their nistory. W itbin .three years there has been a development in the industry amounting to rally zo per cent. The Vanderbilts are making strenuous enorta to extend the Wagner sleeping car service beyond the Missouri river. Heretofore the Pullman Company has virtually had a monopoly of the sleeping- car ousinees west oi Aansaa uity. The oldest whaler in the United States is said to be the Ronssean. now ivins dismantled at a New Bediord wharf. This vessel was built in 1801 for Stephen Giraid of Philadelphia by Nicholas Van duseu, aud was launched on the Dela ware. Its last voyage was made in 1866, When it returned with 1.360 barrels of sperm and 180 barrels of wkaw oil. PERSONAL MENTION. General Trochu's Estimate of Prince Bis marck Duke of Edinburgh Will Remove to Germany. The Prince of Wales writes all his pri vate letters on light-blue paper. These are ones he doesn't want generallyread. General Trochu's estlmateof Bismarck is tbat he might have been a great man, out ne nas only Deoome a great Prussian Mr. Carnegie is said to be a great ad. mirer of Herbert Spencer, to whom he has made a number of gifts. The latest is said to be a fine piano. Only three men who were members ol the united Htatea senate in 1848 are now living James W. Bradbury of Maine. Ex-Governor Felch of Michigan and General W. Jones of Iowa. The Moscow monument to the late Emperor Nicholas of Russia, which has been seven years in construction, now approaches completion, and it is ex pected to De ready tor dedication in the spring. The Duke of Edinbureh for a Ions time has not been very popular in England. His going to Germanv to live will add to his unpopularity, and yet, paradoxical as it may seem, will please the English mightily. Miss Wanamaker counts among her various accomplishments the unusual but decidedly healthful one of boxing. Her tutor in great measure and the one with Whom she most frequently tries her skill is her father, the Postmaster-General. Franklin Simmons has been awarded the task of executing the equestrian statue of General Logan to be erected in Washington. He has submitted only r rough sketch thus far, but will now pro ceed to work ont a model. Iowa Circle will be the site of the statu and bronze the material. - Maior-General Sir John Stuart White. who is to succeed Lord Roberts as Commander-in-chief in India, has been thirty-eight years in the British army, most of the time having been spent in that country. In 18S6 be was sent to Burmab to command the army of occupation, 30, tlOO strong, and his managemen' of per plexing questions, military and political, lor y?ars elicited praise from the Viceroy. FOREIGN LANDS. The First Newspaper in the Congo Free Stale. ' . GERMANY'S FOREST REVENUE American Exhibitors at the Madrid Exposition Awarded Many Prizes Cholera. Cholera ia said in ha- innftnaaino In Russian Poland. About a Quarter of the nnnnla In Paria live in apartments. - Lord Tennyson's personal aetata la worth nearly $200,000. Twenty of the Astrakhan rintnra hava . been sentenced to be hanged. The profits of the Paris postoffica last year amounted to $10,000,000. Pern has advanced duties on avarr. thing except tobacco 8 per cent. . Female stenographers are to arva tha Parliaments of Sweden and Norway. ibe Biemarckian party in Rarminv will oppose everything the Kaiser favors. Alpine clubs for ascendinn- tha nealra of the Himalayas are to ba formed India. The miners in Saar. German-. tha ; : number of 18,000 have struck, and are riotous. ' An admirable svstejil ta sir-wt-hlenn. $4Mooafrlin e0Bt nnaU'onlT-bont - The Dervishes made an attar on Ci. mal, near Wady Haifa, in th Soudan, but were repulsed. The restored Laeken PW will w " te inhabited bv the Kino- anH Oiuan ,' the Belgians till 1894. There is a partial remimrttin rJ wnrlr in the Welsh tin mines, and exports on a large scale have set in. The curse of hard times, avarvwtum. prevalent in Germanv. served to mata Christmas-tide a dull period. - . ; The forests of Germany pay an annual ' government revenue of nearly $25,0JQ,- 000 and a net revenue of $16,0OJ,O0O. X Two educated netrro women atVoatan have begun the publication of the first newspaper in the Congo Free State. The German navy now nnaaAaaaa , eighty-six vessels, either afloat or ready for combat, representing a total of 219, 063 tons. - . ' In the British army last year then. were on the average of 147 in each 1,000 men fined for drunkenness. In 1890 the proportion was 167 per l.OJO. An attempt with electric omnibuses ia to be made on Liverpool street in Lon don. The cost is estimated at 3d a mile, as against fid for horse power. On the strength of Lord Onslow's fa- vorable report ot the administration of the "Darkest England" funds General : Kootn nas issued a uresn appeal for $230.- 000. A nun named Fralanda. who entered the Armenian Monastery of St Jacnha at Jerusalem . ninety-eight years see. - led there recently at the reonted aim of 116 years. The Paris EconominiA aav tha danllna of securities on the European exchanges since tha beginning of the Panama an. cenoKngs amounts to at least 2,800,000, 000 francs. ' - The gigantic iron and steel works of Frederick Krupp, whose reputation Is world-wide, have been amalgamated with the gnn manufactories of Herr Grnson near Magdeburg. ' Last year was a great year for damp ness in the old world. During the nutnth of October the rainfall in Paris, it is re ported, was heavier than that of any year since 1769. - - According to the Irish newspapers the Dublin police are satisfied that the dyna mite explosion on Christmas evening. was a purely trade outrage and without any political significance, - The fund for the expedition to Lake Tanganyika to assist the anti-slavery stations has reached only 25,000 francs. Two hundred thousand francs were, wanted for immediate use. - American exhibitors at the Madrid Exposition have been awarded eight gold ' medals, fourteen silver and fifteen bronze medals, besides receiving honorable mention in numerous cases. Emperor William is credited with the intention to have only general officers of the army represent him as Ambassadors to foreign courts. Even the Secretaries of the legations are to be army officers exclusively. Ship-building on the Clyde bag re ceived an impetus by the prospect of -free trade with America, says Mr, Alien. . "All the yards are busy, and several J steamships for American oomoaniea in in course of construction, . Four seats In the British Pari laman-.' have been declared vacant since the irerr . era! election on the ground that the . ousted members themselves or through ', ' their agents obtained them by corrupt practices, such as bribery, treating and personation. In the Manchester (England 1" Zoo" the penny-in-the-alot machine h'aa been adapted to the use of the elephants, and they have taken to it with great alacrity. When a spectator gives one of the ani mats a penny the elephant drona it into . the slot, and gets a biscuit. The ele- phants have learned that only a penny . will do the work, and refuse all other coins. An Immense dining hall, known aa the Menea Academica.'waa latelvnnenad in Vienna, which is capable of accom modating 2,000 students at one time. The privileges of the Mensa Academics are restricted to regular subscribers, and the rates are for dinner alone $2.50 a month, for breakrast and dinner $3.2T and for breakfast, dinner and supper $4.75 a month. Father Antoine de Padone, whose re cent death at a Trappi-t muna.t"ry in France has been reporti."! 1? mii.,. none other than i'rinr-e 5! , ' . fought aa an ally of Loots i against tha Pontifical troons .; , The latter after be ascended t'--j t throne made the Prim-v, who L.-.i i obliged to flee from hotie, a c.1..;:';. ncer in cranes 1 2