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OREGON COURIER VOL. XI. OREGON CITY. CLACKAMAS COUNTY. OREGON. Fill DAY. SEPTEMBER 21). 18SKI. NO. 21. ; Know jj tlint you cun sa-ure al- i most immediate relief v from Indigestion, and jj that uncomfortable full- ness after meat), by uim- i ply taking a dose of Sim- mons Liver Regulator? Some peoplo tlniik that ; , because it is called Liver r Regulator it L;u nothing to do with Indigestion ' and the like. It is the ma?n of the Liver that causesnc"Be8ti"i anl that fulf.'icss; also Con Btipation, tffid ,thoso Bil ious Ileadachesilvliiiions have been made to un JeiV stand this and have been- cured from these troubles by Simmons Liver Regu lator a medicine unfail ing and purely vegetable. From KT. M. B. Wharton, Baltimore, Md "It affords Die pleasure to add my teitU niony tn the great virtue, of Hlmmont Liver Iteirulator. I have hud experience wild It, H8 occasion domanded, for many yeura, und regard It a. the ureatent medl. cine of the tluiei. Ho good a medicine deaorvc. uulveruil commendation. OCCIPITAL NEWS. Chris Evans lias made a formal request of the Dintrivt Attorney and Sherilf of Fresno to be allowed to attend the thea ter when tho play of " Evans and Son tag " arrives in Fresno. Work on the San Diego and Phumix road has been discontinued, owing to the want of the necessary funds to carry ii uii. iuuu cuiiuiiihu) nave not taiten the interest expected and promised. The people of Fresno are demanding that tramps be put to work. The iai now holds more than 100 of them. It is even proposed to put them in a chain- gang and make then) break rock for mac adamizing roads. The grand jury at Salt Lake has re turned an indictment for murder in the lirst degree against Harry Hammond, aged 12 years, and George Gaylor, aged 14. On June 24 Hammond killed Clyde Kouertson, aged 7 years. Judge Hawloy at Carson, Nev., cut down the verdict obtained by Mrs. H. W. Johnson against the Southern Pacific for the death of her husband from $35,- 000 to $10,000. The plaintiff accepted the cut, out the roau win appeal. Thomas L. Robinson, writer in the -construction and repair department at Mare Island, has been removed by order . of Secretary Herbert, and William A. Henry of the United States marine corps has been appointed to nil the place. . There is a trainD In Woodland. Cal.. '' who has an original method of securing food. When food is refused him he opens a tin box, and throws a snake into the house. Ihe housewife is always glad to give him food if he will catch the snake. A. J. Ross, the ox-policeman who on deavored to palm o(C a widow on the es tate of Joseph McKinney, a wealthy negro farmer at Stockton, has been sen tenced to five years in the State prison. Pending an appeal, he has lieen released on $0,000 bonds. City Marshal Blankenship at Phienix, A. T.j confessed to receiving money and not making proper returns of it. Ho added that liquor made him do the wrong, and that he had taken an oatli never to touch it again. The court dis missed the charges. Judge Hawley In the United States Circuit Court at Carson, Nev., decided the case of Book & Blowey against the Justice Mining Company in favor of the defendants, sustaining every point claimed by the defendants, the case involved a great many important ques tions of mining law. Much excitement has been created at Silver City, Nev., over the finding in an abandoned shaft of the skeletons of a woman and a horse, the bones of the former being underneath. They have been there, it is thought, for twenty-five years, but no one recollects anything re garding a missing woman at that time. After the Oregon State Fair is over the cream of the fruit and vegetable and grain exhibits will be sent to the World's Fair, where they will be exhibited in the Oregon departnients to which they prop erly belong. The State Agricultural College has donated its magnificent ex hibit of potatoes, grains, grasses and vegetables, and the State Board will send its special exhibits of grasses, grains, fruits and vegetables. These will go far toward attracting yet greater notice to Oregon. The Arizona Gazette, published at Phopnix, has issued a World's Fair edi tion, giving a description of the Terri tory, its agricultural possibilities, mining achievements and natural scenic attrac tions, with historical sketches of the races that once inhabited that land ot the future." The inducements in cli mate and the prolific soil of the Salt River Valley are features that homeseek ers are not likely to overlook when once they read of them in this carefully ed ited paper. The announcement is made at San Francisco that at the request of the Pa cific Mail Steamship Company Postmaster-General Bissell has annulled theeon tract between the government and that company for carrying the mails between that port and Panama and intermediate points in Mexico and Central America. The annullment is to take effect Septem ber 30. The company officials claim that the contract necessitates extra service, including additional steamers and more frequent stops, and that the company is consequently losing money on its regular business, especially in view of the com petition offered by the North American Navigation Company. It is said, though the company officials do not confirm it, that after the expiration of the mail contract but two steamers per month will be run between San Francisco and Panama, and that the present call at San Diego will be abandoned. At the World's Fair the Committee on Nomenclature alter some of the names of Oregon fruits shipped for exhibition, bnt they unanimously agree that the color, flavor, texture and general excel lence of the frnit are remarkable and unsurpassed. The fruits have all been labeled with the names of the growers who produced them, and they derive all the benefit arising from the publicity given. The managers of the Oregon ex hibits are using their very beet endeav ors to place exhibit in such a position as to catch the eyes of the capitalist and those who are seeking homes. It if surprising to note the great number of people who are to much interested, and who want all the literature they can pro cure on the subject. The exhibits will be the means of inducing many of the beet class of homeseekers to locate in Oregon daring the next five year., and will brinf unlimited capital. BUSINESS BREVITIES. In Paraguay all the field work by women. dune As a rule European railroads have no grane crossings. Eight thousand banks still do business In this country. Americana smoke more than 2,000,000,. IVU1 t II ' ' uuu cigars annually. Over 2,000 cars are used on the Htreet railroads ot flew York. Nearly 1,800 men are employed by the iiuw i ora cuHuim-iiouse, Funerals in the United States cost up ward of 1)26,000,000 a year. Sheep and deer will be raised on a 1,000-acre farm at Halifax, Vt. One hundred thousand seuls represent the catch for the season of 181):. About $.'150,000,000 of American tal finds employment in Mexico. capi- The estimated cotton crop for 181)3 Is (1,717,142 hales, the smallest since 1880-7. Silver agitation in the United States has not affected the Mexican silver mar ket. Land is tilled with the same kind of a plow in Egypt that was used 5,000 years ago. Tt takes 6,000oISf-h klnti o.f chickens that are raised in Kaunas t'J make car load. The property valuation of New York city has increased f 500,000,000 in twelve years. Over 80.000.000 ernrs are estimated to be used every year ly wine claritiers in r ranee. Fiisurinz corn at 40 cents a bushel, the American crop was worth in 1802 (I50.- 000,000. The wine crop of this country, it is es timated, will exceed 20,000,000 gallons this year. The world's supply of diamonds Is twenty times greater than it was thirty years ago. 1j ova 8 renorts l.n vensela lost in 18U2, of which 249 were British and 120 American, The Merrimac river is said to nropel more machinery than any other Ameri can stream. An Englishman has patented a sub marine gas stove for heating the water in bath tubs. Over 130.000 motherless chickens are daily turned out by incubators in the rew England states. The inventor of the rubber tin for lend pencils is said to have realized 100,000 or this apparently trifling device. The latest labor-savine machine cleans fish. Now. if there were onlv one to catch one, the angler's outfit would in truth be complete. Averaging the whole country, there are in round figures five cows per square mile; in New England there are twelve cows per square mile. Steel has been in use for ship-building only fourteen years, yet it is estimated that in per cent ot the vessels built at the present day are of steel. It is iust 250 years since the first hand kerchiefs were made. They were manu factured at Paisley in Scotland, and were originally sold for $ 1 apiece. , The life insurance comnanios of the United States, taking no account ot as sessment corporations and societies, hold assets to the value of about 1850,000,000. A London inventor has projected a vast water scheme to enable the gold de posits in the interior of Western Aus tralia to be worked with advantage this by means of artesian well water. Hunters of alligators in Florida are paid less than $1 for each good skin by the tanners. In 1889 the State shipped away 00,000 alligator skins, but in 18)10 the number had dwindled to 20,000. Yeast for bread-mnkinz was first man ufactured in 1034. It is computed that over 2,000,000 pounds enter into the daily bread of the people of this country, while double this amount is used in Eu rope. Pens can be made out of eight metals steel, brass, copper, gold, silver, plati num, amalgam and aluminium. Alu minium pens are still a novelty, and are said to last much longer than anx other metallic pens. PURELY PERSONAL. Georgia Cavvan has a fad for collecting fancy pins; she has Borne that were: made in the time of Queen Bess. A bauble which hangs in Miss Helen Gould's drawing-room is a Japanese crystal, which cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $7,000. Senator Allen of Nebraska is 0 feet 3 , Indies in height and of robuBt frame. A chair lias been specially constructed for l,; -i..,: ,i. a . ma i.vuiiiiiiuuiiimi in iiic ociiaie. Lord Leicester has bod two wives, and his eighteenth child was born a few days ago. His eldest child, Lady Powerscourt, ' is 50 years old. Nevertheless Leicester h nll W ...... T ! . I voted against home rule. Dr. William Elliott of New Haven, Ky., is 96 years old, but on the occasion of a dance at his house a few evenings ago he took up his violin and played the music tor the nrst quadrille. One-fourth of the Board of Trustees of the Peabody Educational Board (six teen members) baa died this year Sen ator Gibson, Louisiana; ex-President Hayes, A. J. Drexel and Hamilton Fish. Rev. Henry Vrooman, who assumed charge of a Swedenborgian Church in Baltimore, is one of five brothers, all of whom are clergymen. Three of them are Congregational iste and the 'other Baptist. Captain Marshall Russell, one of the oldest pioneers of the Pacific Coast, who crossed the plains with one of the first exploring expeditions and was Mexi can war veteran, died at the Bay View Hotel in Gold Beach. Sir Arthur Sullivan during his summer residence at Weybridge has progressed so satisfactorily with the new comic op era, which he is com posing for the Savoy, that D'Oyly Carte has already put the work into choral rehearsal. Dr. Ella Z. Chandler of St. Paul was unanimously elected member of the Minnesota State Dental Association at its late meeting in that city. She is the first lady member of the association and the first woman practitioner in the State. Dr. J. Irving Manatt, who was elected frofeesor of Greek literature at Brown University last year, returns this antnmn fiom his four years' residence in Athens to begin his duties. Recent magazine articles of his have attracted consider able attention. Hia advent at Brown is expected to give a notable stimulus to classical study at that institution. Chief Justice Love of Delaware ex- Freeses the opinion that it waa on the elaware and Maryland Peninsula that the Garden of Eden was located, and that it was with a peach that Eve tempt ed Adam. The crop with which the grower tempted the country this season will actually exceed 6,000,000 basket. Dr. Henry C. Reno baa tost died at Spokane. He was a native of Bt. Louis and 54 yean old. He (erred daring the r a an army surgeon, receiving wounds whirh seriously disabled him all the rest of hia life. He was s member of the Grand Armr as well as the Ma sonic fraternity. He bad lived in Spo kane county terrral yean. EASTERN MELANGE. Work on the Great Bridge at New Orleans, La, THE MELON CROP OK GEORGIA Huge Cucumber Female Anarch 1st in Limbo South Carolina's New Llqnor law. Cow cholera is raging near Coriinna, Mich. Kansas' corn crop this year will bo iau,uuu,uuu miHiieis. New York is now sending out more foreigners than she receives. A wholesale removal of pension agents is expected m the near luiure. The bees around Wawrford. Mich., are dying of an unknown disease. Texas reports that the pecan crop this season win be the finest in many years, The German Catholic Central Society oi isortn America is in session at St Louis. Governor Waite will call an extra ses sion of the Legislature of Colorado in i short time. Attornev-Genoral Olnev has decided that bicycles are entitled to free entry as personal eiiecta. French Canadians are returning to Canada in large numbers from the .New England Mates. The World's Fair has nearly paid off its floating debt and largely reduced its other liabilities. The New York Central is going to withdraw the "exposition flier'7 at the close of the fair. A cucumber weighing fifty-two pounds, raised by a Houston-county farmer, has been sent to bt. Louis. Treasurer Barrett Scott, who stole $104,000 from Holt county, Va., has been arrested at Juarez, Mexico, Wisconsin's World's Fair Commission ers have spent $140,000, and the people re asking, " Where is it at r Saloonkeepers are not allowed to do business in the imerokee strip until they have formally taken out licenses. It is estimated that the Georgia melon crop this year amounts to $360,000. About 8,000 carloads have been shipped. It is proiiosed to have a national dedi cation of the Uhickamauga and Chatta nooga National Park October 17 and 18, 1HH4, Reports of murders in the new Chero kee Strip are frequent. The causes are attendant on tho final settlement of claims to land Boston has issued $1,000,000 0 percent bonds for improvement purposes. She finds a ready market at par and in some cases a premium There has been a remarkable revival of interest in the " abandoned farms " of New England since so many mill! closed their doors. The financial situation at Yicksburg. Miss., has so improved that the banks have ceased to issue certified checks to he used as currency Congress will possibly ask Secretary Gresham for the correspondence with the Chinese government on the extradi tion and registration laws. The Columbian souvenir coins, which it was anticipated would be hoarded by people of a patriotic turn, are rapidly drifting back to the Treasury. Emma Goldman, the anarchist in jail in New York city for inciting riot, is pre pared to plead her own case. She says he needs no help from anybody. South Carolina's liquor law seems to be financially a failure. Instead of turn ing $500,000 into the State Treasury it is not likely to yield more than $25,000. Work on the great bridgeover the Mis sissippi river at New Orleans will com mence at an early day, the engineers having finally decided on the exact loca tion tor it. The city of St. Louis has sent a repre sentative to Europe to float $1,250,000 of her municipal bonds. She did a similar thing in 18!X), and got out with 4 per cent interest. A representative from Liberia com plains at Washington that France has absorbed some of its territory, and goes back with assurances that the United States will render aid The hop crop of Central New York, now largely harvested, is unusually ex- excellent in quantity and quality, the yield being estimated at 140,000 bales against 125,000 bales last vear. " - the employes of the textile mills in Philadelphia and vicinity have prepared a petition to Congress to refrain from making any alterations in the tariff so iar as u anects tne textile inuustry. Warden Chase of the Kansas peuiten tiarv fl&VH that the niimltpr nf nrinnnprn is rapidly decreasing. The number is 100 less than it was last spring, and is fall ing off at (he rate of forty a month. Miss Minnie C. Rankin is suing James K. iveene at Jew York lor $20,000, half of which she says he received to invest for her and made no accounting, and the other halt is tor her services from 1883 I0I88O. A pensioner of Clearfield, Pa., who signed a patent medicine testimonial certifying that he had recovered his health through a use ot the preparation, finds his pension stopped on the strength of the certificate. Cornelius Rvan of Waltham. Mass.. found in a railroad station four years ago a wauei, wnicn ne returned to me owner, whose name and address were among the papers it contained, and recently found himself named for $2,000 in the man's will. The World's Fair directors met in spe cial session at Chicago recently, and voted down a motion to lower the en trance fee for children, and tabled by a heavy majority proposition to let peo ple in on Sunday at half rate. The mat ter of extending the fair nntil January went over. Edmund S. Hincks, the late clerk of the Whatcom Board of Connty Commis sioners, has started from Fairhaven for Mashonaland, Africa He will take in the World's Fair en route, and does not expect to reach Cape Town, South Africa, before January 1, 1894. Charles T. O'Ferrall. whom the Demo crats have nominated for Governor of Virginia, is a native of Frederick county, and is 62 years of age. He enlisted be fore he was 21 in the Confederate cav alry, and at the surrender of General Lee was in command of his cavalry de tachments, being at that time Colonel. The House Committee on Territories has considered the bill providing for the admission of Utah as State, and it will be reported to the House in the near fa tore with the recommendation that it pass. A provision was inserted in the bill requiring that the constitution adopted by the State prohibit polygamy. FROM WASHINGTON CITY. In order to more effectually break up the smuggling of opium and Celestials into the United States in the vicinity of Puget Sound Secretary Carlisle will Issue an order directing Captain rosier of the revenue cutter Grant and Captain Fen gar of the revenue cutter Perry to pro ceed to the vicinity referred to and fund their efforts to the work of eradicating smuggling. Senator Dolph has introduced bill to extend the timo for purchasers 01 lanui within tne limits 01 the forfeited kohii- 11.. . ; n . 1 ... 1 . - .....11 I .. 1 viii iiMiiiu lanti grniiin uuui iinnuary a, 1807, and bill to authorize the State of Oregon to import machinery for jute mill free of dutv. The time httvlns been once extended for the payment of lands and such exemptions from duty being unusual, the chances lor oithor bin are lioor. A very prominent Democrat on tho Wavs and Means Committee says that the new tariff bill will be completed within month. If Comrrcs Is still in session, it will be immediately presented. The Democrats on the committee feel in view of the unrest among business men on account of the proposed revision the new schedules should be mado known as soon as possible, so that business ran sooner adjust itself to the new condi tions. The bill Introduced in the House by Representative Everett of Massachusetts to irive the Chinese a vear from the pres ent time to register is undoubtedly to be the administration measure. Senator Dolph says that, if the Chinese govern ment would ask for an extension of time for Chinese laborers to register and give some assurance that if an opportunity were given thev would register, Congress might take sucli a request in considera tion. But, as no snch request has been made or assurance given by China on behalf of the Chinese, the proposition to eive further time is merely back down by the government in accordance with the views and desires 01 the admin istration. In the Senate Sciuiro of Washington submitted an amendment in the nature of substitute for the repeal bill. It provided that silver bullion may be de posited at anv mint, to be formed into standard dollars of the present weight and fineness, to be legal tender, for the benefit of the owner, but there shall only be paid to the person so depositing it such a number of standard silver dollars as shall equal the commercial value of the silver bullion deposited. The differ ence, if any, between the coin value and the commercial value shall be retained bv the government as seianoraeo. The coinage shall not exceed $4,000,000 per month, and when the gross amount reaches $200,000,000 it is to cease. The dollars thus coined are to be legal tender. In the Senate Stewart of Nevada in troduced an amendment to the repeal bill authorizing the President to invite the governments of Mexico. Central and South America, Havti and San Domingo i! i.A ir..:inj U1.1..L :.. - r.... IV JUII1 W1U UlllbVU DWKD 111 B WlllCICIlUC in Washington four months after the passage of the act. to secure the adop tion of a common silver dollar of not less than 350.01 grains nor more than 383.13 grains pure silver, to be issued by each government, to be a legal tender for all commercial transactions between 11 citizens of all the American States: that the findings of the delegates shall be binding on the governments which send them, and on an agreement being reached the government represented shall open mints to the unlimited coin age of silver for the benefit of depositors. Many bills have !een introduced in Congress to increase the punishment for embezzlement by directors, officers or agents of national banks. Representa tive Bryan has added one more. It pro vides that every president, director. cashier, teller, clerk or agent of any as sociation who embezzles, abstracts or willfully misappropriates any money, funds or credits of the association shall leguiltv of a misdemeanor and lie impris oned for not less than five years nor more than ten years; It the amountembezzled less than $10,000, not less than ten years: if the amount embezzled Is $1U,- 000 or more and less than $25,000, not less than twenty-five years, and not more man forty years if the amount embez zled is more than $25,000. It also pro vides that persons arrested under the act shall be tried as common criminals. Caldwell has introduced a bill in the House recardine the wrecking of trains It provides that a person who displaces or removes a railway switch, places a tie across the rails, injures a railroad track or bridge, or does or causes to be done any act whereby the locomotive of a tra'in of cars is stopped, obstructed or injured, with intent to rob or injure the person or property passing over any rail road of interstate commerce, and wherein in consequence of such acts any person is killed, will be ftuilty of murder. If the attempt docs not result in murder, the guilty person, if convicted, shall be imprisoned at hard labor for from tun to twenty years. The same penalty is to be imposed upon each conviction of the charge of throwing anything against a train or causing anything to fall upon it with intent to rob or injure any person or property of such train. The United States Senate has been threatened with destruction by bomb throwers. This at any rate is one of the sensational rumors afloat in Washington. It is asserted that several silver Senators have received threatening letters, stat ing that, if they did not soon permit a vote on unconditional repeal, a bomb would be dropped from the gallery into the midst of the silver leaders. Stewart, Jones. Teller. Wolcott and other well known silver Senators have received these letters. Stewart is disposed to dis miss the matter without consideration, but leller and some of the others are frightened. The situation has been laid before Sergeant-at-arms Bright and thirty special detectives sent to the Sen ate chamber, and every person not known is sub ected to a riirid scrutiny. No one is permitted to enter conveying a valise or packaze of anv kind. All these detectives are in citizens' clothes. The public hearings before the Wavs anu iueans iommutee nave been con cluded. It is the intention of the com mittee to commence work at once upon the new tariff bill. L. E. Holden of Cleveland spoke in favor of the existing duty on lead ore. He declared that, if the duties be reduced, miners' wages I W -1 , , ill necessarily be reduced. Hmro K. Camp of New York also insisted on the retention of the present duty in the in terest of the producers and miners. He protested against the treatment of lead ore as a raw material. Among the other industries represented were thread, paints and color, rorwts, raw ivorv and piano-forte ivories. F. J. Kemer oi New York complained that the duty on silk waa too hiirh. so hieh in fact that the foreign manufacturers of silk goods could not tie brought in competition with American silks. He admitted, however, that foreitm manufacturers of silk paid 60 per cent Iw wage than were paid in this country. At the afternoon session the carpet industry was discussed, as well as matches, brashes, tobacco, bur lap and German lookinK-glass. Repre-1 sentative McCall of Massachusetts spoke of the necessity of deciding now npon the date on which the new tariff law will go into effect. He taid that woo id do much to restore confidence, and rag vetted Jassary 1, 1899, a maonftble Cm. FOREIGN FLASHES. House of Lords Denounced by Walter Owen Church. NERV0I S DISEASES IN FRANCE, Photographing- the Depth of the 8e U Arroiupllslied-Old Manu scripts Discovered. The new German taxes are to nut 124.. 000,000. The bastinado is no lomrer a leual nun- Isliment in Egypt. A weekly naner for the blind is mih- lished in England. . France proposes to have a irrand Inter national exposition in 1IKX). Of 0,000 pilirrims who went to Mecca in May over half died from cholera. Egypt's cotton crop this vear will be 60,000,000 pounds larger than in 1802. Japan has fourteen railways protected. and will build them as rapidly as possi ble. Zola's latest ambition la to become a member of the French Chamber of Dep uties. An electric light has just been put up in nour mill close to the Damascus gate at Jerusalem, The white muscat raiBiiUs in ureal de mand in Switzerland and Austria for the making of vermouth. Two new 0,000-ton steamers will be built by the North German Lloyds Com pany for the American service. The distress in the mlnlmr districts in England is great and increasing. In Derbyshire 50,000 men are idle. A fad for making collections of kisses of celebrated men is rapidly becoming popular among the ladies of Germany. The German Emperor has stringently forbidden the officers of his armv to have one eve, as denoted by wearing one eye glass. The Czar has ordered vacht of 4.000 tons, witli engines of 800-horse power. It is expected to eclipse everything of the kind yet built. The Queen of Denmark is stone deaf, throat malady being responsible for the affliction. The Princess of Wales inher its the same trouble. Hamburg has had a complete recovery from the cholera visitation of vear aro. and the city is in more prosperous state than ever before. Japan line more miles of railway In proportion to its territory than any other country in Asm. Fourteen now lines are now being constructed, Since the beginning of the century France has fallen from the second to the fourth place in point of population among European countries. Aluminium plates are used in Ger many lo engrave and etch upon, and it is sp4en of as probable substitute for zlncl jut lithographic stones. J wo postage stamps of Mauritius of 1817, of which only fourteen specimens ate known to exist, have just been pur- iaseu by dealers in Jxmdon tor sm, The floods in Northern China have laid wasto the country for thirty-five miles. Crops were destroyed and homes swept away. 1 lie section is thickly pop ulated. Peace prevails in Nicaragua. General Santos Selaya has lieen formally elected President of the Republic and General Anastairo Ortiz Vice-President. All po litical prisoners have been released. The imperial German government has addressed a circular to the maritime States of the Empire requesting their opinions as to the advisability of insti tuting a State control of ship-building. II. O. Arnold-Forster, English mem ber of Parliament, raises a note of alarm about the condition of affairs at Gibral tar, which he declares to be absolutely useless in its present condition as a naval base. According to an election return just mado to the British Parliament there are 0,220,120 voters in the United Kingdom. There were 4,502,482 in England, 270,276 in Wales, 747,271 in Ireland and 6111,001 in Scotland. Electricity has made rapid progress in Switzerland on account of the abundance of cheap power from waterfalls. The telegraph and telephone lines of that country are owned and operated by the government. Walter Owen Church, a member of Parliament, declared at a meeting of the Liberal Federation at Ixmdon that the House of Lords was a grievous hindrance to good government and should be im mediately abolished. Captain R. Mackenzie, R. E., has com pleted a detailed reconnaissance for a railroad from Kurrachee to Kharan, Bel oochistan, which eventually will be ex tended to Seistan or some other point on the Persian frontier. Dr. Charles Fere, a well-known au thority on nervous and mental diseases, says that these disorders are increasing at a terrible rate in France, and attrib utes the fact to the increase of beer drinking, absinthe-drinking and bars. Breech-loading rifles were invented in 1811, but did not come into general use for many years. It is estimated that over 12,000,000 are now in actual service in the European armies, while 3,000,000 are reserved in the arsenals for emergencies. The British Medical Association has at last admitted women as members. The principle was approved last year, and this year at its sixty-first annual con gress, held at Newcastle, the by-law ex cluding women waa formally expunged. The famous Greek brigand Margonis, who has just given himself up to the au thorities at Athens, had for thirteen years been almost supreme in the dis trict around Parnassus. He was a farmer and owner of houses as well as a robber, A locomotive is being constructed in England to run 100 miles an hour. It is 2,000-horse power, the driving wheels 12 feet In diameter. The three cylinders are 40, 28 and 18 inches fn diameter with a 30-inch stroke. The boiler pressure is 200 pounds. An interesting find is a library of 500 volumes, including seventy manuscripts of the tenth and eleventh, and some with wonderful miniatures of the four teenth centuries, which were recently discovered in a Franciscan cloister near Kieti, Italy. A gold medal of the value of 1.000 Italian lire is offered by the Royal Acad- emy of Science of the Institute of Bo logna to the author of the best memoir describing a new and efficacious system, or new pparatos, for preventing or extinguishing fires. Photographing the depth of the sea baa been accomplished by s French sci entist. M. Bouton. Being practical diver, M. Bouton managed to take pho tographs of his surroundings when stand ing on the very bed of the Mediterranean at Banrnls-fur-Mer near lbs Spanish bordsr. A Man at a Mxllng uf HorotU. Once limn nttciided a Hurosia meet ing. A few years ago a distinguished fe mule singer from the ojieratic stage was Invited losing bySorosis. She came late and hurried into Delinonico's ballroom, where Soroais whs then wont to meet, followed by little, nervous, wiry Ital ian. The hundred odd ladies limply glared and sat speeclihus. Mrs. Lozier, who was then president, hurried down from the presiding chair and bad a hur ried whispering conversation with the opera singer, while the little Italian stood In the alslo suffering mental agonies Iroin the concentrated glare of 200 femi nine eye. Then the opera singer was overheard to say: "Why, maduui, he is my accompanist, and I cannot sing without him. If he goes, then I must go." The president returned to her chair, the linger seated herself, and the social gathering resolved itself Into business body the poor, nervous pianist stand ing still In the aisle like criminal be fore the liar of justice. The matter wai freely discussed, and finally it was re solved to make an exception and allow the Italian to remain and play. Fortu nately for the Italian, he understood very little English, and after standing quizzic ally through the debate he boldly walked up to the singer and asked what it all meant. She explained, aud then the Italian's blood boiled. "I nevair hear of such zing," he said vehemently. "Adieu, madamel" He was persuaded to remain and play, but when he had finished he bolted, and every footstep rang ont Indignation and defiance. New York Times. Soma Brilliant Sword Stroke. Elephants are completely disabled by one blow from the Arab's two handed sword, which almost severs the huge hind leg, biting deep into the bone. This feat is varied by slashing off the trunk, leaving it dangling only by a piece of skin. A ghoorka has been seen by the late Laurence Oliphant to behead a buf falo with a single blow of his cookrie. And Sir Samuel Bilker, man powerful enough to wield during his African ex ploration tho "baby," an elephant rifle weighing 22 pounds, once clove a wild bear with his big hunting knife almost in halves a it was making a final rush, catching it just behind the shoulder where the hide and bristles are at least a span thick. Sir Walter Scott relates how the Earl of Angus, with his huge sweeping brand, challenged an opponent to fight and at a blow chopped asunder his thighbone, killing him on the spot. There is a story current in Australia that a Lieutenant Anderson in 1853, during an encounter with bushranger, cut clean through the gun barrel of hit adversary with his sword. And at Ras sasslii it is related that one of Arabi Pasha's soldiers was severed in two dur ing the midnight charge. But in the opinion of experts this is very improba ble, even had the new regulation saber then been in use. London Globe. O.inti mat EnflUh Waavora. Mr. D. F. Schloss gives the following' instructive contrast between English and German weavers: The well fed English weaver can without difficulty look after four looms and can with the aid of a ju venilo assistant ( tenter ) manage as many as six. But, as Dr. von Schulze Gaevernitz tells us, notwithstanding that the continental manufacturers run their looms from 20 to 80 per cent slower than ours are worked, in Mulhouse and in Switzerland each weaver can only tend three, and in Germany you will seldom 1 a weaver able to tend more than two looms. The effect of the superiority of the English operatives upon the cost of production is shown by the fact that, al though the rate of remuneration of our English weavers is about 100 per cent higher than th'it received by the Swiss and German "hands," yet we are able to turn out cotton cloth at a labor cost dis tinctly lower than that which obtains in Switzerland and Germany, London Let ter. Ceng-lit Napping. Uncle Dear me, Carl, whut a poor memory you havel Nephew A poor memory, you say? Why, I can repeat four pages of the names in the directory after reading them through only oncel Uncle 1 11 bet you a hamper of cham pagne that you can't do it The nephtiw sends for a directory, at tentively peruses four pages and shuts up the book. Uncle-Well? Nephew Muller, Muller, Muller, etc., ad infinitum. All the fdur pages of the directory be ing taken up with this familiar patro nymic, our student won his bet In fin style. Seifenblasen. Not an Unlucky Number. "Jason," said Mrs. Calliper to her hus band as they sat at dinner, "do you think that 18 is an unlucky nunibor?" "No, Cynthia, said Colonel Calliper, I can't say that I do, and I don't be lieve that any of us would if the subject were presented to us in a proper light, Now we fortunately are rich; we don't need money. But suppose we did, and that somebody should offer us $13,000. Would we, would anybody, my dear, de stine these thousands as unlucky because tbey numbered 187 No, Cynthia, no, w wonldn t not to any large or apprecia ble extent." New York Sun. For tha I'M of th Right Hand. The buttons on coats, etc, are placed on the right aide and the abed of the hair in boys to the left evidently to suit manip ulation by the right band. The great philosopher Newton records that at first he confined his astronomical ob servations to hi right eye, but afterward he managed to train his left. But there are persons who could not do this, owing to the unequal strength of their eyes. Chambers' Journal. HI Owa Maka. Travers Look here, those shoe yon made me creak. Shoemaker They always creak at the end of 80 day, air, if the bill isn't paid. -New York HrraM An enterprising London wuman Has discovered a new method of earning money pleasantly. Just before the close of tn season she advertised to take ear of valuable plant and palm while their owner were ont of town, and secured a nfficient number to hire an assistant and clear considerable profit The Butte (Mont) Miner thinks that, " if the price of bay keeps going np, it may be too expensive to turn the Mon tana caynse out to grass." There are 83,000 German settled Franc. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report. mm ABaSOlUTELY PVT3 FARM AND GARDEN. Several Methods by Which Land May be Improved. A FEW AGRICULTURAL NOTES. Some General Information Preparing the Ground Planting; Wheat. About for It is very important to prepare the seed bed for wheat in good condition. What is needed is three or four inches of finely pulverized soil and a reasonably solid seed bed underneath. After the plowing is done the instruments neces sary to properly prepare in a suitable condition can best be determined by the condition and character of the ' soil. When the soil is in a condition to plow well and then can be harrowed as fast as plowed, the work of preparing in a good tilth can be greatly lessened. But it is often the case before the plowing can be done the ground gets hard and dry, and it will require considerable work to se cure the proper tilth. Hard lumps can be worked down with a dran or roller. and with a drag it may be necessary to go over twice. The disc harrow can after be used to a good advantage in fining the soil. If hard rains have run the soil together, the disc or Acme harrow can be used to a good advantage. There is an advantage in using the rollers and drag, especially in leveling and fining the soil, while the disc or Acme harrows are needed if the soil becomes packed. Generally it is best to go over sufficiently often to keep down the green growth that may start up and to keep the sur fuce mellow, using the implement best suited to keep the soil in this condition with the least work. Generally before drilling it will be a good plan to use the spike-tooth harrow and then the roller; tins will leave the soil in nood Bhane for drilling. If the roller is not used, the harrowing should nearly always be done crosswise the way the drilling is to be done, as otherwise it is sometimes diffi cult to follow the drill rows. By getting the Boil in a irood tilth before sowuis the seed a much better germinator of the seed anu a more vigorous start to grow can be secured. In order to do this to th beat advantage the work should be conimenwrt as sunn Alter Jiiojnng as nw sible. But Bometimes. when the srouni is hard and dry, it may be necessary to wait until after a rain softens the lumps, when the work can be pushed along very rapidly. But in all cases it will pay to woric until tne sou is 111 a good tutu be fore sowing the seed. Bv havitnr the soil in a good tilth when the proper time for sowing arrives the work can be pushed along very rapiuiy. TDK IMrKOVKMKNT or LAND There are various wavs in which land may be greatly improved, and the care ful farmer who wishes to make a success in his business will always be on the alert for new methods of culture, and will also follow those which he has found from actual trial to be nood. Good drain age is essential for land on which cereal crops are to be raised. A farmer may easily obtain information regarding the drainage of a piece of land by digging notes tour or nve leet deep and noting where tho water stands in these. On corn land this water level should be forty- two inches below the surface. Another method of improving the soil is bv thor ough cultivation. This is necessary in order to obtain the best results. Opin ions differ very widelv in regard to deep and shallow plowing. At the Perdue Una.) expenmont station experiments have been made on corn plats, plowing four to twelve inches deep. The first year there was no perceptible difference, but the second year there was great gain from deep plowing and subsoUing. The effects of deep plowing and subsoil ing are not always apparent the first year, but where it has been practiced the crop of wheat the second year has been double that of field shallow plowed, with the sameamountof manure applied to each. SubsoUing loosens up more of . 1 . .u 1 . . .1 . . . 1 ine eariu. aim luniisiies more piaiu iouu and moisture than shallow plowing. In clay lands it is desirable to change the conditions in order to keep it from bak ing during very dry weather. Air-slaked lime is one of the best substances which can be used for this purpose. The amount to apply varies, ranging from three to twelve tons per acre, according to the stiffness in the clay. Application can be made at intervals of seven to ten years. IT. A. Huston, Indiana State Chemist, advises farmers with heavy clav lands to experiment with a small field in this way, being careful that the lime is left in small piles long enough to become well air-slaked, and then have it distributed and well mixed with the soil. Using lime in this way makes the land easy to pulverize, and changes it from a hard compact mass to one easily broken into particles which the plant roots can penetrate. Halt is also used sometimes Not Always If your Biscuit are Heavy, Your Oriddle Cakes Sodden, Your Pastry Poor, Your Cake dries out quickly, Change Your Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder NEVER DISAPPOINTS. It imparts that peculiar lightness, sweetness and Can observed in the finest food, and not obta-Rablo wKh any oar but DR. PRICE'S. in the same way, and has the same effect on the soil, but is not always beneficial ; hence lime is more highly recommended. PLANT TUBES. j piru I windward side of the houses and barns to shelter them from the fierce storms will prove a profitable investment. The Norway spruce is a rapid grower, and a windbreak once planted will every year prove more valuable. It makes a better windbreak to plant two row about ten feet apart, with some deciduous tree between. What wind one tree does not obstruct the other row will catch. NOTKS. Do not let stock lose flesh during hot weather. Better feed hay or green corn than allow animals to become poor. Keep one cock for each breeding pen of fourteen hens. This will do for all breed but Asiatics, which require more males. Bantam may be hatched at any time. If the young are carefully kept from lice, they will do as well in summer as if hatched earlier. Success in raising hogs depends upon good breeding, feeding and general care. "Bad hick" is another expression for poor management Geese can be picked three or four time during spring and summer and in this way made profitable. But the feathers should be pulled only when they are ripe. Tatting Iran Caatlnga. Rave yon ever noticed," said a St Louisan yesterday, "those massiva iron pillars now standing erect in the base ment of the new Planter's Housef Well, did you ever stop to think of the im mense weight they will be compelled to support steadily for many, many years? Ob, you have. But I suppose you hav thought the manufacturer lust mad those pillars and sold them without knowing anything about how much weight they would bear or how long they would bear it. Let me tell yotl about that. "Those pillars are cast in the same manner as cast iron stoves by running the liquid metal into sand molds, but alonside of each pillar is cast an iron bar from the same metal. The bar is pre cisely 11 n inch square and 5 feet in length. When cold, it is subjected to a very simple test Each end of the bar is placed npon a table and weigh ta are suspended from the center by a ror-. IS tlniiotinds tots su utiri) lu(!ii.'"xiio begin with 400 pounds and be gradually Increased until the bar is found to be perfectly supporting the required weight If it breaks, for instance, at 480 or 490 pounds, then the pillar cast from the pot of metal which cast the bar is discarded, broken np and put into the pot again, with more pig iron added. The pillars, you know, are largely mad from scrap iron, and the manufacturers cannot know the strength of the cast nntil it is tested. The addition of pig iron in the event of failure brings the cast up to the stand ard. "St. Louis Republic In British Honduras, British Honduras is a crown colony, and of its 80,000 population there are about 800 whites, mainly English. There is an American colony of about 20 people at Toledo engaged in sugar growing and rum making. They are mainly from Kentucky, and it is a prosperous colony. The country is healthful for a tropical country, and there has not been a case of yellow fever in several year. The prin cipal product is mahogany, and it will be year before the forests are exhausted. Great quantities of logwood are also shipped to Europe. We ship only ba nanas and plantains to the United State, shipping last year 728,000 bunches of ba nanas to New Orleans. The great prob lem with us is labor, and we import na tives from the West Indies. We need immigration, and Sir Alfred Maloney, the governor, is a very pro gressive man and is doing much to bring us to the notice of the world. . W hav no railroads beyond a tramway drawn by mules, penetrating -the plantation for about six miles. There is not a tele graph instrument or line in the province and only a short telephone line between government buildings. W have n money of our own, but use the silver of surrounding republics, which is so de preciated that 3 in American money 1 equal to $8.60 of the money in use. In terview in Washington U Stat ' r CnradN.. Toothache Eaally Cnrad. A European dentist is said to har had great success in curing toothach within dre or U minutes and often In leas time, by applying ona pole of an tlectrostatic ma chine to the troublesome tooth and the oth er pole to th body of the patient. In T9 eases thus treated by him only three are aid to bava been unsatisfactory. Nsw York Teiearauv. the Flour. 1 Baking Powder. V
