Loiu Mayor Sullivan, of Dublin,
has been sentenced to two mouths'
imprisonment without labor.
Eastern capitalists ure consider
ing proposition to construct a new
telegraph line to the Pacific Coast.
Every year 4,000 poor ure buried in
Potterstield, New York, in forty-cent
coflins.
Thk C. P. railroad hat declared a
dividend of one per cent., the first in
four years.
Thk mines of South Africa have
yielded six and a half tons of diamonds
worth $200,000,000.
In England, according to Reynolds,
one out of every three of the workers
iio in the workhouse or the hospital.
A singlk foggy day in London costs
the town something like $10,000 for
extra gas.
The Coinmiss.oner of Agriculture
claims to have obtained great results
in the extraction of tugar from sor
ghum. The incandescent electric light
promises to be a great aid to the tor
pedo service, as it will illuminate the
sea when submerged.
John McComu has been elected
Warden of Sun Quentin, and Charles
Aull takes the Wardenship of Folsom
prison.
Eighty corn canning factories have
been in operation this year in Maine,
and over fourteen million cans of sweet
corn have been put up.
The mechanics of Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., have started an educational
association to book themselves up in
anachinery.
The manuscript of "Home, Sweet
Home," has been buried in tho coffin
with Miss Harden, of Georgia, who
half a century ago refused tho hand of
the author.
The annual production ot the cord
age mills of tho United States, it is
estimated, is about one hundred and
twenty thousand tons, valued at about
fourteen million dollars.
There is a recorded indebtedness of
:$1G 1)8 on every improved acre of land
in the State of Kansas. This does not
include notes of hand, and store and
other accounts.
There are eighteen national banks
in Washington Territory, with a total
capital of $1,-130,000; and five terri
torial banks with a total capital of
sf.lSfi.OOO, making $1,785,000.
It is stated as a fact that on its
iourney from New York to Chicago
the safety of a fast express train is at
one time or another confided to the
hands of over five hundred different
pt rsons.
Scientists claim that a tide-mill
located at the Bay of Fundy would
generate 700,000 horso power twelve
hours in a day. This distributed elec
trically and sold to every State in tho
Union would save tho coal supply.
Stephen Showers, of Pennsylva
nia, refused to swear falsely in order to
save his father's neck. Tho elder
Showers was on trial for tho murder
of his grand children, and a false oath
might have saved him.
There are four great accumulated
masses of gold in tho world : $282,000,
000 in the United States Treasury;
.$237,000,000 in tho National Bank of
France; $107,000,000 in tho National
of Germany, and $100,000,000 in tho
Bank of England.
A Canadian paper has been can
vassing for an expression of annexa
tion to tho United States. It heard
from 910 persons, 800 of whom favored
annexation. Nova Scotia is almost
unanimous for it. Ontario and Que
bec gave a majority nearly two to one
in tho samo direction.
The Stttes of Pennsylvania and
Maine have determined to hereafter
treat habitual drunkenness as a disease
and not as a crime. The inebriate will
bo taken from his homo and on the
street, and quarantined in special
hospitals the samo as if suffering from
an infectious disease. If an incurable,
lie will bo housed and made self-sup
porting for life.
A rill to reduce railroad fares to
four cents a milo has passed tho Wash-;
ington Territory Council unanimously
and will probably paE8 tho other house.
It is suspected that tho Northern Pa
cific will not obey this law, if tho bill
nasseB. on tho ground that tho Terri
torial Legislature has no right tor
regulato a road chartered by Congress.
Tho present rate on tho Northern
Pacific is five cents.
TELEGRAI1C SUMMARY.
Ad Epitome of the Principal Events Now
Attracting Public Interest
The German steamer Isabel and the
bark Iiebecca, were wrecked on tho
Carribean coast.
Five men were instantly killed at
Tilton, Tenn., by an explosion of a
boiler in a sawmill.
Advices from Panama stato that the
Colombian government has seized the
Cucutna railroad for abetting treason.
Three men were killtd at Fleming,
Kansas, by a premature explosion of a
blast in tho Missouri Pacific coal ,
mines.
At New York, Miss Inez Van Zandt
was sentenced to ono month in the
penitentiary, in the court of special
sessions, for killing two canary birds.
John Hooper, member of parliament,
has been sentenced to two mouths'
imprisonment for publishing reports
in his paper, tho Cork Herald, of meet-,
ings of suppressed brandies of the
league.
A serious collision occurred near
Newport, Ark , between a passenger
train and a freight on the Iron Moun
tain railway. Tho fireman of the
passenger trai.i was instantly killed
and the engineer fatally wounded.
The baggage master and tho express
messenger were hurt slightly.
The captain cf the bark lUmijio,
which has arrived from Hakpdadj at
San Francisco, states that a Japanese
sailor suddenly became insane, and
after injuring two other sailors with a
hatchet, jumped into tho sea and was
drowned.
A dispatch from Colnmbus, Ark.,
says that a half-witted boy of 13, ,
named Charles Whilsett, enticed a
young brother aged 9 and a sister aged
G. into the woods and cut their heads
off. Ho returned home and informed
his mother what ho had done and
showed a big knife with which ho had
committed tho deed.
Tho international contest between
Jake Kilrain, of Baltimore, and Jem
Smith, of England, for tho diamond
Oelt and championship of tho world,
took placo on tho Island of St. Pieire,
in tho river Seine, Franco, in the pres
ence of about 100 persons. After
fighting 10G rounds tho contest was
declared a draw.
Advices have been received at Phil
adelphia of the lo!s of tho ship Alfred
Watts. The Watts sailed early in
October, and it is said she foundered
when but seven days out, and all but
two of those on board wore lost. Two
persons, sud to bo seamen, were picked
up by a passing steamer and landed
at Liverpool. The officers and crew
numbered twenty-seven.
A train on the Inter-Colonial railway,
composed of an engine, a snow-plow
and a passenger car, went off a bridge
near Caraquette. Of the thirteen men
on board, the conductor, engineer, fire
man and four section-men were pinned
down under the engine, in the bed of
tho river, and killed. Others wore
badly bruited, but not fatally injured.
At Mabtown Station, W. T., Charles
Miller, a single man 32 years old, was
struck by a freight train and knocked
down, tho car wheels striking his head
and dashing his brains out. Miller'
was walking along tho track at tho
time, and his death was duo to his
own carelessness.
C'OX; RUSSIOXAIi.
A bill was introduced by Senator
Cullom to annex a portion of Montana
to Idaho. It cuts off tho counties of
Beaver Head and Missoula from tho
former Territory, and joins them to
the latter.
Senator Manderson introduced a bill
granting pensions, according to length
of imprisonment, to all Union prison-1
ers of war confined in southern prisons
for moro than sixty days.
Senator Bowen introduced a bill for
the erantion of a public building ut
Boulder, Colorado, to cost $75,000.
A bill introduced by Senator Slier-1
man, provides that all persons on the
pension rolls for loss of limb shall be
entitled to receive arrears of pension
from the date of discharge or disability.
A bill introduced by Senator Stew
art provides for the appointment of
chief justices and two associate jus
tices to sit at Washington and have 1
jurisdiction to hoar and decide con
tested land cases. All applicants for
public lands whoso claims are rejected i
by tho commissioner ol tno lanu omco
are given tho right, within sixty days,'
to appeal to ono of tho justices. Juris
diction is also confer) ed on ho justices
to hear all cases arising on' of private
land claims in Arizona, New Mexico ,
and Colorado. 1
Senator Quay introduced a bill to
increase to $72 per month the pension
of thoBO who now receivo $50 per
month, under the law granting pen-'
sions to soldiers und sailors of tho late
war who are totally disabled. ,
Senator Plumb introduced a bill to
grant ono month's extra pay for each ;
year of enlistment to all officers of the ;
volunteer army in tho lato war, who'
served the full term of their enlistment
and were honorably discharged.
Senator Blair introduced a bill do-
daring that the act of Juno 11, 1880, i
relative to pensions, shall bo construed ,
as to include all officers and enlisted
men in the army, und their widows i
und minor children,
Senator Mitchell introduced a bill :
providing that heroafter tho salo of.
lands of tho Umatilla reservation bo
mudo ut I lie aourt house in Pendleton,
Oregoi-, 5 istead of at tho land oflko ut
LuGrando.
COAST CULLINGS.
A postotlico has been established at
Flynn, O.egon, with Elizabeth Ainsler
as Postmistress.
The British steamer Sardonyx, sailed
from Portland with 150 ton? of tlour
which goes to China.
Kobert Kecord, the young man who
fell over a cliff of rocks near Arlington,
Oregon, died from his injuries.
C. A. Swidquist, a sailor, shot and
killed Minnie Lome, and then him
self, in a saloon in San Franoisco.
A postotlico has been established at
Picardville, Washington county, Ore
gon, and Charles P. Picard appointed
Postmaster.
A postoflice has been established at
Flynn, Umatilla county, Oregon, and
Eliz i Bethaensby has been appointed
Postmistress.
At San Francisco Fredorick Warri
Iow, a painter, fell from a scaflold in
the Baldwin hotel, and received in
juries from which ho died.
Firo at Irvington, Cal , destroyed
tho Alameda County Reporter office,
the stores of Blacon t Weston and
Clark Bros.', tho postotlico and Good
Templars' hall. Loss, $20,000.
Tho whole number of school chil
dren in Washington Territory, as
shown by the returns of tho present
year, is -17,131. In Oregon the num
ber is 87,217.
A boat capsized at San Pedro har
bor, Cal., during a gale, and two fish
ermen wero drowned. Ono of them
was "Crawfish Pete," the oldest and
best-known fisherman on tho coast.
At Olympia, W. T., Judge Allyn
sentenced Angus McClain, convicted
of tho murder of Harry O'Connor, at
Shelton, to be hanged on February 21,
1888.
Marshal Blumc, of Petaluma, Cal.,
whilo attempting to jump oil' a train
before its arrival at tho depot, was
caught under the wheels, receiving
injuries fiom whidi he died.
A young man named Harry Shuf
fleton was found dead in tho road near
Diamondvillc, Cal., with four bullets
in his body. No clue to tho murderer
was found.
The President has decided to ap
point Stephen A. l)e Wolfe to bo an
Associate Justice of the Supremo
Court of Montana, in placo of Judge
Galhr.iith, whose term has oxpirod.
Christie Doyle, of Vallejo, Cal., ro
ceived from a companion some bichro
mate of potash, instead of wax to
chow. Ho was seized with convul
sions shortly after and died. Two
others, a boy and a girl, had a inn-row
escape.
Julius Adler, an enlisted man at tho
military station at Walla Walla, was
arrested shmo time ago on a charge of
being a deserter from tho military sta
tion at Omaha. He was tried by court
martial, convicted and sentenced to
three years' imprisonment at Fort
Alcatraz. Senator Mitchell has suc
ceeded in securing commutation of
his sentence, and ho will bo released.
Tho citizens of Medford, Oregon,
have, through tho efforts of the Board
of Trade of seventy members, raised
a cash bonus of $2,000 to be given to
Govo it Co., of Portland, who will com
mence there, on tho lirut of January,
tho erection of a four-story (louring
mill to cost not less than $15,000, and
to be of 50 to 75 barrels per day ca
pacity. It is to bo ready for work
May 15, 1888.
Kecenlly an injunction was served
on Sergeant LaForet, in command of
United States troops btationed at tho
mouth of tho Klamath river, to pro
hibit him from tearing down tho houo
of settler John Mclvousie, located on
an island near tho mouth of tho river.
The injunction was disobeyed and tho
property destroyed and burnt. Judge
Murphy issued a warrant for tho ar
rest of LiForet for contempt of court.
As tho steamer Queon of the Pacific,
bound for San Francisco, was oil'
Pigeon Point, Second Officer William
Olton discovered a vessel on firo off
tho starboard bow. An alarm was
given at once, and three of tho Queen's
boats were manned and went to tho
resctto. The vessel was found to bo
the Pacific Coast Steamship Company
steamer San Vicente. Ono of her
boats was seen approaching and the
occupants called for help. Thoy wero
immediately placed in a boat from tho
Queen manned by Second Ollicer
Olson, and proved to be First Mate
Charles Green and four sailors. An
other boat, commanded by Third Offi
cer Ingruham, picked up Capt. Charles
Lewis and Second Mato Charles S.
Pratt. The captain and tho second
mate had constructed a raft and wero
about to launch it from the burning
vessel when thoy wero rescued. The
S-tn Vicente had a crow of nineteen
officers and men, and the Queen of the
Pacific still hovered around tho vessel,
all hands keeping un anxious lookout
for those who had not been saved.
Another man was picked up in an
open boat in a few minutes, but died
a short time after being tukon to the
Queen. His name is not known. So
far as can bo ascertained at preBont,
tho names of the lo8t aro: Purser Ev
erett, Engineers John McCardlo and
Thomas Grenor, Cook Jackson, and
John Grudy, Charles Graham, Alfred
Clark, John Wilcox, John Smith and
threo others, the lust eight being sea
men. None of tho rescued officers or
men can assign uny causo for the ori
gin of tho fire. When tho firo was
discovoied tho men becamo panic
stricken, and the officers could not
control them. They jumped into tho
two bouts but tho stanchions which
hold thorn wero burning hot, nnd tho
tackle by which thoy hung was soon
burned away, and ono by ono the men
wero obliged to leap into tho eea. Tho
captain und tho second mate remuined
on the burning vessel until tukoii off.
RATHER EXPENSIVE.
Fftlr Young I)pcortnr II imbund Deals
In Knot nmt KlRurr.
"What do you think of it?"
A young housekeeper was exhibiting
o an investigator a handsomely deco
rated plate which leaned against a neat
i-iol on the mantel of her pretty drawing-room.
"Beautiful. "
"Guess where it came from?"
"France, perhaps."
"No. 1 bought the plate down, town
and decorated it. myself."
"An excellent idea! You can now
have us handsome a dinner set us there
is in New York at a mere trilling cost."
"That shows what you know about
it," interposed the husband of the fair
artist, with just a trace 'of sadness in
his tones.
"I don't see why you say so, John,"
retorted the latter.
"Let's liguro tho cost. I probably
have kept a elo-or wateh upon that de
partment of .the business than you have
done."
"Well, begin."
"In the first place, the plate itself
cost you 6:1?"
"I know." returned the artist, with
an air of triumph: "but you can't cut
a decorated plate like that for loss than
$.1."
"That may he so," continued the
husband cruelly.
"Next you bought about an ounce of
liquid gold, which cost $:l.7.". You
used about half that amount."
"Not all on that plate, John. You
know I spoiled about as much as I
used."
"I know 3-011 did, my dear, and you
ruined about sf;t worth of carpet with
the stuff; but I didn't intend to reckon
that in this table. Then you bought a
book of instruction which cost $2..r0
more. And you took six lesson- on the
design you painted, at $1 a lesson. If
you paint any more plates, you will
have to take mote lessons. Isn't that
so?"
"Yes, hut I will onlv need one ot '.wo
on each plate from this time on."
"I haven't ni-ntioiied the paints and
brushes yon bought. They cost $10
more, but will probably answer for
some time to come in your future, work.
I've not lini-hcd yet. It cost $1 to have
the plate tired. Now, let's see what
the eost i-:
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"That K ju-l shameful, John. You
know my next work won't cost me
nearlv so much."
"We'll see about that," continued
Iter husband "Your plate will cost
$11; gohl (barring accidents) say $1,
lessons $2. paint, say $1, and tiring $1.
That makes 8. Pretty high price to
pay for a So plate, eh? This doesn't
include tho expense of a headache,
backache and loss of temper which a
painting always produces in you.
Neither does it take in thu amount, of
vexation your illness always causes me.
No, my friend," added the husband, in
conclusion, a-; he turned to the investi
gator, "I liud it cheaper to I1113- my
china. 1 am afraid a whole dinner set
would leave me nothing to buy food to
dine on." X. Y. Mull and Jixpress.
CLIMBING A MOUNTAIN.
UlHCOiiirnrN ICt porli'llrcd by Tourlats liouml
fur P(iicriiti')ctl'H Summit.
The effects of the rarity of the atmos
phere wero felt as soon as the start was
made, and it was impossible to proceed
more than a few yards withoutstopping
to take breath. The ascent was made
in zig-zags, and naturally a rest was
taken at the end of each direct line.
At tho start, to climb for eight minutes
and rest live was considered making
very good time. It. was not long be
fore a rest of eight minutes was re
quired for every four of climbing, and
after half the ascent was made we
rested more frequently anil without
exerting ourselves to sit down. We
thrust our staves into the snow ami
leaned our heads upon them. Drowsi
ness overtook us, and progress becamo
mechanical. We moved only as spurred
on by our ever-watchful .guides. If
left to ourselves wo would have fallen
asleep. Our hearts beat with fearful
rapidity and the breath becanio shorter
and shorter.' Hinging sensations in t lie
head like tho-io produced by largo
doses of quinine wore experienced.
The most aeut.i pains shot through the
skull. Conversation was suspended,
except among the guides, und their
voices fell on our ears as If coining
from a great distance. It was impos
sible to tell what progress was being
made, for the top and bottom seemed
equidistant all tho way up. We barely
escaped tno most sovero oxporionci)
likely to occur to those who roach that
high elevation: bleeding at the nose,
mouth and ears. It would have been the
signal that we had gone too far, that
heart anil lungs refused to submit
further, and we should have placed
ourselves in the handb of our guides to
he carried hack t Tlamacas.
Our physical en birauco was stretched
almost to Its II hi t by the time the head
giihleshouted, "A -ni wo aro! Smoll tho
sulphur!" The whiff of snlphuroiH
smoke which givutml our nostrils, tell
ing that our tack was nearly completed
and rest was athand, acted like a power
ful .stimulant. We awoke for a llnal
effort, pressed on, and rested not until
we stood breathless upon tho summit
of Popocatepetl. Arthur Howard Noll,
in American Magazine.
With !?3,000 capital u Connecticut
man went to Australia a year and a
half ago and put his money into skating
rinks. It Is said (hat hv now owns four
teen rinks mid that thoy nut him $73,
(W0 a year.
SILLY COMMONPLACES.
Tim I)riry Clirtiuit tine I Comprlli-d to
Hour livery liy.
The fact is that most of our popular
forms of salutation are meaningless
and often silly. They de, however,
manifest the speaker's cordial and
kindly spirit; and it would bo churlish
to resent them. Hut it must he admit
ted that many of these greetings are
almost as hard to hear as a "dead cut"
would be. No man likes to be slighted
by an acquaintance, hutan idiotic com
monplace is very depressing to most
persons. It reveals a poverty of the
mind, a leanness of thought that is
very like a wet blanket in its effect.
"Hello, my dear boy," said one of
these cheerful idiots on the deck of a
White Staw steamer one day out of
New York, "going to Europe?" "No,"
was the calm reply, "I am going to
Skaueatles." Similarly, a pale-faced
man emerging from his berth after two
days of seasickness on a San Francisco
and Honolulu packet ship, was asked if
he was going to the Sandwich Islands.
"No," was the sad reply, "I am going
to walk back."
Of course when a man asks; "How
do you do?" he does not expect any
other answer than the usual conven
tional: "How do you do?" This by
way of passing. If the interlocutors
have time, the sainted man will prob
ably say: "Very well, thanks, how are
you?" And that settles it. How sur
prised a man would be if, in answer to
Ids conventional conversation, his
friend should say: "1 am not very well
myself. 1 did not sleep very well last
night; too much nutmeg in that last
tumblerful, and I have a touch of gout
in my left leg, and the third tooth
in my back upper jaw has troubled me
these two days," and soon. Nobody is
expected to give a full report of his
state of health when a brisk "How d'ye
do?" is Hung at him. Equally conven
tional is the "How do you find your
self?" so much affected by the offhand
and humorous. Hut the man who
should reply: "Thank you, 1 haven't
lost myself," would very properly be
voted a boor, or at least, "too smart.''
As for the poor creatures who ask: "Is
this hot enough for you?" or "Is this
cold enough for you?" in the midst of
summer's heat or winter's cold, only
eorreetioiiary discipline is available for
them. llosto n Co it ric r.
VISION AND OLD AGE.
Appiiri'iil Improvement f Sight In Aecil
IVi-nmiH Si'li'lltlllcilll v lixplitliied.
Wo see objects by the formation of
their images on the retina of the eye
by parallel rays of light thrown back
from the object. In a perfect eye this
image falls directly upon the retina,
and the object is seen clearly. Hut,
owing to differing foim in the lens
of the eye, the rays of light do not
always converge at. the right point,
and tho image does not fall directly on
the retina. Thus, if the lens, or, as
we say, the eye-ball, is flattened in
front, the rays will not. come to a focus
till they have passed the retina, and
the object can not bo seen at all unless
held at a distance from the eye. Or,
if the lens is too rounded in front, tho
tendency of the rays of light will bo to
converge before they strike tho retina,
and the object can not bo clearly seen
unless it is brought very near tho eye.
These defects, existing as they do in
infinite variations of degree, are to a
certain extent remedied by means of a
muscle called the ciliary muscle, which
moves and adjusts the lens. The wan
ing sight of the aged is caused partly
by the llatteniiig of the eye-hall and
also by the hardening of the lens, and
the toughening of the ciliary muscle.
Now, a person who has been near
sighted in youth, as age approaches
ami the natural flattening of the eye
ball begins, finds that he can see ob
jects clearly at a greater distance than
before. Many persons who have used
the concave glasses made for short
sight in vouth, are able after thoy have
passed middle life to lay them aside, t
and others who have not used glasses.
hut. have always suffered from restricted
vision, will find as life inhaneos that
the usual need for spectacles does not
affect them. Of course, the more ex
treme the short-sightedness has been,
the more marked will this ditl'orenco
be. It can hardly be truthfully said
that the vision in these eases is actually
improved, fot though the point of vis
Ion has receded, beyond that point all
vision continues to be, as It always is
with near-sighted people, blurred and
indistinct. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Mr. Cross, of Westerly, K. I.., has
in his possession n tall eight-day elot.-k
which belonged to Commodore Van
derbilt's mother, and stood In the
kitchen of the old birth place 011 Stateu
Island. From the depths of that clock,
which' old Mrs. Vanderbilt used as a
savings bank, she took one hundred
dollars of hard-saved money and gave
it to young Cornelius to start in busi
ness. That one hundred dollars was
the foundation of the Vanderbilt mil
lions. Mr. Cross married a daughter
of Commodore Vanderbilt, and the old
clock was her share of thu homestead
furniture. Argonaut.
m
"You don't mean to say that you
had to pay just us much for your pew
during tho summer mouths, when the
cuireh was closed, as when It was
open?" "Certainly." "How ridicu
lous!" "O, I don't know; I don't be
grudge tho money. I enjoyed the pow
quite as well us though I was in it
better, If any thing." Boston Tran
tcript. A Texas newspaper claims to havo
received in payment of a subscription
,"tho oldest hen on record." Tim ed
itor says she was imported from Mex
ico by the local physlciuu eight or Juo
years 11,0.
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Tho Celtic language is spoken by
910.000 peoplo in Ireland, G 1,000 of
whom can speak no other.
Tho favorito pin and brooch of tho
Parisian woman is ornamented with
one or several dogs' heads.
Since tho aceldont in tho Theater
Comlquc, tho provincial theaters in,
France have had only empty galleries.
A club has been started in Horlin
which has among its rules 0110 which
provides that no 0110 shall bo eligible
to membership unloss he can converse
lliiently In at least one foreign lan
guage. Tho titlo of baron was formerly
tho only one in the English language;
now it is the lowest. Its original
name was "vavasour," but the Saxons
cliailged it to "thane," and finally tha
Normans gave it its present appella
tion. Tho cost of tho Hritish medical
army staff is 210.000 a year, but, in
addition, there Is an item of 200.000
a year for pensions to retired doctors
and surgeons. The medical officers
retire from tho service at forly.fivo
years of age. and receive pensions for
the tieiuainiler of their days.
The government of Italy is about
to undertake excavations on tho sito
nf tho ancient city Sy hurls, so famous
for its luxury and splendor. Sybari
was buried under the mud brought
down by an Inundation nearly twenty
four hundred years ago, but it is be
lieved that the ruins will bo found
well preserved. AT. Y. Ledger.
Tho Hritish tel egraph service,
which is part, of the post-olllce, does
not pa) expenses since the rate was
reduced to sixpence per message, or
about 12 cents. Tho deficit for tho
past year was 22:1.000 011 working;
expenses and :12t!, 000 for interest on
tho working capital in all 6o0,000,
or $2,7.r0,000.
Tho grosshopper plague is giving
serious trouble in Algeria this year.
The efforts made to destroy the eggs
have proved nsoless. In ono district
fiO.000 gallons havo been collected and
burned. This represents the destruc
tion of 7,2.")0.000,000 insects. Mature.
Well may tho peoplo of Franca
stand aghast at the financial problem
they are called upon to solve. On tho
1st of January, 1880, tho public debt of
Franco amounted to $l. 200,000,000. on
the 1st of February, 1887, it reached
!?7,2 1.000.000. Thus in seven years
the debt has swelled to tho tune of
l.:t2 1.000.000 an inereiiso of such
fearful proportions aj to justly create,
alarm for the solvency of France.
Public Opinion.
A "jubilee" river is the latest dis
covery in Now Guinea, where an Aus
tralian expedition in the Victory has
boon making some valuable explora
tions. The Victory found two largo
streams iho "Douglas." reached by
the so-called "Ainl rivor," which ia
only one of the mouths of tho vast
Douglas, and a still wider further oast,
which tho expedition duly christened
"Jubilee," in honor of the Queen.
Itotli rivers wore explored for fully ono
hundred miles, and live now triboa
wero Unmil.Springicld Times.
Tho lotal number of persons klllod
by wild animals and venomous snakes
In tho ton divisions of Hongal during;
the official year 188.r-8G was the high
est in the last five years, and amount
ed to 1 1.821!. As is usual, nine-tenths
of these deaths wero caused by snakrs..
Hut of 12,223 buffaloes, oxen, horses
and jinnies destroyed in this manner,
only 1(11 wero killed by snakes. These
annual returns do not take account of
sheep, goats, pigs and monkeys, tho,
destruction of which is very large. Tho
hyena is credited with the destruction
of 773 head of cattle. Boston Budget.
MOURNING JEWELRY.
A l'cw of tlm Mont purloin rreiiks In tha
,l'ulilona of Urlef.
Tho strangest freak of all tho
fashions of grief has boon tho wearing;
of "mourning jewelry;" to demonstrate
our Incnnsolablo lot, by a pi rtinont
reference to it in our adornment, is
surely paradoxical. I saw tho other
day a "mourning ring" very interest
ing in its quaint frivolity. A slender
circle of gold hold an oblong disk of
whilo enaniolcd surface, on which vros
depicted tho tomb, tho weeping willow,
and the visiting relative (In this case a.
widow), all neatly placed under glass.
It was un old, old ring, belonging to a.
groat-grand mother, who wore It for
lior first husband's memory, although,
as sho survived two more, it may havo
done londor memorial services for all
three. Tho process which converts tho
golden curl, tip) brown tress or tho
gray hair of our lost ono Into "hair
jowolrv" Is among tho curiosities of
soiitlinont. Is it not cruel to woar a
portion of our dead for oma
niont? Surely tho wiry strand, rc
pellunt und rigid, was never tho soft
hair about tho "old familiar faces." t
rememhor seeing some "mother's hair'1
woven Into tho design of anchors for
ear-rlnjrs, and tho daughters wero
Booming to derive comfort from tho
light tossing of this omblem of security,
and no doubt finding somo occult sat
isfactory reason for tho incongruity ot
design nnd fact. In our youth then
clustered about us old maiden aunts
wearing chains nnd bracelets of hair
their stiffness seeming to testify to an
unyielding sorrow, and their quantity
that tho "doparlod" must have boon
Samsons. Thou thero wero tho brooches
with tho bulging serpentine twists
of hulr forming a fruino for tho pictur
ed face of ih J original pos ssor of tho
hair 1111 uncertain appeal to frame, as
tho exigencies of a brooch sometime
subjected tho head to the vlclssltuda
of holng'worn upside down, thus mar
ring the act of would -bo respeolfui
memory, Jewelry News.