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THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Clilnn ArrrplK Our Invllntlon 1(. I'nrtlc lliale in tin) Wnrlil'a l ulr. iB. CHANCEY, Publisher, Union, Or. PACIFIC COAST. The New Pavilion at Carson, Nev., Begun. THE DEEP COUNTRY IN UTAH. k Pasadonan' Patents an Invention for Propelling Street Cars by Force of Explosion of Naphtha. San Diego in to have a silk cxhihit. Tacomawill issue $10U,000 in bonds for the City imrk. The Tintio mining country is to bo jpencd up by railroads. An inexhaustible supply of cement i- l i l i..: Tuuit I ins uuen juiinii near ouiauii, uui. Work has commenced on the break water at the entrance to llumlxjldt Bay. The United States gunlioat Pinta lias entered tho dry dock at Ksquiinult for repairs. The oil excitement in the southwestern part of Humboldt county, C'al., still keeps up. Tho canneries in Northern British Co lumbia are nearly nil ready for the spring catch. Tho Deep country in Utah is attract ing many prospectors, i no ore is said to Iki very rich. Tho building of tho new pavilion of the Ormsby county agricultural district JSo. l at Carson lias begun. Tho defendants in tho ICaweah colony cjiso have been refused a new trial nnd ordered to appear for sentence Juno 8 at 1am Angeles. Tho Board of Engineers have selected five acres of land on Clark's Point for a lighthouse to roplaco the one at the en trance to Jlutnboult Kay. A Pasadena man has patented an in volition for propelling street cars by the lorce ol tho explosion ol naphtha carried in the cabooso of tno car. Tho crop outlook in Oregon and Wash- mgton was novor Hotter. I no grain yield promises to bo unprecedented. Tho liite rains have made everything lovely. Sheepmen throughout Kastorn Oregon aro busily engaged in shearing their flocks, and the wool clip will bo very abundant and oi excellent quality. ThonsandB of fruit trees aro boing planted on the islands in Pugot Sound, and when thoy begin to bear, tho peoplo of tne sound cities will revel in cheap mm. Largo quantities of hediondijla or rrcaso wood aro sent from Yuma Hast lor medical purposes, 'i ho shrub, which grows abundantly there, is said to pos sess valuable medicinal purposes. Tho demand for .Tamul cement has been bo groat that tho Directors of the company fool warranted In erecting fivo additional kilns, which will be put up on tno company's works near san Ihego. It is said at the Stale Department that mere mis oeen no sugire-iion oi iir mira tion of the difficulties between Itiily and tho United States, crowing out of the Now Orleans tragedy, as reported in rt dispatch from Kline. Arbitration is tho Hut, resort alter diplomacy has lanod, nnd as Secretary Blaine promised to con sider the claims for indem.iPy, ii cannot be held the diplomatic stag- has passed. Tho Department of State has been of ficially informed of theaccfptnin e by the government of China of ths invitation to participate, in tho World s Columbian reposition, nonoy uu unite' Minos Minister, wnteh under date of Apr!. 1 to the Secretary of State. Baying the Prince and Ministers requested that the Secre tary of State shall see that spare is rc- s'T"ed at rnirago lor tne exruoit oi tno Chinese yovirnmenc. A communication from the Chinese foreign ollice to iMitns- tor Denl savs: "Thb Kmpeior has not demited official repredetitm vpb to tne expositions hold in 'oreign countries of recent -surf J but, Having now received kindlvHentiin0nts(iom he United States government, tho Prince a. id Ministers have .he honor to state action will be taken in the premises, as formerly men tioned, and no time will bo lost in noti fying merchants " Tho Judge Advocate General of the navv commoted tno review oi tno pro ceedings of the court-martial in tho cuso of Jiieutenant-Commaiider George A. Bicknell. tho ollicer tried at New York on a chargo connected with the disaster to the Galena and Nina, a no tins papers are now ready for tho action ot tho Sec retary. It is now positively known thot Lieutenant-Commander Bicknell was" found guiltv of the charge of negligence nnd received a sentence to suspension from his rank and duty for the period of ono year. u. tie mends ol uieknell, who think his previous good record night to count for something, aro endeavoring to secure a mitigation, but it is doubtful if their ellbrts will bo successful Since Bicknell has been convicted for the dis aster of tho Galena and the Nina, it is expected that Lieutenant-Commander Lvonwill now bo tried for the loss of tho tug Triana. The proceedings of the court of inquiry in his case wero re ceived some timo ago, but notion upon them wiih deferred until tho result of tho Bicknell trial reached the depart ment. EASTERN ITEMS. The Illinois House Passes an Anti-Trust Bill. GRAIN CROP IN NORTHWEST The Melting1 Snows Put Many of the Streams That Flow Into the Rio Grande Bank Full. The Illinois House has passed an anti trust bill. CABLEGRAMS. Kmpernr "William In ii ttp-li ut Itunn JtiHtlllml StiiilontH' IXii-Ih. Natalio says she will not voluntarily leave Servin. Valparaiso is terrorized by secret as sassination societies. have A number of Tacoma capitalists have lormed a company with $-HH),lH)U capital to manufacture all kinds of paper from wood pulp. J ho Incorporators are 11 Hewitt, Jr., Walter Oaks nnd G. S. Jirown. No successor has been chosen to I lor nco Davis ns President of the California University. Acting President Kellogg and Prof. Ira Uomson of John Hopkins .. 11,0 'y er University are tho moHt prominent 1110 iioi oj names mentioned. mrl chapl.u The Commissioners of Spokano coun ty, Wash., are likely to call a special election to issuo 5l)0.0l)() of bonds, U)0.- 000 of which will extinguish tho present debt, nnd the balance will go toward tho erection of u court house. The Indians in tho Okanogan country aro in a state of consternation, owing to tho provalenco of la grippe among them. Ono hundred or more nave died. The Indians aro moving out rapidly for Idaho and other points, carrying their posses sions with thorn, Tho Nevada State Board of Trade has voted to allow half tho expense of two men from Tennessee who are anxious to necu.ro land in Nevada for fifty families willing to locate in that State, whoso farms have boon ruined by excessivo raiiiB in Tennessee Judgo McKlnloy at Los Angeles has ruled thnt the lxmds recently issued by tho Board of Directors of tho Palnidale irrigation, district wore illegal, the peti tioners for the organization of tho dis trict not yot having Bectired title to their property at tho time of signing the peti tion, nnd therefore were not freeholders. An illicit opium factory was seized in San Francisco Chinatown the other day while in full blnst by W. K. Lamliort, Deputy Koveinio Collector for that dis trict. Under tho new law no Chinese are allowed to manufacture opium. Opium to the value of $1,000 mid somo costly cooking implements were the re units of the seizure. Tho appropriation for the Nevada In dian school at Carson is exhausted, and the teachers were given the alternative of working till July 1 without salaries and with their hoard bills to pay or re sign. The principal teacher, seamstress, assistant matron and industrial teacher passed in their resignations. Tho Yuma Indians liave collected a much larger amount of mosquito gum thiH season than for many years past. It is thought that the overflow caused the increase in tho amount of gum produced which is valuable to the Vilnius lor many puriiopos, iiot the least of which is for dyeing the hair n dark black. Tho wholesale grocers at Portland, Or., have effected arrangements with the "Western Sugar Ilofinory of San Fran cisco whereby sugar may Iw sold at, all Northern ami Union Paci(lo)oiutH in east ern Oregon and Washington nnd Idaho at a reduction ranging from t$ to jKir cent, per pound on the standard grade, the reduction to he increased according to the distance from Portland, The Manipuris, it is stated. yielded to tne lsritish in India. Tho Prince of Wales is said to owe $1.- 500,000 to trades people. Tho frontier towns of Germany and Franco are swarming with spies. Rotterdam is to have a great exhibi tion of toys under royal patronage. Tho Prussian Diet voted 1(15.000 marks for the Koch Institute notwithstanding Virchow's antagonism. The census of France shows an increase in population of 108,000 yearly, an com- mred with an increase ol -i;jo,uuu yearly in Germany. Tho Jews at Corfu are in constant danger of their lives. All the synagogues aio closed, and the .Jewish quarters aro constantly threatened by incendiaries. Hochefort in tho Jnlransiiieant has blamed M. Isaacs, Sub-Piot'oct of A vesnes, for ordering tho trooiH to fire on the rioters at Fourmies. rl lie result will be a duel between Isaacs and Kocho- fort. Tho Brit'sh government has raised tho wages of 1.000 laborers at Woolrieh ar senal a shilling a week. Some Liberals claim that the object is to win the votes of these men in a general election near at hand. I ho kaiser has given great oucii3e to .1... , !. , - I ? x coiiimuiiuv nv ordering ins to curtail the length of their sermons, which in the future must not exceed fifteen minutes, whatever may be the occasion. In a speech nt Bonn Kmnoror William jusiiiicu students' duels. Haying they were largely misunderstood h tno nub in. mo oiuciai report ol t no speech gloves over the references to this part of the limperor's remarks. Talking of the recent scandal develop meiils with a friend, Gladstone said there was nothing exceptional in the cases of the public men exposed: that the importance of the cases lay n their beine symptomatic of soci.il and moral disease, requii ing vigoi jus, united Chi ist ian action to amend it. rho ooiisus roturns for Northampton ehiro show that in the purely agricultural districts there lias been an average re duciion oi -'U percent., but m the man ufacturing districts, wheie theshoe trade is rho staple industry, there has been an increase of from ;!0 to 50 per cent., and Booralof the larger villages have more than doubled. Sir Henry James has introduced a bill in the British House of Commons ena bling inemlwrs o resign without resort ing to the fiction of applvmg for the stewardship of tho Chiltcrn Hundreds. It has been judged ts designed toenail o other culprits to sneak out silently, nnd lias got to-be dubbed tho " Par lament blackguards relief bill." A compromise has lieen iji ri'vnl nt in lionaros in thecaseof the temple, v Inch, it is hoped, will prove acceptable to all parties. The municipality has resolved not to destroy the whole temple, but to leave the Idol undisturbed and to build a small shrine over it, allowing free ac cess to worshipers. It is understood that this will Kitisfy the orthodox. The Home Italia says: The Italian government is nlwut to address a circu lar to the Hiiropoan lowers submitting the conduct of the United States govern ment in tho Now Orleans atl'air to their judgment. Italy will thus ho the iutia tor of an international agreement to compel tho United States to find means to guarantee the protection of foreign subjects. A plausible statement has lxon pub lished in Ixmduh defending on a novel ground the Russian persecution of the Jews. It la to the effect that at the rate of Inurease of Jewish families, comparml with the inmmsoof the Russians proper, the empire in the course of a few gener ations would bo mainly Jewish, and the orthodox subjects, of the Ciar would be In u hopek'Ba minority, , In Elgin, 111., saloon licenses have just been fixed nt, $1,000, an advance of foOO over the previous year. A decision of tho Treasury Department is to the effect that bees are animals for the purpose of levying duty. Reports from all sections in the North western States show the gram crop to be in a very nattering condition. Divers aro searching for springs in the bed of tho Delaware river in order to supply Camden with fresh water. It is reported that there is a greater acreage of wheat in the Northwest Ter ritory this season than ever before. A monument is to be erected to the memory of tho victims of the flood at Johnstown, J'a. Jt will cost ?(5,()00 The May disbursements in New York for State, county and municipal and gov eminent are estimated at .fri&iXOOO. A safe used in the Castle Garden oflice of the New York immigration author! ties was sold at public auction the other day, and brought $1. Tho Secretary of the Interior within f few days will appoint an agent to super intend experimental irrigation in Ari zona, Montana and Nevada. According to charges made against certain active workers in tho Scranton City Council $300 is the current quota tion for a vote in that body. The melting snows have put many of tho streams that flow into 'tho Rio Grande bank full, and tho bordering lowlands are covered with water. Tho Chicago Historical Society has placed a memorial tablet on the house on Do Koven street occupying the site whore tho great fire of 1871 started. The Journal of Finance says that tho dividends which the sugar trust is prom ising for July will lie per cent, on the common and 10 per cent, on the preferred. A lighted cigarette carelessly thrown into a pile of hay caused a fire "that de stroyed tho stables of the Austin tTex.) Street Car Company, together with twenty-two cars and thirty-four mules. Tho United States Marshal has Bent deputies to Coomeseowio district, Cher okee Nation, to make wholesale arrests of the negroes who obstructed tho In dian officers. SerioiiB difficulty is antic ipated. A movement in itfl ineipiencv in Vir ginia has for its object the removal from Baltimore to Richmond of the body of tho late General Joseph K. JohiiBton. Tho illustrious Confederate was a Vir ginian born. The Secretary of the Treasury has had h curcmi examination uiaue oi tne custom-houses in the chief seaports, and thinks that an appreciable saving can bo niiido by cutting oil" a number of offices that are not indispensable. The Prescott National Bank of Lowell, Mass., has placed an attachment on tho property of General Butler for $12,000. The money consideration was given about four years ago on a personal note, 11... 1. , . 'l ' which inu oaiiK discounted. Ex-Surgeon-General Hammond has begun suit against the New York World's Washington correspondent, the said cor respondent having stated tiiat Dr. Ham mond had charged Mrs. Stanford $5,000 for removing a wen from her head". Articles of incorporation have been filed in Columbus for a long-distance tel ephone company for the purposo of con structing and operating lines from Cin cinnati to Cleveland, Detroit, Bufliilo, New York and other Kai-torn cities. Hon. Thomas L. Waller. Vice-President of the National World's Fair Com mission, has been declared Chief of the Department of Foreign Affairs, head quarters to bo in linden, with branch bureaus in other European capitals. The Now York Lumlier Trade Associa tion, representing all tho big lumber dealers in the citv, decided not to de liver lumber to anv building in the citv until the iwvcott which the lumiier han dlers have put on Charles L. Bucki A Co. is raised. The l'innurier notes Hint out nf n tntnl of .'J.507 national banks which reiwrted to the Controller of the Currency their condition last uctober L'nii have each a surplus and nudivided profits coital tool exceeding its capital. That is uliout 7'-.. !or cent, ol the entire number. The appointment of Walter S. Max well or California Chief of the Horti cultural Department of tho World's Fair has lcon referred to a special committee of the directory to investigate the charges of incompetency preferred against him and to report at tlio next meeting. The National Express Company, which has. heretofore had no lines west of Buf falo, has completed an arnuigement by which it will secure offices in Chicago and Milwaukee. It has gained this foot hold through a combination with the Northern Pacific Express Company, and IkuIi companies will have a coast-to- coast service. 'I'h. nnas A. Edison savs he has a nov elty in view for tho World's Fair, al though the details are yet hazy. His utentiou is to have a combination of phonography and electricity, so that a man can sit in his own parlor and sou lepicttd on a curtain the forms of play ers in an opera or drama on a distant stage and hear the voiced of tho performers. PERSONAL MENTION. The 1'opp IleiHirteil to Hiive I. out n Large Sum of Money Dulililliic in Stock. Joseph Pulitzer has subscrilwd $1,000 to tho New York Greeley statue fund. Members of his old mess at Fort Nio brara, Neb., have presented tho new Brigadier-General, August V. Katitz, with a magnificent uniform, sword and belt. A movement in its ineipiencv in Vir ginia has for its object the removal from Baltimore to Richmond of the body of tho lato Joseph E. Johnston. The illus trious Confederate was a Virginian lKirn. Ignatius Donnelly announce:1 that within a year he will publish a h.jok which will cause his bitterest opponents to deny that they ever doubted Bacon's authorship to the Shakespearean plays. It is said that Rev. J. W. Prootsman of the Methodist Church, South, was ho author of tho first thanksgiving proe i ination ever issued in the St. Ixniiu dai lies in November, 185!), during the ad ministration of Governor Stewart. A daughter of Congressman Breckin ridge ol Kentucky, having graduated with honors at Weilesley several years ago, has now taken up the study of law in her father's ollice, having in the mean time taught geometry and algebra in a Washington school. According to the Capitnn Fracassa the Pope lost recently l,500,0vJ0 lire by spec ulation in stocks" The report, however, is to bo taken with several grains of Bait. It is known that, when Leo discovered last year that his treasurer had risked money in speculation, ho ordered him not to appear in his presence again. Exhorter William F. Davis, who has been forbidden to preach on Boston Com mon, remarks that, while h will obev the law, he must pronounce it an inva sion of tho God-given right. He holds to the idea once advanced by the boys of Boston to the British soldiers who would not let them skate upon the same piece of property. The lato General Albert Pike of Wash ington was perhaos better versed in the . . ! i l .1 niysierics ui unciem rreeiiiitsoiiiy iinui any olher person in the world, ins translations trom the vedas lined seven teen volumes of 1,000 pages each, all carefully written in a beautiful hand. General Pike used none but quill pens in this writ'niL'. and carefully preserved each one, the number probiibly reaching 10,000. Aproos of Phillips Brooks and his el evation to the episcopate, it may bo worth while to recall the witticism per petrated at the' great Bostonian's ex pense bv Henry landers upon i no occa sion some years ago when Dr. Brooks was under consideration for a bishopric. ' Who is Phillips Brooks? asked an in nocent Philadelphian. "Oh," said 1-landers, "lie's an Episcopalian with lean ings toward Christianity." Harper's Weeklti savs: " Hon. Charles Francis Adams. Jr.. who was for six years President of the Union Pacific rail- road, is naturally a graduate oi uarvaru and a thorough Bostonian. He has a delightfuH home on Commonwealth ave nue, but lives at uuinov, his birthplace, during the summer. Having served his country with distinction during tho war, io began the study ot ratlroad law, and met with much success in its practice in iter years." Senator George has tho true look of a Mississippi roustaboct in his Fourth of uly clothes. There is nothing of tho tide about tho big. heart v and careless man, whoso garments lit niui as if ho had been measured with a two-foot rulo and the tailor had shaped them out with cross-cut saw. He is pi-t tho sort of fannor-liko old fellow whom you would expect to meet nt a cross-road grocery dickering about tho price of molasses or tho weight of a prize hog. Countess Widenbruck, a wealthy Aus trian lady, has sold one of her estates in K.irnthon, the old castle of I'anzer.iiorg, which was built in tho fifteenth cent'ity by tho Archbishop of Sal.burg. This pi elate was a man of quaint and curious fancies, and n tor pondering lo.ig and grnvjly ns to what should b-i unique feat ure of hi? castle, no determined co mako ii a Kind of perpotua alm.tmie bv giving it a.) many gat m as tho year has months, ni.tiiv fooms aa tho" year has weeks nn 1 is niin.y windows as the year haa da . s. FOREIGN NEWS. Prince Bismarck Issues a Card of Thanks. FESTIVAL TO SIGN0R CRISPI Austria Proposes to Reduce Her Gar risons in Provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. CRIME AND CRIMINAL: 'tlllt' W 1,000 of Dflnrral HoticrHii H.'Iil in lloiutx for .A Uracil Laici ny. The Land Department at Washington iaa U'en informed by a batch of letters received that the Register and Receiver of the Visalia (Cal.) land otlico had un necessarily Won dolavlng action on 800 entries made in that district. The chargo iad been made that they wero Wing in- fine mvd by some land company, whose Interests caused them to tight the wit tier. Tho charges are rather serious, ud will bo Inveatigutcd, Judge Marshall of Chippewa Falls, Wis., has sentenced Sovnr Seney, Hiip pown count v's defaulting Treasurer, to four yeaib in the p"inteiiti.iry. Tho grand juiv of New-York has filed: nn indictment '.gainst Charles V Jung, a medical student . charging i.im ith mur dering Ins wife by giving her morphine. New Jersey is puzzled with a young burglar, aged 11 vears. who has been convicted four times, and has spent four years ol his young life in prisons and re formatories. Daniel Rosecranz, a nephew of General Roseununs, has been held in (I 000 bonds ut Madrone. Cab, for the alleged lurceAy of a calf. Tho arrest is thought to bo a conspiracy against Rosecranz. Robert McGregor, tho young railroad employe who stubbed and killed Es ill Samuels, a waiter in a restauniiit nt Oak- hind mole, Cal., a few months ngohus been acquitted of tho chargo of murder. George F. Chism, bookkeeper of the Albany Casket Company, was uriested in Albany, N. Y., the other day with $1, (500 of the firm's money in his possession ns ho was alxuit to take a train for Mon treal. Herr Kraal, a well-known banker, has lieen iooIhmI and murderod in broad day- ear Eisenach, American emigration agents swarm in Italy. In London they talk of providing inu sic lor moorers miring oiuiier nour. The cultivation of tobacco has been prohibited in Egypt by the Khedive, An exhibition of fruit, from Australia is made in lxmdon, which is remarkable for size and quality. News received at the Citv of Mexico from Honduras says the rebels of that country have been dispersed. English workiiiginen's clubs are in creasing. Tho rooms contain billiards books and gymnasium apparatus. A conspiracy to overthrow President Rodriguez of Nicaragua has been discov ered, and the leaders are in arrest. (treat Britain is likely to have another war with the Boers in South Africa, and troops are being sent to Bechuanaland Hon. John T. Bruniie of the English Parliament for Norwich has endowed chair of economic science in tho Liver- !ool University with X 10,000. Work has been begun in Columbia on the railroad that is to connect tho port ot Cartegena with tho iMagdalena river about eighty miles above its mouth. Englishmen, jealous of French ascend eney, consequent on the Beyrout harbor, the jJamascus road and the Jatla and Je rusalem railway, are promoting a rail way from Saida to Damascus. In order to have them ready for a sud den attack the Gorman and French gar risons near the frontier aro aroused in the middle of the night and made to turn out with arms ready for battle. The members of the various labor and other associations in Palermo, Italy, have decided to give a great festival in honor of ex-Premier Crispi on Mav 28. the anniversary of Garibaldi's entrance into 1'alermo. A committee has been formed at Ham burg to organize a festival in celebration of the fourth centenary of the discovery ot America, all prominent pen-ons in thfl empire will be invited in addition to representative Uermans in America. There is a great demand for Russian sugar in Central Asia, especially in Per sia, whither it is transported by way of Batouin and Poti. This demand "has caused many large sugar factories in the South to double their working capacity. Austria proposes to reduce her gani sons in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the troops in those provinces having suc ceeded in destroying tho bands of rob bers that had their haunts in the mount ains and forests of tho Montenegrin frontier. Duke Gunther, the Kaiser's brother- n-iaw, is under a cloud for absence with out leave from his regiment in Berlin. The Kaiser, to whose knowledgo tho matter came, has intimated to his rela tive that he must give strict attention to his military duties. An outbreak has occurred at Amapola, Honduras, which proved successful to the insurgents for only a few hours. The government troops recaptured the garri son, killed one of the re!ol leaders, Gen eral Bardales, and inflicted great loss on the body of the rebels. Much excitement has Ipen caused nt Valparaiso by an attempt to assassinate the leading "members of the Cabinet. The persons engaged in the plot at tempted to tnke the lives of the Minis ters bv means of a lioiiib thrown at the intended victims in the street. The Kaiser has given orders through ine ;u mister ot l'unnc works that no person shall bo permitted to ride free on the government railways unless actually engaged in the service of the govern ment, and that officials allowing any vio lation of this rule shall bo dismissed. The Queen Regent of Spain was ap pointed umpire in the dispute letween Colombia and Venezuela over the bound' arv lines between those two Republics She establishes the loundary lines along the rivers Orinoco, Atabapo and Negro, which gives Colombia tho whole of Coa- jiro,San Faustinoand Aranco Territories. The workinginen of Geestenmnde pro' pose to present a testimonial to Scbumf field, tho Socialist shoemaker, in mem ory of his championship of the Socialist cause against rnnce Bismarck in the re cent election. Schnialtield has received letters from all parts of Germany ami Europo congratulating him on the run which he made against the ex-Chancellor. The jubilee of the tonic-sol-fa move ment will bo celebrated in London bv , two special festivals the first, a service at St. Paul's Cathedral on July 7. d- mission win ou iimueu io inosy noiding .tonic-sol-fa certificates, fo that the en tire congregation of some 10,000 persons will consist exclusively of trained vocal ists. The second festival at the Crystal Palaco will tako place on July 18. "The Bol-faists will there have a choir o 20,-000. A HIbIi OHIclnl'n Trlrpliono Experience. An amusing anecdote is told about tho recent experience of Baron Von Mitt nacht. the Wurteinburg minister presi dent, with the telephone. His excellen cy was lately paying a visit incognito to Ids son at Ulm. While inspecting tho sights of tho town in company with his relatives nnd a Hamburg senator, ho went at tho request of the latter to tho postofilco to try the new telephone am nection between Ulm and Stuttgart. Af ter ringing and asking to bo connected with the foreign office at that town tho familiar voice of the chancery servant was heard asking in broad Wurteinburg dialect: "Who is there?" To Herr Von Mittnacht's reply "Minister President Mittnacht" there camo the Impatient answer: "You be blowed: don't try and green uie; the minister president is not at Ulm." His excellency replied: "Yes, I am here: call Councilor Ii. to tho tele phone." Tho servant would not believe the voice of the minister, and gave tho well known evasive answer: "All the gentlemen have gone out." The minis ter's angry order had no clTect. The ser vant at length broke oil" the communica tion after a final asseveration that his in terlocutor was quite a different person from what he professed to be. and that he w as not going to bo caught so easily. Chicago Times. A Hie Windfall. The English plasterer who has been left a fortune estimated at 1.400,000 by a relative in Australia has been discov ered at Kettering, in Northamptonshire. His name is John James Pearce, and un til a few weeks ago he lived at the par ish of Kingsthorpc, a hamlet of North ampton, lie lodged with a lady named Weston, after the decease, a few months ago, of his wife, who committed suicide. Fear of poverty was ascribed as tho cause ol her act. Last bunday, while reading, he came across a paragraph an nouncing that a Sydney clergyman had left 1,100.000 to" a man in England named Pearce. "Why," exclaimed the plasterer to his landlady, "that's me; bo's my nuclei That money belongs to me!" 1 1 is identity has already been ac knowledged by the Loudon agents of tho Australian solicitors to tho deceased millionaire. Pearce leaves England for Australia in the course of a day or two. Ho worked for several master plasterers in Northampton, and is described by his fellow workmen as a quiet, reserved fel low, a teetotaler, and gave peoplo the idea that he had been better days. Lon don Times. UsittlcMiake Oil. There aro places in South Georgia where men extract oil from tho rattle snake and use it to euro rheumatism. These persons will givo a negro SI to point out a rattlesnake to them, and then they kill it in a peculiar manner. They placo a forked stick over tho snake's head, then put a cord around it and strangle tho snake. This is dono to. keep the snako from biting itself. The body of the reptile is then strung up and the oil extracted from it. It sells at $2 per ounce, and this industry is a very profitable one. The snakes in that sec tion aro very large, averaging fivo feet n length, and ono rattler gives up a great deal of oil. A little negro once saw two rattlers lying close together and wanted to get the money for finding them. It was a mile to the nearest ouse. I Io was afraid tho snakes would crawl off while he was gone, and to he took off his coat and placed it between tho snakes. He went otf. camo back. uid found them still eying tho coat. He had them charmed So the snake is cultivated down thero as a profitable in dustry. Athens (Ga.) Banner. Between January 1 and April 1 of this year 1.7f8 liodies have been cremated in light on the highway u Saxo-Weimar. Tho murderer escaped, 1 rt.i.l na .in ..litu.tn l.lu t(1,l,iill-r,- It.. .!.! tw , ...I win ,i3 i.v, .v.. .u ...v......,, . mu fuicsoi noma. .uricn, .Milan, Koine, whorealKuits has teen obtumed. j Padua, Bologna, Florence London, New D. C. Daro, editor and publisher of tho i York, Cincinnati, St. ljuis, 1 jint-astpr. t . . . . ,.,,... iMi-1 , , . . ,. . . uoiaen .nine at i.as riacuias. normuiiio county, N. M.,is said to bo the murderer of E. Itl. Wilson, lessee of tho Monte zuma mine, whoso body was found tho other day with three bullet holes in it. At Meadvillo. Pa., tho cases of embez- ilemotit against the Ddumators wero continued virtually until the Supreme Court acts on the motion for a change of venue. The grand jury has returned additional bills against members of tho firm. Tho report that RlseotF and NaiarolT. the alleged murderors of Belched', lato llt1, a. I !! l I 11 1 r I lit 111! II Itik li'llPik 4MlttltWt tiltatOlVt Wl MIIIHV.VI lll captured ut Krujova, Roumanin, is con tinued, it is also announced mat tno Romanian authorities will deliver the prisoners to thu Bulgarian government. 1is Angeles, Washington. Buffalo. sto k holm and Gothenburg. The creiuatoi i s in Manchester nnd Hamburg will be opened next July. Eighteen Burbners have been cremated this year, and the Berlin Society for Cremation lus in creased its membership to 1,100. Bismarck has Tho VIIIhkk llliii'Usinitli'H Klvul. To see lightning assume tho role of a blacksmith is a sight which no man ex pected to witness a few years ago. The utter subjugation of the element that gives the thunderstorm its majesty and that cleaves the granite of the mountain peak, was manifested all last week, in the working of a bit of mechanism iu .Mechanical hall. A rapid adjustment of two bits ol cold steel, a touch upon a lover, and. Io! about the junction of the pieces of metal there flashed a circlet of cheiry red that soon became snow white with intensity of heat. W'hilo one's watch ticked u scoiv the fiei'co heat made the two biln of hard steel one, and the work was ended No human hands, or firo kindled by man, could perform the same work in so perfect a way, or so swiftly. It was a wedding in which a busy dynamo a mile away was tho offici ating power, and it was a sight full of interest and beauty. Iu tho hands of all potent man, the thunderbolt of Jupiter becomes the rival of the village black smith. The possibilities of tho process of electric welding aro wellnigh limit less. Pittsburg Bulletin. published this card : 'On my birthday I rocoivM congnmila-l ions from Germans all over Germany ami tho rest of the world. Mv pleasure thereat renders it necossarv for me to give all equally warm acknowledgme nts. I do not wish to remain in debt in this matter, oven if thankfully so. With greater energy thnn I possess I could not give individual answer?, and therefon I ask all indulgence. Accept herewith my heartiest thanks for your kiudness." VEGETABLE PANAGEA PREPARED FRSM ROOTS & HERBS, FORTHE CURE OF AND ALL OTHER DISEASES ARISING FROM A DISORDERED STATE ofthe STOMACH OR AN INACTIVE LIVER. rOH SALC BV ALL DRUGGISTS & GENERAL DEALERS' 1