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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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."
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