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B. CHANCEY, Publisher, Union, Or. PACIFIC COAST. Portland's Population is Now 80,000. A HOME FOR MRS. FREMONT. A Dangerous Rook Discovered in the Track of the Coast Steamers Bolow San Simeon. Tho Columbia river salmon pack promises to bo light. A general court-martial lias been or dered to convene at Walla Walla. The interest in tlio oil development in Ilumlxjldt county, Gal., is unabated. Port TowiiHcnd is to bavo an electric line Ave miles in length, to bo completed by August 1. Tlio total majority in Portland, East Portland and Albina in favor of eonsoli dation was 10,120. Tlio prune crop of Southern California 1h a failure, owing to the recent rainy weather causing tlio fruit to drop. Portland voted Juno 1 on tlio consoli dation. It carried, and tlio citv now him 80,000 population instead of 45000. Crickets aro said to be destroying nearly all the crops and gardens on the Indian recurvation at Warm .Springs, Or. The Frawer river in British Columbia lias risen rapidly, and the lowlands are being Hooded. The Han Gabriel Valley narrow-gaugo railroad from LosAnueles to iMonroviu is being extended to Duartc, a short dis tance beyond. O. P. Huntington has promised $5,000 for a homo for .Mrs. Jessie Kenton Fre mont as soon as Los Angeles raises .'fj 000 for the purpose. Victoria sealers have sent a protest to the Dominion government against tlio contemplated closing of the I'ehring Sea lor one year lo seal uuiois. Seuttlo has shipped lo Chicago for ox hibltion a 11 r tree 11. 'I feet in length, with a diameter at big end of f-' inches. It is believed to bo ! 10 years old. The Salt Lake Herald has been bought for if 10,000 by a stock company of Salt. Lake capitalists, and will be conducted as a Democratic organ without the Mor mon tendencies. The four men charged with assaulting Juryman Sanders, who hung the jury in the Shank land case lust week at Tomb stone, A. T., were tried before a jury, and threoof them were found guilty. Lioutoiint Dolnhanto of the United States steamer Hasslcr reports having found a dangerous rock in the track of count steamers below San Simeon. A temporary buoy has been placed to mark it. The Interstate Commerce Commission has concluded it bearing of the com plaint of Spokane against the Northern Pacific in the matter of freight rates. Seven weeks' time has lieon granted the railroad' io submit briefs. The leper discovered near Stockton, Cnl., is in not so bad a condition as re ported, lie is isolated from the camp of his fellow Chinese, and was well at tended to by them. The authorities con cluded to let him remain! Airs. Kliznbeth Hollenbeck has given Iis Angeles city ten acres for a nark on Koylo Heights, adjoining the fund re rently donated by ox-Muvor Workinnx Mrs. Hollenbeck 'is the ludy who last year guvo $750,000 for a home for aged people. General McCook has given orders for the troops from FortB Kayitrd, Apache, Kowio and San Carlos to make diligent search in the vicinity of their several poste for any signs of the Indian outlaws who are reported to have been commit ting murders. The quertlon whether the f'Jo.OOO ap propriated for the maintenance of the Washington University could lie drawn upon by the University Land and Huild ing Commission has Ix'on decided in the negative by Governor Ferry and Auditor Heal. Tho llullding Commission will have to get its funds from the sale of lnndt and for the expenses of the com mission tho Auditor will draw his war rant, which will bear 5 percent. interest. Secretary Lolong of the California Hoard of Horticulture announces that Alliort KooIhiIo of Alameda will depart boon for Australia, New Zealand and ad jacent countries to search for parasitic insects for Introduction into that State. An arrangement has been made whereby the Department of Agriculture pays his nalnry ami the State Hoard of Horticult ure pays all his expenses, and lie will thus Ihi kept abroad at least two years. The last California legislature passed a bill appropriating $5,000 for the purpose of sending an expert to Australia to search for parasitic and predaceous in fects for distribution throughout the Ktato. Collector Phelps of San Francisco has received a private dispatch from Wash ington stating that tlio revenue cutter Corwin would not immediately proceed to Alaska. She will Ihi assigned to teni jwniryduty at the San Francisco district pending the return of the ltichard Bush. Tho programme for the revenue cutters, as indicated in this latest news, is that the Hear will Ih stationed (or the cunn ing sealing season in Alaska. The Hush, which left San Francisco several days ago with Treasury agents, will land bur passengers at Prihylolf Islands and then return to San Frunciboo, when the Cor win will be relieved. The Hush will re fume duty in Alaska in the latter part of the sealing season, in stationing the ('orwlu and ltueh in the Han Francisco district the idea is to keep watch of any of the Japanese sealers that endeavor to iittss up the coast Into Behring Sea. The (Virwln Ixifoio making tho Sun FruncUco dUtrlct her toniorary lioadiiuiirlciM uilj take mipiflles ami iimlriiutluiuj to tlia JJukh uud Hwir, THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. I-'Innl Trlnl of tlio St-:iittrr Xuniiik I'rovi'H Sh t Iftfficloi ) . The Secretary of War has ordered the garrisons at rort Abraham l-incoin, jN 1)., rort J.t'Wis, (Jol., anil l'ort fchaw .Mont., to be withdrawn, and the several posts named will be abandoned. Senators Jones of Nevada, Ilisrock and Carlisle, members of the Semite Committee on Tarill". have prewired formula for the collection of statistics of the wt''cs paid employes in all indus tries. The final trial of the new stcamr Newark took place from Norfolk the other dav, and the vessel proved very satisfactory. She was run 100 miles out to sea m a heavy sea and bad weather, Her machinery worked well, and she proved to be a very steady ve-sel. It is reported that the authorities have formed an impression that Minister Douglass did not fulfill the expectations of the government in the negotiations for the coalim; station at Suimtna nay Island of San Domingo, which had been intrusted lo him, and that he will return home in a short time and be granted an opportunity to give an account of bis stewardship. Hv some it is assorted will arrive at Washington within the present month, a id Unit h" niav never return to Ilayti in an ollicial capacity. There is a fair chance for iinothc hitch in the I'ehring Sea matter before it. reaches arbitration, and there are ob stacles vet to be overcome belore an agreement enn be reached for a close season. The bill passed bv the Hons of Commons confers authority UX'ii the Queen to issue a proclamation prohibit ing British subjects from taking seals during a certain period, but the issuance ot this proclamation is dependent upon the disposition of the Queen, or rat tic of Lord Salisbury, 'the British govern ment, it is undoistood, will insist that the United States shall be pledged pay British subjects for losses sustained through the deprivation ( sealiir.' priv ileges during the elosi' season if the contentions of tho United States are not unstained bv the arbitration. On the other hand the British government will probably agree to pay damages to the American company in case a d liferent decision is reached. Of coiiro, the I res ident can give no pr.eii pledge for the payment, of damages, that being a mat ter that Congress alone can deal with Congress not lieing in session, this ques- i! II.. ....... .1 !l .1 1 ! I. lion complicities i lie siiiiuuoii, imu n i: doubtful how the matter will lie settled CABLEGRAMS. Tho Itoiniin Until pimmi A llllrt Bit Willi a I'lllL""" of liHCUHlM. The Prussian Diet will not reduce the corn duties. The Jewish quarter at Prague hni been almost completely destroyed by lire. Lord Landsdowne, it is stated, will not resign the Governor-Generalship o( India. Last year according to ollicial returns thirtv-one persons starved to death m lxmdon. The Japanese would-be assassin of the Czarowitz has been sentenced to penal servitude for life. The French Senate has adopted a substantially permitting the I'a.is tual system of betting on races. bill mu As showing the tendency toward rail road building in China, proposals have been invited of ICuglisl: steelmakers for .i.uuti tons ot rails to bo delivered nt lientsin on October 1. 1 he approximate results of the recent census in regard to the population of .ilasgowand Liverpool stand as follows Glasgow and suburbs. 707.7o l : Liverpool ami suburbs, 7-.),.i H'. Queen Wilhehiiinii of Holland, but III years out, has delighted the Dutch Mm isters by the ease and gmce with which she performed the duties inciiinbont upon her at her first appearance in pub nc inc. Dresden is governed by seventy-llvo Deputies and one Chairman. One-half of the number must Ihi property owners ami one-halt non-property owners. Tins divides tho legislation between the rich and tho poor. leheng-Ki-Tong, formerly the acting First Secretary of the Chinese legations in Imdoii and Fans, hns been con demned to death. This is believed to be the outcome of the dipl niiate's swin dling actions while in Franco. Fifteen hundred Circassians will eini grate during July from the Caucasus to Asiatic Turkey, receiving free grants of land from the Sultan. During the au tumn or next spring 1,800 more will em igrate under similar conditions. The Transafrican ritiho.nl has been completed front Loanda to Ainbaca, Kit) miles in the interior. It bus been built by native workmen, and daily trains aro run over the line. I' our years have elapsed since the line was started. The reports of the Russian insurance companies for the year 1800 show large deficits in consequence of the fires that raged in every part of the Umpire last summer. "Ollicial investigation proved that more than one-third of those fires was the work of incendiaries." The State or ollicial visit of Kniperor William and his wife to Knglainl will be limited to ten days, during which they are to bo the guests of the Qaeen at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, and during the remainder of their stay in F.ngland they are to l incognito. The Imperial Cabinet has unproved a plan to establish colonies of convicts sentenced to hard In Kir on the Kussiuu islands of the Caspian Sea. To such colonies convicts will be sent fmin the natives of the Caucasus, the Transmit piau districts and TurkiuUiu. who could not stand the severe climate of Siberia or of the Islands of Saghaleen. The KonianCampagna is ntllicted with a plague of locusts, and the Svndie of H niie have issued a circular imlerimj all f.irmers on wluwo lauds tho locusts have aiqmared to spread straw lightly upon tin-around and set fire to it to dentroy the insects. 1-oconta have al appeared! in largo numbers in Sardinia, and the galley slaves are employed in destroying them. The lumtHir dealers of the Black Son Mid the Dnieper have appealed to the government to enact measure by which the Importation of foreign lumber may lie oheelstsl. They nhow (hut tineo 1KS0 the imHjrtiitioii o) lumber from Guliolu bus Inorcased to an alarming extent ami taken (lie ufttrkutM In nil the southern el(c where UubkIhii wood win bold pre-vluunly. EASTERN ITEMS. Illinois' Corn Damaged by Black Bugs. BAD HARVARD STUDENTS. Now York Company Organized for the Preservation of the Health and Comfort of Citizens. P.T. Itanium's body is to lie cremated. Ex-President Arthur's old homo on Lexington avenue, New York, is for sale. A street-car war is looked for in Pitts burg over r. rate of 3 cents for six mileB. Pending the untangling of a legal de cision, Terre Haute, Ind.,bas two police forces. The Hamilton Kubb?r Company of Trenton, N. J., has gone into the hands of a receiver. A black bug, apparently of a now va riety, has damaged much of tho new corn crop in Illinois. The Templars' Conpress at Kdinburg, Scotland, has decided to meet at Des Moines, la., in 18!).'l. The w orld " do move." A colored cav alry company is to be stationed at Fort Meyer, opposite Washington and near Arlington. Harvard students have been daubing the bronze statue of the college found ers, which is situated in the campus, with red paint. Hepresentative Cooper announces that ho will, when Congress meets next win ter, demand a thorough investigation of tho pension office. The schooner Thomas Hume is be lieved to have gone down in Lako Mich igan with all on board, involving the loss of seven lives. Italian laborers havo been taken to Bismarck, N. I)., to take the place of the strikers on tho Northern Pacific, and trouble is anticipated in consequence. The New York customs officers have seized a trunk filled with gold cups and saucers and spoons, which were in the possession of a passenger of the steamer Latin. A company has recently been organ ized in New "York city which proposes to make its principal business the preser vation of the health and comfort of cit izens. In th6 Illinois Senate bills providing for the periodical weighing of grain in warehouses and for State inspection of building and loan associations have been passed. In a Wisconsin municipal court the other dav the sentence of a Salvation Vnny soldier was doubled because he said "amen" to what tho Judge first gave him. The enumeration of school children just completed at Indianapolis shows a falling off of M,000 1,400? from th figures of two vears ago. A new count is demanded. A luck trust has been formed at Bos ton. Five of tho largest manufacturing concerns of the country, representing live-eighths of the entiie industry, are in the combine. The organization of the American Uni versity has been elfected at Washington. :n appeal will shortly be made to the American people for $5,000,000 for the early commencement of the work. On St. Paul's Island, a settlement half way between I ape Breton and New foundland, every man, woman and child on the island, with the exception of two men, aro prostrated with a disease re sembling la grippe. It is now asserted that Attorney-Gen eral Miller thinks the uppointnionts of the new Circuit Judges should be made without waiting for the meeting of Con gress, and is urging tlio President to make no further ilelav. loseph 10. Bovd, father of Governor lames K. Bovd of Nebraska, and whose failuie to take out uuturalizntion papers was the cause of the Nebraska guberna torial muddle, died at Zauesville, Ohio, last week, aged 70 years. St. Johns (N. F.) dispatches state that the French will allow no selling of bait in St. George's Bay to American vessels. I he news is probably exaggerated. Noth ing ollicial in regard to the report has been received at Washington. In the South "resbvtorian Assembly at. Birmingham, 'a,, a resolution has been adopted dec'aring that church fairs and festivals were not the proper means of raising money; also one calling on the World's Fair to keep the gates closed on Sunday. More homes have been broken tin bv the strikes in the coke region of lVnn. svlvuniu that, have Inst eliiMoil tlnm all the strikes that preceded this gigan :.. f..:i.... . i :.. -... i" i in- i in u 1 1', m-iwi in ill it l 'lulling ill llouriV of the destitution of hundreds of home less families. Postmaster-General Wanamaker nv he is waiting to hear from certain par ties in California who desire to In- heard oncerning the location of the oostolllce. and upon receipt of this by mail ami after it has been given ilue consideration the postollice matter will I settled. flie will of the late Charles Pratt nt the Standard Oil Company, who died on .Miiv l last, Iihs lust Iven t ed in thn Surrogate's otlieo in Brooklyn, The great hulk of his estate, valued at from lfi.- OOO.OOO to $20,000,000, by the terms of the will is resolved into a trust to bo used for the Uuieflt of the doscoiuUiiia of his family. J. G. Werst. a crop exiwrt. estiiimt.m that the States of Kansas, Missouri, Il linois, Indiana. Ohio and Michigan will produce, pro idod favorable conditions continue until harvest, !M2,8,S 1,000 laish ols of winter wheat against 1-12,177,000, according to government estimates for DUO. Illinois is estimated to from l.tWi.OOO acres 8t,71-Mk)0 bushels. Hie Board of Health lias closod thn Omaha Medical Institute on the ground that it was in an unsanitary condition. it is claimed that many deaths huv ban. penml there, and Unit the hodla of the victims have l)n secretly iHirled. Uu ilurtakur tiring, who has Ixien burying the dead or the Medical limtltuto, will be iirroMcd, Uu lit churned with forglug burial permit, PERSONAL MENTION. rin- (,'.: row 11. of 1 1 1 1 -1 .t Will Not VMI Sim rranclKfi,. General Neal Dow is still living in the house he built for himself in 1329. He ia over 87 years of age. General Jubal Karly still wears Con federate gray, and has long while hair and whiskers. He mingles little with men. The Czarowitz will not visit Pan Fran cisco ns was expected, but will go to Vladivostok to attend the opening of the Siberian railway. .Judge Schnfiuld of the Court of r,ln'"-i is now eligible for retirement oi pa-., and no less than eight applicant- i -r ap pointment in his place have filed papers with the President. When Mark Twain gets himself com pletely sequestered in P.urope he expects to be nddressed in some quiet little French village, where he and his family will abide the next two years. In electing its newest member as Pi erre Ixiti and inserting him on the lolls under that name instead of bis own (Julian Viand) the French Academy has made an entirely new departure. Major Count von Moltke has been summoned to an audience with the Km peror, on which occasion he will return the insignia of the orders bestowed upon his late uncle, the great Field .Marshal. Caprivi, the new German Chancellor, has a face that reminds the observer of Bismarck's. In manners, however, he is totally unlike the man of blood nnd iron, for he is mild, conciliatory and courteous. President Stephen of the Canadian Pacific, who has Iwen raised to the Peer age, will take the name of Iinl -Mount Stephen and so keep his own name and retain his association with the chief work of his line. Congressman-elect Stewart of Illinois is the George Francis Train of his town, Aurora, in one respect. Whenevci: a circus comes along near there he char ters a special train, and takes a lot of children to the show at his own expense. After preaching two hours and fifteen minutes in Chattanooga one nrin night recently, Uov. Sam Jones asked permis sion of his congregation to take oil' his coat, which was readily granted. The noted evangelist then finished his ser mon in his shirt sleeves. Young George Vanderbilt is a student and thinker, and professes to eaie noth ing for society and to despise the ad vantages which vast wealth is able to confer. He will find many young men willing to take all the trouble incident to getting rid of bis inconieoll' bis hands. The projected Lelund Stanford, Jr., University is recruiting its faculty quite strongly from Cornell University. 10. H. Woodruff, 1S8S, is to be librarian; A. G. Laiid, ISiH, instructor in Greek. By the way, something ingenious must be got up to dispose of that "Jr." in the university cheer. Major Wilhelm von Moltke and Major Helmuth von Moltke. the nephews of the dead Field Marshal, have become the objicts of much interest recently in Germany. Major Helniuth, who "was named fbr his uncle, acted as his per sonal Adjutant, and lived, together with bis family, in the house of the general stair. The failure of Prince Bismarck to ap pear at the funeral of the late v'ount von .Moltke was generally supposed to be dbe to the desire of the of-Chancellor to avoid meeting the Kniperor. To the sur prise of many people, however, the llum Imryer Snrhriehten, Bismarck's organ, announced a few days ago that the Prince received no invitation to attend the obsequies of his friend. Bismarck is qu'ited bv a Berlin corre spondent to the elfict that he will pub lish bis memoirs during his life, so that he can defend them if they are attacked. I le says it would niuke him "jump in his coffin" if soino persons he could think of were to have an opportunity of lying about him unanswered. Some other persons think they can abo think of some of the persons be can thus think of. Itov. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, who has been elected Dr. Howard Crosby's successor as President of the New York Society for the Prevention of Grime, un derstands the practical side of life, lie paid his wav through Amherst College by teaching, and followed the profession for several years aftergraduation. Study, travel and observation have given his pulpit teachings a gauge which is broader than the ordinary theological teaching. CRIME AND CRIMINALS. Cirri. In the lli'ud-l.otti'i- Olllro Arrc-I.'d for ItoliMnir I.i'ttiTH 1 1 nnd I ,-l. August Bahuke, collector for Goldberg, Bowon it Co. of San Francisco, is re por'ed to ki a defaulter in the sum of fS.OOO. ltichard C. Duncan, the American who was detected in the act of killing bis wife in Wales, in now on trial for the crime a Carnarvon. James W. Kerr, the foundrvnian who shot and killed hilwim! Cogan, a molder, during the lalnir troubles a year ago, has neen acquitted at Mm rrancisco. Arthur U. Sales, a clerk in the dead- letter office, has been arrested, charged wiui moping tenors namiieii. u is es timated that he has taken thousands of dollars. Jacob Miller, a prominent Buffalo (X. Y.) German and cashier for lunlmcker A Davis, has been arrested for embeaisle ment. lie is taid to havo stolen over $:w,ooo. During a row over a game of " craps " on the Grind Hav plantation near New Orleans Will Jenkins was killed by Sam lleuimell. A number of levee Imii.U at once orvaniied and banned Alex Ct.ntp bell , llemmell and another man. All ere nejjroes. Chrles W. Mauler, ox-cashier of tho Commercial lUnk of Guthrie, which in mil ut ion failed verl mouths ago for $100,000 has Ikhsu captured. The otlhvrs atv looking fur the otiier officiate, who ro, abk under indictment. A man named ShMuklnnd at Tomb stone, A. T., killed Dr. G. C. Willis 1. cuuh tho Utter did not pay the former veral hundred dollnre the Old Guard H'Vl.",.,.L,V,ml,n' of whtoh Y lllis wan resident agent. A jury v, an unable to ateree on the verdict, eleven being for Shanklm' ami nit tal and one for euiivit'Uuii of niunW. Then the frieiiiUof ShuiiUiii mobbed th una lip rur, which act luu romed the people of loiuMoiietouoondiiiun daiiggruiu to the unlawful clement. FOREIGN NEWS. ever Rages Among the British at Malta. KNUTSF0RD COERCION BILL ai; the Jewish Tailors and Sewing Women in East End, London, Soon to Strike. Pnrne.l will come to America as soon as Parliament adjourns. Quern Y.etr.rin ba presented the Sul tan of Morocco with an elephant. The Wel'h census shows that their are seven centenarians in the piineipul ity. Influenza in the House of Com nons is charged to bad ventilation and sewer gas. Cholera has appeared among insane pilgrims on the Island of Kamaian, oil ilie west coast of Arabia. A IHidon Knbbi says the statements concerning Jewish immigration into Fngland are exaggerated. Kniperor William has hern 'dling his people that peace is assured for this year, "and even for next jear." P.ilboa has been declared in a state of siege, owing to tho frequency of mobs of strikers creating disturbances " Ouida " is out inn two ohimn tir id" in the L uidon Tune against " tne sick ening rubbish of modern novels." To England Cana la is the new West. There will be an immense outpouring from Fngland to Canada this summer. A wiiter in the Kurovcun itre.tqer predicts that inevitable financial ruin is bound to overtake the Kussian Empire. There are two storm centers in Europe just now. One is finuno.al, the other po litical. The first is located in Portugal, the other in Kussia. The rough cast of the census returns shows that the population of both Lon don and the provinces has been consid erably overestimated. Vienna, with a population ot 800,000 for the town proper and -10 ,000, for the suburbs, counts l.;U5 and 177 doctors for these respective divisions. v Crop reports from the southern prov inces of Kussia. extending to th Volga, are bad. It is estimated that tlitf general yield will be 40 per cent, below Mie aver age. The night refuge of the Salvation Army at Belleville has been closed by the Paris police, because it had become a rendez vous for all the dangerous characters of the city. Lake llmen in the government of Nov gorod, Russia, has been the scene of a terrible hurricane, nineteen timber ves sels being wrecked and all their crews drowned. The London Time makes the meeting of the new Canadian Parliament the oc eiort of a pathetic appeal to tho Do minion to relax its tarifiT in favor ol British goods. Fever is raging at .Malta, and there is an average of forty of the officers and men of each of tho vessels of the British fleet prostrated with the disease. The hospitals are overcrowded. The New South Wales Assembly di vided evenly on a vote of confidence in the government and against a resolution in f:ivor of Australian federation. Tho Speaker decided in favor of the govern ment. The International Peace Congress at Milan has approved the motion that the difficulty arising from the New Orleans lynching ought to be referred to the In ternational Institute at Ghent for arbi tration. Expulsions continue in St. Peterebun', where groups of Jews, including well dressed wonum, are seen in the streets under the escort of gendarmes, going to police stations before they aie started for the frontier. A monument will be erected shortly in Tutlingen in the Black Forest to Mux S'hneekenburger, the author of " Tlio Watch on the Ithiue." The fund for this purpose is $0,000, ar,d contributions are still solicited. Special cars for invalids will bp placed nil fill rn 11...1.1.1 linn.. ...... . v... .... iimiil'iiii iiiiu-i lull ill ,-.i. Petersburg. They will be fitted out with I easy berths ami utgical instruments that hi ay be required in cases of acei- dents on the road. The British llouso of Commons has withdrawn the Knutsford ciercion bill, Newfoundland beving promised to sup Iort a measure to chiryoiit the tr atv obligations and awards of the Arbrra tion Conunisriioners. In the New Hebrides Island io th- South Pacific r. st.itoof anarch v previtis. Nu uieroiH conHicts have occuried, m which U0 natives were killed, and in each case the bodies of the deal wee eaten by the victors. The Prince of Wales originally t ' r 1 Old Boots for the Derby, and d:l hedge until too late to got good ti-fu r Common, thereby diminishing b's w li nings at least two-thirds. He was at first reported to have won 5,00,1. The town of Gottlob in Tranvl v , most of the inhabitants of w in German-speaking, has been aim i -tirely destroyed bv lire. There is ' distress among the pitople, who r. withi.ut shelter, and many of t la-! u ar in a destitute condition. A relief committee hns secured a 1 railway tunnel at Charlottenbm,', (i, r many," to shelter Russian Jews en r "U to Hamburg for embarkation to N vv York. Clothing, tea, coliW, bread ad brandy are in readiness to r-liew i misery of tlio crowds. Heart-r. i .1 . scenes are enacted, nnd terrible UK s . suffering aro told. The sanitary authorities of M v have been invoatigatitigthe uiMimt... ' v of Udierw unit, many complaints . f sole of an inferior article having ', i made. The reeult of the iuouirv is a r -Hrt to the eiTeet that iu 140 poiiist- i f ue examined only threw h.iih U ,,( liver m wit were found. The reimuii ler of the rmmpound wae made up of kkm, feet, paring and aiiuilurly indict n Lie bd iuiHiuble material. The mat und iiidii .i( the adulterated food will Ik) proe tiled, v..... 'jitnliirf in--, iif Unit. Ground cork and some other barks, nnd the sawdust of the soft woods, as well as tho charcoal made of these sub fctances, are very good ictainers of heat. Lampblack also works well. When the thing to be kept hot is at very high temperature, some light, incombustible powders are very suitable. Among the best of these are fossil meal and the cal cined magnesia and magnesium carbon ate of the druggists. Fossil meal con sists of the silicious skeletons of micro scopic vegetables, called diatoms, ex ceedingly various in slmio and size, tho very largest of them hardly reaching tho length of the hundredth of an inch. It Ls found abundantly in somo peat mead ows and in the bottoms of ponds. Both fossil meal find magnesium carbonate havo been largely used in covering steam pipes. Obviously, when the same light sub stance is tried in both the first and sec ond apparatus above mentioned, and tho results differ, it must be owing to the in ability of the substance to hold the in cluded air still in the first arrangement. So jwwdered plumbago or black lead, which is very slippery, shows nearly twice as much transniissive power in one case as in the other. Loosened asbestos fiber also lets through about twice as much heat in the vertical arrangement as in the horizontal. Yet this liber may bo split up exceedingly fine, but the great difference in its behavior as compared with cotton or wool must be owing much less to its own greater specific conduct ing power than to the smoothness and inelasticity of its fibers. Professor John M. Ordway in Popular Science Monthly. Tin- llninlkcrrlili f In I'l-iiiicr. Lace was used to ornament handker chiefs in Franco as early as lliob In W48 they were embroidered and had tas sels at each of the four corners. In tho time of tho Directory, that period of fashionable eccentricity, they underwent many vagaries, Those ladies who did not care to wear tho pocket attached to the girdle and wished to havo the hands at liberty tucked the fan into the belt, slid the pmo into the corsage and had the handkerchief carried by n gallant, to whom it was necessary to apply when it happened to bo needed. If the hand kerchief carrier could not bo found, or was insidiously flirting with another wo man, and the nose imperatively demand ed blowing, the case was serious. When the French blow tho nose. ;f. should be remembered, it is for all it is worth. No one who has not witnesM'd the performance could ever believo the nasal passages possessed of such a honor ous quality, and when the effort is sev eral times repeated one might easily im agine himself listening to the Angtl Gabriel rehearsing for the last judgment The French fashion in this respect is not to be rcckksly imitated like Paris stjle in laces, bilks and satins, fans, dresj-en, bonnets and other things pertaining to female attire. San Francisco Chronicle. Victims I y Tlioiisaiuls. Records of great earthquakes fill a large space in the world's history, and instances where people have perished by thousands from this cause aro mourn fully numerous. An earthquake accom panied by a volcanic eruption destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum and buried most of their inhabitants in the ruins in the year 70, A. D. The en tiro world was shaken from pinnacle t'k foundation stone in the year 51!!. In 5,i7 Constantinople suffered terribly from an earthquake, which killed thousands rn its inhabitants. In TIC an awful shock visited China, India, Persia and Palestine, killing hundreds of thousands of human beings, besides beasts beyond calculation. In ll.-3, C0.U00 person perished from an earthquake shock in Syria alone; in 120:, CO, 000 were killed or buried alivo in Cilicia. Iu 1-1 ."(!, 40,000 were killed in. Naples. In l.Vd Lisbon, Portugal, had her first great shock that which killed 80,000 people. In 10215 Naples was again visited and had 70,000 of her people taken nway by tho earthquake demon. Tlx next year the Schamnki was constantly rocked by earthquakes for three mouth-, during which timo 80,000 porsous were killed. St. Louis Republic. A IlllllK IHC ill lloj S. There is a vast difference between the ways and ideas of amusement of tin small boy uptown and the small boy downtown who makes his living by seli ing papers, shining muddy boots or be ing messenger. For instance, the down town newsboy scorns to throw snowballs as a usual thing. He will 'shake dice, "match" coppers or smoke cigarettes and discuss some melodrama playing in his favorito Bowery theatre, but ho abso lutely declines to throw snowballs. On tho other baud, his more innocent broth er seven or i ;ot mill s higher up on tie islaud still c 1 rgs t f..e good old f i ioned spurt if ' ti 'iiiijr" ("try.hing v 5 everybody v"h i mi wball. That s " nssi iH n, f i nr- - VEGETABLE PANACEA PREPARED FROM ROOTS Sc HERBS, FOR THE CURE OF AND ALL OTHER DISEASES ARISINO FROM A DISORDERED STATEofTHE STOMACH " OR AN INACTIVE LIVER. TOH HAtK UV All PnUCCTSTS ft GENERAL DEALERS d