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OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
An lixidk'iit Article of Tukuvo
Raised in Oregon.
NEGROES EMIGRATING TO IDAHO.
ritllmln.tiy Surveys fur Storage Reser
voirs anil Irilu.illni; Canals on
Indian Creek, Idaho.
United States troop have been unt lo
the Navajo reservation to arrest HlaeK
Morse.
Tin fourth bin I K raft lif left 1'ort
Itrnii.' for Sun Francisco. It contains
l.oO.i.iNr") feet of lumber.
The Gowrnor of Arizona bus offered n
reward of $0,000 for tho death of Kid,
the notorious Apiche, ami $:l'JO for each
of hit) i'ommnioiiH.
A li r- at Flagstaff, A. T., consumed all
tin- building i" the Central block and
lUilroad avenue except nix, which were
brick and withstood tho ll.unes. The
lire originated in Knight' fuloon.
The court-martial of CapUvin Lambton
uml MaH'Coiiiinnuder Bowden of II. M.
S. Warspite, jitHt closed at Victoria, It.
0., resulted in tliir being reprimanded
for not paying sufficient iittwnlioii to of
ficial notes on navigation.
The Pacini! Cable lUilwar Company
of San Francisco not a verdict Ht Untie,
Mont., in the United Kutoa Circuit
Court, against the Hutto City Cable
C itnpaiiy for infringement of a patent
ci'ole-ear brake owned by the plaintiff.
The preliminiiry surveys firr the large
aloragc reservoirs and irrigation canals
to bn constructed on Indian creek, about
twenty miles from Koine, are now being
made. The three reservoirs to be built
will cover 1 ,-00 acres of land each, and
about lorty miles of canal will bi) dug.
Tlio P.itaha Farmer states that the
opal onyx mines near that citv have
liecn opened lor a quarter of a mile, and
evoral slabs valued at $500 each have
been taken out. As soon as a drcesing
null is erected the stone will undoubted
ly como into general use in fiuo build
ings. A man about 40 years of aire com
mined suicide at 1is Angeles, lie was
v. ell dressed and bin face was pitted with
smallpox. He tried to ttffaee all t ruces
that could lead to his identity and left a
statement of a sensational nature, the
truth of which is generally discredited.
Colonel A. H. Isham of Sitka, aid on
Governor Knapp's stair, who assisted
Ivan Petrol! to takethecenBUB of Alaika,
believes that Petrol! la thoroughly hon
est, b it that subordinate otlieera per
mitted the errors through carelessness,
lie believes that Petroll'H min i is un
balanced. William Smith on a farm noar Mish
awaka, Or., baa produced an excellent
article of tobacco the leaveH and flavor,
when properly cured, being in every way
equal t that grown in the Southern
Stales. He supplies the home market
in the Nehalem Valley, both for chewing
and smoking, at a reasonable cost, and
says that the soil of Nehalem hsts all the
plenum' s necessary for tuo production of
the plant.
The-Shoshono Falls of the Snake river
of Idaho, which have a body of water
(K)0 feet wide with a fall of 210 feet, are
to be used for deve'oping electric power
for irrigating purposes. A large number
of water wheels will be put in, and
pumping stations operated by electric
motor of large capacity will be estab
lished at suitable points. By this means
the water will be elevated to canals,
through which it will bo distributed to
lands in the adjacent valleys.
An old trapper, who resides in the
Blue Mountains and knows every foot of
the coun ry between the Union Pacific
railroad and Snake river, tells the Milton
Ettqle that there is a desperate band of
lior'sethieves, robbers and murderers
making their rendezvous between the
banks of the Umatilla and Walla Walla
rivers. There are secluded mountain
retreats in that section, where Btock can
be successfully hidden until all search
on tlie part oi the owners is over. Then
the stock is run off and sold. Men who
have mysteriously disappeared are be
lieved to have discovered the seirets of
this outlaw band, and their bones now
lie moldering in some isolated canyon.
INDUSTRIAL BREVITIES.
Women Simessful In thr I'r.tl list.i'e
Itiisinrss Hatlirlii Plose utrj
ill Indianapolis.
Krupp'a Khhch works employ 17,000
people.
Two New York female doctors make
$100 a year,
WaNhington ( I). 0. ) unions kick against
prison latar.
There are twenty-seven American mer
chants in China.
(treat Britain and Ireland have about
20,000 miles of railways.
Waupun Wis.) convicts make IU0.000
worth of shocH annually.
I'.rotherhood of Carpenters' dues
amount to f I ,(XH) a year.
The mileage of the United States
amounts to 171,000 miles.
l!rtiHclH kid-glove makers have called
an international convention,
Palermo, Sicily, has adopted the eight
hour day on government work.
Ilarbura who work on Sunday are be
ing proKccuted by Indianapolis unions.
rhiladelphluns are looking to Central
America for their future mahogany sup
ply. New York city produces 700,0(H),(XX)
worth of manufactured articles per an
num. New York has several women who are
nuking success in the real-extate buai
IleHH. Ualncqville, Fla., boast of a fully de
veloped ear of corn which contains 7H0
grain".
Canada sent 107,00.) head of cattle to
flreat lirita n last year, valued at
000,000.
The output of the cigar factories at
Reading, I'a , so far this year has been
over 100,000,000.
The seal catch fell off. The seawn of
shows a decreane over the previous
year of 10,000 ckins.
In (Jerinany last year 110 per cent, of
the strikes wero successful and 40 per
cent, partly successful.
Schuyler county, N. Y., will market
100,000 barrels of apples, which will
iir.tke the farmers richer by lti),(M'K).
KiiHsia is stated to make the best isin
glass. It is obtained from the giant stur
geon w hich inhabits the Caspian Sea.
Cabbage is a scarce and high-priced
article in Chicago this season; scarcer
and higher in price than for twenty-five
years.
A mystic band of (ierman Commu
nists, who hold all property in common,
thrive on 7,000 acres of land they own
at oar, .
In iHHOw e produced tk),000 tons of pa
per; in 1K0 i, l,'JlK),(HiOtons,or ir,l,0tH) tons
more than tlie total product of European
paper mills.
Houghton countv, Mich., contains 3(1,
000 inhabitants. More than two-thirds
of the male portion thereof are engaged
in copper-mining.
The union bakers of Manchester work
fifty hours a week, while the unorgan
ised tnemU'rs nf the craft of London
work eighty hour.-).
A colored woman, Mrs. Oeorglana
Whetsel of St. John, N. B., controls the
ice trade of that city, employing fifty or
sixty men and ten horsed.
The cultivation of the pineapple in the
Bahamas is a very profitable undertak
ing. At twopence each an acre of pine
apples returns $200 to f-'25.
One hundred and nine thousand loco
motives are at present running on the
earth. Europe has 03,000, America 40,
000, Asia 3,300, Australia 2,000 and Africa
700.
It is said that the most precious col
lection of (ierman wines in the world is
that stored in the cellars of the Grand
Duke of Luxemburg. Some of the vint
ages date back to 17U1.
PURELY PERSONAL.
Both the Democratic and the Republicau
Candidates for Attorney-General
of Montana Beaten.
Lord Coleridge has declined an Earl
dom, which would remove him from the
bench.
Mrs. Morton contradicts the rumor
that the Vice- 'resident's Washington
residence is on the market.
"Old Tete" Turney, who has been
elected Governor of Tennessee, stands 0
feet 4 inches in his stockings.
Thomas A. Edison, who sleeps but few
houre himself, says that the man of the
future may do without sleep entirely.
Rev. Walter S. Rudolph, pastor of the
Westminster Presbyterian Church in
Denver, lias severed his church relations
because lie cannot consistently preach
the doctrine of endless punishment.
Solicitor Hepburn of the Treasury De
partment has returned from Iowa He
will retain his pesent place until March
4, when he will step into Congress, hav
ing in the recent election been chosen a
Representative from the Eighth Iowa
District.
There is scarcely another woman in
America who has been so long before the
public and who is so little known as Mrs.
Lucy Stone, the champion of equality
for women. She is now 80 years of age,
and is younger in appearance than many
women of (5 ).
Knutfl Nelson, the Governor-elect of
Minnesota, was born in Norway, and was
6 years old when he came to this coun
try. But he is a thorough American in
his ideas. Mr. NelBon made seventy
speeches in his own State during the re
cent campaign.
James Stephens, f ie former Fenian
head-center, is at present living with
his wife in a cottage at a seaside resort
near Dublin, which, with a small in
come, was presented to him about a year
ago by his friends and admirers. He is
now 08 years of age.
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An Investigation of the Machinery
of the Miantonomah.
AGGREGATE OF THE PUBLIC DEBT.
All the Cotton Manufacturers of Rhode
Island Riisethe Wages of Mill
Hands Etc
The new government of Kansas may
make war on freight rates.
In Kansas they art using the empty
jails for the storing of surplus wheat.
Whittling contests have been inaugu
rated at church festivals in Sedalia, bio.
On March 4, 18t3, twenty-five seats in
the United States Senate become vacant.
The Democrats will have a majority of
ninety in the next 11 juseof Representa
tives. Tammany is already making prepara
tions to attend Cleveland's inauguration
in large numbers.
The strike at Homestead, Penn., has
b-en duclured off by the leaders of the
Amalgamated Association.
Several Pennsylvania manufacturing
eitahliHhmeuts have closed down on ac
count of the scarcity of water.
The men who are taken back at the
Carnegie works are confronted with a
heavy reduction in their wages.
The division of Kansas into two States
is oeing agitated with more or less ve
hemence by the newspapers of that State.
Judge King at San Antonio, Texas,
has decided the Aranias Pass road must
pay its debts, and the receivers were dis
charged. The City Council of Columbia, Mo.,
has granted a twenty-year electric light
and water works franchise to a St. Louis
company.
The first estimate of the amount lost
by Chicago through the irregularities in
the water office is $!00,000 for the year
1SII2 alone.
Secretary Foster of the Treasury does
not think that a new issue of bonds to
meet the financial complications will be
authorized.
The aggregate of the public debt of
the United Statt s, including certificates
ami Treasury notes, was, f 1,604,337 ,010
on October 31.
An appeal for aid has been issued by
the United Hebrew Charities. The sum
of tsi,000 is needed for the year ending
with next October.
During the ten months ended with Oc
tober the gross earnings of 120 railroads
in the Unites States were 422,812,810,
an increase of 23,822,415.
In 18DJ the production of wool in the
United States amounted to 205,000,000
pounds, and the imports of wool for the
eame year reached 105,431,281 pounds.
An investigation of the Miantonoinah's
machinery develops the fact that much
faulty material is in the heavier parts
and a collapse may occur at any time.
Lieutenant Peary has obtained three
years' leave of absence, and will attempt
a journey to Greenland and over the
frozen Polar Sea with but one compan
ion. A conspiracy to cheat the city of Phila
delphia by the use of bogus coke checks
at the Ninth Ward gas works has been
unearthed and six people are under ar
rest. All the cotton manufacturers in Rhode
Island are increasing the wages of the
mill hands. Tne latest is the Manville
Company of Providence, which employs
1,500 hands.
President Harrison does not propose
to go into retirement, but he will, bo
long as his present vigorous health con
tinues, labor in his beloved profession of
the law.
Concrete as a substitute for piling in
foundations has proved disastrous in
New Orleans, La. The new St. Paul's
Church, on which it was tried, is sink
ing and is being torn down.
Plans of construction of New York
city 'b proposed fOD.OOO.OOO four track
underground electric railway have been
adopted. The route is to be fifteen miles
long. Fare is to be 5 cents for each
passenger.
The tunnel at Niagara Falls is finished,
and the falls are to be harnessed by nexc
March. Forty-five thousand horse
power of electric current will be trans
mitted from there to Buffalo and 30,0. 0
to other points.
A gas well near Montpelier, Ind.,
which for some time past has been sup
plying that community, suddenly began
blowing oil, which percolated through
the pipes and made its appearance in
the houses of patrons.
The Illinois Steel Company's immense
plant at South Chicago, employing
5,000 bauds, is expected to shut down
on December 15 for two or three months.
Uncertainty as to the possible changes
in the tariff' is said to be the primary
cause.
Owing to the almost total failure of
the crop West, cabbage is higher and
scarcer in Chicago than it has been for
twenty-five years. Dealers predict that
there will be a rise of 500 per cent, in the
price of the vegetable.
Joseph L. Montieu, coin clerk in the
United States Sub-Treasury at New Or
leans, has been arrested, having been
discovered in petty pecula tions. lie was
in the habit of taking $1 from each $1,000
package of silver tied up by him.
Sinclair, cashier of the Armour Pact:
ing Company at New York, has been
missing since last week. It is estimated
that the company's losses will be not
less than $50,000, while some believe the
amount will run up to $80,000 or $85,000.
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
Philadelphia Chinese Propose to Defeat
the Geary Law by Means of
Fictitious Photographs.
Senator Dolph has filed with the War
Department a letter in relation to the
appointment of a board to examine ami
report a site for a gun factory on the Pa
ciflc Coast. He requests that care be
taken in the selection of the officers,
that they may not be prejudiced in favor
of one sight as againut another. This
precation, he says, is particularly neces
sary, because some olllcers have privately
expressed their belief that i'eniciais the
proper location.
More than usual interest attaches to
the forthcoming annual report of the
Commissioner of Pensions, The Pta'e
rnent has been made that the amount
reunired for pensions the next fiscal year
will nearly reach the enormous cum of
$200,000,000. The work of compiling
figures is, however, sufficiently aivanced
to show this estimate is in excess of the
actual requ'rements. It is now thought
Congress will be asked to make an ap
propriation of about $180,000,000 for the
wining flccal year, about $H,000,000 of
which is in anticipation of an increase
of that amount over the actual expendi
tures of last year. It is the judgment
of General Kaum that, while this
amount is likely to be increased the next
year or two, yet he feels confident the
maximum limit has already been
reached.
President Harrison in bis message, to
Congress will not turn his back upon
the present Republican tariff law. On
the contrary, he will give it an earnest
indorsement. The President said he did
not blame the McKinley tariff law for
the recent defeat at the polls, and after
having given it his indorsement prior to
a test of Republican principles at the
polls he was not inclined to repudiate it
In the hour of adversity. The President
believes that the Republican principles
of protection will live longer and stand
the various tests of time with better suc
cess than will the present Democratic
supremacy. There Las been consider
able curiosity expressed in certain
quarters as to what the President would
say in his message to Congress, which
he is now completing, in reference to the
tariff law. as many Republicans are in
clined to hold it almost whollv responsi
ble for the recent defeat. There need
he no doubt in that direction. President
Harrison believes in protection of the
character now afforded by the Repub
lican party.
Word has reached Washington from
Philadelphia that the Chinese in that
city propose to try to defeat the Geary
law by means of fictitious photographs,
the same as at Baltimore. It is believed
in Philadelphia and Baltimore that a
scheme is now on foot among the Chi
nese all over the country to defeat the
purposes of the Chinese exclusion act.
The promoter of it is the Hip Sin Tong,
a powerful fraternal society, which has
six branches Junk, Lee, Chang, Shu,
Young and Mock embracingevery State
in the Union. The Hip Sin Tong is hav
ing photographs turned out by the thou
sands to Bupply any Chinaman who may
need one. The colony in Washington
has been notified that a batch of pict
ures would be sent to them in a few days,
from which they can select as many as
they wish and return the balance. Pho
tographs are being sentall overthecoun
try, and in a few weeks each colony will
have enough on tan to meet any demand
that might be made upon them. It is
reported that the Chinese are trying to
secure the services of Robert G. Inger
soll and General B. F. Butler to teat the
constitutionality of the Geary law.
THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION.
Mayor Washburne Taking Active Steps
for the Opening of tlie World's
Fair on Sunday.
For the Idaho World's Fair building
in a block of stone 10x6 feet will be
carved the coat of arms of the State ot
Idaho and in other blocks the name of
the State.
Vermont will send to the World's Fair
an odd exhibit in the shape of the skel
eton of an enormous whale, which was
found several vears ago near Lake Cham
plain, ninety feet above the sea level.
The first exhibit at the World's Fair
grounds is an immense redwood tree,
which was cut by the Tingo River Lum
ber Company near San Gabriel, Fresno
county, Cal. The sections are being
placed in order in the government build
ing. A conference of the newspaper pub
lishers of Chicago and the Hon. J. W.
Robinson, Chief of the machinery de
partment of the World's Fair, was held
at the Herald building the other day,
with James W. Scott presiding. The
object was to consider plans for the pub
lication of a morning and afternoon
paper in the machinery hall during the
world's Fair, in order to afford the gen
eral public an opportunity of observing
tne many processes incident to tne pro
duction of a daily paper. The meeting,
which was of a harmonious character,
had reference to the particular presses
that should be used and their location.
Mayor Washburne of Chicago is tak
ing active steps for the opening of the
World's F"air on Sunday. The Mayor
sent a message to the Council declaring
the people to be most benefited by the
fair are those who are unable to enjoy
the luxury of travel and those who lit
erally earn their bread by the sweat of
their brow?. Sunday closing would de
prive these people of their chief oppor
tunity to see the fair. Furthermore,
Chicago must next year extend hospi
tality to thousands of foreigners, and on
this account alone it would be admissible
to open the fair Sundays. The Mayor
stated that the great majority of the peo
ple are in f wor of an open Sunday, and
asked the Council to prepare an official
address to Congress on the subject.
The suggestion was heartily indorsed,
and the committee appointed.
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Urge Ijegacy for the Benefit of
British Workingmen.
GERMAN KAISER MAKES A PRESENT.
The Centrists Will Probably Defeat the
New German Army Bill The
Poet Laureateshlp.
China will have no vessel in the grer.t
naval review next spring.
Tennyson makes the list of burials in
Westminster Abbey 1,173.
The Theosophical Society is to send
propagandists all over the world.
The Egyptian is taxed 59 cents on the
palm tree that grows in his garden.
Lord Rosebery's reported engagement
to the Prince of Wales' daughter is de
nied. Edwin Arnold appears at present to be
the most likely candidate for the laure-
Bteahip.
Glasgow is alxnit to try tlie experiment
of working as well as owning its tram
way lines.
The pilgrimages to Rome on the oc
casion of Pope's Jubilee will begin at the
end of January.
The report that the situation in Samoa
is unsatisfactory to the German Foreign
Office is confirmed.
The government of Austria has re
solved to take control of the telephone
lines in the kingdom.
The London Financial Xeut says that
$i5J,000,000 will be left in America as
the harvest of the fair.
Du ring the oming vear France will
spend $1,900,000 for arms and ammuni
tion lor ine cavairy aione.
The Xuureau Temp, the leading news
paper of St. Petersburg, will probably
establish a Paris edition.
A freight car thirty-sir feet long has
been built of steel in Manchester for the
Mexican Railway Company,
About 250,000 Jews have left Russia
within the past two years, and are pro
hibited from returning there.
The Turkish government has issed
an edict prohibiting army officers below
the rank of Major from having more than
one wife.
It is stated that Sir William Harcourt
has promised to favorably coneider the
proposed coinage of silver try the colony
of Victoria.
Emperor William and the King of
Saxony, it is said, have quarreled be
cause the former insisted upon prosecut
ing Bismarck.
Sir Charles Tupper's negotiations in
Paris for the conclusion of a commercial
treaty between France and Canada are
making favorable progress.
An elaborate plot to start a revolution
in Chili has been nnearthed at Valpa
raiso. It originated, it is stated, with
sympathizers with Balmaceda.
During the month of October the out
put of the ship yards on the Clyde was
fourteen steamers, aggregating 12,804
toiiB and two sailing vessels, 2,330 tons.
Austria's new rifle fires 120 rounds a
minute, and is sighted at 2,700 yards.
Though it pours ou' a hailstorm of bul
leti, it does not become too hot to handle.
Switzerland has 101 telephone ex
changes, 12,595 stations, 3,225 miles of
lines, and limits each subscriber to 800
conversations in the couree of the year.
Prince Bismarck has suddenly changed
from a pessimist to an optimist. He ex
presses a belief that war cannot possibly
break out for the next two or three
years.
The Centrists of Bavaria, Baden and
Wurtemburg are almost unanimous
against the new German army hill. This
is believed to partend the defeat of the
measure. -
The Postmaster-General of Norway has
ordered that January 1, 1893, the bicycle
shall be need by all country postmen for
the delivery of mails where the roads
will permit.
Dr. Hansen, the Norwegian explorer,
will start for the North Pole next June,
going by way of Nova Zembla. He will
try to find the Arctic current, and may
be gone five years.
The German Kaiser has presented
50,000 marks to the Society for the Pro
motion of Aerial Navigation for the con
struction of a colossal balloon, which
will ba fifty-six feet in diameter and be
tall as a four-storu I house.
The late Thomaselson, the publisher
of Edinburgh, lef 3 0,000 in legacies
for the erection ano quippment of five
workingmen's cluba ftd reading-rooms,
which will be erec '.i gradually, and
will be bo fitted np as to attract working
men. The money voted by the British naval
defense act is exhausted. The new
regime favor the building of ships of a
lesser tonnage than heretofore, and pro
pose that the tonnage of the future war
ship shall be reduced from 14,000 to 10,
000 tons. .
Some French capitalists are engaged
in an attempt to form a new company,
with a capital of $36,000,000, to take the
assets of the old Panama Company and
continue the work.
The English Registrar in Bankruptcy
is now inquiring how it is possible that
Mrs. Parnell could have disposed of
10.),000 received under the will of her
late aunt only a year ago.
The Keicht Anzkaer of Berlin pub
lishes a Ministerial circular prohibiting
the circulation in Germany for two years
of the Autonomie, a German Anarchist
paper published in London.
JOY FOR BALD HEADS.
An Invention That I'rmnUr. to Maka Ufa
Worth Living lor Many,
The wind has long been temjred to
the shorn lamb, but tho baldhead him
had to take the blasts as they carae. No '
hpecial dispeiwations in the matter of .
weather have been made on his account.
He ban had to look out for himself, and
the fact that he survives so iinrnerously
is perhaps tatter evidence of his hustling
ability than of his innate goodness.
Why, no one appears able to tell, but
certain it w that from time immemorial
there has been none to do the balrthead
everence.
It will be remembered that when the
original baldhead was making his way
toward Bethel the children by the way
side requested him to "go up." This
expression has no place in modern slang,
but compliance with the order doubtless
involved a journey to sections not down
on our list of desirable habitations. Be
that as it may, the fact remains that the
caput destitue of hairy adornment has
all along been the butt for universal
ridicule.
But it is a long lane which has no
turning, and the baldhead's turn has
come at last. Some enterprising philan
thropist has invented a polish for the
hairless crown which is warranted to
turn it into a thing of beauty and joy
forever. This blessing comes in the
shape of polish, which is easily ap
plied by a barber and imparts to the al
ready shining cjown a shine so brilliant
that it dazzles the eyes and so smooth
that upon it no fly can gain a foothold.
Those who have never experienced
the joys and sorrows of baldness may
not be able to appreciate the value of
this discovery. The value is there just
the same. With a little care the polish
can be made windtight and mosquito
proof, and the baklheaded man will no
longer fall an easy prey to the influenza
laden lireezes. while he can lie down to
dreams unbroken by the assaults of
winged tiling-. Surely the baldhead
millennium is at hand.
The direct moral ! '.- " .': ;uef this dis
covery cannot be. overrated.. With his'
sparsely thatched crown protected from
the attacks Of envious Cascas the bald
head will recover from his tendency to
ward the use of unauthorized expletives,
and he may even rise to the point of
taking a front seat in the sanctuary in
fly time. Relieved of the necessity for
turning his skull into a block upon
which to butcher the musca doinestica,
etc., he will be able to turn his" whole
thought to the sermon, thus setting a
worthy example to the congregation ,
while absorbing truths of which he has
long stood in need.
If there , is justice , in all things, the :
man who makes two blades of grass
grow where one has grown before will
have to take a back seat when the in
ventor of the polish for baldheads comes
in for his reward.
Verily, these be glorious times, and
the baldhead is one of the chief partici
pators in them. Troy Times.
Who Will Bo the Next. Pope?
. It is stated that the French and Span
ish cardinals are concerting for the nom
ination of Cardinal Ziliara as tha suc
cessor to L'.-o XIII. The general feeling
is that at the next conclave the election
of a fot ivipi pope is impracticable, the
only available non-Italian members of
the Sacred College being the Swiss Car
dinal Mermillod, and the American Car
dinal Gibbons. It is not likely, how
ever, that either of these will emerge as
the successor of Leo XIII.
The nomination of Cardinal Zigliara,
who is a Dominican monk, is not alto
gether unlikely. He is a native of Cor
sica, bur, strange to say, he took out let
ters of naturalization as a subject of the
ex-Pontifical states. He is a man of
great learning and quite outside all po
litical questions. I have reason to be
lieve that if the pope died to-morrow
Cardinal Zigliara would be sure of near
ly forty votes. His only opponents would
be the Jesuits, whose nominee is Cardi
nal Monaco la Valetta. Paris Cor. Lou
don Chronicle.
Boston Wants to Come Nearer.
It is gratifying to observe that the
business men of Boston are disposed to
make an active effort to s?cure quicker
time by rail between this city and New
York. The members of tlie Executive
Business association have discussed the
question, and have come to the very sen
sible conclusion that the public interests
of the city demand a better service, and
that such a service can be secured
"without prejudice to the interests of
the railroads connecting the two cities."
No one who has studied the conditions
involved, and who knows of how much
the modem railway is capable, will doubt
this. A new line would probably not be
a profitable enterprise, but it is within
the power of the existing lines to reduce
tho time of the jotirney by express trains
from six hours to five, and there is no
sufficient reason for delaying to do so;
Boston Post .; ::"
Infection Started "by Birds. .
rots from Brazil to dispose-of in Fa-risi'vAn''
epidemic broke out among (lie birds, from 7 : - f ' :- ifc.
which all but two died. The contagion .-r ; ! - ,;;"
then spread to the persons 'who kept them, 'i
and several have succumbed to the infec- ' ' I
tious pneumonia.
Foolish Extravagance.
Mr. De Style My dear, I have en
gaged a box at the opera to-night.
Mrs, De Style The idea! You know
Fm so hoarse that I can't speak above a
whisper. New York Weekly.
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