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The Hood River Glacier. VOL. IIOOl) RIVER, OREGON, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 21, 181)3. NO. 21. 1 3fcod Iivw Slacier. 'i i.i.imikm tvnir MTimnAT uonNisa n The Glacier Publishing Company. M llll-TION I'ltll'K, , n of i u ICNl u. i. mil. 1 In" Hit H. lr . ..,.r THE GLACIER SarhcrShoi) j Grant Evans, Propr. s I -sl . ii'' ituli. HoihI Klvrr, Or S'm inh-iiml Mail riilti. g nmtly ili.rin. fMlf.i. turn l.iimiiiitfi'd. OCCIDMNTAIi NKWS. I'.. W. Fii iii'li, I'rohiitt' Judge o( Yav apai niiinty, ,. T., charged villi forgery liiiil I'liilii'zli'ini'iit, 1 1 ii it been iIi'mimi-i lllnl J. I', U 1 1 will HlillJlllci tl SIICCl'I'll llllll. A Kiiliiiiiirinr cable u fiOO volts was laid liriwccii Nan I ih ii unit (Woiiado the iillii i il.ty. It ih to supply lln force to inn a ih'w electric road ut the latter I'lili r. A I'Kit t.iiiiicl lint jiift Imtii coiii il 1 1 I ut tin' Niltana mine in (iriint nullity, iiml it contrail iH wxiti t 1st let fur urn' turn (ret long. KxiMmiircH are Mili-iitituiy. I lir roMitcH iii the Verde river section in Arioiiii mi' allectcd w itli hydrophobia to mii ii mi extent tluit it is dangerous to liiiM-l through that country ami especi lilly to riiini ut night. Mi-im mi' iiUmt lo l taken toward tlii" nili-lilli 'Hull of u lihll bidder lit tilt! fllllH ul tin- H ilhuiH'tti' ut Oregon City, (or liuli tin- hint Oregon Legislature made mi ii.iii.iriiitniii ni f 10, two. A Loinloii roiii'iuiy is said to have l.ii-ht tin- nil kcl iiiiiit-H in Oregon. It ii In lii'W'il tin company will erect u plant to iimiiiifiii lure armor (or battle i-hij.- tinil (or other urioMcH. I In' l-'itriiKTM Insurance Company at !-pikalic Iiiih liccn no mil I iil'' t Hull till) Moi'Miolilrrit have beell deceived, Hlll II receiver bus U'eii apMiulcd. Tlit coin p.iiiv Iiiin out r-IN.tKK) worth of jKilicics, VII lli ui-i tHof f'l.IKH). A lank iii Arizona, wliirh closed ft (Imrt tiuu' ux. ieNiied tin) following no-tin- "This iuink Iium not busted; it nui'M tin- ii'oilt' f.W.OOO; the people own It .Vt,tNMI ; il IH till- people W ll IIU! bllst- iii ; when thry pay we'll pay." A n-port i-oiiu'H (roni I h A nj-t'lt-M o u n tv, ( ul., tluit a grove n( i;anainiH in the Ca'liueiufa (oothillH will produce thin sea hiii 1!.'0 hunches of good, merchantable iiuit, mi'l iH yield, it i hhi1, a hand some profit to tin ow ncr. Tin' lloiinl of Public Works at Taeoma ha discovered a shortage of r,U01),0tK) gallons of wutiT ilaily in the water com pany's guaranteed supply, whirh wax purchased recently ly ihe city, together with the electric-light plant, for 1,760,- 000. According t' tlio rcort of Hwi'iviT llinlli'V the Onon l'artlic iH runniiiK iM'liiml. lit' ri'porU: June, arninH, I'JI.KXI.I'i; i-xpfiiHi'M, $25,1(17.41; Iohh, :(""H4.1!I. Jiilv, I'arniiiKH, iti,IMl).31 ; t' ii'i'timx., ,'J:!)H1.)7; Iohh, ttl,(il.:K(. Au !,,lt,t, ciirninKH, lt(,:Wi7.tll ; cxju'iihi.-h, l'.i.SiH.M ; low, :i,H70.l)0. Tin' Linn t'onnty Hoard of Kquali.a tion Iiiih iiHHi'KHi'd thi) KonthiTH IVi-itio at l ntKi per inilu on the mail anJ $557 on roiling Htoi k on the main lino. The Or-I'L-oiiiiin iiml 1.1'luinon hranrh wiw placetl ut :t,iMH) on thi) romllMHl, anil tlio On troii I'ui'i Hi! will Im ftliout fl.KOO on roiulU'il and rolling Htoek. 1'ioin iiuthcntii! reportH roi'fivod at l'oi tland hy purHoim in a onition to know it in hi'lii'vi'd that thoro iian bwn a re ci'iit and midden ujiriHing ainoiiK the na tivi'H of Alaska. Many porsonH were killnl, uiiioiiK tli'' "I'i"!? Huvi'ial iiwh Hioini rii-M m-iit out by the American liii.inl. H iH wiid at KoHebnrg that tlio Coos l,iv Railroad Company has rwodi'd from itn"tlcitiaiidH for a 8ul)nid of $75,(H)0from the Kiici'burg jM'ojdo to $50,000. The Kitin Htihwribi'd up to the present time in only KUH.OOO, but it in exjierted that the $,0W) di'lii'it will soon bo mado up, and that tlio lino will then run direct to KoHi'biiftf. Tho Southern 1'acilie Company ran a frWJ 1'xiurnion train out of Sacramento the other afternoon, bound for Reno, N,'V Net ween 1(00 and 400 Indians, who w, nt there to pick hops, wore provided wilh ai comniodiitioiiH and sent to their . ;., tin. Kum.hriiuli Htutn. Thev Wcnt in freight eaiH, and pulled out for till! IIIOUIIUIIIIH ineiMuiK. i. .ii. ! nwoi viiil at. ICiikIo. B. C dig cloiteH the (act that a young fellow who ran ft n nuuiaiii m mat town, nnu miu died lately from fever anil dysentery, Iw hi.m of nil IriHh Karl. Tlio vtmnit man, who was always very reticent aliout l,iH people, was a general favorite. His mime was Charles Reginald Weatherly, and his moiiier is i.auy jaiuibiv oi uu wiiiio name. i.. i, yl.ou n Smil horn Paeine Com- tiauv attorney' and for many years Sona- . L. r.l'Ii iirivntn Hicret.n.rv. is eon- lor riiiiii.ii" o -- sideied to know better than anyone else the value ot me great esune ieii, uy ; f..,..i Ho Qiiva sRR.Ono.nOl) would he BlUlllUIM. , ft conservative estimate of the value of I he nronerty. me assesseu vaiueoi reai . .!.. '..,...l hw Mm littn Henator in 3.. i'HIIllu "'"" v.. .... . -- 2110,000, and the market value probably Hl'SISKSS HKKVI I IKS. It hits biM'ii Ihiired Hint l'hiliideliliia loul. iilnMll IMO.OOO hllMkftM of penrht'H I IH M IIHOII, The AIith filled t'llillH with gold iIiimI, m iIimI ihi'in mid piiHHi'd lliciii (roni liiind to IiiiihI us coin. Sen Yoik i liiiiiiH the distinction of lieimr tl nly Mute that produces IkiIIi nu ll iiml Inilu' hull. A I' lper Iiiih been invented in (iermany (nun w hii h ink writing may be erased il h 11 nioihl, stoiige, 'I lie iiiiiline dyes were invented in 1H2K, mid now over $7,IHH),(HK) worth are aiiiiu iilly lli-i'd ill tin' I'liited StiiteH. I i iniile IrmnpH are diipoMed to clniiii I In ir el hi re of a bilHineNN w 1 1 irl 1 Iiiih here tofore lieeli liiouopoli.ed by men. The largest gold coin in circulation in ihe "imi(" of A1111111, which wfighs as mil' Ii iih :2't Unite. I Stales dollars. I YiiiiMvlvmiiii ranks llrnt in the cigar output of tin mtry. New York, Ohio 11111I l lorida follow in the order limned. The lurgent gold nugget ever known wilt the " Suriili SiuhIm," foiiml in Aiih trullil. It weighed 2:1.1 Jiollli'ls I olllicen Irov. Reiiorts of iiicreiiHe of street railroad earnings w here electricity has superHeiled limit power 111 large cities average IKIper cent. More than lO.OOOtons of salmon were packed by the canneries oil the Knurr river, Ii. C, this season. It bsik nearly M),IKH),(KKJ cutis. Among the curious products of the State of Maine are wiHslen lKitt les, These are made not for liquids, but for pills, puwiliTH unit tiililets. Cuba has 102 coll'ee phiiitatioiiH, 700 sugar plantations, 4,500 tobacco estates, .'I,2im cattle farms and 1,700 small farms devoted to various products. The silver iinsluctof the I'liited States is alsiut H1,, per cent of our total min eral prtsiui'tion, which according to the census was in I HMO $rN7,2:!OlKi2. Commander Ludlow of the Mohican, which has lieeu patrolling Itehriug Sea all summer, estimates the product of pe lagic sealing this year at 0,tKK) skins. The stoppage of silver mining will re luce our annual supply of gold bv one- third, .lust alsiut ;U per cent of the yearly yield of gold is taken out of silver mines. A teleuratdiie printing instrument, re cently perfected, threatens not only to supersede the telephone as at present employed, but to revolutionize telegra phy in general. Counting the bearing and non-bearing orange trees in Florida, there are esti mated to Is' 10,000,000 trees, t aluorniii is credited with having lt.000,000 trees and Arizona iiUmt 1,000,000. One tow Unit on the Mississippi in a good stage id water can take from St. Iouts to New Orleans a tow carrying 10.000 tons of grain, ft iiuantitv that woild retiuire fifty trains of ten cars each. The whaling industry has fallen oil so much as to play but ft small part in the world's commerce. The latest figures obtainable show the priHluction to aver age U'tween 15,(XX) and 20,000 tuns of 252 gallons each per year. F. 1 Isunis, formerly United StatoB Consul at St. Ktienne. says that from an investigation he made he Imds that alsmt 05,000 Americans of the better class visit l'.nroS) every year, and that they spend about $100,000,000. Frastus Wunan is reported as saying in a late address that there are $455,000,- 000 in the fortv-one savings banks of New York and lirooklyn, held hy more than 1,X)0.OOO doposito'rs, and the capi tal of all the national banks in tho coun try is only $700,000,000. PUttKLY PERSON Alt. Mrs. Blount, tho ex-Minister's wife, savs that some of the native women she met in Honolulu were as cultivated aim refined as any women she ever saw. Five Irish Peers tako their titles from places that are not to bo found on the map of Ireland. These are tho Duke of Aberdeen, the iMiri 01 Mieineiu, me r.an of Darnley, Viscount llangor and Vis count llawarden. A brother of the King of Siain. with a numerous suite, is expected to arrive in Italy shortly. After visiting Naples and Rome tho Siamese Prince will pro ceed to Monz. where ho will bo received by King Humbert. Mr U.ilfiuir. who will, it is thought. be Premier of England somo day if his health lasts, is aiso mougni 10 ueuie most interesting bachelor in F'ngland. Wntlunitif-i. hiri fuce luMiit? uncom monly re lined and clever in expresHion; nrwl tiir II. NT.fLI iN1lliTl lift In VOllIllT. II I H , i' ----- - - n- years counting 45. Ho is a nephew of the Marquis 01 Minsoury, aim an unmar ried sister presides over his household. ViMnr Herbert., the coninoser and vio- l..n..illiut in Mm new leader of (lilmoro's Iianil. People are wondering what so iin a musician as ueroert win no in such a position, to which tho members .1 1 . 1 1 . . . A 1. ,f of tho hand nave elected nun, wiui inrs. heartv annroval. Mr. Roevea. who has been leader since shortly after P. S. Gilmore'8 death, will return to Providence and resume me control 01 tho band which so long bore his name. An American who was recently a guest of Prof. John Muart isiacKie inus ue airirun him : "An erect figure, not tall. I.nt nhnv Mm medium heiirht. White hair falling about his neck. The bluest oiuo eyes 1 ever saw, wiui a xeeu, mruj expression in tneir searcning uepms Kyes that havo never used glasses do .CltA t)..-.ir nivnur'n vesirH. A face al i...nnfini KhIitmiti rnilov tinil nn.!ft lints. iv 1 111.1.1.. " " . 1 ' - - . M,a n ...I vtnr a nf ImnMier red and white. Iinu 1. ......v... - - - t sneech. with a nuaint twist of (ilasgow in the accent. Quaint, un- F 1 1 l nil tUn Conventional, noiicai. uinuiicin, m wre more elegant by reason of their very KASTKRN MKLANGK. Colorado Mincra (Ini'avorablft to a Sliding Wav, Scal. TIIK POPI'LATION OK OKLAHOMA. Iininlgratloii Into Canada Choice Lands In the Red River Val ley of North Dakota. The harvest of the Florida orange crop has commenced. A dispatch from Fall River says that all the mills are running. Horses and cuttle are dying of drouth in various parts of Texas. The Indians are costing the govern ment alsiut $7,000,000 per year. Mob law was strongly condemned by the Kiioxvillo (Tenn.) Presbytery. laiHt'S A. (iarfield is to have a monu ment in Fairmount Park, Philodcphia. Congressman do Armond proposes a tax on all incomes in excess of $I0,X)0. The report of the Utah Commission say.i that polygamous marriages are a tiling 01 mo past. Over one-fifth of the whole number of people iii the Tinted States have visited the World's F'air. ieorgia negroes w ill form an associa tion to prevent lynchings and other out rages upon the race. Secretary I.amont has appointed a Uiard to appraise Fort llliss in Texas, with a view to its sale. F.x-President Harrison is said to have received $1,000 for a recent magazine ar ticle on the World's Fair. More than 4,000,000 words have U-en used iii Congressional debate since the silver repeal question came up. Several pupils in Philadelphia, rang ing from il to 12 years old, have U-en ar rested for carrying revolvers to school. More than one-half of the Cherokee Strip' Usjiners have already left their claims ami gone back to their old homes. Virginia comes up smiling with the largest peanut crop for years. Norfolk reports 500,000 bushels more than last vear. The Missouri State Hoard of Kailroad Commissioners and the express compa nies are preparing a new schedule of rates. Railroad trains will shortly lie lit by electricity. The New York Central rail road is probably the first to use that system. Representative Cooper of Texas has introduced resolutions in the House re ferring the question of silver to a vote of the people. Immigration into Canada has proven a failure the past year, a decrease of 25 per cent compared witn me previous year being shown. Kansas farmers have been taken in by swindlers, who sell a comjiound alleged to double the amount of butter iroin a given amount of cream. A Kentucky Congressman wants tho government to pay rent for the school- houses and churches used as nospuais by the armies during the war. Tho canal between Georgia Pay and Ijike Ontario, which will shorten the Chicago route to the seaboard by over l.UWU miles, is Hearing conipieiiun. In Maryland the finest varietiee of peaches are selling in the orchards at 25 cents a bushel. Prices are so low that it does not pay to ship them to market. Tim riiienim emu id iurv has found in dictments against twelve hien, who are charged with arson. They were com bined to insure houses and then mini them. A whistle that will make itself heard for twentv-flve miles has just been fin ished bv John Bowman, nnd it will adorn the car shops at Third and Berks street, riiiiaucipiiia. The indebtedness per head in Colorado is $200. Fven Kansas, which has always lioen an insatiate borrower, has only succeeded in running up a mortgage debt of $170 per head. A Rochester man has devised a plan by which a trolley street car can bo stopped almost instantaneously, or with in a space of three feet, while "the car is going at full speed. P.artholdi'B magnificent statuary group vvn'ch is at present on exhibition at the H'o'M'y Fair will be kept at Chicago. The work is of bronze, and is composed of heroic figures of Washington and La fayette The silver-mine owers at Aspen, Col., have proposed a sliding scale of wages to the men, but the latter are not dis posed to accept it, and work will not be resumed until the price of silver justifies the old wages. Elder Robert s of the Mormon Church complains that he was barred from par ticipating in the proceedings of the Par liament of Religions at the World's Fair, notwithstanding tho belief was enter tained that all religions could have the right and privilege to be heard. It is reported that the cropo of peaches and grapes in Michigan this year are teo great to be moved. The various trans portation companies that are engaged in carrying the product to Chicago and other markets are overwhelmed with of ferings of matorial to be carried away. A party of negro miners passing through Chicope, Kan., from a visit to Wier were called " scabs " by a lot of bovs. and stones were thrown at them, wlien one of the negroes fired his pistol at the bovs, wounding one. Much ex citement resulted, and the negroes were taken to Pittsburg, Kan., to avoid trouble. FROM WASHINGTON CITY. Senator Polph has introduced a bill to ratify the agreement with the Indians on the Siletz reservation, Oregon, for the cession of their lunds not needed for al lotment. Arrangements are lieing made at the Navy Iicpartmeiit for the trial of the new cruiser Olyinpia, built by the Union Iron Works of San Francisco. The trial will take place alsmt November 1 over a forty-mile course in Santa P.arhara Chan nel U'tween Point Conception and Santa Jiarhani. According to a Treasury statement is sued by Secretary Carlisle the amount of money in circulation in the United States October 1 was $1,701,10,018. The average circulation per capita, estimat ing the jMipulation at 7,.'i0l, 000, is there fore $25.20, a net increase in circulation during SeptemlsT of $21, .'.77,247. The greatest item of increase was gold coin, viz., $l l,K2!i,741. President Cleveland has signed the proclamation setting apart a large tract of land as a forest reserve under the act of March .'5, 1HD1. The reservation will be known as the Cascade forest reser vation." It extends from the Columbia river 200 miles southward, alsmt twenty miles wide, taking in the Cascade Range. Hereafter no settlement will be allowed within its boundaries. Secretary Hoke Smith has sent to the Secretary of the Treasury estimates for appropriations for the Interior Depart ment for the fiscal year ending June 30, lM'.io. The appropriations asked aggre gate $17i,770,i:(4, as against $180,087,030 for the current fiscal year. The principal item is the armv and navy pensions, which fixjt up $100,000,000. This jH a decrease of $5,000,000 from the present fiscal year. The Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee are making prog ress with the tariir bill. The ground work is understotsl to be free raw mate rials, with compensatory reductions on other materials. There is a growing im pression that the consequent deficit in the receipts will be met by increased in ternal revenue taxes on w hisky and to bacco. Carlisle is understwd to favor an increased tax on whisky to $1.20, cal culating this will increase the revenue $.(0,000,000. The charges made by the citizens of Oklahoma City of alleged misconduct on the part of Captain I). F. Steele of the United States army (retired) in connec tion with the opening of Oklahoma to settlement bail their etfect in the issuing of an order by the Secretary of War for the court-martial of Captain Steele. He is charged with fraud in his official ca pacity, while in command of the troops in 1802, to secure control of some of the best land sites in the Territory and with making a bargain with an auctioneer by which he purchased at the very lowest price government buildings and other property sold when the military camp was broken up. The court-martial will meet at Fort Reno, Oklahoma. Strenuous e!lbrts have been made by those favoring and opposing the Mc Creary substitute for the Geary bill to agree "upon a t ime when the bill shall be considered. It is feared that there will be no quorum in the House as soon as the vote is taken on the Federal election law repeal bill. F'llbrts will be made to take the bill up as soon after this vote as invisible. Some of its opponents want it put otr till November 1 to wait for a qaorum. t here is iniieuouui expressed that the bill will go through as soon as a vote can be reached. Several Western memU-rs are preparing speeches which will severely arraign the administration for the non-enforcement of the Geary law. In his report to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs Prof. Putnam in charge of the ethnological exhibit of the World's Fair denounces as falsehoods the charges bv Mrs. Sickles, Chairman of the Universal Peace Union, that bru tal and cruel exhibitions of the Indian sun dance were given at the fair. The accusations are characterized as misrep resentations; he says there has been no representation of the Indian sun dance, and there has not been a single Indian belonging to the United States who has taken part in any exhibition except the Navajos, who have been quietly sitting in a hut weaving ana making silver wors. Indians from ancouver Island, who are entirely outside the jurisdiction of the United States, have given exhihitions, performing ceremonial songs and dances. Secretary Carlisle has sent to the House his reply to the resolution of that body asking him why 4,500,000 ounces of silver bullion were not purchased dur ing July and August as required bv law. The reply says, as the United States is tho largest purchaser ot silver in the world, the Secretary of the Treasury after an examination of the offers and quotations each day should determine what in 111s judgment is a lair price, ue ither has to purchase 4,600,000 ounces at the dealers' prices, no matter how un1 reasonable or exorbitant, or he must em ploy such means as are at his command to ascertain the actual market price. The ell'ort of the department since June 12 has been to simply ascertain the fair market price of bullion each day it was; ollered for sale, and when ascertained to make purchases at that price. The F"oreign Affairs Committee has decided to report favorably the McCreary substitute for the Everett bill. As agreed on. it extends the Chinese registration period six months from the passage of the act. It strikes out the word "white' from the Geary act so aa to permit the testimony of anybody except Chinamen to be adduced to prove "Chinamen are entitled to register." It defines a Chi nese laborer. Geary offered his amend ment requiring photographing in con nection with the identification clause, but only secured three votes in its sup port, the majority deemed the regula- ' . , . rr I . x il' Hons ot me .treasury .epariiueui. uuiu cient. Geary cast the only adverse vote, He declares the bill's teeth are drawn that it is a makeshift in keeping with the course of the administration, and that he will fight it tooth and nail. FOREIGN FLASHES. General Paralysis of Manufact uring in Kngland. LADY COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS. The FanteHt CroUer Afloat Women Eligible to Office-Revolution In Argentina. Parliament will meet again on Novem ber 2. Qneen Victoria has added a typewriter to her secretarial staff. A new great seal for Ireland has just been ordered at a cost of 440. In England there is a feeble move ment in progress against tipping. The British Ijilwr Congress has agreed that the day of strikes has passed. The King of Sweden used the tele phone for the first time a few days ago. Fyvpt's cotton crop this year will be 50,000,000 pounds larger than in 1802. Widespread suffering has resulted from the strikes in the English coal mines. It is estimated that there are less than 10,000 paupers in the Japanese Empire. The French government charges wom en a tax of $10 each for wearing trousers. The Pope has postponed indefinitely his encyclical concerning social ques tions. TherA an assnriiit inns in Grpat. Britain which insure against elopement, matri mony and twins. Tho A rupntine crnvprnmpnt. nnnnnncps that the revolution in the Republic ap proaches its end. Krneriinentu mn.de in trhcm cultiva tion throughout Europe have not given much promise of success. TTnilr PTtrpmp nrpflsnrp fiiftm bus agreed to sign both the treaty with ..... .1 r ranee ana me convention annexea. Local telegrams are now being trans mitted through pneumatic tubes in most of the principal cities of Great Britain. Worn sovereigns and half-sovereigns to the amount of 16,000,000 were with drawn from circulation last year in Eng land. The women of Iceland, who have had municipal suffrage ever since 1882, have now been made eligible to municipal of fices. Prof. Koch, the great bacteriologist. has got himself into trouble by divorcing his wife and marrying a Berlin variety actress. There is iittie doubt that the whole Austrian Cabinet will resign if ' royal sanction to the civil marriage bill is withheld. A million acres of oats were grown this year in Scotland, and only 280,000 acres were devoted to all the other grains together. Last month the officers of the Fish mongers' Company, London, seized and destroyed 199 tons of fish as unfit for human food. The coercive measures against the young Czechs, the Nationalists of Bohe mia, continue to be enforced with in creasing rigor. A number of smaller coal pits in Staf fordshire. Nottinghamshire and Derby shire, England, have reopened at the old rates ot wages. The vintages in France and Italy this year are unusually good. In France the output and quality of champagne will be exceptional. Germany's foreign trade for the first seven months of the year shows a heavy falling off in imports and a considerable increase in exports. So vast are the ruins of Pompeii that they cannot all be excavated at theordi nary rate of progress before the middle of the next century. The Moslems plant a cypress tree on every grave immediately after the inter ment, which makes the Moslem ceme teries resemble forests. The three British battle ships now un der construction have been modified as regards armor in view of the informa tion gained by the loss of the Victoria. A new street railway is being laid in Cairo, Egypt. Passengers will hang to the eame kind of hand straps with which cars are luxuriantly furnished in the cities ot America. The fastest cruiser afloat is the Yoshi- no, which has iust been constructed by Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell & Co. for the Japanese government. This vessel attained a speed of 2J.UJ1 knots. A projected canal from Marseilles to . 1. V. 1 ! t il . T 1 . . . : A 1. - 1110 uiiey 01 nits xviiont) is attracting me attention of French engineers, and tliey are at present engaged in seeking an outlet on the Mediterranean coast. The bicycle has become so popular in France that the railroads are making special accommodations for carrying tiie machines and storing them at stations for the use ot travelers seeing the coun try roads. The general paralysis of manufactur ing in England is costing the country millions weekly. JNotbing like such mis ery and disaster has ever been known before in England. There is no parallel for it anywhere, save perhaps in some peculiarly savage and widespread phase ot devastation by war. Throughout the east of Europe and in Roumania there has lately been organized a system ot lady commercial travelers, whose mission it is to supply wedding trousseaux, layettes, mourning outfits and other goods. These ladies hail from Paris, and carry with them specimens and samples from the first French houses. REMINISCENCES OF HAZING. How Doin H.iphomoren Were Convinced of It I'ngentlomitnllneii. I never read account In the newspaper of the prank of college boy lu 'haing' the freshmen," wild a white haired, rosy fated old New Yorker In the parlor of a big athletic club the other night, "but my inin'l revert at once to a hazing :rape 1 got myself into in my naiad (lay. Like all ophomoren, 1 wait particularly Intolerant of frefthmcn; much more no of course than the Heiiior. "We hud been mrictly forbidden by tha tic 11 1 ty to do any hazing at all, under pen- klty of expulsion, and no we could not get pigcther more than half a dozen odventtir 11 houIx who were willing to take the risk in order to punish the freshmen properly for daring to live and pnwuming to come to the college at all. We had to do the thing quietly, so after all the lamp were out we would steal from our rooms, meet la the corridor ami then make a descent on Home lonely freshmen and 'do him up' without any unnecetwury fuss. We had operated successf uily on two or three men, only one In a night, and were enjoying the sport thoroughly. The fol lowing night it liecame the turn or a long, raw boned, quiet, bashful youth from Maine, who had little or nothing to ay to any one, and whose only care eemed to be to keep hi hand and feet out of sight. We anticipated Mime rare sport with him. and 1 remember now the haughty feeling with which I strode into his bedchamber at the head of our gang after we had pried his door open with one good twist of a real burglar s 'jimmy.' The other men had generally cowered under their bedclothes or risen trembling In their nightgowns and asked pitcously to be let alone. This Maine man jumped out of bed, however, as if glad to meet us. He said not a word, be made not a sound, a be moved about in the dark, but. oh myl how he did 'swat usl I never before expe rienced ncb fiendish strength a that fel low seemed to have. W e were not familiar with his room, and it- seemed to be full of furniture, against which we stumbled and over and nnder which he knocked us in the darkness with the precision and force of a triphammer. He seemed to have a cat's sight and he knew the room thoroughly, and the way he 'lammed' us was so unex pected that we got confused and lost our reckoning in trying to cet out of that In fernal room again. 'I don't believe one of us hit him once. I know that after I had caught a terrific right hander on the tip of my nose, which sent me backward over an awfully angular coal scuttle, I kept on my hands and knees and wabbled about in a blind search for the door, with the blood pouring into my mouth and over my shirt front. 'He hit us with fists like ham, he threw chair at us, be kicked us, when we went dowu, with his bare toes, which seemed as hard a iron: be jumped on our stomachs with heels made tough by running bare foot on his native shingly beaches, be mauled us, be pulled our hair out, he scratched us, he loosened our teeth, be broke our noses, he joggled our most in ternal organs, he utterly demoralized us, this whirlwind from Maine, and when at last we all cot out of his horrid den, more alive than dead, and bad bad time to col lect our shattered senses and make a hasty estimate of our cuts and abrasions, I said: 'The Maine fellow must have gone out. boys, and left a gorilla in his bed instead.' 'But just then we heard tnat vicious freshman call out with a mocking laugh: Now ko to bed, little men, and come again some other uiyht when you're rested. This hazin's heaps of fun.' 'But we had decided that the sport was unmanly, any way, and not the proper sort of thing for young gentlemen to engage In." New York Tribune. Investment In Precion Stone. ft is iust thirty-three years since the BTitor trit sutMiirMi hv thn trrpAt Indian jeweler of that day, a man full of experi ence ana representing large capital, mat there was one nnai limit on tne vaiue 01 diamonds and rubies. "No one," he said, "remained i the worm wno wouia give more th. 50,009 for any single stone." "They wou't do it." he said, the "they" meaning princely purchasers generally, "not if 1 could produce a ruby as large as a roc's egg. They have begun to think of interest." The wealth of the world has increased since then -J pspecially the wealth of Individuals- " .e then was worth a clear fiv niillini . decree which we hardly recognize; t . ve should still have said that the man who would give i.iuu,uuu ror a single stone would, that is, pay 4,000 a fnr t.hp nlRiuureof nossessine a useless article, usually invisible both to its pos sessor and tne world, couiu not oe dis covered. The millionaires had become too cnlitrhtpnwi nnd the nrinces. even when childlike, too solicitous of reputation for good sense. Lonaoo spectator. Biding; the Children. A ticket examiner entered a compart ment wherein a respectably dressed lady was comfortably seated. He did not notice a long, flat package lying on the opposite seat, covered with a traveling rug, and a newspaper carelessly thrown over it, and he probably would have left the compart ment oblivious of its existence had not a pair of sweet, pretty eyes peeped over the top and in a cautious tone the owner of them inquired: "Mamma, has the man gone yet?" The artful mother confusedly explained that her child was only three and entitled to travel free, but curiosity impelled him to further investigation, and a robust young girl of apparently ten revealed herself. London Tit-Bits. Music at a Female College. Smith college claims to have the finest biological laboratory in the country, and her fire proof chemical laboratories and electrical experimental halls can hardly be surpassed anywhere. The music school, which grants the degree of Mus. D. to its graduates, is one of the distinctive features of the college. It occupies a superbly equipped building. The walls of the prac tice, rooms are scientifically padded, so that the sounds of church organ, violin, piano, mandolin, guitar, 'cello and of the human voice never interfere with each other and mingle in inharmonious bedlam. Cor. New York Times. $12,000,000. simplicity." s