The Hood River Glacier.
VOL.
IIOOl) RIVER, OREGON, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 21, 181)3.
NO. 21.
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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
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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."
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