The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, November 25, 1893, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextGlacier. VOL. HOOD mVICIL ORICGON, SATURDAY. NOV EMI' Lit LV, 1803. NO. 20, The Hood River 5 1 cod Iviver Glacier. '' I'l I'iMMl KVKIIV NATI'IIIMV MIUININCI IIT ' The Glacier I'tiblMIng Company. M list lt'TIO I'liK K. I? Of I l t t Cent- Ill II III. "I'r THK GLACIER iarber Shop liiant L vans, Piopr, s ""i'i si , I,,.,,, ,),,!,. . . n.,,,,1 ni,r o, s," '""I ll.iii riilliiiK neatly iluno Xii n-f.n linn dual i n t t'til , orciDKXTAIi NKWS. I'ou'y weather linn i n t i fei . 1 with lill-iu rllllll ill till' South. Hot WCUtlllT H .1 1 1 1 1- I . 'I lie Untie (Molit.) Council refused to Coliliilll lilt- Hppollltlllfllt of II Ill'glO llll (In' i i t! ii i (nice. The ii'!iiiniiH between lln A i izonn I i.i--tti- mi I tin- Ti n iti i.il .luliciiiry are hiiini-ttli.it strained. I In- i,i Itt a v employes o( tint S tilth arc fimlii it .lull, nit tn J . t ii 1 1 tliu t r.u 1 1 1 i tii;it init-l tin- height trains. I In- Viilui.i Hiii'vi'von wlti) loilied inl-i tin- r.nii (ur tin' x j l i." i. jii on tlio i' l lei Nui Mat'-o ih'thtic it doubtless in ii,'in;ilci III tlu expo-turn of tin' glls p-i I I Irtini tli' to il to tin' lliliiit-iit it lighted 1 n 1 1 1 1 . 'Hit- mi-it in the New Vancouver ( I!. C. i oHi. i v him-Hgn-cd lo a proposition ii tin- Ai.iiiiiui incut lii tin' t ill 1 1 that fur till- lift tiX llllllltllH till! ll'llllctlOII in Hil;:- M i-lmiiM l l' 10 Ill-trail "f '20 percent mi 1 1 ii 1 1 1, i inn of t in- in. mi abiding strict I y In t In-tt i iiih uf I li (hi iiii-r iigiccinent of tin- company with tlit- union. A z nig oi fin tv or liflv buncosleciers, linn 1 1 . 1 1 . n i -1 m iii.tl Miir thin ini-ii have lull -I-- I r.li olllil sctcr.ll d.HS Hill I' llll iii Mi 'I a 1 1 ii 1 1 1 1 t-r ol lobls-i les upon un hii'jn'i iwg 1 1 ii 1 1 1 1 ry 1 1 n'li , whom they in- liil I' I to M-it ililM ll totl II ll'HIl tit. M. mi ni till nii'ii uiiiii- nti'i Hit' Nortlit-rn P.i- II li liuln Chicago, where they operated tl.iiiii (In- World's l-'.iir. They iitt' now on Hi- n tiny to tin- Mi'lw inttT I'm r at .-.in I i .iin'iM' o. I.ittie it anything in being done to w.ml getting 1 1 it strainer N't-iv Yoikoif tin- mi kfi nt I ni 1 1 1 I !( in i t:i. I n 1 1 i n in t it hi it not uiiiii out. readily, and along tin w.iu i I. tint tlit if in f lew i ho know ex ncl w h it step, tin' I'aiilir Mail tilln ials hiiiom- iiotv to talvt'. At Hit' vessel has n it t- I solidly, llit-ii' iit no likt-lilioo 1 ol lit-i c cr I't ing pulled oil'. Slit w ill liavo to In- hum' 'I iui. I limited. Pumps will ho kept, hi Imanl, ami will Im ready for wo: k at any tinif. Tin- 'orvalhs Times says: There is a p.i-Mi'iiit ', it in it a in lit I ii 1 1 1 y that tin .'.IS, Hi l) nf Agi ii ultiirnl Col.cge funds, on ili m i in Hit- .loii hank at ilu- tinif of tin u-pcusion Whl hi- wholly loll. It Ml I hi- ii-iniiiiht'it-il 1 1 1 II t sholtly alter tin lank pasM-d into tin- hands of n If l l 1 1 IT HI Older to M'Cllll! lilt' College i la in an ill I ik'I 1 1 1 ii-ii L w at placed on the iion-ily tiy Tii-afiiii-r Slnplt-y. It now tli ti-loi-i I li-iL tin' attarlnnt-iit wan irreif u'aily i-Mi'tl. anil it so, Iho college will lit- without, any rl.nni wlialt-vt-r to the Hinds on deposit when the hank sus pended. Tlit new cruiser Olyinpia, on Iiit II rut tup. established lu-r position at tiit-i'ti ol i In? Uiiiii-il States navy. Tliu m! i i mailt' n maximum speed of "I.-ii knots, anil avcinged slightly unilt-r 2t kimtit on a inn of (iS knotit, with u heavy n-a ami u Htionn ht-al wiml. As tho ( )lyinHii wiih only rx n'i-tt'il to niako 1!J knotH, ht-r hiiilili-iM urn vii'V haiiv over lhi-liinl, iiikI think that when tho of lii uil i;ovt-i litiii'lit trial is inaili' ulin inn hi- loivivl it 1 1 to 22 knot. Thin won lit pi vi- iho Union iron works a hnnns of !,'ll 1,000 for i-xiTftling tho fjii'i'il li!--1 u 1 1 1 1 1 1 ( 1 1 1 1 . Tht C'lmni'iit. pramtnar ehool nt Pan Ir.ii.M-o, roiilaiiiinK 4W yonnn chil Ibis , li, was ilistovi-iuil on tiro l urmjj the . . . . I ri'l I'l Tut tl't-n niaii-iii'il out in an orilerly nianncr wlit'ti the ahtini Masivei), uml tlit'iewan no p.iiiii-. Tliu Iiit' was in tliu parrot., uml w ilt i-xliiipni-'lii'il hi-foni iiincli tlaiu n't; w us tlotut. Miles ltaifil, a fonrleen-ynir-ohl iupil of the scliool, was nrront-i-il on t lie chaiire ol arcon. 1 Ie confessuil that, he IiikI flarleil Ihe lice in thuparret to see how the niiils wtinltl pet out of Pi-linol in caso of a real lire. Younp IViinl has always had a mania for net ting bitililuips on lire. At San Francisco in Hi" enso of the Uniti'tlSUteN vs. Frank L. Wilson Juilpe Morrow of the D'slricl Court has prantetl the uml ion of tlio tli'l't-uilant to quasli the indictment charpinp him with weinl-in-j; tjliM't-ne tnalter tliiotiph the mail. Kxp-cHoufl cotnplainetl of were written liv Wilson at Lakevillo to a friei d in San Fiiiurisco. .Iittlpe Morrow stirpiisetl tho United States Attorney and tho postal inspectors by his interpretation of the Hi itt ii 1 1 povt'ininp sueh cases. Undecid ed that a personal letter, securely sealed, containinp obscenity is not indictable ivt-n if it passes tbroupb tho mails. Ue interprets tin) law to refer only to manifold, styloprapli, printed copies or similar publications. Numer ous courts have held that written letters containiin.' obscenity are included in tho inraniiiir of the statute, and such cases have been punished by lino nnd impris onment. Uisirict Attorney Garter an nounces that ho will appoal this caae to a higher court. it.. i iiiiiiim i it iiiiii'i- oiiv. inn cnii- IH.'SINUSS isitKvmrcs. In .lapiiu .'M.'liiiS cotton i-jiimlleM tini tt ii liup. I.tiMt year I ,.'175 vcm-ls wero built in thin comitiy. A li-vival of Ml isi-nipiil river eoin llli'li'i' is ex peeled. Viiidniii piolmrn nriniiully 2,i'i(W,()() bili-lii Is of peanut I'.leclric niilronls. now bo coiiiuion, urn not yet ten yt aiH old. Ciiriiepie hat a new cli-t-I (a-lintf that weipliM sixl y-foitr tons. Il C'l-t lint povcrnuieiil, J'J. t'-' Ji22 to feeil the regular in inv l.-iht year. 'I he opt-rat inp i-NieiiM'M of ihe rail-roii-lH last M-ar wen- !7S,,,,l,,l71',i;ili. Cape Colonv, Souih Afiie.i, hat J'.l'l, 000,01 0 invi f Ii-ii in Stale r.ulio ids. 'Ihe oii-ler bedt of ( 'hei-a peake Hay pive employiniiit lo ,T,0 10 peisons. ( Inn beekeeper of 1,'eno, Nev., Hhippn l iiii.oiHi poiniiit nl honey to St. 1,oiih. I'.inhly iiiillinn doen p icket 1 1 i i1 ;')--i hieft weie sold in lliiMt iiunti y last year. The lirt consinineiit. of corn ever sent lo lilliip,' 1 1 oil I M"ieo it iiImiiiI to be shipped. M:iiiiielte, Mieh., uitli a popu'ation of 12 (Hill people, pay.t only ? 1 per 1,000 feet fur pas. The total iniinlit-r of t inp'oves in tlm M-rviii'ol railwavi in this country last year w us KL'1 ,1 1 5. Near St. Imit )0 a. -its Imve been pi ven up to rai-in' willow h for a w illow ware inaiiiifactoiy. Two cnllon mills in Sb inph ii nre ex-clif-ivelv in Chini'M! bauds and foilndnd on Chinese capital. Tvn-third of all the cotton duel; pto iliieed in I In- wo t iiiaT,. within twen ty inili-N of italt 1 1 1 1 1 1 . Tlie Voiln coMon see 1-oil indut'rv bits henieil n eai Iv ie mil of 1 ,0i 0,000 barrels, ri prt'M-iit n,; 1 ,50:1 tons of seed. There are 110 women lawyer in the United State-", and ciu'lit have e, lined the riht to pia -tii-n lit fore the Supieuie Court. Thi-v do riv tint Iiwer California, where land it very cheap, is at well iulai'le'1 lor lemon culture at the !(T,0lK) an acre proves of Sicily. Hv Ihe sale of their lands to Ihe United Slates po erninent mine of the Indian tribes nre worth fr $5,000 to $10,0011 per capita, man, woman and child. A Cliicipo building soi-iet t- hat ili ereilM'd ils cnpital from ! 5,000,000 to S 50,0. Ii 1.000, ilet lart t the Nali nntl l. i.in lleni'tl. I'lt-eiit nelM aie U.500,010. It it i-ttiinatt-d that I h" richest of civ ilieil people it the Knplih, with ifl.'.'lM per capit.i. In I rauee th - a.'ei:ii;e is sai l to be H,10'; in the Unitt-tl States Sil.ti'-'O. A lloittislii iip new H.iltimore export indtlt-tiy hat been htarle I by ex Senator lleinyti. I.ivis that of shippinp West Virvinin coke to the i-iiver mininp repions t.f Mexit'i. Al'oul 0 HI to 1,000 liolts are used in ft einple freight car, and about 1.000 nre n-ipiiicil lor aliit clii's p.ieiipert -nr. in adiliiion to tln-SOO ii-iUiit-il in two potd six- w heel truck.. Upon a recent piitcha"-o of I'l. 000 tons of raw ni'.rar, not moie than two weeks' Mipply, the American Sup.u- Ifeiluin Ctinipmiv will net, it it estimated, a profit of '$'2 Hi 0IH). The t cm 1 1 ceiiiH shows Unit 2!, 010,00) inhabitants of the United Siate uic Mlipoiled by apiieultio'. 1 1,52 '.0 10 by inaniidicluics and 15,(i'2 ,0. 0 bv coin- lll'-l ce. One hundred years a.'o the United Slates iinli i'ls ii-uri-.Mtetl !S 1,000 (Hl; to dav, $Kiii,:10l , 121. One bundled veart ll'.'ii the exportt were valued at $ 2;), 100, -0(0; to tlay, tS I7.50H .02 1. There are p.iienl-t for making pnper from smvilii'-t, and shaviii.-s, from this tles and thistledown, from toll icco stalks n m I limit ii k. It is said that thertt are over 2, Oil) patents in this country cover inp the manufacture til paper. Over :i, 0i)0, 0(H) women are earninp in tlepeiiilent incoines in this country. There are some 2,5:,0 prae: icinj medi cine, 0,000 uuinapinp p istoll'n-es, 275 preaehinp the p-ispel, antl in New York city alone 27,000 of them are supporting their husbands. ITKKI.Y I'F.KSONAli. The Fanperor of China is studvinp French and Gut man, antl will take a course in law. .Jeweler!., llirtetistino of Pottstown, Pa., has a 01 year-old watch that has never missed a day. J. 0. Henries of Charleston, S. 0., is tho only ex-Con federate in that State who wears the iron cross of l'm-sia, for valorous service in tlio Franoo-lVussian v ar. Ur. Samuel F. Smith, the author of "America," passed his 85th birthday last week at bis home in New ton Center. Mass., near Huston, lie is active and alert, nut! feels tho burden of his ad vanced iijji' littlo. Mine. Adeli'ia I'atti recently told a re porter for an Enplith tmper that people have a perfect mania for asking her to adopt .their children. She is constantly receiving oilers of babies hundreds she should say, in tho course of the year. Her last one was a pair of twins. In view of the annual increase of vis itors to Egypt an important addition lias been made this season to the number of first-class hotels in Cairo. The Ghesireh Palace Hotel is intended to surpass in size and splendor its well-known i ivals Sheplieartl'H antl the Continental. British vessels landed a party near Kio de Janeiro in order to obtain a sup ply of sand for holystoning, the decks. The men approached an old Prazilian (government powder magazine, which was guarded by si detachment of President j Peixoto's soldiers. The latter, seeing a quenieiB gnmy oi a misuemeanor. number of seamen digging, believed ! Tho Supreme Court of the United thev belonged to the rebel war ships, j States has directed the courts of Utah nnd, acting under orders, blew up the to proceed in conformity with the act of powder magazine ami killed and wound- j the last Congress in disposing of the es d iSYaral of th British tailors. ' cheated Mormon Churc'i property. EASTERN iMELAN(jE. American Protective Associa tion Jncrcasiii";. TUB rUAM.I'OX IN INDIANA. Tlie Sender of n CliRllcnjfe to Hiiflit a Jiii'-l Scnffiicid lo the I'eii ilenliiiry in Alahamu. The New York telephouo pirh have been vaccinated. Ottieago propott-H to settle rigjit down to business now. A sixth bridge is to be built ncro-iH the ( lino river nt Cincinnati. The Statu tax lew for Illinois him been made. It calls for $2,500,000. The Salvation Army has opened n ten lays' cninpiiipn ut Galveston. Uengue fever in a mi'd form has made ils appearance nt Sherman, Tex. Tim Vikinp ship has started on its trip from Chicago lo New Orleans. iold ipi.irt,, assaying f-lr) a ton, hat been f-triiek in Northern Minnesota. (Quebec is being, ravished by virulent typhoid fever caused by bad diainape. The Indiana Supreme Court has knocked out the sahsjii Hen-en ordinance. Tbt! driveways of Central I'ark, New York, are to Im liphted by incandesceiit lamps. The smallpox epideiniccontinties with out abatement in the infected regions in Indiana. The present fad in New York is said to ls tin; answering of dinner invitations in i livinc, Ai ranpeinent nre Is-inp made to win ter an immense number of Texas cattle in M itsissippi. World's Fair stockholders probably w ill receive a dividend of 15 per cent on their investments. The American Protective Association is reported to be growing, rapidly in Northern Indiana. A secret order know n as tho Pension cih' Protective Association is being, or panied in Illinois to.vns. I Claims under the Missouri diseased stock law threaten tj U-1 ion of the sur plus in the State Treasury. A large number of silver dollars not made bv tht! government have been put in circulation in West Yirpinia. A company bat been formed nt West Plains, Mo., with ample capital to de velop the onyx of Ikmglas county. Gail Hamilton is still working, for the liberation of Mis. Mayhrick, imprisoned in England for poisoning her husband. An Alabama jury has convicted the sender of a challenge to tight a duel. Ho w ill have two years in the penitentiary. A pauper census of the State of Min nestna shows in June last there were 5,;IS1 paupers, ngainst 4,h0i) the previous j cur. Captain Anderson is desirous of pro seniing the Vikinp ship to this govern ment, it to be kept permanently at the capital. Imisiana sugar it hein marketed lapidly, niid the result is considerable lelief nlrca ly in the financial situation i.i that section. Revenue ollicers havo decided that North Carolina distillers must pay tax on three pullons of whisky for every bushel of corn used. Dm inp the fishing year just closed at Gloucester, Mass., liity-scven lishennen have been lost, anil ten vessels, valued at !, 00,000, have been wrecked. Governor Ix-wclling of Kansas 1ms ap pointed Mrs. Eva Blackmail a member of the Topeka Police Commission, vice a Populist member whom ho removed. The number of paid admissions to the Columbian Fair during the 17'.) days that it was open to the puiilic was 21,477,218, being an average of 119,1)8 11- per day. Senator Sherman's real estate holdings at Washington are rated on this year's tax list at $400,000. He is about the heaviest individual taxpayer at the cnp ital. It is understood that the United States Supreme Court will be asked to order the 'naturalization of a Chinaman, with a view of testing the anti-Chinese legis lation. Brooklyn officials intend cstalilishing a squad of police to protect pedestrians from the danger of the trollev cars. A similar squad does duty on Broadway, New York. Cornelius Vanderbilt paid $150,000 for the oltl Seventh Regiment clubhouse in order to piill it down and make a flower Harden on its silo for his new Fifth-avenue mansion. The. President has appointed Colonel George B. Ruggles to be Adjutant Gen eral of the army with the rank of Brigadier-General, to succeed General Will iams, retired. About 25 000 photographs were de stroyed at tho Postolliee Department in Washington on the 23th ultimo. They represented the accumulation in the dead-letter ofhee since 1874, A suit has been instituted atMadison, Wis., which involves Governor Peck, Attorney-General O'Connor and other State oliicers in an attempt to get at tho State funds in the Treasury. The 'Minnesota Legislature has passed an ordinance declaring poolrooms public. nuisances ami making owners of builtl- igt rented for poolrooms and their fre- FROM WASHINGTON CITY. Ratillc-it'ons hi the extradition treaty between the United Stales nnd Sweden and Norway listv Is-en exchanged. It w ill po into i-lii-ct in thirty dnys. The Senate Committers will have lit tle to do during the recess. Tliu Com mitlee on Agiuiilturi) w ill complete its iiiMslipatioii of the ciusen relating to the di-pit-M-ion in npi iciilturiil products and submit its repoit as early nt po-si-hie lifter the bepinning of tin; regular session, The Commit lee on Paeille Rail wnvs is iiivesligaiing the Union Paeilic railroad receivt rsbip. There art! rumors that Yoorliecs m ill introduce a free-coinage silver bill at the opening of the regular session. Vor becs declined to talk aUmt the matter, but it it pointed out he hat always been a silver man. and thai In; declared dur ing the debate on the lepeal hill that he wat no less a friend of silver than al ways. At any rate it is thoroughly tin derslood the silver question was not shelved by the pas-age ol the repeal billi On Ihe colli rai y, the silver men say the light hut onlv begun. When Congress assembles they propose to keep il well lo tlie trout in connection with every great issue betwee.i the puties from tht! t;ii iff to the repeal of the Federal elec tion laws, Every stage of the lariir dis cussion will be punctuated by pertinent queries by the silver men tending to prove that it was ileinonetization of sil ver and not the McKuiley tariff" which mused the liuauciiil dc pit-ssion. Indeed, it. is intended that the silver men shall act at a bodv of obstructionists, as did the Parnellites in Parliament, till silver shall receive a hearing. Although Congress amended the Geary act so at to allow Chinci-e six months more in which to register, it adjourned without making an apptopnation to carrv out the piovisions of the act. ' The Chairman of the Committee on Appro priations had cognizance of the necesitv of the Treasury Department's need of money to carry out the law, and it is pron.ible that, if the urgency deficiency bill had passed, a clause appropriating enough money at least to begin opera tions would have been inserted in the fill. As it is, registrations under the act w ill not. begin until the appropriation is ma le. Meanwhile the Treasury Depart ment w ill make all its preparations, and ho soon as the money is available it will he prepared to assign its officers so that they can begin the work nt once. The bureau hat assurances that an effort will be made to get the hill through in the carlv days of the session, fo that the woik of registration will not be long de ferred. It, it said that nil Chinese now in the countrv. approximating 100,000. can be registered in sixty days, if they promptly take advantage of the opjor tutiity. The annual report of L. Lowrie Bell, the Second Assistant Postmaster-General, shows that the total expenditure for mad transportation was $41,5il7.1);)7, and of this amount $5,758,818 was on account of star routes ami $25,72(1,005 on account of railway routes. Tho re port shows that there are now in ojiera tion: Star routes IS. 85(1, mileage 25!!, K50; i nilroad routes 2.5211. mileage llifi, '.52'. messenger routes 7,2i)5, mileage 2i,(i.'IJ. 'I he increase in the number ol routes during the ear wat 1)8!) and in the length of routes 0,211 miles. The increase in the annual rate of expendi ture was $2.'2i,2o5. During the last fiscal year the ra Iway postoflicc cars were subjected to 40j train accidents, most all of which resulted in loss of life or serious injury. Ten clerks were killed, seriously injured and 115 slightly in jured. Commenting upon the facts, Mr. Bell says; "The department is permit ted to care for the injured, hut no au thorized relief under the existing stat utes can be extended to the people left behind by the gallant fellows who go down to death w hilst performing their duties. The tlay death enters the car the pay of the cierk ceases, nnd at the very time help is most needed the heart broken family becomes too often an ob ject of charity. Various methods have been suggested whereby relief could be extended without material obligation from the government, anil I trust the present Congress can be prevailed upon to adopt some one of the proposed plans. If such a measure of relief were put into effect, it would promote the service, and the direct benelit that would be induced by it would be great." Secretary Gresham has received a dis patch from United States Minister Baker, who was on hoard tho steamer Costa Rica at Amapala when fired on by the Honduras authorities because the cap tatn of the vessel refused to surrender a refugee from Honduras on hoard as a passenger. The dispatch fully confirms the press reports of the firing on the United Stntes flag. While the sliip was in the port cf Amapala the authorities demanded the surrender of Polecnro Bo i)i 11a, who was recently concerned in the revolutionary movement against the Honduras government. The captain de clined. Alter the tdiip hntl received her clearance papers ami while she was leav ing port six or seven shots were fired to bring her to. Minister Baker was on board nt the time. Whether the shots were tired directly at her or in front is not stated. The' matter was discussed at a Cabinet meeting. Captain Dow, who was in command of the Costa Rica, is the same captain who harbored Bar runtlia, who was killed on his ship sev eral years ngo by the Guatemalan au thorities. It has been established that a political refugee who is a passenger, as Bonilla was, cannot be tnken from the ship on which be is. The chance pres ence of the United States Minister-on the vessel in this case is not considered to make any difference in the diplomatic aspects of the case. Nothing could be learned of what reply was sent Minister Rnker or what steps are proposed to be taken in the matter. The United States steamship Alliance sailed the other day from San Jose to Acnjutla in Salvador. Whether this movement was occasioned by the incident waa not stated at the department FOREIGN FLASHES. MiituhcIcB in Africa Butchered by English Soldiers. FINANCIAL STATE OF SALVADOR. British Sailora Blown Up by tho Ex plosion of n I'owrkr Maga zine in Brazil. Th police have cloied the principal Hjiorting club in Paris. The new Austrian Cabinet will Jjo moderately conservative. Parisian women ride bicycles followed by grooms, also on wheels. Travelers in Italy are seriously an noyed by the scarcity of small coins. Of 147 memliers of tho Sw isi National Council the Socialists elected but one. Theodore Tilton has published a lwok in Paris dedicated to the American col ony. Emperor William doubts the safetv of allowing Italy to reduce her standing arrny. A new find of tnnmmies is reported from Alexandria. They are in the orig inal wrappers. Madrid toughs assaulted the Civil Governor as he was taking a walk, and gave him a eevere beating. The London Hospital ssys tea-tippling is producing in Britain results not less serious than alcoholic drinks. The suit against Fxplorer Stanley for commissions on American lectures was settled out of court at London. For obtaining photographs and draw ings of German forts two Frenchmen will be tried at Leipsic for high treason. Kaiser William has sent his portrait to Chancellor von Capri vi, with a letter expressing unabated confidence in him. There is a widespread feeling in Fmg Iand that the so-called battles in Africa with the Matabeles were eavage butch eries. The Pope is said to have changed no ticeably in appearance lately. He is much bowed -down, and seems more nervous. King Humbert of Italy, who was thrown from his horse a few davs ago, is one of the best riders among 1-uropean nionarchs. The New Decimal Coinage Association has organized with considerable evidence of strength for the purpose of decimaliz ing English coinage. At the instance of the Prince Regent of Bavaria the royal opera house at Mu nich has otrered a prize of 8,000 marks for a new German ojera. Russia is to be put on a war footing. The Czar orders the formation of fifteen rew brigades, thus increasing the strength of the army by 150,000 men. Fran Zillman, who was beheaded in Berlin recently for the mnrder of her husband, was the first woman to be exe cuted in that city since 1840. The oltl established charity in London, the Scottish Corporation, is financially in a depressed condition, and ajmeals are being made on its behalf. Cholera has again broken out in the Charleroi district of Belgium, where 300 cases have occurred within a month, with a fatality of 33 per cent. The Brazilian Legation at London does not believe the story that the insurgent vessel Republica sank a government transport, causing the loss of over 1,000 lives. It is stated that tlie Russian govern ment has conceded the French company the right to establish telephonic commu nication between all the large Russian towns. Charges of brutality to private soldiers have caused thecashieringof Lieutenant Schrag-Miller of the Eighty-ninth Regi ment of Infantry, stationed at Dussel dorf, Germany. The stockholders interested in the railroad from Acre to Damascus are mak ing prophecies about the time when it will be possible to go from London to India in eight days. Municipal restaurants have been es talilished in many German cities as a means for minimizing begging and to re lieve the worthy poor of the necessity of accepting food given in charity. The Paris Omnibus Company intends shortly to bring into use a number of compressed-air locomotives for the tram way services. This motive power has not yet been used in Paris for the pur pose' of etreet. locomotion. It is said that Parisians have liecome so tired of the Eiffel tower that thev re gard it as a nightmare, and it is proposed to remove all tlie upper part down to the first platform, on which a "Palace de Plalsir" might be erected. The financial condition of Salvador is becoming alarming. The troops have not been paid for six weeks, civil em ploves have not received any monev for three months, and school teachers have been unpaid for six months. Mile. Filesie Mendelsohn, who holds a medical diploma from a Paris university. and who established herself at Cairo, was recently called upon to attend the mother ot the Khedive. She has Bince been appointed doctor at the palace. G. J. Symons, F. R. S., savs that since he began observations in London in 1858 he has only once previously registered the rainfall "of four consecutive months at- less than an inch each, and then it ' was in winter and at the end of two ex- ceptionally wet yean. I THE FEAR OF SNAKES. XTity Man Chlldrnn anil Koin. Crown Prr tin. Dl.llko l li'-ra. There aro many authenticated In stances of children becoming attached to snakes nnd making pets tf thorn. The Kolulion cf a question of this kind Is ornetimes to be found in the child mind. My experience is that when young chil dren see this creature its ttrange ap pearance and manner of progression, no unliko those of other animals known to them, affect them with amazement and S sense of mystery and that they fe:;r it inst us they would fear any other strange thing. Monkeys nre doubtless nfTectcd in much the same way, although in a state of nature, whore they inhabit for Ofits abounding with the larger constrict ors nnd venomous tree snakes, it u high ly probable that thoy also possess a tra ditional fear of tho serpent form. It would he strange if they did not. Tho experiment of presenting a caged monkey with asr-rpentcarefully wrapj.ed up in a newspaper and watching his be havior when he gravely opens the par cel, expecting to fine nothing more wonderful than the familiar sponge cake or succulent banana well, such an experiment has been recorded in half a hundred important scientific works, and out of respect to one's mas ters one ought to endeavor not to smile when reading it. A third view might be taken which would account for our feeling toward the serpent without ei ther instinct or tradition. Extreme fear of all ophidians might simply result from a vague knowledge of the fact that some kinds are venomous: that, in some rare cases, death follows swiftly on their bite, and that, not being sufficiently in telligent to distinguish the noxious from the innocuous at all events while nn der tho domination of a sudden, violent emotion we destroy them all alike, thus adopting Herod's rough and ready method of ridding his city of one incon venient babe by a general slaughter of innocents. It might be objected that in Europe, where animosity to the srrfnt is great est.death from snake l.c is hardly to be feared; tLut Fontana's 0.000 experiments with the viper, showing how small is the amount of venom possessed by this spe cies, how rarely it has the power to de stroy human life, have been before the world for a century. And although it must be admitted that Fontana's work is not in the hand of every peasant, the fact remains that death from snake bite is a rare thing in Europe, probably not more than one losing his life from this cause for every 250 who perish by hydro phobia, of all forms of death the most terrible. Yet while the sight of a snake excites in a majority of persons the most violent emotions, dogs nre universal fa vorites, and we have them always with ns and make pet3 of them in spite of the knowledge that they may at any time becomo rabid and inflict that unspeaka bly dreadful suffering nnd destruction on ns. This leads to the following question: Is it not at least probable that our ex cessive fear of the serpeut, so unworthy of us as rational beings, and the cause of eo much unnecessary cruelty, is partlp at all ovents, a result of our superstitious fear of sudden death? For there exists, we know, an exceedingly widespread de lusion that the bite of a venomous ser pent must kill and kill quickly. Com pared with such ophidian monarchs ns the bushmaster. fer de lance, hamadry ad and tic polonga. the viper of Europe tho poor viper of many experiments and much (not too readable) literature may be regarded as almost harmless at all events not more harmful than the hornet. Nevertheless, in this cold, north ern world, even as in the other worlds where nature elaborates more potent juices, the deluaion prevails and may be taken into account here, although its origin cannot now be discussed. For my own part I am inclined to believe that we regard serpents with a destructive hatrod purely and simply because we are so taught from childhood. Macmillan's Magazine. Hawthorne as a Visitor. On one occasion after my return from an African and European cruise I was ordered to tho Portsmouth station, where we were hardly settled at housekeeping when Hawthorne came to see us. The hall was encumbered with boxes, the sight of which made him feel his visit to be inopportune, and he said quickly: "I havo just come for an hour or two to see you and must return this even ing." Mrs. Bridge, seeing that he was only afraid of incommoding us, at once an swered: "Must you desert ns when I need your aid in unpacking these boxes?" "Will you really let me help you?" he asked. Her joking answer, assuring him of her pleasure in gaining a helper so strong, both in muscle and intelligence, put him entirely at case, and for a week he made himself useful on all possible occasions. Commodore Bridgo's "Recollections." Education of Japanese Children. The moral education of Japanese chil dren is conducted partly at home and part ly in school nnd is based largely upou the teachings of the history of the country. Intrepid valor, zeal, sobriety, directness of speech, extreme courtesy, implicit obedi ence to parents and superiors and deferen tial reverence and regard for old nge these are among the chief characteristics looked for in boys, while iudustry, Keutlenesi, faithfulness and cheerful demeanor arc re quired of uirls. Popular Science Monthly.