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SCIENCE.
The deepest sea sounding yet affected
was made off the co.ist of New Guinea
with a 400-weight lead seat down from
the English ship Challenger, which
struck bottom at the enormous depth of
26,700 feet.
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Dr. 1-JocK, a merman naiurauat, uuus
that the eastern hemisphere affords 269
plants and fifty-eight animals useful to
mau, while the western world contributes
only fifty-two plants and thirteen
animals.
The registers of an old hospital in
Prague show that from 1670 to 1815, before
Jenner's great discovery, vaccination,
the mortality from smalipox was twentyseven
percent, while from 1S15 to 1885
it has been on}y 4.43 per cent.
Recent tinalvsis shows that the fatty
substance of the brain is not, as was supposed,
composed of glycerine, but of
palmatir., an element of which oat meal
contains a large percentage, and which
is therefore a better cerebral nutriment
than wheat meal.
A fine skeleton of the sea-cow has just
been procured from Behring's Island for
the British museum. A3 recently as
1741 this large but harmless animal,
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measuring some tnirty-nve ieet m n-ugiu
and weighing from three to four tons,
was quite abundant oil the shores of
Alaska and Kamschatka, but has now
become totally extinct.
It has beeu generally supposed that
ants survive but a single season, and one
interesting result of Sir John Lubbock's
study of the cre stures is the finding of
unexpected longevity among them. Sir
John has kept workers ot Lasius nigei
and Formica fusca for seven years, while
two queens of the latter species must
now be twelve years old, and he hopes
to keep :h(jmin good health for a considerable
time longer.
Why are lishes luminous? Phosphorescence
is observed in a great variety of
marine animals, but Professor W. C.
Mcintosh remarks that the functions of
the luminosity cannot yet be explained,
the condi!ions under which it appears
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views which have been advanced to account
for the phosphorescence itself
range over a wide area?from its production
by electricity, by continued agitation
of the water, by putrefaction, by
imbition of light, to its manifestation as
a vital action in the auimals, or a secretion
of phosphorescent substauce.
Professor Packard has brought together
notes from early voyages, as well
as naturalists and others, bearing on the
origin of the native races of dogs. The
article was prepared a3 much to elicit
information from others as to throw new
lignt on a aeoareu suujeuu it is unmarked
that the impression that the do
mestic dog of the old world has do
scended from wild species of dog, distinct
from the wolf, may be well
founded, but that in America the evi
dence tends to prove that the Eskimo
and other domestic varieties of doijs
were domesticated by the aborigines and
used by them before the discovery of
America, our American varieties in some
cases arising from the array wolf, and the
smaller Indian dogs from the prairie
wolf, or coyote. During a recent journey
in Mexico, the resemblance of the
dogs to the coyote was marked. The
coyote and Indian dog are well known
in Montana to produce fertile offspring.
Astrology.
On the revival of learning in the fourfrflpnth
rpnturv.astroloffv was turned to a
curious purpose, viz., that of forming a
science or philosophy of religion. This
feat was attempted by Peter dc Arbano,
or Albano, a learned physician of Padun,
at the beginning of the fourteenth century.
He cast the horoscopes of various
religions, Christianity included, in order
to discover the course of their future development.
and the length of time they
would endure. The learned gentleman
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gUl iuiu uuuuig iwtu. tut,
but as he died at the age of eighty, before
sentence was passed, that tribunal
had to be satisfied with burning him in
effigy. Jerome Cardan, the celebrated
algebraist, and Jean Bodin, a celebrated
French political author, attempted a
philosophy of history on a like method.
The use of astrology in this fashion has
been praised by a nineteenth century
philosopher, Auguste Comte, who goes
even so far as to say that the rejection of
astrology was premature, and has tended
to retard the progress of the science of
history. From the fourteenth down to
the end of the seventeenth century
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gieau aiwcuLiuu uaj puiu iv
and the science was cultivated and patronized
by both nobles and philosophers.
The last astrologer who had public attention
paid to him in England was
William Lilly, in the time of the civil
war between the king and parliament.
Both sides seem to have consulted him,
and he wrote several books on the science
and an amusing autobiography. Lilly
was examined by the privy council in
regard to the causes of the great fire in
London. He is said also to have been
the model for the Sidrophel of Butler's
"Hudibras." Since the beginning of
the eighteenth century astrology has
fallen into disrepute, but has had a succession
of votaries up to our own day.
Among what our old writers used to call
"the vulgar," it i3 questionable whether
there is a town of any size in Lancashire
or Yorkshire without its professional
astrologer, and the advertisements of
professors of the science turn up in all
sorts of odd corners iu the byways of
literature. So an extensive public must
even yet exist which has not got rid of
all faith in the monitions of the stars.?
All the Tear Jiound.
Treservingr E?g:s.
Now is the time the egg preserver may
get in his work, in many towns, both
east and west, shrewd men are packing
eggs by the thousands at a cost of less
than one cent each. Next winter they
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will sen at two cenis uacu, wucu nesu
egg3 are fifty per cent, higher. Eggs
packed and treated as follows can be
kept three months, and seem and look
like fresh eggs.
Take a common box, such as is used
for packing canned tomatoes; upon a
two-inch layer of fresh, c^ean oats place
the eggs, large end down, and leave
space of at least aijLdpch between the
eggs; cover with sTIayer of oats and
then place another layer of eggs as before,
until thu box is nearly full; fill it
with oats, packing the grain in neatly
and screw on the top; place your box in
a cool cellar, and turn it upside down
every other uay. Ii' strictly fresh eggs
are used, and the turning is attended to
as directed, few persons will know them
from fresh eg^s, and they will certainly
be much superior to limed or pickled
eggs.?National Stockman.
Legitimate Bribery.
"When calling on the damsel of your choiceHaving
concluded you cannot resist her?
^ Be sure to take along a largo invoice
Of bribing candy for her little sister.
These little things are most ubiquitous?
fe Excuse the word, but that's a solemn
fact?
And you'll remember all your words iniquitous
When, kissing sister, she beheld the act.
?Pittsburuh Dispatch.
THE HVASIOJf OF BUEMAH
Kin? Theebaw Declares War
Against Great Britain,
The Asiatic Ruler t) Laai His
Troops in Person,
A rlisivifcoh frnni Rangoon. Burmah. states
that "King Theebaw has issued a proclamation
declaring ho will not accept the absurd
proposals of the Indian government, and
thero fore declaring war. He promises personally
to lead his troops, and calls upon his
subjects to fight for the defense of their coun- (
try and religion. Europeans are not to be
molested until the invaders cross the frontier} (
when all are to be slain. Many Europeans J
are leaving Mandalay unhindered."
Advices from Mandalay, the capital of
Burmah. state that the Burmese have dotainel
the steamer Doowoou, which was sent |
to Mandalay to bring away Europeans, and ]
threaten to burn her if she attempts to leave, i
The foreigners are not allowed to leave Man- '
dalay. The British expeditionary force
under General Prendergast is about to cross
the frontier of Burmah.
The flotilla comprises forty-five steamers, 1
flats an.I floatiug batteries, the latter being
fitte.l out from six of the largest barges.
Each of the iloating batteries carries two
sixty-pounder howitzers and is attended by
armed launches. Twelve twenty-five pounder
siege guns are mounted on the steamers. The
force numbers 10,000 men, 7,000 camp followers,
5'JO mules and two elephant batteries.
It is statad that the strength of the Burmese
standing army is about 10,000 men,
which, however, can be considerably increased
by irregular and temporary levies.
The army is almost altogether lacking
in cavalry and ar tilery. The cons'itution
of the regular force is somewhat
similar to the linked battalion
system of the British infantry, two bodies,
each 500 strong, being linked into something
equivalent to a regiment. The battalion is
commanded by a "bogyi," under whom are
officers termed "blood-drinkers." The.ie officers
are very deficit'nt in military training
When in the field the Burmese army.is rapid *
in movement, and quickly forms intrench- *
ments, excavating holes to obtain shelter
both from the enemy's fire and the
weather. Behind these rudely forme. 8
earthworks, and under the im- '
pression that the position cannot be turned,
the Burmese warrior is decidedly dangerous, s
He has one advantage over a more civilized a
foe in that ho provides his own commissariat, t
carrying a supply of rice around his waist
and for other provisions depending upon the j
resources of the country through which n
he passes. The Burmese are regarded as y
adepts in river fighting. There are a num- $
ber of war-boats on the Irrawaddy, mainly
supplied by towns and villages along the riv- ers,
which are under obligation to provide a ^
certain number of boats, with their crews of *
rowing and fighting men, from fifty to sev- T
enty of whom are carried by each boat.
In the last Burmese war a great deal of i
annoyance was caused the English by fire- a
Doats, ireignoea wun mguiy innaramaDie 1
material. Comparatively little difficulty iif i
dealiug with river craft is now anticipated, s
Machine and other guns, supplemented with I
rockets, will probably make short work of a
the opposition that may be offered on \
the river. Commanding positions on 8
the banks, however, are already inclosed
by stockades and fortified, ^
and for use against these a number of j
heavy guns are being carried. Trausport
was provided by the Irrawaddy Flotilla
company, all of whose available steamers
and flats were hired by the British government.
The steameis are paddle-wheel, i
spacious craft of 500 tons burden, <
snallow in hull and light in draught, t
with high upper decks, on which '
guns are carried. These steamers were con- i
structed in parts on the Clyde and put to- t
gether at Rangoon. The steamers tow a 1
couple of flats, one on each side. The latter, "j
with their corrugated irou awnings, resem- <1
ble huge floating sheds and are each capable c
of carrying nearly 600 men, with a large
quantity of stores. , (
The river swarms with native craft, and is ,
navigable only by daylight. For nine miles i
above Thayetmnyo the river is a mile and a t
half broad, with villages and houses lining ,
the banks of th? winding stream. ^Minhla, |
which contains 5,00-3 inhabitants, completely (
commands the river, and until it is taken no
advance beyond the town can be made. A fort ,
of modern construction and scientific design }
occupies a dominating position overhanging
the river, and its well-formed earthworks
are tolerably well mounted with guns of
modern calibre. Above Minhla the river '
gradually widens to as much as four miles, (
but it is very shallow, and the navigable !
channel is known only to experienced pilots. !
THECROPS.
November Return* to tlie Department
of Agriculture*
Tbo November crop report of the department
of agriculture says: The present crop
of corn is the first .full average in rate of
yield since 1830, which was the last of a series
of six full ciops of twenty-six to twentyeight
bushels per acre. The present crop,
grown on an area of fifty-three to fifty-four
million a'res, is slightly above au average
for a perio.l of ten years, or twenty-six and
a quarter bu^hols per acre. The highest rate
of yield is thirty-six and oDe-half bushels, in
Nebraska and Ohio. Iho three corn-growing
State.? which pro luce four-tenths o! the
entire crop?Illinois, Jowa and Missouri?
each average S3veral bushels per acre less :
than in the census year.
The cotton returns of November are local
estimates of yield per acre. They are somewhat
higher ihan those of the last two years, 1
but materially lower than thos9 of 1880 and '
1882. The increase over the yield of last 1
year is most marked in Texas and Georgia.
The potato crop is smaller than that of I
1884, in consequence of injury from rot. 1
The reporte 1 yield of hay per acre averages 1
one and a quarter tons, ana indicates a crop
of over 47,0 >0,000 tons, nearly as largo $3
that of last year.
The buckwheat crop will bo large. Th(#
average yield will exceed fgurtoen bijg^ela
per aero.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Turkey is the only state in Europe that is
not Christian.
In finishing Cologne cathedral $5,000,000 {
has been spent.
Freight trains in England run at twentyfive
miles an hour.
Drummers' licenses in North Carolina
amount to $5,000 a year.
An apple tree at Java, N. Y., produced
1 fifty bushels of good fruit this year.
An engineer running a train near Reno
killed forty sheep oat of a flock of seven hun- |
dred. ,
f lorida noiei keepers e.\utxi< iu m-wiuunr
date two hundred thousand Northerners this
winter.
Forest culture in Dakota has led to the
appearance of birds that woro never before
seen there.
Thk Chilian miners are said to be the
strongest men in the world. They live principally
on lentils.
Sixty million people speak the German
language, 4">,000,000 the French and 100,000,000
the Knglish.
A colony of wine-producers will loave
Franco about the 1st of January to settle in
Greeuvillo county, S. C.
Tiik first Michigan sawmill was built fifty
3'ears ago, and the cut since then has averaged
2,:J00,00l>,000 feet a year.
ni.ve million acres of Lm.! in Germany are
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product last year amounted to 23,000,000
tons.
A scheme is afoot in France to convert
Paris into a seaport town. It is proposed to
uild a ship canal from the seaconst to the
apital.
The number of Christians murdered last
summer in Tonquin, Anam and Cochin
China, is ostimated at 24,000. Seven or eight
thousand escaped.
Tile lumber operators of Maine, with one
or two exceptions, have agreed to employ 110
man in the woods during the wintor unless
be has recently been vaccinated.
There are now more than 300,^00 persons
in England whousa the bicycle and tricycle,
and the capital invested in the manufacture
of these machines is $15,000,000, employing
10,0Ji) men.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and middle State*,
Stephen- B. Walmsley,fifty-nine years old,
chief clerk in tho New York bureau of elections,
has committed suicide by shooting.
He had been made sick by overwork.
Full returns put Hill's majority for governor
of New York at 11,000, and Jones' majority
for lieutenant-governor at 4,000.
Two young men in a small boat got into
the rapid current at the Niagara Falls, and
were carried over the great cataract.
John* McCullough, the eminent American
actor, died sudJenly a few days since at
his home in Philadelphia, to which he had
been removed recently from a New York insane
asylum. He wa? born in Ireland in
1S37, and for many years acted with Forrest,
the tragedian.
A urvvDiva nor wo a nronVnrl V*v nri o
dent to a train near Canajoharie, N. Y., and
the wife of Assemblyman Charles R. Pratt,
of Rochester, was killed. Mr. Pratt was
seriously, if not fatally, hurt, and other passengers
were also more or less injured.
Work has started up again at the shipyard
of John Roach, Chester, Penn.
The postmaster-general of Japan and a
party of prominent Japanese officials arrived
in New York, the other day, from a tour of
inspection of the postal service in Europe*
md proceeded to Washington.
South and West.
E. TV. RaSkett, ex-United States district
attorney for Alaska, was killed at Neeiles,
Cul., by falling from a train. He was
Dn his way to his home in Iowa, having been
removed i'rom office.
A fire in the old Farwell block, a bier Chi
?go business building, has caused an aggregate
loss of $40,),000.
During a tornado in the vicinity of Danjerfield,
Texas, Hardy Pitman (colored), his
svife and their four children were killed. A
ividow named Bruce and her daughter were
langerously injured.
The village of Brownsville, Ala., has been
otally destroyed by a tornado. Many people
vere injured.
Hon. Emil Keisewetter, the Ohio aulitor
of state, met W. J. Elliott, editor of
;he Sunday Capital, in the corridor of a
Jolumbus hotel and shot at him twice, one
rnllet piercing the editor's hand. Keisewetter
vas arrested and gave bail. There has l>eeD
l long-standing feud between the two men,
growing out of an attack made upon the
>fficial m the editor's paper.
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AU.AVO. KJAi i HUU UC1 CJO T OU-J DOI OUU TfOiO
;hot and killed by a band of Indians near
Deming, New Mexico.
Chief Justice Hayes, of Idaho, has just
entenced eight Mormons under the Edmunds
tct against polygamy to the full extent of
he law.
A receiver ha3 been appointed for the
lichmond daily Whig, the organ of Senator
ilahone. The publication of the paper,
fhich is in its fifty-second year, will be coninued.
John Foley, a theatre employee at Butte,
ion tan a, shot and fatally wounded Alice
^lack, wounded a male companion of the
voman, and then killed himself.
Two years ago much interest was aroused
n the Shenandoah valley of Virginia by the
innouncement that Miss Lydia Kebecca
5ayne, a representative of a well-known famly,
was of the masculine gender, and that
he had married her employe, a Miss Hinton.
Ind now it is reported that in the course of
t suit argued at Winchester, Va., the fact
vas brought out that Miss Lelia Payne, a
ister of tne above mentioned, is also a man!
Four men were killed by the breaking
lown of a scaffold on which they were workng
at Keitbsburg, IlL
Washington*
The report of Second Comptroller Maylard
shows that during the past fiscal year,
57,1.% claims and accounts were examined
ind settled, amounting to *120,137,148.
rhe number examined and settled durng
the previous fiscal year was 27,780, and
;hfi amount fllMi.(150.412. Thoaveraca month
y employment of clerks was seventy-nine.
L'liere were pending and undetermined on
rune 1, 1S$5, claims and accounts, and
)n November 1, 2,789.
Among the visitors during President
Cleveland's public reception, the other afterloon,
was a lady, accompanied by her hus)and,
who had just been married for the
ihird time, and who for the third time had
nade a bridal trip to the White House, her
;wo previous visits being during theadminisnations
of Grant and Hayes.
The President has appointed Robert B.
Smith, of Montana, to be United States dis;rict
attorney for Montana, and Paul Dowlng
to be postmaster at Greenfield, la.
Additional appointments by the Presiient:
James A. Bayard, of Maryland, a son
of Secretary Bayard, to be secretary of Arizona;
Joseph C. Stranghan, of Indiana, to be
surveyor-general of Idaho; Jame3 A. Dawson,
of Colorado, to be surveyor-general of
Colorado; John Hise, of Arizona, to be surveyor-general
of Arizona; George Frank Bayles
to be surveyor of customs for the port of
Port Jefferson, N. Y.; Edward R Pierce to
be appraiser of merchandise in the district
of Portland and Falmouth, Me.; Russell
G. Woodman to bo assistant appraiser of
merchandise in tiie district or fortland and
Falmouth, Me.; Robert A. Thompson to be
appraiser of merchandise in the district of
San Francisco, Cal.; Christian Reis to be assistant
appraiser of merchandise in the district
of Sun Francisco, Cal.
President Cleveland has issued a
proclamation commanding all persons at
Seattle and other places in Washington Territory
who have assembled for unlawful purposes
to desist therefrom aud to disperse and
retire peaceably to their homes. The proclamation
has been issued because it was feared
violence and bloodshed would result from the
intense anti-Chinese feeling lately exhibited
in the Territory.
Tiie annual report of Third Auditor Williams,
of the treasury department, shows at
the beginning of the fiscal year there were
on file in that office 37,487 unsettled accounts,
amounting to $94,067,4S4, and during the
year 15,775 new accounts were received, aggregating
$99,602,069, the total number of
accounts on hand and received being 53,262,
amounting to $193,729,55:1 Of these 16,171
were disposed of, amounting to $122,225,935,
leaving at the close of the year 37,091; covering
the sum of $71,503,017.
The President has appointed the following
named presidential postmasters: G. K. Yerington.
at Girard, III.; T. G. Bunnell, at
Newton, N. J.; S. G. Bennett, at Pittaton,
Penn.: J. M.Higgs.at Connersville, Ind.; John
B. Ruger, at Lafayette, Ind.; Joseph Elder,
at Richmond, Ind.; Rich Mooney, at Rondout,
N. Y.; John Abardon, at Superior, Wis.
Colonel Robert MeCinstry has been appointed
pension agent at Detroit, vice Samuel Post,
suspended.
During the past fiscal year the number of
postoffices established was 2,121 and the
uumber discontinued S86. making the total
number in the United States 51,252. The
whole number of appointments during the
year was 11,203. The total number of money
order offices was 0,902, an increase of 740.
There are 2,223 postoffices subject to appointment
by the President.
Additional appointments by the President:
Samuel J. Tilden. Jr., a nep ew of the
Democratic leader, to be collector of internal
revenue for the fifteenth jn'ew York district;
Jatnes Burls, to be surveyor of cus'oms for
the port of Kansas City, Mo.; Oscar Valeton,
to be assistant appraiser of merchandise in
the district of New Orleans, La. Postmasters:
William Hyde, editor of the St Loui3
Republican, at St. Louis; J. J, Casey, at
Weehawken, N. J.; H. R Linney, at Gordonsville,
Va.; George W. Bell, at Cardington,
Ohio; George Haumesser, at Wauseon,
Ohio.
Fnrplcn.
TunKEY has notified the European powers
that a Servian invasion of Bulgaria will be
regarded as a causo for war. "Warlike
preparations continue in Turkey, Bulgaria,
Servia and Greece.
The English court at Yokohama, Japan,
has assessed damages of $100,000 against the
British steamer Glamorganshire for sinking
the American ship Clarissa B. Carver.
A movement of great importance is being
quietly organized among the various societies
of Irisn workingmen. It is proposed to
form a vast federation comprising all the representatives
of organized labor in Ireland
for the sole purpose of keeping out of tha*
country all goods of British manufacture,
with the exception of such articles as Ireland
is unable to produce.
London has been for weeks excited over
the trial of Editor Stead of the Pall Mall Gazette,
and others for the abduction of a young
girl, Eliza Armstrong, against her father's
will. The defence claimed that the child was
taken with her mother's consent?the object
of Mr. Stead being to obtain evidence as to
the tiaxrant immorality prevailing in the
English metropolis. Tue jury round Mr.
Stead and a Mrs. Jarrett guilty and acquittod
the others. Great crowds thronged the
court room and adjacent streets during the
progress of the triak
A Winnipeg (Manitoba) dispatch reports
that the magnificent iron clad steamer Algoma,
of the Canadian Pacific railroad, was
wrecked in Lake Superior, off Port Arthur,
and probably thirty-three lives were lost
Another steamer found thirteen of the crew
of the Algoma and two passengers on an
island, and rescued them. The Algoma cost
S4.rifl OOO anrl was n_<i luxuriously furnished as
an ocean stoamer.
Riel, the Manitoba rebel leader, sentenced
to be hanged on the 10th, was respite.! to the
16th. Many petitions for a commutation of |
his sentence to life imprisonment were sent
to the Canadian government.
King Thebaw, of Burmah, defies the British,
and an expedition ha3 been sent against
him aero.-s the frontier from India.
The trial of Editor Steal and his fellow
defendants in the Eliza Armstrong abduction
case was resumed in London upon the
count of another indictment, and they were
found guilty and sentenced as follows: Mr.
Stead, three months; Rebecca Jarratt. sir
months, and Sampson Jacnues, one month, "
all without hard labor, ana Mme. Mourey.
six months, with hard labor.
A daily interchange of shots is going on
among the Bulgarian and Servian patrols on
the frontier.
A Glasgow dispatch says (hat there is
great depression in the Clyde shipbuilding
trade, and that the families of many men
thrown out of employment are beginning to
suffer.
LATER NEWS.
Charles J. Osborx, a prominonfc New
York broker, lias just died, leaving a fortune
of about $1,000,030.
Chatiles H. Barker, a single young man
residing in Newbury port, Mass., has fallen
heir lo $7,50!),000, loft him by an aunt in
London.
The New American exposition?an outgrowth
or continuation of the recent World's
Industrial exposition?has been opened in
xr /-\_t :iu : TUa
naw unoaiiii wibu misusing LOIcuiuiiiDSt ino
exhibits are from all parts of North, Cantral
and South America.
Further app riniments by the President:
Levorett Saltonstall, collector of customs at
Boston; Colonel Robert McKinstrey, to be
pension agent at Detroit, Mich.; Don Carlos
Buell, to be pension agent at Louisville, Ky.;
John B. McClane, of Oregon, to be Indian
agent; Dr. John G. Lee, of Philadelphia, to
be secretary of legation at Constantinop!e,
Turkey; General Joseph J. Bartlett, of New
York city, to be second deputy commissioner
of pensions; William H. Morgan, of Nashville,
Tenn., to be a member of the board of
Indian commissioners.
A Montreal cat caught the small-pox.
V.v.Prtvw ATrVTSTKn frf.AnSTf>\E is making |
political speeches in Scotland, and attracting
great assemblages.
While working at thn ceiling of a public
building in Montreal six painters fell a distance
of fifty feot. Three were killed and
the others seriously hurt.
A passenger train was thrown from the
track near Connellsville, Penn.,and the sleeping
car rolled into the Youghiogheny river.
Twenty-one persons, including Hon. C. E.
Boyle, member of Congress from the twentyfirst
Pennsylvania district, were injured
in different degrees of severity.
The annual report of the commissioners of
customs shows that during the past fiscal
year there was paid into the treasury from
various source?, the accounts of which were
settled in his office, the sum of $183,307,908.
The amount paid out was $27,125,973.
During the past fiscal year the 7,355 money
order offices of the country issued orders
amounting to about $120,UD0,C00.
Further appointments by the President:
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rreuurick r. luumuuiu, ui ~
tary of the legation to Japan; Gaorge W.
Glick to be pension agent at Topeka, Kansas;
Erastus Redman to be collector of customs at
Frenchman's Bay, Me. Presidential postmasters:
J. C. Roney, at Americus, Ga.; R.
J. Harrison, at Toledo, Iowa; L. P. Ohliger,
at Wooster, Ohio; Leonard Dozier, at Ocala,
Fla.
The court martial at Fort Myor, near
Washington, which tried eighteen signal service
men on charges of insubordination found
all guilty and sentenced them to be publicly
reprimanded by the chief signal officer.
Manchester, England, has had a $500,000
fire, two blocks of warehousas being gutted.
A sharp shock of earthquake ha3 just been
felt in a portion of France.
Mr. Pendleton, the Unitel States minister
at Berlin, has protested to the Germau
government against the expulsion of five
German Americans from the island of Foehr.
A CELEBKATED CASE.
A Kama* mayor's Voting Wife
Charged with Poisoning Him.
The acquittal of Mrs. Walkup, on trial for
the murder of her husband, the mayor of
Emporia, Kan., terminates a case which has
oftr-offafl linutmnl ntfantinn nnd interest. The
accused 13 a beautiful Southern girl, who met
and married Walkup, a man of forty-nine,
in New Orleans, she being then but sixteen.
Within a month after the wedding the
bridegroom died auddeJily, under circumstances
which led t? the arrest of the young
wife 011 a charge of poisoning. The deceased
had families by two previous wives,and these
joined it. .J-^ing the prosecution, they having
bitterly resented his third marriage, ana
being persuaded that Minnie Wallace aocepted
him only to get possession of his
property, which was considerable. An autopsy
revealed the presence of arsenic in the
dead man's stomach; it was shown that the
defendant had purchased both that poisou
and strychnine about the time her husband
was taken ill; and the case against her looked
black. On the trial, however, strong evi'ionra
waa njlrtnced showint? that the dead
man had been in the habit of taking arsenic
medicii.ally for years, and it was further
demonstrated that his constitution was so impaired
as toTender possible almost any kind
of collapse, independent of the action of the
poison taken into his system.
The evidence, says the New York Tribune,
established a presumption favorable to the
prisoner, but taken alone it probably would
not have acquitted her. The fact that she
had bought poison just at the time when her
husband was seized with his fatal illness,
would, in the average mind, when placed in
connection with the discrepancy in their ages,
her frankly expressed indifference to him,and
the temptation offered by his property to a
poor girl, have created the conviction that
she was guilty as charged. But fortunatoly
the defence was able to bring forward exculpatory
evidence. It was shown that she
had bought the strychnine to clean a dress
with, and the arsenic for her own use, to remove
certain disfiguring blotches from her
face. This testimony, if not wholly
convincing, at least strengthened the
the defonce as nothing else could
have done, while the medical evidenco
as to tbe c jnaition or tae aeceasea man a i
hea!th, and his habit of arsenic eating, no I
doubt turned tho scale in the prisoner's favor.
A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
Husband and Wife Found Dead
in Bed*
Dr. J. H. Nonamaker and his wifo were
found dead in bed at Salida, Col., with bullet
holes in their temples. From letters left
by them to tho editor of the Denver News it
seems that both had grown discouraged
over their inability to get friends
to indorse a note for $400, and had agreed to
commit suicide together. Twelvo o'clock
was the.time agreed upon to put their resolution
into effect. Thoy retired with
loaded pistols, and wlieu the clock told the
hour of midnight each fired, dying instantly.
As Nonamaker was jealous and brutal, the
general belief at Salida is that he killed his
wife during a jealous fit, wrote the letter
and then committed suicide.
THE POSTOFFICE.
The Number of Offices and What
it Costs to Ruu Th em.
Annual Exports of Various Officials
to the Postmaster-General.
First Assistant Postma9ter-G-oneral A. E.
Stevenson has submitted to the po3traastergoneral
liis annual rjport upon the operations
of his bureau (or the fiscal year ended,
June 3 J, 1S35. From th3 report it seems that
tie number of p03t0ffi2ei established was
2,121, and the number discontinued 8S6,
making tho whole number of postoffices at
the end of the fiscal year 51,252, a net increase
of 1,205 during th9 year. The number
of offices subject to appointments by the
President (presidential grade) was 2,233, and
the number subject to appointnnnt by the
postmaster.general (fourth class) was 4!),019.
The whole number of appointments during
the year was 11,203, made up a3 follows: On
resignations and commissions expired, 6,204;
removals and suspensions, 810; changes of
names and sitas, 207; deaths of postmasters,
412; establishment of new offices, 2,22L The
increase in the number of posfcofflces wa3 distributed
as follows: New JBnglaud States,
4S; Middle States and District of Columbia,
111; Southern States and Indian Territory,
G38; the ten Srates and six
Territories of the West and Northwest,
375; the three States and three Territories
of the Pacific slope, sixty-five. The
greatest increase in any State or Territory
***"" 1 VI TTinrinifi Th? in Dfilrnt.n
for the year was seventy-one and in Mississippi
fifty-nine. The only decrease was in
.Nevada. The six States having the largest
number of postotfioes were: Pennsylvania,
3.894; New York, 3,157, Ohio, 2,725: Illinois,
2,183; Virginia, 2,0:54, and Missouri, 1,1)90.
New York containod the largest number of
presidential o.14ces?213.
The total number of money order offices
wa> 0,992?an increase of 749 over the preceding
year.
Under the head of the free delivery system
the report states that the number of free
delivery offices at the cloie of the year was
178?an increase of 19, and the number of
carriers 4,35S?in increase of 40i The entire
cost of the service was $3,98?,952, leaving an
unexpended bilance of $79,047. The service
has now been extended to nearly all citie3
having a population of 20,U0J inhabitants
or returning $20,0J'J gros3
mi m nnH if a
rucui^is |A7i uuuuxt| M..V. ..v
further extension must, under the law, await
the growth of cities to the requirements
above noted, or the qualifications must be
lowered by legislation. The first assistant
postmaster-general says that in view of the
success of this system, its convenience to the
public and other merits, in his judgment
warrants the recommendation that authority
be conferred by legislation for its extension
to places of 10,u00 inhabitants having a gross
revenue of $10,000.
As a result of the annual adjustment of
salaries, fourteen offices were added to the
presidential list and 134 offices wore relegated
to the fourth class. The grand total o" gross
receipts at presidential offices for the four
quarters ended March 31, 1335, amount-id to
$31,702,220, and the aggregate salaries of the
postmasters will absorb 11.42 per cent
of the revenues. The postal receipts,
says General Stevenson, forming
the basis of the salaries of presidential
postmasters, fluctuate with the favorable or
unfavorable condition of the business of the
country. At the present time reports show
that the oountry is entering upon an era of
prosperity and plenty, and therefore not less
than $3,80">,000 will be required to pay tho salaries
of presidential postmasters during the
fiscal year endin? Juue 30, 1337.
From the auuual report of General Superintendent
Jameson, of the railway m-iil service,
it appeal's that the mileage iucrease during
the past year was only 4,007 miles. In
? ? ? - ? mu.nkoM r\f rtiaAao f\t mail m a f.
CreOSJ ill mo uumuni UI p.OCOJ vra. u.un u?uwtar
handled, exclusive of registered matter,
was 423,:J97,50J In a total distribution of
4,943,059,400 pieces, the number of errors
chargeable to the clerks of tha railway mail
servieo was but 837,704, or ona error to each
5,^74 pieces handled, baing at the rate of 224
errors per cleric per annum. The average
percentage of mail correctly distributed
was 99.98. This is the highest rate attained
since the establishmant of the servieo. The
superintendent recommends that Congress be
asked to empower the postmaster-general to
pay to the widow or minor chi.dreu of any
clerk killed while on duty an amount equal to
one year's salary of the grada to which the
deceased belonged at tho time of his dwith.
Sixth Auditor McConville has also submitted
to the postmaster-goneral his annual report
upon the financial operations of the postoffice
department during the last fiscal year.
From the report it appears that the gross
postal revenues were $42,500,843: expenditures,
$49,317,188; excess of expenditure
over revenues, $6,756,345. To
this deficiency, says the auditor, should be
added the amounts certified to the Pacific
railroads for mail transportation ($1,340,228)
and the estimated unadjusted liabilities for
1885 ($285,000) making a total deficiency of
$8,%1,571. The deficiency last year was $4,967,425,
or $3,414,146 less than the present
UDUCIV.
The revenues show a falling off of $765,115,
while the expenditures have increased $2,91V
328. This result is attributed to the reduction
in letter postage and to general business depression.
The principal item3 of expenditure
werej as follows; Railway transportation,
$13,553,313; postmasters' salaries, $11,243,-r?5;
salaries of postofflce clerks, $4,873,853;
star route transportation, $5,403,259;
railway postal clerks, $1,240,203:
free delivery service, $3,985,952;
railway postal car service, $1,709,236; transportation
of foreign mails, $325,4f52. The
value of the postage stamps sold was $40,050,226.
The profits of the money order business
were S4U8,933; the amount of the balances
paid by foreign countries for mail
transportation was $66,955, and the amount
paid by the United States to foreign countries
for like service was $74,859.
MUSICAL AN!) DRAMATIC
The Southwest is being overdone by minstrel
troupes, good, bad and indifferent.
There are only two ladies in the cast of
"Saints and Sinners," and two only in "la
His Power."
Adam Forepauoh, the circus manager,
has had six railroad smashups during the
past season.
JOHanx Strauss has produced his new
opera, "The Gypsy Baron," at Vienna. It is
the best he has written, and has achieved a
great succe a
John McCullough's costumes, properties,
prompt books and plays have been sold at
auction in New York. The entire outfit realized
about $8,500.
A "HIGH NOVELTY" in oman is u vvuisbiujg
performance of Bellini's ''Norma." The
whole opera is whistled through, tlie chorus
being executed by sixteen whistlers.
The French papers state that in Memphis
there have recently been discovered a number
of harps three thousand years old, bosida
ancient flutes, drums, trumpets and bells.
Miss Minnie Hauk, who is to be Colonel
Mapleson's strongest operatic attraction in
America this season, now wears a decoration.
The emperor of Russia has conferred upon
her the cros3 of the order of St. Anne.
A beautiful commemorative building has
just been completed on the site of the King
theatre, Vienna, burnt in 1881. The number
of spectators who lost their lives in that
terrible tiro lias never beon accurately ascertained,
but 800 is the lowest estimate.
Mrs. Sara Althea Hill, who has been
made notorious by her litigation with the
California millionaire, Sharon, will follow
the course which has become popular of late
years with the female participants in public
scandals. She is going to become au actress
?a star.
UOTOGNI, tbe ramous oaricone, nas oeen
highly complimented in Spain. Tho people
to whom he had sung in the Badia Theatre
visited his hotel to serenade him; the police
tried to disperse the cx*owd; the crowd resisted;
the soldiers were called out; nn I for
an hour the singer witnessed a free light in
his honor.
According to the United Service. Gazette,
a new use has been discovered for tho bagpipes.
Last year, it seems, a Spanish soldior
was brought to the military hospital at
Havana in a state of catalopsy, and i'or fifteen
months ha showed no signs of improving
health. At last the doctors ordered the bagpipes
to be played near his bed, whereupon
the man promptly recovered consciousness,
and is now able to articulate.
FIVE AT_A_BIRT?
An Ohio Fnrmor'a Wl felia* Five Boys
at Oiue.
A remarkable story comes from Henry
county, Ohio, just west of Toledo, which, if
it were not thoroughly substantiated, would
be hardly credible. It is to the effect that
several days ago the wife of Wilhelm Freund,
& German farmer, gave birth to five children,
all boys, and that all the infants are well
formed and alive. "When a correspondent
investigated this stupendous increase
he found that the event is but one of a
leries that have happened in this interesting
familv. Mrs. Freund is thirtv-six vears of
age, and daring her nineteen years of married
life has given birth to twenty-one children,
6'ghteen of whom are now alive. The other
three lived to various ages over a year.
The mother is described as a comely German
woman, rawboned and spare, and the
father short and solid, but not portly. This
happy couple live on a small farm, which the
husband tills with the assistance of his nu? ,
merous progeg^. Some of the children, it is
laid, wore born in the hay field, where the
Dother was at work.
TREASURY SUITS.
Synopsis of the Annual Report of
Judge Tttc?ue.
Judge McCue, solicitor of the treasury, in
his annual report to the attorney-general
states that during the fiscal year ended June
30, 1885, 2,903 suits were commanced, of
which eighty were for the recovery of $793,503
from defaulting public officers; 193 were
for the recovery of $1,063,999 on account of
violations of the postal laws; 30 were for the
recovery of $55,748 on custom house bonds;
129 were for the recovery of $15,873 for violations
of customs and navigation laws; 825
were suits against collectors of customs and
others for refund of duties and taxes, and
1,646 were suits involving $1,301,766, in which
the United States is a party or is interested,
making a total sued for of ?3,
235,889. Of the whole number of
suits brought, 1,170 were decided in favor of
f.Ha TTrHtArl Ktatos 43 ware adverselv decided:
372 were settled and dismissed, and 1,318 are
still pending. The entire number of suite decided
or otherwise disposed of during the
year was 2,873; the amount for which judgments
were obtained exclusive of decrees *4iu
rem" was $819,tf26, and the entire amount
collected from all source* was
COLLISION ON THE OHO.
A Steamboat With a Circus on
Boaril Goes Down.
Between 12 and 1 o'clock a. m. the sidewheel
steamboat J. "W. Gaff, of the Memphis
packet service, ran into the steamboat Mountain
Girl, which instantly sank in twelve feet
of water, which came several feet above her
cabin floor. The accident occurred on the Ohio
river, just below Aurora, IniL, and resulted in
the loss of two lives. "The World's Show," a
cirrus and variety organization, was traveling
on the Mountain Girl and exhibiting at
the river towns.
So far as could be ascertained there were
but two people missing from the Mountain
Girl's passenger list?John King, of Cincinnati,
the light man of the show, and Dick
Harrell, canvas man, of Lawrenceburg, Ind.
The "World's Circus"' belonged to George Holland
and John McMann,and their loss is about
$10,QJ0. They have lost ten valuable ring
horses worth from $203 to $500 apiece, ana
one very fine animal valued at $1,200. The
side show, consisting of monkeys, snakes and
other curiosities was entirely lost. The
Mountain Girl was worth about $6,000.
A TRIPLE TRAGEDY.
* Father Kills til a TWO Assailant!
of His Son?
Particulars of a tragedy on Verde creek.
Bandera county, Texas, are as follows:
A young farmer named Buck Bryant
suspected two Germans, August
Rbeinbardt and Christian Eckert, of stealing
a hog. Bryant went to their house, accused
them and was fired upon. Fleeing toward
home he was pursued by Rheinbardt and
Eckert, one of whom shot and mortally
wounded him. The father of Bryant, hearing
bis son call, ran out and shot and killed
both of his pursuers. Young Bryant was
mortally wounded.
QUEEK HAPPENINGS.
W. E. Bergen, of Cranberry. N. J., has a
horse that within a short time has changed
his color from a dark brown to a dapple gray.
A swarm of bees, attracted by boxes of
honey, captured a store in Newton.and it became
necessary to use sulphur to dislodge
them.
The four-year-old son of S. Carrinaton, of
Centralia, Iowa, was romping with what was
thought to be a dog. It wns a bear. After
discovery the bear started for the woods, but
Mr. Carrington managed to kill it
While horseback riding, Owen Roberts,of
Mill Creok, Wis., filled his pipe and began
smoking. Suddenly there was an explosion,
and Roberts lay in the road with a damaged
jaw. A small cartridge was in the tobacco.
A Pennsylvania young lady was feeble
and went to Elwood, N. J., as a last resort.
There she was so bitten all over by mosauitoes,
that a painful illness followed. When
this disappeared she rapidly recovered from
the former disoase to the enjoyment of per
ucaivu? j
A Newry, Me., farmer was attacked by a
bear while in the mountains with a yoke ol
oxen. It was a stern chase between the
cattle and the bear. The farmer jumped for
the plug in the yoke, and dangled there until
the oxen had carried him out of reach. Thi
bear tore the oxen fearfully, but could not
reach the farmer.
A spark from a locomotive set the wagon
of Martin Burns on fire as it stood on the
Westminster Street bridge, St Paul. The
wagon, being covered witn oil, burned fiercely
and set the horse on fire, and he ran away.
Before getting off the bridge he stumbled and
tore a leg off. Then the cart set the bridge
on fire. Burns' fourteen-year-old son was
severely burned and the horse died.
THE MARKETS*
new york. 45
8 17* Ql/
DCtri Uil/HU, J^WU \AJ pi tuio l ?r w -,m
Calves, oom'n to prime \ eali 4 (3 83i
Sheep
liflmw 5;|
Hr>gs?Live 4 (5 5#
Dressed, city 5 @ 5^
Flour?Ex. St., good to fancy 3 SO (3 4 70
West, good to choice. 4 00 (a 5 75
Wheat?No. 'J. lied 98 @ 99,^
Rye?State C4 @ OS
Barley?Four-rowed State... @ So
Com?Ungrad. West, mixed. 51K'J? 53
Oats?White State 3> (jt 37
Mixed Western 2$ @ 3'2
Hay?Med. to pr. Timothy.. 91 !?5
Straw?No. 1, Rye 80 (cb 83
Lard?City Steam 0 15 @ 6 20
Butter?State Creamery.... 2t> & 2S !
Dairy 18 (5 21
West. Irn. Ci-eamery 14 (S 18
Factory 7 @ il> i
Cheese?State luictory 7 (? 10% i
Skims (J @ 8
Western .... 10V? |
Eggs?State and Penn 21 @ 23 (
BUFFALO.
Sheep?Good to Choice 3 00 @ 3 15
Lambs?Western 4 r>u ? o 70 ,
Steers?Western 4 75 (cO 5 00
Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 3 t?5 Cdb 4 OU j
Flour?(J'y ground n. process 5 25 @ 0 5'J
Wheat?No. I, Hard Duluth 1 Ul^/d)
Com?No. 2, Mixed New (a 47^ J
Dats?No. 2, Mixed Western 40 (rt
Barley?Two-rowed State ? (g ? 1
BOSTON.
Beef?Ex. plate and family. .12 50 (313 00 I
Hogs?Live 4 (<b 4V? <
Northern Dressed.... 5% !
Pork?Ex. Prime, per bbl... 1) 00 (cfi 9 75
Flour?Winter Wheat pat's.. 5 75 (3) 6 00 (
Corn?High Mixed 5o (5 54 t
Oats?Extra White 35 (<? ' >'*% i
Rye?State OS @ 71%
WATEBTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
Beef?Extra quality (j 00 @ G 37,^
Sheep?Live weight 2 V?(cO 5
Lambs 3}*'@ 3
dogs?Northern, d. w 4/4@ 5%
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour?Penn. ex family, good 4 25 @ 4 50
Wheat?No. 2, Red 1*0%
Rye?State @ 73
Corn?Stato Yellow 53 @ 53
Oats?Mixed 40 @ 41
Butter?Creamery Extra Pa. 20 @ 22
^heeso?N. Y. Full Cream.., 11X@ 14
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WRICKED ON A REEF.
%
A Steamer Goes to the Bottom
of Lake Superior. _
Nearly All the Passengers, and
Crew Drowned.
A Port Arthur (Ontario) dispatch gives the
following particulars of the disaster in Lake
Superior by whioli many persons were
drowned and one of the most magniflcen*
steamers plying on the lakes was lost:
On board the stoamer Athabasca, which
arrived last night, were Captain Jam:*
Moore, commander of the Canadian Pacific
Railway steamer .Algoma,* two passenger*, /
and eleven of her crew. They were all that
were left of the sixty-two persons that
sailed for this port from Owen sound on the
Algoma on last Thursday. The story of the
disaster, as related by Captain Moore,
who was badly injured, is that
the Algoma passed through St Marv'c
canal, bound for this p rt last Friday
noon. Soon after reaching Lake Super*
rior the wind began to freshen up from the
northwest, and a great bank of clouds along
fcViA nnr+.hprn hnri-ttm rlAnntfvl th? unnrnft/m
of heavy weather. Knowing, however, that
the .Algoma was ono of the strongest and
most powerful steamers afloat, and well able .
to cope with even a severe gale, Captain . A
Moore kept her on her course. An night approached
the wind continued to increase
in violence, and by dark had de-...
veloped into one of the fiercest gales ever experienced
on the upper lakes. Great seas
The*situation was made all theuLore terrible
by a blinding snow storm that set in before
morning. It was impossible to see the length
of the steamer. The passengers and crew were
terrified beyond measure, and momentarily
expected to see the steamer plunge to the
bottom. By instructions of Captain Moore
the officers vent among the passengers, trying
to allay their fears. '1 hey were panic-stricken,
linwnvnr nnri hiirMlfti tA'Athflr in thA mhtn.
where the screams and prayers of the women
and children could be heard above the gale.
On Saturday morning Isle Royal was
sighted, and Captain Moore headed the
steamer for Rock Harbor, where he hoped to
gain shelter. The island forms a natural
harbor of refuge, but near the entrance there
is a dangerous reef, and just as the steamer '
was nearing the en t ranee she struck the reef.
There was a terrific shock, and then the
steamer came to a full stop. The passengers
rushed out of the cabin, and beseecned the of- fleers
to tell them what had happened. "We
are on a reef," replied Captain Moore, "but
if you will only keep as calm as possible I
trust all will be safely landed."
Just then one of tha crew reported that
the steamer's bottom had been puuetured,
and that she was filling with water. The
boats were got in rervlines3, and all started
to leave the steamer, but just as they were
-I. i 1 ? 4.1, ? 4.
&UOUb bU IUWCI IUO UUULO buo DUOCkLUOl zuipp^u
off the reef and sank. The water was covered
with men and woman for a mioute,and than 1
all was over. Only fourteen lived to tell
the tale. These got into one of ths boats,
but were powerless to save themselves, a*
they were without oars. Captain Moore,
however, wrenched a footboard from the
oottom of the boat, and with that as a pad- '
die, succeeded in working the boats to the .
island, where tha survivors were picked up
by the Athabasca.
Mr. Bentley, the manager of the line, has
sent out tugs from here, with instructions to
search Isle Koyal for any survivors that may . r
possibly have got ashore, and to pick ap
and take care of any bodies that may be f-'i
found. The tugs are now at the scene of the ' 1
wreck.
The lifeboat and its occupants had a terri- x
ble experience while they were trying to get
to land. All who could bound themselves to
the boat, while the remainder held oa like
grim death to the si lea, expecting every moment
to meet their death either by drowning
or from exposure and cold. Once the boat was
turned over by the waves and one of the crew
was washed away, but the frail craft righted
itself and was swept on in the darkness.
After half an hour the boat suddenly struck
c/-imn tw>k? TVia inmstm fpnr?d all was'ovftp
with them, a? the craft capafced, but, to
their surprise, whan thrown out, the water
was only a foot deep, and they discovered
that they were 0:1 land. After remaining
there an hour or more, exposed to
the elements, the storm abated
and the sky cleared. It was then discovered
that the vessel had been wrecked about a mile
from shore. It was about 10 o'clock in th?
morning, and the half dead crew remained
there until late in the afternoon, when the
Athabasca came alon? and picked them up, >
A Toronto dsipat h says that the Algomc
bad on board .five cabin and six steerage passengers,
and forty-four or forty-five men in
the crew. The cargo consisted of 124 tons of
general merchandise and *297 tons of railway
supplies. It is a singular fact that she waa .
carrying the lowest number of passengers she
has ever had.
THE NATIONAL GAME,
Morrill has been a member of the Boston
club for ten consecutive seasons. Pitcher
Corcoran is the only player not
reserved by the New York club.
Baltimore wants to desert the American
association and go into the league.
The directors of the Canadian league have
resolved to further the international league
scheme.
Probably one or two of the New York
players will go to New Orleans to play this
winter.
The St Louis League club has signed Uahill
and Bauer, the stronjest men of the Atlanta
club.
The best batting club in the Eestern league
was the National team; the Water bury a were
the best fielders.
McCormick, the pitcher, who did such good
work for the Chicago club, refuses to sign,
and says he will not play next season.
The big fish are after the little fish as
usual. The mikado* of the League and American
association are busily engaged helping
the players of the minor organizations break
their contracts and reservations.
A game of baseball on roller skates was
played in a Cleveland rink the other day. It
is exciting and funny?to the spectators. To
the players it is bruising, exhilarating and
TUa 1J tn at-.anH still. no
acruuuwu. *uo uiv? ?-> ?
one can do the trick. Men fall when they
throw the ball, fall when they make a catch
or a pick-up, and fall when they want to stop
on a base.
PROMINENf PEOPLE;
Secretary Bayard's inherited deafness
Is said to be increasing.
William Black, the English novelisti
makes about $40,0J0 a year from his novels.
Dr. Noah Porter, who has just resigned
the presidency of Yale college, is in his 74th
year.
President Eliot, or Harvard university,
and tbe chef in the Parker house restaurant,
Boston, receive each a salary of $4,000.
The Earl of Fife, a young Scotch nobleman,
is the coming literary orator of his
Drder. He is very rich and munificent.
Beaconsfield talked in a soft, low voice.
Gladstone talks distinctly in medium tones,
ind Lord Salisbury loudly, often bolster*
:>usly.
Ex-President Arthur told a correspondsnt
in New York that he had not saved a
lollar of the $200,00J that he received for
President.
Mons. A. Bartholdi, the sculptor who
nade the statue of liberty given by France
;o America, arrived in New York a few days
igo from France.
The most remunerative professorship in
the world is that of Professor Turner, tba
listinguished anatomist of Edinburgh, which
fields him ?20,0!X> a year.
United States Senator Sawyer has
jiven $15,000 to the Young Men's Christian
issociation of that Michigan town with the
nellittuous name, Oshko3h.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, having
ittained the age of threescore and sixteen,
facetiously remarks that he is "a Revolutioniry
patriot?one of the men of '76."
Adirondack Murray said, at the close of
i recent lecture, the six years that have
passed since he left the ministry had been
ipent in graduating for another life.
Unlike his predecessor, Mr. Arthur, Mr*
Cleveland cares little for the relaxation to be
'outid at the theatre. A good walk in the
jpen air or a drive behind mettled horses
pleases him better,