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:T- V * ?$7- n - v Ufv"Uncle Sam has $400,000,000 in his strong box and in this respect is not hard up. But lie owes $1,848,000,000 and is, therefore. $1,448,000,000 behind the world. Fifty-five millions of people are his endorsers, however, aud his credit is pretty good the world over. He can get trusted for anything he wants. "This is a wonderful city of over 3o0.000 souls, and a revelation to me," writes Mini ster llanna from Buenos Ayres, South America. "There is more money here than in any place I ever saw, but just now they are having our greenback days over again, gold being worth 414-. | It is the most extravagant government on earth.v The 4 "ordeal bean1' of Madagascar, which innocent people are supposed to be able to eat with impunity, though it is sure death to criminals, is described as being a very poisonous drug which kills I by arresting the respiration. Never the- i less, the chemists are working it up into a new medicine, and one investigator hopes to make it useful in palsy and other nervous troubles There is a man in South Lewiston, Maine, who is 84 years old. Last winter he lost the use of an eye, but did not dis- j cover it until spring. He went into the I field, one day in spring time, and noticed that things looked passing strange. He clapped his hand to one eye, and blank darkness ensued. One eye was totally blind, and the strangest part of all is that it had not pained him, and he had not known it before. ~ ~ * - * i M - _ 1 India rubber is incnacea witn a nvui. The rubber dealers of Eastern Nicaragua think they have discovered a tree whose gum will give as much satisfaction as rubber, and will, in fact, take its place. They say that the milk of the tuno furnishes a most excellent gutta percha, equal to the best found in the Eastern tropics, while the number of trees is ' virtually inexhaustible, and the gum can be produced with profit at twelve cents a pound. Several medical writers have lately called attention to the fact thot although ! there is a marked diminution of drunk-| enness in England, the use of powerful ' narcotic and stimulating drugs has large- | ly increased. Even nitro-glycerine, a ! comparatively new medicine, has found j its devotees. The Lancet says: "Since I the introduction of nitro-glycerine tab- j lets ioto the British pharmacopoeia the : use of the drug has increased to an enormous extent, and it is to be feared that I 1 its manufacture is carried on surrepti- j tiously." A traveler, Wyatt Gill, says: "lam interested in the discussion going on at home about fish as food for the brain. For years past there have been annually resident in the training institution at Raratonga from fifty to seventy natives of j the various islands of the South Pacific. I The most quick-witted students come from low coral islands and have grown to manhood on a diet of fish and cocoanuts. In muscular strength, however, I and in the power of endurance, they are decidedly inferior to the inhabitants of olcanic islands who used a mixed diet." A New York clergyman said the four great difficulties jvhich confront clergymen in a large city are the centralization of churches; the rush of business and j pleasure, and often silly and childish j pleasures; the crowded and shifting pop- i illation: and the tendency to sensational- | iron. This, observes an exchange, is like j the thirty-eight reasons which a mayor ; gave for not firing a cannon when the j king entered the city. "The first is, j your majesty, we hadn't any powder; the socond, we hadn't any cannon; the third"?but here the king shut him up. An electric boy is reported at Youngs [ town, Ohio?Frank Burnett. A com- i munication to the Cincinnati Enquirer says: "On his approach chairs and tables dance and heavy articles totter that his natural strength could not move. This lad is unable to explain his unnat ural power, and lias always enjoyed good health. The tests made thus far show the lad to be able to do more than he has claimed. It is probable medical experts will examine him to ascertain if possible the secret of his power." He is de cribed as being fifteen years old and light of build, and lives with his mother. Of the 380 Senators, Representctives and delegates catalogued in the Congressional directory, 208 received only an ordinary or academic education, 151 went through college, four are West Pointers and six are self-educated. Harvard has eight graduates enrolled, University of Virginia seven, Princeton six, Yale Miami and Michigan five each, Union four, Bowdoin three, Dartmouth, Hamilton, / Amherst. Williams and Trinity, two each. There are 274 lawyers, forty business men, twenty farmers, ten editors? and ten doctors. There are eighty-six veterans of the Union army, si.xtv-seven Confederate veterans and four ex-uleinbers of the United States navy. Montreal is to have a bigger ice palace than ever this year. It is 152 feet long ia.i wiili'. The nalace has aim i. i. i *vw A already been vacciuated. The principal feature is the great donjon tower, which rises nearly in the center. It is to bo thirty-three feet in diameter and something over one one hundred feet iif height. At each angle of it rise machicolated towers, three of eight feet in diameter and one of eleven feet. The ice castle of 1885 was 190 feet in length and 120 in width. The main tower was about 100 feet in height, and the supporting towers were respectively thirtyeight and forty-four feet in height. St. Paul Castle is to be built in a large square, and a skating and curling rink are to be formed within its walls. tlMBCBgaWBDBMWMMWMBgBn iwnz?B?IIH1MBE I Tlic farmers of Oregon and the Colum! bia valley are feeling exceedingly blue, I and all branches of industry in that ! region are greatly depressed. The crops i are as abundant as ever, but the distance j to market and high railway freight j charges consume all possible profits. One or tnc wonders ot the bontn is the j revivalist and temperance lecturer Sam Jones. He is already attracting the at' tention of the whole country. He is very } eccentric. He creates a sensation everyI where, but there seems to be very much ! to the man. His terse way of putting ! things, his humor and great earnestness I seem the secret of his power. He will no doubt have many imitators, but no j man is likely to succeed at it. One 1 might as well attempt to compete with | Solomon in making proverbs. A young man who had a great admiration for the ! eloquence of Peter Cartright proposed to copy his style, but, said the eccentric Cartright, "you will go to the devil if you do." A Western newspaper tells a story of a I doctor whose watch stopped as he was j feeling the pulse of a patient. The patient died. Some time afterward the J doctor was again feeling the pulse of a patient, and again the watch stopped, and the patient died. A third patient, ! seeing the doctor about to take out his watch, cried, "Don't pull that on me!" but too late. The watch stopped, and the victim expired. It is a question, of course, whether all these patients would not have died if the watch had kept on going,' but the corjimunity in which the doctor labored were not willing to test the matter in their own persons, and the doctor, after the third coincidence, found himself without practice. A triple wedding ring is worn by a Iadv in Richmond, Ya. It was placed on her finger by her husband recently, on the celebration of their golden wedding. The pair were married iu 1885, and the lady then wore an ordinary wedding ring. In 1860, when the silver wedding was approaching, the husband took of! the ring and had a second ring welded to it, which he placed on her linger on the anniversary. This year the golden wedding was to be celebrated, and the double ring was removed and sent to a jeweler to have a third gold circlet attached. This the husband placed on his wife's finger, and she now wears it proudly as a mark of her husband's love. She is not any more his wife now than she was when she wore the single hoop, j but it is easy to understand the old lady's delight in the renewal of the pledge which each added circlet symbolizes. Pasteur and the Mad Dogs. A writer in a Paris publication says: "Biting dogs and bitten dogs fill the laboratory. Without reckoning the hundreds of mad dogs that have died in the laboratory during the last three years, there never occurred a case of hydrophobia in Paris of which Pasteur is not informed. Not long ago a veterinary surgeon telegraphed him: 'Attack at its height in poodle dog and bull dog. Come.' Pasteur invited me to accompany him and we started, carrying six rabbits i with us in a basket. The two dogs were rabid to the last degree. The bull dog j especially, an enormous creature, howled ; and foamed in its cage. A bar of iron was held out to him; he threw himself upon it, and there was cpreat difficulty in drawing it away from his bloody fangs. "One of the rabbits was then brought near the cage, and its drooping ear was nllnwfid to nass thro'derh the bars. But, notwithstanding this provocation, the ! dog flung himself down at the bottom of his cage and refused to bite. Two youths then threw a cord with a sliploop over the dog as a lasso is thrown. The animal was caught and drawn to the edge of the cage. There they managed 1 to get hold of him and secure his jaws, ! and the dog, suffocating with fury, his eyes bloodshot, and his body convulsed with a violent spasm, was extended upon J a table and held motionless, while Pas-; teur, leaning over his foaming head at the distance of a finger's breadth, sucked up I into a narrow tube some drops of saliva. J I In the basement of the veterinary surgeon's house, witnessing this formidable tete-a-tete, I thought Pasteur grander than I had ever thought him before." What the Forehead Reveals. An observer sends the following to Tid-Bit8: A very retreating forehead which is low and shallow usually accomj panies want of intellect. If slightly reI treating, or what appears to be retreating ! from the fullness of the forms over the eyes, it signifies imagination, susceptibility, wit, and humor. Slow persons, with dull intellect, have very projecting foreheads. Perpendicular foreheads, rather high, and well rounded at the temples, rarely fail to go with solid understanding, nnwnrs of concentration, and love of i r " ? ? . | study. j A low, archcd forehead which is full I at the temples is indicative of sweetness and sensitiveness, and when combined I with great fullness over the eyes, gives I an impressionable, idealistic nature. I High, narrow, wholly unwrinkled foreheads, over which the skin is tightly drawn, show weakness of will power, and a lack of imagination or susceptibility. Foreheads not entirely projecting, but having knotty protuberances, give vigor of mind, and harsh, oppressive activity and perseverence. Persons possessing poetic, ardent, and sensitive natures not infrequently have a blue vein forming the letter l4y" in an open, smooth, and low forehead. Perpendicular wrinkles between the eye-brows, when of equal lengths, signify anger, but if the wrinkles are of utij equal lengths, they show deep thought ! ami concentration. 'Thus Ever Thus. The winter days are now at huiid When sileutly throughout the laud The snow doth fall; Its dazzling whiteness all around Doth drift above the frozen ground, Deep over all. Now the young lover haste doth ma Ice And in a narrow cutter take His girl to ride; And she doth laugh, blithe rind jocose Beneath the buffalo smuggled close Up to his side. Meanwhile at home his aged fathEr doth, to shovel out a p&th, The drifts attack; : And while love holds the youth in thrall The pcor old 2uan at home doth alMost break his back. ! THE HOUSE COMMITTEES. ! ! i ! I List of Congressmen Wiio Get the ; Chief Chairmanships. ! Names of all the Members Forming I I the Leading Committees, ) Speaker Carlisle has announced the names ' ; of chairmen of the chief House committees as | I follows; Turner, of Georgia, Elections; RanI dall, of Pennsylvania, Appropriations; Morrison, of Illinois, AVays ancl Means; Herbert, ! of Alabama, Naval Affairs; Brag}?, of Wisj consin, Military Affairs; Curtin, of I Pennsylvania, Banking and Currency; Bland', of Missouri, Coinage. Weitrhts. and Measures; Willis, of Kentucky, Rivers and Harbors; O'Neil, of Missouri, Labor; Mitch- j ell, of Connecticut, Patents; Throckmorton, | i of Texas, Pacific Railways; Reagan, of Texas. Commerce: Cobb, of Indiana, Public lauds; : Tucker, Virginia, Judiciary; Wellborn, of j Texas, Indian Affairs; Blount, of Georgia, Postottices, and Post-roads; Springer, of IIj liuois, Claims: Spriggs, of New York, Aci counts; Matsou, of Indiana, Invalid Pensions; j Muller, of New York, Militia; Geddes, of I Ohio, War Claims; King, of Louisiana. MisI sissippi River; Aiken, of South Carolina, I Education: Eldridge, of Michigan,Pensions: | Halsell, of Kentucky, Private Land Claims: I Barbour, of Virginia, District of Columbia; i Cox, of North Carolina, Reform in Civil Seri vice; Dunn, of Arkansas, American Ship j j Building. The following is the full list of the most im! portant committees: Ways and Means?Morrison, Illinois: Mills, j Texiis"; Hewitt, N. Y.: McMillan, Teun.; Harris, Georgia; Breckenridge, Ark.; Mayberry, Mich.; Breckenridge, Ky.; Kelley, I Pemi.: Hiscock, N. Y.; Browne, lnd.: Reed, j Maine; McKinley, Ohio. Appropriations ? Randall, Pennsylvania, | Forney, Alabama; Holman, Indiana; Town| shend, Illinois; Burns, Missouri; Cabell, Virginia; La Fevre, Ohio; Adams, New York; I Wilson, west; Virginia; uannon, Illinois; Ryan, Kansas; Butterworth, Ohio; Long, Massachusetts; McComas, Maryland; Henderson, Iowa. Judiciary?Tucker, Va.; Hammond, Ga.; Culberson, Tex.; Collins, Mass.; Seney, O.; | Oates, Ala.; Eden, Ills.; Rogers, Ark.; Bennett, N. C.; E. B. Taylor, O.; Parker, X. Y.; Ranney, Mass.; Hepburn, la.; Steward, Vt.; Caswell, Wis. Banking and Currency?Curtin, Pennsylvania; Miller, Texas; Candler, Georgia; Wilkius, Ohio; Arnot, New York; Snyder, Virginia; Howard, Indiana; Hutton, Missouri; Dinglev, Maine; Brumrn, Penusylvania; Adams, Illinois; Brady, Virginia; Woodbury, Nevada. Coinage, Weights and Measures?Bland, Mo.; Lanham, 'lexas. Labor?O'Neill, 'Missouri; Foran, Ohio; Lovering, Massachusetts; Weaver, Iowa; Lawler, Illinois; Daniel, Virginia; Torsney, Michigan; Crain, Texas; Funston, Kansas; j James, New York; Haynes, New Hampshire; Bound, Pennsylvania; Buchanan, New Jersey. Foreign Affairs?Belmont,New York; ClemI ents, Georgia; Cox, North Carolina; SingleI ton, Mississippi; Worthington. Illinois; I Daniel, Virginia; MeCreaiy, Kentucky; j Crain, Texas; Rice, Massachusetts; Waite, | Connecticut; Ketcham, New York; Phelps, | I New Jersey; Hitt, Illinois. Commerce?Reagan, Texas; Clardy, Mis- j ; sonri; Crisp, Georgia; Caldwell, Tennessee; j | O'Ferrell, Virginia; Taxney, Michigan; Pulitzer, New York; Bynum, Indiana; Irion, Louisiana: O'Neill, Pennsylvania; Davis, Massachusetts: Dunham, Illinois; Weaver, Nebraska; Johnson, New York; Morrow, California. Rivers and Harbors?Willis, Kentucky; Blanchard. Louisiana; Jones, Alabama; Murphy, Iowa; Gibsou, West Virginia; Stewart, Texas; Carlton, Michigan; Catching, Missouri; Glover, Missouri; Henderson, Illinois; Bayne, Pennsylvania; Stone, Massachusetts; Burleigh, New York; Grosvenor, Ohio; Markham, California. Agriculture?Hatch, Missouri; Aiken Soutn Carolina; Green, North Carolina; Winans, Michigan; Frederick, Iowa; Davidsou, Alabama; Stahlnecker, New York; Morgan, Mississippi; Glass, Tennessee; White, Minnesota; Funston, Kansas; Price, Wisconsin; Hires, New Jersey; Pierce, Rhode Island; Swinburne, New York; Gifford, Dakota. Labor?O'Neill, Missouri; Foran, Ohio; Loveriug, Massachusetts; Weaver, Iowa; Lawler, Illinois; Daniel, Virginia; Tornsey, Michigan; Crain, Texas; Funston, Kansas; James, New York; Haynes, New Hampshire; Bound, Pennsylvania; Buchanan, New Jersey. tensions?Jtlctredge, .aiienigan; \v oonoru, Kentucky; Jones, Alabama; Scott, Pennsylvania; G'owles, North Carolina: Lander. Illinois; Mahoncy, New York; Hutton,Missouri; Struble, Iowa; Taylor, Tennessee; Bradj-, Virginia; White, Pennsylvania; Thompson, Ohio. Claims?Springer, Illinois; Muller, New York; Lanham, Texas; Shaw, Maryland; Howard,Indiana; Dougherty, Florida; Trigg, Virginia; Neal, Tennessee; Snowdeu, Pennsylvania; McKenna, California; Warner, Missouri; Fleeger, Pennsylvania; Buchanan, New Jersey; Gallinger, New Hampshire. War Claims?Geddes, Ohio; Kleiner, Indiana; Cono, Kentucky: Timothy J. Campbell, New York; Richardson, Tennessee; Perry, South Carolina; Comstock, Michigan; Reid, North Carolina; Libby, Virginia; Smalls South Carolina; Heistand, Pennsylvania; Johnson, Indiana: Lyman, Iowa. Private Land Claims?Halsell, Kentucky: Barksdale, Mississippi:St. Martin, Louisiana; Eldredge, Michigan; Sadler, Alabama; Croxton, Virginia; Hall, Iowa; Reid. New Jersey; Osborne, Pennsylvania; Ely. Massachusetts; Thomas, Wisconsin; Dorsey, Nebraska: I Thompson, Ohio. ^ Post Offices and Post Roads ? Blount, | j Georgia; Ward, Indiana; Riggs, Illinois: I T?. vlrvf* .Initios Tovoc T^T-7 i " vo, *v.vm?, j Missouri; vvarner, Ohio; Merrimau, New York; Barry, Mississippi; Bingliam, Pennsylvania; Wakefield, Minnesota; Burroughs, Michigan; Gunther, Wisconsin; Millai*dt NewYork; Peters, Kausas; Cains, Utah. Public Lands?Cobb,Indiana; Henley,California; Van Eaton, Mississippi; Foran.Ohio; La flora, Kentucky; Stevens, Missouri; Laudis, Illinois; McRae, Arkansas; Strait, Minnesota; Anderson, Kansas: Pavson. Illinois; Stephenson, Wisconsin; Jackson, Pennsylvania; Voorhees, Washington Territory. THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK, Failures During the- Past Year?The Prospects for 1886. The New York mercantile agency of R. G, i Dun & Co. report that the total number Of business failures in the United States in 1885 was 10,637, with liabilities of a little more than $134,000,000, as compared with 10,908 failures in 1884 with liabilities of $226,000,000. While the failures for 1885 are only three per cent, less in number than in 1884, the liabilities have decreased nearly fifty pel" cent. The number of traders reported in "business in 1885 was 919,090. Of these one in j every 80 failed. In 18 <8, with 4,000 traders, j one in every (54 came to grief. The average I amount of liabilities of each failure in 1885 was 811.678. asrainst $20,632 in 1881, $22,309 in ! 1878. It is seen from these figures that while | business casualties have decreased but slightly in number, they are far less significant in amount and importance. The Iron Trade Review publishes many letters from manufacturers concerning trade in 1885 and the outlook for the coming year. I All branches of the iron and machinery trade note a decided increase in both orders and inquiries within the past sixty days, and the prediction is made, without exception, that 18St? will be a year of widespread prosperity. ? NEWSY GLEANINGS. The average cost of a session of Congress fa $3,000,000. The Prince of Wales has entered on his forty-fifth year. I'Snake poison, it is stated, kills at least 17,000 people per auuum in India. Ax Indian high school is to be established in San Bernardino county, California. A wild stallion has been killing animals and scaring men near Cheyenne, W. T. Tiie Missouri Cremation society has 40? members, twenty-five of whom are women. Silver coin is so very scarce in some parts of Mexico that business is seriously interfered with. The new town of Duureith, iu Dakota, offers *:!(?> and a town lot to the first.boy baby born in the place. 1 ? I NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. During 1SS5 there were 30,03$ births, 11.71(5 marriages, 3.>,('M> deaths and 73,372 arrests in Now York city. Governor Hill's inaugural ceremonies at Albany comprised a civic and military procession?in which the governor took part? to the capitol, where the oath of office was administered by Judge Learned. Iu his adrli'oco fiAT*ai??nr "Will vni'i'iMi'ml tl"ir? nf some of his predecessors and made promises of a reform administration, quoting words of Mr. Tilden and pledging himself to follow in the footsteps of that governor. "William H. McNeil, president of the Lancaster National bank, of Clinton, Mass., disappeared suddenly, and the bank suspended. The absconding president was thought to have fled to Canada. Frederick Fishel, confidential bookkeeper for a largo New York clothing house, during the past few years stole from tne firm sums aggregating ?75,000, which he spent in gambling and fast living. When detection stared him in the face he fled to Canada, but was arrested a few days ago aud brought back to the metropolis. Last year accidents iuthe numerous Lackawanna Valley (Penn.) mines, amounted to seventy-one deaths, the maiming of sixtynine persons (some of whom will die) and the wounding of 173. Fire has partly destroyed the Essex County lunatic asylum, Newark, N. J. Though greatly excited, the 350 inmates were safely removed. The damage amounts to about $75,000. Three small boys?Robbie, Willie and Hugh Roberts?were drowned while skating near near West Pawlet, Vt. A great improdement in the iron and coal trade is reported in some sections of Pennsylvania where those industries are predominant. A committee in New York is raising a fund of ?100,000 to aid Parnell, the Irish home rule leader, and his colleagues in the British house of commons. About $25,000 has al ready been raised. Millie Eddie, a trapeze performer, fell thirty feet from a trapeze while performing in a New Haven theatre, and was seriously, if not fatally injured. The annual message of Governor Hill, of New York, says that the State's finances are in a healthful condition, although there has been an undue increase in public expenditures; that a revision of the tax laws is needed; praises the civil service laws and denounces the spoils system, and declares that the problem of the satisfactory employment of prison labor still remains unsolved. Mr. Am Exde, the Hoboken (N. J.) druggist whose mistake in a prescription resulted in the death of two young ladies some time ago, was acquitted by the jury. The New York legislature organized by electing James W. Husted speaker of the assembly, while Lieutenant-Governor Jones swore in the Senators. The legislature is Republican in both branches. The annual auction sales of pews l)elonging to Mr. Beecher's Plymouth church, Brooklyn, realized $26,626, the first choice bringing $775. J. B. Lippijtcott, head of the well-known Philadelphia publishing house, is dead. rt i i- ~ 9umii uiiu nest. R. H. Harris, a resident of Lee county, Ala., and an ex-member of the legislature of that State, committed suicide by snooting. In a drinking saloon brawl at Louisville, Ky., .Anthony Sauer fatally stabbed his brother, who had knocked him"down. General Fitzhugh Lf.e was inaugurated governor of Virginia at Richmond. Speculators are holding back wheat for increased prices, and in consequence every elevator in Michigan is reported to be full to the roof, 2,000,000 bushels being stored in Detroit alone. The lumber-laden vessel Orphan Boy, with seven men on board, has gone down in Lake Michigan. Chicago is to have a crematory for the burning of the dead. A fire destroyed the Southern hotel, New Orleans, and Louis Kissner, a Baltimore musician, perished in the flames. Five prisoners?four of them charged with murder?knocked down a guard in the Charleston (W. Va.) county jail and escaped. The'captain, mate and Chinese cook of a schooner wrecked on the Oregon coast a few days ago were drowned. Heavy snow storms have prevailed in Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. Telegraphic communication was temporarily interrupted and railway trains were blockaded. Washington. More than G,000 persons,comprising cabinet niPtnViPiu t.hA rlinlnmatin rnms. siinreme court judges, army and navy officers, many members of Congress, numerous government officials, grand army veterans and an immense throng of private citizens, shook hands with President Cleveland at his New j Year reception in the White House. The ! ladies who helped the President receive were I Miss Cleveland, Mrs. Bayard, Mrs. Manning, Mrs. Whitney and Mi-s. Vilas. President Cleveland has contributed $100 to the Grant monument fund. Accompanying the contribution is the hope that the association will succeed in its object. During December the national debt decreased $'.>,089,031), leaving the total indebtedness on the 1st at $1,443,454,8213. Total cash in the treasury, $404,361,954. United States Treasurer Jordan has taken charge of the sub-treasury at New York. The number of fourth-class postmasters appointed under the present administration was, up to the 5th, 13,4i5. A Washington special states that the President has now sent to the Senate the nominations of all the men he has appointed to office since the adjournment of the special session of that body last March. None have been withheld. Four Republican Senators? Messrs. Hawley. Frye, Conger and Cullom? have called at the White House to state to the President their objections to men he appointed during the recess. Foreign. A young girl who had made a highly successful debut as a singer in Buda-Pesth, Hungary, killed herself shortly afterward on account of a quarrel with her affianced loeer. M. Pasteur, the hydrophobia expert, has undertaken at his own cost to cure eleven persons that have been bitten by a mad wolf in a village in Western Russia. Great Britain* has formally annexed Burmah, thus adding 07,000 square miles to the British empire. A Panama dispatch says that two families with attendants were crossing from Talcahunano to Peno when their l?oat was swamped, and seventeen persons?nine men, six women and two children?were drowned. Matamoras, Mexico, lins been the scene of a bloody election riot. The chief of police and seven rioters were wounded. The military took possession of the city and martial law was declared. The Arabs lost 000 killed and wounded in tike recent battle with the British near Kosheh, Egypt. Emperor William's twenty-fifth anniversary of his accession to the throne of . Prussia has just been celebrated throughout Germany with much rejoicing and enthusiasm. Every empire, kingdom, republic and principality of Europe and America was represented in a gorgeous and glittering procession to the royal chapel at Berlin, where a thanksgiving service was held. Women* have just voted for the first time in Toronto, and they elected the temperance candidate for mayor, for whom they went almost solidly. A new French cabinet has been lormed i>y M. de Freyciuet. The Balkan conference at Constantinople has been abandoned, Russia refusing to guarantee the independence of the union of Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia. A shock of earthquake was felt a few days since over au area of several miles iu South Devonshire, Englaud. Dk. Robert Ramsey, one of the most prominent masons iu America, died the other night in Toronto. "Sir Henry alkred doughty tichborxe will come of ago anil enter into possession of his estates next May, and in spite of the $(500,000 spent iu opposing "the claimant'' he will bo a rich man, his rent roll amounting to more tLin $140,000 a year. At tlie beginning of last year Vermont had thirteen v-governors living, but four of them died du rig the vear. Nine ex-governors still live. " liter mm. \ ' HE.vnr Bicnoir, the well-known president of the Xew York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is strongly opposed to M. Pasteur's method of inoculation against hydrophobia. lie says tliat the French scientist's experiments are cruel and unnecessary. Mn. John Gr. Steven's, president of the 1 United New Jersey Railroad and Canal company, shot himself through the head at Trenton, N. J. Although his friends denied it, there was a general impression that he com miucu siuciue. A heavy snow storm in Colorado has resulted iu great mortality among cattle herds. A fight broke out at a party in Clay county, Ky., aud in the melee two men were killed and a third mortally wounded. During the recent heavy flood three colored men were drowned in Taugier sound, Md., by the upsetting of their skiff. Port j Deposit, Md., was partially submerged, and ! great damage was done to property there aud iu other places. A freight train was derailed in a tuuuel near Hint-on, W. Va., aud three men were killed and three others injured. It is stated that Secretary Whitney is entirely satisfied with the seaworthiness of the ; Dolphin as shown in her recent trial trip, aud ] will formally accept the vessel. The President gave a dinner the other j night at the White House, in honor of the I Misses Tildeu, nieces of Samuel J. Tilden. j A national bi-metallic coinage association has established headquarters at Washington. Senator Jones, of Nevada, is presi- j dent, and the other officers and members are from the far Wpst. In executive session of the Senate Mr. Logan objected to the confirmation of Dorman B. Eaton as civil service commissioner, and the nomination went over for a day. A great snow storm has prevailed throughout England, raging for eight hours ana impeding rauroaa travel. Prince Alompra, a pretender to the Burmese throne, has entered the field near Manda] ay, and has assumed the title and attributes of king of Burmah. Many arrests of persons in good social standing have been made at Warsaw in connection with an alleged nihilist plot. At Boston Run, a mining town in Pennsylvania. a cave-in occurred over a colliery, causing three houses to sink out of sight aud threatening to carry down several others. George Holford, of Newark, N. J., went to Paterson, where his wife, from whom he | was separated, lived, and killed her with ' pistol shots, after which he put an end to j himself. The Chicago Railway Aye reports that in 1385 twenty-two railroads, with 'J, lofJ mile* of j road, a bonded debt of $141,5U0,1)00, and a ! capital stock of $10(i,'.M)(J,000, were sold at : foreclosure. The Mississippi Democratic legislative cau cus at Jackson nominated Messrs. Walthall aud George for re-election as United States Senators. Senator John- Sherman received the ; unanimous vote of the Ohio Republican legis- ' lative caucus for re-electiou to the United j States Senate. The 3,000 employes of the Cleveland Roll- | inp; Mill company, one of the largest concerns of its kind in the couutiy, have just had their wages raised ten per cent. Sarah Althea Hill, whose claim that 1 she was the wife of the late ex-Senator Sharon, has been thoroughly ventilated in the California courts, has just been married to her senior counsel, David S. Terry,ex-chief justice of the California supreme court. The President has, in answer to a resolution adopted by the Senate, sent to that body copies of document* showing the action taken by him to ascertain the sentiments of foreign governments iu regard to the establishment of an international ratio between gold and silver. The French government is to make an official investigation of the Panama canal. If the official engineers pronounce the canal to be practicable the goveiiunent will aid in its j completion. M. de Freycixet, the French premier, has formed a new cabinet, which includes several i members of M. Brisson's late cabinet. It is I not expected that the new French ministry j will last long. | A DAY WITH PASTEUB. Six Dog-Bitten Americans Inoculated Against Rabies. A special cable dispatch from Paris to the New York Heitild describes as follows scenes i in the laboratory of M. Pasteur, the scientist J whose discovery of a cure for hydrophobia has created such a seusatiou throughout the civilized world: Another dog-bitten citizen of New Jersey ?Edward Bucklin. fifteen years of age?arrived to-day at the laboratory iu the Rue d'Ulm and received his first inoculation at 11 He makes the sixth American treated by M. Pasteur up to date. Kaufman is doing well and M. Pasteur says he may start for home on Saturday. Sattler now says he doesn't, want to be inoculated. While M. Pasteur was supervising the inoculations to-day two telegrams were handed to him. Tearing one of them open he exclaimed, ''It's from America!'' It proved to be from the president of the Pasteur institute in New, York, and asked if M. Pastern* would receive a medical man who kuew French to study in his laboratory and learn his methods. As M. Pasteur lianded me the telegram he said: "Those gentlemen are iu too much of a hurry. It is premature to attempt anything yet. " Wait until we see how the cases already treated turn out. Wait until we see how the Newark children get along. Wait at least until March, when the series of exjjerimeuts already commenced will enable me to make known facts and data muck more sj>ecifie and detailed than anything yet puplished. Of course I feel very much flattered to hear that Americans have tnougllli lit LU ?1VC IIIJ JJUIIlf IK) UI1C lUMIl/UtV, but in the pure interests of science delay is needed, as everything so far is merely experimental." M. Pasteur then ojjeuod the second dispatch. This was from a farmer at Aire-surl'Adour. in the Department of the Landes, announcing that a luad shepherd dog had attacked him and sixty cows, biting a very l.tiw.k itimihui- .if flln InffiiV Tlio rlotr which was undoubtedly mad, was killed. The farmer begged M. Pasteur or an assistant to come to Aire aud inoculate the whole herd. 1 asked M. Pasteur, "How do you proi>ose to answer this telegram?" M. Pasteur said: *'It is impossible for me or an assistant to go there, and for the cows to come here is impracticable. My lal>oratory, as you see. is too small even to hold the score of patients that come here every morning, to sav nothing of sixty cows." Five new patients then entered the laboratory. One of them was a shoemaker, accompanied by his wife, who asked, "After mv husband was bitten I sucked the wound with my mouth. Must I be inoculated also?" M. Pasteur said, "Xo, it Is not necessary," and as the woman was poor, he gave iier twenty francs to <ro home with. t?-? The stage obituary list for 18s5 is a long one, and includes several names of eminence. The stage has lost since last January Edward Aruott, Mine. Sainton-Dolby, W. H. Beekinan,John Ryder, Mrs. George Vanderhoff, John Parselie, George Browne, Thomas E. Morris aiid John McCollough. The death list also includes Sir Julius Benedict, the distinguished composer; Dr. Damrosch. the admirable conductor of German opera; James W. Davison, the famous musical critic of the London Times, aud Richard Graut White, the Shakesperian scholar. Victor Hugo, who 'Is claimed by the stu^e as well as bv literature,, h:is also died within tbls year. " * vv; . .VJ:. S ,, h?bb? ??niju? ! i wmmaammammasjacaaaamgrnammm ADRIFT AT SE1 Terrible Suffering of Six Whalers in an Open Boat. Becoming Delirious for Want of Food and Water. The sfeamer Advance, of the United States and Brazil line, which arrrived at New York a j few days ago, brought into port six ship- i wrecked whalers who had been found at sea in an open boat, Captain McNeil, of the British steamer County Clare. Their names ! are John P. Pararo, third mate; Alex. G. Wood, boat steerer; Manuel Hortnen, Anto" nio Perrira, Lawrence Lodrevener and An[ tonio Manuel Lima, seamen. Alexander Wood, the boatsteerer, is a negro, ! born in Connecticut, and is the only one who | talks English fluently. His shipmates are Italians. He said that they had sailed on the whaling schooner Mary E. Simmons, from j New Bedford some months ago for the whaling grounds off the coast of South America, mien about one hundred miles to the eastward of Pernambuco, a school of whales was sighted. The iirst and second mates lowered away, the former taking the third mate's boat, his own having been stove in on a former occasion In a short time both boats had made fast to a whale. From the deck of the schooner the work of the two crews could be seen, and there being otlier whales in sight the third mate ordered the spare boat to be lowered. She was without water or provisions, and it Al- - -Ci. 1 ' w?k> rnw; iu me uiwrnoon wnen a stare was made. A big spouter was selected for capture by the third officer, and when near enough the boatsteerer sent his harpoon into the back of the victim. He proved to be a fighting whale of tremendou3 size. At the fii-st stroke of the harpoon he "sounded,v or dived. Line was paid out, and when he rose to the surface a strong pull was made to get alongside of him, and the lance in the hands of the third officer was plunged into his side. Then the whale "fluked" and lifted the boat, men and all, out of the water. When they came down the boat had been overturned and with great difficulty it was righted. The whale was dead and lay on the surface a harmless mass of untried blubber, alongside which the men hauled their boat, whioh was stove and waterlogged. By this time it was nearly sunset and the schooner was nowhere to be seen. Shortly before dark the sail of one of their own boats was seen and the wrecked men yelled and shouted to attract attention. Their cries were not heard, and night coming on all hands were obliged to sit on oars lashed across the boat's gunwale, with their legs dangling in the water. After dark the lights of the schooner could be seen plainly, but too far off to windward to allow a hail to be heard. The next morning another schooner was sighted standing toward them, and a man's shirt was lashed to a boat-hook and waved aloft. The schooner tacked three times within eight or ten miles of them, and at last squared away and was soon out of sight. Weakness from want of water and food and exposure, added to the disappointr TriAnf. wlion t-hio QpVinrmnr onilr>/1 owov moHo the men almost desperate. Shortly afterward another vessel hove in sight and hope was renewed. Frantic waving of the signal on the boat-hook failed tp attract attention, and again a feeling of despair came over them. During the day seven sails were seen and all passed on their way without noticing the suffering men. When night again fell Seaman Lima had become delirious and raved wildly. His shipmates were compelled to tie him -with the boat's painter to prevent his jumping into the sea. All night the men were forced to listen to the ravings of "the delirious mail, but as Seaman Wood said, "it seemed to distract our minds from our own sufferings. " The third day passed and still no signs of help and the men were tortured with thirst and hunger. On the morning of the fourth day, two more vessels passed by. At 11 a. m. a steamer was made out coming directly toward them. She saw them and at noon the six exhausted, starved and almost crazy seamen were taken on board the County Clare. Every kindness was shown them but it was some time before they recovered their strength. The were taken into Pernambuco, whence the American consul sent them home on the Advance. A DISASTROUS FIRE A Million Dollars' Worth of Property in Detroit Gone. The most destructive fire that has occurred in Detroit in a score of years broke out the other morning in the seed store and ware house of D. M. Ferry & Co., which occupied oue-half the block, bounded by Croghan and Lafayette streets, east of Randolph. Smoke was seen issuing from a window at about 9 o'clock and an alarm was sounded. The fire department was on the ground promptly, and the men found the upper part of the building full of dense smoke, which seriously interfered with every attempt to locate the fire. The breaking of windows to inn in hose furnished a sufficient draft to kindle the smother!! flames, which at once broke out in great fur}'. The entire contents of the building were as inflammable as tinder and burned as rapidly. From one end to the other it seemed to inflame at ouee. The crowds fell back before the intense heat and the firemen were driven away from their posts. Water seemed to have no effect on the flames. In one hour's time the walls of the south half of the building had fallen in. The north half was shut off by a heavy brick wall, with openings closed by double iron doors. So powerful was the heat that these were twisted from their fastenings and the flames swept into that half of the structure and in half an hour more that was gone. The fire then spread across an' alley and communicated to White's theatre, the largest aud most complete structure of the kind in the city, which fronts on Randolph street, aud this was soon destroyed. Several adjacent single stores in the'block followed, so so that finally an entire square was swept clean, with the exception of one small brick structure. This was the busiest seasou of the year for | Ferry & Co. Their building was full from top to bottom oi maienai aireuu} sui icu mm packed for shipment. Their loss is, as near as can be estimated, $t>50,000 on building and stock, on which they have an insurance of $430,000. The loss on White's theatre is estimated at about $125,000. The building; originally cost $75,000, but a large amount of additional expense has been put on the premises. The stage properties, scenery, etc., were very complete. All the contents, with slight exceptions, were destroyed. William H. Wesson is the owner, and is well insured. The other buildings ou the Randolph street side of the burned block belonged to the estate of the late E. A. Brush, and were worth $75,000. They are fairly insured. There were other losses of stocks that will aggregate something like $5U,000 more. Altogether the lasses cannot l>e less than $1,000,1)00. about two-thirds insured. Captain Richard Filban. of one of the truck companies, was struck by a falling wall during the progress of the fire and instantly killed. He was an unmarried man. twenty-eight years old, and the support of a widowed mother. Two other firemen were seriously injured from the same cause NATURE OONVCJLSED. Seveu Earthquake Shocks ou the South Pacific Coast. There have been several shocks of earthquake recently in Valparaiso, Arico, Pacna and Serena, but the most alarming have j been at Iquique, of which th<? Chilian Times j says: "The first shock occurred at 2:40 a. m.. and it was an unusually heavy one. Buildings were shaken in an ominous manner. Five minutes after the first earthquake a slight shock occurred, and ten minutes after the second a third was felt. The third was followed later on by two slight, but very distinct shocks, and it is believed that a continuous tremor, lasting for several hours might have been detected with proper instruments. To add to the alarm, the sea was extraordinarily agitated, and persons residing near the beach, anil more especially those living at the Puntilla, left their beds and watched the furious waves as they broke on the shore, and the fear of an irruption of the ocean was uppermost in everybody's mind. The agitation of the sea continued, with gradually decreasing violence, throughout the next day until nightfall, when it became calm." j | DAMAGED BY FLOODS. j Widespread Destruction Wrought by Heavy Storms. Towns Partly Submerg.d and the, People Fleeing fo: their Lives. r ' il Particulars of the damage done in New , York and Pennsylvania by recent floods, fol- A lowing the heavy rains, are as follows: The Susquehanna river has been higher than since the big flood of 18(35, and a great deal of the surrounding country has been submerged. Trains were mucn impeded. ^Rj Twelve collieries in the Mahanoy vauey, renn., nave ueeu iiuoueu. Auenwjwu wus practically without drinking water, the ttB pumping works having been flooded and rendered useless. Trains on the Lehigh Valley and Lehigh aud Susquehanna roads were delayed by laud slides and washouts. In Elmira, N. Y.. cellars were flooded. The Erie railroad bridge in Owego has been carried away and the trains ran over the tracks of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western road. The Mohawk river was higher than since 11504. Many little towns near Shenandoah, Penn., were inundated. Basements, saloons and barrooms at Girardville, Penn., suffered great damage. The inhabitants along the creek at that place retired about 11 P. M., but were awakened an hour later by the roaring of the water rushing - . through their dwellings. The water was from three to four feet deep, and overran bar counters and destroyed pianos and organs. A number of serious cave-ins oc-. curred on the Lehigh Valley road and prevented trains from moving on the Mahanoy bianch until noon yesterday. The water on the Reading road was three feet deep in some places, but traffic was resumed' yester- 1 day morning. Mahanoy City was completely inundated, and many poor families were forced to leave their homes in the middle of the night. The flood in the Susquehanna river reachedits height at Lock Haven. Three-fourths of the town was submerged. At Williamsport. renn., the loss will be greater than in 1865. One timber firm, it is said, will, lose $35,000, and the loss on logs that have broken away and gone down the river is likelv to reach several hundred thou sand dollars." There is much suffering among , families who have been driven out of their homes by the flood, and the mayor called a' mass meeting to take action to relieve destitution. In Harrisburj?, Penn., and vicinity much damage was inflicted by the rapid rise of the ' Susquehanna river. In the Catskiils scores of farmhouses were 'Crvs surrounded,imprisoning the inmates until the flood subsided. At Higginsville, a suburb of Kingston, N. Y., families were forced during the night to move everything into the second stones ot : their houses. By daybreak the water covered, the first floor and was rising at a rapid rate, causing intense excitement. Thousands or _. 1 people lined the banks of the creek and watched the imprisoned families, the water running too swiftly for any one to go to their ? .': ' relief. Four men went in a boat to try and save some property, but the boat upsetowing to the strong current, and one oi them, Owen Madden, a well-known politician >' of the town of Kingston, was drowned. ; A freshet in the eastern part of Oswego v county, N.Y.,carried away two saw-mills and a large quantity of logs. Every bridge between the villages of Parish and Mexico, including two of iron, went out with the flood. An Emporium (Penn.) dispatch says the loss to lumbermen will approach $3,000,000. THE INDIAN PROBLEM. - 4 How General Sheridan Proposes to Settle the Question. In response to a request for additional information explanatory of the recommendations of his last anuual report in regard to the Indian question, Lieutenant-General Sheridan has written a statement in which he * i. i . 'f'rjf&fv' says: In my annual report for 18851 recommend- > ed that each Indian family be given (and located upon) the $20 acres now provided for them by law in case of actual settlement; that the government then condemn the remainder of earh rcsei*vation and buy it in at : $1.25 per acre, and with the proceeds purchase government bonds, to be neld in trust by the interior department. , . giving to* the Indians each year the interest ou the bonds for their support I cited in ' . illustration of what would be the practical workings of this suggestion the case of the Crows, the Chevennes and Arapahoes and the Utes, but the limit of my report did not permit a fully elucidation of the advantages that would accrue to the Indian nor even an allusion to the large amount of land bow lying idle that would thereby be opened to settlement and increase by so much the material prosperity of the nation. The Indian reservations of the United States contain about 200,000 square miles; ? their population is about 2b0,000. Twenty-six thousaud square miles would locate each family upon a half section of land, leaving a surninc nf nhoiit 170.000 sahnre miles, which, ac cordiug to tbe plan I ?iave proposed, would produce annually $-1,480,000. This amount exceeds by about $600,000 the entire sum appropriated for the payment of their annuities and for their subsistence and civilization. The policy advocated in my report would be most advantageously applied gradually, the general government of the Indians being continued according to the methods now in vojrue, or such improvement of them as time anu experience may suggest The ultimate development of the suggested policy would, as the Indians advance in civilization and in- - , telligence, result in the return to them of the principal derived from the sale of their landsL which, until such measures were authorized by act of Congress, would be held as a trust ' l or their benefit and the income applied to their support . 1 * ; all of the candidates of the presidential 1 tickets of 1872 are dead. They were Grant, Greeley, Wilson and Brown. General John ' / C. Fremont is the sole survivor of the campaign of 1853, Hannibal Hamlin of the-campaign of 1860, George H. PendletoQ of 1864, and Morauo Seymour ot iooo. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. t Beef cattle, good to prime I w 8^(9 9% Calves, com'ii to prime veali 4^73 8 Sheep 2 (? 5% Lamos 4% (g 6? Hogs?Live.. 3y^pj 5 Dressed, city 3^(3 * Flour?Ex. St., good to fancy 3 75 (5 4 40 West, good to choice. 4 00 (tt 5 05 Wheatr-Na 2. Red 91 (a 92% Rye?State 65K'i? 67 Barley?Four-rowed State... @ S5 Com?Ungrad. West, mixed. 48 (3 40}^ Oats?White State 38 ftC 40 Mixed Western 35 $ 36 Hay?Med. topr. Timothy.. 01 (3 95 Straw?No. 1, Ryo 80 (? 85 Lard?City Steam ...620 @625 Butter?State Creamery.... 30 (cb 36 Dairy 26 0> 28 West Im. Creamery 18 25 Factory 11 @ IS Cheese?State Factory 7 ?i 9!^ Skims 5^'@ 6% Western 7 (5 9 Eggs?State and Penn 26 @ 27 BUFFALO. Sheep?Good to Choice 2 75 (3 3 00 Lambs?Western 3 65 @ 4 01) Steers?Western 4 60 (ct> 5 00 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 3 6') ^ 3 70 Flour?C'y ground a process 5 25 @ 6 50 Wheat?jNo. 1. Hard Duluth I 01 }{(d> Corn?No. 2, Mixed New (a 47}{ Oats?No. 2, Mixed Western 40 (d Barley?Two-rowed State ? (a) ? BOSTON. Beef?Ex. plate and family.. 10 50 (811 00 Hogs?Live 4 4% Northern Dressed.... 5 <S 5}{. Fork?Ex. Prime, per bbl... 10 00 (511 00 Flour?Winter "\\ heat pat's.. 5 65 (5 5 75 Corn?High Mixed 54 @ 56 Oats?Extra White 44 (c? 45 Eye?State 67 70 WATERTOWX (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef?Extra quality 6 00 @6 25 Sheep?Live weight 2 (<? 4% Lambs 4X/^ 6 Hogs?Northern, d. w V-idS 5 PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn. ox family, good 4 25 @ 4 50 Wheat?No. 2, Red 90% Hve?State @ 75 Com?Stute Yellow 52 @ 5." Oats?Mixed 40 @ 41 Butter?Creamery Extra Pa. 20 (& 22 Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream... ll&tfi 14