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To promote economy the French Gov-1 fernmcnt has established saving9 banks in | connection with the public schools. | There are no less than 24,000 of these j banks, and the 500,000 boys whose names arc on the books have an average ! of $5 each to their credit. The annual average of suicides for every million people is 17 in Spain, 30 in Russia, 37 in Italy, 52 in Hungary, 70 in England and Norway, 93 in Sweden, 122 ' in Austria, 127 in Bavaria, 150 in France, 364 in "Wurtemburg, 167 in Mecklenberg, 274 in Prussia, 290 in Denmark, 305 in Thuringia, and 377 in Saxony. Suicides are becoming more frequent every year in highly civilized countries, but especially among the poor German race9. Some one has comuiled the following j table, showing the results of the recent Etorms in this country: Killed. IVoundccl. Damage Ohio 4S 30 $1,460,000 Missouri 39 37 375,000 Kansas 11 35 710,000 Indiana 0 33 3S5,000 Illinois 8 C 260,000 Michigan, Wisconsin and PennsJyvania. 5 8 103,000 Total loss 129 12S $3,300,000 A dollar a month will keep a Bengal man alive. Here is ccrtainly the spot on earth where contentment, sufficiency, paradise should be. A distinguished Brahmin recently quoted from official reports the statement that 80,000,000 of of the Hindus are always in a state of semi-starvation; that most of the diseases are the result of hunger; that B,000,000, or 4,000,000 die every elev-j cntn year 01 acme iamine. ww ? miyc portion of China famine i3 chronic. Only i few years ago 7,000,000 people starved to death in one visitation. The erection of an American hospital In the City of Mexico has now begun in earnest. "Americans in and out of Mexico," says the Tiro Republics, "should make it a point of honor to supply ample funds for the completion of the enterprise, which is demanded in the name of humanity, as well as in the interest of the good name of the American people. Contributions may be sent to the American Legation in Mexico, whose head is the President of the American Benevolent Society in Mexico, which has undertaken the building of the hospital." The word month is not likely soon to be defined in its statutory use by national pnaftmpnt thonnrh n hill with that end i in view has been introduced by Senator Piatt. In England a legal nnnth is the j lunar month of twenty-eight days. This was the common law interpretation, but Georgia is the only State which now adheres to that interpretation; all other States go by the calendar. As the question has never been raised in the court! : the Judiciary Committee concludcd that i there was no call for any legislation on i the subject, and reported the bill ad- i Tersely. < 1 "Sketching by telegraph" is the latest novelty. An ingenious system of adapting the alphabetical messages of the clectric telegraph, or any other signaling apparatus, to the reproduction at distant points of some kinds of drawings has . been contrived by Alexander Glen, ol England. It seems likely to be of much riMUt.v in militarv nnprfltions. a* it is CS- ! pecially suitable for the transmission of small maps or plans of a locality, and ^ for indicating the position of troops, batteries, and points of attack. By it, it is claimed, portraits and sketches can b3 re-produced with a fair degree o* fidelity. Balloons as an adjunct of warfare are attracting much attention in European military circles, and their possible value in time of peace is not entirely overlooked. An English writer remarks that the recvnt successful attempts at balloonsteeragc in France have led m\ny thought "ul persons to believe the day not c ^ar distant when we shall see balloons plying in well-paying passenger traffic between England and the continent. Another writer adds that such a result would be no more wonderful in its way than the discovery and development of the teleohoue. which, thousrh scarcely a decade old, is already so familiar to us that it no longer seems strange. A City of Mexico letter asserts that "if the tourists who leave the Eastern and Middle States during the bleak winter months to seek health and pleasure in milder climates knew Mexico as it is, they would flock here. The country is, and has been, during my five years' residence as safe as the State of New York, to live and to travel in. The people are quiet and as a rule courteous to all strangers. Violent crime is less in proportion in Mexican than in American cities. There are fairly comfortable hotels in nearly all j the principal towns, and many new ones are being built and furnished. The food furnished is nutritious aud plentiful. The mode of cookery is generally distasteful to Americans, but the keepers of restaurants are adopting American customs in many instances to get their trade. Hotel and restaurant charges are a little lower than in the I*nited States. Police service is as effective in all the larger towns as $n fVip T'nitpd Stntps unci the Hfoxiran police are more patient and courteous than those of the American cities. Several tourists, who were entirely ignorant of the 'language, have told me of their having | been picked up, when lost in the city of Mexico, and returned promptly and courteously to their hotels by the police, and they are as ready to serve the old and ugly as the more attractive or younger. Of course it is hard to make residents of the Eastern States realize thit the climate is ^uch that you may dress in light woollen goods, and, with a light overcoat for night journeys, be comfortable the year round: but it is true." _ One would naturally imagine that this 1 lew country was better wooded than the >ld and thickly settled nations of Europe. 3ut, according to a forestry authority, mch is not the fact. In Europe, it is :laimed, twenty-eight per cent, of the and remains in timber, while only sixteen ind one half percent, thus remains in the United States. Captain John Miller, of Jimtown, Dhickasaw Nation, was recently on trial it Fort Smith, Ark., charged with murler. This was not a novel experience to Saptain John, for, says the St. Louis Ghl>c-D(mocrat, he has, according to his jwn account, killed thirty men during ais life, not counting those he may have slain in the war. Though often tried for murder, he always escaped conviction, and iu this last case was released on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction in the case. Captain Miller was born in Choctaw county, Miss., in 1810, and is now seventy years of age, though no one would take him for more than fifty. The devices for attracting and pleasing customers in New York stores are various aud ingenious. In one store a buffet has been opened for free lunching. A neat maid serves out tiny sandwiches, cakes and coffee. She is an expert, however, and puts the dainties where they will do the most good to her employers. She discriminates between little and big buyers intuitively; she soon spots those who bring their empty stomachs too often to be filled, and especially is she kind to the children of liberal purchasers. For these youngsters she has a special supply of pastry, and with them she opens the hearts and purses of the fond mothers. Probably this luncheon counter doe6 not cost more ihan $25 a day, and influences more than enough business to pay for itself. An earthen mug, about six inches high, with cat-tails painted on the outside, that was purchased at the sale of Ferdinand W ard's nousenoia eneccs, nus been presented to a lady in New York. Accompanying the mug is the following "pedigree:" When General Grant was traveling along the Lake of Ivillarney he met a little peasant girl, whom he asked for a drink of water. The child dipped the mug into the lake and handed it to him with a pretty little Irish courtesy that impressed the distinguished traveler. When she learned that it was the great American soldier and President who had asked her for the cup of water, she begged him to accept the piece of pottery as a souvenir of the time and place. This the general gracefully did, and afterward presented the mug to his partner. Both Chicago and Milwaukee are bewailing the decadence of the grain trade that has made them great. The loss is more notable in wheat than in other cereals, although the receipts of corn have also greatly declined. Both cities are attributing the decrease to what they call excessive elevator charges, which in the course of a year amount to thirty per cent, of the present value of wheat and more than sixty per cent, of the value of corn and oats. -Elevator receipts have been shown in Chicago on Which the ; charges exceeded the value of the grain. It is argued that such excessive rates are strangling the grain trade of the city and forcing shipments by way of competing routes. Another reason for the decrease is probably the fact that there is not as much grain shipped as in former years. Certainly not much is shipped from the West to the East, as stock-raising is fast changing the form in which corn is transported to other markets. The Reckoning of Ships. There are 300 degrees of longitude in the entire circle of the earth. As the j earth turns around on its axis in twenty-1 four hours, l><24th of 300 degrees, which equals fifteen degrees, corresponds to a difference of one hour in time. Now, if a ship is sailing eastward from London, when it has reached a point fifteen degrees cast of that place the sun will come to the noon line (or meridian) one hour sooner than at London. When it is thirty degrees east it will be noon on the 6hip two hours earlier, at forty-five degrees three hours earlier, and so on. When a ship is sailing westward the noon line is passed one hour later for each fifteen degrees of longitude. If two ships meet at a point 180 degrees ?-* T am/Iah 4-Its* AWO rnilirirr nnff on/1 lruill jjuuuun, nit; vuv ouinu^ vaob uuu the other sailing west, the one will have gained and the other will have lost twelve hours on London Time. The rule of navigators is to drop out a day when a ship crosses the lSOth degree meridian sailing westward (that is, the 180th degree from the observatory of Greenwich, near London.) and to add a day when they reach the same degree sailing eastward. In this way the reckoning of ships sailing cast and west around the globe is made as nearly uniform as possible.?Inter Ocean. Theatrical Conflagrations. The number of theatres burned increases every year. From 1800 to 1810 there were seventeen destroyed by fire throughout the known world. From 1810 1WOA ftir. Iiiimtin" wiQ nirrht/'Pn 1 to 1830, thirty-two; 1830 to 1810, thirtv! 1840 to 18)0, fifty-four; I80O to 1800, seventy-six; 18 !0 "to 1870, 103; 1870 to 18S0, 1(50; 1880 to 1885, 174. The number of victims sometimes attains frightful proportions, as will be seen from the following table: Killed. Injured 1757?Havre 10 ? 1772?Amsterdam 25 ? 177S?Saragossa 77 52 1808?London 22 ? 1811?Richmond 72 ? 1829?Philadelphia (?7 ? 183(5?St. Petersburg 80J 1845?Canton 1,070 184(5?Quebec 200 ? 1847?Carlsruhe (3 203 1*45:5?Whampoa SO ? 1S57?Livorno 45> lo4 1807?Philadelphia 155 10 1872? Tien-Tsiu 000 1K7G?Brooklyn 28:i 1876?San Sacramento. 110 ? 1878?Ahmednuggur 40 ? 1881?Vienna 450 ? 1881?Nice 70 ? 1885?Richmond 100 ? A mass of lead in an elevated furnace in Paris was completely dissipated by a stroke of lightning, no trace of the metal being found afterward. El OF THE HONEYMOON. Return of the President and His Wife to "Washington. Mrs. Cleveland Installed as Mistress of the White House, The President's honeymoon trip ended on the 8th, and at sundown of that day Mrs. Grover Clevelan.1 entered the "White House on the arm of her husband, to remain there as its mistress. There had been no special preparations to receive her, except that the wedding decorations had been cleared away and the gardener had placed in the bride's chamber and on the dining room table bunches of bright and fragrant flowers to lend sentiment to her welcome. The Rev. Win. N. Cleveland,Mrs. Hoyt,the President's sister, ana Alas* Kose uieveiaua were at mo White House to greet the pair, and they, with Col. Lamont and his wife, composed the ! famity gathering at supper. It was because of the need that Mrs. Hoyt and the Rev. Mr. Cleveland should return home that the stay j at Deer Park was cut short a day, as the President thought this might be the last chance for a family meeting for a Ion ,' time, J The homeward trip of more than 200 miles took less than seven hours, and closed quite t an eventful day. Incidents of the return I trip are given in a Washington dispatch as follows: The process of packing at the Deer Park cottage did not s.-ein to worry Mi's. Cleveland much. She was visible most of the morning and yet when the baggage wagon came for the trunks they were ready. At 12:45 the carriage was at the door and in less than five minutes the bric.'e aud bridegroom, Mr. .and Mrs. Lamont, ex-Senator Davis and Mr. Elkins were seated in the private car Baltimore. The ' telegraph operators and railroad detectives j were put into the combination car, which i followed the engiue. Charles Seldon, general manager of the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph company,and John W. Davis,President Garrett's assistant, occupied the director's car Delaware, which was the second car of the train. The Baltimore brought up the rear. The train started from the hotel station, stopping at Deer Park. The people haa gatliered in full force on the platform to | shake hands with the President and his wife. John Graham was brought up as the repreI sentative citizen aud introduced as the Mayor. "The Mayor, indeed. I know how that is. I was once mayor myself," said the Chief Magistrate, as he took Graham's hand. Mrs. Clevelaud took the women by the hand as they passed the rear platform. One somewhat diffident young lady did riot seem inclined to reach up to the platform where Mrs. Cleveland stood. Mrs. Cleveland therefore stepped down two steps to reach the bashful one's hand. At 12:50 the train moved off and Deer Park had lost its greatest attraction and sensation. The traiu naxt stopped at Piedmont. ExSeuator Davis had S3nt information as to the President's movements, and a rousing reception had been prepared. A brass baud and several hundred people greeted the President. A girl less than five years old was handed over the heads of the crowd, and sho handed a bouquet to Mrs. Cleveland as the train moved away. Keyser was reached at 2 o'clock and here another crowd largely composed of women surrounded the Cleveland car. Here also a child was passed un the rear platform with a bunch of flowers for Mrs. Clevelaud. The President greeted the frightened youngster with: ''Look up, little one, don't be afraid.'' Just as the train b-jgan to get under headway an excitcd man eagerly grabbed tha President by the hand aud said: "I am Sheriff of the county, but I do not caix'll uj 1ui1w" lu juui "Come right ahead; I'll make room for you," was the laughing response. At Cumberland the tracks were lined with people, but no stop was made. The President stood on the rear p atform with uncovered head, and bowed while the crowd cheered and waved flags. At Martinsburg, the largest place through which the traiu passed, only a few people were at the depot. The run from Martin iburg to Harper's Ferry, nineteen miles, was made in twenty minutes. There was no greeting at thfs point. An hour later the train reached Washington. "When the train reached the K street crossing, out near the suburbs, some distance from the main depot, a large crowd, many in carriages, had gathered in hopes of catching a glimpse of the President and bis bride, xiut they were di-appointed, a> the train merely slackened speed at the crossing and then continued slowly into the central Baltimore and Ohio depot. Here perhaps 400 or 500 people, more fortunate thau those at the K street crossing, awaited outside the depot the arrival of the President. When the train came to a stop, the President was the first of the quartette in the rear car to alight Mrs. Cleveland followed, and assisted by the President, stepped nimbly from the car. Colonel Lamont and Mrs. Lamout came tripping along a few seconds later, and the party walked briskly out through the depot to the front of the building, where the President's seal browns aud his carriage with the coachman were waiting. It took only a few seconds for the four to enter the carriage, and they were off for the White House?home after an absence of six days. SEVEN LIVES LOST. I . A. Tenement House Fire In Chicago. ?An Incendiary's Work. Seven persons lost their lives in an incendiary fire the other morning in the wooden dwellings at 731 and 733 South Canal street> Chicago. They were Michael Murphy, aged 40 years; Mrs. Michael Murphy, aged about 35; An-lie Murphy, 9 years old; Nellie Murphy, 11 years old; Mrs. Mary Durkin, aged 30 years; Patsey Lavin, aged 4, a son of Mrs. Mary Durkin by a former marriage; and WiUiam Hand, aged 68. The fire broke out in the cellar of 738. and spread through the wooden walls of the basement to 731. Both houses were filled with smoke before any of the occupants were aroused. Some of the sleepers were doubtless smothered in their beds. The fire, following rapidly after the smoke, burned the bodies until they were unrecognizable. The second floor of 733 was occupied by the Durkin and Murphy families. The firemen in searching the ruins of the houses found some of the victims lying in their halfburned beds, and others, who were awakened before death came upon them, were clutching each other in groups on the floor. The upper floor was occupied by Win. Hand. His father lived witn him. They were aroused by the smell of smoke, and the j'ouug man caught up the children and jumped from the second story window with them, after assisting his wife to the street. He wanted Urtl w-? kio foflinr l\?i f tlin nl/] IAJ UOip Uio J.uvuv> v*v???u, i/uu ?uv v<v? man insisted on his jumping with the children. The aged and decrepit form of the old man was seen at the window a moment, and then disappeared as he was about to leap. The raging fire prevented the making of un effort tor his rescue. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Evangelists J^nes and Small have gone to Washington. President Arthcr says that insomnia ia his only trouble at present The Sultan of Turkey has given a banquet in honor of United States Minister Cox. K. F. Knowles, a loom manufacturer of Worcester, Mass., has bought a $000,000 hotel in Florida Mr. John F. Smith, a Philadelphia typa founder has presented $5,000 eaeiito uospiuus in that city. Justice Field of the United States Supreme Court will travel in Europe tbis summer with his wife. Queen Victoria has a flourishing poultry yard at Balmoral. The chicken house is a palatial structure, built in the semi-Gothic style. Plymouth Church has voted to give Henry Ward Beecher a vacation for four months, and ho will go abroad with Mrs. Beecher. Thk Prince of "Wales is an enthusiastic amateur photographer, and a most successful one. He purchase! his camera aoi outfit iu , this couutry. NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. The Third Avenue Horse-car Company having been successful in its fight with its employes, who struck eight weeks ago, as a last resort all the other surface railroads in New York .and Brooklyn were "tied up" on the Sth, to the great inconvenience of the public. The drivers and conductors of the various rnnrls resumed work next dav. how ever, without having accomplished anything, and the Third avenue strike was practically abandoned. William F. Boyle and James P. Graham, two Master Workmen of the Knights of Labor in New York, have been arrested on the charge of conspiring to prevent the Third Avenue Company from running its cars. The International Typographical Union has been holding its annual Convention at Pittsburg. One man was killed, two were fatally injured and four badly hurt by an explosion in a coal mine near WilkesbaiTe, renn. An explosion in a rail mill at Troy, N. Y., killed one mau, fatally injured four more, and inflicted injuried of a serious nature on six others. A cable dispatch reports the death at Florence, Italy, of Colonel It M. Hoe, the well known New York printiug press manufacturer, in his seventy-fourth year. The sum of $10,000 was presented to the Tntornntionnl TvnooxaDhical Uniou on the last day of its session at Pittsburg. This sum was the joint contribution of Publisher George W. Childs and Banker A. J. Drexel, of Philadelphia. The extensive woolen mills of W. E. Harding & Co., Stamford, Conn., have been totally destroyed by lire, loss $225,000. South and West. John* Stevens, mulatto, is charged with the murder of Dr. Pyles and wife and three other persons, all residents of Coffeyville, Indian Territory, the motive being re venge and robbery. Thousands of women and children, relatives of strikers, stood between the rails of a track at Chicago the other day, and refused to allow trains to proceed. The following executions took p!ace on the 4th: At Lebanon, Teqn., Jim Baxter; at Winchester, Va., Wes. Honesty aud Tably Banks; at Nashville. Tenn., Allen Herbert; at Opeloisas, La., Alfred Taylor. All wore colored. Presi dent Cleveland and his wife attended church at Oakls.nd, Md., on tbe first Sunday of their honeymoon, and were the centre of attraction for a large congregation. Brooks, alias Maxwell, was found guilty at St Louis of murder in the first degree. His victim was Preller, a wealthy young fellow Englishman, who was traveling with Brooks. After murdering Preller the corpse was concealed by Brooks in a trunk. The murder has excited much attention both in this country and England, where Brooks had most resectable connections. The United States Grand Jury at Saattle, Washington Territory, has found indictments against tan leaders of the receul; anti-Chinese dots iu that city. Western* crops have been injured by drought, and the prospects are only fa;:.r. The detachment of United State? soldiers on guard at Garfield's tomb, Cleveland, Ohio, since his burial, has just been withdrawn. Thirty thousand people witnessed the running race at St. Louis in which the mare Mis3 Woodford represented the En-it and three other horses the West and Pacific coast. Th stakes wero $10,000. Miss Woodford won. Just as the race started the press stand fell, aud a number of newspaper men were more or less severely injured. The Loughlin Nail Works at Martin's Ferry, W. Va., have b.en partially burned; loss, $100,000. Six ps=sengers?three men and three young ladies?were killed by a train's plunging through a trestle into "the Santee river, near St Stephen's Station, S. C. The conductor and mail agent were badly injured. First returns from the Oregon election showed a victory for the Democratic State ticket ana a close vote for Congress. Howard Rempis, a boy of sic years, shot and killed a little playmate at Akron. Ohio. Edward McManus, a lan 1 ageut,ar rested on a charge of forgery at Cleveland, Ohio, admits peculations to the amount of $30,000. The greater portion of Rav.ley Springs. Va, including two hotels, has been destroyed by fire. Washington. Secretary Lamar has revoked his recent order wiuuirawiiiK nu jiuuhu muu-> u-uiu entry under the timber culture, pre-emption aud desert land laws. The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Governor Swlneford, of Alaska. T. H. Winston has resigned as United States Minister to Persia. The House Committee on Invalid Pensions has agreed to report as a substitute for Senator Blair's pension bill a bill providing for a uniform pension of $12 a month tor all soldiers and sailors who are absolutely disabled and unable to maintain themselves, and recogaizing no distinctions of rank. Te:e President's wife will receive from the estate of her grandfather, Colonel Folsom, who died recently near Buffalo, N. Y., about $50,000. Foreign. The Highland Reform League of Glasgow has adopted resolutions in favor of bronc rule for Scotland aud a separate Parliameut In a raid of Apaches near Magdalena, Mexico, ten persons have been killed, one of them an American. Loud Salisbury, in tbe British Home of Lords, attacked Mr. Blaine for bis utterances during the recent meeting in favor of Irish home rule at Portland, Me. Mr. Blaine had severely criticise! Salisbury. During a funeral at Belfast, Ireland, there was a desperate fight between Catholic? and Orangemen. The police restored order after many persons had been injured. Twenty-four dories, containing forty-six men, are reported by the most recent information from Great Banks, Newfoundland, as astray from fishing vessels for several weeks aud not accounted for. At a papal consistory in Rome the Most Rev. James Gibbons, D.D., Archbishop of Baltimore, and the Most Rev. Elzear Alexander Taschereau, D.D., Archbishop of guebee, and others were created cardinals. ighteen bishops were nominated. Gladstone's defeat ou the Irish Home Rule bill in the British House of Commons was followed by a cabinet meeting, at which it was resolved to recommend the dissolution of Parliament to the Queen. This means a UC" CiCV/HUU. Renewed rioting at Belfast Ireland, 011 the Sth, resulted in a pitched battle between the police and the mob. Shots were fired on both sides, and many officers aud rioters were injured. The police finally triumphed. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Ji'dic is disappointed in her American j tour. She only realized $00,000. P. S. Gilmork has baen having a success- ! ful Western tour with his brass be.nd. Miss Anna Dickinson has given up all idea of ever attempting stage life again. Rubenstein, the pianist, has besrun in Lon- ' don what the papers call a ucy<ie of seven PAOltillc " II1MUI Kai ^iriuv.'1-vi w vv?M*w> It is reported that Mme. Patti has ma le nn engagement with Henry E. Abbey for another farewell tour iu the United States. I Queen Victoria has ordered the royal box put in preparation for occupancy during the forthcoming operatic season in Lonbon. The plenisphone.an instrument that unites the tones of the violin, viola, 'cello and double bass is a recent invention of a Buffalo musiciau. Next season Miss Fanny Davenport will employ a diversified repertory, including "As You Like It," "London Assurance, "The School for Scaudal," and "Leah." A one act plav called "Sympathetic Souls," written by Mr. Sydney Grundy, has been acted in London at the Prince's Theatre. Mrs. Langtry played the leading part Mr. Edmund C. Stanton of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, has secured Frau Wolter. a well-known singer of Berlin, for the next season of German opera. In London last year there were 2.sol alarms of fire, or an average of eight a day. Of these 2,270 wera veritable fires, though only sixty resulted in serious damage. A LOET THRONK The Demented Kin? Ludwis of Bavaria Deposed. 14 in TTtiol/ ? DmnnA T J A nnnnnAfi jj.io uiiuio) i IIUIJC jjuitpuiuj /VSHUJIIOQ the Regency Over the Kingdom. The physicians appointed to examine the mental condition of King Ludwig, of Bavaria, have reported that his malady incapacitates him from governing properly. In consequence of the physicians1 report Prince Luitpold, uncle to tin King, has issued a proclamation, countersigned by the Ministers, in which he assumes the regency an.l summons the Bavarian Diet to meet on the | loth inst. Count Holstein, who was instructed by ;lie Ministry to wait upon the King and isk him to authorize the appointment of a Regency Council, was arrested by order of the King when he entered the Castle of Hohenschwangau. The King also gave orders that a guard of gend'arms be placed around the castle. The Regent thereupon issued an order to release Count Holstein and to surrender the castle to toe State Commission. A dispatch from Munich, the Bavarian capital, says: There is great excitement in Munich and somo regret at the proposed deposition of King Ludwig, who, in spite of bis ecceutricities, has always been greatly beloved. Though he has given but little attention to state affairs of late pars it has not been found that the interests of the country suffered to any appreciable extent. In fact, so long as the price of beer was kept at the normal figure and strangers were attracted to the capital by the opera and the art treasures left by Ludwig L, Munichians cared little whether the King ruled or not. King Ludwig has been on the Bavarian throne since the 10th of March, 8641. and in August will be forty-one years old. The Munichians laugh at the idea recently started in Paris that the King's madness comes from an over-enjoyment of Waguer's music, which His Ma;je3ty was the first to appreciate in Europe. They rather attribute his mental calamity and his banjcruptav to too great a fondDess for the manners and customs of the time of "Le Grande Monanjue." His new Gothic castle of Schwanstem, built on the Bavarian Alps, cost him only a fraction of tlte vast sums he has spent in attemptinrr fn oorrv r?nf. r?r? flio PTorron Tncnln in Lake Chiem, his imitations of Versailles and the Trianon. His expenditures for his new chateau on theChiemsee have been fabulous. A gigantic chandelier cost him $100,00!), a bed more than a million of francs, and a single covering in Chinese embroidery some hundreds of thousands of francs. Within a short time the depose! King invited a corps of light horse to dinner, and put on his uniform as its Colonel. He proposed the men's health in a speech, did the same to the gen-d'armes, and pledged them in bumpers. He sent his hairdresser, c'othed with extraordinary powers, to receive a minor official and ask him to form a now Ministry. He once let an official dinner in Nuremberg wait while he called on the JBurgenmeister, at a village some miles off. Two years ago his uncle, Prince Luitpol 1. paid out a sum of $750,000 to satisfy the royal creditors. Piuce then, however, the King has made further debts to the amount of $4,000,000 or $5,000,000. Very recently a family council of the members of the tv-ittelsbach family was held at the house of Prince Luitpold, the head of the house, when the absolute necessity of a regency was decided upon. Prince Luitjiold's eldest son, Prince Ludwig, is the heir presumptive to the Bavarian throne, and is married to a niece of the late Countess of Chainbord. KingLulwig ha? one brother, Priuce Otto, born in 184i<, but he is incapacitated for the succession. King Ludwig's civil list has been $1,500,000 annually. GLADSTONE DEFEATED. The Homo ltule Bill Lost by a Majority of Thirty. Prem'er Gladstone's Irish Home Rule bill failed to pass its second reading in the House of Commons, on the night of the 7th, by a vote of 311 to Sil. Mr. Glad-) stone immediately movei an adjournment until Thursday and the motion was adopted. The final debate in the House was opened at 5 o'clock p. M., by Mr. Goschen, who spoke against the bill at great length Ha was followed in turn by Mr. Parnell, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, who also spoke agaiust the bill, and Mr. Gladstone, the Premier closing the debate. Mr. Gladstone entered the House at 4 :. >!> and proceeded straight to his seat. When his presence was noticed he was greoted with tremendous cheering. The Parnellites gave the Premier an enthusiastic welcome. He wore a white rose in his lapel and smiled as be took his seat. Every inch of space on the main floor and in the galleries was occupied. The Opposition loudly cheered John Bright and Lord Hartington as they entered and took their places. In a special cable dispatch, T. P. O'Connor, a Parnellite member, says: ''Thegeneral opinion to night is that at least three general elections will have tj be held before Gladstone finds himself at the head of a solid working majority, and that the country is now fairly in for a long term of excitement, unparalleled in the history of Great Britain , since the time of Cromwell. "In the result the government was defeated by thirty votes. Tlie scene was one of the most intense excitement, such as the oldest members cannot remember to have witnessed before. Tho Tories frantically waved their hats and haudkerchiefs aud jumped upon the ben-hes, shouting and gesticulating wildly. The Nationalists, after a pause, followed their example, and gave three reusing cheers for the "Grand Old Man'' and a succes ion of unearthly groaus for Chamberlain, and shouts of "Judas,1' whifh were taken up as the news spread like wildfire through the lobbies and halls to the outside, where an immense multitude had ga'-ltered awaiting the announcemeut of the vote. Among the u'oro rrrpnf; miint fv-s of Irish from all parts of the couutry, iu a conditiou of irrepressible excitement. Mr. Gladstone throughout the scene sat quiet and composed, as th&ugh he had fully exuected defeat as the inevitable first ste:> in a long and arduous struggle, and was peif jctly prepared for renewal of ths? con es! at tlr? proper moment.1' THE CROPS. Report of the Agricultural Department?The Outlook. The crop report of the National Department of Agriculture makes the area of spring wheat nearly the same as last year, about twelve million acres. Winter wheat is not so promising as on May 1. A slight de -line in condition is reported in the West and the low condition of the Southern crop is still more reduced. Yet the average is only reduced two points, from SH.tt to !>2.7. In the South it has been affected with rust, shrivelling the grain harvested. There has been injury from drouth in Texas, rains and floods in Ohio, ami hail storms iu Missouri. The prospe -t is good for a small fraction alx>vo twelve bushels per acre. Rye has also declined from a general average ot' M5.7 tj !?4.4 during tho last mouth. The barley a-reage has ba>u increased three per cent,, aud condition averages 10.); last year in June, 81). The large acreage of oat? in 1 xs.~? lias not been extensively iucreased. The increase will approach half u million acres. C'oudi tiou averages !Hj against 114 in isw:;. The tendency to increase the area of cotton has been checked in the Eastern States of the cotton belt. The net increase is about 250,000, acres, an advance of one and three-eighths por cent. Toe record stands; Virginia. !(*.?; North Carolina, 100; South Carolina, JW; Geargia, 98; Florida, 103; Alabama, !W; Mississippi, I(t3; Louisiana, 102; Texas, 107; Arkansas, IChi; Tennessee, 101. I A Chinaman has been arrested at Spokane Falls, Wyoming Territory, for having re- [ moved the figures 50 from a revenue stamp in a very skillful manner and pasted them on a $1 greenback in such a manner as to make it appear as a $50 note. What is most singular is the fact that he succeeded in getting the bill changed, carrying uway for it $<>0 in good money. LATER NEWS. . The Maine Republicans have Dominated Hon. J. R. BodwelI,a rich granite merchant, for Governor. The Rhode Island Legislature has reelected United States Senator Nelson Aldrich. Gloucester (Mass.) nsDermen are sa:a to be organizing for armed resistance against the Canadians. Chicago Aldermen are charged with accepting bribes from city railroads. A waterspout did great damage in and around Marshall, N. C. Houses were washed away, cattle drowned and crops destroyed. a posse of revenue officers have made a raid in Cumberland county, Tenn., capturing three large illicit distilleries in full operation, and a crowd of moonshiners. Unofficial returns of the O.-egon election from every county in the State except two, give Hermann (Rep.), for Congress, (!03 majority; Pennoyer (Dem.y, for Governor, 1,800; McBride (Rep.), for Secretary of State, 200; Webb (Dem.), for Treasurer, 400; Strahan (Dem.), for Supreme Judge, 200; McElroy (Rep.), for Superintendent of Public Instruction, 900; Baker (Rep.), for State Printer, 900. frederick tcrson, a resident of Jackson, Minn., aged seventy-two years, committed suicide by blowing the top of his head off with a gun loaded with peas. Late London advices state that Queen Victoria telegraphed to Mr. Gladstone her consent to the dissolution of Parliament after conferring with Lord Hartington, whom she asked whether he was willing to form a ministry. Lord Hartington advised dissolution, informing her Majesty that he would regard dissolution as desirable at this time should he form a government. The Democrats of the Second Maine dis trict have nominated ex-liovernor uarcelon for Congress. The people of Parsons, Penn., have been badly shaken and much frightened by an explosion of gas in the Mineral Spring Mine. The surface of the mine sank two feet over an area of about eleven acres. Five men have bssn arrest3d in Chicago for setting fire to the two buildings in which eight lives were lost recently. The Canadian fisheries trouble was under (lis :u>sion at a late Cabinet meeting. The President has on his table about 250 bills, including 100 pension bills, for final disposition. Postmasters nominated by the President: George D. Stanton at Stonington, Conn.; David Lutz, Slatington, Penn.; William R. Joline, Long Branch City, N. J.; Robert H. xayior, vv litmngion, uei.: d. o. martin, tierroll, Tex.; Reuben Stanley, Crestline, Ohio! Jacob We-ner, Hicksville, Ohio; John D. Thompson, Mount Vernon, Ohio; Samuel S. Clayton, Ada, Ohio; Cornelius A. Gallagher, Cheboygan, Mich.; Prior B. Mayo, North Springfield, Mo.; Gilbert P. Hall, Petaluma, Cal. Renewed rioting in Belfast, Ireland, occurred on the 10th. Taverns and houses were wrecked and pillaged, and many policemen were injured by mis-iles. The police fired into (he rioters with buckshot, wounding many. Eventually the military cleared the streets. Many houses in Fintona, County Tyrone, have also been wrecked during riotous disturbances, the result of the Home Rule agitation. The Pope has created six more American bishops. Many Europeans and natives bave been killed by an earthquake at Tarawera, New Zealand. THE NATIONAL GAME. The Syracuse (N. Y.) Stars attend church In a body every Sunday. Daily, the one-armed pitcher of the Washington League Club, has been retired. The batting averages are unusually high so far, both in the League and Association. Chattanooga is the first Southern League club to play an errorless championship game. John Thompson, Cleveland's new pitcher, recently struck out seventeen men in seven innings. The Detroit National League Club won seventeen straight games before it met with a defeat. The Charleston team is claimed to be the finest looking in the aggregate in the Southern League. If Atlanta again wins the Southern League pennant, every player will receive a substantial present. Plate p. s in Memphis are usually paid $-50 when they make a home run and record batting is the result. Gbant, the colored socoud baseman of the Meridens, is distinguishing himself by good batting and fielding. There are three pitchers named Smith in the Southern League?one in Nashville, one in Chattanooga and one in Macon. Fin ley. of Columbia College, uas offered $30j to catch one week for New York when tbat club was in a crippled condition. The total fine imposed on the players of the St. Louis American Association Club til is season amounts to something like$C00. The New Yorks won the first six games that they played with the St. Louis League nine. Three were won in New York and three in St. Louis. New York's fielding feat at Kansas City in keeping the cow-boys down to five runs, after they had made a total of twenty-two bases on balls, has never been equaled. Captain Joe Start, of the Washington Club, has been on the diamond a quarter of a century, and is playing better ball than the majority of first basemen. He commenced to play with the Atlantics in 1^60. Morrill leads the batting for Boston, Anson for Chicago, Brouthers for Detroit, O'Rourke for New York, Denny for St. Louis, Hines for "Washington, Rowe for Kan-as City and Andrews for Philadelphia. Ramsey, of the Louisville Club, has struck out eighty-nine men in ten games lie pitched, an average of nearly nine meu to a game, and Kilroy, of Baltimore, in nine games pitched struck out seventy-two, an average of eight to a game. national league record. Hum Ln.it. It'm L'wf. Detroit 2:5 5 Philadelphia.. 13 l'l Chicago 22 5 Boston 8 20 New York...19 9 Washington...5 18 St. Louis 11 l'J Kansas City...G 10 american association record. Won Lost. H'ltit Ia)*L St. Louis ...23 14 I Pittsburgh...22 17 Brooklyn... .20 14 | Cincinnati... 17 23 Athletic 19 10 Louisville... .17 23 1 ? no Baltimore...10 19 | Metropolitan. i~ SOUTHERN LEAGUE RECORD. Won Ln.it. tt'on Loaf. Atlanta 21 13 I Macon Ill 18 i Augusta 17 20 | Savannah... 19 14 [ Charleston...13 24 I Nashville. ...20 15 Chattuno.)ga. 13 21 | Memphis....20 16 EASTERN* LEAGUE RECORD. | Hon Lust. H'oii Lout Bridgeport.,.S 11 I Maiden 7 14 Hartford.,.,.0 8 j Newark 15 5 Long Island.. 1 11 | Providence....7 14 Jersey City. .13 4 | Waterbury. ..1.1 5 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD. | IT'on L'wf. Won Lost. Utica 10 9 Binghamtou ..6 13 Toronto 12 7 Buffalo 9 10 Syracu.se... 15 5 Hamilton 9 8 Rochester ....9 9 Oswego 5 14 The famou* Saxe-Meiningen Company, Wilsjn Barrett and his entire London organization, Mrs. Langtry, Rosina Volkes' Company, the Cameron Opera Company, Miss Fortesjue and her English p ayers. Mine. Sarah Bernhardt?these are sorue of the foreign importations promised next season. An extraordinary run of seals along the Pacific coast is reported. Old sealers say the creatures were never so numerous, and had 1 not bad weather prevented, the catches would have been enormous. v. -V- -.J RIOT m PILL AG i I Many Persons Killed or Wounded flB It* DAlfnni rKA1QI1|V . . v ill iiuauui Two Taverns Sacked ani Burned MB and 100 Houses Wrecked, * flfl Belfast, Ireland, has been the scene of &-*r series of terrible riots in which taverns werfe" j |^H sacked and burned, about 100 houses wrecked and many persons killed or wounded . in encounters with the police. In the varfous assaults made by the police npon the ri-- .^^9 oters, twenty-five of the latter wero severely. . wounded by the buckshot fired at them. A'.-- cable dispatch from Belfast gives the foK HI lowing details: During the evening a mob of Orangemen; - HI ir.ade an attack upon the tavern kept Catholic named Duffy. The police were.,. promptly on the scene, and, after a stubborn. , contest, during which they used their caivj HE bines, drove the mob away in disorder. .^H The rioters reassembled with increased-. _ strength and a^ain attacked Duffy's, H this time overpowering the po ( lice and driving them from the place. In : the first assault Chief of Police Carr wb? ' wounded. He was carried away in a critical.. condition. When the Orangemen returned y to the fight they were accompanied by. large number of factory girls, who;r 'BB goaded or shamed the men on to..Battle, and formed a most danger- ' ous element. When the officers abas- I doned Duffy's, the mob took complete pot- r Hi session of the tavern. It was at once H thoroughly sacked. All the tops and 9 spiggote were set running and everybody was invited to help himself according*.? to his taste. All the barrels of liquor < > ' found in stock were carried into ths street, lifted up high and let fall until }-.t they broke and liberated their contents. All the furniture was carried ont,-..'< HI Eiled in the centre of the roadway, and BB urned in a bonfire to furnish the rioter* with light during their debauch. Men, boys,. < and girls drank until they fell helpless in the gutters, the girls acting with greater fury: V- ^B during the earlier stages of the orgie than tit* men. The noisa, th? profanity, and the dis- . order was terrible. The mob ended their work here . by firing the tavern itself and it was burned to thi;? i' ground. Then the stronger men, who hatLc.v become infuriated and not overpowered by ~~.^B their potations, ran through toe stre^ts^ :> wrecking and pillaging wherever they iraat;u?S?^B and increasing their following further they proceeded. These rioters after/.* ' awhile congregated around mo ponce . station and stoned the place until they werfr- % tired. They then marcned down to another ; ,-7'~' tavern. The police hastened thither in " ^ vance and attempted to protect the property,- , but they were overpowered and driven away.^ . The mob,left in possession, treated the tavern as they had treated Duffy's, turned on all the taps, broke the full barrels in " r the street,made a bonfire of the furniture and ' finally set fire to the building. The police-! returned and this time got the oetter '* for a time of the mob, whose raobafr ?, were deplete! by the scores who had falten ' away in drunkenness, and extinguished the ? ~ flames before they could gain control * of the structure. But the officers were unable to drive the rioters from the locality,.- . and they remained and dominated every--' /Vy thing until morning. During the rowdyiarn of the night Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Parneli were both burned in effigy, and a dummy corpse labeled "Home Rule:' was cremated. ; r Rioting was renewed here this evening and the riot act was ajain read. The mob increased in size and began throwing stones at the police. The latter fired, killing four per* -+ sons, one of whom was a barmaid who waa- r looking outof a tavern window at the fight- ' ing. The mob returned the fire, and a brisk fusillade was kept up for twenty minutesi ^ Soldiers appeared and paraded the streets* to--' assist the police in case of necessity. The mob drove a force of 150 policemen '/ into the barracks and then attacked th? buildings, firing revolvers and throwing * stones at the doors and windows. The po*-' lice fired, killing five persons. Several Prot?"v % estant clergymen tried to. disperse the mob, but their efforts were unavailing. One of-5" the persons killed was a widow, with two- children. A force of 150 policemen waresent from Dublin to Belfast to reinforce the police there. * " At Lurcan. Ireland, scenes similar to tin - above described were enacted. Thomas Orallagher, a simpleton, was shot dead white ' waving an Orange sash in the face of a Home Rule mob during an inressant fire between' that mob and its Orange opponents. Twenty :r rioters were arrested. ?? ~ ~A : A sirnggie with a Deer. The Wheeling (W. Va.) Register say*-. that the most noted hunter in the State- rwest of Moorfield is Gabriel Cooper, i whose deeds have caused him to be knowa-* by his neighbors as Dan'l Boone. Dan'l keeps two dogs and a brown mare, and he knows every hog path and deer trail. , in West Virginia. It is said that the animals know Dan'l so well that when? they se3 him and his brown mare they flee the country. What Dan'l Boonev * cannot tell in the shape of hunting ad--i venture is not worth hearing. Every J Btream in Hampshire county has his traps set along its banks. With hi? tiusty ^ rifle he has brought down twenty-eight. deer this season. One day Dan'l was visiting his traps on Lost Iiiver. A mile J above where this river disappears in theearth is a bend where the stream is broad and deep. Dan'l keeps a little featherweight skiff in the bend for his private- * nco While Rlnahintr ud and down the ' **"v* '' ? o I" .. , -J bunk of the river he started a big buek 7' with six prongs. The animal sprang ~ from cover into the water and headed for the opposite side. Dan'l leaped into hir Bkiff, and a few powerful strokes brought him nearly alongside of the buck. Hir ' purpose was to secure him alive, buti when within ten feet of him the buck turned about and swan for the boat. The hunter, recognizing his peril,drew his sheath knife and caught the creature by the horn, as he made a vicious lunge at the boat. Dan'l held on to the horn, and the buck lunged and butted furiously. The hunter tried to get at its throat, and in the effort the skiff upset, and Dan'l and the deer were left to fight it out in the water twelve feet deep. To escape from the maddened buck was impossible, and instead of swimming from it the experienced woodsman dived under the water, and. coming up by the buck's side, stabbed it again and fn fVio cnrfflTi ' Bgain, unui nc ??o iwvcu ? himself for air. The wild plungefc madt by the wounded beast were terrific. The river was dyed with blood for twentj feet aiound where the combat raged. Ai the hunter poked his nose above the surface to get air the animal cut with iti horn a long farrow in his side. It wai the buck's last expiring effort. With a gasp ar:d a shivering moan it sank out ol sight and the battle was ended. Bau^s for Men. "We are selling a good many falsi b*ng9," faid a hair-drosser. r "For ladies ?" inquire ! the reporter. "No, for young men. IJangs i:re all the rage now, and every young felloe must have one. Many of them are baid, or their hair is too thin on the forehead, an tiiov fail on us to hell) them. W? make a bang that cannot be'distingimhed from the genuine article. It is fastened oil with wires, and when neatly combed looks very nice.-. A bang should ccm< about half an inch short of the eyebrows, and should be evenly cut. " It should never be worn with a full bfard. as it contracts the face too much. It ii most effective with a dropping mustache. ?New York Sun. Neglected opportunites rarely announci ' a second coming. \ ; S _