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The people of Ventura, Cal., are going
to try a novel experiment in sprinkling
the streets with crudc petroleum instead
of water. It is thought that oil after
two or three sprinkles will lay the dust
for months. The experiment is looked
for with much interest.
During the last thirty years the aggregate
of the personal estates sworn to as
belonging to deceased bishops of the
English church was $11,075,000. As
forty have died during this period, the
average wealth was $276,875. At the
Eamc time there are thousands of brilliant
and devoted men serving as curates,
whose salaries are smaller than those of
a lackey.
The undertakers of Philadelphia have
again invoked the aid of the clergy to
put an end to Sunday funerals. It is
well-known that the Roman Catholic
clergy have strongly protested against
the practice, and have to a large extent
suceeded in breaking it up among their
congregations; but ministers of the various
protestant denominations have so
far refrained from takiog similar action.
A vermin exterminator of Boston recently
ollered to clear a large brewery
n vnzt. <1 nnntit.v r?f flics whirh had col.
lected by the million in the beer hogsheads,
for $230. The proprietor agreed
to the terms and the man went to work.
41'Boll these barrels into the ice-room,"
he said. The barrels were rolled into
the room where ice was made. "Freeze
'em!" said the vermin exterminator. The
brewery men were surprised that they
had not thought of that simple remedy.
They tried it, and in a short time swept
out countless numbers of fro: en flies.
English sailors attempted to catch a
fourteen-foot shark off Natal, South
Africa, but the shark snapped their line
in two, and sw.illowed bait, hook, and
all. After losing several hooks, the anglers
tried a piece of venison in which
they had put a ball of gun-cotton. This
was connectcd by wire with a boat's
battery, and just as the shark was in the
act of seizing the venison the charge was
exploded. 'I here is a degree 01 perse~
- cation which even a shark cannot, endure,
The jaws of the monster were shattered,
and it rolled over upon its back and
tank.
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There is a man in Italy who avers that
he discovered in Africa a concoction of
herbs which renders the human body in ensible
to hunger or thiist or poison,
without at the same time destroying life
or injuring the body in any way. After
taking a quantity of the concoction he
entered upon a long period of fasting,
taking into his stomach only four glasses
of water daily. A number of physicians
became interested in his case, and fol
lowed it curiously. At last accounts the
experimenter hal expre scd himself aa
feeling very well, and was abouf; to take
coison.
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Three years after date the floating
Islands of pumice, thrown up and into
the sea by the stupendous volcanic eruption
af TCr.ikftt.oa- in the Java seas, are
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found to have drifted along the Indian
ocean in the last twelve months C?6
miles in a direction west by south from
where they were one year ago, or about
five miles a day. This accidental help to
hydrographers and all who study ocean
currents and drift is probably the best
they ever had, because the origin of the
pumice is well known, the lioating expanse
of it so large that it cannot escape
notice, and the dates and other particu&
lars about it are all matters of record.
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Hidden in the swamps of Livingston
narish. Louisiana, is a hamlet with a
population of 500 souls, "where until fifteen
years ago not a word of English was
spoken or understood. It is a settlement
of Acadians who displaced the
Spanish founders of the village, and today
arc living in contcntmcnt far from
any other habitation. The people are engaged
in the lumber business, and despite
the swampy an l malarial condition
of the surrounding country, are a hardy
and long-lived race. The younger villagers
now use English to a greater degree
among themselves, but their elder;
cling to their mother tongue. Though
isolated, the settlement is hospitable und
a pleasant spot to visit.
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A Chicago writer discusses the ques
tion whether the man marries the woman
or the womin mirries tho mr.n, and
whether the marriage notice in the papei
should read: "Mary Ann Jones to Samuel
Smith," o* ' Samuel Smith to Man
Ann Jones." The matter isn't of much
consequence either way so long as thej
arc happily married. However, the
Syraiuse Standard fiuds enough in the
question to say: '"The weight of testimony
is all in favor of wedding the
woman to the man. The Bible is on that
side of the que tion, and so is the marriage
service of the Episcopal Chuich.
Usually, too, the husbanl objects to
being married to the woman, unless she
has money. He prefers the other form,
and most of the ladi.s agree to it."'
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An eminent German physicist recommends
for the extinguishment of fire in
closed places, where the use of water
and other liquids would be likely to do
great damage, a dry compound which,
by its burning, absorbs the oxygen and
quickly renders combustion impossible.
The eomnound is composed of powdered
nitrate of potash (saltpetre", fifty parts:
powdered sulphur, thiity-ssx parts; powdered
charcoal, four parts; colothar
(brown red oxide of iron), one part.
This preparation is one that can be
cheaply made. It is recommended that
it shill be, when thoroughly dried and
mixed, put up in tight pasteboard boxes
holding about five pounds each, with a
quick fuse in the side of the box? protruding
six inches, with four inches infiids?19
facilitate anjJ ins^rs lighting jt.
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1 England's new colonial acquisition,the
Ellice Islands in the South Pacific, will
prove of valuo principally as a naval
! 6tation. There are nine islands in the
j group, all atolls, and some of the lagoong
can be entered and afford excellent
anchorage; th:it of Funatuti being ninety
8quare miles in extent with an average
depth of fifty feet and two entrances
deep enough for the largest ships of war.
The population of the islands is not important
in numbers, scarcely aggregating
9,000 but the people are physically and
mentally among the finest specimens of
the Maylayan race. The islands will be
of strategical value to Great Britain in
resisting attempts at further annexations
by rival European Powers.
Engineers pronounce the project ol
! tapping Niagara Kiver by means of a
canal entirely practicable, and experts
have declared that not elsewhere within
the known world are there such natural
advantages for the creation of a gigantic
water-power, and that it can be delivered
at I.ockport to the extent of 300,00C
horse power, if so much shall be wanted,
at a minimum of expense. Lake Eri<
and all the great upper lakes would be
the mill-pond for this power, the Niagara
River the head race and Lake Ontario
its tail racs. The supply of water can
never be diminished by drouth; no spring
floods nor freshets will tear away the
dams, for there will be no dams. The
supply of water will be uniform, uninterrupted
and practically unlimited. A1
the ordinary capitalize 1 value of a horse
power this would add about $200,000,
000 to the material resources of the
country.
John J. Morris, ex-Excise Commisl
-vr? r?u.. i:?oe wnc(
MUIll'I UI jluiiv vitjj ?itwo v/ii ?i vs
Twenty-first street. Four years ago cats
drove people from their homes in this
| street by their midnight music. ComI
missioner Morris owes the peace of his
home to his son Wettmorc, who is an amateur
electrician. He put a wide board
on top of the back fence to better facilitate
cat locomotion. He then ran sis
bare telegraph wires along the top of this
board, a very little distance apart. He
connected these wires with the strong
hattprv in the house, and a kev. within
| easy reach, connected the battery with
the wires on the fence. With darkness
the cats came. When a few vigorous
notes gave indication of a promisinglyloud
concert Wettm.rc touched the key.
One long, loud yell followed. Two cats
were seen several feet above the fence
pawicg the air, and all fell down into the
yard quite paralyzed. One by one they
got up, smelled off their paws, murmured
a mew and quietly stole away.
A peculiar accident recently occurred
in Coxlod^e colliery, near Newcastle, in
England. The "back shift" men, to the
number of about a hundred, after having
descended the shaft, were riding on tuba
drawn by a wire rope, which was kept in
position by "sheaves" hanging from the
roof. These revolving sheaves are of
metal, and about three feet in circumference.
The rope is worked by the engines
abevo ground, and is connected
with the first of a line of tubs, and so
hauls the tubs along to the vicinity of
the "face" of the cosl, where the men
work. A string of fifty tubs was in
motion, ovor thirty of which contained
three men each, in a sitting posture, when
one of the sheaves under which the tubs
were passing broke from its place in the
roof, and came in contact with the head.of
the men sitting in the tubs, which
were going along with considerable
speed. An a'arm was raised, but before
it could be responded to the tubs had
gone 200 yards further on. Thirteen of
the men received injuries of a grave
character about the head and face, and
seven or eight others sustained hurts of
a minor nature.
A New Disease Among Children.
Professor Lemaistre, of Limoges, describes
a new disease which is at the
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prUSCUl iiiuv ijuui; jnwaitub uiuuug niv
school children of France. It is known
among the common people as perleche,
aud is contagious. It consists in an
abrasion in the corners of the mouth,
which become little ulcers and sometimes
bleed; it lasts from two to four weeks.
The description given of it corresponds
to what is commoDly called in this country
a "cold sore" or "fever blister." In
the sore Lemai>tre has found a microbe
which he calls streptococcus plicatilis.
These have boon found in drinking water,
and it is surmised that they have been
transferred to the lips of a person,
thence to the edge of a cup, and thus
all who used the cup became affected,
j Professor f craai?tre has examined the
5,500 children who attend the thirtytwo
schools of Limoge>, and has found
312, or one in seventeen, affected with
the disease. Although Professor Lemaistre
is connected with the Ecole de
Medicine, of Limoges, his explanation is
to be acceptcd with a good deal of cauTt
in li vt~/\l\nl vl/> fVio n nam
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disease has been discovered, or that its
method of propagation cau be so easily
explained. The difficulties surrounding
the demonstration of the connection between
microbes anl the disease are sc
gre it, and the men competent to trace
the various step* in the process so few,
that we sh ill feel compelled to wait for
further evidence before we accept perleche
as a new disease, and this variety
of streptococcus as its germ.?Science.
Children and Fire.
The magazine Ba\ul<o d has something
to si;y about emergencies, and fitting
children to meet thein. We quote:
"Children should be impressed with the
fact that fire cannot burn without air,
that ii bla^e-: more brightly in the wind,
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Willll' il >wu vtuii 14 t.iv an 13
away; they can be shown how a burning
cloth or paper can be extinguished by
being crashed in an old piccj of carpet
or rag (siuce it is by illustration rather
than by simple telling that such fa* ts
can best be impressed on their minds',
and stories can be told tlioni of persons
who have saved their clothing from burning
by such means. Especially should
they be charged not to run in case of
their clothing catching fire, nor even t:>
stand up. since ascending flames may
burn face and eyes; but rather to lie
down and cry for help, in the meantime
extinguishing the flames in the way
above described, if possible."
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle State*.
During his vacation in the Adirondack! tic
President Cleveland went hunting and sue- hil
ceeded in bringing down a deer. The head C0!
and antlers will in time adorn the walls ol
the President's country seat near Washington.
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Dexter Brown, a boy preacher of the we
Methodist Church, noted for his eloquence Ee
and power as a revivalist, committed suicide
at his home in Oneonta, N. Y.
Cloctman & Bingham, sho3 manufacturers
of Boston, have failed for about $1, "ve
000,000. Y't
A fire in the Erie Railroad yard, Jersey tic
City, N. J., destroyed property valued at _u
, $125,000.
Levi M. Brobst, a young bridegroom lllj
1 from Nebraska, committed suicide in presI
ence of his bride by leaping from a train near Ei
Reading, Penn. He was iusane. fl);
Large labor demonstrations took place on \
the 6th in New York, Brooklyn, Boston,
i Newark, N. J., and other cities. In New
York the parade was participated in bv about I"
i 15,000 men, and was reviewed by Mayor cli
i Grace. ,
The trades unions of Connecticut have ?e
1 placed a full State ticket in the field for sup[
port at the coming election. 110
. Tbe Boston sloop Mayflower easily de- 'r(
' feated the English cutter Galatea in the first '
L of the series of international yacht races for a
) the America's cup, won last year by the Pu- R
ritan from the English vessel Genesta The
race was sailed in New York Bay, and the
. American yacht came in twelve minutes in
| ahead of her British contestant An im- ^
! mense array of vessels, crowded with spe.-ta.
tor.-;, witnessed the contest. Ill!
"Colonel Tom" Plunket, of Hartford, ^
las fled with about $200,000 of th i funds be- Aj
i longing to two manufacturing companies of
which he was an officer.
The Vermont election resulted in a vie- ,
?ry for the Republican State ticket and 0
candidates for Congress.
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South and West. un
Another shock of earthquake was felt CU1
: ibout 11 o'clock on the night of the 3d all ^
ilong the Soathern Atlantic coast. It was
aot attended by much damage, but it was V'JI
I strong enough to cause a stampede from their tio
instruments of the telegraph operators iu to$
uany of the cities. The shake was felt from r
Jacksonville to "Washington. AtCharles?n,
S. CM two more buildings fell, and a
woman was killed. Consternation again pre- Ai
vaileiL and the DeoDle fled from their houses on
I ind camped in tha public squares. Two- '?
, chirds of the bu liiugs in Charleston are
iamaged beyond repair. Pr<
California Democrats have nominated a if
i iickct headed by Washington Bartlett, an.
Mayor of San Francisco, for Ixovornor. for
Monroe Chapman is in jail at Shelby, N. ^
. C., for arson, which is punishable by death.
He admits the act and says he got a dollar an(
for it. ha!
An arme 1 mob visited tha jail at Green- til!
i ville, Texas, and took therefrom John Smith, we
a prisoner charged with the killing of Depu- .
1 tv Sheriff Adair, of that place, and hanged .
him. W1
The Bliss Lumber Mills, at Milwaukee, Lu
Wis., were destroyed by fire, with a loss ap- i
i proximating $150,000. ^)r(
! Chief Geronimo and his band of murder- p
ous Apaches have surrendered to Captain
i T oYphnn nnrl Kpon rnnrATOil Rnwift AH- We
zona. J ' jui
The eastern end of the Northern Pacific t
tunnel, under construction through the Ca>- ~a
cade Mountafns, in Oregon, caved in and
nine white men ware buried under the stones no'
and earth with little chance of auy of them sul
being rescued alive. ? w ]
The Arkansas election bas resulted in the ^is
successof the Democratic State ticket Large .,
Prohibition gains are reported.
A tier of flooring joists on a building at
Indianapolis, Ind., gave way, buryin? twen- '
ty-one workmen in debris twenty feet below, to
Four were fatally and three severely injured. i
The election on the question of local option str
in imieyviiie, Jexas, ieu 10 an anray id
which three men were killed and seven 1
wounded. ?>- ?? eai
Charleston was visited by three more Lo
earthquake shocks on the 7th, but they did i
no damage. A more hopeful feeling pre- .
vailed throughout the city, and the people
were preparing to go bravely to woHc to re- *ro
pair tneir shattered fortunes. Contributions C
poured in steadily from all parts of the to l
country. the
Washington. an'
President Clevelad was sent the following
dispatch by Queen Victoria: "I desire to
express my profound sympathy with the sufferers
by the lata earthquakes, and await
with anxiety further intelligence, which 1 ge
hope may show the effects to have been lea
disastrous than reported." .
The Ptetident has sent the following replj ,
to Queen Victoria's telegram of sympathy aet
with the earthquake sufferers: "Your Ma- on
jesty's expression of sympathy for the suffer- roa
ers by the earthquake is warmly appreciated
and awakes grateful response in American
hearts." con
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Foreign. mo
...f .V Dolfarf Too. :
uiuiinu again uiuiku vuv m ho xiii
land, on the 5th, and the rioters had to be put nu
down by the military. livi
Renewed earthquake shocks have occurred shf
in Greece. 1
Prince Alexander has publicly an- ^.a<
nounced his intention of abdicating. Hi
says he cannot remain in Bulgaria on as- * ?
count of the objections of the Czar. Before ".'-J
leaving he will establish a regency. He wai *j'j
enthusiastically received in Sofia, the Bulga- j
riao capital, and issued an address to the noj
officers of the army. Germany and Austria jnR
are reportei to bo very iadignant at the ^
Czar's action in forcing Alexander's second (,Q
abdication. rus
A German warship has destroyed numer- lipi
ous villages in thj New Hebrides Islands, wil
and killed hundreds of the natives in retalia- a p
tion for the murder of G?rman subject*. h
A regency has been established in Bui- su"
garia. Prince Alexander has taken farewell of l
of his army and started for the frontier. for
Andrew Carnegie, of Pittsburg, Penn.,
has presented tha city of Edinburg with f '
$*Ji0,U00 to found a public library.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE. ?,
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Henry Ward Bekcher is to lecture in wei
this country next winter on Ireland. the
Cyrus Fillmore, the brother of President
Millard Fillmore, is still living in Indiana. }va
There are six poets in the British House
of Lords, Tennysou, of course, heading the
the
M. Cheyrecl, the French scientist, has wii
passed the centenary line and ha, been duly J
nonored by his countrymen. bo<
A New York paper says that Mrs. Langf- the
try's marriage in New York next winter is otb
now decidedly among posdbilit'es. by
Senator Gorman, of Maryland, always a"
wears a nutmeg tied about his neck to keep
off the neuralgia. And he says it has been a 1!l'
good thing.
Mr. Kuraiiara, a native of Kizislrn, JaEan,
is fitting himself for missionary work in
is own country at the Baug'or (Me.) Theological
School. * J
Mrs. Cleveland is said to write on an
average about twenty letters a day, most of
them in reply to communications from en- I)e
tire fctrangeif.
"There goes one white man who never ,
lied to an Indian." This is the compliment ;
paid to Bishop Whipple the oth?r day by an whi]
untutor.d savage. cigl
The King of Portugal, now en joying a woi
holiday in Central Europo, his not been outside
the limits of his little dominion before
for the last twenty years. 1,11
Sarah Winnemucca, th;Iudian princes', tan
can speak five tongues, threi Indiau dialects, of i
English nnil Sninish. Khe is now a school ..i,?
tea her and urges her popple to educate their jjjj'
child) on. toU
The deaths in rapid succession of so many fan
old public leaders has turned attention to- wit
ward the survivors, among whom is Tierce's uiin
Postmaster-General, James Campbell, who don
is still living in Pennsylvania. hal
Dan Magonk, whi has become the New ^
York Collector, is the third one to assume woi
that oflice fro.it St. Lawrence Countv, the
others being Preston King and General Mer- pno
ritt. King put shot into his pockets and hov
jumped into the river from a New York ?' '
ferry-boat, tnrej months after his appoint- 'on
ment l,t
Chief Joii.v Smoke Johnson died at his one
resideuce on the reserve at Brantford, Ont., to <
recently. Dot-eased was !)4 years of age, bo- v.a'
iug the oldest Indian of the'Mohawk Tribe, lies
He fought in the Ameri an war of 1812. cob
LATER NEffS.
T. J. Lothrop for Governor heads 1
iket nominated by the Massachusetts P:
bitionists in State Convention at W
ster.
The sea serpent has been seen again, t'
oe in the Connecticut River, near Cro
:1L The monster is described by eye-w
sses as having a head "as large as a barr
d being 100 feet long.
At the Wisconsin Republican State C<
ntion, held in Madison, Jeremiah M. Ri
is renominated for Governor by acclan
in. The platform says the liquor questi
ould be settled by the communities acooi
y In thn SAntiment nrovailinp' in them.
The opening of the third annual Industr
[position at St Louis has inaugural
iti vities which will extend over twomootl
Trichina has been discovered as t
use of death of many hogs in Indians, a
inois heretofore supposed to have died
olera.
John Enright and his young wii'ewly
married couple, who had just sturt
usekeeping?were smothered by coal, g
>m their little stove in Chicago.
rHE Texas Prohibitionists have nomirat
full ticket headed by E. L. Dohony i
>vernor.
rHE Federation of Coal Miners, assembl
convention at Indianapolis, after a loi
bate unaoimously adopted a resolution ]
ing to merge with the Knights of Ls.b<
Further outrages by Mexicans upnerican
citizens are reported from Toxj
a.nother American fishing vessel has be
zed by the Canadians for alleged violati
the fishery laws.
A. body cf 3,000 Yaqui Indians attack
i defeated a column of 400 Mexicau troo
der Colonel Torres. Nearly all the Me:
is were killed.
I'he Connecticut Republican State Co
ition at Hartford resultel in the nomm
u of Phineas C. Lounsbury for Governc
jethar with a full ticket.
L'he second race for the America's cup t
eea the English cutter Galatea and t
nerican sloop Mayflower occurred on t
i. but was not finished within thstime lin
seven hjurs, although enough was shown
)vo the superiority of the American slot
working to windward in a li^ht brce
.1 a jump of a sea, conditions which heret
e have been considered most favorable
> cutter model. A heavy fog prevaile
i the competing yachts went over on
If the course. During the fog the vast fl
a of ve sels which followed tin j-acl
nt groping about blindly for hours on N<
irk Bay, and one big s eamboat load
th pas angers, and a yacht, went ashoi
ickily no live? were lost
rwo floors heavily loadel with wheat ai
m gave way in a barn at W'estchestc
i^*? PftvoM nnwi in f"Vio ciililo hftlri
re crushed to death, and fifteen others i
red.
government physician sent to inves
to the sickness at Bilcm, M^Si., says it
t yellow fever, but o malarial fever i
tiDg from imperfect sanitation.
Mr. Mannix, the assignee of the late Arc
hop Pun-ell, testified in a Cincinnati cou
it he had lost ?200,000 of the trust fund 1
'filiating iu itocks.
Skavy rains have caus?d great diseomfc
the homeless people of Charleston, S. C.
V revolution iu Mexico is daily gainir
ength in various distr ict*.
\n appeal for aid for the Charleston (f3.<
th ]uake sufferers ha? been issued by t
rd Mayor of London.
Dhocsands of persons have died
)ler'a at Seoul, Ccrea. The deaths numb
in 250 to COJ daily.
Colonel Gilder, of New York, will ti
find the North Pole. He has started f<
Arctic region from Winnipeg, Manitoba
1 will use sledges drawn by doss.
BURNED WHILE ASLEEP.
vcn Hungarians Meet u Horrf.b
Fate in Pennsylvania.
L special from Hughesville, Penn., giv
ails of a fearful disaster by fire at a shun
the Williaraport and North Branch Ita
id. The ruilroad is only complete I as f
Sonestown, being beyond that point
irse of construction. The terrible 1(
life occurred at a place called Nort
nd ,in Sullivan county, about twen
les distant from Hughesville, where
mber of Hungarian workmen have be<
in?, twenty-two of them occupying
tnty?a two story structure.
ibout 10 or 11 o'clock r. m., after the m<
i gone to bed and were fait asleep, fire
i cook stove in a room beneath in son
y ignited the floor, and the flames, cor
inicating to the stairway, soon spread
i second story, and in a few minutes tl
;ire building was wrapped in flames. ]
Keeler, prominent merchant of Laport
;iced the flames from a distance,and haste
; to the scene witnessed a terrible sigh
number of Hungarians, who gather*
the spot, were panic stricken, ai
bed hither and thither, uttering uuinU
ible cries and with blanched fares point<
dly to the building, where Mr. Keeler sa
oor victim struggling to a window, whic
reacnei oniy to sinic uown exnausteu ai
[ocated, liis bead and arms hanging 01
the window, while he burned to death b
e their eyes. As soon as the sleeping Hui
ians awoke horror stricken they found tl
ole floor full of smoke, and in their elFor
iscane many of them plunged head'or
vn the burning stairway, one man brea
his arm. Thoy had not time to get the
thiug and rushed naked through tt
nes.
)nly fifteen oat of the twenty-two wt
re in the building escaped with their live
other siven unfortunates perishing i
flames. When the upper floor fell thei
s a loud cry from within, and it is b
red that some of the victims were st:
vc and must have been buried and crush<
ier the blazing rafters. Nine men ;av<
lir lives by jumping out of a second stoi
udow.
tfter the fire the charred and blacken*
lie3 of the victims were found. Homa i
im wore burned to a crisp, tha bodies
ier* indicating that death had been cau?
suffocation, while still others had the
lis an:l f-?et burned off.
'he Corouer held an. inquest and broug
i verdict of accidental death. The bodi
Lhe victims were removed to Sonest/jv
1 buried there.
r UNCOMMON CHARACTER
nth of a ICcmnrkablo Female Fai
hut in ri ling iwuiiii.
li-s 1'olly (iehris, of Washington Towi
1'enn.. who died a few (lays ago, age
lity-four years, was the most remarkabl
man in Eastern Pennsylvania. Slie wc
nt!y bnilt, and pesse.-sed great strengtl
many ways extremely ii:a;culino, slier
ud nevertheless mail}* of tho best trni
ivomunhood. She had a kind heart, wt
.ritablo and had many warm friend
ii u,'sixty years sli 3 chewed aud .smoke
a to. She attended personally t> lie
in work, doing even the heaviest of
h her own hands, not excepting tli
irrying of stone when that was to L
le. It was nothing for her to slaughter
t' dozen pigs before ltr? akfast.
liss (ieliris had good bitsinesi ideas an
rked as she did not because slie w?
iged to, but because she like.l it. It wn
of her delights to teach young wome
v to become independent workers, and sli
tended that women would live inue
ger wnd be far happier if they would tak
outdoor work.
liss (.iehris wa< msver married. It wi
: of her s-iyings tli:it she never had tini
levote to love making. Heme sh-.; lievt
ltetl a beau. Sha was louir one of th
t horsewomen iii the district. She lean
sidc-r.tble or au e.-tite.
YACHT RACING.
:he
ro- The International Match at Nen
York for the Cup.
his
Vivid Account of the First Race,
eis Won by the Mayflower.
)n- The series of races for the great yachting
isk trophy, the America's cup, last year caused a
la- lively revival of popular interest in this sport,
on and the success of the American competitor
rd- In the great contest in keeping the cup on
this side of the ocean was so gratifying to na,'al
tional pride that when the coming of the Ge?d
nesta was followed by the challenge of Lieut
hs. Henn of the royal English navy, owner of the
he Galatea, a larger boat than the Genesta, the
nd spirited yachtsmen of the Eastern cities deof
termined to build new yachts with the special
object of meeting the Galatea. The
-a Mayflower, of Boston, and the Atlantic, of
ad Brooklyn, are the new boats. The owner of
the Puritan again asserted his ability to
O- ,
THE AMERICA'S CCP.
. me:t and beat all comers, and the Priscilla
' was altered and improved and again entered
ly the lists. The preliminary trials of these
o. yachts in the club regattas and the series of
lts contests for the honor of upholding the supremacy
of the American against hoi*
5W Scotch rivals have been among the noteed
worthy events of the year to which the pubre.
lie interest was most drawn, and the result
' has been, as last year, that a Boston ya-ht
carried off the honor. The Mayflower defeated
id her rivals in the preliminary trials, and was
ir, selected as America's champion in the contest
IW with the Englishman's yacht.
The first of the series of races, sailed in
n" New York bay, took place on the 7th, and
was easily won by the Mayflower, the Amerti
ican sloop coming in twelve minutes ahead
g of the British cutter. The following vivid
account of the race is taken from the New
'e- York World:
At 10:45 o'clock the preDaratory signal was
given and one had to search among a vast
flotilla for the two competitors. All the
irt craft the business of the city could spare had
by assembled there; they formed a half circle
several deep back of the starting line, the
tugs on the inside and the sailing ves^ls beyond.
The flag of the ltoyal Northern Yacht
Club was flying from the judges' boat as the
ig two yachts struggled into the ring and stood
out distinct to the ga:? of all. The starting
signal was given and both came up to the
line, the Mayflower well ahead and evidently
he
1
THK MAYFLOWER.
)S9
. prepared to sail so close to the judges1
?" boat that the Galatea would have to pass bety
hind her. But this was not to I e. By a
a beautiful bit of close work aad very skillful
8n manoeuvring the cutter rushed up between
a the Mayflower aud tne judges tug, gamingthe
advantage of the windward position
*n and passing over the line just one second
jn ahead of her rival. They were close together
ae and the wind that the Yankees thought they
n. had for a certainty went to the Galatea,
to She did not keep her advantage long. The
he racers beaded over to Lon? Island, not far
E distant When they tacked for a long leg
q over k> Staten Island thi Mayflower had
nL picked up more than she lost before and was
it, in the lead. After that the Galatea had not
sd chance. It was more interesting to watch
1(j the marine panorama. There was Coramo>1
dore Whiting, a hale old man of seventy,
>d
THE GALATEA.
the first Commodore of the Brooklyn
? Yacht [Club, sittiug in his row-boat and
u bending to his oars. He watches all the
races that way and navigates down to
Sandy Hook and back without thinking
anylhingofit. There is a sound of melody
and the big steamboat Columbia goes by
j. with crowds on her three decks; the Priscilla
j is soon staudiug down the Bay with all sails
set; the tug !?torm King, all the way from
Boston, passes on, and a jolly crowd are
is raising glasses to their lips. Jay Gould, the
, richest man in America, perhaps in the
world, is watching it all from the bridge
L of his m.iguihccnt stoainer Atalnnta.
ts y0 is Elbridgu T. Gorrv, the Commodore
is of tho club, from the bridge of h's steamer,
s tho Klo.-tia. Other millionaires enjoy the
j ihow rroin tho steam yachts 0. ean Gent,
' tta-lha, Corsair, Vision, Sappho, Stranger,
jj. Ouei la, Wuuda, Tilli*, Vedett , Meteor,
ie Ruby aud a whole arum la of sailing yachts.
ie The verandus of the hotel at Fort Hama
ilton are decorated with flags and black
with people gazing at the mighty procession.
(j Numerous steamboats with whistles screamLS
ing, bunting waving and men aud women
us hurrahing and shaking hats and handkeru
chiefs, sweep on in a mighty procession. The
|0 big schooner yachts Ambassadress, from
jj Boston; Miranda, Montauk, Aetata, Sachem,
0 Wave Crest, Lancer and the old Dauntless
follow, while sloops and cutters innumerable
1S fill up every space.
10 The ocean steamer Breakwater keeps on
her way with the racers, turning neither to
[0 right nor left. It is impossible to tell all the
,s tugs that were there. They were like gnats
arouud a summer pond, Oa the laud a
parade is orderly and moves regularly, bat '
on the sea the spectacle shifted every moment;
it was a continual transformation
scene, brilliant with color and motion,
and must have astonished the poor
emigrants on the steamer Italy as it came in
from the ocean. They must have been struck
with awe at the sight of this the first wonder
of the great new world to which they had
journeyed to make their fortune: it must
have been to them a vision of boundless
wealth and power, floating cities on the sea
and spires and domes on shore, a vision
which had never entered the most fantastic
dreams of their narrow life at home.
Perhaps there is too little written here
about the racers and too much of the attendant
vessels, but all the interest was in the
latter. From the starting line oat to Sandy
Hook it was simply a series of tacks, full, bellying
sails in the sun for a long spin, wrinkled
for a moment as the vessels went aboat, and
again well-filled as they started off on the
other tack. Down below the Narrows the
steamboat St Johns cut across the bow of the
Galatea and injured her chances a trifle but
did not affect the result in the slightest, as
the Mayflower kept drawing away. At the
buoys inside Sandy Hook the whole concourse
of sail and steam gathered and waited while
the sloop and cutter swept by. It was a lit
tie after 1 o'clock then, and the Mayflower
was six minutes ahead ot the Galatea in parsing
these marks. In distance she was half a
mile in the lead.
Out at sea, beyond the Hook, it was still
Mayflower weather, a light wind and a
smooth sea,with a scarcely perceptible swell.
The Galatea did worse than in the harbor.
The Mayflower took in her little jib-topsail
as she prepared to go around the ugly red
vessel that marks the wreck of the Scotland.
As she passed and started homeward there
was a flash of white from togmast to bowsprit
end, and her great balloon jib swelled
out, the mainsail was eased off a bit, and ]
away she went with the raco already won if
no accident happened. It was 2:35 o'clock
when she turned and 2:44 when the Galatea 1
followed her example. Here the natty Brit- i
ish sailors showed up to bad advantage, for
they bungled terribly in the setting of their
big jib. Once it was half-way up and had to 1
be hauled in again,and when it was finally set, j
after the loss of valuable time, the Mayflower
was two miles away. A stern chase
is a long: one. Th3 Galatea found it so in- J <
deed. The Mayflower passed the Southwest > spit
at 3.34 o'clock. The Galatea was not
timed. There the Mayflower got her spin- I
naker boom ready, but did not break out the *
immense sail for a long time. 1
No one paid any attention to the cutter
after that. All were hurrying away to the j
finishing line to watch the run in. The way (
of the world over again; the Galatea lonely
and friendless, vanquished, the Mayflower >
flattered with the presence of everybody, a
host greeting the victor. On the way up all j
me scnooners spread cut gigantic staysails |
and became great drifting, foamy cloud -. The , (
schooner Sarah Craig, on which a number of x
ladies were drowned off Sandy Hook a short
time ago, was passed with another group of
ladies, headless of the fate cf their sisters, on t
her deck. As Fcrt Wadsworth is neared the '
Mayflower shakes out her spinnaker and all I _
the vessels gather at the line. Prom the city )"
there had come d )wn another Meet while the I
vessels were out at sea, and it, too,was wait- I
ing under the shadow of the green bluffs. f e
Some said there were 100,000 people on sea .
and shore; some put it at half that number. .1
But whatever the exa-'t -count may have |
been, sea and shore were peopled. For half ?
a mile the Mayflower passed through a lane .
of vessels three and four deep on each side, i
She crossed the line at about 4:23 o'clock and c
one loud, Ion > cry of exultation went up from
every throat and every steam whistle, while <
the guns of the yacht boomed o it and were | .
answered by a cannon from the fortification. 1
Twelve minutes later the Galatea passed by 1
an 1 there was a similar demonstration in
honor of the Englishman who had come .
3,000 miles to get the old America's Cup.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Four of the Louisville* have made over 1
100 base hits. I E
The new grand stand of the Philadelphia ,
Club will cost $30,000. I,
In New England thej ring chestnut bells i
on batsmen who strike out
Ten pitchers have been under contract ' 1
with the Washington Club. <
The Det: oits are fast attaining the name <
of being the worst of kickers. (
Richardson, of the Detroits, has twice
this season made two home runsiz one game* j
Almost half the games between St. Loui* ,
and Pittsburg have been shut outs on one .
side or the other. J
The American Association now has two 1
doctors in its ranks, viz., Drs. A1 Bushong
and J. Lee Richmond. j
Kekfe, the young Washington pitrher, {
gives promise of being a strong rival of
Keefe, the New York pitcher. |
The demand for good pitchers is greater (
this season than ever before, and a first-class
one can command a big salary. ]
Morgan Murphy, of the Boston Bluea, la i
declared to be doing better work than any j
other New England League catcher.
Hikes, the Washington's heavy batter,
has made nine home runs this season, whicn J
is more than any other in the country baa
accomplished. (
Pittsburg will make the most money this I
year in the American Association. New I i
York, as usual, will top the League clubs in I
this particular. :
Anson, Denny, Rowe and Hardie Richard- J
wn are the only Leaguers who have made I
two home runs in one game. Richardson has
perfonnod the feat twice. s
Anson, of the Chi.agos, has the largest t
batting total for a single League game this ,1
season?viz.: live hits with a total of twelve . ?
bases in four tihies at bat 9
No League pitcher has yet succeeded this 11
season in disposing of au opposing team ' I
without a hit,and but one American Associa- 1 c
tion pitcher?Atkisson?has accomplished / ~
the feat
The second base play of Buffalo's colored
lad, Grant, is described as wonderfuL Some
of his stops and catches are said to be phenomenal,
and withal he plays a steady game, I
keeping his good work up day by day. a
The Detroit club fined Pitcher Getzein r
$300 for insolence and profanity addressed *
to Captain Hanlon, who had censured him
for listless playing. This makes a total of 8
$400 assessed against Getzein in the last t
month in the shape of fines. c
The Bostons made an offer of $10,000 for \
the release of five St. Louis players,and were c
offered the whole team for $15,000, provided
they would also give a bond to run the nine
the whole of the season. Five thousand dol- ^
lars were offered for Glasscock and Myerg. t
The Eastern League Clubs will n9ver con- t
sent to the Western Clubs playing Sunday c
games just because it may bouefit one or two i ^
clubs. i're.ident Day, of the New York ! f
Club, and Praident Spalding, of the Chicago
Club, say that no Sunday game* will be *
played by League clubs as long as they have \
anything to say. I
national league record. j
Won Lost. , Won Lost.
Detroit.......C-S 27 | Philadelphia..55 i5
Chicago 70 24 j Boston 42 50 *
New York...61 3i Washington..15 7o v
St. Louis 35 CO | Kansas City..24 66 s
american association record. f
iron Lost. Won I/vL y
? - - .in i fit 4f> i
St. LOUIS.OU j Uiwuuio ? G
Brooklyn....59 49 j Cincinnati...53 59
Athletic 47 59 Louisville.. ..Oil 49 *
Baltimore. ..3>j 71 | Metropolitan.-IS 04 Q
eastern league record.
Won Lost. Won Lost.
Bridgeport. ..23 40 Watorbury...44 23
Hartford 30 34 Newark. Oo 21
Jersey City... 39 3 i t
international league record. d
Ifrnil Lost. Won Lo*t, t
Utica 50 29 I Hamilton.... 41 37 -i
I Toronto 47 35 J Buffalo 45 39
Rochester ...49 31 Binghamton .29 54
Syracuse... 40 43 | Oswego 23 GO a
NEWSY C-LEANINGS. <
i f
j 0
The entire assessment of Dakota Territory >
is f 130,c0j,iju0.
- - 1
Fire's Peak, Col., lias been elimled by J
1,250 persons this season. r
A Mexican* village is to be exhibited in s
Horticultural Hall, Bostou, in October.
1 J]
Tuis year's wheat crop in Great Britain is
estimated at GO,(KM,0J0 bushels, from 2,2tS(i,- 1
000 acres. *
The farmers of Manitowoc County, Wis., 11
cut down trees that their cattle may feeJ ou t
the green tors. p
It is estimated that the proncsod bri Ige 1
across the Hudsou liiver at roughkeepsie v
will cost $10,000,000. j
South Bsnd, Indiana, is supplied with (
irater from sixteen artesian wells, with a |
capacity of 10,000^00 gallons daiijr. j ti
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DID YOU BVBft.
Did yon ever wake to conadonsBMi
Of bliss!
When the maiden fair was willing
To bestow the pleasure thrilling,
In a moment's taste of heaven called
A kiss?
Did yon ever urge a maiden
To confess?
When the coy, evasive glances
Held the sweetest of romances?
Every sigh and every quiver
A caress? - - - ;
;:5?
Did you ever feel the terror
Of a doubt?
And the subsequent beguiling
Whon ncmiran/VMa rsf cmilinur
Put the peace-disturbing traitor*
All to route?
Did you ever meet an obstacle
So sad?
When the angel sweetly heeding
The existence of your pleading
Supplemented?you had better
Call on dad?
?Texas Sifting4
PITH m_ POINT. I
The tramp is a man of many ties-*
railroad ties.?St. Paul Journal.
Great doublers of population?Cucumbers
and green apples.?Clinton Bugle.
The poorest kind of a brass band?the
ring on cheap Jack's finger.?Waterloo*
Ohserter.
A man of exalted berth?the fellow
who has the upper bunk ia a steame.-.-*
Detroit Free Press.
A "crank" is an individual that you
;an't turn over to your view of the case.
?St. Albans Messenger.
It is a good time now to resolve to bo
i better business man and to secure trade
ay advertising.?Neio Orleans Picayune*
"Would you believe it? I have had
hat idea in my head these six months.
'How lone'y it must have been!"?Tidr
Bits.
Some men are so m:ghty penurious 7,
.L.i. xl ? xL! il A 1 1J
,nai tuey seep evervioiDg iney gei doiu
)f?except the ten commandments.-? " .
Blizzard.
- - S??
Mamma?'Trankie, are you eating
;hose green apples again?" Frankie? s
'No, mamma; I'm eating some others.'r
?Harper's Ycung People.
Job had do great causc to brag about
lis patiencc. It isn't recorded that be
iver had to wait while his wife put on
lcr bonnet.?Fall Jiicer Adtance.
You take a baseball ground and a corn*
ield, side by side, and the corn-field i*
nuch the hotter, yet the same sun shines
>n both. Curious, isn't it??Puck.
Inebriated Party?I shay, mister, how
ur is it to Canal Street? Citizen?Tweny
minutes' walk. Inebriated Party?
l?'or you or?hie? fo' mcl?Siftinvs.
Jim Haskins says the only real good
Dutter that has been in town for the past
ireek was a mountain sheep, ar.d he
wasn't artificial either.?Moscow Mirror;
Brown?"See those two ladies over
here. They seem be enjoying themiclves."
Fogg?"Yes; I wonder which
){ their dear friends they are gossiping
ibout."?Boston Post. ,....
Some Americans are about to start *
lational banking system in the Honlurag.
The venture will probably fai^
>wing to the great distance between
Canada and the ^Honduras.?Life.
Tobacco blindness is said to be on the
crease; still we never found any friend
>f ours to be afflicted with it when we
lave incautiously left a choice segar exjosed
in our vest pocket.?Si/tings.
The phrase, "lightning rapidity^" waa
jrobably first made use of by a man who
hoaghtlessly p'cced the hot end of a
ugar in his mouth, and forgot just how
juick he pulled it out again.?Puclc.
A doctor of good repute says that thenost
healthful position to lie in is with
he head to the north. Boys will renember,
when they return from a fishing
sxcusion, to lie in that direction.?Carl
Pretzel's Weekly.
I1DTa?a T)?11 4a1fa 4li?o Aan/llo on/1
XiCiCj xjiiLj ianc tuio Viuuiw uuu uv
ifter some coal," remarked a South side
ivoman to her hopeful son. "Never
'ear, mother, I can follow the trail by
noonlight," replied Bill, who had beeo
eading "The" Bloody Avenger."?Pitts>urff
Chronicle.
"You sit on your horse like a butcher,"
;aid a pert young German officer wholappened
to be of royal blood to a veterin
general who was somewhat bent from
ige. "It is highly probable," responded
he old warrior with a gritn smile, "It is
jecause all my life I've been leading
:alves to the slaughter."
How to Drink Water.
The leading medical journal of Franc?
tas published a pamphlet protesting
gainst the extravagant use of artificial
nineral waters, which, it sets forth, do ?
he double damage of chilling the stom,ch,
thus laying the foundation for ga?ric
catarrh, while the limestone held in
leposit in the carbonated waters finds its
ray to the kidneys and eventually proluces
Bright's disease. The pamphlet
ilso protests against ice water as a provocative
of catarrh in the stoma:h. It
urther says: "Water snouia De aranjt
:ool, but not iced, with the juice of a
|uarter or half a lemon in it. Mineral
vater should also be diank with a dasb
?f lemon. Water should always be swalowed
slowly. It is not the stomach
fhich is dry, but the mouth and throat,
f you toss off a drink of water you throw
t through your mouth into your stomch,
without doing: the former any Cfood,
?h lc you injure the latter by loading it
rith what it doe. not re .uife. Drink
lowly, and keep the water in your mouth
or a moment whea you begin. If you
rork in a hot room in hot weather, tie a
lamp cloth around your temples, and you
rill not experience half the craving for
[rink you otherwise would."
Married in Two States.
A whimsical marriage took place in
he Eastern part of the State last Satur!ay,
during an excursion from Lafayette
o Dayt n. Ohio, over the Lake Erie and
Ycstcrn Railway. While the train was
rossing the dividing line between Inaina
and Ohio it was stopped by an acommodnting
conductor, and David
.'lark, residing near Mu I berry, candidate
or Sherilf of Clinton County, assisted
If the cirs a lady named Mis. Mary
law kin-, of Lafayette. The gentleman
slaced himself on the Indiana side of the
!nc and the lady on the Ohio side. A
ninister in attendance for the purpose
traddlcd the dividing line and soon prolounccd
the couple man and wife. The
liiole^O passengers on the train then
ormcd a circle around the ctntral figircs
in this singular marriage and gave
hem three cheer-, the ever present
ihotographer secured a negative, the
tand played, and the train started up
kith everybody happy.?Indianapolis
roumal.
In hats the novelty consists in having
he crown different from the brim.