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?f.V f? .* * ' / > Jin 11 f NATIONAL DRINKS. QUEER BEVERAGES PECULIA t TO SOME COUNTRIES. Spruce Beor in the Par North Drinks Found in South America and Asiatic Countries? The "Pulque" of Mexico. The fishermen of Newfoundland, I brador and the Gulf of St. J.a wren driuk large quantities of spruce beer, is considered an admirable corrective their diet, which consists principally fat pork and salt fish. The process making it is simple. A few black spru branches are chopped into small piec and put into a box containing six eight gallons of water, and boiled i several hours. The liquor is then strain and put into a ca^k that will contsi eighteen gallons. Molasses is-added the proportion of one gallon to eiglite gallons; a pint of the grounds of the h brewing and a few hops, if at nana, ? also put in, and the cask, filled up wi cold water, is felt to ferment; in twcnl four hours it becomes fit for \v Spirits are frequently mixed with spru beer to make the drink called "Oal bogus." Prom the sap of the birch tree some the tribes of Northern Russia prepr their ordinary drink, "birkenwasser from which they also make vinegar; ai in some districts they boil it into a swe syrup, which serves them instead sugar. For those who are too poor drink beer or mead this Northern wi i? the only potve drink. A driuk c nstisl ortA mfrncHirifr iq m.lflp llgltliuilj ..v.v? ~ Brazil from the pulp of the capsule whi envelopes the seed of Cacao theobroir The saccharine liquor, extracted frc ,+ the unexpanded flo?vcr of the Ita pa of Britist Guiana, is said to afford liquor resembling champagne in itsbris ness. The sap of the Sontar palm is o tained from the stem of the bunches fruit when cut. This liquor is drai either fresh or after it has undergone light fermentation. It bears also t name of towak or palm wine. Son times a species of Stryehnos is infus .with it, which produces a stupefying a: intoxicant beverage sold daily in t bazars in the Moluccas, especially > Amboyna, in sections of bamboo. Pal wines are common in most warm ciiman In the Eastern Archipelgo it is obtain from the gomuti plaut. In Ceylon, Madras, and other parts India, toddy is obtained from the 9ap the palmyra palm, and there are t) kinds, the unfermented juice called sw< v toddy, and the fermented or ''cnlloc The sap of the wine palm called "boi <lon"and "lope" is much relished the savage tribes of West Africa. Otl of their favorite inebriants are "wawt or plantain wine, and " bombe," sm |beer made of grain. The latter is serv in neatly carved and colored gourds, a: the contents are imbibed like sher cobbler through a reed. The cool, i feshing milk of the cocoanut is high onrl nnJmQ nTt* hrniia into requisition for beverages. In Sia: IChina and Japan rice is the princij grain used for distilling, and fori the "Ian" of Siatn, the "Shonchoi and "maudarin" wine of China, t 'sake" of Japan and the "bndel and "brom " of Java. In China the ri wine they use is by no means agreeubi it is always taken hot, and somewhat i sembles Madeira in color and taste. T Malays have a fermented liquor ma from rice which they call ''gelang." T Japanese beverage, " brora," is prepar from the fermentation of rice, and is kind of beer and not the produce of d tillation. The fine arrack (a name c rived from ''arak," Arabic for aide spirits) is an invention and manufactw of the Chinese, of which the materials s boiled rice, molasses aud palm wine. The Indians of Chili make a drink maize. The grain is first baked, th steeped in water for a certain time, afi which it is boiled and set by to sett and when fined is fit to drink. Indi corn is largely is largely used for distil tion all over North America, and in Sou America it appears to have been ma into "chica," or maize beer, at avery i mote period; for it was a common drii r\t tV,,. Tnrlinns Inner hnfnrA tllft Sn.ini V* ...V O -1 conquest. The liquoi 19 saicl to be of dark yellow color, with an agrecabl slightly bitter taste. It is in univen demaud on the .west coast of Sou >r. America, and is consumed in vast qua tities by the mountain Indians. Scarce a single hut in the interior is without jar of this favorite liquor. From tl sta' ks of the maize a beverage is al obtained in Mexico. In some of t River Platte States the inhabitants mal a liquor from the sweet pods of the A garrobo, which, when new, is refreshii but becomes alcoholized after ferment tation. In some districts this liquor xne principal aitracucm at sucmi inee .? ings. Sir Joseph Hooker tells us ho Murwabeeris made in the Himalayj Millet seed is moistened and ferment* for two days. Sufficient for a day's t lowance is then put into a vessel wickerwork, lined with india rubber make it water tight, and boiling water poured on it with a ladle or gourd frc n huge iron cauldron that stand3 all d over the tire. The fluid when qui fresh, tastes like negus or Cape sherr rather sour. In sme parts of the East fiery intoxicating beverage is made jaggery (sugar), bhang (hemp), pop; seeds, pepper, cardamoms and nutme From the succulent peduncle of t cashew nut a spirit has been distill with Hinrptin nronerties. A wine ma , from it resembles in taste an ordina claret sweetened with sugar, and a pop lar beverage among the poorer people South America. It is the custom of t Brazilians to suck a cashew before brea fast, bnt at any hour of the day the jui is delightful. It is sweet and delicioi slightly astringent and a wonderful i layer of thirst. The juice of one cash; is more grateful to a thirsty person th a goblet of the purest water. The Ai tralian aborigines obtain a ferment liquor by soaking the seed vessels of t Pandamns, and washing out the swc-i modti. cnKifonpo onnlnini'il in tlir> lnt>. part between the fibres, The natior drink of the .Mexicans is "pulque," t sup of the maguey or American ag:i\ ? Alter expressing tlie juice between ri lers, or as was formerly clone by men of suction, it is carried to vats (which I made of raw hide) for fermentation. T sap, which resembles cider and has a vc disagreeable smell, taken alone or dilut with water, is a common sweet be vera in use in Mexico. When fermented ti liquor is very intoxicating, eoutainii about thirty-six per cent, of absoli alcohol. To strangers both the taste a smell are horrible, something of the sti of rotten eggs-, but people seem to ?: accustomed to the fla/or. ? Arneric Analyst. While fishing from a rowboat n< Orange City, Fla., Mr. John Thurs tied his line to the bow and laid doi for a nap. When he awoke he was thi miles up stream and a big catfish w tugging away at the line for dear lii - The fish weighed over twenty po.mds E? SSK,. : . v POPULAR SCIENCE, The theory that some common mould fungi, growing under certain conditions, may originate diphtheria or transmit it, is corroborated by recent cases reported, The fastest time ever made by any shi[ l? or boat, accordiug to a scientific journal whs twenty eight miles per hour, this be ingthe performance of an Italian twii screw torpedo boat. One of the subjects exciting much in . terest and discussion in the medical pro fession is that of a " Base Ball Pitcher's Arm," the trouble in its severer forms in {)f volving muscles, ligaments, cartilage and even the osseus tissues. of A rare fish, the opah or kingfish, ha iCe been caught off the Yorkshire coast. Tin es specimen measured four l'cet three inche or in length, and is said to be the mos or beautiful in color and form of any fisl 0d that inhabits the North Sea. The bodi tin is blue and black arid bronze, studdec in with silver stars; the fins arc vermilion en and the iris of the eyes white. The fisl lst has been preserved and added to a col kre lection of natural history specimens a th Grimsby. :y- Lake Superior, our great fresh-wate ?e. inland sea, is almost in the very centre o ce the C'ontiuent of North America, and ii li- 37o miles long, 150 miles wide, its are; being about o2,000 square miles. It of surface is G02 feet above mean tide ai ire New York, while of such depth tlia ," much of the lake bottom is below tin 1 1 * 1 CJl.,**,*, on? n(X oceau ievei, numerous mucu auiics am ;et vey soundings of over one thousand feel of having been taken. Lake Huron is no; to so deep in any poiiit, and Lake Erie is ne on :.n average, barely one hnndred fee le- deep., When the first electric telegraph wai ch established, according to the Britisl lft- postmaster general, thj speed of trans )m mission was from four to five words i 'm minute on the five-needle instruments. a In 1849 the average rate for a number o k* newspaper messages was seventeen word, 'h- a minute. The present pace of the elec trie telegraph between London and Dub Qk lin, where the Wheatstone automatic in ; a strumcnt is employed, reaches 462 words he a minute: and thus what was regardec ,c* as miraculous sixty years ago has multi ed plied a hundred fold iu one-half cen ad tury. It is well understood that a cold sensa ,a tion reaches consciousness more lapidlj m than one of warmth. The exact tim< required to pcr.eive each has lately beer et measured by Dr. Coldscheider, of Bcr . lin. Contact with a cold point was fell ?. on the face after 31.5, on the arm aftei ? 18, on the abdomen after 22, and on th< ( .knee after 25 hundredths of a second 'e? From a hot point the sensation was fel '* on the same surface after 19.27, 62 anc ?r~ 7!) hundredths of a second, respectively - This great time difference has an im ' ? portaut bearing on the theory of skir aJjj sensations. e(] When the first electric telegraph wai n(j established, according to the British T? Postma ter General, the speed of traus re. mission was from four to five words ? jy minute on the five-needle instruments, ht In 184!) the average rate fo;-a number ol mi newspaper messages was 17 words ( 5aj minute. The present pace of the elec ujg trie telegraph between London and Dub lin, where the Wheatstdne automatic in he strument is employed, reaches 462 word! c>? a minute; and thus what was regarded ice as miraculous sixty years ago has multi [c. plied a hundred-fold in one half century re- An editorial in the Popular Selena he News recites some of the curiosities o: de names of chemical compounds, which he when their inappropriateness is consid ed ered, appear extremely ludicrous. Thus a Oil of vitriol is no oil, neither are oil ol is- turpentine and kerosene. Copperas ii le- an iron compound, and contains no cop nt per. Salts of lemon is the extremelj ire poisonous oxanc acia. uaruouc hliu i: ire not an acid, but an alcohol. Coball contains none of that metal, but arsenic of Soda water has no trace of soda,nor does en sulphuric ether contain any sulphur ;er Sugar of lead has no sugar, cream of tar le, tar has nothing of cream, nor milk o! an lime any milk. Oxygen means the acic la- maker; but hydrogen is the essentia! th element of all acids, and many contair de no oxygen. German silver contains nc re- silver, and blacklcad no lead. Mosai< ak gold is simply a sulphide of tin. This sh list might readily be extended, both ir a chemistry and other natural sciences c, and it is only fair to state that thr:s< sal terms all come from the older -writers, th and have given way to a more scientist n- nomenclature. fly a The Cheerful Farm Kitchen, iie A snarious farin-kitcheii. when there'i so a clcan and loving mother presiding ovei he it, is about as pleasant as any spot on ke earth. The great stove with its cheer-1 fully singing kettle, the smooth painted floor, the braided rug for mothers feet, the dear little squeaking rocking chaii is in which she knits and sews, the gerat niums and petunias and other easy-groww ing plants in the windows, the big long table?with plenty of room for everyed body and some to spare?on which are il- served such meals as only ' mother" can of prepare. Ah! we are sorry for the poor to child that does not get a life-start in suet >s a room. It is to this big, p!easant-atim mosphered kitchcn that the children can ay look for comfort and pleasure in this te growling November weather. There is y, school, to be sure, but night sets in al: a most as soon as school closes, and in the of hours between four o'clock and bedtime Py something must be done for the child who^e natural, healthful cry is for "somehe thing to do."?American Agriculturist. ed ? de Self-Mutilation of Crabs. ry A letter from Paris records a verj ill- ; -1 1?ul? ?r ?i . I uunuua aim rcitiai iyuuic ic.i vi u??ui vu? .m i tions by two scientists upon the self| mutilation of crabs. If the extremity ol _ j a limb be injured, or a violent pain be 100 brought about, the limb is dropped bj l*! the animal. The process is as follows: a'" The animal raises the limb until it rests !W against the protruding edge of the shell an just overhead; then, by powerful con,s" tractions of the muscle which had raised ? j the limb, assisted by the counter muscle, j the limb is broken and drops off. The j reason for such a spontaneous mutilation, e' i which must be very painful and wearing j upon the organism, appears to be in the fact that when limbs are thus torn ofl ? little if any bleeding follows, while, if e limb be cut, profuse bleeding follows, tc 1,9 i the danger of the animals life. This !re j process has been observed to take place "e j in many kinds of crabs?indeed, almosl :ry all species?tome species of lobsters, ct* j and even in spiders and vertebrates. gc lis My Dontist. Q" My dentist is a mild eyed man, lte Tender of licnrt a id soft of palm, ncl Who draws inn in whene'er he can r-ie To his loving graspret To g?uS? an<i rasP5 m an He scats me in a cushioned chair, Twists my jaw and musses my hair? All of which is easy to Lear; >Rr But oh 1 the roar Of the olectric bore. ivn I never complain, nor gainsay the truth ee Of the luxury of a gold-tilled tooth, Or silver, or platinum, forsooth: 1 But sight of the bill :e- Brings on a chill. ?A'orristown Herald. , KILLED HIS FAMILY. r The Awful Crime of a Wearer ) in Connecticut. ) i Shooting His Wife and Burning His Two Children to Death. i John Hodel, a silk weaver of Turnerville, - Conn., shot and killed his wife, and, setting 3 fire to his house, smothered his two children, I Wmlnpsdav morniner. The people of the s I village observed smoke escaping from the a ! roof of the house and went in to put out ! the blaze. They discovered that Mrs. 8 j Model had been tied to a bed and shot t j aud that the husband, who was probably the i | murderer, had fled. While the posse went f | out to hunt for Hodel the people suddenly i 1 remembered that the two children had not j been seen. On going to their room, the little ? ! ones were discovered in bed. One of the l boys lived a short time, the other had been sinot hered. k The excitement in the village as soon as these facts became known was intense, and tliu indignation of the citizens found vent in r threats to lynch the inhuman wretch. The f man was finally found by the town Constable , and placed under arrest. He cannot 5 talk English, but through an interpreter 1 said that he and his wife made an t agreement by which ho was to kill her and 9 | the boys and then kill himself. He said that k he ha/1 tied his wife in the bedroom and B then shot her, and had afterwards set fire " to the house to burn up the boys. He would have killed himself, but he broke the t gun. Hodel and his wife quarreled over a cow t a few weeks ago, and the neighbors say they have heard thein quarreling frequently ' since. Hodol had been drunk for several c days. He was committed to the Tolland County Jail to await the action of the Grand s Jury. Hodel is thirty-five years of age. His wife was about the same age, and the two boys, " Jacob and Adolph, were three and six, rei spectively. He has not heen in this country cotfo fl>of Iiq lio/l incf. cAnf. S90 r I to his father in Switzerland to repay money borrowed for passage to this coun3 try. At the preliminary hearing the inter preter testified that Hodel acknowledged that - he had killed his wife and admitted that he . had burned the house. Hodel, however, , pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder. 1 THE NATION'S WARDS. Annual Report of the Superintendent of Iudian Schools. 1 From the annual report of John B.Riley, 1 Superintendent of Indian Schools, which has 1 been filed with the Secretary of the In^ terior, it appears thao the aggregate expenditure by the Government for the educar tion of Indian children during the year 5 was $1,095,379. The whole number of Indian children between the ages of 0 and 16 t years is 39,821, of whom 14,932, or alout 37'^ . ner cent, nt,tended school some portion of the year. At several agencies nearly all the children of school age attend, while at others less than one per cent, are at school. i The Superintendent deprecates the lack of system in the matter of text books used iu Indian schools, and says that it renders futile 3 any effort made by the Indian Bureau to i direct or control the school-room work. He . recommends that a uniform system of text books and study be adopted. Mr. Riley favors the policy of teaching only English in the Government schools. He [ Bays that he has tried to impress upon teachi ers the importance of giving the study of the language constant attention, and adds that he has found schools where the pupils, although they had been in school for several years, could not speak English so as to be under5 stood. [ The report says that too much stress cannot be laid upon the importance of preparing native teachers, and to this end suggests that a normal school department be estab< lished at some of the larger schools. j The Superintendent makes the following recommendations: i That an industrial boarding school be es tablished near the Missouri River,adjacent to : the Sioux reservation; that schools be pror vided for the tribes in Nevada; that Congress be requested to provide for the education of s 100 Indian children to be selected from the tribes living in the State of New York; that a r Commission be appointed and empowered to j , matte a morougn exaimnuwuu ui mo ?uuw l subject of Indian education, with the view to systematizing the methods and increasing t he facilities as may be deemed necessary. THE NATIONAL GAME. I The past season has been the greatest ever | known in baseball. I Washington has signed the excellent St. ) Paul outfielder, Wilmot. j The New York League Club has started on , Its tour to the Pacific Slope. Baltimors has secured Shindle, of Dej fcroit, and Shaw, of Jersey City. Charles Farrel, of Marlboro, Mass., is a 1 new catchar for the Boston Club. ! Pitcher Weidman will again be a League i twirler next season. New York has signed ! . him. j Cincinnati has re signed Manager Schmelz. i Pitcher Vean, of Minneapolis, has also, been l i/viuwl , | The Chicagos were at bat a less number of ; 1 times duriug the season than any other : i League Club. 1 Detroit won ten of the fifteen games played with the St. Louis nine on the world's I championship. CHiCACohas captured two excellent play rs in Catcher Hoover, of Topeka, and Short Btop Duffy, of LowelL The latter is a heavy batter. The Chicagos made 78 home runs during Ihe year; Detroits, 51; Philadelphias, 48; New Yorks, 48; Bostons, 53; Washingtona, 52; Pittsburg, 20; Indianapolis, 30. jjurincj tne year tne uetroits maae 'jw runs; Philadelphias, 897; Chicagos, 807; New Yorks, 814; Bostons, 794; Pittsburgs, 021; Washingtons, 600; Indianapolis, 619. Brooklyn has a new man in Ed. Pelch, I pitcher and outfielder of a Denver club. i Darby, O'Brien, Holbert.Mays and Radford, I ill of the MetroDolitans. nave also been ligned. ! Hkre is the story of the winning of the [ League pennant in a few lines: Base hits? : Detroit, 1,402; Philadelphia, 1,265; Chicago, 1,124; New York, 1,258; Boston, 1,197; Pittsburg, 1,130. Off Chicago pitchers during the year 1,189 base hits were made; off Detroit pitchers, 1,159; off Philadelphia, 1,176; off Now York, , 1,056. Chicago and New York did not ap! pear to lack good pitching. I Total fielding errors made by the differ. I ?nt League clubs during the pass season, ! j were: Chicago, 1,033; Detroit, 871; Phila! ! delphia, 924; New York, 1,(M?9; Boston, 1.149* r Pittsburg, 841; Washington, 881; Indianapolis, 1,162. ; Indianapolis is the tail-enJer, but she i made a larger number of double-plays dur ing the year than any other League club, getting 123, Detroit 100, Philadelphia 80, ChiI cago 103, New York 98, Boston 89, Pittsburg 67, Washington 91. > The Detroit sluggers generally "found the ball,"'only 248 of them striking out during \ the year, against 351 Philadelphians, 303 Chi> cagoans, 332 New Yorkers, 3(55 Bostonians, J 882 Pittsburgere, 37:} Washingtonians and :i40 : Indianapolitans. Four hundred and thirtyt thr'.*e earned runs were made olF Detroit , j pitchers and only 360 off Chicago pitchers. I : ^ The base-stealing record of the^League at u tub interesting reading. jonn warn iujw? * tlio entire League, with a record of 110 base! ! in l'JO games; Fogartv is second, with lOi , bases in 12o game-i, and Milco Kelly third, with 83 in 121 games. Fifty-eight players did not reach double figures in tho base-?stolen column, and six did not steal a single base during the season. The contrast between the $50,000 salary list of the Detroit team of 1837 and that of tho Cincinnati champions of 18(59 is very striking. The latter contained ten men, and the salary list amounted to $0,100. Henry Wright, as Manager, Captain and player, r/vni'jrvl ?1 nnn. rW\???rn Wriffhf. chnrf. fitnn $1,800; and Brainord, tho pitehor, $800, and th-j others from th it down to $600. Now serving their first term at Sing Sing prison there are 1,108 convicts; serving second term, 209; third term, 72; fourth term, 19; fifth term, 10; sixth term, 3; seventh term, 2; tenth term, 2. AIJ States are repre/ rented except California, Nevada and Oregon. NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. The Reading Railroad Com pany has ac vanced the price of coal twenty-five cents a ton. The fifteenth National Women's Congress has just been held in New York. Mrs. Julia "Ward Howe was re-elected President. Teemer beat Gaudaur half a mile in a boat race on Lake Maranacook, Me. Rear Admiral J. W. A. Nicholson, ol the United States Navy, died at his home it New York a few mornings ago. He was sixty-seven years of age, and had been foi . four years on the retired list. i Jay Gould, the noted New York financier. I has sailed for Europe. I George J. Kelly, a Boston Globe report j er, was choked to death by a piece of meal i lodging in his throat while eating his supper I in a Cambridge (Mass.) restaurant A vein of coal worth $I!,000,000 has jusl j been found in South "Wilkesbarre, Penn., al j a distance of 1,100 feet below the surface, tli< j deepest shaft in Pennsylvania. South and West. Two convicts were killed and three wounded one mortally, while trying to escape fron prison at Yuma, Arizona. Superintendent Gates was badly wounded. A tuain which arrived in Chicago from New York a few days since contained e closed carriage that had been shipped from the l&lfrr city. In the carriage was found the body of a young man who had evidentlj been murdered J. E. Smith, the express messenger whc recently killed two train robbers near El Paso, Texas, was paid $2,000 by order ol Governor Iloss as a reward for his act. Smith will probably get $2,000 more from the express company and $1,000 from the railroad company, making a total of $5,0J0. W. H. Reynolds, an Ohio editor, waf shot and killed in Orange Township by James Mason, brother of D. C. Mason, who waf plaintiff in a libel suit against Reynolds. The murderer was arrested. Charleston, S. C., has been celebrating its recovery from the earthquake disaster of a little over a year ago. Since that time the city has been practically rebuilt. Antonio Infantes, an aeronaut, fell 50C feet by the collapso of a balloon at St. Louis, and was instantly killed. The Third National Bank, of St. Paul, Minn., has suspended. Mao Sherman, a colored woman, was shot dead in court, at Airmount, Miss., by Sell Boyle, a young white man, against whom she had made a charge of assault. At LagTO, Jnd., the Rev. Andrew Luce, a Presbyterian minister, swooned away and died while the Rev. Mr. Kanouse was offer ing prayer. The guests at a merry-making in George C. Kings house, near Lamar, La., were all taken violently sick after supper. Six white persons?five men and one woman?aud one colored man died, and many others, at last accounts, were dangerously ill. Washington. President Cleveland lias been selected as arbitrator to decido a boundary dispute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Commander D. B. Harmony, Chief of the National Bureau of Yards and Docks, says in his annual report that the estimates for the next year which were submitted by the commandants of the different navy yards and stations aggregated $5,045,782, but after examination at the bureau this figure has been reduced to $1,770,783. The receipts of the Government for October amounted to $31,80", 172, and the expenditures to $12,174, ,652, being an excess of receipts of $1!),.'$23,520. The President has received a notable deputation from Great Rritain, who desire hia co-operation in securing a treaty between tnat country ana me uniiea ouues wmcn shall provide for the amicable settlemeut of disputes by arbitration. Ten members of the British Parliament were in the deputation. The President promised his co-operation in tho plan for arbitration as a means of settling international disputes. Commissioner of Agriculture Coleman asserts that Brooklyn, New York, and Baltimore hare for forty years been plague spots fr;m which pleuro pneumonia in cattle has been spread throughout the country. During October the public debt was decreased $16,833,805, leaving the total debt, less cash in the Treasury, at $1,238,092,701. Net cash in the Treasury, $56,758,704. Foreign. General Nur-Maiiomed, companion ol the Afghan pretender, Ayoub Khan, in his flieht from Teheran, has been captured and publicly hanged at Herat. The appeal of Editor William O'Brien, the Irish Home Rule leader, against the sentence of three months' imprisonment imposed on him by the MitcheMstown court, has been refused and the sentence of the lower court confirmed. Mr. O'Brien was convicted of using seditious language, under the Crimes act, at a National League meeting at Mitchellstown. There was a fierce struggle in court between the poople and the police guarding Mr. O'Brien. De Lbsskps, projector of the Panama Canal, says the groat ditch will be formally opened on February 3, 1890. A violent storm has done an immense amount of damage to shipping along the coasts of Great Britain and France. The town of Kluzin, in Minsk, Russia, hai been totally destroyed by fire. Three hundred and fifty houses were burned and many lives were lost. LATER _NEWS. Naval Surgeon George Arthur fell from a train near Salem, Va., and was instantly killed. He was on his way from Washington to Shelby ville, Tenn., to be married. David Scott, one of the best known men in the New York paper trade, has fled to Canada after robbing the firm of which he was a member, and others, of over $100,000. Three little grandchildren of T. S. Oliver were burned to death in Faulkner County, Ark. The little ones were alone in a building at the time. The United States Supreme Court unanimously denied the petition of the condemned l/lncajgo An&rcmscs ror a wnv 01 error. The Irish Prison Board at Dublin directed that Mr. O'Brien mast wear the prison uniform and ba treated in every way as an ordinary prisoner. THE LABOR WORLD: The Brotherhood of Carpenters transacts its business in six different languages. English workmen are arriving in New York in large numbers, seeking shop and factory employment All difficulties with the strikers on the sugar plantations in Louisiana have been adjusted, and they resumed work yesterday. From general reports there will be a concerted movement throughout the United States next spring to shorten hours of labor. The machinery molders in the Knights of Labor will hold a Convention at Cleveland, on December 8 to form a National Trades District. Bv tho report of the Inspectors of Minps of Great Britain, just issued, it appears that fil'.V.rro persons are employed in anil about coalmine.*. There were %:> persons killed, and the production of coal is put at 157,518,482 tons. Master Workman* Donn, of District Assembly 51, Knights of Labor, Newark, says that tho strike of tho leather workers begun in August last had r<.*sult.id in a d.s.iml failure. Three iiunarea auu jui-j m<=.? ~ still out of work. The machinists throughout the country were never busier than at present. All of the larger shops in New York and New Jersey are sol?l up fromono to three mouths. Skilled labor is wanted, and some is coming from England, but the bulk of it is from native sources, where the education and training are better adapted to the requirements. There have been 13s mills and wood-work factories established during the pust three months in the South. Tho total number for the year is 562. During the past two years I the number of mills erected foots up 750. If the average daily capacity of these mills be 15,000 feet, counting a run of 20J days per year, the total annual production of lumber in the Southern State? must roach 2,250,000,039 feet. .-'1 *3 ' A FATAL EXPLOSION. 1 Eight Persons Killed and Man Injured in St. Louis, i ______ A Two-Story Brick Building Con pletely Demolished, 9 ___________ | A flash, followed by a dull roar and th< the crash of walls, convulsed the centre i St. Louis at 2:03 the other morning. An e: i plosion of gasoline in the rear of the cellf of Michael Newman's grocery store, 15 Soul Fourteenth street, had lifted the two-stor ; building from its foundation and dropped back again in ruins, beneath whicn wei buried eighteen persons. ; Instantly killed?Michael Newman, groce; 5 aced52: Mrs. Annie Newman, aeed 40: Joh } iJewman, aged 16; Kate Newman, aged 1 Eddie Newman, aged 13-Charles N. Deveeri traveling salesman, aged 40; Mrs. Charles J Deveere, Mrs. Agnes Beasley. Wounded?Miss Mamie Newmau, age > eighteen, fatally hurt; Miss Nellie Newmaj 1 recovery doubtful; Miss Hattie Brown, G 5 lumbus, Ky., will recover. The building, a two-story brick, was con i pleted but a short time rcgo. All of the u] i stairs portion was occupied as tenements. Mj i Newman and his fainiJy of six lived over tl 1 store. The force of the explosion was terrifl< r The entire block of buildings across the alle from the building in which the explosion too t place where gutted by the blast The roir I of the Newman block were covered by tl roof, which had settled down upon the hea of debris and formed a barrier through whic t the rescuers had to cut a way. Threatenin walls on either side overhung ready to eras the gallant men who hurried to the spot. The roof was soon demolished, ana in tl 1 debris were revealed the mangled forms < 1 Newman's family. Two young women, Nev ' man's daughters, were first removed. Mami< ' eighteen years of age, was still alive, bt mangled from the timbers and charred b; ; the fire that followed the explosior ' she was beyond the hope of recover] > Her sister Nellie, a girl of fifteen yean moaned piteously for her sister, an I seemed to forget her own desperate injuries For tho half hour that these two were impris oned their efforts had been to draw near t each other. The rest of the Newman famil; were dead. Somo sat upright, and other were doubled in their beds. Life bad evi 1 dently fled while they were asleep. In the same building lived Charles JN > Deveere, a traveling salesman, and his wife Visiting them was Miss Hattie Brown k of Columbus, Ky. She was badly injured i but miraculously escaped death. She awok to find herself buried beneath heavy timbers . somewhere against a wall. She is unabl , to toll where she was thrown, bu when her eyes opened, she beheld a thrillini j scene. On one side flames were rising, whil ) crashing timbers and the clatter of iron cause dangerous missiles to fly about her head. Th screams of those in the adjoining building rang in her ears. She tried to escape, bu found her efforts baffled. She was flrmb pinned down by a beam and an iron rod. Sh [ could not tell what means she employed t I get out, but as she twisted and struggled ii vain, the fire was blown toward her unti , her hair was singed. Just as she sank bac ?'? flift miiiio on, ^ ill urapcin , buu * uiua otwivu, uui | the overhanging timbers were raise from the limbs which they had imprisonec [ No time was to be lost, as the fire presse , close around her. With an extraordinar ! effort Miss Brown sprang to her feet, an staggering, falling, and rolling, she mad her way through the ruins without knowinj where" she was going. She finall; reached the yard in the rear, whence sh ran to a neighbor's house, and climbing through a balcony, sank down in swoon. A neighbor found her there and cai t ried her into the street, where a skirt an some other clo! hing were given to her. Sh went down to the scene of the explosion am remained there in agony, eagerly scannin ' the charred and bruised faces as the flreme carried the victims from the ruins. With Mrs. Bryant, on the second flooi lived two boarders, Charles Eifferd and Mn Beasley. Mrs. Beasley was buried so deep! in the debris that the search for her ws given up until the others were removec Charles Eifferd was taken out alive and b , will recover. The body of Charles N. D< veere was found in the debris and remove to the Morgue. Besides those injured in this building ther were many persons in the neighborhood wh were more or less cut and bruised. Fc several blocks on either side of th streets the concussion shattered tli windows, and in the immediat > vicinity on the opposite side of the waj : the fronts of the buildings were smashed ir and scarcely a window or a door remain! Walls cracked, floors gave way, ana piaste fell in almost every house within a radius c 1 a hundred yarda 1 The general belief is that escaping gas fllle the cellar, and that Mr. Newman kept quantity of kerosene oil and gasoline in th | cellar near where the explosion evidentl took place. The vessels and the oil, if thei 1 was any, have been destroyed, and the on] 1 man that knows is dead. PROMINENT PEOPLE, t The Duchess of Sutherland is an enthusia; tic collector of bird's eggs. Evangelist Moody is about to begin re > vival meetings in Louisville, Ky. ! Ex-Senator Jones, of Florida, is still i Detroit, and is suffering from brain troubk [ General Simon Cameron has a steer tha 1 weighs 2,100 pounds, and measures over eigh 1 feet around the body. The richest clergyman in the Unitaria church is said to be the Rev. Dr. C. A. Bai tol, of Boston, Massachusetts. The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon is said to hav declined an offer of f90,000 for one hundred lectures, to be delivered in this country, j Seven United States Senators visited Eu rope the past summer: Palmer, Stockbridge j Hale, Frye, Spooner, Aldrich and Hawley ) Two sons of Charles Dickens, Alfred Ten , nyson and Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens are settled as real estate agents and broker in Australia. Secretary Bayard is reported to be en gaged to Miss Sophie D. Markoe, a lad; about forty years old, and an employe of tb State Department, at Washington. The names of Abraham Lincoln and Gro ver Cleveland are on documents relating tx the transfers of a certain piece of land it Fairmont, 11L Lincoln's signature was writ ten in 185# and Cleveland's xn 1879, John R. Stetson, a Philadelphia hatma ker, employs 8o0 men, women and'children and has a Sunday-school of 1,000 scholars ii conection with his factory. The chapel when the school meets cost ?40,000. Amid a brilliant display of diamonds a the Rothschild wedding, in Paris, lately, thi Grand Rabbi of India outdazzlea every oni else present with about a half pint of first water gems that he had stuck about hi | turban. Rev. Charles A. Berry, a young Englisl minister, preached in Plymouth Chnrch Brooklyn, recently, and made a very favor able impression. It is believed he will b< chosen as the successor of Henry Ware Beecher. Rear-Admiral Wordex, Commander of the Monitor in tho fight with the Merrimac, is living in Washington. He is seventy year; of age, but looks younger. The wound Ik received at the Monitor and Merrimac battle not only impaired his sight, but has left hin: always subject to scvero headaches. He was retired from the navy in ISSO on full pay. anc is tl us in msi^t of $(>,000 a year. NEWSY GLEANINGS. A resident of Brooklyn, N. Y., has a collection of 10,000 bulterllics. The seventh International Congress of Hy! gieno will be held in London in 1-S'Jl. | ^ The enrolled school population of the South us UH'JX'UM.'U ovv per cum*, mhuc i^iv, Dr. Wm. A. Hammond says that there are 500 doctors in New York city rnoro than are : needed. I One Florida county expects to pay this rear from $1,000 to $1,500 for wildcat and bear scaljw. The petroleum refiners of the United States consume about '.1,000,000 pounds of sulphuric acid per month. Tiieuk are 1S1 Medical Colleges in the United States, with an aggregate attendance . of 15,000 students. i The total United States crop of peanuts this season wiJl equal 2,825,000 bushels, against 400,000 bushels in 1*73. Montana paid during the present year in bounties for the killing of squirrels, wolves, jrairie dogs, bears and coyotes. $0(5,625.10. -' - .- ' .-* LOST ON THE LAKE, A Propeller Goes Down in Lake Michigan With Many People. ^ The propeller Vernon, of the Northern Michigan Line, foundered during a terrible gale which raged on Lake Michigan, and of her entire crew and list of passengers, num be ring over thirty, and probably close on to fifty, only one man escaped. No greater loss of life has occurred on any one wreck on the lakes this season. 3n The first news of the disaster came to f Chicago in a dispatch from Milwaukee, where the steamer Superior had arrived. The Superior had passed not only large it quantities of wreckage, but had passed, unable to succor, a raft and a small boat in which persons appealing in vain for help y were seen. 16 "To pass one man on a raft appealing for re our help, another dying from exposure, and a small boat in which we could see one r? woman and three men, one of the latter hailing, with a coat stuck up on his oar,all being 1 uj.-seu auouc in a i/ernuie bea witup out our being able to , render them ' any assistance, was heartrending in . the extreme," said Captain Moran, of the " Superior, in telling his story. ''We were 1? also fighting for our lives, our steamer ^ having become disabled in the sea," said the Captain, "and it was three hours a" before we had made repairs so that > we could handle ourselves, and then we r* were out of sight of the shipwrecked ? men. It was about 10 o'clock this morning ~ when off Two Rivers, some miles out in Lake ? Michigan, that we passed through some lumK ber. Five miles further on we passed a lot 13 of barrels, and then encountered wreck16 age for some distance. Among it was P furniture and bed - clothing besides life preservers here and there. S When about six miles east-northeast of -Manin towoc a lookout called me on deck with the information that a raft could be seen '? with a man on it. As I went on )r deck I could plainly see the man wav7~ ing his hand to us. He was stand3' ing upright on the raft, which was about lt half a mile between us and the shore, and the * sea was washing over it It appeared about l; twelve feet square and as if it might be the [* top of a cabin." Ten minutes later we sighted another raft, also about a half mile inside of us. It was ' much smaller, apparently not more than 4 *" by 8 feet, and looked like a piece of bul0 warks. On it was lying a man who, al^ though still alive, probably did not discern 8 us, as he was too far gone. We could ' see him dip his head, and bis frail little . float was tossed about in the sea as though he was about dead. We saw a yawl with three men and one woman in it a little !' further south. There may, however, have ? been more of them lying down in the ? thn tViroo wo co u; ho in or nn th? SAntn '? One of the men was standing up hording his ^ oar with bis coat swinging on it to attract J attention. Their hearts must have been | gladdened in their expectation of help from us. How inhuman they ^ must have thought us when we pas3ei ;? them by, and within a mile, too, without ? even turning our vessel toward them! But with our steering gear, disabled as it was, We ' could not steer our vessel, and there was ? nothing for us to do but hops that some of ? the vessels coming up the lake astern of us J might discover tnem and pick them k UPj Captain Williams, of the schooner Joaeph ? Paige, told a similar storv. His vessel had passed through the wreckage a little later j than the Superior. "We encountered apart " of a pilothouse," said Captain Williams, 5 "and tnere was a man on it. He was off our ^ port quarter about half a mile and was ? clinging to the pilothouse. He seemed to ? be getting along fairly well under the ' circumstances. The sea was running so high I that it lifted our boat from the davits. Had ? we discovered the man on top of the pilot. house before we got abreast we mteht have ^ picked him up, but we saw him too late, and " it was impossible to turn back in the terrible > gale of wind that was blowing." jl Probably not less than 30 and perhaps 00 j? lives were lost with the steamer. The exact number may never be known. Only one list of the passengers and crew was kept, and that was aooara y of the Vernon. The managers of the line *3 say that the crew numbered between twenty three and twenty-five, and they know the ' names of only ei^ht. Wheelmen, firemen, and . deck hands are rhanged so frequently that no J effort is marie to keep a list of them. A later rep )i t st ites that one man?a mem ber of the crew?was picked up alive on a o raft ir i ? ? MODERN CRUSOES. r, 'i Castaways Living Four Months 011 an Uninhabited Island. ir if On March 20th last, the iron bark Derry Castle, belonging to Limerick, Ireland, left ^ Gcelong for Falmouth with wheat No trace ie of her could be found at any port, and she y was posted at Lloyds as missing. On Sep^ tember 22 eighc survivors of the Derry ^ Castle's crew reached Melbourne on the sealer Awarsa. They stated that the missing bark had been cast away on Euderby Island, nr.a nt tha A llL-lnilfl frnun fticht davs afrer commencing the homeward voyage. Tha Captain, both mates, and twelve teamen were drowned in trying to ?- reach the reef. Seven of the crew and the only passenger, James McGhie, endured for n five months a series of privations and ad5. ventures which seldom occur in real t life. The scene of the wreck is raref ly visited by vessels. 'I he survivors had no food except shell fish, which were very scarce, and they had but little cov0 ering. Tiie island was explored, and the ' party was much cheered by finding on the other side of tha harbor a small hut, which, e it appears, was formerly used as a depot j for stores for shipwrecked seamen. The place was opened with the ex[m pec tat ion of finding food, but it was a , terrible disappointment to find that all ifceon1 tained was a pint bottle of salt. The New Zealand Government had maintained four r depots for relief of castaways, but > lately dispensed with all but one on the 8 mainland at Port Ross. To Port Koss, which was in signc. ine survivors strained their eyes in hopeless f yearning to reach it. but they had no means a of making a boat. Fire was flnal'y obtained by discharging a cartridge fouud , in one of the men's . pockets. Life j was maintained by parching wheat l which was washed ashore from the cargo . of a wrecked bark. On the ninety-second day an old a-ehead was discovered in the saud. By its means efforts were made to construct a boat or oblong box, Calking was done ' with odds andcnds of rope, and yarn wad dri v1 en into the seams with a piece of hoop 9 irou. The boat was eventually launchea. Two of the party pushed off from the shore t in hope of reaching Port Ross. The effort 9 was successful, and scon signal fires at Port 3 Ross told that, help was at hand. On July 11' - the shipwrecked men were transferred to the 9 mainland and their sufferings were at an end. i " ; SHOT BY SUGAR STRIKERS. ' Four White Men Shot Down By Colored Laborers in Louisiana. The labor troubles in the Louisiana sugar J district has culminated in a serious riot on the ! Lacassaigne plantation in Terrebonne parish, i The negro laborers on the plantation s struck and refused to go to work uu I le<s their demands ror lug tier wages i were granted. The white laborers, about I twenty-five in number, continued at work. The manager of the plantation telegraphed i to New Orleans form n to take the place of | the strikers, and fo: ty-live white men were I employed and sent to the plantation. ' 1 he Laeassaigne place is about eight miles from the Morgan railroad and sixty miles from New (irleans. The roadside is bord-rcd with umlerlsru ;h. As the new laborers i were on their way to th; plantation th? y were attacked by the strikers ! ambushed a!o;ig the road, and four , of the new men were shot down and wounded. The others scattered, leaving the strikers in possession of the field. Appeals ; were made to cue tiovernor iur iruuya ?.u . 1 protect those who may desire to work, and Company C, Louisiana artillery, was ordered ' to the scene. > More than ten thousand negro laborers were on strike. The white men working on i the sugar plantations, holding that the demands were unjust, refused to join them. The late King of Oude ruled with absolute sway the 7,000 retainers within the domain of his palace. Despite the 11,200,000 paid to him annually by the Anglo-Indian i Government, he was always deeply in debt ' ' ^-\ III - 1 blovn^O^IECEST -v^j Explosion of a Giant Powder Magazine in New Jersey. Four Men Killed andtheBmldnigCompletely Demolished. Nearly 1,000 pounds of forcite, an expk>sive something like dynamite, stored away in the cartridge room of the American Forcite ~4 Powder Company at McCainsville, near Lake Hopatcong, N. J., went off a few days since, killing four persons and blowing ' the whole building to bits. The men who -1were killed were workmen engaged in J packing away cartridges. They are Henry Todd, John Fancher, Frederick McDede and * ' Philip Myers, all married. The cause of tne explosion is unknown, as none of those who were in the building 7 o alitTA TUa 011 ivkM n fan/Ian f. Kof) Inff. ??? uil ' AUG oupuuivcuucuv IMU *V*W the budding only a moment before the explosion. The works of the company Were cloee to the lake and near the station of that name, and were erected only a few months ago after the explosion of July 7, 1886, when ten men were killed and property worth thousands of dollars was destroyed. Wnen the company rebuilt its factory it scattered the buildings over more territory, so that if one blew up the rest would not necessarily go op with it. I Every object in the vicinity of the cartridge building is utterly demolished, and a great hole in the ground ten feet deep is all there is to show that the building ever . existed. The ground was literally strewn with fine bronzed splinters, and nothing was left of the four men who were in the building but little pieces of charred flesh scattered here and there for hundreds of yards around. The explosion shook the whole surrounding country, and people ran out of their houses miles away in the belief that there had been an earthquake. The American Forcite Company's works at Hopatcong are extensive, consisting of over fifty building*, scat ered over 450 acres of ground. The works employ, when run to their full capacity, about 150 men, and produce daily 30,000 pounds of forcite. i For the last month, however, they I have only been running at about one-third of their capacity, the daily product being about six thousand pounds of powder. At the time of the explosion there were only about fifty men employed. Only a cn tall omrtiinf r\f frtivWfil Vonf stored at the works, the greater ^ part of it being sent away as soon as manufacture^]. The magazines in which the forcite that is kept on hand is stored are situated a mile and a half or two miles from the mills. 2 The engine which furnished thS power for the exploded packing house was hurled into the air a considerable distance, aud in its descent it crashed through the roof of the nitroglycerine separating "house, about 150 S fe3t distant It caused no explosion., Superintendent Nibelins was in this buildin?, and he had a narrow escape. V .^1 lie was struck by a piece of flying timber, but was not seriously hurt. Some men at work in the glycerine washing house, about sixty feet distant, were knocked j senseless by the snock. and one end of the OUlluinK waa suaiMireu. uuuu iwkus wu Aloiuo Love, who worked in another packing: house, were slightly hurt about the nead. TnLs part of Morris county has become one -7 o; the greatest powder manufacturing centers in the country, and within a year and a half. twenty men have lost their lives in explo- _ 4 .? sions at the different works. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Sir Arthur Sullivan is at work on agrand opera?"Mary Stuart" News is received that Remenyi, the noted- , violinist, has been drowned in a shipwreck off' the coast of Madagascar. The National Opera Company this season will visit the principal cities of the Union, beginning at Philadelphia The London theatre is built of fire-proof.' material; it has an iron curtain, and elec tricity is used instead of gas. _. t-,; Mary Anderson will return to America next year, and will open in New York October 1, 1884!, under Mr. Abbey's management Mme. PoNisr, of New York, has just com- j pleted her fiftieth year of theatrical fife. She - I first appeared on the stage in 1837, at York- \ shire, England. Mr. P. S. Gilmore, who has provided < music for three years at the St Louis Ex- - t position, has contracted to take his oachestra. there another season. One of the wealthy American actors isOliver Doud Byron, who is reported to be- 5 worth half a million. He owns a solid block of houses in Cleveland. Miss Ethel Spragux. daughter of Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, who will boou begin her dramatic career, is a handsome woman just eighteen years of age. The clown has been gradually fading out as a circus attraction,until nqw the proprietorof "one of the big shows" announces his intention to drop nim entirely from the programme next season. Miss Arnoldsen, the Swedish star, has- ;.'l captured the hearts of the people of Bergen,. Norway, by a series of concerts there, and a impressed the fishermen of the place 80 strongly that they sent her a whale as a present An orchestra of women, who are all players of brass instruments, is making a sensation in Dresden. The ladies have an engage- K raent for Vienna next winter, wh.>re they will ( play at a series of balls among the aristocracy. Negotiations have been almost completed by which Signor Marconi, one of the three great tenors now delighting Europe ana reducing iae ooum iiuienuau i spuuu to poverty, will in all probability visit tbeUnited States in the early spring. Few people know that Dr. George F. Root, who is living in Hyde Park, ILL, at the age of * seventy years, composed many of the North ern war songi of twenty-five years ago.. "Trampl Trampl Tramp! tne boys are Marching," and "Rally Round the Flag, Boys," are his. n Iw Faunottsburg, Franklin Connty, Penn., Hvee a fifteen year old boy who is six feet and " one inch in height and well proportioned. His name is James Newton Alexander. THE MARKETS. new york. 44 Beef, good to prime 7% 8 Calves, common to prime.... 5 @ fi% Sheep v 4* Lambs (5% Hogs?Live 5 @ 5% Dressed > Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 4 25 @ 4 40 West, good to choice 3 50 @ 4 85 Wheat?No. 2 Red 83)?@ 833^ Rye?State 56 @ 58 Barley?State 97 @ 98 Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 53V?<3 54 Gats?White State 33.',?8 37 Mixed Western 3i @ 84 Hay?Med. to prime 85 @ 90 Straw?No. 1, Rye 70 @ 75 Lard?City Steam 6 70 @ 7 40 Butter?State Creamery.... 25 @ 26% Dairy 18 & 24 West. Im. Creamery 16 @ 19 Factory 12% @ 16 Cheese?State Factory 10 @ 11% Skims 5 @ 9% Western 9 11 Eggs?State and Penn 23 @ 24 buffalo. Steers?Western.... 3 25 @ 3 75 Sheep?Good to Choice 3 25 @ 3 75 Lambs?Western 4 75 @ 5 35 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 4 70 @ 4 SO Flour?Family 4 75 @5 15 i _ fa as Corn?No. 2, Mixed 49 Oate?No. 'J, Mixed ? @ 30# Barley?State. 04 @ to boston. B<?ef?Good to choke Hoys?Live 5/*(<2 > Northern! Dressed.... 7}4 Pork?Ex. Prime, per bbl. ..17 00 (<$17 50 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 70 @4 'J5 Corn?High Mixed ? @ Oats?Extra White 36 @ Rye?State 60 @ tS5 WATEKTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef- Dressed weight 7 @ 7% Sheet)?Live weight 3)^(g) 4J$ Lanibi 5 @ 5# Hogs?Northern ? @ 0 PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 50 @ 3 75 n.T. .. vr_ o 8-7UVA . vv neat?-w. Corn?State Yellow 51 @ 51^ Oats Mixe.l ? @ 82 Rye?State 52}?@ 53 Butter Creamery Extra... 25 @ 26 Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. 11%(BI 12 ... . ' ; v... ? ,:wfr .