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THE LAND OFFICE. Commissioner Sparks' Resignation Accepted. The Vacancy Not To Be Filled fo] the Present. Lantl Commissioner Sparks has reeeivet Trom the President a letter accepting his res ignation. The resignation of the Land Com urissioner was brought about by the differ ?nces which existed between him and Secre taiy Lamar concerning some railroad lam grants. Some days since Secretary Lama wrote a sharp letter to Commissioner Sparks declaring that one of them would havi to retire from the Interior Department, anc that this alternative would be submitted tc the President. Thereupon Mr. Sparks sen in his resignation to Mr. Cleveland, who ac eepted it. While declining through courtesj to the President to give the letter to the press the Commissioner said that it was extremely kind in tone, and expressed the President'i full appreciation of his services to the coun try ns Commissioner of the General Lane Office. V 1 feel like a galley slave just released,' ? :a 4.1.,* rv.,v,T?,:cc;rt!i?!- n r-nrrAsnondent " anil but for the fact that I am sick I would be in the best of spirits. "Of coarsc," he continued, "this is not a pleasant ending of my administration, ant when I reflect that I have given nearly thre< years of almost incessant hard brain-rackinj Work to the cause of the people for but litth more than my board; when I remember that am at least f 10,00o worse off today than I \va 0:1 the day I came to Washington, and whei I review ray work of the last three years anc positively know that my course has been tb< right and honest one, and that my position ir the case at issue is unquestionably correct why, when I think of all these things, with ? consciousness of having done my whole dutj fearlessly, I cannot help wishing it wer< otherwise. Yet I am by no means unhappy I need rest, and I shall "remain in Washing ton during the coming winter and take il easy." The General Land Office is now in charg< of Assistant Commissioner Stockslager, as if will be probably until Congress meets anc the Pres.dcnt can make the official change! which ho has been considering for th< past lew weens. i nose wdu may m safely supposed to know what is go ing on say that Mr. Stockslager wil remain Assistant Commissioner, and thai Mr. Lamar will not name any one for the place, leaving the vacancy for Mr. Vilas who is to become Secretary of the Interior Mr. I^amar going on the Supreme Couri bench, to fill with a man of his own choosihg, There are various speculations as to whe this man will be. It is believed the new Secretary of the Interior will prefer his old friend and law partner, Judge Byrant, now Assistant Attorney-General, for the Post office Department, to any one that can be suggested. This is likely for va rious reasons, the first of which i; that neither Mr. Vilas nor Judge Bryanl would regard it as courteous to keep om of the best places in the Postoffice Depart ment when the incoming Postmaster-General might have some one that he would prefer ir such a confidential position as Judge Bryant now holds; In the next place Mr. Vilas know.' exactly what Judge Bryant's ability is. Thej have worked side by 6ide for twenty years Judge Bryant has been the counsel of th( firm and Mr. Vila? the orator. They ar< complements of each other to aremarkabl< degree. Between them there is always th< best understanding. THE COUNTRY'S CROPS, Latest RcDorfs of the Depart ment of Agriculture. The Department of Agriculture reports the yield of corn 19.9 bushels per acre on abo'.il 73,000,000 acres, or 1,453,000,000 bushel:.. About 5,000,000 acres are reported as abandoned beforo ripening. On ihe acreage planted the average would be 18.0 bushels pei acre, the same as in 1SS1. The com surplus States average slightly less than in 1881, the thirty-one other States mire. The quality ol the crop is much lower than usual in the dry region, and the proportion of merchantable corn is below the average. The potato yield has been reduced, first by drought in the West, and later by rot, mai*.'lyin the Atlantic States. It is about the sanit as in ii&l, or fifty-four bushels averago p2i acre, making a crop of about 134,0j0,00;, against 108,000,00.) bushels last year. The tobacco yield per acre is very low in the shipping and cutting leaf belt, especially in the West. The average reported per acre is: For Maryland, (533 pounds; Virginia, 000: North Carolina, 485; Arkansas, 520; Tennessee, 430: Kentucky, 505; Ohio, 015 for cutting and cigar leaf; Indiana,397; Illinois, 403. On the acreage reported in the August investigation this will make scarcely more than a third of a crop. The picking of cotton has progressed rapidly, and the harvest is already closed, except in the soils which have resisted the adverse influence of the season. The October condition indicated a yield per acre three or four per cent, less than last year, with nearly one per cent, increase of area. The result in fractions of a bale indicate a crop of about 0,300,COO bales on the acreage of about 18,040,000, or 33. b of a bale per acre. PROMINENT PEOPLE. The Prince of Wales has just entered upon his forty-seventh year. Mr. Moody will hold revival meetings at Louisville next January, m a tabernacle that will seat 5,0J0 poople. Commodore Joseph B. Hull is the old jp~v officer in the American Navy. He has served twenty-four years. General Miles, the Indian fighter, has bean presented with a handsome sword by his admirers in Tucson, Arizona. The wealthiest of the Judges of the United States Supreme Court is Justice Bradley, whose fortune is estimated at $750,000. The King of Corea furnished his winter palace with $18,000 worth of American chairs, beds and tables. Ho has bought an American steamer for $28,000. The Duko of Argyl's latest hobby on his Scotch estates is the American starling. Inverary is said to literally swarm with species of this plucky, hardy warbler. Mr. Herreshofk, the blind builder of famously fast steam yachts, always askat a hotfl for a light, bright, cheerful room. we can feel the atmosphere if he cannot sec the sunlight. John Wanamakeu, tho Philadelphia mer chant, is said to carry the heaviest life insurance of any American citi/en. The policies on his life amount to $0*H),OUO, premium or which is $30,000 annually. John I. Blair, the riches? man in New Jcr.-ey, owns three railroads in Kansas, twe in Missouri and one in Iowa. Althougl seventy-four years old, und worth a dozer millions, he is still planning new moneygetting projects. Piuses Wai.dkmar, of Denmark, onm< near shooting tho Czar at a recent hunting party in tho Nyrup forest He mistool: hin in the dark for a stag, and ha I a sure aim ai him and his finger on tho trigger before h< was undeceived. Thk Khedive of Egypt is a strict mono eaniist. He lives wilh his 0110 wife and chil dren at his palace in Isaialia, near the Ni!( bridge. Every morning he rises betweei 4 and 5 nrnl takes two hours' exorcise. Be tween 7 nd 8 he drives to tho Abdin palace, where he holds state receptions, receives tele grains and attends to the affairs of state. Among the successful men who u-nm fx.u graph operators in early life are Andrew (,'ar negie, Theodore N. Vail, of the Bell Tele phone Company; ex-(iovfcrnor Bullock, oJ (Georgia; ex-Governor Cornell, of Now York W. J7 Johnson, the publisher; E. H. John Bon, the President o: the Edison Company Thomas A. Edison, D. H. Bates.the President of the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph, am Colonel Richard dowry, Western Superin tondout of the Western Union. Governor waterman.of California, npor assuming his seat recently, had all the monej in the state treasury counted, insisting upor every seal of every bag being broken. Th< money, $1,100,000, was all there, and th< Governor gave an elaborate dinner to all wh< >ad a hand in the coirnt. Walter Lkwelliit, of Durham, N. C., lias the gaeatest curiosity of the county ic the shape of a Dominique hoa which "possesses on each side oj its head a diminutive horn, cur lad un like a ram's THE HIWSSUHMABT. Eastern and Middle States. Heru Most, tho Anarchist leader, made a fiery speech in New York tlio other night, threatening vengeance upon the Chicago police and Judges and tne Justices of the United States Supreme Court for their action in the cases of tho four Anarchists , hanged in the Western metropolis. Later figures give Hart, Republican candidate for State Treasurer of Pennsylvania, a plurality of 44,8i>3 votes. 1 A. S. Hatch & Co., a well-known New i York firm of brokers who have been operating on tho bear side of the market, got caught in the recent rise of stocks and have - been forced to suspend. The liabilities are , about $250,000. j ! A railroad depot and extensive car stables in Brooklyn have been destroyed by fire. r About 150 horses were burned to death. To, tal estimated loss, $100,000. n : Spi*TOR.TnsFPH R. Hawley. of Connecti 1 cut, was married a few days ago in Phila> delphia to Miss Edith Horner, of England, t who has been for several years one of the - head nurses at the Block ley Hospital in the T Quaker City. i ! With only a single dissenting voice the ? members of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, 8 have extended a call to the Rev. Charles A. * Berry, of Wolverhampton, England, to take ' the place of the late Henry Ward Beeeher. , I The annual dinner of the New York Chamber of Commerce brought together a notable [ assemblage of prominent business men. Among tne speakers were Secretary Lamar, Chauncey M. Dopew, Mayor Hewitt, and [ Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlin, of England. A letter of regret from President Cleveland, was also read. 3 , The strike of the 11,000 miners in the [ ' Lehigh coal region reached a crisis a few days s since. The company declared that if the men x would not work they must vacate the houses. [ The company owns 400 houses there. i i Charles Canovan, a stalwart young New l York porter, was bitten on October S by a , dog, A few days since svtnptoms of hydroi phobia appeared, and after suffering horrir bly for forty-eight hours he died. i " South and West, ? r>- ?111 1.-1.1 foil I I AUUIMA, VJtt., Will IIUIVA IICAt IOU VII3 Kl i the grandest expositions ever gotton up in 5 j the Southern States. > I The flames have destroyed one-third tho ' business portion of the town of St. Peter, s Minnesota. The remains of the five dead Anarchists? ! Lingg, Spies, Engel, Fischer and Parsonswere interred in the strong vault at Waldheim Cemetery, Chicago, with much pomp and ceremony. Eulogies were spoken over the coffins of the dead, brass bands played melancholy music, singing societies sang mournful songs, red emblems of anarchy were draped about the caskets, magnificent floral pieces were displayed almost by tho carload, thousands or sympathizing friends gathered to participate in the final exercises and to parade i Dehindthe hearses, and 250,000 people wit! nessed the funeral cortege as it passed through the streets. I John Arensdorf, tho wealthy brewer, is | to be tried the second time at Sioux City, Iowa, for the murder of Rev. George C. Haddock, a prominent Prohibitionist Investigation showed that Anarchist Lingg killed himself with a dynamite bomb and not I a fulminating cap. Fielden and Schwab, j whose death sentence was commuted, have i been placed at work in their life prison at Joliet, 111. Five laborers were killed in a freight train collision, at Averill, Minn. Stephen H. Culver (colored) and two of his children, one an infant and the other a boy of nineteen, perished by the burning of his house near Severn, Md. His wife and two children escaped. A Finnish workman at the TVickes tunnel, tr a. ?l?4. 1 l.jlj t lUUUUXUit, Miub aim nuiDi uujiu xjiu anu ukj 1111 Linburg and then shot himself through the heart. i Eliza Randall, a nineteen-year-old colored girl of Quitman County, Ga., killed her father wi th an ax, because he forbade her going out after dark. A boy's lighted cigarette caused a fire at Little Rock, Ark., which destroyed property, including a large amount of cotton, valued at $300,000. ! The richest gold mine in the world is re! ported to have been discovered near Prescott, Arizona. Washington. The Ministry of Agriculture Building in > Brussels, the Belgian Capital, has been burned. The loss is heavy. 1 Most of the many prisoners arrested for participating in the riot in Trafalgar Square, [ London, escaped with a line, but some were sentenced to four and six months' imprison1 j ment ! I Advices from Panama say that the out loook for the Panama Canal is gloomy. More than $160,000,000 have already been expended on this great work, and $600,000,000 additional will b s needed for its complepletion. There are 15,000 men employed. Land Commissioner Sparks' resignation has been placed in the President's hands. Foreign. The number of sailors treated by the Marine Hospital Service during the past fiscal year was 45,314. The receipts were $570,227, and the expenditures $461,330. Fifteen members of the National League were sentenced at Kilrush, Ireland, to one month's imprisonment at hard labor. They were removed from the court room singing "God Save Ireland i" The Lighthouse Board's estimates of appropriation needed for the liehthousj establishments of the United States during the next , fiscal year aggregate $2,167,500. During the past fiscal ye&r 51.002 claims against the Goverment were passed upon, ag| gregatiug $168,404,773. Many Department officials are busy with their annual reports. Don M. Dickinson, of Michigan, has sent a despatch to the President, saying that he would accept the Post Office portfolio ' if the Senate would unanimously confirm him, otherwise he would not. A DINNER to Mr. Blaine was given in Paris a few days since by Dr. and Mrs. T. W, Evans. Fifteen people, including Uni ed 1 States Minis: er McLane, participated. After the dinner there was a reception. THE LAB0E WORLD. The Brotherhood of Carj)enters transacts its business in six different languages. It is estimated that 1,000 textile workers are idle in Philadelphia, owing to slackness of trade, The Knights of Labor hive declared war upon the Lehigh coal operators who are re; sisting the miners' demands for higher pay. j At the recent elections the entire Union i Labor ticket in Labette County, Kansas,was , successful by majorities ranging from 50 to , ""'jo. i The troubles between tho miners and operators in southern Illinois, have been settled by a compromise. The miners get about half , tho advance they demanded. \ : The coke workers of the various coke ; mining points, have been holding largely uu ^uiinmoviiiu, i win., * for tlio purpose of fortniug un organizutiou 5 on a lar^o scale. The glass manufacturers have decided that every glass factory in the East will bo shut down in case a strike of the Western glass> workers takes place. It is claimed that 7,000 1 ' hands will be involved. i The Co-operative Association which con' ducts a grocery store at Passaic, N. J., has : declared a dividend of ten per cent, after an existence af about three months. The stock holders are all Knights of Labor. | Irwin Bleichakt, who runs a shiftingen' gine at Lebanon, 1'enn., claims to be the youngest locomotive engineer in thy country, ' if not in the world. lie is only eignteen, and ' has teen at the business two years, t A. A. Caultox, of the Executive Board, I Kn:ghts of Labor, has gone to Kansas to 111. ve.stigato the standing of the leaders in the celebrated Southwest strike, whose trials are , soon to take pi ce at Fort Scott. If entitled to suppo;t, tne Knights of Labor will give them all the financial assistance needed and will see that they have good counsel. A blanket mill, said to be the first on the African continent, has just been opened at Cape Town, worked bv Cattir girls, who rece.veI cents a day. The report of the Kaiping colliery in North China, made by Kwong \"ung Wang, gives 20 cents as the daily pay of enginemen, 15 cents for miners and 18 ' c?nts for door and switch boys. The cotton and jute mi.Is of Bomoay pay their opera' tives ?ro-a 10 to 12 cents a day. UNITED STATES ARMY. Lieutenant-General Sheridan'} < Annual Report. i Eecommending an Increase o! 1 5,000 Men in the Service. Leutenaut-General P. H. Sheridan has pre I , sented his annual report to the Secretary of i War. Prom the report it appears that at tn< date of the last consolidated returns the armj consisted of 2,200 officers, and 24,230 men including Indian scouts. Troops have beer i continually occupied in patrolling the Oklahoma country, and havo been successful in keeping intruders out ol that region. The gradual spread of railroads throughout the Territory can, however, ultimately have but one effect, and General Sheridan is now of opinion that Congress may well consider the advisability 1 | of opening up portions at least, of this coun- i try to settlement. ( In order to quiet the restless young men I among the Crow Indians, the report says, J General Ruger has been authorized to enlist ' about thirty of their number as scouts and 1 take them to Fort Custer. The Crows have always been friendly, and make it a boast that . they nave never killed a whito man, and it J would be a pity if anything should now occur to disturb the peaceful relations so long i standinc. General Sheridan is confident that General Ruger will be able to effect a permanent settlement that will be satisfactory to the Crows as well as to the Government In regard to the concentration of the army in the larger posts, the report says that the work on the new post at Denver, where it is proposed to place ten companies, will shortly bo commenced; that at San Antonio has been progressing favorably daring the year; the ground for the new post near Chicago will pass into the possession of the Government at an early day, and at Fort Knelling both the reservation and other attendant conditions are favorable for the establishment of a large garrison, and only some additional buildings are required for their accommodation. The reconstruction of Fort Riley has been actively prosecuted during the year, but before it can be completed, additional appropriations will be necessary. General Sheridan expresses regret that the very rapid decrease in the number of deser- > tions from the army during the previous 1 t.wn voiirc ho<5 not, hpen pont.iiinpd: the I increase is, however, very slight, bejng only about one half of one per cent more than last year. The desertions, as a geueral rule, he says, are mostly confined to soldiers in the earlier years of their first enlistment, and to men who enlist only for a temporary occupation, for transportation to a different section of the country, or for apparently the mere pleasure of deserting. These latter form no inconsiderable part of tho whole number, and it is not possible to recognize them unless they happen to be personally known to the recruiting officer, it is probable that they will continue annually to swell the number of deserters. General Sheridan renews his previous recommendations touching the increase of the army by 5,000 men and perfect ng the oranization of the infantry arm by the addition of two majors and two companies to each regiment. General Sheridan says that "the measures which would most promote the efficiency of the service would be the passage of a law authorizing the immediate retirement of those officers, about eighty in number, in whose cases such action has already been ? recommended hv military boardR. or who < have for [some time been absent on account | of sickness from ther commands with i but little prospect of ultimate recovery." ] Attention is called to tho needs of the ] army in the matter of improved small arms, i and General Sheridan says: "The Spring- ' field rifle still remains the weapon of our ' service, and it is undoubtedly a very good i one. In my opinion, however, the magazine ] gun must "be the arm of the future, and | a glance at foreign armies shows that fu1 j ture to be very near at hand. Every lead- i ing country abroad has either adopted a 1 magazine gun or been actively engaged in ] experiments looking to the development of < an effective system. With us, progress in this direction appeal's to be very slow, and, < as far as I know, no very decided steps have I been taken during the year, nor any definite l conclusions yet reached." i The report says that the condition of our ] coast defences has continued to deteriorate ' during the year, and that they would bo of i little real service in time of war. 1 General Sheridan concludes his report with i the following remarks concerning State 1 militia: "I am strongly in favor of the gen- \ eral Government extending all possible aid i to the National Guard of the different States, as they constitute a body of troops that in any great emergency would form an import- i ant part of our military force. They should < be armed with the. l>est weapons, amply 1 provided with complete camp and gar- I rison equipage and instructed in the various drills and exercises according to the tactics < and systems followed in the regular army. ] According to my observation and experience, most of the State troops now march well and 1 handle the gun well, but they are deficient in j discipline and in all the duties that teach a ! soldier to take care of himself while in camp i or upon a march. This defect can best i be overcome by establishing some system of encampment under the control and direc- i tion and at the entire expense of the general Government In the development of such a measure the entire army, as well as myself personally, will be glad to render such assistance as lies in our power, and I recommend tbat the favorable consideration of the subject may be commended to Congress.'' , A PRINCE'S PERIL, ' _____ 1 The German Crown Prince Has Cancer of the Throat. , Tho German Crown-Prince, and successor ' to the throne of Germany, has long been suf. fering from a throat trouble, and it is now admitted that tho disease is of a canccrous character. A Berlin dispatch says: Sorrow and excitement prevail among all classes. The one question on everybody's lips is: "What will the next few hours bring?' Prince William to-day sent a t?legram to the *; Emperor, saying: "Father looks very well." The latest report from San Reino is to the effect that the Crown Prince is composed, mi/I rwsonnllv writes telezrams for the Em peror, but that he has not spoken since Saturday, except in cases of absolute necessity. It is said on authority that all the doctors agree that the Crown Prince is afflicted with cancer, but that a further examination is needed to decided whether it will be necessary to excise the whole larynx or only part of It All court festivals have been stopped. The hunting party fixed for .Saturday has been countermanded. The National Zeilung in a long article cites several casea as dangerous as that of the Crown Prince, which were treated with success by Drs. Haen an l Bergman. Medical men deny the assertion of Dr. Storck that it is too late to operate. Successful cases are on record in which cancer appeared fourteen months before operation. IMPORTANT DECISION, The Highest Conrt Declares the Driven Well Patent Invalid. What is known as tho driven wen parent, which has boen several times before the United States Supreme Court, and which has always been sustained, has now been declared invalid in an opinion by Justice Blatchford, based upon the record in case No. lti, Andrew Green and others against George Hovey, brought to Washington by on appeal from the United States Circuit Court for the South?ru District of Iowa. The Supremo Court holds that the fact, now made to appear for the first time in tho driven well litigation, that the invention was I used in public o.t Cortland, N. Y., by others than Oroen more than two years Deiore api plication for patent was made is a fa? t which ? fatal to the patent's validity. Tht> decree the Circuit Court in favor of the alleged infringer, Hovev, is nQirmed. WniLE out hunting recently in Todd County, Minn., John Aulttnan. of Little Falls, discovered the bones of a huuter who had b?en eaten by wolves. As he stooped to examine them the animals surrounded him ' and he had to fi^ht for his life. He sniceod^d { I in killing seven at llieai on J r jachoJ home in i j safety. . ,*v;">i . LATER NEWS, A great scarcity of coal exists in many quarters, and higher prices are predicted. Six men -were blown to fragments by an explosion in the packing house of a dynamite company's works, near Ishpeming, Mich. Not a trace of the men or building could be found. James White swore in Joliet, III., that the president of the Lambert & Bishop Wire Fence Company gave him $5,000 to set fire to the building. Insurance companies have paid $100,000, and now seek to recover. Thomas beasle\*,a Kentuckian of weight, is dead. He was forty-seven years old, and weighed when in good health 485 pounds. A bronze statue of John C. Breckenridge, lias just been unveiled at Lexington, Ky., with appropriate ceremonies. Lewis D. Baldwin, a Doputy Collector of Internal Revenue, was shot dead at Lexington, Ky., by Thomas M. Green, a staff correspondent of the Cincinnati CommercialGazette. Green received a flesh wound in the side. The shooting grew out of an old quarreL An* official list of the members of the next Eiouse of Representatives shows that the House will consist of 168 Democrats, 153 Republicans and 4 Independents. The Indejendants are: An lerson, of Iowa; Nichols, of North Carolina; Hopkins, of Virginia, and Smith, of Wisconsin. Dr. Mackenzie, the German Crown Prince's physician, declares that his royal patient's throat trouble will eventually prove fatal. Tracheotomy may have to be performsd at any moment, and after that the Prince caunot live longer than two years. The Central Bank of Canada, at Toronto, lias suspended. Its paid up capital was $500,m. 'pttt* rfnnrMQV \v O h _"vAll T1 (T vlflq Ha? itroyed by fire in the Canton River, China. About 400 passengers are supposed to have been Inst. A RIOT IN LONDON, More Than 200 Citizens and Forty Policemen Injured. London has been the scene of a Sunday iot of the fiercest character. The cause of ;he trouble was the attempt to hold a public neeting which had been interdicted by the jolice. In the collisions which followed 4,000 jolicemen were pitted against an angry :rowd of 100,000 men, and the military were iaally called out. Particulars of the disturbince are given in a cablegram as follows: Mr. Robert Cunningham Graham, Member )f Parliament for the Northwest Division of Lanarkshire, an advanced Liberal, so-called, lid notrspeak to his Socialist friends in Trafalgar Square to-day as he had threatened to do n defiance of the police. Tens of thousands of lis excited followers hastened to the Square ;his morning to resist the carrying out of the 'ukase of the military despot," as they chose to ;all Sir Charles Warren's proclamation: there hey met 4,000 metropolitan police, and after lumerotis skirmishes and many serious coniicts, dispersed in disorder, carrying with them hundreds of broken heads and cruised bodies, and a lesson they will not ;oon forget. Mr. Graham was clubbed "or his pains, arrested and released on baiL The scene has not been eaualed since 1866, when the people, asserting tue right of public neetine. destroyed the railings around Hyde Park. Four thousand policemen 1- rtP flio onnmnfthos f/? UUii pLW5U03IUU Ui I'lio u^/pt ww Trafalgar Square at an early hour. They had been on the ground but a short time when various societies, Socialist, Radical and Irish, approached the Square :rom every direction. The paraders were leaded by bauds of music, and they car ied banners and mottoes. The police attacked and dispersed each group as it arrived loar the Square. Fierce fights took place in the Strand, Northumberland avenue, Whitehall, Pall Mall and other adjacent streets. One of the societies succeeded in entering the Square, but was repulsed after a bloody fight,in which Commoner Graham was seriously injured. Mr. Graham was subsequently arrested for attacking the police. At 1:30 p. M. the crowd in the vicinity of the square numbered 1C0,0C0 and th police were powerless to disperse thom. Cavalry and infantry were summoned to the assistance of the police, but no charge was mado, as tho people of their own accord began to disperse it dusk. About 200 citizens and forty policemen ivero injured. Fifty persons were arrested, imong them was the Socialist Burns. Some if the injured were well enough to leave tbe hospitals after treatment. One patient was dreadfully burned with vitriol squirted from a syringe. Another " * ?*- v.~ Turn lcciarts buau uO r? uo uujvtiv^u. A..v policemen were stabbed with knives. It was noticeable that the crowd, while tio'-ting the police, cheered the cavalry and infantry posted in the middle of the Square ready for action in case the crowd broke the police line. If the crowd had succeeded in breaking the lino it is believed that the riot act would have been read, and the infantry would have been ordered to fire. OLEOMAKGARINE, Facts From the Internal Revenue Commissioner's Report. Internal Revenue Commissioner Miller, in txis annual report, recommends the appointment in his office of an additional head of iivision to carry out the provisions of the Oleomargarine Act. The enforcement of this act, Mr. Miller says, has been attended by some extraordinary results. The total receipts for the first year in which the law has C? Doon in iorce wero uum c* i^mv was not anticipate;!. Practically the tax has been in excess of the two cents prov.ded for by the law. By dividing the total receipts by the number of pounds removed for consumption or wis, the tax per pound is found to be 3 3-10 cents. There is one significant fact shown by the returns. The number of persons doing business under the Oleomargarine Act has been reduced from a maximum of ?,:J02 to 1.5S4. This is not due alone to the low price of butter which prevailed during some month3 of the year, but to the fact that the business has been turned into a monopoly. The Commissioner beiievos that the law ought to be changed so as to impose a tax of two cents per pound upon the manufactured substances, such as oleomargarine oil, which are intended as substitutes for butter fat; also upon the mixtures of such substances with butter, and upon imitations made by mixing butter with beef fat, lard, etc. VEBY OLlTpEOPLE. When Mrs. Sarah Klinck died in her home at Peoria, 111., recently, she had lived 103 years. Mrs. Job Jenkins, of Glen Gardner, N.J., received a pension of $'J00 the day she was 10J years of age. The oldest citizen of Greenfield, Mass., is A. Kellogg, who is 92 years of age, and destined for 100. Mrs. Magdalene Boggs, of Milton, Ind., is 104 years of age and in excellent health. Her sight has failed her, ho?tt-\vr, and she has but one tooth left. Uncle Ruben AVhite, the oldest colored man in Southern Ohio, died lately at the age XT ,, Wnr op ul jl/*. no wu9 i4jl uul r and leaves ft widow aged U3. A Connecticut Yankee named Burritt lives in Ithaca, attends to his business regularly, and is in vigorous health at 02. He is the oldest jeweler in the State. John Teste, of Monmouth County, New Jersey, is dead at the age of 101. He never was outside the borders of his county, and never saw a railroad or a steamboat. "Drones do not live to see a century," says Mrs. Clarissa Cox, of Wakefield, Mass. "I am just 100 years of ago, and it is all due to hard work, of which I have always had plenty to do. In a chatty, intelligent and cheerful manner Mrs. Frances Edgar, of Philadelphia, relates the incidents attending Lafayette's visit and tells of her first glimpse of Washington. She has just passed her 100th birtiiday. They have just buried at Southwold, Canada, Duncan Campbell, a man of immense Btature, who was years of ago. He was the strongest man in Elgin County, and with a clear mind and memory up to the hour of his death. Ho was a Scotchman, coming here in 1831. I RAMEE AND JUTE. i | TWO NEW SOUTHERN INDUS TRIES DESCRIBED. ( What the Ramee and Jute Plant.' Are?Their Cultivation in the Southern States?What They Produce. Richard Owen says in the Chicag( CuKrent: The cultivation of ramee am jute with success and profit has recent'.* been so fully demonstrated in Louisiun; jjnd Texas that it becomes indirectly a: interesting fact even in the North. Judjr I ing irom me imuruiauuugivcu icgaiumj. the two plants, in a pamphlet by Emili Le Franc?one issued from the govern I ment printing office in Washington city ' 1813, urging their cultivation, and a sub sequent publication by the same autho. describing the mode of culture and th. success attending crops of considcrabl< area, raised in Louisiana and Texas there is no longer any doubt connccteo with the profitable cultivation of bot! plants. A letter by Mr. I. Juvenet accompany ing the first bale of second crop of rame< for 1887, ispublished in the New Orleans News. The beautiful fibre (of which a ' friend has sent me a sample) is four feci long, white and glossy as silk. It wa; raised on the. plantation of Captair. Henry Willett, near Algiers, on the op posite side of the river from New Orleans. Mr. % Juvcn*t has already sold to the different parishes in the State 400,00i< rumee roots, and expects to sell a million this year, for fall planting. Mr. Charles I Dirmayer, tlie Secretary of tne ".Kx change," to which the bale was sent, says, in replying: "I am confident that, in a short time, ramee and jute will be classed among the leading resources of the South." The editor adds that some samples of cloth woven from ramee wen sent to his office, and that they equal th finest of silk. If all that is hoped from these product1 should be realized, the North would be benefited not only by having cheaper pro ducts for goods almost equal to silk, but by having ground, now cultivated disadvantageously in wheat and corn, un suited to that latitude, devoted to the growth of a useful textile fibre, foi which our corn and wheat can be profitably exchanged. A few details regarding the two plants may interest your readers. Kamee?This fibre has been cultivated for many years in Asiatic countries, and sold, when woven into various goods, under the names, "Japan silk," ''Canton goods," "grass cloth," "Nankin linen," etc. In China the fibre is calico Tchon Ma; in India, Rhea or Rhaea; in Java, Ramee. It grows to the height ol five to eight feet, the fibre being fron four to six feet long, and when properlj prepared, white and silky. It may tx asked how can the United States com pete with the cheap labor of India anc China, iu raising this valuable plant, as well as jute? Simply by bringing greater intelligence to its culture anc preparation. It is planted somewhat lik< corn?4,000 roots to the acre?and car be successfully weeded and harvested bj our labor-saving machinery. But th< chief improvements over the Chines< methods of rotting the plact, like hemp, which greatly impairs its whiteness, anc ? -1" ?'1" r)ofo/>h?n?r the hnrlr hv hand uicu oivvrij uviuvuiujj ?? labor, is the American invention of t "decorticating machine," consisting ol corrugated rollers worked by steam, anc sold by Mr. Juvcnet, the inventor, al $300, while the most complete cost' $1,000. The "Encyclopedia-Britannica,' says: "A cord spun from ramee was found to sustain a weight of 252 pounds, while a similar cord of Russian hemp waj estimated by the Admirality test not tc bear more than eighty-seven pounds." Jute is obtained fiom two species ol Cocrhorus, C. capsularis and C. olitorius, essentially alike. The pamphlet above mentioned considers Texas best adaptec for jute, but Louisiana for ramee. Jute is inferior to flax and hemp in s'4'engtb and tensity, but takes brilliant and delicate shades of dye. Immeuse quantities of the fiber are consumed in the manu facture of gunny bags of different grades, and for packing cotton. Already r early as in 1874 over 30,000 persons were employed in Scotlaud in producing jnte fabrics. One factory in Dundee employed 5,000 operatives, and coverec twe;ity-iwo acres oi gruuuu, One of the pamphlets above alluded to, mentions that a French gentleman has offered to establish a manufactory ol rauiee and jute in New Orleans, when ever he can be assured that there is acre^ age enough planted in the Southern States to produce sufficient raw material, Already our commercial travelers taking orders for furniture carry their samples ol beautiful ramee cloth, with which thej offer to upholster at about the same rates as rep or haircloth. Thus the outlooi leems encouraging. Nickel and Its Uses. When refined and used in its pure state, nickel is one of the most brillianl &nd durable metals ever discovered. II rcceivcs a beautiful polish, will nevei l :_u ? nnr? ia vJpfnallv in luraisu iiui tui i i'uv.j uuv as* < ? destructible. Its best qualities are al most unknown to the general public, though the craftsman is familiar witl them, having utilized them in the manufacture of deiicate and expensive instruments. The public knows nickel onlj as an ingredient, with copper, in the clloy of our fivc-ccnt picccs, and in the form of clcctro-plating over iron, foi cutlery, grates, etc., where immunity from rust and tarnish is sought. It; luster and strength make it superior tc silver itself for many household articles, because it is not easily discolored b\ acids, and does not wear out its "gooc clothes," as silver-plated wear must do, to maintain a respectable appearance, Solid nickel is in use in Germany as i lining for b..'h-tubs, is employed for cji and carriage furnishing.*, and it take.' the plate of steel, brassand silver in th< manufacture of knives, forks, buttons, ornaments, harness and saddlc-ry trimmings. Koison, the great electrical in ventor, has found it nccrs?ary, because superior to iron, in m inufacturing th< . U..4. U... Iii'.'it generator 01 ciccimny, uuu u.u been compelled lo send to Europe to ob tain it in sufficient quantity. The sup ply lrom this country comes from Con nccticiit and Pennsylvania chiefly, ant can be increased. A Repntntiou for Humor. President Lincoln said once that th< best story he ever read in the papers ol himself was this: Two (Quakeresses wer< travelling on the railroad, and wer< ! heard discussing the probable tennina tion of the war. "I think," said th< first, "that .Jefferson will succeed.' " Why does thee think so ?" asked th< other. " Because Jefferson is a praying man." "And so is Abraham a praying man," objected the second. "Yes ! but the Lord will thiuk Abraham u J joking," the first replied, conclusively. J Boston Budget. POPULAR SCIENCE. . J A case has been reported in which leprosy seemed to have been contracted through vaccination with virus, from a child in whom the disease subs quently developed. The child was a native of the tropics, and leprosy had previously existed among his relatives. By the improved method of welding by electricity a broken bar of metal can be easily reunited, or bars of different metals welded together, and those metals which previously resisted welding most strenuously, are now joined with case, while those previously easily welded re ??? 4-V./\ no??a Ktt fl.n nnnr nrnnnoo i llJltiLl buc oaiac uj iuc uvn |/i Mr. W. Mattieu Williams thinks that the instinct which guides the swallow southward in autumn is probably of a very practical and unpoetic kind. Its food is chiefly flying insects, whose development ceases with the advance of cold from the north, and in migrating the bird is simply following its retreating food supply. The gold mines of Australia continue to be veiy productive. Some of them are more than 2,000 feet in depth, and | many will be sunk even lower than that in the near future. This is contrary to the predictions of old mining experts, who said many years ago that no gold would ever be found in Australia at a greater depth than a hundred feet. There are now cables on almost ever} sea and ocean bed, the total length of wire laid being nearly 113,000 nautica1 miles. There are nine cables connccting Europe with America. The first that was laid dating from 1858. So great, also, has the advance been in the operative aspect of cable telegraphy that practically no more difficulty is felt in repair- ' ing submarine lines than in attending to defects in those on land. It is seldom any serious derangement of telegraphic system takes place. >vnen it does ic is of comparatively brief duration. A surprising ignorance in geographical matters prevails even among people of culture. Many examples of this have been lately collected by Colonel Sir , Charles Warren. In one case an educated surveyor could not free himself of the idea that Paris was north of London, and another located the west end of London toward the eastern coast. Out of thirty well instructed men, from eighteen to twenty years old, about eighteen were under the impression that while the sun rises in the East, the stars rise in the West. An appearance as of being hollowed out has been remarked in the surface of I the hard, green sandstone rocks, near Lima, Peru, and was ascribed by Sir Charles Lyell to the result of water i action on ancient and subsequently e'.c1 vated sea beaches. Mr. Nation, of Lima, i however, who has been observing the f rocks for twenty-five years, is satisfied , that the hollows are increasing in size f and in number. He believes that they . are the work of a cryptogamic plant, a 15/iVinn wViiVh ifl -in ftrtlVP VftfTfitation I during the foggy season, the swelling of i whose cells causes a scaling of the rock. ; A remarkable case of suspended I growth-power is recorded by Dr. Max; well J. Masters, of London. A tree of l the common Ailanthus was cut down, r and the stump buried just below the sur: face. Growth appeared, ten years cer; taiuly, probably fifteen years after, , though there had been no sign of vegeI tation in the intervening period. The fact is of great importance in connection i with the maintenance of life in vegetation f for long periods under glaciers. In tho I "Proceedings of the Academy of Natural t Sciences of Philadelphia for 1884," good s reasons are given for the belief that ' plants covered by ice in Alaska for over i one hundred years, still kept alive and grew after the ice-sheet was removed, i The maintenance of life in Ailanthus ? roots ten years without growing, so near circumstances favorable to growth, is a [ greater feat of Nature than the retention , of life for 100 years under the low tem> -nerature beneath a elacier. I 1 ~ A Hero of "The Mutiny." There is a movement in England for i an increase of the pension of John Di. vane, the private soldier who won the t Victoria cross, by leading the way to the r capture of the Cashmere gate at the j stormiug of Delhi, India. He lost a leg on that occasion. " There was," he says, 1 "a hitch, nud then a call for'Who'll | storm the battery?' and the bhoys said, 'Johnny, you go on, and we'll be after t ye.' And I said, 'Come on, bhoys, s death or glory!' And we went on, and f presently I fell down, and, when I came . to mesclt, I found my leg was gone, and . -I said, ' Never mind, John Divane, me l bhoy, here's a shilling a day for ye foi loif.' And when I heard the list of pinr sions read out and heard I'd only tip| pincc a day, I croid." Divane did not r get the "death" he challenged, but the 5 ten pennyworth per day of "glory" [ which he did get, docs not seem much of a reward for a man who started the turning point of the capture of Delhi, I > XI e -t 41.. iha anu, mcrciuri', ui vwc aujypicooAw* v*. 1**^ mutiny. He is now G4 years old, and 5 gel 8 a living by peddling fish in a donkey t cart at Penzance.?Boston Traveler. t ? r The Pepper Crop. All pepper grown in Sumatra says W. S. Bennett, is dried by the beat of the | sun on the ground; hencc it contains . more or less sand. The pepper grown in . Singapore is dried in a kiln. In Maltv r bar, the small, round, berry-like fruit > grows somewhat loosely to the number ? of twenty to thirty on a common pen\ dulous fruit stalk. They are at first green r then become red, and, if allowed to ripen, 3 yeliow; but they are gathered befors , completing maturity, and by drying in that state turn blackish-gray or brown. \ When one or two berries at the base of I the spike begin to turn red, the whole spike is pincnedoff. Next day the berries | arc rubbed olf with the hand, picked t clean, and dried for three days on mats ! r in the sun. The vine produces fruit in j two seasons of the year. The flowers of the principal crop appear in September with the laius 01 tue hrst monsoon, in 1 the latter end of December the berries . begin to ripen, and arc gathered in , January. The flowers of the second crop ? appear in Mar. h and April with the rains 5 of the little monsoon, and the fruit ripens . and is gathered about July and August. . Each vine may be reckoned upon as pio. ducing 1 /lbs. of pepper. , A Queen's Heart. The Nantes Museum, which is one of the richest departmental museums iu France, has just acquired a small casket I of no little historic interest?namely: ' that in which the heart of Anue of lirit5 t ny, Queen of Fiance and Na\arro, was ] 3 placed at her death. The casket, which ! " is of massive gold, is made in the shape j J of a heart, and inside the filagree ! ' work on the outside are nine fleur-de-lis j 5 and nine trefoil tiowers, with the follow> ing motto: "Cuevr de' vertus ornc dig? ne.nent covronne." The casket is ati trilnited to Joan Perreal, painter in or} diniry to the King, ^vho was ordered by Francis to paint the Queen's portrait when she died at Blois in 1514. I . AN OLD YEAR SONG. kn through the forest, disarrayed By chill November, late I strayed, A lonely minstrel of the wood Was singing to the solitude: I loved thy music, thus I said, When o'er thy perch the leaves were spread* Sweet was thy song, but sweeter no^f Thy carrol on the leafless bough. Sing, little bird! thy note shall cheer The sadness of the dying year. When violets pranked the turf with blue And morning filled their cupe with dew, Thy slender voice with rippling thrill The budding April bowers would fill, Nor passed its joyous tones away When April rounded into May. Thy life shall hail no second dawnSine. little bird! the snriusr is eon*. And I remember, well-a-day! Thy full-blown summer roundelay, As when behind a broidered screen Some holy maiden sings unseen: With answering notes the woodland rung; And every tree top found a tongue. How deep the shadel the groves how fa r! ; Sing, little bird I the woods are bara The summer's throbbing chant is done And mute the choral antiphon; The birds have left the shivering pines To flit among the trellised vines, ur ian iae air wica scented piumes Amid the love-sick orango-blooms, And thou art here alone?alone, Sing, little bird! the reft have flown. he snow has capped yon distant hill. At morn the running brook was still, ' From driven herds the clouds that rise Are like the smoke of sacrifice; Ere long the frozen sod shall mock The ploughshare, changed to stubborn rocfc. The brawling streams shall soon be dumb, Sing, little bird! the frosts have come. Fast, fast the lengthening shadowB creep, The songless fowls are half-asleep, The air grows chill, the setting sun May leave thee ere thy song is done, The pulse that warms thy breast grow-cold,- > Thy secret die with thee untold: The lingering sunset still is bright, Sing, little bird! 't will soon be night. ,.>1 ?Oliver Wendell Holmes. PITH AND POINT, j| The tippler's favorite book?A quarto*. A carpenter's work generally got$against the grain. v.~ A chap being ask what he took for ? cold, replied: "Four pocket handker chiefs a day." \ Dr. Collyer says work is like medicine. : Perhaps that is why so many try to avoids it.?Detroit Free Preen. One reason why the homely girl take* the scholarship prize is because she looks ''f, into books more than into mirrors.?Picayune . Considering the price of fashiouablebonnets, we begin to think the wor?h " millionaire " is but a corruption of milliner.?Life. Cowardice is usually to be abhorred, but an amateur musician who is afraid te touch a violin would be universally respected. ? Washington Critic. Young Wife: "I want ydu to kill a chicken for me to-night, John." Youn^; husband : "All right. Just toss me *hunk of that cake."?New Haven Newt. , ' "Never allow a fish to lie if he can be' hung conveniently," says a popular cookbook. This is also a good rule to apply to fishermen, as well.?Somen die Journal. " Between the ages of thirteen andeighteen years a girl knows something. From eighteen to twenty-five she think* > she does. After that she wishes she did. ? troia ijcuj. In Costa Rica there is not a single mil- -i linery store. Married men who want tickets for Costa |Rica should go up to the office before the rush begins.? Ne* York Newt. The meanest man so far on record live*- > in this city. His wife asked him to giv? her a pet, some animal that would stick to her, and the next evening he brought home a leech.?New York News. "Here's Webster on a bridge," said. ? v - I J.J J._ n__<_ Mrs. 1'artingcon, as sue imuueu hi me ? new unabridged dictionary. "Study it contentively, and you will gain a gooddeal of inflammation."?Texas Siftingt. They went to see the city, Two of the rural class, And one blew in his money, And one blew out the gas. The one who blew the gas out Was buried yesterday; Dead is the other alsoDead broke, that is to say. ?Boston Courier, "Hove to hear the welkin ring," said Cedric,sadly. "It may be so," quoth the Princess de la Swampoodle, placing her tiuy hand upon his new overcoat, "but give me a wedding-ring."?Neu> York Journal. Family man (to family physician).?"I wish you would give me my bill for professional services during the past six months, doctor?" Family physician (making out bill).?"The amount is very small, Mr. Smith. I am sorry that I haven't been able to do more for you." ?Epoch. Britisher?"And have you any?aw? pawk?in Cincinnaughty like Hyda Pawk, ye know?" Miss Bacon?"Any pork! Well, in good round fat numbers, 1 should say about 50,000 to the square mile." Britisher?"Fifty thousand square ra:les of pawk! By jove, now you really surprise me, Miss Baccn."?Harper't R'+tr. "Mv family is very ancient," remarked an English tourist in Ohio. "It dates buck to the Crusades." "So does mine," replied the Buckeye. "My mother was a Crusader herself. And what a noble stand they made against tho liquor traffic, too." "Aw," said the Englishman, considerably mystified.?Pitttiury Chron icU. "Sir, I love your daughter Mercy, Pray believe me, Mr. Ferry, For he."self, and not her money; . Trust me, I'm not mercenary." Come the answer like an echo, As the heartless Banker Ferr> Coldly looked the youngster over And responded: ''Mercy? Nary!" ?Chicago Tribune. Carious Freak of a Millionaire. There arc so many ways of spending aud of losing a fortune that perhaps nobody desires to be informed of a new method for this purpose. I heard yesterday, however, of a plan which seemed to me so ingenious and so admirably calculated for dissipating any amount of money that I cannot forbear recounting it. It seems that a young man found himself, on the . death of his father and mother, in unrestricted possession of $l,.r)00,000. When the period of mourning had expired, he bought a small circus and traveled about with it in the capacity of chief showman, llow long the fun lasted, or what small sum the circus properties fetched when they were sold at auction by the creditors of the concern, I am not informed. ?Boston l'oit.