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~TOTOMA IN BERLIfl.
The Queen of England Visits Her
Afflicted Son-in-Law.
Cordially Welcomed, but No Enthusiam
Shown.
Queen Victoria arrived in Berlin at 8-45
Tuesday morning, coining direct from
Munich. She was received at the station by
the Empress Victoria, the Crown Prince
William, Prince Henry and the four Princesses,
daughters of the Empress.
All entered the royal saloon car as the
train stopped, and embraced the Queen. The
Crown Prince gave nis arm 10 tne vueen, assisted
her to alight from the car, ana escorted
her to the carriage.
i The Queen bowed to a select few who were
permitted to remain on the platform, among
them the British Ambassador and his wife,
and Private Secretary of the Dowager
Empress Augusta, who, owing to infirmities,
was unable to be present The party
descended the stairs, which were car
peted and decked with flowers, and ea- i
tered carriages. They proceeded to the castle
of Charlottenburgin the following order:
The Queen, the Empress, Princess Beatrice
and the Crown Prince William in the first
carriage. Prince Henry and sisters in the
second carriage.
The route to Charlottenburg was lined
with people, who cheered with some enthusiasm
as the carriages passed, but as the
party drew near to the castle the cheering
subsided, and finally ceased altogether, oat
of fear of disturbing the Kaiser. So the
One*n and her dauchter entered Che palace
in silence.
There was in the whole reception no more
ceremony than the ordinary and daily etiquette
of the Court required. This was
strictly in accordanoe with tiic wishes of the
Queen"
The Emperor rose early, and the arrival of
Qcieen Victoria having been announced,
passed into one of the salons to meet her.
As the Queen entered he gravely bowed a
welcome, making no attempt to 6peak. This
mute welcome deeply touched the Queen.
Al ter a brief interview the Emperor withdrew
to his apartments.
The Queen and the Empress, her daughter,
drove to the Royal Palace in the city (Turing
the afternoon and took tea with the Dowager
Empress Augusta.
The Queen received Prinoe Bismarck at
noon, and later she visiied the British Embassy.
The North German Gazette, which is the
recognized official Court newspaper, referring
to the visit of the Queen of England,
ays: "Her Majesty will be welcomed by the
whole population or Germany, and, above all,
by the inhabitants of Berlin, with the veneration
and sympathy so justly due oae who has
for many years ruled a friendly State and
who is the mother of our Empress. All German
hearts will thankfallv accent as a token
of the Queen's deep sympathy for the fate of
our reigning house the fact that she comes to
the sick bed of our beloved Emperor, and personally
shares tbe deep affliction and great
anxiety with which we are filled today.
May she be enabled to bring comfort
and hope, and, when she departs from Germany,
to take with her the assurance that
the sympathy she has displayed will always
be kept in grateful remembrance here."
A NAVAL RESERVE,
.Secretary Whitney Points Oat the
Importance of the Plan.
In a letter written to the Naval Reservs
Bub- Committee of the House Committee on
Naval Affairs, Secretary Whitney has declared
himself earnestly in favor of the establishment
of a naval reserve. The necessity for
the maintenance of a naval reserve, the
Secretary says, is universally recognized
at the present day. No nation main
tains a standing army and navy adequate to
defence. All of them rely upon reserves and
noon the Drenaration previously made for
expanding quickly from a peace to a war
basis. The maintenance of a naval reserve,
he asserts, is a measure of
oconomy. Under such a system a body
of men supporting themselves by ordinary
civil pursuits is enrolled and maintained
by the Government sufficiently for its purpose
in the event of war at comparatively
small expense. England, he says, maintains,
with an annual expenditure of less than $2,?
000,000, an auxiliary naval force twice as large
as the entire American navy. The suggestion
that anaval reserve'should be established,
the Secretary continues, has awakened the
greatest interest in all parte of the country.
He concludes his letter by saying:
"In the judgment of the department it is
both necessary and economical that the Government
should have in reserve a fleet of
auxiliary merchant ships, previously prepared
with, the necessary fittings for in#
ctant conversion into cruisers, which would
ka Avntlaltla nnnn a m/vmonf^B nn_
CAVA? uv aTWiavio ujwu ? ? **w
tl? for use by the Government in time of
war." ,
, THE NATIONAL GAME.
I St. Lotus is claiming the world's championship.
, Ewing will again captain the New Yorks
this season.
Wilkksbarbi's new grounds will be the
beet in the Central League.
1 Of the left-handed pitchers the League has
even and the Association eleven.
Tony Mvllans, of the Cincinnatis, can
pitch a good game with either hand.
Con DALLy, recently released by the Bostons,
has signed a contract with Indianapolis.
Pitcher Radbourne is to get $100 for
-every game Boston win3 with him in the box.
^ Temperance Worker Francis Mcrphy
xuia uiuucea IDS .Louisville Club to sign the
pledge.
The Cleveland uniform is iadigo colored
trousers and shirt, with navy blue stockings,
belts and caps.
President Young,of the National League,
flunks a baseball player ought to be in his
prime at forty years of age.
Ryan, of the Chicagos, is developing into
a pitcher. Anson says that the center fielder
it equally valuable in the field as in the box.
In the Association games umpired by
Gaffney betakes a position behind the pitcher
when men are oa bases. It is said to work
well. ....
4 Rev. Dr. Talxage witnessed the game
between the Brooklya and Wiliiams College
nines, this being the first he has ever attended.
* The largest number of games ever credited
to a ball player in any one season wa? Sam
Thompson, or the Detroits, last season, as he
participated in 184. ?*
i Paul Eaton, of Washington, is the author
of comic opera entitled, "Angela, or the Umpire's
Revenge." The villain is a first baseman
and the hero an umpire.
Connor has the best batting average in the
New York team for last season. His percentage
was. 3S2. Ward is next with .371.
Connor also made the longest hit.
Tot* rSnninrtoft O v. A _
? v.uvmu??i 4 iKtCO-UbUI U09 UUC1CU 9
line gold medal for the Cincinnati player
making the highest percentage of runs during
the coming championship season.
Krock, of the Chicagos, and Ed Crane of
the New Yorks, are counted the speediest
pitchers in the country. Young George, of
the New Yorks, ranks very near them.
A Princeton College student is believed
to have discovered curve pitching. Cu turnings,
of Brooklyn, was the first twirler,
however, to make a study of the science.
The Cleveland team come pretty near
ranking as giants. There is only one small
man on the nine, and four?Faatz, Stemmeyer,
Zimrner and Snyder?reach six feet
or over.
Al Spalding, of Chicago, will take twenty-six
ball players to Australia next fall and
Introduce our National game there. The
placers will also have to be adepts at foot ball
Eua cncser.
The Cincinnati club have challenged the
Detroits for another series of games in Jhe
fall, the winners of a majority of the garnet
to take a purse of $2,000, Each club is to
. (take $1,000 on the result.
Dorgan was released by New York for two
reasons. The club believed it had secured
more valuable men, and. moreover, Dorgan
wished to remain in Syracuse and probably
manage the club of that city.
William Sowders, Boston's new pitcher,
Is one of seven brothers, all of whom ore
good ball players, five of them playing professionally
the present season. Their home is
> tn Indianapolis, and they usei to go out on
the commons?taking the old man and one of
the youngsters along to fill out a nine?and
plqy the amateur clubs of the town.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Pastern and Middle State*.
Andrew Carnegie has resumed opera
tions in his great Pittsburg steel works with
non-union men. refusing to treat any longer
with his striking employes. He employs
about 5000 men.
Impressive funeral services were held in
honor of the late Roseoe Conkling at Trinity
Chapel, New York, after which the remains
were taken to Utica by special train and
there interred.
William B. Dins more, founder of the
Adams Express Company, and late President
of the corporation, died recently at his home
in New York city, in his seventy-eighth year.
The famous trotting horse. Dexter, whose
speed record was unbroken for so long, died
recently at the New York stable of Robert
Bonner, his owner. Mr, Bonner paid $35,000
lor the horse.
Two men were kilted and three injured by I
the explosion of a tug boat on Newtown
Creek, opposite W iUiamsburg. N. Y.
Rear-Admiral Charles S. Boggs, a valiant
officer in tbe United States Navy, has
r; died at fcis home in New Brunswick,
J., aged seventy-eight years.
Brigadier General William Dwight,
of the United States Army, who was chief
of staff under General Banks during the
Civil War, died Saturday at Boston, Mass.
Treasurer Wells, of the Seneca Falls j
(n. x.) savings uanK, isaaeiauiser m me
sum of $10,000 and has been arrested. His
peculations -extend through a period of ten
years.
^truth and West.
Natoleox B. Lester, has been hanged at
Lebanon, Tenn.,for the murder of Pension
Agent Lane.
Is Portland. Oregon, a dwelling occupied
by the family of Fred Stoker caught fire
from the explosion of a coal oil can. Mrs.
Stoker was severely burned. Her fivemonths-old
baby was burned to death and \
she herself died the next day from aa over- ;
dose of morphine administered by & physi- i
cian.
A posse of Kansas citizens pursued a bund 1
of horse-thieves and surrounded them in the j
Indian Territory. A fight ensued in which I
one of the posse was killed. The entire gang
of marauders was finally captured, and eight
of them either hanged or Bhot.
The Bethel flome, a cheap St. Louis ;
lodging-house, was burned, and in it per- !
i6hed three men, and four others were sent j
to ths hospital dangerously injured. The
watchman of the building displayed great
heroism in rescuing a cripple.
A farmer of Cabool, Mo., named Lh&en&,
became violently insane, and locking his
family in the house proceeded to kill every
member. He brained two of his children,
aged 9 and 11 years, with an axe. Meanwhile
hi* wife, with two younger children,
escaped through a window. The maniac
then cut his own throat with a pocket knife,
and died beside his children.
Philip Held, of Lemara, Iowa, killed his
mother after a quarrel over a horse trade,
and then committed suicide.
The entire business portion of Summit.
Miotu, was destroyed bv fire, causing a loss
of $250,000.
|The Tillage of Branchville, Va?, has been
totally destroyed by flra
A destructive cyclone visited Duquoin,
111, demolishing numerous barns and
dwellings, and injuring a large number of
people.
Two men were killed, one fatally injured
uada number hurt by an explosion of dynamite
in a lumber camp near Baraga, Mich.
John Pabson's wife and child were Killed
by lightning, at Centreville, Ky.
J. T. Boutwell, Treasurer of Orange
bounty, Ind., has disappeared, leaving his
iccounts short $8000.
Georgia prohibitionists in oonvention at
Atlanta, elected delegates to the National
Prohibitiom Convention who were instructed
:o vote for General Clinton B. Fisk, of New
Jersey, for President, and George Bain, of
Kentucky, for Vice-President
B. F. Boydstox shot Miss Lulu Frazier at
hooper, Texas, and then blew out his brains,
rhey were engaged to be married last Saturlay,
when the young lady incensed him by
postponing the wedding.
Washington.
Bills approved by the President: The act
for the erection of a public building at Texirkana,
the act for the purchase of. the
words of the late General James Shields,
I the act for a Qublie building at Birmingham,
A.la., the act for the construction of a revenue
cutter for Charleston, S. C.,?tc.
The total number of bills and resolutions
introduced in the United States Senate
and House up to late date was 12,568, exceeding
by more than 2000 the number presented
in the first 100 days of the last Con
gress. Ho iar tbe nouse naa passea duis,
and the Senate 881; and 155 House bills and
twenty-four Senate bills have been sent to
the President for hiB approval.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland has
gone to Washington She was met at the
station by Mrs. Cleveland, and was driven
direct to the White House, where she will
remain for some time as the guest of the
President.
The Pension Appropriation Bill, as passed
by the House, appropriates $80,280,000.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination
of Thomas L. Turn stall, of Alabama, to be
Consul at San Salvador.
In response to Secretary Fairchild's proposition
to buy Government bonds, $r,824,t>00
were offered him,but he only purchased $85,000,
at prices ranging from 121 to 125.
President Cleveland has promised to
attend the reunion of the Frencn Canadian
societies in Nashua, N. H, on June 38.
The President has vetoed three more
Pension bills, among them House Bill No.
tTftntinsr a nension to Hannah C. De
witt, on the ground that he had already approved
an act the precise duplicate of it,
which was passed by Congress earlier in the
session, ana becaus3, in coasaquence thereof,
the name of the beneficiary, in both
cases, is already on the pension rolls.
Frederick Raine, United States Consul
General at Berlin, has given notice of his intended
resignation. It is his intention to return
to Baltimore and assume control of the
German Correspondent, a daily newspaper
owned by him in that city.
Dr. E. H. Bryan, the American Consul at
Lyons, France, has resigned, an l will be
succeeded by Lauson V. Moore, the present
Vice-Consul.
The Senate lias confirmed the following
nominations: W. T. Walthall, of Mississippi,
Consul at Demarara; James B. Coffin, of i
Massachusetts, Consul at St. Helena; James
B. Chess, of Indiana, Consul at Durango; \
Ezekiel E. Smith, of North Carolina, Minister
Resident and Consul-General to Liberia.
Foreign.
A despatch from Berlin says that an external
ulcer has developed on the neck of the
Emperor. Two internal abscesses were
clearly visible.
The town of San Fernando, in the Philippine
Islands has been partly destroyed by
fire, causing a loss of $1,000,000.
Tl*e Hon. Thomas White, Canadian Minister
of the Interior, is dead.
As affray has occurred between Turks and
Christians at Khania, Turkey. One Christian
was killed and his body mutilated and
one Turk was wounded. Five hundred
Mussulmans threatened the Governor and the
Christian inhabitants, but ten of the ringleaders
were arrested and quiet was restored
Count Herbert Bismarck has been appointed
German Minister of Foreign Affairs.
At Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Captain
Ramon Arguelles, of the Mexican Army, becoming
enraged during dinner with Adolfo
Torres, a railway clerk, threw a wine glass
in his face. Later in the day, the two meeting,
Arguelles fired upon itirres, wonndinz
him fatally. After falling the wounded
man fired twice, instantly killing Arguelles
about 1500 students assembled In Paris
and marched to the Louvre,shouting: "Down
with Boulanger!" where they attacked tho
newspaper offices. The Boulangerist party,
foTlowina nt.tn<-?!'aH t.hpi sfaiffonta with
sticks, and many were wounded. Finally the
police separated the combatants, and arrested
a large number of them.
A crowd of five hundred persons rescued
a prisoner who had been arrested for attending
a Land League meeting at Abbeyfeale,
Ireland, and stoned the police. Fifteen officers
were injured, four of them severely.
The police were subsequently re-enforced and
arrested fire of their?assailants.
A party of student* held an anti-Boulangerist
meeting in Paris and General Boulanger
was burned in effigy.
What is a great life? An aspiration
of youth realized by age^?De Vigny. i
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ONE YEAR'S. FIREl
Record of Losses in the United
States During 1887.
Amount of Property Destroyed
Larger than Usual,
The fire statistics, annually compiled by
the Chronicle of New York City, are published
for the current year. These records
of fires and losses are the only elaborate ones
kept, and are prepared in the interest of fire
Insurance companies. The Chronicle
reports 16,394 noteworthy fires in
the United States during 1887, an
increase of 1172 over 18S6. The valoe
of the property burned was $119,2O9jS80?jan
.ncrease "of $14,2^4,030 over 18S0. id?
average loss by each fire was $7272, against
$6760 in lb81 About 58 per cent, of the
whole loss is estimated to have been returned
to fire-sufferers by the insurance oompanies.
The remaining 42 per cent, was on nnmsured
property.
The fire loss <*f the year was divided as follows:
la New England, 10.6millions; in the
Middle States, 31.4 millions; in the Southern
States, 24.6; in the Western States, 42.3
millions; in tbe Pacific States and
Territories. 10.4 millions. In the
Middle, Southern and Western States
the fire Joes was considerably above the
normal average; in tbe other sections it was
about DOimal. 'Hie Chronicle concludes
that in t!te older sections of the United
States, taking one year with another, there
is no alarming _ growth in the destruction
fey fire,' but in the South
and West it is growing up with
the country. The first quarter of 1887 was
less disastrous as regards fires than the corresponding
period of 1886; after that the
losses were much heavier, the fire record of
November being the largest of the year.
Over $87,000,000 was lost on property
where fires originated. Tbe rest of the $lli>,/MYI
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posure. Incendiarism and defective flues are
reported an the chief causes of fires,the former
leading. About 21 per cent of the fires of
known origin are-said to have been incendiary.
A brief examination of the principal
fire causes, as distributed by States, shows
that fires from incendiarism and defective
fiues were most frequent in Onio and Indiana;
from spontaneous combustion most
numerous in Illinois, New York and
Massachusetts; from lightning most frequent
.in Pennsylvania, Indiana and
New York; from miscellaneous sparks most
frequent in Illinois and Missouri; from friction
in machinery most numerous in Illinois,
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania; from stationery
engines and boilers most numerous
in New York and Pennsylvania; from
matches most frequent in Massachusetts,
Illinois and Pennsylvania; from
explosions of lanros and lanterns most freJiuont
in New York, Pennsylvania and Caliornia;
forest and prairie fifes most numerous
in Arkansas, California and Illinois, and firee
from locomotive sparks most frequent in
Illinois and Missouri.
The year 1887 was not a disastrous one in
the agricultural districts, tbe list of distinctively
agricultural risks burned being shorter
than 1886. The burning or mercantile and
manufacturing property was largely
in excess of the recoord lit 1880. The loss of
human live3 by fires was also much larger
than during any other year in which a rechad
been keDt.
A HEAVY EARTHQUAKE.
More Than Four Thousand People
Killed in a Chinese Province.
A steamer just arrived in San Francisco
brings the following official details of a terrible
earthquake in the Province of Yunnan
as reported to the Governor of Yunnan by
the Prefect of Lin An with Chi Hiens of
Ship Ping and Kien Shui Ko.
From the second day of the twelth month
of the last year till the third day of this
there were over ten shocks of eartquake, accompanied
with a noise like thunder. Yamende,
in the cities of Ship Ping and Kien
Shui, were either knocked down or split
right down, and temples likewise.
In Ship Pinsr eight or nine-tenths of the
honse8 in the south are falling down and half
of those in the east; in the northwest a thousand
being cracked or bent out of the per- ,
pendicular, 200 people, men and women, old
and young, being crushed to death. The
wounded and injured number over 300. At
Tung Hiang over 800 were crushed to death,
and about 700 or 80$ wounded. At Nan
Hiang there are over 200 dead and over 400
injured. At Si Hiang there are over 200 dead
and over 500 injured. About 100 killed and
the same number injured at Peh Hiang. (The
four places last named are suburbs.) >
In the town and suburbs over 4000 people
are either killed or wounded, eight or ninetenths
of the bouses fallen down and the rest
cracked and leaning over.
At Kein Shui, in the city, seven were killed
and many wounded^ In the northwest suburb
300 to 40J houses were overturned, 249 people
killed and 150 or 160 wounded.
NEWSY &LEATO&3, '
The increase in peanut consumption last
year was over 6,000,000 bushels.
The world's annaal consumption of wheat
is estimated at 2,105,030,000 bushels.
The German postal museum is said to have
the largest stamp collection in existence.
Laurel, DeL, proudly claims to be tha ,
largest fruit-shipping station in the world.
A late estimate places th9 number of
Sunday-school pupils in the world at 16,447,m.
. Omaha expects to build a corn palace next
fall that will be one of the wonders of the
world. (
By the capsizing of a boat near Boitzen- ,
burg, on the Rhine; nine persons were ,
drowned.
Several million young shad are to be <
hatched in South Carolina and placed in the
Congaree river.
The chief clerk of the treasury at Athens,
Greece, has been arrested for embezzling
{1,000,000 of the public funds.
The South African diamond fields last year
fielded gems amounting to 3,640,899 carats
find valued at over $20,000,000.
) It is credibly stated that soap, water and
scrubbing,in the cleansing of its cars,cost the
rennsyivania nanruau a year.
Legrand, the wealthy Paris cooper who
bought a decoration from M. Wilson, has
been expelled from the Legion d'Honneur.
Nearly 100,000 seals are reported as having
been caugnt the last season off the Newfoundland
coast, the largast catch for years.
General Booth, the Salvation Army
leader, is one of the sharpest business men in
England and has accumulated a large fortune.
Work on the Panama Canal goes on fast
now, and it is thought that ships will pass
through on the date fixed by Count de 1
Lesseps.
The town of Bessemer, Ala., which has
grown in a twelve-month from nothing to
3000, has just indulged in a rousing birthday ;
celebration.
South Carolina has a sensation in the
shape, of its first woman candidate?Hiss ;
Eliza Garneth, who aspires to be school com- i
missioner of Union county.
Lee Jerome, a waiter in a hotel at Wich- j
ita, Kan., has married Mrs. Hettie Zimmerly, j
a widow worth #500,000, whom he waited on
at the table for nine months. i
Twexty-eight people over eighty years old
died in Philadelphia during one week recently?sixteen
men and twelve women. The
oldest was ninety-three years 6f age.
The consumption of coal on the large
ocean steamers varies from 300 to 350 tons i
per day. This applies to all the different fast
vessels of the CunarJ, Guion and White Star
lines.
Robert Mills, who before the war had
some $3,000,000 in land and slaves, and was
known in Texas fs the "Duke of Brazoria, ',
died in poverty at Galveston lately, aged 70
years.
There are2,917,S15 Baptists in the United
States. The denomination owns f48,5tW,Gi>(i
worth of property, and last year gave $8,937,491,30
to all objects. It has 20,417 ministers
and 31,891 churches.
At a late election. Kansas City voters who
cast their ballots for T. .Robinson, thinking
to elect a male fellow citizen, were astounded
to find that instead they had made a councilman
of Mrs. Tina Robinson, his wife.
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BPMMABY OF 00MBE33.
Senate Proceedings.
80th Day.?The Chace Copyiight bill- was
discussed... .The House bill prohibiting the
making (in Washington or Georgetown) of
"books'1 or "pools" on the result of trotting
or runningraces, boat races, or baseball was
passed....The Senate resumed consideration
of the bill to forfeit certain lands heretofore
granted for the purpose of aiding in the construction
of railroads. After discussion the
bill was laid aside without action.... Senate
bill for the registry of three foreign built
barges, owned in Sonth Amboy, N. J., and
Hou9e bill for the sale of certain New York
lands in Kansas were passed.... Cigarette
smoking was discussed in the Senate. Senator
Chace, of Rhode Island, presented a long
petition relating to the sale of cigarettes and
tobacco to minors under sixteen years of age
in the District of Columbia. Mr. Chace went
at some length Into the merits of the matter,
stating his belief that the young generation
was being ruined by the cigarette "habit."
He wanted the petition with its signatures
printed in the Congressional Record, which
was agreed to.... Senator Beck introduced a
bill Drovidine for the formation of a com
mission to select a tract of land, not more
than one hundred acres in extent, along the
shores of Rock Creek, a stream separating
Washington from Georgetown, such land to
be used for the purposes of a zoological park.
81st Day.?A bill was placed on the calendar
to provide for the erection of public
buildings for postoffices in towns and cities
where the postoffice receipts for three years
preceding nave exceeded ftiOOO annually ?
A resolution was offered directing the Civil
Service Commissioners to furnish lists of all
persons certified for appointment to the Patent
Office from March 4, 1885,to March. 1888.
Also lists of those selected and appointed....
The substitute proposed for the bill to provide
for the establishment of a Bureau of
Animal Industry was considered....The
Copyright bill was debated and went over
The Senate then went into Executive
session and passed a number of pension bills.
82d Day.?The following bills were placed
on the calendar: To relieve certain appointed
and enlisted men of the Navy ana Marine
Corps from the charge of desertion: to enlarge
the powers and duties of the Department
of Agriculture ? The House ameniment
to the bill giving a pension of $100 a
month to the widow of General Ricketts (reducing
it to $75) was non-concurred in, and a
committee of conference ordered... .A resolution
was adopted calling on the Secretary
of the Treasury for the reports of Special
Agents Beecher and Tingle as to the alleged
smuggling of opium from British Columbia.
The motion to refer the President's message
was taken up. and Mr. Voorbe?s addressed
the 8enate on the subject ...The bill to forfeit
unearned land grants was laid aside
without action!
-House Proceeding*.
93d Day.?The Senate bill was passed authorizing
the Kansas City, Texarkana and
Gulf Railroad Company to construct bridges
over the Red and Little Rivers in Arkansas
.... The House resumed the consideration of
the Indian Appropriation Bill, the pending
question being on the motion of Mr. Randall
to strike out the Choctaw judgment section.
The motion was lost, and tne bill was passed
... .A Dill was re r erred ro me private calendar
to place General W. F. Smith on the retired
list with the rank of Major General
.... The consideration of the Pension Appropriation
Bill was begun by Mr. Henderson,
of Iowa, making a lengthy speech, in favor
of a full appropriation. The Pension Bill was
then passed.... The Committee of the Whole
went into the consideration of the River and
Harbor Appropriation Bill, by paragraphs.
94th Day.?fhe Dunn Free Snip bill has
been favorably reported....The Breckenridge
Copyright bill was placed on the calendar
.... The House then went into Committee
of the Whole for the consideration of the
River and Harbor Appropriation MIL The
opponents of the bill made a strong fight to
postpone its consideration but were unsuccessful
- in the endeavor. Mr. Randall's
amendment appropriating $250,000 for the
improvement of the Philadelphia harbor was
passed.
95th Dat.?A resolution was introduced
accepting in behalf of the House of Representatives
the invitation to participate in the
Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration
of George Washington, to be held In New
York April 80, 1889?A bill was presented
to execute certain treaty stipulations prohibiting
Chinese immigration?A resolution
was referred directing the Committee on
Merchant Marine and Flsheri-s to fully and
thoroughly investigate the fur seal fisneries
of Alaska, and all contracts and leases made
by the Government with any persons or companies
for taking fur seals. Also a resolution
calling on tne Secretary of the Treasury
for information relative to the fur seal fish
erie* of Alaska?A good part of the day
was spent by the House in the discussion of
items in the River and Harbor bill for the
improvement of Texas harbors, especially
that of Galveston, for which the sum of
$600,000 is recommended by the Committee
?1500,000 for the entrance to the harbor,and
1100,000 for improving the ship channel in
Galveston Bay.... The House passed with an
amendment the Senate bill granting a pension
to the widow of the late Major-General
J. B. Ricketts. The Senate voted a pension
of $100 per month, and the House cut the
amount down to $75 per month.
96th Day.?The Committee oa Elections
submitted the report in the contested election
case of Frank against Glover,from the IXth
Congressional District of Missouri. It finds
the contest?*, Mr. Glover, entitled to the
seat.... The Committea on Foreign Affairs,
reported Senate joint resolution appropriating
$30,000 to enable the United States to
pnrticipate in the International Exposition
at Brussels, Belgium....The Committee on
Commerce reported back a resolution for the
investigation'of the strike on the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad....A bill
was passed authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to award a gold medal of the first
class to Captain Thomas Sampson, of New
York City, for rescuing five boys from
drowning The House then went into Committee
of the Whole. Mr. Springer, of Illinois,
in the chair, on the Tariff bill. Mr.
Reed tried to come to some arrangement
with Mr. Mills as to the time to be devoted to
the Tariff bill, but pending the discussion the
House adjourned.
97th Day.?The House went into Committee
of the Who'e (Mr. Springer, of Illinois, in
the chair) on the Tariff bill....Mr. Bynum,
of Indiana, spoke in favor' of the Mill's bill
....Messrs, Browne and Dockery spoke in
opposition to tariff reduction The Committee
on Appropriations reported the bill
making an appropriation of $150,253 to enable
executive departments to participate in
the Centennial Exhibition to be held in Cincinnati
next July? The House then took a
recejs until S o'clock, and devoted the evening
session to further debate on the Tariff
bilL . '
KE70LT IN BOUMAUIA,
Terrible Outrages by the Peasants,
and Soldiers Kill Many of Them.
The revolt of the peasants in Rouraania
shows no signs of subsiding. It is believed,
however, that the measures adopted by the
Government will speedily suppress the rising.
The Telegraful says that if the Government
desires to effectually quell the
revolt it should demand the immediate
recall of M. Hitrovo, the Russian
Minister, whom he accuses of originating the ;
rising. The revolt was widespread. The
peasants destroyed houses and property in
most villages. The houses of landowners and
farmers were sacked and wrecked,
granaries pillaged, and local officials !
barbarously treated, a number of
them being killed. The territorial
troops joined in the pillage, and fired
upon the troops of the line. Since instruc '
tions were sent to the troops to adopt severe 1
measures for the suppression of the revolt a '
host of the insurgents have been killed and
wounded or taken prisoners. The prisoni
ttre crowded. i
TERRIBLE MINE EXPLOSION. '
Seventeen Men Killed Ontrlcht and
Many Fatally Burned. (
An explosion which occurred Friday 1
evening in St, Helen colliery at Workington,
England, killed twenty-two men and injured
several others.
Almost the whole population of the mining
town of Workington assembled around th(
mouth of the shaft, where they remained
all night.
Most agonizing scenes occurred when th< i
bodies of dead husbandi and fathen
were brought to the surface. Many ol
the bareheaded women and children had at
some time or other previously lost a friend
or relative from accidents in the pit, bul
this was the most terrible blow that has faller
on the town.
The dead have been brought to the surface, ;
but many of the injured have been so se- i
verely injured that they will die, whish will i
probably run the total loss of life up to forty. ;
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TRAIN BOBBEBS KILLED. |
American Bandits Hunted to
their Death in Mexico.
Biddled with Bullets as They Attempted
to Escape,
Captain Burns has returned to San Francisco
from hunting the Stein's Pass train
robbers in Mexico. From Sheriff Paul he
heard the details of the deaths of the desperadoes
Sheehan, Hart and Johnson. While
the United States Marshal of Arizona
and his deputies were locked up inSonora
jail for crossing the frontier
without permission Sheriff Paul appeared
before the Governor of Chihuahua
and asked for extradition papers to hunt the
robbers in Mexico. Paul and Deputy Price
went to Chihuahua and learned that th<j
robbers had fitted out at that point. Johnson
had been arrested before on suspicion of train
robbing, but was released for lack of evidence.
He swore to set even with the
American authorities. In pursuance of bis
plan be went to Chihuahua and induced
Hart and Sbeehan to join him in the robbery.
They bought rifles and horses and struck out
in a northwesterly direction to the Southern
Pacific. The distance from Chihuahua to
Stein's Pass is 400 miles.
Sheriff Paul suspected the robbers would
return by the same route and decided to meet
them. The Mexican authorities detailed a
sergeant and four soldiers to assist the Sheriff.
About one hundred and twenty-five miles
from Chihuahua they learned that the robbers
had been seen passing north and he determined
to await their return. He posted men
in tbe brush near a ranch and waited. At
dusk a Mexican reported that the three robbers
were eating supper in the house. The
Mexican offered to secure their rifles. He
found two and brought them out- then he
returned for the thira. He found it on
shelf, and just as he took it tho robbers entered
and asked what he was doing with the
rifle. He made some excuse, but the robbera
an/1 irnnM nnf Inf. him looVA !
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the room. The Sheriff, alarmed at the Mexican's
long absence, approached with his men
and stationed them so as to command all tb?
doors. The sergeant saw the robbers and
rushed to the door as they closed it. He
Eushed it open and was shot through the
eart The robbers dragged the body inside
and barred the door.
Sheriff Paul ordered the men not to fire in
the house, fearing to kill the friendly
Mexican, and thereby [arouse the hostility
of the neighborhood. Placing hi* men on
guard he sent for the Alcalde of the district,
who arrived with armed men. When
the Alcalde learned that a soldier had been
kilied be ordered the robbers to be
shot on sight With reinforcements brought
by the Alcalde the Sheriff surrounded the
boose during the night He stationed
soldiers ten feet apart and then went upon
the roof with Price to prevent tbe escape of
the prisoners in that direction. The rooms
were full of women and children and the
Alcalde had a hole dug under the wall.
At daylight the 8beriff called to the outlaws
to come out, and received a defiant ronlv.
Then he scraped adobe from the roof
nd fired the woodwork. As be did this the
Alcalde got twenty-one women and children
out through a hole in the wall When the
fire became hot the desperadoes attempted to
break for liberty. Sheeban appeared at the
door and was riddled with ballets.
The sodliers kept np a constant
fire through the doors and killed Hart. John*
son suddenly threw open the door and rushed
out with a revolver in each hand, to be met
with a volley from the Sheriff and guards.
Johnson fell upon his face, but raised himself
on his elbows and fired both pistols. In
an instant be was pierced with bullets. Sheriff
Paul searched Johnson's body and found
$500 and some jewelry. The Mexican soldiers
looted Hart's bod v.
A BATTLE WITH INDIANS.
Mexican Troops Kill Seventeen
Yaqnis and Disperse the Rest.
The Yaqui Indians, now at war with the
Mexican Federal forces of Sonora, Mexico,
have fortified different places and are making
a determined stand against the troops.
A few days ago Major Enciso and Lieutenant
Yaltareal, with two columns of Federal
troops, attacked the Indians at a strongly
fortified position in the Zamalaquacs mountains,
near the town of Agua Verde. A desperate
fight ensued, but the Federals, after a
number of charges, routed the Indians from
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ing a large number. The Federal forces had
one roan killed and several wounded.
THE LABOB WORLD,
AsAlviso (CaL) box factory is Ailing an
order for 200,000 fruit boxes.
The maplb sugar crop of new York for
this season will be larger than usuaL
Sixty-two wholesale sugar dealers, of
Tokio, Japan, have formed a " Trust."
The production of the gold mines of Nova
Scotia in 1887 was worth about $500,000.
The production of minerals in the United
States is twice the output of Great Britain.
The output of the 103 salmon canneries on
the Pacific coast last season was 997,000
cases.
Springfield (Mass.) switchmen can tell
the different locomotives by the sound of
their bells.
A. St. Charles (Mo.) firm is filling a contract
for 300 cars for the Mexican National
Railway.
Fittsburoers are shipping natural gas in
steel cylinders to other cities for illuminating
purposes.
A Newark (Conn.) mill is making a 117foot
belt that is to be 42 inches wide and will
weigh half a ton.
The cow catcher was first introduced
about the year 1>53 on the Columbus and
Xenia (Ohio) Railroad.
Ix Massachusetts alone between U5>,uw
and 300,000 women are earning a livelihood
in industrial occupations.
The largest milk condensing factory in the
world is at Cham, Switzerland. Its output
is 29,000,000 cans per annum.
bTEKli rolls being made by a Pittsburg
firm will weigh twelve tons each. These are
said to be the largest ever cast in this
country.
There are fifty-eight cheese factories and
twenty-five creameries in Chautuaqua county,
N. Y. Last year's production brought
$725,000.
The national convention of the millers of
the United States will be held in Buffalo, N.
Y., in June. A European delegation is to
be present
Coal-mixkrs in the Hocking Valley, Ohio,
are paid 70 cents per ton' from September 1
to May 1, and Go cents between May 1 and
September 1.
Kistccky's whisky industry produces
16,000,000 a year and gives employment to
300,000 persons. Fifteen million gallons are
produced every year.
The gloss works just established at Athens,
Ga., are so successful in producing the finest
quality of plate, that a larze plant from
Pittsburg is to be immediately moved
thither.
A co-operative 'elass factory is being
erected at Stoneboro, Penn. "The town
donated a site and loaned the operators $12,00).
This is said to be the first co-operative
glass works.
A Northern' textile manufacturer says
that Eastern Tennessee is to be the greatest
cotton manufacturing section. Coal is ?10 a
ton. Some woolen mills there have made
27 per cent. Labor i3 cheap and abuudant.
The mineral development in Great Britain
during 13*7 was 178,049,705 tons. Over 500,0.).)
nponle were employed, nearly 5500 of
whom were women,and of tbe latter 100 were j
umler It! years of a?e. Nearly 10UO persons
were killed during the year while at work.
A large number of English railway companies
frequently employ engineers and firemen
for eighteen hours and upward. Signal
men are also frequently employed for eighteen
hours. If, through the negligence of
such signalmen, an accident should happen,
tue companies employing them ought to be
held responsible.
There are forty-two crucible steel plants
In this country, half of which are located in
Peensylvania, thirteen being at Pittsburg.
Pennsylvania has fifteen of the thirty-eight
Bessemer steel plants, seven of which are in
Pittsburg. There are are also nine ClapSrifflths
steel works in this country, ail but
two, those at West Wareham, Mass., and
Billeville. 111., being in Pennsylvania.
LATES NEWS.
?
Tex Pennsylvania Republican State Con.
vention at Harrisburg nominated James T.
Mitchell for Supreme Court Jiidge and chpse
Delegates at Large to the Republican National
Convention headed by Senator Quay.
The platform declares for protection to
American industries.
The Delamater Iron Works in New York
City were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of
1100,000. Four fireman were severely injured
by a falling wa!L
At Yonkers, N. Y., four workmen were
killed by the cavin j-in of the walls of a tunnel
they were digging.
A grand celebration waa held in New
Haven, Conn., in commemoration of the
250th birthday of the city.
The Massachusetts Republican Convention
met at Boston and elected delegates to the
Chicago Presidential Convention. It is an
nninstructed delegation, headed by Senator
Hoar. The platform is for protection.
The Republican State Convention met in
Fort Worth, Texas, and sent an uninstrncted
delegation to the National Republican Convention
to be held in Chicaga
Florida's delegation to the Republican
National Convention is uninstrncted.
An examination of the books shows that
James Cummings, manager of R. G. Dun
& Co. 'e Business Agency, at Dayton, Ohio,
who killed himself a few days ago, was $64,000
short.
Samuel Dew killed the City Marshal of
Nelsonville, Ohio, and then committed sui
v1uo.
The President has approved the act for a
bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis:
the act granting the right of way to the
Dnlnth, Rainy Lake River and Southwestern
Railway Company, through certain Indian
lands in the State of Minnesota; the act
making an appropriation for the erection of
a building for the Chief Signal Officer of the
Army.
The Ways and Means Committee has decided
to continue the debate over the tariff
bill seventeen days. On Tuesdays, Wednesdays
an 1 Thursdays the House will rise at
5:30 p. M., and reassemble at 8 p. *., the
evening sessions to be for debate only. On
Mondays and Saturdays the sessions will end
at 5:30 p. m. Saturday will be devoted to
pension legislation usual.
The Prince of Wales has, for the fifteenth
| time, been installed as Grand Master oi tne
I Free Masons of the world '
WILL BUY BONDS.
The Treasury Department Offers to
Receive Proposals.
The Secretary of the United States Treasury
has issued the following circular concerning
the proposed purchase of bonds:
Notice is given that on Monday, April 23,
and daily thereafter. at noon, until further
notice, proposals will be received in the
office of the Secretary of the Treasury for
the sale to the Government of the United
States bonds of the acts of July 14, 1870, and
January 20, 1871. Proposals should state
the specific character of the bonds offered,
whether coupon or registered, and must be
for the sale of the bonds with accrued interest
to and including the day of sale. The
right is reserved to reject any and all proposals
for the sale of bonds if it is thought
*" <n fa rant of tha Government to
W W AVI i-*v r _ .
do so. C. a Fairchhj), Secretary.
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
Thx infant King of Spain can now walk.
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, is on
ardent fireman.
The Princess of Wales's favorite author is
Charles Dickens.
At Vienna they call the Prince of Bulgaria
"Ferdinand the Silken."
The Crown Prince of Germany is said to
bate everything English.
Thx ex-Emprees Eugenie's favorite amusement
is playing checkers.
Govzbxor Rusk, of Wisconsin, stands six
feet three in his stockings.
Thx Saltan went into monrning for Emperor
William, although it is contrary to
Turkish custom.
Two sons of Charles Dickens and one son
of Anthony Trollop?, are in the stock-raising
business in Australia.
Princx F*bdin and is credited with bav
mg given away nearly tou,uuu in presents
daring bis tour through Bulgaria.
Worth, the French milliner, lives in the
suburbs of Paris in a palace that covers
several acres and is gorgeously furnished.
Jakes Whitcomb Riley, the Indiana dialect
post, is said by a Western newspaper to
have made 120.000 during the past year by
his peaand by lecturing.
The London Vanity Fair asserts that the
Czar of .Russia is afflicted with recurrent fits
of insanity. He has to be closely watched to
prevent him from injuring either himself or
others.
Ex-Seitanor Bruce (colored) is at Washington,
preparing a new lecture. He savs he
likes lecturing better than office-holding, and
expects to devote the rest of his life to it It
was Henry Ward Beesher who first advised
him to lecture.
Jay Gould has decided to give .up yachting
as an expensive and unprofitable amusement.
The steam yacht Atalanta, which he
bought five years ago, has cost him $300,000,
and it has caused him an annual expend!
cure 01 tiw.wu.
The widowed Grand Duchess Alexandrine
of Mecklenberg, the sister of the late German
Emperor, celebrated her eighty-fifth birthday
a few days ago. She was born daring a
State ball at the then royal palace, now the
Crown Prince's palace.
Norfolk, va, claims the distinction of
being the world's great peanut market It
disposer every year of z,000,000 bushels of
peanuts, most of which are grown in Virginia
THE MABKETS, '
17 KEW YORK.
Beef, good to prime 7 @ 7%
Calves, common to prime.... 8 @ 10
Bbeep f
Lambs
Hogs?Live 5 80 ut 6 00
Dressed 7H& 7%
Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 4 55 & 4 75
West good to choice 2 45 @ 3 03
Wheat-No. 2 Red 93J*@ 94tf
Rye?State 56 @ 58
Barley?State 82 @ 85
Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 66 @ 67
Oats?White State 41)?<3 43
Mixed Western 87 <g) SO
rT"" 85 (ch 90
UiCky iucu< wv ija uuv ? ? w
Straw?Lons: Ry& .... 90 <g 91 .
Lord?City Steam 8 CO @8 If
Butter?State Creamery.... 25 @ 21
Dairy ? @ ??1
West Im. Creamery 18 @ 22
Factorv 16 @ 20
Cheese?State Factory 9}?@ 12%
Skims 5 @ 9
Western 11% @ 12
Eggs?State and Penn ? @
BUFFALO.
Steers?Western 4 35 @ 4 85
Sheep?Good to Choice 5 00 @ 6 00
Lambs?Western ? & 7 00
Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 55 @5 90
Fiour?Family 4 03 @ 4 50
Wheat?No. 1 ? @ 95
Corn?No. 2, Mixed 57 @ 57)^
Oats?No. 2, Mixed 36 @ 83
Barley?State 88 @ 91
BOSTOIT.
Beef?Good to choice. ;. 8 .
Hogs?Live 6
Northern Dressed.... 7
Pork?Ex. Prime, per bbL..14 75 @16 75
Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 90 @ 5 35
Corn?High Mixed. ? (g| 70
^ *- A a- /Arris
uats?txtra *?m?j
Rye?State 60 @ 65
WATERTOWJf (MASS.) CATTLE MAUKET
Beef- Dressed weight 7 @ 7}*
Sheen?Live weight 6 @ 6J*
Lambj 6 @
Hogs?Northern 7
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour?Penn.extra family... 2 75 @ 3 10
Wheat?No. 2, Red 94;?@ 93
Corn?N.\ 2, Yellow ? @ 64
Oats?Mixed...., ? @ 19%
Rye-No. 2 ? ? 72}*
Butter?Creamery Extra... ? (2 27
ChMM?N. Y. Full Cream.. 12;-;ffl 13J>?
yr*-:1-'^
COUNTERFEITING. I
EXPOSING THE METHODS oH
" SHOVERS OF THE QUEER." |
Bow the Spnrloua Money is ManufacH
tared, Distributed, and Detected I
?Facts Drawn from a Long BSB
Secret Service Experience. Hn
M
"There is an immense amount oBS
counterfeit money in general circula^^H
tion," said a United States Treasury erHSj
pert to an Atlanta Constitution reporter^Hj
''and a recent estimate by the Secret Ser^H9
vice Bureau puts the amount at not-leii^^H
than $40,000,000. jWB
"Hnw Hid art mn<rti rniintfirfeit
get into circulationf SflH
"In the first place .the counterfertenflMS
are thoroughly organized. New YorlHB
City lias for a lone time Seen headquarWBB
ters for the profession in the OhitefflgM
States, and their agents are scattered al^HH
over the country. These agents are al^Q|
shrewd, sharp business men, and whei^HH
they 4 'do" a place the first step is. to ge^H|
the names of all people in that piace tcH
whom they think it worth while t<^H|
write. -They keep & special lookout foifl
people in straightened circumstances^
people with mortgages hanging ovefl
them, and people unable to meet' somAEM
peculiar demand for ready cash. ThalH
list is sent off to New York, and manjHH
and skillfnl are the plans to guard thet^Hl
mail. The letter usually passes througM
three ojr four hands before it reache^^H
headquarters.. Then a circular letter
sent to each person named on the list. IS
usually reads simply: Bj
Wa liAtrA rtn Vion/4 m lumra nnonfifr f\9 /tAnn.^1
WW O uavo UU IUMIU HIW^C I III I ll|III^M|
terfeit If you take 1100 or leas we will fori
nish -it at thirty cents on the dollar, or
more at twenty-five, fifteen or ten cents, de-H
pending on the amount.
Now, the agent takes care to make hul
list very complete, and by no means al^B
on his list are good subjects for the cou^<^B9
terfeiter. But all ate written to, and theHH
estimate is that twenty percent, of thpseHjfl
addressed reply to the circular lette&^R
When the answers reach New York theyHHj
are read by counterfeit experts. TheyHH
say that there is one old man in New^^S
York win glances at those letters andME
classifies them almost at a glance, JustW^Hfl
he would sepaiate a package of bankj^Kj
all mixed together.' The let ten are?
marked N. G.t G. or 0. K. The^H
first means that it won't pay to ahswer.BH
It may be from a sheriff, or detective, orfl
it may be simply doubtful, but those?
letters are tossed into'the waste basket. fl
The G. Gk people are ia earnest at th?Hd
time, bat they are not prudent or reliabfoHH
Some of those are answered, some nqtj
and those that are answered are icraria-Bflj
bly duped. You have seen these adveir'HR
tisements for shoes, or investment com-^Hj
panies, printed somewhat in in&^H
tation of a greenback. - The confr-SE
terfeiters answer the letter, andH
the dupe goes down to the express offie^H
for his C. O. D. package. A roll of
these advertisements, neatly folded ahdM|
carefully wrapped, is handed to the fel-HH
low. . He pays' the money andhurrieffH|
off. Not one in a hundred will everH|
say anything about it, and tbe counter-BK
feiters pocket the money. The ' O. K.'l
letters will do to trust - The letter is an
swered, and he ia informed that on a cer
tain day, at a certain time, an agent vriil^El
call upon him personally and make a HB
" deal/' or " dicker," with him. At th&KB
appointed time and places-provided the^^B
agent continues to think the man is act-1
ieg in good faith?a square deal is made.
the agent takes genuine money for cotufeflH
"Wliat about those agents?" mm
' They are mighty sharp people, an<$l
include all cla-ses. Those traveling^H
agents take some profession.which' they*
use as a blind?obtain, for example, aflH
real position with a well-known house, M
or travel lor a fictitious house, or preten#^HB
to represent good houses when they do^^H
And making counterfeits ?'
"Making as thev do, such enormoqiflH
profits, they can afford to pay for thg^B
most elegant workmanship. The fineStSlH
engravers and printers are secured, aad H
it is admitted foi example that thecoun-^B
terfeit $5 note on the Traders National I
Bank, of Chicago, which made its appearance
about two yean ago in the H|
West, is greatly superior in point or^H
workmanship and finish to the bona fide HH
note. Those plates and presses were
captured, but so excellent wasthecoun- |H
terfeit that over $200,000are still in cir
culation." 9B
"Well, how does the Goverment pre- BjS
vent that?" . KB
"In a variety of ways. The piper for HI
example?the Wilcox fibre?is hard to-^
imitate, and if yoa ever noia a genuine
bill up to the light you will see the fibres,
like hairs, scattered through the paper.
Then some genuine bills are marked by a |H
thread, and this also is hard to imitate,
Then the ink is manufactured expressly
for the ])urpose. Then it's hard to make
counterfeit signatures free and flowfngy |Hj
and the human figures, and su forth, as
finished and artistic as the real. Bat the B
most infallible way is to notice carefolly IHJ
that "counter," or delicate lace work ^Bj
around the figures on the bill Notice
thit each bill has its peculiar pit* EH
tern. That is done by the geometric
lathe. The lathe works on the
principle of a kaleidoscope?you turn a Hj
screw and it weaves a pattera. Give it
another turn and it makes another pat- |H
tern, but it never makes the same pattern
twice. So choosing a suitable device,
there is no earthly way for a counterfeiter
to get it except by taking an ac- M
V- V.J <1,.
tual impression. i!.Yen 11 ue uou tuo
identical lathe he couldn't make that impression
again. Now, if he does that
work by hand some lines must Joe'deeper
than others; and especially where two HJ
lines intersect any irregularity can be
detected by watching those minute.
angles. It is impossible to do the work
so perfectly by hand that an expert
can't tell it, though nearly every
other obstacle has been.overcome by the
counterfeiters. But it's an easy matter
to get the outline4, and then fill in with HH
a geometric lathe, though it is simply
impossible to do that perfectly,. * For ex- HI
ample, take that line of lo. en ge-shaped HE
spaces on a genuine bill. Now, supposing
the counterfeiter gets the figures exactly
right, the size is guess work, and
when you consider that forty or fifty of
those circles must come, one within the H|
other, and the figures must tit, corner to
corner, it is an impossibility, though |H
wonderful approximations have beea
made." .-' mKf
The Morning Star is the smallest |H
steamer that has ever made the run between
England and the Cape. She was
designed by her owner, Captain R. Dun- Bfl
can ~of London, and was built at Leith.
She is twenty-six tons, yacht measuremeat,
is of teak, copper-fastened, and is
classed Al. Her length is fifty feet be- Ittf
tween perpendiculars, over all fifty-six fl|
feet, with eleven feet two inches depth
The little town of Kliningen, in Bavaria,
is a perfect example of a Socialistic IH
community, all the land being the prop- |H
rty of the citizens in common.