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W_r__ ^ FROM FAR A1 EAR. Interesting News From Yarious Parts of the World. Disabled and Derelict Ships Reported by Incoming Vessels, More tales of the suffering of tempesttossed failing craft have come to hand. The steamship Hudson from New Orleans reports having passed the Italian bark Leonada with the upper part of hoi* mainmast and her miz 2?n topgallantmast carried away. The bark Sappho, from Pensacola, with a cargo of yellow pine for Buenos Ayres, was thirty-six hours under the lash of the storm. She was thrown on her beam ends, and her crew had to cut away her foremast to s/we her from capsizing. The jibboom and maintopmast went by the board with the foremast. S?a after sea broke over the vessel, flooding her cabin and forward house, and spoiling nearly all her provisions. Her sails wore torn and lost and part of her deck load washed away. She put into New York port for repairs. The steamship Bermuda brought to New York from St. Croix the crew of the schoon1 er N. Hand, of New Haven, which was driven ashore at Frederickstead, St. Croix, by the storm. The schooner Rosebud, from Greenook for St. Johns, reports having passed a bark with nothing standing but her mizzenmast and bowsprit; also a derelict, with foremast stein ame. She also passedtwo large icebergs and floating ice. The steamship Nebraska passed the wreck of the Italian bark Barone Podesti off Shinnecock, and her decks were awash. She was bound from Pensacola with a cargo of lumber for St. Nazaire. The Cufic, from Liverpool, passed the same wreck, as did also the bark Sarah Chambers, from Amsterdam. Johnstown Rising Again. That Johnstown, Penn., will rise again thare seems to be no doubt. The enormous task of restoring the Pennsylvania Railroad ta-acks from South Fork to the famous stone bridge continues day aod night. With all possible energy the Cambria Iron Company ? operating those departments of its works which escaped ruin. Its army of employes is busy and hundreds of men are engaged in rebuilding tho structures demolished or damaged. Planing mills, gas works, electric light works, and other minor industrial establishments are being put in working order. Stores have been reopened, and although the merchants are only irt temporary buildings they have a good stock on hand and find ample demand for their wares. There have been at least 1000 places of habitation erected during the last three months. Of course the majority of them are only temporary structures, but they answer every purpose. Some substantial buildings, however, are well under way and many foundations are being laid. ' Our. Agricultural Exhibits at Paris. One of the employes of the United States Agricultural Department who has just returned to "Washington from Paris, describes the American agricultural at the world's fair as small but excellent Of the $250,000 appropriated by Congress, only $30,000 or thereabouts was obtained for the agricultural show, and that came so late that it was impossible to begin work in collecting materials before November. In spite of the nort-ow limits of time and money, the department succeeded in getting ,up a very creditable exhibit, which hag attracted general attention, and will be recognized in a substantial way when the awards of prizes are published. It is understood, from private sources, that a larger average of gold, silver and bronze medals will be carried oil by the United States than by any other exhibitor in the agricultural section. : A Crew Saved From Cannibalism. The Tonga steamer "Wainui, has brought to San Francisco the-Captain and .crew of the British ship Garaton, Captain Davies, from : Sydney, N. 8. :"W., ;lop San Francisco, ' 'which foundered in mid&ean. The shipwrecked sailors were twenty-two days In an open boat without food or water. On the twenty-second day the men, driven to desperation by hunger and thirst, decided that one of their number must be sacrified to s&Ve the lives of the others. They were casting lot* to we who should be the victim | when they sighted Wallis Island. The natives of the island assisted the exhaused men to land, and treated them in the kindest manner. A mission boat took the rescued men to Tonga. Saved by a Tramp. An unknown tramp was walking on the ' railroad track from Council Bluffs to Missouri Valley, and between Crescent and Stony Creek he found a broken rail on a high embankment where the rail makes a sharp purve. It was an outside rail next to the river, and no train could have passed over in Bafety. The next train due was the limited passenger, and he resolved to avert a terrible wreck if possible. He ran to Honey Creek, three miles distant, and tried to raise the operator, who was not at his post. He then aroused the scction bands, and they took the hand car and went back to the broken rail, arriving: there just in time to flag the limited and stop it within a few feet of almost certain destruction. Death of Bob Younger. In the Stillwater (Minn.) Penitentary Bob Younger, the youngest of the notorious Younger brothers, who were sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in connection witK tliarnhharT nf t.ha Norkhflfild Bank, died *i few days since of consumption, from which he had been slowly wasting away for some weeks, aud on account of which his pardon was recently asked of the Governor but not gpinted. A Family Sconrgeb by Diphtheria. A family named Zemthall, consisting of parents and ten children, left Boone, Iowa, a lew weeks ago for Milwaukee. They went in a wagon, being ten days on the road. Diphtheria broke out in the family on their arrival at Milwaukee, and six of the children died in six days. Laborers of Five Republics. A meeting of representatives from variotss industrial and trades unions in the five Central American republics, will be held soon in Nicaragua, for the purpose of perfecting a general organization something like the Knights of Labor in the United States. Severe Famine in Montenegro. Advices from Montenegro are that 25,000 families in that country are likely soon to be suffering from famine. Prince Nicholas intends to visit the famine-stricken districts. TEE WORK OF LIGHTNING. Two Girls Killed?A Tent Blown Down : > on a Crowd. While Sunday school services were being held in a small fame church five miles south nt Columbia Citv. Ind.. llghtninc struck the spire and coursed down through the roof, instantly killing two grls, both aged seventeen, who were sitting together in the center of their class. The otncr ten children in the class were badly stunned, but not seriously in jured. The names of the girls were Mary Hockemeier and Agnes Freyer. Beyond a small hole in the roof and plaster the church was not injured. At Hartford City, Ind., the Christian tent in which Elder Aspy has been holding meetings, was entirely demolished and a panic was caused in the audience. The large cen. tre pole of the tent fell among the teiTified people, and the heavy canvas enveloped them. Above the roar of the elements could be heard shrieks from the women and children. Some of the men in the audience crept from beneath the canvas and commenced the work of rescuing. None of the | people was seriously hurt, though many had narrow escapes from suffocation. Miss Huntingdon, daughter of Mr. C. P. Huntingdon, the famous American railroad promoter, is" engaged to be married to Prince Hatzfeldt, a cousin to the German Ambassador in London, who also married an Amermn rirl Miss Moulton. }#jW -->1 SIX FIREMEN KILLEDT" THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Mrs. Andy Savage, of Strafford, Me., was called to her door by an unknown man and shot dead. Her husband was away at the time. A neighbor named Davis was arrested. At the national encampment of the Sons of Veterans at Paterson, N. J., Secretary of State Griffin, of Illinois, was elected Commander-in-Chief. The next encampment will be at St. Joseph, Mo. The fifty American workmen who have been in Europe examining into the condition of the workingmen there arrived at New York on the City of Rome. A cave-in at two collieries at Plymouth junction, reno., cuvtico,wuuy o>;ira, auu 2000 men were thrown out of work. Many prominent people attended the funeral of Congressman S. S. Cor in New York, and numerous messages of condolence were received by his widow from all parts of the country. The remains lay in state in church, and were viewed by thousands. Among the pall-bearers were ex-President Cleveland, Vice-President Morton andGeneral Sherman. At the funeral the Rev. Dr. W. H. Milburn, the blind Chaplain of the House of Representatives, and Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage delivered touching addresses. F. W. Gesswein, a millionaire manufacture of jewelers' tools in New York city, was shot dead by Christian Deyhle. The murder was the result of a litigation over some patent rights. A. E. Touzaun, of Chicago, President of the Chicago, Burlington and Northwestern Railroad, nas died at Bennington, Vt. Joseph Metzzl an Italian fruit vender of New York city, was killed, and his body almost cremated, by coming into contact with a live electric wire.. Walter G. Campbell, of Youngstown, N. Y., went through the Niagara Rapids in a cork jacket. Mrs. Levi Morton has arrived at New York from Europe. She was met at the pier by the Vice-President. Two trains collided at Tioga Junction, Penn., resulting in the death of two persons and injuring about twenty-five. The tin box containing the clothing of Dr. P. H. Cronin, who was murdered at Chicago, was shipped to New York and is now there. It was intended to be sent to England to mislead the police. Senators Hoar, Pugh, Butler andEustis, of the Committee on Relations with Canada, visited Cambridge, Watertown. Lexington and Concord, Mass. By an explosion ot gas in tne iseuson soait at S'namokin, Penn., two men were fatally and severally others seriously injured. General. E. BuKd Gbubb has been nominated by the Republican State Convention at Trenton for Governor of New Jersey. Fifty prominent colored man of Massachusetts, in conference at Boston, have passed resolutions demanding a better recognition of their race in political life. South and West. A sham battle in commemoration of the Battle of North Point took place near Baltimore, Md. Daniel Logan, for many years a dock captain for the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, has been killed in San Francisco while trying to protect a saJoon keeper from robbery. As a result of the feud between the Howard and Turner factions in Kentucky, sovon murders have thus far occurred. A collision between two trains at Miller's City, Ohio, caused a loss of $100,000. Both engineers were badly injured. Farmer Kinney, of Somers, Wis., found two tramps in his barn. He ordered them out and they attacked him. In the fight which followed he pitchforked one of the tramps to death. The attorneys for numerous Chinese cleim ants, residents at rorciana, ure.. nave meu a suit in the Federal Court at San Francisco against Leong Tsing, Chinese Consul-General, for $17,000 indemnity claims which it is alleged he has withheld. A number of colored miners at Brammell, W. Va., who had been drinking got into a dispute. Knives were drawn and -"Dan" Lambert and "Tom" Kadle were literally cut to pieces. Three of their companions were seriously, if'"not fatally, injured. -V A school-teacher named Walls, of Cull man, Ala., was assaulted by some of the patrons of his school, and fatally injured. They accused him of chastising their children too severely. Fifteen persons were injured, four fatally, by an explosion of gas-in a Chicago plumber's shop. William Pledger has issued a call to the colored men of Georgia to hold a convention in Atlanta. Two girls, both aged seventeen, have been struck with lightning at Columbia City, Ind., and killed instantly. A Mormon emigrant train was wrecked near Lynchburg, "V a., and about twenty of tne passengers mjuieu. The whaling bark, Little Ohio, of San Francisco, has been wrecked in the Arctic Ocean, with a loss of twenty-five out of her crew of thirty-three men. Frank Amos, a prominent citizen of Morgan County, Ohio, was murdered by his niece, Mrs. Hamilton, who hacked his head to pieces with a butcher's knife. Deputy United States Marshal Nagle, who shot Judge Terry, has been released on his own recognizance in bonds of $5000, by a decision of Judge Sawyer, at San Francisco. Fires have raged near Spring Valley lakes, California, in Ventura County, Sonoma County and other parts of the State. Miles of fences, much timber and many buildings have been destroyed. A premature discharge of a blast at the Lake Chabot reservoir at Oakland. Cal., has resulted in the death of four Chinamen, and several others were seriously injured. A Chicago letter carrier claims to have seen Le Caron. the British spy, in the Postoffice of that city. A two-story brick building on Park avenue, Chicago, was blown dojvn in a storm and two men fatally injured. By the breaking of a lamp in San Francisco, a women and her baby were burned to death. The south-bound Central freight train has been derailed at "Atlanta, Ga., and the engineer, fireman and brakeman killed. Thomas E. Jackson, aged eighteen, was killed in a prize fight by "Ed." Ahearn, in St. Louis. "Washington. Second Auditor Patterson has issued a circular saying that no more claims for back pay and bounty are to be made special upon "personal request," except when the party in interest is acturJly suffering. i The President has appointed Charles S. Johnson, of Nebraska, United States Attorney for the District of Alaska. The new steel cruiser Baltimore has returned to Philadelphia from her trial trip at sea. The trial was very satisfactory to the Government officers on board. Up to recent date the United States Senate Committee on Investigation had traveled over 10,000 miles, held more than 150 sessions and examined nearly 500 witnesses. As a result in brief, the committee have grown enthusiastic over the possibility of reclaiming a large portion of the arid lands of the West. Secretary Tracy has sent a dispatch to ex-Secretaiy Whitney, congratulating him on the magnificent performance of the Baltimore. The President has appointed Judge L. A. Goff, of Omaha. Commissioner of the General Land Office, and William Smythe Postmaster at Oswego, N. Y. Secretary Windom has appointed Robert H. Terrell, of Massachusetts, Chief of the Navy Pay Division of the Fourth Auditor's office. The new appointee is a colored man. Foreign. Tee chemical works of the American firm of Bin-roughs & Welcome, at Wandsworth, England, have been burned. Loss, $100,000. The official report of the Antwerp disas[ ter makes out 135 persons killed, twenty | missing, 100 seriously and 300 slightly injured. Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, before his departure from Paris for Berlin, gave $2000 for the benefit of the poor. The Czar of Russia has ordered an immediate increase of rolling stock on railroads converging upon the Austro-Hungarian frontier r.t an enormous expense. One of the Largest Dry Good? Houses in Louisville Burned. Guests in the Adjoining Hotels Panic Stricken. Bamberger, Bloom & Co.'s wholesale dry goods and notion houses, one of the three largest in Louisville, Ky., is completely destroyed by fire. Tho loss will reach nearly $1,000,000. The building fronts on Main street, between Sixth and Seventh. Tho alarm struck at ten minutes past eleven o'clock, and in ten minutes flames were bursting from the windows on the third floor. Five minutes later part of the roof went in. Tho fire department was out in full force promptly, and ten minutes after the first alarm half a dozen streams wore playing on the burning building, but it was soon clear that nothing could save it, and the hose were them turned upon the Louisville Hotel, two doors away. That building was smoking and it was a sharp half hour's fight to make its safety reasonably sure. The guests of the Louisville as well as of Seelbach's Hotel, at the corner of the block, poured out. A number, mostly frightened servants, were taken from the second and third stories in tho rear by means of ladders. They joined at once the crowd of sightseers, which gathered in half an hoor to the number of 10,000. The fire originated in Bamburger, Bloom & Co.'s cellar, and Watchman McGrath, who turned in the alarm, saw the whole cellarwas aglow when he discovered It. An explosion occurred soon after and a fireman just arrived was knocked over by it, but not hurt. TV. C. Cayo & Co., wholesale shoes; Louis Grauman & Co., wholesale shoes, and probably Finn's saloon were burned. On the east L. Bretzielder & Co., wholesale hats, is burned out, and also Baer's saloon. Four firemen were caught by falling walls and killed and two more wore buried under the debris. They were working close up in the rear when the rear walls fell and they were crushed beneath. Four were taken out dreadfully mangled. The insurance on the property destroyed is placed in sums from 810,000 to $50,000, distributed among nearly all companies represented in Louisville LATER NEWS. Ten stores and several residences, the Town Hall and the Masonic and Odd Fellows' Hall at Seaford, Del., has been destroyed by fire. The United States man-of-war Kearsage has arrived at the Brooklyn Navy Yard from HaytL Tcet Gwok Yixg, the new Chinese Embassador to the United States, has arrived at San Francisco accompanied by a large delegation of Chinese dignitaries. Two members of the Common Council of Spokane Falls, "W. T., are charged with appropriating funds contributed for the relief of the sufferers by the recent fire. The. Democratic State Convention of Iowa has nominated Horace Boies, of Waterloo, for Governor, and'S. L. Bestow, of Lucas County, for Lieutenant-Governor. The steam yacht Leo, of Lorain, Ohio, has been lost on Lake Erie, and nine people were drowned. A demand has been made upon Virginia for the repayment to the United States Treasury of a loan made to Military Governor Pierpont before the reconstruction of the State. Secretary Tract has decided to build one of the 3000 ton cruisers in the New York Navy Yard and the other in the Norfolk Nsvv "VwrrT Apassewgkb suffering from cholera has been landed at quarantine in Quebec bj the steamer Alberta, Jrom Hoilo via Singapore. Tee Haytian Constituent Assembly has been called to meet at Gonaives. The election of General Hyppolite is a foregone conclusion. At Fermoy, Ireland, Father O'Dwyer has been sentenced to five months' imprisonment and several companions to various terms for offences under the Crimes Act. After sentence was pronounced the prisoners sang ' 'God Save Ireland." APPOINTED TO OFFICE. A Number of Interior Department Vacancies Filled by the President. The President has made the following appointments : Richard C. Kerr, of Mississippi, to be Register of the Land Office at Jackson, Miss.; Joseph W. McClurg, of Missouri, to be Register of the Land Office at Springfield, Mo.; Scott Swetland, of Washington Territory, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Vancouver, Washington Territory; Walter L. Stobles, of Washington Territory, to be Agent for the Indians of the Yakima Agency in Washingon" Territory; Warren D. Robbins, of Idano, to be Agent for the Indians of the Nez Perces Agency in Idaho. THE LABOR WOULD. Brick-making is becoming a very important industry in the South. A 30,000 spindle cotton mill is in course of erection at Spartanburg, S. C. The Union Pacific Company are about building.a $1,000,000 railroad shop in Denver, CoL English workingmen are again devoting their energies to tlie solution of the labor question through co-operation. German vproduces 87,000,000 tons of coal annually: United States 127,000,000 tons, and Great Britain, 170,000,000 tons. At "Waukegan. 111., a corn food company is about to establish a factory which, it is said, will employ 300 to 500 men, running day and night. In the County Down in Ireland there are the ruins of what have been once manufacturing towns. Strikes killed the industries, and the towns were then deserted. Prospects for the lumber trade during the coming winter are believed to be encouraging. Much inside work will be done where outdoor work cannot be done. The Woman's Exchange of Kansas City is to build a home for working women. The houss is to cost $30,000, and a $14,000 lot has already been bought to put it upon. The Knights of Labor has adopted the ode written by Thomas O'Reilly, Master Workman of the National Telegraphers' District, entitled, "The Song of the Froletaire." Sixteen years ago the Soneham (Mass.) Co-operative Boot and Shoe Company was organized. It now offers its plant and property for sale on the ground that co-operation does not pay. The three painters' unions of St. Louis, I mo., are ma King sceaav progress, ana now have in their combined treasuries $78,000, which has been accumulating since the revival of the union in 1880. The general construction and repair shops of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and the United States Rolling Stock Companjat New Decatur, Ala., now have employed over 900 men. These shops have been in operation not yet ninety days. There are as many as sis separate confraternities of workingmen in New York city, to wit: The American Federation of Labor, the Central Labor Union, the Central Labor Federation, the Knights of Labor, the United German Federated Trades and the Arbeiter Bund. Employes on the bleach greens in the North of Ireland receive what would be considered very poor wages here, yet many of them own their own houses and claim that they live in comfort with their families. Bleachers earn about $6 per week, and dyers about $5.50. Several ships are delayed in Quebec for want of ship laborers, of whom a great number have come to this country to seek more remunerative employment, and, as rionunion men are not permitted to work on board of the ships, the delay in shipments may extend indefinitely. / imooTiyes lost. Tho Greatest Disaster In the History of Japan. Whole TownB Buried Under Avalanches From the Mountains, The province of Kit, in the southwestern part of Japan, tas been visited bj the greatest tragedy in the history of the country. Probably more than 15,000 people have been killed, several towns have been wiped completely off the face of the earth, and others have been nearly demolished. The catastrophe was occasioned by floods in the western part of the province and by the crumbling of a mountain which buried six villages under a huge mass of rocks and earth. The early part of the month was remarkable for rain, and the rapid rise of the rivers soon became alarming. The banks of the Kinogawa River, a stream over 100 miles in length, broke near the city of Wakayamo, and a mountain of water, like that which swept through the Conemaugh valley when the dam above Johnstown broke, rushed out upon the fields and towns, wrecking houses, bridges, fences, temples, and all things in its path. In that district 200 houses were carlied away and 5000 were ruined by the water, leaving 30,000 people dependent upon the local officials for food. Owing to several landslides which occurred close to the source of the Hidakagawa vast numbers of trees, some of which were very large, were uprooted and swept on to the fields, where several thousands are, now lying. Relief has been sent to the ruined district but inadequate facilities for collecting and distributing provisions will make the suffering intense, and in the outlying districts many will die from starvation. It is impossible to furnish aid to all the thousands of sufferers, and many must die of hunger and thirst. The losses in lives and money will never be known, as whole towns have been wiped from the earth, with no survivor to tell the story. As an instance of the disaster it may be mentioned that the Portuguese gunboat Rio Lima, on her voyage along the coast, was greatly obstructed by the wreckage of roofs, timbers of houses, etc., so that on several occasions she had to stop to prevent damage to her screw. This debris extended at least ninety miles along the coast. This is the greatest disaster Japan has known for centuries, and further details only bring stories of mQre desolation and more suffering than have thus far been related. The Japanese newspapers, after careful estimate, think the ls\cc? lifo r?r?QC nrtt foil holnw 1K (100. RACE AFFBAY IN ILLINOIS, Colored Men Storm a Jail to Rescue a Prisoner?Eight Men Shot. A race affray between whites and colored people has occurred at LawrenceviHe, 111. A St. Louis colored man named "Slick" came to town and attacked a white man with, a knife. The latter escaped after receiving two wounds, and "Slick" tnen dashed down the street, slashing at everyone. Judge Barnes, of the county courtkordered the man to stop. He attacked the Judge, but the latter retaliated by knocking him down. The man was then disarmed and arrested. Meanwhile tha colored people hearing of the arrest, determined to rescue the prisoner. A few whit2 men rallied around the Judge. There was e. hard flght, in which the colored men were beaten back, and four of the ringleaders arrested. The prisoners were taken to the county jail and the sheriff and his deputies were ordered by the Jndge to guard the building. The colored men quickly organized and made an attack on the jail. The sheriff was ordered to fire on them but refused, and they forced their way into the jail and rescued the pr isoner. Judge Barnes organized the whites and charged on the colored men at the jail. There was a bloody flght, in which pistols, knives and clubs were used. Judge Barnes was cut andshot^ but his wounds are not fataL Dr. Johnson, Ed. Lamb and three other white men were seriously hurt. Two colored men were shot, and a half hundred heads were broken. Tne whites won, and the ringleaders were again put in jail and a heavy guard placed around the jjuilding. The riot has created great excitement. T A HP A T PT? A flTTf! A T. TfiTTP Aaxnn iitauxxvau uwn ?i, A Boy's Feet Tied, to a Swiftly Revolving Shaft. John Gordon, in the employ of the Lake George Paper and Pulp Company atTicondfr roga, N. Y., fell asleep near the machinery. Two fellow workmen, in a joke, planned to scare him. They tied a rope about his feet and threw it over a shaft, making 125 revolutions a minute. They could liot cut the rope in time and Gordon was killed, the body being horribly mutilated. One of tbe perpetrators of the joke has just lost his reasoD from the shock. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Mr. Gladstone declares himself to weigh 168 pounds. Mrs. Hicks-Lord was recently in Toronto visiting friends. '' Senator Ingalls is said to be writing a novel on "Washington life Fresident Harrison has leased his house in Indianapolis for three years. Ira Paine, the noted American marksman, died a few days ago in Paris. President Carnot's liabit of talking in a loud voice is due to his wife's deafness. Robert Lincoln has never been known to refer to any event in his father's career. The Emperor of China has had a court astrologer beneaded for making a false prediction. The Woman's National Press Association intends to erect a statue to Mrs. R. B. Hayes, in "Washington. Buffalo Bill is spending considerable money in making a collection of French paintings of value. Lord Tennyson asserts that his coming volume of poems will be his absolutely farewell contribution to literature. General John C. Fremont is seventyeight years old, but looks so young that his friends think he is good for the nineties. Minister Whitelaw Reid is showering lavish hospitality to his countrymen who happen to bring letters of introduction to him in Paris. The Baroness Cantoni is to start in No vember on a year's journey in the interior of Africa. She is nineteen, and is celebrated for her beauty. Mrs. U. S. Grant, who accompanied Minister Fred Grant to Vienna, is homesick, and she will soon return to this country and spend the coming winter in Washington. .The new Chinese Minister will bring his wife to "Washington. She is the first womac of high caste who has been permitted to accompany her husband outside of the Celestial Kingdom. Premier Crispi, of the Italian Government, has sent a check for 1000 francs to the gentlemen in New York city who are raising money for the erection of a statue of Christopher Columbus. among tne cusnnguisnea ocwgemniaua who make a practice of early rising may be numbered Cardinal Newman. The great Tractarianis very feeble, but still receives visitors, and bestows especial cordiality upon American guests. Miss Mary Anderson has recently been paying her third visit to Malvern "Wells, in England, where she has captivated every one by her unaffected manners. It is about a mile from whore Jenny Lind lived after her retirement from the stage and where she died. The heir-apparent to the throne of Japan, Prince Haree, is a lusty and active boy of ten years, who is being brought up in a very sensible way. He has plenty of exercise, and while he attends the nobles' school, is not filled with foolish ideas of his own rank and importance. Vice-President Morton's new home in Washington contains thirty-two exquisitely decorated rooms. The suite of rooms on the first floor far exceeds in bsauty the White House parlors. There is a large new dining hall, which will be used as a ball room on State occasions. j ' BUDGET OF FUN.' HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. I Hit Choice?Something In a NameHad Been There?Making Rapid Progress, Etc., Etc. "Where do you think," said she, "The World's fair ought to beP' He drew her to his side. And hugging her replied, "I'm satisfied, my dear, To hold the fair right here." ?Life. SOMETHING IN A NAME. . Friend?"Why do you call your insti4-n4-i/vn itho tte?lt>ip.rt' when you have so many sick patients?" Quack Doctor?"Because I should never get a patient if I called it 'The Sickery.'"?Judge. r ' , had been there. 1 h, Mrs. Blotterwick?"Joshua, there was a tramp here this afternoon, and he looked so hungry that I gave him a large piece of gooseberry pie. I wonder how he feels now?" Blotterick (gloomily)?"I know how he feels. I had a piece of that pie at dinner, you remember."?Drake's Magazine. making rapid progress. Tucker?"I saw your son in the country to-day, Parker. He had his camera with him, I believe." Parker?"Yes, he went out to take some views, I suppose. "Was he making lyod progress?" Tucker?"You bet he was; and du9t, too. Somebody's red bull was after him." ?Time." now long, oh, how long! Boarding House Mistress (at Sunday dinner)?"Mr. Jones, why do you not eat some chicken?" Jones (who has labored fifteen minutes trying to carve a leg)?"Thanks, I never work on Sunday."?Life. friend no longer. "How is your friend, Beggs?" ' 3 1 51 "ile isn't my inena any iuuyei. "Why I how is that?" "He did me a. deadly injury, and I don't suppose he'll ever consent to forgive me for it."?Chicago Ledger. J V NO ONE LIVED THERE. Book Agent?"Can you tell me, sir, who lives in this house?" Buggins?(who is standing outside his j boarding house door)?"No one lives in ! the house, my friend, but a number of j poor creatures, including myself, drag i out a miserable existence within its j walls."?Hotel Mail. THE ADVANCED METHOD. First Omaha Miss?"I'm so glad you like the story of 'The Phantom Mist; or the Shadow of a Sound.' How far have ! you gotten with it?" Second Omaha 3Iiss?"I've read the 1 last three chapters and a little in the mid- ! die of the book." First Omaha Miss?"Well, you will be I charmed when you read the opening of J the story."?Omaha World-Herald. ,i , ? COULD RECOMMEND IT. Tobscn (to his druggist)?"We have j just finished the first bottle of Dr. j "i 1- tit ? j?f.,1 ? neipem s nuuuuiui ikuvi. Druggist?"Well?" Jobson?"It has deprived my wife of j the power of speech." Druggisi (alarmed)?"Great heavens! j You won't sue us, I hope." Jobson?"No, sir, I want a bottle for my mother-in-law." ? Brake's Maqa- j nnt. I HAD BEEN THERE BEFORE. A nephew to his old and wealthy uncle: J "I am desperate and unless you send me two thousand dollars by this evening I shall take my life; by midnight I shall be no more." Reply of the Uncle?"Yours of this date received. When, some time ago, you sent me a missive of similar import, and I sent you my revolver, what did you do? Yon 'spouted' the weapon. I have j no more revolvers."?Judge. A LONG SEAliCH. Tired Wife?"William, I wish you'd j bring up a scuttle of coal." Husband?"There, that's the way with j women; always expecting a man x) do I half a dozen things at once. Can't you ! see I'm busy?" j "You didn't seem to be doing any- . thing except rummaging around, I haven't asked you to do anything for : * - *- ?n-nA +Vicr> T tnlc'l mil I aUDUi mree wcc&o, uuu ?uvu * j ? ( I'd like to have the legs of my sewing j chair made shorter." "Well, I'm looking for the savr."? j Exchange. A CHANGE OF SENTIMENT. Miss Mabelle Hartless (reading letter) ?"Why, mamma, this letter is from Cousin Fred, and he says tfiat Uncle David Whyte is dead." Mrs. Hartless?"He is, eh? Well,- it's a small loss. The stingiest old skinflint on earth I I never could endure the man!" Mabelle?"But, mamma, just listen? he had his life insured for ten thousand dollars in our favor!" Mrs. Hartless?"He did!" It can't be j ?dear, good old soul that he was! 11 always knew he was kind at heart. Ten thousand dollars! We must go into mourning at once!"?Drake's Magazine. NO BUSINESS THERE. ' 'I tell you, my fat friend, you have no business in that boat," said Theodore Hook, one day to a fat man in a dinghy on the Thames. "No business in this boat, sir? What I d'ye mean?" "I mean what I say," coolly responded Hook. "You have no business in it, and I will prove it." "I think, sir, you will prove no such thing," said the navigator. 4'.Perhaps you don't know, sir, this is my own pleasure boat?" "That's it," said Hook. "Now you have it. No man can have any business in a pleasure boat. Good day, sir."? Tjondon Tit-Bits. WHAT SUE WANTED. "Pa, do you know that this is my ; eighteenth birthday?" "Yes, my dear." "Pa, I want you to do me a great favor on my birthday," and the beautiful girl buried her glowing face in th$ paternal bosom. . ? ' . :v. * ' - . " : "And -what is the favor my little girl wants?" "Pa, you have infleunce with the vestry, haven't you?" "Well, yes, my dear." "Then have them move that gas lamp away from right in front of our gate." Thus it was that the fond father discovered that a daughter isn't a little girl always. She had a beau. TOO FRESH. Jones was sitting on the front steps of an Austin mansion one night, waiting for his sweetheart to come out. She knew what time to come, and Jones didn't wish to ring the bell for fear of alarming the old folks. Presently he heard the door open, and the old man muttered something about' i. i>> ' 5UU1CUUUJ 3 UC1U?? tuu 11COJU. "Did you address yourself to me?" asked Jones, springing up with a flashing eye. "No," replied the old gentleman, mildly; "I was speaking of the paint on the steps. It was put there only this afternoon." Jones found with dismay that the statement was true, and it only required about two minutes for him to reach his room and soap and water.?Texas Siftings. The Prince of Montenegro. The palace of this absolute monarch, says David Ker, in Harper's Bazar, was a meek little whitewashed cottage with green shutters^ but the giant guards at its door?one blaze of crimson and gold and white from head to foot?were worthy of Napoleon himself. The Captain was fully seven feet high, his men but little less; and as they clashed their glittering swords over our heads with a hoarse shout of welcome, I began to understand how this little eagle's nest had defied all Turkey for four hundred years. On the map of Europe Montenegro is a mere speek, recalling the French envoy's biting answer to a microscopic German Grand Duke, who bade him quit his dominions within twenty-four hours: 1 'Ii your Highness will take the tronble to look out of the window, you will see me crossing your frontier in less than five minutes." But no one can despise a state which, with 100,000 men, has so sueon amnirA wit.Ti 4.0 - uuaaiuiij j-iaii.ooo^u uu vu* M. 000,000 as folly to bear out the pithy national saying, "Lest we should be straitened, God gave us the Turk." Passing on into the house, we had just time to notice the neat French furniture of the inner parlor, and its full length portraits of the Princess of Montenegro and her children, when a man entered, who needed no introduction to announce him to us as no other than the Prince himself. Like nearly all of the greatest men whom I have ever met, this famous leader owed little to mere external marks of distinction. His giant stature and Herculean frame, though dwarfing us into absolute nothingness, were fully equaled by many of his stalwart subjects; and his dress was that of an ordinary Montenegrin "warrior?snow-white tvlnic open in front, crimson vest richly embroidered with gold, partly colored sash around the waist, loose blue knickerbockers, white stockings, and close fitting sandals?the only difference being that he carried no weapon, and wore a small (iree? cross 01 silver on his neck. But the strong handsome features, with their bold martial air, the firm lips and massive jaw, the dark hair and soldier-like mustache, the large fieiy eyes, now melting into tenderness and now flashing like a drawn sword, and, above all, the look of calm dignity natural to one whose lightest word was implicitly , obeyed?all combined to stamp Nikita Petrovitch as a man whom no change of fortune could make one whit less or greater than he was. An Extraordinary Case of Conscience. An interesting case of conscience is reported from Norristown, Penn. It is thus told for substance. A Mennonitc minister in good standing named L&ndif went before a magistrate and confessed that in January last he had violated the game laws by shooting a rabbit after the close of the season in which rabbits may be legally .taken. He said that, realizing immediately after that he had committed crime, he gave the rabbit to his nephew, who sold it to a man, by whom it was eaten. He said his conscience had troubled him ever since, and that he de~ * " sired to atone Dy sintering uie pcuun-j pitscribed by law. The accommodating magistrate at once imposed a fine of $5 which the preacher paid, subsequently claiming and receiving half the amount of the fine, which the law gives to the informer. Having thus appeased his conscience so far as his individual act was concerned, he lodged information against his, nephew and the man who had eaten the : rabbit for having respectively exposed it1 to sale and purchased it, contrary to the game laws. The magistrate imposed a j fine of $5 on each of the offenders, which Landisalso paid, receiving in return the informant's half. A very neat little sermon this, for respectable offenders against our game laws, or other statutes. And now let no hardened Gospeler draw his pencil upon it, and reckon that the worthy Mennonite is presumably just $2.50 in pocket, he having made his collections from his fellow-culprits. -1 l-"- """"il in +>?<? SAlt SPA: jjrowueu uu su^u ^tuui ***. ***%? -? ?Evangelist. The First White House Baby. Mrs. Wilcox, a clerk in the Treasury Department at Washington, has an interesting history. Her father, Andrew Jackson Donaldson, was an adoped son of President Jackson, and she is said to have been the only child who first saw the light of day in the White House. Mrs. Wilcox is a lady of refined tastes and splendid information. She has seenjl many European capitals, and has a coof mand of Spanish and other langjj^ges that serve her to good purpose^ her present sphere. Mrs. Wilco.^ynusband, who died in 1865, was aXongressman from Mississippi in the" Thirty-second Congress, and was afterward elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress from Texas. He was also a member of the Confederate Congress. A more lively, cheerful lady is not to ba found, and it is safe to say that Mrs. Wilcox enjoys life quite as - " ' 7V^i/.I? lully as anyone.?vitauunwyu j. imw. Tlie Telephone Nets of the World. According to the statement of a German authority the telephone nets of the world are as follows: United States, 750 nets, with 200,000 subscribers; Germany, 167 nets, with 26,000 subscribers; England, 125 nets, with 20,000 subscribers; Sweden, 150 nets, with 15,000 subscribers; France, 39 nets, with 10,800 subscribers; Italy, 49 nets, with 9600 subscribers; Switzerland, 71 nets, with 8000 subscribers; Russia, 36 nets, with 7600 subscribers. ? SABBATH "SCHOOL. * INTERN ATIONAL LESSON FO$ OCTOBER 6. Lesson Text : " The Tribes United Under Darid. 2 Sam. ?Golden Text: Ps. cxxxiifj 1 ,3^ ?Commentary. 1"; 1. "Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron," After the death of Saul and his sons, as recorded in the last \e? son, the way seemed open for David to takt the throne to which he had beeen anointec *** years before, and for which he had so patiently waited; not tab'ng matters into-miown hands and ridding himself of his e&emt as he might have done on several occasions, but calmly waiting (rod's own time and way-j * i and now that the time for his accession to tfo throne has come, he will not even 50 up inW .3 * any of the cities of Judah without inquiring * of the Lord, so careful is be in this matter to rV/. foil aw onH nnf. win hofnnA TTim who hfttii4 chosen him. The Lord having told him go up to Hebron, he went thither with hib men and all their families, and there the men 5 * of Judah anointed David King over the house of Judah (chap, ii., 1-4), and ne was content to be King only of Judah for seven yean and . & six months, one of Saul's sons raigning for two years over the rest of Israel (chapTiL, 10,' 11) so there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David; but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker (chap, iii., 1)J Now,at length thfi Lord's time has come for . David to be King of all Israel,so all the tribes j come to him to Hebron, saying: "Behold, we .. are thy bone and thy flesh." 2. "When Saul was King over us,, thou r wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel." They remembered how David, and not Saul, slew Goliath and delivered them from the Philistines, and how David afterward led forth so successfully the armies of fa Israel (I Sam. xvili); but the wonder is that 4 "-* they did not think,'of this sooner. Why did . they not crown David King of all Israel as soon as Saul was isad? VVhy allow seven years and six moi ;hs to pass uniniproved., when they knew tl at these things concerning David waitiundisr ited? V "And th? Lord aid to thee, thoushalt feed my people'! sraeL and thou captain over Israe Why, then, no? car1 rB 2' out the Lord's ishes long ere this?' Let h * e questions come home. , 3. "They anoin ad David King over &. - ;j rael." So the Lo d had decreed, and so it Anally came to paj t, for every purpose of the Lord shall be perf< *med. 4. "David was hirty years old when he began to reign, ai I he reigned lorty years." & Then all his rejection, humiliation and suf ferings came to him as a. young man; so it was also with Jee s our Saviour and coming King. Young m 1 and women are' apt to think it hard to h re to suffer and be humiliated; let them r< aember David and J ecus, and that it is writ en: "It is good for a man ? that he bear the yoke in his youth;" and again: '-Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am j leek and lowly in heart." (Lam. iiL, 27; Ma t. ad., 29.) 5. "In Hebron * * seven years and six months: and in Je usalem * * + thirty-three years." It is vej r profitable in Bible study to associate place with the events which occurred there. lebron, a city of Judah. , some twenty mile south of Jerusalem, will ever be a delig ilful. place to the Bible .* student, not only because of David's two anointings and his seven years' reign, bqfc also bscause of iM earlier associations with Abraham, Isa/ ;?ind Jacob, Joshua . and Caleb: there lie ?Btill sacredly guarded, the ^ dust of the pairltrchs, and from the cave . of Macupelan hfcll yet come forth their florified bodies. JBerusalem, of all cities that ave uver been^il over will be, i;tan^s first; there our Lore was crucified, there His' precious blood Jo wed forth, in Pilate?? hall* : j in Gethsemane %] id on Calvary, thpre He M was buried andfc] lere He rose from the dead: V from thence H? iscended to the right hand 1 of God, and h -ther He shall return in: 1 power and glorj to rebuild I'ion, make J Jerusalem His tvfi one, and consequently the I capital of the wac le earth. (Pa cu., 16: Jer.. iii., 17,18.) 6. "And th* ]j?ing and his men wont tg Jerusalem witL Itne JeDusires.' me vm name of Jerusaleijn was Jebus; it wagftyflfp*. stronghold, and we read that neither the . V children of Judab nor Benjamin could drivei 1_ j out the inhabitants, but thev were allowed to dwiill there with Israel (I Chron. xj., 4, 5;^ t Josh. xv.. 68; [judges i., 21.) This wus'a standing disgrace to Isragl during all their,' * history since Jfcshua led them into the land / up to this tim< ; and now, whe a David de- ' termines to wit e out this disgra**, he-is to)d \j by these deflersj cf God and His people that the blind and tfye.lame are able to hold the > fort against him. 1 7-9. "Nevertheless, David took: the strong- * hold of Zion; ,* *,* so David dweltin the fort and calledK the City of David." He who in the iiajm of the God of Israel slew J\ Goliath went tMthin the same great name against these flemies of God and proved lia the faithfulnesflof Him who said: "There . Kg shall no man bfltble to stand before Thee." : VjS (Deut. vii, 34.) ' 10. "And Da? went on and grew great, \j>) and the Lord G? of Hosts was with Him." Vl Thus shall our "lily life be a going and grow- " ing; but we p."kll never get to it tilL, like David, we reallz|e that "The Lord jGtod of Hosts is with uV and firmly believing this, seek with the ^iiole heart a more intimate acquaintance ^v^th Him, and thus cultivate a ' more implicit r ?uance upon Him. 11. "And H'^am, King of Tyre, sent messengers to Dav1(4, and cedar tress, and carpenters, and uia^ons; and they built David an house." Hprte is a Gentile King and his people, coming, bheerfully to the King of Israel to do Pp honor; thus shall it be, as the prophets e!^rywhera tell us, when the kingdom shall" ?Hve been restored to Israel. 12. "David Perceived that the Lord had established hitfj jKing over Isratil, and that He had exaltel' (His kingdom for FTi? people Israel's sake.1 i Notice in thisi verse two things: Pirstf *hat the Lord had done it all; it was not Daf "u's patience or wisdom or might, but tb Lord alone that did it all; and, second tp^f it was done for His people Israel's sake. I pken we tell Chriscians of today of the grP^x things that God. is going to do for Israel'Qpjttke, we are apt to be considered decided]! Jewish in our views;, but Jewish we will bJ nevertheless, for our Saviour is a Jew and King of the Jews, and Scripture v , does not aut Arize us to erpect l;hs so called r conversion oBthis world until J?jsuscomes ifo His long proBised Throne of David.?Lesson' Flelver. M ~ it Ear" EOT. ^ Vj The Natlo^B "WOman's Christian Temper- V mce Union,^Bhich holds its sixteenth annual, convention Chicago from the 6th to th?12th of NoT^Bber. is an organization probably' uniqu^Bn history. It is composed. wholly of ^Hnen. It has nothing to d^^^^ with jiolitic^Brrrrctraaall sogw*vrcformkas^B^M in their br^Kler tense pqHfficafVTtyt words "Ch^Ki^n1' and "TemperanTe' iflHB title indica^Htb special lines of work wit^^^^H which it ex^Htf its' energies. In the cations of touches even such subjec^^^H as public iion and private hygiene, the theory^ thright conditions of physic^^^H ?i-? f^Bhe:st basis for moral develop-^^^ meat. To^P-al )stinence from crafflc in, or consumpti?ou 1 alcoholic stimulants is a cardinalprinMcip'of the society; and other de* panSftk^jjH ohmestic morals receive a large shJfeoi^V^ tention in every community ^ \ V vMere ftW mntains a branch. Although t V PRmetimeJF cJrged with too radical notions 1 of reforn3'ant>ccasionaUy erring on the side of haste/fin-scrutinizing kws and pushing measured! olimportanca. the influence of the < Union isgw'?^me' every good citizen can affortr* ? eftcouraSe ik> work with his mi.n^rJno, ancL where desired, with financial aid if Al organization which, even at the ?T,f> nf 'cjixtten yeaig, has by its own efforts hnilt M* ?ystem of 10,001) local auxiliary branc'ie*1 sprea(l a iHtwork of juvenile so' n J-er the territote from Tampa Bay to Pnrrpf- <5J>und, establishe^a publishing house witli ?nfinnua' issue of tJOS*00,000 pages and a uewsnJ!Per organ of 60,000airculaticn,challenges uifuvtir?al respect for the business abilitv and fiorf9 character of the women who have had iarSe of its f ortunes>v Washington <Sfcajf \ J A VTV1D PICTURE. Rev rf- *' Coyle, of the Fuilerton Avenue Church Chicago, recently created a sensation wPisl congregation by presenting the fo!!^gtKPofTho bell at the gate of /5._.??i_pdi'as the funeral procession solemnly /* masses fhrpugh, mingles * with the noise of . beer c1fiSS" whisky bottles in the aJoon '! . atelly opposite, and on no day in this noise so' P^onouncedas on the Sabbath.' It is Satan'** '"'ell-devised structure. and our "of jpolicemen and city officials iJlow V-jll-devised structure of the devil to ply it t-jffic on the Lord's day, in flagranti -H-i-rtion i of the law, end to the disgra:? of ^unity.-> | \ , i i' i