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intMTrevime. Operations of tlie Service Shown in the Annual Report. .Receipts for the Fiscal Yeat Estimated at $150,000,000. The annual report of John W. Mason. Commissioner ml Internal Revenue, which has just been submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, contains a mass of in terest injt information in regard to the operations of that service. The total receipts for the last fiscal year from al* sources were $146,035,416, an increase of 53,440.719 over t be receipts lor tae previous fiscal year. The cost of collection for the past fiscal year was $4,210/104, or 2.88 percent. of the receipt?. The cost for the previous year was 2.82 per cent, of the collections. ' The estimated expenses for the next fiscal year are $4.522,.WO. During the year 698 stills were destroyed and ninety-seven were removed, involving the arrest of 378 persons. The aggregate amount of taxes collected from tobacco during the last fiscal year was $32,796,270. The decrease of collections for the last fiscal year as compared with those for the previous fiscal year was $1,162,720. This is one to the reduction, by the act of Octobar 1,1890, of the tax on snuff, chewing ?nd smoking tobacco January 1, 1891, from eight to six cents per pound, and to the repeal of special taxes relating to tobacco May 1, 1891. The increase of taxed tobacco and snuff over the fiscal year 1890 i?*? is ftso 8R4 nonnds: the increase of taxed cigars was 387.502,784, and the decrease of cigars imported and Withdrawn for consumption was 29,740,729. The increase of taxed cigarettes was 451,284,080, and of cigarettes exported was 35,234,209. The total number of grain, molasses and fruit distilleries registered and operated durine the year is 4049 and 3819 respectively, a decrease of 2381 in the number registered and a decrease of 2392 in the number operated. The quantity of spirits, 115,962,389 gallons, produced and deposited in distillery warehouses during the fiscal year ended June 80, 1891, is more than the production of the year 1890 by 6,686,461 gallons. Th'j quantity of spirits in distillery ware- ' louses June 30, 1891, is the highest quantity ?o held at the close of any fiscal year. The quantity of distilled spirits in the XTnitsd States, except what may be in customs bonded warehouses on the 1st day of October, 1891, was 152,945,773 gallons. The commissioner announces his purpose of substituting weighing for gauging in ascertaining the quantity of distilled spirits subject to tax._ He has contracted at the expense of tbe United States ior mw sctues of weighing beams, with poises and barrel hooks. Tables in regard to the production of oleomargarine show an Increase from year to year in the production both for consumption at home and abroad. The total production of oleomargarine during the past year was 44,392,409 pounds, being the largest in the history of oleomargarine operations. In a chapter on sugar tbe commissioner ? details the action of the bureau in providing for the payment of bounty as authorized by the Tariff act. The number of sugar producers who have applied for license is 49C6 and their estimated production is 613,376,380 pounds, of which 5T3,4O3,3S0 pounds is cane *x- this subject the commissioner says: The above estimate of production was made by producers early in . the season, and is considerably in excess of what may be expected. In making their estimates for the vear the producers naturally placed ! their'figures high- It is what they hoped to make if all conditions were favorable." He estimates the bounty to be paid on cane sugar, $8,912,500; on beet sngar, $500,000; on sorghum sugar,$40,000; on maple sugar, $176,250, total, $&,628,75a The coauhissioner estimates that the receipts from all sources for the current fiscal jear will aggregate 1150,000,000. ,K- ??? WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. ffe / Day and night shifts of men are now worked on all the Exposition buildings. Paraguay h&s decided to participate in 'the Exposition. Barbadoes, French Guiana, Ceylon and Corea have also joined jBevv the list. A complete experimental station, showing the work by students and the results secured, will be establishe i m connection with the Agricultural exhibit. The upholsterers o? Philadelphia have applied for 50,000 square feet of space in the Manufactures Building, for a collective exhibit from their several establishments. British Guiana has appointed its Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society a World's Fair Commission to represent the Colony, and has aporopriated $20,000 for an >?zhibit. The supporting columns for the Forestry "Building are to be trunks of trees with the bark on. Chief Buc'aaaan has requested each .State to furnish three trunks of trees for this purpose. The Daughters of the American Revolution have been granted 3000 square feet for ?n exhibit in the Woman's Building. The organization, of which Mrs. President Harrison is President, bas 1000 members. Three women have been appointed in Dutch Guiana to collect a display for the women's department, and in Mexico and quite a number of other countries provisions for women's displays are being made. Hassan Ben*. Ali, of Morocco, is seeking % concession to make a Morocco exhibit at the Exposition. Hesayshewiil spend $50,000 in showing the people, manners, customs, amusements, etc.. of his country, and in bringing to Chicago a triba of Berbers. The President of Ecuador has ordered that a complete display of women's work hall be prepared for thb Fair. This is to inolnde a collection of gold and silver braid work, woven straw and other novelties. "Two or three women may be sent to Chicago to take charge of the display. Lu TAKAQUT 8LQU -XL. ikojo, iwy routoscmr atives commission el by tne Mikado of Japan, have been in Chicago seeking detailed information concerning the Exposition. They were greatly pleased and said their country would ma?e a fine exhibit, and that it would be a number of the private art treasures of the Mikado. Plans for the exercises dedicatory of the Exposition buildings during the week of October 12, 1893, are fast baing matured. * One of the chief features practically decided upon is a nocturnal procession of floats on t&e illuminated lagoons at Jackson Park. These floats will represent a chronological epitome of salient historical events by canturies, from 1493 until the present time. Altogether there will be between forty and fifty floats, costing perhaps $700 each on an 1 -average. TORN BY BEARS. Desperate Battle of Six Farmers Who i Had Captured a Cub. TrtWn PoutvoAt! ^omnal Waflflinrlf I Richard Speciit, Frauk and Rob?rt Minn '' * and Robert James, six farmers living near Helfenstein, Penn.. were hunting in the mountain, they discovered a cub playing near a cave. They captured it and were departing when tiie mother made her appearance. A terrible hau I to hand > conflict followed, the hunters finally retreating to the cave, where they cams iu contact with the male bear. The animals attacked the hunters. Wan were terribly Jai'eratM at; I torn before 1 hey could bring their Winchesters into pluv. James wa> caught by the foxier bear aiid so badly injured that ha died. Weatherley's right arm was toru from the socket and tSpecht's one eye was gouged out. According to the official report made to the Federal Council for the Durpo39 of arranging the budget for 1892-93 the German army in'that year will coasist of 20,524 offlcars and 488,983 privates, 1837 army surgeons, 883 paymasters, aeronauts, etc., 555 veterinary surgeons, 866 gunsmiths and ninety-three saddlers. The number of horses in military service will be 93,750. Captain Cbowdkr, Judge Advocate of ibe Department of the Platte, says that Indian soldiers learn to drill well, but that deep rooted superstition interferes with their usefulness. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Charles R. Baldwin, Mayor of Waterbury, Conn., aas baen arrested charged with Laving obtained ?270'J fraudulently. The complainant is Mrs. Sarah E. Kelly. Governor Hill laid the corner stone of the Twentv-third Regiment's armory in Brooklyn, N. Y., which is to cost about $300,000. Over 4000 people attended a memorial gathering at t;he Academy of Music, New York City, in honor of the late Irish Home Rule asritator. Charles Stewart Parnell. A euloz.sric address was ma ie by Chauncey M. Depew. A verdict for $12,500 in favor of Mrs. J? d..^aii U/v,. n.,:i iuni j u. ivunncii IU uci su't agaiusbi'uuuun James A. Bradley, of Asbury Park, N. J., for malicious prosecution, was rendered by a jury in the United States Circuit Court, New "York City. The jury at Catskill. N. Y.. in the case of Henry VV. George, charged with manslaughter in having caused the death of his adopted daughter, Lotta Townsend, by malpractice, rendered a verdict of guilty, and half an hour later George was sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment at hard labor in Daunernora Prison. James Sheridan an 1 Joseph Colozinsky were instantly killed by a fall of coal in the Clear Spring Colliery, West Pitts ton, Penn. Herman Greenbaum, an employe of tbe Bergnrr & Enge! Brewing Company, of Philadelphia, Penn., was held for embezzlement on his own confession. The amount of his stealings is 9aid to be about $12,000. Frank C. Almv pleaded guilty at Plymouth, N. H., of the murJer of Christie "Warden. The Sandwich (N. H.) Savings Bank has closed its doors after a long struggle, th* effect of unfortunate investments. xiia mutuoi noa an jucviaim* able druukard, John Thomas Ruddy, a fireman employed at the Katydid breaker, Wiikesbarre, Penn., poured kerosene oil over himself put his arm in the fire to ignite the fluid, and then, eitlier to make sure of the job or to end his sufferings, cut his throat. He was burned to death. A rear end collision between freight trains occurred at Bergettstown, Pemi. Brakeman Hardy, of Pittsburg, was cremated. Thomas Whitesides, engineer, and Fireman John McFarland received fatal in juries. Sixtt-nikb families were made homeless and $200,000 worth of property destroyed by a disastrous fire which occurred on Nostrand avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. Rear Admiral, George H. Cooper, United States Navy, died at his residence in Brooklyn, N. Y., of neuralgia of the heart. He entered the navy in January, lS3f>. TpE one hundred aud twenty-third annual banquet of the Chamber of Commerce was held in New York City. Spesc aes ware made by Secretary Foster, on the currency question; Bishop Potter, on the concentration of wealth; Professor Briggs, on education and theology; Congressman Wilson, of West Virginia, on business men and law makers, and Chauncey M. Depew, on politics and tbe state of the country. A TCRXADO swept up the New Jersey coast, wrecking buildings, injuring people, and doi'ig much other damage. South and West. Four masked men entered the store of the Farmers' Trading Company at Spokane Falla, Washington, and driving the clerks into a corner at the point of revolvers, robbed the ' store of sixteen gold and eight silver watches, and took about $3000 from the safe. They then mounted horses and departed. The remnant of Big Foot's band of Indians, under Red Cloud, numbering sixty families, is in open revolt against the authority of the agent at Cheyenne Agency, Dakota. The Madera (Cal.) Bank and the California National Bank? of San Diego, Cal., have suspended. W. F. Baird, until recantly Vice-President and Manager of the Bank of Madera, is short in his accounts to the amount of nearly $100,00C. William Somkrset was hanged at Marion Court House, Charleston, S. C., tor the murder of E. M. Fore in 18S8. Arthcr W. BoyIngton, Postmaster of Highland Park, 111., has been arrested by United States Marshal Allen on a charge of embezzling $2000 of the funds of the Postoffice Department He admitted his guilt. John E. Thornton, a jeweler, shot and killed his daughter, Laura Amonier, at Krebs, Indian Territory. The girl was eighteen years old, and had been married only six days." Thornton says she wrote a letter w^ich displeased him. James Hote, four years old, was killed at Kenosha, Wis., by the kick of a vicious horse. His grandfather, Oliver Hoye, was also fatally kicked by the animal. The fire in the bio; job printing establishment of Short & Forman, in Cleveland, Ohio, destroyed $20^,003 worth of proparty and resulted in the death of one fireman and the serious injury of two others. After a successful career of twenty years, during which ic bad built up a reputation as one of the soundest financial institutions in Texas, the banking house of Bonner & Bonner at Tyier has been forced to tae wall. Liabi.ities, 1500,000. Georoe B. Beard, Cashier of the suspended Cheyenne (Wyoming) National Bank, has killed himself. Postmaster Winters, of Logan, Iowa, has disappeared. His accouuts are entangled. The Famous dry poods, clothing.boot and shoe house, RonnenflelrFs millinery house and Penny & Gentle's dry goods house, wore burned at St. Louis, Mo. The loss will foot up over $1,000,000. A terrific blizzard raged in Northern Wisconsin. Geop.ge Galbraits ana two companions partook^of a jugof whisky near Milan, Tenn., auu iticu iu a iew uuurs. The Supreme Council, National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, held its annual session at Indianapolis, Ind. Washington. Inspector-General Dumont, of the Steamboat Inspection Service, has made his annual report to the Secretary of the Treasary. There were thirty-three accidents to vessels during the year, resulting in the loss of 33i lives, an increase of ninetythree as compare t with the previous year. Orders were sent from the Navy Department to New York for the United States steamer Concord to sail at the earliest practicable <iay for the West Indies to join the Philadelphia and Kearsar^e. Secretary Noble has dismissed from theservici Lewis V. Bogy, of St. Louis, Mo., a clerk in the Pension Office, for having written and publisher! a novel of an objectionable character on official life in Washington. In* the tests of armor plates at the Indian Head proying grounds, near Washington, it was demonstrated that American made plates are superior to any others in use. Representatives of the British We?t indias are m Washington trying to arrange a reciprocity agreement under the McKinley bil'. ihe Brazilian miiiia&er in ryastuug^oa has received an official dispatch saying that the republic is tranquil, except for local troubles in Rio Granue do Sul. The President,accompanied by ex-Sfenator Seweil, of New Jersey, left Washington for Bengies. Md., on a hunting trip. He was to be absent two or three days. J. S. Moultos', of New York, confidential clerk to the Commissioner of Pensions, has resigned. The Episcopalians of the United States held their annual congress in Washington. The United States Patent Office has issued a patent to iSmile tferliner, assignor to the Bell Telephone Company, for a combined telegraph and telephone, which has been pending in that office since June 3, 1877. Foreign. A.N explosion occurred in the Koenig Ludwig pit, near Essen, Germany, and elaveu men met their death through the accident. The British bark Gylfe, Captain Wilson, from Quebec to Liverpool, loaded with timber, has been wrecked at Macaherry Bay, near Kinsile, Cork, Ireland. Eight lives were lost. Tne captain and four men were saved. The Governor of the Brazilian Province of Rio Graude do Sul has been deposed, and a Provincial Government has been formed. V a general strike ot miners has been de- I clared in the north of France. The Felix Pit n9ar Sparmb?rg, Germany, collapsed, burying thirty-eight miners, six of wnom were killed outright. Ex-King Milan has signed a renuncia tion of all his legal and constitutional rights in Servia. There was a panic on the Vienna bourse, caused by a reported utteranca of the Austrian Emperor, to the effect that the European situation was critical. The Government at Madrid, Spain, decided, for economical reasons, to disband a part of the standing army. Over thirty-three thousand miners are on strike in France, and numerous lights with the police have resulted. LATER NEWS. The white cruiser Newark, of the United States Navy, left Boston, Mass., bound for South America. Some of the town clerks, who refuse to recognize Governor Bulkeley as the legal Governor of Connecticut, pigeonholed their copies of his Thanksgiving proclamation. The copies of Fast Day proclamation received the same treatment. Two express trains collided at Jersey Shore, Penn., and Lura Ray and Harry Barg were instantly killed. Engineer Williams was fatally injured. Twelve passengers were injured. At tho Farmers' Convention in Indianapolis, Ind., there was developed a large falling off in membership, resulting in lack of funds. Only 300 delegates were in attendance. General Fekdinantj C. Latrobe was inaugurated Mayor of Baltimore, Md., for his sixth terra. The General has declined a nomination for Congress, wouldn't run for Governor, and declares that he would rather be Mayor of Baltimore thau President of che United States. Alvin Duval, ex-Chief Justice of Kentucky, died at Frankfort. Ky. Ho was born in Georgetown in 1S31. Charles Wagatha, Paying ami Receiy. ing Teller of the Traders' Bank, of New Orleans, Fla., is announced as a defaulter in the sum of fSOOD. A fire in the wholesale district of St. Paul, Minn., which raged from midnight until 5 o'clock in the morning, destroyed the wholesale grocery house of Griggs, Cooper & Co., Farwell Ozmun, Kirk & Co.'s wholesale hardware building and Karl Simmons's drugstore, causing a loss of about {1,300,000. The Lighthouse Board has ordered the manufacture in France of a fourth-order dashing lens No. 23 for trial at Robbius Reef, New York Harbor. The lens will cost about $6000, and the experiments will demonstrate whether numerical flashing signal lights can be substituted for the present system of lights. The Treasury officials have discovere i a dangerous counterfeit of the twenty-dollar gold certificate. The Junta assumed full control of the Braziliau Province of Rio Grande do Sul, and began preparations for war. Strong bodies of troops were necessary to preserve order at the scene of the big miners' strike in France. After putting the British Vice Consul ashore at Arosa Bay, Cruana, a barge, belonging to the British flagship stationed there, foundered and five sailors were drowned. Nokdmeyer & Michaelse.v, a firm of bankers in Hamburg, Germany, have failed with liabilities amounting to S4.(00,000. FAMILY CREMATED. Pln> Pppcnna Rnrnprl tn Dourh Co. I lumbus, Ohio. Flames burst through the roof of a row of tenement houses on North High street, Columbus, Ohio, at I o'clock a few mornings since. The row was destroyed, and every person was supposed to have escaped. It . was nearlv 4 o'clock next afternoon when a little eirl living in the neighborhood, rumaged through the ruins and found a naked arm, which led to a search and the discovery , of five bodies burned beyond recognition. The entire family of Charles Bethers was destroyed while sleeping in a little eight by twelve feet room in the second storv. They were Charles Bethtrs, aged "thirty; Elizabeth, his wife, twenty-eight; Carrie, nine; Myrtle, six, and Jame3. three years. The firemen made no search at first. On their second search tbey found the father near the door, with the infant clasped in his arms. It was evident that he bad started our, but was overcome by the heat. The mother, kneeling near the head of the bed, was half buried beneath the falling roof. Tile two girls slept, as they had retired in their cot. The fire is supposed to be of incendiary origin. The room was only ten feet from the ground and the entire family might have been rescued. There were three beds, a stove, and a bureau in the room. KILLED HIS ONLY SOU. The Shock Makes a Prominent Al? liance Man Crazy. Samuel Wilkinson, a prominent farmer and Alliance man of Salem, Mich., was out in the woods a few days ago with his son, fourteen years old? each had a shot-gun. Their failure to return caused great uneasiness and before dawn next day nfty boys and men started to explore everv inch of the forest. They were horrified to And the body of the boy stretched across a log, his Kun by his side, and his father's weapon a few feet away. The boy's brains were riddled with shot and death must have been instantaneous. Mr. Wilkinson was found that forenoon twenty miles from home by some acquaintances who brought him to his friends. He was in a crazed condition. He loved his only son intensely. The theory is that the killing was accidental and that the shock was mora than Mr. Wilkinson's mind could bear. LOST IN A TOBNADO. Property Destroyed and Crops Damaged in the Argentine Republic. A tornado passed over the province of San ta Fe, Argentina Republic. It caused great destruction to property and loss of life. The town of Arroyo Seco was entirely destroyed. The number of deaths is reported to be forty and of wounded thirty. A train of eighteen coaches was at the station when the tornado swept through the town. The entire train was overturned and many of the passengers were buried in the wreck. There is much damage to crops throughout the entire province of Santa Fe, which is situated on the left side of the Parana River, and has an area of about 38,000 square miles and a population of about 100,000. The slave trade between Queensland and several of the Polynesian groups has been increasing during the present year, and it is said that the new Australian squadron, which recently arrived in those waters will be partly utilized to put down the trade in question. The planters of Queensland claim that Polynesian labor is a necessity in that region, white labor being scarce, and the native blacks utterly worthless. Since the dinner given In Berlin, G?r many, by William "Walter Phelps,the United States Minister, at which Indian cornmeal I and American pork were introduced to a select circle, Indian cornmeal has been boomJ ing. The Berlin bakeries are unable to supply the demand for the various preparation* of Indian cornmeal The Brazilian Congress has fixed the salary or the President at $60,00) a year, and that ot the Vice-President at 118,000. EXPRESS CAE LOOTED. Darin? Train Robbery by Masked Men in Wisconsin. They Blew Open the Oar With Dynamite Cartridges. A hand of six or seven masked men robbed the midnight train from Chicago on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad near Western Union Junction, Wis., at about 1 o'clock a few mornings ago. The express car was blown open, and the safe" taken out. The robbers secured several thousand dollars, the officials admitting thai at least (5000 was taken, but say that tHe larger portion of it was in the form of drafts on which payment can be stopped. The robbers left Racine that night on a freight train, and getting off at Western Union Junction, boarded a Chicago train as it came along and made their way, unseen, to the tender. About a mile west of the station the engineer and firemen found themselves covered by rifles in the hands of two of the robbers. They were marched to the express car. One of the robbers rapped on the door at the side and ordered Messenger Murphy to open it. He refused. Then a bomb was thrown through the window, and the demand waa renewed. A terrible explosion followed. A large hole was made In the door. One of the robbers sprang into it and covered the messenger and his assistant with ooxrnWaK Rnth man had been thrown down by the concussion. The safes were burled beneath the boxes and packages. Fireman Averill was compelled at the point of a revolver to get into the car and uncover the safes, while the other robbers stood ready to receive any of the passengers. Two of the three safes were thrown out of the door and dragged away, when, after a delay of about half an hour, the train was permitted to proceed. The flagman had seen the men about the express car, and started for Western Union Junction, where he told his story, and dispatches were sent to the authorities of Racine, Chicago and Milwaukee. Special trains were made ready, and detectives were sent to the scene of the robbery. It was learned later that the two safes thrown from tbe train were not opened. They were picked up by a freight train and carried toward Chicago until a passenger train was met, to which they were transferred. The only plunder the robbers secured was contained in what is known as the messengers private safe, in which he deposits money packages picked up at stations along the road. There was a light snow at Western Union Junction that night and the tracks of six men, leading away from the scene, were discovered. Two were going toward Racine, two toward Milwaukee and two toward Chicago. The goods in the car are, most of them, rained, and Messenger Murphy's ciofching was torn into shreds. The passengers were not molested. THE LABOB WOBLD. '' Boston garment-workers will use a union label. Coai? miners in Bohemia earn about |15$2 a rear. Sponge fishing employs 5000 men in the Bahamas. The Boss Barbers' National Union will star ^ a labor bureau. London (England) carpenter* have been out seven months. Fhance street railway employes will hold t national convention. In Virginia City, Va., a school teachers' union fa is been organized. Nzw York has a Hotel and Restaurant Employers' Association. vaov mi?^ii{vam v? a tta uff. hi a tt L. and formed an open union. Indianapolis find.) working girls a few days ago held a mass meeting. The Atlanta (Ga.) Federation of Trades tias taken steps to organize the sur'aca rail* road employes. The compositors of Crakow and Lemberg, in Poland, are on a strike for ten hours per day and 55.50 per week. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen has donated $500 towards erecting a Labor Temple in Indianapolis, Ind. Work on the buildings of the Columbian Exhibition, at Chicago, 111., is being carried on at night by the aid of electric ligats. A bill for the supsrvision and regulation ?f shops aud factories has been introduced Into the Parliament of New South Wales. Tax labor organizations of Rhode Island (tare commenced an agitation lor a legai eight-hour day to be instituted by the State government. Ths first chair of labor ever instituted in Europe was decreed by the Paris Municipal Council last July. Henri Reville has been named as professor. He will lecture - at the Hotel de Villa. It is estimated that there are now about 1,800,000 women worker* in the United States, of whom 200,000 are employed in New York. Of all these fewer than 50DO belong to labor organizations. The Polish Count Graborki is a fireman an a Pan Handle locomotive. He is a manly ind wail educated young fellow, with an excel.'ant record of service in the German irmy, bo* he is thoroughly content with his dtuatioc. Ths Central Labor 'Union of Nashville Tenn., has called a Congress of the labor ??-J i' m U- L.M + organizations 01 leuurasw iu uo ucm at u?u sity not later than January 15th, 1892, to consider the convict labor and other vital auestions now agitating the population of that State. A stew fraternal organization has been formed in San Francisco, Cal., composed of th? wives of engineers of the Southern Pacific Railway. Its name is the Mrs. Leland Stau.ord Auxiliary, No. 100, and it is auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, whose entire order has over twenty thouf^ad mmbers, and more than a hundred branches. From lr.03, when the first workingmen's anion was organized in this country By the journeymen shipwrights of New York, to 1825 the unions were merely mutual benefit wcieties. Then they developed into trade anions, demanding higher wages and less hours. Since 1870 tile tendency has been towards national aud international federation and centralization; but the latest developement, being in 1880, was toward* political action. PALO ALTO IS ma, Senator Stanford's Great Stallion Trots a Mile in 2:08 3 4. Palo Alto. United States Senator Stanford's peerless stallion, is king of the trotting turf. A few days ago this greatest son of the world's greatest trotting sire, Electioneer, trotted a mile at Stockton, Cal., in 2:08%, equaling the record of the queen of trotters, Maud S., and going dangerously nnaT> tn t.hnt nf his r.-v>?nt mmnnninn Sunol. The preat stallion made his mile without skip or break and finishod strong. Marvin, king of drivers, handled the ribbons over him, and was greatly e atad when ths hor.se passed under the wire intims surpass*! only by one horse and equalled only by another. The track had been in preparation for the trial ior some time, and when Palo Alto went to the wire it was almost in perfect shape. The time by quarters tc: 0:31^, l:l)3>?, 1 CUT THEIR THROATS. A Crazy Woman Murders Her Three Daughters and Attempts Suicide. A horrible crime was committed a few mornings ago at Titchflel J, near Southampton, England. Mrs. Hinton, the wife of a journeyman sadler, bas shown signs of insanity for some time, but she was not considered dangerous. She became raving mad that morning, and snatching a carving knife from th9 table'she cut the throats of her three daughters, in spite of their frantic struggles. She then gashed her own throat, while her husband, who arrived too late to interfere with her desperate acts, tried to cut his own throat. The three chrildren died immediately, but the woman will rocorer. TEMPERANCE. MORE THAN A PHYSICAL DISEASK. "Drunkenness is a disease." Yes, but il is more than a physical disease. It is c moral disease as well. It is a disease that smites the will power and the moral faculties more fatally even than it smites th< nerve centres. It undermined the very foundations of manhood, and there is no medicine this side the pearly gates that will effect a complete cure of the man whose moffal powen have been sapped. Where the hurt is moral in its nature toe cure must also be of a mora' nntnrn him t.hnfc thinfeeth he staudetb take heed lest he falJ."?The Voice. SMASH THE SAXOOKS. The two great agencies oa which we must depend for the suppression ot the liquor traffic are the Gospel of Christ and the strong arm of the law, and of these two the first is by far the greater. We have no faith in the permanency of any reformation which does not aim flr3t of all to reform the hearts of men. The Christian church could do more. If it would, to bring about the abolition of the liquor traffic than all the temperance societies and temperance parties in the world put together. We do not say this in disparagement of these societies and parties either. They are doing a noble work?much of it a work which the churches have either refused or neglected to do, the more shame for them. We thoroughly believe, too.in the agency of the law. in its educative Dowers, in its power to repress and discourage evil men in their evil ways. It is a good thing to reach the hearts of drinking men, if you can, with the Gospel, it is also a good thingto put temptation out of their wav if von can. The flesh is weak. and it is a risky thing to turn a newly converted drunkard out of a church into a street lined with gin-mills and odorous with the odor of the beverages-af hell. L?t the church go ahead with its Work inside, but don't let ft forget to work outside, too. Smash the saloons.?Christian at Work. BEEB AND WHISKY. The money paid for one glass of beei would pay for one loaf of bread The money paid for two glasses of beer would pay for a peck of potatoes. The money paid for four glasses of beer would pay for two dozen of eggs. The money paid for three glasses of whisky would pay for a dressed fowl. The money paid for three glassy of beer would pay for a quarter of a pound'of tea. The money paid for one glass of whisky would pay for one poutid of beef. The money paid for two drinks of whisky would pay for one pound of coffee. The money paid for four glasses of whisky would pay for three pounds of butter. The money paid in one month for two glasses of beer a day would pay for a ton of coal. Tbe money paid in one month for two glasses of whisky a day would pay for a suit of clothes. The money paid in one year for four glasses of beer a day would pay for a carriage. The money paid in one year for four glasses of whisky a day would pay for a horse and harness. The money paid in one year for three glasses of whisky a day would pay for an outfit of household furniture. Tne money piid in one year for three glasses of beer a day would pay the rent for a small suite of rooms for a year.?Milwaukee Journal. THE EFFECTS OF ALC030L. Although the effects of alcohol are familiar, it is well to recall them when we would measure the strength of the tendency of excessive indulgence to become a habit The action of this stimulant on the average human being is first to fill him wrth a serene and delightful self-somplacancy. His feelings and his faculties are for the moment exalted into a state of great activity and buoyancy, so that his language becomes enthusiastic and his conversation vivacious if not brilliant. Gradually, however, if the indulgence be continued, the senses become dulled, a soft humming seems to fill the pauses of the conversation and to modify the tones of the speaker, a filmy haze obscures the vision, the head seems lighter than usual, and the equilibrum is disturbed. By and by objects appear double, or flit confusedly before the eyes; the exerciso of judgment is suspended, the power of reticence is annihilated, and the victim of drink throws forth all that is within him in unrestrained communicativeness; he becomes boisterous, ridiculou?, and sinks at length into a mere animal. Every person and everything around him?the- houses, trees, even the earth itself?seems drunken and unstable, while in his own ejes be alone seems sober, till at last the final stage is reached, and he falls on the ground insensible?dead druok, as it is called?an apoplectic state from which, after profound slumber, he at last emerges exhausted, feverish, sick and giddy, with ringing ears and a violent headache.?Once-a-Week. THE BEX ft DELUSION. The Beer Brewers' Journal has published a long article entitled "Enlightened Opinions on Prohibition," in which it extols the Keeley treatment of drunkards, and gives copious extracts from an interview with the doctor in Europe, in which he said: "I do not think prohibition will ever obtain iu the United States. It is impossible to control the liquor traffic. Therefore I think light wines and beer drinkiag ought to be encouraged In America and England." The Journal quotes muoh more of the same Bort and says this "corroborates the argument that the Journal has befen using for years, to educate the public up to a proper appreciation of true temperance." Other "doctors" in Europe claim teetotalism to be "one of the weakest and most mischievotu crazes of the nineteenth century." It is a big "boom" for the whisky trade if they can go on with their work of manufacturing Drunkards by the wholesale, through the medium of "wine or bf er," which is where most of them do commence, and then after money, character, and position are gone, "cure" them by their "Institutes" planted all over the country. The |'beer and light wine" theory is a delusion and a snare. We rejoice at every drunkard cured and saved, and would not throw the least obstacle in the way, but when they advocate the making of more drunkards, we do decidedly object and call upon the friends of the cause of temperance everywhere to circulate widely the scientific truth as to the nature and effect! of beer and wine, that our boys may not be led away to ruin by this false philosophy.? Temperance Advocate. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. The way to cure drunken ness is to quit drinking. An efficient Temperance Socioty has been established in Harvard College. An average of four persons die daily in England from delirium tremens. The Philadelphia Timet says there are fiOOO lawless liquor sellers in Philadelphia. There are seven Inebriate Homes in England, and yet drunkenness is greatly on the increase. New York unions raised ?69,243.84 for all purposes during the year onding September 30, 1891. Chicazo has 6100 licensed saloons, and over SOW that pay the Uaited States internal revenue tax. A Scandinavian Grand Lodge of Good Templars has recently been organized in Minneapolis. The Virginia W. C. T. U. Convention war (he best ever held. It even stirred interest in the ultra-conservative city of Richmond. There were eighty-two delegates. Carroll D. Wright, the most trustworthy statistician, says that for every dollar paid in by the salooas tor their licenses, about. twenty-one dollars is paid out by the people. An English paper, from statistics taken from the press of the United Kingdom, reports the records of murders oi women by inebriated husbands, since January I, 18S9, to January 1, 1891, to be 3004. The consumption of beer in this country last year was 900,000,009 gallons. Iu the fUa nnncnmnhnn r\P f h a an mo bttUlc po& ivn* wuo wudu?.r..v.. v? ??*v ?....w article in England was 557,000,000 gallons, and in Germany 525,000,030 gallons. One of the official documents of the Salvation Army is the following: "I do here and now declare that I will abstain from the use of all intoxicating liquor?, and also from the habitual use of opium, laudanum, mor. pbia and all other baneful drugs, except when in illness such drugs shall be ordered for me by a doctor." POPULAR SCIENCE. A well of electricity has been discovered near Red Wing, Minn. A man thirty years of age may expect to live for another thirty-two years. The use of gas for illuminating libraries is found to destroy the leather bindings of books. A trunk line of fifty telephone wires, between New York and Chicago, will soon be completed. Leprosy's microbe, recently discovered, is of infinitesimal size, and is remarkable for its activity. Professor Keeler, of the Allegheny (Penn.) Observatory, says that the sun will continue for 8,000,000 or 10,000,000 years to illumine and warm the earth. , A French scientist has perfected a device for obtaining oxygen from sea water by electric means, and carrying it to any part of a vessel to use as a disinfectant. a 2__L t j jy mixture 01 puwuereu uiuuiiumiu. nun chloride of potash will give a brilliant flash light. It gives no smoke, and is thus far better than magnesium for photographic purposes. Recent experiments upon the electrotype generation of pressures from gases formed in a closed space have been very successful, and a pressure of 1200 atmospheres has been obtained. A French bee-keeper has experimented with his bees as carriers of dispatches. One difficulty of the bee service is that the insects will not return over a distance of more than two or three miles. Ice 1| inches thick will support a man, four inches thick will support a cavalry, five inches thick an eighty-four pound cannon, ten inches thick will support a multitude, and eighteen inches thick will support a railroad train. Lieutenant Foster, of the third Pany Arctic expedition, speaking of the long. ' distance a human voice can be heard un- - der favorable conditions, sayn he conversed with a man across the harbor of Port Bowen, a mile and a quarter away. By placing two iron bars at seven or eight yards distant from each other, and putting them in communication on one side by an insulated copper wire apd on the other side with a telephone, it is said that a storm can be predicted twelve hours ahead through a certain dead sound heard in the receiver. k Researches in Egypt are still being made, and with very gratifying results. Three colossal statues of rose granite have just been found near Aboukir. Two of these represent, in one group, Barneses IL and Queen Hentmara seated upon the same throne,and these are considered to be among the most unique of Ejrzptian statues. In three cases of gastric ulcer reported by Dr. Herstey, recovery has followed a diet of ice cream. The first patient, a woman of thirty-five, had lost twenty-five pounds and suffered great pain. At her mVon ftvtm nno fn t.hrAA I ucouoj ouo ntw g*>WM ?v ?quarts daily of ice cream (or two months, whoa she had gained twenty-four pounds, and her ordinary diet was gradually resumed. A new kind of bird has be?m discovered in Wyoming. In company with a dozen buzzards, it was hovering over the carcass of a dead horse ip a pasture. It has the head and beak of a hoot owl, the body and neck of a rooster and its tail is similar to that of a peacock, and when shot made a noise not unlike that of a guinea hen. The bird will prove an interesting study for scientists and has been shipped to New York City. A clinometer is an instrument for measuring the rolling of a vessel at sea, and it is usually in the cabin companionway. When it indicates fifty-fivo degrees any one can easily understand that something unusual has happened. The clinometer in the steamship Elsie marked a roll to that extent on the latest voyage from Funchal to Baltimore. Near Bermuda ! sue was StruCK OJ a uurriuauo iuovsuuku several times and made a heavy, confused sea. During the most violent rolling a glass decanter on the cabin table was turned bottom up, emptied, and cracked from the base up without having been rolled off. Water That Burns. On the land of a farmer near the village of Gum Sulphur, Ky., is a well which is a great wonder to those who have visited it. It is known as the "burning well," a name appropriately given, for its waters, though clear, limpid and drinkable, are a9 inflammable as naptha. This well is about fifteen feet deep, extending down through a strata of slate rock. It contains ajwooden pump stock, and the water, as it comes cold and sparkling from the depth of the well, has no odor about it. It has a mineral taste and is exceedingly pleasant to drink. Yet a dipper full of it coming in contact with flame will take fire, blazing up like gunpowder. The well's discovery, if the natives tells a true story, was rather remarkabte. A. party of excursionists from Crab Orchard Springs wont out in that section in quest of ferns, fossils and the like. On their return they found the well and stopped to get a drink. An old lady living near by brought a bucket and filled it with the refreshing fluid for the thirsty ramblers, and after they had drank she poured the remainder on the ground near the well. Just at this instant a young man of the party lit a cigarette and threw the match heedlessly to the ground. It chanced to fall into the poured out water, which took fire and flashed up, amazing and frightening the whole party. At the suggestion of one of the onlookers more water was drawn, and, to the wonder of , all, it took tire as readily as an explosive, urorchini? the face and eyebrows of the | , rash experimenter who held the match. i The old lady's family has for forty years been using water out of the well, per- ( fectly ignorant of its properties. Hundreds of people from various parts of this j and other States hare visited this section and drank of the well, as well as' tested ] the imflammability of its waters.?CM' ca/jo Herald. Deep Western Wells. , In boring artesian wells on the Pacific \ coast great depths are reached before 1 striking water. At Jaral and Monciar the i wells are 1536 and 1280 feet in depth. The supply is inexhaustable, but the water has to be pumped. In Texas water has been struck at 2031 feet at Haskell, 1870 at Longfelder and 1608 at ' Spofford. The water is good, but it did ' not flow in August. In the California desert water was struck in one wall at a 1 depth of 1400 feet, and another at 550 ' feet, but it was brackiah. ?Philadelphia ' Sun. - : '^p'? ^ '*^00. 'v /' % ^ _ u THE TREE'S GIFTS. All dected in autumn red and gold; A brave did tree raised high His bead, and many people saw, As daily they passed by And on them all the red leaves fell. Each one its helpful tale to tsU* i Unto the children romping by. The colors spoke of joy; To maids, the red meant lore and lifer And to the growing boy It meant ambition, fire and youth; So each one found a living truth. I Thm ivwit fait a KHmfnl rutin Amidst the glowing shower. This ripened to a song, which moved The world by its sad power. The artist caught the beauty rare, And made a picture, wondrous lair, The man of thought found in the leave* A sermon, strong an? grand. Which to a multitude ho gave. Inspiring heart and hand; To saddened ones, the rustling breath : Said: "Life is change; there i* nq death.*1 > e a * \ And when the last leaf fell, the tree Found comfort in the thought That he who gives is everrich; And so his heart failed not. And now, through ail his da? . He lifte to heaven a song of praise. -Jt K. Cherryman, in Detroit Fme Prtt*. PITH AND_ POINT. Begins at the foot of the ladder?The hod carrier.?Life. The bill poster .knows his place and there he sticks.?Proridenct Telegram. Desirable suite for a bachelor?Nice girl with income enough for two."-Baton Post. It doesn't require an artist, -only a politician, to draw party lines.?Pittsburg Post. When women go into business silent partnerships will have to?be abolished.? Pittsburg Dispatch. Since a bell is provided with a tongue it ought to telt instead of being tolled. ?Binghamton BepuMican. Two of the hardest things to keep in this life are a new dairv and a sharp lead pencil.?Norristo-Jin Herald. It is those having a penchant for spin-; ' ning long yarns whose tales ooght to bo docked.?Detroit .Free Preu. Doubtless when they speak of the "warring elements" they mean when the winds hare come to blow.?Wdthinffto* Post. Biggs?"I'll pay yon, I give yon my word." Baggs?" Well, I'd rather yon ; would keep jour word."?Harvard Lampoon. ' i There is a law maxim that equity fol- "3 lows the law, which may be true, bat Bhe doesn't always overtake it.?Lou til \Courier. ? ' Says an exchange: 44With money pome poor relations." But poor rehu> ? ???? AAmo nrifh mnnA7_ 7V/IS1 UUU UOTfji VVUAW n?M. ... . Sifting$. \'A She knows all sciences under the son, 8be beats the Dutch; And that's why she's single at forty-one? She knows too much. ?Puck The man who always does juat a? his wife tells him may not be so independent as others, but when thing go wrong he will have somebody to blame.?Bom-/ ervtile Journal. There is something significant in tha fact that the man who speaks contemptuously of bis wife will almost in the same breath refer to her as his better half.? Boston Trantcript. If the nice things that are said of a man when he is dead were said of . him while living, he would become so conceited that he wouldn't try to get to heaven.?Aichiton Globe. . Prompt Advice r "What would you do if you were in my shoes, Jephsou!" asked Hobbs. "Black 'em," replied Jephson, eyeing Hobbs's understanding*; citically.?SomervUle Journal. . ^hen you hear an ordinary man praia- I ing a great man outrageously, you an - sale in Assuming tu&w wo greoc mm v chief virtue ia that the ordinary man it personally acquainted with him.?Pueb. Military Instructor on the Frontier: Sergeant?"You aent for me, air?" Captain?"Yea, Sergeant; donble quick the company up and down here a few times; it makes the baby laugh."?lexat Sifting s. Dr. Bolus?"Your husband is suffering from a low lever, madam." Mrs. Uppahkrust (indignantly)?"Of course if he took a fever it would be a low one. Why did I wed a parvenu?"?PitUburf Bulletin. Williamson?"That stranger is Blwidskadwaxski, the Russian. He has made a natpe for himself." Henderson?"Has he? Well, he must be a talented man if he made the one he has now."?The lmpr Mario. First Gazer?"What a proud fellow that Van Eck, the painter, is! look now snobbishly he walks along." Second Gazer?"Yes, and nobody would know anything about him if he were not so famous."?Pick Me Up. . ; It is difficult to impresss the publio with your superior wisdom. If you talk freely, you are straightway set down as a fool and a rattlebrain; if you refrain from speech, you are declared to be a fool, and a very dull one at that.?Bot~ ton Transcript. "Talk of paying as you got Isn't the . whole solar system one tremendous borrowing? Don't the moon and planets borrow all their light from the sun}" "Yes, but then they have the advantage of going to one that can always make the needed rays."?Baltimore American. Cousin Hugh?"Where away so early snd in such a hurry this breezy morn lag?" Miss Braaie (fresh from medical studies at Vassar)?"Don't detain me. I am going right over to help my old friend, Mrs. Welewed." Cousin Hucjh? "Anything wrong?" Miss B.?"Wrongl I should say sol Yesterday she said aha was going to wire her husband. And I . didn't even know he was dead. . He'll make a lovely skeleton, and I can show her just how heshould be wired."?PitU burg Bulletin. ?? i fnrlnaifIm in A curiosity in the way of an ear of :orn was presented to the officc last Monday by Mr. Doc Washburn, living near town. There is one ear ten inches long, ill from one shoot, and all by nature connected together, and remain that cray, each cob covered with well developed cora. *