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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cigars imported and Withdrawn for consumption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.
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WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.
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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.
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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. *