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7} VT ^ ^ "' """x: fe TWO IMPORTANT CASES. Decisions by the United States Supreme Court. The GovernorshiD of Nebraska and the Anti-Lotterv Law. JAMES E. BOYD. The United States Supreme Court at ? .. . i j :J_J ?.nn. Washington nas uci-ucj iu mui v/>. in the Nebraska Governorship case. The opinion was delivered by Chief Justice l"oHer. and its reading was listenei to attentively by a crowded court room. All the Justices of the court excepting Justice Field concurred in the opiuion, although Justices Harlan, Grayani Brown do not concur in oue hub ?i i ?uu.uuS. The uecision of the court settles a long controversy over the right to the seat which the Supreme Court gave fb Governor JSoyd. By it the decision of the Supreme Court of Nebraska, holding tbat Mr. Boyd was not acitizan of the United States and that Governor Thayer, whom he was elected to succoeJ, was entitled to hold office until soccesser had been duiy elected, is reversed. The main question in th9 case was whether Mr. Boyd became a citizen of the United Sates without taking out naturalization Cpers, his father, a British subject, never iug become fully naturalized, although he had declared his intention to take out the eoessury papers. The eider Boyd came to this country when bis son, tee plaintiff in the case, decided, was a mere child. They settled in Ohio, and the father gave notice of his intention to become a citizen. He failed, however, to become a citizen. The son went to Nebraska when it was a territory, and was one ot t&e loremosc oc the pioneers who developed it. He held several public offices, fought in the Union army daring the late war, and was a member of tb? committee that framed the Constituticn alter it was admitted into the sisterhood of State.-. No one questioned Mr. Boyd's right to vote and to exercise all the other privileges f citizenship, and it was not until after he lad served some time as Governor of the State, having been elected on the Democratic ticket, that the question concerning his citiRnsiiip was raised. A long controversy nsued as to whether Boyd or the former Governor, Thayer, was entitled to the se&t. The case was finally carried to the Su yreroe Court of Nebraska, and this court decided that Boyd, not being a citizen, had aot been elected and that Thayer 3hould \ hold office until his successor had been alected. This decision is reversed by the Federal Supreme Court. Tho elaborate opinion of the court delivered discuss ess the question of citiaenship tully. In citing many decisions on the light to citizenship gained though the admission of a Territory to Statehood, it mjs that it has always been recognized that those residing in Territories who had declared their intention to become citizeas, are ad. mitted as such when the State in wnich they live is admitted to the Union. The Anti-Lottery Law Sustained. ice uII1 Leu OUlttfS OUUICIUC v.vsut u uuo uplt?id the constitutionality of the recent AntiLottery act of the last Congress, affirming the decision in the case of Deyne and Bapier, publishers of the New Orleans States and the Mobile Register, who w ere indicted on charges of sending through the mails newspapers containing lottery advertise ments. By common consent the cases were made test suits as to the constitutionality of Ibe law. I Chief-Justice Fuller announced that, wing to the death of Justice Bradley, to whom the writing of the opinion in the antilottery cases had been given, the court would postpone any elaboration of its views and online itself to the expression of the general ground on which the decision proceeds.' The jcoort then said that the opinion in ez-parte [Jacfesou held that the power vested in Conjurers to establish postoffices and postroads j?nbraced the regulation of the entire postal ystem of the country, and designated what ">?? ?>>H m?v nnt h? Plfllnrldli. Th? jpower granted Congress was complete, and icarried with it power to forbid the use of j the mails in aid of the perpetration of crime ?r immorality. The court says there is no distinction between mala prohibita and mala in se, and that it must be left to Congress in the exercise of a sound discretion to determine what ifcaTl be exclude !. There is no abridgment tt the freedom of the press, for the reason that the Government does not prohibit com lunication by other mean?, but simply ttarouzh the Government agencies which it antrolo, IHE APOLOGY ACCEPTED. Secretary Blaine Kaplies to Chile's Note of Hearer. Th9 following is tha reply sent by Secr*tuy Blaine to tbe Chilean note of apology: "department Oil" state, > ' Washington, January 30. r "Egar., Minister, Santiago: "I am directed by the President to acknowledge tha receipt ot cienor Pereira's ligpatch. It has been commuiicatad to Congress, and has given neat pleasure to tue people oc ta-j umtsa States aod to the Executive Department, as lb restores the correspondence baft ween the two Republics to a basis of cordialality and naUcs, as he believes, a full and honorable adjuscment of all unsettled matters easily attainable. "lne President notes with gratification the expression of regret for and condemnation of the assault upon the saiiors of the Baltimore offered by Mr. Pereira, and congratulates the Chilean Government upon the frank and ample withdrawal of the Matta circular, and upon the spirit of justice displayed toward Minister Egan. You will assure the Chilean Government that the President will be glad to meet in the most friendly spirit these friendly over* tores. "Believing that the subject of reparation for tbe assault upon tne seaman of the Baltimore is now capable of adjustment between the two Governments by the usual diplomatic methods, tne rresiaeat pcsir poues for the present any discussion of the suRgeotions made by Senor Pereira, as to the use of other methods, not doubting that the sense of justice of Chile will enable the two Governments to speedily and honorably make a t ull end of the whoie matter. Bl&i.ve." SINGULAR EXPLOSION. Two Men Digging a Cistern Meet With a Horrible Death. Beth Williams and Moses McClelland met death in a mysterious explosion at Cave City, Kj. They were digging a cistern and had reached a flat rock eight feet below. Williams struck the rock with sladge hammer, causing a terrible explosion, which buried McClellanl beneath ring bowlders and killed him and threw Williams into a tree fifty yards away. McClelland lived just long enough to tell what had happened. A bluish vapor with asuleurous smell issues from between two go rocks. ? 4 THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Andrew Bohjesskn, who killed Emma Anderson becirs she refured to marry him, was hanged ia the jail at Litchfield, Conn. General Henry A. Barnum, Port Warden of New York City, and one of the most prominent war veterans in New York State, died suddenlv of influenza. He was born at Janesville, Onondago County, N. Y., in September, 1832. Henrt G. Dowd. "Jack the Slasher," has been declared not guilty of cutting the throats of seven man in New York City, as he was insane at the time. Dowd was sent to the State Insane Asylum for Criminals at Auburn. Jacob Somborm, a pedlar, went to the wino store of his cousin, Julius Somborm in New York City and demanded $25. Being refused that amount he shot his cousin and then killed himself. While some children were playing on a pond in Haverstraw, N. Y., Lena and Pa'u!, children of Paul Kaemmerliu. aged fifteen and thirteen, broke through the ice and were drowned. Mrs. Euclid Hill, carrying her fouryoar-old daughter iu her arms, was struck by a train at Woodbury, N.J. Both ware instantly killed. Harry and Willie Wilcox, aged thirteen and eleven years respectively, sons of WrnxrnoH whiU at Kinkora, n! J. The expiosioa of an alcohol condenser in the hat factory of the J. Rummell Company, Newark, N. J., caused tbe death of three persons, injured several others, and partially demolished the buiidinqj. Democrats in the Connecticut House of Representatives at Hartford resisted an adjournment declared by Republican Speaker raige Because of the task of a quorum aud proceeded to organize the House. Representative Callahan, of New Haven, was elected Speaker unanimously and sworn in. Representative Marklev was elected Clerk pro tern. In New York City, after little more than an hour's deliberation, the jury found Carlyle W. Harris guilty of murder in the first degree, in having poisoned Helen Neilson Potts, his unacknowledged school-girl wite.on January 31, 1891. Ward Ferris Waterburt, the eightyear-old son of Charles P. Waterbury, a well-to-do farmer of Long Ridge, Conn , was kidnapped while on his way to scnool, and the kidnappers sent a note threatening to murder the child unless $6000 ransom was paid. All sixteen men who were blown out to sea on the New York City Street Cleaning Department's tug and scow have been rescued. The last to b9 picked up wore two sailors on Scow No. 5. The British steamer Ethelburga took them on board 160 miles from Saudy Hook. They had been adrift for seven days without food or water. South ana West. Otto Hacser, who committed suicide at San Antonio, Texas, is reported to ba Stanislaus Padiewski, the Nihilist, who assassinated the Russian General, Michael de Seliverstoff, in Paris on November 18, 1890. Pineville, Ky.,"Bob" Jones and Lee Davis, members of the Parton faction, were KlliOU oy iuruu auu uio uicu. Rain began falling throughout Central and Northern Arizona. It is the first rain since February 15, 1891, Thomas Thompson, colored, was hanged at Chestertown, Kent County, Md., for the murder of William Adams; also colored. The hanging was the first in the county since 185 L The doors of the Fall River County Bank, at Oelrichs, South Dakota, were closed. The depositors are mostly poor farmers and laborers. The depdlit bank at Glasgow, Ky., has also closed its doors after a run. By a premature blast in the Rush Run Coal Mines, Fayette County, VV. Va., five men were killea and five wounded. They were all colored laoorers. Thk residence of George Cramer, a few miles from Brainard, Minn., caught tire, and Mrs. Cramer and her three children were burned to deatn. Thk British ship Ferndale, coal-lad en, went ashore five miles north of the entrance to Gray's Harbor, Oregon. Twenty of the cre\v, including the officers, were drowned. Three of the crew reached shore alive. Deputy United States Marshals started on from Rabun, Ga., with thrae revenue offenders. Two of the prisoners were handcuffed together, while the third, named Lovell, marcbel in front of a deputy. Lovell's mother and sister, both deaf and dumb, suddenly sprang from the bushes beside the road, seized the officer and held him long enough for Lovell to run into the woods and escape. While scoutiug ahead for D troop. United States Army, Rufus Glover, a wellknown scout, was shot and killed by the Garza revolutionists. The historic old Appomattox, (Va.) Court House has been destroyed by fire. All the records and furnishings were consumed. David Pobteb, Deputy Collector of Savannah, Ga., was, while beating his wife, shot and killed by his son. Associate Justice Abraham Seat, of Oklahoma, was sworn in as Governor of the Territory. Jacob Leesx, the first white settler in California, has just died at San Francisco, aged eighty-two years. He came to California in 1833 and built the first house in San Francisco in 1836. Washington. Miss Clara Babton\ President of the I A morion branch of the Red Cross Society, issued froiu Washington an appeal to the American people for ?7'>,000 to pay the expenses of shipping four cargoes of food irom New York toLibeau, on the Baltic, for the starving peasants of Russia. The Democratic members of the Way? and Means Committee adopted Chairman Springer's policy of attacking the tariff bj separate bills. Commissioner or Pensions Rauh appeared before the House Appropriation -..'ommittee and recommended that $146,956,00i) be appropriated for pensions for the fiscal year of 1893. The Treasury Department has awarded the Che contract for building the revenue cotter tfudson to H. J. Dialoque, of Camden, N. J., at and $1500 for each additional foot over the present design. Poward J. Schneider, an electrician, shot his wife and her brother while on their way to church in Washington. Mrs. Scaneider was shot several times, fatally. ;-ler brother was instantly billed. Official notice has been received at the >tatu Department from the British Minister rivir. t.hn tariff chan2e3 azreed UDon in the rac procity aiTanpeiuout for the British West iuia colonies have already beea voted by Jn.naica. Barbados and Trinidad. Jinx J. HAWKrxs, Chief of Judiciary in :,;vr First Au.lilor's office of the Treasury is 'lea-i. For twenty-five years he has held an important position in the Treasury Department. In 1878 he was one of a committee of threo to carry to Bnglani over $100,000,000 in bonds to be delivered to the Rothschilds. The relatives and legal representatives of Charies W. Riggin, one of the sailors of the Baltimore who was killed in Valparaiso, have formally filed at th* Department of State, Washington, a ciaim for indemnity from the Chilean Government. President and Mrs. Harrison gave a dinner at the White House to the Diplomatic Corps. The United States Treasury Department's I monthly statement of changes in the circulation during January shows a net increase during last month of #15,07:1,309. President Harriso.v has signed and caused to be puoiisued th?> reciprocal trad9 agreement between the United States and Germany. It admit9 featners, hides, horsehair, far, oils, certain animals, etc., free while the duties on many other articles are greatly reduced. Koreiirn. The public accounts of Canada for the last fiscal year have bean issued. They show that the revenue on accouut of tae consolidated fund was $38,571),310, and the expenditures #36,343,567, showing a surplus of $3,335,743. The total debt of Cana ia is placed at S289,89t>,229, the assets are $53,093,199, and the net debt is $237.80?, 030, an increase during the year of $275,818. Thx Egyptian Assembly was opened at Cairo by the Khedive, who delivered a brief address, declaring that he should follow in the footsteps of his father and continue his policy. The Chilean Congress adjourned, after passing a bill allowing the President to borrow $25,000,000 in order to withdraw notes issued by Balmaceda. The North German Lloyd transatlantic steamer Eider went ashore on Atherfield Ledge, Isle of Wight. Bhe was growing in a fog when she struck on a rock. All passengers were saved. The new French Tariff law has gone into operation. S?? Jnkf AC At*rpanfinn I 1HE conversion ui wuo uoui Vk has been completed. It amounts to $55,000,000. Twenty per?ns lost their lives as a result of election riots at Buda Pesth, Hungary. Lieutenant Khufeldt, of the United Stites Navy, has died at Oapatown, South Africa. He had gone there on a World's Fair Commission. A boat belonging to Hef" Majesty's Ship Belle Isle founderel in Dublin Bay, Ireland, drowning four of her crew. LATER NEW?. The third annual exhibition of the New York Poultry and Pigeon Association was held at Madison Square Garden, New York City. Governor Abbett reappointed Chief Justice Beaslej, and named Senator Werts to succeed Judge Kaapp on the New Jersey Supreme Court bench. Two hundred and fifty of the 800 Or Wiu prisoners on ut?cr xsjauu, iu uuaiua (Mass.) Harbor, refused to work, and, gathering sticks and other weapons,.stormed the workshop to procure knives. They were clubbed into submission by tbe police. Sir jiliapf Pauncefote, the British Minister to Washington, and PostmasterGeneral Wanamaker have signed a parcels post convention between tbe United States and British Guiana. Secretary 2?oble has designate! Lucius I. Bridges, a law clerk in the office oC tbe Assistant Attorney-General fo? the Interior Department; Francis A. Weaver, Chief of the Land and Railroads Division, and William D. Bayly, a clerk in the Pension Office, to act as a Board of Promotion in the interior Department. The Anti-Slavery Conference Act was ratified bv the United States at the Foreign Ministry at Brussels, Belgium, in conformity with the resolution of the United States Senate. t Influenza is increasing in Berlin, Germany, agd abating in Vienna, Austria. Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs Pereira called on Minister Egan at Valparaiso and thanked him for Secretary Blaine's despatch accepting Chile's reply to our ultimatum. FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. In the Senate. , 24th Dat.?The President's message with the Chilean correspondence was sent in and referred?The Mexican award bill (as to 'he La Abra claim) was taken up as the unfinished business. It went over?-?Mr. Hale made a speech on reciprocity. 25th Dat.?The Mexican Claims bills were passed Among the bills introduced and referred were the following: To da velop and facilitate the interstate commercj of the whole country, and more especially of the twenty-two States and two Territories that are in whole or in part drained by the Mississippi River and its tributaries. To return to the Republic of Mexico certain bat-1 ? I 1.. 1B1K HO Ul^S O * ill VIlO TT Ul Ufc 4WZV? Mr. Faulkner offered a resolution, waica was agreed tu, calling on the Secretary of the Interior for a statement as to the moneys received by the United States Pateut Office from inveatore from the establishment of the Patent OcTlcd to the preheat time, 26th Day.?The Printing bill was taken up, the Pure Food bill being postponed Mr. Mitchell made a report in the case of the Claggett-Dubois contest for a seat in the Senate from the State of Idaho. The resolutions declare Mr. Dubois entitled to retain his seat. Mr. Vance gave notice of a minority report. 27th Day.?The Public Printing bill was discussed Mr. Kyle spoke on the divorce laws Mr. Dolph reported adversely a number of new Chinese immigration restrictions and prohibitory bills. In the House. 22d Day.?President Harrison transmitted Chile's reply to our ultimatum. It was referred fhe House devoted the remainder of the day to debate on the report of the Committee on Rules without coming to a nnai conclusion. 23d Day.?Mr. Bacon introduced a bill to carry into effect the recommendations of the International American Conference liy the incorporation of an international American bank fhe report o: the Committee on Rules was further considered. 24th Day.?Mr. Gates offered a resolution, which was adopted, authorizing the Committee on the Judiciary to investigate the charges preterred against the Hon. Alexander Boorman, Judge of the District Court for tne Western district of Louisiana, who "wno r?h?rcr? l with hich crimes and misde rueanors Mr. Reed a9ked that uuanimous consent be given lor the introduction of bills and resolutions by handing them to the Speaker for reference. The motion to lay on the t!able was adopted by a vote of 181 to twenty-nine Public business was th9n suspended and tributes of respect were paid to the memory of the Hon. L C. Houk, of Tennessee. 25th Day.?Some further debate was had on the proposed rules?The States were called for the introduction of bills anl resolutions for reference. The followiug I were referred: To reduce taxation and inI crease the volume of currency. To permit State taxation of National bank note3 and United States notes. To promote and encourage agriculture. For a constitional amendment prohibiting polygamy in the United States. To restrict the rights of aliens to our land in the United States. Kor the appointment of a commission to represent the United States at the Columbian Historical Exposition, to be held in Madrid in 189i. To create an executive department of mines and mining Mr. Arnold introduce i a resolution demanding the recall of Minister Egan from Santiago so that cordial relations between this country and Chile could be reestablished. 26th Day.?Mr. Grady introduced a bill to reduce tft? President's salary from $50. 000 to $25,000 a year?The discussion of the vul"S was contiuued. 27th Day.?The consideration of the reporc o? the Comroitte e on Kules was r& surued?The "Holman Rule," in regard to ' riders, was adopted. SIR M0RELL MACKENZIE, Emi>eror Frederick's Physician Dies Suddenly in London. Sir Moroli Mackenzie, the distinguished physician, died with bronchitis a few days ago in London, JSu^Iand. Sir Morell's attack of bronchitis followed an attack of in nuenza. He was attended by his brother. His death was quite sudden. Ouly his wife was presjnt when it occurred. Sir Morell Mackenzie was born in Leytonstone, Essex. England, in 1837, and was educated at the London Hospital Medical College aud in Paris and Vienna. He founded the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat, in Golden Square, London, in 1863. In the same year he obtained the Jacksouian Priz3 from the Royal College of Surgeons for his essay on diseases of the larynx. He was soon afterward elected assistant physician to the London Hospital, becoming in due course full physician, and was apDointed lecturer on diseas s of the throat, an apppintment which he held to the time of his death. Dr. Mackenzie was the author of numerous publications on laryngological subjects. He was in attendance on Frederick III, the German Emperor,during the latter's last illness. He was knighted in 1887. He published in 1888 "The Fatal Illnes* of Frederick the Noble." At the close of that year he resigned his connection vrith the College of Phyuiciang. RUSSIA'S FAMINE Fourteen Millions of People Absolutely Destitute of Food. Pestilence Adds Its Horrors to Hunger and Cold. United States Minister Smith has reported to the State Department at Washington these facts concerning the Russian famine, obtained from eye-witnesses and most trustworthy sources; The famine is general in thirteen provinces of European Russia, viz.; Kazan, Nijni-Novgorod, Orenburg, Oufa, Pens?, Riazan, Samara, Baratof, Simbirsk, TamI i uu v, v luiao, AV'iio auu xiux euo^Cf ptu iiai in the five provinces of Kursk, 0l0netz,0rel, Perm and Tauride, and one or two others, like Kharkov, have suffered to soma extent, but are not included in official reports. The first thirteen provinces equal in area the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Ver? mount, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Com* necticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Kentucky, and have a population of ab^pt twenty-seven million. The five province? Th which the famine is partial equal iu area the States ot Indiana. Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and half of Ohio, and have a population nearly double that of the elevsn States. This vast section is agricultural aad ordinarily the most fruitful soil of Russia. It is officially estimated that 14,000,000 persons in these provinces are without food or means of support, and this estimate is probably below the true number. For three years the crops have fallen short of the average, and the deficiency of the past season left the storehouses well-nigh empty. nr:iu *.u~ U {a rviuu tug luuica^ru muuio vi. buio jrcai *?/ xo positive, Minister Smith says, that unless adequate relief can be supplied the great present destitution and suffering will grow worsa as the season continues. The peasants make no savings generally, but live wholly dependent upon yearly crops, hence long continued and widespread drought leaves them subject to ftutside relief. The scarcity of provisions is not the only misery of this people. When crops fail the Government loses revenue and the peasants, while taxes and rental continue, lack all the necessaries of Jile; clothing, firewood, farming implements, the subsistence of horses and cattle, ail depend upon this one resource? the crop?. It is as difficult to get fuel as food in some sections, and cold as well as hunger causes terrible suffering. Iu some neighborhoods large numbers ot persons huddle together in some houses most conductive to warmth. Barns have been torn down aui the boards used for firewood. Even thatched roofs are torn off and the straw burned for fuel. Clothing is given away for bread; horses and cattle are sacrificed at a tithe of their value; fodder is as scarce as human fooand in some cases horseflesh has been sacrificed for sustenance. During the winter there is no work*, ana irequentiy tattlers nave ieit ilsuwivcs aud children to fight the battle of want alone, because they could do nothing and their absence would leave fewer mouths to feed at home. The bread which many are eating is composed of wild arrock, potatoes, chaff and leaves, and these terrible conditions inevita*fcly produce disease. Within the radius of one mile there are 120 cases of typhus fever; pestilence and hunger are daily gaining ground, and pestilence is decimating tne peoPW In January, February and March the roads are good, and all energies should be directed to pouring provisions into the suffering provinces at once. The rivers are frozsn. Two or three railroads ran into th9 famine-stricken region, but there are no branches of these railroads, and all provisions must be carried for long distances on sleds. In the middle of March, or first of April, the winter will break up, the roads will become heavy, and the horses now available for transportation will be needed for spring farming. Time is therefore a most important factor in the work of relief. Every week is vitaL One hundred and eighty million pounds of food are necessary. Fifty carloads should arrive every day in these stricken provinces, but only eleven carloads per day were re ceived Christmas week. The imperial government so far has appropriated 142,500,000 from the public treasury for the work of relief. But the work must stili go on. The Russian Emperor has personally given enormously and all classes are giving according to their means. The loss to the Government revenue will be $100,000,000 or more, while a conservative estimate of the loss to Russia in view of all consequents is place at not less than $500,000,00J. Up to the present there have been few contributions from abroad, but the Government and the people of Russia are deeply sensible of the spontaneous offers that have b?en made in various parts of the United States and the Emperor's Ministers, as well as others, have manifested such to Minister Smith in their expressions of approbation. GRATEFUL TO EGAS. Balmacedist Refugees Testify Their 1.? 1- TTI XUMULtlUUCSS kU U1IU. TATRICK KOAJT. United States Minister Egan h&3 been presented by the refugees who have been living in asylum at the American Legation in Santiago, Chile, for four months past with a handsome gold card bearing this inscription: To Mr. Patrick Egan, Minister of the United Btaces jn udiii, jn leswraou/ ui eternal gratitude for the generous asylum given under the protection of the fla? of the great Republic, which symbolizes the most noble sentiments of humanity and civilization. On one side of the inscription is an embossed engraving of the Goddess of Liberty throwing the "Stars and Stripes" over a wounded Chilean soldier. In oue corner of the card is a diamond and there are also crossed flags of the United Status and Chile and the coats-of-arms of the two countries engraved upon it. On the reverse side of the card appear the names of the twelve refugees who present the gift. The card iB about six by four inohea in size and it cost $2000. ON A SUED ED BRIDGE. A Train Destroyed and the Two Engineers Killed. The eastbound passenger train on the Texas and Pacific Railway was totally wrecked two miles n est of Ropeline, La. It ran upon a burned bridge, and all the cars ?one baggage, postal and express, two day passengers and one Pullman?were completely burned. The engineer of the train was killed and Civil Engineer Smitb, of the road, was fatally burned. The corpse of a young woman in the baggage car was burned up. These statistics are furnlaheJ by Che Agricultural Department at Washington as representing the aggregate production of cereals lor 1891; Corn, 2,060,154,000 bushels; value, $836,i39,223. Wheat, 0ll.78J.OOO bushels; value, ?518,472,711. Oats, 7tf J,894,000 bushels; value, &3i,dl2,207. ' v.;.'.: ' :%irV'u -$&' ' . MADAME CABNOT. i ??? The Generous ana Popular Wile of the President of France; ^ MADAME CARNOT. Mme. Carnot, wife of the President of the French Republic, is known to her friends as a woman of tact and ability. Socially, too, reports the Chicago Post, she is brilliant, gracious and charmin?. Her career as "Madame ia Presidente" has been a social triumph. She is popular with the French people, whose est?em she has won by ner womanly ways and her active interest in matters that concern their welfare. Mme. Carnot devotes much of her time to charitable work and is a liberal patron of all worthy schemes to aid the poor and distressed. She is highly accomplished and, unlike most Frencii people who have a national contempt for foreign languages, she speaks English fluently. It is said, too, that she has a great admiration for Americans and enjoys meeting them and talking about the Unit'id States. Mme. Carnot is not only a generous woman, but she has a delicate way o? ministering to the needs of those who are chosen as the recipients of her generosity. She and th.3 President set aside $6 J, 000 to be distributed among SOU lately made widows?mothers of at least three young children?at Christmastide. This sum is divided into two parts, one-half is the gift of M. Carnot, and the Mayors have the I bestowal of it, the number of women to be | relieved in each arrondissement varying ac | cording 10 tne amount 01 poor it wuwu Mme. Carnot's offerings consist of bundles of clothes, carefully Buited to the requirements of the poor families for which they are intended, and to save any loss of timu and also to avoid exciting the curiosity of neighbors, the bundles are distributed by parcels post. SPUBQEON DEAD. England's Eminent Divine Passes Away Peacefully. The celebrated English preacher, Charles Hadden Spurgeon, died at Mentone, France, a few days ago in the presence of Mrs. Spurgeon, his private secretary and two or three friends. He was quite unconscious when death occurred and had not spoken for some hours. ' Mr. Spurgeon, who occupied a somewhat similar position in England to that of Henry Ward Beecher in America, was born at Kelvedon, Essex, England, June 19 1834, and educated at Colchester, Maidstone. He was received into the Baptist denomination by the late Robert_ Hall at Cam bridge, and was pastor at water oeacn unni be was offered the New Park Street Chapel in South wark. His firat sermon in London was in 1853, and in 1861 the Metropcflitan Tabernacle, which was erected for. him, was opened. The last act of thi reverend gentleman's life was his withdrawal from the Baptist Union, caused by his independence of character and outspoken, broad-minded doctrine. In 1883 was celebrated the delivery of his 2000th sermon. His sermons have been printed weekly for years, and sixteen volumes have been published collectively, besides a volume -entitled "litems: Brilliant Passages from the Discourses of C. H. Bpur^eon." Mr. Spurgeon never laid ciaim to the distinction of being an orator. He al ways talked in a slow, deliberate way, his enunciation being clear aud his pronunciation perfect. His language hypericritical people might not call choice, being directly to the point, and, like the man himself, simple and strong. In bis discourse the fact was noticable that he never sought for fine phrases. His voice was not musical or pleasing at first to a stranger's ear, yet it possessed those quali J ties most demanded in a puouc spea&tH fHE PATENT OFFICE, The Commissioner's Report of Business Daring the Year. Commissioner Simonds, of the United States Patent Offlce,at Washington, has submitted bis annual report to Confess. The report recommends amendments to the Patent and Trade Mark laws. The following is a summary of the business of the office during the last calendar year: Total number of applications received, excluding applications for the registration of trade marks aud labels, 40,553; total number of patents granted, 23,244; total number of registrations, 1899, total receipts, $1,271,283; total expenditures, $1,139,713; leaving a surplus of $131,572; making a total balance in the treasury to the credit of the patent lund of $4,004,317. Patents were issued to the residents of the several States and Territories as follows: Alabama, 82; Arizona Territory, 9; Arkansas, 103; California, 622; Colorado, 199; Connecticut,' 733; Delaware, 34; District of Columbia, 210; Florida, 5*2; Georgia. 124; Idaho. 14;, Illinois, 1963; Indian Territory, 6; Indiana. 570: Iowa, 427; Kansas, 263; Kentucky, 195; Louisiana, 122; Maine, 142; Maryland, 294} Massachusetts, 2122; Michigan, 752; Minnesota, 352; Mississippi, 63; Missouri, 786; Montana, 42; Nebraska, 191; Nevada, 10; New Hampshire, 144; New Jersey, 960; New Mexico, 14; New York, 3907; North Carolina, 76; North Dakota, 29; Ohio, 1513; Oklahoma, 6; Oregon, 71; Pennsylvania, 2197; Rhode Island, 290; South Carolina, 49; South Dakota, 53; Tennessee, 161; Texas, 330; Utah, 25, Vermont. 55; Virginia, 165; Washington, 79; West Virginia, 74; Wisconsin, 526: Wyoming, 3; United States Army,5; United States Navy, 8 Total, 21,236. The total number issued to foreigners was 1293. OUR MILITARY RESOURCES. The Total Number of Men Available lor War Duty. The Secretary of War transmitted to the Senate a statement showing the military force of the Unitsd States, organized and unorganized, according to the latest rvturns received at the office of the Adjutant Gen eral of the army. The abstract shows that the total number of enlisted men is 101,821, commanded by 8879 cocnmissioned officari, besides 1248 staff officers, making a total aggregate of 111,948 men in the military service. The number of *nen available for military duty unorganized ..=*7,258. THEY SALUTED HIM. But He Had to Shoot Two ot Them to Insure Itespect. The men of one of the artillery regiments at Vilna, Russia, have lately displayed a mutinous spirit, and a few days ago they refused to salute on officer, whereupon he deliberately shot two of the noncommissioned officers of the insubordinate regiment. He was about to fire at a third when the men complied with the regulations and saluted. Th? estimated total American capital raised for Mexican undertakings in the past ear by individuals and public and private companies was over 1100,000,000. r ' V /.-VjW> ? V V ' [ IMFMAiNCfc. ???- v WHAT HI SAW. He held In fingers tremulous and thin What seemed a bunch of white transparent grapes; And there saw the fiendish eyes and shapes Of hideous representatives of sin. That threatened to break through the walls of skin, Their forms were uglier than forms of apss; He then bethought of his hair's-breadtn escapes. And of the dangers lurking there within. Worse than the cockatrices eggs their seeds,, Hatched in the still, to I scorpions, whose deeds, With fiery stings of woe inoculate The soul with madness and eternal hate. A blessing in the cluster?"'iruit divine," Worse than Pandora's ills in poisonei wine. ?Geo. W. Bungay, in Temperance Advocate. MOODY ON WHI3KT. mr. jnooay, wane at uampoeiton, tingland, said: "If there is anything:in your business that is wrong, you mu9t give it up. "Oh, but,' you might say, 'that would ruin me financially.' No matter; better be ruined financially than go to the bar of God a disobedient child. If men could distil whisky for the glory of God, then let them go on distilling whisky; let them send a thousand barrels of it to the heathen, and some for the missionaries; and then let them pray over the matter, and see bow they feel. They could sell whisky to men who might drinic themselves to death, making their wives widows and their children fatherless, but it won't do to turn round and say now?'I will give this widow and these children some mouey,' and think that the transaction would square* nor oould a man who ill-treated his witd and family when he was the worse of driak make up for it by treating them kindly when he U sober." SPECIAL LEGISLATION URGED. Professor Jolley, Director of the insanity wards in the Charite Hospital at Berlin, has issued a pamphlet in which he urges the absolute necessity of special legislation against habitual drunkards, on the ground that the statistics of insanity show a direct ratio to those of intemperance. In the Rhine provinces, the percentage of insane persons who . had lost their reason through excessive drinking was twenty-eight, and in Berlin and Alsace as much as thirty-three. Taking a general average for the wine and schnappsdrinking districts, Professor Jolley reckons that twenty-five per cent, among the inmates of asylums have been inebriates. Discussing the section of the new bill which enacts that habitual drunkards shad be shut up until cured, he insists that this authority shall be committed to medical men, and not to magistrates only. He says, that in the asyJums for inebriates hitherto existing, medical direction has been almost entirely wanting. '.Throughout his pamphlet he maintains the proposition that drunkenness should not be regarded as a punishable offence, but as an infirmity. The retreat for inebriates should, he says, be no prison, but something between a hospital and a luna , tic asylum. It should be governed by medi? cal men, and perons should only be consigned to it by doctor*' cartilcdtes. DUCHESS OF RUTLAMJ'S WORK. The Duchess of Rutland is one of England's most effective workers in the cause of temperance. Without being at all fanatical she b&s been very successful in her dealing i with the question by means of village halls I rAnmo /v\nPOPtc If** tnrPS And singing classes, and advocates in every hamlet 'a public house without the drink*, open to alJ, with no rules and regulation;." The efforts made by Miss Brooks at Woodstock, which have more than onco been alluded to in this column, receive the highest commendation, and her experience as to the books most eagerly sought for by the villagers is interesting; lives of Wellington, Nelson and Gordon are always in demand, and the books about her majesty the queen and the jubilee. To develop a love ot natural history is another matter of great importance, in or3er to develop ideas which may brignten the round of village life and give glimpses of the beautiful world we live in and the life beyond, where honesty will meet its reward, fhe duchess works alone the lines laid down by the Church of England Society, which does not demand total abstinence, but which does all in its power to encourage it. She, with other temperance workers, is doing much good toward suppressing the evils of drunkenness and in bettering the moral and physicial condition of the victims cf the drink habit.?Chicago Post. STRONG DRIXK. * The mightiest obstacle to the progress of religion in this day is^trong drink, whether you call it gin, whisky, ale, beer or wine, or anything else that poisons the brains and makes a man unnatural, says the C. T. A. News. Thousands of meu do not attend to their religious duties simply because they are addicted to drink. While they are discussing the question as to whether they shall drink at all, or how much they shall driuk, they let the question of their eternal salvation go by deiault. Often you find a man anxious about his soul, and talk with him, and wonder why he does not yield his heart to God. But after many weeks have passed, and he has gone back again into the world you find he has not the courage to give up the strong drink which will, perhaps, be the means of his eternal overthrow. Would it not be better for such men, instead of stopping to discuss the question as to how muca they should drink or whether they shall drink aty all, to throw the wine flask out of the window and resolve to let it alone for the future. Join the temperance societies, who are doing a good work in battling against intemperance, and are giving healthcul employment to t&e fallen by stir? **%** wtticinn* amrvironna lonhirM RTlH rallies. Attend faithfully to tbe quarterly communion, for it is by obeying the laws of tbe society in regard totbis feature that you will have the grace of God about you, And be able to combat these evils of intemperance. Commence the new year right. Let liquor alone. If you have a family remember t e example you set. II! you drink, your sons will also take it, and the craving for strong drink will grow stronger and stronger each day. It is an awful responsibility tnat parents take upon themselves of setting a bad example to their family. Children will try and imitate their parents. Look out in this matter of drjnk and do not become an evil example and -ruinous and blasting influence. TEMPJBAN'CS NEWS AND NOTJtS. The village of Hilltown, Ireland, has 130 inhabitant?, and thirteen liquor saloon?. A few glasses of bear a day during a workingman's lifetime means the consumption of a cood home. To sell the whisky seller a license to carry on the devil's business almost makes the crime of Judas appear respectable. Said Cardinal Manning once: "The Englishman drinks from brutality, the Irishman from joviality, and it is much easier to reform an Irish drunkard than an English." The world is full of people who wouldn't sell whisky for a hundred dollars a glass, who are glad to take the saloon keeper's money in a thousand different ways, and put it in their pockets. The supreme object of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union is to elevate the home and to protect its members, one and all?the stronger from legalized temptation, the gentler from oppression. Out of 70,000 British troops in India 18,000 are teetotalers. 8ir Frederick Roberts says that for every 50u0 teetoallers enrolled the strength of the British army is practically increased by another battalion. tlt:?i io nHHprl to alenho! to ou-iuciai uapubuu ???? ? ? make it undriukable, but according to the Chemical News there are men working in chemical works who not only drink the nau seated spirit, but are capable of swallowing coal naphtha itself. In the Hawaiian islands there are about fifty native temperance societies with a membership of over 2000. Their pledge includes opium and awa as well as alcohol. Awa is an intoxicant manufactured by the natives, and is said to be more disastrous in its efr fects upon the huaiau system than even the imported liquors. A writer in the Fortnightly Review, an English traveler, says: ' The very air of Africa reeks with rum and gin imported from England; every hut is redolent of its fumes. Over large areas drink is almost the sole currency, and in many parts the year's wages of the negro factory worker are paid i altogether in spirits." j v-. , ^ WORDS OF WISDOX. Love hopes always because it believes always. j How easy it is to admire people who agree with us. . We get acquainted with ourselves by Jcnowing other people. Hope nevAr flies from the heart in which there is no doubt. Love is always rich, because it can always hope for something better. Love always looks on the bright side, and always finds a bright side to look on. The braver a soldier is the more important it is that he should learn to obey orders. Before we can know much of ourselves we have to become well acquainted with many other people. There are people who pray for snow whenever they see anybody about to look into their back yard.' The man who knows that his house is built on the sand alwavs trembles when he hears it thunder. If it were possible for man to live alone, without ever coming in contact with other human beings, he would die a total stranger to himself. There are some people so blind that it -would them a long time to find out that they have a nose on their face, if they didn't now and then have to blow it. There are Bome shepherds who put their sheep on the dead run whenever there is the slightest prospect of their getting a taste of salt from somebody else's . pasture.?Indianapolis . (Ind.) Ram's Horn. Brain Power in Plants. < i _.i c :>.v - T- :.i _c _.i. AKQUr omibUf ? c'/iauub VL uubc auu one of the writer3 of the National Review, entertains many curious ideas concerning the sleep and brain power of plants, many of these notions,directly or indirectly conflicting with the established opinions of such men as Cuvier, Huxlej and Darwin. Speaking of the mimosa, he says: "It always folds its leaves at the close of day, and there is no doubt, if it were not allowed to sleep, it would, like the hnman species under similar circumstances, soon die." This is not only an example of the necessity of sleep for the repairing of nervous energy and recuperation of brain power, bat a proof of the existence of the same faculties in the vegetable kingdom. Then, take the matter of the carniverous plants, the Venus fly-trap, for instance, which will readily digest raw beef or any insect small enough to fall into its maw. This hnfamral curiositv has crlands which pour out a fluid which resembles the gastric juiccs of the animal stomach. This fluid dissolves the meat or insect and absorbs their substance into the tissues of the plant. In animal nature digestion can only be commenced by the brain force acting by means of a nerve upon ,the gastric glands x we , may, therefore, concsde fhat it is, the action of the same power in the plant that produces the same results. A farther illustration of the wonderful effect of brain power in plants may be observed in the action ol> the radicle of seeds. The course pursued by the radi! cle in penetrating the ground most be 'determined by the tip, Darwin wrote as follows in regard to this: "It is hard- \ ly an exaggeration to say that the tip of the radicle, endowed .as it-is with such diverse kinds of sensitiveness,acts in the same manner as the brains of some animals, the brain being seated within theextreme end of the body, receiving its impressions from the sense organs and / " - 1 11 vr- J directing nie several murttiueuw. w. Smith does not quite agree with Mr. I Darwin's belief, but is of the opinion ) that it is a simple ezamplo of brain pow-' er, which is the cause of all plant movement. In conclusion he mentions a remarkable property of the potato fungus. When the spore3 of this fungus' burst a multitude of little bodies escape; if these bodies gain access to water they develop a couple of little tails,by means of which they swim like tadpoles.?St. Louis Bepublic. Canscs of Mine Disasters. Mine disasters generally come from some one of three causes?cave-ins, fire- . damp explosions or blasting. In nine . cases out of ten they are brought about either by the penuriousness of mine own era or the carelessness of the men. In \ each mine pillars of coal are left to support the roofa of the workii gs. They ?- oiTD and whfln thr> mini? ?IO Ul ^CUUIUVW H4?Vt < ?>? .. ? begins to get "worked out" the tempti- -; tion to take coal Trom them is great. This is called "pillar robbing." If these roof supports are "robbed" too freely they will crumble under the weight abov? them and bring about a "cave in." The chief danger of such an accident is that the miners will be shut off from the exit and buried alive. An experienced miner can generally tell by the pistol-like reports of the coal as it begins to give under the pressure from above that a cave in is coming soon enough to run to a part of the mine not likely to fall and crush him to death; but in the meantime thousands of tons of coal may have blocked all ways of escape. The place Knonmoo n niiarm and A KJL fciugc I. LI LLO . J. - - J ^ prison more horrible than was ever built "" by human hands. It is hard to imagine anything more horrible than the situation of miners imprisoned in this manner. Fifteen days and a half elapsed from the time of the disaster in the Hill Farm mine at Dunbar, Penn., in June, 1890, before hope was abandoned that the thirty men imprisoned in the right heading still lived. Two or three days after the disaster signals made by the entombed men were heard by the rescuing party. Every possible effort was made to reach them, but in vaiu. Their bbdies lie under Hill Farm to this day if they were not destroyed by burning gas.?New York Press. Some Atmospheric Phenomena. A man weighs less when the barometer is high, notwithstanding the fact that the atmospheric prcssur: on him is more than when the barometer is low. As jthe pressure of air on an ordinary-sized - Al ! ./ .L . | man is aDouc niceen ions, me rise oi me mercury from twenty-nine to thirty-one inches adds about one ton to the load he has to carry. If a well could be dug to the depth of forty-six miles, the density of the air at the bottom would be as great as that of quicksilver. By the same law a cubic inch of air taken 40U0 miles above the earth's surface would expand sufficiently to fill a sphere 2,000,000,000 miles in diameter.?St. i<ouis Republic. . . . . :