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THE MIDWAF PLAISAKCE. A COLLECTION OF SIDE SHOWS A m mrm TI A TT> iti inxi j alii. Arabs, Turks and 3Ioors Found Living as in the Orient?The Javanese Village ? An International Beauty Show?The Wonderful Revolving Wheel?Other Exhibits. There are many strange things at the fair with queer names. There is the "Midway riaisance," for Instance. "What on earth doas that moan?" mo3t people ask when they . hear it for the first time. Whatever it may moan elsewhere, in Chicago, says the New York Herald, it means simply a collection of : side shows. The "Plaisance" is an avenue lined with buildings in which entertainments ere given, but where the "midway" comes in it is hard to guess. The name was selected 1 by a committee of leading citizens who 1 wanted to get up something high toned, or, ; na they put it, "nobby." It is certainly a 1 very nobby name, and no other word so well 1 describes it. To call the thing an avenve, it | wiiu rla-iirtari wm f-ftn pnmmonnlAce. Indian ' I W"?> ] t.t% ^ f _ - ( IRISH VILLAGE AXO BLABKEr CASTLT!. , ~~ j names aro considered vulgar by many Illi- 1 nois people, and so they borrowed a word | Xrom the French. ] This side show avenue is a mile long and it j (tnwcks just a little bit of Coney Island. It is < operated under the eye of the fair manage- 1 r.Vrit and it is in the grounds, strictly speak- i i? . admission being included with a fifty 5 i, World's Fair ticket. It is very broad ; < b .'est wide over all. Every "concession, ra"?more French?pav3 a percentage o his receipts to the World's Fair Ways ?a i Means Committee, uuaraniees are hi- i * lorded that the exhibits are worth the price ' ?. admission. A Tower of Babei is built near tne entrance [ t d z'le Plaisance. It is 400 feet high and has ; u ? ameter at the base of 100 feet. This ; tow^r deviates from the plan of the original ! ) y .naving a double track electrical circular j r .away from the base to the top. A chime; <k bells is installed at the top. from which a I ^ool view;of the ground is had. Lord and Lady Aberdeen have been intercsteJ in making a display of the cottage in<".us:ries of Ireland. Towering over a row of Ir.rt'i cottages in fac-simile is a reproduction j ?:' Donegal Castle. Throughout this exhibit ta?-rd are specimens of the work of Irish ; l> r.sants ana some of The people themselves. A !L"rrycow has been brought over specially to 6 jc w one of the means of livelihood. Laces i nd shawls are made and sold here. The e?mple architecture of these homes, like ' 1 of the convent of La Rabida, is a pleasu?c relief to the eye after the stucco flower? i.ii t figures crowded on too many of the Ladings. C:> ae with me to Cairo. It is shown by a scene peopled with more than one hunr.ro.l and fifty Egyptians who were taken 1roui the midst of their dancing, smoking and trading and dumped into the Windy City. .I.Mr i brown beauties from the banks of the "Nile, who dance oriental measures, look coquettishly upon the Yaukee, their big eyes winning his attention as soon as they flash *taem upon him. They wear spangles, chains, beads and gilt bands. Black slave boys wait upon the dainty ladies, some of whom cover faoftfl In the modrnt fashion of the East. Arab traders, donkey boys and camel Ctixers are there. While the dancers are performing in the theatre the merchants sell ieads. turbans or shells from the Bed Sea -and other curiosities, and the snake oh arm era subdue reptiles and the magicians show their familiarity with the black art. There are performing monkeys, too, and parrots. It is truly a glimpse of an Eastern city, and here and there one gets a whiff of it. j Aji old priest goes up into the tower of j ilia mosque at daybreak and calls upon all ^ believers in Mohammed to pray. The people 3 jper.orm their ablutions and then bless the prophet When they have done this the ft ion ^-bearded merchants take their pipes and p squat in the bazaars, looking indolently at ? the passers-by, while the women and chil- <j -dren gaze in wonder and smile knowingly at f I g .?\ '^.ir ? 5 -] P A/V O. s 8 ) :* ' ? AW ABCH TS THE M00EI33 PAtAC*. g ? S the ignoranoe of their ways betrayed by ths 4 Americans, who are as great a show to them -as they are to the purchasers of admission e tickets. 1 Fanda, a gaudily dressed woman, rather g fat, is the beauty of the party, and among r them are Egyptians bearing such names as 1 Fahima Osman, Hosma Bint, Mitwali Naba- ] weih and Falmi Houri. Curiosities of divere \ ?orts from the museums of Cairo and Alex- g cndria can be 9een. e One of the old streets of Stamboul is repro- c <Iuced and tenanttd with people from that ^ , city and from Constantinople, who show pretty much the same sort of entertainment as their Egyptian neighbors. One of their features is a fire department suoh as is in service at tho City of the Golden Horn. The Are pump, which has a big capacity, is ' slung on poles on the shoulders of the natives, who trot through the streets astonishingly fast. When they reach the fire tne water is supplied to them by carriers, who bear leather bags that are refilled from the wells as fast as their contents are used up. Turkish luncheons are peddled by costumed natives, who serve them from a tray A saddle belonging to the Sultan of Turkey is placed in the Transportation Building. It is covered with red plush and gold and is used bv its owner onlv on the most solemn occasions. Arab horses of pure blood were allowed by the Sultan to be exported. A silver bed. owned by cne of the sultans or Turkey, and suid to weigh two tons, is in the collection, and a Turkish tent once belonging t.o a Persian Shah, and used by him in traveling. It is made almost wholly of embroidared cloth. Near tho Tunisian and Algerian section is a Moorish palace modeled after one of tho old style temples which are found in Spain and Northern Africa. A restaurant, accommodating five hundred people, in the palaco shows that the Moors are a practical race. In the building Is an immense collection of gold coins. An Algerian merchant who erected villages at the three last Paris expositions has put up a building in which are quartered a large supply of natives w'to maintain a bazaar, in which are dispS ad precious stones, swords, pistols with que Hint locks, daggers, lacee, brocadcs j'shions and table covers. In another store : found perfumery, soraglio pastilles, atta.- >f roses and sweetmeats, though these a:- > not half as sweet as the dreamy damfl^i who sell tham to you. A Bedouin cam;',jjided over by a real Be douin chief, who, of eourso, would cut a throat with no compunction, is shown. The dancing girls keep the hail crowded with spectators. Javanese, to the number of seventy, have built a village in the atyle of their country on the Midway Plaiaance. It is made of bamboo poles, split bamboo and palm leaves and thatched with native grasses. A screen of split bamboo and leaves encircles the village to keep out those who haven't paid. The Tavanese girls dance to the music of an orchestra and pu?f cigarettes. They are little bits of creatures with black shiny hair. In the centre of the settlement are two big bamboo poles with holes cut through them. When the wind whistles through these holes a strange melody is produced that makes the Javans feel homesick and romantic. With the Javanese is an old priest named Hadji, who has a great influence over his flock. They are a very lazy race and get tired of work about once a day, throwing down their tools and saying they have had enough. But the old priest knows his business. Just as soon as they quit he has a vision in which it is revealed to him that if they do not at once resume they will be deV? ^ J : I ? A tin?*T>a onH a YUUtOU uy iOU UOVHO ur uovoiup UUiuo ouu u tail. Humility and paucity of clothing are characteristic of the Javanese and both characteristics have been carefully encouraged by the Hollanders who control the island. One of them, a real Prince named Baden Soekma- " lilaga speaks Dutoh and German, but no English. Some of the dancing girls are quite comely. They wear their black hair in knots and cut away the bangs from the forehead with a razor. A remarkable display in the Plaisance is that of feminine beauty. A building has been put up and in it are installed fifty young women, who represent the style of face of various Nations and their fashions In costumes, rhey were got together by a Chicago beauty collector who spent some months in Europe idvertising for types of the different races. Minister Lincoln when the party were in Southampton notified them that they were < violating the Contract Labor law in ooming : :o America, which was not so, as Congress i ?xempted the World's Fair from the law. i ifter they arrived in Chicago all their cos- 1 :ume8 were burned in a fire that very nearly 1 turned them. too. All these had to be du- 1 jlicated and tne girls sit in their pavilions 1 md smile day after day. The management i sontracted for smiles lasting six months. The 1 Vienna girl is a musician, and others have j iccomplishments as dancers. Russia, Greece, ! ,^1 j TEX WOSDZBFUIi BI taly, Germany, France, England, Austria, r Bohemia. H angaria and Chicago are equally t rell represented, and there are beauties from 1 ifferent parts of the United States. a Carl Hagenbeck, a famous German animal h imer has a building with a hall seating 6000 eople, in which he gives his performances, [e domesticates the lion so that he will lie own with the lamb, and tigers and wildcats ecome so tame under his care, it is said, lat they are no more dangersous than * ixinea pigs. Such animals as these he does ot coop up in their cages, but gives them s lenty of breathing space and they live toether without fighting. ? Germany has a village in which the artis- v c and mercantile tastes of her people are Dmbined. The Germans have put up a todel of a town of the Middle Ages, and 1 lere are houses of tne BiacK sorest ana me | ther divisions of the empire. The houses i re Ailed with original furniture. Dr. Ulric | v ahn. of Berlin, manages a German ethno- I C >gical museum. The Ferris wheel is the real triumph of the ? [idway Plaisance. It represents better than r ny other exhibit the genius of American inention. It looks something like the paddle 'heel of a steamer, multiplied, however, a jj undredfold. Instead of the paddles it bears assenger cars, and when it revolves the assengers get something of the sensation e hat a fly must have that sits on the side of a < art wheel and feels it revolve. ( The wheel is 264 feet high and 254 feet in iameter. It bears thirty-six passenger care, c ach larger than a railroad coach, and with a 1 eating capacity of sixty persons. When the J rheel Is "loaded" it contains 2160 citizens, t 'hey are carried up and then down like birds itting in their nest. It is steel throughout and is not unlike a bi- , ycle wheel revolving between two huge t owere. There are really two wheels placed on c he same axle and 28% feet apart, and held toother by struts and ties. The cars are built 1 if wood and steel, upholstered and artisti- J ally finished, and each weighs 19 tons. The 1 ,Teat axle, it is said, is the largest piece of I teel ever forged- It is 33 inches in diameter, 1 5 feet 2 Inches long and weighs 56 tons. Arranged in groups on the rods around the i rown of the wheel are 3000 incandescent j lghts of various colors, which are extin- a fuished and relighted at intervals as the wheel ^ evolves, producing at a distance an effect ike that of huge fireworks. Six cars can bo oaded at a time from the platforms. The rheel takes ten minutes to make a revolution, ? >o there is no danger of the passengers being j >mptied out of their nests. The engines are >f 2000 horse power. The wheel was the lnrention of G. W. G. Ferris, a bridge engineer A ! WORKMAN I!f THE CAIRO STREET. of Pittsburg, Penn. It Is said that the cost of construction was $400,000. A model of St. Peter's at Home, which was begun in the year 1600 and finished in 1700, is exhibited in the Midway Plaisance by L. de B. Spiridon. It is of carved wood, coated with a substance In imitation of marble, and is constructed on a scale of one-sixtieth. This makes it about 30 feet long; 15 feet wide and 15 feet hiph. It Is placed in a building oi Roman style, whioh contains besides the model the portraits of many of the Popes. Then there are models of the Cathedral ol Milan, the Piombino Palace, St Agnese Church and the Roman Pantheon of Agrippa. The attendants in this building are dressed in the uniforms of the Vatican Guard. PAST OF THE CHINESE VILLAO*. Carl Haflrenbeck, of Hamburg, has besides his large assortment of performing ftnimma an ethnological collection consisting of arms, implements, household goods, theatrical goods and utensils. Of tnase 490 numbers come from Africa, 373 from' New Caledonia, 40 from New Guinea, 406 from Islands of the South Seas, 823 from British Columbia, 80 from Greenland and 128 from Ceylon, making a total of 2340. There is also an artificial aquarium forty feet long, showing flsh, corals, gorgomas, etc., from the Indian Ocean, and a number of hunting trophies, skulls, horns and skins. The trained animals are a group of six lions, two tigers, two leopards, one sloth bear, one Thibet bear, six large boarhounds and one polar bear, all trained at one time in the great arena cage, and a group of three tigers, two lions, three panthers, goats, sheep, bulls, conies and dogs, five lions and two boarhounds performing; six male lions ; a lion volvikq whkel. idlng on horseback, and a lion riding on orseback, trained with a large boarhound. 'here are a number of other features such as i collection of two thousand parrots and two inndred monkeya. PBOMINENT PEOPLE. Lhutenast Pkabt proposes to start for the forth Pole In July. Thk late Duke of Sutherland made and lgned ninety-two wills. m?? maotc n Kan -LUIS JL/UK.O Ui nviM? w Qv<v. le fastened with a gold lock on his left rrist. "Bbick" Pomeboy is sixty years of ago. "wenty-flvo years ago his writings were read 11 over the country. The Duchess of Edinburgh speaks and rritee five languages?English, Russian, German, French and Italian. The income of the Duke of Yeragua is 175,000 a year, and he makes that,amount by aising bulls for the Spanish arena. Ekpebob William, of Germany, is well frounded in classical and current French nd Is a great reader of French poets. A memorial to the late Jay Gould is to be rected at his birthplace, Roxbury, Delaware bounty, N. Y., in the shape of a Presbyterian ;hurch. Pbesident Cleveland uses the veiy tiniest >f stub pens stuok into a massive holder, and lis handwriting is small and very distinct. Irs. Cleveland writes In fine large characers. Db. William Evebett, who has been sent >1 Congress from Massachusetts, is one of he best classical scholars in the country, le can quote offhand from almost any of the ilassios. Yoshi Hoti, the eldest son of the Japanese tlikado, who Is coming to tne norm a xmr, s only fourteen years old, but Is said to be aa >recocious as most American youths at wenty. Repbesentative Bailet, of Texas, will 10 longer be the "young.:3t man in Confrees." That distinction will be vested hereafter In Thomas Settle, of North Carolina, Tho is twenty-eight years old. John Bubbocohs, the author, hr\s ten teres of grapevines on his country estate >vorlooking the Hudson. The preparation >f the fruit for market he scrutinizes as careully as he doss a proof-sheet of one of his lew books. City Libbabian John Tayloe, of Bristol, Tenn., who died a few days ago, learned the ,rade of a blacksmith when a youth and elevated himself by his own talents and energy. 3e was an authority on historical and antijuarian subjects. Pbesident Dole, of Hawaii, has found Jme to write an article on the higher critislsmof the Bible for '-The Maile Wreath." 2e is deeply interested in the investigations >f modern Biblical scholars, and keeps himlelf well informed on the subject. The King and Queen of Greeoe live in very limplo style, cheerfully adapting their expenses to the impecunious plight of the country, and his majesty often ''boards the tram" 'street car) when he wants to run down to ihe port (the famous Pirceus) at Athens. ^Recekt advices from England state that Miss Frances Willard. the temperance advoaite, is entirely broken down in health. She nas been prohibited by her physicians from returning to America until fall, and it jeems they are much concerned for her life. Pope Leo XIII. spends most of his mornings in the Vatican gardens catching birds with nets, a sport which he practiced when Bishop of Perugia, and of which he is particularly fond. Hundreds of birds are ^aupht avory morning and distributed among tho hospitals and the poor. A * 1 nr?oi,inMAn Memorial THE jNatloaai Jliiry Iiiuuiu^wu Association has selected the design and sign?d the contract for the monument which is to mark the grave of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va. The United States Quartermastesyjenernl roughly pstimates that this Government expended $115,000 in chasing and subduing Garza and his gang. Secbetabt Hoke Skith, on behalf of the Government, has signed a contract with the Cherokee Nation for 6,022,754 acres of land, forming the Cherokee strip, for $8,595,763. [ THE INFANTA WELCOMED : SPAIN'S PRINCESS ROYAL ON AMERICAN SOIL. She Comes as Her Country's Representative at the World's FairGreeted by Booming Cannon In New York Harbor?She Proceeds Immediately to Washington. rtrAirn stab ra kulalta. Ealalia. Infanta of Spain, Royal Princess in her own right,.daughter of a Queen and aunt of a King, and Spain's representative here, is now a guest of the United States. She landed first on American soil at Jersey City and then prooeeded to the National Capital to convey to our Government's head her sovereign's most kindly wishes. The reception In New York Harbor given to the Infanta, the representative of the Queen Regent of Spain to the Columbian Exposition, on her arrival at port was decidedly Informal, but it was hearty and it was characteristically American. The Relna Maria Cristina, the magnifioient Spanish pleasure yacht which brought the Infanta from Havana, Cuba, had been at anohor all night outside the Hook, and at 7 o'olockthe Spanish gunboat Infanta Isabel was alongside. The United States dispatch boat Dolphin, Commander Davis, who represented the Government in the reception of the Infanta down the bay, lay inside the Hook waiting for the steamship to come up. 7he vessels were gaily decorated with bunting. It was 9 oTolock when the Crlstina's anchors were tripped ana tne start maaa for Quarantine, where the Princess was to be transferred to the Infanta Isabel. The latter's guns gave a nosy salute as the steamship started and the refrain was taken up by the Dolphin as the vessels approached. The fleet arrived at Quarantine at 10 oclock, and after a little maneuvering the vessels dropped anohor. the Isabel taking up a position between tne Dolphin and the Cristina. As the Dolphin's anohor went overboard gay bunting broke out from every masthead and (juy. Then there followed a scene of commotion on the Cristina. Sailors ran up the rigging and manned the yards; her new barge was swung from the davits, and to the accompaniment of a National salute from the Isabel's battery, E alalia and her party stepped Into the barge, rhe Infanta's private standard fluttered from the bow, the oars dropped into the , water, and in a twinkling the little araft, freighted with royalty, was alongside the Spanish war ship, over which hung a oloud of powder smoke. The Infanta was helped apon the port gangway, and closely followed by her suite passed up the gayly draped ladder and was formally received on deck. The steamboat Emmons, loaded with members of New York Spanish societies, steamed around the gunboat, and those aboard waved handkerchiefs and oheered until they were hoarse, rhe bands aboard the fleet struok up the National Spanish anthem, and bronzed tars on the Isabel manned the yards, as the Infanta's standard was thrown to the breeze. Meanwhile the mahogany barge or the Dolphin had been pnt afloat and Command* ar Davis, In fnll dress uniform, took his seat In the stern sheets and was rowed over to the ?sabeL He was esoorted to the Captain's oabln, where the Infanta was Installed, and was presented to her by the Spanish Minister. Tne meeting was pleasant and devoid of formality. Then the Isabel turned her prow np I stream, and did not stop until opposite the Pennsylvania Ballroad dock at Jersey City, N\ J. A chorus of whistles went up from the nearby steam craft, the Dolphin's ! guns boomed, and from her mainmast head broke out a magnificent silk royal purple standard, bearing in gold the crest of the Infanta's family. Tnla was evidently a surprise to the visitors. The barge drew up alongside, and the Infanta was helped out and transferred to the Dolphin. At the port gangway the marines and ! sailors of the Dolphin were drawn up. In the starboard gangway stood the officers of the Dolphin, brilliant; In their full dress uniforms. Commander Davis led the way to the saloon, where the remainder of the royal party were made known to the Dolphin's officers, and then the visitors sat down to an elaborate luncheon. More than an hour was occupied at the repast, and it was not until 2 :45 o'clock that the royal visitors embarked on the Pennsylvania Company's tug Belvidere. For the third time the guns boomed out a salute as the Princess and her party landed at the pier, and, walking upon carpet laid for the purpose, made their way to the train between two lines of blue coats. Tha train consisted of four cars, as follows, The composite car Premier, the dining oar Magdalen, the parlor car Felicita and the speoial observation car Wildwood. The latter, whioh was the last in the train, was for the especial use of the Infanta and her husband. It Is the handsomest in the possession of the Pennslvvanla road. Just before the train started Eulalia appeared on the rear platform of the last oar, her face wreathed in smiles. The """mi irrow urtld when she hewed to them again, and oatching the spirit of the moment the Princ . 38 shook her handkerchief vigorously, and as the din grew greater began to throw kisses right and left, blushing like a schoolgirl. The run to Washington was a quite one, the Infanta and suite arriving there at 8:20. They they were met by Secretary Gresham, on behalf the President. The Infanta, Secretary Gresham, Minister Muruga and Prince Antonio entered the President's carriage, the cavalrymen saluted and the procession began to move up Pem>sylvania avenue toward the Arlington. Four buglers on horseback led, and with the four troops of cavalry, one of which was oomposed of colored soldiers from the "Fighting Ninth," formed the escort of the royal party. Six sergeants of cavalry acted as body guard to the Princess, and following her carriage came carriages containing her juite and the members of the receiving party. A crowd, the like of which has not been seen since the inauguration, lined Pennsylvania avenue on either side. When the Arlington was reached the Princess alighted upon the arm of Secretary Gresham, and fol' ? -> Al .lowed Dy uer nuauaiiu, luu jt l muu, auu ?uu Spanish Minister, entered the summer annex. A large bunch of sweet peas stood on a table in the parlor, and other floral gifts were around, but the chief among them rested upon the table in the Princess' private drawing-room, on the second'floor. It was a tribute from Mrs. Cleveland, and consisted of a huge basket of magnificent American Beauties, orchids and lilies of the valley. Immediately upon entering the house the Princess passed into the reception room, accompanied by Secretary Gresham and Secretaries Adee and Quincy and her suite. A moment later and the representatives ot the Government retired, and Commander Davis bade the party good-night. Tho Infanta and her suite called on the President and Mrs. Cleveland at exactly 11 o'clock on the day after their arrival in Washington, and were received in the Blue Room of the White House. Thero was little in the reception that suggested formality and the party indulged in a pleasant conversation which lasted fifteen minutes, when the royal visitors withdrew. The Princess was simply but richly attired. She wore a princess dress of gray bengaline, bordered around the train with gray ostrich feathers. A pink satin girdle completed this exquisite toilet. Her bonnet was a small affair of light flowers, with pink satin ribbons, tied under the chin, with a short white net veil over her face. In her hand she carried a beautiful parasol of chiffon and lace. President Cleveland, following the precedent of ye^rs, did act return the visit in person, btu to" bis" sfeau" MrS. Clevela called with the ladles of the Cabinet on i royal visitors. The return call of Mxa. Cleveland and 1 ladles of the Cabinet was made at 3 o'clo Mrs. Cleveland was accompanied by 3d Carlisle. Mrs. Bissell, Mrs. Lamont and Id Herbert They were escorted by Colo: Wilson, the President's military aid. M Cleveland, for the President, presented invitation to the Princess and her party dine at the White House, which was accep by the Infanta with a graceful compllme Mrs. Cleveland remained but a few mlnut and went back to the White House. The Infanta Eulalie passed a quiet Sunc in Washington attending church in l morning and driving with Secretary Gresh in the afternoon. LATER NEWS. Nt Look, a Chinaman, was arrested New York City for not having a certificate residence, bat was discharged from oustc by Judge Lacombe, who ordered his depot tioa to China whenever the Governm makes provisions for it. The commission appointed to investig the Custom House, in New York City, beg its work." Fike in the tobacco factory of D. <k Buchnor, in New York City, destroyed stc valued at $200,000. The most fabulous gold strike ever ma in the Northwest is reported from the Gra Summit mine, oa Palmer Mountains, in t Okanogan mining district, Washington, i most & solid body of pure gold was found a depth of 200 feet. A seven pound piece ore assayed produced two pouads of pi gold, which is equal ia value to $175,000 the ton. An express train was robbed by unmask robbers one mile and a half west of Pacil Mo. The express car was shattered w dynamite and the messenger made to op the safe and deliver the conteuts, thought be about 34000. A statue to Alexander H. Stephens, VI President of the Confederacy, was unveil at Crawfordsville, Ga. The Maine state building was aeaicaiou the World's Fair; Chairman Massey, of t Judiciary Committee of the World's Fair, j signed from the Commission because it c cided to open the Fair on Sundays. The President appointed John C. Ed wan of Illinois, to be Deputy Second Auditor the Treasury; Samuel Blackwell, of A bama, to be Third Auditor of the Treasui Andrew 8t John, of Pennsylvania, to Consul of the United States at Batavia, Jai The Briggs case was taken up in the Pr byterian General Assembly lit Washingfo Prosecutor Birch made a short open! speech, and Professor Briggs argued tl the appeal should not be entertained. The Infanta Eulalie and her party went an exursion from Washington to Mount Vi non, and afterward gave a reception to t Diplomatic Corps and attended a ball at t British Ambassador's house. The Miners' Congress in Brussels, Belgiu voted for the eight-hour day and for an Int< national strike to compel its establishment. Czernowitz, capital of Bukowina, Austr situated near the River Pruth, has be visited by a disastrous flood. Five perso were drowned and many rendered homele Queek Yictobia's seventy-fourth birthd was celebrated in England. Windsor Cast where Her Majesty resides, was decorat with flags and banners. The First Batalll of Grenadier Guards trooped their colc there. A naval parade took place at Dave port, and at Eton the volunteers paraded. IN A FIEBY FURNACE. I TTpnrfnl Work nf Fnmt Fires Michigan. Terriflo Ores swept through the forests Missaukee, Grand Traverse and Wexfc counties, Michigan, doing an immense amot of damage to standing pine, lumberm< farmers and settlers. N The wind blew a hurricane, and the f swept through the dry forests liko a whl wind and nothing in its pathway could saved. When the wind subsided the remal of eleven men working in Louis Sonds's lu ber camp near Lake City were found. The camp was burned, and the fire came suddenly that neither men nor stock could saved. The livo slock, three horses.: a c< and several oxen, were left to perish, a while none of the men lived to tell the tale, is apparent that they hastily took refuge frc the dames in the well. The well was shallow and contained co p&ratively little water, and what was soug as a refuge proved to bo a death pit T men all perished in a flery furnace. The Thayer Lumber Company, operatL near Dy, lost eleven oara toaueci witn logs the same Are. The engine had to leave train to make its escape. > A farmhouse near Tusin, Mich., was c Btroyed, and the fanner, his wife and fri children lost their lives. SCORES^KILLED, Farm Houses Burled in a Landsll< in Norway. A serious landslide has occurred at Ya< dalen, Norway, just north of Trondhje where a number of farms were recently burJ under an avalanche of slime. An extent land, Ave kilometres by ten, in the Levant Valley, became dislodged and slid down the soil below, destroying twenty-two hon steads and fifty cottages. A vast area was flooded and it was feai many had perished. The missing includ Tessem, President of the district and his fa ily , Road Inspector Rostad and his fami and about 100 others. The Government sent 400 soldiers to t fn naaiat in the workof rescue aud preserve order. REBELS WIN. The Nicaraguan Insurgents Defeat tl Government Troops. The Nicaragua revolutionary soldiers sto bravely against the attack of Sacaza's s diers and won the battle which was fcdmitt to be the turning point of the revolution. As the Government army advanced towa Masayathe artillery of the insurgents open tire. The advance was temporarily check* but the columns were reformed and the i sault was renewed with vigor and determii tion. Their charge was ineffective. The insi gent troops pushed bravely into the strugj and after a hot flght forced the Governme soldiers to retire. The revolutionists rejoiced over their v tory and predicted an early overthrow Saoaza. , REVENUE RECEIPTS. An Increase of .$6,937,087 for t First Ten Months of the Fiscal Yeai Reports made to John S. Miller, Comm sioner of Internal Revenue, Treasury I partqient, show that for ten months of t --?A. "Anfti An/liniv A rvri! !?ft f hrt Pi prjbuui iiovjiii jKtibL quujuq ?v %-v ? lections from internal revenue sour< aggregated $132,482,156, an increase o\ the corresponding period of last year $6,937,089. The principal items aro: Spirits, $78,52 445 ; increase, $3,741,130 ; tobaoco, $26,74 187 ; increase, $1,009,391; fermented liquo $25,646,393, Increase, $1,887,623; oleom gerine, $1,414,944 ; increase, $306,464. The receipts for April were $271,003 loss than for April, 189& ?21 THE HEWS EPITOMIZED. the | Eastern and Middle States. James K Mubdook. the actor, died at Cincinnatl, Ohio, aged eighty-three. Ha was ~r born In Philadelphia. He was America's oldest actor. jai Thb Local Directory of the World's Fall . t0 decided not to open the gates on Sunday, in order to give the National Commission more nt> time to consider the question. ;es, G. S. Bookbs, a leading business man oi 8t. Paul, Minn., committed suicide by leaplay lng from a bridge into the Mississippi the The officers of Dr. T. DeWltt Talmage's un Brooklyn Tabernacle met the churoh's credtors at the Bible House, New York City, and oametoan agreement. <60,000 wis sud tracted from the church's debt, which now amounts to only $160,000. Dr. Talmage and the creditors were officially declared to be k delighted with the result. . Thi Directors of the National Bank of Deposit, of New York City, acting under the ad>dy vice of the Clearing House Committee, deta cided to put the Institution into liquidation, ent Statx-Comhamdzb Cleast, of the Grand Army of the Republic, ordered that No&h L. Farnham Post, of New York City, should be ate disbanded, because It Dassed resolutions de -an daring that any man who sought a pension unless suffering from disabilities Incurred in the service was guilty of conduct calculated M. to injure the good men who are willing to tck their lives for their country. Hbnby W. Holcomb and- Albert W. Holt were drowned near the breakwater at, New ,de Haven, Conn. nd The Elmlra (N. Y.) National Bank has h closed its doore. The bank failure was the result of the recent financial troubles of ?" Colonel D. C. Robinson. # at A A. McLzod has resigned the Presidency of of the Boston and Maine Railroad. ire Thi forest fires that have been raging in t0 the vicinity of Mayford, N. J., culminated in the destruction of the immense oranberry bogs of Joseph Hlnchman at Taunton. Sev;ecj eral thousands of acres of good timber and ' many valuable cedar swamps have been no> burned. The loss Is estimated at (200,000. James Reillt, a jeweler, fifty-one years ol >en age, of Williamsburg, N. Y., dropped dead to in his home while his three sons were brawling and fighting. ce~ South and West. iec* Geobqe Lanofelt, who married Willie Lane a short time ago and moved to Marietta, . Ohio, killed his wife at Parkersburg, W. Va., at by shooting her through the head and then he committed suicide e- A little spark and' a strong southwest gale ie- resulted in a destructive fire at Saginaw, Mich. In four hours the work of years of toil was destroyed, and the fairest portion jg of Saginaw left a mass of smouldering ashes. xne nre destroyed ?u,ouu,uuu m property. Thxkz was a bad accident at the Woman's la" Congress at the World's Fair. The tempor7; ary flooring of Washington Hall, in the Art be Institute, gave way ana 150 women fell eight feet. Nobody was killed, but scores wert. injured. some of them seriously. 29- Bet. James Mackey, pastor of the First >n. Methodist Church at Lampasas, Texas, while n? delivering the morning sermon, dropped dead , in the pulpit from the bursting of a blood lat vessel In the head. At Spokanp, Washington, Frank Johnson on was charged with threatening to kill his wife. Bather than faoe the accusation he killed himself in the court room. 0 Vice-Pbesident Atlai E. Stevenson waa he (a special- guest at the World's Fair and a big crowd followed him into the various buildings. m? The Swiss exhibit at the World's Fair waa sr- closed by the Swiss Commissioner because of the arrest of one of the exhibitors by United States customs officers. la' Tornadoes did great damage to property en in Ohio. Michigan and Indiana, and at ns Louisville. Ey.; three men were killed and several Injured at Cleveland. The World's Fair National Commission a7 voted to adopt the Judiciary Committee's le, minority reoort in favor of Sunday opening, ed wrlliajc Sullivan, the Leech murderer. on has been lynched at Cirone. Mich. ,re The Exchange Bank In Tingley, Iowa, has suspended, and the cashier, Bobert Bennett, has left for, parts unknown. Deposits were received up to the day of closing. Depositors were badly victimized. ' 'Washington. The President and Mis. Cleveland gave a In reception at -the White House to the members of the Presbyterian General AasemDiy. . Tax President has appointed Kerr Cralge, ? of North Carolina, to be Third Assistant Port rd master-General. ui* Thi pulpits of the Presbyterian churches sn, in Washington were filled while the body was in session by commissioners to the General ^ Assembly. rj. Thi President made the following nominabe tions: Owen McGarry, of Tennesseo, to be [ng Secretary of Legation of the United States at m. Santiago, Chile; Michael J. Heidrlok, of New Hampshire, to be Consul of tne United so States at Fallsville, Canada. be The President has appointed ex-Governor )W John D. Long, of Massachusetts, a member ad of the Board of Visitors to '"le Naval Academy it In place of Governor William M??inley, of >m Ohio, who was unable to serve. Thi Navy Department has issued the long ?! expected order regarding the assignment of Admirals. Admiral Gherardi is ordered to 116 oommand the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Admiral Walker to go on three months' leave, Admiral jS Benham to oommand the North Atlantic Stalt_ tion, and Commodore Erben to command the European Station. ia_ Secbetaby Hebbebt assigned Commodore po Oscar F. Stanton as commander of the South Atlantic station. Pbesident and Mas. Cleveland entertained the Infanta Euialie at a State dinner in the White House. Tas President appointed Samuel Black3e well, of Alabama, Third Auditor of the Treasury. The friendly mediation of the United 3r~ States, exercisad through Secretary Greshom, m, has averted a serious rupture between the ed Governments of Japan and Corea. 0f Secbetabt Cahlisle decided that foreign exhibitors at the World's Fair cannot import > into this country free of duty food products on for their own consumption. The case came le- up on the application of certain exhibitors from Java to import such products for their ed use. Other foreign exhibitors had also preled ferred like requests, m ly' Foreign. he A new ukase has been issuod expelling the to Hebrews from the Asiatic provinces of Russia. The Italian Ministers resigned their portfolios on account of the budget. Brazilian Government troops were drawn into an ambuscade in Rio Grande do Sul and fie then routed by the insurgent force. Advices from Japan say that the volcano 0(j Bandaisan has become active and that widespread disaster has been caused by its erup?l tions. e(* Kmpebob Wixliam, ot Germany, issued a statement that he is in supreme command of ,r(j the army only in time of war, implying that ^ he will not coerce the soldier vote. 5^ The Brazilian war vessel AJmirante Baragl roso was wrecked near Has Gharob, a port in ia_ the Gulf of Suez, and is a total loss. The demonstration of the Irish National iir- League in Great Britain in Hyde Park, Lon$le don, was an enthusiastic affair. About 250.int 000 persons were present, and delegates attended from all branches of the League in io- the United Kingdom. Premier Giolitti has returned to power in Italy, having formed a Cabinet which, with two exceptions, is the same aa the old one. The epidemic of smallpox is increasing in . Gothenburg, Germany. Twenty-four persons have already died from the disoase, and r. the schools and the colleges are closed for fear of infection. L3- -^L ,e- TMMTflT?. A NTS TTTTS YEAR. ol" Report of the Chief of the Bureau of :es Statistics Issued. rer of The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that during the twelve months ended April V" 30th, 82,368 immigrants arrived at the porta re( of the United States. Of this number, 14,380 ar- were from Italy, 12,224 from Germany, 9271 from Sweden an? Norway, and 9280 from Ire.07 land. The number that arrived during the corresponding pariod of the preoeding year was 78,006. ? ' ' . .t.'?* s ' . K. 'V i' -, mm o? mm TEE NEW YORK SMASHES AIL SPEED RECORDS. She Reels Off 83.3 Knots In Three Minutes Less Than Four Hours and Wins More Than $200,000 in Prize Money for the Cramps?No -Perceptible Vibrations. A dispatch from Gloucester, Mass., aay? The United States cruiser New York triumphantly upheld, on her trial trip, her title to be called the fleetest war vessel in the world. Over a measured coarse of 82.65 knots the magnificent ship steamed at the astounding speed of 2L07 knots an hour, winning forher builders the largest premium ever paid in any country. ' When twenty-one knots was predicted as the speed (or the new cruiser many hoped buf few believed her engines would ever be able to drive such an immense mass of steel through the water at such a rate. Her performance will be echoed from one end oI T* - 4UA U nlfl/uia Mta TTn4fo^ - IiltruJIQ VJ U1B UVUW, l\jl it yunv^a nra uiunu States In the van among* the navies of the world, and gives us not only the most powerful, but the swiftest armored cralsing vessel. There has been great enthusiasm in England over the performance of the cruisers vBlake and Blenheim, some claiming that the latter has attained a speed of twenty-two knots. In the first place tness vessels are not. armored, but simply protected by four inch decks over machinery and boilers. Even equal speed from them, therefore, would be nothing remarkable against a vessel carry- . ing, in addition to a six-inch protective deck, a five-inch side belt and two turrets, each eleven inches thick. In thd second place neither of these vessels has ever had an official trial overa measured course. The Blike broke down from leaky boilers, after reaching a speed of 19.7 knots ' in shoal water and developing only 18,000 horse power, while the Blenheim was gauged only by a patent log, which, it is claimed, in- . dicated 22X knots. This same instrument on board the New York showed a speed on her trial trip of twenty-three knots, and the difference between that and the actual distance covered is a proof of how unreliable patent logs are as official tests. ' >; The course lay between Cape Ann and Cape Porpoise, a distance of 41.65 miles,with a . . number of tugs and -othec-vessels stationod at intervals to mark the time and observe the ^ force and direction of the current The New York passed the "Vesuvius, the southernmost vessel of the line, at 9:40, with her engines' making 130 revolutions per minute and her steam pressure at 165 pounds. Tffls gradually increased to 135 revolutions and 170 pounds, which was. maintained throughout the run. The Nina was passed , at 9:46, the Bennington at 10 :05, the Fein at 10 21, the, Fortune at 10 the lajtea. at 11:05 and the Kearsage at 1125. This was just one-half the required'distance and was made in just two houre. 'The cruiser now made a long turn and ran tar the < f line, going to the soulhw.tni. . She passed the vessels as follows: Kearage. 11; Ley- ' den, 12:04; Fortune, 12 27; Fern. 12:48; ' Bennington, 1j01; Nina, 1:20; Vesuvius, 'w* 141. The return trip was made in cne hour and thirty-seven minutes. The firat ran was at the rate of 20 ?8, tne second at"21 &5, giving Hi as an average 21 ?9 knots. The horse power developed was 17,000. She steamed 88.3 nautical miles in threo hours fifty-seven minutes and forty-flva seconds, making an average of 21.09 knots . per hour. A feature of the run was the absence of any perceptible vibration in the great war- ;V ship, though her bow wave was fully eight feet In height, and the water fell upon each side of her cutwater like a torrent from Ml- . agara. Another peculiarity was the stern wave, walch was pronounced by experts the most remarkable ever seen in this country. Standing upon the quarter and .looking off, the water was churned into foam as far as the eye could reach, and this extended about twenty feet beyond the vessel on each side. The extreme velocity with which the New York went through the water would make, it was thought, a wave of great height, Dot so fine were the lines of the cruiser that tt was scarcely more than five feet from crest to hollow. Small as this was, however, the diver gence of tbe'water'was someumig amazing, and whenever a tugwas passed it was almost swamped from the swash. > The marvelous record made may be still increased, lor there was a current setting on : an angle of forty-five degrees to the course, . and when the corrections are added it is fair to presume that the speed will be something In the neighborhood of 2L16 knots. Of one thing the Cramps are sore?of receiving a premium jof (200,000, the largest ever paid any shipbuilding arm in the world. ITS TENTH BIRTHDAY. Traffic Over Brooklyn Bridge During the First Decade. The tenth anniversary of the opening of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge was celebrated by a display of flags on the lofty sum* mlts of the towers in commemoration of the date which marked the initial use of the suapended highway Unking the two great dties, both of which have nearly doubled in size since it was completed. The receipts of the bridge In the ten years from all sources have been about (10,000,000, and the traffic has far surpassed the calculations of the engineers and projectors of the enterprise. The first cost oi the bridge was $15,000,000, and some $5,000,000 has since been expended upon it. One-half of the receipts of $10,000,000 has been spent on the . maintenance of the structure and the other half on improvements. . . In round figures 280,000,000 passengers 1 have been carried on the Bridge cars, the ' number increasing from 8,000,000 In 1884 to more than 40,000,000 last year. Before 1891, when the promenade was made free, only 3,000,000 foot passengers had crossed the Bridge. Since then, although no record Is kept, it Is estimated that more than 35,000,000 have walked across. From roadway tolls, now only half what they formerly were, $80,000 a year is received. From car fares more than f1,250,000 was received last year. By improvements soon to be made in the terminal facilities, with new tracks and platforms, it is calculated the passenger traffic of the Bridge will be nearly doubled.' NO TONGS BIG MOTOR It Took Sixteen Horses to Move Th<? Lump or coax. Sixteen horsed hitched tandem yanked Washington's prize chunk of ooal from the sidetrack to the State building at the World's Fair. The lamp weighed more than twentyfive tons, the exact figures being 50.250 pounds. It came from the mines at Boslyn. The moving of this massive exhibit required much skill. Great planks were put under the truok wheels, which were as. wide In tire as thick In diameter. There were four wheel horses abreast, with four more hooked to the tongue and four pairs of other power- , ful Clydesdales In the lead. When the word _ was given the eight drivers lashed the horaeo, the animals bending with drawn muscle*. The great load moved reluctantly, but once under way the horsss moved at a canter. Frequently the wheels went down in the hard road to the hubs. ENDED THEIB LIVES, A Mother and Daughter Oppressed by Poverty Commit Suicide. Oppressed by poverty, a mother and het daughter ended their lives with poison at their home near Norrlstown, Pcnn. i moo Rnr+nn ?n(i her daughter* lived Allot ? ? o? at North Wales and were very poor. The daughter earned $5 working In a web factory, and this was the main support of the two women. Worn out by their efforts to , make a living they determined to die. From the meagre evidence before the Coroner, it seemed tha! the mother first gave strychnine to her daughter and then took the poison herself, and both dl?d in a short time. Fob the first time In manj years there will be an excess of vacancies in the list of naval officers when the members of the six years' class of cadets are graduated from the Annapolis (Md.) Naval Academy.