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i BUDDHISM. THE RELIGION OF JAPAN, BURHAH, SI AM AND KOREA. Wonderful Temples and Queer Priests of This Sect?One Japanese Temple That Will Cost $8,000,000?Missionary Work. IT will be a surprise to many, writes Frank G. Carpenter in the New York Press, to know that there is a strong Buddhist revival going on in the Japanese Empire. They even talk of sending missionaries to the United States and to the Asiatic countries, including unina ana norea and India. Buddhism is the religion of Siam, Burmah, Japan and Korea. It has millions of followers in Ohina and In. dia. In Japan alone there are 72,000 Buddhist temples. In the city of Kioto, which is about as big as Washington, there are 3500 temples devoted to this religion. Some of the most gorgeous temples iu the world are the wonderful/fciruotures in which Buddha is worshipped at Bankok in Siam. At Bangopa, in Burmah, is the famous i structure known as the Qolden Pagoda, ' wtffch is said to rest over several of the liaiw which came from Buddha's head. --v_. " Thitf temple is a mountain of gold, or rather of briok and stone plastered over with gold leaf. Built upon a mighty platform, its base is about a quarter of a mile in ciroumference, from whioh these terraces of gold go upward in bell-like stories to a height almost as i great as the Washington Monument. I jMRfe^x BEGGING PRIES . It lias a base of fourteen acres, and on its top is a great golden umbrella, to the ribs of which jewels are hang. The whole of this rast structure is plated 1 with sold. It is hundreds of years \ old, and it has been plated again and again, and there are, undoubtedly, 1 *' millions of dollars' worth of metal r mixed with its brick and plaster. One i Sing of Burmah vowed that ne would i give his weight in gold to this monu- I ment if Buddha would grant him 1 something that he wanted. Buddha 1 accepted the proposition. At least his i wish *as realized, and when he hopped i on the imperial scales it is said that he i registered 170 pounds. The vow coat ] him just about $45,000 in gold leaf. This great monument is now being re- 1 gilded., t I visited temples in China which 1 contained thousands of little gold Buddhas. There is one at Nanking in 1 whinh T anw in.000 cods under one i roof. Some of them were very small ( gods, and all were plated with gold ( leaf. c Perhaps the finest and costliest i church that is being erected in the 1 world to-day, is the Higashi Hong- I wanji Temple, in Kioto. When it is c finished it will have cost, all told, 1 something like 98,000,000. Think of 1 that! Eight million dollars for a e ohuroh! J don't believe we have one i in the United. States that has cost as c much, and I know we have none that c have been boilt in saoh a carious way. e A large part of it has been the work c of charity. The carpenters, the carv- c era and other artists came from all e parts of the country and worked a certain number of weeks for nothing. It has been about fifteen years in buiding. When I first saw it six years ago there were forty aores of sheds about it, in which hundreds of carpenters were'cutting up great logs, which had been imported from the Island of Formosa, into boards, while i /f^isi OLD PEOPLE OP JAP AS. hundreds of carvers were turning < other logs into works of fine art. i Everything was done by hand. Immense beams, such as would be a load ior a team of Norman horses, were being carried up to the top of the structure by women and men. A road about fifteen feet wide had been built rtnnn a nonffnldinnr. mftfeincr&n inclined ?o j o ? ? plane running clear to the roof of the 'structure. A hundrd or bo men would catch hold of one of these logs and carry it np on their backs. There was then, and there is still, an immense goaffolding about the temple made of thousands of poles tied together with ropes. These poles were of all sizes, from that of a fishing rod up to a telegraph pole. They looked very inv secure to me, bat I was told that they were perfeotly safe, and all of the scaffolding used by the Japanese is made in this way. Think of building a structure costing millions of dollars S ? WAKIXG UP BUDDHA. From a Sketch Made by a Native ArtiBt. without derricks or machinery of any kind. When I first visited this temple the logs were being dragged about from one place to another with great cables of brownish-black, in which, here and there, you oould see threads of white. The ropes looked very curious to me, and I asked what they were. I was told that they were made of the hair of women who had cut off their locks and given them for this purpose as an offering to Buddha. Over 200, 000 women oat off their hair to make these ropes. Some of them were as big around as your leg, others were no thioker than a clothes-line. These ropes have now been all oolleoted together. They are wrapped up in great coils on the portico which runs around the temple, and they will be kept as one of its treasures. Mot long ago a section of the rope was sent to the National Museum at Washington, ITS OF JAPAN. ,? where it may now be Been in one of the cases of that institution. Japan has the biggest Baddhas of ;he world. One in a park at Nara, lot far from the old oapital, Kioto, is he largest. The statue is in a temple ialler than any New York flat. There ire dozens of gold gods all about it some of these gods, though eighteen feet high, look like pygmies beside the great image, which sits with its legs crossed and bis right hand upifted on a pedestal above them. A :ence prevented me from taking measurements, but the priests told me it .vas fifty-three feet in height. This Buddha is over a thousand years old. The other great Buddha is that at fomakura, which has been written ibout by nearly every traveler who ias gone to Japan. Some of these Buddhist temples lave enormous incomes. There is one ight near the new temple I have IfBcribed which takes in about $200,)00 a year, and this church has fre[uently raised in one year from half i million to a million dollars. It is cnown as the Nishi Hongwandi tem>Ie, and it is a wonder in the richness >f its interior decoration. It has mndreds of rooms walled with gold eaf, and it contains hundreds of ' creens painted by the old Japanese ; nasters. A famous left-handed artist >f Japan, Jingoro, did most of the sarving within it, and it is ceiled in ome places with blaok and gold lao[uer, and its trimmings are of won lerfully carved brass. It has a bell dmost as big as a small seaside cot- 1 age, and this is rung by a big log of rood, which is hang outside of the ' >ell to a rope, and can be pulled back 10 that it will strike the "bell on the -ebound. It has one audience room yhich takes nearly 1000 yards of mat* 1 ing to cover it, and the brass lanterns rhich hang from the great rafters of :his room are each as big as a hogs* lead. j There are many Buddhist sects in rapan. They all believe in Buddha, jut they have different doctrines and lifferent modes of worship. There x ? ii j b one t>eci wuiuu tseu meuu-iuo auu sharms which will protect you against joughB, consumption, the devil or the imallpox. They sell all kinds of Band, xrhich is supposed to make the limbs )f the dead soft and flexible, ao they :an be easily doubled in the boxlike joffins which are used by the Japanese. Fhese are known as the Tendi sect, md they have between four and five thousand temples in Japan. The Monto sect, the Nichiren and the Jodo sect may be called the three most powerful branches of the Japanese Buddhists. The Montos worship \mida Buddha, and they say that earnest prayer, noble thoughts and good works are the elements of their faith. It is to this sect, I think, that these two big temples which I have described belong. It has also immense ?. 1? rn.i.:. J lempiub iu lu&iu uuu cidcvyucio. auo Nichiren sect are the shouting worshipers of the faith. They are violent and noisy, and they think that all other sects except themselves go straight to hell. The Jodo sect do not eat flesh, and they insist that their priests should not marry. They pray without ceasing, and spend a great part of their time squatting before bells of wood and brass, on which they pound in order to wake up the gods. About the Buddhist temples are little wooden gods for babies' diseases, t I r4 around which children's bibs are tied. There are other gods which are supposed to help babies in teething. There are some whioh are good for the stomaoh ache and others which will oore sore eyes. In some of the temples are sacred pomes wnicn you may feed with holy beans at one cent'; a plate and gain religions credit thereby. These are, I think, however, more connected with the Shinto temples. There is a famous white horse at the temples of Ise which is supposed to be gifted with supernatural powers. According to the stories current in Japan, he has a good deal to do with the warlike matters of the empire, for after the Satsuma rebellion he disappeared and did not come back for three days. His return on the third day was considered very propitious of the success of the Emperor's cause. During the present struggle with China he disappeared again, and after ten days returned looking fresh and welL The prophets of Japan state that this indicated Japan's victories over China, and that the hostilities would last three times as long as the Satsuma rebellion. TKo io nn noTt nf iVio Tilftaf: xrVlOTA the missionaries do more work than in Japan, and they have Btirred the Buddhists into aotion. Many of the Japanese do not like the idea that their country should be a field for missionary labors, and some of the people think that such mission work as is done should be done by native pastors. Not long ago the question j of foreign missions oame up in Parliament, and it was argued from one standpoint that the missionaries ought to be tolerated because they brought a great deal of money into the country. It was stated in the papers at that time that there were 650 forfcign missionaries in Japan, and they average at least $100 per month, making a t.nful nf ftfifi.ono n?r month SDent bv the missionaries. It will thus be seen that the Christian churches annually spend in Japan at least $780,000 a year, and these expenditures, the native papers thought, ought to be encouraged. They stated that there were 40,000 Christians among the Japanese, and there were 1200 Japan* ese pastors. The missionaries in Japan are, in reality, doing a great deal oi earnest work. A Fanny Little Drawing Lesson. n \J Two carves, like two slokiee, Are set on their ends, The hollow pnrt laolng within; 1 Above and below a straight line extends, With whloh you oan stop or begin. Sk Outside of these curves, You may place two curves more, Or inside, as best suits your liking, On the straight upper line that was drawn heretofore, / ?n ? 1WU ecus uiuo a uicuon nunc guuuug.j Jast under these ears, You two circles may trace. And draw little diameters through ; I much lose my guaas if you don't get a fa?e And two eyes staring at you. fou may now take your pencil A.nd touch in a shadeMake two tallons anl feathers a few? [ would tell you his name, bat I'm really afraid [f I did, he would hollow out Hoo! ?Isabel McElheny. In Mall and Express. Mice in the House. To keep the dwelling house, kitchen, pantry, cellar, etc., free from mioe is not an especially difficult task. Mice are easily enticed to enter traps, and. traps are cheap, or may be made without expense. A simple figure-four trap, baited with cheese or a pumpkin' seed, is a3 good a trap as is yet de-. vised, and costs nothing except a min-' ute's time in making and setting it.' Another simple attaij, quicKiy made and eet on an instant, is a plate and bowl trap. Take a common dinner plate; cut a little strip of hiokory or A SIMPLE MOUSE TRAP. other hard, pliable wood, say half an inch wide, an eighth of an inch thick and six inches long. Bend it together double, put a piece of cheese between the ends, and tie it thus with wire or string. Then lay it in the plate and plaoe an inverted bowl over it, 60 that the edge will rest on the rounded part of the stick. Mice like to go on plates. When the cheese is touched and moved, the bowl slips off and down flat upon the plate, shutting the mouse up tightly underneath. Take the trap out, hold it over a barrel or tub of water, and let the mouse come out. It jumps into the water, and oan easily be dispatched. Then reset the trap. ?Farm and Fireside. A oompany composed mainly of Amerioane was recently formed lor cultivation of ooffee in Mexico. i =7 Probing for a Ballet by Electricity. [ One of the most important recent inventions in surgery is the iel aphonic probe, the discovery of Dr. Wells, a surgeon in the United States service. This probe, says the New York World, is designed for nse in the onre of epilepsy, the strange malady whi>jli has so long puzzled the medical profession. It had been recognized that epilepsy! was in many cases the result of the presence of a foreign substance in the ifl J? A "^1 ?- a THE TELEPHONE PBOBE. A.?Battery. B.?Ear-piece or Beoeivor. C.?Probe Extractor. brain, sach as a sliver of skull or a piece of a bullet. But operation among the tissues of the brain in the effort to find such a substance was dangerous work, from which many surgeons shrunk, 'though it was justified in extreme cages. To poke an instrument about the interior folds of the brain in the effort to find a small fragment of foreign substance was not only dangerous, but in moat cases fruitless. This 'has now been obviated by the telephonic probe, which instantly tells the operator when he has touched the 1 foreign substance, and then, by an ingenious mechanical arrangement, the probe, without, being moved from its position, opens and grasps the frag ment, which is quiokly removed. In connection with the diamond drill for operation on the skull, this discovery has enormously advanoed brain surgery. It consists of three parts. First, there is the probe, which is gently insinuated through the tissues; second, a little pocket battery connected with the ear-piece, and third, the ear-piece itself, which is exactly like the corresponding part of a telephone. The detective and extractive powers of this apparatus are said to be infallible, and the extraordinary fineness : of its work is particularly serviceable in trie Drain, wnose tissues are so eas! ily damaged, and where, naturally, the very least amount of laceration is ! desirable. An Anecdote or Babiostein. A well-known woman once aaked Bubinstein, the famous pianist, for a ticket to one of his concerts. "Madame," he replied, "I have only one eeat in my disposition. But if you do not object to occupying it I shall gladly give it to you." The happy woman asked where it was. ' "At the piano," replied thtf great .musician, with a bow.?Chicago Rec ord. ,.. New Zealand's Woman Mayor. Hero is a picture of Mrs. Yates, the first woman ever elected to the office, of Mayor in any part of the British; Dominions. She is at the head of the local government in the town of Onehunga, in the colony of New Zealand. New 2!ealand recently bestowed the Parliamentary franchise on duly qualified electors of the fair sex, and also make it legal for women to hold any municipal offices. Onehunga is distant bnt eight miles from Auckland, m ... I: i ' 9 i MBS. YATES^ ONEHUNGA S MAYOB. across the narrow isthmus of the North Island. It is q flourishing little town of 3000 or 4000 people, mostly engaged in the timber trade. A Great Pedestrian. Arthur J. Balfour^ tftlo Conservative leader in the British House of Commons, is a great pedestrian, but he will carry neither stick nor umbrella ART HUB J. BALFOUR. .11 > in any sort of weather. He is often seen with imperturbable face, his long legs tramping through the rain at a lively pace. J HAIRDRESSING. \ THE NEWEST ARRANGEMENTS . IN WOMAN'S HAIR. Coiftures Are Parted and Full Colls Arc Worn Low On the Ncclt ?Certain Styles Suit Certain Faces. TTT HE hats have revolutionized I hairdressing. It is a bit I B i A 1- T ? J comiorting 10 imnii, iiuwr;v 6 er, that there will not be a total revolution in style, for Frer.ch hats rarely Bait English faces, and English bonnets are seldom chosen by Americans. The poke bonnet which has such uglifying or beautifying possibilities originated in France and it is but natural to infer it will appear in New York. Indeed, it has made its advent already, saye the New York Telegram. The thing that most concerns 'she woman of to-day in the fashionable line is the new arrangement of ;he hair. The bewitchment in jetty looks and golden curls is really not merely an agreeable romance of poets. Every woman can practically prove the transa nrwiffnrn u^uiiu^ vua&iu yj*. ?* and diecorer for herself the magical effect of increasing or decreasing her apparent age by different ways of ' dressing her hair. 3 No. 1, in the donble colnmn illus- . tration, shows the coiffare mnoh be- < praised by man. It seems to be < ideally feminine to wear one's tresses < arranged with a parting. It is mnoh 1 in vogne now, but the only woman < who oan afford to dress her hair in ' this Madonna-like mode is one who i has the face of a St. Cecelia or one 11 with regularly modelled features, 11 "'hO i HO^' VARIOUS STYLES I! whose lines have all the exquisite i softness and tenderness characteristic 1 of happy youthfulness. Unhappily, t a Vioi? <1?OQninflP IB fllA m nsf. 1 VUIO OWJiO VA UUU vuvuv*Mg ?**W ? ? ? trying of all ways. It apparently < adds years to the actual age. If the 1 face is long, it makes its lengh more conspicuous. If the brow is low, it givos heaviness and seems to detract from the spirituality and intellectual- j ity of the countenance. ( No. 2 gives a profile view of a pretty ( modification of the parted coiffure. ? The hair is waved from the front, and j a few light curls grace the forehead j The full, low coil is especially adapted ^ for day wear and the present style of millinery. It should be avoided, if not absolute] v shunned, by the woman whose nose is inolined to be small and "tip-tilted, like a flower," as some sweetly humane poet pats it. No. 3 is among the latest styles for evening wear. It is neither high nor low, and graoefully fulfils the requirements of fashion. This arrangement of the hair is especially felicitous for an angular faoe, whioh needs the waves and carls and coils to give it softness and subdue haid lines. Although the prevailing tendency for hair dressing is herewith set forth, it behooves every woman to consider he? individual needs in arranging her "prowaof gldry" and to individualize [on to suit the shape of her fteftd aqd tide modelling of her face. Nt>, 4 is a modification of No. 3. It gives ^ greater height, retaining a ' suggestion of ttie style 01 iasx season, and yet not losing the indefinable air 1 of being quite up to date. ! The tendency of the hour is to wear , false hair aud flamboyant arrangements in the shape of puffs and skele- 6 ton coils to give the impression of luxuriant tresses. Of course, to be in harmony with the flaring, flaunting sleeves, skirts and frills that are the r vogue, it was an artistic necessity to 4 add width, breadth, depth and all di-t * mensions to the head or it would look f exceedingly small and out of propor- j tion. A FAVORITE COLOB. , One of the favorite colors tins sea- t son is a warm purple shade with an t admixture of faint pink, exactly the o tint which a few years since was t called puce, and proved such a be- r coming background to those who re- f joiced in golden locks and a clear ( complexion. Of course, petunia, as it t is now called, shows to greatest advan- s tage in miroir velvet, corded silk, or t otner rich fabrics which permit of i lights and shadows, falling upon the e folds so that they blend iu an exquisite harmony. This color is much in request for theatre gowns. a h PINK-LINED VEILS. p Simplicity in veils is decidedly passe, n Most of the new ones are trimmed a with either lace, ribbon or jet?some o in plain net have a ruffle of lace about v an inch and a half wide, headed with n rows of narrow ribbon, not unlike si those used in our mothers' flirtation g days. a Again, coarse net veils are lined n with pink chiffon, thereby lending the ^ ' - V' VC ' V p \ sints of youth to an otherwise ordinary complexion. WIDE BELTS. Wide belts are among the noveltieis :o allure feminines who delight in lecorative fallals. Some of these jirdles are almost as wide and deep is a bodice. The "Butterfly" belt is imong the prettiest of these adornments. It is made in a variety of materials. The most elegant com* bination is in satin ribbon of any jolor. The "Butterfly," which does StJTTEBPIiT BELT OF CBY8TALS AND PEARLS. laty as a buckle, is entirely composed if a pearl and orystal or jet butterfly, is is preferred. The carve of the [rings is especially adaptable and be* loming to the blonse fronts in chiffon, rhe belt is finished with a rosette in the back. Everything in nature has been plagiarised?not even the cabbage has escaped, for the little orna s "0 t NO 3 tf TTATTmPP.SSTVrt mental "choux" bows are modeled ifter this hnmble vegetable. Fashion jeeks inspiration everywhere, and the tvonder is what next in nature will be :ounterfeited in the modes of the) lour. FRENCH TAILOR-MADE JACKET. The illustration shows a close-fitting jacket bodice in fawn-colored faced sloth, trimmed with pointed lapels ind wristlets in oWbstnut brown moire >ilk. Binding and gauntlets are in )lain bengaline. Wavy brown braid lipped with trefoils accentuates the jores and the seams at the back, which A TAILOR-MADE JACKET. extend as flutings below the waist, the emaining part of the waist being noulded*to the figure. Large torioiseshell buttons are used. Cravat lie and upstanding collar in brown lilk. Black velvet toque and quills. EMBROIDERED CHIFFON FOR TRIMMING. Tlie popularity of diaphanous trimning fabrics cont'nues, and embroid:red chiffon is one of the fanoies of he moment. Black chiffon embroid;red in gold, blue, pink, pale-green, ndeed all shades of color, is much iked for trimming black dresses. A )lack satin waist is almost covered rith chiffon about a quarter of a yard ride. The ground of this is black, he edge is embroidered in pink, and iny rosebuds in pink with green leaves ire scattered over it. Some of these rimmings are close fitting, others are uffled and set on with just enough ulines9 to make them graceful. Primped and plaited chiffon comes by he yard and is very easy to use, beides furnishing ingenious women with 1'- f a a rl in of on?1 ? rran cre> lit! UJ)[)UIVUUU,' ?- o~ n novel and becoming fashions these xquisite garnitures. reign of tee enormous sleeve. Sleeves now extend straight out on level with the shoulders, forming a lorizontal liue, which from the two projecting points of the sleeves often leasure two yards across. Fortuntely these excresences are pliable, iherwise people in the public coneyances would be seriously incomloded by the present fashions. This (juared effect of the shoulders is reatly enhanced by the straight tabs nd berthas which, are now worn and rhich extend out ovot the sleeves 'ithout any folds. V ; ' }? ' * SSoS y' f 'l' V ^ ^ AAT MB AM) ABRDAB LATE DOMESTIC AND FOB. HON TELEOBAPHIC NEWS. H Two Men Capture an Express Me* senger and Three Other Men Neai v/iiumwa, m.?^uiuhrub now Scourge ? Slam's New Crows Prince?PTav^Jo Indians Starring; I Chicago, Burlington and Qulncy train No. 4, a throagli passenger express from Denvur to Chicago, was robbed near 0t> tumwa, 111., a few nights ago. > The train consisted of six pazsengec coachee, an express car, a mall oar and a baggage car. Ja.<* before It slowed up at Ohilllcothe, asmtill station, at 6 o'clock p. m., two rough-lo:: king strangers were seen hanging around 120 station. Immediately af;er the train contlnned on Its way east thd men disappeared. They' had jumped upon the rear platform of the express car. The train had barely left Ohllllcothe when one of the men opened the express car door and presented a revolver at the head of John Page, who was In charge of the ear. In, the car with Page were his helper, Luwis Hawk, and Baggageman Ed. Wright. The other robber covered these two. Banging them up in line along the side of the car, one of the robbers ooverod them with a revolver In each hand, and the other proceeded to bind and gag their victims. The ropee and materials tor this purpose the; took from a bag which one of them carried. ,. This done, the robbers leisurely proceeded to *: rifle the express safe. They damped everything it contained ol valne Into the bag from which tbey took the ropes and gags,,meanwhile scoffing at the prisoners. When they had secured oil there apparently was of vatae they calmly awaited the arrival of the train at the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul crossing, near Albia, where It slowed up, and they jumped off J with their bqoty. ? The mall car was the next in the rear of . I the express car. but do attempt was made to 1 enter it. While they were at work on the express sale a mail clerk came into the ex- t Eress air to speak to Page. He was also eld up . by one of the robbers, while the other bound and gagged him like the rest. How much the robbers secured was not known, as the expressman himself did not know what the value of the contents of the safe was. But it reached at least $10,000. " The Tombstone Maniac." A mysterious Individual, who has been properly named "Jack, the Tombstone - Maniac," has been working expensive havoo among the cemeteries in the vi- ' clnity of Clarksville, Penn. One night two of the handsomest and mort expensive monuments In the Clarksville Cemetery were found shattered Into an unrecognizable mass. The next night the same individual entered the Jackson Cemetery and destroyed five tombstones and monuments. He again wrought havoo in the Clorksvilje : Cemetery by tumbling over and breaking twenty-three handsome headstones, monu* ments and footstones, some ot them In three' or four pieces. Marks on the broken stones indicate that an axe was used. The theory Is that the vandal Is a lunatic escaped from a near-by asylum, who was seen about two weeks ago , In that vidnity. The loss 1s estimated as b?tween seven and ten thousand dollars. Chicago's We-w Scourge. Thousands of Chicagoans a re suffering from ' a new disease, much resembling the grip, but with some characteristics which that afllic- ;:;v Hon lacks. It begins with a feverish feeling, \V-' which localizes In the nose and throat. , i. This is accompanied by grip-like pains In H the back, chest and head, and an order by . the physician to take to one's bed. Th? -y:'?. prostration usually lasts for forty-eight hours. Bnt with returning strength comes inflammation of the bronchial tubes, which compels one to expectorate continually and is accompanied by a short, distressing, hacking cougb. No medicine seems " to alleviate one's suffering, and only such drugs as morphine and other soporifics give. : any relief by inducing sleep. Bride and Bridegroom Killed. ^ As a party of young folks were returning . : from the wedding ot Jacob Moss and' Miss 6iary uveneese at juaoanon, mo., tnair sleigh was strnex by a passenger train on the Midland Ball- > way at a road crossing. The bride . was killed instantly and the bridegroom died about an boar alter being taken to 7 Lebanon. The other oooupanta of the v-\ sleigh were Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McDabs, of Darlington, Ind., John Abrahams and John McPadden. All were badly hurt. Navajo Indiana Starving. Seoretary Carlisle and Indian Commissioner Browning have advised Coaxress to appropriate $25,000 for the relief of the Navajo Indians of New Mexico. Agent Williams has reported that the Indians' crops have failed for two or three years, that their stock ranges have been exhausted and that they have been compelled to invade Utah and kill cattle and sneep to ke>p from starvation. Ohio Families Destitute. AU I mm ft n /^AwUiMtn A 9 iha V alaAM w(11 n UUdUJUUdU vuuiuai/) vi iuv iiguvuvtuo (Ohio) Belief Committee, has telegraphed Governor McKinley that 1215 familes la mining districts of the Hocking and Shawnee Valleys are In actual need, and that many other points are yet to be heard from. Governor McKinley wired that the Cincinnati Chamber ot Commerce would send a carload of provision. Chopped His Wife to Bits. Hayward Graham chopped his wife to bits wlthan az at his home hear Lucy, Tenn. The murderer fled, but was captured after being olubbed into Insensibility, and lodged In tne Memphis jail. For a Statue of De Lesseps. The Government of Colombia has issued a decree providing tor the ereotlon at Panama of a statue in honor of the late Couut Ferdinand De Lessees. the Droiector of the Pan* ma Canal. Slam's New Crown Prince. The King of Slam has replied to the petition of the nobles that he will proclaim Cowfa Maha Vapriravat, the eldest son of the second Queen, Crown Prince. WOLCOTTBETUBNED. Re-elected United States Senator | From Colorado. The Colorado Hoase and Senate met in joint legislative session at Denver and reelected Edward 0. Wolcott to the United States Senate. Lafe Pence, the nominee of EDWARD Ow WOLCOTT. . N the Populist party, received a complimentary vote lrom the members of th?t party in the Assembly. Charles 8. Thoruos also received a complimentary vote. The vote was as follows: Wolcott, 57; Pence, 39; Thomas, 3. iNTKBXATioifAL yachting and athletio matohes are now talked about, so (t can be seen that the oomlng season of outdoor sports will probably eclipso all previous records. 4 '