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SI THAT MIRROR: 'by h. *. b. hebtzbebfl. eH In the room B? Of your soul ?? Hangs a mirror H Whose reflections you BB Cannot escape. The things indestructible, and tho' EjH You maf try, by greasing |2fl Its surface |pl (VVi' the suds of soft soap!) SBLTo render its task unavailing, WlJehold, sir, the grease will not stick. That mirror H Is conscience, iW And. mind, it preserves 99 Distinctly each picture R9 It ever has taken IH Of you and your deeds. [^ Turning your eyes gWjAway from it helps you Sj^fNot in the least; J^PsSimply because your SaBEyes will not stav turned Thus, but instead must Yield to the mighty M B^'383'5 attraction, Face it, and see. | KM-What makes the mirror'a M^/'Pictures so fearful EKs that they show all the |^B?ins of vou-nude; i^kd .i.a: |^>cirtr ui me ciuixuus ustoni and tolerance Kindly have lent them But in the world? Bhow all the sins of Tou shorn of the background Df other men's sins. put in the world here [Surely this background, Being of color And substance alike, Tones down and dwarfs Your own villainy's ligure. Only the mirror Conscience that hangs In the room Of your soul Gives you no background, Gives you no clothing, Gives you reflections Terribly naked? Gives you reflections You cannot escape. ?New York Journal. tali's Chimney years before when g ' ' h^| Solomon Green bad asked 1 F 11 I T'rzail Hitchcock to beP 11 J come the second Mrs. i Wa Green she had tartly resed the honor. "I ain't much of a tftuty," she had told him, "but no armed-over affection fur me, thank u. Solomon Green." Solomon had reasoued all in vain. "Why, Tirzah," he pleaded, "it ain't ways natural fur wimmen to Hve one. Every mornir.' your chimbly the first thing I look at, an' if I asn't to see the smoke a comin' out ' it, I'd be scared to death thinkin' >u was robbed, or killed or sunthin'. "What's the use in us keepin' up Iro houses when one would do jest as ell?" Since that time the two had hardly :changed a dozen words. Solomon id not married, neither had Tirzah, .J iu now 011 uie uigui ueiore xaer ior9th birthday she sat looking around ?r orderly little home with the most ?solate feeling at her heart she had lown for years. To-morrow would be her birthday, iechanically she had gone through a >w preparations for that rather duious festival. The smallest hen from er flock was curled up ready for >asting inside the same pan in which er hens had been roasted for the last fteen years. A green apple pie sat i the pantry shelf beside a sour cream )ice cake, while a plate of mealy tarts as waiting patiently the filling of rape jelly to be theirs on the mor>w. Never before, at that season of the ear, had Tirzah's hens been laying > well. Her cow had never been known to Ive so large a yield of milk. There 'ere three new kittens in the basket ehind the kitchen stove, and her inary bird was the loudest singer in 11 the village. But for all this Tirzah us not satisfied. She had heard that day that the wid. wed cousin who usually kept house >r Solomon Green had unexpectedly larried. ur course cms was notning to Tlrzaii, ut still?here she snilTeil two or three ;mes, and then, without a particle of xplanation to the astonished cat. who ad come forth demanding her allownee of milk, sat down in her cane?ated rocker and burst out crying. For five minutes she cried, and then he dropped her apron and looked uiltily about. A thought had just intruded itself pon her which she considered in the ght of a secret crime. Over and over gain, despite herself, she rehearsed olomon's proposal; each word as it ad been spoken, until, suddenly, like tie handwriting upon the wall, there food forth these words: "Every mornig your chimbly is the first thing I )ok at " Had he meant it? Did he still turn is eyes with the coming of morning glit down the little hill which lay etween them? Did her lonely chim ey still claim his thoughtful care? Five minutes later the dark plot ras formed and Miss Tirzah was burying about her preparations for the i^ht with cheeks that burned witL res she had thought long since gone ct forever. Tlia fnllArrln'r mn^ninrp m r\yr\ ficfnn. XUC iVJIV" UiU; UiUl V UOlWii' shed creatures there could not be than rere the kittens, eat, cow, hens and anary of Miss Tirzah Hitchcock lomething certainly had gone wrong. Six o'clock came, and the stable oor was not opened by the brisk mis ress. Half-past six, and still no firt n the kitchen stove. Seven o'clock nd no breakfast yet for the mistress nd her indignant dependents. Loud and angry rose the protest o! Jrindle from her snug stall, while tht Id cat and canary did their best tc tir things up inside. Meanwhile, hidden by the parloi urtains. crouched Miss Tirzah, wrap >ed in a huge red and green shawl ler heart fluttering between shame anc IrcaO, \vkiie Uer eyes .watched witi r / fevered anxiety the house just up the ' I hill. I Oh! how pitifully foolish now. looked ( her deep laid scheme when faced in the broad light of day. ' Of course he had forgotten, years i I ago. to watch her chimney. What j was it to him now, whether she had a tire or not? She would go this very . minute and build it. She Why. what was that? Some on? J was coming out of Solomon's front i floor. Some one?why. it was Solo- j j mon himself, creeping forth as if he j had just been engaged in stealing his . ' own spoons and was now making off ; ' with tlipm to a nlace of hiding. Where was be going:? |' The heart of Tirzah stood still for f one long and nerve-destroying second, | then it went on again with such a j hammering anil commotion beneath | ( the red and green shawl that a less i plucky woman would have fled for ; ^ the camphor bottle on the instant. j j Solomon was coming down the hill 1 straight toward her tiny home. Com- I ing, it is true, not as the conquerors | come with bold and martial tread, but j' after a timid, slinky fashion of a man | who has had his last timid advances j j in that direction scorned. When it was certain past all shadow < of a doubt that he was cominc into ] the house. Tirzah. the crafty creature. | betook herself to the cane-seated rock- j er, where, wrapped to the chill in the j big shawl, she waited with palpitating ; heart for the timid knock which at | ' - ? A.A?V>4A/1 Ali am rl/\r>? it'iigiu suuiiutru un juci uwi. "Corue in." she then called feebly, i at which the door was Opened cau- i tiously, inch by inch, until the entire figure of the middle-aged lover was disclosed to view. At the sight of Tirzah, bundled up and in the armchair, all of his hesitation vanished. "Why, Tirzah, are you took sick?*' j came in the loud, cheery voice which j had not sounded in the room for five j years past. "An' it's cold enough in here to freeze the hair off a dog's back. Let me fix you a fire." In a few moments a cheerful fire was roaring up the chimney. To be sure, there were more chips on the floor than Miss Tirzah would have scattered in a twelve-month and the cat was spitting out her indignation in a remote corner, over an injury done her sleek tail by the heavy boot ol Miss Tirzah's new fireman. Tirzah, however, noticed neither the chips nor the anger of her cat. Not redder than her cheeks was the blazing i lire, for Solomon had taken courage . and was sitting beside her, inquiring kindly when she "was took" and it i , he shouldn't go and "fetch the doctor?" j [ "You see, Tirzah," he said with a i \ guilty laugh, "I allers look at your i i chimbly the first thing in the mornin'? i TVa L-inHop <rr>f intn tho hnhiiv T knnw ! < you don't like it, but?eh?why, Tirzah, woman, whatever ails ye?" "Solomon," cried Tirzab, and she ! . almost screamed it in her excitement, "I?I do like it. I?Dh, Solomon?I didn't build a fire for a purpose." And Solomon He rose then and there and kissed her.?Clara Parker, in Housekeeper. One oa Eugene Fields. Eugene Fields was a book collector, j and one of his favorite jokes, accord- j ing to the Philadelphia Post, was to j enter a bookshop where he was not j known and ask in the solemnest man- | ner for an expurgated edition of Mrs. i Heman's poems* One day in Milwaukee he was walking along the street with his friend, George Yenowine, when the latter halted in front of a bookshop and said: "Gene, the proprietor of this place is the most i serious man I ever knew. He never saw a joke in his life. Wouldn't it be a good chance to try again for that expurgated Mrs. Hemans?" Without a wood Field entered, asked for the proprietor, and then made the usual request. "That is a ratlier scarce book," came the replj*. "Are you prepared to , pay a fair price for it?" For just a ' second Field was taken aback; then he | ] said: "Certainly, certainly; I?I know ! it's rare." The man stepped to a case, i | took out a cheaply bound volume, and J handed it to Field, saying: "Th? price j | is ?5." Field took it nervously, opened to the title page, and read in correct j < I print: "The Poems of Mrs. Felicia Hemans. Selected and Arranged with j ] All Objectionable Passages Excised by j George Yenowine. Editor of 'Isaac.j Watts for the Home.' 'The Fireside Hannah More,' etc," with the usual I publisher's name and date at the bot- I torn. Field glanced up at the brokse'.ler. He stood there the very picture of sad solemnity. "I'll tak* it." said , Field faintly, producing tiie money. Outside Yenowine was missing. At his office the toy said he had just left, saying that lis was going to Standing Rock, Dak., to kee:> an apptintoeut with Sitting Bull. An F.ariy Nmneral Ss'Meni. t In a paper real before the Philological Society of the University cf Micia' gau, recently. Professcr George Henr)l commented upon the forerunners cf | | our present system of enumeration. | Some two years ago. in seeking the j 1 origin of the Runic letters (the first 1 letters used by the Germanic races), . ; Professor Hempl discovered the primi- i tive Germanic numeral notations. This threw new light upon the early 1 Germanic numerical system, as well as : upon the primitive Indo-European numerical system, and upon the devel" opment of the Greek alphabet, and the Greek numerical notation. The primitive In lo-Suropean m.rr.er' ical system was a mixture of the decimal and the sexagesimal. The first 1 large number was the "hund," or "hun dreJ, tnat is luu. ueiween sixty and | 120 there were no numbers like our " seventy, etc, seventy Leiug "a. shock 1 and ton," and eighty being "a shock ' and twenty." The introduction of our present numbers between sixty and 120 arose cut of the introduction of the decimal Iiund or hundred, that is, 100, " in distinction from which the old 100 J (120) was called the duodecimal hun: dred, or the "great hundred." which is * still used in Iceland and parts of England.?New York Tribune. p > Joac'.iimV Diamond Jubilee. > Dr. Joachim, the great violinist, who has recently celebrated the diamond . jubilee of his hrst appearance in Eug. land, began his studies at four, was a concert player at ei^ht, and made a [ great sensation at Drurr Lane ,vhen i a lad of thirteen. 1 ! . . The . . {kidnaping brigands i of morocco. A big international row was creat by the kidnaping of Ion Perdicaris, American citizen, and Cromwell V. ley, his English stepson, by Raisot the Moroccan brigand. Warships wc sent to Tangier, and all kinds of pre lire was exerted to compel the Suit to obtain the release of the captiv' tvho were held, under tnreats or aea; unless a heavy ransom be paid a jther demands be complied with. Ti the kidnaping is likely to lead to ;risis in the affairs of Morocco is ve renerally believed. The present siti tion is a demonstration of the instat tty of the present government, and expected to spur European govei nents to action. Morocco has a pc ul I ->v - -i-i A TYPICAL BRI< illation estimated by some at 9,400,01 The Sultan of Morocco claims to thirty-sixth in descent from Fatimi the daughter of the prophet. His a thority is absolute and not modifh is in Turkey, by the opinions of t earned. The area of Morocco can or t>e vaguely estimated, as the southe frontiers toward the Sahara Des< ire unsettled, but it probably contai 500,000 square miles. There is one English newspaper, ti French and three Spanish published rangier. The army of Morocco is < timated at 80.000. including the mi tia. It is trained and commanded English. French ana Italian omcers. Nothing has been doue to develop t country by either opening roads railways. It is one of the most n< lected spots in the world. Agrieultu is very greatly neglected. The peoi 3nly cultivate their land from dire i 2essity. In 1902 the chief exports wf ilmonds, beans, peas, oxen, eggs a 3l;ins. Its chief Imports are cott ?oods and sugar. There are represe tatives of fourteen nations at Tangi The British envoy is Sir Arthur $ic son, Bart., K. C. B. There is perhaps no portion of t civilized world about which Europe information is so defective. There h been no survey of the country, and t maps have been drawn up largely :onJecture. Eudlnc: or Honeymoon), The late Mrs. John Ridgeway, Paris, was noted for her* ready wit At one of her receptions, apropos marriage, Guy de Maupassant said: "The honeymoon ends when the w first asks the husband for money." "No," Mrs. Ridgeway retorted; ends when the husband ceases to a the wife how much he can have t pleasure of giving her." IN THE F PHILANI 'Attorney-General of the United ! Northern Securities case has won n United States Sonatar from Pennsv o Not Born a Poet4 One day in 1859 DesbaroIIea, w i was at that time the most distinguish x palmist in Europe, called on t * French poet Lamaitine and asked f f permission to study his band. The pc 4 readily granted the request, and f \ half an hour Desbarolles careful studied the lines in his hands. Th he rather abruptly took his leave, a that evening he said to a friend: an "I studied Lamartine's hands to-d * ' and was greatly surprised at what ! ' saw. i expected that he would ha ?re the hands of a poet?soft, delicate, < SSfeminate hands?whereas he has exa on ly such hands as you will find on t th' typical merchant or wholesale deal U(j Tlie fingers are large, strong and son 1{lj. what clumsy, and the lines show gre 'a success in a business career." ,ry This was repeated to Lamartine ia. few days later, and at once he c (jl. claimed, enthusiastically: "Desbaroll is is right! I was born to be a first-cLi n. business man, and why I became ,p, poet heaven only knows." . i n)lll? |H IjjlUPHUIXIIInH V, . dj| 3AND OF MOROCCO. )0. Great Men'a Mothers. be a recent issue of a monthly public ill. tion entirely devoted to literature cc lU* tains the portraits of three famo ?d? mothers, that is, of three women ma he famous by their sons. These are M >ly Carlyle, Mrs. Hardy and Mrs. Spenc rn It is curious, says the Ladies' Pictori ;rt that there is always more interest i ns taching to the mothers of men of d f finrttirtn thnn to thnir siros pren xo they have been men of some mark. in is said that most men who achie greatness inherit their ability fr< their mothers, and It is notewort that nearly all distinguished men ha been greatly attached to their mothe One can never forget the Poet Gra; or exquisite epitaph on his mother, or A J. M. Barrie's tender and beautii ire tribute to his mother's memory. )le ie" Crime anrt Left-Hande.tnesg. It has been discovered by a speci ist that more thau one-third of the p< ?n pie who are left-handed are crimiua :n" This is very interesting, but we do ej* see how the discovery is going to 0 " of particular value to society. Let t . specialist pursue his investigations a P find out whether people are crimini because they are left-handed, or le . handed because they are crimin . ? With that point settled it may be p< sible to inaugurate intelligent mej ures for remedying the matter, present we are left to suppose that i of left-hauded people who are not cri . ? inals must be baseball pitchers.?C of cago Record. ife When arrayed in his official cloth the Sultan of Johore is a glittering < "it rlosity. He wears gems worth $1 sk 000,000. They sparkle in his cro* he on his epaulets, in his girdle and his cuffs. UBLIC EYE. )ER C. KNOX, States, wbose vigorous prosecutiou of th im fame. He has been recently appoint* lvania to succeed the late Senator Quay. v- b: . t .. . - - - V I NEW SAFETY FENDElC ho ed Will Catch a Person on the Track as if in a Trap. or t The great difficulty experienced with , many of the safety car fenders Is that U they do not do what they are supposed 0"n to do. Some of them have actually nd THE TRAP FENDER. been denounced as men-slayers, instead of being life-savers. Knocking their victims down, they have so wedged them against the tracks that there was no possibility of escape. A lately invented contrivance for preventing the speeding trolley car maiming or killing unfortunates who may get in its way consists of the ordinary fender, to the upper end of which is attached a duplicate of the lower part, the concave sides of the two portions facing each other, as is shown in the picture. A man, woman or child falling upon the fender is immediately seized from above by the upper part, which automatically closes in on him and holds him securely until the car stops and he is liberated. He is thus prevented from being dragged along the ground or falling at one side of the fender and meeting disaster under the wheels. AN ELEVENTH CENTURY CHURCH. This church, which, happily, has not been destroyed, as was recently reported, is one of the oldest of the "Stavekirke" of Noway. The build Ing is situated to the. east of Sogne Fiord. The church dates back to the ~~ eleventh century. It is very small ai' but most curious ana interesting, n 50* is built entirely of wood, and to preIs. 8erv> it the exterior is continually, n t painted with pitch. The church thai be has been destroyed is that of the village of Borgund, on the road between nc* Aalesund and Soholt, a church stateJ l*s to have the finest reredos in Norway, ft t A TRICK JUS. IS At This curious, trick jug wa-. sold at a all recent London auction sale. From the m- picture it appears to be the same type hi- a3 those sometimes seen in our shops, and from which it is impossible to drink without knowing the secret es, Such jugs are perforated about the to C a'^j ij?M ov {fat ly brim, uud can only be ehijftied by sucking through the spout while cove-ing with the linger an air vent in the handle. Th. handle is hollow and J serves as r. tube through which the 11-1 quid can be drawn when the air vent! is closed. Chinese Humor. "Chinamen have a fine sense of hu-1 mor," said the young playwright, Rich- j ard Carle. "In their quiet, dry way the Chinese say innumerable good thiuga. "I once knew in -San Antonio a bachelor banket*. This man decided that he would employ a Chinese butler. Accordingly, bis arrangements were made and in due time the Chinese butler appeared. He served his first dinner admirably. "After it the banker said to him. " 'I think you will do well Iiere. Wha? j is your name?' " '\rr tm mn is Yot Lee Chwang Toy,' j the Chinaman answered. "'Ob,' said the banker, 'I can't remember ail that. I'll just cull you John.' " 'All light' said the new butler. "At breakfast the next morning the Chinaman smiled at his employer pleasantly. "What's your name?' be said. " 'Pierpout Morgan Jones,' my friend replied. e " 'Me no memble all that,' said th; i Chinaman. 'Me just call you Torn, mv.'" p|!|>figa Governor Bacheldcr Talks. I vj/ w EW HAMPSHIRE is o*ne N ot the States which is lYf making rapid strides iu I the improvement of her ! roads. Governor Bachel* I uer ot that State?and he is also an ; officer of the National '?rge?is a very enthusiastic advoeatt ;"oad improvemQnt. In a recent address he said: "The development and prosperity of any State or nation depend in some degree upon the transportation facilities provided: and such facilities Include not only our rivers and harbors and our great railway and steamboat companies, but also the highways over which all our products and all our people are transported. "The important matter now before the friends of good roads is to arouse the people to a realization of their responsibility in securing favorable State and National legislation on the subject. The small pittance appropriated for the use of the Good Roads Bureau of the Department of Agriculture is entirely out of proportion to the money appropriated for other objects of a public nature when their relative importance is considered. "Another important matter is the construction of roads adapted to the needs of travel over them. Much harm has come to the good roads movement in some sections of the country through the advocacy of more expensive roads than the resources of the people would warrant and demand. Costly stone roads are economical upon portions of our highways, but we must not overlook the fact that there is a vast mileage of roads that could be permanently improved Dy tne judicious expenditure of a comparatively small sum of money per mite. We should, give due prominence to this fact in considering the matter from a State or National standpoint. "As an official of the National Grange, I desire to say a word for the farmers of the country in regard to National aid for road building. The farmers have been loyal to the interests of the nation in every emergency in the past. They have contributed their full share in proportion to their wealth to the revenues for the support of the Government. The ablest statesmen and most successful business men, contributing to the development and prosperity of the country, point to the farms as their birthplace. When our country has been in danger, the farmer boys have responded nobly to her defense. We have uncomplainingly contributed our shp-e to tho enormous expenditures of the National Government for river and harbor improvements, the construction of canals and the erection of costly buildings in our great citics, and we do not regret it. We now ask in the name I of justice that National aid be granted | for the improvement of highways. This involves the establishment of no new policy, but the extension or tne former one. We ask the loyal support of those who have been benefited by our contribution to other public matters to which I have referred. I believe the farmers of the nation, representing more than a third cf our pDpj ulation, are practically unanimous in favor of such a movement and will give it their unqualified support." ? Experiments For Dustless Roads. English road builders are working on the dustless road problem. An experiment is being conducted in West Sussex Ccunty, the results of which will be watched by all who are inter| ested in the improvement of our highI ways. The object of those in charge of the experiment is to make a road, having a smooth surface, which shr.ll be dustless a.nd at the same time resist the percolation of water. The stcnes used, Cherbourg quartzI ite, are placed on iron plates over a flue, when they remain until all moisture is expelled; they are then spread I out for the purpose of cooling. The next step is to make a deposit of them about half a foot thick on a wooden j platform which has been covered with ; tar and a little pitch, five gallons to a ton of stone, when they are turned ; over and over until well covered with ! the tar. After maturing Ihey are i spread 011 the roadbed, which has been 1 prepared to a depth of nearly six I inches, sprinkled with sand and conI r\ rail or ?O nnrl su:iuua-u uty u. u-u -wa Koads Magazine. A New Sunshine Kecorcier. Th? new Dawson-Lauder sunslilno recorder consists of a drum on which silver chloride paper is fastened under a fllm of celluloid, says the London j Globe. An outer cover is rotated by I clockwork in twenty-four hours, and a narrow slit is thus directed to the sun. A hood protects the slit from diffused light, and allows an error of about j half an hour in the clock before sunlight is cut off from the slit. The drum with the sensitive paper travels along the axis of the cylinder, so that the record of a number of days is ob| tained, one below the other. Thecbloj ride of silver paper makes possible a standard of intensity of sunshine which can be reproduced. The same size of paper is employed at all seasons, and the instrument can be used in polar as well as temperate latitudes. Chinaman's Nerveless Teeth. The impassivity of John Chinaman's countenance is now at least partially explained, says the New York Globe. He has no nerves in his teeth. This interesting bit of information comes 'way from Oregon, where the dentists have been having a State meeting. One of the dentists, who makes no claims to "painless dentistry," said he had tinkered with the teeth of many Chinamen, ana never once nau known one of them to whimper. The only thins in regard to which they show the least anxiety is to '"secure any teeth tbey have pulled, which they want to take back or send back to China in order that they may have a full set when tbey are -reincarnated." A. Chinaman would be a good subject for a "painless dentist" to use in a public demonstration. " IINOREVENTSOFTHEWEEK WASHINGTON ITEMS. In decreeing that the Washington policemeu must give up the use of toothpicks while on duty. Major Sylvester, the chief of the capital police force, has established a new record in rules governing the men. John Hay. Secretary of State, returned to Washington from his Western trip. A nionunipn". '-octed in honor of the men of the 122d N->w York Volunteers who fell in battle in the Civil War was unveiled with appropriate exercises in a suburb of the National Capital. Sonpotni-f nf thu Inferior Hitchcock nud his family left Washington for llieir summer home in Dublin, N. H. Brigadier-General T. B. Howard, a survivor of the Seminole War in Florida. she Creek War in Georgia Ihe Texas Revolution, the Mexican War and the Civil War. died in Washington at eighty-four years. He was a native o? South Carolina. OUR ADOPTED INLANDS. ' Hawaiian citizens have expressed satisfaction over the reception of their delegates to the St. Louis couventiom by St. Louisiana. _____________ r DOMESTIC. Two convicts made a bold dash foe liberty from the penitentiary at Caldwell, N. J., but were recaptured, one being badly wounded by a bullet from a guard's gun. .'v> The Rev. Silas C. Swallow is to be officially notified of his nomination as the Prohibition candidate for President in Indianapolis July 22. The flood waters having fallen ia Kansas, tLe Federal Government will aid the distressed citizens of. Kansas City in that State. A gift of $10,000 from General Horace W. Carpenter to the Saratoga County Infirmary was announced at Ballston, N. Y. An unknown negro, who had made Insulting proposals to two white wo* men, was lynched at Goddo, Ala. Ww Ynrlr f!itv pustnms officials un earthed a new method of smuggling by the use of false labels on trunks, and four arrests were made. Bishop Frederick Dan Huntington died at Hadley. Mass., in the room where he was born eighty-five years ago, and his son, Dr. George P. Huntington, died at Hanover, N. H., the same day. William B. Childers, United States District Attorney for New Mexico, was accused of acting as counsel for the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company and: liis dismissal was asked for. The Rhode Island State Building, at the St. Louis Exposition, costing ;$2U,000, has been sold for $5000 for a country residence after the close of the fair. A gift of $10,000 by Washington A. Roebling, of Trenton, N. J., to the fund for establishing new buildings for the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was announced at Troy. A tornado blew a train from a bridge at Petersburg, 111. One person was reported killed and a score injured. College girls, daughters of farmers near Morristown, K. J., are engaged in mowing, reaping and otherwise assisting in the harvest because of the uu-j usual scarcity of farm hands. The United States Department of Agriculture has decided to establish a plant iptroduction gardeu and experiment station at Chico, Cal. m/\vl*man wnrn lr? 11 onh fwi\ KJC?CU H VfQUiUU irc&c uuitu UUU v? v .others seriously injured by being blown from the second arch of the new railroad bridge across the Mississippi River, a? Thebes, 111., by a tornado. The Baltic, of the White Star Line, the largest vessel ever launched, arj rived in New York City. Five deported miners who returned ; to Victor, Col., were kidnaped by a masked band. Edmund Bersch, self-confessed St. Louis .boodler, was senteuced to two years in the penitentiary. Floods caused a suspension of business iu the stock yards and wholesale district of Kansas City, Mo., and j hundreds of citizens were driven from ! their homes. ; 3 FOREIGN. The Bpy of Tunis arriveu' In Paris 1 and was received with high military ! honors. French Bisaops having Republican sympathies have been asked by the Vatican to resign, but they consulted M. Combes, who forbade them to do so, as the consent of the State is re| quired by rhe Concordat before pret lates can be removed. British forces have had another clash with Tibetans. ? It is definitely announced that Mrs. Maybriek will be released from prison before August 1. Czar Nicholas II. has abolished the system of condemning political suspects by administrative order, and reg I uiar trial by the courts is to be substij tuted. Danish officials say that the Norgfr was a well built ship and the captain ? capable, and deny that the life belts were rotten or insufficient. Ilerr Ballin and Lord Inverclyde will agree to settle the emigration shipping dispute and the cut rate war will end immediately. Emperor William has decided to order a schooner yacht on the model of the Ingomar, owned by Mr. Mortou F. Plant. Five hundred American members of the Salvation Army marched to Ambassador Choate's house, in London, and were complimented by birn. The Swiss Government has passed a law prohibiting parents afflicting their offspring with fantastic and absurd Christian names. It is understood that tlie Pope is about to issue a regulation whereby all Roman Catholic Bishops and priests j who so desire may allow their beards lo tjruw. The Emperor of Korea wants to build his new palace of iucombustible' material. Officials of the American Embassy and Consulate in Paris have given up hope of finding Mr. F. Kent Loomis. General Andre, the French Minister of War, was twice defeated in the I Chamber of Deputies, aiiu lusre iii? i rumors of bis resignation. The German Etnperor sent for a list of rhe heroes of the Slocum disaster in order that be may suitably reward tbem. A message was sent to the Tibetaa peace delegates, informing tbeui tbat Colonel Younguusbaud was still willing to open negotiations. Oue thousand and olgbty-six Aebinese were slain uy tUe DutcU expedition to Nortb Achlu, Northern Suaiat*. ra. - - - Aifli