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WASHINGTON LBTTBB^ .- - -. ? Victory is in ?gbt. It bas been a fight and is not yet quite done with, bat torr is in sight, and next Thursday-the of taking the vote waa- postponed ia ord allow two days for tho debate <oo the im tax amendment-the WHsou tariff bill wi passed by the House and it will include income tax. There bas never been a. mot of doubt in the minds of Chairman Wi and tibe democrats who have been associ with him tn leading this fight as to final cess, and tbe number of doubters has 1 gradually lessening since the demoa cancos of last week endorsed the proposi to make the income tex an amendment to Wilson bill. There are some bard figfc among the democrats who have refused t< bound by the action of the cancos aad opening of the debate on the income amendment to-day shows a bitter sta? feeling, which will probably result in lea iog tte majority by which the Wilson ' will be passed by about twenty rotes, btu object long so a g ht for will be obtained will be passed. The few amendments adopted, aside fi those approved by the Ways aod Means o rx. it tee, bears ont the prediction I made wi the bill waa first reported. Only two ame menta-that changing the date which the i wool clause shall take effect upon, (was af wards changed for a committee amendm naming Aug. 2, 1894,} and that abolish ; the -sogar bounty and patting refined sa on^the free lift-of importance which w opposed by the committee were adopted the House, while th? committee succeeded defeating proposed amendments strom backed to change the following clauses of bm : coal, iron ore^ steel rails, tin plate, af cultural products, cotton, salt, lumber, sides a number of lesser importance. Co plete printed copies of tbe amended bill w on the desks of members to-day for the fi time. "It's an m wind" etc. While the frier of the Wilson tariff bili regret that the con tion of Senator McPherson's health would i permit him to remain in Washtegton a perform , the arduous duties that pertain bis membership of the sub-committee of i Senate Finance committee, which will hs charge of the tariff bill as soon as it pas th? Hons? and its sent over to the Sena they rejoice that so stannch a tariff reforn as Senator Milis, of Texas, will take bis ph on the sub-committee. The experience Senator Mills in preparing and getting t Mill's bill through theHonse several yet ago made him a tariff expert and will ma him a valuable,addition to the committee. The democratic Senators made it plato their republican colleagues tba: they intel to pass the bill for the repeal of the odio election laws, ai though disposed to allow t opponents of the bil! al! the time they o reasonably desire to talk against it, 1 promptly defeating the motion of Senat Chandler, who bas been allowed to po?e ? the leader of the republicans ia the de bat /to postpone farther consideration of the bi to next December. Representative Bailey's resolution expr?s ing the belief that the Secretary of tl Treasury has no legal authority to ose tl proceeds of bonds sold under the resumptic act for any other parp?se than that stated i the act has been favorably reported to tl House from the Judiciary committee and Mi Bailey will endeavor to get a vote OH it af? the tariff has been disposed of. Secretar Carlisle does not agree with Mr. Bailej On the contrary, he contends that be ca legally nae every, dollar that is io or ma come into the Treasury that is "otherwis unappropriated" to meet the obligations c the government. The bonds still--be issue this week, unless the attempt tbr.t is bein; made to-day by lawyers in the employ of th Knights of Labor to secure an injnnctioi from the Supreme Court of the District o .Colombia to preveo t the sale of the bond gbaltoocceed, and that nobody expects. It is understood from a trustworthy sonro that President Cleveland baa tendered th position of public printer to Mr. F. A Crandall, of Buffalo, N. Y., and that Mr Crandall has accepted it. The same author ity says that the nomination will probably not go to the Senate until that of Mr Peckham to the Snpreme Cocrt vacancy shall have been acted upon. Two of the regular appropriation bills Pensions and District of Columbia-bari been reported to the Boase. The peosiot appropriation carries $151,581,570. which ii about $15,000,000 less than the appropriator made at the last session of Congress. Thi appropriation for the District of Colombia it nearly $2,000,000 lesss than the estimates o th? District authorities. AU of this sessioc appropriations will be cot in the econ?mica; style. Tbe dynamite cruiser Vesuvius ha? been sent ont to destroy derelicts aloog the Atlaotie coast. A Boston man bas made a wager that be will strip as naked as Truth in one of tbe clubs of that city and with that as a beginoiog, will-work bis way around the world aod retara io one yeer with $5,000. ' " All Free. Those who have used Dr. King's New Dis? covery know its value, and those who have not, have now the opportunity to try it Free. Call on th? advertised Druggist and get a Trial Bot? tle, Free. Send yoor same and address to H. E. Bockien k Co Chicago, and get a sample box of Dr. King's Now Life Pills free, as well as a copy of Guide to Health and Household . Instructor, Free. All of which is guaranteed to do yon good and cost yon nothing. J. F. W. BeLorme'5 Drugstore. 4 Wtaw Boye?. For preserving wire ropes carried under water cr nuder the earth's sur? face a mixture of 85 parts cf slaked Urne and from 50 to 60 parts cf tar is found thoa far a very satisfactory method at compared with other pro? cesses which hive been resorted to. The ?mipcrand is boi led and applied bot For dry lying cables a thick mix tore of graphite boiled in tallow and coe of crude Unseed oil and vegetable tarj^ both proved a suco?,-New THE SKUNKS HAD TO GO. --- The Law Took Cognisance of a Saloon Keeper's Peculiar Fancy. Th? circuit court of New Albany, Ind., has just disposed of a matter over which there has been a great deal of litigation the past three months. After being ont for IS hours the jury return? ed a verdict to the effect that Hr. Ben? jamin Jenks bad been guilty of main taming a nuisance in keeping, three pet skunks in ti* window of bis saloon on St^te street He was fined $1 and coste and ordered to make way with the akunks at once. Mr. Jenks has obeyed the law, but he is very indignant He says he is sur? prised that IS sensible men should re? turn such a verdict His pets were per? fectly harmless, according to bis testi? mony and that of all his family, among whom are two pretty girls. There were some 20 witnesses against him, however. Chief of these was Ja? cob Stonecipher, who got Mr. Jenks in? dicted. Stonecipher keeps a restaurant next door to Jenks, and he says the keeping of the skunks was done to spoil the restaurant business. Mr. Jenks also runs a restaurant in connection with his saloon, but has lost all his business, so Stonecipher avers. These two had a good many quarrels, and one day three months ago three tiny little kittens appeared in the win? dow on the side next tile restaurant. At the same time there occurred an odor thai soon drove e^ery customer ont of the restaurant. Mr. Stonecipher re? monstrated, but Jonis only laughed. He said the kittens were perfectly harmless, and that his family thought the world of them. His customers did not mind them either, he said, but Idi. Stonecipher said Jenks didn't have any customers. Finally Mr. Stonecipher reported the case to the police, and Jenks waa tried and fined $1. He took an appeal and still kept the skunks in his window. The appeal was tried last week just in time, for Mr. Stonecipher says the skunks had not only ruined his busi? ness, but had made his wife and daugh? ters sick.-Louisville Letter. Pyroxylin* It appears that the pyroxylin used in pharmacy and the arts-dinitrocellu lose-and usually regarded as nonex? plosive, may, under certain conditions, become highly dangeious. Au account is given of the ^preparation of some of this article in the usual manner, the operator adding a small quantity of am? monia to the water used for washing, so as to'effect complete removal of the acids more rapidly. A copper oven heated to 70 degrees C., used for dry? ing about one ounce of the pyroxylin thus treated, was, after some three hours' use, tom to. pieces by the force of an explosion, the fragments of copper be? ing hurled all over the apartment From all that is known in respect to the different degrees of temperature un? der which ignition takes place in this class of substances it is believed that such an explosion must be attributable to the use of ammonia in the washing process. A little nitrate of ammonia probably was formed and dried upon the nitrocellulose in a state of fine sub? division, and any trace of acid would then suffice to cause the salt to act as a fuse.-New York Sun. Woman's Education. At the twenty-fifth anniversary of Cornell umversity Dr. Taylor said, in speaking of the higher education of women, that education was a unit, and that we must stop talking about men's and women's ?ducation as separate things. One of the oldest professors in the university, speaking of a book of original scientific articles sent to him by his former pupils, pronounced an article written by a woman student as so superior, accurate -and comprehen? sive that it alone forever disproved that women were not capable of as fine sci? entific work as men. Another inter? esting fact we learn from the great co? educational school is that one woman has this year won her way to a position on the editorial staff cf the college pa? per through having contributed more and better articles last year than most of her political superiors. Smothered In Honey. A couple of days ago at the farm of G. W. Hutchins, seven miles from Ma? rysville, a bee tree was found near the east bank of Feather river, which was cut to obtain the honey. After the tree was cut down to the ground an investi . gation was instituted and the honey lo? cated in a hollow half way between where it was cut and the top. On cut? ting open the body of the tree they se? cured about 80 pounds of honey, ll duck eggs and a dead duck. It ap? pears that a wood duck had formed a cavity through a hole that was origi? nally large enough to admit her body. After laying ll eggs she had com? menced sitting to hatch them, and while doing so the bees had filled the hole with comb so that she could not get out, and she died on the nest.-Red Bluff (Cal.) Democrat Egyptian Papyri. A collection of Egyptian papyri re? cently purchased by subscription for the Geneva public library is being ex? amined by M. Jules Nicole. He has discovered fragments of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey," the former com? prising portions of Books XI and Xii, presenting great variations from the re j ceived text There is also a passage of ! Euripides' "Orestes, " a thousand years older than any manuscript hitherto I known. M. Nicole has likewise found j a didactic elegy on the stars, an idyl I on Jupiter and Leda and historical and .dentine compositions.-London Times. Two Southern Families. The following two families make a showing which is difficult to find excells ed, even in the prolific mountain re? gions of Tennessee and North Carolina. The Rev. Asa Roath is a Baptist preacher residing at Piny Flats, Sulli? van county, Tenn. He is a spry old gentleman, about 70 years old, and still fills his regular appointments at several prearMng places. He is the father of 88 children, all of them living. Mr. Routh has been married twice, and his second wife is still living and helping to take care of the family. Mir. Routh is almost deaf, but otherwise shows no signs of old age or decay. His family is nearly equally divided as to sex, there being 17 boys and 16 girls. The other family is that cf Moses Williams, colored, who lives on a farm near Fayetteville, N. C. He is a lively young chap of 65, but doesn't look it He also is living with his second wife. TTere have been born to him 45 chil? dren-40 of them girls. By his first wife there were 20 girls and three boys, and by the second 20 girls and two boys. Nearly all of them are living.-Louis? ville Courier-Journal. Gounod aa? "Faust." A few of Gounod's masses are still popular in the choir lofts, but his ora? torios have been shelved, and it has long been recognized that he will be remem? bered solely as the composer of * ' Faust. " With that opera he reached the culmi? nation of his achievements and the zen? ith of his popularity. Only one other of his dramatic works has been associ? ated with it as a possible rival in the critical mind and that,*'Borneo et Juli? ette," has enjoyed only a small fraction of the popular favor bestowed on "Faust. " The career of this work is, indeed, without parallel in the annals of the lyric stage. Nearly two years ago it celebrated its six hundredth perform? ance at the Grand Opera in Paris, into whose list it was accepted in 1869. In the 10 years during which it belonged to the repertory of the Theatre Lyrique it was performed 400 times. None of its companion?!, save "Borneo et Juli? ette.*'can be said to be living today. "Philemon et Baucis," "Sappo" and "Mireille" have been remodeled and revised, but all in vain. The vital spark is not in them, and galvanism does no good. Under the circumstances it is easy to understand how it came to pass that the gossips of Paris once pro? fessed to doubt Gounod's authorship of "Faust" and told a pretty fable to the effect that the op?ra had been composed by a monk, whose contempt for the wicked and frivolous world was so great that, to escape the burden of glory, honor and fame which he ?new the opera would bring him, he gave the score to Gounod, with the injunc? tion to copy it and announce it as his own. Of course this is the veriest and foolishest fiction. The style of composi? tion which characterizes "Faust" is present in all of Gounod's operas. He wrote none of them if he did not write '4 Faust. ' '-Harper's Weekly. La Tulip's Rawhide Cannon. A Syracuse man named La Tulip has invented a cannon known as the La Tu? lip rawhide gun, of which great things are expected. One of the guns made by its inventor was tested at Onondaga Valley on Tuesday. It weighs in the neighborhood of 400 pounds, while the cannon of the same caliber in use by the army weighs nearly 1,500. Its peculiarity lies in its lightness and the easy manner in which it can be trans? ported. Across the breech it measures about 14 inches and tapers to about six at the muzzle. A forged steel cone forming the bar? rel runs to the full length and is only three-quarters of an inch in thickness. Then comes layer after layer of the fin? est rawhide, compressed until it has the strength of steel. In fact, its toughness and staying powers are said to exceed steel. The rawhide is put on in strips coiled around and around and is sev? eral inches in thickness. On top of this lie two coils of steel wire wound to its strongest tension and then filed smooth. The cap placed at the breech can be easily removed for inspection of the rawhide filling. The tests were pronounced successful, and further trials will be had. A five inch bore will be constructed as soon as possible, and when 'mounted upon a movable carriage it will dem? onstrate whether it can be used ef? fectively. The five inch cannon will be smooth bore and used to discharge dynamite cartridges, a trial of which * ill be made. Frederick La Tulip, the inventor, has been a worker of rawhide for 12 years and is conversant with it in every detail.-Rome Sentinel. A Disconcerting Monocle. S?. ?nany of the daily papers have de? scribed Mr. Van Alen as wearing a sin? gle eyeglass, just like the Prince of Wales, that it may be worth while to say here that the prince, notwithstand? ing all that has been said to the con? trary, has never in his life made use of a monocle; nor indeed has any of the queen's children.. There is only one reigning sovereign who wears it, and that is the king of Wurtemberg. Although no other crowned head uses the single eyeglass, there are several continental royal and imperial princes who do, notably the young Duke of Or? leans, son of the Comte de Paris, whose eyesight is excellent and who merely uses the glass for the sake of pose. The late Prince Napoleon, surnamed Pion Pion, also wore a monocle and so, too, did the czar's sailor uncle, the late Grand Duke Constantine, who had a queer trick of giving an almost imper? ceptible twitch at the elastic cord to which it hung, sending the glass flying upward to his eye with no observable movement of his hands. He used to be especially fond of perfoiming this little trick when in the toils of a bore, who would be altogether disconcerted by the unaccountable jump of the glass and by the equanimity with which the grand duke caught and retained it in his eye.-Vogue. Not a Connoisseur. Barber (applying the lather)-I think Tve got a better soap now than Tve ever used before. Customer1-I cant see any difference. It all tastes alike to me.-Chicago Trib? une. The First Turnpike. In 1794 the first turnpike road was made-63 miles long-between Lancas? ter and Philadelphia, so called because ?was required to be so hard that a pike wrald not be driven through it noosing tkc Sleepers* On one Sunday it was so warm within and without a Scotch church that many of the congregation were sound asleep. The minister. Mr. Robert Shirra, paused in his sermon to exclaim: "Hold up your heads, my friends, and mind that neither saints nor sinners are sleeping in the other world." All the sleepers were aroused but one man. "John Stewart," called oat the minis? ter, "tins is the second time that I've stopped to waken you, but I give you fair warning that if I need stop a third time Fll expose you by name to the con? gregation!" Another clergyman was accustomed to use scientific terms which the people did not understand. A deputation wait? ed on him with the request that in the future whenever he used such terms he would explain them. On the following Sunday he used the term ''hyperbole," and added: "As agreed on, I beg to explain this word. Were I to say that at this moment the whole of my congregation are sound asleep, it would be hyperbole, but if I say that one half are asleep that is no hyperbole, but the truth." The next day the deputation again called to say that the minister need not explain technical terms. The people would learn their meaning from a dic? tionary.-Youth's Companion. Steel Furnace Temperature. The subject of obtaining higher tem? peratures in steel furnaces has lately been discussed by the Society of Civil Engineers, Paris. At present, it is stated, the temperature is limited by that at which the walls of the furnace begin to fuse, and even Deeners fire? bricks are not found proof against this. Magnesia is claimed to be capable of standing far higher temperatures than that kind of brick, the principal dif? ficulty in using it being the excessive shrinkage to which it is liable when heated-a cube of magnesia of 10 inch edge in the raw state is said to shrink to one of 6 inch edge when suffi? ciently calcined-and, such being the case, furnace linings made of this material are hable to crack badly. As a remedy for this state of things the magnesia is caused to undergo its maxi? mum possible contraction before being placed in the furnace, though for this an excessively high temperature is re? quired. M. Lencauchez claims to have over? come these difficulties, and has exhibited a number of perfectly solid bricks of magnesia which were as dense as gran? ite and had been thoroughly shrunk. The composition of these bricks is 93.25 to 96.25 magnesia, 1.50 to 3.00 lime, .75 to 1.25 alumina and iron oxide, 1.50 to 2.50 silica.-New York Sun. In a Gale at Sea. A story comes by mail from the far east and tells one more of the wonderful things which happened to those who have their homes on the great waters. The story concerns the big four masted iron ship Lucipara. While sailing along be? tween the Cape of Good Hope and Aus? tralia, the ship ran into a hurricane, or was overtaken by one, about midnight. Suddenly the sea, which had been dan? gerously high, became calm, and to those on the ship it seemed as if the surface of the ocean had been subjected to an enor? mous pressure by which the waves were stilled. Without warning the men were almost blinded by a sheet of flame, which enveloped the ship from stem to stern and reached half way up the masts. This wave of flame surged back and forth, fore and aft, for a few seconds, and was then snuffed out as suddenly as it had appeared, leaving captain and crew groping about in intense darkness. The blinding glare was extremely painful to the eyes, but caused no damage either to the men or to the ship. Captain Witt said it was his first experience of the kind, and he hoped it would be the last. -New York Tribune. English Bank Troubles. The official version of the troubles of the Bank of England recently made public doesn't tell the whole story. The statement that the bank's losses does not exceed $100,000 is denied by some lead? ing bankers having extensive dealings with the institution. One of them said today: "The bank was induced by Cashier May to accept many of the Marietta securi? ties before the crash in them. He also took many Middlesboro Townland secur? ities on the same recommendation. Some of the load is borne by the trustees and executors. An insurance company, now bankrupt, was also transferred to the 'Old Lady of Threadneedle street.' The depreciation in securities since received by the bank is fully a million sterling. It does not follow.that the bank loses this amount."-London Letter. Parisian Ruffians. The police of Paris recently unearth? ed a gang of ruffians who have not only been robbing but mutilating people in the suburban sections of the French capital. Not content with garroting and robbing all the unfortunate people whom they could waylay at night in de? serted streets and dark corners of the great French metropolis, they also cat off the noses of their victims, which they attached to their caps, in imita? tion of the Indian scalpers.-Petit Jour? nal. Billy Ate the Bill, Poor Billy i Peter Neary of Newark received a new $5 bill from Washington last week in exchange for some fragments of an old bill which he sent to the treasury department. The original bill was al? most wiped out of existence by Neary's billygoat, William. William snatched it from one of Mr. Neary's children and frisked away with it. He was not caught until he had chewed it up and swallowed it Neary killed the goat and recovered the bill in a heartbreaking condition. Montenegro was one of the few coon tries where, until recently, clergymen wore the national costume and bore weapons. Prince Nicholas, however, has decided that this custom shall be discontinued and has ordered the priests to adopt a clerical costume similar to that worn in other Greek Catholic countries.-Athena Correspondent CABBAGE PLANTS NOW BEADY FOB SETTING OUT. All the different kinds of CABBAGE PLANTS FOR SALB At 25c. per 100 or $2 per 1,000. Also a fine assortment of Geranium's aod others flowers. Orders can he left for me at the store of Mr. W. H. Yates, or call OD me at the Ceme? tery: OTTO GARHARDT, Jan 24. WILLIAM KENNEDY Fashionable Barber. 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