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The Exeter Advocate, 1894-8-23, Page 6;.q l },9ubsoribers who uo not receive tneir papa; p aenptly will please notify as at once Advertising rates on application THE EXETER ADVOCATE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1894. Here and There. The driver of the hearses which con- veyed the remains of President Carnot to their last restingplane was, strangely enough, the favorite coachman of No, poison III. His name is Linguet, and he is now stone deaf, but still retains that imposing aspect which Napoleon admired so much, xxx Chicago will have to pay for the excite- ment of the recent strike. The railway companies are now sending in their bills. One company has a claim of $500,000—a pretty price to pay for the caprice of Mr. Debs and his friends. When all the bills are in Governor Altgeld and Mayor Hop- kins may have reason to allow their ap- preciation of Debs to decline. xxx One of the clear distinctions that must be made between Democrats and Repub- licans was brought out in the vote on Mr. Lockwood's bill to prevent Canadians who retain residences on this side of the line from crossing to their work in the United. States. On the final vote all the Democrats opposed the bill and all the Republicans, except a Missouri man, voted. for it. No substitute bill can be introduced at this late stage of the ses- sion, xxx The wife of the new President of France married her cousin, and is her- self a Perier. She is tall and fair, witha commanding figure, almost with royal magnificence, The strong face and deep- set eyes give her a sad expression and make her look older than her husband. But she is still young enough to lead fashion.. The Casimir-Periers are worth at least 510,000,000, but in spite of their plebeian name they belong to the most aristocratic set in Paris. xxx From recently compiled statistics it appears that apples are grown in forty- eigh : states and territories of the Ameri- can Union, with Ohio and Michigan on the lead ; peaches are produced in forty- five states and territories, with Georgia and Texas far in the lead; pears and cherries are cultivated in forty-six states, with New York and California leading ; apricots in forty-three states, although the great bulk of this fruit is raised in California, and prunes and plums in for- ty-seven states, with California, of course, far in the lead. - xxx There was a panic on the New York bay excursion boats on Sunday on ac- count of erratic whirlwinds and the over- loeding of the vessels. The General Slo- cum seems to have fared badly. She ran aground with at least 4,700 people aboard. Great excitement was occa- sioned.. Women fainted and children went idto convulsions from fright. while passengers made a raid on the life pre- servers and wero restrained from plung- ing into the angry waters with difficulty, The General Slocum, though a very large boat, is only permitted to carry 2,500 passengers. xxx At Winger, in New South Wales, there is a burning mountain. It is 1,822 feet in height and is supposed to be a coal seam which in some unaccountable way ignited, and has been burning for maoy years, certainly long before the advent of the white man in this portion of the colony. The course of the fire can be traced a considerable distance by the falling in of the ground from beneath which the coal has been. consumed. Smoke is continually issuing from the sides of the mountain, and in the vicinity of these openings the surface is hot and has a dry, parched appearaece, while sticks thrust into These openings are readilyi gnited. xxx So much is said of the possibility of catching diseases from floating germs tbat one can appreciate the anxiety of the hostess who forbade her servant to take the cards of visitors at the door.. Her husband is a scientist, and he dis- covered 970 different kinds of bacteria on. visiting cards. She insisted that the visitors should give their names to the servants instead of the card, and always asked if they were hoarse. We may be coming to telephones as the exchange for calls. They—the telephones—might be decorated, the receivers tied with a ribbon bow becoming to the hostess. Perhaps phonograph plates sent by mail wjll be the evolution of social exchange. xxx Politics and impiety in the United States are developing wonders in the way of blasphemous familiarity with all that is sacred. A "Reverend" of the name of Weaver in Des Moines has been pray- ing in the following manner: "Lord hasten the day when the infamous Dem- ocratic party shall be exterminated, its like should never again be heard of on earth, it has never accomplished any- thing but disaster for the country, but remember it for any good that may have escaped Thy attention." The audience or congregation devoutly, but uproar- iously, cheered the clerical blasphemer. It is a wonderful country, is the United States. xxx Cats have a peculiar commercial im- portance in certain lines of trade, In some parts of the country marine insur- ance does not cover damage done to the cargo by the depredations of rats, but if the owner of the cargo thus damaged can prove that the ship was not furnished with a cat he can recover compensation froth the owner of the ship, Then, again, a ship that is found tinder certain circumstances without a living creature aboard is considered a derelict, and, ac- cording to certain conditions, is for- feited, It has not infrequently occurred, after the crew has been lost or the ship otherwise abandoned, that a living canary, domestic fowl, but most fre- quently a eat, being found on board, has Saved the weasel from being considered a eereliet. XXX The story of abrief but great career told at a coroner's inquest in London re- cently deserves a place in the world's record of heroes. It is the simple record of a little lad of ten" John Clinton by name, son of a humble carman. A few months ago the boy saved. his baby brother from burning to death, The set fire to hs loth -n - and t t;hild had C z g he curtain,, Johnny rolled the baby along the carpet till the fir e was extinguished. He then tore dowu the burning curtains, receiving severe barns ou his hands and arms. On W ednesday, July 18, theboy's companions were wading along the banks of the Thanes, when a little fellow got beyond his depth and called for help. Johnny Clinton lumped in and saved him. Then as the rescued boy told the coroner: ".After jack pulled me out he slipped back into deep water and we didn't see him again." The body was recovered a few minutes later, but life was extinct. XXx How is it that the two leading repub- lies of the world are overran by corrup- tion from high places to low? Recent investigation show the police of New York to be disgracefully corrupt, and the Paris police are .said to surpass them in venality. Yet in both eases the authori- ties find it dimeult to deal with the mat- ter. Some years ago aLondon policeman accosted a working girl and threatened. to arrest her as a street walker if she did not give him money for beer. She ran away and complained of the insult. The matter was brought u.p in Parliament, the result being that there was a com- plete overhauling of the police depart- ment and the dismissal of the head. Yet in New York it has been indisputably shown that many police officers have grown rich by levying blackmail on bro- thel keepers, and the authorities meet with every opposition in punishing the offenders. If these are some of the insti- tutions of a republic, give usmonarchical rule all the time. Beer and Socialism. The leaders of the Berlin Socialists put the loyalty of their followers to a severe test when they placed a boycott on the brewers of the German capital. Cable despatches represent the extreme heat as forming a fearful temptation to the thirsty Socialists to quaff again the cool- ing' beverege from the breweries of the hated monopolists. Bavarian brewers are doing their best to supply the demand., but the capacity- of the German Socialist is. enormous and he yearns for more beer. In his heart, no doubt, he curses his party for its mistake in boycotting the beer -makers during such very sultry weather, forgetting that a boycott would be less effective at any other time. Human nature is weak, and we predict an ignominious collapse for this Berlin boycott. We are not sure that Socialism itself would not suffer a severe blow were the world's beer supply suddenly and permanently cut off. There is a subtle connection between the two which philosophers may endeavor in vain to ex- plain. A beverege intended to refresh and invigorate, acting upon the mind of one predisposed to crazy notions about property rights, seems to produce at first a mental sluggishness, which is quickly followed by an insane desire to divide all the money in the world, that the unfor- tunate may be "set up again," as itwere. Not only Socialism, but Anarchist doc- trines have flourished where beer was plenty and cheap. Johann Most's fervid eloquence has been .largely beer -inspired, and Chicago beer has transformed harm- less workingmen into raging enemies of society. Were the Anarchists to boycott beer there might be hopes of their be- coming peaceable citizens. But they never will. CHINESE DEFEAT 'D an a Second Battle at lienal. A British Warship Sent to Remand the Release of British Prisoners Captur- ed Prom the Row Shing--Oilteial;lte port of the Battle of July 2O—Ara► strongs and Krupp Selling Their Old Stock—Latest News of the War. Capt. Galsworthy, Chief Officer Tamp - lin and Quartermaster Evangelist, of the sunken transport Kow Shing, who were rescued by the boats of the Japanese cruiser, have been taken to Sas Ebo, where they are held as prisoners. Ad- miral Sir E. R. Fremantle, in command ` of the British. China squadron, has order- ed the: Alacrity, four guns,' 1,700 tons, Capt. George A. Callaghan, from Sushima to Sas Ebo, with instructions to demand the release of the British sailors. Upon the arrival of the Alacrity at Nagasaki the commander of the British warship was informed that the prisoners woilld be delivered up to him Saturday at Nagas- aki, The Exodus to Europe. Since the cut in steamship steerage rates the exodus from Chicago and the Ncithwest to various points in Europe has figured up a third of the traffic from New York, according to the estimates of local steamship lines, and the announce- ment of the last great cut has started a real hegira of European -born people. Dozens of Chicago men, who say they are now on strike, have been making enqui- ries at the local steamship offices within the last few days, expressing their inten- tions of returning to the " old country " in case the strike was a failure. There are half a dozen interesting phases of the present situation in regard to ocean travel, and there is much food for thought in the depletion of the stand- ing army . of unemployed in America by the return of thousands of workers to their homes abroad. It is estimated that before long labor in the United States -will be at a premium instead of a dis- count, and there are not a few who figure on a season of prosperity as a conse- quence of the return to Europe of thou- sands who have been in the last six months unsuccessful candidates for em- ployment. At the present time it is pos- sible to go from New York to Liverpool, Queenston or London for 510 on two great lines. This, of course, is a steerage rate, there being no cut in first or second cabin rates. One line offers to deposit passengers in Paris for 818, and the other line will do the game for $17.25. Italian custom is bid for from New York to Tu- rin, Italy, for 539. Never before have rates been so low, and it is small wonder that thrifty for- eigners flock to take advantage of the conditions of the present time. It is pre- dicted that the collapse of the Debs and other strikes will precipitate a rush of men who have gone out and cannot get back and of foreigners in general. Ad. vi -es from abroad to the various steam- ship companies indicate an almost fatal cessation of immigration. Foreigners at Chicago have discouraged friends and relatives abroad from securing work in that city. Local steamship agents also say that there is fib doubt of a heavy exodus to all parts of Europe. Whipped At The Stake. A strange showing of the transplanted customs of the Slav element in thi- coun- try was made near Leith, Pa,, last week. The victim was a young. woman who had violated the moral code that is supposed to govern these people. A party of Slays took her from her friends, stripped ber of clothing, pinioned her hands and feet, lashed her to a stake and whipped her savagely over an hour. She was reviled, tormented and spat, upon by anybody who cared to. She was left at the stake, and remained there six hours, as the ease is stated to the local authorities, before anybody cared to release her. A young man offered to release someof the cords, and was beaten off by the mob. When the girl was taken down she could scarce- ly move. A Mean Parent. Her eyes flashed defiance. " And yet, papa," she declared, "oar love will burn as before," The old man leaped to his feet. His faze was demoniacal in its look of malig- nanttriumph. "Not mull:"shouted. "I've fixed the draft on the parlor stove so you can't open it. Aha !" The underground electricrailroad in London is in places 68 feet below the sur- face. THE SECOND BATTLE, A despatch has been received at Shanghai which confirms the report that a second battle has been fought at Yash- an between the Chinese and Japanese, It is added that the Chinese were defeat- ed. THE OFFICIAL REPORT. The following is the offieial report of Gen. Ohshima, who was in command of the Japanese troops in the recent engage- ment when the Chinese were defeated: "After severe fighting, during five hours, from 8 a.m., on July 29, we won a de- cisive victory-. The enemy's entrench- ment at Chenhon was captured, and over 500, out of a total of 2,500 Chinese soldiers, were killed or wounned. Our losses were five officers and seventy soldiers. The enemy fled towards Hong Chow, and perhaps intends to embark in the Corean boats near Gunsan. We cap- tured many flags, four cannon, many rifles and much ammunition. We oc- cupy the enemy's headquarters." COULD NOT FIND THE ENEMY. The Chinese fleet of thirteen vessels, which left Shanghai for Corea two days ago with the intention of engaging the Japanese fleet, has returned to Chefoo, without meeting the warships of the enemy. APOLOGIZED TO BRITAIN. A. despatch to the Times from Tien- Tsin says that thirteen Japanese soldiers, who had been forcibly removed by the Chinese from the British steamer Chun - King, were returned immediately upon, the Viceroy, Li -Hung. Chang, being noti- fied. In addition, the Viceroy has apol- ogized to the British consul. Nearly all the Japanese have quitted Pekin. .A. des- patch from Tien-Tsin says that all is quiet. DETAILS OF THE BATTLE. Despatches received at the Japanese legation at Washington from the captain of the Japanese despatch boat Yeyayema give particulars of the engagement on July 25 between the Chinese ship Kuwen Ye and the Japanese ship Aikitiseu, which resulted in the flight of the Ku - wen Ye, which vessel took refuge between a shoal and the shore. The captain of the Chinese transport desired to surren- der, but the soldiers on board refused to do so; and resisted, whereupon the Nau- aiwa fired at and sank her. In the action the gaff of the Japanese ship Yoshieno was cut off by a shot and her chart room destroyed. A shell from a Chinese ves- sel, after passing through her gun room and mess room, lodged in the engine room, but failed to explode. The injury sustained by the Chinese man-of-war was very heavy. On board the Chinese transport were six field guns, 1,100 sol- diers, four chiefs of battalions and fifteen chiefs of companies. The captain of the transport and others were rescued by boats from the Nauaiwa. Another despatch received at the lega- tion states that the transport was subse- quently found to be a British steamer, owned by the Indo-China Steam Naviga- tion Company. It was afterwards learn- ed that she had only been chartered by the Chinese Government to carry soldiers and munitions of war. When these facts were discovered the Japanese Gov- ernment,expressed its regrets to the Brit- ish charge of affairs, stating that if, af- ter an enquiry into the subject had been made, Japan was shown to be in the wrong, the Japanese Government would make full reparation for the destruction of the Kow Shing. SELLING OLD WAR MATERIAL. In spite of the instructions which, as announced, were sent to Admiral Sir E. R. Fremantle, in command of the China station, not to allow British ships to carry war material to either China or japan, it is known that the Chinese Min- ister in London is busy with the Arm- strong people of England and the Krupp concern of Germany. All parties having good, bad or indifferent war material for sale are in negotiation with both the Chinese and Japanese representatives, and both countries are known to be plac- ing large orders. The Japanese expect to be able to despatch a steamship full of war material from England for Japan next week. It is stated that this furnish- ing of munitions of war to Japan and China is a clear violation of the laws of neutrality. HOLLAND REMAINS NEUTRAL. Holland has notified China and Japan of her intention to remain neutral, and has ordered all Dutch subiects in ber col- onies to abstain from violating the laws of neutrality. • In India 25,000,00 acres are made fruit- ful by irrigation. In Egypt there are about 6,000,000 acres, and in Europe about 5,000,000. The United States has about 4,000,000 acres of irrigated land. In Holland the peasant girl who is with- out a beau at fair time hires a young man for the occasion. As good dancers com- mand a high price, two maidens some- times club together to employ the same swain, According to latest reports there are in the world 140,344 nautical miles of sub- marine telegraph cable, Of this total the various governments own 14,480 miles of cable and 21.560 of wire : the balance is owned by private companies. It is estimated that the richest of civil- ized peoples is the English, with $1,266 per capita. In France the average is said to be 51,102, in the united States, $1,029, while by the sale of their lands to the United States some of the Indian tribes are worth from $6,000 to 810,000 per cap- ita, man, woman and child, Titiaigs 'Worth; Jzlawiftg Tea plants: need a moist heat for growth. France's war material is valued at $5,000,000. The English tongue is spoken by 115,- 000,000 people. A. tax ou dogs was levied. in Rome dur- ing the reign. of Nero. Only 9 per cent. of surgical operations. in amputation are fatal. The most densely populated spot on earth is the island of Malta. In Portugal the tobacco tax brings 2900,000, the land tax £700,000. Germany pays $10,000,000 a year taxes on salt and 813,000,000 on sugar. The soap duty in. Holland brings $750,- 000 a year to the government, Canaries, if continually fed cayenne. pepper, will gradually turn red. Mulberry trees have been known to bear fruit four times its one season. Scientists predict that in a ceistury there will be no disease not curable. The most costly book in the British Museum is the famous Alizarin Bible. Organized charity was unknown in the Roman empire till after the Christian era, The average tourist trip around the world comprises about 22,000 miles of travel. Tropical spiders dig holes in the ground which they line with silk and fit with trapdoors. A mosquito has twenty-two teeth in the end of his bill, eleven above and eleven below. Great Britain. raises £19,000,000 from the liquor taxes" and £8,000,000 from the tax on tobacco. The largest apes have only sixteen ounces of brain, while the lowest type of man has 39 ounces. The most ancient architectural ruins known are the temples of Ipsambul, on the Nile, in Nubia. One species of spider makes its home in the water, taking possession of empty sand shells for shelter. The people of Great Britain pay 120 pence per head every year in liquor tax, 30 pence in coffee tax and 60 in tobacco taxes. The experiment of manufacturing to- bacco has been started in Louisiana, and is proving successful. The Chinese, Javanese, Malays, Siam- ese, New Zealanders and North American Indians are beardless. Folding fans were invented in Japan, and were suggested by the way in which a bat closes its wings. It is estimated that in Japan out of a population of 37,000,000 people, there are less than 10,000 paupers. The cellar of the Bank of France re- sembles a large warehouse. Silver coin is stored there in 800 large barrels. In the eight years ending in 1892 the fire losses in the United States due to 8,516 strokes of lightning amounted to $12,653,835. Newspaper duty was invented by Queen Anne. It was originally a penny on each sheet, afterwards raised to 4 pence, and abolished in 1855. The difficulty in making aluminum castings has been so far overcome that pure aluminum bath tubs are now made in a single piece. The lowest temperature ever registered on the surface of the earth was 187° be- low zero at Werekojausk, eastern Siberia, in February, 1892. Great Britain has decreased the ratio of import duties, but during the last ten years the rest of the world has increased it nearly one-fourth. In 1702 a salt tax was levied in Great Britain,, and during the French wars was raised to £30 per ton, over sixteen times the value of the article. There are 2,854 persons in Great Bri- tain. who pay tax on an income of more than £5,000 a year, and 967 who pay' taxes on more than £10,000. The tail of the kangaroo is the fleshiest part of the animal. It is considered dainty food when boiled in its own skin; which afterward may be drawn off like a glove.;q Darius Hystaspes, in 480 B.C., intro- duced a system of assessment and tax- ation axation of land, and made himself so ob- noxious by it that he was called Darius the Trader. Many poems of Gray were lost after his death. They fell into the hands of careless persons who knew nothing of their value. Ladies used a few drops of milk and a soft rag to remove traces of dirt from their faces in the middle ages. To wash in water was regarded as injurioue If it were possible to rise above the atmosphere the sun would appear as a sharply defined ball of fire, while every- thing else would be wrapped in total darkness. A man may float in salt water, without moving his hands or feet, if he have the presence of mind to throw his head back and allow the body to sink to the position which it will then naturally take, Judgments. Life is too short to get square. The king can do wrong without every- body knowing it. Pessimism is an evidence of a sour stomach or of inherited taint. All things come to the way of him who does not expect too much. He who has schooled himself to silence has set his world wondering. It can never be that everybody :else is wrong and you alone are right. It is pitiable to see a poor man << gauged t wrong for a small income. A pipe smells of domesticity ; a cigar clubs; a cigarette of vice. A house that is divided against itself cannot stand interference. A man who really loves horses and doge loves women and children' next: A lady should never speak of a gentle- man by his surname without a prefix. Therm Was No Danger. SocietyNotes—He (with bloodshot eyes) "What is this I hear? That you are not a widow, but a married woman With a husband still living—and yet you have engaged yourself to me !'' She—" Don't let that worryou' ns love, We shall never nieethm: He does not move in our set." " What is yotir name, little boy?" said aa ld . v in." "A nd is this yourlittlehe sister ? "Yrs mnail' And hat is your name' ?ttinnie,mum ." Tit ANSATLANTIC DOINGS ALL. AROXJND THE OL' OBE; Pointed Paragraphs Practically Putter Busy Beings to Obtain an Intelligent Idea of Foreign Facts. Golop, Hungary, has been destroyed by fire. Minsk, Russia, has been partially de- stroyed by fire. I.oi d Dunraveu's Valkyrie was sold by auction for £680. Ecuador will- adopt a paper currency upon a gold basis. There were eight fresh cases of cholera in tb e Netherlands. The Pope has decided that the Catholic clergy may ride bicyeles. The Vigilant defeated the Britannia in Saturday's yacht race at Cowes. The Chinese are said to have been de- feated, in a second battle at Yashan. Nearly 100 lives aresaid to have been lost in resent storms on the Behring Sea. The Walter Wellman Polar expedition party is safe, but its ship has been lost, The King of the Belgians takes an hour or two's exercise regularly every morn- ing. Brick said to be from the tower of Ba- bel are plentiful at Birs Nimrud, Babylo- nia. The King of Greece is an excellent swimmer, and has a perfect passion for fishing. Caserio Santo, the assassin of President Carnot, was sentenced to be guilotined Friday. The French have introduced coffee cul- ture in Tonquin with good prospects of sucoess. Most of the Asiatic countries have been ruined by the system of "farming the taxes." The only remains of the once splendid French possessions in India ars five towns. About 40,000 tramps, it is estimated, are travelling over Germany all the year around. Almost all the Turkish taxes are farm- ed out, and the resulting corruption is very great. Lucerne (alfalfa) groiii.ng has proved eminently successful in the dry districts of Australia. Mr. Gladstone is able to cease the use of colored spectactles except for the pur- pose of reading. A club in Berlin, called the Giants, ad- mits to membership only.. men who are six feet in height. The overdue British ship Shandon. from Calcutta to San Francisco, has been heard from at Honolulu. The ships and other vessels that passed through the Suez Canal last year paid 814,000,000 in tolls. Abdul Aziz, the Sultan of Morocco, has married the daughter of Mulai Ershid, an uncle of his father. A French spy has been arrested near Genoa with plans of the Italian Alpine forts in his possession. The Hessian fly is reported to have done great damage to the wheat fields of New Zealand last season. The British Chief Secretary for Ireland has been urged to establish a department of agriculture in Ireland. Poisonous snakes are so common in Venezuela that a snake bite is almost as common there as in India. The United States of Colombio seems to present the best field for miners of any of the South American States. At Corunna, Spain, is the oldest light- house in the world. It was built nearly eighteen hundred years ago. His Holiness the Pope has cabled to the great convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union endorsing it. A merchant in Germany bas been fined heavily for using a quotation from. the Bible to head an adverti'ement. The Duchess of Hamilton has bad a large stable built for her cows and goes there daily to milk her favorites. Of the 893 private stallions in Italy which were approved by the official in- spectors seventeen were American. In the Phillipine Islands there is a plant which bears a flower nearly a yard wide, and weighing twenty-two pounds. Gold production in Venezuela is falling off rabidly, and the cost of transportation is high; but an improvement is looked for. Money is so plentiful in London that the joint stock banks have reduced their allowance on deposits from 1 to per cent. Emperor William has decided that vigorous steps must be taken in Germany for the suppression of Anarchism and Socialism. In one auction room in London during a single season over half a million bird - skins from the West Indies and Brazil were sold. France was .the first to accept Great Britain's invitation to observe strict neutrality during the war between China and Japan. India ranks third among the countries of the world for wheat production. Its total wheat crop last year a as 203,000,- 000 bushels. Most of the numerous temples through- out China are painted red; everything lucky and pleasant among the Chinese is vermillion color. The Duke of Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha, in his capacity as Duke of Edinburgh, is still to draw 850,000 a year from the British treasury. There are in Lancashire- alone 320 in- dustrial lae and provident societies, with an aggregate g of upwards of a quarter of a million members. Queen Victoria was the originator of the decollette style of dress cut entirely off below the shoulders and decidedly low in front and in the back. The Mont de Pieta, or national pawn- shop, at Roubaix Department of the north, was destroyed by fire Sunday. The damage is 2,000,000 francs. The Seychelles Islands, which politi- cally form part of the British colony of Mauritius, are supposed by many to be the original Garden of Elden. If the Hollanders aetuallytndertake to drain the Zuider Zee, the first item of ea, - pease will be a monster dam that will cost at least 818,000,000. The Austrian Empress' brother Duke ChariesTheodore of Bavaria, hasresumed at Meran his free practice as an oetilist for the benefit of the poor. Terrible tales of starvation and death; among the Indians of Labrador are re- ported., The distress arises from. scarcity of game, An Australian farmer reports a crop of 750 bushels of Algerian oats from ten, aeras of land, Another one eclipses this by a crop of eighty bushels to the acre. Brussels has started a Cat Club, which has just held a successful show. There were 116 entries, including five Siamese. of great beauty and three Manx cats. There are more ducks in China and more are eaten than in all the rest of the, world. At some of the duck farms of that country 50,000 are annually batch- ed. In the Nile Valley sone seventy-five• prayer meetings for women and girls are• held weekly, with an average attendance - of 1,236, of whom 422 are able to lead in prayer. The combined assets of the Rothschild family in Europe are not lees, it is said;, than 82,000,000,000. The virtual headof- the family is Nathaniel, Lord Rothschild, of Loudon. Lady Burton Possesses a necklace of human, bones, given by the King of Da- homey to Sir Richard Burton when be made him brigadier -general of his corps' of Amazons. Queen Wilhelmina, who is the very ideal of a healthy little girl, rides a bi- cycle occasionally when she is at the, charming old-fashioned castle Het Leo, near the Hague. Dr. de Bossy, the leading physician of Havre, recently celebrated the 101st an- niversary of his birthday. He is still able to attend without assistance to his. large practice. The British warship Alacrity has been ordered to Sas Ebo to demand the release. cf the British sailors captured by the. Japs from the transport Kow Shing and: held as prisoners. Peru in the Samoa hydraulic mine has. what is estimated to be the largest bank of auriferous gold in the world, yielding $50,000 a year, or two-thirds of the gala' product of that country. The Spanish physicians who were sent• to Marseilles a few days ago to investi- gate the charge that cholera is epidemio, in that city have reported that they be- lieve that cholera dces exist in Mar- n. There are at this present time 17,051 Wesleyan Methodist Sunday schools in Great Britain, an increase of 508 in ten years. The children number not less than 948,508, an increase of 106,557. In New Zealand the exports of dairy• products advanced in twenty years from $45,000 in 1872 to $1,590,000 in 1842. Tbe- oolony now has 174 establishments of all kinds for the manufacture of butter and cheese. Cremation is gaining favor in France - and Japan. Last year, in the crematory at the Pere Lachaise crematory, Paris,. there were 3,741 cremations. In Tokio,, the chief city of Japan, the average num- ber of cremations is thirty a day. The Bridgman school fer girls, at Pe- kin, China, has recently determined to receive no more girls with bound feet. The native Christians at Pekin, as the result of an enthusiastic meeting, have formed an Anti -foot -binding Society, ANARCHISTS ACTIVE. • A lighted sulphur torch was placed by some unknown person underneath a pile• of wicker baskets in one of the workshpos of the arsenal. The authorities have not discovered any trace of the miscreant. Following close upon the attempt to cause a disaster at the time of the launch- ing of the battleship Carnot, the subse- quent attempt to set firs to that ship, and the disastrous fire at 16 arsenal, all of which are known to be erimes of anarch- ist origin, this last attempt has caused a, decidedly uneasy fetlirg at Toulon., He Couldn't Help It.. The man's wife had asked him to go' upstairs and look in the pocket of her dress for a key she thought was there, and being a man willing to accommo- date, he had done so. It was a long time. until he returned. and when he did there was a peculiar look in his eyes. "I can't find any key in the dress of your pocket," he said with a painful effort. "Why," she retorted sharply, "I lett it there." " I say I can't find any dress in the.. pocket of your key," he said doggedly. His tone seemed to disturb her. " You didn't half look for it," she in-- sieted. "I tell you I can't find any pocket in. the key of your dress," he replied in a. dazed kind of a way. This time she looked at him. "What's the matter with you?"' she asked nervously. "I say," he said. speaking with much effort, "that I can't find any dress in the. key of your pocket." She got up and went over to him. ' Oh, William," she groaned, " have you been drinking ?" He looked at her leerily. " I tell you I can't find any pocket in,. the dress of your key," he whispered, She began to shake him. " What's the matter? What's thee matter?" she asked in alarm. The shaking seemed to do him good, and he rubbed his eyes as if he were re- gaining consciousness. "Wait a minute," he said very slowly indeed. "Wait a minute. I can't find,, any dress in—no; I can't find any key in; the dress of—no, that's not it; any—any:• —any pocket. There, that's it," and a flood of light came into his face. t t Con--• found it, I couldn't find any pocket." Then he sat down and laughed hyster- • ically, and his wife, wonderangrwhy in ' the name of goodness men raised such a row over finding the pocket in a woman's dress, wont upstairs and came back with, the key in two minutes. Wooden Clockwork. " You'd probably be surprised to know how many people are using old crooks with wooden works," said a repairer. to Nobody makes wooden works now, so it stands to reason that they are old. Since the craze for antiques set in the back districts have been pretty well ran- sack. d an-sack.d for them, and there are hundreds. in running order in New York city. They are expensive, in the end, because they are always getting out of order, and people get tired of winding them twice a day, too. Some of them that come to me . are a rare eight. ht. They have 'evidently p been repaired- byfarriers and are black . with grease and dust, and the broken teeth have been replaced with -wooden. pegs, brass -wire, hair pins, nails, and g, . what not,A tall.old grandfather always looks well, though sn a corner, and no matter how decrepit, it commazjds,• a good price."