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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-8-30, Page 2VS. Subscribers who do not remise their paper promptly win pleese notify us at °me. Advertising rates on application. THE EXETER ADYNATE, THURSDAY. AUGUST 30, 1894. Week's Coninterelal Snit=an% The amount of gold. in the I:Tutted. • States treasury is now only $52,888,500„ as compared with 8102,840,000 last year. The net exporte of gold. at Nov York froth. January 1 to date amount to 872,- 972,900, as compared with iie1i1,617,700 daring the corresponding period of last year. The Congress of the United State e has at last passed the tariff bill, after being in conference over it for a mouth. The House has apparently had to pa se -the Sen- ate Bill unamended ani ulachaaged, but paased separate bills placing sugar, coal, iron ore and barbed' wire on the -free list. How the Senate will agree to this remain8. to he seen. Toronto is fortunate in having each year, in September, a fair conducted to her 'credit, Thousands of people flock there from all over Canada, both for the puipose of seeing the exhibition and visiting Toronto merchants. From pres- ent indications the Toronto Industrial Exhibition will be lip to its usual stand- ard. of excellence this year, and, with favorable weather, there is doubt the at- tendance will exceed that of former years. Although times are hard., it should not keep the country merchants from taking advantage of the cheap rates and visiting Toronto in September. The number of failurea in the Domin- ion the past week, in Provinces, as com- pared with previous weeks, is as follows Ont. Que. N.S. Bele. man. B.O. Ti. Aug. 14 17 13 2 5 5 8 45 Aug. 918 19 3 3 1 4 45 Aug. 2 26 11 3 S 1 44 July. 26 18 19 4 .. 1 1 32 July iq18 13 6 3 3 1 44 July ia 21 15 4 4 4 1 49 July 5 15 1 5 .. 8 84 One of the philosopher's stone of electri- cal inventors is the problem of obtaining the direct control of the energy wilich is stored up in coal, so that it may be em- ployed without waste and at a very small margin of • cost—in other words, that it may be turned directly into electricity without using steam engins and. boilers, the present- necessary intern ediaries. Ninety per cent. of the enery that exists in. coal is now lost in converting it into power. It goes off into heat through the chimneys of boiaer rooms, and. 'is perceiv- ed in any room where there is a furnace or boiler. A. means of saving this waste will vastly cheapen the cost of everything which is manufactured by electric or steam power, as well as of Blithe luxuries and. necessaries of life, and its results would. be of mightier influence upon civilization than the development of the steam engine and. electricity have been. It would enable an ocean steamship of 20,- 000 horse power to cross the ocean faster than any of the crack vessels now do, and it would. require the burning of -only 250 tons of coal, instead. of 3,000 which are now required. operating Prices of pig iron arenot lower. The boot and shoe industry leads .4 others in recovery from depreeeion„ Speeulation in corn hae been .eetive, the price falling 40., rising Se., and falling 2c., With vary - lug reports Of injury, whieh ixi some States. are undoubtedly severee While Western receipts in two weeks have been only 2,426,578, against 4,978,102 Jest ,year„ the highprice explains exports of only 541,685 bushel::: against 3,061,908 ixi the same weeks last year. Pork has ed- vaneed 50 cents and lard 85 cents per hundted pounds with jastification in the injury to corn. Wheat is about one cent lower. Western receipts being very heavy for two weeks, 10,680,418 bushels, against 5,040,581 last year, and. it is claimed that Minnesota end the two Da- kotas will yield 125.000,000 bushels, the eecond largest yield. in the history. • Atlantic exports are small, in two weeks 2,679,456 bushels of wheat, against 6,- 976,508 last year, Cotton has advanced sixteenth without worse prospects. The -value of cutton exported in l'ely was $2,402,000, or 45 per cent less than last year, and the value of breadstuffs was 88,198,592, against 810,430,260, or 58 per cent. less. Full returns for July show an aggregate of 811,291,805. All modern nations are interested. in the development of coal mines, and it is a well known fact that in different parts of Canada there are some of the greatest and richest mines in the world, Which judici- ous enterprise and development would not only place on a paying basis, but an abundan.ce of this fuel would allow steam- ship companies and railroads to make very great reductions on freight, result- ing in general benefits. The working of our mines would. furnish work for not less than 2,000 citizens, and. as much more for corresponding industries which would. then be developed. This work would. not oppress a single citizen, but on the con- trary would result in decreasing general taxation, would furnish a strong and last- ing security to other inclustnes and lead to a more rapid increase in population. Carried on. a grand scale with the proba- bility of having a through waterway which will allow ocean steamers to reach Toronto and far beyond it, these works would serve as a strong base for the solu- tion of how to be less dependent upon fickle agriculture. Nor would this by any means weaken our stong position as an agricultural country. 'Why then, it is asked, do we not open these mines? Be- cause an enormous sum would be neces- sary to carry on a commercial work of such magnitude. It will be necessary, probably, to extend our railway systems, and unless liberal grants were made it would. be difficult to get capitalists to in- vest, although they do so in similar en- terprises in Europe and the United States. Should. the duty be taken off coal in the United States this session it will have the effect of stimulating our Nova Scotian and. other mines; and therefore the pres- ent is an opportune time to advocate the general development of our coal mines, which still is the chief factor in most in- dustrial enterprises. The Government should. remove every obstacle calculated to retard so gigantic a step towards the prosperity of the eountrea R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: 'The tariff bill, if signed by the President, as expected, provides a definite basis for business. While it is n.ot wise to look for a great boom, there is a warrp,nt for a reasonable and prudent hopefulness. It is too early to look for effects of the new situation in the great industries, but the gradual recovery which has appeared for some time is seen in a better demand for products. Specu- lation in wool has been stopped, and the sales, which have been 6,929,750 pounds for the week ended, 14,553,150 for two weeks of August, against 3,897,400 last year, and 16;385,300 in 1892, natural.ly diminished on Wednesday and Thursday, and it is expected that the recent, advance may be ,lost, though no change yet ap- pears. As woolen manufacture has the old duties with free wool antil ,Tanuary 1, ordells are expeeted to be governed by the consuming power of the people with the aecinnulated business so long deferred, and while recent, trade has been: enough to crowd the mills at work On seine specialties, it has been far short of all the works in the country. Makers will be pressed within the next week to put prices on spring goods, which few lines are opened. Cotton manufacturers have been carrying extraordinary stocks. of goods for the country, and' the strike threatened at New Bedford will not alarm them, but the reduction of wages seem less likely to be accepted at Pall River. A smart In- crease in transactions is reported, buyers ,and. sellers having at last a common basis for judgment. Resumption of iron and steel works, which were stopped by the strikes, continua: to depress pries of some finished products, but with more furnaces HERE AD THERE. China and Japan must have studied the art of sending forth news during the Chi- cago strike, x x x The finding of three pins with their point towards you is as lucky as finding horseshoe, but a little elbow grease is bet- ter than both. x x x The Hamilton Gas Company's pipe will be assessed. for $100,000, and. it is expected that the company will make a strong fight against this. x x x It is estimated 100,000 wage workers will return to Europe this year owing to the hard times in the United States. East bound. passenger steamers are all crowded. x x x Probably the Division Court is called the poor man's court because of its ten- dency to impoverish everybody who has anything to do with it as a debtor or as creditor, x x X In Claremont. Ont., the ice cream par- lor is in the village barber shop, where the young lady can haye strawberry and vanilla While her escort has his whiskers trimmed. x x x Possibly the reason his nibs, the Em- peror of China, divested. Li Hung, Chang of his yellow jacket was because he dichil want the japan.ese to be treading on the tail of Chang's coat. x x x In return for all the metaphysical. phil- osophy which the east has given to the west. Europeans have taught the great Asiatic nations the latest improvements in the art of fighting. x x x With Lord Aberdeen wearing kilts -at a banquet and. displaying his regalia as baronet of Nova Scotia, the people at the shore end of the Domminion cannot con- scientiously ask for better terms. x x x South Dakota will, it is estimated, pro- duce six bushels of wheat to the acre this season. That's better than nothing, but it is a poor advertising card for a state once Taunted as the garden of the west, x x x A new secret political order is being formed. in Los Angeles, called the United Sons of America. The organitation is loyal, patriotic, political, national, and. non-sectarian, and believes in free silver. x x x The Dominion* Government has decided to set apart all heavily -timbered lands in Manitoba. west of the Red river, as per- manent timber reserves, which will be reserved as sources of fuel supplies for set- tlers. x x x Mr. James Stirling was fined $25 and costs by the Chatham, Ont., Police Magistrate for shipping cattle and sheep iitt the same car, the latter being packed. closely under the former to economize space. x x x The following notice was recently given from a rural pulpit; " The pastor will preach his last sermon this evening prior to his vacation, and the choir have ar- ranged a special praise service for the oc- casion." x x Steps are beingtaken in England to organize a Barmaids' Union, after which, of course, a strike will be in order. The girls should. hesitate before counting on the sympathy of their customers, for men, especially drinking men, were deceivers ever. x x One reason why the Russian Czarowitz can never marry the Princess Victoria of Wales, with whose name gossip has con- nected. his. is that they are first cousins, and. the marriage of first cousins is strict- ly prohibited by the canons of the Greek church. x x x Bruce County farmers are rebuked. by the Walkerton Herald for holding on for better prices instead of promptly market- ing their wheat and eggs. Wheat can always be held until the marketstrength- ens, but eggs increase in strength much faster than in price. fiches shorter than the other. • Early in life he became totally blind. Six years' afterwards he recovered' his eyesight and was then strieken deaf and &nub,. After a period in the asylum for the deaf here- eoVered his speech and hearing. Then he became insane and was sent to another asyluin Where be was cured and dis- charged. At hist he became. a vietirn of epilepsy, .and this finally proved : XX) The fact that China sets a price upon Japanese heads should make the accom- plished little islanders fight with more vim than ever. When a fighter knows that hie head is worth a couple of dollars in the market he will do more to keep it than if it had no -value. • ; X x x Again Chicago is charging their alder- nien with boodling. Why not call Brother Stead before the grand jury? If all that he said in his book with an unhappy title can be substantiated under oath, most of the fathers of the breezy eity would soon be dressing stone at folie X X X Iri.Chicago a petition has been recorded for an injunction, against Sunday base- ball. The perfection of liberty and free- dom which Americansare supposed to ad- mire cannot be secured -unless the base- ball enthusiasts agree to ' eonfine their three -bag shouts within the preeincts x X X An. eatly death was the greatest' Mane that befell William Mercier, of Ottawa, who died at Gallipolie lately, His af- flietions had been worse than jOb's,Th beein with, one:ot his legs was about six X X X ' According to London Truth the public may be divided into three ()lasses: Uwe° who read and, remember; they are few. Those who read and forget; they are many. Those who do not :read? they are most. The original writer of to -day be- longs to the first, and he writes for the others. x x x Mr. Wellman on reaching Norway ex- plained that he did not reach the pole but Probadly the Pole, hearingthat a Chicago newspaper man was in search of it, moved away to escape being mis- represented in an interview. As a sum- mer excursionist, however, Mr. Wellman is a success. X X X When. the civilized world is wrestling, with the names of Chinese and Japanese generals and officials, along comes the news of the death of the King of Siam, Pim Bat Sonedetch Paramindr Ma - ha Chulalonkorn Pltra Chula Chom Rlao- chow Yu Hua. Misfortunes never come singly. x x x Chicago complains that business never was so dull and times so hard, but in that city there are eight theatres open,to say nothing of the museums, while in Now York but two regular theatres ars light- ed, though the varieties and the roof gardens are doing a lair business Or they would not be open. x x x The New York Legislature reserves the right of imposing tolls on Canadian pro- ducts passing through the state canals. As more United States products pass through Canadian canals than Canadian products through New York canals, the legislature will act wisely in continuing to reserve the right. x x x Evidently Christianity has not made much progress in Fiji. There was an out- break among the natives a short time ago,• and the rebels went back to idolatry and cannibalisni with the ardor of old acquaintances. So the missionaries will have to go all oyer their work again* to gather these wandersra into the fold. • x x x Mine. Alboni, the greatest of the con- traltos of our time, left some handsome legacies to the poor of Paris. Among them were a fund. to provide forty sayings bank books of $50 each every year to poor and deserving girls and boys, without distinction 0 -religion or nationality, and a gift of 820,000 to found beds in Paris hospitals for Italian patients. x x x A farmer living on the South Line of Brant brought a load of hay into Hanover SOMe days ago and had it weighed. On his return to have his wagon. re -weighed, he slyly removed one of the tires which happened to be loose, from a wheelbe- fore running the wagon on the scales. The action was noticed:by a little boy and reported and mister farmer had to make good the:sh.ortage. x x x The following are the latest published figures: The human. family living on earth to -day consists of about 1,550,000,- 000 pawns in round nuaribers. Of these only about 500,000,000, or one-third, are even properly clothed; 250,000,000 habitu- ally go naked; 700,000,000 • have only middle part of bodies covered; only 500,- 000,000 live in houses, 700,000,000 in. huts or caves, while the remaining 250,000,000 have no home or shelter whatever. x x x An analysis of the 13,669 signatures in the visitors' book at Shakespeare's birth- place for the year ending March 81st shows that 33 different nationalities were represented. England and Wales con- tributed 10,779 of these pilgrims,'America 1,682, , Scotland 296, Ireland,. 206, Ger- many 108, Canada 96, A.ustralta 87, India 67, Africa 63, France 33, New Zealand 36, four each came from Japan, Java and Portugal, two from China and Egypt, and:one from Denmark. x x x M. Worth, the great Paris dressmaker, is now ahnost seventy years old. He is the son of an English solicitor, and was borne at Bourne, in Lincolnshire. When Itis father died he went to London, and found a position in a west end millinery shop. Then'after a few years, he went to Paris, and, entering an equally famous shop there, served long enough to become thoroughly acquainted with French methods of business. It was in 1858 that he finally set up his own establishment. x x x The Montreal Star complains that the police force of that city is not as efficient as it ought to be for the money expended upon it, and adds: The secretary of the force has received orders to give no news to the representatives of the press, for the police do not like to see reports of burg- laries, etc., in the newspapers." That's where the police of Montreal and. other places make donkeys of themselves. The newspapers will get the items anyway, and the police might as wellaprofit by the advice and assistance of a clever reporter when they are obtainable. x x x the wool crop of two years, or the greater portion of it, is said to be still in Canada. As soon as the new American tariff comes into force this wool will be marketed in the States. A firm in Hamil- ton is reported to have 1,000,000 pounds waiting shipment, and the profit will be considerable. In other ways the effect of the tariff changes will be felt. Many lumbermen will out their logs on this elk and ship the lumber to the States, and thus save the expense of towing the logs long distances, Salb,, too, will -be made free, which accounts for the fact that De- troit capitalists have purchased the Right- rneyer salt works at Kincardine andavill operate them in :Eaten, A Chicago man named P, E, McDonnell has invented and partly eoinpleted an airship which he wants to sell to 'the Japanese Government. He says, with the characteristic Chicago enthusiasm, that if japan would buy the ship it could wipe out China in less time than it would take to tell of the damage that would be done, Mr. McDonnell has been working on his, idea for a quarter of a century, and has spent $8,000 in conStracting the machine. He stopped work because he hadn't a cent 10 spate o" the $15,000 required' to finish it. The ship is 212 feet long, weighs a little over 6,000 pounds, and will travel, so the inventor says, forty miles an. hour. The model looks like a Imp oigur of the kind that is sharpened at both ends. Mr. McDonnell says he has built it on soienti- fic principles, and is morally certain that it will do all that is expeeted o it. x X e: The case of Miss Emma F. Bates, of Val- ley City, North Dakota, is interesting as showing what might occur in other places if woman suffrage became general and it were a common thing for women to run for office, Tho Republicans of North Da- kota have declared for woman. suffrage, and at their recent convention they nom - fueled Miss Bates as their candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion. It is the story of how shegot this nomination that is particularly interest- ing. She had two strong rivals for the nomination. One of them she disposed of without serious tronble, hilt the other seemed _ invineible. She tried many schemes looking to his defeat, but none of them would work. At last she approached him with the proposition that'll he would draw out she would make him her deputy. At first he would not listen even to this inducement, But as time went on and she continued to press her proposal, the dreaded male rival yielded, not to the at- tractions of the deputyship, but more es- ecially to the personal attractions of • se Bates herself. Ile suggested as a compromise that if she would marry him he would. withdraw out of the race for the superintendency. Miss Bates asked for time. Filially on his promise to stump the State in her behalf in case of her nom- ination she murmured the poetic "yes.," and. now if the Republicans win the twain will have both the superintendency and the deputyship all in the family. The happy bridegroom. will be consoled for losing the superintendency by having won a wife. Should the ladies engage extensively in politics in future and should their participation. in public affairs lead to romance like this, perhaps the prejudice against woman suffrage would be dissipated. But what a softthingof it a pretty girl would have in a political convention. FALL FAIRS, MI. Toronto Sept. 3-15 Montreal Sept. 13-20 London Sept. 13-.22 Kingston ... Sept. 17-21 Wellesley Sept. 18-19 Renfrew. .... .... .. . .... . Sept. 18-19 Guelph Central Sept. 18-20 Quebec Sept. 10-15 Belleville Sept. 18-21 Bowmanville„ . . Sept. 21-22 Ottawa Sept. 21-29 Peterborough Sept. 24-26 Goderich .... Sept. 25-26 Cayuga Sept. 25-26 1Voodstoek , Sept. 25-26 Paisley Sept. 25-26 Prescott Sept. 25-27 Charlottetown Sept. 25-27 Coliingoodw Sept. 25-28 Brantford . Sept: 26-28 Stratford ... Sept. 27-28 Brampton Sept. 27-28 Seaforb (South Huron) ...... „ Sept. 27-28 Arthru: Oct. 2-3 Paris . Oct. 2-8 Chatham Oct. 4 Walkerton Oet. 2-4 Puslinch (Aberfoyle) ..... Oct. 4 Elora Oct. 4-5 Smith.ville Oct. 4-5 Otterville Oct. 4-5 Nassagaweya, Brookville Oct. 5 Ridgetown Oct. 8-10 Tilsonbarg Oct. 9-10 Burford Oct. 11-12 Sinicoe Oct. 16-18 Erin Oct. 17-18 TABLE OF ALLOYS. A combination of copper and zinc makes bell metal. A combination of tin and copper makes bronze metal. A combination of tin'antimony. cop- per and biemuth makes britanic metal. A combination of tin and. copper makes cannon metal. A combination of copper and zinc makes Dutch gold. A combination of copper, nickel and zinc, with sometimes a little iron and. tin, makes German silver. A combination of gold and copper makes standard gold. A. combination of gold, copper and silver makes old standard gold. A combination of tin and copper makes aun metal. A combination of copper and zinc makes mosaic gold. A combination of tin and lead makes pewter. .A. combination of lead and a little arsenic makes sheetmetal. A combination of silver and copper makes standard silver. A combination of tin and lead makes solder. A com.bination of lead.1 antimony, tin and copper make type metal. PROVERBS. The boss deals himself the full hand. A wise employer may learn much from a clerk. It requires less skill to fUl the hearse than to drive it. It takes a lot of sugar to sweeten a Gov- ernment scandal. Society tolerates a biedous soul sooner than a humped back. It is easier to make new opportunities than to find lost ones. Too much turkey to -day may result 3. a dinner of•feathers to -morrow. True philosophy oites the past in order to point out the path of progress. , Some men set rat traps to catch ele- phants, while others dig pitfalls for mice. High Living must inevitably ta,ke a peri- odical dose of hard times' blue pill. Many a poor man's table bears wit- ness that the times are sadly out of joint. - • The man who took everybody's direc- tion got lost and •met the one that refused to consult the guide -post. Musical amateurs are respectfully ad- vised that some folks felt worse when Nero fiddled than when Rome burned. The Wretch. "Axe we all here ?" enquired Mr. Brutal, Jones of his landlaby the other morning at the breakfast table, " I think so—one, two, three four. yes we aro all here, I believe," snd she smil- ed sweetly ; ,'why ?' ' " &thing much ; only I see by the motaing paper that a human skeleton was Vlekecl up just outside the city limits." The smile 'vanished. FROM THE UNITED.STATES DOINGS ACEOSS THE un, riuffe.$4ines Dread ,Aercs Furnish Quito a Few Small Items that are Worth a a Careful Reading. ffI3ualio has a horse hospisal. The coal fields of the United States cover 194„c00 square miles. W. K. 'Vanderbilt plays poker every day, but only for small stakes. Rev. Daniel J. Pickham, a well-known Catholic divine of Chicago, is dead. .A. big strike of the mill operatives in New Bedford, Mass., is threatening. Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, Md., recently celebrated his sixtieth birthday. Trains are making the run between Boston and New *York., 232 miles, in five ihiaorrvy.ass. hingtonIrving, great -grandnephew of the famous duthor, is an ensign in the The houses of the leading millionaires pofoiNiceee.v York are xnostly gaarded by secret Carrie E. Potter, a New York actress, died suddenly:in a Lowell, Mass., hotel last week. In a recent parade in Youngstown, 0., the search lights were operated bythresh- ing engines. • The coal strike in the Danville district, is over, and the men admit defeat at everypoint, GointOlciman, the notorious Anar- chist, was released from Blaekwell Peni- tentiary Thursday. A bank inspector named Miller, of Mer- cer, Pa., shot and killed himself at Al- toona, Pa., Friday. , Jim launder, a negro, was lynched near New Orleans on Thursday for alleged. out- rages on white women. The castorns authorities of Boston have decided that the works of Zola are im- moral, but not obscene. After a courtship of two hours Ames Wood and Miss Mary Stewart were mar- ried recently at Youngstown, 0. Del Harford killed George Kelly by Striking him on the head with an ax at Golden -Hill, Pa., Thursday night. At Red Cliff, Col., a woman candidate for mayor was defeated at a recent elec- tion largely by the votes of women. Another fight has occurred in Milwau- kee between health officers and. the popu- lace over a suspected smallpox case. Gen. A. J. Pleasanton, originator of the blue glass theory, died at his home in. Philadelphia, aged eighty-six years. 0. S. Baron & Co., manufacturers of knit goods, New York, have assigned. Liabilities, $15017 000. assets, $125,000. If gold exports continue the treasury department may be forced to ask the aid of the banks to replenish the reserve. Among Edison's recent patents is one for an improved forin. of lamp filament and a method of magnetic ore separation. Rev. Francis A. Hoffman, aged eighty- eight years, the oldest Evangelical preach- er in the United States, died at Reading, Pa. A passenger train was wrecked Thnrs- id;lyleoan, the Atlantic & Pacifie Railroad at Cuberroya, N.M., and two train hands Ex-PresidentHarrison declines to speak on the Tariff Bill just now, but promises to give his views during the Indiana, cam- paign. The first trolley cars to be fitted and used to carry the United States mail are those which run from Brooklyn to Coney Island. Explosion of a gasoline stove set a St. Louis lodging -house on fire. Two of the iuraeted.sweret'burned to death and several niljm .A. Cleveland contractor has undertaken to move a stone house weighing 5,500 bus, basement and all, a distance of sixty feet. A Bostonian has electric lamps conceal- ed about his windows so as to produce a similar effect to sunlight shining through the panes. Mrs. John Jacob' Astor, Mrs. Potter and other society ladies engaged in a cat -boat race at Newport on Saturday, which Mrs. Astor won. Chicago has a Domestic Seience Asso- ciation, which proposes to build an insti- tution where women will be instructed in home duties. There are 15,000 salaried employes on the lists of New York Cityi and the total expenditures of the city government were $89,000,000 for the year. The archdiocese of Baltimore has had but nine Roman Catholic archbishops, and three of them were converts from the Protestant -Episcopal church. Copies of the new Tariff Bill have been sent out from Washington to customs offf- cials, in order that they may become fa- miliar with it when it becomes law. Arthur Bentz, a six-year-old boy of Lebanon, Pa., died from the effects of swalloeving a tadpole, which his little companion had forced Into his mouth. 1Vliss Frances E. 'Willard attributes her gain in health a,nd weight to the fact that while she was visiting in England they made her eat five hearty meals a day. At Washington there is a list of all the known anarchists in the world, and their place of residence when last heard frOm, The French Government has a slinilar The right of a telegraph or telephone company to eut limbs Crean trees to pre- vent their interference with the wires is to be tested by the United Statee Supreme Court. ' Mrs. F. Marion CraWford is an enthusi- astic sailor and accompanies her husband on • many of his yachting. expeditions. She is also an accomplished lingnist and musician. So valuable are her jewels that Mrs. :Potter Palmer never attends a ball or Party of any kind to which she wears them without a private detective to -form a part of her esOort. Carp has become so plentiful in the sloughs along the Columbia river in Ore - eon that fishermen have offered to supply farmers with any desired quantity for manure at $5 per ton, Miss Grace Hawthorne, daughter of the welf-known writer, is a famous pedestrian and thinks nothing of a teit-mlle walk— not before breakfast perhaps, but any time between sunrise and stinset. A recent issue of a newspa,por of Mon. Ongahela City, Pa., antounced thatkider .1` M. Springer, of Bellernon, would. preach on Sunday ab Duquesne, marry:A, couple' at Fayette City on Monday and, conduct a Innen/ at Belle Vernon on Wednesday, Mr. Springer is a preaeliee, a jeetiee Of the peace and an undertaker, and being a furniture dealer as well eau also assist at births by furnishing cradles, to order. ' One of the most industrious ministers in Georgia is W, M. Jones, colored, of Pratteburg. He works a ea:op during the week and =walks twenty-nine miles every Sunday in filling his appointments. Er. R. Baynes, of Rookland, Me., is 99 years old, but has good teeth and eyesight uses neither liquors, tobacco, tea, nor co& fee, and sleeps in an iron chair for the sake of its supposed magnetic value. The greatest handle factory, where, handles of axes, hammers, and al sorts of tools are made of the best .1 "ory, and' are shipped by the millions to parts of the world, is located at Louisvi' el- Ky. . It is proposed to erect an electrie over- head road from the Chicago Postoffice to the Exposition grounds, to 'transmit the mail at a high rate of speed. The roaet will be built over the tops of the houses. Mrs. Charles Briggs, wife of the cele- brated professor of theology, is an accom- plished musician, as are her two daugh- ters. .4.11 three studied. at Leipsic, and' have attracted much attention by theie anaifl Sophiaaleilit. il Wansir, of Sheboygan, Mich., has grown rieli by a peculiar in- dustry. She built a gas works se•vorat years ago and sold' it to the town at a great advance. Now she is building the villzs. sewtaeilaB. terwoi. lt;songe; wife of ex -Sena.- tor 0. D. Conger, of Michigan, died re- cently, and her will leaves him the sum of $150 a month, and makes provision for' her funeral and for the erection of a suit- able monument over his remains. Etna, N.j., can boast of the strongest - woman in that State. Her name is Kate Kuhn, and she is styled the female Sal dow. She is only nineteen, but has a handsome and symmetrical form, and her muscles stand out like those of a trained atteteti us Boston Schoolboys' Society re- union recently Joseph D. Jones .gaye his reminiscences as a schoolboy nmety-two years ago. He is ninety-seven years old.. Nobody can be a member of the society - who has not been out of school a full half century. James R. Sovereign, the new General* Master Workman of the Knights of La-- bor, is about forty-three years of age. He was a stonecutter and designer until ten. years ago, when he and a printer estab- lished a paper at Atlantic, Ia., where he has since lived. To -day Boston possesses, besides the• Common and Public Garden, eighteen public parks, with an area of nearly 2,000, acres. In addition there are something 'Rea like 150 public squares, gardens, burial grounds and places not built upon, nor likely to be built upon. The town of Williainsbridge, N.Y., is controlled politically by a woman "boss.' She is Mrs. Elizabeth Heilman, and Ls known as "Queen Elizabeth." She is postmistress, deals in real estate, is a lob- byist at Albany, is a notary public, and she madeWilliamsbridge a good, hustling town out 02 1190 sleepy village it was. In- cidentally, she has made $150,000 during the past four years. An Ohio lawsuit, involving the owner -- ship of 1,500 acres of valuable real estate, was settled lately by the aid of photogra- phy. The turning point of the suit was. as to whether an old deed, executed sev- enty-five years ago, had fiye signatures or only four. There were spaces for five, but only traces of four visible. The clerk of the court was ordered to have the deed photographed by an expert. He took it to Washington for this purpose. The negative developed some evidence of the missing signature, but on enlarging it. ten times tlie whole name came- forth die- tinctly. OUT OF WORK, TOOK BIS OWN LIFEl, Carlisle Jurgenson, a ladies' tailor, come mittedsuicide by sh3oting, hithself thi-ough the breast near Grant's tomb, in River. side, N.Y., early Sunday morning. He had been out of work a long time, aurt this is supposed to have been -the motive for suicide. TED HOGS AfAx STARVE. Despatches from South Dakota indicate that the farmers have an unusually large number of hogs, but owing to the failure of the 'wheat and corn crops they have nothing to feed them with. The porkers. are netfitfor the market, and their own- ers must get help or allow them to starve by the thousand. STARVING POLLIS IN BUFFALO. Hundreds of idle Poles of Buffalo'are eager to join the army of Coxeyites now encaniped near Dunkirk. An attempt was made to hold a mass meeting Friday morning., but the police- dispersed them,. The Poles say they would rattier lead a tramp life than stay in the city and starve. next winter. GOODS DAMAGED Al' WORLD'S PAIR., Four French exhibitors, who had good,* in the Manufacturers' building at the time of the fire on January 8, have sued the 'World's Columbian Exposition Company for damages. The complainants say that at the time of fire their wares were packed' ready for shipment. The amount of dam- age claimed is $16,000. The exhibitors allege the Exposition Company ct off the water supply and abandoned all proem: - tions against fire before they could remove their goods. , its'a r$6 ,e0rr00e. s DennisongilviripDavis,sa1111iding near Putney, Vt., claims that he was robbed of " $6,000 while his barn was burning Friday night. Davis went to Brattleboro' on Monday, and obtained $5,000 on a note. He says that a few days before he made • tho acquaintance of a stranger with whom he was to engage in a business on- terprise, and the money was tobetheeusedba lnn starting the scheme.. Last nigh was discovered to be on fire: and the -whole family hurried to extinguish the flames,. When Devis returned to the hinise the $5,000, with $1,000 more which lie lef 1 in a drawee in his room, was gone. It is be- lieved that the stranger was a Nine° man and that he set the 1bar n on fire for the ptirpose of robbery. Diplomatic Reticence. 121.1e social reformer was paying a visit. to the convicts in the penitentiary and asking them various questions. "And what are you doing here, my friend?" he said to a good looking man in the shorAhop. "Making shoes," Was, the reply that discouraged any further inquisition in that direction. The SiViss Postoffice emiveys anything from a postal card to barrels of seythes and bundles of old. iron, ,