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It will be observed that the Atlanta
protests against kissing do not come
from the girls
We presume that at that vegetable
fiance In New York the germau was led
by saur kraut
A freethinker has been sentenced to a
weeks imprisonment in Australia but
tvont tills make him think more freely
than ever
Siloti the great successor to Pade
rewski wears no mane so his success
innot logically be called a case of cap
illary attraction
As a pleasure investment a boy may
nt first think coasting down hill all
right but eventually the returns are
xi nsatisfactory
II C Flick who attained some unen
viable notoriety during the big strike in
Pittsburg a few years ago has just paid
100000 for a picture
Maybe Hie habit of girls marrying
veterans to enjoy a pension as their
widows comes under the head of all be
ing fair in Jove and war
Geographically the Chinese queue is
located in the same direction as the
Jiritlsb Lions tail but the powers tako
are to handle it in a different way
That New Jersey man who has tried
seven times 1o commit suicide and fail
ed might do worse than to visit Ska
Kuay this spring wearing a sack coat
and a silk hat
The San Francisco Examiner prints
an account of several men being carried
over Willamette Falls in a boat under
the caption Swept to Perdition Why
take so gloomy a view of it
A Lockport N T paper says Miss
Minnie Powers of this city is eight feet
tall lacking one inch That young
woman evidently stands very high in
the estimation of all who know her
Why asks the New York Evening
Sun will a woman wear a feather boa
around her neck and run down heels to
her shoes Because there is no better
place to wear either a feather boa or
run down heels
It is now claimed that all the cheap
comic valentines in this country are
jnade iu a small town in the interior of
2Cew York In order to save the place
from total and instantaneous destruc
tion however its name is not given
A London scientist says he has care
fully studied 3G0 species of microbes
nous mat oniy rorry onbat num
ber have vicious tendencies On the
whole he says the microbe helps to
make life pleasurable The carbolated
xosewater will have to go
A pink tinted note from Alys brings
the information that she has composed
about twenty poems on spring and kin
dred subjects and asks Shall I con
sult an editor about this and if so how
shall I go about it It will not be
Jiecessaiy to consult an editor at all
just consult a physician
The American navy has a glorious
past traditions rich in valor and geni
us W ehave the same valor equal
genius but while we are boasting of
our better tools of warfare we seem
yet to be inadequately possessed of the
gift of using them We shall learn but
it seems that the schoolmaster is
charging a merciless price
Some doctor has discovered that
women who wear low shoes are in
grave danger of having their feet made
flat and unshapely by the lack of sup
port for their ankles That explains
of course why women of times and
countries in which only sandals were
worn or the feet were left unshod fur
nished so many beautiful models for
painters and sculptors
The Attorney General of Massachu
setts has suggested that trials for cer
tain criminal offences be held in se
cret thus shutting out prurient idlers
and making it difficult for cheap news
papers to gather the filth on which they
fatten In such an event the criminal
would miss his notoriety the loafer his
scandal and the newspaper its sensa
tion but to decent people the aggre
gate of all these losses would be a great
gain
The railroads of the United States
expend in a year a sum more than 100
000000 in excess of the total expendi
tures of the United States Government
and this computation does not include
nearly 230000000 paid in the form of
interest upon railroad bonds or guar
anteed stock and from 80000000 to
5100000000 paid in the form of divi
dends to stockholders The railroads
indeed are the great disbursing agen
cies of the country handling never less
than a billion dollars In a year and dis
bursing it all or practically all for
railroads as a rule do uot keep large
bank accounts and do practically a
cash business turning money rapidly
It is neither the ease which wealth
gives for riches as often bring carking
cares with them nor yet asceticism
nor yet athletics which enables men
lo reach advanced years While the
controlling influence is so obscure that
we may not confidently assume to point
it out we think It will be found that
the iiesse siou of a clear conscience
goes as far as anything to prolong- a
mans life The worries oMIie whJeh I
Il I II i luy
wear out nervous force lose their grip
upon one who is at peace with his con
science and as a general thing those
who live the longest have possession ol
this vital resource
The trading stamp usually buries in
Its patrons botli the sense of humor
and that of proportions A woman re
cently stopped a street car after pay
lag her fare -and took a return car
home to get it forgotten trading card
before making some trilling purchases
The price of the extra fares exactly
balanced the value of the gift on five
dollars worth of goods The law
against trading stamps may be un
constitutional but it is a moral protest
against the habit of trying to get some
thing for nothing Moreover consid
ering the real value of the gifts the
something is usually less than nothing
We are apt to laugh at Russia for sc
long persisting in the use of the an
tiquated calendar which was pre
scribed by Julius Caesar and which
is now twelve daj s behind the calen
dar in use by other civilized nations
but Russia is now going not only to fai
in line with the rest of the world in
her mode of reckoning time but to take
another important step in advance a
step from which America progressive
in most other things shrinks with all
the timidity of a child urged to take his
first dip in the ocean Russia has de
cided to adopt the metric system of
weights and measures thus leaving the
United States and Great Britain the
last of civilized nations to retain the
old fashioned arbitrary method of
weight and mensuration It has taken
Russia 31G years to adopt the Grego
rian calendar let us hope it will uot be
quite so long before the United States
adopts the metric system
The candidature of Prince George ol
Greece for the governorship of Crete
is a striking illustration of the personal
relations of the reigning houses in
Europe lie wrote a letter to his cous
in the Emperor of Russia asking him
to support his claims The Emperor
at once adopted him as the Russian
candidate They are not only cousins
each being a grandson of King Chris 1
tian IX of Denmark but are also in
timate friends of nearly the same age
They were companions in a journey
around the world and Prince George
by his coolness and courage had saved
his cousins life from an assassins at
tack in Japan A personal appeal for
support could not be disregarded The
governorship of Crete has remained an
unsettled question since the war be
tween Turkey and Greece The Euo
pean powers while pledged to protect
the island and to reform its govern
ment had been unable to agree upon a
candidate for governor One name aftei
another had been proposed only to b
rejected The wily Sultan objected on
general principles to every candidate
When Nicholas II ordered his minis
ters to propose Prince Georges name
the significance of the nomination as
tlie personal choice of tlie sovereign
was perceived throughout Europe
France as Russias closest ally at oucf
supported tlie candidature Lord Salis
bury seconded it gladly especially as
the Prince was the nephew of the Prin
cess of Wales Italy acquiesced The
attitude of the Kaiser is not yet fully
known Greece had plunged into war
in order to liberate and annex Crete
and had been disastrously defeated
The appointment of a son of the King
of Greece as governor of Crete would
be a considerable victory for the pros
trate little kingdom The Sultan re
fused to consent to it and appealed
to the German Emperor Russia at
once applied pressure by demanding
the payment of arrears of interest on
the unpaid war indemnity contracted
by Turkey in the campaigns of 1S77 8
Whenever the -Sultan is obstinate he
is forcibly reminded that Turkey owes
Russia a great deal of money This
candidature which will at once do
much to retrieve the fortunes of
Greece and will offer a practical solu
tion of a troublesome question of Euro
pean diplomacy is the outcome of the
intimate relations of the two cousins
who were together in the far East In
the same way the German Emperor
in entering upon a diplomatic and na
val campaign in China commissioned
liis brother to visit Queen Victoria at
Osborne Prince Henry is a favorite
among the Queens grandsons and in
consequence of his visit more friendly
relations between England and Ger
many have been established What
ever may be the rival policies of Rus
sia and England in China the family
relations of the two courts tend to pro
mote compromise aud peace Nicholas
II has married a granddaughter of the
Queen and is strongly influenced by
his mother who is a sister of the Prin
cess of Wales
Rest in Clianjje
The next best thing to taking a sum
mer or winter trip is to change the as
pect of ones home twice a year Such
change does not imply a domestic up
heaval involving great work family
discomfort and general wretchedness
for a week or more It simply means
what any woman can accomplish with
ease taste and tactfulness supplement
ed by ordinary general cleaning day
effort on the part of the housemaid or
maid-of-all-work
No woman who has not tried it can
conceive of the rest and pleasure re
sulting from such chauges Monotony
is deadly to bodily and mental health
possibly to spiritual well being also A
change of environments even if to oth
ers less attractive is beneficial simply
because It is a change Womans
Home Companion
Killed in Railway Accidents
The proportion of killed to the num
ber of railway travelers is in France
one in nineteen million England one
iu twenty eight million and in the
United States one in two million foui
hundred ttiousaud
statement They were loyal and brave
men
Which Did He Mean
We have plenty of churches said
the alderman during an interview
What we want is more public halls
The compositor however set it up
pubiic hauls and the proofreader
who had once posed as a politician let
It go at that
Returns from a Lottery
The diary of an old woman who late
ly died in Vienna showed that she had
spent 38240 florins on lottery tickets
while her winnings amounted to only
3000 florins
Then He Sighed ARain
Softleigh sighing Ah Would I
were your muff that I might hold both
your fairy like hands
Miss Gyett Oh wouldnt that be just
too lovely for anything And Ive al
ways wanted a monkey muff so much
Probably tlie good dye young because
I early piety makes them prematurely
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COLUMBIAS GREAT LIBRARY
College Will Contain a Collection of
About 1200000 Volumes
Columbia University Library is sit
uated in the architectural center of the
university site at MomingsiQe Heights
in New York City Seventeen other
buildings are planned to surround it
and to serve for various purposes It is
a noble structure consisting
j tialiy of four buildings each 110 feet
In length and 45 feet In depth placed
about a hollow square which is roofed
over and surmounted by a dome The
central space under the dome serves as
a reading room and is from floor to
ceiling 100 feet in height
The material is granite for the first
or basement story and Indiana lime
stone for the remainder of the struc
ture The building is thoroughly fire
proof It contains at present besides
the library and connected reading
rooms the administrative offices of
the university and the lecture rooms
and offices of the faculties of law polit
ical science and philosophy When
fully utilized for library purposes the
volumes with reading and study space
for many hundred readers
Tlie library dates back to the founda
tion of the college in 1754 but the li
brary of Kings College was substan
tially dissipated and destroyed when
the college buildings were occupied
during the Avar of the revolution The
present library has grown since the
reorganization of the institution in
17S7 under the name of Columbia Col
lege In 1S83 when a new library
building was erected and occupied the
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CHAPLAIN JOI1X I CHADWICK
good Samaritan He devoted himself
body and soul to the wounded and dy
ing of the Maine Father Chadwick is
one of two sons of a widowed mother
to whom he is much devoted He has a
sister a nun Sister Geraldine in Pe
tersboro hospital Canada His father
who died just as Father Chadwick re
ceived his commission as chaplain
served with distinction both in the
army and navy during the civil war
He was a builder in New York Chap
lain Chadwick said I have often
heard our the Maines officers say
that they had never sailed with a crew
of better men and I firmly believe the
DIE IN THE FLAMES
MANY LIVES LOST IN AN APPAL
LING CHICAGO FIRE
Avenues of Escape Cut Offand Victims
Leap from Windows or Are Buried in
the Cuius of a Six Story Structure on
Wabasli Avenue
Terrible Scenea Witnessed
What was probably the most appalling
Chicago tire since the cold storage holo
caust at the Worlds Fair broke out in
the Conover piano building 215 to 221
Wabash avenue at 11 oclock Wednesday
forenoon The death list may reach fif
teen and the number of mangled and
wounded is twice that Within half an
hour after the sheet of fire shot out from
the top floor of the six story building the
entire structure was wrapped in flames
and the crash of the huge walls as they
tumbled down was heard for blocks
around
The Conover Piano Company occupied
three floors of the building including the
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building will contain about 1200000 TuLZ xuu uu lcYa T
i - uuuuing were tne national xuusic
TUE LIUKAUYOF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
entire collection for all departments fell
short of 50000 volumes In 1890 the
number of volumes was less than 100
000 In 1S97 there were about 210000
volumes with many thousands of pam
phlets Tlie annual increase is 18000
to 20000 volumes
The library is strong in almost all
the branches of learning taught in the
university It is especially rich in archi
tecture and art in botany it is second
only to the library at Harvard Uni
versity it is rich in the political and
economic sciences Special collections
which may be mentioned are the Avery
library of architecture and are of 15000
volumes the Goethe collection of over
1200 volumes and the Kant collection
of about 700 volumes
CHAPLAIN CHADWICK
Priest Who Ministered to the Djing
and Wounded of the Maine
Chaplain John P Chadwick of the
battleship Maine figured in the news
following the disaster at Havana as a
Company the Presbyterian Board of Pub
lication aud Sweet Wallach fc Co
tographic supplies The fire started on
the iloor occupied by the photographic
supply company The floor was stored
with chemicals and the dry tinder like
materials employed in manufacturing pho
tographic supplies It was among this
inflammable stuff that the fire started
The flames quickly spread to the floor be
neath where the National Music Com
pany had tons of song sheets packed away
upon counters and shelves
Elevators became unserviceable stair
ways filled with stifling smoke and all
exits save by the windows were cut off
There were nearly 400 persons in the
building and to the windows they rushed
on every one of the upper floors They
crawled out on the cornices and down the
fire escapes like flies They poured out of
the exits over one another Men and
women leaped from the windows Some
were caught in the arms of bystanders
and in blankets escaping with their lives
Others fell to death
The street was packed with people The
flames reached a store of varnish and
chemicals on the third floor There was
an explosion and the front wall was
Llown out Plate glass windows across
the street were shattered Scores were
burned and many more were struck by
the flying debris
The throng in the street became seized
with a panic The people started to rush
along the thoroughfare Men and women
fell They were trampled upon In a
solid mass the crowd pushed on nuge
burning brands dropped on their heads
Teams from the cross streets plunged into
the struggling mass Neither horses nor
people stopped Some of the horses rear
ed and struck out wounding men and
women Ambulances were called out from
all stations in the city to care for the dead
and wounded The financial loss will ex
ceed 1000000
rfUSH TO THE FROZEN NORTH
JIany Klondike Prospectors Reach the
Pacific Coast
Over 5000 prospectors have passed up
the Straits of Georgia since the season
opened bound for Alaskan ports accord
ing to a letter from Consul Smith receiv
ed at Washington Mr Smith writes
The advance division of the army of pros
pectors bound for the Klondike gold llelds
uua urriveu on me raciuc coast and In even
arger force than was anticipated so parly
In the year At least four tlfths are Ameri
cans though many come from England and
also from various British colonies That
more have not gone la duo to the lack of
room on the boats although there are at
least fifty steamers and schooners constantly
and solely employed in carrying men stock
horses dogs and provisions up to the still
frozen region of the north
Most of these are from the Sound and
contrary to the general rule in the waters of
the Pacific the majority are American ships
manned and owned by Americans and dis
playing the stars and stripes A list just
published shows that forty two steamers and
twenty four sailing craft are now engjged in
this trade between Puget Sound and Dyea
Skaguay Wrangell aud other Ahislmn
ports About one third of the American
steamers touch at Victoria on their way
north In addition to this licet twelve
British steamers and several schooners sail
from this port as often as they can make the
trip whicli Is every two weeks Sometimes
several Alaskan steamers lenve this port in
one day Many old hulks that have been
idle for years have been overhauled re
paired equipped and pressed into this ser
vice and all go loaded to their utmost ca-
pacity As a natural result the price ol
passage has already been advanced 25 per
cent and strikes frequently occur among
the men employed on the steamers
This congestion will inevitably bo much
relieved when the ocean steamships now on
their way here arrive which will be next
month unless Indeed the throng Increusei
as the days lengthen The dangers of the
route the sufferinc alreadv nrovnlpnr nnn
the knowledge that not one in ten is at nil
likely to secure even an independent liveli
hood do not hinder the hegira to the frozen
North In consequence of the Immense In
crease In the coasting trade pilots have tc
be occasionally employed who are not fa
miliar with the many reefs and rocks of the
archipelago of islands through which thi
channel to Alaska lies and already tw
steamers have been wrecked and eacr
proved almost a total loss
But as long as there are letters received
like the following addressed to a resident o
Vancouver We have struck it rich on ar
unknown creek across the border in Alaski
never before seen by man In the crevicei
of the rocks In one day we picked up 300K
in coarse gold Sell your business or giv
It away and come quick with ten men s
long will the crowds go north regardless o
snow ice storms or wrecks
The outfitting trade is the scene of fierci
competition among the different cities of tin
coast It has given new life to all and
caused material prosperity such as thej
have not known for years
Telegraphic Brevities
Californias petroleum trade is booming
Thirty two new wells have been sunl
since March 1
Boports from various points in Nev
England show that the cotton mill strito
will soon end
The convention of cattle raisers at For
Worth Tex raised a subscription for i
monument to the dead of the battleshij
Maine
At Holly Springs Miss little Mnj
Briggs the 4-year-old daughter of James
Briggs swallowed a button and choked tf
death in a few minutes
Bain has fallen abundantly all ove
Kansas and stock water which wa
scarce is now plentiful and pastures and
wheat are much benefited
A contract was let by the Board of Pub
lie Affairs for lighting the city of For
Smith Ark with electricity The con
tract carries with an electric street cai
franchise to he put in operation in twelvi
months
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PROCTOR TALKS PLAINLY
Vermont Senator Tells the Senate of
His Trip to Cuba
Senator Proctor Thursday afternoon
made the strongest argument in favor of
intervention in behrf of Cuba that has
ever been made in the Senate Never
were the members of the Senate so deeply
impressed Mr Proctor made no attempt
for oratorical effect ne had carefully
prepared his address and he delivered it
to the Senate as an oflicial report of what
he had observed in Cuba He gave no
opinion as to what action should be taken
by this Government ne said the settle
ment may well be left to an American
President and the American people But
while he did not make a recommendation
in so many words he left the impression
with all who heard him that he favored a
declaration by this Government of the in
dependence of Cuba He declared that
he was opposed to annexation and while
many Cubans advocated the establish
ment of a protectorate by the United
States he could not make up his mind
that this would he the best way out of
the difficulty He told his associates that
he believed the Cubans capable of gov
erning themselves and re enforced this
statement by the assertion that the Cuban
population would never be satisfied with
any government under Spanish rule
There was really nothing new in what
he said The same facts have been pre
sented time and again by newspaper cor
respondents and have been denounced as
falsehoods The noint of their presenta
tion Thursday was that they were detail
ed by a United States Senator as the re
sult of his personal observations of a
Senator too who went to Cuba strongly
prepossessed with tlie idea that the condi
tion of the concentrados had been greatly
exaggerated and who came back and de
clared that the scenes he had witnessed
were absolutely indescribable
He said nothing about the Maine except
to state that he had not formed nor ex
pressed any opinion on the subject of her
destruction and preferred to wait for the
report of the court of inquiry Autonomy
he asserted was an utter failure It came
too late There
were practically no au
tonomists The rebels possessed the east
of the island and even in the west the
Spanish army held just what it sat upon
and no more
From many view points the statement
was remarkable It had evidently been
most carefully prepared Every element
of sensationalism had been studiously
eliminated from it and except so far as
the facts recited were sensational it bore
not the slightest evidence of an effort to
arouse the public mind already keenly
alive to the condition of affairs on the
island
HE IS A FIGHTER
Commodore McNrir Who Is to Take
Command of United Mates Navy
Commodore Frederick V McNair has
succeeded to the command of the North
Atlantic squadron Tlie position makes j
him the actnal commander of the United
States navy lie takes the place of Rear
Admiral Matthews who goes on the re
tired list
The coming admiral is no tyro in the
matter of naval experience He is no
COMMODOIti MXAIR
theorist Rather say he is a theorist and
a fighter combined He entered the Naval
Academy in bjj and was sent to China
When the war broke out he was ordered
home and served under Farragut As
early as 1801 lie was promoted a lieuten
ant for personal bravery He ran the
gauntlet at Vicksburg and was conspicu
ous in the assault on Fort Fisher For
four years the young sailor never knew
when the next moment was to be his last
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discoveries in America
never dreamed of
by Christopher Columbus
The monitor Terror has four big guns
but the Turitan has ten The Puritan
appears to be a holy terror
The Indiana Attorney General
prose
cuting the Versailles lynchers is named
Ivetcham but he hasnt done it
It now remains for Ignatius Donnellv
who has married his stenographer to dis
cover who is going to do the dictating
The Ohio Legislature is wrestling with
an anti tights bill And yet some people
say the fight against rum is weakening
The court which has decided that meat
inspection by the
Government is uncon
stitutional has had a tough subject to
consider
Speaking of the dogs of war there Is no
consolation for the Spaniards in the fact
that all of Uncle Sams big guns have
muzzles
In case of war if the Spanish battleship
Yizcaya should get into trouble the sub
marine boat Holland might be found at
tlie bottom of it
Somehow it doesnt seem verv consist
ent for Secretary Day to keep anything
dark longer than twelve hours at a time
The Governor of Idaho seeks election to
Congress on a no necktie platform Evi
dently its neck or nothing with him
Apparently the greatest menace to the
peace of the Old World just now it
Japans impatience to trythat new navy
on something
A stove trust with a capital of 10000
000 has been formed This looks as
though the managers nronnspr
it warm for the opposition
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In the House on Friday the bill to pnyr
the Bowman act claims aggregating 1
200000 for stores and supplies furnished
the Union army during the war was con-
sidered until 5 oclock but beyond com
pleting the general debate little progress
was made Of the S00 odd claims in the
bill all but p few come from the South
and dilatory tactics were resorted to to
prevent progress During the filibuster-
ing the Housf was in an uproar At 5
oclock after completing two pages of tho
hill the House recessed until 9 oclockf
for an even ins session to he devoted to
pension legislation After the evening
session the House adjourned until Mon
day The Senate was not in session
During its session of three hours on
Monday the Senate passed a considerable
number of bills from the general calen
dar among the number being one author
izing the construction of eight new rev
enue cutters not exceeding in aggregate
cost the sum of 2025000 A resolution
offered last Thursday by Mr Chandler
N II authorizing the committee on na
val affairs to send for persons and papers
in the course of the investigation of the
Maine disaster was adopted Mr Lodge
Mass of the foreign relations commit
tee called up the joint resolution for the
relief of August Bolton and Gustave
Richelieu The resolution as reported from
the foreign relations committee is as fol
lows That the President of the United
States be and he is hereby empowered to
take such measures as in his judgment
may be necessary to obtain the indemnity
from the Spanish government for the
wrongs and injuries suffered by August
Bolten and Gustave Bichelieu by reason
of their wrongful arrest and imprisonment
by Spanish authorities at Santiago de
Cuba in the year 1S03 and to secure this
end he is authorized and requested to
employ such means or exercise such power
as may be necessary
In the House on Tuesday it was agreed
to consider the bill for the relief of the
legal heirs of the victims and survivors
of the Maine disaster as soon as the post
office appropriation bill is out of the waj
During the general debate on the post
office bill members eagerly took advantage
of the latitude allowed in committee of
the whole on the state of the Union to
discuss various political questions Messrs
Griggs Dem Ga and Walker Bepr
Mass dli cussed the conditions of the cot
ton industry and Mr Tawney Rep
Minn a member of the Ways and Means
Committee replied to the speech of Mr
Johnson Rep Ind made some time ago
against the advisability of annexing the
Hawaiian islands Mr Tawney strongly
advocated the annexation of the islands
After the passage of numerous bili from
the general calendar the Senate began
consideration of the measure providing for
a national system of quarantine Little
beyond the reading of the bill was accom
plished
On Wednesday the postoffice appropria
tion bill vhich was technically the sub
ject before the House was almost lost
track of in the debate The Cuban-Spanish
question which had been kept in the
background heretofore forced to the
front Mr Cochran Dem Mo brought
the question into the arena and in the
course of the debate that followed Mr
Grosvenor of Ohio took occasion to deny
emphatically the stories afloat lo the ef
fect that the President desired an early
adjournment of Congress in order that he
might effect a settlement without con
gressional interference The subject ol
Hawaiian annexation also came in for
attention Mr Williams Dem Missr
Mr Adams Rep Fa and Mr Berry
Dem Ky all members of the Foreign
Affairs Committee made speeches on the
subject the former in opposition and the
two latter in favor of the proposition
Business in the legislative session of the
Senate was confined to the passage of a
few bills largely of a local character
The national quarantine bill was not con
sidered
On Thursday the session of the Hous
was devoted strictly to the postoffice ap
propriation bill which was taken up foe
amendment under the five minute rule
The questions which consumed the major
portion of the time related to the allow
ance for clerk hire at postoffices and tc
rural free delivery The House increas
ed the allowance for rural free delivery
from 150000 to 300000 and defeated
tlie proposition for increased clerk hire
Among the bills passed in the Senate wa
one to authorize the construction of m
gunboat on the great lakes to take eNM i
place of the United States ship Michigan
udu io cost exclusive of armament not
to exceed 230000 Adjourned till Mon
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Notes of Current Events
A full State ticket will be nomiuatecK
uy tlie icepubhcaus of Kansas at Hutch
inson June S
Electricity as a substitute for hanging
is being considered by the Massachusetts
Legislature
It is finally settled that the battleship
Kentucky will be christened with water
instead of wine
Heavy consignments of Tennessee mar
ble are being shipped to the City of Mex
ico from Knoxville
Nearly 00000 acres have been reclaim
ed in Ireland during the past year from
bog and marsh lands
Judge John Newton the last treasurer
of the Southern Confederacy i critically
ill at his home near Staunton Va
Sixteen-year-old Sadie Storer is in jair
at Huntsville Ark together
with her
sweetheart and her mother char ed with
the murder of her father A M Storer a
prosperous farmer at that place
v uv o4UHt ave succeeded
ed in developing an orange tree that v m
withstand a temperature of 12 decrp
andyet yield a sweet and well flavonS
Six thousand painters and
decorators
of New lork will demand 4 and S -
mt day for eight hours work oZn
A terrific hail storm
occurred
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