CHINA WANTS PEACE.'
OFFERS JAPAN S175.000.000 TO
CALL IT QUITS.
The Amount la Regarded as Large
Now that the Downfall of Port Arthur
Is But a Question of Hours the Powers
at the Celestial Kingdom Hasten Ne
gotiations With Japan Records of
Ministers Dun and Denby.
China's Peace Offering.
. Washington, Nov. 23. A cable
from Hiroschima, Japan, where the
mikado has established headquarters,
states that China has intimated her
willingness to pay a war indemnity
of 100,000.000 taels and, in addition,
to pay all the war expenses incurred
by Japan. As the war expenses
reach 150,000,000 taels, the total offer
of China would be 230,000,000 taels.
The tael is a Chinese silver coin
worth about seventy-five cents at the
present exchange, so that the whole
payment would be, approximately,
175,000,000, American money. The
amount is regarded here as quite
large, audit is believed arrangements
between the two nations could be ef
fected on terms providing for a small
er war indemnity.
Diplomatists here say that under
ordinary circumstances it would take
some time for China to formally pre
sent its offer to United States Minister
Denby, but, owing to the fact that the
Japanese are now at the walls of
Port Arthur about to make the last
blow at China's greatest fortress.
China may hurry the negotiations to
a conclusion. It is expected that Min
ister Denby will transmit the offer by
telegrdpli to Tien Tsiu and Shanghai
and thence by cable to Yokohama.
The understanding is that China and
Japan will pay the expenses of the
American ministers incident to the
negotiation.
In accordance with the suggestion
of Japan the state department has
notified Ministers Dun at Tokio and
Denby at l'ekin to transmit such di
rect word as China may wish to make
to Japan. The cable directions were
sent Tu6sday.
The advance on Port Arthur is re
garded as having an important bear
ing on the peace negotiations. Lieu
tenant Mioyaka, naval attache of the
Japanese legation here, says that the
advance movement has been most
cautious, as the ground for forty
miles around Port Arthur has been
found fairly alive with pow
der miue connected with electric
wires to Tort Arthur. Three
days ago the Japanese were within a
day's march of the fortress, but it
was nccesary to send ahead small
scouting parties to pick a route away
from the mines and electric wires.
The regular roads coifld not be used
for the artillery, as it would have
been blown up, and accordingly the
bier guns have been moved in cir
cuitous routes through woods and
morasses. It is regarded as likely
that his caution march will have
been completed to-day, and the
Japanese legation is hourly expect
ing word that the decisive blow has
been struck, though a long siege may
be necessary, as the fortress has one
of the strongest defenses of modern
times. It is believed that Japanese
success would quickly close the
peace negotiations, but that a repulse
would impel China to hold off further.
Oflicials'and diplomats are scanning
the records of Messrs. Dun and Denby
to ascertain their capacity to deal
with the questions committed to
them. Mr. Dun has had unusual ex
perience in Japan. General Capron, ,
who built the Japanese legation in
Washington, wished to send a con
signment of fine Merino sheep
to Japan. The Duns had a stock
farm in Ohio, and the minister's
sheep were bought and he went to
Japan with them. He remained there
some time and finally married a Jap
anese lady of high family, by whom
he had a daughter. This attached'
him to the Japanese and made him a
fixture there. President Arthur first
appointed him as second secretary of
the United States legation at Tokio.
When President Cleveland's ad
ministration began two years ago,
California made an effort to se
cure the appointment of minister
to Japan for one of her favored
sons. At an opportune time, how
ever. Judge Thurman, who had been
on the presidential ticket with Mr.
Cleveland four years befroe, asked the
president as the only favor he had to
request, that Mr. Dun be promoted to
minister. The request was complied
with. Mr. Dun's Japanese wife is
dead, but his relations ,with the Jap
anese are very cordial, which,
with his long experience, well
fits him for the present negotia
tions. Minister Denby is a lawyer of
ability, who lias served through three
administrations, being appointed dur
ing Mr. Cleveland's fhst term, re
tained by Mr. Harrison owing to their
personal associations in Indiana and
the objection of China to Senator
P.lair. and again retained by Mr.
Cleveland. He has an outward aus
terity which has not, liowever, pre
vented his being most acceptable to
China.
MOUNT TACOMA ERUPTION.
The Great Jlonarch of tho Cascades
Strangely Transformed.
San Francisco, Nov. 23. Great ex
citement has been caused throughout
the Puget sound country by what is
looked upon by many .as an eruption
of Mount Tacoma.. or Ranier, 14,444
feet high, and one of the loftiest
peaks in the United States.
The mountain has lately been
strangclj transformed. The crest of
the great monarch of the Cascades
has changed, the cone having fallen
in, and steam can be seen rising from
the crater. There is no eruption, it
is believed by those most competent
to judge, but great masses' of
rock seem to have fallen.
The snow -.capped cone has dis
appeared and a sharp-pointed peak
has risen in its place to the east of
the crater. The changed appearance
of the mountain is evident from the
streets of Seattle, ninety miles dis
tant, and thousands of people have
watched the great peak all the after
noon. But very few people have ever
ascended-:the mountain, and at this
season of tl?e year the ascension js an
absolute impossibility. There is no
way of making a thorough investiga
tion of the phenomenon.
Gold From Various Sources.
New York. Nov. 23. The New York
Agency of a large Canadian institution
has received from its correspondent at
San Fraucisco S250.000 in gold within
the last two days, and S50.00D in gold
lias been sh.ppcel by the Bank of
Montreal to its agent in this city for'
the purpo-e of subscribing to the
government loan. A Wall street
banking firm, with Paris and San
Francisco connections, is also receiv
ing small parcels' of gold from California
POSTAL AFFAIRS.
COUNTIES.
Adams
Antelope....
Banner
Blaine
Boone
Box Butte...
Boyd
Brown
Buffalo
Burt
Butler
CT.S3
Cedar
Cbase ,
Cherry
Cheyenne...
Clay
Colfax ,
Cumins
Custer
Dakota..
Dawes...
Dawson
Duel
Dixon
Dodgo
Douglas
Dundy
Fillmore
Franklin
Frontier
Furnas
Gage
Garfield
Gosper
Grant
Greeley
Hall
Hamilton
Harlan
Haves
Hitchcock....
Holt
Hooker
Howard
Jefferson... .i..
Johnson
Kearney
Keith
Keya l'aha....
Kimball
Kuo.v
Lancaster
Lincoln
Lovun
Loup
Madison
Mcl'herson....
Merrick
Nance
Xeninhn
Nuckolls
Otoe....,
Pawnee
Perkins
Phelps
Pierce
Platte
Polk
Ked Willow....
Klehardson
Bock
Saline
Sarpy
Sautxlera
Scott's Bluff...
Seward
Sheiitlan
Sherman
Sioux
Stanton
Thayer ,
Thomas
Thurston
Volley
Washington....
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Governor.
Totals
Pluralities..
Postmaster General Ulssell's Annual Re
port to tho President.
Washixgox, Nov. 27. Postmaster
General W. S. Bissell has submitted
to the president his annual report
for the year ending June 30, 1S94. He
briefly outlines the policy of the de
partment in the following:
"In general I would recommend
that the first and most important
thing to be done is to revise the laws
as to second-class matter so as to
place the postoffice department im
mediately upon a self-sustaining basis.
"Second Avoid expensive experi
ments 'like postal telegraph, rural
fee delivery, etc
"Third Develop the postal service
on existing lines of administration,
viz: Extend free delivery in cities
that now enjoy it; accord it to towns
already entitled to it under the law,
and quicken railroad transportation.
"Fourth Revise and reclassify the
organization of the railway mail
service and reclassify clerks in post
ollices. "Fifth Provide for district super
vision of all postal affairs by appoint
ment of expert postal officials from
the classified service, as recommended
in my last annual report"
"The revenue for the year was S3,
050,479; expenditures, S34,324, 414, leav
ing a deficit 50,213,035. The estimates
for tho current year ending June 30,
1S95. are: Itevenue, SS4.427.749; ex
penditures, S90.399.4S5; deficit S5,9;i,
737. The estimates submitted to the
secretary of the treasury for the next
fiscal year arV: Revenue, SSG.907.407;
expenditures, S91.059.2S3; deficiency,
S4.151.S70."
This annual deficiency, the post
master general says, could be over
come by the increase of postal rates,
but he does not believe this advisable.
Economy has been practiced, but
nevertheless, great care lias been
taken that it should not affect the
efficiency of the service.
The economies have consisted main
ly in reletting contracts for mail
transportation and in the cost and
amount of supplies; also in the abro
gation of seven of the eleven steam
ship subsidy contract?, which will
mean a total saving in the ten years
of the contracts' life of S14,431,325.
Mr. Uissell recommends the experi
mental free delivery projects should
be discontinued, and thinks that free
delivery in rural districts is not
needed or desired by the people, Both
these projects were originated by his
predecessor.
One of the most important and in
teresting features of Mr. Bissell's re
port is its discussion of class matter.
In his last report he referred to the
great disproportion of growth of sec
ond class matter. He has made a
thorough investigation during the
year, upon which he says: "The
effect of all this upon my mind is a
conviction that the statutes and the
precedents upon which the business
now rest are defective: that thev em-
bodv the only great abuse at present
existing in me posiai service; anu
I that, as this business is growing all
' the time, some remedy should be
j applied."
! Of the obstruction of mails hy
j strikes, the postmaster general says:
"In my last report I called attention
to the necessity for legislation such
as then was and now is recommended
by the superintendent of the railway
mail service for the punishment of
tram wrecking, and for legislative
determination of the definition of a
mail train. Such legislation would
be of great advantage to the postal
service."
The postmaster general does not
favor the postal telegraph, a sj'stem
advocated by his predecessors. He
points out that in a country where
the territory is so large the cost of- a
postal telegraph would far exceed
any possible receipts or benefits.
Mr. Uissell gives the following
daily average business of the depart
ment, which shows the vastness of
the postal service:
Number of miles of post route run .. 1.100.003
Number of stamps manufactured ,300.000
Number of envelopes manufactured.. 1.8-0.003
Number of postal cards manufactured 1.500,000
Number of pieces mailed 15,70-,000
Number of letters mailed 7,100,0X)
Number of pieces of mail matter dis
tributed and redistributed by rail
way postal clerks 27,500,000
Number of pieces handled in dead let
ter ottlce 21,000
Daily transactions in money order
business $1,100,000
Daily expenses 211.100
The postmaster general Relieves in
civii service in the postotlicc depart
ment He says, "If the system has
produced such good results in the
clerical force of the department it is
reasonable to inquire whether some
thing like it could rot be applied of the boys, a venturesome little fel
with advantage to the lower grades j , full of fun as an eg;
his report with a request that a new
building be provided for the postof
fice department He says interest on
the cost of an adequate building
would be less than the amount of
rent paid.
OFFICIAL ABSTRACT OF VOTES.
The Appended Tabulation is an Abstract of the Yote Cast at the General Election of 1894 as Returned to the Secretary
of State and Officially Tabulated.
Liect.-Govirxor.
Secret art or State.
Auditor of Public
Accounts.
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. 61 1154 872 51 79 60 1059 P06 75 71 1007 669 C2 108 946 r 969 859 64 ISO 74 &SS 61 04 1040 74 86 1047 M7
5 151 175 18 5 25 141 l&J 35 4 134 173 21 29 173 9 1S8 180 24 8 7 143 184 34 325 7 25 13S ISO
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. 59 1126 974 65 61 116 1065 988 89 61 1013 969 78 140 1010 C7 1005 972 109 55 71 1025 984 128 10C6 70 US 100C 1009
. y 621 641 48 20 95 53S 645 61 20 607 633 80 120 634 26 607 636 OS 32 19 511 848 110 603 15 100 646 529
20 C16 443 49 31 C9 Kfj 471 59 31 841 463 80 83 4:9 31 629 431 70 27 82 516 457 90 538 24 76 554 461
14 17 401 27 15 48 325 404 30 12 299 400 42 73 400 13 804 4U2 35 42 19 290 404 61 321 12 48 321 405
. 45 2085 1796 59 C6 98 1940 1 833 155 34 17S2 1 825 114 195 3644 63 1824 1804 133 137 63 1812 1792 145 1901 48 1 37 190S 1830
. 60 1CC4 1143 23 61 69 079 1249 111 68 757 1275 55 104 1253 72 791 1260 Si . 97 65 750 1283 07 82S 65 63 609 3227
. -92 103 1252 87 1 01 187 1744 1279 454 99 1330 1276 122 358 1306 130 ,1480 1290 225 382 94 1263 1316 180 1671 67 174 1732 1270
. 105 1S84 2.178 140 130 :7 1655 2472 410 110 1873 2520 235 411 2555 15 1558 2509 804 422 127 1801 26J4 35S 1542 146 844 1631 2573
. 47 9S4 804 145 86 194 637 851, 331 85 62S 839 142 274 862 89 778 824 188 290 38 608 646 231 821 28 211 607 631
4 233 309 29 12 52 218 277 S4 7 1S6 804 35 62 801 7 202 291 50 20 7 200 282 59 215 6 48 221 249
24 700 60S 34 23 63 C64 516 71 19 617 609 41 C5 600 29 643 607 51 69 25 608 621 C3 C39 24 57 651 515
24 46S 379 41 21 65 806 433 66 23 305 418 74 92 422 24 824 401 74 64 28 812 4) 73 352 22 72 849 420
72 1637 718 65 81 147 1501 1740 147 60 1S85 1725 110 187 1732 02 1458 1735 146 134 79 1853 1744 UH 1525 65 109 1520 1742
. 37 1088 714 184 40 1359 697 716 430 39 CjN 683 129 471 771 66 743 720 828 271 36 665 778 372 858 2i 363 923 715
. 35 1410 988 158 42 272 1107 1087 735 50 8 1067 206 650 1133 60 699 1061 313 703 49 437 1115 816 1106 45 279 1166 1073
. 76 1935 1415 88 120 120 1746 1428 81 304 1684 1448 80 139 1449 H6 1688 1459 112 48 103 1676 1474 115 1650 105 121 1712 1473
24 559 561 116 31 177 600 624 281 30 276 503 129 272 567 27 344 615 201 227 25 246 606 iss 481 23 187 609 607
14 945 777 73 1 8 146 609 .601 114 18 734 798 97 15S 786 87 778 793 126 83 20 737 825 la? 749 22 135 787 605
37 1173 993 87 50 76 1024 1073 60 84 1004 10TI 68 01 1067 63 1000 1064 80 47 40 DM 1074 85 969 45 60 988 1066
13 807 222 16 19 63 281 251 72 20 107 280 M 75 281 6 286 280 82 28 16 183 295 , 203 7 70 255 246
69 950 747 180 61 248 601 787 S70 67 654 775 123 876 646 61 672 731 199 207 66 647 79 248 768 63 238 770 793
. 102 2143 1723 188 104 843 1856 1641 1183 04 81 1786 815 768 19W 114 1849 1831 889 837 107 1011 1680 896 1704 93 807 1902 1311
. 252 10J94 10612 608 329 2055 7367 11520 4312 835 3917 USTJ M4 8069 11787 387 6618 11502 1614 3667 338 S956 11713 2359 6593 817 2178 6676 11601
4 273 286 11 7 21 201 231 12 6 231 279 191 21 283 12 849 275 81 ? 7 949 238 16 261 10 17 262 283
73 1660 1617 98 76 171 1510 1692 115 71 18 1657 111 190 1703 84 1417 1673 151 06 88 1419 1735 jm 1436 71 172 1471 1706
26 906 810 43 36 65 847 810 70 86 796 815 61 94 8(18 88 828 8o7 64 70 33 799 83? 73 601 80 62 644 6U7
19 e65 73i 31 23 09 629 723 49 15 785 753 46 00 747 27 766 781 K S8 19 782 748 70 806 14 70 809 737
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14 605 353 27 13 45 669 373 25 13 570 362 26 47 356 22 664 866 S3 17 18 565 859 49 572 14 42 669 373
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67 139J 1270 48 67 68 1283 1307 77 62 1213 1501 63 97 1300 67 1236 1311 69 71 68 1192 1866 ga uij 62 101 1238 1316
70 936 820 23 eS 49 873 830 33 67 622 911 19 70 638 86 840 834 65 31 73 840 689 61 879 6S 45 880 827
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ODD FREAKS OF NATURE.
A Dnj Who Wont About With Two 'Or
Hugo Trees of Considerable Size.
A party of pedestrians while tramp
inp; along the Wissahicken had theii
attention drawn to a singularly
shaped tree growing along tho creek
sido of tho drive. The tree when a
sapling bad evidently been fixed by
some medler with nature, who, after
penetrating one stem with a knife,
inserted the end of a branch into tho
hole and left it there to grow
The peculiar formation led the
party into talking of other peculiari
ties which they had observed, says
the Philadelphia Times. One of the
trio said: "When I was a boy I went
with several other boys into the
woods that stood back from tho vil
lage of Plymouth to gather wild
flowers. We tramped through the
woods until the underbrush became
so thick that we had to crawl in
places on our hands and knoes. One
' Hnn:tn7.;i Cold Mine.
SroKAXK, Wash., Nov. 2 7. Michaei
Shu ma 11, a well-known mining man,
har returned- from his mines in the
Okanagon district, lie reports the
find of a veritable bonanza gold mine
at the vcrv summit of the Cascade
is of meat, was on the lead, and, all
at onco cried out: 'bay, fellers,
come hero and see what I've found.'
Wo hurried forward and saw him
bending over tho skull of an ox
which lay on the ground face up
ward. From each of the eye-sockets
there was growing a small chestnut
tree, while from where the ears were
once attached a beautiful vine shot
forth, intertwining the horns and
trailing gracefully about the skulL
"We looked about for a pieco of
bark or some other object upon
which wo could transport the odd
We
range of mountains near Slate
creek. Twoyounj; men from Anacor- i flower-pot to one of our homes,
te.s named Karon and t.ernsh, are the succeeded in getting it out of the
lucky finders. Shuman says that the 1 thicket, after carefullv niacin" it
boys, after a week's work with the , a jcco of bark 'Wh
CrUSnnn '"-"Tt ' Tti a cleUranco wo drew lots to lee
up S12. 000, with plentv of the same , , ... ,, ,
rich dirt in sight. Xcarlv all the who shonld own tho find- lh lot
miners in this seetion of the country ! leu to me ana tuo otner Doys Helped
have flocked to the new Eldorado and
staked out claims.
lfecortler Owsley May Io Kemoveii.
St. Louis. Mo., Nov. 27. To a re
norter to-dav Governor Stone said
that he was not ready to announce I look like one.
what he would do in relation to Ke- ' gethcr they grew into each other.
corder of Voters Owsley, but he said go out to the old place every autumn
me to carry it homo, where my father
planted it in tho irarden. The vine
died, but the chestnut trees grew to
be large trees. Tho skull long ago
crumbled to dust and formed a fer
tilizer for the trees, which to-day
Growing so close to-
I
he is of the opinion now that he had
not the legal power to remove Owsley.
He declined to talk further on the
topic, but stated that he would de
termine within a very short time
what his legal pawers in this con
nection were and then he would be in
a position to say what action he pro
posed to take.
and gather chestnuts under the tree
which tho owner is kind enough to
call mine. Last autumn 1 found that
the treo had been slightly injurea
during tho summer by being struck
by lightning, and I ma' arrange
ments with the owner that if it
should die I am to get tho timber,
which I shall have made up into
furniture. Part of the trunk I shall
take to a carver and have him carve
from it an ox's skull, from which I
shall have miniature artificial trees
and vines to grow, and shaH give it
A Fatal Jump.
St. Loris, Mo., Nov. 27. While tht
family of Colonel H. Phelps, who is
connected with the legal department
nut .irivw rtHMar afternoon, the the st place m my library.
horse took fright and ran away. .Mrs.
Phelps became panic stricken and
jumped from the carriage, receiving
injuriis from which she died soon
after.
Four Rivals for Senator Do ptu
Portland, Ore.. Nov. 27. Senator
Dolph will not have clear sailing for
re-election to the United States sen
ate. Already the names of four as
p rants have been put forward, and in
all probability will be presented to
the leirislature. They are Gowrnor-
-xnat's really a curiosity," re
marked ono of his companions, "but
it don't come up to what took place
when I was a boy in Haddington.
A neighbor of ours had a pet crow
that was up to all sorts of mischief.
My mother got me tor gather her a lot
of acorns one fall to make fancy work
for an approaching fair. One day
while she was sticking the acorns on
the outside of a box, the crow hopped
over into tho yard and up on tho
porch and watched her work.
As soon as she turned her bacR,
elect W. P. Lord, Congressman Uinirer
Hermann. C. W. Fulton of Astoria Jim, as we used to call Mm, jumped
and T. II. Tongue of llillsboro. !
up on the table, picked up an aebm
and made ojf. Jjko, ta thief., Mother
threw a' smalle'tick at him, and it
struck him on the head. The poor
bird tumbled over and we thought it
was dead, but it came too in a little
while and hopped away. It was
never seen again till the next sum
mer, when tho neighbor tore down
an old frame building, under
which the decomposed carcass of the
crow was found. Upon examining
it a small oak tree was found grow
ing from between its upper and lower
bills. I carried the carcass homo on
a shovel and planted it carefully in
tho garden, where itgrow rapidly.
"I saw the tree last month and it
is as pretty an oak as can be seen
anywhere. Up where tho branches
shoot out there is a peculiar lump,
which when viewed from a certain
direction is an exact resemblance of
a crow's head. The limbs look for
all the world as though the gigantic
bird was holding its mouth wide
open."
"Did I ever tell you about our
orango tree?" asKed anothar of the
company.
"Well, I think it is tho greatest
vegetable wonder I ever heard of.
Father, while eating an orango ono
Christmas, took several of tho seeds
and placed them in a sore that was
on our old dog's back. A horse doc
tor told him tho seeds would cause
an irritation which would make the
soro heal up. Well, sir, two of tho
seeds took root and grew and that
dog moved about for more than two
years with tho twin trees growing
out of his back.
"Tno sore healed up, but poor old
Ponto got horned by a steer ono day
and was so badly injured that he
died. Father cut a chunk out of his
back and transplanted tho trees in a
box. They grew splendidly, and
while they never bore any fruit they
had plenty of bark."
TEMPTS THE THUNDERBOLTS.
Whlto Rhinoceroses.
From a letter addressed by that re
nowned sportsman, Mr. Selous, to tho
Field, it appears that that curious
and rare animal, tho white rhinoce
ros, has not yet gone the way of tho
dodo and the great bustard, though
some have ventured to give Mr. Sel
ous' authority for saying that he is
extinct. It is to the occupation of
Northern Mashonalahd, which kept
the native hunters to the west of the
Umniati' river, that this gentleman
attributes the fact that in this part
a few specimens still survive the con
stant persecution which in the last
twenty years has utterly extermi
nated them in every portion of South
Central Africa. "There may yet,"
Mr. Selous adds, "be ten, or even
twenty of these animals left, but cer-
tainly not more, I think than the lat
ter number."
Worth it.
Briggs Fine suit of yours.
Griggs Yes; business suit
"How much?"
"Nothing."
Don't mean to say you got it for
nothing?"
"Yes; I did; my employer gave it
to me."
"What for?"
"For minding my own business."
Texas Sittings.
lCioger of the Washington Monument
and Its Good Luck.
It is" for electrical engineers to say
whether there is not danger of a
catastrophe in the great monument
of granite-and marble which the peo
ple of America have erected to the
honored memory of George Wash
ington. Tho monster obelisk, capped
by its aluminum tip, is supported on
the inside by eight immense iron
columns running from top to bottom.
That represents tons of metal piled
heavenward to the height of 555 feet,
as if to tempt the thunderbolts. To
be sure, there are lightning rods on
the outside, but they are pigmy bits
of wire compared to the mass of iron
within. One of tho attendants told
mo the other day that there never
passes a severe thunderstorm with
out some electrical disturbance in the
monument. Usually it has no more
serious effect than to make the wires
and electric signals in the shaft act
better for some days following. Sev
eral times, however, he says, he has
seen tho iron columns wreathed with
fiery snakes with such a crackling
and hissing of blue-forked llame as
might well frighten a man with sim
ple tastes. On ono occasion the at
tendant assured me that he saw the
electric bolt leap from an electric
column and disappear down the well
hole at the base of the shaft. Two
steps farther and he would have been
directly in its path.
Now, the question is, and it would
seem worthy of serious consideration,
whether according to the laws of
probabilities, such an accident will
it, take placo one dav or another
wncn the elevator, with its human
load, is on tho way up or down, says
tho Illustrated American. Tho car
holds thirty people and makes a com
plete trip every thirty minutes dur
ing six or seven hours of each day
of tho week except Sundays. The
car passes so near the iron columns
that ono can touch them easily with
the hand. Imagine an electric storm
and a bolt shooting into the elevator
car. The probable results are not
pleasant to contemplate, and the
only thing which reassures one is the
proverbial good luck which has at
tended the monument ever since its
corner-stone was laid forty-five years
ago. Not a single human life was
lost in its construction. There were
no accidents, and have been none
during the eight years it has been
open to the public. No suicide has
been committed within its precincts,
no crazy jumper ha3 tried to throw
himself from its height.
A SENSIBLE ELEPHANT.
It Soon Detected That the Pomp Trough
Wat Not Level.
In India domesticated elephants
are usually given drink from large
wooden troughs filled with well
water by means of a pump, and it is
commonly an elephant that fills this
trough. Every morning ho goes
regularly to his task. While visiting
a friend at his fine residence in India
a correspondent of a paper saw a
large elephant engaged in pumping
such a trough full of water. He con
tinues: "In passing I noticed that one of
tho two tree-trunks which supported
the trough at either end had rolled
from its place, so that the trough,
still elevated at one extremity, would
begin to empty itself as 6oon as the
water reached the level of tho top at
tho other end, which lay on the
ground. 1 stopped to see if the ele
phant would discover anything
wrong. Soon the water began to run
off at the end which had lost its sup
port. Tho animal showed signs of
perplexity when lie saw this, but as
the end nearest him lacked much of
being full, ho continued to pump.
Finally, seeing that tho water con
tinued to pass off, ho left tho pump
handlo and began to consider tho
phenomenon. He seemed to find it
difficult to explain. Three times ho
returned to his pumping and three
times he examined tho trough.
"I was an absorbed looker-on, im
patient to see what would be done.
Soon the lively flapping of the ears
indicated the dawning of light. He
went and smelled of tho tree-trunk,
which had roiled from under the
trough. I thought for a moment that
he was going to put it in its placo
again. 15ut it was not. as I soon
understood, the end which ran over
that disturbed his mind, but the end
which he found impossible to fill.
Kaising the trough, which he then
allowed to rest for an instant on one
of his huge feet, he rolled away the
second supporting log with his trunk,
and then set the trough down, so
that it rested at both ends on tho
ground. He then returned to the
pump and completed his task."
How .1 Wh:il Fights.
Approaching a whale at all times
is liko going into battle, notwith
standing tho abandon of the fisher
men. Have no fear that the right
whalo will swallow you. He could
not do so even if he were so disposed,
as his gullet is only large enough to
admit a good-sized herring. Tho
sperm whale could swallow a man if
he desired to do so, but he is nomoro
inclined to swallow a man particu
larly with his clothes on than you
would bo to swallow a small bird
with its feathers. But ho will crush
you in his ponderous jaws, if he is a
fighting bull, and eject you in detail.
He will also chew up and spit out
pieces of tho demolished boat, break
up tho wooden utensils floating upon
the water, and every pieco of wood,
until more than seven baskets of
fragments may be taken up, and hav
ing tired himself out in this way, he
will lay off, angrily slapping the
water with his fins, and challenge
somo other boats, or, perhaps, in
rare cases, attack the vessel. Wav
crlv Magazine.
THE AFTERNOON NAP.
risneries on tno Paeinc Coast.
The oldest industry of the Atlantic
coast, the fisheries, is the newest of
the Pacific Until a few years ago
the fishermen on the northern
coasts of California paid no attention
to the vast quantities of sturgeon
and halibut there, regarding them as
worthless, and it is only within two
or three years that tho majority of
places further north and down the
southern coast now making money
in fish have paid any attention to
the industry. Last year (5,000,000
pounds of sturgeon were taken from
the Columbia rher, and shipped Fast,
and altogether 103 or so car loads of
this one kind of fish went East from
that region.
Consensus or Opinion Is That Its UUI-.
lty Depend on the Person.
The editor of Wisdom publishes
the opinions of a number of eminent
correspondents concerning tho value
of "the afternoon nap." The corres
pondents are described as "brain
workers," which term seems to mean
literary and professional men. Tho
replies aro as such replies aro
usually. Our medical readers well
know in this, as in other mattors,
tot hominus tot usus.
Ono man can work long and well
on hours of sleep which would fail to
restore another, as one man can use
the tobacco or tea which poisons his
neighbor. Some who cannot, or will
not, work by day work by night
Now, other things being equal, tho
value of morning sleep is less than
of sleep by night; it is lighter and
moro open to disturbances. He who
reads and writes at night finds, at
three score or sooner, that he has
undoubtedly taxed his strength; for
such a person "the afternoon nap" is
clear gain it adds to the sum of
slctsp of a set.
Elderly people and bad sleepers
often wake very early, and remain
awake in spite of the friendly sand
wich; for these the later nap is use
ful. There are, too. hard-worked
men of naturally feeble powers who
benefit greatly by an addition to
their hours of sleep; but for the
ordinary man who sleeps of an after
noon, the judicious physician will
prescribe less luncheon. Finally, tho
value of casual slumbering to per
sons sulTeriug from "insomnia" is
not sufficiently well known. It is too
often supposed that sledp'i's a fund
which must be hoarded up for use in
duo seasons. On the contrary, sleep
breeds sleep, and tho warm feet, tho
incurious mind, and the raised posi
tion of the chair may offer what tho
softest pillow refuses, and thu tho
sweet custom of sleep is b
lishcd. lie Was Innocent.
Mr. Justice Maul once addressed a
phenomenon of innocence as follows:
"Prisoner at tho bar, your counsel
thinks you innocent; the counsel for
tho prosecution thinks you innocent;
I think you innocent. But a jury ol
your own countrymen, in tho exercise
of such common sense as they possess,
which does not seem to be much,
have found you 'guilty,' and it re
mains that I should pass upon you
tho sentence of law. That sentence
is. that you be kept in imprisonment
for one day; and as that day was
yesterday, you may now go about
your business. Argonaut
A Suggestion.
"How do you pay theso rammers?
asked a wayfarer of a paving con
tractor.
"By the day," said tho contractor.
"You ought to pay them by the
pound," said the wayfarer, "thet
they'd pound oftener."
Why She Hadn't Accepted Illin.
"Have you accepted him?"
"No."
"Then you aro foolish. He is well
to do, and would make a good hus
band."
"Yes, but you see he hasn't pro
posed yet."
