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3. ' I V HARRISON PRESS-JOURNAL GEO. D. CANON. Editor. HARRISON, - - NEBRASKA NEBRASKA NEWS. A. O. Bleueer of Tecumeeh la suffer Ins with a broken rib, tbt result of ai accident euatalned while swimming to Wwiii river. Mike Brltt of Hastings was placed oadar $500 bond to keep the peace. H had threatened to kill his wife and was Treated on her complaint. He failed to secure bail and waa locked up. The total amount of claims filed foi bounty for wild animals la now 135.308 The appropriation Is $45,000. The total mount of claims) filed against tbe 12. appropriation li 112,802. Kharaa, the self-styled magnetic beaier of Nebraska City, was released from custody upon a bond for $200, signed by Paul Jessen and Ezra John son. His case will come up for hearing at the September term of the district court. At Petersburg:, July 26, William Jones struck Charles Conroy with a knife. Jones then Inflicted a serious wound In Conroy's abdomen, also using a knife. Jones is In jail and Conroy lies at the point of death. Both are ped dlers. A warrant has been Issued for tbe ar rest of Hal Ashby, charged with crim inal assault on the person of Mrs. John Kogan. Both parties live south west of Hartington several miles. The complaint alleges that Mrs. Kogan was knocked down and painfully Injured. The plane of R- W. Grant of Lincoln for a hospital building and an indus trial heme, both to be built for the Be atrice Home for Feeble Minded, have been accepted by the board of public lands and buildings. The cost of the hospital buildings is not to exceed $10, 600 and tbe appropriation for tbe school building la $6,000. Work on the new $15,000 school house Is now progressing rapidly at Ponca. The contractor hopes to be able to com. plete the building without another in terruption. When the same is com pleted Ponca will have the largest,moet handsome and best equipped BChool ed ifice north of the Platte river. The farmers are now beginning to cut their wheat and oats and if the present dry, hot weather continues these crops will all have to be cut with in a few days. Rye and barley are cut and much is in thefstack. The farmers report a good prospect for a heavy yield In all kinds of small grain and also that the quality will be of the very best. Corn still looks welL Papers have been filed at Piattsmouth Incorporating a new company to ,be known as the Western Independent Long Distance Telephone company, its sapital stock is $100,000, and Is divided into $100 shares and the indebtedness of this company is not to exceed $20, JOG. The incorporators are. Charles C. Parmelee, Tom H. Parmolee, T. H. Pollock and T. H. Ewing. The princi pal business of the company will be to sonstfuct and operate a full copper me tallic circuit to all of the larger towns of the state, the work of which will be commenced at once. I P. Brown of Beatrice, charged with using a knife with Intent to kill his son-in-law, John Blodgett, on the alght of June 2a, was given his prelim inary hearing before Judge Calllson. About fifteen witnesses were examined for the state and at the conclusion of the trial the defendant was bound over to await the next term of district court in the sum of $1,000. Brown furnished ond for bis appearance when the case 3 called In district court. General Dolby appeared for the dewendant and ihe state's Interests were looked after ay County Attorney Rlnaker, aasteted ty Judge Kretalnger. WESTERN NEWS ITEMS. Tbe new beet sugar factory atflprlng rllle, t'tah, la neaiing completion. Montana stockmen are congratulat es themselves over an excellent crop if hay. Crops In the Flathead valley. Mon Jana. promise to be the largest ever raised there. A congressional party Is expected at Sheridan, Wyo., to inspect me new mil iary post there. Tfce first of tbe apricot crop In soutb- m Orea-on la being marketed. It la atar than usual thla year. Tbe trouble between rival unions of ilumhara at Butte baa reached the stnae of active hostilities. Astoria proposes to erect a monument k the Oresron volunteers who were Killed or died la tbe Philippines. Governor Tuner denies that he vlo- ated the Colorado game laws and tbe same wardens aay they nave no ln antlon of arresting him. The wheat in the PaJouse country, Paahina-toa. la better than the aver kge. In many parts of the state it has Men damaged by hot weather. H. A. Mosman and Bam Oilbertb are B )all At Greeley, Colo., charged with Ihrsrma the name of C. E. Mosman. a Laramie (Wyo.) cattleman, to several ihecks. The coal mine strike at the Diamond mi rwn.) mines has been settled and fee aaea have returned to work. The Mubte arose over tbe discharge of two Ban, whom their fellow workmen de aianl- reinstated. An investigation tt the matter showed that there war Mod cum for their discharge and the striking- miners at once resumed work. A Shoshone Indian, one of a party tosh the Fort Hall reservation, ha keea arrested and sent to jail at Ev aatoa. Wyo.. on the charge of Illegal tUUag of game. A terrible double tragedy was enact t -on the Upper Kaaab, Utah., in which DadaW Saoamtller. a well known dtisen sf Mtlani Utah, waa shot and killed frV WffisBsB H. Roundy. who then turn U the ajsBPQB uoon himself and eosn ,"2 Mtfatdo. The killing ! believed to lev. ton Mmed by s- old feud and - t Ursula over a water right. . i Vlm Cott-a. Wash., ha. .' if irHieCtlM mrgeat puroNutea of - ! 1 ' c at el eewts tav tbe ware- Ci a4 OpMa. Th 1 r J U,U,-!- ; J. A. f mm t' '' ttiJ-f.i ef FIGHTING IS RESUMED FOUR AMERICANS KILLED AND TWELVE WOUNDED. I Capture or Calamba City Effected After Sharp Battle Capture Twelve Filipino. Manila. (Special.) An expedition, aomposed of troops from San Pedro Ma. catl. Pasig and Morong, under Briga dier General R. H. Hall, captured Ca lamba, an important trading town on the south shore of Laguna de Bay. There were two hours' fighting, dur ing which four soldiers were killed and twelve wo uaded. The trenches com manding the harbor were under water, but the swampiness of the land made the work harder. The troops boarded :acoes Tuesday night. The force com prised 400 of the Washington volun teers, 460 of the Twenty-first infantry, 150 of the Fourth cavalry and two guns of the First artillery. These and the gunboats Rapidan and Cos to assem bled opposite Calamba Wednesday aft. ernoon. Crowds of people in carts and on foot were seen rushing to the hills. Na tives escaping from Calamba In ca noes, said 100 Insurgents held the town. A force under Captain McGrath of the Twenty-first Infantry and Captain Eltonhead landed above the town, but found a river intervening. Captain McGrath and Lieutenant Bat ion swam the river under a fire from twenty Mauser rifles. Having crossed the stream the officers procured a cas coe to ferry the troops over. The In surgents retreated throutrh the town, hooting from houses and bushes ae they fled to the hills. Three members of the Washington regiment waded from cascoes through swamps often shoulder deep, while a group of Filipinos, concealed in hay stacks, were shooting at them until the Napldan focused her slx-pounders and gatllng guns on the stacks for a few minutes. Most of the work wae 4one before tLe Washington volunteers could reach tbe town. The Filipinos left three dead. Of the casualties on the American side, two of the killed and three of the wounded were members of the Fourth cavalry and two killed and eight wounded be longed to the Twenty-first Infantry. There was much shooting by Amigos, who emerged from the bushes with white flags. After the fight a doxen men holding up their bands and shout li ing "Castlllanos" - met the American savalry. Even SpaniBh soldiers em braced the Americans hysterically. There were fifty Spanish prisoners at Calamba, of whom some were civil offi cials and some were soldiers. They had been given the choice of joining the Filipino army or becoming servants to the Filipinos, and chose the army, in tending to surrender at the first oppor tunity. Most of the civilians reached the American lines during the fighting. but the Insurgents took others away with them in their retreat. General Hall captured twelve Fili pinos with guns Major General Henry W. Lwton, Prof. Dean C. Worcester of the Amer ican Philippines commission, Mrs. Gen eral Lawton, General Lawton's son ac companied the expedition on board a launch, and sat coolly In an unprotect ed boat close to the shore during the fighting, the bullets splashing about them. Today General Hall brought to Ma nila the Spaniards whom the expedi tion had released from captivity of more than a year. Lieutenant Larsen, comma nnlmr the Napldan, today found a long-mlsslng Spanish gunboat, which had been so covered with bushes, ana nHhneis as not to resemble a vessel. The Filipinos, having met reinforce ments and thinkinc that the Amer leans had evacuated the town, descend ed from the hills intending to reoecupy Calamba. General Hall easily drove them back. General Hall will leave a garrison at Calamba. HOW A TRAITOR DIED. Spitted on a Bayonet and Shot Full of Holes. Kansas CIty.Mo. (8pecial The Star says: The tragic scene which attended the death of Corporal Leonard Hayes, America's only traitor In the Philippines, was witnessed by Sergeant George A. Lamarsh of company H Twentieth Kansas volunteers, now In the olty. Sergeant Lamarsh went to the Philippines with the Second Ore gon regiment fourteen months ago Corooral Hayes, be says, became en amored of a Filipino beauty and, de serting his comrades, was placed In oharge of a Filipino battery with the rank of lieutenant. He met his oeatn almost In the first engagement in which be fought against his country. Speaking of this battle Sergeant Lamarsh said: "We had charged the Filipinos, driv lag them back and killing and wound ing many. Among the wounded left on the field we found Hayes. He was reo. riaed by several of the boys. One the soldiers of the Second Oregon drove hie bayonet through the body of the wounded traitor and lifted him up above his head and held blm thr while the soldiers shot aim. xne Dooy was thrown Into a trench and burled with several dead Filipinos. We would have tveated him worse. If we bad known how." Hayes waa a corporal m company 1. First Colorado volunteers. Barker's Latest Report. Washington, D. C (Special.) The navy department has made public further report from Captain Barker, recently In command of the naval force In the Philippines, covering the period from May W to June 11 He Incloses a report from Commander Swlnburn of the gunboat Helena, describing a trip to the Sulu Islands and telling of the embarkation of the Spanish garrison from Zamboanga. which was turned over to the Insurgenta. The sultan was absent on tbe date of the report, but was exnected back dally. The commander tails of the good ef fact of the co-operation of the Helena with the army In its advance on Ha eoor, tbe snip commanding a bridge over which tbe eaemy bad to paaa. On June M CaMaln Barker tells of tbe part takes by tbe navy at tbe capture of Paranaque aad Lo Plans. He saye an understanding bad beea reached with Oaasral Otis aa to tbe advance, aad that be waa to refrain from firing upon women, children aad towns. The Helena la greatly appreciated la tbe Philip pines. Tbe Hght draught of that vessel aad tbe Msaadanfib aad Monterey make them lsarataasw. ' MaaW-eelal.rIt la reported la rilfpmo drelss m Manila that tbe In assfam recently received consign. gi.g f ealtaetre aad lead from Ja va), lie taaaweata bad beea aaper-bB-f aMBT 4-emmes ta tbe maa few ri fewder. wlaet 1 T P "A iaCE fwW Of fB iJ:ai a rmv IT IB ALWAYS HANDY. Reoelpt Book That Should Every Homo. Something Is always wrong with maa beast, and It Is not always con venient to send for a .physician or a horse doctor. Dr. Kendall's FerTectea Receipt Book la a plain. commonseaM practical book, which any man or wo man can understand. As a rule such works are too complicated and can not be understood by people who need tht information meat. People do not can tor a book of t'0'"dlrhP-f0tl win. and ma the ve s b edg thill tical sh to ve rle the ind ts I purl woil is r. can thai iivl 3i ed uabl men! n to men bestl tno are be subj port lion, f0 ire ustl HI the plet TH rec ma) 3nd is om slon 7T:JTl s1Z.ixtfC parti j-i'Zti founl -- r :ise. he Jnl1 ;-v eeiii u I-r-ri.-r,",r" T 4 'f . f -rr?- "fial sto t r kvX'fk reprei acH adv aura M aumf she le ina C "f tralil crii not ng tint! So . 5C.' ..y" ecel )OBt tVri Ireri ,. '-wt;y i, 4, -4 Wl fi'V Irormal vote of 'wftors. The Cenl L-f in.-... , u, ,AM-,h. .a,.-,j,..,fft..M aSO voted to fYerf" for heeled "waukenphasts there waa a 4hout of approval from the reformers, the doctors, the woman's rights wom- n, the Rainy Daisies and other "sen sible" people. Now that the dainty footwear again sas become lasnionaoie, ana women nok finished below as well as to gloves and hats, Instead of like mln re wives, the "reform" crowd Is very sensibly", silent, says the New York Press. The change is too evidently ap propriatefrom The Man's standpoint it least. When women wore low. nat-heeiea hoes they walked like a man stolid. Sat-footed. bluntly, without grace ana womanliness. The Man thlnka They a-ere comfortable, undoubtedly, because they gradually nettled down in their xMnfort so that they no longer looaeo ipringhtly. They had that "aged" ap pearance that goes with supreme com fort. French heels seem to Impart vivaci ty, youth and daintiness to a womanr. rhe beautiful girls ana young mar ried women who throng Broadway on line days trip along now, whereas they need to lag. They have their bodies poised expectantly, ae If about to ea tend a welcome haad to Tha Admiring Man approaching from the opposite di rection. Their shoulders are squared, their chests expanded, their lines of grace brought out exquisitely. The French heel Intensifies a pretty woman's beauty la Tbe Man's verdict. Ttoe Unimportant Bridegroom Tbe bridegroom ta always bashful aad 111 at ease from a most unwarrant ed sense of Ms own importance, tor. aa every oae knows, bo one ever no- tlcee blm. unless It be the minister of the bride herself. Even his mother It scrutinising her new daughter's all and bearing, and "the other woman," If she la there, has come only to ae his laat choice. But the effete aaat li flattering In tt reception of the bride' groom compared to the breesy west, where women most do rule. In Kan saa, for Instance, the bridegroom's nero la not even mentioned in tne weaaing notices. Listen to thla society note from the Stockton. Kan., News: "Mist Delia Hill is married. Her husband It a traveling man of considerable means, and aha does not have to labor, not even to make her own bed. Her bus hand is some years older than she If and weighs 4 pounds." S '"v William Parsons of East Union, If. T., has a crow that la a record-break er ae a cMcaen raiser, me crow wai tmd bv Parsons' boy a. aad when ben with eight chicks deserted bet brood, tbe crow, who waa wandering about tbe yard, took charge of them He would go about with tbe peepert aad when ha found a worm or eholct tldMt would summon them with a pe culiar call they soon learned to answer Recently a chicken hawk descends oa the broad, but instead of flying fw shelter, like aa old bea, tbe crow gsv k.iiu 4th heak aad taloas. vanquish- mar bis opponent Tbe entire eta AMmi kin haea find bV the CTOV aad a few days ago be waa discovers kUbat hi bea'a aeet that he ha foaad 1a tbe araaa, so ae may have family 1 or bm yoe aw"sOawg stS for wwertM aUk heisT leae-a Oh shoot mea foi 'THE BODY CREMATED INOERSOLL'S REMAINS REDUCED TO ASHES. Incineration of the Body Takes Plaoe In Preeence of Bereaved Family Only few Tork. Special.) The body of bnel Robert G. Iagersoll was ere Red at Fresh pond, U L The body b placed In the retort at 11:50, and I o dock all that remained was aan. There were no services at the c re- lory. Even the organ, which is ue ly played while a cremation Is going waa silent. This was at the request the family. here was a crowd about the bulld- and a number demanded admis but no one except the members of family and two members of tbe Vnation society were admitted. Die body was removed from waiston after 9 o'clock and taken to th hbe' Ferry station, where a funeral was waiting. The body was placed he car and the members of the fin al so entered it- The body was in- ked in a black coffin, unrelieved by dies or plate. p the trip to the city Mrs. Ingersoll the family sat about the Dier ana he top of the coffin rested wreaths k-oses and evergreen The party hed the Freshpond crematory at o'clock. The coffin was not opened y ins coiumoanum. ihuk t " -Wild beside it for a 'few moments and it was carried to the lncineraung hen the retort was sufficiently cool radle waa drawn out and the alum sheet was opened. The ashes were placed In the usual canister and In the urn. The urn was taken harge by the Ingersoll party. The rn trip was then begun. Mrs. iu- kall bore uo well. he funeral urn Is a beautiful one. nd with laurel leaves and berries baa relief, and set wltn cypress rm fashioned of sreen bronse. it al and set on a red porphyry base rests on a brass plate, cm one In the simole inscription: "Robert Ingersoll." On the other in French the words: "This urn noias m the heart, the memory. REASE STOCK SSO'OOO.OOO mat them Paclflo Holders Conclude to Put In a Little Water. Francisco, Cal. (Special.) At a iting of the shareholders of the hern Pacific company neio toaay, . I .. Ty. " " " ' vmomilOIl W iiilitooc im , j ia.1 stock from $150,000,000 to 200. the meeting 86,500 shares represented, more than the nee ry two-thlras. e decision to increase tne capital kVi was approved, as it waa part of 'WjiLrhsmp for thp financial orKaniza- scheme for the financial organiza.- nf the Central Facinc ana us olldatlon with the Southern Pacific. stockholders of the Central Pacific to surrender their stock Into the hern Pacific treasury and they will receive an eaual amount of boutn- ll'acific stock, share for share. The ral Pac fie stockholders win re- as a bonus for the exchange a tn amount oi. iwumnn x tu.tuv. lv tix.ooo.ooo. For ng the latter, the Southern Pacific kirn gets, besides central rawm; non stock, a J2O,000,00o issue of tne r company's cumulative preferred This preterm! siock is a new which has been sanctioned by the Central Paciivc tral Pacific directors for the exchange of Btock between the two corporations as mentioned and have approved of the 1125,000,000 of new mortgages for the Central. These mortgage bonds have all been pledged by the Speyer Bank ing company and are to be delivered to the purchasers, most of whom are In Europe, as soon as the securities are engraved and properly signed In New ITork. Hanna Gaes Into Trust Cleveland. O. (Special.) A big trans action Involving the transfer of proper ty worth several millions or dollars from M. A. Hanna A Co. to the Na tional Steel company was consummated today. Tbe sale, according to tne nest I) formation obtainable tonigni, inciuaes the Iron mining property of M. A. Hen na and the company in Michigan, aa well aa Its fleet of vessels on the lanes. The list of the property 1 as follows: The famous Chepin mine at iron Mountain, Mich., the lands of the Wln- trop Iron company at Ishpemlng.Mlch., Including MO acres of mining lands: the Mutual Transportation company's fleet, which Includes the steamers Coral la, Corsica, Corona aad Cambria, and tha Menominee Transportation company's boats, which are the eteamers Grecian, Roman. German. Canon aad Britain. Thla transaction, which hi one of the largest ef recent years, meana that x. A. Hanna A Co. are to retire from the mlnlns- and transportation business. It la also known that the firm Is negotiat ing for the sale of its coal mining prop erty in the Pittsburg district, to tbe recently formed soft coal trust The transaction has been consummated verv auietly aad nothing became puo- lie about It until the details came out today. Friendless and Alone Dallas. Tex. A special to the rfewa from Oalveston says: Mrs. Rich waa ar raigned before the judge or letters at Juarea today for a set preliminary bearinsr, which the law of Mexico di rects must take plaoe within seventy- two hours after the arrest of a prison er. She waa told that she waa aus TwctMi of the murder of her husband and asked If she objected to the Judge on the bench trying her. wis promptly said she did, aad as a consequence will be tried by the president of tbe Chi huahua tribunal of justice, who arrived tonleht. The chief of police of Juares went Into Mrs. Rich's cell last nigni to in miiPMkr she waa weening and sobbing. The Judge aaw blm there and suspend ed him for four aays wuaoui pay. m governor directed that no person but th 4udm and two witnesses be per mitted to enter aer room aer aun- down. The United States has provided no lawyer for Mrs. Rich and the Ameri can consul Baa not viaiiea aer im im aumadared. She waa not rep re - uniit bv an attorney la court thla morning aad tbe only Americana prea at ware two reporters. Atlanta, Oa. The final session of ths convention of the Southern Industrial league waa held here today. By reaolu tin. it floaveatlon pledged Itself ta aaoore state aad municipal legislation looking toward tbe exemption from taxettoa for a limited Urns all manu faoturlaf eaterprlees to be located wlthla the states wpresanlsd la tb POINTS AND MOOT POINTS. Eney roads lead to hard places. Beauty Is God's smile, love Is bte embrace. We dream of heaven up to the very edge of hell Religion la to give to man what Ood gives to us, The fool knows everybody, or no body, but himself. We can have nothing without Imagi nationGod least of alL Art bequeaths an Immortal soul to certain forms of matter. Imagination may eihllarate, but when It intoilcates It la abused. Truth generally flashes a light on us not becoming to our style of beauty. Time Is an uneasy sleep eternal life Is the glorious dream that disturbs It. Truth, beauty and love! these are the realities other things are dreama. The tragedy and comedy of life Is all included In the little farce of self. "I forgot," said the lamb to the wolf. "I never forget," said the wolf to the lamb. The major part of human action Is far from 'voluntary men are awful slaves. r There are lmpo'"lble people only Ood knows how to take them or to tolerate them. Our business must yield to our hu manity, even If that business Is poetry, philosophy or religion. The theater of life has no programs whether the first act Is on, or the last, who shall say? Shadows of thought and dreams of song are all man attains to In this un reality called Time. Contradictions and inconsistencies are the sum and substance of life, yet somehow there is reconciliation. What God Ideallies Is done, or In process of being done. Wisdom is pri marily the patience of love to abide re sults. There are Ideas powerful enough to revolutions society they only wait to be Incarnated In a sincere and un selfish personality. Man lacks nothing more than right eous courage to resist Injustice; death Is too late and too ignominious a re treat from human oppression. The human body the ship of the soul, after its eventful voyage gladly lays its bones upon the rocky shores of time, having done its full duty by its immortal passenger. IN MANILA. Many excellent bands. Six thousand Europeans. All women are brunettes. Nobody hurries or worrixs. Men wear white duck suits. The Cathedral cost $1,000,000. Four hundred thousand Chinese. Natives have 129 holidays a year. Children In school an hour a day. Clerks earn $2,000 to $5,000 a year. The most expert tattoolst In ths world. Clerks work from daylight to noon, rest tor two or three hours, and then work till 6 o'clock. By the law of the ilands everybody s catnoiic io owici w of any kind Is allowed. Morality le at a low ulib among tht Kanakas. Away from tne towns mo Kanaka women wear nothing but the rings In their noses and the cowry shells hanging from their ears. They do not know there is such a virtue aa chastity. Man-eaters will attack natives who ride down Into the sea on horseback to bathe their animals and nip off a leg if they have half a chance. As a rule, though, the natives meet the man-eaters half way and will dive In and rip the flesh open with a knife. The witchdoctor ,1a a demigod among the Malaya Time la reckoned by tha sun and moon, aa In China. A man ie allowed but one wife In some tribes, but in other tribes a man may have aa many wives as he desires, and the m men are looked upon aa mere chattels. It ta good sport watching the native from the -tobacco factories Darning after the day's work la over. Four of five thousand of them In together- men, women aad children In the mer riest confuaion. playing all aorta of pranks on one another aad no end of games, all In their birthday suite, THE FEMININE OBSBRVER. The greatest and best teat of a man's devotion Is during a woman's Illness. The neighbor's Ice cream freeser la a fine Institution If he will lend It. A good forgettery Is a desirable prop erty, but It sometimes refuses to be cultivated. People apparently think that the only thing that will make you walk lame la a sprained ankle. It Is much easier to take an Interest In furs when the thermometer le at ) than when It le at M. The lack of sympathetic companion ship Is too often the cause or outer strife with young mamea peopie. Real old-fashioned love, the sort that comes but once and comes to stay, m the right kind and all other are coun terfeits. The piano organ Is never so fully ap preciated aa when It comes to the porch of a country house far removed from such city luxuries. It la always amusing to have a doc tor prescribe mental occupation ts a patient whose bread, butter aad oc casional piece of cake are made by brain work. To e able to walk down tbe street with a soldier boy,la Joy enough ts most women to compensate for hevtef to year laat year's gown again season. It Is all very well to talk of BPendeng t he .winter la tbe country durtftf levels summer days, but gloomy astama twi. lights aad muddy roads frequeoUf pro dare aa aitoraUoa of aenb-rTwTalsl pbla TtsjdV Ph. oldest tree on earth with aa authentic history Is tha great Bhootree of Burmah. For twenty centuries ii baa been held sacred to Buddha,' and no person Is allowed to touch the trunk. When tht leaves fall they are carried away aa relics by pilgrims. A new system of advertising is m vwue in San Francisco, a pounry dealer has an Intelligent rooater, which parades up and down tbe street before ih. market, with hie owner's business card displayed in his bill, and com mands attention by frequent crowing. Near Grobogaa. Java, there la a laae of boiling mud about two miles in cir cumference. Immense clouds of steam. Ing mud are constantly ascending and descending, and on the western eage ih ris-antlc bubblee are continually forming and exploding at the rate of three a minute. A hole In his right heel enamea a negro workman In the diamond flelda of South Africa to secrete and steal gema to the value of $273,000. These he expressed In small parcels ol irun to a cousin In King William's Town, in the extreme south of Africa, from which place both recently departed ior England. Tn nnenins- Great Marylebone street. fndon. to lay electric cables, work men came across several elm tree water pipes In a fine state of preserva tion, although they were oniy a feet below the surface. These tree trunks bored through were over two hundred years old and must have been a part of an old water conduit. The does were blocked with silt, but oth erwise were quite usable. A story Is told of a young man m- FMeland. a sreat chess enthusiast. who was so annoyed at his failure to solve an apparently simple problem that he vowed he would neither sleep nor eat until the solution was found. He shut himself- up In a disused room and was found four days later by his relatives, terribly emaciated and out of hl mind. He spent a year In a lunatic asylum as the result of his rash vow, and the problem remains unsolved. Tho who believe that feeing ooi- tles for babies are the result of mod ern civilization are out of date. The Creek nurses used to carry with them a sponge full of honey In a small pot to stop the children from crying, ana In the British museum are two Greek vases, dating from 700 B. C, which are much like fredlng bottles used by the Romans subsequently. Queensland Is Inautruratlng a new department In the fruit trade, says London Invention. It Is found mat dried bananas take the place of ralslna In puddlnRS very well, and an enter prising firm In Queensland has sent to the reneral agent's oftlce. In Victoria street, Westminster, a consignment of dried banana, wKh the obji-rt of open ing up a market for them in Lnglano. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Twenty-one counties In Georgia hove i. prohibitory law. Seven church buildings In Chicago are advertlHed for sale. There are six schools In Ireland where Irich Is taught. There are 1,000 electric lamps In the White house at Washington. Street railway companies In Phila delphia pay the city yearly about $70,000 for car licenses. Bears have been more plentiful In Hungary than at any time within the last fifteen years. The average monthly wage of male teachers In 1H8 was $fi0.ST7, and fe maleteachers, $T4.84. It Is calculated that the sktne of more lhan 100,000 animals are used annually In binding Oxford bibles. The average life of a note of the Dank of Kn gland ta a little less than 79 daya Notes are never reissued. It' is Drocotwd to establish two uni versities In Ireland A Protestant Insti tution at Belaet and a Catholic one at Dublin. Russia has L0OO.60O prtncee, bat this country ban several million Irishmen and every one of them Is the descend ant of an Irish king. ta a result of dairy progress in Brest Britain, the Import of Canadian cheese fell laat year to tbe extent of about 12.000,000. The British war office has decided that brown legglaa. instead of black. hall In future be supplied to all foot soldiers of tbe regular army. A London lady, who mourns the lose of a pet poodle, has deemed It neoae- ... ... k. MTtmtAikl "Tn 11 i Ill' mu IV mm - r cards printed In memory of fne doc's virtues. Calcined seed pearls are considered a medicine of great potency by the Chi nese and beautiful art work In mother-of-pearl has long been executed both In China and Japan. . The official statistics of the Baptist denomination snow that there axe t.Ut nlacea of worship In the United King dom, providing sitting accommodations for 1, $06,710 persona When tbe president of the United States sits at a dinner-table, even aa the host, sjri there are ladles preaent, he la always served first, aa all other rulers. It Is an eld custom, observe In all countries, The latest life-boat, which has bean approved by the British admiralty, car ries three long cylinders. Into which 1,090,000 cubic feet of air can be com pressed. This air will drive the boat fifteen miles an hour for six hour. 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