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THE FINANCIAL LEGISLATION OF
CONGRESS REVIEWED
3Ir Cannon Says the Appropriations
Were Small and Economical While
Mr Sayres Says They Were Enor
mous and Proflijrate
As Viewed by Both Sides
Chairman Cannon of the House Appro
priations Committee and ex Chairman
SSuyres Thursday made public a joint
-statement concerning the expenditures au
thorized by this Congress discussing them
from the Republican and Democratic
standpoints respectively
The total appropriations for the session
including permanent annual appropria
tions is 515759S2049
Mr Cannons statement begins
The appropriations charged to this
isession include 119034100 under the
permanent laws of which amount 50-
000000 is for sinking fund and 30500-
000 for interest on public debts or 3-
35501440 more than was included at the
tlast session of Congress in the statements
-of appropriations and is on account of
the increase of 102315400 in the bonded
indebtedness of the country by the present
administration up to February 1S93 the
interest and sinking fund charge on ac-
count of the later bond issue of 100-
OOOOO in February 1S9G amounting to
54400000 not being included in the esti
mates of permanent appropriations
Increase in Public Debt
The increase in the principal and in
terest bearing debt of the country under
rthe present administration amounts to
202315400 which entails annual inter
est charge of 11492010 and to meet the
linking fund obligations the further sum
of2G23154
During the administration of Mr Har
bison the principal of the interest bearing
-debt was reduced 23S192900 and the
-annual interest charges 10327710
The regular annual bills including do
Sciencies as passed by the House made a
reduction in the total estimates submit
ted by the executive of 2G0S3191G7
jSiigtiX
SPfel
CONGRESS ADJOURNS THERE IS JOY AT HOME AND ABROAD
they were increased by the Senate 22
92044230 and as they became laws they
J appropriate 1063GG240G less than as
passed by the Senate more
fthan as they passed the House and 13
37437343 less than the estimated require
ments of the administration
Excluding Rivers and Harbors
The regular annual appropriations in
cluding deficiencies made at the last
of Congress amounted to 383636
89697 and included no river and harbor
bilL Excluding the river and harbor act
passed at this session the regular annual
bills as passed by the House appropriated
-only 3735050S225 or more than 10
O00000 less than was appropriated by
the last Democratic Congress
Mr Cannon criticises the Treasury De
partment because it has expended 7377
440 for the present year in collecting the
irevenue from customs estimated at 165
kXK000 whereas for the last fiscal year
il892 under President Harrisons admin
istration there was collected under the
iMcKinley tariff act 177452000 of cus
itoms revenue at a total cost of only 6-
007 517
The bills establishing salaries instead
-of the fee system for otficers of the Unit
ed States courts he says will save 1
000000 annually and minimize frivolous
iand malicious prosecution and special at
tention is called to the fact that Congress
made no increases of salaries or employes
rn the Government department
Table of Appropriations
The following table of appropriations
lis given
kFifty first Congress
IFifty second Congress
Fifty third Congress
iFiftv fourth Congress-
9SS4171S3 34
1027104547 92
989239205 69
first session 515759S20 49
The revenues for three fiscal years of
the Harrison administration ending June
30 1S92 are given as 1150631214 ex
ipenditures 998132501 lor the two
complete fiscal years of Clevelands ad
ministration revenues 011112094 ex
penditures 72372057S
Ztfr Sayres Statement
Mr Sayres in his statement says of
the total appropriations for the session
This sum exceeds the appropriations
made during the last session of the Fifty
third Congress by 1S75129983 and
those of the first regular session of that
jCongress by 2352913546 It is less
than the appropriations by the second
cession of the Fifty second Congress by
only 374453872 although at the latter
session 39352494S5 more was appro
priated for pensions than at this session
Lt is more than those by the first session
iof the Fifty first Congress by 21303
57LS4 and 25464040S0 less than the
appropriations at the second session of the
iFifty first
The Senate organized this session by
a combination of Republican and Populist
jvqtes placing the control of committees
in the hands of Republicans by its
amendments to appropriation bills as they
passed the House proposed to increase
khe total 2292044230 By conferences
between the two Houses this aggregate
increase was reduced to l3SlSii
The appropriations made at the second
session of the Fifty first Congress exceed
ied those made at the first session of the
same Congress by 4676761264 or near
ly 10 per cent If the same proportionate
increase should be made at the next ses
sion then the appropriations will not be
less than 565000000
Contracts authorized by this session
the estimates as follows
Rivers and harbors 59616404 public
ibuildings lighthouses and revenue cutters
- f i v - sujstmmmmKmmmiammmmmmmmmm m
140G000 defenses and armament 4-
15070 new warships 12900uX Dis
trict of Columbia 123000 Total 78
241480
He says that the total expenditures in
one fiscal year have never been so great
except during the civil war and exceed
the assessed valuation of property in any
one of the South Atlantic States
In conclusion Mr Sayres says
If the present Congress had rigidly re
fused authority for additional contracts
and had appropriated only to meet the im
mediate or fiscal year requirements under
existing ones the next Congress and ad
ministration would have been in a position
to largely reduce appropriations and ex
penditures and the administration of the
government could easily have returned to
an economical method of expenditure
This however has not been done and the
majority in Congress must be held re
sponsible for this grave dereliction in pub
lie duty
THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION
Three Men Who Are Candidates for
the Honor
With the Republican nomination dis
posed of the attention of the couuiry will
be directed toward Chicago wLere the
Democratic convention will meet July 7
to place in nomination candidates fol
President and Vice President and adopt a
platform Who the nominees will be is a
matter of conjecture but a pres corre
spondent says there is no longer any
doubt that the platform will daciare for
the free coinage of silver The silver ele
ment will control the gathering and will
doubtless dictate the nomination Wheth
er they select an out-and-out silver man
for President or take a milder one solid
silver with a gold lining will depend up
on circumstances that cannot be foreseen
The present probabilities favor Horace
Boies of Iowa but there are other strong
candidates such as William R Morrison
of Illinois Richard Park Bland of Mis
souri James E Campbell of Ohio Claude
Matthews of Indiana and Benjamin R
Tillman of South Carolina All of these
are too well known to require even a brief
biography Mr Campbell is the distin
guished ex Governor of Ohio who defeat
ed Foraker and was himself defeated by
McKinley and Bushnell He is about 50
years of age Claude Matthews is the
farmer statesman who since 1892 has
been Governor of Indiana and hasdstin
guished himself as an able Uvive
Benjamin R Tillman first camiLiB na
tional prominence when as Governor of
South Carolina he introduced the dispen
sary laws which placed the liquor traffic
under the control of the State He has
since gained notoriety by his erratic
course in the United States Senate
MARION BUTLER
North Carolinas Populist Senator and
Father of the Bond Bill
Marion Butler the Populist who is
father of the bond bill passed by the Sen
ate is in Congress by grace of the sover
eign State of North Carolina Senator
Butler is Matt W Ransoms successor
He was made Senator in 1S95 and this
was a climax of a career which began on
a North Carolina farm Mr Butler was
born in 1863 His mother prepared him
for college The University of North Car
olina graduated him in 1SS5 and then
he began to be a lawyer He studied for
a short time and then was called home
He was the first bora nis father ha
died and he must take care of the farm
He sowed and reaped and between times
he looked after the education of his broth
ers and sisters In addition he taught at
1 i
SENATOR MARIOS BUTLER
a neighboring academy for three years
Then he branched out In 1SS8 he joined
the Farmers Alliance and bought a news
paperthe Clinton Caucasian His ideas
suited the alliance even in that early
day and Butler was sent to the State
Senate Here he was leader of the rural
forces and introduced all their reform
measures The alliance made him its
State president in 1S91 and 1S92 He be
came the principal organizer of the Peo
ples party His greatest success was his
carrying out the campaign of 1894 at
which his party was triumphant and for
which his reward was the toga Senator
Butler is a trustee and member of the
executive board of the University of
North Carolina
Patrolman William Graham covered
himself with glory at a fire which broke
out in the building at 352 Washington
street Boston and which endangered the
lives of nearly fifty men and women He
saved twenty lives
The managers of the Cuban fair at New
York have figured up approximately the
proceedings of the fair The total re
ceipts amount to a trifle over 20000 The
total expenses were 12000
NATIONAL S0L0NS
REVIEW OF THEIR WORK AT
WASHINGTON
Detailed Proceedings of Senate and
House Bills Passed or Introduced
in Either Branch Questions of Mo
ment to the Country at Large
The Legislative Grind
President Cleveland Saturday vetoed
the general deficiency appropriation bill
The President objected to it because of
provisions for the payment of French
spoliation and Chouteau claims and other
items which he does not enumerate When
the message was read to the House a mo
tion to pass the bill notwithstanding the
veto was lost 10 to 149 Thereupon the
House promptly sent to the Senate a new
bill without the features to which the
President objected This was not done
without some spirited debate during
which the President was bitterly attack
ed The Senate had barely a quorum and
nothing of importance was done
The Senate Tuesday agreed to final con
ference reports on the naval and Indian
appropriation bills The resolution for
an inquiry into the circumstances of the
award of the statue of Gen W T Sher
man was defeated A supplementary de
ficiency bill covering mileage of new
members of the House and other minor
items was passed A House bill was
passed authorizing the Attorney General
to select a site and secure plans for a
Federal prison on the military reservation
at Leavenworth Kan The House gave
its final approval to conference reports on
two of the four appropriation bills the
naval and the Indian bills Most of the
day in the House was devoted to the con
sideration of the Aldrich Underwood con
tested election case from the Ninth Ala
bama district The Democrats attempt
ed to filibuster but were overcome and
when the vote was taken the contestant
Mr Aldrich who is a brother of Mr
Aldrich who was seated in the place of
Mr Bobbins was given the seat by a vote
of 110 to 107 Fifty Republicans voted
with the Democrats against this aciion
A number of bills were passed by the
Senate Wednesday including the impor
tant bill giving trial by jury and othei
safeguards in prosecution for contempt of
court The measure has been vigorously
urged by labor interests particularly rail
road employes It is the outcome of the
agitation resulting from the imprisonment
of Eugene V Debs for contempt of an in
junction issued at the time of the Chicago
strike The bill as passed continues the
power of summary punishment when an
offense is committed in the immediate
presence of a judge But in indirect con
tempts such as violation of an injunction
the bill provides that the accused shall
be given a full hearing with opportuni
ties to summon witnesses and offer a de
fense The Senate bill to increase the pay
of the letter carriers was passed An
enormous amount of business was trans
acted by the House Fifty three bills and
joint resolutions were passed the most
important of which probably was the bill
appropriating 200000 for the Transmis
sissippi exposition at Omaha Bills were
passed to extend the scope of the investi
gation of the Agricultural Department
into the question of road improvements
to authorize the Butler and Pittsburg
Railroad to construct a bridge across the
Alleghany river and to grant permission
for the erection of a monument in Wash
ington in honor of Samuel Hahnemann
A bill was passed to pension the widow of
the late Brigadier General John H Gib
bon at the rate of 50 per month A bill
was passed to amend the shipping laws
so as to provide still further for the com
fort and health of sailors
Congress adjourned Thursday The
final session of the House was devoid of
public interest The speaker closed the
session in a graceful speech in which h
thanked the members most cordially and
felicitated them on the work of the ses
sion The Presidents executive clerk an
nounced the Presidents approval of the
two appropriation bills last passed The
committee appointed to wait on the Presi
dent appeared and Mr Dingley the chair
man announced that the committee had
performed its mission that the President
had informed the committee that he had
no further communication to make and
congratulateu Congress on the early com
pletion of its labors The last obstacle
in the Senate in the way of adjournment
was removed when soon after the session
opened the enrolling clerks brought in the
last of the great supply bills that for the
District of Columbia The Vice-President
announced the appointment of Sen
ators Harris Faulkner and McMillan as
a committee to inquire into the charities
of the District of Columbia with a view
to ascertaining the extent of sectarian
control The inquiry was provided for in
the District of Columbia appropriation
bill Mr Harris Dem of Tennessee of
fered resolutions expressing the thanks
of the Senate to Mr Frjre of Maine pres
ident pro tem for the uniform courtesy
and ability with which he had presided
over the Senate A similar resolution of
thanks to Vice President Stevenson foi
his dignified and impartial service as pre
siding officer was offered by Mr Allison
Both resolutions were unanimously adopt
ed A few moments before the hour set
for adjournment the Vice President rap
ped the Senate to order and said Sen
ators I am deeply touched by the resolu
tions personal to myself adopted by the
Senate It has been my earnest endeavor
impartially to execute the rules prescrib
ed for the guidance of this body For the
aid you have so generously given me in
the discharge of the duties that pertain to
this office as well as for the courtesy
uniformly shown me I am profoundly
grateful And now wishing each of you
a safe return to home and constituents it
only remains for me to declare the first
session of the Fifty fourth Congress ad
journed without day The gavel descend
ed with a whack at the last word and the
session was over
Precedence and Salary
The Lord Chancellor of Ireland gets
30000 a year
All titles of nobility originally had a
military origin
A viscount ranks higher than the old
est son of an earL
The expenses of the Queens house
hold are 172500
A clergyman usually takes prece
dence of a barrister
The salaries of the Queens house
hold amount tj 131260
The President of- the Board of Trade
receives a salary of 10000
A peer of the realm in Great Britain
is not liable to arrest for debt
I
MUSIC AND MONEY
Before the Time of Handel Musicians
Were Not Paid at All
From a very interesting article on
Music and Money which appears in
Chambers Journal it is gleaned that
before the time of Handel there is prac
tically o record of musicians having
been paid at all Walsh his publisher
paid him pitiful prices for his operas
For a- least eleven of these works lie
received no more than 25 guineas each
and the largest sum he was ever paid
was only 100 pounds which he got for
Alexanders Feast
It almost staggers one to recall the
fact that Mozarts Don Giovanni
brought to its composer no more than
20 pounds For the Magic Flute he
was paid just a 00 ducats and yet the
manager of the theater at which the
opera was first produced made a for
tune out of it By The Bohemian
Girl Balfe gained no less than 1500
pounds although the Marble Halls
ballad in that very popular work put
some 3000 pounds in the pocket of the
publishers Mr Wellington Guernsey
offered his Alice Where Ait Thou
to several music publishers for a
5 pouml note but the men of wisdom
refused the bargain only to find to
their sore dismay that the song even
tually attained a sale of between 200
000 aud 300000 copies Such cases are
constantly occurring
Sir Arthur Sullivan was content to
part with his first ballads for a few
pounds he sold his popular Hush
Thee My Babie for 5 pounds a suc
cessful man he can now command 700
pounds down for one song while for
The Lost Chord alone it is said that
he realized over 10000 pounds Signor
Tosti the composer of For Ever and
For Ever whose first manuscripts
were declined with thanks can now
command 250 pounds for a song and
as much may be obtained by Mr Mil
ton Wellings Mr Molloy Mr Cowen
and a few others now at the top of the
ladder Frank L Moir made 2000
pounds out of his popular song Only
Once More and it was stated not long
ago that for three songs Mr Marzials
receives from a firm of publishers some
2000 pounds per annum
Parasites of a Texas Professor
Prof Reynolds of Georgetown has
the uupleasant distinction of being af
flicted with a disease the like of which
is not known in medical science Many
noted physicians have examined his
case and until recently no solution of
its mystery has been found The dis
ease is caused by countless myriads of
animalculae which burrow under the
skin causing great pain When rubbed
briskly with the hand his body would
give off small particles veiy closely
resembling brown sand The case was
first brought to the attention of Dr
Fleming of Georgetown who made a
very thorough study of it and reported
it in several medical journals
Last week on the recommendation or
Dr Fleming Prof Reynolds came to
San Antonio to have City Physician
Menger make a microscopical examina
tion Dr Menger conducted a series of
microscopical examinations and not
only succeeded in detecting the para
site but has made several photographs
of it He says it is the most wonderful
discovery ever made on the human
body as far as his knowledge of the
subject goes The particles taken from
the body look like common sand are
dark brown in color and are barely vis
ible to the naked eye When placed in
acid the particles foam like seidlitz
powders and they can be seen under the
microscope givitfg off carbonic acid gas
Acids rlso make the particles transpar
ent and they easily crumble into very
fine powder The parasite is incased
in a shell or rather two shells The
parasite itself when placed under a
powerful microscope looks very much
like a crab spider It has eight legs
four in front and four behind The
front legs protrude and look like horns
San Antonio Express
Horses for Chicken Feed
A story comes from Corinna concern
ing an odd character out there known
as Dr Couilliard Thf doctor has made
a business this past winter of collect
ing worn out horses killing them and
converting the carcasses into hen feed
He has not grown rich at the business
but has managed to live by it while the
weather was cold enough to prevent his
operations from being a nuisance to the
neighbors and a menace to public
health The other day he was in Dex
ter only seven miles from home with a
pair of miserable old plugs which he
was intending to dispose of in the usual
way when the horses were seized by
the local officers condemned appraised
1 each and killed Thus Dr Coulil
liard got rather more than he expected
to realize from his old plugs without any
bother and the local officers didnt see
the joke until told of the hen feed busi
ness next day Lewiston Journal
His Worst Brealc
I reckon the durndest fool trick I
ever done observed Mosely Wraggs
who was entertaining his friend Tuf
fold Knutt with a few choice remin
iscences wuz falliu down wunst in a
dead Taint in front of a big buildin
that looked like a fust class sloon
Twuzut a sloon at all continued
Mosely Wraggs shaking his head sadly
at the recollection Hit wuz a watei
cure
A Big liamp
A Belgian inventor has devised an
immense lamp such as has probably
never been seen before The lamp is
composed of 3000 pieces It is G feet
high and measures 310 feet in diame
ter It is fed with lard oil and the
consumption is said to be very small
its light being so powerful that one
may read by it at a distance of GOO feet
An ostrich which has a stomach to
stand it is never invited out to late
suppers
fcrjp est j
In Johannesburg there Is a bar to
every 250 of the population
The longest artificial water course
In the world is the Bengal canal 000
miles the next s Erie 3G3
It is estimated that there are 40w00
women voters in Utah and 10000 more
who may become naturaized
The fastest train in France makes
fifty two and three quareers miles an
hour between Paris and Lille
A school of blind people at work will
form one of the groups n Industry
Hall at the Swiss National Exhibition
There are more than twenty active
volcanoes among the Amies of South
America ranging in height from 13000
to 23000 feet
Baron Ferdinand de Rothschilds
yacht Roma is a floating palace Forty
can dine comfortably in the luxurious
dining room
The annual increase of the German
nation during the last five years has
been more than five times as much as
that of the French
The feminine element is terribly in
excess in Germany the women exceed
ing the men by more than 1000000 ac
cording to the latest statistics
The greatest proportionate loss of
officers to men in any battle was at the
capture of the where three offi
cers were lost to every twenty five
men
A slice of common onion rubbed on
the spot is a certain cure for a wasp
sting If the sting be in the throat or
mouth an onion should be slowly chew
ed and swallowed
Glasgow is likely to follow the exam
ple of Leeds and adopt an overhead
system of electric traction for- the
tramways of the city which are the
property of the corporation
A pitcher of ice water laid in a news
paper with the end of the paper
twisted together to exclude the air
will remain all night in any summer
room with scarcely any perceptible
melting of the ice
Fogs are more frequent in October
and November than at any other peri
od of the year because besides the
evaporation from seas rivers and
lakes there is a constant exhalation
from the ground in the form of vapor
Taking the young and the old to
gether it is found that twenty six
years is the average at which people
die in London In England and Wales
only more than a hundred thousand
persons are always slowly- dying of
consumption
It is a mistake to suppose night air
in towns is unhealthy In most cases
it is purer between 10 at night and G in
the morning than any other part of the
twenty four hours It is beneficial to
sleep with the window open four
inches from the top and the door
tightly closed
A movement is on foot to found a
large American colony in Syria in the
immediate neighborhood of Jerusalem
If successful the project will doubtless
tend to develop the trade of the coun
try which now that the annual rain
fall is becoming greater should in
crease in fertility under careful culti
vation
It is about four years since seventeen
Egyptian mummies in the old museum
of Berlin proved to be the1 bodies of
fellows who a short time ago took
their beer in the saloons of the capital
of the empire of William II It is now
believed that there is not a museum
in the world that has not been imposed
upon by frauds of this kind
There will shortly be introduced an
other innovation in the dress of officers
of the army The patrol jacket at pres
ent worn is considered to ie unwork
manlike and a new patrol jacket for
officers is about to be ordered This will
take the form of the special service
jacket of blue serge which is a favor
ite with officers when on war service
For practical purposes from twelve
to thirteen miles is the range of the
most powerful Armstrong guns now
used This distance has however been
considerably exceeded by Krupps 130
ton steel gun which fired a shot weigh
ing 2000 pounds a distance of a few
yards over fifteen miles The gun cost
195000 and each projectile 4750
The little town of Nasso in Sweden
has a feminine department 150 strong
in its fire brigade The waterworks
of the village consist simply of four
great tubs and it is the duty of the
women firemen to keep these full in
case of fire They stand in two con
tinuous lines one line passing the full
buckets and the other sending them
back
There is only one bird which pro
vides illumination for its nest This is
the India gros beak whose nest built
of blades of grass and strips of leaves
resembles an inverted bottle This nest
is divided into two chambersand would
be in complete darkness if the gros
beak did not capture fireflies and affix
them with little lumps of clay to the
wall
The earliest age at which a boy can
enter the royal navy is 15 Zle must
be five feet in height and raeasure
thirty and a half inches round the
chest The standard is altered from
time to time according to the require
ments of the navy A boy must be of
good character able to read and write
and have the written consent of his
parents or guardian to his entry
The high seas include the whole ex
tent of sea so far as it is not the ex
clusive property of any particular
country The rule of international law
is that every country bordering on the
sea has the exclusive sovereignty over
such sea to the extent of three miles
irom its snore Dur an oeyona ana
which Is not within three miles of somet
other country Is open or common to
all countries
At Aii3terfield near Bawtry in York
shire one of the two villages from
which the pilgrim fathers came a row
of Norman arches has been discovered
in perfect preservation but built upon
the wall of the village church The
church is very small the chancel be
ing twelve feet wide and the rest of
the church eighteen feet It has a
splendid Norman doorway and an an
cient font which recently was used
as a drinking trough for cattle
The pastor of the Nazareth Church of
Berlin Germany refused to confirm
a class of children the other Sunday
unless they removed their buttonhole
bouquets On hearing this some of the
parents exhorted their children not to
obey the pastor while others went into
hysterics In the meanwhile the pastor
read a minatory passage of scripture
which increased the excitement and
then he sent for the police Finally alH
were confirmed but two recalcitrants
and everybody left the church feeling
angry or unhappy
The discovery of an ancient tempi
is reported from a village in northern
India It is a huge rock temple with
fourteen apartments included in
which are the usual paraphernalia of
a Buddhist monastery images of Gau
tama Buddha of different sizes lamps
banners curtains etc On the top of
the rock is a reservoir for water The
discovery was made by the villago
priest who has taken possession of lt
There are traces of the existence of
the reported main street leading to the
ancient city of Magampura during the
time of King Kavantissa
All France is talking of Mile Jeanno
Benaben She received the collese de
gree of bachelor of arts two years ago
when she was 16 She then became pro
fessor of philosophy in a womans col
lege at Lyons and this year was a
candidate at the Sarbonne for the de
gree of licentiate in philosophy The
examiners though not prepared for a
prodigy were amazed at the extent of
her erudition and her serene compos
ure in dealing with the vexed problems
of Descartes Kant and Comte She
was third on the list of 200 candidates
all of them older than herself and is
now a lecturer on science of mind in
the college of Rouen
The finding of the body of Captain
J S Bull late military instructor in
Jackson College Jackson Ky who
was drowned recently brought to light
some queer superstitions prevalent in
that part of the country regarding
means of locating missing bodies Af
ter the ordinary search failed an oldt
shirt of the dead man was thrown oni
the water with the idea that it would
float to a point just above tne toay
arid anchor there Bread was floated
with the same idea Then a village-
sage came with a mineral rod and said
he would surely find the body if there
was a scrap of metal on it He didnt
find it although he passed the spot
where it lay several times
The engineers of the Marquette Iron
Range Railroad have been considering
a scheme for utilizing the power of a
loaded train going down grade It is
proposed to string a trolley line over
the track which falls some S00 feet
in fifteen miles The ore cars are to
be made up into trains of ten cars
each each carrying twenty five tons of
jre A motor car will be attached to
each train and in it will be placed a
dynamo connected with the axle of
the car The descent of the train will
cause the generation of the electricity
which will be transferred to the trolley
line and used for power by the motor
car of the ascending train which will
haul back the empty cars
The Institute Pasteur Paris has just
published its report for 1805 -The sali
ent feature of the statement appears
to be that of 1523 persons treated only
five succumbed to their injuries Of
these the symptoms of rabies mani
fested themselves within fifteen days
after the first inoculation while one
case was seized with rabies during the
course of the treatment and has not
been included in the figures A table
of statistics contains the figures com
mencing from 1SSG and from this it
seems that while of the 2G71 persons
treated in the year 25 died or a mortal
ity of 094 per cent of the 1523 treated
in 1S95 only two died or a mortality of
013 per cent
A matrimonial bunko game is being
worked with great success among Chi
namen in various parts of Idaho The
bunko team consists of two women and
a man Both the women are said to be
of attractive appearance one being a
blonde and the other a brunette The
man is about 50 years old six feet
tall and passes himself as an old sol
dier By some one of half a dozen
clever schemes a Chinaman is induced
to marry one of the women The wed
ding takes place all right but the bride
promptly deserts her husband taking
whatever valuables in the way of
bridal gifts she has received and such
of her husbands portable property as
is easily carried off According to re
ports they have done an extensive and
profitable business during the past few
months
Some time since a well known Lon
don barrister on taking possession of
a house in a fashionable west end row
unwittingly bound himself to paint the
whole exterior of the dwelling On
finding what an expense he had made
himself liable for he remonstrated with
the landlord who simplv smiled and
declared that the bond must bfi ful
filled Thereupon the wily barrister
caused the whole front of the house to
be painted in strips of vivid green
yellow and pink greatly to the chagrin
of his fashionable neighbors who were
tenants of the same landlord In vain
did the landlord storm the- barrister
tenant threatened unless the- bond were
canceled to have the back of the house
paintedlikea rainbow with huge black
spots covering it at interYaX Result-
Agreement canceled
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