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Speaking about houFo clcauIng but
come to think of it youd better not if
you are talking for publication
Lenenhock and Ilumboldt both say
that a single pound of the finest spider
webs would reach around the world
By their course in the Cretan affair
several European nations have earned
a sound thrashing which they are
likely to get
Ram Pasha commander of the Turk
ish forces on the Macedonian frontier
undoubtedly will prove a hard man to
buck against
The oyster Is one of the strongest
creatures on earth The force required
to open one is more than nine hundred
times its weight
One report from Athens declares
there is compromise in the air That
Is probably so and the honor of Europe
Is being compromised
A Maine paper says that a man in
Biddeford has invented a pencil sharp
ener that will sharpen pencils EEow
those New England reporters can pre
varicate
If the fellow who has been praying
for rain lately will send his address to
almost anyone in the lower Mississippi
xalley his case will receive prompt and
careful attention
Now Rev Lyman Abbott intimates
that Jonah lied about his voyage with
in the whale This is taking a mean
advantage of Jonah when he isnt here
to give evidence in his own behalf
A Pennsylvania jury the other day
gave Anna Dickinson a verdict of 64
cents for false imprisonment in an asy
lum And now it will be just like those
fellows to try to cheat her out of the
qnarter cent
The Atlanta Journal announces that
a splinter which had remained in the
foot of Miss Babe Martin for forty foui
years has worked itself out This
we believe is one of the longest infan
tile inflictions on record
Dallas News There are no floods in
Texas but of sunshine and song and
there are enough of these to illnmine
the gloom of Erebus and to swell all si
lence with symphonies Such is the
situation in gleaming gorgeous grand
old Texas
Chicago within the last few months
has had enough object lessons to prove
beyond any question that it is impossi
ble for the officials of banking institu
tions to bring about a restoration of
general prosperity by loaning funds to
themselves
It is stated that G3 per cent of the1
manufactured food products of the
United States are adulterated and yet
the people of this country cannot con
sume all the pure foods they produce
It ts clear therefore that we are G3 per
cent an unenlightened people and need
a new illumination of some kind
Phoenix Ariz rejoices because the
Introduction of the Game well fire
alarm system does away with what a
local newspaper calls the time-honored
system of giving notice of fire by
a discharge of revolvers As a
municipal improvement this is decided
ly noteworthy
The historical thin red line so often
mentioned by English writers in con
nection with their scarlet coated army
Is becoming decidedly thinner For
according to orders just issued by the
War Department in London the chest
measurement for infantry recruits has
been reduced to thirty two inches
Cleveland Plain Dealer After much
flelay the grave and reverend seniors
of the Supreme bench of Iowa have
handed down a definition of the word
swipe1 It means according to this
unimpeachable authority to steal
and is thus made an actionable epithet
Iet this momentous definition be noted
down by those whose passions are eas
ily aroused to the abusive pitch
A device is on trial in a Boston hotel
Which it is hoped will reduce the rate
of deaths by asphyxiation A small
chamberof brass containing quicksilver
Is so attached to every jet in the house
that unlighted gas escaping through a
stop coek will ring an electric bell in
the office One night recently two
ipiests accidentally left the gas on un
lighted and a prompt alarm to the
office proved the of the contriv
ance
The promptness with which water
runs from cleared lands is illustrated
In the Adirondaeks this year On those
mountains wherever the trees have
been removed is not even a flake of
enow It has all been melted and
rushed down to swell the rising
streams On the mountains where the
trees are still left there is yet snow to a
depth of eighteen inches which will
gradually melt as the weather be
coomes warm sink into the ground and
through the springs of the adjacent val
leys feed streams when they will need
feeding
In an Italian daily newspaper the
Soman Trifcnna of the 20th of
jary occurs ihls extraordinary para
graph In Sas Francisco California
there took place recently a terrific panic
in a theater Dvrifls a performance a
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lamp exploded which caused a panic
and wild rush for the door during
which three hundred spectators and
thirty six actors were killed This is
another illustration of the old saying
Go away from home to learn the
news There certainly has ueen no
such panic in a San Francisco theater
of recent years and we doubt whether
there ever was
Excellencies as all travelers know
are dirt cheap in Europe for every lib
eral man is so called by all the servants
and peasants in Italy and the other
Latin countries Only one American
at a time of all our seventy odd mil
lions Is entitled to be so called That
person Is the Governor of Massachu
setts He is so by a constitutional pro
vision of the Commonwealth Not even
the President of the United States is
entitled to be so addressed This mat
ter was settled more than a century
ago In the convention which framed
our Constitution
Paris is excited over an American
style of robbery which has Just struck
that town The story is told by the
Paris correspondent of the New York
Sun The proprietor of a fine restau
rant of a certain class was the victim
of a third swindle though twas more
a joke than a fraud A party of four
young bloods dined one evening not
wisely but too well and too expensive
ly at his establishment After a mag
nificent repast in a private room there
was a dispute about who should pay
and the proprietor was sent for Each
of the diners declared that he was there
as the guest of the other three The
dispute went on in a jocose fashion
until the restaurant keeper threatened
to call the police unless his money was
forthcoming The four young men were
annoyed at this suggestion Is that
the way you treat gentlemen exclaim
ed one of the party Now see here
Since we are out for a lark I propose
that we blindfold you Mr Proprietor
and the one of us whom you catch first
will pay for the supper and for two
more bottles of champagne The res
taurant keeper agreed He was secure
ly blindfolded and he groped about the
apartment in vain for a quarter of an
hour Then he pulled off the bandage to
find that the four revelers had fled
The collapse of a bank is always a
public calamity the evil consequences
of which can never be measured in
mere pecuniary loss It requires some
thing besides columns of figures to ad
equately represent the deplorable re
suits of such a catastrophe as the
wrecking of the Globe Savings Bank of
Chicago The damage to business in
the resultant loss of confidence in bank-
ing institutions and the general demor
alization of the credit structure upon
which 90 per cent of our transactions
are based cannot be accurately calcu
lated in figures The failure of the
Globe Savings Bank reveals a startling
record of official perfidy and dishonor
Seldom does a mere business collapse
disclose such a depth of moral rotten
ness involving such gross betrayals of
trusts that men ordinarily hold sacred
The story of the wreck is black with
the most corrupt political jobbery The
deeper it is probed the more offensive
becomes the stench to the nostrils of
honest men The State of Illinois
should probe the affair to the bottom to
the end that the blame for the deplora
ble condition of affairs may be placed
where it belongs and the culpable par
ties severely punished The interests
of honest banking the interests of the
State institutions whose funds were
jeopardized and the rights of those
whose savings were engulfed in the
maelstrom of political jobbery and
criminal peculation all demand that
the investigation be made rigidly and
promptly The people desire to know
if they have any protection in law from
such flagrant betrayals of trust by
those who have committed to them the
savings of the poor and the funds of
State institutions
Washington Well Fortified
In view of the fact that the national
capital was once taken and burned Lv
a foreign enemy it is reassuring to
know that a calamity so humiliating is
not likely to occur again even in case
of sudden war
Washington is the best defended city
in the country A hostile fleet could
not now ascend the Potomac as was
done in 1S14 when President Madison
and his wife were compelled to make
a hurried escape across the Potomac to
avoid capture by the British
For military and prudential reasons
little has been allowed to be made
known concerning the new works and
the heavy ordnance recently installed
below the city but for the past two
years engineers have been busy at the
river forts Some very formidable
guns are now in position there and a
system of torpedo defenses perfected
which would render the approach of an
enemys warships within twelve miles
of Washington practically impossible
The defensive works are located at
the elbow or turn of the Potomac
where old Forts Washington and Sheri
dan stood and where at one point the
channel for vessels of deep draught is
but 300 j ards wide
The guns are protected on the water
side by emplacement walls of stone
and concrete seventy feet thick and on
the land side by redoubts for infantry
The rapidly increasing wealth and
importance of Washington the grand
new public buildings and the vast sums
of money and bullion in the treasury
render these protective and defensive
measures a matter of national import
ance and necessity
Discouraged
Jess Why dont the Smith girls go
out any more on their bicycles
Bess They heard a man tell his lit
tle boy they were fat ladies from the
museum out to advertise the show
New York Journal
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PRESBYTERIAN MEETING
One Hundredth General Assembly to
Convene at Eacle Lake Ind
The 309th general assembly of the Pres
byterian Church of the United States will
meet at Eagle Lake Ind May 27 It
will be the first time the general assembly
has met away from a center of population
and the experiment will be watched by a
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great many people
Last year the gener
al assembly met at
Saratoga the year
before that it met at
Detroit It has gone
as far west as Port-
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aiana ana
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cially the representa
tives of the church
identified with tne
Winona Assembly
and Summer School can have their way
Winona beside the beautiful little lake
will become the permanent home of the
assembly
Three years ago the school was incor
porated It is denominational in the con
struction of its board of directors two
thirds of whom must be of Presbyterian
faith but other denominations are admit
ted It is in charge of Prof John M
Coulter of the University of Chicago and
Johu M Studebaker of South Bend was
recently elected president
Four thousand representatives of the
church are expected to be in attendance
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during the ten days the general assembly
will be in session The auditorium in
which the meetings will be held is erected
on the style of a cyclorama building and
is furnished with opera chairs It seats
3000 persons and 500 more can be
crowded into it
The commissioners of the general as
sembly are elected
by presbyteries and
grouped into the con
vention by synods
There are thirty one
synods represented
in the general assem
bly These are the
synod of Atlanta
the synod of Balti
more the synod of
California the synod
of Catawba the syn
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od of Colorado the synod of Illinois tht
synod of India the synod of Indiana the
synod of Indian territory the synod of
Iowa the synod of Kansas the synod of
Kentucky the synod of Michigan the
synod of Minnesota the synod of Mon
tana the synod of Nebraska the synod
of New Jersey the synod of New Mexico
the synod of New York the synod of
North Dakota the synod of Ohio the syn
od of Oregon the synod of Pennsylvania
the synod of South Dakota the synod of
Tennessee the synod of Texas the synod
of Utah the synod of Washington and the
synod of Wisconsin
The last general assembly represented
224 presbyteries 69 12 ministers 455 li
centiates 176 local evangelists 150S can-
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didates 7573 churches 27025 elders
9174 deacons and 943716 communicants
The church has had great growth the last
year and it is believed this assembly will
show more than one million communi
cants There are 43000 Presbyterians in
Indiana 65120 in Illinois 96461 in Ohio
30416 in Michigan and 7840 in Ken
tucky so that the general assembly will
meet in the midst of its friends
FALL AT THEIR POSTS
Fifty Firemen Are Overcome in a
Fierce Klnxe in New York
In Now York a deadly fire attended
with a loss of 500000 broke out in the
basement of the cold storage warehouse
161 to 105 Chambers street One fire
man was killed and fifty others were
felled unconscious by the deadly fumes
of ammonia which assailed them as they
entered the building The firemens cry
of danger was heard on the outside and
other companies were ordered in to rescue
their comrades These in turn were also
overcome until Chief Bonner feared he
would lose all of his men
Extra calls were sent out for
surgeons and ambulances were
summoned from the hospitals engine com
pany 27s house almost directly opposite
the blazing building was turned into an
emergency hospital and as fast as the un
fortunate men could be located and drag
ged out into the open air they were car
ried to house of temporary relief and prop
erly cared for
Note of Current Events
John Russell Young of Philadelphia ja
said to he slated as minister to Spain
President McKinley Saturday received
the new Chinese minister Wu Ting Fang
Overflows of the Juniata river in Penn
sylvania have caused immense loss to
growing crops
The notorious Princess Chimay has giv
en up her intention of appearing in public
in European music halls
Spanish land and sea forces have recap
tured the port of Banes held for about a
month by the insurgents
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 Letrislarive Grind
During the consideration of the free
homestead bill in the Senate Monday Mr
Morgan proposed an amendment giving
all public lands unoccupied by 1900 to the
several States and territories Mr Haw
ley declared this to be a startling proposi
tion and Mr Tillman sought to oppose it
by a series of questions addressed to Mr
Morgan Some of the questions referred
to the amendment as a proposition to
gobble and steal the interests in pub
lic lands Mr Morgan in turn made a
sharp and sarcastic rejoinder and for a
time Senators and spectators were inter
ested in the animated cross fire After
Mr Morgan had protested against the in
terruption as a breach of the privileges of
the Senate the incident was closed by a
statement from Mr Tillman disclaiming
any purpose of being discourteous to the
Alabama Senator The Morgan amend
ment was withdrawn Early in the day
Mr Morgan endeavored to secure a vote
on the Cuban resolution It went over
however at the request of Mr Hale of
Maine in order that speeches in opposi
tion may be made The House by a vote
of 124 to 52 approved the postponement
of committees until action by the Senate
on the tariff A Senate resolution appro
priating 50000 for the congress of the
universal postal union was adopted and
Mr Showalter the Republican chosen at
a special election to represent the twenty
fifth Pennsylvania district was sworn in
The tariff bill was unexpectedly report
ed from committee to the Senate Tuesday
and the entire time of that body was
taken up in listening to reading of the
measure Changes have been made in
nearly every schedule since it was passed
by the House Consideration was post
poned fourteen days The House was
not in session
The Senate Wednesday by the vote of
43 to 26 refused to ratify the general ar
bitration treaty between the United
States and Great Britain negotiated b
Secretary Olney and Sir Julian Paunce
fote At the conclusion of the proceed
ings all of which were in executive ses
sion the Senate refused to authorize the
publication of the details The open ses
sion of the Senate was devoted to the
sundry civil appropriation bill which was
not completed up to the time of adjourn
ment Mr Deboe of Kentucky took the
oath of office at the opening of the ses
sion and was cordially greeted by his
Republican associates The Senate in
executive session confirmed the following
nominations Elmer J Miller surveyor
of customs at Columbus Ohio Thomas R
rurnell United States district judge for
the eastern district of North Carolina
William H Meyer Indian agent for the
Southern Ute agency Colorado John B
Wright and John W Ross commission
ers of the District of Columbia John Mc
Mullen of Maryland to be an asptint
surgeon in the marine iiospital service
The Senate Thursday agreed to an
amendment to the sundry civil bill revok
ing the order of President Cleveland
made Feb 22 last establishing forest
reservations aggregating 17000000
acres Another amendment agreed to
provides for a continuance of the inves
tigation of the condition of the fur
seals in Bering Sea The sundry civil
an aggregate of 53000000 The House
by a strict party vote all the Republicant
favoring and all the Democrats and Pop
ulists opposing adopted a resolution pro
viding that the nouse should meet only
on Mondays and Thursdays of each week
until otherwise ordered It was an
nounced to be the Republican policy to
wait on the Senates action on the tariff
bill Mr Bailey Dem of Texas made
a strong but unsuccessful fight to have
the order modified so as to give early and
full consideration to the bankruptcy bill
The Republicans replied that they would
call up the bankruptcy bill and hold daily
sessions on it after Gen Hendersons
return but until then the rule should
stand The House then adjourned until
Monday
JOE PATCHEN AT AUCTION
Famous Pacer Goes to C W Marks
on a Bid of 15000
Joe Patchen the famous pacer with a
record of 203 was sold at auction for
15000 to C W Marks a shoe manufac
turer Tuesday morning in the Dexter
Park horse exchange at the Chicago stock
yards Nearly 5000 horsemen and spec
tators packed the amphitheater and cheer
ed the rival bidders in their elforts to win
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the prize When David McPeat of Phila
delphia in charge of the Splan Newgass
sale finally after twenty minutes of auc
tioneering knocked the horse down to Mr
Marks for a sum fully 9000 greater than
that of any sale ever before effected in
the stock yards district the crowd lustily
yelled its approval for almost five min
utes
Told in a Few Lrineai
Justin McCarthy the Irish parliamen
tary leader who has been seriously ill is
improving
A meeting at Rock Island 111 address
ed by Rev T DeWitt Talmage for the
sufferers of India realized almost 1000
College students and athletic associa
tions in Michigan are considerably agi
tated over a pending measure in the Leg
islature of that State to prohibit football
contests
Rev G O Brown who gained noto
riety at San Francisco in the Overman
scandal has accepted a call to a Chicago
Congregational charge He has been
preaching in Toronto
Black coal operators and miners of the
Brazil Ind district are in conference
over the wage scale for the coming year
The employes propose a 10 per cent reduc
tion which is not likely to be accepted
THE THAMES AT BLACKFRIARS
A Picturesque Place in Days of Gmtl
Queen Bess
Master Skylark the story of
Shakspeares time that is running as a
serial in St Nicholas gives many in
teresting glimpses of old Loudon
Nick and the master player came
down Ludgate Hill to Blackfriars laud
ing in a stream of merrymakers high
and low rich and poor faring forth to
Londons greatest thoroughfare the
Thames and as the driver and the no
ble mansions aloug the Strand came
into view Nicks heart beat fast It
was a sight to stir the pulse
Far down the stream the grim old
Tower loomed above the drifting mist
and higher up old London bridge
lined with tall houses stretched from
shore to shore There were towers on
it with domes and gilded vanes and
the river foamed and roared under it
strangled by the piers From the dock
at St Mary Averies by the bridge to
Barge house stairs the landing stages
all along the river bank were thronged
with boats and to and fro across
stream wherries punts barges
water craft of every kind were plying
busily In middle stream sailboats
tugged along with creaking sweeps or
brown sailed trading vessels slipped
away to sea with costly freight for
Russia Turkey and the Levant And
amid the countless water craft a multi
tude of stately swans swept here and
there like snowflakes on the dusky
river
Nick sniffed at the air for it was full
of strange odors the smell of brewer
ies of pitchy oakum Norway tar
spices from hot countries resinous
woods and chilly whiffs from the wa
ter and as they came out along the
wharf there were brown faced hard
eyed sailors there who had been to the
New World wild fellows with silver
rings in their ears and a swaggering
stagger in their petticoated legs Some
of them held short crooked brown
tubes between their lips and puffed
great clouds of pale brown smoke from
their noses in a most amazing way
Broad beamed Dutchmen too were
there and swarthy Spanish renegades
with sturdy craftsmen of the city
guilds and stalwart yeomen of the
guard in the Queens rich livery
But ere Nick had fairly begun to
stare confused by such a rout Carew
had hailed a wherry and they were
half way over to the South wark side
Lauding amid a deafening din of wa
termen bawling hoarsely for a place
along the Paris Garden stairs the mas
ter player hurried up the lane through
the noisy crowd Some were faring
afoot into Surrey and some to green
St Georges Fields to buy fresh fruit
and milk from the farm houses and to
picnic on the grass Some turned aside
to the Falcon Inn for a bit of cheese
and ale and others to the play houses
beyond the trees and fishing ponds
And coming clown from the inn they
met a crowd of players with Master
Tom Heywood at their head frolicking
and cantering along like so many over
grown schoolboys
A New Method of Disinfection
The Antwerp correspondent of the
Liverpool Journal of Commerce says
As in all large ports the medical com
mission plays a very important and re
sponsible part and its duties have
been all the more arduous in the last
four years since the United States lms
demanded such rigid examination of
all emigrants their baggage etc In
connection with sanitary arrangements
and regulations of the port some exper
iments of a most interesting character
were made -at the St Pierre Hospital
in the presence of the Antwerp Medi
cal Commission The subject of th
experiments was the demonstration of
a new and practical mode of disinfec
tion and sterilization The means cm
ployed consist of a gas obtained by the
partial combustion of methylated spir
its which while being perfectly inno
cent in its effect upon human beings
nontoxic and free from all corrosive
action is said to possess the property
of destroying every trace of bacteria
or microbes in the atmosphere of any
inclosure The experiments so far have
been thoroughly successful If such a
system of disinfection can be proved
efficacious it will be a blessing tc
steamship companies plying between
Europe and the United States for in
time of contagion of any kind the Uni
ted States Government demands fumi
gation by sulphur which is a most
disagreeable and unprofitable process
The question will be studied with a
view to adapting it to the disinfection
of ships passengers luggage and
f a rgo
Bad for the Eyes
Among the sources of the greatest
trouble to the eyesight are the exces
sive use of wine spirits or beer and
the indiscriminate use of quinine An
other source of failing vision may be
traced to impeded circulation The
wearing of tight neckwear such as col
lars which are too small or shirt bands
or neckties tightly drawn should be
avoided as they prevent the downward
column of blood returning to the heart
and dilation and development of dis
ease is likely to follow The same rule
holds good of constriction of otiier
parts of the body
Movements on Foot
Jinks There is a man who has a
number of movements on foot for mak
ing money
Binks Who is he
Jinks I dont know his name but
hes a dancing teacher New York Ad
vertiser
Boundless Affection
He Sometimes I wonder if you real
y love me
She As if I hadnt proved it Havenv
I called you Dumpsy Darling
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And that is a name which until 1
met 3ou I had held sacred to dear lit
tie Fido Cincinnati Enquirer
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Greek and Turk
The Turkish soldiers can fight even it
they do wear bloomers Boston Globe
Greece already has done enough fighting
in a week to last Cuba about ten years
Chicago Times Herald
The valorous Greeks have not given up
yet They still have a chance of killing
their king Detroit Free Press
Osman Pasha will get to the front in
time to annex all the glory without any
of the danger Pittsburg News
Women are arming to fight the Turks
and a long sigh of relief is going up
throughout the Ottoman Empire Chi
cago News
Some of the Greeks are evidently de
termined to get the better of something
even if its only their own government
i Chicago Post
King Georges way of ruling his turbu
lent people is apparently simply to sit back
and let them have their own way Buf
falo Express
A remarkable feature of the recent
Greek victories appears to be that the fol
lowing day the victors usually retreat
Chicago Post
If those Cuban correspondents will only
stay away from Greece we can kp fairly
well informed on the progress of Eastern
hostilities Chicago Journal
To Col Ab nainid and Kins George
Dont worry about food supphed TThe
United States has plenty of everything
to sell Chicago Times Herald
Turkey says Greece started it Greece
says Turkey started it but from rhis side
of the water it looks as if the powers drop
ped the flag for the fighting to begin
Baltimore American
If those European fighters should ever
run short of ammunition they might cre
ate havoc by breaking a few chunks off
their names and hurling them at the foe
Cleveland Leader
A cable dispatch from Macedonia says
that many of the Greek irregulars lie in
hiding during the daytime The corre
spondents seem to be lying by day and by
night Chicago Times Herald
If the Greeks could perform the appar
ently mpossible by giving the Turks a
terrific lambasting Old Glory should be
run to the top of every flagstaff just on
general principles Cincinnati Tribune
Political Potpourri
The Ohio man continues to keep his
front feet in the trough Boston Herald
The howl of a disappointed politician is
about as effective as the challenge of a
defeated prize fighter New York Jour
nal
If the Congressional Record ever starts
a sporting department John J Ingalls is
the man to run it Cincinnati Commer
cial
How much better everybody would be if
people would think more of their push and
less of their pull Harrisburg Star-Independent
The new Kentucky Senator has ben
doctor lawyer and school teacher That
is a hard combination to beat and it leads
naturally into politics Baltimore
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We infer from David B Hills remark
that later on it is his intention to organ
ize an expedition to rescue us from our
over governed condition Washington
Post
The majority of Americans sympathize
with Greece just as heartily as does Sen
ator Allen but very few of them make
such a mighty noise about it Scranton
Republican
Now that Roger Q Mills has said over
his own signature that Senators talk too
much we may expect a series of long and
excitable speeches in denial of the accusa
tion Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Secretary Long is getting ready to sell a
few of the old style out-of-date war ves
sels of the navy Here is a good chance
for some of the ten acre South American
republics that are getting ready for an
other revolution to supply themselves with
craft Savannah News
Grants Memorial
Chicago got the Worlds Fair but it
didnt have the Grant Monument Day
Buffalo News
Gen Grant belonged to every State in
the Union and it was Grant week in all J
of them Boston Herald
Sir Julian Tauncefote appeared in sim
ple citizen dress while visiting New York
Once in a while even an Englishman likes
to imagine himself a free born son of tho
republic New York Commercial Adver
tiser
Mayor Strong of New York called for
the American Hag on Grant Memorial
Day the flag everywhere Across every
llajc that snapped in the wind that day a
grateful nation saw in sunburst radiance
Let us have peace Chicago Inter
Ocean
The Peach Crop
If the weather sharps are not watchful
the peach crop will get another bump on
its solar plexus Pittsburg Times
Speculations about the peach crop aro
like those about the weather they do not
always square with facts Baltimore
American
Reports from Delaware are worse thars
usual It is feared now that the peach
crop of 1S98 is entirely destroyed Chi
cago Tribune
The younpr men who furnish the frost
for the Delaware and New Jersey peach
crops have worked in their usual amount
at space rates Washington Post
This and That
The voice of the rooter is now in full
bloom--Cincinnati Tribune
The Philadelphia has been ordered to
Hawaii Now Honolulu will you be
quiet New York Press
The time may come when the phono
graph and the magic lantern will be used
extensively enough in the church to do
away with choir wrangling Chicago
Dispatch
It is a peculiar coincidence that the man
who hates to see his name in the paper
is always the one to draw attention to the
fact that it is there New Yon Commer
cial Advertiser
A Kentucky widow has just raffled off a
distillery Widow raffle distillery how
this combination must have appealed to
the gallant and thirsty Kentuckian Buf
falo Express-
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