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anyway how can a dry dock
They had 920 duels in Italy last year
land only one fatality -which on the
nvhole seems a pity
The dogs of war are still included
In the list of our dumb animals It is
well Their bite is -worse than their
bark
A desire for success is natural Even
jthe hunter who was chased to camp
Ifrom the woods was glad he came out
little ahead
Theyve begun hanging criminals off
thand at Klondike It may not be ex
actly civilization but It shows deva
luing influences are at -work
Follow your bent says President
lAndrewtf in a magazine article But
some men are so badly bent that con
tables have to do the following
The sauce cook in the
kitchen draws a salary of J300 a
Ixnonth In this case it pays better to
cook the sauce than to sauce the cook
One of the pressing needs of the
itimes is a currency reform which will
Jbe effectual in restraining bank cash
iers from getting away -with the banks
currency
When it gets so cold right In the
heart of New England where they are
dn a measure acclimated to the Bos
ton girl that business is universally
ieusnended then it is cold
A pen carrying a small electric lamp
jto prevent shadows -when writing has
ibeen patented in Germany Editors
jought to be able to throw a good deal
of light on the subject by using that
2pen
Children In public schools have not
really so much more to learn than
formerly but they have much more to
etudy They can learn only about so
jmuch anyway no matter how much
Ithey study
It is said that a pastor in Alabama re
cently startled his congregation by the
following announcement Remember
our quarterly meeting next Sunday
SChe Lord will be with us during the
morning service and the presiding
elder in the evening
It ought to be understood that there
Is no substitute for the enforcement of
the law against murder As long as
ihe murderous spirit exists and is not
adequately restrained weapons will be
found with which to commit a crime
Legislation against concealed weapons
may or may not be useful but it is en
tirely inadequate We must punish the
jmen who use weapons of whatever
feind unlawfully
Since the accession of the present
German emperor in 1SS9 the number
of lese majeste sentences passed has
sreached nearly 5000 The length to
jwhich the Government has gone in the
suppression of free speech in the em
pire is shown by the extraordinary
statement that in the five years from
t
1890 to 1895 seven peKfoiiS tniuS lu
years of age forty eight between 15
and IS and 1S3 between 18 and 21 have
5een jmprisonedunder lese majeste
Charges -
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a The entire history of Rliisia seems
to favor the supposition that she at
come future time has a destiny to ful
fill From a small beginning she has
risen to an unparalleled power What
at first was only the consolidation of
Eome insignificant barbarous hordes
ihas become an empire of gigantic di
mensions Almost every year adds
inew strength to her powerful arm new
wealth to her vast resources Other
nations have grown to maturity decay
led and passed away within the period
of her history but Russia remains still
growing
a Many young persons are apt to re
gard clergymen as a serious and sol
emn class and to infer therefrom that
jreligion must be a gloomy matter
Thousands of young readers of Alice
in Wonderland never suspected that
jLewis Carroll the writer of that
ilxwk of wholesome fun was the Rev
Charles L Dodgson a clergyman of
ithe Church of England whose death
rwas recently announced Is it not true
fthat to the fun afforded by his inimita
ble works there -would have been
ladded a lesson in the cheerfulness of
jreligion if they had gone out under his
own name as the recreation of a cheerful-minded
preacher
Men who have had the widest expe
dience in war are those who utter the
sBtrongest peace sentiments Lieut
jGen Schofield in his Forty Six Years
jin the Army dissents from the opinion
What occasional wars are necessary to
keep up the fires of patriotism True
patriotism is like a fire on the family
fhearth giving light and warmth to the
domestic circle Spurious patriotism
Jblazes up like a bonfire a center of tem
jporary excitement but it soon dies out
JThe steady flame of real devotion to
country burns in peace no less than n
pvar Were there to be no more sound
jof battle or sight of garments rolled
3n blood disinterested and enduring af
rfection for the land of ones birth or
adoption would do Its perfect work
The gentle art of thieving from the
Government attracted some eminent
practitioners thirty five years ago but
Itlieir performances with shoddy and
tainted meats hardly compare with the
achievement of one of the contractors
who built the dry dock at the Brooklyn
navy yard It was required that the
piling which backed the concrete walls
should be sunk to the depth of thirty
feet As a matter of fact the Ingenious
scamper drove the piles three feet
or less so that now after almost a mil
lion dollars have been expended on the
dock it is falling apart The contractor
probably relied on the maxim that
what is everybodys business Is no
bodys business apparently the super
vising engineer indorsed this view but
it Is to be hoped that some way may
be found to persuade both gentlemen
that Uncle Sam has friends who wili
not unprotestingly see him robbed
So many brewers have been elevated
to the English House of Lords recently
that that body has obtained the name
of the Beerage One of the first
things done by these hereditary legisla
tors when their blushing honors are
thick upon them is to construct a pedi
gree for the official books Unfortu
nately there is an individual in Lon
don who under the name of X lias
been pricking the bubbles of some of
these pretensions to long descent Two
beer lords Ardilaun and Iveagh who
happen to be brothers have been
claiming descent from the old house of
Magennis simply on the ground that
their family name is Guinness X
makes the following interesting state
ment Here is the real origin of Lords
Ardilaun and Iveagh In the year 1750
the Most Rev Arthur Price archbishop
of Cashel made his will This after
his decease was proved on Aug 3 1752
After mentioning several other items
the will proceeds I give my servant
Richard Guinness 100 to my servant
Ai thur Guinness his son 100 then
follows a list of other servants but
this is to be understood of such of my
above servants as shall be in my ser
vice at the time of my decease The
above mentioned Richard and Arthur
Guinness were the great-great-grandfather
and the great grandfather re
spectively of Lords Ardilaun and
Iveagh When or where Richard Guin
ness was born and who and what his
father was is utterly unknown Of
course there is nothing disgraceful in
the fact that a butler was great-grandfather
to two lords The snobbery lies
in trying to ignore that fact
The amendment to the Constitution
proposed by Senator Hoar changing
the date for the commencement of the
Presidential and Senatorial terms from
March 4 to April 30 has been the sub
ject of discussion for years If the
amendment should be adopted it would
extend the term of President McKinley
to April 30 1901 and also the terms of
the Senators and Representatives to
the same date There is no doubt that
the change ought to be universally
favored The particular reason of
course for advocating the change is the
inclemency of the early March -weather
in Washington -which has spoiled so
many inauguration ceremonies In the
latitude of Washington it is a very rare
thing to have -weather that is favorable
for outdoor festivities on March 4 To
the younger generation which do not
take the trouble to look into history
the selection of a blustering day in
March instead of a balmy day in May
or June for inauguration has always
been a subject of -wonder It came
about in this -way After the present
constitution was adopted the old con
gress fixed the first Wednesday inj
January aS the day for the States to
elect Presidential electors the first
Wednesday in February as the day for
the meeting of the electors to elect the
President and Vice President and the
first Wednesday in March for the in-
auguration of the new government It
happened that the first Wednesday in
March fell on the 4th and hence this
order not the constitution has fixed the
4th of March as the commencement of
the Presidential term The constitu
tion is silent as to the date of inaugura
tion It merely declares that a Presi
dent shall be elected every four years
It happened however on account of
the poor facilities for travel in those
days that the Senators and Represen
tatives were not able to organize Con
gress promptly on the date fixed by the
old congress and General Washington
was not Inaugurated until April 30
17S9 There are those who believe that
General Washington could have served
four years from the date of his in
auguration thus bringing all subse
quent inaugurations upon a more pro
pitious day It is the date of Washing
tons inauguration that has suggested
the change embodied in Senator Hoars
resolution and its adoption would tend
to recall every four years the interest
ing historical associations surrounding
the inauguration of our first President
Atlantic Cable Relics
In the valuable collection recently
presented by Mrs Isabella Field Jud
son to the national museum in Wash
ington is the globe upon -which her
father Cyrus W Field traced the
course for the cable between New
foundland and Ireland In addition to
this the collection comprises Mi
Fields private papers relative to the
laying of the cable the first cablegram
sent and oher interesting papers
touching upon the great work of his
life
Womans University
The emperor and empress of Japant
and their officials and nobles are great
ly interested in and have subscribed
liberally toward the Womens univers
ity at Tokio which is to cost 175000
Spring bicycle frames are being made
with telescopic tubes inclosing air cush
ions which receive the force of the jar
from rough roads the cushions being
inflated the same as pneumatic tires
When a man gets his hair cut his wif a
loses her strongest hold on him
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JAPANESE NOT ENTERPRISING
Their Businsss Methods Are Crude and
Away Behind the Times
An American manufacturer
from Japan says that those alarmists
who would make the -world believe that
the Japanese can do everything dont
know -what they are talking about and
that the people of the flowery land un
less they change their entire nature
or at all events their methods can
never become formidable commercial
rivals with any civilized power The
ireai fact Is that the Japs do nothing
they only half do it and therein lies uhe
cause of their failure
The Jap thinks of nothing but the
present of what he can make now and
how by making his commodities a little
Inferior he can add a few more cents
to his profit If he has to pay more for
his labor the idea of economy or the
bold declaration that he can no longer
sell at the original price never strikes
him but he extends the whole of his
ingenuity in trying to diminish the
quality without any loss in the appear
ance There is no such thing as stand
ard quality You are never sure of get
ting the quality you are asked to pay
for So much is this so in Japan that
a man seldom buys an article -without
unwrapping and examining it on the
spot The correspondent continues
The Japanese mind is so small that
it is difficult to weigh it with American
scales in fact it may be said that it is
made up of trifles and it is the atten
tionthe labored attention the Jap
gives to these trifles which makes him
incapable of ever becoming anything
more than a unit in whatever he may
be concerned in As an illustration of
what I mean I will give examples
which are of daily occurrence You
want to buy an article and you ask
how much it is The answer is say 1
cent Then you ask how much the
articles are by the dozen fully expect
ing that you will get them for 10 cents
You are a little amazed when the mer
chant tells you 13 cents the dozen You
get mad call the man a fool and in
sist that you ought to get a reduction
by taking a quantity Not so with the
Jap that is not his way of doing busi
ness If you take one he reasons that
is 1 cent but if you take a dozen he
will have to count them and then it will
be 13 cents It is the same with the
manufacturer You give him an order
for 100 of a kind and then wash to
make it 1000 Immediately he de
mands an advance in the price Should
he however reluctantly agree to take
the increased order at the original price
you will probably get the first hundred
articles fairly up to the sample but as
the delivery goes on the quality is sur
to fail off And this smallness is not
confined to small people It permeates
the whole country and one of the lead
ing banks advertises that it allows
4385 per cent interest on current ac
counts and 5115 per cent on saving
bank deposits Boston Transcirpt
Reputation Cheaply Made
A country justice had been elected
but a few days when a young lawyer
rushed in and demanded a capias
Xow that justice did not know a ca
pias from a police cell but he disliked
to admit his ignorance So he said
Now see here my friend You are
a young lawyer and I fear lack ex
perience I would advise you not tc
be too hasty Dont be in a hurry
Wait twenty four hours and then if
you think best come to me and I will
giye you a capias
The young lawyer agreed and wenf
away The justice spent the remain
der of the day getting acquainted with
the writ called capias When the limb
of the law appeared the next morning
the court felt himself qualified to issue
capiases by the bushel
Before he could speak the young
lawyer said
Mr Justice you were right I was
too hasty I have that matter fixed up
all right and do not need a capias I
have come to thank you for the good
fidvice and have also brought you the
two dollars fee you would have re
ceived for the capias as I dont want
you to lose by your good deed
He went away believing the justice
to be a paragon of good sense and legal
lore
Where He Drew the Line
Among the first stories recorded by
T E Pritt in his Anglers Basket is
one about a Scottish laird who was re
lating the story of a fine fish he had
caught one day to his friends at the din
ner table Donald said he to the
servant behind his chair an old man
but a new servant how heavy was
the fish I took yesterday Donald
neither spoke or moved The laird re
peated the question Weel replied
Donald it was twal pund at break
fast it had gotten to achteen at dinner
time and it was sax and twenty when
ye sat down to supper wi the captain
Then after a pause he added Ive
been tellin lees a my life to please the
shooters but Ill be blowed if Im going
to tell lees noo through my old age to
please the fushers
School for Female Prisouers
Major McClaughry superintendent
of the State Penitentiary at Joiiet 111
who started a school in the prison for
the benefit of convict women some
time ago is delighted at the success of
the innovation Women it Is said
who have been a terror to society in
Chicago are likely to be regenerated
by the slate pencil and the spelling
book
Emperor Likes Excitement
Emperor William is said to be so
fond of excitement that he will often
got up at 2 or 3 oclock in the morning
and ride ten or twelve miles to order
out a company of troops as though an
enemy were marching on them
A woman can sleep anywhere and
e anything
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MECHANISM OF A rO INCH RIFLED DISAPPEARING GUN
UNCLE SAMS LAND FORCES
Ten Millions of Men Could Be Mus
tered to Fijjht the Spaniards
While a war with Spain would undoubt
edly be in a large measure a naval con
flict it might extend to the land Butcher
Weyler appears to think that the Spanish
warships would quickly sweep the whole
American navy from the seas and that
he or some other general would land an
array and march victoriously to the na
tional capital and there dictate terms of
peace The Spanish people all seem to
think that our navy out of the way the
rest will be dead easy because the United
States has no standing army to speak of
The Spaniards never made a greater mis
take in all their lives
This country has a standing army not
the 25000 regulars alone but the 114262
national guardsmen kept organized and
equipped by the several States Of these
guardsmen Alabama maintains 2488 offi
cers and men Arkansas 2020 Califor
nia 3909 Colorado 105G Connecticut
2739 Delaware 458 Florida 1184
Georgia 4450 Idaho 508 Illinois 6200
Indiana 2875 Iowa 2479 Kansas 1
468 Kentucky 1371 Louisiana 2693
Maine 1845 Maryland 1725 Massa
chusetts 5154 Michigan 2886 Minne
sota 1S94 Mississippi 1795 Missouri
2349 Montana 632 Nebraska 1158
Nevada 368 New Hampshire 1305
New Jersey 4297 New York 13894
North Carolina 1537 North Dakota
67 Ohio 6004 Oregon 1428 Penn
sylvania 8521 Rhode Island 1315
South Carolina 3157 South Dakota
396 Tennessee 1696 Texas 3023 Utah
580 Vermont 743 Virginia 2739 Wash
ington 737 West Virginia 965 Wiscon
sin 2711 Wyoming 356 From these or
ganized forces an army of 50000 men
could quickly be assembled at any point
where the Spanish should land and could
hold twice their number in check while a
greater army was being assembled
Where is the greater army to come
from The Secretary of War has just re
ported to Congress the number of men
available for military service in each State
as follows
Men Men
States available States available
Alabama 105000 N Carolina 245000
Arkansas 250000 N Dakota 19937
California 21 1029 Ohio 050000
Colorado 85QQ0 Oregon 59522
Connect 10SG40 Perfu T S73i
Delaware 2S0S0 R Island So000
Florida 70000 S Carolina 177000
Georgia 2G4021 S Dakota 55000
Idaho 2Q000 Tennessee 180000
Illinois 750000 Texas 300000
Indiana r 500000 Utah 35000
Iowa 294874 Vermont 44104
Kansas 100000 Virginia 364227
Kcntucky 361137 Washtn S7879
Louisiana 135000 W Virginia 125000
Maine 106042 AVisconsln 372152
Maryland 150000 Wyoming S000
Mass 433975 Teries and
Michigan 260000 District
Minnesota 175000 Arizona 20000
Miss 233480 N Mexico 35000
Missouri 400000 Oklahoma 50000
Montana 31381 District of
Nebraska 101020 Columbia 47000
Nevada 6200
New Jersey 385273 Total
N Hamp 34000 ganlzed 10301339
New York SOOOOO
Thus it can be seen that this country
has quite a respectable reserve force
ten millions of men who can and will fight
for the flag if there is any fighting to be
done
DEFEAT OF THE LOUD BILL
Buried in the House by an Overwhelm
ing Majority
The Loud bill to correct alleged abuses
Df the second class mail matter privilege
which last year passed the House by a
majority of 144 to 104 was buried by an
overwhelming majority by the House
Thursday The vote was not taken di
rectly on the bill but on motion to lay it
3n the table By a vote of 162 to 119 the
notion was carried Forty seven Republi
cans joined with the Democrats and Pop
ulists in accomplishing the result and ten
Democrats voted with the majority of the
Republicans The refusal of Mr Loud to
permit a vote on an amendment at the last
aiinute was responsible in a measure for
he result but the strength of the measure
ludoubtedly waned throughout the three
flays debate
NEARLY OUT OF MEAT
shortage of Beef Cattle Approaching
a Famine in the West
Strange as it may seem the country ly
ing west of the corn States is just now
confronted with the probabilities of a beef
1 amine The reason for this is the short
ige of beef cattle in the West All of last
j ear and so far this year tie demand for
cattle to eat corn in the States east of
Colorado and the big prices offered has
empted the cattle men to sell everything
5t to go and in the Western country to
lay from which Denver usually draws
tts supply of beef cattle there are not
nough fat cattle to supply the local butch
ers demands
Colorado is not the only State -suffering
for beef cattle As far west as the
Pacific coast the same situation exists
California has usually drawn its beef sup
ply from home Nevada aDd Arizona Last
tear Eastern California and Nevada were
practically denuded of cattle by specula
tors who bought them for more than beef
snvers were willing to give and shipped
em out the country The recent j
drought on the coast has left the Califor
nia cattle in bad shape and the coast is
now drawing almost its total supply from
the Salt river valley in Arizona and the
supply there is limited Up in Oregoa
and Washington the same condition ex j
ists In Western Colorado there are aj
few cattle on feed and some are left in
Wyoming but they are held at such prices
that the Denver packers cannot reach
them
JAPAN MAY HAVE A WORD TO SAY
Eight of the Mikados Subjects Werej
on Board the Maine
The State Department has ascertained
at the instance of the Japanese legation
that eight Japanese were on board the
Maine at the time of the disaster While
the avowed purpose of the Japanese
tions inquiry is to assist friends and rela i
tives in identifying those lost or saved
in the disaster it is suggested that Japan
may have something to say to Spain in
case the Maine shall be declared to havq
been destroyed by an external attack
Japan has always jealously guarded her
citizens abrcad and might occupy the
same ground as the United States in seek
ing such redress as would be appropriatq
to the case as finally established In thbi
connection it was recalled that Japans
relation to the Philippines are somewhat
analogous to our relations to Cuba Sim
ilar inquiries came to the Navy Departt
ment from the German and Swedish
tions and it is expected that others will
follow Nearly every nationality was rep
resented in the Maines big crew
TO SEARCH FORANDREE
Eminent Swedish Scientist to Head an
Expedition to Franz Joseph Land i
Prof A G Nathorst the eminent Swedi
ish scientist and traveler will head an
expedition to start in May and search
Franz Joseph Land for traces of Andrees
polar balloon expedition Franz Joseph
Land is supposed by many polar scientists
to be the present resting place of the An
dree party The almost totally unknown
region between Spitzbergen and Franz
Joseph Land will be explored also The
expenses of the Nathorst expedition will
rrOF XATHOIiST
be borne by King Oscar and a number ofj
wealthy Swedes This relief party will
include Prof A G Nathorst chief Dr
Axel Ohlen the celebrated zoologist Dr
Gunnar Anderson botanist Dr A Han
berg hydrographer Lieut O Kallstrom
photographer and map constructor and
Dr Ernst Levin physician The vessel
to be used is a Norwegian whaling ship
constructed for the purpose Prof Na
thorst is one of the best known polar sci
entists in Europe and his former expedi
tions have produced important scientific
results
MORGAN BECOMES IMPATIENT
Will Offer Another Resolution Calling
for Cuban Information
Senator Morgan said Friday that it
was his purpose to introduce a resolution
at an early date making a second call up
on the President for the consular corre
spondence bearing upon the condition of
affairs in Cuba I think he said that
the Senate and the country are entitled
to know officially what the condition there
is and that the reports of the consuls
should not be withheld for an unusual
length of time I do not however wish
to complicate this matter with the Maine
disaster and shall not introduce the reso
lution while the court of inquiry is sitting
unless its report is unnecessarily delayed
1 have set no time for the presentation of
the matter but will be guided as to the
time by circumstances as they arise He
said in reply to a question that the reso
lution proposed by him would be couched
in terms demanding the submission of the
correspondence
Peesident Dole Sends 500
A most substantial
evidence of sym
pathy for the survivors of the Maine and
the families of the victims camp tn hnnri
at the Navy Department Thursday in the
snape of a check for 500 from President
Dole of Hawaii
Last year the railways of the United
States carried 13000000000 passengers
one mile and 95000000000 fonts of
freight one mile
iff
Henry W Corbett was on Monday de
nied admission to the Senate as a Senator
from Oregon on appointment by the Gov
ernor by a vote of 50 to 19 The Senate
began consideration of the Alaska home
stead and railway right of way bill and
had not concluded it when it adjourned
The House passed the sundry civil ap
propriation bill after four days debate
The appropriation for representation at
the Paris exposition was eliminated on
a point of order The sudden change of
sentiment which is often witnessed wheir
members go on record was twice illus
trated On Friday the House in commit
tee of the whole where there is no record
of the vote knocked out a provision in
the bill for an appropriation to pay those
who furnish the Government with infor
mation leading to the conviction of the
violators of the internal revenue laws and
in committee an extra months pay was
voted the employes of the House Wiien
the members voted on roll calls in the
House howerer both of these proposi
tions were overwhelmingly defeated
The House entered upon the consider
ation of the Loud bill relative to second
class mail matter on Tuesday The bill
is identical with the measure passed by
the last Congress but Mr Loud gave no
tice of an amendment permitting the
transmission at pound rates of sample
copies up to 10 per cent of the bona fide
circulation of the newspaper periodicals
This amendment removes much opposi
tion to the bill Mr Loud made an ex
haustive speech in its favor Mr Moon
Dem Tenn spoke in opposition to the
bill and Mr Perkins Rep Iowa in fa
vor of it The Senate passed a resolu
tion for erection of a bronze tablet to the
memory of the victims of the Maine
Wednesdays debate in the Senate on
the Alaskan homestead and railway right
of way bill was spirited Mr Carter
Mont delivered a vigorous speech in re
ply to that made by Mr Rawlins Utah
in the course of which he made a strong
defense of the honor of Congressional
J committees and of officials in the several
government departments One of the spe
cial features of the debate was a speech
delivered by Mr Elkins W Va in
which he explained that the Canadian Pa
cific Railway was enabled to make war
upon American interests and how and
why the aggressions of that great rail
road ought to be stopped by the United
States The speech drew replies from
Mr Hoar Mass Mr Chilton Texas
and Mr Nelson Minn Mr Hoar main
tained that a large part of the speech of
Mr Elkins was irrelevant to the pending
discussion The House spent another day
in debate upon the L6ud bill relating to
second class mail matter The speeches
as a rule attracted little interest The
speakers were Messrs Bromwell Rep
Ohio and Ogden Dem La in favor
of the measure and Messrs Bell Pop
Colo Simpson Pop Kan Clark
Dem Mo Brown Rep Ohio and
Lentz Dem Ohio in opposition to it
In the Senate on Thursday the House
amendments to the bankruptcy bill were
non concurred in and Messrs Hoar Nel
son and Lindsay were appointed as Sen
ate conferees During almost the entire
session the Senate had under considera
tion the Alaska homestead and railway
right of Avay bill One of the features of
the discussion was a speech delivered by
Mr Vest in which he ridiculed the idea
of homesteading any part of Alaska or
constructing railroads in that district His
motion to eliminate the homestead fea
ture of the bill by striking out the first
section was defeated The resolution for
a congressional investigation of the mur
der of the postmaster at Lake City S C
was referred to the Committee on Con
tingent expenses A bill was pasjod tn
establish an assay office in Seattle Wash
In the House the Loud bill to correct al
leged abuses of the second class mail mat
ter privilege was laid on the table by a
vote of 1G2 to 119 thus killing it Forty
seven Republicans joined with the Dem
ocrats and Populists in accomplishing thia
result and ten Democrats voted with the
majority of the Republicans Mr Whit
Rep N C the only colored member of
the nouse asked unanimous considera
tion for a resolution appropriating 91001
for the family of the assassinated Lake
City postmaster but it went over upon
objection from Mr Bartlett Dem Ga
After a debate lasting several days the
Senate on Friday passed the bill extend
ing the homestead laws and providing foi
right of way for railroads in the district
of Alaska Comparatively little discus
sion of general interest was created by
the bill Section 13 providing for certain
bonding concessions to Canada in lieu of
privileges to be extended by the Domin
ion Government to this country however
induced a pretty lively debate as it
brought into the controversy the old fisi
erics question on the New England coast
which has been pending between the Unit
ed States and Great Britain for 100 years
Two more appropriations were sent t
the President Friday the pension bill and
the consular and diplomatic both of
which went through their final stage in
the House It was private bill day The
most important action taken was acqui
escence in an agreement to make the bilJ
appropriating about 1200000 for wat
claims approved by the court of claims
under the provisions of the Bowman act
a special order for the next Friday The
claims carried by the bill 730 in number
are for stores and supplies seized during
the war in the Southern States Only
two bills were passed one to pay the heirs
of Sterling T Austin about 59000 for
cotton seized during the war and the
to pay an aggregate of 3SG0 in small
claims growing out of back pay etc
earned during the war The House ad
journed until Monday
Sparks from the Wires
A cave said to rival the Mammoth of
Kentucky has been discovered in Center
County Pa
It is believed in official circles in Lon
don that the French cabinet is attempting
to bring about a crisis in Africa in order
to return to the popularity enjoyed prior
to the Zola trial
Zola has taken an appeal from the de
cision of the court which condemned him
to a year in prison- and a fine of 3000
francs and the Dreyfus case will again be
ieard in the French courts
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