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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1898)
fflnhiiHne Mtmoirat ROBERT GOOD Editor and Prop VALENTINE NEBRASKA No particular ammunition Is furmsn ed the Spaniards by the forts being ground into powder A curious thing about that tax on Bleeping cars is that no mention is made of the porter Admiral Deweys ancestors have lived In Vermont over 100 years which is enough to make any man fight As tending to an increase of foreign trade in time we may trade some of these conauered islands for Ireland Cuba must be a queer country so far as climate is concerned the fall of San tiago occurs right in the middle of sum mer When sweethearts separate he going to the war there are some so prosaic as to call the final parting a kind of sou venir spoon After all style counts for a good Heal A young woman who always has prided herself on being a good Dresser has landed a Yanderbilt In Danbury Conn the other day a boy aged 71 eloped with a giddy miss of OS This shows what the unreasonable opposition of parents will do Likely enough therell be a time a decade of so from date when a 10-year-old Dewey begins fighting with a co temporary Hobson across the street Plunger Hooley of London who has failed for millions resembled Barney Barnato in many respects One of them now has nothing left and the other has left everything After the Dewey juvenile anecdotes schoolmasters are taking a good deal of comfort in the fact that Lieut Hobson is said to have been a very good boy and at the head of his class To get back to Lieutenant Hobsons bravery again it seems to us thai the fact thit 40QO other men in the navy were anxious to go along with him proves that the navy is made up almost entirety of Hobsons The Turkish government has declared its intention to remain neutral during the present war We may as well be much obliged Yet if there is any power on earth with which the people of the United States would be willing to see Spain form an active alliance lv would doubtless be that ssme Turkey What answer in the name of our jaunted civilization and equality of cit izenshin cantSie citv of Boston give to ISSSfe rpthe appeal of the women taanhers in its public scnocus tnat uiey suuii recede wTequaipay with thVmen teachers for qual service What answer any- vhere Bring the womens pay up to the mens and demand the best service All the mob murders in this country are committed by men who are prompt ed by some form of fanaticism But we see how little safe it is to trust any mob under any circumstances because all mobs are insane The mere fact that a mob has formed is a demonstration that the sane spirit of order and re sponsibility has been replaced by emvr tional irresponsibility under which the mobs most virtuous sentiments against wrong will only increase its X apacity for dangerous wrongdoing Commodore Schleys engagement with the forts covering the entrance to Santiago harbor began under perfectly clear skies and was followed by a downpour of rain The first heavy fir ing in the Cuban war on the Atlantic repeated the experience of the civil war whose veterans practically agree in saying tnat battles were followed by rain the bigger the battle the heavier the rain as at Gettysburg Commodore Schleys bombardment gave renewed hope to the rainmakers The Stars and Stripes are doing hon orable service in the public school of Chicago Little celluloid flags are of fered to the pupils at five cents each The proceeds are already sufficient to maintain three vacation schools which for six weeks of the summer bring un mixed happiness and no little profit to the children of the very poor Long may our flag wave over not merely the land of the free and the home of the Tsrave out over a people whose rich come into kindly contact with the poor and where the learned and fortunate share their acquirements with the ig norant and the forlorn It escaped general notice that when the Emperor Williams brother was re ceived by the emperor of China at the palace in Pekin the etiquette of 2000 years was for the first time disregard ed and the German barbarian was greeted as an equal It was reported that the Chinese emperor trembled when he shook Prince Henrys hand The final and conclusive act of oriental humiliation came when the emperor re turned the young princes visit No other European indeed no other human being so far as known ever broke through the barrier that has surround ed the imperial throne of China The incident was full of meaning The man who is clever with tools who could repair any of the ordinary machinery about the farm seems to be the exception nowadays This is part ly because of the old plan of making things at home has given way to the modern idea of buying manufactured jutieles This has deprived Ihe young of the wonderful experience that for merly taught them how to use their hands Most of our young people now adays have no conception of the power of hand eye and mind much less the ability to put such power into action This must be the object of manual training In our common schools and of technical training in the agricultural colleges Teach our youth how to use their hands One has only to go deeply into this phase of the new education to realize the wonderful possibilities before the young man or woman who is so trained as to be able to make the hand obey the eye in carrying out the original dictates of the mind The world needs such more than it needs ab sorbers of mere book learning The recently published letters of Mrs Browning show the falsity of the state ment that she was never known to make an insignificant remark We have always discredited that account of her for it was inconceivable that she should have been such a tedious companion as that report of her im plied The statement was probably first made by some solemn bore who thought it was high praise to affirm that a person was always weighty and wise That opinion is too commonly entertained But the slightest reflec tion shows us that the capacity to di vert as well as to instruct is essential in the make up of a well furnished man or woman Indeed a command of the small currency of conversation is quite as essential as a supply of small coin You do not want to ask a bootblack or a newsboy to change a gold eagle and to proffer an acquaintance a ponderous remark when all that is needed is a word of good will or a joke is equally ridiculous Such words are not idle in the sense the scripture condemns They are nothing more than the wire which conducts good will or cheer from one heart to another For our part we can hardly imagine any one as saying anything particularly impressive if he had no facility in lighter speech There would be no contrast in his conversa tion The effect would be like that of -a speaker who emphasizes every word with the result of making nothing em phatic One reason why -the home life of many persons is so insufferably dull is that they have never cultivated the faculty of small talk They either have to discourse like philosophers or they are as dumb as oysters The indications are that when the present war with Spain is over we shall control Porto Rico the Philippines and Sandwich Islands to say nothing of Cuba We must maintain a larger standing army and a large efficient navy We must build a canal across the Isthmus of Panama All this means that thousands and hundreds of thousands of able bodied men will be withdrawn from ordinary pursuits that new fields will be opened for the enter prising that the unemployed may have employment if they will that a period of prosperity for the farmer and for the artisan anL 2on sequent y for the whole country is hear How long the boom will last or what will be the ultimate result are other questions but it be hooves the wise to have their wits about them and be up and doing That some sort of a reaction will come in time there can be no doubt says a writ er in a Louisville paper The farm ers of Kentucky and of the South now have their greatest opportunity They were left prostrate in 1SG5 and were unable to gather together the wreck of war and take advantage in its fullness of the flush times in the latter half of the GOs When they did begin to stand alone immigration sometimes half a million a year from the crowded popu lation of Europe flowed into the un broken prairies of the West The vir gin soil was broken American inge nuity invented improved machinery of every kind and a flood of wheat and corn and cattle and horses poured out from the West undreamed of unexam pled in the history of the world In dia Argentina and Russia added to the store of golden grain The cheap horsas from the West killed the mule industry in Kentucky the cheap wheat and corn and the faM ange cattle from the bunch grass drove the price of Southern cattle and farm products down to such a fig ure that no longer were they profitable Cotton went down in price and tobac co except the better class of burley dropped But at lrst the West was full at least so far as free lauds and farms open for the taking The South had turned in a measure to other things Finding farming profits cut dawn she dug into the bowels of the earth tor coal and ore furnaces and factories sprung up and the hum of industry was heard And even before the dec laration of war the South was begin ning to have her inning She was as it were beginning to catch even with the shooting jumping popping growing West with the North boom sick Ar gentina despot cursed Russia and plague ridden but rich and productive India Wheat was going up corn was going up hogs cattle and horses were bringing good and increasing prices All this and better things are now at hand Having learned the bitter lesson of ad versity the South should be prepared America should be prepared to grasp her opportunities We have no famines iu America we have no pestilence as known to other countries Those who do not move forward may blame them selves We have the most productive country on this globe and avoiding wild schemes and foolish speculation we should produce and lay up a store against the rainy day remembering that he is farthest from market who has nothing to sell Detective SystPin in Pn is The secret police force of Paris are distinct from the regular force The members as a rule are unknown to each other and often a second ditc tive is sent to watch the first employed upon an important case Lv II MM l HAWAII IS VOTED IN SENATE ADOPTS HOUSE RESO LUTIONS FOR ANNEXATION Vote s Reached ooner than Expected-Galleries Greet Result with Anplause Amsndraeiits Defeated by the Annexationists Six Democrats Aid the Republicans Final Vote Stands 42 to 21 The annexation of Hawaii was accom plished Wednesday so far as the legisla tive branch of the Government was con cerned Quite unexpectedly the resolu tions providing for the annexation of the islands were brought to a vote in the Sen ate late in the afternoon and they were passed by the decisive vote of 42 to 21 Early in Wednesdays session of the Senate conferences of the leaders on both sides of the chamber were held and a tacit agreement was reached that a vote should be taken Thursday The opponents of an nexation had concluded their arguments and as they had no desire to keep the Senate in session by purely dilatory tac tics they announced their willingness that a vote should be taken as soon as Mr White Mr Pettigrew and Mr Allen had finished their speeches Neither Mr White nor Mr Pettigrew spoke at great length but Mr Allen did not conclude until -115 It was evident instantly that a vote was at hand The word was passed swiftly through the corridors and committee rooms and m a few minutes every COXGKESSMAX NEWLANDS Father of the Hawaiian Annexation Kesolutions tor at the capitol was in his seat The galleries filled rapidly and members of the House of Representatives learning that a vote was to be taken came hur riedly to the Senate side of the great mar ble pile to witness proceedings that will be historic The test vote came on an amendment offered by Mr White of California It was offered with no expectation that it would be adopted but merely to place the ideas aiid opinions of the opponents of an nexation on record It was rejected by a vote of 40 to 20 indicating that the an nexationists were strongly in the major ity Amendment after amendment was offered but the advocates of the resolu tions stood soiidiy together gaining rath er than losing strength on the successive votes Finally at 530 p mj the resolutions themselves in precisely the form in which they were received from the House of Representatives were reported to the Senate and the roll call began Intense interest was manifested by every specta tor Not a sound was to be heard in the chamber except the call of the clerk and the responses of Senators When the Vice President announced the vote by which the resolutions were passed a tre mendous wave of applause swept through the galleries which the Vice President made no effort to check- Those who had advocated the resolutions expressed their pleasure by shaking hands with one an other and on all sides evident relief was shown that the end had come For a few minutes so much good natured confusion existed that the dignity of the Senate was threatened but Vice President Hobart quietly reminded Senators that the ses sion was not yet at an end Mr Morrill of Vermont was the only Republican who voted against the resolu tions although Mr Thurston of Nebraska and Mr Spooner of Wisconsin were pair ed against them Six Democrats Mr Gorman of Maryland McLaurin of South Carolina Money of Mississippi Morgan of Aial ama Pettus of Alabama and Sul livan of Mississippi voted in favor of an nexation Told in a Few Linen Napoleon Valcnm of Hudson Mass eloped with his stenmother Tames Pittenger aged 40 who recently had charge of the county farm near La mar Mo committed suicide The Government survey of the Indian Territory hax boon completed and the last stake driven in the Cherokee Nation Charles Guilkey was drowned in Elk river near Independence Kan He was swimming when he was taken with the cramps There is great excitement at Orlando Oka over the disappearance of the pret ty 2-year-old daughter of George Kimer formerly of Iowa John Auld of Atchison Kan fell from a window at the residence of his brother-in-law C D Walker while walking in his sleep J P Bailinger fell from a ladder while painting the oil tanks in the Springfield Mo Wagon Companys yards and was instantly killed E S Fry one of the largest land own ers at riattsburg Mo made an assign ment for the benefit of creditors His lia bilities are estimated at 05000 Edward Silk who killed John Heller Smith a 17-year-old boy at Moberly Mo in June 1S90 has been taken to the peni tentiary to serve a 20 year sentence The phosphate camp at Ponpon S C is wildly excited over the finding of 30 000 in gold by two negro diggers who dug up a nrge chest and divided the contents Gov Barnes of Oklahoma has pardon ed Torn the penitentiary Cole -Martin a ycang Guthrie attorney serving a two year sentence for embezzling money from client The board of managers of the Omaha exposition have notified the members of the Kansas commission that Sept 1 has been designated as Kansas day at the ex position The Attorney General of Kansas takes the position that whatever live stock quar antine regulation the State sanitary boards make can be enforced and it was proper to keep out Texas cattle TO HOIST THE FLAG Admiral Miller Goe3 to Hawaii in the Philadelphia The Hawaiian Islands were made a part of the United States when President McKinley signed the annexation resolu tions Admiral Miller started at once for Honolulu on the cruiser Philadelphia to hoist the American flag and take forma possession of the islands It is said that the transition from the Hawaiian republic to a part of the United States can be without the slightest delay or friction A complete internal organiza tion an cany exists civil and military and it is pointed out that this does away with the delay of organizing a government such as cec rrred vhen California -as ad mitted For the present the existing civil organization will continue with President Dole as chief executive and this will run along until the five commissioners appoint ed by the President prepare a system of organization and put it into effect The Hawaiian Islands are made up of the islands of Hawaii Oahu Maui Kauai Lanai Kahulanc Molokai Nihau Kaula and a number of small islets The area of the islands is JG40 miles or about three times that of Delaware According to figures of two years ago something over 105000 souls are added to the population of the United States and its territories by the annexation of the isiands Of the white and native population about one third speak English The Japanese num ber 25000 and the Chinese 15000 There are 15000 Portuguese in the islands and 0000 Americans while the British and German residents number 2000 each Late figures on the native population give it as 30000 but the natives are rapidly decreasing in number Eight of the isl ands are fertile and susceptible to culti vation The four largest Hawaii Maui Oahu and Kauai are particularly rich abounding in land fitted for sugar cof fee rice and fruit raising On Kauai there are coffee plantations of 200000 acres and next to sugar which has al ways been the chief product of the isl ands the cultivation of coffee is looked upon as having rich possibilities Rice is also destined to hold important position among the products Practically all of the trade is with the United States The exports are S000000 annually and the imports half that The history of the islands begins with their discovery in 177S by Captain Cook who named them after his patron the Earl of Sandwich Juan Gaetano a Span ish navigator is credited with having seen the island of Hawaii as early as 1555 Annexation of the islands to the United States was agitated in Hawaii as early as 1853 and the question has come up at various times ever since The recent rev olution and the overthrow of the mon archy are matters of to days historv TO INVESTIGATE SEA TRAGEDY Murderous Course of Crew of La Bourjrojrne to Be Brought Out A searching investigation will be made by the officers of the French line of the murderous course pursued by the crew at the sinking of the steamer La Bourgogne The harrowing tales first told by the sur viving passengers are being corroborated by scores of persons and in point of cow ardice brutality and crime this disaster has no counterpart in modern history Arme1 with weapons and maddened with terror the sailors waiters and oth ers of the crew took example from the panic stricken steerage passengers and fought like savages to save their lives by casting the helpless into the sea So swiftly did the great steamer sink that the officers had no time to gain control of the men and scores of lives were lost that might have been saved The drowned number 549 men women and children Stories of the disaster are unparalleled Women and children were left tq their fate Men became raving maniacs through fear and the number of cruel deliberate murders cannot be estimated Many life boats and rafts were loaded with human freight only to go down because no one had the presence of mind to release them The crew took the best boats and rafts and started from the ship Passengers eliinsT in the sirlnc nf tlm lirn oi iFn lines attached to them until knocked in the head by the sailors Italian steerage passengers maddened by their peri fought for places on the boats stabbing men women or children Only one of the crew of La Bourgogne the second officer endeavored to save the passen gers This man ran about the fated ves sel cutting ropes which held fast the rafts and life preservers and worked until the steamer foundered going down to his death the only brave man out of hun dreds Charles Liebra a Frenchman tells a story of the accident which is corroborat ed by a dozen others The Frenchman saw his tAvo motherless boys sink before his twos A boat Heated past him and he tried to climb in He was repeatedly struck with oars and boathooks and his arms and head are a mass of cuts and bruises Pie was rescued after being in the water for eight hours PEDAGOGUES AT WASHINGTON National Educational Association Opens Its Meeting The thirty seventh annual meeting of the National Educational Association op ened Thursday night at Convention Hall Washington D C President J M Greenwood of Kansas City was in the chair The list of speakers included the most distinguished educators in the coun try President Greenwood reviewed the work of the association for the past year He said the organization now numbers 10000 members and has a surplus capital of 60000 with an annual income of 30 000 or more John W Ross district com missioner welcomed the delegates to Washington Dr William T Harris United States Commissioner of Educa tion President B L Whitman of the Co lumbian University and Webster Davis assistant secretary of the Department of the Interior followed with brief ad dresses Delegations from all over the country were in the city Every train brought car loads of pedagogues and those who came did Washington from Capitol Hill to the White House On the picnic grounds at Cold Springs near Brookhaven Mis Ralph Butter field attempted to shoot John Perkins but missed and the pistol ball entered the foot of Miss Josie Tibbs inflicting a se rious wound At Jones Prairie Texas Whitfield Mc Kinney shot his wife and then clubbed her to death with the gun after which he cut his throat with a razor California grain and fruits have been severely damaged by wind Wheat was the heaviest sufferer WOfiK OF C0NGJ1ESS NATIONAL LEGISLATURE HAS BEEN BUSY WITH WAR Kot for Twenty five Tears Have F Important Matters Been Considered Appropriations that Aprtrrejrate Nearly Oa0OJ00O Were Mac - An Important Feasion The passing of the second session of the LVth Congress marks the close of the first war Congress in a quarter of a cen tury Associated with the first hostile conflict since 1812 with a nation of an other continent the annexation of Ha waii and contemporaneous with a further movement for territorial expansion the present Congress outranks almost any other that has ever assembled Hawaiian annexation Spain and Cuba war appropriations and war revenue legis lation organization of the vast volunteer army and expansion of the navy and a new bankruptcy law were features of the session Urgent deficiency bills carrying millions of dollars were rushed through with far less delay than marked the course of an ordinary measure of little importance The total appropriations footed almost 900000000 and about 350000000 of this was for war purposes It was the largest aggregate by any ses sion since the civil war and the general deficiency was the largest separate meas ure since the 750000000 single appro priation in 1SG3 The naval appropriation bill provided for three new battleship four monitors sixteen torpedo boat tk stroyers twelve torpedo boats and one gunboat The urgent deficiency bills all carried provisions for aggressive work in the prosecution of the war The general deficiency measure enacted in the last days carried a provision for refunding the indebtedness of the Pacific railroads to the Government Cuba and Hawaii were the important matters of debate and provoked the most widespread interest There were a num ber of messages from President McKin ley bearing on the Cuban situation rang ing from the submission of a report upon the Maine disaster and the consular re ports to the call for a declaration of war The first real war legislation was when Congress placed without limitations 50000000 in the Presidents hands as an emergency fund for national defense On April 11 the President in a message left the Cuban issue in the hands of Con gress Resolutions were soon enacted and became law April 19 declaring that the people of Cuba ought to be and are free and independent and demanding that Spain relinquish its authority and with draw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters and directing the use of our land and naval forces to enforce the resolutions The declaration of war was passed by Congress and approved on April 25 Three days before the declaration of war Pres ident McKinley approved the volunteer act Under it all the soldiers in the vol unteer army have been raised embracing 125000 men under the first and 75000 under the second call One feature of the session was the en actment of the war revenue law Its framers expected it to produce 150000 000 Minor war legislation included the following Organizing a volunteer army signal corps organizing a volunteer brig ade of engineers creating two additional artillery regiments adding 31010 men creating a United States auxiliary naval force not exceeding 2000 enlisted men and appropriating 3000000 therefor keeping life saving stations on the Atlan tic and gulf coasts open during June and luly for patrol purposes authorizing as sistance to Cubans and providing them with arms and supplies allowing homestead settlers who volunteer to count their service in homestead requirements resolutions of thanks to Dewey and his men and the presentation of a sword to him and medals to his officers Other important legislation aside from war included prohibiting the killing of fur seals in the north Pacific and importa tion of sealskins into this country pro liibiting foreign vessels from carrying merchandise directly or indirectly between United States ports an Alaskan home stead and right of way act encouragiag railway construction appropriating 200 000 for the relief of the Yukon miners creating a non partisan industrial commis sion to investigate immigration labor manufacture and business Late in the session a general bankruptcy law was en acted providing for voluntary and invol untary bankruptcy CATTLE ARE SCARCE Stock Owners Holding Their Animals for a Kise in Prices From all parts of the West come reports that cattle are scarce This fact is lead ing a number of cattlemen to go long distances to make purchases as it is gen erally conceded that there is money in feeding From Mexico there comes a de ficiency of nearly 50 per cent in the num ber shipped through Colorado to Nebras ka n and Kansas feeders and the total receipts of New Mexico also fall far short of the customary This falling off of cat tle passing through Colorado is in accord with the gross figures for the United States which are as follows In April 197 734S9 cattle passed across the Mex ican border into the United States and the same month this year showed 35158 For the first four months of last year there were 100649 received and for the corresponding months this year there were 72639 a less number than came in during April 1S97 The reason assigned for this years shortageis that last year drained the Mexican frontier From Las Vegas N M P J Towner inspector for Colorado Kansas and South Dakota makes the following significant report which speaks for itself During the month of May he inspected 73533 cat tle 8935 sheep and 469 horses making a total of S29CM head against 105191 for the same period last year These figures may be taken to mean that stock owners are holding to their animals in anticipa tion of a rise in prices which it is pre icted is certain in view of the war Frank Moore a Santa Fe Railway en gineer was shot and perhaps fatally wounded at Winslow Ariz by Jesse Treat another engineer on the same line Treat also received a bullet in his body from a weapon in the hands of Moore It was rumored that Moores divorced wife had been frequently in the company of Treat and Moore brooded over it The Hotel Latham of Hopkinsville Ky which cost over 100000 when erect ed was sold by a decree of the Circuit Court and purchased by John C Latham of New York for 16000 KafagffBFpg - In the Senate on Saturday bills were 1 passed as follows Amendatory to the law regarding fraudulent affidavits in pension and bounty land cases to pay the owners of the ship Achilles for expenses incurred in rendering service to the wrecked American ship Arabia Mr Pettigrew S D then resumed his speech upon the Hawaiian annexation resolutions The Senate passed with amendment the House bill to increase the force of the ordnance department Mr Cockrell Mo from Committee on Military Affairs reported and the Senate passed the House bill fixing pay of volunteer soldiers from the date of enrollment for service The bill was amended so as to include all officers The Senate passed the House bill direct ing the enlistment of cooks in the regu lar and volunteer armies Also a- bill to change the ing courts in the of North Carolina bill to amend the h times for hold eastern district Also the House statutes to the bonds of vice consuls and the quar terly returns of business by consular offi cers and the Senate bill amending the laws relating to American seamen for their protection and to promote commerce The chief features of the latter are the elimination of all imprisonment provisions in the coastwise trade including Mexican and West Indian the reduction of penal ties in the foreign trade the improve ment of the provision scales and the re duction of allotments to one month In the Senate on Monday Ailen of Ne braska began his speech in opposition td Hawaiian annexation At noon Turpie read the declaration of independence Dur ing the session a large number of pension bills were passed The debate upon the Hawaiian resolu tions continued in the Senate on Tuesday Three speeches were made Mr Hoar oT Massachusetts in advocating annexation made a notable appeal against any policy of general territorial expansion as a se quence to the war Mr Lindsay of Ken tucky opposed the resolutions directing his attack principally against their consti tutionality Mr White of California re sumed his speech in opposition The annexation of Hawaii is now ac complished so far as the legislative branch of the Government is concerned Quite unexpectedly the resolutions providing for the annexation of the islands were brought to a vote in the Senate late Wednesday afternoon and they were passed by the decisive vote of 42 to 21 Many amend ments were offered by opponents of the resolutions but all were defeated The House after a debate of four hours con curred in the Senate amendment to the general deficiency bill authorizing the Secretary of the Interior the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury to settle with the approval of the Presi dent the indebtedness of the Central and Western Pacific roads to the Government The amendment was concurred in by a vote of 96 to SO An amendment was offered and adopted to the Pacific Rail road amendment providing that unless settlement was reached within one year the President should begin foreclosure proceedings to collect all money due the Government Both houses of Congress on Thursday passed a resolution fixing the time of sine die adjournment at 2 oclock Friday after noon The routine proceedings in each branch follow Senate A bill conferring upon Adjutant General Corbin the rank pay and allowance of a major general was passed Mr Pettus sharply criticised the measure and charged that Gen Corbin had been rapidly promc d by reason of political favoritiMn This charge brought several Senators to their feet among whom were Messrs Bate Pasco and Ba con all of whom testified to Gen Corbins distinguished ability and special fitness for the position he occupies Mr Sowall Mr Hale and Mr Foraker paid high trib utes to Gen Corbin warmly eulogizing him for the splendid record he has made both on the field of battle and in the po sition he now holds There was no di vision on the vote by which th bill was passed During the greater part of the session the Senate considered bills unob jected to on the general calendar passing a large number of them A bill to restore Major J W Wham formerly pay master in the United States army to his full rank and ry in th army was nnumoisIy passed House The day was given to consideration of local measures by unani mous consent Few of importance were passed After the resolutions providing for final adjournment were agreed tor there vas a clamor characteristic of the closing days of a session members in larre numbers being almost constantly upo their feet appealing for recognition and consideration of their local measures- This and That Lord Charles Bereferd has been a sailor since he was 13 years old Five thousand horses have been shipped from Seattle to Alaska this year All the towns of Sweden are connect ed by telephone owned by the govern ment Paris and Marseilles are connected by telegraph lines entirely under ground The most recent estimate of the wealth of Great Britain and Ireland is 11500000000 A Turkish turban of the largest size contains twenty yards of the finest and softest muslin There are over 300000 series of arc lamps in service in the United States nt tm i resent time Rr Rev 1 Mortimer Levering senior bishop of the Moravian church in America has been released from the active administration of the church in order that he may complete the history or the Moravian church and of Bethle hem A sailor wandering about a large city lately curled himself up to sleep for the night upon the eight inch beam of a bridge fifty feet above the ground where be slept safely until a policeman called him down and gave him a lodg ing in the station-house- T A y A V1 M m n i I i ii 4 i f rfl n A n a r n A M n i I