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DEFENDER.
Afro-Americans
li'F Ltphia and vicinity spend
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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ELEVATION OF THE COLORED RACE, THE DEFENSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND TO THE EDUCATIONAL, INDUSTRIAL, MORAL, RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL AND GENERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE M4S ES.
VOL. IL-NO. 27.
«U OF SPION KOI’.
s to the British Forces Said
ij 0 Have Been Appalling.
~rT££’i HUNDRED WERE KILLED
«■« Report From Boer
„ pIH , Sear l.a.ly’.nUth-The
|rill .h IlHreat. Say- Gen. Buller.
VcompH"’***’ 1 Without L««».
w®"
. j an . 29 General Buller’s
S natch to the war office states
ftnior Kop was noandoned on ac
ia ink of water, inability to
eOn artillevv there : and the heavy
"General Duller gives no
His whole force
5 hd rew south of the Tugela river
*! hP evident intention of reaching
Svsmith bv another route. The dis
rated’ Jan. 27. is in substance
Jan 2° Warren drove back the
and obtained possession of the
Jthern crests of the high tableland
2 ding from the line of Acton
£seand Kongers Poort to the west-
Ladvsmith hills. From then to
w 25 he remained in close contact
fitb the enemy.
-The enemy held a strong position
range of small kopjes stretching
L northwest to southeast across
L plateau from Acton Homes,
through Spion Kop to the left bank of
to Tugela.
“The actual position held was per
oedly tenable, but did not lend itself
advance, as the southern slopes
rtre so steep that Warren could not
St au effective artillery position, and
nter supply was a difficulty.
"On Jan. 23 I assented to his attack
to Spion Kop. a large hill, indeed a
mountain, which was evidently the key
jf the position, but was far more ac
cessible fr f, in the north than from the
with.
-On the night of Jan. 23 he attack
ed Spion Kop. but found it very dif
failt to hold, as its nerimeter was too
Imrge and water, which he had been
»d to believe existed, in this extra
ordinary dry season, was found very
teficient.
The crests were held all that day
gainst s'.ore attacks and a heavy
toll fire Our men fought with great
pllantry. 1 would especially mention
to condtic' of the Second Cameron
tins and the Third King’s Rifles, who
npported the attack on the mountain
tram the steepest side, and in each
oh fought their way to the top, and
to Second Lancashire Fusileers and
Second Middlesex, wuO magnificently
maintained the best traditions of the
British army throughout the trying
lay of Jan 24, and Thornycrofts’s
mounted infantry, who fought through
out the day equally well.
“General Woodgate, who was in com
mand at the summit, having been
rounded, the officer who succeeded
Mtn decitied on the night of Jan. 24
toahandon the position, and did so be
fore dawn, Jan. 25.
“I reached Warren's camp at 5 a. m.
to Jan. 25. and decided that a second
attack upon Spion Kop was useless
and that the enemy’s right was too
strong to allow me to force it.
“Accordingly I decided to withdraw
ilie force to the south of the Tugela.
At 6 a. m. we commenced withdrawing
'At train, and by 8 a. m. on Jan. 27
Mirren's force was concentrated south
tithe Tugela without the loss of a man
» pound of stoves.
“The fact ihat the force could with
draw from actual touch —in some cases
’he lines were less than a thousand
nrds apart with the enemy in the
manner it did, is, I think, sufficient evi
nce of the morale of the troops, and
’hit we w.*re permitted to withdraw
'to cumbrous ox and mule transports
across the river. 85 yards broad, with
■' foot banks and a very swift current,
/raolostod ,s. I think, proof that the
cßrniv has !>np n taught to respect our
piers' fighting powers.”
The war office does not give any
'? e <:lsua ltios in taking and
Spion Kop, but a report from
_ ( ™er headquarters near Ladysmith
n J s /at 1 -'OO British dead were left,
he battlefield. This number is
® J sht to include the wounded.
the Boer reports are to be ac
the abandonment of Spion
j? : * as d’ le t 0 the inability of the
. kn to resist the Boer attacks, the
carr .ving the first trenches and
’bg 150 prisoners.”
to n le Very mom ent when Dr. Leyds,
honn-7 agf>nt ' is being received as an
rf! <i guest in the highest circles
continent Great Britain has to
thus f P WOrst disaster in a campaign
r ,iisastrous - Open talk is
,°‘ Die absolute necessity of
>aiUe Dudysmith to its fate.
Win i r d Roberts reverts to the
Ora- a ?f an of an advance over the
EvJ r, ?’ er u ' ,)on Bloemfontein.
. should it be decided to send
reinforcements and to
HovJir tQ rPat ’b Ladysmith by a
'Hit Dirough the still more diffi
tJta.iv ln > ry eaat of Colenso, it is ex-
Xm ,p. ', 0 ’ lbtf ul whether the garri
‘teb 1 111)1,1 out l° n K enough, as
a ra<JVp ment would occupy at
1 a month.
.*ost; th<v^k?’ lthout thought is labor
Hotis without learning is per-
Im
n^ut r a ?' 3 tlle la<? h of grip will al*
. a IZe honesty in a man.
?2 an shows his goodness in
SeBs has e , ( hances are that good-
D ut 118 home in him.
are ours; results and
• to God.
A WEEK’S NEWS CONDENSED
Tnexdny, Jan. 23.
There are now 70,000 Austrian min
ers on strike.
The Paris commission cost.
Uncle Sam $155,102; Philippines com
mission, $136,420.
Gen. T. H. Stanton, ex-paymaster
general of the army, known as the
“fighting paymaster,” died in Omaha.
The Chinese government has ac
quiesced in French demands for ter
ritory at Kwang Chan Wan bay after
two more Chinese defeats.
Count Castellane, just arrived in
New York, is indignant over reports
in Paris papers that he has lost heavily
by gambling. He threatens to “strike
the editor of Figaro with his cane”
when he returns to Paris, and to sue
for damages.
Wednesday, Jan. 24.
Jeremiah Roach was given 20 years
for killing his wife at Jersey City.
Four convicts in the penitentiary at
Canon City, Colo., killed Night Watch
Roney and escaped.
Captain Sam Gale and a party of
hunters were fined $2O each for vio
lation of game laws at Atlantic City.
The steamer Pennsylvania, which
leaves San Francisco for Manila Jan.
25, will carry ♦1,350,000 to pay the sol
diers.
Henry A. Hazen, a chief forecaster
in the weather bureau at Washington,
died from injuries received by a fall
from his bicycle.
Thursday, Jan. 25.
It is now decided that the German
wine product dealers will exhibit at
the Paris exposition.
Samuel P. Meyers was hanged at
Somerset, Pa., yesterday, for killing
Michael Karney and John Lenhart.
Judge Orrin N. Carter, of Chicago,
announces his candidacy for the Re
publican nomination for governor of
Illinois.
Citizens of Washington presented to
'Commander Richard Wainwright, of
the cruiser Gloucester, a sword of hon
or and a silver service.
By an explosion of powder at Sum
mersville, Pa., Patrick Cosgriff and
Elmer Howard, quarry men. were ter
ribly mangled. Howaru died and
Cosgriff’s death is expected.
Republican senators selected the fol
lowing officers: Secretary. Hon.
Charles Bennett, of New York; ser
geant-at-arms, Hon. D. M. Ransdell. In
diana: chaplain. Rev. W. H. Milburn.
Krlday, Jan. 241.
A bill introduced in the national
house proposes to abolish the war
stamp act.
Lo Feng Loh, the Chinese ambassa
dor to England, has been converted to
Christianity.
Dowager Duchess of Schleswig-Hol
stein, mother of the German empress,
died in Dresden from pleurisy.
A Lowell tobacco firm sues the gov
ernment to recover duty paid on to
bacco imported from Porto Rico.
Germany’s naval bill was adopted
by the bundesrath yesterday. It car
ries an annual expenditure of 11,000,-
000 marks for 16 years.
Commissioner Peck refuses to per
mit the exhibition of a $130,000 golden
statue of .Anna Held, the actress, in the
American section of the Paris exposi
tion.
S:t«nrday. Jan. 27.
Trenton children carry boiled water
to school for drinking. Passaic water
being declared dangerous to health.
Most of the French papers hail with
keen satisfaction the announcement
that the British have abandoned Spion
Kop.
It is stated in Kansas City that Web
ster Davis, assistant secretary of the
interior, is McKinley’s choice for vice
president.
The transport Pennsylvania left San
Francisco with $1,500,000 in gold coin
and a considerable sum in treasury
notes to pay soldiers in the Philippines.
An unarmed mob of several hundred
men took Convict Reynolds, who mur
dered C. Rooney, in the
penitentiary, from the prison at Canon
City. Colo., and lynched him.
*.lond:'.,v. Jan. 2.).
In a shooting match at Hamilton, 0.,
John Kulp was accidentally killed by
John Willoughby.
Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, of New York,
favors open saloons between certain
hours on Sunday.
In the first nine months of last year
78,300 persons in the German empire
engaged in strikes.
Chambers of commerce all over
France are protesting against the
American reciprocity treaty.
Fred Lind. Victor Fredericksen and
Walter Grazesky, miners, were killed
by falling timber at Henley, Wis.
The late John Ruskin had given
away fortunes, and he lived on $5 a
day the last few years of nis life.
A gigantic metal paper trust, em
bodying the entire industry in that
country, has been formed in Belgium.
HeicardlnK" Mr. Robert* ••Salar>.
Washington, Jan. 27—The question
of salarv ana mileage allowance for
Mr. Roberts is to be considered by the
house committee on accounts. T “®£ e
is about $l,OOO on mileage and a like
amount for salary conditionally due
Mr Roberts, but there is some doubt
as to whether the sums should be al
lowed. The attorney general has re
fused to pass on the subject and the
comptroller of the treasury has also
referred the matter back to the com
mittee on accounts. The latter body
will nnw reek to get at the law in the
case am’ ‘
The desire* of appearing clever often
prevents our becoming so-
The world is a vessel In whose hold
the fire is already burning-
Formerly of New York and Washington, now of Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA AND BRYN MAWK. JANUARY 27. 1900.
THADEWITIITHE ORIENT
Remarkable Gains in Our Exports
to China and Japan.
HAS DOUBLED IN THREE YEARS.
UaiuM in Our Asiatic Exports Have
Nearly All Been Made in the I.ast
Five Years—The Imports Not So
Heavy.
Washington, Jan. 29. —A report of
our Asiatic trade, prepared by Mr.
Frank H. Hitchcock, chief of the for
eign markets section of the agricul
tural department, shows that there has
been a great development of our trade
with China and Japan during the past
decade. Record figures were easily
reached in the fiscal year 1899, when
the value of the merchandise exchang
ed with these two countries, including
the port of Hong Kong, reached $87,-
305,688, against only $46,296,167 in
1889. The four years following 1889
witnessed a steady increase that finally
culminated in 1893 with a record of
$60,281,386, the highest up to that
time. In the fiscal year 1894, during
which our importations were greatly
curtailed as a result of the prevailing
financial depression, the trade dropped
to $51,513,149 and thereafter rosestpad
ily by leaps and bounds.
Of the $87,305,688 valuation placed
upon our trade with Japan, China and
Hong Kong during 1899 $47,815,035
represented the imports into the Uni
ted States and $39,490,653 the exports
from this country. The excess of im
ports over exports amounted to $B,-
324,382. In 1899 the imports were val
ued at $35,196,670 and the exports at
a difference of $24,099,173.
These figures show in the decade end
ed with 1899 a gain of $28,393,158, 0r256
per cent in exports, while the increase
in imports amounted to only $12,618,-
365, or 36 per cent. During the last
few years, in fact, the imports dis
closed an actual falling off, the value
14>r 1899 being $1,164,131 less than that
for 1896, which was recorded at $49,-
979,166. Our exports, on the other
hand, more than doubled during the
three years succeeding 1896.
Our exports to the countries men
tioned consisted chiefly of cotton, cot
ton goods, kerosene oil, wheat flour
and manufactures of iron and steel,
the value of these five classes of ar
ticles exported aggregating in 1898
nearly 80 per cent of the total exports
to China, Japan and Hong Kong.
Japan took nearly all the raw cotton,
while cotton manufactures went quite
as largely to China. All three took
kerosene oil in large quantities. The
exports of wheat flour almost trebled
during the decade, exports to Japan
actually rising from 19,677 barrels in
1889 to 161,654 barrels in 1898, while
Hong Kong in the latter year took
939,053 barrels, against 378,634 in 1889.
China’s direct flour importations were
small.
The gain in exports of iron and steel
were very rapid in 1896, 1897 and 1898,
most of the exports going to Japan,
which took $3,195,152 worth in 1898,
out of a total for the year of $3,713,967.
For 1889 the iron and steel exports to
the three places named were only
$519,212. Generally speaking it may
be stated that the figures show that the
gain in our Asiatic exports has been
nearly all made in the last five years.
LOOKS MORE CONCILIATORY.
Mine AV orkerx and Employers Seem
Head? to Make Concessions.
Indianapolis, Jan. 29. —The dele
gates to the conference between the
miners and operators who remained in
town over Sunday spent the day in
lounging about the hotels and talking
the situation over. Surface indications
are that both sides stand ready to
make concessions, and the probability
is the first meeting of the joint scale
committee will result in each side
giving out some hint of what these
concessions are.
The final outcome of the matter, as
predicted by those who have attended
other conferences, is that the operators
will pay a few cents more per ton than
their first offer of nine cents advance,
the miners will come to the screen
agreement remaining as at present,
and the Illinois miners will come into
the double standard agreement now in
force in the three other states of the
competitive fields.
Tlie Rn*h For Cape Nome.
Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 29.—Estimates
made by local shipping men show that
about 15,000 men are intending to
reach Cape Nome by the first steamers
from Puget Sound and Dawson. Two
thirds of this number will go down the
Yukon river from Dawson and other
Yukon towns. A great prospective
race is in sight between these two con
tingents. First arrivals will secure
the best part of the beach, which will
be in the greatest demand, because
beach claims may be worked without
flumes or machinery.
Victory for Streetcar Strikers.
Troy, N. Y.» Jan. 29.—Anthony
Brady, of Albany, came to Troy last
night with the power to settle the
strike on the United Traction com
pany’s line if possible. A committee
from the strikers was empowered to
settle on the basis of $2 a day for the
regular men and 18% cents an hour for
the trippers. The only concession made
by the men was on the scale to be re
ceived by the trippers. The cars were
started at 5 o’clock this morning by
the old men. It is a signal victory fr
the strikers.
If your doctor gives you up it is time
to give up your doctor.
KEYSTONE HAPPENINGS.
News Items of Interest From All
Parts of the State.
COLLISION CAUSES EXPLOSION.
Six Killed £iitl Eight Injured in a
Singular Catastrophe at Ashley—A
Pretty Girl Victim of Opium in Phil
adelphia!—Police Raid the Dens.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Jan. 26.—A fearful
explosion of dynamite occurred in the
yards of the Jersey Central railroad at
Ashley, a suburb of this city, at 9
o’clock last night, which resulted in
the killing of six men and serious in
juries to eight others. The dead are:
Frank McLaughlin, brakeman, aged 28,
single; Peter Frey, engine wiper, aged
16; Michael Bird, brakeman, aged 23,
single; Charles Haney, aged 15, and
two unknown tramps. Haney went to
the engine house to idle away time in
stead of attending night school.
Owing to slippery tracks the en
gineer lost control of a heavy freight
train coming down the mountain, and
at the Ashley yards the train dashed
into a helping engine, which was sent
into a car containing 30 boxes of dyna
mite. Ten locomotives and 18 cars
were wrecked, the stacks of the round
house and a portion of the roof de
molished. and a big water tank de
stroyed. Nearly every window in town
was broken. The loss is heavy.
Philadelphia'* Fair Opium Victim.
Philadelphia, Jan. 25.—From the
opium laden atmosphere of an upper
room in a furnished room house at
1106 Vine street, pretty 19-year-old
May Bibighaus was taken yesterday
morning dying after a night spent in
smoking the poisonous drug. One hour
later she died at the Hahnemann hos
pital. The members of the girl’s fam
ily are well-to-do and highly respected
in the neighborhood of their residence,
1634 North Twelfth street. The giri
formerly taught a class of Chinamen in
a Sunday school, and from her ac
quaintance with these she formed the
opium habit. Hugh Kennedy, who
escorted the girl to the joint, Harry
Parker, who owned the layout, Frank
Reynolds, Frank Gregg and James
Gray are in jail pending action by the
grand jury.
Wyoming Valley Strikes Settled.
Wilkesbarre, Pa.. Jan. 25. The
strikes that have prevailed among the
coal miners of the Wyoming valley for
I the past ten days are now ended. The
miners employed at the Baltimore col
liery of the Delaware and Hudson com
pany who went to work a week ago, re
turned to work yesterday, an amicable
agreement having been reached with
the company officials. The breaker
boys at the Lance colliery of the Le
high and Wilkesbarre Coal company,
who went out Tuesday, also returned
to work yesterday. The talk of a gen
eral strike has died out for the present
at least.
Pennsylvania Deiuoerat*Name Brya j
Harrisburg, Jan. 26. —The state Dem
ocratic committee set the pace for the
Democracy of other states yesterday
by making Colonel William J. Bryan
its choice for the presidency in 1900.
This action was taken by the commit
tee while Colonel Bryan was on his
way to Harrisburg from New York to
attend the meeting and confer with the
party leaders. This is probably the
first time in the party’s history that
the Democrats of Pennsylvania have
indicated their choice for president in
advance of the state convention.
Mr. Rex Stands a Chance to Recover.
Huntingdon. Pa., Jan. 29. —After nine
days of uninterrupted unconsciousness
ex-Chief Clerk Jerre B. Rex, of the
Pennsylvania house of representatives,
who was paralyzed at his home here,
was able yesterday for the first time
to recognize his friends and compre
hend words addressed to him. The
paralysis affecting his right side and
tongue is still unyielding. If no fur
ther attack occurs, which, however, is
feared, his physician gives hope for
his partial recovery.
Raiding Ph Ila del ph ia’" Opium Deus.
Philadelphia. Jan. 29. —As a result
of a tragic death of a young woman
last week in an opium den located in
Chinatown, the police at 1 o’clock this
morning started to clean out many of
the resorts in the locality. Six places
had been visited up to 1:45 a. m. and
over 40 persons arrested, many ot them
being under the influence of opium. At
2 a. m. the raids were still in progress.
Those arrested included Chinamen,
white and black males and females.
Claims It Wna an Occident?
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Jan. 29.—A fatal
shooting aft:ay occurred in the home
of Kazimir Dudnew, at Duryea, yes
terday, The man was cleaning a gun
in the kitchep when, he claims, it wts
accidentally discharged. The load of
shot entered the side of his wife, who
was seated in the next room. She
died in great agony two hours later.
The hush""' 1 was arrested.
A woman’s chief joy in this life is her
own or somebody else’s baby.
To be poor, and seem to be poor, is
a certain way never to rise.
Wealth is not his that has it, but
his that enjoys it.
When passion is on the throne, reason
is out of doors.
Sin is the only thing you can prove
virtue by.
Even religion would not grudge to
omit a chapel here and there in order
of its poor.
PENNSYLVANIA NEWS BREVITIES.
Breaker boys who went on strike at
Plymouth returned to work at the old
scale.
The office of the Harrisburg Patriot
was visited by fire, and the upper por
tion completely wrecked. Loss cover
ed by insurance. • .
Superior Court Judge John I. Mitch
ell is suffering from a stroke of paraly
sis at his home in Williamsport.
At the Shenandoah City mine George
W. Acker was killed by a fall of rock.
Injuries sustained by being struck
by a locomotive caused the death of
Edward Flaherty, of Shenandoah.
A decision of the Berks county court
Is to the effect that Boyertown may es
tablish borough water works.
An explosion at the American Iron
and Steel works, Lebanon, terribly
burned Martin Fegley, and he will
probably lose his eyesight.
John F. Stier, the Johnsonville
(Northampton county) merchant, shot
Thursday night by a masked ourglar
who attempted to rob him, will prob
ably recover. ,
For the arrest and conviction of par
ties who tried to burn Sanner Broth
ers’ store at 'lremont, Schuylkill coun
ty, the borough council of that town
□ifers $5OO reward.
Senator Maxon's Snrcaam.
Washington, Jan. 29. —Senator Ma
son, of Illinois, says concerning the
published report that he had been re
quested to withdraw from the Old Tip
pecanoe club, of Chicago: “I notice
by the paper that I was expelled from
the Tippecanoe Republican club. I
never applied for membership. I
heard through the press that charges
against me had been preferred by
Colonel McWhorter that I did not
agree with the president on Philip
pine and Boer questions. Had I known
that I was a member of the club and
that McWhorter was chairman of any
important committee I should have re
signed. Meantime I am for liberty
and self government in Cuba, Philip
pine Islands, South Africa and Chi
cago, McWhorter or no McWhorter.”
Mornionite Hobertx Excluded.
Washington, Jan. 26. —The case of
Brigham H. Roberts, the Mormon rep
resentative-elect from Utah, which has
occupied so much of the attention of
the house since the assembling of con
gress, was *icJded yesterday by the
adoption of a resolution to exclude him
by a vote of 268 to 50.
THE PRODUCE MARKETS.
Philadelphia. Jan. 26.—Flour steady;
winter superfine, $2.25(82.40; Pennsylvania
roller, clear, $2.10(83.3"); city mills, extra,
12.40® 2.70. Rye flour quiet at $3.15@3.30
per barrel. Wheat firm; No. 2 red, spot
In elevator. 69%®70%c. Corn quiet and
steady; No. 2 mixed, spot, in elevator,
37%@38c.: No. 2 yellow, spot, in elevator,
40c. Oats quiet and steady; No. 2 white,
clipped, 31 3 4®32c.; lower grades, 28@30j.
Hay steady; choice timothy, $16(046.50 for
large bales. Beef steady; family, sl2® 13;
mess, $10.5o; beef hams. $22@22.50. Pork
firm; family, $14(514.50. bard firmer; west
ern steamed. $6.25%. Butter steady; west
ern creamery, 21®25c.; do. factory, 16(8
19c. ; June creamery. 20®23c.: imitation
creamery. 18!822%c.; New York dairy, 19
@24c.; do. creamery. 21@25c.; fancy Penn
sylvania prints jobbing at 26®29c.; do.
wholesale. 25c. Cheese steady; fall made,
fancy, large and small, 12%@13c.; late
made, large, U%®l2e.; do. do., small, 12
(g)l2%c. Eggs weak: New York and Penn
sylvania, 19c.; western, ungraded, at
mark, li-818c.
Prepared For Train Robbers.
Kansas City. Jan. 29.—1 n anticipa
tion of a hold up six local policemen
in citizens’ clothes and a number of
Pinkerton detectives occupied the ex
press car on the Missouri Pacific pas
senger train leaving Kansas City at
9 o’clock last night. The officials re
fused to make k, nown the P oint at
which the attack was expected to take
place.
Death of a Voted Ex-Con federate.
Richmond. Jan. 29.—Major Thomas
A. Brander, past grand commander of
the Virginia Grand Camp of Confed
erate Veterans, and who was known
throughout the south for his promi
nenc“ in all Confederate reunions, died
here yesterday, aged CO years.
In a warm climate fruit is sufficient
to sustain life,»but up in the Arctic re
gions oil and fat are essential. In the
feeding of live stock the temperature
of the atmosphere should always be
considered. Hundreds of farmers feed
the same ration the year round. So
much corn or oats is given whether the
season is winter or summer. The ani
mals may eat all that Is allowed, but
they become fat in summer and do not
gain in winter. During severely cold
weather a large proportion of grain
should be given, especially of corn,
while the supply of hay should not be
reduced.
Unity Loaf.—One quart flour, one pint
milk, one tablespoonful melted butter,
one egg, one saltspoonful salt, one ta
blespoonful white sugar, one teaspoon
ful soda, dissolved In one tablespoonful
hot water, one dessertspoonful (equal
to two teaspoonfuls) cream tartar sifted
In flour; mix beaten egg with milk.then
butter, sugar, salt and soda: next the
flour; beat well, use buttered cake tin
and bake in steady, hot oven; tum out
white hot, send to table and cut as
served; easy and excellent.
The Chicago Chronicle says: Now
that the Federation of Railway Em
pioves has been dissolved, it is said that
the* officers of the Order of Railway
Conductors and of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers are working on
a plan to bring these organizations to
gether in a protective and defensive
alliance, to deal with the railway com
panies of the country on wage and
other questions.
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—One hundred spoonfuls make one
Quart .t,
—The fashion of rouging the ears
has been adopted in Paris. J
—The healthiest troops in the worl>
are those of the German army.
—The sewing women of Berlin get
only thirty cents a dozen for making
fine shirts.
—A Louisville (Ky.) man has a lit
tie house dog that chews chewing gun®
with a relish. >
—Rain has never been known to fail
in that part of Egypt between the two
lower falls of the Nile.
—A miner’s lamp, using acetylene
gas, has been introduced into the Sel
beck mines of Germany.
—The young man of Samoa, when in
iove, has the name of his sweetheart
tattooed upon his forearm.
—Nearly all of the Egyptian farmers
use the same kind of plow that was
used five thousand years ago.
—ln Wales, up to the year 1850, it
A’as customary for people attending
church to smoke during divine service.
—A correspondent informs us that
in 1890 20 ostrich eggs were hatched
by incubator and 18 of the birds were
raised.
—A ship of only 2500 tons brought
from Para, Brazil, to New York city
a cargo of rubber which was insured
for $3,000,000.
—American cotton is preferred toy
the Japanese manufacturers because
it has a longer staple than that of any
other country.
—When an unmarried woman is borne
to the grave in Brazil her coffin, the
hearse and the livery of the coachman
are all scarlet.
—A clock is being constructed for
Liverpool Street Station, in London,
The interior of its case could allow five
persons to dine comfortably.
—By special request a circus at Bell
ville, Kan., changed the route of its
procession in order that two sick boys
might see it from their windows.
—The world’s births amount to 36,-
792,000 every year, 100,800 every day,
4300 every hour, seventy every minute
and one and a fraction every second.
' —An express train is run by elec
tricity between Dusseldorf and Cre
feld, Germany, • ® distance of fourteen
miles, and the trip is Tfit-dfl in 22 min
utes.
—A New York man claims to have
shot a crane up in the Adirondacks
that had forty-five trout in its stom
ach, none of which weighed .less than
a pound.
—The natives of the Philippine!,
manufacture a very gauzy, transpar
ent fabric for ladies’ dresses from the
fibres of the pineapple leaf. It is call
ed pina cloth.
—Professor R. L. Garner, who be
lieves that monkeys can talk, is about
to make another journey to Africa, to
furher familiarize himself with the
monkey language.
—When a native of Abyssinia desires
to pay a delicate attention to a friend
or guest he produces a piece of rock
salt and gracionsly permits the lat
ter to lick it with his tongue.
—A Calcutta paper contains an ac
count of the workhouse or asylum for
infirm beasts and birds that was es.-
tablished some thirteen years ago by
a society of influential Hindus.
—A Chicago gas company has put
its collectors into ujijform. The dis
tinctive feature about the dress is the
vest, which is of brilliant yellow, with
the company’s name in black letters
across it.
—ln remote parts of Scotland the old
Covenanters’ love for long services on
the bare hillsides still lingers. At
Dingwall a recent communion service
in the open air lasted from 10 A. M
until 4 P. M.
A soft and boneless tail, 2*4 inches
long, cut from an 11-week child in El
bing, was shown by Dr. Simon, of thaJ
town, to the Berlin Anthropological So
ciety. Prof. Virchow called it “J>
splendid specimen.”
—The stain of banana juice is almost
indelible. It does not proceed from the
stalk or plant, but exists in the greet,
fruit as well, from which when cut or
bruised it exudes in the shape of visciii
milk or cream-like drops.
—The fruit of the nutmeg tree Is pea’
shaped. It consists of four parts, a
fleshy outer part, a red network with
in this, known to commerce as mace,
the shell covered by the mace, and the
kernel, or nutmeg proper.
—Co-operation seems to be a suc
cess in Moorehead, Kan. That little
town has a co-operative hotel, restaur
ant, laundry, hall, creamery and cann
ing factory, and several co-operative
farms are in that vicinity.
—A six-year-old boy, the son of
Robert Mortimer, of Hempstead, N. Y..
while seated at a table, fell agains*
the point of a lead pencil which he
held in his hand. It struck his right
temple, pierced his brain and caused
death. <
—Certain fresh water algae named by
a French botanist, M. R. Bouiihac, are
claimed to be able to absorb arsenic
without injury, at least one specie* ap
pearing to derive more benefit in
growth from arsenic acid than from
phosphoric acid.
—Photography of sounds has reach
ed a point said to establish the fact
that there is no such thing as absolute
silence. The machine used is so sen
sitive that it records the lightest cur
rent of air passing through a room and
distant noises the ear cannot detect.
—lt is said that bubbles formed of
filtered castile soapsuds and glycerine
will last several days. A Baltimore
drawing room ornamented with these
bubbles, which had been carefully re
leased close to the celling, reflected the
gas lights in ever-varying tints, and
the effect was exceedingly attractive.
—Ausralla raises tarantulas for the
sake of their webs, the filaments of
which are made into threads for bal
loons. They are lighter than silk, and
when woven, lighter than canvas.
Each tarantula yields from twenty to
forty yards of filament, of which eight
twisted together form a single thread.
Action requires deadly spurs, but the
end, In this case, justifies the mean* ,
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