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Tha remainder of the world owes
Great Britain over $10,001,0 KlO.ntMl.
Within a year Xew Jersey lout four
ex-Governors Bodle, Abbott, l'rieo
and Greco.
Judge notes that iu Kansas a woman
who wants to vote needn't give her
age to the reentry ; she merely testi
fles that she is over twenty-one. Thm
there will be more votes aud less iei
juiy in Kansas."
The Improved Industrial Dwelling
Company of London accommodates
40,000 persons in its houses. It is
claimed that its syhtem has reduced
the tenement death-rate from forty to
Okly eleven in a thousand.
One reason why it is so hard to get
anybody hanged legally in the moun
tain regions of Kentucky, suggests the i
New York World, is that the dwellers I
in the towns fear that they will be I
haunted by the murderer's spook.
The fortune of the Rothschilds has
often been mentioned iu print, but
the Faris Signal gives some new and
interesting information about it. Ac
cording to this authotity, the total
wealth of the Rothschild family at the
present time amounts to ?2, 000,000,"
000, of which the French branch pos
Besses '200,000,000. Iu 1875 they had
less than half this sum, snowing that
their fortune had doubled iu eighteen
years. Ic 1800 the grandfather of the
present generation of Rothschilds had
nothing, his financial success begin
ning after the battle of Waterloo. It
is estimated that iu 1905 their fortune
will, if continuing to grow as hereto
fore, amount to the stupendous sum
of 860,000,000,000. The interest of
this capital would be sufficient to bus
taiu 37,000,000 people, that is, the
entire present population of France.
The trolley has everywhere come to
stay, notwithstanding the long and
bitter fight against it, aud even in
Brooklyn, where it has had an excep- 1
tioual record in the destruction of i
life, it is a necessity, declares the !
Xew York Independent. "Tho feel- I
iug against the trolley in Brooklyn has !
risen so high that a great mass meet- !
ing was held to give expression to it.
The people speak of it aa the great
juggernaut. Considerably over a
hundred lives have been sacrificed by :
it, and hardly a week goes by that ,
does not add to the list of victims, j
This is too high a price to pay for an
admitted necessity, and it is evident
that a more careful regulation of
speed, particularly in narrow streets,
is necessary. In Western cities, where
tho streets are wide, the trolley runs
at a high rate of speed aud has few ac
cidents. "
The bicyole epidemic is sweeping
over the whole country, states the
Chicago Record. In many cities tho
bicycle has inaugurated a serious
rivalry with the street car, and in
Denver the effect has been so unmis
takable that the local street railway
company had to cut the wages of its
employes in order to meet the great
reduction in the income. The daily
receipts of the car lines in Denver
have never been bo low and that the
drop is caused partly by tho introduc
tion of bicycles is beyond a doubt,
On wet days, when the wheels cannot
be ridden, the receipts of each car are
invariably over $30 a clay. As soon as
the streets dry off the receipts drop
down fully one-half. Formerly the
large crowd of invalids and pleasure
seekers which is constantly pouring
into Denver would take the cars out to
the suburbs for their daily outiug.
Now the wheal is used instead. It is
estimated that during tho last year
4000 wheels have been sold in the
city by local dealers, besides the largo
number shipped iu by individuals.
The estimate of 10,000 wheels in use
is probably extremely low. Each of
these wheels will take out of the
pocket of the street railway company
twenty or thirty cents a day. Taking
the low estimate of twenty cents a day
for tho 10,090 wheels the amount
would reach $2000 a day, or $730, 000 a
year. The contingency which has
presented itself in such definite shape
in Denver will have to be met by
street-car companies in many other
cities, and instead of being abated
this source of deprivation of revenue
is likely to become more formidable,
especially during the summer months.
It is now said that the insignificant
mortality of the Japanese in battle
during the recent war was partly due
to their wearing a quantity of flosa
silk under their outer clothing as a
protection against the cold. It is said
to have aoted in many cases aa a bul-let-PWetfiMfilit-
'
NEW YORK LHITER.
New York is of course the for-init
city of tho continent, no mutter by
what tost the comparison is made. Rut
not everybody is aware how very far
foremost the metropolis is. Few per
sons know, fur example, how wry
largely New York owus tho railroads,
factories, industrial ehtabliKhiuetit.s,
etc., on which other cities pride them
selves. Iu Chicago, Rurliiigtoii and
Qiiincy Railroad, for rxi.mplc, is more
largely a New York than a Chicago
affair, as was shown by a recent state
ment of its htock distribution. Tho
usual measure of the importance of
cities is population. Even that test
puts Xew York, with its 1,!)J0,(MK
people, and a million mure at its doors,
really a part of it, far in the lead. Rut
it is u very fallacious test, because the
tpialities and capacities of men vary
widely and a im-re count of noses
by no means determines a city's influ
ence orrilit of inrlii 'iico. Iu our in
dustrial and commercial age money is
the implement of nil achievement, or
nearly all, and it is the minister w here
it does not reign. Measured by money
Xew York h is no rival even distantly
challenging her greatness.
To illustrate: A recvntlv published
statistical table gives the gross amount
of personal deposits in tho banks of
the different cities on May 7, lh'.l.l.
The figures for New York are S'tii'J,
;)!tS,4'.)t. Jiostou eoiui-s next with a
little more than one-third as much, or
8l0ti,S'.i0,28J. Philadelphia stands
third with SS,S,."ii)7,U 1 1. Chicago,
though second iii population, is fourth
iu Wealth available lor business, and
her record is 87 1, ill ",:!."., or less than
one dollar to Xew VorU's four. If
statistics of invested capital were
available they would stid more im
pressively illustrate the matchless
superiority of New York as a centre
of commanding inlliieuee over all
other cities of tho continent. And tii.
Greater Xew York is coming to in
crease all this.
When President Roosevelt, of the
Police Ruard, said that t lie work of
It forming tho force was hall done be
cause it had been Well begun lie did
not overstate the case. Tho work is
more than half done. More than hall"
the dilliciilt y of reform lay in the prin
ciple of corruption inherent in the old
machine organization and firmly es
tablished by years of toleration. The
removal of tlr.s evil principle and the
removal of the higher olliem'x identi
fied with its operations render the
further work of improvement om
paritivcly easy.
Under the old icfiiino no one hoped
to secure appointment as patrolman
without :i payment to some one. No
promotion to a sergeantey or if cap
taincy was possible, except by pur
chase. This condition of things no
longer exists. It is piito safe to say
that no applicant now thinka of pay
ing for his appointment, and no one
"higher up" thinks of handling the
bribes. With the disappearance of
this initial tribute of blackmail all tho
long, varied and disgraceful list of
subsequent blackmailing "has disap
peared, or if it has not wholly disap
peared it will soon go, aud those who
practise it will go with it.
There is consternation in Brooklyn
over tho discovery of a trick by which,
in the closing dnvs of the Legislature,
a bill was smuggled through which
virtually takes away from the election
commissioners the authority to ap
point election officers. The bill was
introduced by unanimous consent,
vouched for by its author as all right,
reported back at once by tho com
mittee on cities, immediately passed
by the Assembly and sent to the Sen
ate, where it was hurried through by
a similar process, wttuoui nuyono
troubling himself to ascertain its pur
port. It was not until after the
Legislature adjourned that it was dis
covered that the bill thus railroaded
through provides that the chairmen
of tho Republican and Democratic
city committees of Brooklyn shall
designate tho election officers and tho
Election Commissioners shall appoint
the men so designated. Mayor Schie
reu has appointed an excellent board
of election commissioners, but if this
bill stands they can do nothing but to
appoint whomever the political com
mittees may designate. iovemor
Morton hus been appealed to"to with
hold his signature. It will be remem
bered that the new constitution of
Xew York nas a claune by which it is
provided that ft bill shall bo in print
for three days before tinal action on
it can be taken, That an iniquitous
bill could be hustled through in this
fashion, in spite of this provision, is
astonishing.
Tammany Hall will make the big
gest light the organization has made
for years to win this full's election.
For tho past three weeks there has
been a tremendous amount of activity
among the leaders, ami tho day that
the new apportionment takes place
the work of reorganization will com
mence. An-evidence of the energy
and activity of the leaders will be seen
when tho reapportionment is an
nounced. Ex-Senator George Plunkitt,
ex-Commissioner James J. Martin aud
two or three others of the old leaders,
who know every crook and turn ol
New York's geography and popula
tion, have held daily conference on
the subject of reapportionment, and
through John Oakley, the Tammany
member of the Aldermanio Commit
tee, have secured very fair considera
tion of democratic claims in the new
districts so far laid out,
Ipn rnnrnls n moffov rf (r.-in n'i'OTili v
and is it more wicked to shave in all
. other parts of New York state than iu
New Yiri city and Saratoga?
The barbarous beating of their chil
dren is notoriously common by low
oiste Italians w ho have recently settled
among us iu such large number. It
is not often that the cruel punish
ments which they are in the habit of
inflicting upon their children for
slight offences result fatally, as in a
recent case. Still there is an
amount of daily cruelty practiced in
the homes of these unassimilated
aliens'. It is time to do something to
mal e them understand that they are
li iug in the United States and must
conform to American standards in tho
treatment of their children. This
fellow Colandriello, who battered his
little girl to death with 'a club because
she did not answer his call as speedily
as, iu his brutal judgment, she ought
to have done, is a good subject to
make a start with iu teaching this
needed lesson.
Such men come to thiscouutry from
lauds where the crudest mediaeval
notions still survive. The old four
teenth century domestic code, which
gave the husband and father such
rights over his wife and children as
practically put their lives at his hourly
mercy, still survives iu practice, though
not iu theory, among millionsof semi
civilized Europeans. It may bo pos
sible, it certainly has not yet been
found practicable, to set up any sort
of test for immigrants at our ports of
entry by which these morally stunted
and blunted people can be kept out.
This is a pity, but there seems to
be no help for it. The next best thing
to do is to take hold aud educate them
to a clear apprehension of tho fact
that Xow York is not Naples, aud that
tho ferocious parental privileges of
Sicily cannot be maintained at a par
ity with the laws of the United States.
There is but one way to do this, and
that is to give siieh criminals as Col
audriollo, whenever they fall into the
hands of the law, the s. wrest penal
ties which our cole prescribe. If
this is done, the fuel will soon impress
those of them who ale left on the out
side of our state prisons that this
is not a favorable climate lor the en
joyment of their peculiar home amuse
ments. "Theodore Roosevelt is today our
police boss. The fate of the men in
the picture his predecessors should
be an awful warning to him. It proves
that no boss can rule this city wry
long unless he be a good beneficent
ruler, which is to be iu 'buss,' but
the people's servant."
According to ttie philosophers of
antiquity, whose opinion was shared
ti R ronni'lnnl'lt lv the tRf!y
('liristiaiis, woman is tin cause
man's woe. It has been wroug
of all
lv sntj-
posed ly some t lint she was called
'wocinau" on that account. Tho
derivation is faulty. But it is wise
to reject as wholly unscientific, a theo
ry without which so many incidents
in the life of the male animal of tho
Nliecies cannot be tie 'oiinted forat all?
Here, for instunc ', is the ease of a
Mr. Lane, who is now in the hospilai
with a badly strained neck, as he
would not hive been, ha I he not
stuck his head out of a window of a
niRving railroad enr tosmile at a pret
ty factory girl. Certaiuly it was not
her fault that she was pretty nor that
Mr. Lane had a weakness for pretty
girls. It was simply Kismet. This is
the solution of the whole matter. As
long us there is a woman left iu the
world the men who remain in it will
make themselves fools about her, and
she will be utterly nimble to help it.
Whether sho is tho new woinau or
the old, whether she is learned or ig
norant, strong-minded or confiding,
domestic or forensic, whether she is
bashful and beautiful, or beau-eating
aud bespectacled to the top of her
Boston bent, it will be all the same.
Men will make fools of themselves
about her to the end of tho chapter.
For as Dante remarks in one of the
Biiblimest massages of the Inferno, "It
is fate, and there's no us
kickinir.'
It has been discovered that there
has been an organized band of fire
bugs in Xew York, banded together
for the purpose of burning buildings
and collecting the insurance money.
It seems impossible that human beings
could bo so utterly depraved as to en
danger the lives of thousands of peo
ple for the sake of money. Do not
these human monsters deserve to be
punished as severely as any murderer?
Their crimes might result in uiauy
murders.
The Brooklyn Elevated Railroad
Company is making arrangements to
operate funeral trains over its road.
This innovation will bo introduced as
soon as the new bridge station is com
pleted. It is proposed to have two
cars especially lifted up for funeral
purposes. One of these cars will bo
given up for the exclusive occupation
of tho colliu and llowers, while the
other will be for the mourners. Ele
vators are to be constructed at the
bridge stations adjoining tho cemeter
ies and some others. When tho ser
vice of the funeral train is desired it
will be drawn to any Btation designat
ed. Tho colliu containing tho corpso
will be raised to the station and taken
aboard and when all is in readiness the
train of death will take up its journey
to the cemetery station. The railroad
company will contract to convey the
funeral party only as far as the ceme
tery station. The coffin will there be
lowered to the street, whence it cau
be transported to the grave in mi un
dertaker's wagon or by pall-bearera.
The funeral cars will be made to
wear an air of sombreness in touch
with the solemnity of their purpose.
In case of an unusually large funeral,
additional cars cau be attached to tho
train. Tho cost of this decidedly
unique mode of funeral transportation
has not been decided upon. It will
probably be so low, however, as to
cause something of a pauio among local
undertakers. Knickerbocker.
BOSTON LETTER.
SI-XOIAL COBHESI'ONUKXCE. J
I 'our Interest I iik Documents.
From the valuable collection of au
tographs presented to the Public Li
brary some time ago by its old libra
rian. Judge Chamberlain, and placed
as he desired iu a little room leading
from the librarian's office, four docu
ments have been taken out and put in
the periodical room ou the fireplace
shelf. These four are the "Decima
tion of Independence," tho "Address
to the Kiug.'" tho "Articles of Con
federation" and the "Constitution
of the United States." Thev are hot
the originals, of course, neither are '
they facsimiles ; they are half way I
between a reprint iu each case of the
original document, followed by the
genuine audiographs of the men who
ftignod. In a way not even the original
Declaration of Independence pre
served iu Washington is so good us
tho Public Library's clear, readable
copy. The original writing, both text
aud signatures, has been faded by a
century's exposure until parts of it
are ulmost illegible. The original in
also on parchment, a material
from which ink fades very
quickly as compared with paper.
There are now in ex stence, as near
as cau bo calculated, twenty-two com
plete sets of tho signers of the Declar
ation. That belonging to the Public
Library, made up of cut signatures,
taken from otherwise uninteresting
papers, pasted according to the origi
nal order on a single sheet and under
neath the text of tho origiuul, is tho
most suiting aud vivid to look at of
any of the twenty-two, but iu money
value it must yield to the collections
w hich tiro made up, mainly at least,
of entire autograph letters or docu
ments. Three of tho complete sets
besides this in the Public Library
are owned iu Boston. A curious
map of special interest to local anti
quarians has recently come into tho
possession ,,f the Public Library. It
was j . u 1 . ! ii-i i . 1 in London early iu
September, 177.", and was printed to
kiiw an i lea of the siege of Boston.
It measures about twenty-one by
eighteen inches, and the title runs,
"Tne seat of war iu Xew England by
the American volunteers, with tho
matches of the sewral corps r-i ut by
t ho colonic. "
New Tuhcii ulosis I. aw.
The sapience of the modern legis
lature is strikingly illustrate 1 by the
recent action of the Massachusetts
( c lieral t' mrt, in limiting the use ot
tuberculin as a diagnostic of tubercu
losis in cattle u disease which is the
parent of much of the same ailment
'he human family and the same
week votiim liberal appropriation lor
the establishment ol kwoital lor the
care of ceUs imptive aud tuberculous
patients. Iu the hurry of the dis
patch of business during the closing
days of tho Legislature, the details of
some iiiipoi tuiit actions failed to re
ceive full attention by the press. Tho
bill as originally presented forbade
the use of tuberculin as a diagnos
tic test, except by the consent of tho
cattle owner, and placed the entire cost
of quarantine and the value of con
demned c.ittle and meat carcasses upon
the state. It was found that the pay
ment of full value for diseased meat
and animals from the Slate treasury
was unconstitutional and the bill was
recalled from tho Governor, just iu
time to save a veto, and materially
amended. The bill as enacted leaves
the state free from tho payment for
metit declared to bo tuberculous in
the slaughter houses, as under tho
former luw. The quarantine provision
is s modified that when animals are
quarantined on suspicion of tubercu
losis, the state is to pay the expense,
after 10 days, on till animuls whoso
product is forbidden to be sold. This
limits the state expense to cattle giv
ing milk, and there is a further limit
that the state pays nothing for quar
antine of animals imported from other
states. Ownership and domicile in
this state six months must be proved.
The me of tubeiculin is allowed ou all
cattle brought to the Brighton and
Watertow n markets, and to all brought
into this state from abroad. Oii herds
or animals owned iu this state its use
is restricted to ouimals whose owners
request it in writing, aud to animals
condemned as suspects on physical
examination by a competent veterina
rian. Tho section which was de
clared unconstitutional provided that
"full sound value" should be paid.
This is certainly different from
"full value thereof at the
time of condemnation", but
whether tho change will be construed
by the law officers of that state as suffi
cient to make it legal is a question.
Another question is what "full value
thereof at the time of condemnation"
may ho in the minds of sworn ap
praisers. The animal is tested aud
proved diseased before condemnation
and its "full value," under such cir
cumstance, may well bo a subject fr
reflection.
Vei-y Commendable.
It involves no lack of recognition of
the strong and effective service ren
dered to the Commonwealth by Insur
ance Commissioner Merrill to ap
prove the netiou of Governor Green
halge in vetoing tho bill which made
a large increase in the Commissioner's
salary. His Excellency was entirely
judicious and consistent. These are
not auspicious times for swelling tho
expenditures of the Commonwealth
and especially for adding to tho com
pensation of even the moBt capable
and meritorious public official, unlesB
the conditions are entirely exceptional.
Governor Greenhalge laid down this
policy early in the year. He had ad
hered to it, and the people whoso in
terests ho has served will recognize
here his courage and his wisdom.
I'd ll-il Mioit of Ilia Duty.
Ill uot returning the city chartet
bill to the legislature with a message
declining to approve it uuless accom
panied by a referendum proviso Gov.
ireeiilmlgo has manifestly fallen short
of his duty. - The assumption that the
citizens of Boston are not capable ol
understanding the provisions of tin
new charter and voting intelligently
with reference, to them would cuiut
with much more consistency from the
men who nought to invade the rights'
! of Kolvoke and Woburu than from the
chief in igis!rtte who interposed to
protect tln ln by his veto. Governor
( ireeiihalge should have stood man
fully by tho referendum principles set
forth in his first' inaugural. If ever
extensive and important changes pro
posed in city ull'urs should have been
referred to the comuiiiuity directly iu
t -rested they should have been so re
ferred iu tho case of Boston's new
charter. But the power of republican
party pressure in this commonwealth
is great, particularly when brought
to bear upon a chief magistrate elect
ed by republican votes. One thing,
ut any rate, is obvious from the gov
ernor's failure to apply the referen
dum principle in the interest of Bos
ton's freemen voters. It is increas
ingly evident that ouly through the
success of men pledged to maintain
Jelt'ersoiiiau ideas aud doniocratio
principles can tho right of local self
government bo protected against fur
ther inrouds from its foes iu Massa
chusetts. 'I lie Lou islmrg Monument.
There is nothing iu the proposition
of the Massachusetts Society of Colo
nial Wars to erect a monument at
Lonisburg, to commemorate the ciipt
ure of that stronghold by General
Pepperell's expedition on June 17,
1 7-1.1, which should rultlo Canadian
sensibilities. Although tiio force
which achieved that notable victory
came from Xew England, it was under
the English flag that the siege was
con ducted, and the colonies which
now constitute the Dominion of Can
ada would have derived tho chief ben
tit from the affair if the advantage won
by Yankee p'.uek had not been weakly
surrendered in the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
The recent debate in the
Dominion Senate, in which the pro
posed monument was vehemently de
nounced us uu offensive impertinence,
will be misunderstood if it is uot
noticed that the principal assailant
was a geuticinau of French descent,
who is probably today more a French
man than a loyal subject to the queen.
To him the rco-.dlectiou of an affair
in which u few undieipliiied American
colonists drove tho French from a
fortified town which they had at
tempted to make impregnable could i
not bo expected to be agreeable. The
first siege and capture of Lonisburg
led the way for the movements a few
.' later which extinguished hope
of French contiol iu America. French
members of the Dominion Parliament
may uot be pleased with these mem
ories, but it is time, after one hun
dred and tiftv vears, that thev should
adjust themselves to the situation, and
hold their peace. There was good
reason for tho rejoicings with which
this victory was received in Xew Eng
land ; better reason, indeed, than the
eolonists then knew ; for the expedi
tion was uot merely important iu its
immediate results, but it taught the
men of Xew England something of
their own possibilities on the Held, and
was a training for Lexington and Bun
ker Hill and all that followed.
All Right Now.
Judge Knowlton, iu tho supreme
?ourt, denied the application for a
preliminary injunction in the con
struction of tho subway. He said that
the commission did not exceed the au
thority purported to have been given
them by the act ; that so far as ap
peared in the case tho work on tho
public garden was reasonably neces
sary to the construction of the sub
way. Also that tho act is not uncon
stitutional by reason of the tri-party
agreement, as it was conceded by the
plaintiffs that the work was not upon
that part of the public garden cov
ered by that agreement.. Xeither is
tho act unconstitutional because it
souilicts with provisions of general
laws that give jurisdiction to the
mayor aud aldermen of the streets,
others that provide that only certain
buildings shull bo erected on public
commons, as the subway act, in so far
as it conflicts with those provisions of
the general laws, repeals them, super
cedes them. Xeither is the act un
constitutional because it takes away
rights already conferred on the city
authorities by tho city charter, as the
act may be a modification of the city
charter powers. The subway act is a
mode which the legislature has chosen
to adopt iu the transportation of the
people iu tho city, aud it is clear to
the mind of the court that it is a de-
I cisiou on tho part of the legislature
to devote tho land to be taken for the
construction of tho work to a public
use, and tho court cannot interfere.
That (Jil l Will Know.
The story that tho Duke of Orleans
made a living visit to America last win
ter uud actually came to Boston for a
day or so, is again afloat with the most
emphatic verifications for ballast. It is
incredible that this round-faced hope
of the Freuoh royalists should have
been able to conceal his identity, but
even Americans who know a little about
the late Count of Paris' son and -heir
would not bo likely to recognize the
young man, if he camo incognito.
Ouly the fair object of his visit could
throw light ou the escapade, and she
is now far away. Proving an alibi for
his royal nibs would be impossible, as
it is said Europe is full of alibis for
such gay boys.
Ben Marcato.
AGAIN OhMPLETE.
Both Cabinet Offices Filled at
Once.
Olney llaa Become Premier sail
Harmon Attorney ticncral.
For secretary of stats, Kicbard Ultimo!
Massachusetts. For attorney general, JuJ
sou llaruiou of (.'iiteiniiall, O. This is the
slate given out lit tha wliito kouso and which
put at rest all doubt as to the cabinet changes
caused by ttm death of the lute Secretary
iiroshaicu Tho appointment of Atty. (leu.
Oltiey to become the premier of the adiniuis
tratiou was so thoroughly uuderstooj, and
bud bran so confidently exacted lor the past
few days, that it oecosioued not the slight
est surprise. Let In the selxotiou of bis attor
ney Keni'ml lr. Cleveland once more sur
prised the politioiaut uud the aesers by
taking a mau whose name bad Dot been mea
tloiiH.I in that connection.
Mr. Onl. y is tlie fourth Massachusetts man
siuee the o.igiu of the government who has
been secretary of state. His predecessors
HK'HAHl) UL NEy.
IProbubly the next Heeretary of State.
were John Quiuey Adams, who served duritit
the two terms of James Monroe, from lsl",
to 1.;25; Daniel Webster, who served undei
Harrison and Tyler, from 1811 to 113, uric
who served again under Fiilnure from ISM
to 152. and K Iward Everett, who succeeded
him. There has been no Massachusetts see
rotary of state sinee the day of Everett, uutli
now. Perhaps it mav not b ' much cc
suv that tho fam" nieliard Olney as seere
lury ol state may give additional luster to thf
glory of the old bay state.
Judson Harmon, the new attorney general
owes his appointment to Secretary of thi
Treasury Curhsle. Mr. Cleveland asked Mr.
Carlisle to select an attorney general for him
aud Mr. Carlisle recommended Mr. Harmon.
Ihe appoiutmetit has no political signill
cance. Mr. Harmou has always been a dem
ocrat, a sound money mau and a tariff re
former. He has not taken a very active part
jrnsox HAiiMox.
(The n w Attorney Usnenil.J
iu Ohio polities, alliough he has been asso
ciated with the Cumpbell wing of the
party, and has been vigorous in support of
good municipal government. He is a civie
reformer, opposed to rings and gangs, and iu
favor of au honest administration of local
affairs.
As a lawyer he stands very high, aud is
said to have one of the largest and most prof
itable practices iu the city of Cincinnati. He
is comfortably well olT, but not wealthy. He
is married, aud has-two daughters. Mr. Har
mon is uot over fond of society, and his fam
ily are rather quiei in their tastes. He Is
about 50 years old. The fact that Mr. Car
lisle recommen4ed the appointment, shows
how utterly without foundation are the re
cent stories that the relations between the
president and the secretary of the treasury
are strained;
BIG AIR VESSEL.
The Scheme of M. Audree to Reach
the North Pole iu a Balloon.
Audree of Sweden wljl shortly go to Paris
to oversee the making of the balloon In which
he will attempt to reach the North Pole. The
balloon will be made of double silk, and will
be capable ot floating In the air 30 days at a
height of 250 meters. It will carry three per
sons, instruments, ballast, four months' pro-
NILES EKHOI.M.
(Who will attempt to reach the North Pole
iu a balloon.
visions, a sledge, sailboat, weapons and am
munition. M. Andree hopes to steer his air
ship by means of sails, aud break ropes drag
ging on the earth when necessary. He pro
pbses to start in July, 18'.ti!, and hopes to re
turn towards the inhabited parts of America
or Siberia.
Nils Ekholm, of Bwdea, is ouo of the four
persons who will soon attempt to reach the
north pole by balloon. Mr. Ekholm is a
member of the royal Swedish meteorological
society of London. He is 47 years of ago. At
the age of 28 he graduated from Vpsala Uni
versity. He is a skilled aeronaut, as are all
who will make this dangerous journey, Mr.
Ekholm says that the ascent will take place
from a wooden hou90 which will be erected
iu the neighborhood of Inglofleld Quit, north
west Greenland. Every precaution will bo
taken for the safety ot the aeronauts, and the
Swedish Academy of Science will not give its
consent to the expedition until it has oare
tully eittiiilued every detail.
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