i t Vi V. b. THE COUNTRY'S LOSS. EFFECT OF THE LOW PRICE OF FARM PRODUCTS. In 1891 Uncle Sam Gained $20,000, (XH) Over 1893 on Cattle and Pro visions, and Lost $01,000,000 on Itrcadstun. Farmers Suffer Must. How much has the country lost by the low prices of farm products? In spak ing of prices, a gentleman remarked a few days since: "I pay now just the same for a five-rib roast of beef that I do for a barrel of Hour." His statement wrh substantially correct, as twenty pounds of choice beef are selling for about the same price as a barrel of tin best family flour. The incident is only impor timt as serving to point out and aeeentu ale tbe fa et that provisions have held their prices fairly well, while many pro-dr.-ts of tbe farm, such as wheat, eotton ami wool, have declined" very heavily. It in partly owing to this condition of af fairs, loo. that 0:1 the exerts of 1SIU the United States gained $2O,00bV.O0 over 1S'K on cattle and jirovisious, and lost 91(i.0()0.(XH) on btvadstutTs. If we take tin same authority which linn been acvepted in previous years, the United States Agricultural Bureau, for tbe crop estimates of 1801. we bad that if the three great crops of wheat, corn and cotton could have boon laid down in New York on the 1st of January. 180Ö, their aggregate value would have been $1,178. UTi'VJoS, against a valuation of $1.2015, 187,710 for the cro;s of ISO.-., and $1, fi 1 1,740,7:: 4 fur the crops of 1801'. Thi-t is, of course, an arbitrary standard, but it Ik probable ihat the New York price is, upon (he whole, as good a standard by whit b to judge of the relative value of th year's crops as any other that can be adopted. First, as to prices: The following table, compiled from the reports of the statisti cal bureau of the Department of Agricul ture, will give a record of the averag prices for various staples received on farm and plantations since 1888. compil ed from the rates ruling on or about Dee. 1 of the respective- years: Prices of Producta on Farms Dec. 1. 1888. 1800. 1SI2. IStM. Cts. Cts. Cts. Cts. Wheat, bu Jrj.r, NTS ( 1 40.8 1 lye. lei r. . I U2 . 0 54 . S W.l . ö Oats, bu 27. S 42.1 Ii 1.7 32.0 Jbu loy, bu oO.r, 01. 8 47.2 44. dorn, bu ;I4.1 5tu a0.4 4Ö.T, Cotton, lb 8... S.J 8.4 4.0 The corn price, -lö.'i cents per bushel, is G.t cents higher than the average price for the decade 18S0-80, and is 4 cents higher than the average of the last four years. The wheat price, 19.8 cents, is the low est for twenty-five years, and is o.'kl cents lower than the average for the decade 1880-80, and '22.1 cents less than the av erage for the last four years. The price of cotton, it will be noticed, Ih ut its very minimum. Discarding for the moment all other elements which en ter into the problem such as the total yield of the crop or the comparative cost of production, und comparing the prices for 1891 with those for 1S02 (inasmuch ns 1803 was also a year of unusual depres sion), It appears that, with the exception of corn and oats, prices have declined 20, 550, and even 40 per cent. That startling variations exist in vari ous estimates of the wheat crop of 1891 we are well aware. The I'nited States Government's last estimate is 4i5O.ODO.00O bushels, but, in view of the fact that this is ::o,000,noo in excess of the Govern ment's preliminary estimate, and that tbe United Stales otlicial estimate for last year's crop is believed to have been wide ly erroneous, we may discard these fig ures in favor of some of the trade esti mates, which run as follows: V. M. Crosvenor. 5:.0,hT.iO: Liverpool Corn Trade News, f,20.mo.fMiO; Cincinnati Price Current. 5 1Ö.I 00,000; Statistician Thoman, ".:?. fOft.MK. Assuming tue est mates of the Corn Trade Now for 1802 and 1S0', and the conservative figures of Mr. Thoman for 1801, further assuming all wheat of a uniform grade, and nil sold on farms about Dec. 1 at the prices quoted in the. Government's farm price list, we have the following: Aggregate Year. Crop Om.) value on farm. 3 802 580.1 M 0.C X X $:)i J 1 ,020.000 IKIES 47.VM H ,000 217,470,000 189 1 5! ::.ooi i.uoo 250,40 1,000 This would indicate that, while the ag gregate money yield from wheat for 1801 is approximately equal to that for 1803, tbe loss in money, compared with 1892, is over $10O.i.iO.ooO; or, more exactly, the loss on the 1801 crop, as compared with that of 1892. is $111. 42; 5.000. Assuming the United States otlicial statement of the ISO! wheat cropnamely, $225,9(J,0X the loss, as reckoned on this comparative basis, would be $130,020,000. Gain in the Price of Corn. As a partial offset to this loss there ap pears to be a gain in the item of corn, where the high pi ice per bushel would kcciii to net an aggregate sum in excess of that obtaiued for the crop of 1803. The following table is made on the basis of Mr. Tl Ionian s estimate of the 1804 corn crop and tiie United States otlicial esti mates for 1892 and 1893, and combines with them the Government's farm prices; Total value Year. Crop in bu. on farm. 1 802 1 , 528,4 5 1 , M 0 $0 1 1 ,01 4.8 1 0 1803 1.(510.400.131 501,110,087 ISO 1 1. 19(5,943,000 C82,(WXi,00S If the Government's doubtful figures for the crop of 1891 be taken (viz., 1,212,770. 000 bushels), the farm value is only $531, 7I0.OOO. The excess in the total market value of last year's crop over that of the previous year appears, according to Mr. Thoman's figures, to amount to over $80,000,000; or, Compared with the yield of two years ago, to over $to,0)0,ooo. The Government's .figures would turn these estimated gains Into losses of $ 10,000,000 and $87,000.000. respectively. It is worthy of remark, how ever, that the probable total gain on this item has been very unevenly distributed among the various agricultural sections. In the South the corn crop has been heavier than in 18. 3, and has partially öff net the loss on eotton, vliile in some sec tions of the West, especially Nebraska and Kansas, the corn crop has been an almost total failure, with little compen sation from other crops." Terrible Ioen of Life. The Rio News of .Tan. 8, received in the latest mail, gives the particulars of n terrible calamit.; in the Bay of Rio Ja neiro. It says: "About 7:1 J Sunday evening, the Cth inst.. a tire broke out on the ferryboat Terceira. The boat left Rio de Janeiro with from eighty to 2'0 passengers, the greater part of whom disembarked at San Domingas. It is generally estimated that there were from 10) to loO persons on bonrd at the time of the disaster. Al though the Terceira was barely 300 me ters from land when the tire appeared, nothing effective appears to have been done to save the passengers except the forethought of the engineers in opening the safety valves of the boilers to prevent an explosion. There was apparently but few life-saving appliances on board. The tire burned with su'h rapidity that tho passengers were driven overboard and many were drowned. The ferryboat Quinta bad ju.st left the Nictheroy slip when the lire broke out, and tho master promptly hurried to the scene. On ap proaching the burning vessel he was sud denly surrounded by an excited crowd of passengers, some with revolvers in tliei hands, who threat, ned his life if he ven tured near the burning boat. He was therefore compelled to turn away and leave the passengers of the Terceira to their fate, lief ore doing so. however, he had all the benches and other means of saving life thrown overboard for those struggling in the water." BORN IN SLAVERY. Career of Frederick Douslass, the Noted Pre dm an Orator. Frederick Douglass, the noted freod man, orator and diplomat, who died Wednesday night at his residence in An aeostia. a suburb of Washington. D. C, of heart failure, was born a slave at Tuckahoe. Md.. in February, 1817. His mother was a full-blooded African wom an; his father a white man, presumably the owner of his mother, lie learned to read and write through the favor of a rel ative of his master-father, and at the age of 10 was permitted to hire his own time, paying $3 a week, retaining and saving the balance of his earnings with the in tention of ultimately purchasing bis free dom. His progress was slow, however, and in 1838 he ran away, reaching New Iiedford. Mass, in September of that year. He married and lived there for two of three years, supporting himself by day labor on the wharves and in various work shops. While there he changed his name to Douglass. He had previously been called Lloyds, the name of his old master. William Lloyd Garrison took an interest in the young fugitive, and assist ed him in procuring a higher education. He soon developed great talent as an ora tor, and attracted the attention of leading members of the American Anti-Slavery Society. They employed him as one of their lecturers, and he delivered a course throughout the Northern States, portray ing in vivid ami forceful language the in justice of American slavery and the Af riean slave trade. In 1815 he woit to Kngland. where his eloquence attracted large audiences and brought him to the notice of many of the prominent anti-slavery agitators of that country. His friends In Kngland raised a purse of 100, which was sent to his former owner, and he received in return his manumission papers, which on more than one occasion in after life served him in good stead when threatened with ar rest as a fugitive slave. During the civil war Douglass was one of President Lincoln's advisers relative to the status belli of the slaves, and early advised that they be invited to join the Fnion army against the slave power. Mr. Douglass was twice married, his first wife being colored. His second marriage was to Miss Helen Pitts, a white woman clerk in one of the departments at Wash ington, lie accumulated a competency from tbe proceeds of his lectures and from the fees of the several offices he held. RUSH FOR NEW BONDS. Sale Closed in 20 Minutes in New York and Two Hour in London. J. Pierpont .Morgan, acting for himself and August Relmont, managers of the new government loan syndicate, took just twenty minutes Wednesday to receive and close the bids for the $02.r00.000 new 4 per cent, bonds, says a New York dio patch. The amount allotted to American investors will not be made known for sev eral days. There is, however, good au thority for the statement that, iu view of the heavy oversubscription in London, a comparatively small iortion of the issuo will be allotted in this country, as it will suit the purposes of the syndicate to dis pose of the bulk of the loan abroad in the interest of the agreement with the gov ernment to maintain the" cash gold re serve. A premium of was bid for the new bonds in this market. Under the terms of the agreement between the bond syndicate and the government, some $32, 500,000 was to have been deposited with the treasury for the home account, the rest of the gold required to pay for the bonds having to come from abroad. That amount of gold had been deposited with the treasury Wednesday morning. In the afternoon Mr. Morgan made a dcjiosit of $l,lJ3,0O0 gold at the sub-treasury, tak ing in exchange therefor legal tenders. This action was probably taken to fur ther instill confidence in the financial sta bility of the treasury, and is in line with the policy of the syndicate to hold the gold reserve at the full limit. In Loudon, N. M. Rothschild & Son said that the new American loan had proved a colossal success. The amount of the loan allotted to Europe was covered many times over in two hours, both with them and with J. P. Morgan & Co. Alexander Cruden, the compiler of the Rlble Concordance, was regsrded by all his acquaintance as a harmless though somei?hat troublesome lunatic. rt:i:iEnicK iku oi.as. CONGEESS OF WOMEN. A SIGNIFICANT GATHERING IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL. Women from All Sphere, of All Iie ligions and with All Reliefs Assem ble in Thousands in a tlreat Conven tionIts Objects and Aiui. Agree on but One Point. Washington t orre.spoiiileuce: A national government of. for a:; 1 by the women of the Fnited States a Sen ate, a House of Kepresciitatives. a Pre ident and possibly a cabinet s-ic'u is the scope of the plan of several millions of women of America, who sent representa tives to the second triennial convert: r.i of the National Council of Women o America, which commenced its session in Washington last week. This vim:::u x:it is to be organized, not to le:.-.!at :: to deliberate upon nat: la! matters, tak ing its pointers from Congress an I hop ing to indirectly inlluence That body i:i its legislation. This woman's gn erirr.eat purposes also to be a school tr women against the time when they shall tak:' a CxÜl MAY WIMiIIT n-'AAI.I., President. hand with men in the nation's real busi ness; to illustrate to womankind the trtu meaning of national deliberation, legisla tion and administration. To this the greatest galheriug of women 1! Iliii i'iiflJiii 1 WOMAN r.ilVYIlS which the world has evr seen have 'opjö represent at iv-s from every walk of life, from every religion and every belief, and every part of the country. Then are Protestants and Catholics. .lews and Jen tiles, Mormons and Agnostics, Yivisec tors and anti-Yivisetionists. There are Republicans, Democrats, Populists, S cialists, Tillmanites, Free Silverites. Farmers' Albam-ers, Orangers. Single Taxers, Nationalists and Prohibitionist. Scarcely any two delegates agree perfect ly excepting upon one iut, and that is the elevation and amelioration of woman kind. Nearly fifty diffrent societies are repre sented, including thos? of a national scope, such as the National Women's Christian Temperance Union, and those which are more of a local character. Seventeen of the societies thus repre.snted have an aggregate meml;'i ship of nearly ö. tJi U ' . and the total 'presentation is probably Utile tinder 1 ( ,WcM ). H N . The organization of a woman's government, patterned after the national governnnuit of the Fnited States, is one of the questions which will cm tip before this session of the Na tional Council, which will continue two weeks. It will simply be a rearrange, inent of the National CY-uncil as it is at FKANf KS It. ItAOI.KV, Vice President. present. Its objects are yet forth as fol lows: "We, women of the United States, .V -c. 1 s If NJcJf ii fww sy ) CS'Vt rß tili & ff,fX & fi&MbW'i'i it'.,-, ' iivd. A sincerely believin.y that the best good of our homes and nation will be advanced by our own greater unity of thought, sym pathy and purpos. and that an organized movement of women will b 'st conserve the highest good of the family and the state, do hereby baud ourselves together Sil m X Ä - 0 r '. n.r.Aitn. in a confederation of workers committed X-) the overthrow of all forms of ignorance and injustice, and to the application of th golden rc.ie to society, custom and law." The Officers of the Council. The president of the National Council is th' s.'nie Mrs. May WrUht Sewall who was r'ae moving spirit of the Women's Congress at the World's I'air, assisted by t ho other oth.vrs of the council. Mr-. Frances II. Pagley. the vice-president, i a rich and prominent s.e;ety leader of Detroit. Mrs. Isabella Charl-s Iavis. the recording -e reary. is the best-known of the council's o5li ors, for she is the busi ness manager and otic c.f the founders of the International Ord-T of the King- Daughters and Sons, which has a strength of more than !".(. The treasurer of the c,i-:n. il is Lillian M. N. Stevens, of S.Toudwater. M , and has become promi nent through her work for the Woman'.-; Christian Temp. -ranee Unio::. Cue of the most interesting of the council's o'licers ;s Mrs. Itachael Foster Avery, the corre sponding secretary. She had a prominent part in th organization of the Women's Congress at the World's Fair, and in many other ways her name has become wll known. liehind the Hoard of Officers come the four great standing committees, who are supposed to represent the ;,Mr most impor tant fields of modern feminine thought. The first is on dress, of which Frances II. Ivtissell. of St. Paul, Minn., is chairman, aal which also includes the New York i v ' Ii, Uli THE CONC.IIKSSIONAL LIONS IX favorite. Anna .Tenness Miller. The sect-rid commit te is on qe.al pay for equal work, and consists of three membrs. of whom Mrs. Leland Stanfi "d and Mary Desha are the best known. The Commit ter oa Divorce Keforr.i consists tf three i.a:v ih'.m:y somkkskt, members, ail of whom are well known. They are Mrs. Kilon Hateüe I Met rick. Mary A. Livermore and Fannie 11. Ames. The Committee on Patriotic Instruction is composed of six members, of whom Ilüza I. Keith, better ke.own as "Di Ver non," a California poet itnd litterateur; Frances H. Willard. Mrs. Isabella P. Da vis and Mrs. Caroline M. Merrick are very widely known. The National Council, while the larg est of all the national organizations of women of the country, is cue of the new est. It is logically the resuit rather than the outgrowth of the National Suffrage Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Women. In 1SSS and ISS'J, they began an agitation looking toward a new organization, built upon a much broader basis. This culminated in the lirst session of the Itody. which look place in 1SH, which was a very remarka ble success. The second triennial should have ben held iu lS'.U, but as nearly all flu members had met in Chicago at th World's Fair, and espvially at the World's Congress, and had transacted much f the business which usually comes before the ctTin -il, they deemed it ad visable to postpone the second triennial to the present year, and in the meantime to extend the ramifications of the central body. Many women of national and even in ternational reputation are in attendance Some of them are the Countess of Aber deen. Lady Henry Somerset, Mrs. Kussel Sage, Miss Susan l. Anthony, Mrs. Kli.a belli P. (Jrannis, well known in connec tion with the social purity crusade in New York city; Dr. Jennie de la M. Lo.ier. th New York physician; Mrs. Laura C. Pul lard, of P.rooklyn. the millionaire; the fe male minister of the gospel. Pev. Anna Shaw; Miss Frances II. Willtrd, Mrs Fr nch Sheldon, the African explorer, ant! Mine. Albert, the IMsartist. Organiza tions of women iu (bunnany. France, Lr.g land. Canada and elsewhere are also pres ent. "The greatest value of the council," says President Sewal!. "is in bringing to gether women wlse livs are in different avenues and whose interests are in differ ent lines of work." HIS TOMB DESERTED. Work on the Grant Monument IIa Hcen Stopped fr the Winter. The work of building the iJrant monu ment in New York has been stopped for the winter, and the unfinished tomb looks as drary and deserted as the temjiorary mausoleum near by. The odd. gray pilt? is covered with snow, and it is impossible to continue setting the groat blo- ks of granite until the spring weather again drives the frost from the ground. It rnrtsr.NT conimtiov of tiik im-mi:nt. was intended to put in place the double row d' detached columns in front and to complete the porch before the work wa? suspended, but the cold weather came ear lier than was expected and the men were laid off before this was done. The monu ment, however, has progressed well and is nun-h furtluT n toward completion than is generally supposed. The foundations, which are sunk dowc twenty-seven feet in the ground, have been finished, and the main structure ha THKIU DUN'S. been built up forty-tive feet from the ground. The completed dome, however, will ris lliö fe't above the ground. It will be seen, therefore, that tloie is a good deal y-t to be done. When work was suspended for the winter'the first cornice had been reached and a few of the blocks on the next course of granite were laid. The square part of the monu ment will rise t wcnty-sev-n lYet above the first cornice, before the circular part of the structui' begins. All of the twelve attached columns that ornament tho sides and back of th lower part have been put in place, and most of tho t-n lt ached pillars which form the colonnade in front jf the port h are also set. FOR SCHOFIELD'S BENEFIT. Koviving the tirade of Lieutenant (Icucral IIa Hccn Signed. The bill passe I by ('ngress for the ben efit of Ocn. Schotield and which lovhes the grade of lieutenant-general of the ar my, has be-n sigiietl by President Clev land. Cent-nil SchoticM is now tl years of age. lb graduab'd from West Point with Slu-iidan, McPhcrson arid others who afterward distinguished thcmsdvM ill the civil war. lie served two yearj wiJh the First Artillery and live years as assistant professor of natural philosophy at W'st I i 11 1 and then 11 1 the army and beanie prt'fessur d" physics at Washing ton I'liivelsify, St. Louis. With the be ginning of the civil war. hovevr. he re joined his old regiment and in lN'l was made its captain. A brave and brilliant soldier. h participated in many engas inenJs, was rajudly prttmoted. and iu lSil was assigned to the command of tlm Army of the Ohio. In 1NIS he was bre vet'r major-general Fnited States Army, fr meritorious services in tin battle J Franklin. Tenii.. iu ISTt! appointed sup riiiNanlent military academy, Wesj Point, and August 21, 1SSS. assigned ti th command of the army of the Fnit4 States. Con. Schotield was mirriod in 1 Si 1 to Miss tergia Kilburne, of Keo kuk, Iowa. Tbe Standard Oil Cmpany is drilling for oil in Kentucky. If it will work at near as pssiblo to distilleries it will find plenty of 4lu illuminating fluid for whicb Kentucky is fatuous throughout the continent. JlBHl : K S RESS Pretl Im -ta-s. 7he ngro has lo-t an able champion. Cincinnati Cazette. To Ids induence is ue much of the pro gress which so many colored people lriva a hio, 'd. Indianapolis Journal. He was one of tho-.e self-made ba me ters that have mad An.-ri-a"s history illustrious. Kochest er I )enn i : t. Wliat a onnni ntary is the care-r .f I'redcrick Douglass upon the institution of slavuy ! N'W York Adv rtiser. Tb leath f I'ntlefjck Dougb's- re-liio-s from tiie stag one of the in t pieturs.pie figures of his day. Memphis Commercial. IJorri a negro dav. he won fre-dom, distinction ami widespread iulbioiice by his wn efforts and bis ov.a abilities. New York World. W do not recall that tho honesty f hi motives was ever iloiihicl. o,- that 1 fvrr faill f any task assumed or any duty iii:,-M-d upon him. Indianapolis News. If a list were to be made ,.f he Ameri cans who have io;i tie greatest s-r'i.- to large numbers of their l'cllow-t itiz-'t.s the name ,,f Freleri-k Douglas woe',1 have a high place upon it.- lttill.Cc Mv prcss. K:i5-it-r Wilhelm t'ot-o:. Perhaps tl;c trau -la ir has not beu able t bring out the b iuti s of Iloi-peroj- Willi. sin's compo'tjoiis. St. L mis Posi D:-;..i; h. Il:oer i- Wiiü.na l:a tak-n to wriiir'-j poetry. He has what tie c,L ;r would all a " i i' h" ,, th. publishers. - "leve land Plain Deal- r. 1 Imp-Tor William. Oermany's erst war lord, having tuned pod aa I coi!i;os.T, illnsiratcs anew the power of music b so iih tiie savage bi t as!. - New York Tele gram. Kaiser William is not going to let Pre mier Crispi 1. all the phrasing. Tlo Italian sk-ptic having tailed th poj!, to the lei'ense of '(ici.l, King, and Coun try." tin Prussian rails his nobles to the defense of "Ibdigioii. Morality and r-d- r." It is probable that theOerman war lord, llerlin style. undrtatids by tie first tie acceptance of the th-ory f di viii" tight; by scind. military ibedicnce; by the thinl, absolute trust iu the great and only "Me." New York Ilvcni ig Sun. Work of the l.cgiNhtnrc. Tie- little Dehiwap' Lgis'ature on tin;;.s to ballot fruitlessly for I'nited States Senator. Delaware is a very wee Sae, but her statesmen are very big and obstinat and the i-.n'et is Jik-dy to run thro-igh spring and sauiujcr.- Minneapo lis .beirnal. '!:-. New Jersey L-gilaH'Se Ii n in session more than six weeks and has enacted only a lo.en Saws. Tiie -cel-leiice of the work of a legislature, lik that in a gaim f baseball, can usually be estimated on the invrs ratio of the number of scores made. St. Paul dob". The Kansas Legislature i right a bill to suppress the butleliiie industry is not only unwise but it is unconstitutional. It is not only uneonsiituiioual in Kansas, but it is unconstitutional it, any State where it would be unconstitutional to leg islate buttei-.ua king, wheat growing er any oths-r useful industry out of existence. Kansas Ciiy .Loirnal. Tlni:nl).crcw C i -illz.it ion. What makes the affair pa rtict.I.i r!y loathsome is the pivtf usio'is f the in quisitors to lofty "!irisii,nii v. Chicago Post. The young rpublie .f Hawaii is start ing otf v !!. I f lite story of the barbarous t.-rtmvs its agents have indicted j- order to extort confessions an true, it is the im-per-itiv duty of the Cni'c.l States to look after th-. interests of its citizens t h-t e. Da veil port 1 b-nir.era t. Tin San Francisco Call's story of the torture ,.f y. itnesscs in Honolulu is r volting in the extreme so ivvoltirtg that it will hav to be fully .iilirmcd before it is believed. It uht ti be bot!! incred ible and untrue that the descendants of American missionaries rouM string a prisoner up by the thumbs to make him confess. Nw York World. The Women in Wasliinrgton. The National Council of Women that is in Washing!. ;i is a body tliat will oun pan- v. -ry favorably with Congress. I'.os- ton Hobe. Dear. bar. what a time there will h down thr if that Woman's Congress all gets to talking at om -Philadelphia I ii'iuiivr. Then will be ome sor-nes ;;s a result of the Women's Congn-ss u Washington, tor its session will nut Im bu nouh t- giv a tenth f the delegates a c'.itiutv to talk.-Pittsburg Disp.at. h. The women in Washington attending the National Council hav an elegant han. to point to tin prs.nt situation uf affairs of th l"nitd States bivcrmncut as an illustration f the horrible imss the nidi make of running things. Could the women do wors.-V It is hard to b Ii ve i. Springfield Kepubliean. Li Iic.trctl to Power, Li Hung Chang is gtting his innings agaiü. M inneapolis Journal. Li Hung Chang now has permission to k.-ep his thr.e eyed peacock feather- tlU h ss Japan haj.j.. ns t take a fancy to it. Washington Star. Willi Li Hung Chang's y.ll .w jacket and peaock leather restord, and the Chinese conunan.lcrs c.uniuitting suici.le, l he affairs f China may presently begiu to look tip. St. Louis Post-Dispatt h. The i:mp rir has returmsl t Li Hung Chang his yll,.v jacket and his peae. k fcathr. Frm th 'hinse weather re ports one wu!d be led to judge that a nice cap with ear tabs w.mld be very ne- ptable to Li just now. Cleveland Plaiu Dealer. The Napoletoiie Ucvival. One d the fads .f the ud of the cen tury is a general revival .f interest in some historical tigur. At present w are in th throes of a Napootiie craze. l'altimore Anierican. On of the results f th Nap.donic re vival in literature in Nw York city is a Wapoh oni,- tea" given by fash, nable ladies. At least it gave them sonithin to think about and er haps taught them inciibntally sonn facts in bisf ry f.r instance, who Nap.deon was ami what ho did. Indianapolis Journal. 1- f i . v.. -