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tt. W. JOKNSpN, EDITOR AXTD FUBXJSHBB, NEW ULH, MINNESOTA. LEIBNIZ/ who never forgot anything he read, could relate Virgil and other classical .poets, even, when he. was quite an old man. IN the churchyard atDarley Dale in, England is a yew tree, said to be the oldest in the world. Local .tradition mades it 3,000 years old. '?*5 AN Australian pearl diver says that one of the strange effects of diving is the invariable bad temper felt while working at the bottom of the sea. E gastronomic law that oysters |&f should not be eaten in the months without an "R" in them, was laid down Ell by a person named Butler, nearly 300 years ago. "IT is curious to note that it is the bachelors in the House of Commons a who interest themselves most persist gently in the woman's suffrage quee« ?X^-CT RANNOCH LODGE, the fine country 'place in Scotland now occupied by Andrew Carnegie, who leases it from --•Sir Robert Menzies, is thirteen miles .from a telegraph office and twenty three miles from a railway station. HE largest book ever known1 is owned by Her Majesty Queen Victor ia. It is 18 inches thick and weighs 63 pounds and contains the addresses of congratulation on the occasion of her Majestv's jubilee. «^. THEY manage their criminal busi ness very carefully in Rome. I has taken the authorities three years to complete the arrangements of the trial of seven persons for forgery. Mean while the suspects have been" in jail. DR. COLIN, a French army surgeon, has been studying the effect of regular marching upon soldiers, and he as serts that the regularity of the step causes a shock to the brain and the bones, whicft wi]l often break down the strongest men. '. E most northern newspaper in the world is the Nordkop, which, pre sumably, means "North Cape" in English published *at Hammerstein. The editor and his assistants work in a, small wooden house roofed with turf, and news is brought to .them .by mail-boat. 'if'"' THE Russian peasants believe that the doctors brought the cholera into the empire to improve their business, which was a trifle dull before its ad vent. Their belief is that if you har ness up a team of maidens and plow a furrow about your premises the ecourge cannot enter. The unhappy consequences of their fallacies is that they die like sheep. ..... ..,„ ANNE HATHAWAY'S cottage at Strat ford-on-Avon is now national proper ty, the British trustees having taken possession of it. Sentiment does not usually enter into real estate deals, and it is therefore interesting to learn that while the trustees paid £3,000 for the property, the father of the present tenant bought it fifty years ago for £345. v£^^ CANNED oysters and chocolate"ec-* lairs are said to be the- proper things to set before the people at a Chicago lunch. That is a safe enough diet, no doubt but if cholera reaches town it will be better to refrain from adding Chicago water to the menu. Milwau kee and St. Louis furnish a fair be«, -verage. -.'*!.. f^- I Ingersoll and Talmage were book ed for a theological debate on Blaine and Gladstone for a political discus sion would they receive as liberal ad vance notices in the press as Sullivan and Corbett? This is called the age of brain, but brawn seems to possess ..greater drawing qualities, as far as the average man is concerned. HE stratified masses of the earth's crust, where most fully developed, at tain a united thickness of not less than ,$100,000 feet:,If they were all laid down at the most rapid recorded rate of denudation, they would re quire a period of 73,000,000 of years for their completion. -If they 'were laid down at the slowest-rate they.! Tvould demand a period of not less *tifrhan 680,000,000. raflteRB i'**3ijt$ i- J* -a tJ j^ j: CHICAGO'S modesty with regarded £the cholera surpassesjjany record that she has yet made. If she doesn't bid for a bit of that plague to show at the World's Fair it will be the first time she failed to ask for what was in the market. **&*$& ThemestJSe^s ifte WorM Con densed and Arranged in Conven ient Fond. Washington, Personal, Foreign, Crim inal). Casualty and Other Important-News. ?$f tk.z TH E CAPITAL An extra session of congress may be call-: edjWteke action to prevent an epidemic of cnmera. A circular is issned by the ^treasury de partment to ^collectors ofjcustonis to guard* against cholera. Secretary of the Treasury Foster, in an address, discusses the question-of pauper immigration. President Harrison causes to be issned a circular recommending that all vessels arriving at American ports be quarantined for twenty'days. PERSONAL. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, who has *just passed her eightieth year, has had ten chil dren, of whom four are living. The queen of Belgium is among the latest recruits to photography, end pursues her studies with the greatest diligence. Key. Dr. Milburn, the blind preacher and exchaplin of the house of representatives, has completed his work on the early his tory of the Mississippi valley. Rev. J. H. Gambrell, a Baptist preacher, declines a nomination for congress"1 in Mississippi becauss he cannot afford'to give up his church for such a purpose. Horace Traubel of Camden, N. J., has ap pealed to the'Tflends of the late Walt Whit man all over,the world for a fund where with to preserve his cottage as a memorial .to the dead poet., 0 wen Chase,•« veteran Maine woodsman and hunter baakilled 222 bears in his fifty years'rambling in the forests, and says that bears are the most cowardly animals on the big game list. Mrs. Prank Le3lie Wilde has returned from England, leaving her recently acquir ed husband jn that country. She is dis gusted with his idleness, and proposes to let him work out his own starvation. CASUALTIES. Consorts of the e/tearuer Toledo are lest on Lake Superior. Two fatal and destructive fires occur in New York. Fire at Alanta, Ga., causes a loss of about $100,000. The town of Soevenvhaza, Hungary, has been almost totally destroyed by fire. It contains about 4,000 people. The steam barge Western Reserve is wrecked cm Lake Superior and twenty-six Jives are lost. The fast mail train on the Hudson River Railroad waj? wrecked at New Hamburgh, Sf. Y., draw bridge recently. TJiree were killed. The draw was partially open. The schooner City of Toledo, lumber la den from that port to Chicago, capsized and sunk eighteen miles north of M.anistee and eight psrsons were drowned. The City of Toledo left Manistee, encountering a fierce gale.. In attempting to enter the har bor at Piefport the vessel struck the bar and capsized, sinking immediately. Thelost include Capt.John McMillan, his two daugh ters, who were making the voyage with him, and five sailors, whose names are not known. Capt. McMillan leaves a wife and five children at Manistee. The vessel and cargo were owned by the Manistee Lumber company and valued at $5,000: TH E WICKED WORLD. 'Mrs. Cochrane of Greenville, Pa., is sus pected of having poisoned her lather, David Harrison, a wealthy farmer. gp| A cousin of Alexander Dumas is arrested in St. Louis for passing "bogus checks in Boston. '."^At Omaha. George Foss, a chop-house cook, killed himself and Laura Day, hisanimal mistress, in a quarrel over the possession of a gold watch. ^#At Visalia, Cal., detectives visited the house of Chris Evans, one of the Collis train robbers and dug up on the premises two bags of silver containing about $1,500. Evans"and Bontag are still atlarge. Mr. Servis, a Chicago druggist, is accused of selling brandy and other liquors under the guise of soda water. He cannot be found, butFrank Spencer, his partner, is under arrest. Dr. James F. Cook, one of the founders of the Bennett Medical college, and for the last twenty-five years a practicing physician in Chicago, ismissing, and his friends fear that he has met with some serious harm. A -"jHugh O'Donnell surrendered himself to 'Aid. McMasters at Pittsburg and was re leased on $3,000 bail to answer charges of conspiracy and riot preferred by Secretary Lovejoy. Informations were made by Sec retary Lovejoy charging 40 Homestead strikers with conspiracy and aggravated riot. Officers have gone to Homestead to make the arrests. OTHER SHORES, A railway train has arrived in Jerusalem from Jaffa, the railway between the two place3 having been cotnpleted. The failure is announced of Redfern, Alexander & Co., Australian and New Zealand merchants and bankers of London. Their liabilities amount to £250,000. The South Dublin (Ireland) market caught fire and was burned, together witB Warren's hotel, which was crowded with guests, .many of whom narrowly escaped with their lives. The damage done by the fire amounts to £120,000. David Thomas, who engaged to work on the farm of Peter Rutherford, near Winni peg, committed suicide by jumping into the Red river, Thomas is thought to be the man whom Grand Forks, N. D., officers were after in Manitoba for the murder of W. H. Bortheim of Grand Forks recently. The Neu Freie Presse contains the im portant announcement that the mortality among the cholera patients at Hamburg, has been reduced 50 per c?nt by the treatment prescribed by professors North Nagel and Kahler. namely injections of warm salt water. The effect is immediate and marvelous and many patients whose pulse is so feeble as to be indescernible, often Tecover after this simple treatment. In many cases, however, the effect is so short that a relapse follows. f$\3$ Exaggerated and sensatTon'al3 reports having been sent from London regarding the accident that befell Mr. Gladstone re cently, the representative of the Associated Press has made inquiries to learn the exact condition of the prime minister. The response to' these inquiries bear out th§statement cabled.by the London agent offthe Associated Press'that Mr. Gladstone Butallied no. physical injury whatever, W4% from histtoebtthttr with Hie heifer in the grounds o^Hairardeh ^castle He is per-' fecUy'wefHtt^tevery-way, andthe report' that he-was severely injured is wholly nntrne. :4 ^j$£g§i»-?-4 9 ThomaOreiJl, indicted ronthe murder of Matild»?Gl©Yer, was again arraisned in the police court-at London, .and was committ ed for trial .formurder and blackmail..'J. W. McCuHoek of Ottawa, Ont., testified that: he had made the acquaintance of the pris oner at BJanehsfd's "hotel-in Quebec. Neill. showed hihj^battle, saying that .it' con tained poison. .He said hehad*given poi son sin-capsules to- women. In the course of their conversation Neill declared tliat he had'had lots of fun with women in Lon don. ^y-t-J^ig^"' ».-*, yg. '-PpLITlOAL ECHOES. If|. Subcommittees, are* appointed by %ae Democratic-state .central committees. Olin Welborn has been nominated for congress'by the Democrats in* the Seventh California, district. The first Mississippi district People's par ty convention has nominated James B. Bur kettfor congress. ^ij0^ ip'0^-^ 1'?$ Democratic .congressional flnbfminatioiiB: Ninth Missouri, Beauchamp Clark Twen ty-fifth 'Pennsylvania E. P. Gillespie Ninth Michigan, H. H. Wheeler Seventh Iowa, J. A. Dyer Ninth Iowa, J. E. F. Mc Gee. An attempt will be made at the Texas Republican state convention to secure the endorsement of Clark (Democrat) for gov ernor, that gentlejhan's adherents believing that in this manner Hogg can be beaten. LABOR, CIRCLE. Socialist-Laborites meet in New York and nominate candidates for president and vice president. The Democrats of the Twenty-third con gressional district of Pennsylvania, nomi nate Frank C. Osborne. The North-eastern switchmen's strike, which has been on at New Orleans since the 14th of Aug., took a serious turn and terminated in four employes and one strik er being shot. SPORTING MATTERS, Nancy Hanks trots a mile ,on the Inde pendence kite track in 2:05£. THE RAILROADS. A railroad from South Dakota to the Gulf of Mexico is contemplated. The Soo makes a big cut for the Grand Army encampment^- ?.»?• The Pennsylvania's new tunnel at the junction of the main line and the New York division in Philadelphia has been completed. J. J. Hill gives notice that the Great Northern will withdraw from the Trans continental association. The Atchison and Northern Pacific will probably do likewise. The following notice was issued from the Northern Pacific freight department: ''Farmers .wjshing to obtain employment for their threshing outfits in North Dakota this fall are hereby notified that three out fits with five meneach can find plenty to do at each of'the following places: Buffalo, Cooperstown and Minnewaukan." WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. A part of the material for the New Hamp shire state building has been shipped from Concord, N. H. The shipment consists of J32 pieces of Concord granite. 102 blocks of Conway .-tone and eleven barrels of mould ed granite for the firc-placeo. English music and composers will not be unrepresented at the World's Columbian Exposition next year. Among those who^ have expected an invitation to attend is Dr. A. C. Mackenzfe. who will conduct a performance of his "Rose of Sharon," or some other work. 4y S I It is proposed that one ofllohtana's con tributions to the Exposition, to be made by women of the state, shall be a fountain made of natural ore. The design will be selected by open competition. It is sug gested that the base be made of native minerals, the bowl of silver and the cup of gold. William M. Singerly, of Philadelphia, will bring his big steer, the largest in the world, to the Columbian Exposition. The steer was sired by a purebred Holstein, artd its dam is a pure bred Durham cow. The is 6 years old and weighs 3,800 pounds. Its height is 5 feet 10 inches, its girth over loin 10 feet 10 inches, and its length from root of ear to rump 9 feet 10 inches. Mr. 8ingerljr will exhibit hi3 steer in the Live Stock Department. The largest sample of gold quartz ever mined in Montana was taken out of the Mclntyre lode. Its weight is 1,785 pounds. It came from near the- surface. There are other large samples which came from the Shafershaft at the depth of110 feet one from the Musser shnit, 100 feet and another from the working shaft, 200 feet. All are destined for exhibition att'he World's Fair at Chicago, x-%-- t.„Yv MISCELLANEOUS. Two cadets'at West point engage in a gloye contest to settle a dispute. Portions of Minnesota and the Dakotas are visited by a severe storm. Mr. Pennington has another air ship ready, with which he proposes to make trip to New York. Classifications of corps at the coming G. A. R. national encampment are complet ed. Frater & Goldenberg, clothiers and ex porters, Tien na, have suspended with lia bilities of 300,000 florins.^ The Chicago beer manufacturer?" 'hay% entered into a combination or mutual agreement which will prevent any cutting of prices. A committee representing the manufac turers of sash, doors and 'blinds for the Northwest is in session in Chicago, draw ing up anew price list. Jud«»e'Morton in.the supreme judicial court at Boston, granted a temporary in junction against the order of the Iron Hall in each of two bills in equity. The order entered by Judge Morton is that for the purpose ofnteserving the status quo pend ing the hearing "upon- the'application for the appointment of a receiver and an in ~."-."^f/-^j--/r *t*:f -.& The complaint in the attachment pro ceedings against the Bullock & Wilder Company, railroad contractors, of No. 40 Wall street, New York, for $450,000, brought by Isaac and Leopold Selingman who com pose the tirm of Selingnian Brothers, of London, was filed in the county clerk's 61 fice. H. B.-McCellaad, who for some time has beenteaching school iniEncinal county, Texas, for $40 per month, has been inform,-' ed by English attorneys that he is the only heir of his uncle, the late Lord'William Moore, of England, and is therefore posses por of that title, as well us an estate of $2. 000,000. itL power "ul combine, to be kirawiua« the *beir way out, Leaf Tobacco Company, was formed a* ..Louisville, Ky., recently, whose object il is to compere with the newlyv organized tobacco combine at Cincinnati. E leyen of the*wealthiest warehouses of the city are in the deal, and it'is expected that betorelone none here will be out of the combine. Hie' capital stockis placed at $2,500,000. H£W- ^imwiisf. i&a&n A Summary uf the Important Events II of the Week in the Northwest- J^imesota,~'Wiseoiism, fywa, arid North Dakota News in a UutshelJ, $* 1 f&- MINNESOTA. 3Phe Nelson paper mill in Minneapolis is destroyed'bystire. An important meeting of tlierailway and warehouse commission is held in St. Paul. James-W. Lawrence is nominated.by the Minneapolis Democrats for congress.W 'A captivating stranger swindles several St. Paul people. Ramsey county's property is assessed for taxation at $142,666,832. o^|. SfHon. Knute Nelson opens the Republi can campaign at Caledonia. Jndge Kelly decides that the Commer cial Bank of St. Paul may resume busi* ness. .A three-year-old child is lost on the prairie near Fulda, Minn. Hundreds of men search in vain for the little one. ^IHenrg Feig of Kandiyohi county is nom inated tor congress by Seventh district Re publicans. Lloyd Porter, sentenced to the Stillwater penitentiary for life for murder, .is.pardon ed. He was editor of the Prison Mirror. John Theodore, a retired merchant of Wabasha, committed suicide by hanging in his barn. SThe residence of J. J. Brown at St.. Cloud was entered by burglars and considerable property stolen. An unknown man, who was lying near the rails, was struck and killed by a North ern Pacific train near Crookston. An incendiary fire at Faribault destroyed a barn belonging te the -heirs of theRein my estate. The loss was $1,000 no insur-" ance. ,' .X A55 A passenger train* on the Soo road goes through a bridge- neer Barrett, Minn. Six persons are killed, twelve seriously injured and many slightly hurt. .! A. Detle, a shoemaker of Jordan, com mitted suicide by hanging himself in his Bhop. Domestic troubles are supposed to be the cause. ,^c, The body of Hans Anderson, a1 farmer who lived near Redwood Falls, was found embedded in a slough. He had been miss ing six weeks. .^ T. M. Wilson has decided to accept a bonus offered by the Redwood Falls Board of Trade, and remove his repair shops from Cloquet to that city/ '$'.1 Katie Kiess, aged 13, was fatally "burned at her home in Minneapolis by an explo sion of kerosene, with which she was at tempting to light the fi e. %jg£ A young inan named Charles Roering jumped from1 a moving car on the inter urban railway between Minneapolis and St. Paul and sustained severe spinal injuries. The state normal school opened at Mankato, recently with a good attendance, especially in the higher classes. There is dwutjle the number of high school gradua tes than ever before.. A boy employed ih*Wendt & Co.Js drug store, at Minneapolis, by.mistake gave tar tar emetic for Rochelle salts to Mrs. Harry Reeves. The woman is in a precarious condition as the result. The residence of Otto Zander, near Salem Corners, was destroyed by fire. Zander was badly turned, rescuing a 7-year-old daughter up-stairs. There is small insur ance. D. Sweeney artd John Halbron, two river men, performed rather a startling feat at Winona by jump:ng from the high bridge to the river, a distace of sixty feet. Neith er of the men were injured. By the explosion of a gasoline stove at Rochester Miss Mary Barron of this city was fatally Dumed* though her injuries at the time were not supposed to he very seri ous. Owing to the shock, as well as the burn she ha3 since died. John W. Davis was arrested" at Little Falls some time ago charged by Emma Steffins of Fort Ripley with criminal as sault. The girl is under sixteen years of age. They were married in the jail. He was afterward released on bail. W. Roberts, a freight conductor, whose home is at St. Janie?. fell under the wheels of a moving train at Mountain Lake which cut off one leg below the-knee. The early passenger train brought him hpme. A team of spirited horses attached to a reaper driven by Edward Zeibrath, near Montrose, ran away, and Zeibrath. was thrown under the machine. The knives cut off an arm and a leg, from which in juries he died. Sarah Tobias of Le Sueur took[strychnine and was dead in less' than an hour. In sanity -was the cause, she having returned from the asylum but a short time ago. She was about twenty-three years old and lived with her parents one mile west of Le Sneur. Scarcely a day passes but what a report is brought to Winona of some depredation or crime committed by tramps either at Minnesota.City, a little- town six miles west of here, or on the Wisconsin side. A gang ol six or seven brutal men made,an attack on two young ladies. While Agent C. J. Fisber, of the Great Northern line at Breckinridge, was making up his remittance the other night, a man entered the office and, presenting a revolv er, demanded the money, He secured all in sight, about $150. There is no clue'to the robber.- Leonard Roway was assaultedand robbed of $20 while-walking about midnight in a lonely locality in Mankato. His skull was crushed, and he is unconscious and not ex pected to survive. His Assailant is supposed to have been Frank Gieffer, who was with him in a saloon shortly before the deed, and left town the next morning. An investigation of the cells in the Stearns County jail at St. Cloud proves that they are constructed of a poor quality of iron instead of first-class steel. Board- of County Commissioners may bring suit against the firm that had the contract. Sev eral-prisoners afeiost succeeded in sawing Fred Hahn, a young TafrlO years old liv ,ing about eight miles south of St. Pt$er, was accidentally shot and instantly killed while handl ng a gun. He had gone home from the field to get the gun ior his lather and was accompanied back by his younger -brother. A discussion ensued as to thegun leaded, and in ifceur, outiit^ras discharged. Wk »~f% WISCON SINfe- 5 A woman at Stevens' Point, Wis^confes aes to having murdered berstepdaugbter '£f ff Wisconsin Democmtarenominate the en tdreatate ticket Theresidence of Israel Belong, nearCMpr pewa "Fall§ Was destroyed by fire. IS#$#|^i 'An electric light plant will soon bees* tablished at Shell Lake. A-forest fire has been raging for the past few days acrete the bay from Ashland. A little son of Mrs. 'Storen, of .Madison, fell from a high box and broke his arm. Thieves broke into the jewelry store of A. P. Wilder, of Eau. GUtire, and stole a large number of watches and rings. Abraham Moore, of Sevastopol, Tfoor County, was badly injured in a runaway accident. His recovery.is doubtful. The house and barn of August Shaffer, of Oshkosh, were destroyed by fire. The lo3s is $1,000, partly insured. Milton Williamson, a brakeman on the St. Paul road, had his foot crushed under the ears at Nccedah. A valuable trotter belonging to F. S. Coughlin.of Ashland, fell:dowirau eighty foot well and was killed. 0 Farmers in Fond da Lac Countyreport that prairie chickens are very scarce in that vicinity this season. About 100 gypsies are encamped near Appleton. They ..have 150 horses with them. The Peter Heid JGrain Company's eleva tor at Appleton has been completed. It has a capacity of 75,000 bushels.: '*, Mrs. Edward Sherbert and her mother, Mrs. Monteiful, of Portage, were both se riously injured in a runaway accident. Carol Stoll, a resident of Winnebago County since 1850, died at his home in the town of Nekimi at an advanced age. Maria Berendts, aged about 40 years, of Sheboygan, was adjudged insane and taken to the Northern Hospital. Rosa Spieles, a 12-year-old girl residing at Sheboygan, was arrested on a charge of larceny. George W. Galvin, a prominent resident of Mauston, passed away at the age of 53 years. A tramp named James Morgan, of Chica go, has been arrested at Prairie du Chien, charged with having robbed the Council Bluff & Northern depot at that place. Charles E. Hoyt, a confectioner of Madi son, made an assignment to Frank M. Woo ton, of that place. The liabilities are about $800, and the assets about the same. Michael Mueller, of Sheboygan, has been placed in jail under $2,000 bonds on a crim inal charge preferred against him by his 15 year-old neice. W. C. Dawes, a resident of Pittsville^ passed away at the age of 74 years. De ceased was a resident of that place since 1860. Menomonee has received an offer from N. W. Harris & Co. of $11,100 for the $10,000 street improvement bond3 iasued by the city. A 9-year-old son of John Bremmer. liv ing in the town of Buffalo, Marquette County, was kicked in the head by a mule, and is in a critical condition. George Lenderback, of Eau Claire, drop ped dead on the street while on his way to the doctor's office. Heart failure was the cause of his demise. Peter McCann, a resident of Chippewa City, six miles north of Chippewa Falls, was arrested on a charge of criminal as sault upon Jennie Young. There is much fear of severe frost in Dane County. Farmers state that a frost at the present time would destroy nearly $1,500, 000 worth of crops. The Quinnesec Logging Company, of Marinettee, are extending their logging railjvay into the woods at a point near Marinettee. At Haney, about twelve miles north of Boscobel, several men were working in'a hay shed when the large timbers gave away. Two of the men were crushed to death and one other injured fatally. The artesian Well at Racine has been re paired and the citizens are ouce more fur nished with drinking water. A subscrip tion was taken up among Racine residents to pay for the repairing of the well. We3tley E. Sowards, a farmer living in the town ot Hampden, Portage County, was arrested on a cqmplaint of Jay Brad ley, who charges the prisoner with having assaulted him with a deadly weapon and robbtd him of. a team and wagon on the highway. Mrs. William Walthers, formerly of Wau pun, was terribly burned and scalded by the overturning of a kettle of boiling wa ter at her home in Townsend, Ore. baby was also scalded and died a few,hours later., -j ^^i(^{&t% ^7V") NORTH DAKOT\ $$'£} _A North Dakota man, claiming to be a world's fair representative, is arrested in Colorado- for swindling banks. While cutting grain near Grqfton, Chris topher Hanson had both legs cut off by a reaper. He cannot recover. Joseph "Nnapp, of Devil's Lake, was knocked down, beaten senseless and robbed .of $50 and a gold watch by two highway men at Grand Forks, N. D. Will JBlessiiigcr4 30yfe$s*f age, was in« jored fatally atf^ntonby^fallinff xroon a.*??$£? pitchfork. Hejwas oifi«BSv StilcM KbdJA «8f W/jj sIidirig"ofi^Iellupoh~theupnghTliaTidle oI'[--?%^ the fork wMch pierced his bbdy,almo3ta- 4£^$l -foot.^f^- f:~ ,.K«&f-v-- -5sr Hfll street motor Tine at Dubuque was I sold by the sheriff for $50,000. The.^ur- x^jf chasers were anew company formed called the Eight Street and W 0)nbuqW£tare«t Railway Company.'. -ArJ^oles of^ncorpor ation of the newjeompan'y were filed: capi--' -taL $100,000. 9fH •& S, Grace church choir of Cedar Rapids six ty-five in number, has been .camping at Decorah. One of the'members', was* taken' down with scarlet fever. Gamp was broken up and the members returned home. The health officers are alarmed at the prospect ~, of an epidemic Sft*"- Fire destroyed-the old state house at Des •„. Moines recently.' The building is a com-^ plete ruin. The State-house was built in 1846 and used until 1884, when5the new state house was ready for occupancy. The fire started through the carelessness of tramps, who hayeheen.^owedfto lodge in the building. S W -*v James Bossinghamof Humboldt lost sev eral valuable horses by fire. He believes ,„ the fire was the work of an incendiary, and *.., **. said that he knew the parties and that they ',^ should not live. Mike Hessian called upon %'-=&T Bossingham and wasseverely injured in the attack that Bossin.^ham" made upon him,. The affair is being investigated. i^M"'-j/ Henry-Suit and his nine-year-old son, a- ^'•y}$J$S,*^ few miles from Gilman, are suffering all the 'Jf.."t^J^* horrible agonies of hydrophobia, and a V-v'', daughter will probably also fall *a victim, j^fc* all having oeen bitten by a rabid dog a few J''': weeks since. Several head of live stock ,'" was bitten at the same time and have since *,"' 'died, and there is no hope for any of the '"--*.--. fcmUy.-.- A a Disease In Poultry. Fowls easily take cold, and are then apt to sutler from the disease known as roup. ^?j. This is a bad form of catarrh and is often fatal. The fowls sneeze and breathe with--£f' difficulty on account of the filling of the •$$•. nostrils with a thick, curdy matter which has a bad odor. The remedy, which should be applied as' soon as the trouble appears, is to wash the head and mouth with warm vinegaT and then apply a solu tion of chlorate of lotash- in water. a» strong as it be made, to the mouth and nostrils with a feather and pour a teaspoon lul down the bird's throat. To ovoid this* direase the birds must be kept dry and clean. It is exceedingly contagious" and much resembles the common diphtheria. £tj£ A Cheap Catarrh Cure. Medical Record: Yawning is by no means a useless act, for it often cures ca tarrh and other affections of the throat, in many cases giving instantaneous relief, it producer a considerable distention of the muscles of the pharynx, constituting a kind massage, and under this influence the carullaginous portion ot the eustachian tube contracts, expelling into the pharynx the inviscosities there collected. According to M. Naegeli, yawning is much more effi cacious ior affections of the tube than the» methods ~V*alsalva or Pohtxei, and is more rational than the insufflation ol air, which is often difficult to perform prop erly. "^Statistics an Growth. HerH Nels Nelson, w'hile hunting near Bis marck was accidentally shot by his own gun. The charge struck him in the head and deatli was instantaneous.- He leaves a •wifeand child. The Grand Forks authorities'have a man under arrest, captured at Winnipeg, who is claimed to have confessed to parties there that he was an eye witness of the shooting of W. H. Bolheim there Aug. 8, which he now denies. During the performance of Haverly's minstrels at Fargo recently to a crowded house a terrific electrical storm passed over the city. A nervous man in the audience mistook the flushes oflightning for tire in the scenery and cried, "fire" repeatedly. The audience was badly exc'.ted and^sever al ladies fainted. A panic was averted only by the timely action of a few cool headed men in the audience. The body of Peter Swanson, a native of Sweden, was found in Red Lake river at Grand Forks. It had evidently been in the •water some days and was partially decom posed. ,A letter was lound in the dead man's pocket addressed to a brother in the old country, saying that he intended to drown himself. It was doubtless a case ot suicide /.Deceased was about 30 years of & & I O W Charles^A. Morgan,-of union township near Atlanta, has left for Darts unknown. Since his flight,forged notes to the extent of $4.000 have turned up. Fast .hoTses?and women were the cause of his down-all: British Medical Monthly: The year of greatest growth in boys is the seventeenth in girls, the fourteenth. While girls reach. their full height in their fifteenth year they acquire tull weight at the age of twenty. Boys are stronger than girls irom birth to the eleventh year then girls become su perior physically to the seventeenth year, when the tables are as*ain turned and re main so. From November to April chil dren grow very little and gain no weight .. irotn April to July they gain in height,"but lose in weight, and from July to November they increase greatly in weight, but not in height. .**!» Two Kinds of Crackers. Babyiand: It is no wonder that people, old and youn?, make mistakes when the same word stands for so many different things. It was the Fourth of July. A little miss was told to take her afternoon nap and then she should get up and, watch the boys put off their fire-crackers.' Pretty soon a heavy thunder shower came on and Aunt M.-try went up to see if Miss-" Rachel was frightened. Evidently she was, for she called out at once: "Aunt Mary. I don't want, to bear any mote water-cracker-j." ,• The Exact Truth. Detroii Free Press: The school boy was showing his teacner some apples he had bought. "Them ain't no od," he said, throwing*, out a couple. "Gracious me. Fred," she exclaimed,, "whose grammar ao you use?" "Johnnie Wilkinses," he answered, inno- c:?ntly "mine's all tored up." STRANGE STORY O A DOCTOR. Obtained a Mufcfer Clew Which Was Useless In Court, »v?i.j ce picked'up a murder clew in* a very peculiar way," said Dr. E. P. Roach to a Globe-Democrai man. I was practicing in Brooklyn and lived next door to a man of considerable means, who was one morning found murdered in his library. He had been struck with a slungshot and then choked. Everything indicated that robbery was the motive of the crime, but the police could get no clew to the perpetrators, and tne affair was fin ally forgotten. The widow's health declined, and I was frequently in at tendance upon her, I could not help• suspecting that she knew more about her husband's murder than she chose to tell. One night I was called to see^ her and found her slightly delirious. She seemed to be suffering great men* tal distress. I laid my hand upon her forehead, and it suddenly occurred to me to question her regarding her hus band's murder. Instantly I heard-: voices of two men quarreling. I rec ognized one as that of the murdered* man, the other as that of his son. There was the sound of a blow, a fall,, and the woman gasped as if horror stricken and lay back on her pillow as though lifeless. I revived her and re peated the experiment with like re sults. The son was the guilty party. I had discovered her secret, but I re alized that such evidence would be worthless in court, and held my peace. The son was afterwardkilled in a New York dive, and the wife and mother died in the insane asylum." Honesty. Twernlo—There's the nickel in my vest pocket that I should have paid for my fare down'town* ,^u Wadsleigh—Well, I wouldn't cheatf" even a street railway company. Twemlo—Neither did J. "Sou see-1 forgot and p^id the fair out ©f anoth er pocketl S IH ,*m?