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LATER NEWS

Mr. HEDDEN, the newly. appointed collector
of the New York custom house, has taken
charge of that Office, his bond for O),OJo
having been approved.
THREE girls-Rosa Misesl and Sarah and
Fannie Rosenberg-were burned to death IN
tenement house fire at Cleveland, Ohio. Theo-
dore Trau, the lover Of Miss Meisel (the two
were to be married in few days was badly
injured while trying to rescue his affianced,
and has lost his reason
A SERIOUS riot, brought about by an at
tempt of Chicago street car company to
fill the places of striking drivers and conduc-
tors, resulted in the demolition OF several
cars, the prevention of others from running
and the calling out of the police.
A. J. SpREcKLEs, son of the Sandwich
Island sugar king, in November, 1884, shot
and dangerously wounded NJ. H. De Young,
proprietor Of the San Francisco Chronicle.
That paper had attacked Sprcckles'
father. Young Spreckles has just been ac-
quilted, the jury's verdict creating great sur
prise in San Francisco. A few years ago De
Young's elder brother was shot by Mayor
Kalloch, and year or so afterward again
shot, and this time killed by kallochs son.
who was also acquitted
FURTHER appointments by the President:
Ex-Cougressman William Dorsheimer to BE-
United States attorney for the southern dis
trict of New York; Martin T. McMahon tc
bs United States marshal for the same dis.
trict: Mr.. Maldrow to bc first assistant Sec
retary of the interior, a new office created
by Congress; George A. Jenks'
of Pennsylvania, to be Second
assistant secretary of the interior; William
w. Rockhill, of Maryland, to be secretary OF
the legation OF the United States to China;
Charles DENLY, Jr., of Indiana, to be second
secretary of the legation of the United States
to China; James B. Hayes, of Wisconsin, to
be chief Justice of the supreme court OF the
Territory of Idaho; Benjamin F. Jonas,
Of Louisiana, to be collector OF Gus
toms for the district Of New Orleans, La. :;
Z. S. Wilson, of Jackson, Miss, to be receiver
Of public moneys at Evanston, Wyoming
Territory. To be marshals Of the United
States: William l.. CaGel, of Texas, for the
northern district OF Texas: James L. Liddell,
of Mississippi, for the northern district OF
Mississippi. TO be attorneys of the United
States: Robert S. Shields. Of Ohio, for the
northern district of Ohio; Charles B. Pearre
of Texas, for tho northern district Of T.xa'.
\ VIENNA dispatch says that ''if the United
States government refuses to recall Mr.. kel-
10y the Austrian government will formally
decline to recosni 20 him"
LADY RANDOLPH CHrRCHILL, who is tine
dau ,hter of Mr.. Leonard Jerome OF New
York, is personally engaging in the canvass
to secure the reelection to the British pariia'
ment of her husband, Lord Randolph
Churchill, the new secretary of state for In
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WashfnEtons

The clerk OF the House of Representatives
says that from present indications there will
be- fewor contested election cases before the
next Congress than there have been before
any Congress for forty years There will not
he more than four, and probably not moro
than three.
THE important offices relating to the New
York custom house, about which there have
been many conjcctures, nave been filled by
the President rs follows: Edward L. Hedden
as collector, to succeed w. H. Robertson;
!. Benedict suspended, and Silas
of Charles K. Graham, suspended. Mr..
Hedden is q retired business man, and his ap-
pointment was made agreeably to the wishes
of the County Democracy, backed by recon-
mendations Of prominent business men. Mr.
Bcattie is the presen deputy county clerk OF
New York and prominent member of the
County Democracy. Mr.. Burt was appointed
the New York naval officer by Hayes in 1878,
and is secretary of the New York Civil Ser
vice Commission. In politics he Is a "8tug-
wump."
THE President has suspended Horatio G.
Burchard, of Illinois, as director Of the mint,
and appointed James 3. kimbn!l. OF Betlle-
ham, Penn, in his stead. DR.. Kimball is a
pro!ess9r of economic geology in tho Lchighl
university. He is q mining engineer and
metolIurgist by profession During the war
he served in the army of the Potomac as u.s.
si,tlnt ad adjutant-gencral, and is now president
of tho Everett Iron company, OF Penn
sylvania. Mr.. Burchard's letter giving his
reasons for declining to resign is published:
He SAYS substantially that he was appointed
for five years, to hold Office for that tims
"unless sooner removed by the President
upon reasons to be communicated by him to
the Senate:" that his torn has not yet eX-
pired: that no charges have been made
against him, and that therefore he sees no
reason to resign
TIE marble statue of the late President
Garfield has been unveiled in the statuary
hall of the capitol.
ADDITIONAL appointments by the Presi-
dent: To be receivers Of public
moneys: John OKeane, at Vancouver,
Washington Territory; Michael j. Cady, at
Bodie, CAL: j. K. Dollison, at Humboldt,
Cal; Arthur R Delaney, United States at
torney for the eastern district of Wisconsin;
w. C. Perry, attorney for the district OF Kan.
sas; James NJ Adams, register at the land
office at Spokane Falls, Washington Terri
tory; Ben jamin +. Peach, pension agent at
Boston; Richard Davis, postmaster Mt Locust
Valley, New York.
A WASHINGTON special Of the 3Oth said
that the President had decided on the ap-
pointment of Congressman William DORIS
heimer to be United States district attorney
for the southern district Of Now York, wee
Elihu Root, resigned: and OF Martin T. Nc.
Mahon to be United States marshal for the
same district, vice Joel b. Erhardt, resigned;
Congressman Dorsheiner has been Identified
with Tammany Hall in New York politics
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The Capture Of John Brown.

From an account in the Century, of
John Brown at llarpcr's Ferry, written
by one of his prisoners, who was in the
engine house during the insurrection,
and afterwards held the rank of captain
in the Confederate army, we quote the
following "Whcn Lieutenant Stuart
came in the morning for the final reply
to the demand to surrender, got UP and
went TO Browns side to hear his answer.
"Stuart asked, Are you ready to sur
render, and trust to the mercy of the
Government 2
"Brown answered promptly, No! !
prefer TO die here
"Iiis manner did not bctray the least
fear.
"Stuart stepped aside and made the
signal for the attack, which was instant
ly begun with sledgc hammers to break
down the door.
Grinding it would not yield, the
soldiers seized long ladder for bat
tering-ram, and commenced beating the
door with that, the party within firing
necessarily. l had assisted in the barri-
cading, fixing the fastcnings SO that l
could remove them upon the first effort to
get in. But Twas not at the door when the
battering began, and could not get to
the fastenings until The ladder was used.
I then quickly removed the fastenings,
and after two or three strokes of the lad
der the engine rolled partially back, MAX
ing a small aperture, through which
Lieutenant Green of the marines forced
himself, jumped on top of the engine,
and stood a second in the midst of a
shower of balls, looking for John Brown.
When he saw Brown he sprang about
twelve feet at him, and gave and an un-
derthrust of his sword. striking him
about midway the body and raising him
completely from the ground. Brown
fell forward with his head between his
knees, and Green struck him several
times over the head, and, as 1 then sup.
posed, split his skull at every stroke.
II was not two feet from Brown at
that time. Of course I got out Of the
building as soon as possible, and did not
know till some time later that Brown was
not killed. 1t seems that in making the
thrust Green's sword was bent double.
The reason that Brown was not killed
when struck on the head was that Green
was holding his swol in the middle,
striking with the hilt and making only
scalp wounds"
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The Mind Cure.

Boston's latest craze, mind cure, has
appeared in New York, says q writer in
the Brooklyn Eagle. No less than three
of the disciples of the new system have
moved to New York, and two of them
have set up gorgeous establishments up.
town. They all use the prefix doctor"
before their names, and their establish.
mcnts are run in every way like those OF
prosperous physicians of the old school.
One of them, on Madison avenue, is
reaping q harvest. lie charges So visit.
has a handsome brougham, livericd
man IN the hall. and all the other acces-
sorics of fashionable doctor of medi-
cine. These nen are rapidly building
up a boom in the line of quackery. Mrs.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, the novelist,
who has written one good novel, "That
Lass O. Lowric's," und one weak pay,
"Esmcralda," and gained considerable
fame thereby, is the most prominent con-
vert the mind cure people ever had They
have been using Mrs. Burnctt's name ever
since she was cured or converted by them
as sort of trade mark, and, as the gen.
eral opinion among women seems to be
that whatever cures Mrs. Burnett must
be efficacious, the mind cure people find
the use of the novelist's name very profit.
able. I called on the Madison avenue
men Just to see what the much talked of
mind cure was. In the first place the
man was as arrant and transparent fraud
as 1 have ever met. He was long
bearded, hollow-eyed and affected crca.
ture who could not talk dramatically, or
express two ideas consecutively in any
thing like an intelligible manner. Ho
not only does not know how he cures
pcoplc-if he does cure thcm-but lie
also has not formulated any theory by
which be can account for his assurance
in accepting money from people for al
legged services rendered. lie sat
like Napoleon in chair, while
he talked to me in the most pompous
and STACEY manner, and spoke somewhat
US follows: I'm the-a-first place it is u
matter of somewhat extreme difficult
ness to account for my treatments. Firstly,
disease doesn't cyist. If man has
boil it is because he thinks he ought to
have it, and not because he really has it.
| devote my intcnsost mental activity to
bear on that mans mind and that cures
his mind OF the deluson, which is that
he really has got boil. After his mind
has been cured this here boil of his cures
ITSELF If this is fair specimen of the
mind cure disciples of Boston, | am
rather surprised at the extent of the
craze there. The mind cure business is
the siliest humbug of all the forms of
ouackery that flourish in New York.
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How a Captains Eve Was Saved.

Long before the Morse system of tele.
graphy was discovered, messages were
sent all over Europe by means of mag.
netic current. This current was caused
by large coils of wires being passed from
the north to the south side Of the mag.
net. The one great drawback to this
system was that the distance OF circuit
could not exceed the strength of the
magnet, so that there was no possible
way of increasing the current. If, SO to
speak. two batteries are insufficient, the
number can be doubled and redoublcd,
until the desideratum is obtained. The
largest magnet was kept in the city of
Dublin, by which fair weather messages
could be transmitted across the channel
sometimes as far as Liverpool and Lon
don. This magnet on one occasion did
what was considered at that time an ex-
traordinary service. One Of the cap
tains of the Cunard line of steamships,
on his way from this city to Queens
town, had his eye pierced with a sail
needle carclessly left in the sail by one
OF the sailors. Fortunately, the sight
VI IuC CtV was iioI w
reaching Queenstown the captain sent
his vessel on to Liverpool in charge of
the first officer and proceeded to Dub.
lin, where consultation Of the most
eminent oculists of the day was held,
at the head of whom was DR.. Wild,
oculist to Queen Victoria. The exam
inat;on showed that the captain was in
danger of losing his eye if an operation
was performed. DR.. Wild hit upon what
was looked upon as a novel method of
extracting the needle. lie had the cap
tain blindfoldcd and led into the room
where the huge magnet was. In the
presence of all the faculty he was placed
with his side toward the magnet, so that
the eye containing the needle would be
nearest to it. The keepers were taken
off the magnet, tic bandages removed,
md in an instant the broken needle was
clinging to the magnet and the eycsight
saved. The same captain is still in the
service Of the Cunard company, and can
see as far at sea as any one of his officers
or crew.-MU York Mail and Express.
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SELECT SIFTINGS.

The human skull contains fewer bones
than the skull of most animals excepting
birds.
The skeleton of the carrion crow
weighs, when dry, only twenty three
grains.
A great many napkins and other artl-
clcs of usefulness are now made IN Eu-
rope from the bark of the paper null
berry.
Twenty-Five hundred different kinds
of poisonous fishes have been tabnlated
By the Toxic University of Japan. Fish
ing must be sometimes dangerous pas
time in Japan waters.
Piiny tells us how starlings were
taught to utter both Latin and Greek
words for the amusement of the young
C;vsars; and there arc numerous IN
stances on record of the clever sentences
uttered by this amusing bird.
The original stock of Indians found
here by the Pilgrim Fathers were OF the
Ienapc, who may be traced, in DIR. Brin-
toms opinion, from the shores of Hud-
sons Bay, where their cogcners, the
Crecs. still remain, retaining the language
in what is believed to be its earliest
form.
In the year 1899 New York State
adopted gradual emancipation act.
There were then about twenty thousand
slaves in the State. In 1917 another act
was passed, declaring all slaves free on
the 4th of July, 1927. There were very
few slaves in 1927; nearly all had be-
come free under the act OF gradual cman-
cipation, passed iu 1893.
When Tobias Lear made treaty with
the Bcy of Tunis an ambassador was
sent by that power to the United States.
He came in 1906, was received with
much ceremony, and entertained at the
public expense. Hc insisted upon having
the best house in Washington for his
dwelling, and he visited nj the public
expense the principal cities of the Union.
He was an expensive and not very well
come 'guest of the nation," and did not
remain long.
The cap of maintenance, or, as some
times called, "Cap of Dignity" was
orig nally worn only by dukes; later
many families of distinction gladly "ac.
ccptcd the fnncied honor it bestows."
Such as are entitled to this distinction
place their crests upon it instead OF
placing them upon a wreath. "Ihis
iaunty Cap Of Dignity is simply Grim
son velvet cap lined with ermine, its
two points turned toward the back"
'sNlost of the reigning dukes of Ger
many and many families belonging to
the peerage both CT England and OF
Scotland bear their crcsts on q Cap of
Maintenance.
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THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK,
Failures for tho Past six Months
Eettcr Times Promised.

Failures for tho Past six MOnths-
Eettcr Times Promised.
The review of the business OF the country
for the past six months prepared by a New
York mercantile agency, indicates a more
hopeful condition of business than has
been generally anticipated, owing to the
universal reports of dullness, want of
profit. and prospective depression. Compar-
ing the six months of 1855 with the same
period in 1854, tho number Of failures has in
creased from $50 to G,OO4, while the liabili-
ties have decreased from sl24, ,39l ,2S2 to s74,-
72s2,S5 OF these failures, however, only
2,3346, with liabilities of 2S,60l 900, arc to
be charged to the second quarter, show
ing q progressive improvement. That
the improvement is due to general
causes is shown by the fact that the sam, IA
tic of decrease is exhibited in the report from
the Dominion of Canada, which shows fail
ures numbering 600, with liabilities OF IS, 1GG,-
1G5 as compared with 752 failures and liabil-
tiles of SlU,742, 600 for the corresponding Pc
riod of 1851. That the failures are Of much
less Importance than heretofore is manifest
by the decrease in the average iiaollltles,
which in the last quarter show $l2,ON per
failure, rs against S5S, ,0JU in 1SS! and $lS,-
600 in 1885,
Tho review says: "While therefore n re-
view of the trade of the country does not
bring out many satisfactory elements, it
nevertheless is fact that consumers as
class are really in better condition than a
year ago, and that, in view of the low stocks
Of merchandise in all hands, the decrease in
internal indebtedness, the lessened number
of failures. the low prices for llv-
fn,, n
which the year has witnessed, there is much
ground for the belief that the autumn bust
ness will be in the main satisfactory. With
the probabilities OF a fair yield Of agricul-
tural products in the. West and North
crop in the South, with the increased
emigration of the best class which thus for
the year has shown, with a plethora of
money at low rates, a settled financial policy
and the absence of political excitement there
ought to be no reason why markell improve
ment in business should not cnsue."
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reliant woman enjoys bein' taken cara
Of more'n lopsy woman ever could!
"Prudcnce's husband gave John a
great start in life, and he's considerable
we'll of now. lie brings his family
down here to the old place every summer.
Mr.. Dinsmorc fixed it up so'st their amt
q farm like itin town. Prudence always
set sight by it. They keep man and
his wife thee all winter to take care OF
1t, and along in May they all come down.
Those were Prudcncc's children that you
saw riding in the donkcy-wagon. Pru.
dcncc don't look so old now as she did
when she was twenty. Ard old Mis-
Hathaway has renewed her youth. She
likes livin' in the city: she's so fond of
passin' and all that; and she don't enjoy
comm back near so we'll as the young
folks do. It's John that she's set by.
still; she told me, the other day, that
she didn't think Prudence would ever
have got such q husband rs she did il
John hadn't been so smart.appcarin'!"
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NEWsY GLEANINGS.

TEXAS has cremation society with capi-
tai of $780,
OVER 125, 900 paupers receive public aid in
Paris annually.
THE bicycle is to be officially introduced
into the Bayarian army.
OSE-rIFTH of the legal voters OF Massa'
chusetts are veterans of the lato war.
ONE hundred and twenty. nine Smiths have
held commissions in the United States army.
IT costs twice as much to travel on the
railroad in California as it does IN New 7 ork
state.
DURING the year about $50 species OF edi-
Bile birds find their way to tho New York
markets.
UNITED STATES greenbacks are so popular
in Cuba that they command premium over
gold or silver.
THE new city directory Of San Francisco
contains 10. 600 more names than that OF 1888,
and the population is now estimated nt
325, 000.
POLES are being terribly prosecuted again,
about 30 O0OO having been recently expelled
from their home and country by the Russian
government.
NEARLY 20, 0Oo 900 eggs are shipped across
the Atlantic to this country, chiefly from
Antwerp and Hamburg, during the summer
months of each year.
In PENNSYLVANIA the figures show l70,54
males to 17G, ,466 females In Virginia they
bring TO light the fact that there are 745,5s9
males to 766. .07G females,
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The Dead Sea of the West.

The famous Dead Sea of the West,
Mono lake, situated in Mono County,
California, is thus described by writer
IN the San Francisco Caronicle: Its water
is 30 strongly impregnatcd with alkalics
that the hand held for few minutes in
it will crack open and the skin will be
eaten off. No living thing exists in it.,
though it is said that often, after strong
winds have blown across its surface,
there is q layer of worms several feet
wide on its lccward shore. 1t clcanscs
cloth dipped in it almost instantly, and
if they arc not as speedily removed does
worse Its shores arc barren, bleak and
lonely in the extreme, !o:dcrcd by a
soil that will grow nothing but the
scrubbiest of sage brush. In the pros
porous times Of l,odie u steamer piled on
the lake, but it is now laid up in o:di-
nary. The length of the lake IS about
thirty miles and its greatest width about
eighteen miles. Seen from this maGnl-
ticcnt point, surrounded by the great
walks of Bloody Canyon, it is one of the
nonlcst views on earth, but at the same
time it only proves to one who has been
about its shores and toiled across the de
serted and sandy interval to the wei
come foot of the Sierra, with even no
better way across than the Bloody Can
yon, that truly distance lends cnchant'
ment to the vicw.'
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Asthma.

When asthma is independent of other
diseases it is called primary. 1t is to
this that the young are most liable. The
attacks arc peculiarly violent, but the
intervals between them are long, and
wholly free from asthmatic symptoms.
Il is in this form that, when the accu-
mulated nervous tendency explodes in
an attack, the general system seems
relieved. This form, too, is most cura-
BILE.
Secondary asthma has its exciting cause
| in bronchitis, arrangement OF the stom-
ach, or in heart disease. The last iosm
is really rare, the difficulty of breathing
(dyspnna) in many Of the supposed cases
beinr due to the heart alone. The second
form occurs about two hours after din-
ner In many of these latter cases the
paticnt may be helped by taking no 1000
after an early dinner.
Bronchial asthma is the most common
of all, and the most intractable. Every
cold that brings on an attack OF bron,
chitis induces an attack OF asthma; ana
where the bronchitis is chronic. the dis
turbine cause is never wholly absent.
This form is characterized by copious ex-
pectoration. As chronic bronchitis ls
seldom fully relieved, so it is with the
asthma, of which it is the resulting
cause. :,
A hope of cure depends largely on the
age. A child of ten is likely to outgro,w
it; person of twenty may; one IN MD
die life will find it chronic. 1t is regard
cd quite favorable if the attacks arc
lioht. or the intervals long between
them. or if. in the intervals, the breath
ING is free and natural.
As to treatment, what helps one may
NOT another. TO some all remedies are
alike powerless.
The main remedies are such as produce
nausea (depressents), such as render the
nervous system less impossible (seda-
tives), and stimulants. Of the first arc
ipecacuanha, tobacco and lobelia. Iney
should only cause nausea without vom,t-
ing, keeping up the nausea un'ii the
spasm is relieved.
Other popular remedies are smoking
stramonium and nitre paper (maoe by
dipping blotting- paper in saturated so.
luton of saltpctre). This lastls perhaps
the best. 1t often prevents an attack at
nioht to impregnate the air of the char
Der with its fumes. =.
OF stimulants, coffee, strong as posi-
bic, taken clear and on an empty stom
ach, often gives full relief. Taken IL
the ordinary way, it tends to induce al
attack. Youths Companion.
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TWENTY VILLAGES BURNED.

Twenty villages in Austria were ignited by
lightning and burned III the recent storms.
Six men were killed while trying to cytin-
guish the flames. Great damage was done to
crops by hurricane. A wattrspout flooded
Pesth. The Danube swimming baths, full of
reop'e, became loosenei and floated down the
stream. The people were panic-strickcn, but
were all rescued.
Tie recent thunder-storms devastated the
botanical gardens at Berlin Several persons
were killed by lightning. Reports OF dam
age by storms have been received from vari-
Gus parts of Germany and the Continent.