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upon them. These inventions include plans for %
Tending vessels against the attacks of guns rams tor
pedoes and other instruments of warfare and aganss
the effects of accidental collisions and blows ana
plans for life saving operations ct sea- Experlmenos
have demonstrated that when projectile has passe0
through the Woodite will spring back to its orlgnA
position and close the hole and thus prevent the In
hux of water.
Miss A. NJ. Hemenway is preparing complete his
tory of Vermont, by towns and counties. with bio
graphical sketches of leading men and women and
detailed history OF each town. 1t is said to be vu-
able addition to historical literature, and will ill SIX
volumes.
Mrs. A. E. Robertson, a daughter OF the famous
missionary to the Cherokees Rev. DIR. Worcester and
widow of the missionaryto the Creek Indians, still
resides IN the Indian Territory, and is engaged
in revising her translation of the New Testament into
Creek for the American Bible Society.
DR.. j. H. Hayford proprietor of the Laramie ivy
omng) Daily Sentinel declared In recent interview
that "the people of Wyoming would not disfran.
chse women any consideration. The home element
found its influence trebled drunkenness has disap-
peared from the polls and open bribery become UNI
known"
The first statue erected in England to a woman not
queen was unveiled in the town of Walsa Oct. II.
1t Is in memory of Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison.
better known as Sister Dora" The statue is OF
Slcilan marble representing the subject in a stand
ing posture with Sisters dress and cap and apron,
the hands holding partially unroled bandage as If
preparing to dress the injury of patient. 1t will
main record of the gratitude that a noble and
psople
The government of China has been in the hands OF
expresses most of the time during the past twenty.
five years. On the death of the Emperor Hien Feng
in 1861, the Dowager Empress TsThsi having
children. of of the imperial wives raised
to the throne by some of the high officials, who at
tempted to control the government by this means.
The dowager Empress overthrow this faction, and,
with the mother of the boy Emperor, placed him on
the dragon throne under the title of Tung- Chih or
combination of law and order" The two women
then made themselves the acting rulers of China as
they dictated, the boy Emperor signed the imperial de-
crees. The Empress Dowager was called
1.-THE Empress of the East" and the
mother of the Emperor was called 1.-THE
Empress of the West" This peculiar regency contin
ued until the end of 1872 when Lung.Ch became of
age. At his death, in 1875, another boy chosen
emperor and the regency of the two expresses
stored The Empress of the East died in 1881.
Since then the Empress of the West has ruled the
empire. and it is announced that in response to petit
tons that have been presented to her, she will con-
tinue for years to direct the actions of the En-
peror, although the 9TH of February next he will
reach his majority Sixteen years., and will be for
mally invested with the reins of government. Dur
ing the reign of the two empress regents China has
entered upon new era. The empire has been prac-
ticaly restored the limits given it by the great
KienlLun. Eastern Turkestan has been reconQuered;
Russia ba1ed in its diplomacy. and France in its
gressive action; junks have been superseded by
gunboats and the conservative and exclusive OF
Eastern monarchies has entered into friendly compet
ton with Western nations