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THE NATIONAL GAME


clear through the International season.
ELIAS PEAK, Philadelphia boy, leads the
second-basemen Of the New England League.
IN Boston Glasscock, the st. Louis short
stop, is considered wonder and the prince
of fielders. ."
HAvERH1LL won the series from every
pion Portlands. -. -
CHICAGO, St Louis, Utica, Portland, At
lanta, Denver, Newark and Duluth are the
"big eight of the baseball arena -
PRESIDENT GEORGE M. BALLARD, Of the
Eastern League, has ordered the champion-
ship pennant to be sent to the Newark CLUB.
In the LAST throv games between the New.
York and Chicago clubs the New Yorkg
made 2S hits, "a errors, and IL runs. against
% hits, Is errors, and IA runs for Chicago.
In the International League the Oswegos
have been whitewashed 10 times this season,
the Rochesters 5, Hamiltons 4, the Bingham
tons 1, the Torontos 3, the Uticas 2, the Buf-
falos aud the Syracuse Stars ]. -
Nor satisfied with defeating the Chicagos
four straight games and giving them hrst
class scare, the Philadelphias thrashed the
Detroits in the last two games out OF three,
and gave the Chicagos the championship.
The Baltinores are the Association cham.
pions as regards tie games They have played
eight-two with the Pittsburgs, two with the
iouisvilles, two with the Cincinnatis, one
with the Brooklyns and one with the Ath'
letics.
THE several League clubs have won and
lost the following number Of games on the
home grounds: Chicago, 52-l0; Detroit, 49. Is;
New York, 47-13; Philadelphia, 45-li; Bos
ton, 1926; st. Louis, 27-34; Kansas City,
IT, IL Washington, 1888,
A SINGULAR accident occurred at Utica
recently during the progress OF game be-
tween the Ithaca AID Trumans5urg clubs.
james Pringle, pitcher of the home nine,
while in the act OF delivering Q swift curve
liner, broke his right arm near the elbow ano
at the same time dislocated his shoulder.
Prngle is heavily built and pitches worry
swift ball
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PROMINENT PEOPLE

DENIS KEARNEv, the sand lot orator, Is
candidate for Sheriff OF SIN Francisco.
Mr.. PARyELL aud his mother and sister
intend to spend the winter in the South OF
France.
GENERAL SHERMAN told reporter the
othe- dav, it is said, that he never voted IN
his life nd never expected to.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND usually w.arS a
flower OH his coat lapel now, something Nc
rarely did ba.ore he was married.
Mrs. BELvA A. LOCKWOOD ha' taken
time by the fore.o.,S aud again announced
herself Us Pres der. al candidate.
JAMES C. FLOOD, the California million
aire, has just finished S20O LoOo Drown
stone house on Mob Hill, San francisco.
TIE fortune of Mrs. Mark Hopkins is esti-
mated at SiD,0OlGJO. 1twas all made by her
late husband on the Central Pacific kad:oad-
HAMILTON FISH ut tn, age Of saventy.nine
is still hale and vigorous, in spite OF the
slight stroke of paralysis which he recelVeo
some time ago.
QUEEN Victoria mas had thu small Bible
carried by General Gordon for so many years
deposited in Windsor Castle in casket OF
pure crystal rock.
THE opening of ghe new Garfield Univer-
sity of Wichita, Kan, will take place
shortly. Mrs. Garfield will take prominent
cart in the inaugural ceremonies. -
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Few persons on visiting q museum
consider that such objects as skeletons
require a certain fitting for exhibition.
Yet the preparation OF skeletons for the
market constitutes a distinct industry, to
which q large mandatory in the suburbs
of Paris is devoted. Corpses arc sup
piled from dissecting-room and hospi-
tails. Cn its delivery the raw material is
boiled for days in a cauldron, and the
grease which rises to the surface is
skinned off and sold. The bones are
carefully assorted and converted into ar
tifcial skeletons. The preparation of
frogs, lizards and various reptiles occu-
pies separate department.
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After nearly three years of study and
delibcration, the manner of lighting the
Bartholdi statue of "Libcrty Enlighten-
ing the Wor!d' has been definitely de-
cided upon. The plan adopted is one
which is in conformity with the general
design of the statue itself, and which
adds to its beauty in marked degree.
The torch of the statue contains eight
lamps of G,000 candle power, the light
from which is thrown directly up into
the clouds. This powerful beam, tc-
gether with the cloud illumination, con-
stitutcs beacon visible probably hun
dred miles out to sea, and is thus, afar
off, symbolic of the light and liberty to
be enjoyed by the visitor to our shores.
At the foot of the statue four or eight
lights of +, 900 candle power each are dis.
t,ibu.ed. Their light is reflected upon
the statue and illuminates it brightly.
All these arc lamps arc invisible them.
selves, so that the objections raised by
the river pilots against the binding eff
fects of the light arc entirely removed.
Besides the arc lights all around the
statue, the diadem upon the head of the
figure of Liberty contains incandescent
lamps, to give the effect of jewels. The
whole plan is undoubtedly an excellent
one, and cannot fail to make the statue
even more posing at night than in the
day-timn
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LATER NEWS.

sonE shells were being loaded at Sand'
Hook, N. j., preparatory to experiments oy
the Government Ordnance Board, when one
of then, exploded. Private Joseph King was
instantly killed and Lieutenant William NJ.
Medcalfe was injured so that death soon en-
sued.
A NUMBER Of saloon-keepers are charged
with toe recent murder Of Rev. Mr.. Had
dock, a pronounced Prohibitioaist. at Slo *
City, Ia. Two men arrested have maze
confessions declaring that the murder was
instigated by saloonists.
MASKED men took three negroes charged
with arson ont of the Pickens County (A'a.)
jail and hanged them to tree.
DURING the Fast eight months there were
$50 suicides in the German army.
THE Car Of Russia, according to London
dispat Ii of the 2lst., has shot and killed one
of his officers. 1t seems that an aide-de-
camp. Councillor of State Count Reutern,
was awaiting the Car in tbs Royal Place
The weather being warm, the Count unbut-
tonel his tunic. The Car returned sooner
than expected, and Reutern aross hurriedty
and began to re5utton his tuaic, whereupon
the C ar, thinking that tho officer was about
to draw q weapon, shot him dead
The will of the late lmuel j. Tilden has
been admitted to probate at White Plains
N. Y, without opposition. An attempt to
break it is to be made by some of the heirs.
THR twenty-third International Conven'
tion Of the Brotherhood Of Locomotive En-
gineers met in New York on the Goth. About
$50 delegates were present and listened te
addresses by Grand Chief Engineer Arthur,
Mayor Grace, Governor Albeit, of New Jer-
sey, President Depew, of the New York Gen.
tral Railroad, and Rev. T. De Witt Talmage
1t was announced the sessions Of tho Order,
which is one of the strongest labor organiza-
tions in the world, would last ten days.
THE presence of Mr.. Blaine at Pittsburg
on the 10th was made tie OCCASION OF an lnl-
mense protective tariff demonstration.
A EAED of Anarchists in Chicago have
been using Catholic church for drill room
at night, storing bombs under the altar and
hiding arms and dynamite in other parts OF
tho building. A Pole has revealed the plot, the
deadly material has been found and seized,
and number of arrests have been male.
TIE General Convention of the Episcopal
Church and tic National Council of the
Congregational Church have been in session
at Chicago.
THE War Department has given orders to
transfer Chief Geronimo and his band of
Apache cutthrcats from San Antonio, Texas.
to Fort Pickens, Fla, for confinement until
further orders. The band numbers fifteen,
and the other captured Apachcs-e.even
women aud six children-are to be taken to
Fort Martin, Fla
MAJoR-GENERAL SIR II. T. MACPHERSON,
Commander of the British army of o,cupa-
tion in Burmah, India, died recently of fever.
EARTHQUAKE shocks have been felt in
Alsace- Lorraine.
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South and West.

A RELIEF committee investigating the de-
struction of Sabine Pass, Texas, by an in
undation reported on the 18th that 10l per-
sons were missing, OF whom ninety were
known to have been drowned. Thirty-five
Of these victims are whit, and fifty-tive col
orec. Niuety-one homeless, half-clad vic.
tins OF the disaster were brought by the
commit ee iu steamer to Beaumont, Texas.
At Johnson's Bayou, La, thirty-seven bodies
were recovered, and siXty-tive persons were
reported missing The pecunary loss in
Plaluemiae Parish. La., isput at $50O,ON.
ARMOUR, the king of Chicago pork pack
ers, has Issued the following ultimatum tc
his employees, who have struck agaiusta pro.
posed extension of work from eight to ten
hours: "Ten hours or nothing"
BILoXI, a summer resort in Mississippi, on
the Gulf of Mexico, has been again put under
rigid quarantine on account of the reappear-
auce there of a malignant type of yellow
fever.
A FIRE has swept away nearly the entire
business portion of Salisbury, Nd, causing
an estimated total loss of between $500, 900
and 81, ,0U0,0O0.
Much suffering prevails among survivors
of the floods at Sabine lass, Texas, and
Johnson's Bayou, La., and appeals for aid
have been issued.
THE strike of Chicago pork packers ended
unexpectedly on the 18th. the men returning
to work on the terms of the employers-ten
hoars q days work instead of eight, as hereto
FORE
A SPECIAL train was leaving the Chicago
stock yards with 100 discharged Pinkerton de-
tectives, who hal been guarding the yards
in view of the strike, when q crowd Of stri-
kcrs began yelling aud throwing stones The
stone-,hrowing con 'inuo1, and finally it was
returned by voley from some of the de-
tectives' rifles. Two men were fatally
wounded. All the detectives were arrested.
FIVE men We're instantly killed and nine
more fatally injured by the fal of a con-
struction train over an embankment near
Fairfield, Neb.
TIE Knights Of Labor Assembly ut Rich
mond closed on the 10th. Salaries of officials
were increased as follows: Grand Master
Workman Powderly from 1,50O to 5000;
salaries Of Secretary and Treasurer from
81, 800 to S2, 0OJ; pay of Executive Board and
General Worthy Foreman from S. to 81
day and expenses while on duty.
A CONGRESS of the "Associat;on for the
Advancement of Women" has been holding
it, first session in Louisville, KY. Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe presided, and other noted ladies
attended.
OAKLAND, ILL, has lost nearly all it's bus
iness section by fire; aggregate losses, over
$:0l,U0.
THE greatest Irairie fire ever known in the
Northwest has been raging in the Turtle
Mountain region, Dakota. Over 200 square
miles of prairie and timber lands have been
burned, with a large number of houses and
barns, great quantit es Of crops, and all kinds
of stock. The losses will aggregate 81, ,OCO.ON.
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Charles L. Webster, senior member of
the firm that is publishing Gen. Grants
boek, said recently that he had just
handed to Mrs. Grant the firms check
for $3.50, 900, the second installmcnt due
her under the Generals contract. Her
seventh per cent. OF the profits Oh the
sale of the book will continue during the
twenty-eight years of copyright protec-
tion secured to the work, so that she will
doubtless receive anywhere from $780,
900 to $4,000 Mr.. Webster also said
that his firm contemplated publishing an
edition de luxe of the book, each copy
containing portions of Gen. Grants orr
ginal manuscript The edition will
probably be limited to so or 1000
copies, and will be sod for 500 each.
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BY curious coincidence, two persons
with bullet wounds in the head were re.
ccived at the London hospital on the
same day recently. More remarkable is
the fact that, though in each case the
bullet was driven into the brain too
deeply for extraction, both patients have
been discharged convalescent. These
marvellous rccoverles from what, few
years ago, would have meant certain
death, illustrate the effects of superior
surgical skill and the modern antiseptic
method of treating wounds.
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An association of Alabama, Georgia,
Virginia, New York aad Philadelphia
capitalists, called the North Birmingham
Land Company, has been formed at Biz
mingham, Ala, with a capital of $780,
600. The Coalburg coal mining proper
ty, with daily output of 500 tons, is
included in the purchase made by the
company from the Richmond & Danville
extension. Its mining capacity will be
increased and large iron furnac, with
numerous coke ovens will be erected at
once. The site of the plant is on Village
Creek, not quite two miles north of Bir-
mingham. The company owns 1850
acres of coal and farm lands, and pro-
poses building a suburban town and en-
gaging in extensive manufacturing.
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Tho fSno1 octinofnc for thn Cio

The final estimates for the gigantic
iron tower which is to be a feature Of
the French exhibition of 1889 are now
ready. The state will contribute 1,5Oo,-
900 francs, and the remaining sum of
6,O00,O0 francs will be furnished by the
contractors, who will acquire possession
of the tower for twentyycar There is
still some dispute about its height. The
difficulty will shortly be solved in this
way: A captive balloon will be let up
to the proper height, and four cables,
reaching down to the ground, will rep
resent to the eye the four edges Of the
tower. At intervals flags will be hung
to mark out the positions of the several
stories
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

A REAL Chinaman is now playing Washee
Washee in The Danitcs" in Detroit
BOOTH, Jefferson, Raymond and Margaret
Mather have been playing in Chicago this
week.
BUFFALO BILL has made decided SenSa.
sation in London with his "Wild West.
show.
TIE season OF Italian opera MT the New
Y oris Academy of Music under Signor An
gelos dire .tiun has begun.
The New York critics say Mrs Langtry
has improved greatly in her acting since her
THREE prominent English actresses have
been playinc Of New York theatres-Miss
Lanctry. Miss Fortes ,ue and Violet Cameron.
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Washington.

SECRETARY MANNING is again at work
in the Treasury Department..
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the 18th went
on a short deer hunting and fishing trip
along the Blackwater River in West Vir-
ginia-
THE President has appointed Dabney b.
Maury to 10 United Statss Envoy Extra
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the
United States of Colombia.
GOVERNOR WEST, of Utah, in his annual
report recommends additional legislation
for the suppression of polysamy.
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The lev. DR.. A. Fl. Lewis writes in the
Popular Science Monthly on the origin and
results of Sunday legislation. His con-
tention is that the day was first Instituted
by pagan n-worshipcrs, and that it has
only been possible to maintain its status
in Christian nations by the constant e1-
ercise Of the authority of the State.
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The Canadian Pacific Company is
building five miles of snow sheds in the
Rocky mountains, at an estimated cost
of 81, 100000 fact which suggests one
item of the expense Of operating railways
over the snowy ranges Of the great CONT
mental divide.
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A GRANDMOTHER in Goldenda,e W. T.,
discovered her thirteen-months old grand
child looSing like an infant Hercul.s as he
vainly tried to get the head of big blow
snake in his mouth. She screamed, and then
killed the snake, although it is not danger
GUS reptile
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A man who has studied the various
phases of the matrimonial market has
come to the conclusion that every woman
has some chance to marry; it may be
ono to fifty or it may ten to ono she will.
Representing a woman's entire chance at
100, he has made out the following table
to show the chance at certain points Of
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THE STORM IN ENGLAND.
Large Vessels Going Down, and
Many Lives Lost.

The effects Of the re cent storm OH the south
and west coasts of Great Britain were terri
ble A Norwegian bark foundered Off Tin
tagel. Wales, and her entire crew, consisting
of fifteen persons, persisted.
The Brit ST ship Mal;eny was wrecked in
the Bristol Channel and twenty persons were
drowned. The Norwegian bark Fredrik-
stad. from Musquash, n. B., for Swansea,
was wrecked off Padstow and nineteen per-
sons lost their lives. Another large bark also
foundered, with the loss of from fifteen 10
twenty lives.
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A RELIGIOUS enthusiast of Los Angeles,
Cal, thought he heard voice commanding
him to sell what he had and give TO the poor
So no sent 81, GOO each to two benevolent So
cieties of the place, leaving his family de;ti-
tute. Tho money was sent to The crank q
wife and children.
, 1886-06-24

We are pleased to sec the Revenue
Gutter Oliver Wolcott, under the able
command of Capt. James B. Moore.
IN our harbor once more, and hope
she may remain on this station.
though We believe that by recent
order of the treasury department
the institutions to the Captain are
to cruise actively in the waters of
Puget Sound, the coasts of Washing
ton territory and Oregon. In oledi-
ence TO these instructions her time
must necessarily be limited at one
place as her cruising ground now
covers q coast line of about five
hundred miles; TO enable her to rer-
form this service the department
has allowed Captain Moore the
service of an experienced pil.t for
the numerous bar harSors of the
coast The following are the ofieers
OF the Cutter: J. B. Moore, captain;
Francis Tuttle, 1st Lieutenant: John
L. Lutz, 3rd lieutenent; JAS. 4. Doyle,
chief engineer: Z. T. Hedden. 1st
assistant engineer; Jonn Ayres. boa =
swain.
, 1886-06-24

THE POINT ROBERTS RESERVATION
In the light of recent events the public
will clearly recognize that the time has
come when il behoOyes the citizens OF
Whatcom county TO make st appeal
through petition to the auth critics at
Washington to take some proper action
regarding tho military reserve at Point
RoberIs-for proper control of the fishing
interests there and to prevent tue place
becoming the rendezvous of smugglers
and outlaws. This is matter of i'm
mediate concern to every taxpayer in
the county and every coed citizen in
the Territory. at present, with the
Point standing out there in the Gulf of
Georgia. projecting from British main
land into American waters, isolated ss
an island from all surveillance of local
authorities, viilainies that almost any
whcro else would meet with adeouate
punishment may he committed on the
government reserve with impnuity.
And this very fact, together with its
prominent geographical location, and
commanding view, renders Il point of
so great value TO smngglers that
company of them would scruple at
nothing III their efforts to obtain ard
retain principal possession and control
OF tic place. And so lon-s as present
circumstances exist so long viii depreda-
tons he committed there from time to
time, and this country will have to bear
the expenses, while the Gnilty parties 60
uBco.victed and unpunished. Blaine
Journal
, 1886-06-24
AMERICAN VOICE AND SPEECH.

The English WoI1an's Pronunciation
Training n Girl-A Need.
There can be no doubt that the voice
and speech of American women, as
heard in conversation, have both I'M
proved within the last five years. There
is less of that Slovenliness which was so
crying sin few years ago. The Eng
liSh women, even Of the lower class. pro-
nomced and articulated and emphasized
better than the weII-bred, educated
Americans; and as mass, they C. e,
still; but we observe amongst educate d
women a very great improvement within
a short time, and we must attribute il u
the study of elocution, now a fashion
with our young society women.
The English larynx is stronger. the
throat and bronchial membrane less likely
to be affected by perpetual colds there
than here, but much is also due to the
constant influence of highly educated
class in England, who are always taught
pronunciation and the proper accents, as
our girls are taught music. For instance,
we have heard an English governess cor
rect an American pupil by the hour in
this simple phrase: Are you going in
that di-rection?" the American girl saw
ing, Are yu goin' inthatdrecshun?" while
the English woman said, slowly, "Are-
ou-going-in-that direction" over
and over. The pronunciation of the
American girl was rapid, slovenly and
nasal, disposed to run all the consonants
together, omitting the musical and beau
tiful voweli i, and thus losing the most
liquid sound in English speech.
She must have this thorough training
for many years, before the American
woman gets command of her voice. 1t
is feeble voice by inheritance and by
climatic influence, and it is an unmusical
voice i'll speaking, simply from careless
ness. Now, we have an example of what
can be done with voice, in a popular
reader-a man who started with a poor
voice, but who has developed a strong,
musical and beautiful one by study and
practice. 1t is the same thing with our
young women, as it has become the
fashion for them to recite poems and
lines of Shakespeare in parlors. Since
they are taught to speak as they are
taught to ride, to dance, to play the
piano, one" ears begin to be refreshed by
that charming thing, an educated
accent, than which there is nothing sn
refreshing to an ear wearied of hearing,
first, the dragging drawl which makes
our chief thoroughfare the Eff thavenu,"
or the name of ones Maker, pronounced
"Oh, Loard!" compliment to the letter
"r" which might might better be paid 10
the neglected Il"
There is nothing which is SO interest
ing TO everybody as the perfecting of the
faculty of speech. We have an invalua-
bic inheritance in the possession of the
English tongue, the most musical, rich
and flexible language in the world-get-
ting to be the universal language, and to
woman is committed the invaluable and
the exclusive power of improving all
for it is she who teaches
the human race TO speak. She is miracu-
lously endowed when she makes her
baby speak his first word; and the world
gives her credit, by calling a mans Ian
guage his mother tongue, for the proud
confidence which has been bestowed upon
her.-Frank Leslie's Illustrated.