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The Persian Army.


 I have of late been surprised CD at the or derly regularity of their camps; (2) at the fair show of discipline and neatness of dress when on duty; (3) at the cleanliness of their rifles, which in the regular army are all breech-loaders, though not of the best and latest patterns; (4 at the intelligence and smartness of some of their officers. There is now military college at Teheran, at which the superior class of officers are in structed in branches of military education similar to those taught at most European military academies. The inferior class of of ticers is drawn in the main from the middle lower grades of the Persian people, and rule by no means highly educated. Many of them, however, are capable and in teiligent; though others. and l fear the ma jorit are the very reverse. This class nev CT, hardly ever, rises above the grade of yawar or major. There are eighty battalions Of Persian infantry, each nomlnally one thousand strong. Perhaps may not be far wrong if assume the actual average strength of each to be five hundred, thus making total of forty thousand. The Shah has only three regiments of regular cavalry, drilled and disciplined by Russian officers on the Cossack system. He has at Teheraa several batteries of artillery (guns of modern make) also under European off cers, while scattered over his kingdom are collection of antiquated pieces of ordnance worked by artillerymen more or less prof. cient in the duties they called to per form. To the above may be added al- most unlimited number of irregular cavalry, but very indifferently armed. Their arms are their weak point. They are good horse men, we'll mounted on horses capable of en- during much hard work, and entirely in dependent of transport and commissariat. A more mobile force could not be found, and, composed as it is of Kurds, Turks, Bakhtiaris, Hazaras, Jamshidis and all the best and bravest fighting element of Persia, one not to be despised. But it must be bet ter armed in time of war. That portion of the Persian army which is under the Zill-us- Sultan at Jsfahan has good name for drill, discipline and general efficiency. All con- sidered then, we should be justified in pla- cling somewhat greater faith in the efficacy of Persian military resources than most recent writers have displayed. I would not argue that Russian corps d'armee marching on forces more than match for it; but in the event of a war between England and Russia it would be great advantage to the former if the latter were obliged to detach corps d'armee, whether to watch the Persian iron tier or to repel 6 Persian attack Moreover, with a hostile Persia on her right flank, the operations of Russia from the Caspian via Askabad and Sarakhs against Herat would be, if not paralyzed, at least seriously ham pered. Let not, then, England despise a Persian alliance But, be it remembered, that alliance will be conditional upon the successful debarkation of British army in the Caucasus-which means Turkish ope- ration-and probably also on the presence of powerful force from India at Herat.
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sugar. There was falling off in the exports of butter and cheese in 1885, as compared with 1884, and an increase in the shipments products did not quite held their own in 1885, as compared with 1884.
 The proposed consolidation of the town and city governments seems to have ceased to be matter of general interest. The weak ness of the case presented by the petitioners to the Committee on Cities and Boroughs is a disappointment to those who have been led to believe that they were prepared to furnish facts and figures that would show a material saving by the adoption of their plan of con selidation. That they have failed to do this is painfully apparent, and this is probably the reason why the papers which for some time were rather persistently in favor of the scheme now seem to have dropped the sub ject, or when referring to it express doubts regarding the pending bill. Indeed, so far as the bi l now under discussion is concerned, it has few friends. The public are not anx- ious for changes of this sort merely as a mat ter of speculation.
 
 scheme that is perhaps worth attention. It says: Let the citizen, upon marriage and after the birth of one child, be registered as a "homesteadsr;'' then let him enter, as best he may, into ownership of a house and grounds; let these premises be made by the State forever free, in time of peace, from en- trance by tax-gatherer, creditor, usurer, or home-enemy of any kind whatever. Let the grounds be limited to three acres, with one house or palace, one barn and three out buildings. Let the furnishing be exempt up to s1 1000 of assessed or S3, 900 of actual val uation. No instrument for obtaining credit shall run against this establishment, and no alleged sale shall take place unless the owner and all his family and all his relatives and all his retainers shall forever quit the premi- ses within ten days of the execution of said sale
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

bill reported by Senator Hoar from the committee on privileges and elections pro- vides that the first regular sessions of all further congresses shall begin on the first Monday in October, and the secsnd session of every congress, including the present, on the second Monday in November. There is much to be said in favor of a change like this. If it were made the legislators wouldn't have to stay in Washington in hot weather, and the country would have mere peace.
 Greenville, Pennsylvania, boasts about Mrs. Magdalen Miller, who is ninety years old and mother of twelve children. She has also had ffty-one grandchildren. When young she was as vigorous as man and could shoulder three bushels of wheat. Dur ing the graveyard insurance craze she was insured for over $100, and has outlived all the companies. She is yet so hale and hearty that she can go through the snow some miles on foot She has smoked tobac- co for more than seventy years.
 MT. Henry H. Faxon, of Quincy, Nassachu setts, is very active reformer, and is not always found talking sensibly. But he tells the plain truth when he says: legislators who are ever itching for notoriety and figur- ing for reelection by ignorant constituents, who are easily influenced by show of great reforms inaugurated, do not soon cease to hamper corporations and business men with unjust laws that will deter thousands from Investing money in enterprises affected there by, the final result will certainly be detrimental to laboring men.
 w. s. Jones, United States consul at Mes sina, writes to the Florida Times Union that the Italian minister of agriculture sent Flor ida oranges and lemons to the Messina Cham Der of Commerce s'to see whether Florida can compete with Sicily in fruit growing" Col onsl Jones declares that, after the merchants had inspected the fruit, the dean of the board of fruit brokers announced that Sicily was beaten. After @ forty days journey the oranges, excepting ons-third, were in good condition, and the lemons made sensation with their great juiciness. The Italians urged that their oranges had finer aroma, but seem to have surrendered in other re- gards.
 During the last year the exports of wheat | from the port of New York were sixteen mil | lion bushels, of tho value of fifteen million l dollars, as against twenty-seven million bushels of wheat at twenty-six million dol lars for the year 1884. Indian corn was shipped more largely last year than in any year since 1880. The shipments of oats have largely increased The quantity of flour l shipped has been about the same as in 1884,
 but the price has been lower. There has
 been slight gain in the shipments of live 1 cattle, and large gain in those of refined
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NO. 35.

tiens with deep grooves, which appear to have been made by freshsts caused by heavy storms and the bursting of waterspouts. AL together it is as dismal and drsary place can be imagined
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@isceIlal1en1ts.
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WHEN THE DOCTORS COULD
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Ladies' White
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 We are closing out cur WIzn- ter Dress Goods. On these and on Colored Silks we are taking a very heavy loss in or der to make a clean sweep. In Black Gros Grain Silk, and Black Silk Rhadames we are beating the record"-even our own record.
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-02

The President Is catching a little Of the
business end Of criticism because he sent
his private secretary and a revenue cutter
TO take his bride.eleCt of tho steamer as
she neared New York. 1t is not probable
that the private secretary was greatly
demoralized or the revenue cutter much
hurt by this polite attention. The obvious
point Of the criticism is that all this was
done at government expense.
During the twenty.iour years Of Repub.
Icon rule this sort Of criticism was very
much in fashion. II the President or the
Secretary Of the Navy went down the
Potomac in a government steamer, taking
along q friend or two to make the voyage
pleasant, q howl OF indignation went up
from the Democratic press, and someone
on that eide was very likely to take a
whack in Congress. There were steady.
going people who did not then and will
not now object to 30 harmless q use Of
government property.
II our public servants sin no more
grievouSly than in this respect, we shall
have q model administration Of our pub.
lie affairs. We gain nothing by a make.
believe refinement Of delicacy in such
matters which would not be observed by
one man in a hundred thousand II he
were placed in power. Men at the head
Of affairs know that the public head IL
tolerably level, and they are not greatly
moved by the ptotestations Of the phari,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-02

asleep In his chair, and when an attempt
was made TO arouse him 1t was found that
he had died. The cause Of death was
heart disease,
Names and devices may be- easily etch-
ed upon knife blades and other steel sur.
faces. Clean thoroughly Of grease, and
then spread q thin coating Of beesWax or
paHafine on the surface. With q sharp
needle point write through the wax 70
the steel. Paint over with q mixture Of
nitric and muTiatic acid in the proportion
Of . to l respectively, and when bubbles
cease to rise the work 10 done. Wash IN
strong soda water,
A well.known minister was sent South
from New Jersey a few years ago to labor
among the COlored people. They received
him with many demonstrations Of Joy, and
at the first meeting which he held one
colored preacher prayed for him with
great earn~estness, thus; 10, Lord! bress
dis yer dear bEudder what's come down
from dc Nori to preach de gospil to us,
'Noint him wild de kerosene lie OBJ sal
yashin, and oct him on 6re."
A Bordeaux journal describes the din
ner usually provided for a workman in
that city; Alarge plate Of vegetable soup,
cost 9 csnts; a large piece Of bread, .
cents a large. plate Of red harIcot beans
cost 9 cents half q plate Of roast veal (the
quantity being ample for an ordinary
man), cost 4 cents splate Of rice, l cent,
and half a bottle Of vim o~rdinalre, cost 4
cents so it will be seen a fair dinner was
provided, with half q bottle oil wine in
cluded, for Is cents.
The first light ever hoisted over the Capt.
toll at Washington, in ls47,, was a lantern
on q mast towering about $50 feet above
the dome. The mast was secured by
heavy iron braces. The lantern was sur
mounted by a ball and weather ysne.
With the glass in the lantern II weighed
about 500 pounds. 1t contained large
burners, and when lighted 1t illuminated
not only the entire Capitol grounds but
all the higher portions Of the city.
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|ANEAKFNsE NunAEr.


A Methodist missionary has been an.
pointed chief physician Of the Chinese
army.
A streator, ll.,arm has sold 600 pounds
Of putty since the recent storms In that
vicinity,
Adweller on the bank oil. the Codorus
tieE abort lines with bsited fshhoOks to
the legs Of geese and drives them Into the
water. The Hsh bite and jerk the lines,
and then the frightened geese. hurry to
shore, dtaRgiag the fish alter them, So
says the York Age.
California carries on . large business In
sea shells, which are gathered on It's shores
and shipped to Europe. One firm has a
contract 70. ship forty tons Of shells every
sixty days. They are worth from 500 70
$1,000 q Ton. They are usedin all kinds Of
decorative industries.
The Sussex giant died recently at APP.
piedofe, Eng. Although only 30 years Of
Ace, he weighed SAC pounds. He was on
an exhibition tour, and In one Of the IN;
tefyalS between the performances he fell