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Foreign

THE French Chamber of Deputies has voted
to expel from France the heads OF families
heretofore reigning in that country.
terrible storms anG floods have prevailed
in the French provinces. Three shocks Of
earthquake visited Poictiers. At Roubaix
lightring destroyed q number of houses and
killed several people.
ONE HUNDRED natives and ten English
persons lost their lives and several villages
were destroyed through the eruption! OF tho
7ol .ano of Tarawera in New Zealand.
ADDITIONAL riotous demonstrations have
occurred at Sligo, Ireland The British
Goyernu ent has put Ulster under martial
law.
A GILLIAN bark was wrecked at Vslpa-
raiso during storm, and thirteen persons on
board, including the captain, mis- wife and
their three children, were drowned.
THE city of Vancouver, British Columbia
is in ashes. Three thousand people have
been rendered homeless.
THE suicide of the late King Ludwig has
caused great excitement throughout Bavaria
and full investigation of the manner of his
death is demanded, assertions having been
made that it was not a case of self-murder,
but of assassination.
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Police Sergeant Brooks, who nour-

Police Sergeant Brooks, who nour-
ishcd the Department of Information at
infancy and brought it up to be neces-
sity at the New York Police Headquar-
ters, has compiled a statistical table,
which is interesting as tending to show
how erratic are the habits of some of
Gotham's people. 1t is to this depart
ment that all mysterious disappearances
re reported. The method adopted to
discover persons lost is to telegraph a
description to all police precints, exam
inc the records at the morgue and hos
pitfalls and inform the press. From Ser
geant Brooks table it is learned that
about 600 persons are reported as miss
ing each year. Of these 100 are between
the ages of fourteen and twenty, 200 be-
tween twenty and thirty, 100 between
thirty and forty, 100 between forty and
fifty and 100 fifty and over. About sew
enty-fve per cent. are males and belong
to the poorer classes. An average of
ninety per cent. is accounted for. The
causes of disappearance are domestic
difficulties, home restrIints, lack of
work, debauches, mental alteration and
occasionally defaults and embezzle-
ments.
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Farm lands in England continue to de-
crease in value so much in extent as to
cause serious alarm over there. The
loans made on mortgages by large
moneyed institutions are above the value
of the estates, SO that they cannot be
converted into cash, and the credit Of
some of the institutions is in consequence
gradually though steadily being i'm
paired. Even the best property of that
kind is affected by the financial dcpres-
SIGN. A very desirable estate near Castle
Howard was lately offered at auction, and
$1,000 was the best bid, although, seven
years ago, it sold for e12, 500. A singu-
lar fact, that, Notwithstanding the
troubles in Ireland and the depreciation
of agricultural interests there, land in
certain of its districts is in more demand
than in the English counties. Some of
the local newspapers, indeed, declare
that the primary cause of all the agrarian
disturbances of Ireland is due to the
overbidding for land. But there are SO
many and so contradictory opinions con-
cerning the present adversities in Great
Britain that it is impossible to tell to
what they are attributable.
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South and West.

THE Alabama Democrats have nominated
Thomas Seay for Governor, together with q
full State ticket comprising the present
officials.
MAD dogs have bitten many cattle,
horses, hogs and dogs in and about Yankton,
Dak., and fifty cases of hydrophobia among
animals are reported. Stock is dying at a
rapid rate
JENKINS WRIGHT (colored) was hanged at
Hampton Court House, S. c., for wife muir
der, and Dennis Boyd (colored), WIS hanged
at Belleville, Bossier parish, La, for the
murder of David Haas.
A FIRE ut Muscatine, Iowa, has destroyed
a space of six blocks filled with lumber, a
sawmill valued at $50, 600, four dwellings and
four bridges.
OFFICER HANSEN, the seventh Chicago
policeman fatally wounded by the bomb
throwing Anarchists, has just died in the hos
pital.
DIR. MORRISON MUNFoRD, edilor Of the
Kansas City (Mo) Times, the leading paper
between ST. Louis and San Francisco, was
shot and seriously wounded while riding in
street car at Kansas City by w. L. Carlisle,
q lawyer. Two other passengers in the car
q prominent merchant named Hale and
young laGy-we:e wounded by Carlisle. The
Shooting grew out of attacks upon Carlisle
in the Times.
THE Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Company has refused tc transport 5000 bar
rels If beer from Chicago to firm in Mar
shalltown. Iowa The firm has brought suit
for 900 damages.
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This is great country, and in nothing
greater than the diversity and remarkable
originality of the names bestowed on
some of the towns. Sometimes these are
embarrassing, but the San Francisco
Chronicle shows how unpleasant sugges.
tions may be avoided: "Some day when
the people begin to study the nomencla-
ture of this country they will be puzzled
considerably to tell where some of the
names came from. Quite likely they will
60 clear away back centuries before 40
and prove that America must have been
known to the ancient Assyrians. There
will be lots of fun for the future archeol-
ogists. There is a station on one of the
railroads, and town with church, a
saloon and the usual camp followers Of
civilization, which bears the euphonious
name of Eltopia. The ancient Greeks
may, perhaps, be held responsible for it
in the future, but the plain fact is that q
congregation and minister wandered out
to that place and found it all too incor-
venient to address their religious reports
from place bearing the name given to
it by the miners of Hell to Pay" so
they changed it into Eltopia."
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NATURES CONVULS!ONS.
Violent Earthquake and Volcanic
Eruption in Central America.
The Capital City Of Nicaragua
Partly Destroyed.

Mr.. John Hotchkiss, a prominent manu-
facturer of Birmingham, England, arrived
at Albany, N. Y, a few days since from
Realio, Nicaragua He says that the day
before he sailed MAY 22) there was terrific
eruption from the volcano Momotombo.
Telegraphic information was received at
Reallo on the 23d to the effect that the city of
Managua, the capital of the country, had
been practically destroyed by the vio-
lent earthquakes which accompanied the
eruption. The earth upon which the city was
built suddenly sank, soon after the convul-
sions began, three feet below its former level.
Al. buildings of any considerable value were
completely wrecked. 1t was reported that
there was loss of life, but how great was not
known when the Pacific Mail steamer sailed.
Telegraphic intelligence from a town at
the terminus of railroad forty miles from
Realjo was even more startling. That place
was being fast buried beneath hot volcanic
ashes, and many lives had been lost. In re-
sponse to the appeal for help from the sur
vivors, train was made up ut Realjo and
sent out about two hours before
the Pacific Mail steamer left the
port. The situation in Realjo began to grow
somewhat threatening, and the departure of
the steamer was somewhat hastened on that
account. The sky became dark and of
strange gray tint. Fine volcanic a. hes began
to fall, and the atmosphere became op-
Pressive and breathing painful. Mr.. Hotch-
kiss says the fall of ashes increased as
the ship left the harbor, and they
continued to slit down upon the
ue ks until the vessel was fully forty miles
out Over the interior of the country toward
the volcano there appeared to hang dense
dark cloud. The decks of the ship receiveda a
coating about half an inch deep of the vol
canic ashes before getting beyoni reach of
the shower, Mr. Hotchkiss brought with him
specimen. The ashes are dry gray dust
or rowier.
Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, which
is said to be destroyed, is a city of about
10000 inhabitants. 1t had national palace.
several churches, City Hall, and other large
buildings.
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A Bridegroom Injured by Rice.

The danger of throwing rice at we'd
dings has just been exempliied. Th.
Vicar of St. James the Less. Bethnal
Green, has for many years solemnized
the ceremony of marriage free to any who
chose to avail themselves of his kind
ness. 1t is usual for the friends to wait
outside and give the couples reception
with shower of rice, and to such an ex
tent has the practice grown that the
neighboring grocers keep parcels ready
packed for the occasion. The brides are
generally protected by the wells; but the
brigegrooms are less fortunate, and the
other day one of them received several
grains in his eyes. After vain attempt
to clear his eyes he was led to surgery
adjacent, and he will now have to pass
in the ward of a hospital what would
have been his honeymoon. 1t appears
that this is not by any means the first
serious accident caused in this way
Poll Mall Gazette.
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One of the small, rocky islands of
Pyramid Lake, Nevada, is alive with
rattlesnakes. 1t is supposed that the
progenitors of these snakes were waited
to the island on punches of floating reeds
or RATS of driftwood. There are thou
sands, if not millions s-the people about
the lake say millions-of the rattlers on
the island, and their right to it there is
s'none to dispute" The reptiles have
their homes among the rocks and feed
upon the eggs and young of waterfowl
and dead fish that are cast on the island.
Stories have been told of these snakes
rushing forth in q body, Kissing and
rafting, to attack any one landing upon
the island. The rattlesnakes of the
island, when disturbed, glide away and
hide themselves in the crevices of the
rocks, just as would similar snakes on
the mainland, though they halt and show
fight when hard pressed.
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THE WHITE HOUSE BRIDE.
Mrs. Cleveland Duly Installed at .
Grand Official Reception.

Mrs. Cleveland Duly Installed at q
Grand Official Reception.
A great crowd Of civil and military digni-
taries was present at the White House upon
the night of the 18th, the event being the
first official reception in honor
of Mrs. Cleveland. There was
no formal reception of any one section
of the officials, as upon New Years Day. All
came in as they could and were presented
haphazard as they succeeded in fighting their
way in. Some of the principal Diplomats,
the Justices and the Cabinet officers were
brought in the private way, but the major:
ity fought their way in through the main
doorway. No refre ;hments were served.
Promptly at 9 o'clock the President, With
the west stairway and entered at the main
Blue Room door. He wore his wedding suit
Of plain broadcloth and she her wedding
dress of white satin, with the high
corsage of that evening replaced by
a low, sleeveless corsage, pointed at
the back and front. Her only jewels were
the diamond necklace given her by the Presi.
dent aud small pearl comb in her luxuriant
brown hair, which was worn high. bunch
of white roses was fastened at her breast and
long white mitts reached above her elbows.
Members of the Cabinet with their wives fol-
lowed the bridal pair. BE-.
Mrs. Endicott, Mrs. Whitney and Mrs.
Villas took their places at Mrs. Cleveland's
right, and the Cabinet officers, Colonel aud
Mrs. Lamont and several of the wives Of
assistant Cabinet officers were in the rear OF
the receiving line. These were early Joined
by Senator and Miss Mamie Sherman, Cen
eral Sheridan and wife, Speaker and Mrs.
Carlisle, the early-coming members OF the
Diplomatic Corps and many Senators and
others of prominence. --s.
After first paving their greetings to the re-
ceiving party, Mrs. Cleveland's beauty and
afrable manners won praise from all. She
has matured much in the year since she hrst
visited Washington. Early in the evening
the Minister of Brazil, escorting the young
grandson of Dom Pedro, wearing full dress
naval uniform, entered the Blue Parlor, and
having paid respects to the President ana
party, held little impromptu reception be-
hind the line
Scarcely Senator or Member apparently
was absent, but many Of them came alone,as
their wives have gone from the city. The
Army, Navy and Marine Corps were fully
represented. Shortly before II o'clock the
President gave his arm to Mrs: Cleveland,
and escorted her on a round Il Nugh the
Green and East Parlors the promenSde corrl-
dor and back to the door OF the Blue Parlor,
the Cabinet officers and their wives following
in the order first given.
At the close of the Presidents reception,
the Marine BanI proceeded to the hotel and
serenaded the Brazilian Prince
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The tongue, says medical writer, is
the Indicator of the system. A white
coated tongue indicates febrile disturb
ance; brown, moist tongue indicates
disordered digestion or overloaded prime
Gle; brown, dry tongue indicates de-
pressed vitality, as in typhoid conditions
and blood poisoning; red, moisttongue
indicates debility; red, dry tongue in
dicates pyrexia, or any infammatory
fever; a strawberry" tongue with prom
inent papilla indicates scarlet fever OF
rotheln; red, glazed tongue indicates
debility, with want of assimilative power
of digestion; tremulous, flabby tongue
indicates delirium tremens; hesitancy In
protruding the tongue indicates concus-
sion of the brain; protrusion at one side
indicates paralysis of the muscles on that
side
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Few people will accept the remarkable
views on opium smoking expressed by
Mr.. J. G. Scott, the traveller, in his book
on Tonqu'n. He asserts that opium used
moderately is at least no more harmful
than tobacco or alcohol, and that the
opium pipe is a positive blessing after
hard days march, or in countries where
fever fumes rise thick out of the marshes
and Jungle. He says that it is only when
a man puts himself to sleep with half
dozen or more pipes that it becomes a
curse. The opium habit is very prevalent
among the French soldiers in Indo-
China.
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At the meeting of the Presbyterian
ministers of Philadelphia recently the
Rev. DR.. w. D. Roberts delivered an adj
dress on Suicide, it's Causes, Laws and
Cures" He said that the publication
of the suicides of the world by the news
papers caused weak-minded and sick
persons to tend toward suicide. In
France the first part of the week pre-
dominates largely over the latter part in
number of suicides, because Saturday is
payday, Sunday drinking day, Monday
repenting day and Tuesday the day Of
suicide. The remedy, he argued, against
the suicidal inclinations is for all people
to become devout Christians and fully
believe in God.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.


SIXTY New York car-drivers have been
arrested for rioting during the recent tie-up
of the various lines.
EIGHT young men, while fishing on Long
Pond Lake, near Hazelton, Penn, were
thrown into the water by the capsizing of
their boats. Two of them were drowned.
AT meeting of prominent Irish-Ameri-
cans in New York, held for the purpose of
raising money to aid Parnell and his Irish
Home Rule followers, $4,000 was immedi-
ately subscribed, and an appeal "to all lovers
of liberty" was issued.
WINFIELD B. THOMPSON, twenty-four
years old, medical student, of Kansas City,
No., shot and killed his bride of two weeks
in their room at New York hotel, and then
sent four bullets crashing into his own body,
infiicting fatal wounds. He refused to assign
any reason for the act.
The sloop Priscilla won the first of the
series uf races given by the New York
Yacht Club to see which vessel would contest
with the English for the Americas Cup in
the next international race. The Puritan,
which defeated the Genesta last year, came
in last.
TWESTY-THREE miners recently convicted
of riot and conspiracy nave been sentenced
at Washington, Penn: 70 eight months i'm
prisonment.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

"NAyoSn is said to have earned for Mr..
Conried $4,000 in royalties during the past
season.
THE American Opera Company had a
great financial as well as artistic success IN
Chicago.
FANNY DAVENPORT will begin her next
season on October II with repertory OF
eight plays.
SARA JEwETT, the favorite Boston &C.
tress, was at ono time Treasury girl at
Washington.
A FREsCHMAS has invented an automaton
which plays upon the piano with expression
and brilliancy.
"ERMINIE," the new comic opera, is enjoy
ing an unprecedented financial success ct the
Casino, New York.
MRS. LANGrRY is negotiating for the pur-
chase Of g. site for theatre which she pro-
poses to build in London.
SEVEN sweet girls of Pleasant Lake, Mich,
have organized cornet band and nave Deen
serenading Jackson people.
NINE. PATTI, who will come to this country
next November for concert tour, Will nave
Nine. Scalchi and Signor Gslassi in her COM
pany.
BELLE BOYD Mrs. r. B. HAMMOND. who
figured during the war as Confederate spy,
is about organizing company to appear IN
a war piece.
"THE KHEDIvE' will be the name of Gil
bert and iSullivan's new opera. 1t will prob
ably be- produced in New York the early par
of November
SALv1y1, the Italian tragedian, is wortt
$500, 900, over one third of which he made III
this country He lives in the most econom
ical manner in his Italian home.
NINE. NILSSON has engaged to make fare
we'll tour of Europe next season, beg nnlna
October Is and ending April Is. 1887. Sh'
will visit all the principal cities from st
Petersburg and Constantinople to Paris ano
Madrid
THE receipts Of the "Mikado' performance
at one theatre in New York during an en-
gagemenr of thirty-eight weeks were no les
than slS3, 900, these being the performance:
in which Gilbert and Sullivan were finan
cially interested.
MISS MARGARET MATHER has played 9S'
times in public during the past four years
She has never during that time missed an en-
gagement, been late at performance o.
caused stage wait
LONDON has q musical composer twenty
two years old narned Eugene dAlbert n,
talks contemptuously Of "Papn Beethoven,
and has produced several symphonies III
is Scotchman, and people regtrd him &s
musical prodigy.
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IN BLACK AND WHITE.
The Official Certificate Of the Presi-
dents Marriage.

The Official Certificate Of the Presi-
dents Marriage.
The following is the official certificate OF
marriage of President Cleveland and Miss
Folsom, as received by the Washington
Health Officer:
CERTIFICATE OF MARRIAGE.
TO the Health Omeer efhe District Of Columbia:
l. Date of marriage-June2 1886.
3 Full name of husband-Grover Cleve-
land.
5. Ase-49 years.
4. Color-White.
8 Place of residencc-Executive Mansion.
Observation-Disclosures. 6.
:. Husbands MISREPRESENTATION, New
: Number OF husbands marr!ase-First.
o. Maiden name Of wife-Frances FOLSOM.
10. Age-21 years
IL. Color-White.
12. Place Of residence Buffalo, New York
IL Wifes Observation-Disclosures, New YORK.
ID Number of wife's marrage--First.
We, the contracting parties, do certify that
the foregoing information is correct.
lS;o1at,fres) GROVER CLEVELAND.
FRANCES FOLSOM.
This certifies that on the second day OF
lime. 1856, Joined in holy matrimoDy the
narties above described.
POI WV B. SUNDERLAND.
Pastor First Presbyterian Church, WASH
ingtoD, d. Z.
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An animal whose identity is at present

An animal whose identity is at present
unknown there, was landed in San Fran
cisco lately from the interior of Japan,
where it first saw the light of day. At a
glance the curiosity might be taktn for
either a dog or monkey. 1t is shaped
like the former about the head and neck,
but otherwise somewhat resembles the
monkey. The animals favorite position
is on its launches, but with little urg-
ing it stands ON its four feet, the body
sloping downward from the head like a
giraffe. The claws on the four feet are
like those of dog, but two extra pairs
are furnished on the hind legs couple
of inches above the balls of the feet.
The animal appears to be gentle, but has
a strong, high-keyed bark, which it
gives when spectators attempt to stir it
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Texas has q new industry. The Clt

Texas has new industry. The Clear
Creek Crab Canning Company has been
organized in Galveston county, and is
doing big business in catching and
canning crabs. The shells are removed
entire except the claws, ground in a mill,
and shipped to France, where they are
manufactured into dentriEce. The oil
that arises on the watts where the crabs
are boiled is used in making soap, and is
said to be equal to cocoanut oil for this
purpose. The crabs themselves are
packed in fve-gallon cans, and are reck-
oned good.
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A United States Treasury expert says
that it is very difficult to detect counter
felt gold coin. He says: "Those filed
with platinum have fair ring and the
joint in the edge is effaced by remiliing.
Platinum is worth only about one-third
of the value of gold, weight for weight.
I have SEQ gold pieces out of which fla
worth of gold had been taken and re-
placed by platinum, making an exceed
ingly dangerous counterfeit, which only
a good Judge of coin can detect. The
ring is good and the weight is there,
while the whole outside of the coin is
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In the little German village of Scge-
berg there lives a humble shoemaker
named Honelach, who has collected
1858 different kinds of beetles, 1890
being native and 1,173 foreign. They arc
all scientifically arranged and classified,
and the collection is an exceedingly val
uable one from scientific point of view.
Although he is now eighty years of age,
Homelach is still an enthusiastic student
of beetles, and he probably knows more
about these insects than any man living.
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OF the twenty original families in the
Dunkard colony, Norton county, Kansas,
only five remain They are rolling up
wealth. The colony now covers terri
tory of eight square miles. Each farmer
has On an average 100 acres under culti-
vation. Some have 200 acres. 4 wind
mill may be seen on nearly every farm.
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Meteorologists, it is said, have found
that there can be no thunder and light
ming without rain. When thunder is
heard beneath clear sky, the report
must either come from distant clouds or
be the result of some other cause than q
discharge of electricity. Harvest or
heat Lightning is produced by a distant
cforpo
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Companies that insure against loss by
wind storms are fast being organized in
the West. One of them has this adyer-
tiscmcnt in Kansas City newspaper:
''Tne black monster OF the air has already
appeared in 1886. Take out tornado
policy in the Pioneer Cyclone and Wind
storm Company"
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NATIONAL, LEAGUE RECORD.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE RECORD.
LEAGUE RECORD

EASTERN LEAGUE RECURD.
With the games played by the Long Island
and Providence clubs, who have disbanded,
thrown out the contest for the mastery Of
the Eastern League is as follows: