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Deaths From Wild Animals.

1t appears that during the year 1885
the number of persons killed by wild
animals and venomous snakes in Hindo.
stan was 81, s41. This is an increase OF
1,034 over the figures for the previous
wear. The fatalities from snake bites
rose from 2O.142 to 90, 134, while wild
animals killed ,, 101 persons as compared
with =. 1G5 in 1885. Tigers were rcspon-
siblc for 92S deaths and wolves for 222
these figures showing 30 more deaths
from tigers and 2G fewer from wolves
as compared with the preceding year:
Elephants leopards, bears, hycnaS, wild
boars, bisons, wild hogs, jackals, alllga-
tors. crocodlcs, wild cats and panthcrs
had also their quota Of victims. Times
nj Tu,}i1
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The Library VS.. the Saloon.

Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish American
millionaire, in a recent address in opening
free library in Grantown, gave a significant
incident Of his early personal history as fol-
lows:
"L.et me fort tho first time-for have never
spoken OF it before--give you little episode
in my history. | was poor boy in the city
made me poor l would not take fortune
nor give fortune to a boy any more than
would leave that boy curse. There is no: b.
ing in the world SO grand rs honest poverty.
I had no money to buy books; but there was
q good man in that city OF Allegheny. He
hail over four hundred well known volumes,
and the thought occurred to him that every
Saturday afternoon lie would attend in bis
own little house and give to any good young
boys the privilege OF coming and getting a
book to read, which might be returned next
Saturday afternoon, when new book could
be obtained. tell you, gentlemen, that man
shall have monument i'll the free library l
am building in Allegheny City. His name
was Colonel Anderson. And what did Ander-
son open to me. Wealth! No; what's
wealth! He opened to me tho intellectual
wealth of the world. There learned what I
could never learn elsewhere / became fond
the books Oh. my toll was light. Why, l
cotton factory. and worked till six in the
evening, but there was book for ME when
went home. Can you wonder then, II have
the thought, when have made wealth, that
the noblest use to which that wealth can be
put is to initiate Colonel Anderson and estab-
iish free libraries! / would say to young
men here, and to mildle.aged workmen, too,
that among the first lessons learned was
sentiment that was craven upon my heart.
l lave always felt that my dearest friends
were those that had come through the brain
into tho heart. I read that q noble officer
Lad ruined his life BY whata BY putting
an enemy to his mouth that stole away his
brains; and said with Shakespeare:
% thou invisible spirit Of wine,
If We have no name 10 know thee by,
Let's call thee devil
Therefore I never entered a bar-roon.
never made myself so common that could
enter public bar and ask for drink OF
liquor. That is one good thing that free
libraries did for me- Then l soon learned
this grand sentiment:
ITO thine own eelf be true,
And It must follow, 40 the night tile day,
Thou csnss not then be false to any man."
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RELIGIOUS READING.
To- Eive.

To- Five.
Ihave seen what 1t Nay be to- I've;
o God. can it be
That Thou, in Thy fulness wilt give
Thyself unto nsf
Even here, in my everyday rounds
Thy face may | n,eeta
May the sod I arm treading be found
A patti for Thy feetl
II this be not 80, tsen in vain
Am living at all;
But Thy beckoning summons isplain,
Thy awakening call.
Scpl, rouse thee, and lift up thine eyes,
For the sun is arisen;
Yet tho seed in the frosen earth lies
Like spirit inPrison
God sends thee, to visit, through shade,
Hidden germs of His love;
To Shine with His warmth vast thou made;
As he shineth above.
Yes; thou, If escaped from earth's night,
Art alive from thy root
With His freshness, plant Of His ighsi
A stem for His fruit!
0great, humbling vision, to see
In our weakness His poweri
A.gleaua Of His radiance to be-,
His planting, His fowerl
To grow with these fair growths Of His
The cultured, the Wild
To breathe out the breath of His bliss
With His children, His childl
Division Of God, stir within
Unto heavenly birthl
Shine; Christ, through the midnight OF SIM
On our souls and the eartht
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Gold; Blankets In South Africa.

In the Witwatersrandt district (South
Africa), the gold-bearing formation is
what is known as "banket," a sort of
conglomerate that is wonderfully easy
to reduce. Banket can be reduced for
less than. $5 ton. It is composed of q
sort. of pebbly quartz, cemented together
by fine silicious sand. A piece of it
may easily be crushed beneath the foot.
and little water poured over lump
will cause it to crumble at oace.
Such is a "banket," and tho gold is
contained chiefly in the cement. Veins
Of positive quartz are found in the same
reefs as the banleet, but the mills are
working exclusively on the latter so far.
Banket runs in lodss or veins, varying
from one to twenty feet wide. There Is
such all abundance Of this material near
the. surface that it is practically inex-
haustible, and az deep as shafts have
thus far been sunk it holds its own IN
width of vein aud richness. Thousands
of stamps may find remunerative employ
mcnt night and clay for years on banket'
now in plain sight. - b.,
At present nearly thousand stamps
are working steadily on banket IN the
Witwatersrandt district alone, and it il
thought that by this time next year six
times that number will be hard at it.
The average cleanup yields about ono
and one-half ounces of gold to the stamp
Der day. At this rate some OF ths
companies have commenced paying divi-
dends at the rate of fifty per cent. q
year on the capital invested, and shares
are held at ten and twelve times their
original cost a few months ago. This
is what may be called an exceedingly
healthy state of affairs, everything being
bona-fde from beginning to end.
The banket lodes were discovered .
year ago by Pretorean named Stuben.
The district was totally wild and un-
inhabited, barren plateau, considered
6t for nothing. Then came the inevitable
rush, and with mushroom spontaneity
has sprung into existence the town OF
Johannisberg, already numbering G,00O
Inhabitants. York World
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WORDS OF WISDOM.
The smallest hair casts a shadow.

Tho smallest hair casts shadow.
A good conscience is the finest OPT
ate.
1t is better to do we'll than to cay
we'll.
A happy marriage is "a new beginning
of life. new starting point for happiness
and usefulness.
There never was any heart truly great
and generous that was not also tender
and compassionate.
Only so far as man is happily married
to himself is he fit for married life and
family life generally. TO-.
Errors such as are but acorns in our
younger brows grow oaks in our older
heads and become infexible.
Half the misery of human life might be
extinguished by mutual Offices of COM
passion, benevolence and humanity.
The history of persecution is a history
that epdeavors to cheat nature, to make
water run up hill, to twist q rope Of
BIessee be- the hand that prepares
sleasure for child, for there is no say
ing when and where it may again bloom
forth. ......
Wealth it to be used only as the in
strument of action, not as the representa-
tive of civil honors and moral excel
lenee --.
Nothing can so reconcile US to the
thought of our own death as the prospect
of one friend after another dropping
aroundus. e..
Consult with him that is wise and Of
sound; judgment, and seek to be INSTRUCT
ed by one better than thyself, rather
than to. follow thine own inventions.
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The Hiyhest American Peak.

The higheet mountain in America
must now be changed from Monnt
St. Elias to Mount Wranglc, q lit
tie to the north. Several of these
mountains have been newly measured.
Mount Hood, ''roughly' estimated at
Is, 900 feet, then ''closely" at IL, ooo,
was brought down by triangulation to
10000; an ancroid barometer made 1t
10, 900 and mcrcurial barometer II ,255:
Mount st. Elias, estimated by D'Egelot
to be 12, G72 feet, is triangulated by Mr..
Baker to be $500. 1t now appaars that
Mount Wrangle, lying to the north, rises
1e, 400 feet above Copper River, which
is in turn 1000 feet above the sea at that
point. If this holds true Mount Wran-
Gle is ut least 1 900 feet higher than any
other peak in North America. 1t lies
within the United States boundary
Sail Lake Tribune.
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leaving Christ Ont.

In tile village Of W was the home Of
man who was honest in his dealings, but
who took no interest in religious things. His
business was absorbing; and as the Sabbaths
came, he was disinclined for public service,
preferring ease and quiet at home, and
rather enjoying than otherwise his reputa-
tion as IN unbeliever. In the midst OF e1-
fatal disease suddenly appeared One Of his
first movements was to send for the minis
tor. "Now, Mr.. p, if you can help
me, will be glad; for am all uncertain as
to the future; but don't want to hear about
Jesus Christ"
The faithful servant of God quailed at first,
but undertook the service upon the basis
proposed. "Well," he said, ~ will talk with
you tonight about the greatness Of God"
tened attentively while the minister spoke of
the wonders Of creation, the beauties Of
! nature, the telescope and microscope The
sick man was profoundly interested through
out the interview, and urged the minister to
come on the following evening. As the good
man entered the chamber on the next even
ing, he said, 81 will talk to you tonight
about the goodness Of God" His hearer lis
tened attentively, and, rs the unnumbered
mercies and blessings were made to pass be-
fore him, his mind was moved, and he ex-
claimed, 1T Is all true" And yet tho name
Of Christ had not been alluded to.
At the next interview the minister said,
"We will talk tonight Of the justice OF
God" The sick man trembled with new
and strange emotions as the awfulness OF
this attribute of Jehovah took possession OF
his mind; and as the skillful doctor drew the
net tighter, his conviction of sin had become
a power within him hitherto unknown. At
the crisis, when the face of the hearer indi.
Gated the alarm of the soul, as bis sins stood
in awful array before him, the minister
arose to take bis leave. "You are not going
now, Mr.. p, and leave me in this dis
tress- cant you give mo some comforts"
"No," said tho minister, kindly, 81 can
not; you have forbidden my doing So"
"What do you mean, sirs" said the dis
tressed man. -,
81 mean that He whose name YOU viii not
hear, and whose love is so deep, is the only
One in Heaven or in earth who can comfort
and save you"
Tho veil dropped from the eyes Of the
blinded man; he listened eagerly to tho way
of salvation through a crucified Redeemer;
ioyfully accepted the terms Of salvation, and
lived seven months, testifying continually of
Gods great mercy in saving the chief Of sim
ners.-l Herald of Mercy.
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1t May Save the Boys.

At a certain polling place where men were
voting whether there should be any drinking
came up. men who had drank all their lives,
and they voted against the saloon. This was
a surprise Somebody said to them: IL guess
you don't know what you are about; why did
you vote that wayi You'll get cheated out
of your drink if this thing carries. Why did
you vote against the saloonf'
"Oh,' they said, 1--WE know we'll enough it il
too late to save US: the tide has gone by for
us. bat it may save the boys"
That ia what we are working for-to save
the boys and girls We;want temptation out
down, what good, strong men and women
they may becomeH1 H1snlrsrdacs Ra0nsr.
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Burning Words by Canon Farrar. :.

When Garibaldi had been defeated at
Rome, he issued his immortal appeal: "Sol.
diers, have nothing to offer you but cold
ana hunger and rags and hardship. Let him
who loves his country follow mel" and
thousands Of the youth Of Italy sprang to
their feet at that high appeal. And will you,
the trustees of posterity- will you turn your
backs to the appeal of your Saviour Christi
know you will not. You cannot all be mis-
sionaries; but some Of you may be called to
that high work, and all of you may help it
forward ! know that many one OF you
will devote your lives, not to Mammon, not
to Belial, but to the service Of man for the
love of God Cambridge and Oxford, year
by year, are sending forth their young
scholars, their young cricketers, their young
athletes, to missions in China, in Central
Africa, in Japan, in India. Glasgow will
do the same. And in this. as in other ways,
YOU may help to save Britain In saving
Africa, and help Glasgow and Edinburgh. by
helping Melanesia and Moosoneel We owe
this work to the hcathen. We owe 10 to
them, not as a splendid generosity, but as
our tardy reparation for intolerable wrongs
We girdled the world with zone Of drunk
enness. The footsteps of Aryan races, as
they traversed the continent in their careers
of commerce or Of conquest, have too, often
been footsteps. dyed in blood. Christians
they who bore that name-hAve sent to
savage races, now the Jesuit and the oppres-
sor, now tho bloodhound and the Inqnisitor,
now the fire-water and the pestilence, now
the flash Of the firelock and the fetter Of the
slave. We have decimated aboriginal popu-
lations by disease and drink. They have
melted before US as the line Of snow
on the sunshine 1t is time, it is more than
time, that we would show them that our true
mission is not to destoy their bodies, but to
save their souls. Horrible to them have been
the feet of those who brought only the curse
and the blight Of our civilization; It is an
awful debt due to the perishing remnant that
beautiful upon the mountains should be the
feet of them that bring good tidings that
publish peace. Will you not aid, my friends,
In this noble work9 Your old crusading
fathers took the Red Cross to rescue sep
ulchrel Will you be recreants from the
nobler crusade Of this our century to rescue,
not one material sepulchre Of Christ but
millions of His Living Temples for your
Living and Risen LordiI IArchdeacon
Farrar at Glasgow University.
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Snpakjng in the Senate.

A Senator who had often been men.
toned rs a candidate for the Presidency
told us that in the last Congress he had
an elaborate speech to make. He said he
thought he would have at least one audi
tor; so he obtained promise of a
brother Senator to sit it through. In
the course of an hour, he said, this was
the only Senator who was listening to
him. Another half-hour elapsed, and
he had left, too. He was not equal to
keeping his word. And yet the speech
in question was an unusually able and
instructive ona.-RostQa, RerlM.
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Recent experiments with the Norden
feldt submerged torpedo boat were highly
successful. At night she approached
boat that was expecting her to within
four hundred yards, the agreed distance.
without being noticed. Then she dived
and rose within hundred yards of the
ship with snort like whale and then
disappeared. She was regarded as Il
great success.
Three yearsago the manager offs silver
mine in Australia played a game of
euchre with an employe to decide wheth-
or the latter should pay 5000 or $3.50 for
one-fourteenth share in the mine. The,
employe wony and his share is now worth
$1,OC0,000-
Engraving on plates and wood began
about then,iddle of the fifteenth century.
The eanicst date known of a copper
plateis 1861. Engraving on wood was
long known: in China, but began in
Europe with the manufacturers of play
ing cards, about 14OO.
A. water-milI is said to have been
erected, on. the river Tiber at Rome, A.
D. So. Windmnls were in general use
in the twelfth century. Tidcmills are
also. said to. have been in operation in
Venice about 1918. Sawmiils are said
to have been in: use at Augsberg about
1882.
The Mexican woman who is obliged to-
earn her own living has hard time of it.
Seamstresses cannot earn more than 30
cents per day ci igarette makers from 80
to 3S cents, and matchmakers 80 to 40
cents, and these are the only employ
ments that are open to women in the City
of Mexico.
ACalais (Me:) gentleman gave q birth
day dinner the other evening, and all the
game served-the snipe on toast, the
woodcock, the partridge pie, the roasted
duck-was shot for the occasion by the
host. At the plate of each guest was
souvenir of snipe wings, arranged with
bright ribbons.
Gruyere cheese, which had been made
by the farmers of Jura, Switzerland, un-
dera system by which each in turn made
g. cheese of the milk of the whole COM
munity given to him every day, is now
made in factory, to which all the farm:
ers take their milk, and the product of
which is common property, instead of;
each cheese being the individual proper.
ty of the man who made it. This makes
the cheese more uniform and of better
quality, and increases the farmers prof
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A Hotel Of SOdS.

I see that q sod hotel is in course OF
erection at Springfield, Kan. The walls
are being constructed of sod. hope
this hotel will not meet the fate of the
house that was built of the sand. Sod
NAV be a very firm foundation, but I
fear that man will soon sleep under it
if he should sleep over it in that hotol.
I think the Grass House would bea good
title for this sod structure. Then q
stranger in the town when he asks: ::
"What hotel shall stop at r. would DO
politely told: ooh, go to Grass a"-lIoteI
Nail.
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TEMPERANCE.
The New Years Awakenfuas

fHe New Years WakehfU&@
'Tis tSs time when men are thinking
To fOrswear the curse of drinking
And assert once moro the manhood that TOO
long asleep has lain,
Roofing out the morbid craving,
Long tho mind and heart elislaving,.
And a-looscning every Setter of the bitter,
CALLING chain
In their Efforts may God bless them;
May kind Fortunes smile caress thezi,
And each kindly hand grasp strengthen and
uphold them in the fight;
They are friends, indeed, who heed them,
Now the time when most they need thaal
Wis so easy to fall back again, Eut hard to
keep Alright.
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Truth.

: TRUTHS. beautiful as we'll rs safe and
mighty. In the incident related below boy
twelve years old, with only truth as weapon,
conquered smart and shrewd lawyer, who
was fighting for bad cause.
Walter was the important witness In law
suit. One,of the lawyers, after cross-ques-
tiohing him severely, said:
"Your father has been talking to you and
telling you how to testify, hasn't hel"
Yes" said the boy.
Now said the lawyer, "just tell us how
your father told you to testify"
Well,n said the boy, moflestly, father
told me that the lawyers would try and
tangle me in my testimony; but if l would
The lawyer didn't try to tangle up that boy
any more.
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POPULAR SCIENCE.

Extended observations at Paris and q:
Munich indicate that the sanitary con-
dition of a locality depends Oh the
amount of water contained in the
ground. The years in which there ha
been large quantity of ground-watc"
present have invariably been the health
lest periods.
The lowest barometric pressure on
record is q. 135 inches, which was Oh
served in 1885 during storm over the
Bay of Bengal. This storm was also re-
markable for its smallness-its diameter
being only from one hundred to two
hundred miles-for its ferceness; and for
its indraught toward thecenter.
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It has beer supposed that the far-north-
western air is tempered with blasts from the
north pole, or at least that coolest of Ameri-
can possessions, Alaska, hut the favored re-
gion seems to have suffered more proportion
ately from the summer sun than any other
part Of the country.
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THE STATE OF TRADE.

Flour Howard street saa ws.srn sase:n1:
rs sO CIV Mn, saesra%. q sSss s.
S Ssrs a y S $50
5ssi 70; : Sss:
S3ss2Ic; d, for september exte BID. cora-sousisrn
M Mat Ds sT So S @s'fr June s
asked LILY s2c BID S.s' s':a and s fp.sssa
tSstso r Ssra Mais a. sosase Rye
O ' sS sDs s: sstf
Bscou-shoulders 7snsac Ciear RID sides ssc llama
l2slsc Lard refined &c Butter Iomsr wse s ssss
Ieum steaiy- Refined az THO Coffee nrm Rio cargocs.
ordinary TO f:lr le'.Si6tc sugar steady so,. ~
Flour per ton Is Sd Grain 2sa. ReceiptsF,osr iisss
S Sa:n eora ssSso oSsa ''0 '''
oats i sSm NO White S7 ssssc shorts quiet and
changed. Provisions steady Pork firm. with steaS
ss nd Iss :aads sssss y ia GUAM
creamery az 24c Western at 23c Cheese quiet;
Es Y ESs GR iS5
for the week-Fiour 2S0eo bbIs and bo00 sacks Corn
$4,000 bush. oats $4,000 bush Shorts 500 tons
the market: No Northern dull at eo9eo'sc asked Winter
Ma'f' %S Me Mehssn u on
higher. closed inside prices No Yellow 81 S8ise,
sale. Of GG % car. No. White At =.
No White loaSslc No Mixed ssl ps;sn, hy s
ss5 is; Best Winter 81 IS s. 2s Millteed weak;
winter Bran sl7 IS Spring do 81 90 eornps s. nm
Wheat bush Corn bush 2sts Soo bush
bush Corn $1,000 bush. oats $4,000 bush
CHICAGO. May 2L-rhs leading futures ranged ~
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NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE FRIDAY, MAY o. 1888.
Paul which showed largo decline. because o.
tfafho delayed by. the foods.
COURSE or TIE STOCK MARKET.

The stock speculation opened this morning quiet
but seemingly in good form. First prices gener-
ally showed some declines from last evenings
figures, but frmer tone Immediately was de-
veloped and a rally in prices followed. Duiness
succeeded and then the st. Paul speculation was
again pushed to the front and to-day 1t was sue
eessful in materially affecting the whole market
philadcl phis and Reading md Ncw-York and New.
England however, were sharply attacked and
made TO add TO the demoralizing influence OF the
st Paul movement To-day two prominent spec
ulators, who week ago were loudest in their
bulllsh expressions on st. Paul stock, were the
conspicuous depressers OF values, not only OF ST.
Paul. but Of other stocks. Perhaps their public
aots now are no more valuable than were their
expressed opinions of a week ago. Every one Is
asking what is the matter with ST. PaulY IL Is
matter OF fact that little or no information can be
obtained from the companys office in this city con-
corning the many damaging rumors set adoaG
The officials seem to think that they owe
nothing To the nonspeculative holders Of It's bonds
and preferred stock Probably if the company
contemplated the floating of any additional bonds
or the doing Of any Of the things which IL is
alleged that 1t will do, the officials would have
different ideas OF their duties and responsibilities
The days operations aggregated 26s, GIL shares
OF which ST. Paul at SO ,l-4a66 3-Sa66 l-2
contributed 1880 shares Philadelphia and Read
ing at 62a59 7-sa60 l-5, II, 600 shares, and
New-Yorl~ and New-England at 40 7-sa3s 2l,500
The market closed unsettled at about the lowest
prices
WHAT WAS DONE IN BONDS.
Government bonds were dull and steady at quo
tations as follows: