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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

MRS. MORTON, wife the Vice-P-esident-
elect, was graduated ct Vassar.
THE "Bantam of Berlin" is the latest popu-
lar pame for the German Emperor.
BISMARCK has been made O doctor of
divinity by the University of Giesseu.
DANIEL TKwAITE,, who recently died in
England, made SIS, 600 brewing beer.
PJETUR PJETURss0N, Bishop Of Iceland,
has just celebrated his eightieth birthday.
PRESIDENT PATTON, of Princeton College,
has never become citizen of this country.
GENERAL HARRISON, according to relig-
ious weekly, refuses to open his mail on Sun
day.
WE are to have the Empress OF Japan and
the Empress of Austria in this country at the
same time.
THE Emperor Of Japan devotes deal Of
his time to pipesmoking and is fond Of fish
ing and duck-shooting.
KING KALAEAUA is contemplating a visit
to this country. He will probably remain
here a number Of months.
TIE Commander-in-C Chief Of the English
army. the Duke of Cambridge, has completed
his fifty-first year Of service.
POTTER PALMER, the Chicago hotel mag
nate and real estate owner, is credited with
having rent roll Of $1,000 day.
Mrs. HARRISON, wife Of the President
elect, i, said to be 10th to have her pictures
placed on sale, and none is to be had.
THE Duke of Verasna, and lineal descend
ant of Columbus has made fortune as q
breeder OF bulls for the Madrid arena.
THE President and Mrs Cleveland will be
the guests Of Secretary and Mrs. Whitney
for the week succeeding the 4th OF March.
SIR MoRELL MACKENZIE will soon start
OH an extensive tour. In the course OF his
travels he will spend some months In this
country.
MRS. JAY GOULD had $4,000 when she
married the Wall street wizard. be IN
vested it for her, and now it has grown TO
g., 100000.
MRS. AMELIE RIvEs- -CHANLER, who Is
going abroad soon, vows she will NOT toucn
her pen to paper, at least for publication, ror
the next two years.
GENERAL JAMES LANGDoN CURTIS, the
Presidential nominee of the American party,
did not receive single vote in his own town
Of Bridgeport, Conn.
JAMES MCMILLAN, of Detroit, who will
probably be the next Senator from Michigan,
has a fortune Of $l5.00U,0U0. He Is hfty
years old and began life poor.
LOUIS McMURRAY, the first man to sue
cessfully can oysters and the owner OF the
largest corn canning factory in the world,
died recently at Frederick. City. Nd.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.
HONEY in the comb is scarce.

HONEY in the comb is scarce
1HE Mississippi is to be bridged at La
Crosse, Wis.
SWITZERLAND does two per cent OF the
trade of the world.
THE rice crop Of louisiana amounts to
about 675, 900 bags.
NEARLY 2O, 1000 Norwegians migrated from
their country last year.
ORGANIZED raids on rabbits are again
being made in California.
SILVER is being found in great quantities
10 the Madras Presidency, India.
The shipment of apples to Europe has been
an unusally heavy one this year.
SINCE January 1,1,57l. $50 barrels Of apples
have been received in New York.
IT is discovered that 100 colored women IN
male attire voted at Raleigh. n. c.
The French Government will prosecute
Paris paper for ridiculing the army.
A DENTAL school for colored students has
been established at Nashville. Tenn
THE number of court personages and at
tendants at the Vatican is about l2U.
A NEW Roumanian Ministry has been
formed 18th anti-German tendencies.
For every 1000 inhabitants the United
States runs trains 97D0 miles annually.
SIGNoR INGAMI. Roman advocate VINO
| died recently, left s., ,2OO, ,0oO to the rope.
WITHIN the last two years 145 persons have
been convicted for stealing books IN faris.
A FIFTEEN. .THoUsAND-DoLLARf funeral was
held in Massachusetts town the o.her oay.
THE New York city elevated railroads car
ried II, ,520, ,7S9 passengers during the pas'
year.
THE increased moisture favors the winter
wheat crop, and the acreage IS equal 10 lasI
year.
IN 1857 there were registered in France
e7s, ,O56 marriages. S99, ,S33 births, and e42,'9'
deaths
But one vote was cast in South Carolina
for General Fisk, Prohibition canoloaee iof
| President
The number Of passengers transported an
nually in the horse cars in Berlin IS nearly
| 10O, 200.
THE Vermont Legislature has passed bill
making seventy poands standard weight for
/ bushel Of salt.
ABOUT 5,O3s, 900, ooo pounds of cane sugar
and 5,5SS, ,OO0, 100 pounds Of beet sugar are
produced annually.
Two English daily papers have been Tor
bidden sale or circulation in Turkey because
they exposed the Sultan,s drunkenness ana
knavery.
THE Inauguration Of Garfield (procesIons'
ball and display cost S39, ,0O0; that OF Cleve-
land S69, 700; that Of Harrison Is expected 10
cost S75, ,000.
GENERAL HARRISON is reported as having,
in a single day after election, received ID v
letters, a cartoad of newspapers and eighty
telegraphic dispatches
THERE is an epidemic of diphtherla now
prevailing in many parts OF Chiraso, lillnoiS3'
Ind ana, Iowa, and Nebraska, which Is pecui-
iarly fatal and malignant.
THE statue Of James A. Garfield TO De
placed in Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland,
will be of marble, Of heroic size. and VIII rep
resent him in the act of addressing Congress
1t is to be completed and unveiled in June
next.
There are seven e1-Speakers OF the Ma
tional House of representatives living;
, They are: Robert c. Winthrop, NatDaaiGe' G
p. Banks. Galusha A. Grow. James -.
Blaine, Samuel J. Randall, j. Warrea Ks1eT
and Jehn G. Carlisle
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South and West.

Two policemen and n white man at the
point of death, one colored man dead, an
other fatally shot. and others wounded, are
the casualties resulting from riot in ne
gro quarter of Savannah, Ga. Whisky was
the cause of the uprising.
HARRIsoN's plurality over Cleveland in
Illinois is put officially at 21,SSl. Fifer for
Governor beats Palmer l., ,532 votes.
IN Iowa the Republican Presidential elec-
tors have an official plurality of 3l,72l.
THE walls Of Adams coal mine; ;Olney, ILL.,,
caved in, crushing two men to death.
A HEAVY freight and passenger train came
in collision at Bismarck, Dakota Both en-
gines were completely wrecked. Seven em-
ployes were injured, four fatally.
CHARLES G. W1NcHELL, treasurer of Sphinx
County. Dak.. has fled. He is short in his
accounts over 100000.
JOHN H. MEGER one of the murderers Of
John Lowell, has been hanged at Placerville,
Cal He had to be carried to the scaffold.
He cried and moaned piteoIsly until the
drop fell.
A NEW organization of Democratic soldiers.
distinct from the G. A X, is being formed
in Indiana State Adjutant- General koontz
is prominent in the movement.
FURTHER developments show c. G. Win
chell's defalcation as County Treasurer, at
Redfeld, Oak, to be sl6,3O0. Twelve bonds
men will have to settle with the county
JUDGE DUDLEY M. OLIVER. of Evansville.
Ind. committed suicide at his residence be-
cause OF domestic and financial troubles.
FOUR men. including the boss, were killed
and several were injured by the premature
explosion Of dynamite blast near Lexing-
ton, KY.
In Wilkes County, Ca, Tim Smith and
~, IL 1vnn hod haInD
drowned in the river. They had made
threats of shooting and burning out good
citizens
HRoNEK, the Chicago Anarchist, who plot.
ted to kill Judges Grinnen and Gray and
Inspector Bonfield, was given twelve years
Imprisonment by the jury.
VAN CANADY. the assassin Of Joseph Phil
beck and his wife, was taken from the Shelby
IN. C.) Jail by an armed mob and hanged.
ROBERT CoRRrGAN, aged nine, after re-
ceiving several slaps from his sister Rosa,
aged thirteen, seized revolver lying on the
table, with the remark "1'm a cowboy" and
fired, killing her.
JONAH MCCULLOUGH, farmer in Poland
Township. Ohio and a confirmed opium
eater. went to bed, pulled the bed clothes
over his head and shot himself twice in the
forehead. Both bullets lodged in the brain,
killing him.
THE court house at Georgetown. Ohio, has
been DESTROYED by an incendiary fire, to get
lid of evidence being prepared for the Grand
Jury against the White Caps
THE recount Of votes in the Charleston wv.
Val District shows that Anderson Demo
craft has been elected to Congress by seven
tecn majority.
GEORGE B. WrrHERELL, the brutal muir
derer of Charles R. Mccain, was taken from
Jail at Canon City, COL, by an armed mob,
who overpowered the jailer and guards, and
lynched.
THE switchmen's strike at indianapolis.
Ind, has been declared "off." the men &C.
knowledging themselves beaten.
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In the above table oinclal returns uIe SiVoH
for most Of the States. Reports from Colo
RADIO state that the total vote cannot be given
until the State Canvassing Board meets.
Harrison's plurality in that State, however,
is estimated at Il, 2,643. In the above table
cleveland has a plurality of 1lO.0O4, not
counting Colorado: if the estimated plurality
for Harrison in Colorado is allowed Cleve
lands plurality is reduced to 9S.2jl. Omit
ting the vote of Colorado. the above table
shows that since 1881 the Republican vote has
increased by $40, 1OS in the thirty-sever
States, the Democratic by 9,44o, and the
Prohibition vote by 93,3S3, while the Unior
Labor party gave so, ,444 less for Streetel
than the Greenback party did for Butler ir
1854. The loss on the combined Labor Vote
will be somewhat lower than 50, AL when al
the returns of the United Labor party foi
Cowdrey are made. Outside OF Colorado
the total vote of the four leading parties was
10, ,454, against 9,9s5,!65 in 1854, an In
crease Of SS2,4 ,4SI. ..-
The State giving the highest, plurality for
Harrison is Kansas (i9,a6I, followed closely
by Pennsylvania 9,45S), and Minnesots
nsxt &c, ,695,. Texas gives the largest plural
ity for Cleveland Q46, ,6OSl, with Alabama
next Go, 113, and Georgia close third
$50. 020).
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THE LABOR WORLD.

The United Order of Linemen has been or.
ganized.
GEORGIA cotton pickers are paid forty
cents day
FIELD hands in Mississippi receive $40 per
month and board.
WESTERN drug clerks are trying to organ
ize national union.
AMERICAN carpet manufacturers are unit
ing to advance prices.
SOUTHERN foundries ara reported as being
unusually busy this season.
THE union bakers of Indianapolis stamp
their loaves with the letters U. b.
THE Baldwins, of Philadelphia, have built
seven hundred locomotives this year.
GIRLS employed in the cotton factories Of
Macon, Ga, earn as high as 50 per week.
A ST. JOSEPH tMicb.) basket firm is en-.
gagged upon large order from New South
Wales.
TIE daily working hours in the L1cka.
wanna Penn.l collierits have been reduced
from ten to nine
THOSE who work on South Carolina rice
plantations labor all the year for, in many
cases, less than 500.
EMPLOYEES OF the Reading Railroad in
Pennsylvania work nineteen hours day at
sixteen cents an hour.
THE next convention of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers will be held al
Denver, Col, October II, 1889.
A DETERMINED attempt will be made by
all organized labor to break down the con
spiracy law which exists in several States.
THERE are three Farmers Alliances COM
posed of colored men at Cedar Creek, S. G.
Cotton picking pays fifty cents per hundred.
THE Brotherhood of Railway Brakemer
has membership of $4,000. hirty-six new
lodges have been organized within year
past.
THE now locomotive cabs being turned out
by the Valley shops at South Easton, Penn.
differ from old engine cabs in not having q
single moulding.
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THE NATIONAL BANKS.
Figures From the Comptroller Oh
the Currcncy's Report.

Figures From the Comptroller OF
the Currcncy's Report.
The annual report Of the Comptroller Oh
the Currency shows that there are "l4o
National banks, whose capital stock exceeds
s592, ,OOO,G0O and whose surplus funds an and
undivided profits amount to s2a3,0oo,
OO0. They held deposits amounting
to $3.50, OO9, 600 on October IA. There was
q net increase Of ninety banks during tue
year, 1S2 new ones being organized ne re-.
commends the funding Of the outst andng
preenbacks in bonds bearing not over ~ per
Cent interest, available only as basis for
National bank circulation and payable only
upon the failure of the bank or upon its dis.
so. .ution otherwise, and the enactment OF
laws giving uniform effect to the commeroaai
instruments, such as bills Of lading, bills OF
exchange, checks, etc.
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
Summary of the Annual Report OF
the Atlorney-Gene

the Acknowledgements.
The annual report of Attorney-Ueneral
Garland shows that $500 claims, represent
ing 1886 vessels and involving about sSo'-
GOO OoO, have baen fled in the Court OF
Claims. The majority of the cases have oeon
certified to Congress. The penitentlaries IN IN
xhich United States prisoners are confined
are found to be in good conaitton'
and tho prisoners humanely, treaTea; e;l;
He He advocates the passage Of the on
appointing q commission TO 1nquire not
the advisability of building government
nenitentlaries. There were 1919 GoVernn9hs zen,
prisoners in custody during the year. Inc Inc
exclusive control oy the Government OF the
district Of Columbia Jail and the erection OF
q separate Jail for women are reconnleIioeu; .;
An appropriation for preserving GoGsi
records and certain changes in the ludlcial
system are recommended, as also the erectlon
of a suitable building for the Supreme CouIs
and the Department of Justice on ercuhns
nd ioin NJ those now occupied by the oe-
He urges special appropriation Tor tne
payment of special deputy marshais All
increase of salaries and a Reorganization OF
the clerical force Ere also among the reco'n
mendationS.
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Men. Women and Children Shot
Down by Government Troops.

Down by Government Troops.
Advices from Peru. received in San Fran
cisco by the Panama steamer. report terrible
atrocities committed in the interior country
by Indians The Curate Of Moyaro was shoe
and beaten to death with sticks and stones,
and whn his old mother interfered she was
shot and her head cut OF. Another woman
who tried to save her was kile |. The boiies
of all three were wrapped in hides and
thrown into the river.
At La Feza street riot occurred owning
to an attempt TO head movement for
Camacno. the revolut onist leader. In tho
indiscr,minate firing by the Government
troops 1t7 men. women and children were
kiAol and sixty woanded
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GOVERNMENT EXPENSES.
The Secretary Of the Treasury Fur.
nishes Estimates For 1900.

The Secretary Of the Treasury has trans
mitted to Congress estimates of appropria-
tions required for the Governme 1t service
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1890.
They aggregate S%!S, 4b7. AS. which is 81, ,063-
3Oj less than the estimates for 1892 and
S., .5l1 more tn IN the appropriations for
tho current fiscal year. The estimates are as
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THE people In Fresno, CAL, are Wild over
the discovery Of natural gas at a placs forty
five miles southeast of the city. Local op-
timists predict that the find will make Fresno p,
q manufacturing center secoad to none IN
the State except San Fran 'isco.
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THE POPULAR VOTE.

mil Presidential Election Returns
from Every State but One.
The New York Tribune prints table Civ.
ing the popular vote for President III every
State bu. Colorado. According to these re'
turns the vote was as follows:
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amounted to s41, 1G5, lO7, and for the current
year, SIS, ST., ,934

Report of the Postmastcr-Gener
The report of Postmaster General Dickln-
son shows the gross revenues for the year 70
be S53, ,tj5, l76. Il, and total expenditures sou,
SS5. .4U3. 81, leaving deficit OF 81, ,l3o. .s2Ioo'
as against over S7,0O0,0JO for the year pre-
ceding.
The report says that owing to the in
creased efficiency Of the service tne COLL
plants Of losses Of mail have dlmlnlsneu.
The granting of special appropriations 70
railroads for carrying mails is opposed, ana
favors giving the department. control OF tne
service
that the United States leads IN the average
number of pieces per capita. ne opposes
favors the bill providing that the United
States shall own all buildings used for post
Offices, and recommends the abolition OF the
franking privilege. ,oa
In 1851 the cash deficiency was 81, 297, ,23S:
The estimated postal revenue for the fiscal
year ended June 80, lSS9, is 56,567.3!6.
In the Railway Mail Service an increase
of about Il, 0O0 miles is shown. as against t Gne
previous years estimated increase OF 6ooo
miles There is an increase Of l7,OU,9oJ IN
the number of miles travelled per annum, and
q decrease Of 72 per cent in the rate OF cost
per mile travelled, and an increase Of S.33 per
cent. in the average number of trips per week.
The total volume Of business in the money
order division for the year Is upward OF
SLAB, 100000, and shows net profit TO the
Government of about s50,0O0. The volume
of ordinary mail matter has largely in
creased, and it is estimated that the
revenue on the number OF pieces
handled during the past year would
have ,een, without reductions OF post.
age, upward of S70,0U0, 900. The business or
the registration division has increased dur
ing the year 81 per cent over that OF the
previous year. The free delivery service
the act of January 8. 1887, making total OF
35S free delivery cities. The number OF car
riers was increased from $40 to 6346.
During the past year 24,SS0 such offices
were carefully inspected. The inspectors
collected or caused to be deposited in the
Treasury on account Of cases Of class Z.
leases which are not strictly to be called mail
depredations), Sl77,525. II.
A recommendation is also made that at the
termination of existing contracts for the
manufacture of postage stamps, postal cards,
and stamped envelopes, the Government take
the work into its own hands.
Director of the Mint's Report.
The report of the Director of tht United
States Mint shows that the home production
Of gold and silver was S32, 500, GOO. The value
of god and silver bars manufactured at
the Mint was $50, ,0O0, ,0O. The earnings OF
the Mint and assay Offices were 81, sOO, O0o and
expenses sl,50O.0OO. The production OF gold
and silver of the world was S23i, $50, 3Io, OF
which sS6, 357, ,O0O is credited to the United
States
1t is estimated that on July l we had
S545, 349, SS7 in gold coin, 299. 70S, 100 silver
dollars and SIG, ,406, 376 in subsidiary silver
coin.
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ATROCITIES IN PERU.

Total SG32s3. 4GT. .4SS
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-11-24

a self-raising and self-propeIling ma
chine, Is an impossibility. The argu-
ment begins by predicating that there
are two kinds Of impossibilities, the
seeming and the real. For example, il
seemed impossible a few years ago to
speak with friends at distance and TO
hear their speech in return. Yet the
telephone has proved that there was no
actual impossibility in the case, but
only an apparent one. We did not Sun
derstand the principles involved" and
therefore could not conceive the con-
ditions necessary to their successful
application. On the other hand, we
know that perpetual motion machine
and self-supporting arch OF indefinite
length are impossible, because we know
all the factors that enter into the prob
lens and can calculate the result. Thus,
as the weight Of an arch increases as
the cube Of the diameter OF all its parts,
and the strength Of the stringers only
as the square OF their diameter, IL is
evident that "there is n limit beyond
which ii is impossible to make an arch
or suspension bridge support itself"
Applying thisprinciple 10 other struc-
lures, including animals. we find limit
also to the size OF walking animals, say
i'm the dinosaurs OF the Jurassic period,
and limit TO the size Of flying animals
in the condor. So far as we know. there
is no bird that weighs much more than
80 pounds Nature has set this limit.
beyond which she could not go.
Again, for raising and propelling this
animal of so pounds weight nature has
provided the most efficient motor yet
known. ''Nerve energy, acting through
muscular contraction, and supplied by
the combustion of foods, such as oils,
fats, starch, sugar and fibrin together
form the most perfect and efficient en-
CINE that we know anything Of, |. O.,
will do more work with the same weight
Of machinery and fuel" Moreover,
this natural machine is its own engin-
eer, while 1.-THE flying machine must
carry its engineer"
Prof. lie Conte summarizes his argu-
ment ms follows: II. There in low
limit Of weight, certainly not much be-
yond 30 pounds, beyond which il is inn
possible for an animal to fly. Nature
has reached this limit. and, with her
utmost effort, has failed TO pass il. 2.
The animal machine is far more effect
i've than any we may hope TO make;
therefore, the limit OF weight Of sue
cessful flying machine cannot be more
than so pounds. g. The weight Of any
machine constructed for flying, includ-
ing fuel and engineer, cannot be less
than 300to 400 pounds. Is it not do
monstrated that true flying machine,
self-raising, self-sustaining, self-pro-
polling, is physically impossible?"
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-11-24

where's the postmaster" demanded
long, bony woman with freckled
face. who presented herself at one Of the
delivery windows in the Chicago postof-
flee the other day.
"What is IL you wish, madam in
quired the clerk.
care you the postmaster"
"No, madam, but"
Thought you didn't look old enough.
It's the postmaster / want, young man.
/ don't want no truck with you. Will
you go and tell him I'd like TO see
him?'
HE is busy now, but you will state
your business perhaps can attend to
IL. You are keeping other people wait
-
young man, I've walked II blocks 10
get here, and pay as much TO support
this postofilce as any woman of my
means in tho city. I'm going TO get
what came for or I'll raise the biggest
row you ever saw. You're listening
TO me, are you, young many"
81 am, madam. Will you please tell
me what you wish?"
81 want 10 get n letter / mailed this
morning to Mrs Edward Felix Winter
bottom, Newburyport, Essex county,
Mass. She's my cousin"
"What do you want IL fory'
81 want TO write lin haste on the back.
i forgot TO write il when dropped it in,
and the letters important.
81 can't do such thing or that for
you ma'am. Besides, it isn't neces-
sary."
ut amt, heyl Perhaps you know
more about writing letters than l do.
Perhaps you're 90 years old and have
carried on correspondence with friends
in the East for 81 years, young mani
You long-legged, tallow-haired dude, II
you don't go and fetch the postmaster
-
But the postofilce policeman gently
led her from the building.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-11-24

Cardinal Chizi, Baron de Lesseps, Arifi
Pasha, Safvet Pasha and vely Pasha.
OF course, nearly all the prominent mil
itary and civil officers of France, its
politicians, bankers, jobbers and not n
few adventures and shady characters
wear the decorations Of the order.
The orders Of 81. John Of Jerusalem,
OF the Garter and Of the Legion Of Hon
or are typical of their classes. The first
religio-military order, the second an
aristocratic one and the third although
democratic or plebeian. There is anoth-
err order, entirely distinct from these
classes, an order only conferred for he
roic conduct on the field Of battle, the
order Of tho Iron C'oss OF Germany.
The Commander-in-chief OF the army
and the private i'm the ranks wear the
same decoration, plain iron cross. and
yet in Europe IL Is the highest military
distinction. Thus Is recognized moral
equality aud in all alike the greatest mil
itary virtue.