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Connecticut western news., 1888-05-23

Thirty million tons of coal and 6, 000,- 900, tons of coke were mined in Pennsylvania last year. The coal mines of this country furnish employment for 273, 900 persons. In Pennsylvania 8 anthracite fields 110, 900 persons are employed, and 52, 900 in the bituminous beds. In Illinois 2s, 900 persons are at work in the mines, 4,OOO in Ohio, 75oO in Indiana and 5000 in Maryland. The imports of bituminous coal havo in- creased from 653, 900 tons in 1881 to 906, $50 in 1887, and the exports from 191, 03s tons in 1881 to 643, 563 tons in 1887. The imports are mainly received on the Pacific coast.
Connecticut western news., 1888-05-23

suffer from lack of moisture at the TO-, .s very frequently when those who have charge of them think the soil must be moist all through. The pot gets warm from contact with heated air, and this, combined with the free admission of heated air through the pores of the clay on all sides of the pot, takes the mois. ture away from tho Soil below it's sur face almost as rapidly as it evaporates from the top. If painted or glazed pots are used, there will be no admission of this air through the side of the pot, consequently no direct aware," he says, "that some advise against the use of these pots on the plea that they make the soil heavy and sour, and that tho air cannot get to the roots readily. The first objection can bo met with the assertion of simple fact: If proper drainage is provided, plant can be grown hcalthily in glass or tin, or any vessel having air-tight sides. Tho surplus water will run off from the soil, and drain out at the bot tom through the material provided to keep the soil from packing down, and filling up the hole in the bottom of the pot. have frequently seen remarka- ply healthy looking plants growing in old tin cans whose bottoms were punched full of holes for the escape of the water. Without these holes plants so green are almost always sicAly. This proves that the i'm. portant item to be considered is drain age, rather than the material of which the vessel is composed or tho condition of its sides. As regards tho objection raised against glazed pots becau'e of the non- n-admission of air to the roots through the sides, it amounts to noth- ing. If the surface of the soil is stirred frequently. as it always should be, the air can penetrate to the roots thr ough it quito as easily and as perfectly as the air gets to the roots of plants growing in the ground. Where but few plants arc kept in the sitting-room, glazed or painted pots add vastly to the appear ance of the flower stand. Until within period of few years it was supposed that plants would not thrive in glazed pots, but this has been abundantly l proved to be an error.
Connecticut western news., 1888-05-23
We have often suggested, asserts th,

We have often suggested, asserts the American Cultivator, that an important work for the horticulturist was to dis cover friendly insects, or those which would assist in killing the pests of the orchard. California fruit growers have recently imported some Australian para sites warranted to kill fruit pests. These little bugs feed on insect pests and rapidly destroy them Congress will be asked to sanction the importa- ton of these parasites, in order to clear California orchards of various insect pests that arc increasing every year.
Connecticut western news., 1888-05-23
He Got Things Mixed.

An old parish clerk was told to give the following notice: "Ol Sunday next the service in this church will be held in the afternoon and on the follow ing Sunday it will be held in the morn ing, and so on altern ately until further notice."
 What he actually did read out was "Oa Sunday next the morning services in this church will be held in the after noon and on the following Sunday the afternoon service will be held in the morning, and so on to all eternity"
Connecticut western news., 1888-05-23
At MOonrlSe,

How husted and quiet the gaunt poplars
 spring
 Beside the lake, Where the song-weary thrush, head under
 wing, Is nestling half-awakel The warm gray lights of evening finger
 there
 Or gently pass Along the dappled water, and the air No voice nor music has. Low on the nights marge wonder, big
 moon, ... .a ...... Cleaving the blue, Comes up and silvers the broad shades which The bats fit darkly through. And visions, born of fancy and tho night, Glide to and fro, Move with dream-feet amid the solemn light, And softly come and go. Across the moor-else silent over earth And sky's wide range Steals the low laughter of two lovers mirth; How sweet it sounds yet strangel -lSidney A. Alexander
Connecticut western news., 1888-05-23
An Ingenious Explanation.

Three -year-old Ralph. who had been eating grapes begged for another bunch which he saw on the buffet. '.No,' said his mamma, ''you have had plenty this morning. I will give you that bunch tom orrow."
 Half an hour after he appeared with his lips suspiciously stained.
 "Ralph," asked his mamma, gravely, Chow did those stains come on your lips9'
 Mamma" he replied, quite as grave, 'they are from the grares am going to eat tomorrow."-[ Harper'a Bazaar.
Connecticut western news., 1888-05-23

There are in Amsrica over 4, 900, 900 farms, largs and small. They cover Snearly 10000. 900 acres of improved land, and their total value is something like $10, 900 1000, 900. These figures are not of course, very comprehensive. They simply convey tho idea of vastness of area and equal vastness of importance.
 The estimated value of the yearly pro. ducts of these farms is between $2, 900, GOO, 900 and $3, 900. 900, 900.
Connecticut western news., 1888-05-23
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During one of hls poA~A--,'. H~- -o- cently New York Sun reporter wandered into an establishment where many millions of the indispensable luci- for matches are annually made. Several hundred people were busiiy engaged in manufacturing the little sulphur chips, which, if by any chance could no longer be made, would so sadly be missed.
 Said the proprietor of the hugo factory: ''The last two generations have been so accustomed to the daily use of the convenient lucifer that they receive it as a matter of course, and the day when the flint and steel was the only method of producing flame, is to them as much matter of ancient his- tory as the siege of Troy. And yet it is only little over fifty years ago that lucifer matches first came into general use. The first matches, such as tried the patience of our granddadies, wero sad affairs, containing no phosphorus; they were difficult to ignite, and werc at best sputteriag, doubtful things
 About 1883 the modern match, tipped with compound of phosphorus and chlorate of potash, came into use, and but few improvements have been made in It's manufacture sinco that time."
 Taking the writer by the arm, tho proprietor led him to the work rooms above. ''Here is our machine for mak- ing tho splints," said the owner, point ing to complicated affair, which was rapidly grinding out bushels of tiny sticks, which fell in wooden showers into shoot, through which they passed to table in the room below, there to be made up in bundles, preparatory to receiving the lucifer tip.
 "There is moro labor required in the production of the simple little match than you would imagine" continued the manufacturer, leading tho way into another room. "You see, the splints are first tied up in little bundles, then the tips are charred On q red hot iron plato, aftor which theS arc coated with paraffine and placed in long rows in frame. By means of this frame great many splinta may be tipped at one time, and when the frame is full it is locked, firmly holding the splints with the ends per fectly level with each other. When full tho frame resembles huge scrubbing brush. As soon as each frame is filled it IS carried to the dripping room, where tho competition, consisting of glue, phosphorus, chlorato of potash and other ingredients, is applied. In this condition they are taken to the drying rooms and arranged on shelves. Wher completely dried the finished matches are deftly removed from the frames and skilfully boxed by the practised hands of young girls. Tho lucifers are put uI into packages of twenty five boxes each and are then ready for the market.
 'sEvery precaution is taken against fre," remarked the matchmaker, ''and the health of employees is no longer on dangered by the deadly sulphurous fumes as in former limos. The business is now as safe and healthy as selling ribbons or driving horse car."
Connecticut western news., 1888-05-23

The question of the proper location of the credit of organizing the Republican party, recently raised by tho death of Deacon White in Pennsylvania, in whose behalf the di,tinction was claimed, is settled otherwise by T. C.. Moore, prominent citizen of Illinois, who, in letter printed in the Chicago Times, gives some important facts rel ntive to the birth of the Republican party. MT. Moore furnishes names and dates showing beyond question, ap- parently, that the name Republican as a party title was first adopted September %. 1854, in Congressional district convention of Anti Sl very Democrats, Free Soilers and Abolitionists, held at Aurora, Kane county, II.
Connecticut western news., 1888-05-23
Too Much Exercise.

He had been walking up and down the room with the baby for two hours.
 "John," said his vie, from among the pillows. ''you don't look very well of late. I'm afraid you d ont get excr. ciso enough"
 John laid tho baby in tho crib with its feet on the pillow and went to sleep. --[Harper's Bazaar.
Connecticut western news., 1888-05-23

Religious Pessimism is carried to an extreme h Russia. In that country there are sects that teach suicide. Re gently eighty-four persons met ln a cavern filled with straw. They fired tho straw and those who wcre rot burned to doath killed each other with hatchets. Ono faint-hearted fellow
Connecticut western news., 1888-05-23

Absinthe wal introduced into western civilization by French soldiers after their return home from the Algerian war in 1s44. It is product of North Africa and the soldiers mixed it with their wine as a fcbrifuge. Its manu- facture is now ono of the largest liquor trades in Europa. It is chiefly mado at Neufchatel, in Switzerland, where 2,000, 900 gallons are produced annu- allY.
Connecticut western news., 1888-05-23
F1Ownr POfs-

MT. Eben E. Rcxford has page of pleasant gossip in Vick's Monthly on the subject of flowers and flower pots.
 He prefers the plain, uuglazed pot to any other for greenhouse use, but in tho living-room he thinks glaz ,d pot m ost satisfactory because the high tempera- ture of most living rooms causes such a rapid evaporation from tho soil in the pot, if it be a porous one, that plants
Connecticut western news., 1888-05-23
The Tearing Arranged for Him.

Youth Gin deep, passionate, tender tones)-how can tear myself awaya
 Girls father Quitting his head into the room)-The tearing won't bo donc away it will be done in tho front yard. I have just loosed tho dog. Il Boston Courier.
Connecticut western news., 1888-05-23
A Modern Knight.

she-"Ah, John! before we were married you were always wishing you were one of the knights of old, so you might show your devotion; and now''-
 He-'Great heavens, Maria! did you ever hear of one of those old chivalry fellows jumping up from his paper to chop wood? ?'--- Judge.
Connecticut western news., 1888-05-23

There is said to be only one survivor of once powerful Indian tribc in Cali fornia. When he dies the language spoken by the tribe will become extinct.
Connecticut western news., 1888-05-23

The fire losses of the United States last year were about $120, 900, 900, au increase of thirteen per cont. over those of the previous year.
Connecticut western news., 1888-05-23

Broadway in New York City, is the longest street in the United States at the present time. Tho highest num- Der in the directory is 4o9S, which is near tho city line.
Connecticut western news., 1888-05-23

It is said that nearly all the United States senators arc large mon, theii average weight running close to 1sd pounds.
Connecticut western news., 1888-05-23
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S c BECKLEY, Editor and Proprietor.
Local News n Speciality.
TERMS,

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The Washington critic., 1888-07-11
NOTES AND GOSSIP.

ISAIAH V. WILLIAMS of Philadelphia, at
$20,000,000, is accounted the wealthiest
bachelor in America.
Now LET the breezes of Massachusetts,
Bay do their very best for gallant Phil
standardization Globe.
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND Norwegians, it
is estimated, will leave their homes this
year to settle in the United States.
Moody, the evangelist, is 81, and his
mother is still living at an extremely ad-
vanced age. They reside at Northheld,
Mass.
They KEEP sending big watermelons to
President Cleveland, but we don't believe
that he is going to be beaten that way.
/ Boston Herald.
ONE HUNDRED members of the Holland
Society of New York will sail from New
York, Saturday, July 2S, on q pilgrimage
to the homes Of their ancestors.
THERE HAVE BEEN 1903 students in the
Harvard Annex for girls at Cambridge,
Mass, during the past year, and there
were eight in the graduating class.
w. b. STEVENS, the travelled and ac-
complished correspondent of the Globe.
Democrat, has just written up n page for
that paper about the old TigpGcanoc
battle-ground.
lF WHAT HE says abop. himselfis true,
James James o"l0red citizen of Santa
IS the oldest man living,
. in South Carolina, served
% master I'm the Revolutionary
and claims to be 1876 years ofage.
WHILE PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and
General Harrison are both abstemous, ii
not yeHtable Jonadabs candor compels
the New York sun to say that Brother
Thurman and Brother Morton still know
good drink, both of them, like the fine
old American statesmen that they are"
A NEW AUTOMATIC MACHINE is seen in
one Of the Hudson River ferry houses.
You put your pocket handkerchief in a
saucer drop a penny in the slot, and
your handkerchief is sprinkled with
cologne. The wOrking.girls living in
Jersey patronlze it literally as they cross
the ferry n. Y. Sun.
The SIOUX CITY Corn Palace (second
annual iestiyal) will be opened Septem-
Der "A and close October @. The Iowa
folks pronounce Il the "eighth wonder of
the world" and President Cleveland,
who visited it last year, declared, in an
oulburst of admiration, that ii was the
only really new thing that he had seen
on his trip.
FANNIE DAVENPORT is at Alameda, Cal.
Madame Patti, at her castle in Wales;
Mary Anderson, in London; Maggie
Mitchell, at Long Branch; Modieska, on
her farm near Los Angeles Cal; Lotta,
at the Isles Of Shoals Edwin Booth and
daughter at Newport; Jefferson and
COnldook, at Buzzard's Bay; Joe Ilmmet
at Albany Lawrence Barrett, at Scituate,
and penmm Thompson in San Francisco.
The Washington critic., 1888-07-11

IT is STATED IN Senator Blair's re-
port on the Prohibition Amendment
to the Constitution that at least ten
millions of the people of the United
States are in favor of abolishing the
liquor traffic by national legislation.
The estimate is based upon petitions
to that effect received in Congress,
upon the prohibitory vote in various
States and upon personal observation.
We do not doubt the accuracy of the
figures.
This being the case there can be no
serious objection to submitting the
proposed amendment to the people of
the United States. So many memo
rialists certainly deserve a hearing,
and if it prove that a majority of
voters agree with them as to the ne
cessity of statutory inhibition, the
voice Of the majority will undo
edly prevail in the end.
1t is not probable that such
amendment would be adopted
year or even five years from now, but
there can be no harm in putting the
question TO a test, If it is decided
against the prohibitionists the ques-
.i6n will temporarily cease to be q
political issue; if in their favor, the
greatest revolution the world has ever
witnessed in an economic or moral
point of view will have been consum-
mated.
The Washington critic., 1888-07-11

ought to have. It's a little irksome
on the politicians, but the people
rather like to feel that they've got a
man for President with a will Of his
own and the nerve to enforce il.
The Washington critic., 1888-07-11


TIE Pan. PRESBYTERIAN CoUNciL,
now i'm session in London, is devoting
much Of it's time to the subject Of
enlisting women in the service of the
church, and the results Of their reli
gious cooperation in the evangelical
work of the United States were spec
tally referred to as demonstrating
the desirability and practicability of
a system which is comparatively
new to Great Britain and nowhere
fully perfected The wonderful sue
cess which has attended it in the
Catholic Church, where large pro-
portion of the charitable and home
mission work is done by women in
their several orders, makes it entirely
clear that Professionalism may safely
and wisely follow in the same direc-
tion. 1t opens to women a calling of
the most honorable character, and
could not fail to largely extend and
permanently establish the influence
Of denominations that are now much
rather inclined to keep women in the
background, than to adopt any plan
Of Christian endeavor which is of
Romish origin.
These prejudices, however, are
gradually giving way to broader views
and better sense. The Anglican
church has already taken a praise
worthy lead in this matter; the Pres
byterians have made a creditable be-
ginning, and it will probable not be
many years before all the Protestant
sects will fall into line and recognize
the faithful zeal and untiring devo-
ton of women as arms Of Gods
service that have been too long dis
pensed with.
The Washington critic., 1888-07-11

THERE Is ONE thing they can't read
Samuel ]. Randall out Of and that is
the respect and sympathy of the
country. This is shown by the gen.
eral solicitude expressed for him
during his present illness.
The Washington critic., 1888-07-11
WASHINGTON, JULY II, 1855
A QUESTION or sALARy.

There is no Office in the District Of
Columbia that involves a greater re-
sponsibility, or calls for a higher de-
gree of executive ability, than that
Of the head Of the Metropolitan
Police Department.
1t is position of much more inn
portance in Washington, with popu-
lation of 225,000, than it is in any
other city of corresponding size, or
even larger cities, because of the inn
mense values that are to be protected
here and of the semi-diplomatic
character with which the Chief of
Police at the National Capital is liable
at any time to be invested.
So that the Office, by reason of its
peculiar responsibilities and the
talents required for proper dis
charge of its duties, deserves salary
commensurate with its dignity and
prominence.
That it should be little or nothing
more than what is paid the chief of
an ordinary bureau of the Govern
ment; that it should be much less
than is paid to bureau chiefs in some
instances Of much less consequence;
that it should not exceed the pay, for
instance, Of the Appointment Clerk of
the Treasury Department, is not
simply absurd-it is outrageously un-
just; and how it is that the Confer
ence Committees on the District APP
preparation bill should have ever come
to the niggardly conclusion that the
Major of Police might not be getting
quite large enough Q salary at 50, 900,
and therefore ought to have 500
more, as ample compensation for his
services, must forever remain an un-
solved problem to all men Of ordinary
business intelligence and liberality.
1t is perhaps no argument in the
case that at critical iuncture in Dis
trict affairs, when to find the right
man for this responsible place had
become question of serious diff.
Guilty, Colonel Moore was induced to
leave a position of far greater pecu.
mary worth and devote his vigorous
energies and fine disciplinary training
to the rescue of the Department from
its threatened Generalization; but Il
IS an argument in favor of justice TO
this meritorious official, that he ac-
complished far more than was ex.
pected of him, and put the force al
his command-such as it was-in q
condition of efficiency that it had
never before attained.
1t is probably too late to rectify the
injustice or atone for the insult done
in advancing a twenty-six hundred
dollar salary to twenty-seven hun
dred dollar salary, but we know oi
some bills that have come to the griet
Of Presidential veto for slightel
causes.
But cannot special bill be intro
duced and passed that shall make
amends for this incomprehensiblt
blunder or contumelious injury
which ever you please to call it? A
bill giving the Chief of Police at least
$4,000 year2
The Washington critic., 1888-07-11

ACCORDING TO A well-known Repub-
Iican correspondent, quoted by the
New York Sun yesterday, General
Harrison has "a very exaggerated
idea Of his capabilities and import
ance, and that if he is elected Presi-
dent of the United States the Repub-
lican party will have far more trouble
with him than the Democratic has
with Cleveland, for he is just as per-
verse and self-willed as Grover"
Well, we are not so sure but that's
the sort Of President the country
The Washington critic., 1888-07-11

As A PRESBYTERIAN DEACON, Mr..
Harrison cannot drink intoxicants,
and Mr.. Cleveland has "sworn off, 4"
in Difference to his wife's wishes.
This state of affairs doesn't leave the
saloon element any recourse except
to vote with the Prohibitionists.
The Washington critic., 1888-07-11

WE ARE \ LITTLE afraid the Sher-
man resolution against trusts won't
hold water. It's good enough reso-
luton for campaign purposes, be-
cause there is a strong popular re-
pugnance to monopolles Of any sort
that raise prices on the necessaries
and commodities of life, but when it
comes to the regulation of trade
methods by statute the Government
will find it a decidedly uphill bust
ness. The commercial exchanges of
the country, through the pressure of
public sentiment, might reach and
remedy the difficulty, or the matter
might possibly he controlled by State
legislation, but the General Govern
ment will have to take long stride
toward absolutely despotic power be.
fore it can put stop to money-mak-
ing combinations.
The Washington critic., 1888-07-11

UNLESS NUMEROUS Democratic and
Republican editors are mistaken, both
Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.. Harrison will
be elected in November.
The Washington critic., 1888-07-11
EnR SklE-hOuSES.

INVEST s7,5ooiN SMALL BRICK HOUSES,
i well rented: sure to pay you $3.50 per
year; may pay you 81 ,1dO per year. Address
Il. S. COLLAMER. 2dO5 Pa ave W.
The Washington critic., 1888-07-11

SENATOR SHERGAN's proposed anti
Trust legislation sounds very much
like campaign poetry with the
ricketts,.
The Washington critic., 1888-07-11

IT BEGINS TO LOOK a little rs if DR.
Mackenzie, surgeon to the late En-
peror Frederick, was more of poll
tician than a physician.
The Washington critic., 1888-07-11

A CONVENTION OF THE American
Party will be held in Washington in
August. We Know Nothing about it.