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Quicker Time Around the World.

Quicker Time Around the World.
A writer in The Railway Age has been
investigating travelling facilities, to find
the shortest actual time in which trip
could be made around the world. He
gives an instance of how copy of The
London Times made the circuit of the
globe three years ago in sixty-nine days.
In Japan the Marquis of Huntley re-
ceived a copy Of The Times on the day
that the Canadian steamer left for Van
couver. The paper had come to him
through the Suez canal and across Asia.
He Immediately redirected it to The
London Times Office, and sent it back
home across the Pacific ocean and Amer
ica. 1t arrived in London again on the
sixty-ninth day after leaving it, having
travelled completely around the world.
Five hours travel takes the tourist
from London to Liverpool. The dis
tance from Liverpool to Quebec is 32S
miles less than from Liverpool to New
York 1t can easily be made in six days.
The route over the Canadian Pacific,
from Quebec to Vancouver, is 1850 miles
long Over it trains can travel more
than thirty miles an hour, and the dis
tance from Quebec to Vancouver can be
covered in days and hours.
We are now at the western edge of
America. Across the Pacific ocean is
Hong Kong, the port for which the Cana
dian Pacific steamers sail. A fast steamer
can go from Vancouver to Hong Kong
in 18 days. The new ships Of this line
will be ocean racers.
At Hong Kong the return trip to Lon
don will be made by way of the Suez
canal and Brindisi, and can be accom-
plished in 80 days. Thus the time from
London to Hong Kong will be % days.
and that from Hong Kong to London
again will require 80 days, or IS days in
all, in which the tourist has gone around
the world and never once set foot upon
Yankee soil. This is the point especially
striking. When the Russian railway
from st. Petersburg across Asia is fin
ished, according to table prepared by
the writer, the time around the world
can be shortened to IS days and 10 hours.
The great West., 1890-05-09

Jugman Loot, devout Pennsylvania
Dutchman, died lately and left his family
by will house to live in and $50, 900 in
government bonds, on condition that they
lead godly lives, avoid the use of tobacco
and liquor of all kinds, including cider.
It is a question whether the will of a
Pennsylvania Dutchman who prohibited
the use of cider could not be broken on
the ground that the testator was of un-
sound mind.
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A Singing River.

A hundred miles east of New Orleans,
on the Mississippi coast, is the town of
East Pascagoula, or Scranton, at the
mouth of the Pascagoula river. For 200
years the Pascagoula has been noted for
giving forth strange musical sounds near
its mouth, at the gulf. Charles E. Child
sey writes of them in The Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
He says in 1875 an old fisherman at
Scranton called him one evening to come
to the river bank and "hear the spirits
singing under the water" From the
bosom of the waters came murmuring
sound, first rising in crescendo, then
dying away diminuendo. Again, some
years after, he was leaning idly over an
old wharf on the edge of the Pascagou-
La, when he suddenly heard sound like
the rushing and roaring of mighty
wind. He supposed it was the wind
from a storm that could be plainly seen
on the gulf. But lady with him said:
''That is not the storm you hear, but the
mysterious music"
Again there are times when fishermen
are on the water at night, when the
music can be heard distinctly in sounds
inexpressibly sweet and plaintive, like
an Eolian harp. A sudden splash or
noise will cause it to cease, but when
silence supervenes it begins again, soft
and murmurOus.
What causes it? It is pity to destroy
romantic mystery, but the music is
probably made by thousands Of fishes, of q
kind called the "drum,' from their power
to produce this sound. It is made by the
sudden passage of air from one compart-
ment of the fsh's air bladder to another.
None the less wonderful, for all that, is
the soft Eolian strain that rises of sum-
mer night from the moonlit waters of
the Pascagoula.
The great West., 1890-05-09

Indications are that the young emperor
of Germany will be as despotic as Fred
erick the Great. Already no one dares
speak an opinion adverse to his for fear
of his displeasure. No one of the politi-
cal parties in Germany is strong enough
to hold the balance of power alone, and
SO the young emperor has things mostly
his own way. But sooner or later accu-
mulated truth bursts like storm all at
once upon the heads of autocrats who
refuse to hear it in the natural course.
The great West., 1890-05-09

La grippe in Europe has been succeed
ed by strange ailment that seems to be
assuming epidemic proportions in Hesse
Cassel. It is disease in which people
sleep themselves to death. It would not
be strange if, after a century of "hust-
ling" such as has been going on in Eng
land and America, the opposite state
would supervene for awhile, and there
would come an epidemic of drowsiness
in which the victims would desire only
to doze off and "do nothing forever and
ovor ="
The great West., 1890-05-09

After hanging patients several years
almost to the point of strangulation for
the disease known as locomotor ataxia,
physicians Have concluded that after all
it is doubtful if it did much good. The
prodigious experimenting that went on
in this direction may be classed under
the head of what the ignorant charity
patients Of hospital or dispensary are
accustomed to call "trying projects"
The great West., 1890-05-09

the Farm and Labor Party" we
are prepared to call whole alliances
up as witnesses.
Who knows but the request of the
Committee that Mr.. DOnnelly with
draw was inspired by some arch
traitor fed by St. Paul City Farm
ers' Friends''-perhaps Hodgson
himself!'
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Cooperative Cookery.

Some highly intelligent and respecta-
BILE families of Decatur, Ills, are making
an experiment which, if successful, will
be step towards the millennium, sure
They have attempted cooperative house
keeping.
The crank element seems to have en-
tered not at all into their arrangements.
They are intelligent, shrewd people, who
know what they are about, and they en-
ter into the scheme with their eyes open.
There is cooperative kitchen, where
all the food for fifty-two families is pre-
pared. The best is bought, and at whole
sale rates. Those interested have figured
closely, and declare that they can have
all the luxuries of the season at $3.50 a
week for each person.
It will be like home cooking and not
like boarding house, for the ladies of
the families will in person take turns
experimenting the housekeeping. The
mistress of each of the ffty-two house
holds takes charge Of the buying and sell
ing one week in the year. During that
time she buys the supplies and looks after
all the business details. There is in ad-
dition.a a paid housekeeper who oversees
constantly the cooking and serving of the
food. In this way a woman can serve
her week as head of the house, and take
a trip around the world, if she wishes,
before her turn to housekeep comes again.
If these good people can make the sys-
tenn work, they will find many imitators
before year is over. Beyond a doubt
cooperation will solve all the difficulties
of modern civilization as soon as we are
educated up to it. One step towards it
is the vast apartment houses, by means
of which families now live peaceably
and satisfactorily in the enjoyment of
domestic conveniences that would other
wise be beyond their reach. It is COM
mon to poke fun at the modern flat, but
it is, even at the worst, vast improve
ment on the tenement house that pre-
ceded it. Its neat bathroom alone is q
perpetual teaching of the gospel of clean
illness.
The great West., 1890-05-09

The meanest, low downest act on rec
ord recently is that reported from the
flooded districts Of the south, where per-
sons whose plantations were in danger
rowed noiselessly to the opposite bank Of
the foaming river and cut hole in the
levee there to save their own side. A
man who would do such thing as that,
what would he not do!
The great West., 1890-05-09

Sec'y Eckford now has his head
quarters in the office building of the
GREAT WEST, and is jam full of busi-
ness. The Grand Meadow Record
says:
Robert Eckford goes to St. Paul
Tuesday to assume the duties of Sec
retary of the Alliance Storm Associa-
tion: We regret losing Bob very
much, but rejoice at his good fortune
in securing the position. St. Paul
secures a good citizen and an honest
man.
The great West., 1890-05-09

Our friend kurschner, OF Prairie
Farm, Wise, writes us long letter
on the hopeful condition OF the AL
lance in Wisconsin. We are glad to
hear from him. and will publish the
letter soon.
The great West., 1890-05-09

We have received. from Vice Pres't
VIM. Toole, the official call for the
next annual meeting of the Farmers
Alliance of Wisconsin. which will be
published next week. 1t will be held
in Baraboo June 3rd.
The great West., 1890-05-09

Dr. Fish will address the National
lists and Others of St Paul, on the
subject OF "The Nature of Poverty.
on May Both, at the rooms of the
Woman's E. & l. Union, Al w. 4th
street.
The great West., 1890-05-09

1t would afford the public mind de-
gree of relief to know whether DR.. Pc
ters, the African explorer, is really dead
or alive. Now we hear particulars of
his last moments, and now we hear that
he is in rugged health and on his way to
the coast
The great West., 1890-05-09

The plan to have township organ
izations take the place of national
banks is received and read. 1t is a
'large scheme and at first dash
seems ETHEREAL. But all ''big things"
seem so at first. 1t will receive at
tention very soon.
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The Life Association.

There have been a great many
letters received applying for agencies
for the Alliance Aid Association. We
have been compelled to delay the
The great West., 1890-05-09

Haven't heard from Eric Olson for
three weeks-but will wager a sax
on-crown that he is working like a
Trojan
The great West., 1890-05-09

The republic of the United States has
arrived at that point where all other ma
tions find it to their interest to be good
friends with her. 'Rah for the Stars and
Stripes!
The great West., 1890-05-09

This spring, for the first time in the
history of the country, probably, women
acted as clerks and judges of elections.
They ser~ed in this capacity at the mu-
nicipal elections in several Kansas towns.
The great West., 1890-05-09

gang coming around and
giving you a Scent cigar, and tell
ing you what fine place you have,
etc., get all the cigars you can and
then set the bulldog on him."
The blanks above represent some
very singular men, and it might be
dangerous to set the dog on them
The great West., 1890-05-09

printing of our necessary forms and
blanks by the great pressure on the
job-printing department. It will be
impossible to get the work out for
two weeks yet. At least twelve hun
dred dollars worth of work is now
waiting on our "Job-hOokr'
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one reliable
ke will
The great West., 1890-05-09

AlOnzO WardaH will con-
tinue as President and Gen.
Manager. Huron will remain
headquarters for Dakota
work.
The great West., 1890-05-09

During the crowd OF matter rushed
into the GREAT WEST the Directory
of alliance officers has been dis
placed. 1t will be inserted again
next week.
The great West., 1890-05-09


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The great West., 1890-05-09

Prepare to play badminton for social
outdoor game for both sexes. Il shows
off beauty and grace, and admits flirta-
ton.
The great West., 1890-05-09

Some unknown writer has sent us
a brilliant letter from Dawson. 1t
would be very speedily publis he'd did
we know the author-but newspa-
pers never publish communications
from the land of the unknown!
He says, "Now farmers, if you ever
The great West., 1890-05-09

The National Fire ms. Co.,
of Huron, Dak., have decided
to unite with the German
American of st. Paul, and
make st. Paul the Home
Office for National work.
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THE "PHOroGRAPH ALBUM
A Collection of Faded Pictures That
VIII BE Out of Date Next Year.

From the New York World.
Do you keep your oid-.ime photographs? II
you do you know what wonderful collection
you have of friends Of long ago.
That is VIII Steadfast," you say. "He used
to be an old beau Of mine until went back
on him"
THAT is Jack Tickle. How loved him unsil
he shook me-"
That dear, delightful little bunch OF lowell
ness seated in . wash bowl and clothed In
nothing at all IS yourself, so far outgrown that
credulity OF man to believe you we're ever
thus
That fearful-visaged, awkward, ianky, wofui
youth standing by pedestal Is now the man Of
millions, who has grown 80 imp ortant that be
seats himself and bulges out with pride when
he ''gits his picture took"
The sentimental, faded girl by the vase Of
flowers was your most intimate friend years
ago-till YOU quarreled-
Gaze on the whole collection with q sbudder
and wonder how you ever admired this or that
girl and asked her for her picture.
The babies of twenty years ago are nov quito
old folks aud should Ritz or Norman give thees
infants such dreadful smiles OF pose them with
IS little skull their old pictures betray some
body would be justified an brea king the camera
The photographs art has jumped along since
those times. but will the graceful portraits
years from now rs these poor faded present
ments1
Perhaps experience. that wIscst OF all teach
era. had something TO do with making the phs.
tograph album unfashiounble
For which let us be thankful
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statues as haunted In this way the peasants Of
the country throw them down and fracture

statues ss haunted In this way the peasants Of
the country throw them down and fracture
them.
VOCAL MEMyoN.
The sixth Of the worlds wonders was the
"vocd Memnon," also Of Egypt. declared in lie
time to be the most astonishing Of the curiosi.
ties in that ''land OF marveis" Not long before
the birth Of Christ the Pharaoh Amenophis III
built n magnificent temple on the banks OF the
Nile and placed On either side Of the road ap-
preaching it the two most gigantic statues ever
carved. They were nearly 20 feet in height
and were both intended 70 be likenesses Of him
block OF reddish sandstone. One Of them. rs was
subsequently found had fracture in its sub
stance, and at sunrise the warmth caused the
Particles OF stone in the crack to split, thus
causing very audible sound, which was
imagined to have . supernatural origin.
For 30 years people came from all parts OF
the civilized world to hear this vocal statue
inscribed their names and remarks, visible TO
this day on the sandstone surface. Alas for
the superstition, however. Septimus Severus
had the statue repaired. and 10 thereupon
ceased to give forth its musical noises. You
can see the statues now IL you to visit
them-the greatest of Egyptian collossi.
though the temple before which they stood
has entirely vanished.
THE SEVENTH.
Artemisis sister and wife Of Mausolus King
Of Caria, created the seventh wonder of the
world when she built, to the memory of her
dead husband. what she named q .Mausoleum"
So superb was IL that it has given its name to
all pretentious tombs from that time TO this
which are called mausoieums Artemisia died
OF sorrow in the year $50 BE- Such were the
seven wonders of the world.
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stations in various sections of the country most
convenient t. those rivers Astounding in the
particular species Of fish most desirable 10
propagate and disseminate through the coun-
try. II has also perfected its own aquarium
cars in which to safely and quickly transport
the young fish by the millions from one sea-
board Of the continent to the other. Al the
central station at Washington it has estab-
lished aquariums for the purpose Of experi-
menting in acclimation and hybridizing, a.
well as to afford an exhibit of nearly every
species Of aquatic life. The mode of nreating
the water by jet of air introduced into and
ascending in bubbles through the water has
much simplified that part of the matter. The
office OF the plants Mt the bottom il 70 extract
the excess Of carbonic acid gas due to the
breathing of the tishes and restore the oxygen.
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Cement Mortar Under Water.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The use under water of sacks Of cement NOR
tar IL in certain cases Of the greatest service.
1t Is probable that no other process will permit
work under water which will secure 40 perfect
contact with old masonry. A notable example
OF this may be cited in the viaduct which il
now being built across the Loire for the rail-
road from Bourges to Glen, France, which has
the foundations Of its piers in pits dug through
water bearing sand to the marly limestone
which forms the subsoil Of the valley. In some
OF these excavations the bottom IL disturbed by
violent currents Of water coming either from
the water bearing sand into the pit. or from
cracks which are frequently met with in the
limestone and the waters Of which spout out in
the bottom Of the excavation. This wnter could
not DO carried away by masonry channels or
drains since the mortar would be at once washed
out The use Of cement in sacks allows the en-
gineers TO obtain a pavement or foundation for
the bottom Of the PIT almost solid and fitting
itself perfectly TO all the irregularities Of the
bottom, thus allowing the concrete 20 be Ell
with perfect security.
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which % now known a. the MeDonald Fish
Way" The system 10 unlike all others in that
it does nos depend upon friction to retard the
velocity of the descending current, as Ii seen
in the engraving where the water il eidied
against half partition, but tte water descends
an unobsirncted grade, falls mto bucket and
Is detected upward BY . metal CRATE. giving .
height nearly equal 10 that from which il
started When the upward impetus II lost
the particle falls again into lower bucket 70
be again thrown upward, and 90 ON until the
foot of the way il reached The utmost ve-
locity that can be attained on the way IL that
top OF any bucket and the bottom of the one
next succeeding. In the model Of this way"
on exhibition ut the fish commission museum
boat can be run up the entire way by the
force Of the detection Of the water through
these Crates.
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"Hypnotism 10 . great thing. can hyppo-
tie any one. and what I desire the subject TO
do he does" ''see here, professor" ss,d the
little tailor I'm give you 10 per cent on eli the
collections you can hypnotizs out Of my Gus
tomera"-Haypr's Bdsar.
Parrot-"Hoilo! what do you want2~
Bill Noggin (taken ack)-sBee pardau.
sir-thoughs You vas . bird. Judy.
"wsll, what do you want2" asksd The saro-
naut Of his assistant, Who had begun %
whimpsr. II want the EARTH" VALID ohe
young man.-Twrs Hasts Exprsss
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Horses for Women.

Emma Mohstt Tynz in Harpars Weekly.
A man has his horse, his dog, his gun. his
boat-aii those things which give decision,
frmness and poise to character. Let woman
have her horse, IL she can, waiting before or
after the hours Of needle work or study or
housekeeping to give her freedom from staid-
ness or morbid thought, to bring exhiaration
and new life and compsnionship with the green
fields Of spring, autumn roadways overarched
with crimson-tipped naples and the gIistening
snow-sweeps OF winter. 1t will take the lines
from her face, will place her clear-eyed and
erect and In line with life from twelve to
sixty.
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Y DEAR" said q pretty
young woman newly re-
turned to Washington
10 her most intimate
friend the other day, Il
have just received by
mail the most utterly
exasperating wedding
invitation imaginable. +"
"Exasperating?"
ALAS, yes. To ex-
plain why / must tell
the most absurd story.
This summer. as you
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on OFTEN hear men
toned the Seven
Wonders OF. the World"
And yet how few peo-
pie there are who can
tell you what were
these seven wonders.
Ask the most gener-
ally informed man you
know. and it is prob
able that he will not be
able to name more
than four of them.
1t was about the year
$50 BIC. that the seven
wonders were 6rst emu
mera.ed and set down
As including. to begin
with, the famous Colos-
sus Of Rhodes, which
10 said to have bestrode
the harbor Of Rhodes
with its brazen legs. As
o matter OF fact, this
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Extract Of n letter from DR.. Kanny Lol Deg
honorary member pharmaceutical society Of Grss3
bsftain- &C.:
Quina Laroche h @ safe and harmless domestic
medicine: have pt eecrfbed it freely In cases a
and always with satisfactofy effect % ~ mode
siye even 70 the most delicate cvnstilutionA
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SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD
Marvels Which the Ancients Classed In
That Wonderous Category.

THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES. TEE xPHsrAS TEMPLE
or DIANA, THE HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON
TIE PHARos, THE PYRAMIDS, THE "yocAL MEx-
Nox" AND THE MAusoIxuM.
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AN ONO LADY was 20 frightened BY q sunke
that her gtQaey black hair turned white - suoW.
i was soon returned 70 IL og1sina eolsg b. Halls
Hair Removes.
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LOSING A. LOVER.

Miss Millef1eurs Has a Melancholy Ex-
perlence for Summer Remembrance.
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WATER FARMING INDUSTRY.
How the Breeding OF Fish Can Be
Made Profitable.

SUCCESSFUL WORK OF THE UNITED STATES TIsH
coMNIssIoy-soxETHrSGA ABOUT THE HABITS OF
rIsH-A WATER Farm IN INDIANA AND HOW
- u Run.
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REAL ESTATE GOSSIP.
Handsome Residence Sites and What
They Cost.

ZEE TENDENCY TO SECURE kNrLt onouxps NJ
THOSE wKo BUILD HANDSOME HoUsNs-A coon
DEMAND foR RESTtp fRorrRTY-orarR NAT
rIRs OF INTEREST.
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AAN article in your ever-progressive
I'm paper on the beautiful suburban sur
us Troundings of our delightful city and of
Wits many elegant drives over good,
~WSlhard and smooth roads in the north
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ISCICULTURE is bring
ing TO light many in
teresting facts in nat
ural history and the sub
ject IL Of growing i'm
portance. Fish breeding
has at last assumed the
importance OF profit
able husbsndry. The
artificial propagation Of
edible fishes, which is
shown by experiments
b.
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Thomas J. Fisher A Co. have sold in connec-
tion with A Damman for Joseph strasburger
to Georgetown College property fronting 50
feet on the south side Of L street between 5th
and 9th streets northwest. IL il the intention
of the new owners to erect on this site fns
building for the use Of the Jaw department Of
the college. The Georgetown Law School win
then be provided with building which will be
specially adapted for the needs OF the school.