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THE LADY WAS IN.

SIS the lady of the house in?" asked o
man whose appearance Indicated that he
was one of those abandoned and dissolute
persons who 60 around selling six papers.
of cast-iron needles and tin bodkin for
quarter. -
'Yes'n," replied the woman, who.
opened the door far enough to thrust out.
fiery red head, in which there CLEANED
a pair of swapping black'cyes. "Yes'm,
I'm she, an I amt dressed to see comp'ny
neither, an you'd better put right O. here
fore I douse ye with dipper O. hot.
water I don't want none O. yer old
needles, nor furniture polish, nor family
albums, nor writin' paper, nor trash O no.
sort; an next time you whang this door
bell an make the lady of the house take
her hands from her bread dough an
wash 'em to come and find you at the.
door, it'll be the last time you'll ever
wanter renew your acquaintance with
this ladyl Mind that!"-Dstroit Free
Press
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Bogus "Broiled" Steaks.

"Nearly everybody has a prejudice IN
favor of broiled steaks and fish, instead
of fried" said cook in a restaurant,
''but in many eating houses, even of the
better class, the customers eat their
sbroiled' steak or fish contentedly, and
with a relish which they would reject
and raise a row about if they knew how
it had been prepared"
He said that it is fried notwithstand-
ing the straight, regular marks ap-
parently made by the gridiron. Steaks
and fish arc more easily and quickly made
ready for the table by frying than by
broiling, and this is the reason for the
imposition. When the steak or fish IS
put into the frying pan the cook sticks
poker into the red-hot Goals. BY the
time the edible is cooked the poker is red
hot. 1.-THE steak or fish," said the cook,
ISIS then put on plate, and the hot iron
laid across it, burning in the parallel
marks such as would be made by grid
iron, and then the dish goes to the Gus
toners table, masquerading as 'broiled
sirloin or 'porterhouse,' or "a nice broiled
fresh mackerel, or the like, as the order
may require. "-New York Journal.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

FOUR suicides in New York city and a
score of deaths in the vicinity are attributed
to the grip or maladies following 1t. The
Board of Health has admitted that the grip
is epidemic, and has issued bulletin caution
ing everybody to be unusually careful IN the
matter of health.
THE two branches of the Massachusetts,
Legislature met in joint convention at boston,
and the oath of Office was administered TO
Governor-elect Bracket and Lieutenant
Governor-elect Hale.
THE downtown shops of the Edison Elec-
trio Illuminating Company in Pearl street,
New York city, have been burned, causing a
loss, estimated by the superintendent, Oh
500, 900 on property and machinery.
CONGRESSMAN ScoTr'S Pennsylvania COL
lierv at Mount Carmel has suspended opera
tions, throwing 1000 miners out of employ
ment.
a FRIGHTFUL boiler explosion occurred in
O. saw mill at Chillicothe Me. William
Hughes and John Runkle, employees OF the
mill were instantly killed.
THE large iron firm of Curtin & Co., near
Bellefonte, Penn, has made an assignment:
The liabilities are about Sl25, 600; nominal
assets, about $50, 600.
THE poet George H. Boxer, ex-Minister to
Philadelphia, aged 81 years.
MRS. MYRA KN1FFIN, wife of DR.. Arthur
S. Kniffin, one of the best-known dentists OF
Trenton. N. j., was chloroformed by some
one in the night. Her dead body was found
on the bed in her room in the morning.
The Pittsburg, McKeesport and Believer
non Railroad has been sold to the Plttsburg
and Lake Erie Railroad Company for 81, 400
00O
The International Maritime Exhibition
at Boston has closed, having been attended
by over 200, 900 persons during the Two
months it was open to the public.
WILLIS GAYLORD, who swindled F. A.
Babcock, of New York city, out of $50 oO0 IN
a bond purchase on the sawdust plan, and
who was to be extradited from Pennsylvama,
committed suicide in his cell in the Phlladel-
phia County Prison.
AcRAzY Anarchist named S. NJ. Francken
Of Brooklyn, killed his wife his three-year,
old child and then himself.
A MAIL train on the Pennsylvania Rail
road killed two men at Tyrone, one OF them
being the train dispatcher. The men were
walking on the track when struck. At Bens
Creek, about twelve miles east of Johns
town, Penn. the same train struck and in-
stantly killed two other men, supposed to be
Hungarians in the employ Of the Pennsylva-
MA Railroad.
A wREcKING train fell through the iron
bridge over the creek north of Wellsboro,
Penn, and Grant Milliken and Daniel How
ard were killed.
AFREIGHr train collided near East More
and, N. H., with wild freight train. En-
sineer S. w. Slate and Fireman Gibsep were
Killed on the local freight and others were in
iured dr-Tfihe locomotives and a number Of
',ars were wrecked.
A FALLING brick wall in the yard Of the
Long Island Railroad, at Long Island City,
n. Y. killed three men and wounded three
others.
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NEUROLOGICAL.
Prominent People Who Died Dur
ing the Past Year

Prominent People Who Died Dur
ing the Past Year
The past year has witnessed the loss of the
following prominent persons:
Allibone, Samuel A., author, at Lucerne,
Switzerland, September 2, aged 73.
Barnard Rev. Frederick A. P, President
Columbia College, at New York, April q,
aged so.
States at Lime Rock Conn., April 80 aged
Booth, Mary Louise editor Ha,per's Bazar,
at New York, March 5, aged 5S.
BRIGHT, John, statesman, at London, March
Browning, Bobert, British poet, ded at
Venice on December 10.
Cabanel, Alexander, artist, at Paris, Janu-
airy %, aged 65.
Cameron, Simon, ex-senator United States,
at Lancaster Penn, June &c, aged 60
Paris, April 9, aged 102.
Cook, George e., State geologist of New
Jersey, at New Brunswick, September 22,
aged n.
Cox, Samuel Sullivan, Congressman and
e1-Minister to Turkey, at New York, Sep
tember 10, aged 65.
Dalton, John c., Psychologist, at New
1OTh, T CcUl IL, dScu
Davis, Jefferson, eX-President Of the Con-
federate States, December 6, aged 81.
De VeuSter, Rev. j. Damien, missionary,
at Kalawao, Hawaii, April TO- aged 49,
Dupont, Henry, powder manufacturer, at
Wilmington, Delaware, August 8, aged n.
Ericsson, John, inventor, at New York,
March 8, aged sc.
Grady, Henry W., at Atlanta, Georgia, on
December %.
Harney, William S., General United
States Army, at Orlando, Florida, May 9,
Hart, William B., State Treasurer of
Pennsylvania, at Harrisburg, November 9,
aged Al.
{ Hayes, Mrs. Lucy Webb, at Fremont,
Ohio, June 26, aged Sc.
Hill, H. D.. Confederate General at Char
lotte North Carolina, September q, aged
30.
Loomis, Elias astronomer, at New Haven,
Conn.,, August Is, aged 7S
Macmillan, Alexander K, editor, at New
York, December 9, aged 63.
Matthews, Honorable Stanley, Justice Su-
preme Court United States, at Washington,
March %, aged Is.
Mitchell Maria, astronomer, at Lynn, Mas
sachusetts, June 2s, aged 20.
Mott, DR.. Alexander B., eminent physician,
at Yonkers, New York, August 12 aged g.
at Winnipeg, July S.
Pendleton, George H., statesman and di
elomatist, at Brussels November "a, aged
Remke, Amadeos A, Senior Bishop of the
Moravian Church at Herrnhut, Germany
August TO- aged II.
Rice, Allen Thorndike, editor at New York
May 16. aged 39.
Ricord, DR.. Philippe, surgeon, at Paris
October o. aged SO,
Rudolph, Prince Imperial Of Austria, a
Meyerling, January 30, aged 30.
Shaw, Henry, philanthropist at st. Louis
August 25, aged 80.
Theresa, Christian Maria, Empress O
Brazil, December 2S, at Lisbon.
Tupper. Martin Farquhar, poet, at London
November 20, aged 70.
Tyler, Mrs. John, widow of e1-Presiden
Tyler, at Richmond July 10, aged SO.
Wharton, DR.. Francis, Solicitor State De
partment, at Washington, February %. age
Woolsey, Theodore D., ex-President o
Yale College, at New Haven, Connecticut
July ], aged SS.
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ALL OVER EUROPE.
The Spread of Influenza Abroad
Many Deaths Reported.

The influenza, according to cablegram,
continues it's ravages in Europe, abating in
some quarters and increasing in others. A
malignant type has appeared il many cities
ON tho Continent and in London, which is
causing widespread alarm. The London
DniIu Ne,rs now admits that the epidemic is
not a mere scare 1t says: 1.-THE plague, IS
mon us and in the most dangerous form"
The reports from all parts OF the CONT
nent are very serious. The deaths IN Parls
for Thursday are reported at 423. The doc
tors of the Riviera are overworked attend
{he patients with influenza. Persons con-
yalescent with pulmonary maladies are ready
victims of the epidemic. Several Telegraph
Offices have been closed in Amsterdam owing
to the employees being Frustrated. All th'
schools in Hesse have hecn closed, and IN
man7 towns Of Germany places OF amuse-
ment have shut their doors. the disease IS
atating at Frankfort and at Leipsic. Two
hundred officials are i'll with it at Wu-zou-g.
Ia England, which was the lest country to
bo atta.k the epidemic is running RAPIDLY
through city and country. Hatfield house,
the lbot.e Of the Marquis of Saf- bury; IS a
hospital. Will, the Marquis is slowly re-
covering his secretaries have al beSn taken
down with the complaint and several men,
bers of tho household are i'll. The newspa-
per printing offices are decimated.
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SHOULD CHEAPEN BREAD.
A Large Grain Yield Reported foi
Last Year.


According to the December report of the
Department of Agriculture the reported
area of corn, 7s,319,651 acres, represents
an increase of 25 per cent. over
the acreage Of 1883. The wheat
cent. greater than the aggregate for 1888
Dairying and meat production have for years
been encroaching upon wheatgrowing upon
the eastern side Of the great spring wheat
belt, as former reports have shown.
The acreage of oats is placed at 27,462, 3l6
acres, an increase of less than 2 per cent.
The Weld per acre of corn is very nearly
twenty-seyen bushels, or one and one-tenth
busheI less than the product Of 1879, and Is
the largest rate of yield since 1850. The
largest yields arc west Of the Mississippi,
Iowa taking the first rank in aggregate pro
duced and yield per acre. 3i9, s6G, ,OOO bushels
-39.5 per acre.
The yield per acre of wheat is nearly l2.9
bushels, OF one-tenth of bushel greater
that the November average of yield per
acre. The variation from tho current e1'
pectation of the last six months is not over
one per cent. The total product as cstl.
mated, is 400, $50, 900 bushels. The product
of oats is Isl, SIS, 900 bushels, at the rate OF
27.4 bushels per acre.. ~
Tho aggregate of all cereals is about 3l4,
500, 900 bushels, or at least So bushels per
capita.
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INDIANS UP IN ARMS.
They Compel an Irrigation Company
to Stop Work.

They Compel an Irrigation Company
to Stop Work.
The Pueblo Indians of five villages in the
northern part of Bernalillo County, N. NJ,
are up in arms and work on the big ditch
constructing by the Rio Grande hriga-
tion and Colonization Company has been
suspended owing to their warlike demonstra-
tions. -
Sixty Indians appeared at the camp with
their war paint on. They were on morse
back and rode four abreast, all heavily
armed. The commanding warrior ordered
Engineer Wiggin to leave with his outfit I'M
mediately. They said tho schemes OF the
white men were Of no use to the Indian,
and they wanted work stopped at once The
engineer pleaded with them, but they were
stubborn and turned deaf ear to all his en-
treaties Seeing that it was useless to argue
longer and fearing bloodshed, the engineer
suspended work.
He has telegraphed the situation to Cover
nor Prince at Santa Fe. Besides the war
riors on horseback, the hills were alive with
Indians on foot with their rifles, and ready
for any emergency.
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Washington.

WHIrELAw REID, Minister to France, has
obtained leave of absence and will visit this
country about the middle Of February.
FRANK w. PARKER, of Lewiston, Me-, has
been appointed by the Comptroller OF Cur
rency Bank Examiner for the State OF
Maine
The receipts o; the United States during
the past six months were from customs,
S1O9, 639, 1888; internal revenue, s6S, 521 ,632;
miscellaneous, s14, 747,442 total, s12, $685.
4O795. Government expenditures in the
same time were s!75, ,6l5,2T.
DURING December the mints Of the United
States coined $1,646,04S gold, s3,172, ,0JJ
silver, and s240 4S9 subsidiary coin, total of
s., ,05S, 53S.
ROBERT G. BLAINE, brother of the Secre-
tary of State, and who has for the past eight
years been curator in the Agricultural De-
partmeat has received the appointment as
Deputy First Auditor Of the Treasury De-
partment.
The collections of internal revenue for the
first five months Of the present fiscal yeal
wer, $50, lis, 953, or s., ,0S5, ,227 more than the
collections during the corresponding period
| OF the previous year.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE BREWER took his
place on the Supreme Court Bench.
The President gave state dinner in honol
| of the Vice President and Cabinet.
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South and West.

JUDGE SOLDIERS, at Cleveland, Ohio, SEN
:enced Otto Leuth, the seventeen-y year-old
ooy who was convicted of the murder of little
Maggie Thompson, to be hanged at Columbus
IN April 10.
A COLLISION of freight trains took place
Fifteen miles east of Wichita, Kan. John
Ramsey, brakeman, was instantly killed
and Robert Coleman, an engineer, died within
;wo hours from the injuries received.
A NoRTHBoUND passenger train and a
freight train came into collision near Knox
killed, Fireman John Gamble fatally injured
and the baggage-car, with its contents,
burned.
S. T. KELLOGG and wife were killed near
Sedgwick City, Kan, by runaway team.
Four loggers were burned to death at
Beebo's Camp, up the Tennessee River,
heir cabin taking fire. 1t is supposed they
we're all intoxicated.
Ina quarrel between miners at Blossburg,
Ala, Dan Green killed Alf Hall. Green
;hen chased the unarmed miners who at
;empted his arrest firing on them all the
time. Several hunters arrived and rlddled
Green with bullets.
THREE men were fatally hurt and six
others injured in freight collision on the
Rock Island Road, near Malcolm, Iowa.
FIRE started in the Fannie Paddock
Hospital, at Tacoma, Wash. The patients
were all saved. The excitement, however,
proved fatal to a number.
A BAND of Mexican horse thieves am
pushed a camping party, consisting of three
men, two women, and four children, in a
,anon near Chihuahua, Texas, and shot and
Silled two of the men, Amilitary guard was
sent to arrest the Mexicans.
ONE of the large thousand-barrel stills of
The naphtha works Of the Standards Solar
Refinery, at Lima, Ohio, exploded with ter
-ific force. Ten men We're severely IN
iured.
THE Democrats of the two Houses of the
! Montana Legislature met in joint session, and
on the first ballot w. A. Clarke and Martin
Maginnis were elected Democratic Senator:
from Montana by vote Of 81 each.
Two street-car horses were killed and theil
heads nearly burned off in st. Louis by ar
electric wire. The wire burned through the
flesh like a sharp knife and cut the jugulai
vein.
R. DEIMEL BROTHERS. the most extensive
manufacturers of parlor furniture in Chi
, , cago, have failed. Liabilities over $500, 600
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Foreign.
AN American vessel has been seized by Il
L =.

AN American vessel has been seized by the
Colombian gunboat La Popa.
THIRrY-Two officers have been arrested In
st. Petersburg, Russia, charged with being
members of a secret society, the object of
which is to abolish the aristocracy and estab-
lsh constitutional monarchy.
THE United States Squadron Of Evolution
has arrived at Tangier, Morocco. Seventy
men were down with the influenza. The
cases are reported as severe, and the disease
was spreading.
A COLLISION occurred at San Pablo, on the
Panama Railroad. 4 special train having
on board A. L. Rives, the general superin-
tendent Of the road ran into freight train.
The engineers of the two trains were NOR
tally wounded, and Mr.. Rives and six other
persons were injured.
REPORTS have been received at Shanghai
that force of the Chinese fought the ma
tives near Takow, in the island of Formosa,
and 100 of the Chinese and 400 ofthe Formo-
sans were killed.
A PUBLIC receptlon was lendereu tine
Rev. DR.. T. Dewitt Taimage and Mrs. Tai
mage at Constantinople by United States
Minister Hirsch.
THE Russian Nihilist leader Pierre has
been arrested at Warsaw. On hts person and
at his lodgings the police found pamphlets
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

GAYARRE. the great Spanish tenor, has
just died of influenza.
THE Prince and the Paupern will soon De
produced at the Broadway Theatre, Ne"
York.
The Academy of Music in Milwaukee has
been sold for SCI, 900. 1t is the Oldest theatre
in the city.
The late D. D. Lloyd's play, "The Sens
tor" was produced iu Washington before a
brilliant audience.
FIRE DESTROYED the theatre at Zurlch,
Switzerland, during a performance. Inc
audience escaped without injury.
FOUR of the leading artists of the Italian
Opera Troupe at Chicago were unable to
sing on account of an attack OF the IN
| 6uenZa.
IT is said that the receipts of the principal
London theatres have decreased from $500
to $1,000 a week since the opening OF Bar
NUNS show.
S1GNoR Ross1, the italian tragedian, has
produced Julius Caesar" at the National
Theatre in Rome on most elaborate scale, and
has been playing Brutus and Marc Antony
on alternate nights with great success.
CARLoTTA JoHANNsoN, a niece of Chris
tine Nillson daughter of the prima donna
sister. is said to have a remarkably line So
prano voice, and has been sent to Chris
tiania, Norway, to finish her studies Ii
| singing.
NEIL BURGESS and his manager are consid-
ering an offer of a London manager Tor 9
summer engagement Of 1.-The County FAIR.
They will hold the offer in allegiance pending
the outcome of 1.-THE Old Homesteads' trip
across the water.
EDWARD STRAUSS, the brother of Johann,
the famous waltz writer, is coming to this
country with his orchestra. He is said to be
a magnetic leader. He uses his bow for q
baton or to scratch note here and there just
to show his men how it ought to be done.
DURING a rehearsal of Joan Of Arc" by
Sarah Bernhardt in Paris, the pyre used lr
the play became ignited from the surround
ing fire. Nine Bernhardt who was OH the
pyre. received no injury from the fire, but
tainted. Two scenes shifterS were seriously
burned by extinguishing the fire.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON, who is one of the mos
domestic Of men, carries with him on his trll
a lovely group of his young children anc
grandchildren, in whose bright young faces
One can trace the characteristic lineament:
of the great actor. He himself is looking a!
Young and vivacious as he did twenty year,
ago.
CHARLES R. Pope, the tragedian and man
aeer. is said to be the first actor who evel
held a representative position under th'
Government. He is United States Consul a
Toronto. Canada. An actor used to b'
Mayor of Leadvil!e and perhaps that is th'
nearest the profession has come to govern
ment position.
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In the House,

18TH DAY.-Mr. Carlisle offered a reso
lutisn authorizing the Speaker to admin.
ister the oath of Office to Mr.. Randall at
his home in Washington. Adopted. {. The
Speaker laid before the House q coH5Huni-
cation from the Director Of the Mint, recon-
nending an increase in the salary of the
Superintendent Of the Philadelphia Mint.
Referred. Mr.. Dockery offered a resolution
directing the Superintendent Of the Census
to ascertain the number of farm mortgages
In the United States Referred. Z. Many bills
we're introduced in the call by States. :. The
Ways and Means Committee heard reprrsen.
tatives of the silk and sugar industries.
18th DAY.-Mr. McComas offered a reso-
luton that the House resolve itself into COM
mittee of the whole for the consideration Of
the District of Columbia Appropriation
bill. "A spirited debate followed regarding
the rules of the House. Mr.. Breckenridge
raised the question of consideration against
the resolution, and the Speaker ruled
against him. The ruling was attacked We
hemently by Mr.. Carlisle and other Demo-
cratic members.
14TH DAY.-The Speaker laid before the
House, for reference, q letter from the Secre-
tary of War; inclosing a petition from GER
tain non-commissioned officers praying for
an increase of pay. The days proceedings
were almost wholly devoted to consideration
of the District of Columbia Appropriation
bill, which was passed.
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GETTING EVEN WITH Els WIFE.

The conductor of a Chicago car ap-
preached hard-visaged woman and asked
for her fare.
"Go on with yoa, now, I've paid you
once" said the woman.
"No, you haven't"
"Yes, have"
"Give me nickel, or I'll put you off. u,
"Do if you dare"
The conductor stopped the car and put
her off.
"Rather hard thing to do," said one
of the passengers, "but it served her
right, I suppose"
"Oh," the conductor smilingly an
swered, cit wasn't hard for me to do, for
it isn't often that I have chance to get.
even with her. She is my wife. "-Arkan-
saU TrareZer.
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A LITTLE MAID WITH A BROKEN ARM.

A LITTLE MAID WITH BROKEN ARM.
A small girl fell and broke her arm two
or three weeks ago. The fracture was
reduced and all went well, the little mite
proving herself heroine under the pain.
And what pain broken arm can give!
But the tiresome part of the business,
the growing together of the fractured
parts, has tried her patience sorely. The
other day the family doctor explained to
the little patient that the pain she suf-,
fered came from the knitting of the bone.
''Knitting is it9" the child echoed;
"well I wish is would stop, for I can feel
the needles sticking into me. "-Pittsburg.
Dispatch.
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CONSIDERED EXTRAvAGANT.

eyes," said the old man with sigh,
"Charles seems to be very devoted to
you, Arabella, and he says he wants to
marry you, but I'm afraid he'll never get
on very we'll in this world"
"Why, pa2" exclaimed Arabella in
surprise. "What makes you think sol"
II don't think so, Arabella," returned
her fond papa. 81 know so. Charles
told me to-day that he bought new UNI
brella last week. What reckless extrava-
gance that was. Why, I don't remem-
Der that I ever bought an umbrella in all
mp life. ."-SomerviM Journal.
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GALL IS NOT LOST. "

The modern child is an analyst. The
small boy was playing with the scissors,
and his kindly old grandmother chided
him:
"You mustn't play with the scissors,
dear. knew little boy just like you
who was playing with pair of scissors
just like that pair, and he put them in his
eye, and he put his eye out, and he
never could see anything ever after"
The child listened intently and said, |
when she got throughA
"What was the matter with his other
eye9"-San Francisco Chronicle.
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HIS PRESENCE WAS INSPIRING.

Manufacturer Ito his Office boy, who
persistently sets the clock backward IN
the morning aud forward during the
lunch hour)-"I can't understand why
the clock is always behind when ar
rive Mt the Office and ahead when le-ve
it."
Office Boy Gnnocently)-'I reckon it
thinks it ought to hustle while you're
here, sir. ."-Jeuelers' Weekly.