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, 1890-10-18
What will the New Sugar
Duty acc Omplish2

A good many inquiries are being made as
to the actual effect Of the sugar schedule
proposed by the senate tariff bill. which, it
is intimated from Washington, is likely to be
accepted by the house without further amend
ment. In the first place, the new tariff does
away entirely with the polariscope in mea-
suring duties, and hereafter all sugar impor-
ted is to be elassed according to the Dutch
standard of color. In the second place, in
this classification everything from No. ID
downward is to be free, and this includes
about oil the raw sugar that is imported into
this country. All the raw material that re-
fners require for the operation of their es-
adjustments will be mad either naturally or
artifcially to conform to this classification,
and will therefore come in free of duty.
Thirdly, the new bill imposes a duty of three
tenths of one cent per pound upon all sugar
above No. Is and not above No. l6. This
includes what are known as yellow or soft
sugars, and is intended as a protection for
the refiners against the importation Of what
were known a few years ago as grocery sugar
and which might be fit for consumption
without the refining process, but the duty is
so small that under certain conditions foreign
product might be imported and compete with
domestic refined of about the same grade.
Fourthly, all sugar above No. Is is subject
I q UuOJ VI olA-tSuGLS VI Ou6 C0nl per DOuuQ.
This will include all the finer or white kinds
of refined sugar, and is intended TO protect
our reRners from competition with foreign
refined but in view Of the fact that all the
continental countries pay a bounty upon ex-
ports Of refned sugar, this duty will not be
prohlbitory IN all cases, more particularly
with respect to France. In other words, the
proposed rates of duty will afford fair but
not adequate protection to domestic refners
under all contingencies. Fifth, the placing
of molasses upon the free list will effectually
shut up the boiling industry heretofore car
ried on in this country. Philadelphia, New
York, and Boston have carried on for a num-
her of years a profitable industry by the
reboiling Of Cuba molasses, extracting there
FROM a low grade of sugar used in refining,
and disposing of the residuum for mixing and
d~istIlling purposes, bat with molasses upon
the free list, there will be no longer any pro-
fit in this operation. Sixth, from the 1st OF
July, 1891, until the 1st of july, 1895, on all
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sugar refners. A bill has, in consequences
lately been introduced into The Italian Cham
Der prohibiting the importation of saccharine
anI Notwithstanding products, special
provisions being made for saccharine for
medical purposes. In Russia, the customs
authorities declued in February last year
that saccharino should be classified under
chemical and pharmaceutical products not
otherwise specified, the duty on which was 2
rubles 40 cop"chs per Pud. AS the duty on
sugar is 3 rubleo % copeckS, that on saoo.a
rine is ridiculously low. 1t is now proposed
in Russia to prohibit its importation alto
gether.-kUhlOr.
, 1890-10-18

domestic sugar produced from beets, sorghum,
sugar cane or maple sap grown in the United
States there will be paid from the treasury q
bounty of 2 cents per pound, winch is inten-
ded to be a protection to and an encourage
ment for the development Of the nome indus
try. The new rate of duty IS not to take
ping List.
, 1890-10-18

the boat and proceeded to Roadtown, de-
Tying her seizure. In spite of the menacing
attitude Of the men, however, the Presi-
dent calmly demonstrated with them. after
which the mob cleared out, u%ttering threats
of violence, simultaneously brandishing clubs
and discLarging blank shots from some old
fire arms they carried. This turbulent demon
%Btration, by at least q part of the inhabitants,
we look upon as having been ~effect ed with a
view of calling attention of the higher authOri-
ties to certain domestic grievances but aftrr
all is said and done, we think they have sug-
ge6ted a very compromising mode of setting
about it. We are able to state that the pro
lection which was demanded by the citizens
of Road Town, and which the President
came here to seek, has been OBJ aimed. twenty
privateS and non-conlmissioned officers of
the garrison here under command of acting
Captain Paludan, having proceeded in the
schooner Roma Monday forenoon, President
Cameron also sailing on the schooner. The
Roma is reported as having reached Road
town yesterday morning at half past seven
o'clock, and landed the soldiers, who were
qualtered in the English Church school
house. = st. 1hom@ lidende.
The twenty soldiers that we're expected to
reinforce the garrison here arrived Monday
night per VigiIGRt. Ofthese, eleven, together
with Lieutenant Tang, were ordered to Tor
tola to augment the Military force despatched
thither yesterday, to be of service in case the
threatened outbreak occurs on Saturday.
The "Figilant" left at ten o'clock yesterday
foredoon and returned this afternoon. She
reports that complete tranquility prevails.
She arrived there at half past five o'clock this
morning and started on the downward trip at
eleven, bringing back Lieutenant Tang and
one non commissioned offver.-Ib(d
Arrivals from Tortola yesterday afternoon
report all quiet on the island. Some Of the
participants in the demonstration at Road
town are even said to have come here on one
OF the boats. It is expected that q British
man-of-wor will be there in a day or two
Ibid.
, 1890-10-18
From tho Euopeaa Nait.)

There was great tumult in the Portuguese
Chamber on Sept. Is, when the Anglo-Por
guese Convention was submitted By the Min
lister FIR Foreign Affairs. The Minister
was hooted ~ the Progressist minority
and when Major Serpa Pinto INTERVIEWED le
was assaulted, and a personal encounter en-.
sued on the floor of the Chamber between
him and d priest, a member of the Progress
sist party. On the tumult subsiding the
Covention was submitted 10 a Committee for
examination. Later news states that the
Portuguese Cabinet has resigned. The re.
naming members of the Ministry are in dis.
agreement with Senior Hintzo Ribeiro, the
Minister for Foreign Affairs. 1t is added
that the Minister'S notifications in the Anglo
Portuguese Convention find no favour with
the Progressists, who declare that the treaty
IS as obnoxious as before. The majority Of
the Parliamentary Committee in favour Of
the Convention is said to be extremely
narrow.
, 1890-10-18

An industrial crisis has occurred in Austria.
BY way Of Vienna we learn that 10000 hands
employed in the ,mother-of-poal trade
watch is very considerable in Austria have
been ont Of work. owing to tho threatened
action Of the MKinley Ttritf Bill and the
heavy fall in gold. These causes operating
together have effected u fall in the price Of
mothe1-of- pearl OF some - pr cent America
ana Germany being the chief markets for the
mother of-pearI articles manufactured III
A~os.r2, the exporters have felt no other
course open to them bit to cease work.
l9o}) turner's haze consequently been dis
missed in Vienna, an1 20,0O) h&nds employ
q IN Lower Austria and Bohemia.
, 1890-10-18

An unseemly squabble has arisen in Canada
out of the demand of a certain Cardinal
Taschereau to be placed next to Prince
George of Wales at the State banquet offered
to the Primo by the. Governor-G General. The
naval and military commanders argued that as
they derived their rank from the Queen, they
could not yield precedence to one who was
only Of Papal rank. The matter ended in the
Cardinal being omitted from the liat Of
guests.
, 1890-10-18

There is a strange sto@y clrran5 concerning
The reason Of the sudden reellI of the D lhish
Minister in london, NJ. de Fable. 1t IS
sad that negotiations were proceeding be-
tween the British and Danish Governments
about the cession of Heligoland to Denmark.
The object in view was that Denmark, after
having recovered HeIigoIa"a, should ce7e
that island to Germany in exchange for some
Danish districts Of SchieswiG: Holstein The
above story sounds improbable, but SHOULD
there be a grain of truth in it, then we Wuuid
understand WY Germany FASTENED to bring
about the Anglo-Garman Ngrocm int even az
the price Of some sacrifices in Et3t Africa
Apparently German diplomacy got scent Of
this curious bargain in due time.
, 1890-10-18

The world was startled on September l.
by the kilograms announcing that a revolu
ton had broken out in the Swiss Canton q
Ticino, on the sou.h side of the Alps. Th
Government offices at BeIlinzona were occu
pied, the members Of the Cantonal Govern
ment were seized, and oao of them shot, it /
believed by accident, ana out of the member
of the Municipality a provisional Government
was formed. The Liberals hid demanded, b,
a petition bearing 10000 signatures, that tn
question Of the revision Of the Constitution {
the Canton should be submitted to a popula
vote, and the Conservatives in Office refuse
this demand. The Federal Council at Dernt
on. hearing of the instruction, despatche,
Colonel Ktinzlf as their Commissioned, at III
head of about 1900 troops. The soldier
were welcome by the inhabitants of Bellin
IONA on their arrival, and tranquility wa
restored. The Commissioner has ordered
General Election.
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JAMES T. BOYD.


}hc present town Of Gibbon Ncb., and
established II stock farm, remaining there
aine years. During portion Of this period
he was also engaged in merchandising at
kearney City, two miles west of Fort
kearney. In 1866 he secured grading
contract Oh the Union Pacific and graded
over 300 miles in about three years. In
February, 1868, he returned to Omaha and
invested more heavily than any other man
in the gas works, of which he was one Of
the principal promoters, and during 1sGS-G9
he was manager of the company.
In the winter Of iSG9-70 he organized the
Omaha and Northwestern railroad He
was elected its first president and built the
road to Blair. During this period he was
largely interested III the cattle business,
his ranch being located near Ognlalla. In
1872 he disposed of his cattle interests and
engaged in pork packing in Omaha on a
small scale. The first year his men killed
only 400 hogs, but with each year his
business increased until in 1886 they killed
14l,0o0 hogs, He continued the packing
business until the summer Of 1887 when he
sold his establishment. Although nc longer
connected with the pork packing business,
he is still actively engaged in other p,lr-
suits, aud isa member Of the Chicago board
Of trade. III 1881 he erected Boyds opera
house in Omaha Mt q cost of over $4,000,
In 1850 lie sold the property, and immedi-
ately began the construction Of Il new thea
tire, which will cost, when completed sl75,-
900.
Mr.. Boyd has taken quite prominent
part i'll Nebraska politics as Democrat
ever since becoming Il resident Of the state
Iii 1857 lie was elected clerk Of Douglas
county. While residing in Buffalo county
lie was elected to the first state legislature
in 1867 He was also county clerk in that
county, hut resigned. lie was elected on Il
non-partsal ticket to both the Nebraska
state constitutional conventions. Mr. Boyd
served as Mayor Of Omaha for two terms
from iSsl to 1883 and from 1855 to 1857. In
the senatorial campaign Of 1883 Mr.. Boyd
received the vote Of the Democratic party
for United States senator against Gen
Mandcrson. In the last presidential cam
paign he wts a delegate to the convention
which nominated Grover Clcvcland for
whom lie cast his vote. lie is at present Il
member Of the national Democratic com
mittee Mr. Boyd WAS president of the
Omaha board Of trade from 1881 TO 1888
Mr. and Mla Boyd have three children liv-
e4aors., ti~ .tifo Df G.; I, nit et G3ti,tos
Marshal Bierbowcr sntI Margaret and
James f., ,lr
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ANOTHER AFRICAN EXPLORER.
lie Wandered TO Ensy Madison Suuar


i'' t""sre'i I" iass M"nis"n square
IN quest ol the Festive Elephant,
l1e was spnarely built, was dressed in
sober piack, hnd luNurlant dark beard
a''l Ills hair tell Ike curtain over the
Goi!af ol ms Coat
ms hands rested on IL stout stick rs he
sat on a tiench Ill Madison square near the
spot where George Francis Train used to en-
ersi1e MS fsycho, ana one could not help
noting III lhe strangers eyes the fara"ay,
ihtfospectiEe look that cIaraGteriZes the
pro4eihS i3ldaha or the philosopher who
dreams while awake
rs was Trying to conjecture who Or
"hat he might be u stranger stepped
bfiskly up behin'' me and said:
>lt near MN ana keep him in conversA-
tlof ior about i've minutes until come
hAck. lie Wllltell you some great stories
aneut the l'!rk Continent"
heh lle walked on ~ Il rapid pace
Nst"filsheh though was curiosity conf
Pclied me 10 take II scat on the same bench
"llh the long haired man who was gazing
into vacancy, and | ventured to remark
that it was a pleasant day,
Lifting himself out of III" fog of his re
hectiona my ncishbor replied: @s
Delightful weather. indeed, but big,
game is scarce have seen the spoor of
thirty elephants i'll IL spot 10 bigger than
this and got a dozen mighty tusks after
trekking for only two hours. The BARRIERS
spoil everything, l would rather trust
myself to the llotpotters-y have read
about them i'll She, presume-than allow
a barber TO run his lawn mower over my
head and cilrrycomh Inc like Il bricSlyard
mule.
You have doubtless noticed continued
my eccentric companion, that i BARRIERS
trust is now being organized. Did you
ever hear OF such an atroclous outrage II
you don't patronlze them they will boycott
and blacklist you throughout every city in
the United States. Next they will force
congress to pass Il law that every man must
wear his hair no longer than an inch and
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There is an author i'll this town, though
the world perhaps hardly knows it, who
writes II worse hand than did Horace Gree
ley. He hugs the delusion that he writes
beantifully-all internally bad writer's do.
About month ago Il newspaper man
made the author-you will observe the dis
tinction-;. bet that II he sent short story
to Il certain magazine in his own hand
writing it would be returned to him with
or without thanks, and that the same story
type written would be accepted.
The bet was accepted, the trial made, and
the newspaper man won the bet. Tho story
written with a pen came back. With it
was u polite note stating that Mr.. -
must not suppose that the story was re-
jectcd for lack of merit, ETC., etc The
type written story was accepted, and the
check somewhat recouped the author for
the money lost on the wager.-Pittsburg
DiSnntt.l
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retired physician DR.. ROBBERY KOCH.
whose sands Of life have nearly run out"
nor BY Il smissionary long resident in
the East lndies's-no. not even by Hn I'm
jun doctorn living i'll IL bark hut uu the
back OF Il lofty rock in the wilderness.
The inventor is Dr. Robert Koch, the re-
nowned Berlin professor, and his state
ments are hrlieved by many Of the most
scientific physicians in Iiurope~-two rn-
tirely new features III the ''infalliblr cure"
line. The doctor claims to have already
cured several unIoubtel ctses OF tubercu-
losis and now has under his treatment
many patients i'll the German hospitals
If the disease has progressed, he says, so
far ;ss to destroy the patients constitu-
tional vigor, of course he can do nothing
but i'll all previous stages he can annihilate
the bacillus tuberculosis and thus effect a
cure
The bacillus is rod shaped, he says, and
eats into the substance Of the lungs; he
has inoculatcd guinea pigs with it and pro-
duccd tuberculosis and thcu cured them
with his hacillicite. He will, as is the duty
of Il regular physician, give the cure free
to the profession and the world, and it will
be cheap enough to be within the reach of
all. Let us hope he is correct.
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WHOLE NO. 1116.
his next consort a woman of her own race

his next consort q woman of her own race
the Tartar.
1t was to select partner for their lord
that the messengers had made their toll
some way to the foot CT KubIai's throne.
He was graciously pleased to send his
'brother of the west" the Lady kuknchin,
royal bud of eighteen summers lie APP
pointed for her escort IL band of 600 men,
who carried with them the fair brides
dowry, valued in modern money at 81, ,0O0,-
600. The three Polos took charge of the
virgin and the treasure. Because of wars
ind ruInors of wars they chose the sea
route, and occupied two years in reaching
Persia.
On arrival they found that the prospect
i've husband was dead but his successor,
evidently d man of taste, accepted the love
" kukachin for Il wife, and received her
dowry. The poiOs reuehcl their home at
Venice months afterward clothed in rags,
but rs their tattered garments were quilt
ed with gems of fabulous value it is pre-
sumed that they lost nothing by their tour
through Asia. Indeed, thereafter they
ranked among the richest and most re.
spected citizens of the republic.
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Big Fish Story.

Fishing! Yes, I should say have been
fishing" exclaimed Mr.. Peters, who had
been up in tho Rocky mountains for trout
and had just got back to his Kansas home.
lie was in the village store.
Il suppose you can tell lis some big fish
storics?' said one of the crowd.
Mr.. Peters did not look at him. Instead
he looked dreamily at tho shelves behind
the counter draped with pink mosquitol
bar. b.
There was a big trout Ill ono of the
Swallows Of one Of the streams :.e;ir whur T
stopped up in the Rockies said he, ''and
some folks said that fellow had been seen
right thur every year for levcn year. He
was all marked up with hook sears healed
over round his mouth, and there was a
mighty big callous on his back. They said
that scar WAS made by man from New
York who tried to spear him. Think of
trying 10 spear mountain trout!n
well, you took it, of course? Out with
it, Get in your Dragging. You've Il right
TO crow if yon got him when other folks
had tried for 'leven year and couldn't"
These cXclamations from he bystan,lers
brought Il smile to Mr.. Peters face
That's the biggest part Of it all,' said
he. Talk about big fish stories! This is
ono none Of you gentlemen can beat. Yes,
gentlemen, let that trout be- "---Youth,s
Companions
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England,s Prime minister in n Fix.

Eugene Field is responsible for the state
ment that there has been lots of sport re-
Gently Mt the expense of the Marquis Of
Salisbury, It seems that when the prime
minister and his wife returned from their
summer trip to the continent they brought
back with them two and half gallons Of
fine brandy and n large stock of choice
cigars. It would perhaps be unfair to say
that his lordship sought or hoped to evade
the vigilance of the customs officers. What
did happen, however, was that upon arriv-
ing at Newhaven Lord Salisbury contrived
to get his precious liquor and tobacco as
far as the private coach that was in wait
ing for him. What betrayed him will per-
haps never be known. All Mt once two
argus eyed and BriareAn handed officers
swooped down upon that vehicle and res
urrected the brandy and cigars from the
wealth of lap robes and rugs which envel-
oped them. Lord Salisbury did not at
tempt to protest; he cheerfully paid the
$40 required for the passage of the goods.
But this was not sufficient; the coachman
was taken into custody and detained sew
eral hours for having been partner to
what upon it's fuce looked like a clear at
tempt ut smuggling. Of course the prime
minister had no difficulty in proving up
the honesty of his coachman and securing
his release, but as there is Il superabund-
ance of red tape in Europe even the prime
minister found the process of exculpation
exceedingly tedious.
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The electric light, !. recent writer de-
c!ures, is asserting itself in even the most
conservative corners Of the world. Not
long ago the council of an antiquuted town
in Spain met to consider the question of
changing the method Of Illuminating
the town streets from oil lamps to
electric lights This is one of the many
indications that are daily seen Of the mar
vclous rapidity with which the fitness
and excellence of the electric light has been
universally recognized. Within the last
few days two new central stations for the
electric light have been started in Madrid,
where there is already Il demand for 5000
lights. The electric light can now be sup
piled there at half the price of gas, which
costs s. 16 per 600 cubic feet
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Dloomingdaie's Secrecy.

There is in New York city vast institu-
tion whose fame as phenomenon Of its
kind is world wide, but whose secrets and
mysteries have never been penetrated by
the daylight Of public knowledge.
This place, from which the outside world
is forever debarred, is the Bloomingdale
Insane asylum. No prison in the city or
country is guarded and watched like this
institution. TO get out of it without the
knowledge of the officials is impossible.
There arc inmates of the place whose
families would deem it an awful disgrace
for it to become even slightly known that
any one connected with them was confined
in Bloomingdale.-New York Journal.
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liest bronze ripples. Mrs. Woods is Il wom-
an OF brilliant intellect. She is tile center
of Il most charming social and literary cir
Gle in her quaint, old town, entertains in
her own pretty home artisticaly, delicious
ly, assisted by her courtly young husband,
and is universally voted thoroughly fas-
cinating little woman. Mrs, Woods bore
off the palm of beauty at Allegheny
Springs during the summer where so
many pretty women flocked.
Among the most celebrated bellies of the
south is Mrs. Frank Patrick, Of Richmond,
Fa.--a rival in beauty of the famous Mrs.
Willie Allen--who created Il furor, us is
her wont, 1T Old Point Comfort last sum
mer, and wherever she went. The picture
here given is a photograph taken i'll Flor
ence some months ago, Her coloring is
like the heart of d seashcll Her eyes are
a sweet gray, and her hair just the soft
nut brown that lends such poetry to face
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It's Queer About 'EIn.

I've had some very queer experiences
with owls, said the lame commuter.
There was one owl that came about my
grounds That we killed in Il remarkable
manner. He invariably kept his head
stuck right out at lis. so that it was ilnpos.
sihlc for us to shoot him anywhere but in
the face. And he seemed to like that sort
of thing, for If the bullet flew " little too
high Or too low he would simply raise or
lower his head, rs the casc might be, and
catch it in his mouth. sat out on my
back porch aud wasted Il lot OF bullets on
that fellow, just to amllsc him,
We'll, kept pegsing away at him, and
he begun to grow thin. Finally. while
was shooting at him one evening, he top
pied oil the tree stone dead.h
That last shot took effect, supposey"
said the little man with the chin VI! iskcrs
NO, sir: not at all. That conft,unled
owl had got SO nucl, shot in him us to in.
terfere With his digestive organs He stood
it rs long Us lie could, and then died Of dys-
rcpsia. lis queer about owls. New York
Evening Sun.
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Killed and Alto Her New Husband.

An extraordinary story of cannibalism
comes from Zanzibar A love match had
been made between n couple of young Swa-
hills, and on the day following that of tho
marriage the bridegrooms friends called
to offer the customary congratulations.
They experienced some difficulty in get
ting into the hut and at last forced an en-
trance, when they found that the bride of
Il day had killed her beloved lord, had al
ready had one feast off his body and was
preparing the remainder for future use
London Hawk.