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,s~x. He saw Malton.

KANSAS CITY, Feb. 6.-william Smith
of this city claims to have seen Walton
who robbed the Pacific Express
of $D.OOO i'm this city ON Monday. but does
not know where lac has gone.
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PARIS. Feb. 6.-An order has been
issued directing Secrctan and others con-
fIected with the collapse of the Societe
Des Metaux TAI he handed over To the COR
regional police tn he dealt with.
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The Dead Lock l'~nbroken.
DEs MONIES. Feb. 1.-THE dead lock
in the house on the ~spcakership remains
unhrokcn.
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Amendment Accepted.

From Puck.
Judge: wha the charge. officer 49,
Officer: "Petty larceny. your honor"
PriSoncr tintcrr,Ipting, ~ beg your
pardon. Judge ;the charge il imrcrsonating
am officer"
Judge: GLOW do YOU make thai out ."
Prisoner: ~ took "A handful of s.anut
and an orange from "a poor woInan's
stand without paying for them"
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rIesninE lnnnKurnteel.

Governor Fleming lnnugurated.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, Feb. 6.-Governor
Fleming was ~inauRurated to-day. This
evening there was a brilliant reception at
the state house.
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Cardinal PEE,

Cardinal I'ecct Dying.
ROME, Feb. 6.-Carslinal Pccci, brother
tai the pope, is dying.
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lIrus.s. -C6nNrlncsl.

wAsHiNGTON. Feb. G.-Blanch *. Bruce
was to-day confirmed by the senate as ~
corsicr of deeds for the District of Column
hi.
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a Wife.

Prom the Wasp.
Wife: "Oh. my dear! don't go in that
boat! You risk your lifc!'
Husband: "No, d%arling; don't bc
afraid"
Heavens! how wr.tchcd I am! III YOU
should drown! You are SD awkwarlr'
Let me alone, Helen; ! know the sea
and il knows me-"
every well. dear. Al least leave me
your watch and CHAIN"
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Cat and Rather Fight to the Death.

"Rattlesnakes may charm birds, rab1
bits and dogs, but they can't charm
cats" ,--.
The speaker was George Stearnes,
farmer from Walker County, Ala, who
was telling snake stories while waiting
for train at the depot in Birmingham.
To prove his assertion Stearnes related
the following incident
He owns large black cat, which kills
every snake and lizard it can find. The
other day he saw the cat creeping
through the grass toward some kind of a
prey and watched it. A few feet away
he discovered large rattlesnake coiledI
ready to strike and its bead-like eyes
fixed on those of the cat. The head Of
the snake was making the peculiar sway
ing motion which is part of the charm
that brings birds and rabbits willing;
victims to the mouth of the hideous
reptiles. Stearaes says he saw at glance
the snake was trying to charm the cat,
and, as he was not much attached to the
feline, he stood still to await results.
With its body close to the ground, and
its tail swaying back and forth, the cat
continued to creep slowly forward. Its
eyes were fixed on those of the snake, as
though the two were testing their
powers of mesmerism. Slowly and
cautiously the cat crept closer and closer
to the coiled reptile, and it really seemed
for while that it had fallen victim to
the charming powers of the rather.
When within four feet of the snake the
cat stopped, placed its feet in position
for spring, and remained motionless
Cor an instant. The snake seemed sur
prised, and changed its position slightly.
This was the opportunity the cat was
waiting for. Quick as lightning the
feline leaped and caught the snake by
the neck with teeth and claws, and, after
rolling over and over on the ground for
two minutes, the snake was dead. The
| cat did not release its hold until long
after the snake ceased to move, and
then, as it walked away, would OCCASION
ally look back to see if there was any
suspicious movement.
Stearnes says it was the most fasci!-
mating sight be ever saw, the cat creeping
up to the snake which, no doubt, thought
it had secured good dinner by the
charm of its eyc.-G1be- Democrat.
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STOLE $4,000.
The Bold, Clever Theft Of a Former
Bank Clerk.

The Bold, Clever Theft ofa Former
Bank Clerk.
Moses s. Marks, who, up to year ago,
was employed at the Flour City National
Bank, in Rochester, N. Y, telegraphed by
the Western Union Telegraph Company's
line to the National Bank of Commerce,
the New York correspondent OF the Flour
CITY Bank, to send immediately SO, ,OO0 In
currency. He signed the name OF the cashier
Of the bank, William A. Waters to the dis
patch.
At 10 o'cloc,; next morning the bank re-
eeived letter from the National Bank Of
Commerce saying that the money had been
sent in ten and twenty dollar bills.
The hank officials at once tele-
phoned to the American Express Company
10 learn il the money had been received, and
were informed that Marks had called at
. O'Clock and received tho cash. The eX-
press company officials knew him and sup
posed that he was still connected with the
bank.
The detective force of the city was at onco
put to work anil every place by which he can
escape from the city is being watched. lie
aas been traced up to $50 O'Clock, and per-
sons have been found 70 whom he paid
borrowed money after the robbery.
Marks has been employed for n year
us travelling salesman for Moore g. Beirs,
clothing manufacturers there. He was
thought to be a model young man, although
persons who ought to know say ne gambled
heavily OF late and lived beyond his income.
His employers say he must be insane, as hs
acted queerly for some time past.
A late dispatch from Utica, n. Y, says:
Moses s. Marks tho Rochester bank thief,
was captured in a fast house in this city by
Detective Cleveland, of the city police force
All the money excspt $3.50 was recovered.
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DWarflng Trees in Japan.

No one who has been to Japan or who
has visited the larger botanical gardens
can fail to have been struck with the in
genuity displayed by japanese gardeners
in dwar6ng trees. As result of their
labors, tree of species that usually
grows to height Of thirty or forty feet
is kept at a height of only two or three
feet, yet perfectly proportioned, and it
may be fifty, sixty, or even hundred
years old. In fact, the japanese seem
to have discovered way to revrese the
laws of nature, to rcpress growth with.
out doing so unevenly and without
affecting the apparent health and vigor
of the tree. These japanese dwarfs
were long puzzle to the botanist, and
many people stoutly maintained that
they were natural-not the result of the
gardeners skill, but separate species, or
at least dwarf varieties of known trees.
Yet nothing is better known at present
than the fact that every one of these
trees, if left to itself, would have grown
to its full height. The better acquaintance
of Europeans ana Americans WIN tne
Japanese has resulted in knowledge of
their methods OF dwarfng. The theory
of the process is very simple. The tree,
is given just enough nourishment to live
and not enough to grow. The amount
of earth in the pot that holds the roofs,
the amount of moisture supplied, the
number of leaves on its branches-all arc
carefully regulated. The last-named
item seems to be very important, and
when properly attended to would un-;
doubtedly dwarf the tree without other
precautions, for the leaves are the lungs
of the plant, and by clipping them judi
ciously the amount Of carbonic-acid gas
it takes from the atmosphere is exactly
regulated. In addition to all this, the
direction ofgrowth is controlled often BY
bandages, so that sometimes remarkable
deformities are produced in the dwarfed
rees.-PaU Mall Gazette.
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KOCH'S CURE.
How rhe Lymph That Arrests Con.
sumption is Prepared.

The Frank Courier, Of Berlin, Germany,
states that the lymph used by Professor
Koch for the cure of tuberculosis is prepared
in an incubating stove within space that is
Theoretically sealed and sterilized and there
byrendered free from fungus. The interior Of
the alright space is divided by an unglazed
porcelain diaphragm into an upper and lower
section. In the upper section is placed
salted meat broth in a gelatinous state.
containing colonies Of the tubercle germ.
This mass gradually liquifies and the ge!atine
liquid drops slowly through the porcelain
plate into the lower section. The liquid then
contains all the secratory products, but is
free from all living or dead germs or repro
ductive spores, and is the lymph as used.
By the injection of the lymph the tubercle
germ is killed. and at the same time the in
jected particles retain sufficient strength to
detach and expel the dcad germs, together
with the dead tissue. The reparatiye pro-
cess ensues and healing follows.
Empress Frederick gave all audience to
Professor Koch, who explained to her the re-
suits already obtained from the use of his
curative lymph and the benefits he hoped
would be conferred upon humanity by its
general use.
Emperor William has bestowed the Grand
Cross of the Order of the Red Eagle upon
Professor Koch.
1hrea patients treated by the Koch method
are reporte dead. They were all i'll a criti.
cal condition before they received the injec-
ton.
Physicians are agreed that Dr.. Koch's
remedy proves effective only. in tho treat
ment of mild cases Of the disease
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FOREIGN.

QUEEN EMMA took the oath as Regent oil
The Kingdom of Holland The route taken
by the Queen in going from the palace to the
Parliament House, where the ceremony TOOK
place, was lined with SPECTATORS, and Her
Majesty was cordially greeted by the people.
UNITED STATES MINISTER and Mrs. White
law Reid left Paris. France, for two
months trip to Egypt AMI Turkey.
The business of Messrs. Barring Brothers
& Co., of London England has been incor-
porated in limited company with more
than S., ,000,0
The dead bodies of two passengers found
in the Vienna mail train on its arrival at
Kutno. Poland, have been identified as those
Of cashiers of a Warsaw bank, who were
travelling to Berlin i'll charge OF funds
amounting to S275, 600. There is no cleW 10
the person or persons who robbed anu mur
dered the men.
A VELVET factory at Lyons, France. was
burned. The loss is S52O,OOO.
AT the town prison of Wronke in Prussian
Poland, q scaffolding upon which number
Of men were at work making repairs sud
denly gave way. Two OF the men were killed
on the spot and thirty-six were injured, ten
dangerously
WHILE crossing the Assiniboine River at
Winnipeg, Manitoba, ON ice which had just
formed, Alderman Andrews and wife broke
through and were drowned. The couple had
only Just returned from their honeymoon.
Two HUNDRED AND sIxTY-sEvEN barrels
Of gold, worth altogether sc, 500, 900, passed
through Koeningsberg from st. Petersburg
on the way to London. The money was
hacked in three cars, and was attended by
military escort.
THE Anna pit of the Bruex Mining Com
pany at Tschansch, Austria, has collapsed,
owing to the mine being flooded. Twenty
men were killed.
QUEEN REGENT EMMA proclaimed the
young Princess Wilhelnlina Queen OF the
Netherlands, while accepting the regency
during her minority.
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Division of the War Department. He is the
man who received the appointment for
another Robert E. Wilson, of Atlanta,
curious case of mistaken identity.
In the Jugigo case, the Japanese con-
demned murderer now in Auburn Prison,
the Supreme Court of the United States at,
frmed the decision OF the New York Court
that Juggo be executed by electricity
THE annual report, just filed, Of Mr..
Lacey. the Controller of the Currency.
covers the operations of the Bureau for the
twelve months ended October 81. 1890.
During this period SO7 new National banks
have been organized, fifty have gone into
voluntary liquidation, and nine have been
placed in the hands Of receivers.
Mrs. HARRISON, wife of the President in
vited the Washington correspondents to In
spect the new blue room at the White House
1t is a marvel of beauty. 1t has been refur'
nished and redecorated after designs sug-
gested by her.
COMMODORE RAMSAY. Chief OF the Bureau
of Navigation, in his annual report to the
Secretary of the Navy recommends that va
cancies in the lower grades of the Pay Corps
shall be fill by graduates of the Naval Acad-
cmy. Commodore Ramsay devotes much
space to the subject of the personnel OF the
Navy.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

The Russian Gear is troubled with gout.
ALLEN G. THURMAN is seventy seven years
old.
POPE LEO is an enthusiastic amateur
gardener
QUEHN VICTORIA is only four feet eight
inches in height.
BABY KING ALFONSO, of Spain, has q
private income of a million dollars year.
JOHN MORLEY is callal the "grand young
man" in England. He is fifty-four years
old.
THE olde3t Berlin physician, DR.. NJ. Stein
thai, is ninety-two years Old AMI still in
practice.
IT is said that Senator ingalls,, OF Kansas,
has been offered $40, 900 year to write arti-
cles Oh western politics for the New York
Sun.
No crowned monarch in Europe is more
difficult to get. at for an interview than
Arthur Balfour, the Chief Secretary for Ire
land.
PRESIDENT DA FoNsEcA has under con-
sideration tine pensioning of ex-Emperor Dom
Pedro, who will not be permitted 10 return
to Brazil.
Won MoLTKE is staying at Berlin to attend
the Herrenhaus Of the Reichstag i'll order to
counteract Bismarck's influence if the latter
should enter tho House of Lords.
Ex-PREsIDENT HAyEs's daughter is a
medium-sized brunette, who dresses very
quietly but most becomingly. She wears but
little jewelry and is devotedly fond of her
father.
SETH Low. President of Columbia College,
New York City, will be forty-ono years old
next January. There are few men so young
who have had 80 many honors bestowed
upon them.
THE oldest General in France and proba.
bly, in the world, is General Mauiuit, who,
on December 7th next will be one hundred
years old. He has never asked to be retired,
and he still figures among the officers of the
reserve.
BUFFALO BILL, who has returned to this
country, has grown so stout and portly-pos-
sblv the result of affluencs and good living
that he is no longer the graceful rider and
equestrian athlete he once was as the hero OF
the Wild West entertainment.
BUSY as he is said to be, Edison, the e!ec-
trician, always contrives to steal little time
from his day at the luncheon hour. After
lunch he frequently spends an hour ut bill
lizards with Mrs. Edison, and takes a nap.
He does no work in the evening.
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Hungry Elephants Gratifying Taste
for Dainties.

One favorite food Of the African ele-
phant is the tender, juicy roots of the
mimosa tree, which grows in scattered
groups through most Of the meadows
and lowlauds of Central Africa. +,
When an elephant fluids young tree
of this sort, it is not difficult, as a rule,
for him to get at the roots, especially it
the surrounding soil is moist and loose,l
IS is often the case after it had been
oakcd by the heavy rainfalls of the
ropics. .
If the tree is loose, the elephant,
knowing his strength. winds his trunk
firmly round the tree, and plucks it from
tho c.... ~, feat which is &c s::s"r fcs
him than tie pulling up o. j Cover IS Is te .ss
!, child.
But the elephant does not stop here;
experience has taught him the most COM
portable way of enjoying his prize, so
without relaxing his hold, he turns the
tree completely over and stands it with
its upper branches thrust down into tho
place where the roots were. Then the
earthly roots, now replacing the branches,i
rcmai1ZSithin easy reach of the strong.
and deft trunk.
Sometimes an elephant will find tree
which defies his greatest efforts, and ab-
solutely refuses to be uprooted. But the
elephant docs not give it up. Not at all.
Hc either brings another elephant to help
him-a thing the! often do when the
work is too much for onc-or, if he can
not find q friend, he sets his own wits to
work. lie makes use CT his tusks as
levers, thrusting them as if they were
crowbars, deep under the roots, aud
prizes away slowly and steadily until the
tree is loosened; and then with great
wrench he completely uproots it and it
goes toppliug over, leaving the clever
elephant victorious. st. Nicholas.
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August Belmont has been an active charac.
tor in financial circles four decades. He was
born in 1918 on his fathers farm in the Rhen-
ish Palatine, near Frankfort, Germany.
He received thorough commercial train
ing as schoolboy and after finishing full
course Of studies he was sent to Frankfort,
where, at the age Of fifteen, he entered a
prominent banking house as an office boy.
His first duties consisted Of sweeping, clean
ing running errands and other work of the
kind.
It was as the agent Of this house that Mr.
Belmont came to New York. He arrived in
New York in 1887, time Of great financial
disturbance, and by judicious and skillful
use of the means at his command not only
served his employers to their entire satisfac-
tion. but laid the foundation for his own vast
fortune as banker
In 1874 he was appointed Consul General
for Austria in New York City. He served In
this position for five years, and only relin-
quished his Office on account OF his sym
pathies with the Hungarians.
In 1858 he was appointed American Min.
lister to Holland, and his services in that
capacity are recorded as uuexceptional.
When thirty-three years Of age he met the
Commodore Perry, the hero Of Lake Erie.
After short courtship they were married.
He was looked upon as leader Of fashion.
In 1S41 he fought duel under romantic and
mysterious circumstances. The meeting took
place near Elkton, Md, on August 26, 1S4l
Mr.. Belmont received wound in the hip
which caused him to limp ever afterward.
But it is through his connection with the
turf, perhaps, that August Belmont became
more widely known than in diplomatic OF
banking circles. He was President of the
American Jockey Club when that organiza
tion was formed in 1867. August B lmont
has since been prominent figure in racing
and breeding circles.
His annual income from the stocks, bonds
and Government securities owned by hin
was $500, 900, and he had other resources.
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INTERNAL REVENUES.
Report of Commissioner Mason OF
the Last Fiscal Year.

Report of Commissioner Mason OF
tho Last Fiscal Year.
The report of John W. Mason, Commis-
sioner Of Internal Revenue, upon the opera
tions Of that service during the last fiscal
year has been submitted to the Treasury.
The total collections for the year were sl42
594, $685. or S11, 700, 26a.nore than the collec-
tions last year. The total cost of collection
was 81, ,O95, Ill, s90,61S less than the cost last
year.
The following is statement iii brief of the
operations of the scrvcs for 1890, as conf
pared with the operations of the year 1889:
Gallons OF spirits produced, III, l0l, 73S, all
increase of 1865, 1SS gallons, receipts from
tobacco, cigars, snuff, cigarettes, etc.
$33, ,a5S, ,99l, au increase Of $2,G92,'
100; barrels of beer produced, 21,5ll6,
g44, all increase of 2,442, OIL barrels
receipts from oleomargarine. SIS6, 29l, de-
crease of $l079j6; number of distlllerles
oparated, G211, an increase Of 1862; quantity
of distilled spirits in bon led warehouses June
30 last, 50, 72l, ,O53 gallons.
The decreased production nosoleomargarlne o.
is attributed to the open pasturase last winter
and consequent abundant supply OF natural
butter at low prices, and sscondarily to the
more rigid enforcement OF certain reStlic-
tive State laws prohibiting the manufacture
of oleomargarine.
The total receipts from internal revenue
for the year are estimated at Sli3, 00o, 00o.
The total estimated deduction IN receipts for
the year ending June 80 1891, will aggregate
- as. .3S2 .T3. The estimated expenses OF
the service for the year ending June 80,
1899, are 81, 2G2 900, principally, for salaries.
The Commissioner suggests that Congress
50 amend the law as to require the sugar
bounty to be ascertained and paid by the
Secretary of Agriculture.
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South and West.


TIE National Grange closed its annual ses-
sion at Atlanta, Ga.
GENERAL THOMAS S. MATTER died at
Springfield, ILL.,, of heart failure. he was
Adjutant-Gen of Illinois during the war
and signed Grants first commission.
MRS. POTTER PALMER, Of Chicago. Ill,
wife of the proprietor OF tho Palmsr house,
was unanimously elected President OF tho
Board OF Lady Managers Of the Worlds
Fair.
JOHN KELLER, real estate man ut CHI
cago ILL.,, drove in his buggy to Armour o.
Miller's meat market. Under the buggy seat
was tin box containing deeds, bonds and
notes valued at 100000. Mr.. Keller went
into the market. When ne came out his tin
box was gone. No clew to the crooks
AN. LoFrUs shot and killed his father,
H.C. LOTUS, six miles east Of Gains5oro,
Tenn. in a personal difficulty, accidentally
killing his brother at the same uins.
TIE National Worlds Fair Commission at
Chicago, ILL.,, passed resolutions accepting
the double site, Jackson PARK and the Lake
Front, for the Columbian Exposition.
FORMAL notice of contest OF the entire
State election in Nebraska was given by the
Independents.
JOHN F. BLAKE, Mayor of Canton, Ohio,
and prominent miller, has assigned. Liza
bilities, s50,000
AssEMBLYMAN EWING, Of San Francisco,
CAL, has been arrested on charge OF en-
bezzlement He is charged with stealing the
sum of $4,000 from the Market Street
Railroad of which he has been collector for
tho past sixteen years. He was caught IN the
act of stealing money from box OF one OF
thecars. He confessed his guilt.
THE action of the Lottery law has greatly
decreased the business of the New Orleans
(Lal Postoffice, and on this account Chlet
Postoffice Inspector Rathbone dismissed nine
employees of that office. The withdrawal OF
the lottery business from tn, mails made
decrease of about Sl20,00J year in the pos.
tai receipts OF the Office, or about one-tnlrd
of it's entire business The salaries Of the
EMPLOYEES dismissed amounted to S63, 600
year.
". L. PRETTYMAN, of Chicago, ILL.,,
banker has made all assignment. His
troubles also Involve the North Division
Lumber Company, and the liabilities OF both
concerns reach s., ,OOo,O 900.
The United States Rolling Stock Com
pany, having large plant at Hegewich ILL.,,
has been placed in the hands of receiver
The liabilities are given ut s., SlG OOO. and
the assets at over SG,000,00O
THE Right Rev. John Watrous Beckwith,
S. Il. D., Protestant Episcopal Bishop OF
Georgia, died suddenly at Atlanta, Ga. Bishop
Beckwith was born at Raleigh, n. c., in
1881.
AT Seven Lakes, in the Gallinas Monnt-
aims Lincoln County, New Mexico, four
sheep herderS were killed recently by hail
storm. Sixteen others and 1000 head Of sheep
are missing.
DR.. A. NJ. TURNER, an e1-member of the
Legislature, choked his wife and little daugh-
ter to death at Falkville, Ala. The doctor
has twice been in an asylum.
CONGRESSMAN HIT, of Illinois, was served
with notice that his seat would be con-
tested.
ANDREW 4. L1PscoMB. DID, LII. D., OK.
Chancellor Of the University of Georgia,
died recently at Athens Ga. He was born
in Georgetown, D. G., September &, 1916.