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A LETTER was recently received by
the sender which had been travelling
around the world for nine years.
A WASHINGTON correspondent has
just discovered that Mills was de
Jeated on account of badly managed
canvass.
The grand labor convention of all
the labor organizations in the United
States will be held at st. Louis
February %, 1892.
THREE HUNDRED and fiftY-four emf
grants left Stockholm for this coun,
try in one day recently. It is re.
ported that many thousands of PEG
pie are practically without work in
that city.
SENATOR SHERMAN's private secre.
tary says that the senator is just
now very doubtful of his ability to
defeat Foraker for the Senate. This
must be very gratifying and encour.
aging news TO Ohio's skyrocket
statesman.
A NOVEL wager is to be decided in
Belfast, Me-, where one man has bet
SIS that no one can drive pig mile
without the porker turning to see
who is driving, and another man has
risked his dignity and SIS to prove
the contrary.
SENIOR REBAso, the new governor
of the State of Chiapas, Mexico,
will appoint to Office men hostile to
Guatemala. The people of Guate-
mala and Chiapas are bitter enemies.
Bandits are committing depreda-
tons in Jalisco.
Mrs. POTTER PALMER, is to drive
the last nail in the Woman's build
ing. The lady managers Of Montana,
at the suggestion of Mrs. J. E..
Richards, are having the nail made
of gold, silver and copper. 1t will be
forwarded to Chicago as soon as
completed.
THIRTY operators On the Southern
Pacific telegraph lines IN Arizona
and New Mexico struck Thursday
on account of an affidavit requiring
them to swear they would not be-
long to the Order of Railway Tele-
graphers without the consent of the
superintendent.
AT Valparaiso President Harri-
sons statement of Chilian affairs is
regarded as threatening rupture,
as it is believed Chill will neither
apologize nor make any material in
demnity. Chill is making warIike
preparations, and has ordered artil-
lery from Germany.
some Northern people are raising
as much fuss about the South's in
tentlon of showing its respect for
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, says the Mem
phis Appeal-Avalanche, as if they
were going to subscribe something
themselves. It doesn't make any
difference to the South, however.
--
FRANCE is just now having trouble
with the Brazilian government
similar to that between the United
States and Chill. Twelve French
men we're slaughtered in Rio Janeiro
during the fight growing out of Da
Fonseca's assumption of the dictat-
orship, and France wants PREPARATION
for their loss.
CHINA is now talking of going in
to the cotton raising business extern
sively with the intention exporting
it in competition with the United
States and India. With her teeming
millions of people who can and do
live cheaper than any where else on
earth China is liable to prove dan
gerous rival in this business.
The most pronounced change in
wheat growing promised for this
season is the fact that hundreds of
farmers will use fertilizers for the
first time, while thousands will use
more than ever before. How many
of them must learn by experience
that fertilizers demand finer prep
aration of the soil than stable ma
nure ? asks the Rural Yorker.