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An Endeavor to Revive Interest
in the Panama Canal.
LIEUT.. WYSE HANDS IN A REPORT
ON THE SUBJECT.
Phylloxera Devastating the Vineyards
In Hungary-Emperor William Very
Much Annoyed at Several Cavalry
Officers for Attending the Races on
Sunday-The Participants are Now
Treated AS Prisoners.
Special 70 the REcoRp.us1os.

PARIS, April ia report on the Pan
anna Canal has been sent to the liquidator
OF the company, Monchicourt, by Lieu
tenant Wyse, who has been negotiating
with the Colombian Government to pro-
long the concession. The report is a
yoluminous document. 1t was apparently
prepared with the object of concealing,
amid the endless maze of words and re-
iterated expressions Iabout the fsanguine
prospects, the actual hopelessness of any
further enterprise in that direction.
After detailing the negotiations, Lieu
tenant Wyse concluded: IF my success
with Colombia is not to remain barren,
the hour has come for strong resolution
to take Immediate and energetic action to
have capital invested in the work, and to
preserve from destruction the yastest
project of the epoch. If the underground
maneuvers, against which it is time to
arm, do not cause the pending financial
combinations to fail, the unfortunate
French public will soon recover, through
the completion of the canal, the greater
part of the savings so recklessly squan-
dered."
Proceeding to make practical sugges-
tlons, Lieutenant Wyse advocates six
AOOho, N1Ih a SIilS4S dIillIC1dI ldh0 III ID6
center, as the best scheme. He estimates
the time required to do the work at five
years, and the maximum cost at six
hundred million francs.
Monchicourt personally considers that
the report offers a favorable basis for a
new financial operation. The report was
issued to-day, and the press has had no
time as yet to criticise it.
According to the. leading Marseilles
paper the Government, in view of the
prospective failure of the wheat harvest
and the dearness of bread, will propose
in the Chambers temporary suspension
of the tariffs on cereals. That the report
is true is improbable, but it is notable as
an indication of the difficulties that are
awaiting the Government during the
tariff debates in the face of the. .diminution
of CROPS.
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WELSH RABBIT.
Authorities Differ as to the Derivation
of the Term

Ol bHG IGr1ns
Several correspondents have asked the
EUefllRq Sun as to the correctness of the
term Welsh-rabbit. There never was
any question about it until Archbishop
Trench, in his ''Study of Words" drew q
bow at venture and ascribed the deriva-
ton of rabbit, used in this sense, to cor
ruption OF the sound of rare bit. Lazy
photographers at once assumed the good
Archbishop knew the whereof he was
speaking. Cheap schoolmasters, whose
erudition never went deeper than the
cast-iron columns of an unabridged die
tionary, gloried in correcting those more
ignorant than themselves. The new
learning spread to include the keepers OF
cheap restaurants. Finally, in the cur
rent number of HGrpe1'S MonthIy, in the
Editors Drawer, use is made of the locu-
ton Welsh rare-bit.
What the real derivation of Welsh
rabbit is no one seems able to tell. Welsh
men have been the butt of cockney wits
since Shakespeare's time, and it is proba-
bic that the phrase arose from the abund-
ant use of cheese in western England,
where it is chiefly made. In the same
way. in some parts of Ireland at the pres
ent time a herring is known as an Irish
mans beefSteak.
AT any rate, there is absolutely no au-
thority for Welsh rare-bit except DIR.
Trench's wild speculation. IN London,
which is the original home of the dish, it
has always been called Welsh-rabbit.
No standard writer of the English Ian
guage has ever lent his countenance to
the atrocious phrase of Welsh rare-bit
Even DIR. Trench was careful to give the
recognized English word, Welsh-rabbit,
and separated it carefully from it's sup
posed unrecogniZed derivative, rarebit.
An intelligent use of the dictionaries
points to the same conclusion. Thus
Webster, edition of 1850, gives Welsh
rabbit, and adds properly rarebit] in
brackets, showing the latter phrase to be
one without sanction or authorization.
Worcester gives Welsh-rabbit full cur
rency, and ascribes its origin to corrup-
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The Biggest Lime KILN.

On West Eighteenth street, in the heart
Of the city, is the largest lime kiln in the
world. People who believe that Chicago
has foundation of sand may know how
far they are mistaken by taking peep at
this awful hole in the ground The boom
of the blast and the thud of the heavy
hammers have been rending the air there
for thirty years. and scientific machinery
and appliances are reducing the rock and
enlarging the hole at the rate of 1000 bar
rels OF lime and 1900 barrels of crushed
stone per day. Such is the immensity of
the solid rock that work may go on indie
fnitely. The hole is already immense.
The surface of the mouth must needs be
computed by acres, while the cubic feet
OF its displacement run up into the mill
ions. Cable cars, with numerous diverg-
ing tracks and turntables, take their
loads of stone over its lower surface to a
cable car track up which the loaded cars
go over 200 feet, at an angle of about forty
live degrees.
The writer while in this cavern noticed
the workmen running toward the eastern
wall and seeking refuge behind large
powders, and, following their example,
was only fairly slowed away beneath the
drlpplngs OF mineral spring when he
heard boom, boom, boom, and, looking
out, saw the air full of flying stone. A
succession Of blasts demonstrated the
power of explosive matter over walls of
solid limestone. In minute it was all
over, and the workers were busy and the
cable cars running as though dynamite
had not been at work moment before,
Many men. if they had such hole in
the ground in the center of city like
Chicago, would put deer park and fish
ing lake in it, plant it in forests, supply it
with beautiful walks, make flower gar
dens in the walls and among the powders,
build mountains with caves in them
have floating gardens and toboggan
slides around its immense walls, with
stopping stations opposite tempting
caverns filled with dellcacies; have SUM
mer and winter retreats; advertise it's
mountain scenery, its mineral springs,
its healthful climate, its pleasant walks,
and then get rich.- Chicago Herald.
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ton of Welsh rare-bit. Both these are
obviously founded on Trenchs unfortu-
nate slip. Stormouth, a better authority
on derivation than either Webster or Wor-
cester, is careful, in giving Welsh-rabbit
his full sanction, to say that it is sup
posed corruption of Welsh rare-bit. But
none of these photographers gives rare
bit as a separate word. Neither do they
give Welsh-rabbit as one of the applica-
tions of the adjective rare. Therefore,
whatever may be the origin of Welsh
rabbit, the locution rare-bit is not Eng
lish. And, if anarchy is not to succeed
authority i'll the writing of good English,
rare-bit viii henceforth be buried with
fit associates in the potter's field of bills
of fare in second-class restaurants.--Nel0
York SIN
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HETTY GREEN'S WAYS.
Simple Methods of a Woman wi
Forty Million Dollars.


Forty Million Dollars.
Mrs. Hetty Green is said to be the rich
est woman in the United States, and S40,-
000,00 is the estimated sum of her wealth.
She is a liberal giver to religious and edu-
cational projects, more than hundred
churches having been endowed by her,
while upward Of fifty schools owe their
establishment TO her generosity. Against
this munificence, however, in her own
life and surroundings she shows re-
markable thrift. She spent the summer
of last year in Long Island village, rent
ing for the purpose q shabby little place
most sparsely furnished. Here she lived
for three months, and the towns-people
had an opportunity to discover for them
selves how prodigality of income can be
allied with penury Of expenditure.
On the day of her arrival she went to a
neighbours house and wanted to buy a
quart of milk. She was not known, and
there was nothing in her appearance to
indicate her identity. The family did not
sell milk, so her request was at first re-
fused, although she was told that possibly
some milk might be spared to which she
would be welcome. Mrs. Green declined
the milk as gift, and told who she was,
adding that she wanted to make arrange
ments, if possible, to get daily quart, for
which she was willing to pay ten cents,
the current price being seven cents. Such
an arrangement was finally concluded,
when Mrs. Green asked that pitcher be
lent to her for the milk service during the
summer, in which particular she was
also accommodated. Then Mrs. Green
wanted the milk sent to her, but this was
not feasible; consequently, on every
morning of her stay, she went with the
borrowed pitcher for her daily quart. 1t
is only just to state that at the end of the
season the milk vessel, unharmed, was
duly returned. Her son and daughter
constitute the family with herself, the
entire family living in the simplest man
ner possible. They were regular attend
ants at church, however, and every one of
the trio invariably put bill of generous
denomination upon every round of the
plate.-New York Times.
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NARROW ESCAPE.
Twenty Ffre1nen Imprisoned Beneath
q Burning Building.

Twenty FfreInen Imprisoned Beneath
a Burning Building.
BosToN, April ia Fl occurred early
this morning in the Cal Jrnia Building,
a five-story brick, prir .cipally occupied
by Bailey 81 Rankin, carpets. The total
loss is estimated at $4,000.
While the fire was at its hight, the roof
fell, the debris imprisoning nearly twenty
firemen, several of whom escaped with
out injury. The streams were at one di-
rected to the part of the building where
the accident occurred, and in few min
utes the debris cooled sufficiently to per-
init the release of the men beneath.
Chief Engineer Webper was among
the caught, and although bruised and
burned, he did not relinquish his com
mand. Chief Reagan was also buried,
but his injuries are not serions Captain
Willett was injured a. out the shoulders.
Captain Griffen was pinned down by the
heavy timbers, which had to be sawed
apart before he could be released. Dis
trict Engineer Creswell was pinned down
nearly an hour. His leg was crushed by
a heavy beam. He finally escaped. His
injuries, though painful, are not fatal. A
dozen other tiremen were injured, some
seriously.
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CELEBRATING AN ANNIVERSARY
The Sixth Massachusetts Light Infantry
Veterans Visit Baltimore

BALTIMORE, April 10. = The Sixth
Massachusetts, Light Infantry veterans,
known as the Worcester Light In
fantry," and lineal descendants of the old
Massachusetts Sixth, well remembered as
the first armed and equipped regiment
that marched to the relief of the National
Capital, arrived here to-day, at the same
hour and over the same route traversed in
1861.
Thirty years ago to-day the Sixth Massa-
chusetts had a conflict with a mob while
passing through the city, losing four men
killed and many wounded. The demon
stration to-day commentaries the ami
verSary.
The veterans were met at the railroad
station by the Grand Army Posts, de-
tachment of Sons of Veterans and depu-
tatlon representing the city officials.
The address of welcome was delivered
by Mayor Davidson in happy vein,
assuring the veterans of the profound
pleasure in which their visit was received.
In the evening Duchesne Post enter
tanned the visitors at Carrollton.
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Special to the Rrcosp.uNron.

Special to the REcoRp-UNIoN.
Los ANGELES, April l9.-General A.
Med. McCook, commanding the Depart
ment of Arizona, has departed for EI
Paso, where he will meet President Har-
rison and party and accompany them to
the Pacific Coast.
Grand preparations are being made
hero TO receive the distinguished guests
when they arrive in this city Wednesday
afternoon next. A grand reception is to
be rendered TO the President. The ar
rangements which have been made for
the affair indicate that it will be the great
est day Los Angeles has ever seen.
Governor Markham and staff will
arrive in the city on Tuesday en- route 10
Yuma, where the Governor will meet the
residential party and remain with them
during their stay in the State.
AS this will be the first time the Gov
ernor has visited Los Angeles since his in
auguration, an informal reception and
welcoming Will be given him at the depot
on his arrival. He will be greeted by
citizens and brass bands.
On Wednesday morning special train
VIII leave Los Angeles bearing the well
coming committee. This special train
will meet the Presidential party at Beau
mont, and extend to them a cordial well
come to Southern California
Upon their arrival in this city the Pres
ldent and his friends, Governor Markham
and staff and invited guests will be placed
In carriages and driven to the corner Of
FIRST and Spring streets, followed by q
vast procession of societies, including the
6. a. R., Loyal Legion, First Brigade of
n. q. o., Catholic societies, inmates of the
Soldiers Home, etc.
Along Spring street, between First and
Tenth, 5000 school children will line the
road, the boys on one side and the girls
on the other. The Presidents carriage
VIII be driven down this line, and as it
passes the children will strew flowers in
front of it. This will give every boy and
girl in Los Angeles an opportunity to sec
the Chief Magistrate.
When the City Hall is reached the pro-
cession will break. From a platform
specially constructed the President will
be introduced to the people by Governor
Markham. After a brief response by
General Harrison the party will go to
their hotel.
In the evening there will be another re-
cepton at Hazards Pavilion. Here the
President will also deliver an address.
All the banks and business houses will
be closed on Wednesday afternoon. and
business will be generally suspended.
The Catholics of the city held a meeting
this afternoon and resolved, with the
sanction of Bishop Mora, to participate in
the reception as body. This will be one
OF the unusual features of the affair.
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AT GERMANY,s CAPITAL.
The Kaiser Annoyed at the Actions of
a Number of Cavalry Officers.

NUMBER OF Cavalry Officers.
New YORK, April ia iS5tn Berlin
special says: The Kaiser is smuch annoyed
by the disregard of his wishes shown by
a number of cavalry officers in attending
the hurdle society races last Sunday. The
Emperor's brother-in-law, Duke Gunther
of Schwesig of Holstein, who was among
the delinquents, received full measure of
resentment. So loud and menacing was
the language in which it was conveyed
that the Empress ran into the room to
protect her brother, whom the Emperor
was denouncing.
The Duke and his partners in guilt
spent Sunday in the barracks, deprived
of tobacco and liquors, and in other re-
spects treated as prisoners.
The Baroness Alexanderissa Bescy is
entertaining Berlin young men nightly
at the Cafe Chantant with abbrevi-
ated skirts and risky songs She
is the wife of one of the proudest
Hungarian magnates, and was at one
time bosom friend of the Austrian EN-
press. She received $500 month for her
performances, and means to remain in
the profession unless her husband relents
as to the amount Of pin-money he will
place at his disposal.
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Wanted 10 BE strict.

He was new employe on the railway
and was making inquiries as to some of
the details of his work. He was a very
smart young man.
said he.
That is not very likely to concern
YOU"
But it might. Would it be proper to see
that charge of excessive baggage is put
against the elephants, on account of their
trunks, you know?"
He is now registered at the employ
ment agency
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The La Grippe I'm Japan.

The remarkable popularity of the la
grippe in Japan was its prevalence among
the upper classes, whereas the cholera Sc
lected its victims among the poorer peo-
pie. Some idea of the extent of the epi-
demic may be gathered from the fact
that, at y Yokohama, the sufferers officially
reported numbered over $1,000, and it is
estimated that the unreported cases
throughout the prefecture were nearly
twice as great. OF the l30, 900 inhabitants
of Kobe, p, 900 were attacked by the dis
ease. In Toxic the epidemic ragged with
great virulence, and similar reports come
from some of the Chinese cities.
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Her Reason.

There is little cake and candy shop
opposite large grammar school in the
suburbs of Boston, and the keeper of it
told me recently that on school days he
takes in about Sc a day, mostly in pen
MES, says the Traveller. He says that
the most curious thing about his custom
ers is that the poorer clad the children the
more pennies they seem to have for can
dy. One day he asked a shabby little girl
how it was she had so many pennies for
candy. CO." replied she, ''marm says dad
don't eyer give her enough money to buy
us clothes, and we might as well have
what she does get to spend"
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Melted snow.

Some writers in one or two of the Eng
lish papers have been again pointing out
the fallacy of the very common idea that
melted snow is an ideally pure water.
The reverse of this is true. So far from
being pure, snow is, practically, great
purifier of the atmosphere from floating
particles and noxious gases. These the
flakes of snow imprison or absorb as they
fall, and, as a matter of course. when
the snow melts it is loaded with this rub
biSb
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REAR ADMIRAL TAYLOR,
He Dies in Washington From an AT
tack of La Grippe.

WASHINGTON, April 19.-Rear- -Admi-
raj Alfred Taylor, Z. S. A, retired, died
in this city this afternoon from pneu-
monia and acute bronchitis, following an
attack of grip.
He was born in Fairfax County, Vir-
ginia, in 1910. He reached the grade of
Lieutenant in 1887, and in the Mexican
war, during the blockade at Vera Cruz.
and other naval operations along the
Mexican coast, he served with the frigate
Cumberland. He was on duty in the
steamer Mississippi with Commander
Perry's expedition to Japan in 1896.
Two of his sons hold commissions in the
army, and the third lives in New York
City
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CLEARINGHOUSE STATISTICS.
Business Transacted In the Leading
Cities of the United States.

SlIieS OF Une united States.
Boston, April 19.-Clearing- house re-
turns are as follows: New York, $685.
81 900, decrease of2.1 per cent; Boston,
S91 1858, 900, a decrease of 6 per cent; Chica-
go, SSl, ,522, 900, an increase of Al per cent:
Philadelphia, S67, ,497 900, decrease of 9
per cent; st. Louis, $50, ,621, 900, decrease
of 81 per cent; San Francisco, SIS, ,2S4, 900.
decrease of 6.3 per cent; Baltimore.
Sl3,9o2,000, decrease of 5.5 per cent; New
Orleans, Sl0,320, 900, an increase of Il. A per
cent; Cincinnati, Sl3,66 900, an increase
OF per cent; Pittsburg, SD, 940, 900 de-
crease of los per cent; Omaha, s., ,693. COO.
decrease of 23.5 per cent; Denver, 81.
29o,eOo, an increase of 0.3 per cent; st.
Paul, 1855, 900, a decrease of I4.4 per
cent; Galveston, S4,S52, 600 an increase
OF 34z.4 per cent; Minneapolis, Sc, 6,0SO, 900,
an an increase 7, a OF 81 per cent; Portland
tor.), Sl,S19,000, an Increase of 7.6 per
cent; Seattle, S892,7 decrease of H.
per cent; Tacoma, SS72, ,924, an increase of
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The Hedgeberg Murderer.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 19.-On Satur-
day man answering the description of
Hedgeberg, the man who is wanted for
the murder of Mrs. Fossom, was arrested
at Colusa. From his description the po-
lice are positive that he is the man
wanted, and as soon as his identity is
definitely established he will be brought
to this city. Officer Anthony traced him
to Collinsville, but the man fled, leaving
behind some of his clothing, which is
similar to that worn by Hedgeberg be-
fore the murder was cOmmitted
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National Republican League.

CINCINNATI, April 19.-The city is rap
idly filling with delegates to the National
Republican League Convention. Dele
cations are already here from Nebraska
New York, Minnesota, PennsyIyanis
Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. 1t is ex
pected that forty States will be renre-
sented. Hon. John NJ. Thurston of
Omaha, President Of the League. will
arrive in the morning.
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A GALA DAY.
Los Angeles Preparing to We'll
come the President.
BUSINESS TO BE SUSPENDED ON
THE DAY OF HIS ARRIVAL.

Every Boy and Girl in tho City to be
Given an Opportunity of Seeing tho
Chief Magistrate of the Lnnd-A
Reception Also Co be rendered Cow
ernor Markham When lie Passes
Through tho City TO Meet the
Presidential Party.
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WORLDS FAIR LABORERs,
If Their Demands Are Not Acceded tt
They VIII Strike.

II INeIT UeInanuS Arc Not Acceded to
They VIII Strike.
CHICAGO, April 19.--At meeting of
nearly 900 Worlds Fair laborers to-day
resolutions were adopted that if their de-
mands We're not acceded to by noon to-
morrow a strike would ensue.
To reporter tonight one of the firm
employing the laborers said emphatically
that the reply to the laborers' demands
would be In the negative. The men ask
eight hours and 81 Is per day, instead OF
ten hours and 81 80.
At meeting of the Chicago Trades
Assembly this afternoon it was decided
to give the Worlds Fair laborers the
moral support of the assembly. The con-
tractors propose to invoke police pro-
lection, and lively times are expected to-
morrow at the Worlds Fair grounds.
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speakership of the Next House.

The men who are the leading aspirants
Tor the Speakership are r. @. Mills OF
Texas, Charles +. Crisp of Georgia. VIM.
NJ. Springer of Illinois, Benton McMillin
OF Tennessee, and VIM. Ell. Hatch of Mis-
souri,. Mills leads all in duration of serv-
ice, having been In the House eighteen
years. Springer has served sixteen years,
McMillin and Hatch twelve and Crisp
eight
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MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE.
The Last Day of the Session an Ex
citing One.

citing One.
ST. PAUL, April Yesterday was the
last day of the Legislature for passing
bills, and the session was long and ex-
cited one, adjournment not being taken
until seven o'clock this morning. A
great number of bills were not acted on.
The new usury bill was defeated by in
action, and the famous McHale anti-tiphts
bill was killed in like manner The bill
bringing the Building Associations under
charge OF the Bank Examiner passed late
in the night.
The House fought all day yesterday
over the general appropriation bill,
amending it TO such an extent that the
tax levy bill had to be amended to meet
the increased demarfls for money.
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The papal Chair.

AS the list is usually given by the Ro.
man Catholic authorities, Leo XIII. is
the 26Sd on the roll of Popes. For many
centuries past the Italians have furnished
nearly all the Popes. Ever since tho
death in 1923 of Adrian VI, who was a
native of the Netherlands, every occu<
pant of the Papal chair has been an Ital.
ian.
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Baronetcx Conferred

LONDON, April ia baronetcy has
been conferred upon Hon. James Fitz-
James Stephen, Justice of the Queens
Bench, division of the High Court of
Justice, who retired recently from the
Bench, owing to impaired health.
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Victims of Poisoning.

LOUISVILLE, April ia majority of
the sufferers from poisoning at Linden,
KY, are gradually improving, but Mr..
and Mrs. William Terry, of Anchorage.
are worse. Mrs. Robert GRAY and Mrs
Clarence Warren, of Louisville, are un-
able to take nourishment, and are slowly
sinking. George Beacham, coIored
driver, is not expected to live until morn
ing. The bride and groom are in Gin
cinnati and are quite Ill.
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Ring in Wheat and Rye.

BERLIN, April 19.-The denunciations
sent to the Government, protesting
against the ring IN wheat and rye, forcing
prices to fictitious hight, have caused
the Government to open official inquiry
into the matter
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Sudden Death.

ORovILLE, April 49, G. ". Corey,
after eating hearty breakfast, fell dead
on the street yesterday. The supposed
cause Of his death was epilepsy.
Jed Plum, employed at the Lumpkin
planning mill, had two fingers of his right
hand sawed Off by q ripsaw yesterday.