The historic times., 1891-10-24

llary Will De Co,OOO. (
FANNY b. WARD is an adventurous
.merican girl who has gone down to :
hill in search of writing material
he writes that Ralmaceda, though
was still patriot. ,
THE imperial German commissioners
ave a hearing to Mr.. Murphy. the
american agent, on the subject Of the
Introduction of maize as food in Ger
many. Mr. Murphy presented guam
itv of maize for experimental use.
JUDGE ToNEY, of Louisville, KY,
sent Mayor AL Berry and the city coun-
I'll to iail for refusing to obey the order
# the court to use the lights furnished
bv the Newport Gas Co. per decision
If the court. The officials of the city
were declared in contempt and were
sent to Jail for six months or until
further order of the court
THE commission appointed by Secre-
tarv Noble to negotiate with the Sho-
shone and Arapahoe Indians of Wy
oming for part of the Wind river res
ervation has effected an agreement
with the Indians under which they
cede to the United States more than
half their reservation, the government
getting about 10000 acres out OF a
total Of about 2, 600, 900 acres.
SECRETARY RUsK preserves many OF |
the primeval manners Of his rustic boy
hood. 1t is a rare thing to find him up |
after 9 o'clock in the evening, and If |
nothing prevents he goes to bed at $3.50.
He gets up at daybreak, and instead of
a lunch at noon has dinner at that
hour and supper at 6. Fashion smiles
at him little for these eccentricities,
but that does not prevent him from be-
ing the most popular official in Wash
ington.
AFTER delay of fourteen years the
youth of Chicago are finally to receive
the benefit Of the great training school
which the munifcence of Allan c. Lewis
devised for them. The available fund
of the Lewis estate has now reached
the sum of over S1,O00,000 and the
trustees are satisfied that after the
erection Of buildings costing probably
5000 900 there will be sufficient to per-
Detuallv endow the school Building
! will begin at once.
THE correspondent of the London
/ Times at Paris learns that the object
of M. de Giers, the Russian foreign
minister, in seeking the recent in
terview at MOnza with the king OF
italy and Marquis di Rudini the ltal-
ian premier, was to ascertain the ma
ture of the triple alliance before con-
cludinp q treaty with France. King
| Humbert assured NJ de Giers that the
triple alliance was based on defensive
and a non-offensive treaty.
RIGHT Hon. ARTHUR J. BALFOUR, the
new parliamentary leader, addressed
his constituents at Manchester in g
modest strain recently. In the course
of his speech he said that he quite
coincided with those who sait
that the success of the government
policy toward Ireland was due rathe
to strokes of good fortune than th'
merit of the memb bers OF the admins
tration. One Of the greatest pieces o
his good fortune was that he had goo
working men behind him.
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q THE state reports of FIVE states, Ohio
Michigan. Iowa, Kansas and Pennsy
: vania. make the Yields of wheat
:; those states 100. G.5, 600 bushels Th
Washington government crop repol
= made the Weld in those FIVE states 167
C15.000 bushels The difference is -, 7GC
600 bushels The Dodge report indicate
i q crop OF 5s5. 600. 600 bushels. If all II
state reports exceed the Washingtc
= figures in the same ratio as these III
states the state figures would sugge
a crop Of over CSC, ,ooo, 600 bushels
A KEW name has been given to pa
Of the Pacific ocean. A sort OF bas
n is formed br the east coast Of Austral
and Tasmania. New Zealand and L
western islands OF the Polynesi;
= groups, which. in the opinion of An
tralian rcogranhers. should have d
,e tinctive name. The Australian ass
ciation for the advancement Of scien
has accordingly given TO this basin I
y name Of Tasmau sea, and the EnFl'
Il. admiralty has ordered that the naE
nd be inserted upon the admiralty char
"
y NAI-GEx. OLIVER O. HOWARD, CO
naading the military department
al the east, devctcs much space In his
.or port to the war department 20 the {
cnssion OF coast defenses He says Il
al New York. san Francisco and II
ct ton new guns and mort2rs are need
ue. Many fixed torpedo or suonar
mines have, however, been coustruc
f7r use ut these points Gen Howi
ave gives but I half-hearted Endorsement
lt; the cante-n system. and says that
soldier should be permitted to act .
barzeeper in q canteen-