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PhiIadeIphia,s City Treasurer.

PHILADELPHIA, June Richard G..
oellers, the choice of the County Com
missioner and City Council for City
Treasurer, to succeed Bardsley, took
possession of the City Treasury this
morning. The question as to whether
Oellers or Wright, appointed by the Gov
ernor, has a right to fill the vacancy will
be brought before the court to-day, and a
decision is expected by the Supreme
Court by next Saturday.
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BURNED TO DEATH
Terrible Fate Of Lady Visiting in Ell
Dorado County

PLAcERvILLE, June IA Mrs. Col
well, widow, and resident of Oakland,
was burned to death last night in the res
ldence of her son, Ralph Colwell, near
Letus. Ralph Colwell, with his wife, left
home in the afternoon to visit friends
near Coloma, leaving his mother alone at
home. Returning at about IL o'clock at
night they found Mrs. Colweu absent
from the house, and discovered that the
barn had been burned. Mrs. ColwelPs
charred remains were found near whore
the door of the barn had stood. No salts
factory theory has been yet advanced as
to the cause of the fire or the manner of
the woman's death.
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The Consolidatfonists victorious.

PORTLAND Orr, June 1.-The total
number of votes cast at the election to-day
in Portland, East Portland and Albina,
on the question of consolidation under
one city government, was 11,S40. OF
these Portland cast {, l65 for consolidation
and 954 against East Portland, 1898 for
and 29s against; Albina, LBS for and 49,
against. The total majority III the three
cities for consolidation was 1925. The
election under the new charter wi II be
held on June Dist. The anti-consolida-
tionists gave up the fight early in the
daV
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Duel to Death.

GAINESVILLE (Tex.), June 1.-The par
ticulars of a duel to death between the
Sheriff and a cowboy name Cope, at
Jacksboro, have just reached here. Cope
come to town Saturday, became disor-
derby and drunk. The Sheriff ordered
him to surrender. It was answered with
shot. 1t was returned and more than
twenty shots were fired. Cope was killed,
but he MORALLY wounded the Sheriff,
who died shortly afterward
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New CoaIing station.

CHICAGO, June IA dispatch from
Washington says an offer is to be made
to lease the port of Santa Barbara for a
coaling station, and in case Of the accept
ance of the offer by the DOMINICAN repub-
lie, possession will be taken and Congress
asked to appropriate the necessary sums
to erect q dry dock, coaling wharves aud
fortifications
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California Fruits.

CHICAGO, June Porter Bros. Com
pany sold to-day two carloads of Cali
fornia fruit. Black Tartarian cherries
brought 81 O5@1 so; Royal Annes, 81 50
al 90; cherry plums, 81 25@2 10; Prin-
gle apricots, 81 3002 20; ThisselPs Seed
ling apricots, 81 65(03 Is; Black Bigger
reau cherries, 81 45g1 90; Rociport cher
ries, 81 IS; Centennial cherries. 81 So.
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Worlds Columbian Exposition.

CHICAGO, June AT meeting of the
Worlds Fair Ceremonies Committee to-
day it was stated that Colorado, Califor-
MIA, North Dakota, Minnesota, Kansas,
Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania will send to the dedication cere-
monies in September, 1892, pick of the
States troops. The committee decided
to make military display the feature of
the big parade Il. T. Lees scheme for a
reunion of soldiers of the North and
South was discussed, and it was decided
To make no special feature of such a re-
union. Soldiers wearing either the blue
or gray will be welcomed and well
treated
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The Lucerne Petltion.

ST. Louis, June 1.-Itis authoritatively
stated here that the so-called Lucerne
petition to the Pope, asking that institu-
tions be established in different parts OF
Europe for the education of priests, who
shall accompany emigrants of their ma
tionality and care for them after their ar
rival in America, was concocted in this
city. This is the petition which the
Bishop of ST. Paul referred to in an inter-
view as thoroughly un-American. He
did not see the necessity of foreignizing
American Catholics.
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Electric Railway for santa cruz.

SANTA CRUZ, June 1.-The Common
Council tonight granted franchise for
an electric railway to the Santa Cruz,
Garfield Park and Capitola Electric Rail-
way Company. The work Of construc-
ton is to begin within sixty days. The
promoters OF the road are local capitalists
and property-owners and the success of
the enterprise is assured
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CONDEMNED TO DEATH.

CATION at Paris Falls from Grace.
PARIS, June 1.-Adviees from Pekin
state that Tcheng ki-Tong, formerly
Acting first Secretary OF the Chi
nese Legation in London and this
city. has been condemned to death.
This is believed to be the outcome of
diplomatic action while in France. His
life in this city was marked with many
forms OF extravaganza.
Early this year dispatch was received
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Oatmeal Trust,

AKRON (09, June Incorporation
papers were filed at Columbus to-day for
the Consolidated Oatmeal Company, with
a capital stock of So, SOC, 900. Al the oat-
meal mills of the country are brought
under one management
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A New Wny oil Crossing the Atlantie

Professor c., Green Mountain boy.
who stood six feet six inches in his stock
ing feet, desiring to take passage for Lon
don, went to New York for that purpose.
While standing on the dock he cot into
conversation with stranger, asking him
by what route he had better go on his
contemplated voyage. WELL" was the
reply, ''if were you would put LOAF
Of bread on top of my head and wade!''
Hdrpe1'S Kdgdzi7le.
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PuyaIIup Indian Reservation.

VANCOUVER (Wash.), June l-First
Lieutenant Cobell, with detachment of
fifteen men from the Fourteenth In
fantry, left here this afternoon for the
Puyallup Indian Reservation, under
orders from the War Department, to keep
squatters off the reservation
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HALE MURDER TRIAL.
Damaging Testimony introduced
Against the Accused.
THREATENING LETTERS SENT TO
THE MURDERED WOMAN

The Consolidationists Victorious in
the Portland Flection-An Oakland
Lady Burned to Death While on q
Visit to Eel Dorado County-An Ari-
iona stage-Drivor Ends His Life by
Cutting His Throat and jumping
Into a Tank of Water.
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Painful Accident

MERGED, June l. = d. r. Miller, a
farmer living near Atwater, met with q
painful accident on Saturday. He was
feeding wood to q steam saw, when some
one spoke to him. In turning he failed
to notice the saw, run his right hand
against it and nangled il horribly.
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TURKISH BRlGANDS.
They Derail an Express Train
Near COnstantinople.
PASSENGERS HELD CAPTIVE UNTIL
A RANSOM IS PAID

The Opening of the Celebrated Bac-
carat Scandal Case Before the Lord
Chief Justice of England Attended
by a Large Crowd of Fashionable
People-The Cruiser San Francisco
Arrival at Lima, Peru.
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phia 8. Batteries. Stein and Kittridge;
Esper and Brown.
NEW YORK, June by winning to-
days game the Giants jumped from fifth
to second place in the race. The game
was sharply contested. Score: New
York 8, Cleveland 2. Batteries-Rusie
and Buckley; Young and thinner.
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observation-disclosures Fire.

HUNTINGTON (Or.), June 1.-Shortly
after noon to-day fire started in the
barn of Isenhofer & Chopper, butchers,
consuming the barn and meat market.
The Chinese store of Chung Lou, the
dwelling-house of Gee Dunlap and the
new Commercial Hotel were also de-
stroyed. Three head of horses belonging
10 lsenhoter d Chopper were burned.
The total loss is estimated at 10000; no
insurance. The cause of the fire is un-
known.
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Suicide of Two Youthful Lovers.

GALENA (IIl.), June 1.-Two youthful
lovers, Miss Ida Townsend and Elmer
Foster, living in Rush Township, this
county, committed suicide last night.
They went out for drive, and returned
late in the evening. The girls mother
entered the room to call her in the morn
ing, and found both dead, the young man
on the bed and the girl on the floor. to
which she had fallen i'll her agony. They
had taken strychnine. The girls father
is wealthy. Foster was farmland, and
it is believed that the parents opposed the
union.
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One day, in 1880, when a working jew
eler, Joseph elliott, now the famous
steel pen-maker. accidently split one of
his fine steel tools, and being suddenly
required TO sign a receipt, not finding his
quill pen at hand, he used the split tool
dent led to the idea of making pens of
steel.
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SuInmoned to OTTAWA.

ST. JOHN, June 1.-Sir Leonard Tilley,
Northumberland of the province, has
been hastily summoned to Ottawa. Moth
ing definite can be learned as to the OBJ
ject of his mission.
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Governor Markham.

WAwoNA (Cal.), June 1.-Governor
Markham arrived here tonight. He is
ON his way to the Yosemite to preside
over the Yosemite Valley Commission
for this year.
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Corbett wants Time to Consider

SAN FRANCISCO, June Jim Corbett,
in answer to Peter Jackson's challenge,
says he will fight Jackson again, but he
will have to wait, as he needs rest and
wants to learn the result of the Slavin-
| Kilrain fight before announcing his in
/ tpn+iODS
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shot bv MoonIiehters.

DUBLIN, June 1.-MoonIighters last
night fatally shot farmer named Crow
ley in County Donegal. Crowley had
rented a farm from which a former tenant
mad been eVicted
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The Great MAXWELL Land Grant,

LAS VEGAS IN. NJ, June 1.-The SUI
preme Court of the Territory to-day rem
dered a decision in the suit of the heirs of
David Mitchell and others to recover FIVE
siXths of the great Maxwell land grant.
The decision was against the plaintiffs.
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A Short-Itved T2ohelIiou

New YORK, June minister Price of
Hayti has received a dispatch from Port
au Prince stating that the rebellion which
broke out there recently has been sup
pressed and forty rebels have been exc
cutad
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Died From tho Effects or His Wounds.
MERGED, June William Maloney,
who was accidentally shot near here last
week by the careless handling of a gun
by young lady whom he was visiting,
died to-day from the effects of his
wounds.
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Hennessy Jury Bribers.

New ORLEANS, June 1.-The Hennessy
jury bribers to-day pleaded not guilty,
after demurrer in their cases had been
filed and oyerruled.
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Secretary Blaine.

New York, June 1.-Secretary Blaine,
accompanied by Mrs. Blaine and Mrs.
Damrosch, left this morning for Bar Har-
Dor, Maine.
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Rain Wanted I'M Canada.

TORONTO, June 1.-Reports from vari-
Gus parts of the country state that the
crops are suffering greatly from long
continued drought. If rain does not come
within week the consequences, it is
said, will be serious.
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TWO Children perish in tho Flnmes

LINCOLN (Neb.}, June 1.-The farm
house Of Valentine Beck. near Beaver
City, was burned to-day during the alb
sence of Mr.. and Mrs. Beck, and their
two children, girl of and a boy of 2
years, persisted il the flames.
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OTTAWA. June "a. NAT midnight
Sir Johns condition was reported about
the same, with every prospect of passing
through the night.
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a Determined suicide.

Tucson, June Jeremiah Gibbons.
better known as 'Jack Dawson an old
stage-driver, committed suicide at the
County Hospital here last night, cutting
his throat and then drowning himself in q
tank Of water.
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The five largest cities in Missouri, ex-
elusive of st. Louis, are: Kansas City,
132,4l6 population; st. Joseph, SSH;
Springfield, Il .S42; Sedalia, 1891; Han
nibal, l2,S16.
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Trans-Siberian Railroad.

VLADIyosToCK, June 1.-The Caro-
witt to-day opened the first portion OF
the Trans Siberian Railroad.
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Heavy STORM in soutb Dal,ota.

STURGIs IS. d., June This city and
vicinity was visited to-day by the worst
storm since 1888. The water is three feet
deep on Main street, and the cellars and
first floors of business houses are over
flowed. Railway traffic is impaired
The loss reaches thousands of dollars.
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ON THE TURF.
Winters Rey del Rey Wins a Race at
Morris Park.


| NEW YORK, June morris Park,
greatly improved, was thrown open to
the public to-day under favorable cir
cumstances. The attendance was Is, 900.
| All ages, five furlongs, Correction won,
| Fairview second, Civil Service third.
| Time, 1:01.
| Three-year-olds and upward, mile and
an eighth, Masterlode won, L'Intriguante
second, Cassius third. Time, LOS.
Harlem stakes, two-year-olds. five and
half furlongs, NoInad won, Vestibule
second, Guildeno third. Time, 1901.
Maidens, all ages, one mile, Rey del
Rey won, Laureston second, Thornton
third. Time, 1:424.
Schuyler stakes, all ages, one mile, Sir
John won, Carroll second, Chesapeake
third. Time, 1:4l4.
Six furlongs, Arnica won, DR.. Wilcox
second, Little E. third. Time, 1:l64.
AT CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, June L. Three-year-olds,
five furlongs, Gee Jay Jay won, Judge
Arkell second, Addie third. Time, 1:05I.
Three ear-olds and upward, one
mile, Fayette won, Little Scissors second.
Sea Foam third. Time, las.
Handicap, mile and a quarter, Laura
Davidson won, Attus second, Bankrupt
third. Time, 2:11.
- 90 ) ot'A Jus sIHO upWdIO, Inllo ana
a sixteenth, Experience won, Burch
second, Jack Murray third. Time, l:5l
All ages six furlongs, Heller Shelter
won, Sourire second, The Kaiser third
Time, 1:3l!.
AT LAToNIA.
LAToNIA, June 1.-Mile and seventy
yards, Happiness Won, Estella second,
Redsign third. Time, 1:474.
One mile, Mirabeau won, Brutus
second, Happy third. Time, 1:4S4.
Eight and a half furlongs, Rosamont
won, Bertha second, Alan Bane third.
Time, 1924.
/ Mile and quarter, Ida Pickwick won,
Mary c. second, Cantatrice third. Time,
2:l44
Five furlongs, German won, Hannah
Moberly second, Fabero third. Time,
1:07.
DIAMOND DUST.
Tho New York Giants Jump from
Fifth to Second Place.
BROOKLYN, June 1.-Pittsburg's errors
We're costly, and the Bridegrooms won
after an interesting battle. Score: Brook
lyn 5, Pittsburg 8. Batteries Daily and
Hemming; Field and Stratton.
Boston, June 1.-Rhines had the Bos-
tons at his mercy, while Nichols was hit
| just enough for victory. Score: Gin
cinnati 5, Boston 2 Batteries-RhlneS
and Harrington; Nichols and Bennett.
PHILADELPHIA, June 1.-While the
| Chicagos punched their hits the Pfllies
| punched their errors, giving the visitors
a lead which the home team could not
| overcome. Score: Chicago 6. Philadel-
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Ostrlches Sod nt auction.

ANAHEIM, June l.--Ninety-fve birds
belonging to the ostrich farm near
Anaheim were sold this afternoon to
satisfy a Judgment against the farm. The
birds brought 81 600
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Sudden Death Of am Arizona Official.
YUMA (Ariz.), June 1.-County Treas
urer DR.. A. e. Decorse died of heart dis
ease this morning. Deceased was very
| popular in the political and industrial
| history of Arizona.
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WHO CAN BE BOUGHT.

That is an important question just
now. Buyers-anxious, eager buyers are
on the market, with a full hand. Who
Is for sale and at what price? True,
they are a little choice as to the man they
buy, but il the man suits, there will be
but little quibbling as to price.-Profes-
Farmer.
Well that depends a good deal now.
LIEUTENANT PoLK-third lieutenant we
believe, swore that he made nine hundred
per cent when he was a little more digni-
fed mountebsnk than now, in selling a
nostrum which he called diptheria med
cine.
This coming from the Professional
Farmer We are at a loss. Shall we take
it as a corporation joke or shall We take
it as a bucolic pleasantly?
OF course we know that the lieuten-
ant desires to bny men-but is he moi a
little early?
Has MACUNE thus early thrown the
overheard?
Is the lieutenant looking for New re-
cruits to associate with the several Raw
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Queer Collection in the Dead Letter once.
No brief list coul Summarize the in
Vulnerable strange Il ings that have fallen
into the hands of the dead letter Office in
Washington. There are opium pipes and
packages of refined opium, bottled speci-
mems of different kinds of mineral forma-
tons thrown up by the Charleston earth
quake, boxes of cartridges, percussion
caps, quantities of f~recrackers and tor
pedoes, false teeth, corn husking gloves,
every imaginable sort of kitchen utensils,
carpenters tools, horns, tambourines,
banjos, harmonious, gold headed canes.
and even spirit photographs"
Many of the objects accumulated come
nnder the "unmailable" head, being of
glass or pointed Instruments which
might damage the mails. Bottles or
surgical tools are not carried by Uncle
Sam unless inclosed in wood or tin. One
hundred dollars worth of nuggets of
virgin gold in a box came in a while ago
and are awaiting a claimant. Likewise
a damaged plug hat, which had no adj
dress, and a grotesque doll about the size
of a baby. There are some gloves from
the steamship Oregon which were ia
days under water, though they seem to
be fairly respectable now and might be
worn at a stretch. Some wedding cake
is exhibited in the museum that is fifty
years old.-Rene Bache in New York
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-03
Young Men as Authors.

Keats was dead when just a little over
his t~wenty-ffth year. Shelley wrote
Queen Nab" at twenty, and the "Pro-
metheus Unbound" and the lode to the
West Wind at twenty-six. Byron
startled the town with "English Bards
and Scotch Reviewers" at t~wenty-one,
and at twenty-four Evoke up and found
himself famous" by the publication of
''Childe Harold" Burns was but
twenty-seven when he was the lion of
the season in Edinburgh. Campbell
published his pleasures of Hope" at
twenty-five. Chatterton was not eight.
cen when he finished his life's work. The
great Shakespeare himself was famous
when little more than a youth, and the
same is true of the Shakespeare Of France,
Victor Hugo; and Goethe, by the bye,
was known to all Europe at twenty-four.
Scott, on the other hand, was more
l~eisUrely. He made no serious effort as
IN author till he was over thirty, and he
was over forty when "Waverley" was
given to the world; and Thackeray also
was verging on two score before VANITY
Fair" established his reputation. Critic
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AT RANDOM.
Hogs with razor backs are roofing,
Yet some day they will be hams;
'Possums all the night are scooting,
'Tis a sorry day for yams.

COLONEL DICK WHITEHURST, with tears in
his eyes after looking at the Old Mans Yam
Farm. committed suicide this afternoon. 1t
is needless to state that COLONEL WHITE
HURST attempted to Swallow a Whole. Yam.
We hope that he feels much better Up Yonder.
COLONEL PROFESSOR SHEPPE called this
afternoon and submitted the following poem {:
Dickery. Dickery, Dickery Dock,
Three geese were in a flock,
One few east and one flew west,
And one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
COLONEL PROFESSOR SHEPPE said to us. in
an disseminated way, that he very much re-
GREETED that the last goose few over the cuck-
oo's nest.
And we askedahim why.
And then he said And this is confidential,
because 1 would rather the goose had flew
over COLONEL HARDIN's stable"
And why we asked him..
Because and d tear gathered on the left
wen of the Colonel Professors nose. and he
said with a far-off thought, worth about two
bits, 1.-The goosee-gander might have flew over
a mares nest"
And COLONEL PROFESSOR SHEPPE wept pro-
fusely.
It is unnecessary for us to state that the
villain still pursues him.
COLONEL DOCTOR was killed to-
day. In attempting to mix a jug of Colonel
Madam's Ricrobe he voluntarily fell into a
quart pot of White Lead. The colonel says
that he is dead but not sleeping. May he ras-
caue the maltese cat in peace.
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A Great MagaZine.

The great American periodical, The
Century, is going to Guido its own unri-
vailed record in its programme for 1892,
and as many of its new features begin
| with the November number, new read
ers should with that issue.
In this number are the opening chapters
of "The Naulahka," a novel by Rudyard
Kipling, the famous author of "Plain
Tales from the Hills,' written in collabo-
ration with an American writer, Wolcott
Balestier. 1t is the story of a young
man and a young woman from a boom
Ing" Colorado town, who go to India, he
In search Of a wonderful jeweled neck
lace, called "the Naulahka" from which
physician to women. The novel de-
scribes their remarkable adventures at
the court of an Indian maharajah. Be-
sides this, The Century will print three
other novels during the year, and a great
number of short stories by the best
American story-writers.
The we'll known humorist Edgar W.
Nye ("Bill Nye') is to write a series of
amusing sketches which he calls his Eau
tobiographies,' the first of which, "The
Autobiography of a Justice of the
Peace" is in November. This number
also contains a valuable and suggestive
article on "The Food-Supply of the Flu
ture," which every farmer should read,
10 be followed by a number of others of
great practical value to farmers; treating
especially of the relations of the govern
ment to the farmer, what it is doing and
what it should do. This series will in
clude contributions from officers of the
Department of Agriculture, and other
well-known men will discuss 1.-THE Far
mer's Discomfort" Incorporation" etc.
A celebrated Spanish writer is to fur
nish a Life of Columbus" which will be
brilliantly illustrated, and the publishers
of The Century have arranged with the
managers of the Worlds Fair to print
articles on the buildings, etc.
One Of the novels to appear in 1892
is a story of New York life by the au-
thor of "The Anglomaniacs," and the
magazine will contain a great deal about
the metropolis during the year among
other things a series of illustrated ar
ticles on 1.-THE Jews in New York" In
November is an illustrated description
of "The Players Club" founded by Ed
win Booth, and one of the features of
the splendidly illustrated Christmas
December) number is an article on "The
Bowery."
To get The Century send the yearly
subscription price Is OO) to The Century
Company, Union Square, New York, n.
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recruits whichhe has already bamboozied?
If SO does he want the editor of THE
GLOBE to go out with him and help him
still rob the farmer blind?
Is the Professional Farmer serious, and
does it really want to buy men, or is it
not true that LIEUTENANT Polk merely
desires to CONTROL another herd of legis-
lative asses such as joe daniels curried
at the last general assembly.
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