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anchored halfway between Jersey City
and New York could therefore, BY this
decision, be raided by the police of both
cities, one-half at raid.
Mrs. MAY WRIGHT SEwELL, President
of the American Federation of Women's
clubs, Is at present at Paris, studying the
women's societies and organizations of
that city. She intends to profit by the
occasion of the Chicago Exhibition 10
summon an international congress of
women for the consideration of various
questions of peace, temperance, public
morality and, above all, the development
of womens rights.
THE population Of France is now 49,
095, ,150, while that of the United King
dom is 37,740,283 At the beginning of
the present century France had twenty
the British Isles. Every decade since
has diminished the distance between the
two nations, which are now running a
neck-and-neck race, with certainty that
before the next French census is taken
France will have fallen behind Great
Britain.
A GERMAN authority says that almost
third of all humanity-that is 400, ,0O0,-
000-speak the Chinese language. Then
the Hindu language is spoken by more
than 100,000,000. In the third place
stands the English, spoken by almost
100,000,000. Fourth, the Russian, with
89,000,0 while the German language
is spoken by 57,000000 tongues and the
Spanish by about 4S,O00,000. OF the
European languages the French is fifth
in place.
The base bah player has long been
immortalized in the public prints, but il
remained for Douglas Tilden, deaf
mute sculptor Of San Francisco, to i'm
mortalize him in bronze. Not long ago
he completed handsome statue, enti-
tied 1.-The Ball Thrower," and presented
Il to the city of San Francisco. The
figure is of life size, and is mounted
upon red granite base and Mentone
sandstone pedestal four feet high. The
site of the statue is south of the Garfield
monument in San Francisco's Park.
ADvIcEs received by the Bureau Of the
American Republics Indicate that great
impetus has been given to the use OF
sisal hemp for commercial purposes by
the adoption of recently invented
American machine which successfully
works out in good condition the fibre
from the plant. This is said to be the
first really successful fibre machine yet
produced. The machines previously in
pse in the Bahamas, San Domingo and
Yucatan have been of English make, and
as they cut the fibre, do not give salts
factory work. The new American ma
chine is manufactured in New Orleans;
it does not cut the fibre, but cuts out OF
the leaf all there is in il, showing the
same results as followed cutting the
leaves in the old way and cleaning them
by hand. One advantage of the new
machine is that when the fibre leaves it,
it is ready for market, except drying.
In Melbourne there is woman who
rejoices in the somewhat inharmonious
name of Fraulein Lepper. The good
fraulein has devoted herself to forlorn
hope-a crusade against tea. She ID
herself tea teetotaler, and she called re-
Gently meeting of lady abst6iners. In
q speech she said that she considered
that, in her opinion, next TO alcohol the
greatest master of human will and de-
stroyer of vitality is tea, and then she
went on TO say that tea belonged TO the
same class of drink as alcohol. She
affirmed that it acted like alcohol on the
nervous system, though manifesting it.
solf outwa-dly in an entirely different
way. Alcohol acts as stimulant, ac-
cording to Fraulein Lepper, while tee
acts as "a sedative. The former prevents
life by inducing excessive action. The
latter prevents life by destroying it. A
series of terrible experiments with theme
wound up the lecture, and the speake:
proved, TO her own satisfaction at least
that the Chinese herb is altogether per
nicious when taken into the human sys.
tom.
The pretended alchemist, Edward Pin.
ter, who now languishes in British Jail,
evidently had very little faith in the
common sense of his fellow-creatures.
His claim was that he could melt sover.
eigns in a crucible and treble the weight
of gold by the addition of a mysterious
black powder. 1t is supposed that this
powder was some preparation OF golo
mixed in oil which prevented it from
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gold into the crucible under cover of the
dead smoke and the horrible stencil which
the compound created. At oil events, he
contrived to put the gold into the cruel.
bic somehow or other, and on tho strength
of it got $4,000 from one man and
81, 800 from another. If he had been in
less hurry to become rich, he might have
made very comfortable living. He was
sharp enough to plead guilty when ar.
ranged in court, thus saving the cost and
trouble of prosecution. This was ono
reason, probably, why the judge let bin
off with sentence of three months i'm
prisonment, or perhaps the former
thought that in case of this kind the
knave did not deserve much more pun
ishment than the uncomfortable fools
who encouraged him.
AN interesting letter has been received
by the Postmaster-Gener describing
certain free delivery arrangements es
pecially adapted to farming communi-
ties. They illustrate the practical value
of the recent efforts to extend this branch
of the postal service, and they show, too,
delivery. A Northern family that has
always lived in sight of the post-office,
moved to North Carolina about fifteen
years ago and settled six and half miles
from railroad town and three miles
from post-office. Having obtained the
consent of the postmasters and mail car
riers on that particular route of thirteen
miles in length, this family and others