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An Astonishing Mistake.

One of the strangest incidents on
record occurred in q Connecticut Court
room on Thursday. A man was on trial
for his life. The jury came in with .
verdict, and when tho clerk asked the
foreman to render i: he responded
"Guilty." The prisoner, who was ex-
pecting different result, dropped from
his standing position as if shot. Another
juror pulled the foreman's coat, ejaculat-
ing: "Good God, mol" Upon which
the foreman, suddenly realizing his mis-.
take, shouted: "lIold on! mean mol
guilty." Then the case was set right,
but we doubt if human records furnish
parallel to q mistake so strange made
under circumstances so solemn. .--B2ston
Herald.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

CHNA's Emperor is twenty.
JEAN INGELow is sixty-three years of age
v1scouNr DUDLEY, Of England, is insured
for s6, ,000, 900.
LORD TENNYsoN, the Poet Laureate. is an
amateur dairyman.
GEORGE KEENAN,, the Siberian explorer.
is one of the best telegraph operators in the
country.
FANNY B. WARD is an adventurous Ameri.
can girl who has gone down to Chile in search
of writing material.
GEORGE W. DELAMATER, the defeated can
didate for Governor Of Pennsylvania, is now
practising law III Seattle, Washington.
The relatives of President Polk have be-
gun contest of the will of his widow, who
beoueathed Polk place to her niece, Mrs
Fall.
THE eo-Kipg and Queen Of Naples live on
She fourth floor Of Paris hotel, receiving no
one save few old adherents. They are
very poor.
THE Princess Kaiuolani who Is heir Of the
Hawaiian throne, is at pleasant unfashion-
able school in England where she is heing
well and thoroughly trained.
BANKER JOHN TwoHIG. of San Antonio,
Texas, by hiswill which has just been ad-
mitted to probate, leaves the bulk Of his for
tune, estimated at So, DOC, ,00O, to the Catholic
Church.
DR.. HAYES AGHEw, Of Philadelphia, and
DR.. Robert Reyburn. of Washington, are
the only two physicians surviving OF the no
table staff Of medical men who tried to save
Garfeld's life.
MRS. GEORGE GOULD is said to care moth
ing for society, but devotes her time to her
home and children. She does her own mar.
l. oE NF HoN Nlyo hnp inrs
household expenses, and altogether proves
herself to be model housewife.
W. r. HEARST, the San Francisco editor
whose yacht is making him more famous
than his newspaper, Is young man OF
twenty-five with an extremely English ap-
pearance, particularly as respects his
clothes His fortune, left him by his faith
er, is estimated at from $40, ,O00 0OO to $l5,.
0Oo, 900.
MoNs1eNoR PLAToN, Metropolitan Of
Kief, has just died at the age Of eighty-nine.
He was the head Of the Russian hierarchy,
and was only in subsection 10 the orders of
the Gar. His death occurred at the Lavra
monastry, Kief, celebrated as being the town
: In which Christianity first took its rise In
Russia.
OsMAN PAsHA, the hero Of Plevna, has
been located as sealer in the kitchen Of the
Sultan of Turkey. His peculiar business Is
to seal all the dishes for the Sultan's table
as soon as they are prepared, and thus secure
against poison. They are carried into the
royal dining room, and the seals broken
only in the Sultan's presence.
EVERYWHERE throughout England at all
the railway stations and at large number
OF other places will be seen Smiths News
Stands."' The proprietor was William b.
Smith, the leader Of the House of Commons
one OF the few examples in English political
life of a business man being able to attain
such eminent political success. Mr.. Smith
died worth Sl0,000.000.
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South and West.

THE ten colored men VINO were to have
been hanged at Columbia, s. c., few days
ago for the murder Of Thornton Nance, were
granted stay of proceedings.
OFFICERS of the Louisiana Lottery, in.
cluding General Beauregatd, President Con-
rad and Secretary Harner, were indicted BY
the Grand Jury in Sioux Falls, North
Dakota. United States marshals started for
New Orleans to arrest them.
JOHN MIENKE fatally shot Miss Sophia
Brock in st. Louis, Mo-, because she did not
encourage his wooipg. He then shot HIM
self in the head.
AT Lille Park, near Meeker, Col, two
large bodies Of Utes are camped IN the hills,
each of them numbering over one hundred
bucks, besides the squaws and numerous
children. They are wantonly slaughtering
the deer, and hundreds Of carcaSses are left
to rot on the ground. Further down the
divide and down to Blue Mountains at the
lower end Of the Rio Blanco country, bands
of Utes are busily engaged in the same pur-
suits.
The United States cruiser Boston put to
sea from the Brooklyn IN. ~ Navy Yard,
on her way to Chill.
THOMAS II. KELLY, cashier Of Richard
son, Williams 6, Co., wholesale dry goods
merchants of New Orleans, La.. has en-
bezzled $4,000.
By boiler explosion at Louisville, KY,
one man was killed, several persons were in
jured, and nearly half million dollars
worth OF property destroyed. The city
electric light plant and the big drygoods
store Of Kaufman & Strauss were burned.
SEVERAL miles from Queen City, Texas
Lee Green, mulatto, nineteen years old, snot
Mrs. Lowe, the wife Of prosperous farmer,
instantly killing her. He threw the body
into we'll He then threw the dead wo-
mans little girl. aged seven years, in, break
ing her thigh and killing her also. He then
took her little boy, aged four years, and
threw him in after che Others, out failed to
kill him.
A TERRIBLE cyclone swept over Conneaut,
Ohio destroying about thirty houses. Ths
total loss is about $l0O, OOG.
NINETEEN wor6men were killed by pre-
mature blast near Butte, Montana.
THE factory of the United States Mine
Supply Company at Cleveland, Ohio, was
completely destroyed by explosions followed
by fire. Three persons were KILLED and sew
eraI injured.
In the Iowa Reservation Of Oklahoma,
where the grass is very heavy, the damage
from prairie fire is great. The dlstrlct
burned is ten miles wide and fifty miles long:
! A number Of persons lost their horses and
wagons, escaping only on horseback. The
village Of Cimarron was completely wiped
out and many Of the inhabitants badly
burned.
FIVE persons were killed and number in
jured in a railroad wreck near Glenwood,
Mimi.
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RUSSIA'S DIRE FAMINE.
Relief Measures Taken by the Gov
ernment Rapidly Pushed.

Relief Measures Taken by the Gov.
eminent Rapidly Pushed.
The Russian Government is about to issue
IN order prohibiting the Hebrews from en-
tering into contracts to supply the Govern
ment with spirttuous liquors except for ex
port. A..
owing to the Government measures, the
winter sowing Of grain in the famine -strlck-
en- districts has been affected to such an ex-
tent that there has been but little diminution
in the former area.
In many of the provinces, it is added, sum
mer seeds have been bought with state
,oans and storehouses are to be established
in the distressed districts. so that tho peas-
ants can there buy corn at less than the
original price.
In addition, the cattle Of peasants are al,
lowed to pasture on the State lands, ana
finally the Government relief works Will be
greatly increased in numbr ana In capacity,
so as to give employment to as many OF tho
famine suffering people as possible.
Already the sum OF slT. 00O, 900 has been
expended in eighteen provinces upoo forest
labor alone.
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CHILL DEFIANT.
Refusing to Accept the Responsible.
ity for the Baltimore Outrage.

Refusing to Accept the Responsible
ity for the Baltimore Outrage.
A cablegran from Santiago, Chill, says:
The Chilian Government has replied to Min
lister Egan's demand for an explanation OF
the recent attack upon American sailors.
The reply is couched in strong language, and
it is understood that it amounts to a refusal
to accept responsibility for the affair. The
State Department at Washington has been
advised OF the reply. Minister Egan, Com
mander Schley and Consul McCreery are
consulting together, and it is thought that
decisive action will be taken soon. The
State Departments orders in reference to
the matter are strong.
The Intendente of Valparaiso has refused
to guarantee the safety Of market boats
coming to that city early in the morning
from the United States warship Baltimore,
or the safety of officers Of that vessel coming
ashore at night. There is practical boy
cott on the Baltimore. No American sailors
are allowed ashore.
Great excitement was caused by report
that tn. Chilisn Legation in Washington
had been attacked.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

1t is estimated that seventy thousand girls
are employed in the public houses and drink
ing bars o. the United Kingdom.
Out of 10, 361 inmates Of the chief prisons
in England, Scotland and Wales, 65I2 have
been in Sunday-schools, and in nearly every
case drink was the cause Of downfall.
The charity commissioners o. London have
framed new scheme for carrying on the
PEOPLES Palace, and in it there is a promise
That no intoxicating liquors shall be intro
Gucei," and there are to be free lectures Oh
temperance ami thrift"
DR.. J. Seudtner, after making minute
study of the effect Of beer. drinking on hearth,
concludes that the prevalence OF heart as
ease in certain quarters OF tue German eni.
pire is directly traceable to the large peer
consumption. Tuberculosis is iaia " 'no
same excess.
A vessel laden with S60 000 worth OF New
England rum left Boston recently 1or tne
Dark Continent. From Jnly l, loao' 70 sue
corresponding date in 1891 the export OF th's
nature from Boston to ports in Africa was
l.O1s. sol gallons, valued at Sl,S;3 S%. Du.
ring the last year this Jrate haS almost
doubled in quantity and value
Gereafter Chicago police officer found
drinking in a saloon while on duty VIII os
9iyen an opportunity to swinS a picAaN ana
Shovel instead OF club In othe" wor:is' he
viii be retired to private life, acc1rdin.; TO
Chief McClaugnry's orders. The cniet Is
ri-ht in maintaing that a policenans duty
does not consist in searching FOR laW-oreaA-
ers through the bottoms OF Deer glasses
wv. Blackburn, in the Independent, has
q strong article aSainss the army iitnL eamtesn,
saloon and from his description it must
franecsnd the Limits set it. for other bever-
ares aaTb besides "lignt beer" are sold and SOL
J;srs become grossly intoxicated. His fg-
ures @ show that to attend these canteens as a
tranforming them from defenders OF their
country into grog-shop keepers. ----- -.
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Washington.

Sc PENN, a Corean prince, employed in
the Agricultural Department at Washing
ton, was killed by train at College Sta
ton, Md, few nights ago.
PAYMAsrER-GENxRAL WILLIAM SMITH
has made his annal report to Secretary Proc.
tor. It shows that there was an increase OF
$733, 4S4 in the expenditure for pay OF vol.
uuteers which was largely due to the fact
that large number Of these claims were
allowed during tbs last fiscal year, but wers
not paid until this year.
ALL the real estate in Washington belong
ing to Pension Commissioner Raum has been
ordered to be sold by the District Court to
satisfy the Commissioners creditors. Judg-
ment for about S23, 900 in unpaid notes has
been obtained. The principal creditor is A.
L. Conger, Ohio member Of the National
Republican Committee
THE Rev. Richard Herbst, OF Columbus,
Ohio, appointed Consul to Antigua, West
Indies, by President Harrison, is the pastor
of the German Evan yelical Lutheran Second
Church. He is wealthy representative Of
the German American citizen.
DIR. Won HoLLEBEN, German Minister to
japan, has been appointed to succeed the
late Count Won Arco-Valley at Washing
ton.
itary reservation of Fort Marcy, at Santa
Fe. New Mexico, containing seventeen acres
OF land in the heart Of the city, aud the
reservation for Fort Cummings, iu Grant
County, containing twenty-four thousand
acres were turned over by the Department
Of the Interior, and the lauis in these
reservations will be disposed o. by public
sale shortly.
SECRETARY BLAINE returned to wash.
ington accompanied by Mrs. Blaine, Mrs.
Walter Damrosch, his daughter, and Louis
A. Dent, his private secretary. Mr.. Blaine
called on the President soon after his arri-
va.
SECRETARY TRACY has decided to name
cruiser No. 10, being built by the Columbia
Iron Works of Baltimore, the Detroit.
THE bids for ocean mail service under the
new law were opened by the postmaster
General There were twelve bids for eleven
different routes, on four of which service
will be established.
SECRETARY BLAINE resumed the discharge
OF his official duties as Secretary Of State.
He rose early. and soon after breakfast Went
over to the White House. Secretary Tracy
soon Joined him there, and together they had
a long consultation with the President.
THE President, having been ofnclally au'
vised of the marriage OF Queen Victoria's
granddaughter, Princess Louise. of Schles'
wic-Holstein, to Prince Aribert. of Anhalt,
has sent his congratulations to the Queen.
THE instructions 70 Minister ESan from
the State Department, directing him court
eously to demand repacation OF Chill, were
made public.
ACTING SECRETARY SPAuLDING appointe
| w. J, Thompson, Charles H. Shsbel j.
P. Brown and ". + Moxie, expert accounts
ants to assist in the examination Of the
affairs of the Keystone and Spring Garder
National Banks Of Philadelphia. They were
nominated by the Citizens Committee o.
! Fifty, which is also responsible for the pay
] ment of their salaries .....
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The Artificial Production Of Foods.

Chemists distinguish between garious
kinds of sugars. To one class belongs
cane. sugar, which is formed in the sugar
cane, sorghum, beet and maple, and
which we use at the table; to another
class belong the glucoses, of which tho
fruit-sugar that occurs in grapes and
other fruits, and the glucose which is
manufactured on a large scale from the
starch of corn, arc samples. Some time
since, Professor Fischer Of Wurzbufg,
Germany, succeeded in the synthssis ots
several sugars closely allied to fru!t-
sugar. The news has just como that he
has found way to transform glucose
into sugar of the type Of Icsne.sugar.
We have long known how TO convert
starch and cane-sugar to glucose the
process is one of changing more COM
plex compound to simpler one. But
the possibility of reversing the process
was long doubted. Yet just this Is what
Professor Fischer has now accomplished.
Still more remarkable, I was going To-
say--but the time for calling such things
remarkable seems to be past-is the ac-1
count which has come to hand within a
few days of the preparation of an albn-
minoid compound by synthesis. How
carbohydrates and fats may be prepared
artifcially we have come to understand.
But the albumlnoid compounds contain
more chemical elements and are far more
complex; they are indeed the highly
organized material Of vegetable and ami.
NAL life. That these substances could
be made in the laboratory has been hard
to believe. Yet Professor Schutzenbergera
of Paris has just reported to the French
Academy of Science the synthesis Of g. e.
compound similar to the peptone INTO. 9.
which the albaminoids OF our food, ara
transformed in the process Of Digestion,
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WRECKS OF THE GALE.
Value OF the Derelicts Adrift on the
Atlantic $1,000, 900.

Careful calculations just made Of the value
Of the derelicts adrift as the result Of the
great gale a few days ago placed 1t at
g. 100000. A large part Of these were
thought to be in the vicinity Of the Delaware
capes, where the storm seems to have been
most severe. A feet Of tugs will 60 on
searching cruise Many Of the derelicts are
thought to be in good condition and their
salvage will be large
Among the more valuable Of the aban-
doned craft drifting along the coast are tho
schooner B. Y. Burt Of Taunton. Mass,
lumber ladere schooner E. T. Cottingham.
general cargo; Fannie e. Wolston, Bath.
Me-, lumber laden: bark John E. Chase, of
New York; steamer Deconshire and
schooner Tamos. The Spanish schooner
Alianza reports passing an American
schooner and a British brigantine, both dere.
licts close together within few hundred
miles Of Philadelphia.
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A NEW CRUISER.
The Launching of the Detroit Wit
messed by a Great Crowd.

The Launching of the Detroit Wit
messed by a Great Crowd.
The United States steel cruiser No. 10 was
launched from the ways Of the Columbian
Iron Works and Dry Dock Company at
Baltimore, Nd, a few afternoons ago. In
pursuance of the order of the Secretary Of
the Navy, the boat was christened Detroit,
by Miss Florence n. Malster, the four-and-a.
half-year-old daugher Of William T Mails
ter, President of the company which is build
ing the cruiser.
The ceremony was witnessed by 5000 per-
sons. Fluttering aloft from the cruisers
temporary masts was rainbow of colored
bunting, decorating the cruiser from stem
to sternpost. Nearly all the tugs in the har-
Dor were gathered in the vicinity with hags
flying as welcome to the latest addition to
Uncle Sans Navy.
At $40 there was q tremendous roar OF
voices as the graceful hull began TO move.
slowly at first, and then more rapidly, until
She floated in the waters of the Patapsco as
gracefully as O swan. At the instant Of her
moving the mighty shout, There she
goes" was echoed from all parts Of the water
front. The spar deck o. the cruiser was
alive with men and a few women.
Captain Wagner, master rigger, stood on the
forecastle deck. and brought the craft to
her first slip by droppiu. the 'snuboins"
anchor from her port bow. The christening
was done from gayly decorated stand
under the bow, and there little Miss Malster,
with her bottle Of champagne, stood, sur
rounded by her proud father and Others. The
uproar welcoming the newcomer into the
water was desfening.
Among those who witnessed the launch
was Commander Willard q. Brownson, who
will command her when she goes into COM
mission.
and is one Of three ships OF the same dimen-
sions authorized by an act of Congress in
1889. The other two are No. 9, building at
the Columbian Iron Works, and No. IL
building at Boston. The Detroits keel was
laid on March 16, 1890, and her cost is to be
$6l2,50O, exclusive Of armament. She is 257
feet long on the load water line, has an e1-
treme breadth of thirty-seven feet with q
mean normal draught Of ~ feet. Her
engines are designed to give her speed OF
eighteen knots.
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TEMPERANCE.

TRUTH AS ToAsT-MAsTER.
Fast flows the wine and faster,
IN banquet hall tonight:
And Truth sits as toast-master,
To give the toasts Alright.
'tDrink-to q listless morrow!
Drink-to will that lags!
Drink-to remose and sorrow!
And poverty in rags!
"Here's to the nerves that auiverl
Here's to the mauiac's cries,
To suicides black river!
And misery's haggard eyes!
"Drink-Deeds most foul and crueli
And shame that shrinks aside!
Fine honor's tarnished jewel!
And wounds Of murder wide!
"Here's that our children languish.
Here's doom to unknown lives!
Here's to mothers anguish!
And broken hearts of wives!
'Drink to the souls disaster,
And everlasting blight"
Thus Truth, the grim toast-master,
Who gives the toasts Alright.
The Voice.
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Where Cast Iron Beats Wrought.

1t has been foIu,' by experiment that
as regards che:nica, composition the sus-
ceptibility of iron to become brittle by
pickling and rusting is least in cast iron
and silicon steel ard highest in wrought
iron and, according to B:decker, III
high carbon steel. Combined carbon
appears to increase the action ane silicon
to diminish it. The ilfiusuce o: Manga.
nese in either direction has not y. bcea
deterained.-Chacag0 Esns. :.
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Foreign.

In the rebellion in Paraguay which was
suppressed the revolutionary leaders and ten
of their men were killed AMI two Govern
ment colonies aud six soldiers were also
killed.
MUCH damage has been caused by floods
in Spain and France.
WILLIAM L. JACKSON succeeds Mr.. Bal
four as Chief Secretary for Ireland. MIR.
Gladstone has revised his Home Rule bill.
ME1R1NGEN, in the Canton of Berne:
Switzerland, has been almost entirely wiped
out of existence by fire.
JOHN CUMMINGS, a farmer living near
Penatanghshene, Canada, left his wife ana
three children locked up in his dwelling
while he attended to some chores. During
his absence the house was destroyed by fire,
the three children burned to death and his
wife fatally burned.
EIGHT THOUSAND miners in Staffor ishire
and Worcestershire, England, struck against
a ten per cent. re iuction in wages, and the
engineers along the Tyne aud the Wear also
decided to strike for pay for overtime, thus
throwing 10000 outof work.
ELEVEN persons were killed and twenty.
five seriously wounded in q railroad wreck
near Moiraus, France. Eight carriages
were derailed and plunged over an enoank-
ment.
OWING to the undermining of buildings
by the floods at Lemou1, France, number
Of buildings collapsed and twenty persons
were killed.
THERE was vigorous fighting in the streets
of Cork, Ireland, between the Parnellltes
and the McCarthyitss.
Hon. J. A. CHAPLEAU, Canadian Secre-
tary Of State, has resigned and precipitated
a crisis. Chapleau demands the promotion
of the portfolio of Railways and Canals as
condition of remaining in the Cabinet.
THE transatlantic steamer Teutonic on
her eastern trip from New York to Liver
pool has beaten all previous records; Inc
exact time was five days. twenty-one hours
three minutes
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1901 s6,640. 900
sIncluding cost of pier.

sIncluding cost Of pier.
The last three are being erected, the first
two by the United States Government, and
the third by the State Of Illinois. The visi-
among the great Exposition structures. It
has been decided that the annexes to the Fine
Arts Palace shall be larger than indicated
above, but the changes in the plans are not
yet made. 1t is now believed that owing to
the great demands for space, more anneGes
than are named above will be found neces-
sary. All Of these anne1es will be scarcely
less imposing and archltecturauy beautiful
than the main buildings themselves. The
livestock sheds, which will cover an i'm
mense area as indicated, are to be con-
stFucted as inexpensively as possible without
marring the general architectural effect.
There will be several Exposition buildings in
addition to those named, but the plans for
for them are not yet completed. Among
them will be Music building and Press
building. The total cost Of the Exposition
structures is estimated by the Grounds and
Buildings Committee at s., 295, QUO.
ltcannot be stated yet how many State
buildings and buildings Of foreign nations
there Will be in Jackson Park, but it is safe
10 say that the whole number will be fully
seventy-fve. These, particularly those. of
foreign nations, will show great diversity
Of architecture.
Special features, such as the "Street in
Cairo" Bazaar of All Nations" "Steet in
Consrantinople," etc, will be located on Mid
way Plaisance. This is strip Of land more
than mile long, embracing eighty acres and
connecting jackson Park with Washington
PARK. The boulevard traverslng its center
uill be lined on both sides with these special
features.
The Exposition Company has very large
expenditures to meet in addition to the cost
Of the buildings In fact the latter does not
constitute one-half Of the total amount nee
essary to carry through the Exposition en-
terprlse. In a recent report made by the
Grounas ana Buildings Committee, the fol-
lowing estimates OF such expenses were