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PROMINENT PEOPLE. !;
He Emperor Of China has insomnia.

The Emperor Of China has insomnia.
ZoLA writes novel every nine months.
PRESIDENT HARRISON is fifty-eight years
old.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL left s47, 900 es-
tate.
EMPEROR WILLIAM is a bookbinder by
trade.
JUDGE GRESHAM passes his summers with
his mother.
GENERAL MILES is talking up parade
CT Indians for the Worlds Fair.
CAMEL raising is said to afford the King
OF Italy much pleasure and profit.
THE Duke of Cambridge, since the age o.
nineteen, has been in the Queens employ
ment.
EXPLORER STANLEY carried "BoswelPs
Life of johnson" with him into the heart Of
Africa.
The present Khedive Of Egypt has only
one wife, though allowed four by the law Of
the Prophet.
YOUNG PRINCE GEORGE, of Wales, is said
to be covered with tattooings Of mermaids
and dolphins.
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD is under contract to
lecture fifty times in this country, Begin
ming November in New York.
The great English preacher Spurgeon is
entirely selt-made man. His parents were
humble people of Dutch extraction
SENATOR VEST recently of Missouri, has
been wearing plain suit of homespun hemp
linen, gift to him from Senator Blackburn,
of Kentucky.
ONE of the German Kaiser's arms is so
perfectly withered and helpless that he has
60 eat with one hand, using combination
knife and fork.
DURING his last year in New York DR..
William A. Hammond is credited with hav-
ing made over $50, 900, probably the largest
medical income ever earned in America.
EX-SENATOR INGALLS,, of Kansas, has de-
cided to lecture this season and the Lyceum
which controls his engage ment, has already
filled almost every available date for him.
WHEN Patti sang in concert at Roches-
ter, n. Y, in IS43 she was advertised as
seven years of age; as that was forty-eight
years ago, the diva must now be in her fifty
fifth year.
FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE, the son of the
Brooklyn clergyman, has recently taken up
lecturing as profession. He is reported to
@ have fair share Of eloqpe;nSe' and many
are rightfully his own by virtue of inheri-
tance.
MRS. CRUGER CULLEN Gordon, is de-
scribed as ''the conventional wo nan OF high
society,"" She is a woman Of aristocratic
beauty, with languid manner and an op-
parent disposition to take life easily. New.
ertheless, she accomplishes great deal of
hard literary work in short time when the
spirit moves.
LIEUTENANT PEARY"s Arctic Expedition
seems to be doomed to meet with tsrmiua-
tion as unsatisfactory es that which all of its
predecessors have met. His vessel has re-
turned, he and his wife are left for the win
ter in that most desoiate and forlorn Of
places, Mccormick Bay, and to cap the cli-
max tine Lieutenant himself is laid up with
q broken leg.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, now in excel
lent health at the age of eighty-two, attrib-
utes his vigor to the care he takes Of him
self. The temperature of his sleeping and
dressing rooms he guards with great care,
and the Thermometer is also. scrupulously
employed before he gets into bath, Instead
of becoming q tyranny, this habit affords
him entertainment,
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A DANGEROUS Habit.

III can tell you, said promiaent ply
sician to q representative of the Ca9
yesterday, ''what is fruitful source Oh
disease"
"And what is it2" -.
ssIn riding in the street cars you ha7c
no doubt seen passengers, particularly
women, take piece of coin from q
pocket-book aud place it between the
lips while waiting tor the conductor to
come along. It is q habit formed by
many, and most dangerous one."
"Whya"
"Did you ever for moment think"
continued the physldian, ''where piece
of coin may have been before it comes
into your possession, to what use it may
have been put, or where its place of lodg-
ment was? have known of many in
stances in which coin has been r7ed to
close the eyes of leprous Cinnamon.
Then again there is a certain class OF
women who are superstitious and believe
that if they will place in their stocking
the first piece Of coin they receive IN the
day luck will follow them all day .'ug,
and how many are there who Garry
money in their boots or shoes and draw
it from there as necessity demandss Just
think of money that has beea used in the
manner l have described being placed
between the lips of any one-man or
woman. Money carries with it many
blessing, but it also carries many acursc,
for bright as 1t is it carries upon its face
the germ of many disease, which is
communicated to the people in the man
ner have described. ."-Saa Faaeisco
IOH
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Foreign.

THE Turkish Ministry was dismissed in
consequences of the Sultan's displeasure at
its inefficient measures for suppressln2
brigandage.
BR1GADIER-GENEHAL AUGUSTUS WILD,
formerly OF Brookline, Mass. has died In
Medellin, Colombia, South America, where
he was engaged in mining enterprises He
was sixty-six years old he 1ough1 III tne
Crimean and Civil Wars.
GRAVE troubles ere reported from
Ichang. on the Yang-Tse-Kiang in China.
The houses of the Europeans have been
burned to the ground by tue natives Inc
church and orphanage Of the Sisters have
also been destroyed.
SEVENTEEN people were killed by Cos.
sacks. in Russia, because they had attacked
officials sent to kill infected cattle.
TIE British .,a...; rIjl, bound from Ham-
h,;rr To Melbourne, has been wrecked OH tne
rocks off Warnambool, Australia. thirteen
of the crew were drowned.
Es,1i, TRnATEL, Of Berlin, Germany. who
lost severa. million marks in corn Specu!a-
tions IN 1881, and who recently ialiel &c.
$40 600, has committed suicide.
A WHOLE family of Paris, France num-
bering six members, eommitted SUICIDE on
recent day. The father and mother snowsa tsa
the way by hanging themselves, and the
Others. VINO were adult children, Initiated
their parents.
AnvfcEs have been received of the wreck
ing of a Grimsby smack in Iceland, and the
drowning of twelve Of her crew.
TIE transatlantic steamer City of New
YORK arrived at Queenstown, Ireland, from
New York, having crossed the >Sac LII
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A Terrible African Ant.

There are great many species OF ants
in Africa, some of which are found I'M
vast numbers. The most remarkable and
most dreaded of all Is the bashikouay,
and is most vcracious creature, which !,
carries nothing away, but eats its prey, on
the spot. ri
It is the dread of living animals Of the
forest-the elephant, the leopard, the
gorilla, and all the insect world--and !,
man himself is compelled to flee before
the advance of these marauders or to-
protect himself by fire aud boiling water.
It is the habit of the bashikouays
to march through the forest in q
long regular line, about two inches.
broad or more, and often miles in length.
AL. along the line larger ants, who act
as officers. stand outside the ranks and
keep the singular army in order. If they,
come to place where there are no trees
to shelter them from the sun, the heat Of
which they canno: bear, they immediately
burrow underground and form tunnels
It often takes more than twelve hours for
one of these armies to pass. s5Si
When they grow hungry, at o certain
command, which seems to take place all
along the line at the same time, the long
file spresds itself through the forest in q
front line and attacks and devours all it
overtakes with fury that is quite irresis-
tible. All the other living inhabitants
Of the forest flee before it.. Their advent
is known beforehand; the still forest be-i
comes alive with the tranpling of the
elephant, the flight of the antelope OF OF
the gazelle, of the leopard, of snakes, all
the living world, in the same direction
where the other animals are fleeing away.
Their manner OF attack is IN impetuous
leap. Instantly the strong pincers are
fastened, and they only let 60 when the
piece gives away. They even ascend to-
the top of the trees for their prey. This
ant seems to be animated by kind OF
furv. .-z. sf -
sometimes men condemned to death,
are made fast to a tree, aud If an army
OF hungry bashikouays passes, IN short
time only bare skeletons remain to tell
the tale.-NeU York AdoertiSer. $50.
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JULES GREVY.

The Venerable Ex-President of the
French Republic is Dead.
E1.President Jules Grevy, of the French
Republic. died few days days ago at Paris,
at the age of eighty-four.
His death removes another of the promi-
nent figures of French history that were
arrayed against monarchy and despotism,
and were instrumental in overthroWing the
Napoieonic dynasty and establishing the in-
fant French Republic on a firm and secure
footing. .
NJ. Grevy was Radical in politics and a
member Of the extreme left in the French
Chamber. After the fall Of Imperialism ~.
Grevy became President of the French AS
sembly, and filled that position again IN
1876.
He was twice electsd President Of the
French Republic, resignins from that office
in 1887, being forced to the step by the
famous Wilson cause celebre. He was an
able and impassioned orator and an ardent
admirer OF pure democratic constitutions.
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WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

MICHIGAN will construct its building Who'll.
" of Michigan material, and will send it to
Chicago in sections.
AMONG the exhibits from Southern Call.
fornia will be model constructed to illus.
trete irrigation. A committee has already
been chosen to prepare it.
SLAM has decided to make an exhibit at
Chicago, which shall'eclips the one it made
at the Paris exposition, where 1t carried of
the honors in the oriental section.
The first cotton gin, made by Eli Whitney,
will be exhibited at the Exposition By the
New Orleans Machinery Company, which
will also make an extensive exhibit OF cotton
gins, sugar mills and other machinery.
WELsHMEy will hold an eisteddfod in Chi.
cago at some time during the Exposition, a
dispensation permitting them to do so hav-
ing been granted by the National Associa-
tion, which met recently at Swansea, Wales.
TEE owner Of O brownstone quarry in
Wisconsin has offered to the State Commits.
sion for exhibition at the Fair, solid mon
olith, larger than Cleopatra's needle in New
York City. The obelisk, when completed,
will weigh 400 tons and be the largest mass
Of brownstone ever quarried.
TIE Texas Worlds Fair Exhibit Associa.
tion is pushing with great energy, the work
of collecting funds for the States represen-
tation at Chicago. The sum desired is $780,
900, and this has been assessed among the
245 counties as nearly as possible, according
to population, on basis Of fifteen cents per
capita.
A MAGNIFICENT microscope has just been
completed by the Munich Poeller Physical
and Optical Institute for the great Chicago
EXPOSITION, at cost Of s8750. It possesses
a magnifying power Of II, ,0N diameters. As
might be expected, electricity plays an i'm
portant part in the working OF this gigantic
instrument.
THE preparation of Colorado's exhibit Is
progressing energetically. Besides the min
erai, agricultural and educational exhibits,
the fora and fauna Of the State will be
shown in great completeness Already more
than 1000 specimens Of plants have been
pressed; nearly l0O varieties OF fruit have
been duplicated perfectly in wax, and more
than 1000 species of insects have been
mounted.
IT has been decided to have the Machinery
Annex an annex in fact instead Of being an
isolated structure as at first planned. The
annex will adjoin Machinery Hall on the
west. The entire structure will thus mea-
sure 500 by 400 feet and be second in size
only to the Manufacturers Building, the d.
mensions Of which are TS8 by 1858 feet. With
its galleries, the latter building will have
forty acres Of floor spacs.
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THIRTEEN ROBBERS KILLED
The Men Who Robbed the Express
Car in Texas Shot Down.

The Men Who koDDed the EApreSS
Car in Texas Shot Down.
The train robbers who were thought to
have escaped across the Rio Grande River
with sum said to be $4,000 that they Sc
cured from an express car on the Southern
Pacific Railroad, were met near Uvalde,
Texas, by body Of rangers who had been
in pursuit of them and battle took place.
From reports received, thirteen of the
robbers and two rangers were killed and
several on both sides were wounded. The
rangers followed what was thought to be the
course pursued by the robbers through the
mountain passes and although they had at
several times lost the trail, they gained on the
robbers. Next day they discovered unmis-
taxable evidence tnat the men they were
looking for were only few miles ahead OF
them and were headed towards Las Vegas
New Mexico. The pursuers after pushing
on a portion of the night were rewarded next
day by falling in with the outlaws.
The engagement between the two parties
was short, as the b,nditS were outnumbered.
They held the best position, however, and
stood their ground until the number OF their
dead and wounded was so great that further
resistance was impossible, and then the re-
mainder fed. 1t is said that only two men
escaped.
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five days twenty-five hours and fifty min,
utes. This run beats any previous record
from that port to Queenstown by seven min
utes.
THE Emperor Of Germany, upon his ar.
rival at Munich, Bavaria, from the scene OF
the Austrian army manosuvres, was ecslVeo
with the utmost enthusiasm and respect. As
the imperial train approached the city tens
of thousands Of voices greeted it with
cheers.
DURING performance of ''Lakme" at the
Opera Comique in Paris, France. the electric
lights suddenly went out and q panic en-
sued. Upon examination it was found that
the stage carpenter had become entangled
with the dynamo belts and had been torn
In shreds This is how the lights went
ont
CLARK F. CARR, United States Minister
to Denmark, has received notice Of the re-
moval Of the prohibition placed upon the I'M
portation of American pork into Denmark,
which prohibition has been enforced since
March, 1888.
The Presidential election in Honduras was
quietly conducted. Ponciano Lelba, the
nominee of the progressive party, was
elected.
GREAT gales swept over the Nova Scotla
coast, doing considerable damage.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

TOLEDO, Ohio, has Working Girls Un-
ion.
SWITZERLAND schools teach watchmak-
Ing.
CARR1AGE-MAKERs now have National
Union.
ToLEDo's Central Union has Legislature
Committee.
MASSACHUSETTS has tenement-house cloth
ing inspectors.
ANATIoNAL organization of bill posters
has been formed.
THERE are 5000 union brass moulders.
They get from $2 to 81 day.
A CHINESE hod carrier is working on the
Reading Terminal in Philadelphia.
PI1TsBURG's Hod Carriers Union has
1000 members, including 900 colored men.
NEW YORK furniture workers are winning
the minimum pay Of thirty-two cents per
hour.
The first shoemaker in this country was
Abraham Lowering, who came over in the
Mayhower.
In Germany the laboring people are CIV
ing up eating meat because they cen no
longer afford it.
ITALIAN workmen have been engaged un-
der an eighteen-months' contract to build the
Notifications Of Heligoland.
The nine hours day rule has gone into
effect at the Baltimore shipyards, with the
carpenters. jolners and calkers.
A COOPERATIVE home for single women is
to be started in Vienna, Austria. Each will
have a share in tho housekeeping.
LABOR unions, with a membership Of
. 10000, have joined in a movement in Eng
land for federation of skilled and unskilled
workmen.
In France little more than 100 years ago
it was impossible for anybody to work un-
less be Joined the union of his particular
trade and submitted to its rules
CHICAGO coopers, stone-cutters. wire
workers. willow and rattan workers, shoe.
makers, harnessmakers, marble cutters and
marble polishers are fighting convict labor.
For carrying marble blocks on their
heads from the quarries Italian women re-
ceive twenty-five cents per day, and now
some Of them have had the impudence to
strike for three cents more.
BARON STURM, one Of the largest employ
ers of labor in Germany, has decided to pay
higher wages to all his employees while ths
dearness Of food continues. and to increase
the pensions allowed to widows Of employees
and Others.
AN English contractor, charged with the
drainage works Of Potsdam, Germany, and
who employed several thousand men, stated
that he paid those who had been through the
army an average Of thirty per cent. more
than the ordinary laborer.
STATISTICS gathered by the New York
Bureau Of Labor show that in the past year
67,SC4 wage-earners were involved In strikes,
and as result they have gained in aggregate
s5,3s2, ,237.7 in wages. In the last five
years the gain in wages to those engaged in
strikes has been $4,000, 900, or over 81 per
week to each person.
MINE INSPECTOR LEWIS, of Hazleton,
Penn, has just issued his annual report.
The number of fatal accidents was afty-two.
making twenty-four widows and ffty-two
orphans. The number Of non-fatal accidents
was 1S4, being an increase Of six fatal and
eight non-fatal accidents. There were mined
during the year 2, III, 669 tons of coal, the
largest amount ever mined in the dis.
trict
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Padding a Kayak.

When Point.Bsrrow Eskimo is simply
travelling along and does not care to
make any great speed, he uses an ordi-
nary paddle with one blade, like those
used in umiak, but somewhat lighter.
As he has to sit in the very middle Of
the boat, he cannot use this as an Indian
would, wholly on one side, driving the
boat ahead with straight strokes and
overcoming the tendency Of the canoe to
60 off to one side by feathering his pad
die in the water or by an outward sweep
of the blade. First ne makes three or
four strokes, say, on the right side, aud
then, as the boat begins to sheer of to
the left, he lifts the paddle out Of the
water and makes three or four strokes on
the left side till she begins to sheer to-
the right, and so on. They do this
pretty skillfully, so that the boat makes
a tolerably straight "wake," and goes
through the water at pretty fair rate,
but. of course, can make no great speed.
When the time comes for hurry, out Is
drawn from under the deck the double
bladed paddle, such as we are all famil-
iar with from the writings of Captain
Ross and Captain Parry, DR.. Kane, aud
all the explorers who have visited the
Eskimos OF the eastern regions. This is
about six feet long aud has at each end
broad, oval blade, far more serviceable
than the narrow oar-blades of the east
ern kayak paddles. The man grasps
this by the middle and dips each blade
alternately, regulating the force OF his
strokes so that the canoe goes straight
through the water without veering to the
right or left. With the double paddle
the kayak can he made to fairly fly
through the water.-Popular Science
Morthy
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BLOWN TO ATOMS.
Tons OF Dynamite Explode. Killing
Sixteen Workmen.

Tons OF Dynamite Explode. Killing
Sixteen Workmen.
The dynamite factory of Farrinold & Co.,
near White Pigeon, Mich, exploded the
other day. 1t is estimated that there were
about twenty tons Of dynamite in the build
ing, which was three story bricS. Scarce
ly q vestige of it remains.
Sixteen workmeu, mostly Swedes and Nor
wegians were completely annihilated. Not
an atom Of them is to be found, and it is i'm
possible to learn their names, as the COM
pany's books are lost. As it was early none
Of the proprietors were in the building at the
time Of the explosion. The loss is estimated
at S35.OO0.
The conclusion in White Pigeon was aw-
full and citizens were badly frightened.
Goods in the stores were thrown from the
shelves, and the houses rocked to and fro.
The spire OF the German Lutheran Church
fell with a lond crash, and the walls
Of several buildings are cracked and dam
aged
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South and West.

The House resolution declaring the Gen.
eral Assembly powerless to abrogate the
convict lease was passed by the Tennessee
Senate.
HARMON MURRAY, noted desperate, was
killed near Archer Fla, by young colore1
man named Hardy Early.
The history of the galIows tells no more
hideous story than that of the execution of
Louis Bulling, the st. Joseph wife murderer,
at Savannah, Mo. Just before the time for
the execution the doomed man shot himself
in vain effort to commit suicide, and final
ly died on the gallows shrieklng for mercy
and cursing his executioners.
FRANK DANFoRTH, who cut his wife's
throat and threw her dead body into the
river on June 26 last, was hanged at Angus
ia, GA.
THREE men who were caught by cattlemen
in Custer County, Montana, changing brands
on cattle, were all hanged to the same
tree.
WILLIE SMITH, colored, who assaulted a
white lady at Lucknow Farm, Miss, was
captured and taken to the scene of his crime,
where he was fully identified by his victim.
A mob Of nearly five hundred men, mostly
colored, deliberated on his case aud after
ward hanged him.
fort, KY, fought, and both of them, with
third convict who tried to separate them.
were fatally injure'.
The most destructive storm ever known
there passed over Alliance, Ohio. Twelve
houses and barns were struck by lightning,
the loss aggregating $50 900. The electrical
display was bewildering in its intensity.
DR.. J. G.. CHM. ninety-four years old.
died at Lexington, KY. He was veteran OF
the War of 1912, an ex-Mayor Of Lexington
ami the Oldest physician in Kentucky.
Two murderers, Charley Large and Will
lam Dial, both colored, were executed in the
Jail yard at Lake Charles, La.
NINE. K1EFER, aeronaut, made balloon
ascension at Peoria, III. She dropped from
a height of 5000 feet, her parachute failed
to work properly, and she fell into lake.
She was fatally injured.
LABOR DAY was observed generally in all
cities OF the West by suspension OF bust ness
parades, and merrymakings st picnic resorts.
At Denver, COL. l., 600 men were in the pa
rade, which was reviewed by the Governor.
At Chicago over $4,000 men marched in
line. Throughout the West the day was
pleasant.
In the school election at Battle Creek,
Mich, two women candidates were elected
by the largest vote ever polled. Hundreds
of women turned out and took part in the
fight.
THE interstate soldiers reunion of Kansas,
Missouri, Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa
was held at Chelsea Park, Kansas City, Kan.
Two thousand colored people are waiting
at Guthrie, Oklahoma. the throwing open
for settlement of the Sac and Fox lands
GUsrAyE BERGHER and his wife, of Tope-
ka, KAN, quarreied over rent money and
Bersher shot his wife and killed her and then
blew out his brains. The couple had been
divorced but had remarked. Bergher was
q German Count.
MARY MUscHETTE, aged twenty, of Min
neapolis, Mimi, committed suicide at Wash
ington. She had just passed civil service
examination, and it is thought to have
driven her mad.
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FLAX STATISTICS.

The Amount OF Acreage in the West
ern States.
The Census Office has made public the fol-
lowing preliminary statistics Of the acreage
in fax and amount of haxseed produced in
ten Western States in the year ending June
/, 1890, the figures icing prepared under the
direction of Special Agent Hyde. in
charge of the Division of Agricul
turs: Idaho, S0O9 acres, So, 4O9 bushels;
Iowa, 17.T45 acres. 2,1!S,O3 bushels; Kan
sas, ia, U69 acres, 994 III bushels; Minnesota,
aO3, 7O7 acres, 2. 12l ,SS7 bushels; Missouri,
Sc, 400 acres, 40, ito bushels; Nebraska, 163,-
y0 acres, !, ,4Ul, lU4 bushels; North Dakota,
SO, PA acres, lG4, ,445 bushels; South Dakota,
:}}55i 3y4 acres, ISL, It's bushels; Washington,
4a7u acres. 4?..2U4 bushels; Wisconsin, G013
acres, u.s. 22T bushels.