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THE woMEN's BUILDING.

flowers and shrubbery. How many OF
them there will be cannot be static
yet, but il is certain that they will be
numerous and will vary greatly in size
and style of architecture They will be
ranged on wide, curving avenues, will
include some Of the most ornate. costly
and palatial structures, and constitute,
perhaps. the most interesting portion of
the Exposition. In the western part of
the group will stand the Illinois building,
400x150 in size, and costing S35O,OOO. 1t
will be severely classic in style, with
dome in the center and porch facing
southwark. In this portion of the park,
too, will stand the Fine Arts building,
which is to be q magnificent palace cost
ing half million. Just south OF the
foreign and State buildings may be OBJ
served a considerable expanse of the la
COON, with inlet to the lake, and en-
composing three islands. On the largest
one will stand the L. s. fisheries build
ing. 700 feet in lengthand tianked at each
end by curved arcade connecting 1t
with two round pavllions in which will
be the aquaria and the tackle exhibit
A little further south, across an area
of the lagoon, will be the United States
Government building, measuring 350x l20
feet and having dome l20 feet in dame
ter ana $50 feet high. On the lake
shore east of its building and in part in
the intervening space, the Government
will have gun battery, life-saying sta
tion complete with apparatus, a light
house, war balloons, and a full-siZe
model OF $1,000, 600 battlcship Of the
first class. This will be constructed on
pling alongside pier, being thus sur
rounded by water and apparently moorel
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lers that will be exhibited at the EXposi-
ton will be the "sliding railway" TO be
constructed by the Socete de Chcmins
dc Fer G.isSants, of Paris. This rail-
way was exhibited at the Paris Expo IL
tion, and is pronounced by Chauncey
Depew the greatest wonder OF the age
NJ. Barre. the inventor, is now construct
ing one three miles long in London, and
will arrive il Clicago this spring 10 make
arrangements for the erection Of one two
miles long on the Exposition grounds
The cars are provide with sli1cj which
move in iron grooves, but are he'd above
the iroa by hydraulic pressure, so as to
practically annihilate friction. They are
also propelled by hydraulic pressure, aad
easi y attain u speed of 200 miles an
hour.
There have been during the week the
usual indications o. increasing interest
In the Exposition in foreign countries,
espec ally on the American continent
The Governor General of Cuba, not con-
tent with organizing a commission OF the
most prominent citizens of Havana To
look after the Cuban exhibit has now
ordered that similar commission be or
gained in every province OF the island,
under the guidance OF the Presidents of
the respective pro }incial populations.
News has been received also that the
President OF San Salvador has accepted
the inv itat on to participate in the EX-
position. and will soon appoint a com
missioner, and that San Salvador will
erect its own building at Chicago. The
Jamaica newspapers are advocating a
Jamaica exhibit. Mexico has tele-
graphcd for space for Mexican build
ing. Japan also has formally accepted
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Congressman, two Governors, two
United States Ministers to foreign
governments, aud two distinguished
soldiers. The father of the new Mayor,
whose history is closely identified with
that of the State of Illinois, was born
in Maine in 1916 having come of O
progenitor who fought through the
Revolutionary war from Lexington to
Ticonderoga.
Hampstead Washburne has already
shown himself possessed of many of the
qualities for which his father was
known. Like him, he is an uncompro-
missing Republican and believes in the
principles of that party with all his
soul. He is a native of Illinois, but
was educated at the home of his ances-
tors in Maine, and attended the
same school at Kent's Hill in
which his father prepared him
self for college. Graduating there
in 1871 he Immediately joined his father
in Paris, where he witnessed many of
the stirring scenes which preceded the
formation of the French republic. He
then entered the celebrated University
of Bonn, in Germany Here he stud
led two years, and then returned to
America to finish his education at the
University of Wisconsin at Madison.
He graduated in 1874 and went to Chi
cago, being the first of his family to
select that city as his home. Entering
the Union College of Law and being
duly admitted to the bar, he began the
practice of his profession there. anG was
appointed master in chancery by Judge
Elliot Anthony in 1876. He served in
this capacity until 1885, when he was
elected city attorney by the Republi.
cans, who re-elt cted him to a second
term. He was a faithful servant, and
n Just prosecutor.
The young Republicans of the Fourth
Congressional district sought TO make
him their candidate for seat in the
national legislature in 1888. but when
Congressman Adams became the prefer
ence of that body of his party, he
turned all his energies to the support
of the successful man. 1t was his first
defeat. but it did not change his fealty
and allegiance as Republican, pure
and simple.
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EewilderIng figures.

Snyder, the calculating barber of
SAMSON street, figured again yester-
day. "I'have little mole on my chin.
said he. "from which III zee hairs sprout.
As 1 told you the other day, 1 talk on
IN average 200 words minute to GUS
toners. Every time i open my mouth
1 figure that the hairs on that mole
travel one inch. In one day they
tarvel 144, 600 inches; aud in one year
52,56O, 900 inches. have been shaw
ing for ten years. that brings the total
up to S,279 miles. Now, If every one
Of the 1900 BARRIERS ia Philadelphia
had a mole and three hairs on his chin,
and il they all talked as muchas have
during the past ten years, the COM
bined distance would be 26,492, 800
miles, or enough to girdle the earth
/ 1,05y times Does the razor hunt ?"-
PHILADELPHIA Record.
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cHIcAoo.s NEW MAYOR.

Hampstead washburne Represen ative
of Distinguished servitors OF the Peo-
pie.
The most hotly contested Mayor.
atty fight that the city of Chicago ever
experienced ended in the election of
Hampstead Washburne, Republican.
Hampstead Washburne comes OF q
distinguished family, whose American
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CHILDREN's COLUMN.
A DEPARTMENT FOR LITTLE
BOYS AND GIRLS.
Something that Will Interest tho Juven-
lie Members OF Every Household -
Quaint Actions and right Sayings OF
Cute Children.
Tricks for Home Use.

Balance card on the tip of your
fore-fnger, and on top OF it place a
nickel. Hit the edge of the card a
sharp horizontal blow with some object
like pencil, or snap it with your fin
ger. if you can do it directly forward
without tending to drive the card mp
or down, and the card will fly away,
leaving the coin balanced on the end of
your finger
Then try the coin aud goblet trick.
Support common drinking glass up
side down on two silver dollars, or a
table covered with cloth. Place half
dollar within and ask the company to
remove it without touching or disturb
ing the goblet. This may be done by
scratching the cloth near the glass.
A deceptive experiment is to put
coins in water. Fill a drinking glass
tr the brim with water, and then ask
t'e company how many coins can be
d opped into it without spilling it over.
The guesses will be all too small, for
surprising number can be put in if it
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Tots Adopted Family.

Tot came to me one morning with a
puzzled and inquiring look in her
large, beautiful brown eyes. What
would you do with him?" she seemed
TO say. "He worries me more than all
the others put together"
Tot was q small, cream -colored Es-
kimo dog, and it was one of her adopt
ed children, turtle. that was Just
then causing her motherly heart 20
much anxiety. After thus questioning
me with her expressive eyes, bright
idea seemed to strike her. She ran to
her closet and separated the trouble
some turtle from the other members of
her rather singular family, pushing
him with her nose into q corner of the
room. Then she brought some pieces
of muslin, and covered him over so
that not bit of him could be seen.
"Therc, now, 1 think he will sleep and
give me time to attend TO my other
children" was her apparent comment.
Tot was in the habit of adopting all
the motherless strays she came across.
At the time of which write. we had
two little ducks that had been left
orphans. Tot heard them complaining
one day. 1t seemed to make her very
miserable. At last she could bear it
no longer; so downstairs she went,
and. to my utter astonishment, re-
turned with one of the ducklings, safe
and sound in her mouth, depositing it
in the box with her three puppies. In
the course of the day she succeeded in
bringing the other little fellow up
stairs and placing him with his brother.
The ducks seemed quite happy with
their adopted mother, ard, when older,
followed her everywhere, running after
Der. and screaming if she got too far
ahead of them. A singular thing it
was that Tot and her own children
never injured these feathered found
hngs. But 1 am sorry to say Tet
never loved the turtle, always coyerins
mp tho ungainly little creature when
ever It ventured to put out its head OF
be sociable with the rest Of the family.
--SL Nicholas.
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A sermon in Five Limos.

at takes so little to make a child
happy that it is pity in world full
of sunshine and pleasant things that
there should be any wistful faces.
empty hands, or lonely young hearts.
/ found these words in an old news
paper the other day. They were headed ::
"A Sermon in Five Lines" aud they
came home to me with all the force of
personal appeal.
1T takes so little to make a child
happy" How many times l have seen
the most trivial incident lift my own
little boy into the very ecstasy of hap
piness. Fow often would some simple
gift or q song or a story chase the tears
from his eyes and bring smiles to his
face! And yet, l thought with pang
of regret, how many times l had
chided him needlessly; how many
times 1 had refused to exert myself at
all for his sake; That very night he
had gone to bed with heavy heart be-
cause would not romp with him. L
was too tired, said. / stepped into
they bows room before 1 went to bed
that night, aud passing my hand over
his haxen hair 1 resolved that in the
future 1 would be a better father to
him.
"It is q pity that there should be any
wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely
young hearts" thought as / dropped
asleep. l remember that later in the
night / was dreaming OF whiting a
great factory and inspecting the ma
chinery. Morris Waite.
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Midway lIa'sance will stand tho
Womcn's Il ldlng, which. IL Is expect
ed, will be one OF the chief objects OF
interest on the grounds. II Is TO be
400x2O) feet In dimensions. two stories
high, and will cost $500, 600 1t will be
built from designs prepared by Miss
Sophia G. Hayden, OF Boston. A prize
competition for designs was invited,
and Miss Hayden carried off the first
prize OF $1,000. Hero the lady managers
will have their headquarters, and here
will be collected doubtless wonderful
exhibit illustrating the progress and at.
tainments OF women In the various
branches OF industry.
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IRELAND has again been visited by a
most alarming failure of the potato
crop, and it is feared that there will be
n famine of almo It as great proportions
as that terrible one of 1917, during
which many died of actual starvation.
Science has found reasonably sue
cessful preventive for potato rot (Pero-
nospora infeStanS), just as she has for
grape rot iPeronos. ora u'ticola). This
potato failure in Ireland might have
been almost entirely averted had the
farmers sprayed the leaves and stems
of the young plans seve al times, az
intervals Of n few days -oftener in
showery weather-with the following
solution: Six pounds copper sulphate
(blue vitriol) dissolved in ten gallons
of water. to which six pounds of slaked
lime is added.
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johnny and the Cherry.

The way in which children put
things is often very droll f.om the as
sociation of ideas which it shows must
exist in their minds. says the Boston
Courier. They have so much to learn
that it is no wonder that it takes them
q good while to separate their ideas so
as to keep things from being jumbled
up in their thoughts and in their
speech.
In San Francisco kindergarten one
day the teacher distributed little
basket of cherries which had been sent
in by friend, and so many were the
children that there proved to be but
one cherry for each child. It is the
rule that when there is any treat of
this sort the children shall wait until
all are served, and not begin to eat un-
til all are ready. On this occasion,
however, one small boy positively
could not restrain his eagerness, and
the teacher saw him nibbling at the
dainty before the word was given
"Johnny," she said pleasantly, Il am
afraid you have eaten your cherry"
He opened a little grimy fist dis
closing the stem and stone of the de-
parted fruit.
ayes, NM" he answered cheerfully; I;
"Tve eaten all but the bone aud the
tail
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the invitation, and bill appropriating
500, 900 Japanese dollars for Japanese
exhibit has passed the lower house OF
Parliament.
The first sightseeing which visitors TO
Chicago In 1893 will do will be, OF course,
OF the city itscf-of its great wide,
busy thoroughfarcs and its magnificent
buildings, ten, fourteen, and even eigh-
teen and twenty stories high. To see
this great throbbing commercial heart
OF America, this marve Gus young giant
Crawford avalanche., 1891-04-23

Two cHESIsTs are experime enting Mt
Freeport, Pa, with view OF produc-
ing carbon points for electric lighting
from natural ga. 1t is said that by
burning the gas in a specially prepared
furnace pure cal boa is obtained, but as
yet at cost too great for practical pur-
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at wharf. The "shlp" will be built Of
brick and coated with cement lt will
be 34s feet long. 90 feet wide am 'dships,
and will have all the fittings and APP
paratus that belong to the most APP
proved war vessel such as guns. turrets,
torpedo tubes, torpedo nets and booms,
boats. anchors, military mast, etc, and
a full complement OF seamen and ma
rines detailed from the Navy Depart
ment.
Directly opposite the park entrance Of
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The London Electric Supply Cor
poration has finally succeeded in trans
mitting a 10,000-volt current. Ac-
cording to the statement of the direct
ors, this current of unprecedented
-'---o.i' --'H" cont from the co1pany's s
generating station at Depford to the
Grosvenor substation. Hitherto the
highest tension attained was $500
volts.
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The effort to employ good-looking
young women as bill collectors has not
turned out very profitable for the New
York merchants who paid them. After
q fortnight's experience, three of the
women became engaged to men whom
they tried to dun, two of them married.
and few of the others sympathized so
deeply with the debtors that thev re-
ceive some of them as desirable ac-
Quaintances.
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You've men in Mexico, when paving
attentions to the young ladies, can do
so at very little expense. They are
quite eager to invite them to theaters,
parties, etc. And no wonder; for it is
the custom in that country for the
lady's father to pay for the tickets,
furnish the carriage, etc.
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A coRoNER's jury in Vermont was
given three days in which to reach
a verdict on a boiler explosion,
aad they finally decided; "Bill Ste
vens was a pretty careful man, but we
find that he let the water in his boiler
get too low while paying game of
90 H.
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A CALCULATING genius has arrived
at the fact that every time COW moves
her tail to switch a fly she exerts a
force of three pounds, and that in the
course of the summer a single COW
wastes 100000 pounds of energy.
Hence the conclusion that the COWS of
America throw away power enough to
move every piece of machinery in the
world
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"GIvE u.s." loudly and emphatically
exclaims the New York Mail and Err
press. "more water and less beer!"
The Colonel knows what he wants aud
is not afraid to say so. Some persons
would have kept on ordering been
rather than have any fuss about it.
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history begins with John Washburne.
who was the first secretary of the
Council of Plymouth. The name has
figured in many of the great events in
our national history from this pilgrim
father down. The great record of
Elihu b. Washburne, of whom the
Just elected Mayor of the great city of
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DETROIT was for several years noted
Us having the most igid milk inspect
ors of any city in the land, aud. con
sequently, OF having the pnrest and
best milk. 1t was such good milk that
successful efforts were made to get rid
of the inspectors.
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Ok only one occasion, and that prob
ably as an experiment. Northern Min
nesota showed A degrees below zero.
Horses froze to death under two
blankets. and deer were found frozen
stiff in the forest. Three days of it
would have paralyzed whole counties.
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Chicago is the son, is the common
property of his countrymen.
There were seven brothers of this
distinguished family, Israel, Jr., AL
gernon Sydney, Elihu b., Cadwalader
c., Samuel b., Charles E., and Will
liam D.. all now dead except the last
named, who represents Minnesota in
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the Senate of the United States. At
one time three of the brothers were in
Congress at the same time, Israel. Jr.,
from Maine, Cadwalader G. from Wis
consin, and Elihu B. from Illinois.
Among the WasEburnes were four
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rake Him Right By.

Bulfnch--I want very much to call
on You. Miss Smilax; wish you'd tell
me how to get out 10 your house.
Miss Smilax-Well, you better take
Chestnut Hill car; that will take
yoa right by.
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"DEAR wife," said Sam Jones, in q
dispatch to his wife the other day, II
licked the Mayor of Palestine, Tex,
this morning; will preach in Taylor
tonight"
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JOHN JACOB AsToR and his bride
rode in freighs caboose from West
Point, Va, into Richmond, in order to
escape the unpleasant attention of the
gapping crowd and the reporters.
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D0INGS.
UNINTERRUPTED PROGRESS OF
THE WORK.

Plan OF the Exposition Grounds 'howing
the Location OF the Different Depart
ments aud Exhiblts-sone or the At
tractions-The Naval Exhibit, Women's
Huiidinx, Etc.
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ricws of the park and buildings as III y
will appear In 1893, one locking from
the north and one from the south. Mr.
Burnhqm said that the prevailing coos
of the b iildings would be whit, OF an
ivory tone. richly diversified with other
cOlors The drawings and the eXplana-
tion completely captivatcd the COM
mission.
The Massachusetts Legis ature Is the
first in the county to send com mittec
to Chicago 10 look after the interests of
State exhibit. This committee con-
sists OF Senator James Donovan, and
Representa- YES Charles II Boodv, Louis
L T.. Moreau, Myron Il. Ferlin, and
Halle r Luther They Thoroughly
posted themselves in everything per.
taining to the EXposit on, and expressed
themselves as both delighted and sur
Trised at what they saw and learned.
Abraham Moukad, an intellif ent
young Syrian, born at and still resi-
dclt OF Damascus has applied TO the
Ways and Means Committee for fac,li-
Grcs' nuGrtn1 ~-syIIun o.vntDtu. no
proposes to have four natives weaving
an embroidery, four making Syran mu.
sic, and four selling coffee, made and
served in Syrian ia ,hion. Its greatest
attraction, however, will be reproduc.
tion of the Christian antiquities of Da-
mascus, including a part of the "street
called straight" the house of Cornelius.
in which the Apostle Paul was convert
ed, and the part OF the city wall from
which he was let down in basket
Undoubtedly one of the greatest won
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DAKOTA has a 1.50O-foot well, six
inches in diameter, and throwing 1000
gallons of water minute. There are
in that region wells 1000 feet deep.
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SENATOR PETER wants 500, 900, 600
new Treasury notes of the denomina-
tion of 81 issued. The Senator has
doubtless been doing business with
the sleeping-car porter since his cleo
Crawford avalanche., 1891-04-23

SEAwEED is now made into tough
paper, which takes the place of window
glass. When colored the effect is
similar to stained or painted glass.
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ASK the average man what time it is,
and he will look at his watch and say,
There is the time by which the sun is
regulated"
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BY the late Duke of Bedford's will
not only his body was cremated. but
several boxes of personal clothing, To-
sides boots, slippers, AID several walk
ing sticks and umbi elias.
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NINETEEN children ha blessed the
matrimonial life of Mr.. aud Mrs.
Beeler, of Brooklyn, KY, and they are
all alive but one. The parents are un-
der fifty-fve years of age.
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, The atmosphere of London is said
to be gradually becoming more and
more harmful to plant life, and it is at
tributed in la'ge measure to the
thick fops
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JUST above Vienna, on the Danube,
is the convent and school of Melk,
which has just celebrated its one
thousandth anniversary.
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Pooh old Philadelphia has just
awakened TO the fact that the Con-
gressional appropriation for her new
mint was lost 10 the final shuttle. She
should engage some one to keep run
ming q pin into her.
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IL the new discovery for photography
in natural colors, when the prints are
viewed by transmitted instead of re.
fected light, each color is re. laced
by its complementary oae.
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~THIs," said the poor victim OF
strong drink, as he looked about him
at the Inebriates' Home, as the house
that jag built"
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MRS. PARSONS uses the very same
speech that her husband did, but no
attention is paid to her utterances.
This, perhaps, is disappointment to
her, but if she continues to travel
around the country and endeavors to
kick up disturbances. it may be that
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WEsTvILLE, Ind, has a COW which
quenches her thirst at the village
pump, tossing the handle of the pump
with her horns until sufficient water
flows for her needs.
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NEARLY $500 persons commit sui
eide in Russia every year; the violent
deaths of all kinds annually reach 49,
600; while 5000 die of typhus fever,
the most destructive disease in the
aOnntrv
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The average sinner il so occupied
hiding his big vices that he does not
fcaIIZe rnaI Tie wurIu Is IauSuIuS
his little ones.
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A PATENT has been taken out in
France for an electric furnace for the
rapid incineratiol of human bsing,"
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MORE land is ownel bv railroad
companies (211,00D,00J acres) than
would make six States as largo as
Iowa. Since 1861 no less than 49,
coo, 900 acres OF land have been given
TO railroad companies.
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Lastly year 4, ,559 books were published
in this country; and nearly one-quarter
of them u, ,118) were works Of fiction.
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LEAD in the United States amounted
in 1890 to 1877, 900 tons of 1900 pounds,
or little less than la 1880.
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Mr.. PETRoFF, who had charge OF
the census Of Alaska. estimates the
population OF the Territory at from 3d.
600 to $4,000. OF this number one
seventh are white.
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The chimney of stove in Paris re-
fuses to draw; smoke fills the stove;
workmen called in to investigate !;
finds object in chimney; object turns
out to be dead body of infant six
months old.