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LATER NEWS.

THE third annual exhibition of the New
York Poultry and Pigeon Association was
held at Madison Square Garden, New York
City.
GOVERNOR ALBEIT reappointed Chief
Justice Beasley, and named Senator Werts
to succeed Judge Knapp on the New Jersey
Supreme Court bench.
Two HUNDRED AND FIFTY of the 800 or
900 prisoners on Deer Island, in Boston
(Mass.l Haroor, refused to work, and, gath
ering sticks and Other weapons, stormed the
workshop to procure knives. They were
clubbed into submission by the police.
SIR J,L1AN PAUNcEFoTE, the British
Minister to Washington, and Postmaster
General Wanamaker have signed parcels
post convention between the United States
and British Guiana
SECRETARY NOBLE has designated Lucius
I. Bridges, law clerk in the Office of the
Assistant Attorney-General for the In
terror Department.; Francis A. Weaver,
Chief of the Land and Railroads Division,
and William D. Bayly, e clerk in the Pension
Office, to act as Board Of Promotion in the
Interior Department.
The Anti-Slavery Conference Act was
ratified bv the United States at the Foreign
Ministry at Brussels, Belgium, in conform
ity with the resolution of the United States
Senate.
INFLUENZA is increasing in Berlin, Ger
many, apd abating IN Vienna, Austria.
CHILEAN Minister of Foreign Affairs Per-
EZRA called on Minister Egan at Valparaiso
and thanked him for Secretary Blaine's de-
snatch accepting Chile's reply to our ultima
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES,


The village of Hilltown, Ireland, has 1S0
inhabitants, and thirteen liquor saloons.
A few glasses of beer a day during a
workingman's lifetime means the consump-
ton Of good home.
To sell the whisky seller license to carry
on the devils business almost makes the
crime of Judas appear respectable.
Said Cardinal Manning once: "The Eng.
lishman drinks from brutality, the Irishmau
from joviality, and it is much easier to re-
form an Irish drunkard than an English"
The world is full of people who wouldn't
sell whisky for hundred dollars glass,
who are glad to take the saloon keepers
money in q thousand different ways, ana
put it in their pockets
The supreme object Of the Woman's Chris
tan Temperance Union is to elevate the
home and to protect its members, one ana
all-the stronger from legalized temptation,
the gentler from oppression.
Out of 10000 British troops in India 49,
0OO are teetotalers Sir Frederick Roberts
saws that for every 5OU0 teetoallers enrolled
the strength of the British army is practi-
cally increased by another battalion.
Mineral naphtha is added to alcohol to
make it undriukable. but according to the
Chemical News there are men working in
chemical works who not only drink the nau.
seated spirit, but are capable of swallowing
coal naphtha itself.
In the Hawaiian islands there are about
fifty native temperance societies with men,
bership Of over 1000. Their pledge includes
opium and ava as we'll as alcohol. Ava is
an into1icant manufactured by the natives,
and is said to be more disastrous in its ef
fects upon the human system than even the
imported liquors.
A writer in the Fortnightly Review an
English traveller, says: ''The very air Of
Africa reeks with rum and gin imported
from England; every hut is redolent OF its
fumes. Over large areas drink is almost the
sole currency, and in msuy parts the years
wages Of the negro factory worker are paid
altogether in spirits"
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address, declaring that he should follow IN
the footsteps of his father and continue bis
policy.
The Chilean Congress adjourned, after
passing bill allowing the President to bor-
row SIS, 600, 900 in order to withdraw notes
issued by Balmaceda.
THE North German Lloyd transe tlantic
steamer Elder went ashore on Atherheld
Ledge, Isle of Wight. She was groping In
fog when she struck on q rock. All passen-
gers were saved.
The new French Tariff law has gone into
operation.
The conversion of the debt Of Argentina
has been completed. 1t amounts to ST., oOO,-
600.
TWENTY persons lost their lives as result
of election riots at Buda Pesth, Hungary.
LIEUTENANT SHUFELpT, of the United
States Navy, has died at Capetown, South
Africa. He had gone there on a Worlds
Fair Commission.
A BOAT belonging to Her Majesty's Ship
Belle Isle foundere1 in Dublin Bay, Ireland,
drowning four Of her crew.
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Brain Power In Plants.

Arthur Smith, totanist of note and
one of the writers o. the National Re-
view, entertains many curious ideas con-
eerning the sleep aud brain power of !,
plants, many of these notions, directly or
Indirectly conflicting with the established
opinions of such men as Cuvier, Huxley
and Darwin. Speaking of the mimosa,
be says: sIt always folds its leaves at the
close of day, and there is no doubt, if it
were not allowed to sleep, it would, like
the hnman species under similar circum-
stances, soon die" This is not only an
example of the necessity of sleep for the
repairing of nervous energy and recu-
peration of brain power, but proof OF
the existence of the same faculties in the
vegetable kingdom. Then, take >the
matter of the carniverous plants, the
Venus fy-trap, for instance, which will
readily digest raw beef or any insect
small enough to fall into its NAV. This
botanical curiosity has glands which
pour out a fluid which resem-
bles the gastric juices Of the ami
NAL stomach. This fluid dissolves the
meat or insect and absorbs their substance
into the tissues of the plant. In animal
nature digestion can only be commenced
by the brain force acting by means Of 9
nerve upon the gastric glands; We
may, therefore, concede that it is, the
action of the same power in y the plant
that produces the same results. Afur-i
ther illustration of the wonderful effect
of brain power in plants may be OBJ
served in the action Of, the radicle OF
seeds. The course pursued by the radi-
Gle in penetrating the ground must be
determined by the tip. Darwin wrote
as follows in regard to this: "It is hard
ly an exaggeration to say that the tip OF
the radicle, endowed as tits with such
diverse kinds of sensitiveness, acts in the.
same manner as the brains of some AMI
mails, the brain being seated within the
extreme end of the body, receiving its
impressions from the sense organs and
directing the several movements. :" Mr.
Smith does not quite agree with Mr..
Darwin's belief, but is of the opinion
that it is simple example OF brain pow
er, which is the cause Of all plant move-
ment. In conclusion he mentions a re-
markable property of the potato fungus.
When the spores of this fungus burst Q
multitude of little bodies escape; if these
bodies gain access to water they develop
a couple of little tails, by means OF which
they swim like tsdpoles.-St. Louis Re-
public.
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United States Minister Egan has been
presented by the refugees who have been
living in asylum at the American Legation
in Santiago, Chile, for four months past
with handsome gold card bearing this in
scription: -,
To MIR. Patrick Egan, Minister Of the
United States in, Chill, in testimony, OF
eternal gratitude for the generous asylum
given under the protection Of the aag Of the
great Republic. which symbolizes the most
noble sentiments Of humanity and civiliza.
ton.
On one side of the inscription is an en-
bossed engraving of the Goddess Of Liberty
throwing the stars and Stripes" over
wounded Chilean soldier. In one corner OF
the card is a diamond and there are also
crossed flags OF the United States and Chile
and the coats-of-arms of the two countries
engraved upon it.
On the reverse side Of the card appear the
names of the twelve refugees who present
the gift.
The card is about six by four inches in
size and it cost $4,000.
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THE APOLOGY ACCEPTED.
secretary Blaine Replies to Chiie's
Note Of Regret.

socresary Blaine Replies to Chiie's
Note of Regret.
The following is thu reply sent by Seer
sry Blaine to the Chilean note OF apology:
DEPARTMENT or STATE, }
"WAsHINGToN, January 80.
sEear, Minister, Santiago:
II am directed by the President to ac-
knowleise tbs receipt OF Senor Pefeira's
fspatch. 1t has besn commu-
uicated to Congress, and has given
meat pleasure to the people Of ths United
States aud to the Executive Departnsnt, as
L restores the correspondence between the
Two Republics to basis Of cordia!allty and
makes as he believes, a full and honorable
adjustment OF all unsettled matters easily
attainaole.
..rne President notes with gratihcatlon
the expression of re sret for AMI conae!ana-
ton of the assault upon the sailors OF tne
Baltimore offered by Mr.. Pereira, and con-
graduates the Chilean Government upon
the frank and ample withdrawal OF
the Malta circular, and upon the spirit OF
Justice displayed toward Minister ESan.
You will assure the Chilean GoVernuene
that the President will be glad to meet III
the most friendly spirit these friendly over.
tures.
believing that the subject OF repatriation
for the assault upon the seaman OF the
Baltimore is now capable Of adjustment oe;
tween the two Governments by the usual
diplomatic methods, the President pest.
pones for the present any discussion or
the suggestions made by Senior Perera, as
10 the use Of other methods, not doubling
that the sense Of justice OF Chile will enable
fhe two Governments to speedily and
honorably make tull end Of the whole mat
- BLAINE"
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Some Atmospheric Phenomena

A man weighs less when the barometer
is high, Notwithstanding the fact that
the atmospheric pressur: on him is more
than when the barometer is low. As
the pressure of air on an ordinary-sized
man is about fifteen tons, the rise of the
mercury from twenty-nine to thirty-one
inches adds about one ton to the load he
has to carry.
If we'll could be dug to the depth
of forty-si1 miles, the density of the air
at the bottom would be as great as that
of quicksilver. By the same law cubic
inch of air taken 40U0 miles above the
iearth's surface would expand sufficiently
to fill sphere 1000, 900, 900 miles in
dlameter.-St. LOUIS Republic. .
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SIR MORELL MACKENZIE.
Emperor Frederick's Physician Dies
Suddenly in London.

Sir Morell Mackenzie, the distinguished
ply sician, died with bronchitis few days
ago in London, England. Sir Morelrs at
tack of bronchitis followed an attack of in
fiuepza. He was attended by his brother.
His death was quite sudden. Only his wife
was pres ent when it occurred.
Sir Morell Mackenzie was born in Leyton-
stone, Essex. England, in 1897. aud was
educated at the London Hospital Medical
College aud in Paris and Vienna. He
founded the Hospital for Diseases
of the Throat, in Golden Square,
London, in 1883 In the same
year he obtained the Jacksonian Prizs
from the Royal College OF Surgeons for his
essay on diseases OF the larynx. He was soon
afterward elected assistant physician to the
London Hospital, becoming in due course full
physician, and was appointed lecturer on
diseas S of the throat, an appointment which
he held to the time Of his death. DR.. Mac
kenzie was the author Of numerous publica-
tions on laryngological subjects.
He was in attendance on Frederick III,
the German Emperor, during the latter's last
illness. He was knighted in 1887. he pub
lished in 1888 1.-The Fatal Illness of Frederick
the Noble" At the close OF that year he re-
signed his connection with the College Of
Physicians.
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ON A BURNED BRIDGE.

A Train Destroyed and the Two En-
gineers Killed.
The eastbound passenger train on the
Texas and Pacific Railway was totally
wrecked two miles west of Ropeline, La. 1t
ran upon burned bridge, and all the cars
-one baggage, postal and express. two day
passengers and one Pullman-were COM
pletely burned.
The engineer Of the train was killed and
Civil Engineer Smith, of the road, was fa-
tally burned. The corpse of young woman
in the baggage car was burned up.
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TEMPERANCE.
WHAT HE SAW.

He held In fingers tremulous and thin
What seemed bunch of white transparent
grapes;
And there saw the flendish eyes and shapes
Of hideous Representatives OF sin,
That threatened to break through the walls
OF skin,
Their forms were uglier than forms Of apes;
he then bethought Of his hair's-breadth es.
capes.
And Of the dangers lurking there within.
Worse than the cockatr1css eggs their seeds,
Hatched in the still, to- scorpions, whose
deeds,
With fiery stings of woe inoculate
The soul with madness and eternalha
A blessing in the cluster-''fruit divine"
Worse than Pandora's s ills in poisoned wine.
Geo. W. Bungay,i in Temperance Advocate.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

Love hopes always because It believes
always.
How easy it is to admire people who.
agree with us.
We get acquainted with ourselves by
knowing other people.
Hope never flies from the heart in
which there is no doubt.
Love is always rich, because it can
always hope for something better.
Love always looks on the bright side,
and always finds bright side to look
on,
The braver soldier is the more inn
portant it is that he should learn to obey
orders. ~
Before we can know much of ourselves
we have to become we'll acquainted with
many other people.
There are people who pray for snow
whenever they see anybody about to look
into their back yard.
The man who knows that his house is
built on the sand always trembles when
he hears it thunder. 4
II It were possible for man TO live
alone, without ever coming in contact
with other human beings, he would die
9 total stranger to himself. =
There are some people so blind that it
would them long time to find out that
they have nose on their face, if they
didn't now and then have to blow it.
There are some shepherds who put
their sheep on the dead run whenever
there is the slightest prospect. Of their
getting taste of salt from somebody
else's pasture. Indianapolis lInd.).
Rams Horn. .S,
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Foreign.

THE public accounts Of Canada for the last
fiscal year have been issued. They show
that the revenue on account OF tle console
dated fund was sss, 579. 3lo, and the e1pendi-
lures s36, 33443, 567, showing a surplus of So
235, 743. The total debt Of Cana la is placed
at S289, 893 200, the assets are S52 900, l99 and
the net debt is $2s7. so9, Os0, an increase dur
ing the year Of 1915, ,SlS.
TIE Egyptian Assembly was opened at
Cairo BY the Khedive. who delivered o brief
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-02-17
MOODY ON WHISKY.

Mr.. Moody while at Completion, England,
said: If there is anything in your business
that is wrong, you must give it up. Oh, but, ,
you might say, that would ruin me tinan-
cially.' No matter; better be ruined fnan-
cially than 60 to the bar Of God disobedient
child. If men could distil whisky for the
glory OF God, then let them 60 on distilling
whisky; let them send thousand barrels OF
1t to the heathen, and some for the mission
aries; and then let them pray over the mat
ter, and sse how they feel. They could sell
whisky to mon who might drink themselves
to death, making their wives widows and
their children fathsrless, but it won't do to
turn round and say now-I will give this
widow and these children some money and
think that the transaction would square:
nor could man who ill-treated his wits and
family when he was the worss of driak make
up for 1t by treating them kindly when hs
is sober.n
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THESE statistics are furnished b. the
Agricultural Department at WASHINGTON as
representing the aggregate production OF
cereals Tor 1891: Corn, $50. l54, Wo bushels;
value. $3.50. 439, ,22s. Wheat, Gil, 7ol OU
bushels; value, s5ls, 47s, Ill. Oats, 7s3. ss4,-
600 bushels; value, 49,, al2. 26!.
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SINGULAR EXPLOSION.

Two Men Digging a Cistern Meet
With Horrible Death.
Seth Williams and Moses McClelland met
death in a mysterious explosion at Cave
City, KY. They were digging cistern and
had reached a fat rock eight feet be-
low. Williams struck the rock with
a sledge hammer, causing terrible ea-
plosion, which buried McClellani beneath
living bowlders and killed him and threw
Williams into tree fifty yards away; Nc.
Clelland lived just long enough to tell what
had happened. A blush vapor with sui
phurous smell issues from between swo
targe rocks.
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OUR MILITARY RESOURCES

The Total Number of Men Available
for War Duty.
The Secretary Of War transmitted to the
Senate statemest showing the military
force Of the Unitd States, organized and
unorganized, according to the latest returns
received at the office of the Adjutant Gen
eral of the army.
The abstract shows that the total number
of enlisted men is 10l, ,S2l, commanded by
sST9 commissioned officers, besides 124S staff
officers, making a total aggregate OF III, ,9iS
men in the military service. The number Of
men available for military duty uuorganized
.Aa7,25S.
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THE estimated total American capital
raised for Mexican undertakings in the past
year by individuals and public and private
Companies was over 500, ,0CO, ON.
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THEY SALUTED HIM.

But He Had to Shoot Two of Them 10
Insure Respect.
The men Of one Of the artillery reg
iments at wilma, Russia, have lately dis
played mutinous spirit, and few days
ago they refused to salute an officer, where
upon he deliberately shot two Of the nom
commissioned officers of the insubordinate
regiment. He was about to fire at third
when the men complied with the regulations
and saluted.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-27
HONEY TO LOAN.

TO yoU WANT MoNRy7-ff - yeu vii
~ sna Il 10 ysur sasassags to see as sefers
serrovias.
wsmsse Issns sn hcussscla goods planes
berses. ~sgess o. personal property ~ say
lind 81 The Lowest possible rates and IN The
Quickest psss BE tine.
Cur loans are made wttacat publicity and
he property . left N year aadsstnroed pos
rssfsr.
Leans ear - carried ss long % d.ssrss or
,sn ne paid IN falL 90 - part. ~ sns time 70
pait saur seavsnis1rs. snd sny part psid 70
1He.s the cost Of carrying the fsaa-
Naer property. 90 viii psg 10 40 tor yo1 xna
harry 4 - ,ong ss ysn aestr~.
Our s6lces ase the wsss pisassss 4. bs> eiss
,as are - sxrssgsd thas parties exilss upea
~ nay - vsstss npos aaickis and esafts
BUSY
~repsris sss the neasy ana can return the
scssy :, any ~ ~ wosra.ow
Essas Ts~er bises
Csrser 81 Noarse. Pearl sss Csss sea.
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]. w. CLOSTERHOUSE
REAL ESTATE,
y CANAL sTREEI.
TWINKLE TWINKLE

TWINKLE TWINKLE
Little siar. How / wsuesr What yoa are
les ane s01 no doubt have wondered sbst tns
price of THAI e.esslf house GA NJ slsI fAciif
e@ithy avenue eeala be. IL contains fas
hace. bath. so CRATE and mantsi. large rcosp
ten hAA aud oak staircase. ssfs has VEL a
water aud large clstrrn suffice q 10 say thai
Tie price IL Nsy down. k0q1irs ~ nae ~ Mr.
J. W. cLosTERnoUsE.
An elegant House and a large Garner iei
located at the corner Of Ethel avenue ard
Logan street. 90 feet oi pereh. large GONE ess
nnish do~n>s&ifs.i large reception hall. slpcs
Tor furnaces and gss. aas crate saa mantle
tax. take ss.sil psymenJ dean bal sane IS rsnt.
Price s-3N. j. ". tio>I LkboUSk.
BARGAINS
Lock az No. ~ Henry street q very neal
hard aad seit water. handy 10 chery ana
wealthy avenue car M prss s4sN
south Lafayette near Pewei on nest side Of 81
% feet lot and sn elegant house Just bniit,
IN. bath roem good furnace eisgsnt CRATE
city water Tor spiisklins. oak hnss. lsrss
reception hall nae oak ssaircxse esc.. price
you J. ". SL0sIkkuopSi.
snew houses one on Bsrth street At slcso.
man eerne OF Henry at slsl0 viii take IS
>. W. cLosTERHoUsE.
VACANT LOIS
for building In all parts of the city II makeG
no difference where you wish 20 locate come
and see me before buying. IS ! we'll lie sure
aud pieasesos. have = very choice let
j. w. CLosIkhHOUSE.
RENTS.
One modern house No. AIS Lyon street per
month 80. Two suits OF room IN fiat corner ~
Lyon and Union slo and SIS per mo. oUs
house corner OF Lafayette and Highland ave.
elA. 0ne house corner 81 Logan sDd East els.
One house oh A.i rmaa r-st house east OF East
street 81 One house OH Sherman 1nd house
east OF last street SIC. Also some tine stores
In good location.
Personal PROPERTY.
New steam boat can be seen In river st Kent
furn- Factory viii trade tor horse or vacant
lot or wEy down for cash.
J. W. CLOsTERHOUsE. PETER DECKER.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-27

TOR SALE-Moye into your own home this
spring. {. w. Tufts can sell YOU one at
less IL an you could build 10 yourself and on
monthly or quarterly payments easy AZ rent.
Seven houses now ready at from Sl2u0 10 $500
each. or he will furnish you lot at from $50
20 $500 and the money TO build. on the same
easy terms: c. W. Tufts. 90 ottawa street.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-27

crS 90 TO ssoOs A MONTH can be made
90. working FOR rs. Persons preferred
who can furnish horse and give their whole
tine 10 the business. Spare moments may be
probably employed also. A few vacancies In
lowns ard cities. D. =. Johnson A Co.. Iwen-
ly-sixtn and Maa 81. Richmond. Va