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Washington.

REAR ADMIRAL BENHAM has been ordered
to proceed with his flagship, the Newark,
now at Genoa, to Cadiz. to escort the Queen
Regent of Spain to Huelva, October S,
where the next day statue to Columbus
will be unveiled. The Bennington. which is
now at Cadiz, will accompany the Newark
and the fleet Of Spanish vessels and particl'
pate in the ceremonies.
ADMIRAL GHERARD1 arrived at the Mare
Island lCar., Navy Yard from Washington.
Rear-Admiral Brown surrendered the flag
ship Baltimore to him and then hoisted his
flag on the Thetis.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER has
issued an ORDER to ESTABLISH the free delivery
service, to conmeGce December l, 1892 in
among other places, Greenfield, Mass; Perth
Amboy, N. J.; Leoninster, Mass: Media,
Penn: Braddock, Penn: Waterville, Nc,
and New Rochelle and Port Chester, N. Y.
The Secretary Of the Interior has ap-
proved the allotment of lands to the Seneca
Indians and the eastern band Of Shawnees
in the Indian Territory. There are 10 OK
the former and $50 OF the latter. who Will
receive sixty acres of land apiece, and. Ill
some cases. an additional eighty acres,
where the land is used for grazing or is not
fertile.
THE Interior Department announces that
the Cherokee Commission has opened neSo-
tiations with TIE kiowa, Comancne ana
Apscne Indians for the sale OF their reser-
yatious in Indian Territory.
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man in Chicago should live on boiled
wheat with little cotton seed oil, tea,
and sugar, he could 1--we as cheap as the
Chinese. It is meat which makes liv-
ing expensive in England and America.
1t takes eight pounds of cereals to make
apound of beefsteak, and where you get
q pound of beefsteak it is only worth
about a third as much as pound of
wheat or corn. Americans reduce the
nutritious quality of their food thirty
fold, by feeding it first to the animal
and then eating the animal.
"China," continued Mr.. Leonard,
"supports 400, 100000 beings, but
they eat the cereals. America could
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South and West.

A FAST freight train was wrecked at Day.
ton, Ohio. by six-year-old boy, who turned
the switch. he said that he wautsd to seq
big wreck. Ten cars were smashed and
piled on each other and freight scattered
over the debris.
SANTANA CARA and Daniel Garcia, cousins
and natives of Mexico. got into quarrel
over a woman at Sandigo, Texas: Garcia
was shot three times, Cara once; both were
fatally injured.
SIX men started to ride no in the skip at
Eureka mine at Bessemer. Mich, contrary to
orders. and when about 200 feet from the
bottom the skip dumped, four its occupants
being hurled to the bottom Of the shaft and
killed.
SEVEN dead and three injured is the re-
suit of a railroad wreck which occurred at
New Hampton, Iowa, few days ago.
J.H. WIcKEs, a New York millionaire,
fell out Of a window at Detroit, Mich. and
was instantly killed. His neck was broken.
ROBBERS entered the bank Of Ben e.
4 D. M, few days ago, covered the en-
ployes and customers with revolvers and
stole $4,000 from the safe. As they rode
away they opened fire and shot the cashier
in the leg and colored man in the hip. :
AT Kalamazoo, Mich, Lee Struble, Chas.
Burton and George and Morris Castleman
got into quarrel while chopping wood :.
George Castleman was killed and his brother
fatally wounded by an axe welded by Bur.
ton.
ENGINEER JOHN ELMoRE was killed aud
Firemen Ben Garner and Sam Estes and
Conductor w. r. Lambert injured by the
explosion of locomotive boiler near Pratt
Mines, Ala.
HOWARD. the county seat of Miner
County, Iowa, has been nearly wiped out by
fire. MIR. and Mrs. R. B. Allensworth were
caught in building and killed. More than
fifty houses were destroyed. Loss, 100000
FOUR Chinese have disregaried the circu-
lars recently issued by the Chinese Six Com.
paniesL and have been registered at San
francisco, Cal, under the Gsary Registrs-
ton Act.
TIE Wisconsin Supreme Court rendered
a decision declaring the apportionment male
by the extra session Of tho Legislature in
valid
THE Connecticut Supreme Court decided
in favor of the Republicans in the contested
election cases. :.
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support four billion people if they would
eat corn and wheat like the Chinese.
But instead of that, Americans feed
eight pounds OF corn to sheep or steer
and then eat the steer"
The Chinese cow on the Yauk.tse
is a semismphibious animal. You will
often see her grazing with her head en-.
tirely nder water. This Is the ami
NAL that a well-dc-to farmer uses for
plowing, instead of his wife and
daughter. He uses the milk and mus.
Gle Of the poor cow. It is pathetic to
see this patient old cow plodding along
through the rice fields knee deep in mud.
The plow she is drawing is rude bit of
log with an iron point. A digger
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THE woopcuTTERs' LOFTY PLATFORM.

The contract called for tree twenty
feet six inches in diameter, but the tree
actually found will be three feet greater
in diameter. Their are, of course,
larger trees in the forest, but the re-
quirement was that this section should
be perfect in all respects, cylindrical,
straight and without burn In the bark,
and this was the largest found to ill all
these conditions. The tree selected is
one. known as the tGeneral Noble" It
measures thirty feet in diameter near
the ground, but as the object was to
have the section of the same diameter at
both ends, as nearly as possible, a piece is
being taken out Of the tree at some dis
lance from the ground. To do this and
to preserve the section from harm BY
falling as we'll as to meet other require
ments has proved to be a work OF con-
siderable magnitude. The idea Is not to
send solid section, but, rather, the
rim of the tree followed out and cut into
segments of suitable size, and all to be
numbered so that they can be erected at
Chicago so as to look from the exterior
like a solid section Of a sequoia thirty
feet in height. The three parts into
which the section is being cut consists
of two parts of fourteen feet each, to be
followed out, and one two feet thick
which will serve as aoor between the
two stories, as it were. a
In order to accomplish this work it
became necessary to cut off the top OF
this great tree at a height Of fifty.four
feet from the ground. This Is done by
building a staging around the tree at
that height, where the woodsmen will
cut off the upper portion, as shown in
the accompanying illustration, and let
it fall. This is a work of great difficulty.
In order to avoid danger to the men and
injury to the lower portion OF the tree,
a big block is inserted in the cut on the
side on which it is to fall, so that its
weight when falling will cause it to jump
off fur enough to avoid all danger and
damage. When this has been done the
section will then be cut off by cross-cut
saws twenty-four feet in length, made
purposely for this work, at the places
indicated by the cross lines In the Illus
tration.-San Francisco Chronicle.
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THE SOUVENIR COINS.

The Design for the Worlds Fair
Halt Dollar Selected.
The design for the five million souvenir
half dollars has been agreed upon by the
Worlds Fair people and Mint Director
Leech. The face Of the coin will contain
Lotto's head Of Columbus and the reverse
side his caravals, under which are twe
globes. Across the globes will be the hsures
i4e2. Under the globes will be the year in
which the coin Is struck, 1892 or 1898. Di-
rector Leech said he hoped to have one mill
lon Of these souvenirs pieces struck this year
and the remaining four millions early III
1893,
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Jewels aud Their Uses in Watches.

Few people understand Just Wnat Is
the practical value of the ''jewels" IN a
tiue watch. These tiny bits OF precious
stones are set in the "bearings' OF the
machinery-or movement" as it IS
called-where the pointed ends of the
little pivots turn and turn continually.
This constant grind Of the sharp little
points would wear away the hardest
metal. Only the hardness of precious
stone can resist the severe friction.
Garnets are sometimes used and some
times sapphires. These, being harder
are put into the new improved, quick
winding watch, which adds to its wear
Ing qualities. 1t is one OF the msrVeis
of the watch trade, that a jeweIed
watch of this high grade can be sold 80
cheaply.-Boston Cu:tiVator.
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Foreign.

A TypHooy wrecked 5000 buildings on the
Riukiu Islands, near Japan.
The Yellow River has again overiowed
its banks in China, Twelve towns have been
inundated and many lives lost.
EDMUND JOHNSON, Consul at Kehl, Ger
many, has been removed for false represen-
tation as to his military services and for
fraudulent practices. The case has been
under investigation by Secretary Foster for
a month. Mr.. johnson was first appointed
to the consular service in 1872.
The Chamber of Deputies, which consti:.
tutes the Electoral College, has just declared
Porflrio Diaz President of Mexico for four
years from the 1st of next December.
Sm WILLIAM JOHNSTON RITcHIE, Chief
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thick as haycocks on a New England
meadow. The farmers house is always
a hut, writes Eli Perkins, in the New
York Sun. It is generally built of rice
straw and looks like a straw stack in
Illinois with holes eaten into it by sheep
and hogs. 1t would be poor COW shed
in America.
When not made of rice straw it is
built of rough boards or adobe bricks
one story high, has paper for windows
and is thatched with rice straw. It has
no chimney and no stove. There are no
flowers about it as with the japanese.
A pig and a cow may occupy the same
hut. The pig is scavengef with big
black ears. The farmer has a few
chickens and ducks, but never eats them
himself. He never sees a newspaper.
He has no carpet, no musical instrument,
no books, and seldom a clock. The
floor of his house is hard ground. His
bed is straw. He has no windows In his
house or hut. In winter he covers him
self with rags to keep warm, and in
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ENGLAND IS beginning to feel ner'

ENGLAND IS beginning to feel nerV-
GUS about its Ambassador to Morocco,
who has not been heard from since
the fanatical populace refused to let
him. raise the British flag. and he
raised it in spite of them. If the act
of few fanatics should lead England
to occupy Morocco there would be
trouble in the Mediterranean at once.
France would never consent to have
any Gne, even remotely connected
with the Triple Alliance, in Morocco.
For her constant fear is that Ger
many may, by hook or by crook, get
possession of q fastness opposite
Gibraltar. Thus her two secular en-
emies would hold the keys of the
Mediterranean. She would fight
sooner than permit this.
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CHOKED TO DEATH.

A Woman Kills Her Son and Two
Other Little Boys.
Three small children, Charles Brown and
George and John Bogart, the first son OF
Leonara Brown, or Smith, as she is known,
formerly OF Mt. Holly, and the other two
being children OF William Bogart, were
choked to death few days ago at Borden
town, N. j. The deed was done at the house
OF Bopart, in Chestnut street, by the insane
mother of Charles Brown, in the absence Of
the Bogarts, who had gone to the Interstate
Fair at Trenton. The guilty woman after.
ward went to police headquarters and gave
herself up.
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KILLED AS A JOKE.
A Live Wire Fastened to Machinery
Which q Workman Handled.

T. R. Vincent was killed at Kansas City,
Mo-, a few days ago by what was supposed
to be accidental contact with an electric
wire in the house where he was employed.
The Coroner next day found that two
other employees, attempted to play prac-
tical joke upon him, attaching tfe eiectrlG-
light wire to a piece OF machinery Whicn
Vincent handled during the day.
When he came in contact with tne ma ma,
cbinery and placed his hand upon it he fell
dead from the shock.
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Justice of the Supreme Court Of Canada, is
dead, aged seventy-nine years.
The number of deaths from the cholera
within the whole Russian Empire. from the
beginning Of the epidemic, is officially re-
ported at 1S5, $40.
THE British Consulate at Mozambique has
reported to the Foreign Office the drowning
of an exploring party OF two EngEsnmen
and five Germans at the mouth of the River
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4 BIp Tree at the worlds Fair.

California is to be honored by having
section of one of her famous big
trees made a prominent feature in tho
Government building at the Columbian
Exhibition at Chicago. The section of the
tree will be twenty-three feet in diameter
and thirty feet long. This will be di-
vided into three parts, and these will be
placed in tLeir natural position, one
above the other, and so arranged as to
form something like two.story house.
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process.
) An upright glass
tube, as shown in the
illustration herewith,
is filed with gelatine,
and when the latter
has hardened sum-
ciently a germ is in.
serted in its centre by
means of a platinum
needle.
The germ at once
begins to incubate,
and in a few days it
has m ultiplie d a
thousand fold. The
germs eat their way
down through the
gelatine, and tn Q
mass assumes a funnel
shaped form, which
gives the gelatine a
clouded appearance.
The single germs
are invisible to the
naked eye, but can be
seen in large masses.
When magnifed 800
diameters the single
germ becomes plainly
visible. It has q
crescent-shaped form,
somewhat like that of
a comma, and they
sometimes blend to.
gether in the form of
a spiral.
vered the cholera germ
New York World.
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January 1st was not made New Years
Day in England until 175l. The proper
beginning of the year is in March, which
is the beginning of spring, when nature
bursts out into life again in the dowerS
and the trees.
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TIE nail trade is said to be looking
up. Certainly; think Of the cam
paign lies that will have to be mailed
between now and November.-De-
troit Free Press.
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"YoU are the only girl I ever
loved" Then we would better part
1 don't want to marry freak. -
Life
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CHINESE FARMERS.
COTTON AND RICE RAISING ON
THE YANG-TSE RIVER.
Three Crops a Year-Primitive Tools
Cow Flowing in the Water
Chinese Wages-A Chinese
Farmhouse.
49,; HE Chinese farmer is

HE Chinese farmer is
is in abject' poverty.
I rode up the Yang
tse Klaug River as far
as Hankow, 500 miles.
The Yang-tse is an
other Mi s sis sipp i
River. The whole bot
tom is ridged with
broken levees and Got
ted with graves az
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Propagation Of Cholera Germs. :.
The culture of the cholera germ is an
extremely interesting though very simple
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A CHINESE cow FLOWING.

Indian could make it. It was used be-
fore Noah went into the ark, and it will
be used thousand years from now. The
Chinaman never changes. d"
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upon two leaves.
There are others who come to the Bible
merely as autiquarians. If You come as an
antiquarian. you will find great many odd
things in the Biole-psculiarities Of manner
and custom, marriage aud burial; peculiar
tiles OF Dire 9, tunics, sandals. crisping pins,
amulets and giriles and tinkling ornaments.
If you come to look at military arrange
ments you will find coats OF mai! and jaw
eliDs and engines Of war and circumvalla-
tion AMI encampments. II you look for Pc
culiar musical instruments. you will find
psalteries and shiginoths and rams horns.
The antiquarian will find in the Bible Curl
osities in agriculture, and in commerce, and
in art, and in religion that will keep him
ABSORBED a great while. Tlere are those
VINO come to this Bible as yoI would to
cabinet OF curiosities, and you pick up this
and say, "What strange sword that Isl"
and What q peculiar hat this is" and
s'What an unlocked for lamp that is" and
the Bible TO such becomes British Museum.
Then there are others who find nothing in
the Bible but the poetry. Well, if You ccne
as poet, you will find in this book faultless
rhythm, and bold imagery, and startling
autithesis, and rapturous lyric, and sweet
pastoral, and instructive narrative, and de-
votional psalm; thoughts expresss1 In
style more solemn than that Of Montgomery.
more bold than that OF Milton, more terrible
than that OF Dante, more natural than tnat
Of Wordsworth, more impassionsd than
that OF Pollock, more tenier than that OF
Cowper, more weird than that Of Soenser.
This great poem brings all tue gems OF the
earth into its coroner. and it weaves tins
flames OF Judgment in its garland and pours
eternal har:nonies in It's rhythm.
Everything this book touches it makes
&,t,SI ~ >tos,, ot1 1f II,
mer rhrasaing floor, and the daughters Of
Major filling the trough for the camels and
the fish pools of Heshbon, up to the psa!mist
praising God with diapason off storm and
whirlwind, and Job leaiing forth Orion,
Arcturus and the Pleiades. 1t is wonder
full poem, and a great many people re4d it
as they do Thomas Moore's "talia Rookh," !"
and Walter SCOTS Lady o. the Lake" and
Tennyson's ''Chargs OF the Light Brigade" "
They sit down, and ara so ABSORBED in look
ing at the shells on the shore that they for.
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A NOBLE CAT.
How 1t Saved n Young Bird From the
Attacks of Snake.

How 1t saved Dung Bird From the
Attacks of a Snake.
Brsnder Bueksaw.
In the mountain districts of Pennsylvania
two wrens had built their nest under the
caves Of an old farmhouse. and there they
reared a small and interesting family.
Among the attaches Of the farmers house
hold was a white cat, and when the wrens
became so tame that they used TO hop
around the piazza in search OF crumbs the
cat would lie in wait for them, and several
times came within an ace of catching the
adult birds. When the farmer noticed this
he kicked the cat, and she finally learned
that Ii was dangerous to fool with the wreDs.
When the baby wrens grew larger one eff
them one day fell out of the nest, and. being
too weak to run and unable to fly, lay help
less on the grass The cat saw the accident
and ran rapidly to seize the bird, but, SEEM
ing to remember the lesson taught her.
when she reached the helpless little thing
she only touched il daintly with her paw
and then lay down and watched IL.
Presently there came black and yellow
garden snake toward the fiuttering bird
ling. The cat was doing and was awak-
ened by the fiuttering OF the bird. Instantly
she rose and struck at the reptile with her
paw. This was an enemy the snake did
not appreciate. but it was hungry, so it
darted forward and attempted TO seize the
bird under the very shelter Of the cats
head.
Like flash the cat seized the snake just
back OF the head aud killed 1t with one bite.
When the farmer happened along In the
afternoon he found the cat crouching In the
grass sheltering tina Bird and ten feet away
was the dead snake. This made it clear that
the cat had carried the bird away from the
snake. aud the young adyenturer was soon
restored to its anxious parents.
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PRINCESS LIsE TR0UBETSK0I.
Homelier Than Sin, but YeritabIe De-
mon of Coquetry.
New York Recorder.

Homelier Than Sin, but q Yeritable De-
mon of Coquetry.
New York Recorder.
l heard the other day the name of the
Princess Metternich mentioned as being the
most ugly woman In Europe. but there is
another lady even uglier. She is the
celebrated Princess Lise Troubetskol, who
for so many years acted as the Egeria of
President Theirs.
Princess Lise Is absolutely without phys
ical beauty. Her face has always been
moDstrously plain. the nose being just two
holes in the face, the eyes OF wash-out
color and wanting in fine form; the mouth
coarse. with yellow teeth aud dstached pegs.
Her neck always thin, has become, with
advancing age, still more scraggy, notwith-
standing the full bosom obtained by pad
ding. Her arms have always been mere
skewers, her legs ditto. and her feet fiat and
more like frogs than anything else.
In spite Of all this, by her wit and through
talent in bringing art to supply the defiieu-
cies of nature, she was one of the most vic
torious flirtS in her youth and middle age
that has come within the range OF my OBJ
servation. The art of the dressmaker, OF
the coiffeur and OF her maid completely
transformed her, and used to make her q
redoubtable rival for no matter what beauty
The satisfaction she felt of seeing herself
transformed lighted her up. called all her
perversity into play and made her agog for
man slaughter. She became as risky as an
insect on q summers day and a veritable
demon OF coquetry, and even now her influ-
ence in the French political circles is enor-
nous.
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on Saturday nj ght shows thst he mas gone
over for the time being TO the corr "ptiohists-
He is so unreliable, however, that he eiay
change front at any minute. His actions
plainly indicate that he is open to the high
est bidder and he will ultim ately be found
in the camp of the faction that will make
the most valuable political promises.
ut is said to-day that Booilers Kelly and
Crimmins, seeing that they failed to hood
wink the people last Saturday night. and
knowing that nothing but the riffraff are
following them, have concluded to make
further concessions, in hopes Of being able
to grab something out of the fire.
"Ihe people are not with the corruption-
lists, and it is the general opinion that Kelly,
Crimmins, Ruef and Pillsbury are simply
making great big bluff before surrender
ing the party machinery to the element that
is striving for clean politics"
This last extract is of peculiar significance
just at this time, because two of the men
referred to-Myer Jacobs and w. A. S.
Nicholson-have been named by Kelly and
Crimmns for high places. The former is
the boss candidate for City and County
Attorney and the latter for Police Judge.
Chairman Meyers has been rewarded for
his work with the nomination for Super
visor from the Second Ward
Surely the bosses are good to their own.
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PERSONAL NOTES.

j. NJ Bedell. wealthy rancher Of Colusa,
10 at the Grand.
L. f. Burgdorff OF the United States Navy
is registered at the Occidental.
Charles Rule, a well-known stock-raiser
of Duncans Mill. is at the Grand.
c. S. Smythe. prominent politician Of
San Rafael. is staying at the Grand.
r. A. Blake. a prominent attorney Of
Santa Barbara, is staying at the Grand.
Robert M. Clarke, a prominent attorney
of Carson. New. is registered at the Lick.
E. w. Fogg a wealthy banker of Oroville,
is registered at the Palace, with his wife.
Dr. P. p. burst, father Of San Franchises
City Attorney. is registered at the Lick,
from Wheatland.
r. B. Marshall and j. w. Dobbins OF the
United States Geological Survey are stay
ing at the Occidental.
Hermann Schoumoeffel. son of former
officer of customs at Shanghai. has arrived
in this city from abroad.