The weekly intelligencer., 1892-03-26
CURRENT EVENTS.

Four thousand men are at work on
the Worlds Fair buildings.
The operation of the eight-hour law
is to be investigated by congressional
Lake Erie has been frozen this year
from the American to the Canadian
shore; the first time in six years.
An opal on. exhibition in San Fran
cisco weighs seven hundred carats aud
is worth about ten thousand dollars.
The Minneapolis exposition directors
have engaged the Innes band, of New
York, for next autumn. There are
forty members.
The moral sentiment of India is ris-
ing against the opium trade. Ii 1t
could make itself felt throughout En-
gland something would come of it.
The territorial convention lately held
IN Salt Lake City adopted memorial
to congress against the admission to
on the ground that the
poIygamous Mormon cannot be trusted. |
An amendment is proposed to the
constitution of the United States giving
the congress exclusive power TO legis
late on marriage and divorce, the OBJ
ject being uniformity throughout the
country.
James, son of Senator Fair, of Cali
fornia, died suddenly from heart fail
ure, February l2 He had been under
bi-chloride of gold treatment and spoke
of himself with confidence as cured
man.
Custom limits the empress of China
to her palace grounds. Having desire
To assist working girls through the es-
tablishing silk factory, to be within
her own supervision, she has had it
built within the palace borders.
Nebraska's contribution to Russia
was two millions of bushels of corn.
Yet 1t is not twenty years since many
experienced farmers, practical men
and scientific, ridicnled the thought
that corn could be raised in that state.
Alice Green, n Washington belle in
war times, who married Il son of En-
peror lturbide, has died of disease con-
tracted while nursing her son in pris-
on, To which he was sentenced Il year
for speaking disrespectfully of Presi-
dent ,DIaz.
Professor Langley, of the Smithso-
tomb of the founder not long since in
Genoa 1t is an obscure cemetery and
neglected. He pledged small sum
for the perpetual care of the tomb, and
this plege the regents have ratified.
The tramp profession is provided for
in Germany by work-stations, half a
day part. If the tramp goes on the
road after breakfast and has no money,
he must walk to the next station, and
then work in the afternoon to pay his
way. Half a days work is usually
equal to meals and lodging.
| Uncle Toms Cabin was first publish
ed about forty years ago. The institu-
ton against which it was an argument
disappeared thirty years ago, and many
thought that the occasional literature
would be buried with it, but the River
side Press is printing two new editions,
one of them numbering 160, 200 copies.
The Massachusetts, board of charity
recommends legislation in amendment
of the laws relating to settlement, SO
that an illegitimate child may follow
any settlement which may be acquired
by its mother during its minority, in
stead of being confined, as at present,
to the settlement, if any, which she
NAV have at the time of its birth.
The will of John Crear, giving three
millions of dollars for library, has
been sustained in Chicago. The court,
referring to the decision in New York
against the Tilden will, making like
gift, said that the practice in Illinois
! was different, being in favor of con-
Struing the law literally 50 rs to carry
ont the wishes of charitable testators.
j The emperor of Germany made one
of his Independent speeches at 4 ban
guet ~ fortnight since. Among Other
singular words were these: ~ will
conduct you into splendid times, ant
those who will not help me may n
well shake German dust from thei
feet" This sounds little like a ban
quet inspiration, yet it is in keepins
with the spirit of the youthful ruler.
Warner Miller is of the opinion tina
the building of the Nicaragua canal i
the most important enterprise demand
ing the attention of the world, and h
thinks that: il will be in rse within tel
years. In / be February Forum are tw
papers on the subject, giving one fai
understanding of the magnitude an
; worth of the undertaking, commercial
ly and political 'ly.
At the end of the first year of I'll
experiment among London's poore'
poor, General Bo, pth's enterprise ci
abled him to take C are of 4,5SO person
, at one time. Allow ing six months fC
the testing and training To some uSei'
employment, 3, l60 nm. .tortunates, incll
sive of many who had gone astr''
morally, were given ci Iince. MOI Il
will be reformed, but hunaireds of thel
will be saved from the prison anu I'll
gibbet.
The Worlds Fair conn. MISSION II;
sent To the government the .Nnhnai II
port, showing what has been done an
, what is To be done President llarr
I son, transmitting the report to con
!, gresS, favOrs further encouragement
the fair, on the part of the nation
Illinois having fulfilled all her pledge
II and foreign nations having manitesi'
4 great interest in the exposition. IN
II is one of the things that everyone III
., derslands. The people will endorse
loan or u subscription.