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UNITED STATES.

John d. Nichols, an time news
paper man of Denver, committed
suicide June Z. He was at one time
owner of the Indianapolis Journal.
The Secretary of State at Wash
ington has received notice of the in
tention of the Russian Government
to raise the rank of it's mission here
to an embassy,
The American Medical Association
which has been in session at Milwau-
kee, has selected San Francisco as
the next place of meeting James
+. Hibbard of Richmond, Ind, was
chosen president.
James Gordon Bennett, proprietor
of the New York Herald, was dan
gerously injured by falling from
coach June 6, at Paris. He contin-
ued to grow worse and surgical
operation became necessary June 8.
The doctor states that his condition
is not so serious as to cause alarm.
Lieutenant Thorwald Fritsche of
the royal Danish navy, who has come
to this country for the purpose of
beginning a three years service in
the American navy, is said to be the
first naval officer of foreign power
to receive permission to enter the
navy OF the United States.
Secretary Carlisle has appointed
Worthington Ford of Brooklyn, N.
Y, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics
in the Treasury Department. Dur
ing the last Cleveland administra-
tion Ford served as Chief of the Bu-
reau of Statistics of the Department
of State. Mr.. Ford is worth nearly
81, 600, 900.
AS a result of arsenic poisoning
five members of the family of J. w.
Hibbard of Chicago, are lying critic
ally ill at their home. The victims
were attacked on June by acute
suffering Immediately after lunch,
and it is supposed the tea served
contained arsenic. The domestic
who prepared the tea is being
watched by the police.
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All wood that is more than two
years old should be cut out of the
currant.-Farm Life.
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France. He was even compelled to re-
sign his lieutena1lt's commission in the
army, but did not have to leave France,
as many other princelings did. EIe is a
handsome and stalwart man, six inches
taller than his great-uncle, the famous
Corsican, and made favorable impress
sion on all he met in America. He
crossed the continent, went up to Brit
ish Columbia and returned by way of
Winnipeg and Chicago. -~... #.
In New York and Chicago alike Prince
Roland took deep interest in social
studies He read very interesting pa
per before the international congress Of
anthropology on Surinan and made {.
short address on the Laps, among whom
he had Travelled two months. He also
presented to the American Academy of
Anthropology copies Of his books to the
number of five. He has no political as
pirations whatever and is wholly de
voted to science.
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into q panic over its possible facilitatiol
q bridge went quietly. on, however, and
in 1889 presented the results Of their
completed survey.
Their plan was for a bridge "a miles
long, from Forkestone to Ambleteuse,
with | IS piers and maximum depth oi
178 feet. Continued surveys have shown
q much better route-from Foreland,
near Dover, to Cape Blanc Nez, near
Calais. The bridge there need be but 20
miles long, with piers as aforesaid and
greatest depth of 116 feet. The spans
will measure respectively $50 and 800,
700, 1000, 1900 and 1000 feet, and in
termediate lengths, the. longest over the
deepest water to facilitate navigation,
and the piers bordering the ship chan
nels will be Illuminated at night to guard
against accidents. Through all it's cen
tral sections the bridge will be goo feet
above the water.
It is estimated that at least half the
travel and traffic now crushing the chan
mel would at once seek the bridge, MAX
ing 100000 tons and 100000 passen-
gers yearly and that it would pay from
the start. The system of construction
is to be the same as that of the famous
bridge over the Filth of Forth. The
company was organized in 1884, and as
all the difficulties interposed by govern
ment are now overcome the promoters
promise speedy progress. Of course it
will be by far the greatest bridge in the
world.
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oAAs
upper Congo us well as the country lying
between them and has enabled the pro.
moters of the Congo Free State to com
plete the map Of their possessions.
But it was at terrible cost. The Del
commune and Bi;a expedition traverseG
an immense region where, owing tt
devastating wars, the natives had plant
ed no crops for two or three years, anG
general famine prevailed. Captain Bi"
died last August. Captain Stairs dlec
soon after reaching the coast. His com
panion, Captain Bodson, was killed, Il:
were Captain Hak;lnsson and his con
tingent of 12 men, and Of the total com
pany nearly half died Of fatigue ane
starvation. Their most important dis
covery perhaps is that the great prov.
ince of Katanga, which lies 5000 OF
5000 feet above sea level, is remarkably
fertile and healthful for Europeans an;
contains valuable gold mines as we'll al
copper deposits, which were evidently
worked many centuries ago.
The true source Of the Congo was
found to be in the highlands near Lake
Tanganyika. Thence flows the rive1
C',ambesi into Lake Bans sueolo, and out
of that lake runs the. main head Of the
Luapula, which, says Captain Delcom
mune, is the Congo, being twice as larg
as its largest afluent. For nearly threS
years he has been exploring that region
and various supposed streams and lakes
are henceforth to be omitted from the
map and the real ones substituted. II
getting down from its highland sources
tho Lu;laba, main tributary OF the Lua
pula, or Congo, descends 1900 feet in 81
miles through great canyon much like
that of the Colorado.
While Captain Delcommune traverset
the intermediate country Captain Biz
stuck to the streams and mapped ou
their course. One of theirmost pleasan
duties was to present to Chief Chitanb'
the presents sent by the Royal Geo
graphical society for his kindness in aid
ing the transportation Of Livingstone
body to the coast. They also set up th
tablet furnished by Livingstone's daugh
ter at the place where her fathers hear
was buried.
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Superintendent Powell Of the Wash
ington public schools and DR.. Harris of
the bureau Of education wish to find by
actual experience whether or not there
can be established any certain relation
between the physical and mental devel-
opment Of the children in the various
grades, and for this purpose there will
be taken a series Of measurements Of
about 10000 Of the school children, un-
der the supervision of the director OF
physical training.
Miss Stoneroad, the teacher, has made
a study Of the systems of physical meas
urenent in use in the gylnnasiums and
schools throughout the United States
and Germany, besides having done Al
good deal Of experimental work in the
same line, and the results Of her expert
ments will be embodied in the series Of
measurements to be taken in the public
schools Of Washington, which will i'll
clude the height. weight, chest measure
ment and some cranial measurements.
besides a series of experiments as to
nervous sensibility. These last consist
principally in ascertaining at what dis
tance apart the child is able to disti1l-
guish between the points of pair of
calipers touching the wrists. The re-
suits in this experiment are interesting,
some Of the subjects being able to dis
tinguish between points a very small
fraction of an inch apart, while others
require a distance of more than two
inches before they can tell without look
ing whether one DOilt on. two is touch
ing their wrist ashington Post.
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Increased Interest Tn the Study of History
In American Schools and Colleges and
Improved Methods Of Teaching-The In
huence of Professor White.
Authors and readers alike look eagerly
for the reports Of the July conventions
at Chicago, whittier writer's, librarians,
philologists and dabblers i'll folklore are
now taking their course from all parts
of the civilized world. Naturally Amer
leans will be most numerous, and Of
gatherings which may be called exclrl-
sively American by far the most impor.
tant and interesting will be the ninth
annual meeting Of the American Histor-
ical association.
No other or 5;t aization has gained in
general interest more rapidly than this
has in its nine years Of existence, and lit.
tie wonder, as its membership comprises
such men as DR.. Andrew D. White, for.
merly of Cornell; James B. Angel Of
Michigan university, Justin Winsor
Charles K. Adams, Hon. George Bouri
not, Hon. John Jay and many Others
scarcely inferior in reputation, the tota
making nearly roo of the most thorough
scholars and earnest searchers after
truth in the world. And of all these
DR.. White is probably entitled to tht
first honor for having led the way il
making history science in American
colleges.
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DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE. records prove.
He was brevet colonel at the age of Is,
though unattached to any regiment, and
was commissioned lieutenant colonel OF
light dragons in 1S42, when he was but
23. By the time he was 26 he was q ma
jor general, and at 81 he was a full
fedged general, having seen his first &C.
tive service during the Crimean cam
paign from 1854 to 1855.
But during these years of rapid ad.
vancement the duke was by no means
idle or inattentive to the duties attach
ing to the several positions he was called
upon to fill He devoted much time t.
mastering the details of the science of
war and with such good results that he
attained perfect knowledge Of duties
that had never come within his practical
experience. The terse and forcib1p
phrases in which he sums up the achieve
1nents and blunders of all ranks at army
maneuvers are not the words Of man
ignorant of military matters, though
they may be uttered in the manner OF
the martinez. The duke is certainly a
strict disciplinarian, but is full Of con
sideration for the health and comfort OF
his men, steadfastly refusing to have
them exposed to unnecessary hardships
for the sake Of mere display.
He was raised to the rank Of field mar
shall in 1862 and subsequently appointed
commander in chief, the appointment
being confirmed by royal patent in 1887
In 1888 he contracted morganatic mar
riage with All actress, Miss Feathcrstone
who has borne him several children
These are known by the family name oi
Fitz George and have no rights Of sue
cession to their fathers titles.
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AS YOUR VACATION
THREE QUESTIONS THAT ARE IN OR
DER AT THIS SEASON..

Growth of the Vacation Habit-Change the
One Thing Needful-Sensible Vacation
and Observation-Disclosures of n Sea voy,
age-A Log Cabin Outing.
copyright, 1893. by American Press Associa
toni
when do you take your vacation?"
Where are you going this year?'
"How long will you be away?'
If you are not asked these three ques'
tions at leastsonce a day at this time OF
the year, it is very strange, for the yaca
ton nabit has got to be very strong il
America and has been increasing yea1
by year for several decades-increasing
as a srusty old father of my acquaint
ance who has to pay for the vacations 0!
large family of grown and half grow
sons and daughters put it the other day
with great virulence."
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DIR. JAMES B. ANGELL
colleges.

At the sixth annual meeting of the as
sociation. held in Washington city i'll
1889, President Charles K. Adams of
Cornell rendered IL high compliment tc
his predecessor by a simple statement of
the admitted facts that down to 1857 the
study of history in colleges was no more
than a dry and formal textbook affair
and that in 20 years thereafter it took
high rank among the independent
courses.
In October, 1857, the students at Ann
A1bor, Mich, We're surprised and not a
little amused to see seated among the
professors q very young and fair gentle
man of strilzingly modest mien whom
one Of them had just addressed on the
campus with the current satirical ques
tions: 'Going to enter freshman, ell:
Classical? Well, look out for old Boise
(Greek proiessor)! He's your toughest
pill"
1t was the new professor of history and
literature, Andrew Dickson White, who
had been graduated from Yale in 1853,
had passed three years in Europe, first at
Paris and Berlin as Il slstuaent, and then
at ST. Petersburg as all attache OF the
American legation, and had then devot-
ed Il year at Yale to historical studies.
He was even then but 25 years old and
so very youthful looking that the sopho-
more who ''chaifed' him declared that
he took him to be ''17 or thereabouts.
In five years he had made history the
favorite study in the University Of Michi-
gan.
About 1870 all the colleges seemed
moved with a desire to raise history to
higher rank in their curricrla, and in
1881 Cornell for the first time gave the
entire service of one professor to that
subject, Professor Moses Colt Tyler being
the man. At Cambridge seven profess
ors and teachers are now employed, and
eighteen courses are offered; at Yale two
OF three professors are engaged in this
work and at Cornell four. At Johns
Hopkins Il different system was adopted
the plan being to encourage independent
work Finally, in 1884 the present as
sociation was organized, and its progress
has been phenomcnally rapid.
DR.. james Burrill Angel, president Of
the association, also president of Michi-
gan university, was born in Scituate,
R. l., Jan. 7, 1927, and was graduated
from Brown university in 1850. Since
that date he has divided his time almost
equally between university work and the
life of a literary man and a diplcmatist.
DR.. Justin Winsor, a former president
of the association, has survived the rather
savage attacks made on him for denying
originality Of design to Columbus ant.
has proved to his critics that they have
no small man to deal with. He is among
the most learned Of photographers and
as editor of a Narrative and Critical
History of America has Il high rank
among historians The eminent George
Bancroft was also president Of the asso-
citation, J. II. BEADLE.
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tically in line with the stern post and
thus kept from injury. If the wheel
should get injured, however, it can be
raised to the deck through we'll in the
stern and another lowered in it's place.
Captain Henry Bartlett, who will COM
mand the vessel, has been conspicuously
successful as il sealer and a fisherman,
though he is not yet 30 years old. His
father and grandfather were famous
sealers before him. and he made his first
trip when he was but IA years old. When
he was II, he was second in command of
the steam sealer Panther. Since then he
has been in command OF the steamers
Nimrod, Neptune, Hector and Algerine
and has not only made successful sealing
trips in each OF them, but has sailed them
across the Atlantic and up the Mediter-
ranean. Last year during a sealing
cruise he circumnavigated the island of
Newfoundland, something unheard of III
recent years.
Soon afterward he was offered the
command OF Il new ship to be built and
equipped under his sole direction. He
accepted and went to England to have
the vessel built. There, however, he saw
the gunboat Alyerine, which the navy de-
partment had for sale. He purchased her
and had her altered at Dundee, brought
her across to- Newfoundland and made
fairly good catch in season of almost
total failure.
Captain Bartlett is nearly 6 feet tall,
Of muscular, well made figure, frank
counte1lance and cheerful disposition.
IT, 1-,,o,,,e ,,f,nl- cbno1 and cJ7r,.ant
to the northern end Of Labrador and
has had sufficient experience with leo
navigation to make up for his lack of ac-
quaintance with the arctic region. Dun
ply, the second mate of. the Kite; Lar
ry," the steward, and a number of the
crew sail with the Falcon on this voyage.
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try. The prince is a grandson of the
Lucien who was brother of the great
Napoleon and a son Of that Pierre Bona
parte who shot Victor Noir. Prince
Peter, as that Pierre was called by Amer
leans in Paris, was the black sheep Of
the Bonaparte family and was the only
one of them forbidden access to the Tuil-
cries by his cousin, Louis Napoleon.
Prince Peter lived many years with a
modiste who formerly kept a shop in
Bond street, London, and their two
children, Roland and Jeanne, We're born
some years before their parents con-
cluded to marry. After the death of the
prince, his widow, known as Princess
Peter, lived in poverty till she sue
ceeded in marrying her son Roland to
Mile. Blanc, daughter of the proprietor
of the gaming tables at Monte Carlo.
She died few years ago, and Prince
Roland is rich.
He is only prince by title, however,
as the Bonapartes hold no rank in
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THE CHANNEL BRIDGE.
Revival of the Project to Connect Englan
and France.

Revival of the Project to Connect England
and France. -
The great international bridge be.
tween England and France is to be 20
miles long, be supported by o0mammoth
piers, cost about $245, ,000,0 900 and be II
years in course of construction. All
this if it is ever built, of which many
good people have their doubts, though
the best engineers have pronounced it
practicable, and the Channel Bridge and
Railway company, now we'll organized,
declares that the money will be forth
coming.
It is very old scheme. AT first the
proposition was laughed at as u mere
chimera. Next few engineers advo-
Gated it and were thought to be joking.
It was even charged that they had stolen
the idea from Munchausen's description
of his bridge to Africa and were perpe-
trating {; huge hoax on the British pub
lie. A tunnel was then talked of fol-
many years, and British statesmen got
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Nobility.

True worth is being, not seeming,
In doing each day that goes by
Some little good, not in the dreaming
Of great things to do by and by,
For whatever men say in blindness
And spite OF the fancies Of youth,
There's nothing so kingly as kindness
And nothing so royal as truth.
We get back our mete as we measure
We cannot do wrong and feel right,
Nor can we give pain and feel pleasure.
For justice avenges each slight.
The air for the wing Of the sparrow,
The bush for the robin nnd wren,
But always the path that is narrow
And straight for the children Of men.
Wis not in the pages of story
The heart of it's ills to beguile,
Though he who makes courtship to glory
Gives all that he hath for her smile,
For when from her heights he has won her,
Alas, it is only to provo
That nothing's SO sacred as honor
And nothing so loyal as love!
We cannot make bargains for blisses,
Nor catch them, like fishes, in nets,
And sometimes the thing our life misses
Helps more than the thing which it gets.
For good lieth not in pursuing,
Nor gaining of great nor OF small,
Bit just in the doing. and doing
AS we would be done by, is all.
Through envy, through malice, through
hating
Against the world. early and late,
No jot of our courage abating-
Our part is to work and to wait.
And slight is tho sting of his trouble
Whose winnings are less than his worth.
For he who is honest is noble,
Whatever his fortunes or BIRTH
Ali Cnrey.
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HE THREATENS TO BOOK US.

Prince Roland Bonaparte Will Write
About Ills Experiences In America.
Prince Roland Lucien Pierre Napoleon
Bonaparte, after declaring himself de-
lighted with his tour in America, has re-
turned to France with the fell purpose
of writing book about us and our coun-
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isl1 army, the
rapid promotion
which fell to his
lot during the
early years Of lis
connection with
the service. Such
quick advance
1llent, like kiss.
ing, goes only by
favor, and that
the duke was ex-
ceptionally ia.
yOred the army
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THE FALCON AND HER CAPTAIN.
They VIII Take Lieutenant Peary to the
Coast of Greenland.


Coast of Greenland.
The steam sealer Falcon Of St. Johns,
Newfoundland, which is to convey the
Peary expedition to Greenland, is con-
siderably larger and faster than the
Kite, which performed q like service fo1
the previous expedition. The Falcon is
100 feet long, sG4 feet beam and u feet
2 inches depth of hold. The Kite was
III feet long, 26 feet beam and l3 feet
deep in the hold. The Falcon is admit.
tedly the strongest and fastest of the
sealing fleet. She is bark rugged and can
sail almost as fast as she steams. Her
average speed is $ knots, while that OF
the Kite was b1lt g. or 7.
The Falcon is fitted with a regular
2-bladed whaling propeller. When MI
der sail or in danger of being nlpped in
the ice, the blades can he placed vcr.
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that lie was hon,
o1el in Brussels
with Il great ova
ton and banquet
and King Leopold
conferred medals
on him and sew,
eral of his com,
panio1ls. Though
but 50 years old
Delconllnune has
travelled many
years in Africa
has KIP lore {
nearly all the af'
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There is nothing we cannot overcome.
Say not thy evil instinct is inherited,
Or that some trait Unborn makes thy whole life
forlorn
And calls down punishment that is not mer-
tied.
Back of thy parents and grandparents lies
The Great Eternal VIII! That, too, is thine
Inheritance-strong, beautiful, divine,
Such lever of success for who tries.
Pry up thy faults with this great lever-will!
However deeply bedded in propensity,
However firmly set. tell thee firmer yet
La that vast power that comes from truths
immensity
Thou art a part of lnat strange world, say!
Its forces lie within thee, stronger far
Than all thy mortal sins and frailties are.
Believe thyself divine and watch and pray.
There is noble height thou canst not climb
All triumphs may be thine in times futurity
If whatsoeer thy fault thou dost not faint or
halt,
But lean upon the staff of Gods security.
Earth has no claim the soul cannot contest;
Know thysef part of the Eternal Source,
And nnught can stand before thy spirits
force;
The souls divine inheritance is best.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
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Aduna Never Was Il Boy.

Adum Never Was IL Boy.
OF all the men the world has seen
Since Time his rounds began,
There's one pity every day
Earth's first and foremost man.
And then think what fun he missed
By failing to enjoy
The wild delights of youthtime, for
He never was boy.
He never stubbed his naked toe
Against /, root or stone:
He never with u pin hook tished
Along the brook alone;
He never sought the bumblebee
Among the daisies coy,
Nor felt its business end, because
He never was n boy.
He never hooky played, nor tied
The ever ready pail
Down in the alley all alone
TO trusting Fido's tail.
And when he home from swimming
came
His happiness to cloy
No slipper interfered, because
He never was a boy.
He never cut q kite string, no!
Nor hid an Easter egg;
He never ruined his pantaloons
A-playing humble peg;
He never from the attic stole
A coon hunt to enjoy,
To find tho ''old man" watching. for
He never was Il boy.
pity him. Why should not2
even drop tear;
He did not know how much he missed:
He never will, fear.
And wien the scenes Of ''other days"
My growing nd-employ
think of him-earth's only man
Who never was boy.
~ G. Hnrbauph