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CoccHs. the Blind Plant,

It may seem Incredible to some Of
my readers, writes the 'sNotes for the
Curious" editor of the st. Louis Re
public, but have from the lips of one
Of the best opticians west Of the Mis-.
sissippi that twenty-five per cent. OF
the $4,000 or 60, 900 blind persons in
the United States were rendered so by
the growth of a remarkable fungus
plant which seems to be perfectly at
home in the human eye. The little
plant which causes this terrible afaic.
tion belongs to the lowest order Of
the fungi and is single-celled organ
ism known as coccus. It propogates
simply by division-that is, a single
cell, growing to It's full size, splits in.
to two or more, usually FOUR perfect
plants, these again subdividing as be.
fore.
These plants grow upon the external
covering of the eye, and soon destroy
the clear medium 80 necessary to Wis
ion. The propagation of the little
mischiefmaker is very rapid, and it's
growth in the tissues covering the eye
ball causes much irritation. cutting
off the supply Of nutriment, and re.
sulting in congestion. So far as is
known it is spread only by infection,
and must be planted directly upon
suitable soil before it can grow. This,
in brief, is what is known as the bac-
terial cause of blindness.
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Indestructibility of the Diamond.

For thousands of years after the
discovery of the diamond it was be-
ieved to be indestructible, as far as
acids and fire were concerned. As re-
spects the acids, I believe that it is
still maintained that there are none
known that will dissolve it. In the
eleventh century Bishop Rennes
wrote the following concerning the
diamond in his poem, '"The Lspida-
RUM"
Hardness inyincible which naught can tame,
Untouched by steel and unconquered by
fame.
The last words of the second line
are not true under all circumstances
If air be freely admitted to the re-
tort, diamond will burn like piece
of bituminous coal as soon as the tenn.
perature is raised above 5000 degrees
of the Fahrenheit scale. Such ex'
cess1ve heat cannot, of course, be
measured by Fahrenheit thermome-
ters, but is recorded on an instrument
called pyrometer. But in regard to
the fusibility of the diamond, while
the experiment has proved thst it is
instantly reduced to ashes If SUBJ
iected to a heat of 5000 in On open re-
tort, counter experiments also prove
that if the air be excluded no known
degree of heat will materially affect
it,-St. Louis Republic.
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WORDS OF WISDOM

Success treads on the heels OF every
right effort. Smiles. 6.
Two stars keep not their motion in
one sphere--Shakespeare.
Politeness costs little and yields
much.-Mme. de Lambert.
The way to speak with power is to
speak honestly.-E. L. Magoon.
Live as though life were earnest,
and life will be so.-Owen Meredith.
Self-denial is indispensable to a
strong character. Theodore Parker.
There is no sweeter repose than that
which is brought with labor.-Cham-
fort.
A man, like watch, is to be valued
for his manner of going.-William
Penn.
Health, which is the first consider
alton after all, for what is wealth with
out it?
A man finds himself seven years
older the day after his marriage
Bacon.
He who thinks his place below him
will certainly be below his place.
Saville.
The public mind is educated quickly
by events-slowly by Arguments
Bryson.
Sow good services; sweet remem-
brances will grow from them.-Mme.
de Stael
Never mind where you work; let
your care be for the work ITSELF
Spurgeon.
Vanity makes US do more things
against inclination than reason
Rochefoucauld.
What is taken from the fortune, OIL
so may haply be so much lifted from
the soul.-Bovee.
The truly valiant dare everything
except doing any other body an in
iury.-Sir P. Sidney.
The violence done US by others is
often less painful than that which We
do to ourselves. -Rochefoucauld
When we are out of sympathy with
the young, then I think our work in
this world is over.-G. Macdonald.
No soul is desolate as long as there
is human being for whom it can feel
trust and reverence.-George Eliot.
To preach more than half an hour
man should be an angel himself OF
have angels for hearers. -Whitefeld.
We take greater pains to persuade
others that We are happy than in en-
deavoring to be 80 ourselres-Gold-
smith.
There are NO greater wretches in the
world than many of those whom peo-
pie IN general take to be happy
Seneca
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THE NEWS EPIT0MIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

TIE trial of Professor 81. P. Smith, Of Lane
Seminary, for heresy, was begun before the
PRESBYTERIAN General Assembly at Saratoga,
N. Y.
GOVERNOR GREEyHALaE and staff and
Mayor Matthews, with distinguished COM
panv. we're handsomely entertained by Ad'
mjral hopkins on board the British flagship
Blake, in Boston Harbor. It was the return
of the Admiral's call on the day before.
ERIC ER1soS, framer. thirty years old,
was killed and three others injured IN the
collapse of a storage warehouse In process
of reconstruction in Brooklyn, n. Y.
EDWARD BULL, of Kearny, N. j., jealous
OF his wife, killed her by cutting her TIN oat
and then tried to take his own LIE. De
fatally injured himself.
BROKER DAVID G. RANDALL accidentally
shot and killed Richard Mercer on the PROV
idence Or. u Board Of Trade.
The sixty-flfth anniversary Of the Brook
lyn Sunday-school Union was celebrated IN
that city by $4,000 children. The chlldren
marched through the principal streets ar
rayed in pretty dresses and carrying ban
ners and tiags. Through miles on streets
and avenues. made gay with dags ana
streamers, 6OOO children Of the Twenty-thir1
and TwentT-fourth Wards, New York City,
also took their May walk.
ABA1r1MoRE and Ohio express train ran
into rock which had fallen on the tracks
at Pine Grove, Penn. Two men were killed
and one fatally hurt.
The Presbyterian General Assembly, In
session at Saratoga, N. Y, BY vote OF 394
to IS, denied the appeal OF Professor Henry
Preserved Smith, convicted OF heresy. OF
Lane Theological Seminary, the New York
City delegation voting solidIy against him
AFTER an almost riotous au-night session
the New Jersey Legislature took recess un-
til October 2.
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Riotinr Elsewhere.

dispatch from La Sale, ILL.,, says La
salle has passed through the experience OF
being all day in the hands OF mob OF strik-
ms miners. All day long they had things
their own way, and when Sheriff Taylor and
his handful OF deputies sought to put q re-
straining hand upon their actions they
turned upon him and gave battle.
Not one OF the deputies escaped injury,
and Sheriff Taylor and Deputies Walters,
Eoolihan and Deyere were dangerously, If
not fatally, injured.
when another force OF deputies arrested
three Of the ringleaders the Jail was entered
by sthe infuriated horde and the release OF
the men accomplished.
The FOREIGNERS were armed With all kinds
of deadly weapons and carried arms tull OF
rocks and clubs, and attacked the Saerlf
and his posse OF forty deputies.
The strikers opened fire and Il was re-
turned by the Sheriff and deputies, the latter
holding their own until all their ammunition
was used, when they were forced to fly for
safety.
The success Of the strikers in their riot
seemed to infuriate them untilthey lost their
heads completely. They then began parad-
ing the streets. bowling and raising pande-
conium.
About It's O'Clock p. m. two Of the ring
leaders were put under arrest by deputy
sheriffs and hurried through the HARRISON
House and taken to jail through the oack
alleys.
In five minutes mob OF 1000 men had
surrounded the hotel and threatened to
blow 1t up unless the prisoners were pro-
- duced. The rildest excitement prevailed,
and all the guests of the hotel left for quar-
ters more safe. The prisoners were 1oer-
stad to avoid bloodshed.
The Pittenger and Davis mine, In Centralia,
H., which had been working for several
days with about thirty men, was visited 6y
dedication OF strikers from Duquoln and st.
Johns mines. The miners attacked and bad.
" damaged the works. The shalt was filed
With loose material, such as trucks, cars and
tools. The bening on the machinery was cut
and the oil-cups knocked from all the shaft
ing. Several wheels were broken and the
machinery rendered. useless. Every pane OF
glass in the entire lot OF buildings was
smashed. The damage Is estimated ct about
$4,000. The men came from Duquoin on q
freight train, which they captured. AMI forced
Engineer Charles Stewart to haul them to
Centralia.
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FLAG TORN DOWN.
Drunken Members of the Queens Own
Rifles Insult the Stars and Stripes:

Drunken Members Of the Queens Own
Rifles Insult the Stars and Stripes:
An American flag was torn from the
United States Consulate at st. Thomas. On
tario, Canada, by soldiers OF the Queens
Own Rifles, OF Toronto.
The regiment had taken part IN the cele-
bration of the Queen's birthday in st.
Thomas, and in the evening members OF the
organization went about the city enjoying
themselves In noisy manner.
On reaching the Office OF United States
Consul George J. Willis, which Is over q
drug store at the intersection OF two promi-
nent streets, party OF about 100 drunken
soldiers noticed the American flags which
had been used TO decorate the Consulate Of
fee In honor OF the day.
Two or three Of the soldiers stuck their
heads Into the drug store and commanded
the druggist to take down the flags. They
evidently had no idea the place was the
United States Consulate Office and imagined
the druggist had hung out the Stars and
Stripes.
One member Of the Queens Own then got
on the shoulders of companion, third
climbed on the other two, got hold OF an
American flag and tore 1t down.
The drunken volunteers were about to
pull down q second Of the flags when q
policeman came along and stopped them.
The flag which had been torn down the SOL
diers tore into shreas, pinning the pieces on
their breasts.
The news ofthe outrage reached Leuten-
ant-Colonel r. Fl. Hamilton, commandant Of
Queens Own, who at once waited upon the
United Stutes Consul and spologized for the
act Of his men.
Mr.. Willis, however, would not accept the
apology. saying his duty required that the
matter would have to be reported to his su-
periors. He notified the consular agent at
Ottawa and Secretary OF State at Washing
tnn
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MINERS SHED BLOOD.
Strikers Seize q Train, and Have a
Fight With Deputies.

The striking miners, after holding a tur-
bulent mass-meeting near Victor, COL,
withdrew into the hills, only to re-
appear about midnight Sixty OF them
captured the construction train, awoke
the sleeping engineer and ordered him to
run them down the track to Wilbur
Station, where the deputies were resting In
their special train They said they wanted
to blow up bridge to prevent the deputies
getting too near. Near Wilbur they came
Upon several deputies guarding bridge.
Both sides opened fire. William Rabideau,
a deputy. shot two or three miners. and was
killed BY a bullet wound near the heart
Rabideau was driven out Of the camp weeks
ago, and was especially obnoxious to the
leaders. In this skirmish Hiram Crowley
and two other miners and q deputy, whose
name is undown, we're killed. Four miners
were taken prisoners and conveyed to Flor
ence. The miners returned with their stolen
train, while the deputies retired further
down the road to await relnforcements.
Governor Waite ordered out the militia to
suppress the rioters at Cripple Creek, though
In doing it he took strong sides against the
deDuties.
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South and West.

THE great New Orleans (La.) resort, West
End, on Lake Pontchartrain, has been de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, 100000.
THERE was conflict between striking
miners and deputy sheri,s at Cripple Creek,
Col. State militia were ordered out IN Ill1-
nois to prevent riotinG.
TEE Congressional nomination in Colonel
Breckinridge's district in Kentucky will be
decided by primaries to be held on Septem-
Der Is. This is o victory for Breckinridge.
BIZ a cave-in at the bluffs near the wharyes,
Tacoma, Wash, Major W. T.. Gillespie,
we'll known mining man, and Arnold Bern
berger, stationary engineer, aged forty-fve
were killed.
Two colored men who had robbed a coun-
try store and were tried in Clinton, Miss,
were taken from jail and hung.
Miss MAY HELEN CLEsrSs, seventeen years
old, came 10 Joliet Qll.) Penitentiary with
her mother and a wedding license, and was
married BY Chaplin J. D. Roth to John
Heating, convict No. 1904. Ten minutes
later Heating was h1rried back to his work,
and the bride took the train home to Chi
cago with her mother.
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LATER NEWS.

TIE Presbyterian Assembly adjourned az
Saratoga, N. Y, after selecting Pittsburg as
the place Of their next meeting protest
was made against the admission OF Utah as
State.
A PROTECTIVE dam, built by contractors,
near Medina, N. Y, was blown up BY farmers
In the vicinity, who believed that 1t caused
the flooding OF their farms.
KENNETH F. SUTHERLAND, Gravesend's
fugitive ex-Justice, returned to Brooklyn,
N. Y, from Canada and surrendered TO
Kings Countys Sheriff. Eight indictments
for felony were found against him,
CoLoSEy BREcK1NR1DaE's bill OF excep-
tions to the verdict In the breach OF promise
suit was rejected by Judge Bradley at WASH
ington on technicality.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND appointed james
q. Gore, of Virginia, to be Commissioner
General OF the United States to the 1nterna-
tional Exposition In Antwerp.
THE Senate confirmed the nomination OF
Charles D. Walcott, Of New York, to be d.
rector of the Geological Survey, and william
Myckler, to be Collector Of Customs for tne
District OF St. Augustine, Fla.
TEE first Siamese Minister to the United
States and Great Britain, Maha Yotha, ar
rived at Washington to awaitthe proper time
for presenting bis credentials to the Presi-
dent before going on to London.
ADAM formed by lsnd-slip in the river
at Charkkupri. K'''-, north Of India, burst
recently and fot | the villages In the
valley for distance Of twenty miles. More
than 200 persons were drowned.
PRINCE CHARLES, OF Hohenzollern-Sigmar
ineen, and Princess Josephine, daughter OF
the Count of Flanders and niece OF the King
of the Belgians, have been married In Brus-
sels.
GOVERNOR PArT1soN, OF Pennsylvania. is
sued warning proclamation to the rioters
OF the coke regions.
GOVERNOR MCKINLEY, OF Ohio, ordered
out the militia to prevent strikers from
interfering with coal trains.
TIE monument erected on Libby bill,
Richmond, Va, to commemorate tho SER
vices of the Confederate soldiers and sailors,
was unveiled with appropriate ceremonies,
at which Governor O'Ferrall, General Wado
Hampton and other prominent persons were
present. Ex-Governor Fitzhugh Lee was
chief marshal OF the military and civic pro-
cession.
S1GSoR De FE11cE, the Italian Socialist
Deputy, has been sentenced BY the Palermo
court to twenty years Imprisonment for his
connection with the recent Scilian riots.
ONE person was killed and more than fifty
wounded In riot in Sofia. Bulgaria, pre-
cipitated by the resignation OF ~ SIAM
buloff's ministry.
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A VICIOUS STALLION. =

Farmer Garside Injured While At
tempting to Snbdue the Animal
Mikon Garside, a farmer, living In Lower
Preakness, n j.. was attacked and seriously
injured by q stallion on his farm.
He released two Of his stations to pasture
and their playful pranks soon became
serious fight. A battle Of teeth followed, the
stallicns biting and striking each other with
their fore feet.
Garside attempted to separate them, when
one turned upon him and bit him In the right
leg, chewing the muscles OF the calf clear to
the bone. he tore his leg from the animars
mouth.
The stallion reared and In dropping upon
all fours seized Garside's right arm, chewing
the thumb from the hand and laying the
right wrist joint bare. The hand had to De
amputated
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A CLOSER BOND.

Wants to Cement the Worlds Two
Greatest Nations.
The British warships sailed rom bosom,
Mass, tho Blake for Bar Harbor, Me-, and
the Tartar for st. John, New Brunswick.
Admiral Hopkins said TO newspaper man
'Tell the people Of Boston particularly,
and the people of the United States gener-
ally, that when the New York cele-
bration was over last year I said
to myself, God permitting, I will
stop over at Boston next spring and do my
quota toward cementing what I felt was
blossoming into closer bond OF union in
the hearts of the two greatest nations Of the
world, England ana AnsrieaEE Il snsaI anu nii
too short time, and we leave with that re.
gret which marks ths parting, not only OF
kin but blood relatives"
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Washington.

THE President, accompanied By Secre-
taries Carlisle and Gresham and Captain
Roddley Evans, Of the Lighthouse Board, ar
rived at Washington on the lighthouse ten
der Violet from their outing in North Caro-
lima. He and his party shot 314 snipe and
caught lot Of blueffsh.
SENATOR PERKINS introduced In the Senate
O bill intended to grant the use OF Spring
field rifles and their equipments now on
hand and not needed for use by the regular
army to the militia Of the various States and
Territories.
TIE President nominated Christopher G.
Baldwin to be Naval Officer Of New York,
and John A. Sullivan to be Collector OF In
ternal Revenue for the Second District OF
New York.
THE special committee appointed to IN
restigate the charges Of attempted bribery
on the part of Charles ". Buttz submitted
their report to the Senate. Buttz Is found
by the committee to have made the attempt
at bribery, despite his denial, and Senators
Hunton and Kyle are exonerated from all
blame.
The United States Supreme Court upheld
section u of the Interstate Commerce law
and the Indiana Railroad Tax law.
MRS CLEVELAND, wife OF the President,
accompanied by her children and their
nurse and governess, returned to the White
House from Buffalo.
REPRESENTATIVE ". BoURKE COCHRAN tes-
tilted before the Senate Committee, which is
investigating the sugar scandal, that he mad
never said the Administration had informed
him that the sugar schedule must be passed
because OF the Trusts contributions to the
Democratic campaign fund.
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"Cage Blindness"

stCase blindness is the Western
name for 8 peculiar affection to which
Montana miners are subject. After
working in deep mines for a good
many years some miners, when they
come to the top to work, imagine
thev see the basket suspended in the
shaft ready to lower them down to
the bottom. The illusion is so abso-
lutely perfect that the poor, deluded
man, If alone, is sure to try to step
into the basket and he shoots through
the shaft to an awful death. Chicago
Herald.
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APPLE BLOSSOMS.

Apple blossoms, did she say,
Lining all the country way;
In the fields where waving grasses
Nod to every breeze that passes;
On the hillsides rough and steep,
sloping down where ripples creep,
Lazily and half asleep,
Ger the pond?
Apple blossoms grow DER all,
Peep from every garden wall,
And fulfil for her each day
Budded promises Of May.
Apple blossoms, did she say?
Apple blossoms, did she say2
All, but that Is far away
From the human tide on-driving,
Ever rushing, pushing, striving,
Sur2ing through the narrow street
Where the streams Of traffic meet;
From the tramp OF weary feet
In the town.
Stone walls rise on every side,
Skies themselves seem petrifled
With their stony leaden gray.
Yet, saw flower to-day a
Gould an apple blossom stray?
Roscoe C. E. Brown
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Corouerors Are Always Carnivorous.

Every conquering nation has been
carnivorous. The Romans, the Morse.
men, the Danes, the Saxons, the Eng
ish, tho Americans, are all great meat
eaters. There is something about a
flesh diet that makes O man martial in
spite of himself. The rice eating no.
tires of Hindostan had no chance at
all in the presence of the beef eating
English, just as the banana-fed island
ers of tho West Indies could not pre-
vail against the pork fed Spaniards. -
st, Louis Globe.Democ
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BULL FIGHTER HONORED.
Thousands Of People Admitted to the
Building Where His Body Lies.

The death ofthe matador, Espartero, who
was killed in q bull fight at Madrid, Spain,
has stirred the interest OF all classes to an
almost incredible eXteLt. Thousands OF
persons. from the highest to the lowest. were
admitted to the building where the body re-
posed. surro unded with tapers and watched
by matadors.
The Madrid authorities acceded to the re-
quest ofthe Senators and Deputies of Seville,
Espartero's home, that his body be en-
balmed and sent with guard OF matadors
to the city. Seville was even more stirred
than Madrid by the story of his tragic end,
and preparations were made there to bury
the body with high honors.
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GLADsTONE'S ORDEAL.
Cataract Removed From the Ex-
Premier's Right Eye.

Cataract Removed crOm Iho la
Premier's Right Eye.
Mr.. Gladstone's right eye was successfully
operated upon few days ago at London,
England.
Drs. Nettleship and Habershon attended
the distinguished patient at Lord Renders
house early In the morning, and some time
aiterwari they issued bulletin stating that
the eye had been operated upon for cataract
and that the operation was quite successful.
Mr.. Gladstone's health was we'll main
tanned after the operation, after which he
rested quietly in a darkened room.
The operation was short and no anesthetio
was used. Mr. Gladstone bore the pain with
much fortitude. All the members Of his fam
liz were present during the operation.
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Foreign.

TIE Queens seventy-hfth birthday wes
celebrated throughout England.
REAR ADMIRAL ERBES, Captain Mahan and
the officers OF the United States cruiser Chi
cago were entertained at great banquet In
London. Lord George Hamilton presiding.
PORTUGAL has apologized to Argentina In
settling the trouble relative to the seizure OF
Brazilian rebels who escaped from q Portu-
guese to an Argentine vessel.
CHOLERA Is raging tn the districts OF
Piock, Radom and Petrekof, in Russian Po-
land.
Mrs. JACKSON, Of Upper Economy. Nova
Scotia, became suddenly eand drowned
two OF her children.
Ar1RE-pAMp explosion occurred IN the An
iierlues mine near Charlerol, Beigium-
Eleven miners were killed outright and hVe
others were injured severely.
A SAs SALVADOR despatch says that the
Salvadoran rebels were routed with o loss Oh
over eight hundred men.
AT Gijon, on the Bay OF Blscay, an e1pfo-
sion on board the Norwegian steamer Nor.
den killed five persons and injured several
more,
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A BIG SUIT.

The French Republic Wants $1,000.
600 From the Worlds Fair.
Suit for 81, 100000 damages was begun in
the United States Circuit Court at Chicago,
H., by the French Republic against the
Worlds Columbian Exposition.
The litigation grows out OF the French
Governments claim for damages to exhibits
ofFrencn subjects injured during the Manu-
scturers' Building fire.