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The courier., 1894-05-26
THE COURIER
Is

hour the traveller Of hence ge the globe less
than caander month With the Trans Siberian railway first rate
order and its attendant steamships doing good
safe that adventurous traveller will under
take to dine in London the first Of month between May
and November gr the globe and dine again London the
last day of the month.
The journey around the world still perhaps serious under
taking but longer All persons
making it, and have round the world three four
times Engshmen employed China and Japan frequently make
their visits home to England by the United States and
return eastward from England their posts Americans
gradually becoming the travellers the world and
happens that Americans first trip abroad Of the
world In making such journey at leisure the traveller
fewer sudden and changes climate than might suppose
American travellers prefer the westward journey round the
world Leaving home in early autumn they through
before the cold weather India January
Egypt in February southern Europe the early spring. Eng
land France the late spn and early The traveller
eastward from London ordinarily late passes
winter the of Africa and Asia spring.
the continent before midsummer
and reaches London in the midst Of the
WILLIAM g. DERwENT
The courier., 1894-05-26
NOT YET.

The fellow extremely dfdent, and very much
with the girl
He had made half dozen attempts her
hand but on each occasion he had fallen short.
To add to the the
accept him the proposal in definite shape.
Even the mother willing lattery had
the datory tactics and Fabian policy of the
his coming often and staying late.
One night after three hours
delicate the part Of the girl he had
hand convnsvel dropped his mpeuous
onefth through mpassione appeal to her to be hs
mothers sounded clear in the night from the
stairs.
The youth stopped short. but held on
Mary the maternal voice queruous lis that young
there YETI"
Not yet mother replied Mary smiling sweey
of her Romeo, but he's getting there"
And two weeks later the cards wee eout.
The courier., 1894-05-26
AROUND THE WORLD.

w YHEN Jules Verne wrote "Around the World Eighty
Days the feat Of his hero deemed remarkable
Wv certainly unprecedented. Not many years later,
however young American Phneas
by almost days. and the founded upon
calls itself "Around the World in Sixty
matter of nobody made the journey
but Ghs the English traveller has done in about 60 days and
the prospectus that before the close Of the century the
made by ordinary Of transportation less than forty
The round the world eastward from London made
easily in from G6 to 6 days This that the ordinary
travel London the lst of July
ourneyng eastward his London about the m
Of September From London to Colombo Cyon eighteen days.
from Colombo Hong Kong fourteen days. thence with prob
able delay of day. Victoria c. days.
the continent to New York days and the Atlantic
with possible half delay by the swiftest ships
This foots days. and the possible and half days
delay be eliminated sixty There always the possibility
of gain crossing the Pacific the ships oftener early
than ate that ordinarily lucky might be made low
days All this pesuppoes that the traveller takes ordinary
transportation and special favors Should
ship companies and operate forward him he might
accomplish the journey three days less The best known
seventy days at Of about $780, This exactly
the world ticket sleeping berhs
and s3 day for food and ng extras The trip thus made
luxurous might be cheapened by economical traveller
When the Transsberan railway shall have been completed
Vavosok there will be all rail route Euape and Asia
this will swift steamships
The greater part the journey
around the world then be made by rail instead of by and
the time may easily be reduced than forty days The journey
London Petersburg made in sixty hours The
journey by rail the Russian empire Vladvostok be
made than IA days and the trip from VavOstok
the shores of America ought be made eight days. while
the American continent and the Atlantic need not
than 3 IA days This foos almost 4O days.
taking the shorter alternatives two instances 3 days.
Special cooperation and transportation
could probably reduce it as low as IS days.
All this presupposes improvement the speed Of steamships
engines this and the close of the century
but should the speed of each be bettered by fraction of mile
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-10-27
INTERESTING ITEMS.

An insurance journal suggests q
company toguarantee the genuineness
of alleged foreign noblemen.
q calf with two well formed tails is
the curiosity of resident of Marshall
county, Alabama.
The smallest child in North Caro-.
lima was born to Mrs James Delap of
Thomasville, N. G. 1t weighs only
two pounds and is alive and doing
we'll
The British tars get $t2 a month,
the American Jack twice as much and
better treatment. This difference is
supposed to account for the desertions
from the British fleet in the port of
New York.
A New York woman hearing a
burglar in her house noiselessly left
her bed, and, going to the room
whence the noise came, locked the
door She then awoke her husband,
who captured the thief and handed
him over to the police.
Under law passed by the last
legislature of New York, the salary of
the mayor of Long island City was
raised from 9S,Ooo 10 o., ooo. Wheu
Mayor Sanford went to draw his sal
ary for the first time under the new
act, he refused to accept the increase.
Some men who were digging we'll
at Live Oak, Fla, found about ten
feet below the surface Of the ground
u tree that was petrified only on the
outside. The trunk was split open
and the inside was found to be filed
with honey, which had been shut up
in the tree for many years.
At the Riverside park, New York.
the other day, a comparatively young
man shot himself while sitting on q
bench, but attracted no attention, sno
carriage after carriage, filed with gay
occupants rode by the corpse without
suspecting that it was dead body.
For several hours he. lay there until q
diIatory policeman, thinking he had
slept long enough, touched him and
the dead body rolled from the bench
20 the pavement.
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-10-27
SAVING LIVES AND MONEY.

Life boats and life saving stations
were instituted on the French coasts
by the Empress Eugenie in 500
Since the esta ADJUSTMENT of our life
saving service. in 1871, 1859 persons
have been succored at the stations
The life saving service on the Brit
ish coast was esta blished in 1924, and
has been the means Of saving }1,O43
lives
The New England States have more
savings bank deposit7rs and deposits
than an the rest of the country, leav-
ing out the state of New York.
The nited States has 242 life
saving stations, 1871 ON the Atlantic,
forJy-eight on the lakes, eighteen on
the Paciti and one at the Ohio falls.
Louis ville, KY.
South Carolina is becoming a pros
porous state. as is shown BY the num-
Der of her savings bank depositors-
2l.J97 These depositors have upon
deposit the sum of si225, ,4j3. The
state has the most savings bank de-
positors Of any of the states. She
also has the most cotton manufac-
torres,
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-10-27
NEWS AND NOTES.
The worlds coal mines employ

The worlds coal mines employ
l.5OO, 900.
A dealer announces: "Great bar
gains in corsets.'
Nearly all the beef, mutton and
poultry used in Florida comes from
the North.
At the race track people still some
times touch the backs of humpbacked
people, just for luck.
A citizen of Vermont has sent to
Governor Russell OF Massachusetts,, .
golden eagle stuffed and mounted.
measuring seven feet four inches
across the wings.
Paris will amuse the world at the
exhibition OF 1900 with the greatest of
all telescopes, which will cost at least
5000. oOO. and it is expected to bring
the moon near enough to see objects
no larger than the towers of the
Brooklyn bridge.
While Thomas ORourke was driving
4 hack just outside the village OF Fort
Lee, y. D., he ran over o dynamite
cartridge lying in the roadway.
O'Rourl,c, who is seventeen years OF
age, was hurled several feet away.
and received injuries which, II not
fatal. will make ham II paralytic for
life. The hack was completely
wrecked. tn. vo horses injured. and
two M tn bicycles knocked down.
Two o. her dynamite cartridges were
found near BY. 1t is not ksowh
whether the cartridges wnrs r.Aced
thsss By accideat or dssiRA
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-10-27
CHEERS FOLLOWED HIssgs.
Now Professor Biactsie'- Apology for
Rough Word Was Received.

Now Professor Blacisie'- Apology for a
Rough Word Was Received.
Professor Backie was lecturing to a
new class with whose personnel he was
tmperfectlv acquainted A student
rose to read a paragraph, hts book in
his left haad
.'Sirl' thundered Blackie, "hold
your book in your right haud''-anG as
the student would have spoken-"No
words, sir! Your right hand, say"
The student held up his right arm,
ending piteously at the wrist Sir
] hse nae right handr' he said.
BEFORE Blackie could open his lips
there arose such storm of Kisses as
one perhaps must go to Edinburgh to
hear; and by it his voice was over
borne. Then the professor left his
place and went down to the student
he had unwittingly hurt, and put his
arm around the lads shoulders and
drew him close, and the lad leaned
sgalnst his breast
My boy" said Blackie-he spoke
very softly, yet not so softly but that
every word was audible in the hush
that sad fallen on the eclassroom-''my
boy, you'll forgive me that | was over
rough? l did not know did not
known He turned to the students,
with a look and tone that came
straight from his great heart, he said;
And let me say to you all, l am re-
joiced to be shown | am teaching a
class of gentlemen.
Scottish lads can cheer as well As
hiss, and that Blaclsie learned.
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-10-27
HE WAS HARMLESS,
4 Flannel Nlght-Robo and the Cor
sternRtiOn II Caused.

4 Flannel NiKht-Robe and the Con.
sternation It Caused.
He was going north on a Chicago
street car. He had q bundle on his
knee, and from the way he hitched
around and looked at the men on
sither side OF him it was evident
that he wanted to talk to some one.
He finally selected the man on his
right. who was dapper little fellow
with eyeglasses and gold headed
sane.
liver bothered with the rheu-
maticsP" suddenly inquired the man
with the bundle.
The dapper man never moved an
eye winker.
i'm having 1t considerable this
fall" said the other. Strikes me in
the right shoulder and | can't wash
the back OF my neck more'n half the
time. You look as If you might be
subject to it."
The dapper man looked straight
across the car and the only move
ment betraying life was jerky mo-
tion of one toe
bin a-buyin' flannel night
shirt, persisted the man with the
bundle. .'Some advised me to get
medicated flannel and some said the
common red flannel would do. Which
sort do you think is bestP"
The dapper man was now flushing
up, and his eyes turned to the door,
but he gave no other sign.
al paid dollar for this" contin-
ued the bundle man as he united the
string, land he warranted 1t not to
shrink. I'd like to ask your opinion
OF the goods. Have lpaid too muchP
He unwrappcd the paper and held
the shirt up to view. 1t was a red
flannel night-shirt. which appeared
to be nine feet long, and at first
sight the dapper little man turned
winter than flour, got up and fell
over his cane and got up again, shot
outdoors and dropped Off. Everybody
else laughed heartily, and after look
ing around in surprised way the
old man began doing up the bundle,
and observed:
ale needn't have been scarf oil
me. Lands save him, never hurt
oobody in nv life."
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-10-27
FACTS AND EVENTS.

In $50 the United states had three
inha bitauts to the square mile OF area;
in 1890 there were twenty.
\ man who claims to be Il ''conjurer'
has "bewitched'' three negroes in
Tennessee as to render them insane
the deepest gold mines in Australia
are the Magadla, at Stawell, a,40c
feet. and Lansell's, at tSandhurst, $50.
J. direct telegraph cable line be-
tween Australia and Canada is OK
pecte to be completed in two years.
The earth as seen from the 9th er
planets-provided there is any one
there to see it's Of a distinct blue
color.
The longest artificial water course
In the world is the Bengal canal, 900
miles; the next is the Erie. a63. Each
cost nearly $40. .O0O.00
A North Carolina girl was halted on
the highway by three men. chs
whipped out pistol, and firing on
the crowd, wounded one man and put
them oil q Aisht
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-10-27
simple Words the Hest.

The following little story is told
Of citizen of Port Chester, n Y.
whose education was somewhat su-
perior to his wife's, fact regarding
which she was very sensitive. On
one occasion the man drove over to
White Plains to inquire regarding
the health of his sister-in-law, who
was dangerously i'll. Upon returning
he was met by his wife, who asked
OF her sisters condition.
''She is convalescent. replied the
man.
Immediately and in the most en-
phatic manner the woman cried out:
al want none of your soothing words.
] want facts. You tell me this min
ute, is my sister dead or alivePn
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-10-27
HE WAS DUN q.
Although He Had waited -Four Year
THAT u,.ttuw

Although He Had Waited -Four Years
for That Meeting.
1t was the same old story; she was
rich. he was poor, and both were
fioundering helplessly in the flower
twined meshes of love.
She was courageous little person,
only too willing to cast OF those lux
uries so dear to the heart feminine and
venture into the idcalized atmosphere
called s.love in cotta0e,n But he had
an extravagant Inheritance of pride
and self-esteem and he said: mo. we IL
wait" And so the upshot of it all
was that she found herself bundled OIL
TO far-uway lands.
When they parted there was tho
usual sharp sense of loneliness and des-
olation.
Since your father wishes it we will
not write said the man. We arc
both young and time may work won
ders. Who knows?'
And the girls lip quivered. and she
dared not lift her eyes lest the only
man i'll the world discover she was not
SO capable OF smiling AT fate ~ he.
A year passed, AS VS. the Chicago
Record.
One day the man was down hearted
and wretched with the loneliness that
comes only when that which one treas
ure- most has been taken away from
one. He had often written long letters
to the girl. but true to his sense of hon
or, had never sent them. But this day
he wrote and told her he could not
Il l..
know that he loved her as he had al
ways loved her. That was all. He
expressed wish that she should not
answer the letter. lie believed that
she had remained the same and II
knowledge of anything TO the contrary
would be too great an atilictiou for
him to endure.
Three years after that Chicago had
the worlds fair.
The man was fond OF art and liked
to wander in the thronged corridors of
the Columbian storehouse of art treas
urcs. He often dreamily anticipated
meeting his lost sweetheart Time.
you see had not knitted together the
wounds. but kept them open with ten
der memories.
And one day she really came.
He was studying the misty beauty
OF Corot when she darted toward him,
grasped both hands and said with her
dear voice trembiingly happy; "l'm so
glad"
The man was dazed. His senses
seemed to be stupeted, and iron
bands suddenly wove themselves
around his heart. He had waited four
years for this very moment, and when
she was actually near him holding his
hands he was stricken dumb
The smile on her face turned to q
despairing look OF anxious inquiry.
..Ah, you have forgotten me, y and
her manner OF speaking was essenced
with pain, ,amazement, and deep sadness.
"Why, no haven't. How are you?"
He had found voice at last but it was
not his own. 1t was more like dead
thing, colorless, loveless and cold.
The girl choked and put her hands
hurriedly to her forehead.
"Good-by," she said, and in the
twinkling of an eye She was swallowed
up and lost in the swarming, restless
:hrong.
1t was SO like man.
1t was so like woman.
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-10-27
ErcH,Nos AND ECHOES.

In Manchuria dogs are raised for
their skins. A fairly prosperous
Manchurian dog farmer will own q
thousand OF more dogs.
Sixteen women of Driftwood, Pa,
attacked Theodore Hackett with fence
rails, with pokers and other weapons,
and drove him out of town. Theodore
had come home drunk and beaten his
wife.
Amesbury, Mass, the late home Of
Poet Whittier, is now noted for its
carriage factories. Industry is fierce
ly astir. The Gagged life so common to
small, dead villages is now unknown
there
Mrs. Lizzie H. Perkins Of Bath,
Maine, didn't want lawyers to have
anything tc do with making her will,
so s.ic drew one to suit herself. Up
to date twenty-six lawyers have had
= shy at it, and the supreme court ID
that state is about to take wrestls
with It.
Since young women have operated
the soda water fountain in George
town. Md, that drink has become de
cidedly popular among .. men. Tenn
perance people state that the thirst Of
the average Georgetown man is be-
coming less violent and is running In
the direction OF soda and lemonade
william John Mcdonald, who
died at Toronto week or two ago,
must have had . grudge against
the undertakerA. Although he
left an estate valued at ~, 900 his will
forbade funeral expenses to exceed 80.
and that document gave most minute
instructions how to condact the fune-
raj on this economical basia, but
the Canadian correspondents fail -
give ths detailed itsas q szY>ssA
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-10-27
OVER THE GLOBE.

European goldsmiths lnsks up s2+.
900, 900 into gold jewlery annually
A Japanese inventor has patented
device by which every member OF
parliament may record his vote by
pressing an electric button At his
desk.
The publishers of the Chicago city
directory claim that the statistics
gathered by them show that Chicago
has now a population of :.ld0, 900 or
400, 900 more than New York
Charlotte Yonge, the gifted author
ess. is 20 years old but her nealth is
excellent She is living in 4 London
suburb. For more that fifty years
she has been devoted to literary work,
and has been one of the most prolific
of writers.
Some 200 buses of the London Cen
eral omnibus company have been
fitted with accumulators for the pur
pose of running electric lights Al
night Only one lamp of siN-caudls
power is put under the center of each
'bus roof. and the cost of equipping
and running each bus is but sl2
year.
Captain Regain of the Buffalo, n
Y. police force has been unable to
find a man who could wear his old
clothes The unfortunate Individuals
who accept castoff garments were un'
able to fill out the coats OF the big
captain. The other dar, however,
there wandered into the station an In
dian who was big enough to wear the
captains coat He wanted clothes,
and in a few minutes he was accom-
modated. An old uniform which had
seen considera Bile service was offered
to and accepted by him. The brass
buttons had been taken off the coat
but two stripes of gold lace on either
sleeve attracted the attention of the
man from the reservation, and he left
the station as proud as If he had been
given an order for unlimited hre-
water
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-10-27
SWEEP OF THE SHEARS.

A very small amount of doing is
better than a wagon load of resolu.
tions.
A farmer near Port Jervis, N. Y,
utilizes his twelve children as scare
crows"
The dream has deranged his mind and
every niga. he is observed digging for
the supposed buried Treasure.
Mrs Mary Oval of Caledonia, Pa
who is nearly 81 years old, took her
first railroad ride few days ago
Some yeats ago an aged Doughertv
county, Georgia, colored man dreamed
that he found pot of gold in his field.
Two accidents were caused in Phila-
delphia in one day by the careless
habit of carrying paSlo, matches loose
in the pockets.
A colored boy at Macclenny, Fla,
was chased up tree by an alligator
the other day, where he was kept
prisoner ur.il help arrived.
A New ylfk female dermatologist
Is suing the estate of \ New York wo-
man for $3.50. She claims to have
made the deceased, while alive. look
35 instead of 60 years cid.
Age at which marriage may 5e le-
gally committed: Austria, IA; Ger
many, France and Belgium. IS and IL:
Spain and Portugal, IA: Hungary. for
Catholics, "A and IL, for Protestants.
is and Is: Greece and Switzerland, "A
and l2; Russia and Saxony, IS and Ii.
Some of tho Chinese coins are of but
one-twentieth o. the value of an Amer
lean cent The celestial kingdom has
many enthusiastic coin collectors In
one notable collection there are more
than 800 varieties of cash, the old
est of which dates hack as far as
23O0 b. c.
Cycling has become such q universal
pastime rs we'll ~ healthful recrea-
ton and business cxpedient that some
of the largest workshops in the coun-
try are devoted to the manufacture Of
the modern vehicle. But there is only
one establishment in the United States
in which an entire machine is made,
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-10-27
Fighting Cho,.r. suce..su,,y.

Further remarkable instances of the
success OF Professor Hsffkine's system
Of anti-cholers incubation are reported
from Calcutta. In the first case four out
Of six members OF a family were inocu-
lated. The cholera appeared in the
neighborhood lately, and the disease
attacked one Of the two who had not
been inoculated, while the inoculated
remained free. In the second case
five members OF a family consisting Of
eleven persons were inoculsted. The
cholera lately attacked one Of the six
who had not been inoculsted. In the
third case six out Of family OF nine
were inoculated. When the cholera
prevailed in the neighborhood few
days later the disease attacked one OF
the three not inoculated.
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-10-27
KNOWLEDGE SPREADING.
nnterscy In tho United states ON thu
Wano Among the Native E"rn.

uliterscy In the United stAtss ON the
Wano Among the Native Eorn.
Ilit.sacy in the United States Is
principally confined 10 tie foreign
born and colored citizens.
From the statistics OF illiteracy in
1890 it appears that. OF the total
population 10 years of age und over
in 1890. II per cent. or ohe-elghtl,
were illitera,e. Ten years earlier
similar proportion was II per cent.
or about one-sixth. showing an inn
mensc reduction in the proporti"n OF
illiter,.trs. This reduction has taken
place in the ranks Of the native-born
whites and the co'ored, while among
the foreign born the proportion has
increased. Thus. the proportion ol
illitcrlte, among the native whites
was, in 1890. 81 per cent. and In
1880. 81 per cent. Among the colorsi
the corresponding proportions were
5G / per cent and 40 per cent. Among
the foreign born. ON the other hand.
the proportion of iiliterates in 1890
was H.. per cent. and in 1880 ~ per
cent, an increase to be accounted Tor
by the excessive immigration Of the
decade and by the character of much
of that immigration, which consisted OF
the lower classes of Southern and
Eastern Europe Italians, Huns, Poles
and Bohemians.
The illiteracy tiie country IL.
therefore. mainly represented by the
foreign born and the cOlorcd elements.
and by the latter in much greuter de-
gree than the former. Considering
the entire population. the states In
which illiteracy is most prevalent are
those of the South. Mason and Dix
on's line, the Ohio river, and the
thirty-sevenh parallel OF latitude
separate the literate from the illiterate
states. North of that line the propor-
ton of illiteracy ranges from 81 In
Nebraska up to 1913 in Nevada.
South of that line it ranges from l4.6
in the district of Columbia. to 45.8 In
Louisiana. il we except Oklahoms,
which was largely settled from Kansas.
and carried Kansas education with 1t.
Indeed. throughout the cotton states
the proportion ranges high. being
forty per cent in Mississippi. fOrty-one
in Alabama. nearly forty in Georgia.
and forty-tve in South Carolina. In
the Northern states, throughout New
England and the upper Mississippi
valley, the average is between five and
six per cent.