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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-14
THE REFRESHING RAINS.
They Helped Along the Crops the Last
Week.

Below is the weekly bulletin issued by the
Indiana Crop Bureau
Very hot weather prevailed the greater
part OF the week, and growing crops began
to suffer from the want of rain and when
local rains occurred and the temperature
Tell everything was refreshed. Wheat is all
III shock in the southern portion and
threshtng progresses; the harvest continued
IN the central portion and in some parts of
the northern portion; in general. the wheat
crop is better than was expected; the heads
are well filled and the grain large, and
and promise a good YIELD the heads are
well filled, but the straw, in general is
short. a large crop of rye and barley is
being threshed Heavy crops of clover and
timothy hay have been cured and housed
in the best condition. the hay crop is the
largest for years; millet in many fields is
doing we'll and promises a large crop; pas
end of the week improved it. Corn grew
rapidly and well, although it suffered from
lack OF. rain; in the southern and central
portions it is laid by, and, in general, the
fields are clean nearly everywhere. Potatoes
are fair crop; they suffered from wet
weae her and bugs, and, in localities the
crop is poor; late potatoes are GROWN
but is again in good condition. Tomatoes
for factories are abundant. Gardens are in
good condition. Cabbage is heading well
The pea crop was very large. A great guam
tity of honey has been gathered the best
for years in many localities. Live stock is
fat and in good condition; many milk
cows are dying of milk fever in Franklin
TO the heat in the fields, and some horses
died"
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CHICAGO, July 13-Trade in cattle was slow
at PfFe st a So chey at q ana
a few cars of extra good cattle sold at S5Q5. b.
The stocker and feeder trade was sufficiently
large to absorb the offerings, sales being largely
at $35GG4 though the better class of feeders sold
and choice hefers sold up to $3.50 but grassy
COWS were weak This was calf day. The de-
for ehoce ofs About 800 Texas cattle We're re
ceived and sales We're slow at a decline OF 10c
Prices for hogs started off weak at yesterday $
decline and the market developed more weakness
Of 21zc. Hops sold at $315035213, largely at $3.50
G3.45 light weights displaying the least weak
ness. They are scarcer and command a good
In sheep there was fairly active demand at
steady prices, the bet-er class OF sheep selling
range OF 81 SOFA choice l5S-Pound Westerns sell
ing for export at 81, but comparatively few
we're active.
RscePtsr-CCatts. 400 hogs p 900: sheep Y coo
sbiIre6s 4S6 Maykef gteadT ft6 GOOD de
rand good to best shipping beeves, A.35G4.S So:
~ a i6l34 o. Steers under 900 pounds S. ~
bulk at $3.75@4: stockers and feeders, 81. 75d42Q
bulk at So 25GD4: COWS and heifers. S244l0 bulk
at 50 25Q$S5. bulk Of cows, s2.sOa3: Gamers. 81
$50; good fed steers, $40; COWS and heifers, s.
Zoe lower. light $3.30QS40; mixed, 8.l5QSS5;
sbesep~ Il eceipts 1000 shipments, 500 Market
steady; natives. S25o4S75 lambs, SS.15g5; Texas
sheep. S3.25d3.65.
European cables quote American steers at 10d1ic:
sheep 10Ql2c: refrigerator beef. S3zaS7sc. Exports
to-day, $50 beeves and 5000 quarters OF beef
Calves-Recepts, So. Market rated steady at
Hogs-Receipts l46. Market higher at 50. 500
Sheep and Lambs-Recepts. 49S3. sheep weak
lambs little hrIner; sheep. S3G4; lambs, S4S5d
SIS.
KANSAS CITY. July 13.-Cattle-Receipts
.000. Market weak and Toe lower; Texas steers
50 fn9l4.Za. Texas COWS. S2m3i native steers So 80
G4SO: native cows and heifers, si.S5G4s5; stock
HoGz-ReceiIts. $1,000. Market 5410e lower;
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Timers Supplies.
REAL-ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Eight Transfers, with 81 Total Con-
alteration of &11.35O.

Instruments filed for record in the recorder:
office of Marion county Indiana, for the twenty
four hours ending at p. m. July Is, 1897, as
furnished by Theo Stein, abstracter of titles
corner of Market and Pennsylvania streets, In
dianapolis, Suite 229 first office floor. The
Lemcke Telephone 1760
slas r. Stroud to Morris Kahan and wife,
Lot /, Square 49, North indianapolis. S10O
Henry F., Krug to Joseph H. Clark, Lot l.
Bulsterbaum's subdivision of E. T.
Fletcher's Brookside addition ............. Loo
Amanda J. Marker to Frederick A. Clark
Lot %, Clark's third addition to West
llitldIdpOhS LOU
Ernst W Bloemker administrator to
Marie Jasper, Lot SO, Resets subdivision
of outlets 107 and 1OS Observation-Disclosures. 1,2O
BENJAMIN f. Grant to Nicholas McCarty.
Lots p and p, Ayres's East Washington
street addltlOn w
Henry Brown to Ellen Mundy Lot g. Block
Is, Bradey's addition ....................... loo
Margaret R. Nc arty Harrison ct al. to
Nicholas McCarty, Lot q Arthur L.
Wrghts second addition ................. 4,50
Elmer b. Cary to Charles a. Seaman, Lots
and g. Elack's subdivision of Square 2l.. p
9E
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Cold Snap Over and Fair weather
Coming Again.

Forecasts for Indianapolis and vicinity for
the twenty-four hours ending IL p. m. July
H-Slightly warmer; fair weather on
Wednesday.
General Conditions Yesterday-The at
mospheric pressure diminished everywhere.
The low barometric areas east of the Mis-
sissippi and in the Northwest remained
nearly stationary. No great change in tenn
perature occurred; it fell south of the Ohio
valley and the lower lakes and it rose
south of the central and upper Missouri
valley, and from 80 to 90 degrees prevailed
from Texas to Colorado. Local rains fell
only in Indiana, Michigan and near the
northern Atlantic coast.
FORECAST FOR THREE STATES.
WASHINGTON, July 13. - Forecast for
Wednesday:
For Ohio-Fair, preceded by showers or
the lakes in the early morning; warmer
Wednesday night; light to fresh westerly
winds.
For Indiana and Enthusiastically fair
warmer; southerly winds.
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VITAL STATISTICS-JULY IS.
Deaths.

Charles Bright. twenty-seven years. As Edward
street. electric shock.
Infant Cutshall. 599 Keystone avenue, capillary
bronchitis.
Jennie Duzan, thirty-eight years, S7S North
Pennsylvania street, exhaustion.
Infant Bockner, IS South Reisner street, entero-
collitis.
George F. Terrell. forty-two years, 92s West
Thirty first street consumption.
John w. Farmer, nineteen years. 500 Blackboard
street. typhoid fever
Mary Hartman, ninety years, 80 Union street,
exhaustion
Viola b Harlan. twenty-five years, 1903 South
Spruce street, phthisis pulmonalis
Infant Hail, ll01 Maple street, cholera in
fantufn.
Infant Lee, three years. 557 West Thirteenth
street measles.
Victor sudmeyer, two years, zSOS Geneva street,
typhoid fever.
Gatharine Ramsey. sixty-eight years. 70 Nor
wood street, angina pectoris.
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bulk of sales. 50. 2O9S 22lz heayies s. 2o05 2712;
ia ckers So 1903. 29i2; mixed S3.l5G325 lights,
So i0G3 20: Workers. Sc 2OQ3 22is pigs, s2.5o@315.
Sheep-Receipts 900 Market steady; lambs.
EAST BUFFALO, July 13.-Catte weak
HogS-Good to choice Aorkers SS@g3.So'
roughs. common to coed. S3.l54325.
Sheep and Lambs Yearlings. choice TO prime
sheep, S4.2564.50; common TO good sheep, S5.Io0
AIS: culls to common warnings. &1S50; spring
lambs, good to extra choice s5.2aG3.aO, cullS To
fair S350N4.25: native clipped sheep. choice 10
selected wethers. S3.60GlS.s0; cuNs and common,
S225Q2.75.
LOUISVILLE, July 13-Cattle steady: shipping
steers S4qp4 10; butchers S2.159410; stockers and
feeders. S2.25W3.75.
Hogs weak; hcavies s.. f54t3.55 mediums. $3.50.
lights SO 25M355; roughs. S2.5008.10
sheep and lambs steady; choice sheep, S.I54
2q0 fair. s. 25uz15; extra lambs, SfS51l5l5; fair
S350G4.50.
EAST LIBERTY. July ls-cattle steady; extra,
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Us, ol.VVV- IIEotFI. : -------
ng futures ranged as follows:

Cash quotations were as follows: Flour quiet.
S S3 55ee,,@@c No red new. 71%c DO corn
oats, 1Sc; No. 2 white, f. o. b., 22lt221ac; No. 8
white. f. 0. b., ,2Oa22c. No. 2 rye, 35c; No. ?
barley 9ominal N2 2Saa1e No 4 275@2ssG
s.. Mess. pork, pc. brl, %.5OQ755. Lard per
a. 40; ry-saIted shoulders, boxed SI75m5; short
clear sides. boxed $46212@4.75. Whisky, disti-
ers finished goods. per gal, $119. Sugars-Cut-
loaf, SHE; graduated. 5.09c.
Receipts-Flour. 10000 brls; wheat, 10000 blu;
corn. Ala coo bu oats. BAG. 600 bu; rye 200 bu
barley %. 900 blu. Shipments, 1000 brls;
wheat II 600 bu; corn 10000 bu; oats All, 900 blu;
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Dry Goods.

NEW YORK, July 13.-The dry goods market
a steady demand for merely day-by-day require
ments and the purchases are, therefore, very
light Bleached goods are still exceedingly quiet
and brown goods no stronger than heretofore,
although the demand for export lines has been
augmented to some degree and the shipments are
likely TO be heavier. Coarse cOlOred cottons are
quiet in all grades. Print cloths remain firm and
quiet Prints show an unchanged market, with
demand for botA fancies and staples being quite
meager,
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LOCAL GRAIN AND PRODUCE.
Trade Active with Cooler Weather
New Mhent Coming In

Since the hot wave passed off there has been
more life 10 trade In nearly all departments and
merchants In a very cheerful mood The new
wheat is coming in and there is evidence of an
Improvement in business. Unless there be
large fan trade wholesalers will be disappointed
Prices in all lines rule steady and on many ar
ticles there is an advancing tendency. Wholesale
groceTs state that they are now doing the best
business in some months. Dry goods houses are
getting in fall and winter stocks and anficfnafa
q good san business and that II VIII set In earlv
With the produce men IL Is not as busy as last
year. Lower prices for poultry, eggs and butter
rave checked shipments, but on the light Eastern
demand the produce could not well nav
more. On Commission row there is a good deal
Of business IN progress and prices vary with the
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Cotton.

LIVERPOOL. July 1S.-Cotton-spot in mod
crate, demand ar and prices unchanged american
10000 bales Of which Loo were for sRecnla
cepts. 5000 bales, including 1000 American.
MEMPHIS. July .13.-Cotton steady; .middling.
7%c; receipts, 20 bales; shipments, $50 bales;
stock, 9,201 bales; sales, 275 bales
NEW YORK. July 19.--Spot cotton closed firm;
middling uplands 15-16c; middling gulf 3-lGc;
L.. -l,nlo
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oils.


NEW YORK, July 13.-Petroleum dull; refined
New York. $3.50; Philqdelphia and Baltimore,
5000: Philadelphia and Baltimore, in bulk, 340c.
Rosin dull strained common to good, Sl.70Q
1.72h Turpentne quiet
WILMINGTON. July 13.-SDirits of turpentne
quiet at 2314@23$4c Resin firm $3.50 $50.
Crude turpentine firm at $3.50, $3.50 and $1.9O.
Tar steady at $l.15
OH. CITY July 13-Credit balances, 79c; GER
tihcates, no bids; shipments, SO,337 brls runs,
1870 oil brls. q
CHARLESTON, July 13.-Spirits of turpentine
firm at 23%c Rosin firm.
SAVANNAH, July 13.-Spirits Of turpentine
firm at 24Ac. Rosn steady.
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Tuesdays Bank CIearinrs.

At Chicago Clearncs sl4 7o9. 7o7. New York
exchange, acc premium Foreign exchange
steady; demand A.S72s sixty days S4S6A
At New Oreans-Clearings, 81, S42 OPS
At Memphis-Clearngs $173 4S7: balances
Al New York-Clearings slO9. 9ol, S57; balances.
S. 523 IA.
"a. l3oston-clearings, sls,sl9s7s; balances.
At st. Louis-clearings. 1855, 9S7; balances.
AT MISUNDERSTANDING. s1osz1. 62l; balances
$iSS10l6
AT Balumore-Clearings. s., 5S2. 1s6; balances
At Cinclnnat i-New York exchange 15@25c dis
count Clearings S2OoIoOo Money 2laq6 per
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3.45c. Spelter
Dried Fruits.

NEW YORK July 1S-Califonia dried fruits
Seady Sgs aPgs d RTe T d fancy 5Ta
SIC; prunes, 3Q712c. as to size and quality april
cots, ROYAL, Sd9c; Moor Park, lie; peaches, un-
neeled case: peeled 11M14c.
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No mixed 27Isc Oats steady No. s1 mixed d
2e121C. Rye firm No. 2, Sac. Lard stea.tE AZ
$50 Bulk meats steady at A.45Q49 Bacon
steady at S. 35d5 20. hisky sl At 81. ". butter
steady and unchanged. Sugar nrIn. Eggs easy.
Cheese steady.
TOLEDO July 13;Wheat higher and firm 7 az
but steady; No 2 mixed. 26c. Oats STEADY; No
2 mixed, lsc Rye dull, but firm; No. CASH
35i9c. Clover seed firm: prime, October. S4.-o-
DETROIT July 13-Wheat-No I white and
No. red. 76l6c July 7li4c; September 6si.2c-
CQrn-No. mixed. 2612c. Oats-No. WHITE
242ic Rye-No. 2 35c
BUFFALO. July 12.-Wheat-No. Northe5r bern
new, nc No. winter, 7sc. Corn-No, = SV12c.
Oats-No. white. 24sac. Rye-No 2, 3Sc.
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NEW YORK, July 1S.-Pig iron quiet; South
EN-; s925g1o5O; Northern, so 2: Copper easy;
brokers' 335c: Exchange, 3.6003.7Oc. Tin dull;
straits, 3.S0d4c; plates quiet. Speter dull at AIS
G4.35c.
ST. LOUIS, July 13.-Lead easy at S.45c. spelter
finn at A. 0c
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Births.

Annie and Frank Mile % OrioIe street boy
street girl
street boy.
Helen and w G. Rice. 1873 Park avenue. bow.
Anna and Peter Marsh, $40 South Missouri
street boy.
Maggie and Fred Douglass. 81 West South
street boy.
Maggie and Henry Faher 10 Highland place.
boy.
SIR. and Mrs. c H. Marshall, 2O7 Auburn ave-
nue., boy
Mr.. and Mrs. Lucius L. Wilson, city girl.
Ida and f. u. Merich 152 Bellefontaine street
Anna and Charles Bohnstedt. 1908 Carlos street
boy.
Rose and Edward AveIs, 12s Remington street.
boy.
katherine and Jack schott. CTS Chestnut street,
boy.
Fannie and A, Garden. s22 South Capitol ave-
nue., boy.
Marie and Martin Wenninger, 43s South Della
ware street.
Marriage Licenses.
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Butter, Eggs ana Cheese.

NEW YORK, July 3-Buter-Receipts, 1715
ga?sages Market STEADY Western GreaWesF rsse
Receipts, 1891 packages. Market quiet; state
large 73s@5asc; small 7AG733c part skins; 4 1&S
SIC: full skins, 22@Sc. Eggs-Recelpts, - 49S
packages Market steady; State and Pennsyl-
vania, 1212013c; Western, 1l1a@12c.
KANSAS CITY July 13.-Butter active and
firm: creamery i1@lS1Ac; dairy SG1Oc; Eggs
Loss candled stock is very heavy 1 and dealers
market is weak owing TO less demand and heavy
supplies. Fresh candled Missouri and Kansas
stock, cases returned &C.
CHICAGO. July 19.--On the Produce Exchange
to- day the butter market was steady; creamery,
12G141bc: dairy. 9G12c. Cheese quiet at 7AQSc.
Eggs steady: fresh Sc.
PHILADELPHIA. July 13.-Butter firm; fancy
Western creamery, 1512c. Eggs steady; fresh
nearby, 1016Quc; fresh Western, 10Q1o12c. Cheese
UNCHANGED
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wool.


BOSTON, July 13.-The wool market this week
has shown mere strength than tor SONS ind { o
material and in most cases are securing am
a8 s OF q + 10 PER his fen pd Rf on
lower than II would cost to replace the WVois'
The sales of Territory woods have been large
Fleece woods are held firm, with light offerings
continue good. with prices the same as last week
The following are the quotations 19r leadlns s 4e
e60gs 2o5e No 6 e6a0H ab 6ze 2sc de-
laine, SQ2ic Michigan. Wisconsin ete;;oA
Michigan. 19c; No ! Michigan comblng. 2Sc; No; l
csc; No. Illinois comblng, &c; X New York,
New Hampshire and Vermont. SQlSlzc; No; |
So Sc de5Ine. Mchisah 2dc Unwashed medium
Kentucky and Indiana quarteT-blQGd Go ba
cOmbing zoe; Missouri quarter blood corlbing, ~
Qi9I5c; Missouri three-eighths- combing, ~
Texas wools-Spring medium Q2 monthsl, l2c
7foui Secured Pf price 86Sc Tefrtory woos-Mon
tana fine medium and fine. 12Ql4 secured price,
medium and fine, 1lQl19c: secured pr12e, 56a5Ic;
staple, 3Sq33c Australian Secured p % I9o6
Combing, supertne, 50q32ci comoing go4a, ~, 42p
4Sc ccrnbing, average, 44Q46c Queensland COMP
LONDON, July bat the wool auction safes
to-day IA, $40 bales were offered of which 100 were
Withdrawn There was spirited % oid hRs r 358
paid 9al2d for Queensland greasX OF w4lGh dh1y
Continental competition was keen. GOOD TO u M
dunn shafty merinos We're ~ per cent. and greasy
higher than at the close of the last series. Cross
breds showed hardening tendency without quot
able change in price except for sp e
Cape of Good Hope and Natal to-day were good
ara choice greasy East LondSns TeeiTleG 5 SG
TIE sales and prices obtained: New South Wales
-2154 bales; secured 10d01s ID; greasy, 5l2Q 100 100
Queensland-2,2 PCS bales; secured, LODGES li2d'
greasy. 5A@l1d. Vlctoria-l,O 15 bales; secured
$ SsS 2d 55d % sog gTsasA
West Australia-97 bales; greasy, ,4Aq74d; Tas-
manial66 bales greasy 6ql9 D. New Zea 5aId
Cape Of Coed J., Fope and Nata29S 81 9agsi
secured. marked Darling Downs, sold at fancy
nrices ranging from Is 100 to IS I'D.
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LIVE STOCK.
Good Cattle Scarce and Weak-HOGs
Menk and LoNer-Sheep Active.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 3.--Catrle-Receipts
4OO shipments light. There but few good
cattle on sale The market was slow and about
LII IL. nrcnIrf linz
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s425g4.50; English, choice. $45OG475; alsike.
choice. s4.75q5; alfalfa, choice. $44Oa460; crrn-
scarlet clover. S2.75@s; timothy, As lbs.
prime s. Lao; strictly prime, s1.40G1s0: fancy,
Kentucky IA his. s1.55q1e5; extra clean, 70g9oc;
orchard grass. extra, S1.75G1.90; red top, choice
S1d1 10: English bluegrass. "a lbs. S11FG1.75. Nil
let prime. 5516oc. choice. 6oG65c: fancy. 65q75c;
Hungarian, 60Q75c.
Timers Supplies.
Best brands charcoal tin. &c. 10xl4. 14x20, 12x12
$1,000 TX. 10x14 14x20. Exp, $6.f50750; roofing
tin, best brands. &c, 14x20 $4.25Q475 20x2S S. 80
$3.50; &c, 2ex2S, old style, $13; block tin in pigs
l6c; block tin in bars, lSc zinc, sheet &C. copper
bottoms. 21c: panished copper, 2lc; solder, ITO
12c: iron. 27B. 50 50; &c, So iron, best bloom
galvanized, 75c and 10 per cent; lead. pressed
bars, &C.
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s4.Soa4 go prime. &4.soQ4sO common. ss.2o@s5O;
veal calves. S60650.
Hogs slow; prime pigs, $. SoqSS5: best medium
ana good Workers, SS-f3Gl 3.Nu5 common fair,
s3:65GS7o heavy hogs, 2S.5oG5,55; roughs, S2,25
sheep steady; choice 405@410: common s. 60
GS.20. spring lambs 81 25et5.50
CINCINNATI. July Seattle steady at SIPS
@4s5.
Hogs dull at S3G3.50
Sheep steady at s2dS.5O: lambs dull at $500
525.
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The following table of temperature is fur
nished by the United States Weather Blu
reau, July 13:
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Hogs-Receipts 1S,OO0 shipments, 5000. The
| market opened weaker and TIC lower for light;
| others were usually 10c lower. Shippers
the principal buyers at the start. though packers
bought literally at a later hour. The closing was
| ouiet with a few left unsold.
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yIarriaee I.icenae..

George Hatch and Liddia Cabbell.
Holsted l.. Ritter and Grace +. May.
Thomas Bunce and Nellie Connors.
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II Made No Difference.
Chicago Post
rs that your wife on bicyclee'
1T is.
Il thought you said that you would never
permit her TO ride ore.
Il don't permit it, but what difference do
you suppose that makes 10 herr"
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SLIGHTLY WARNER TO-DAY.

Transfers. s; consideration.
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Tuesdays Local observations.


c. f. r. WAPPENHANS,
Local Forecast Official.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-06-12
The Deepest of Wells.

Men of science are interested in all very deep borings in the earth on ac- count of the opportunity which they offer for experiments on the internal temperature of the globe. Gas and oil wells sometimes attain great depth, and after they have ceased to be useful in other ways are turned to scientific account. The very deepest hole that man has yet succeeded in making in the earth Is said to be near Rybnik in Silesia, where the boring through strata of coal and rock has reached a depth of about 6,77O feet. The deepest boring in this country is believed to be an oil well at Pittsburg, which has reached a depth of 5,740 feet, but is to be bored much deeper for the sake of the information it may furnish to sci ence
The St. Johns herald., 1897-06-12

decoration so widely and with so little regard for the character of the men whom he made chevaliers that for a while the order fell into some disre- pute. Toward the close of that unfor- tunate monarch's reign there were about 25,000 civil members, besides all those who had been decorated as sol dIers To restore the prestige of the order, an act was passed in 1872 pro- viding that only one new chevalier should be nominated for every two va cancies caused by death. The effect has been to reduce the number Of civil knights to 10000, but recent ministries have found the awarding of the few favors of this sort at their disposition created for them vastly more enemies than friends. The Moline cabinet has solved the difficulty, for itself, at least
 by introducing and securing the pass age of law repeating the act of 1872
 and substituting for 1t ore fixing the number of civil knights permanently at 12,000. There was long debate in the Chamber of Deputies on this bill
 and the socialists opposed it f1ercely
 but the measure. finally passed by 8 vote of 344 to 124.-New York Times.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-06-12
Origin of the Horse.

pr. Lydekker, the English naturalist, says that while the ordinary European breeds of horses may have been derived from those which were first subjugated bv the stone-implement makers of western Europe, unnumbered centur- les ago, it is probable that thorough bred" horses are of Eastern origin. He thinks that Turkestap was their orig inal home, and that the ancient Turco- mnns and MOngOls were the first Asi- atic tribes to make the wild horse the servant and friend of man. Horses, believed by some authorities to belong to a truly wild race-that is to say, whose ancestors were never domesti- cated-still inhabit the central Asian steppes. From Turkestan, according to Dr. Lydekker, they spread to Hin dustan, Persia, Assyria, Egypt and Arabia In the last-named country they became so indispensable that many have supposed Arabia to be the orig inal home of the horse. The interest ing fact Is pointed out that our North American Indians, to whom the horse was unknown before the advent of white men, have shown the same skill and adaptability in mastering them that the Arabs exhibited, so that, as pr. Lydekker remarks: Had we not historic evidence to the contrary, there is no saying but that the original sub- jugation of the horse might not have been attributed to the Indian of the prairies."