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and visitors prefer to ride on 1t rather than
to look at the many wonderful displays OF
arts, crafts and sciences that may be seen
In the main buildings.
The foundation is placed on q terrace
twenty-five feet high. The main support
of the structure is a tower 100 feet In height,
built entirely Of steel. Across the top OF
this tower there Is swung a rectangular
steel beam 200 feet In length. On either
end of this beam Is suspended car capable
Of holding about forty persons.
When one end Of the beam Is depressed
and the other raised to its greatest Hmit
the total height Is somewhat under the
height of the supporting tower. This makes
the greatest height Of the structure m
thing less than 200 feet. To this must be
added the height Of the terrace, namely,
twenty-five feet. a person, therefore. who
takes a ride in this seesaw Is gently lifted
from the earth to 81 elevation OF nearly
225 feet.
The motor and machinery are built es-
pecially for the seesaw, and, rather curious
fy, are located in the top Of the tower, o
fact which enables the engineer who runs
the motor to assert that he Is the highest
In the world. The machinery drives the
beam by means Of cog gearing, operating
on two large twenty-ave-foot arcs.
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Foreign.

Great damage has been done In Rumania
by the recent transforms. The Danub has
overfowed its banks, and ar immense lake,
nine miles long. has formed between Fetesti
and T~chernavoda.
The north of England and Scotland have
been swept by heavy gales. The suburbs
of Glasgow and the country around that
city were flooded and the railroads were
submerged.
A body Of Spaniards has been destroyed
by General Bandera's forces near Sabana.
Cuba.
President Diaz has given IN order for 40C
organs to American and Canadian manu-.
facturers. These musical instruments will
be placed in the public schools Of Mexico.
The order will shortly be followed by O
larger one.
Frank Butler was found guilty In Sydney,
N. s. W., of the murder OF Captain Lee
Weller.
Nelson's old flagship, the Foudroyant,
was wrecked in a gale off the northwest
coast Of England. She had been touring
the coast as q show ship.
Further adyices received In Calcutta from
the interior Of India show that great de.
VISITATION was wrought by the earthquake.
The town of Shillong has been annihflated,
and great damage has been done in Dacca,
Jamitur. and Murshidabad. Several lives
have been lost. The funds collected in Cal
cutta for the Jubilee celebration are likely
to be distributed among the sufferers.
Particulars are received Of a serious IA.
tally near the Illecillewaet tunnel on the
line Of the Canadian Pacific Railrond.
While q gang Of railroad laborers were at
work a mud and rock slide came down on
a number Of the workmen. Five were
killed outright. Tyeir names are Ale1an-
der Cummings, Albert Johnson, George
Phillips, A. Davidson, and S. Oleson.
The Porto has accepted DR.. ANGEL as
Minister from the United States Minister
Terrell has left ~Constantinople for home.
The Mexican Central Railway traffic Of
fcials are informed hat 800 car loads Of
corn will be shipped from Texas and Kan
sas to the City Of Mexico during the next
few weeks. The corn will be used to relieve
suffering in districts where there was short
age Of grain crop.
The elections to the second chamber OF
the States General Of Holland indicate the
defeat Of the Government by u coalition OF
the clerical parties.
General Miles and Admiral Miller were
entertained at Dime In London by White.
law Reid, the Special Ambassador to the
Queens jubilee.
The United States cruiser Brooklyn
reached Southampton, England, ten days
out from New York.
Ten thousand Masons gathered in London
to commemorate the Queens diamond
jubilee.
French newspapers think the bomb OK
plosion in Paris was a madman's act or &
practical joke OIL NJ. Faure. the bomb
heinp arranged 80 as not to do any harm,
The startling intelligence has been re
ceiyed hat the British police camp a
Mashowing, South Africa, has been at
tackled by q body of natives 500 strong, AM
that six Of the police have been killed. Thu
camp is in the heart of the district wher,
the ssbellion broke out last January, ant
the supposition Is that the natives came BY
stealth from .angberg and took the cam
by surprise. A body Of one hundred volun
teers has started for the scene OF the out
] break. - ------ - -
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FELIX FAURE.

No one was injured by the explosion. A
man In the crowd, suspected as the prime
mover, was arrested. He gave his name as
Gallet, and made only brief replies to ques-
lions put to him by the police.
Gallet said that he had no occupation,
but resided at Levallois-P erret. The police
are making q thorough search Of his lodg-
ings. He Is believed to be insane, for as
the carriage passed along he shouted 80
loudly as to attract general attention in the
crowd. The police lave also made another
arrest, In this case a youth, but 1t is thought
probable that the actual culprit escaped In
the thicket.
The news of the attempt spread like wild
fire through the city, and when N. Faure
returned to the Elysee the streets along
the'way where 1t was known he would drive
were crowded with people, who cheered
him vociferously.
It was at first reported that the would-be
assassin was a young man about twenty
five, who stood In the crowd 100 yards or
more from the racecourse and discharged
the pistol at ". Faure as he drove up to the
entrances; and there was a subsequent re-
port that both. pistol and bomb were used.
But the police now believe that the sup
posed pistol shot was merely the noise OF
the bomb.
The bomb was a clumsily made affair, to
nllICu q pkONo VI koo' WoD 4<hN Jan
fuse was probably lighted by a paper fixed
In the end Of a stick as soon as the head Of
the procession came into view. The pre-
sumption is that the moment the fuse was
lighted the culprit fed; and In any case the
bomb could not have done much harm.
In the thicket where the police found the
remnants Of the bomb, they found also q
pistol, upon which were engraved the
words: Mort a Felix Faure," and the
names Alsace-Lorraine and Cologne. Near
the pistol was a small dagger bearing a
similar threatening inscription, and a few
feet away the police found a newspaper
with a cartoon grossly insulting to the
President. This contained an offensive in
scription limiting at the execution Of NJ.
Faure.
Several persons have stated to the police
that the moment the explosion occurred a
man was seen to run swiftly into the
thicket, but reports Of this character are
likely to be mere conjecture.
An American correspondent talked
with an official who was riding with NJ.
Faure, who said:
when the report was heard a dense cloud
OF smoke rose from the thicket, and there
was terrible CONSERVATION, until it was
found hat no one had been injured. The
police sprang forward, but found the thicket
deserted. When the crowd saw one Of the
policemen holding the bomb, they jumped
to the conclusion that he was the perpe-
traitor of the outrage, and handled him
roughly, clubbing him with heavy walking
sticks and umbrellas, until his comrades
rescued him, badly bruised and covered
with blood. The Presidents cortege then
proceeded to the r~acecourse."
The attempt on the life Of NJ. Faure was
made on the very spot where Berezowsky
tried to shoot the Car while driving to the
military review at Longchamps, in 1867,
and where Francois, a ~lunatic, last year
fired his revolver at NJ. Faure on July ID.
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One of Drinks Slaves.

. The fact that "things are not alwayd
what they seem" Is well illustrated by the
false freedom which many assert in refus-
ing to bind themselves to course Of action,
however noble or praiseworthy, which
would limit their own desires or passions.
The following true incident is to the point:
Joel B. was at one time one of the most
prominent and respected citizens Of q town
in New York State. He had been eminently
successful in business and was financially
interested in the leading industries Of his
community. He had, however, become
addicted to the use Of liquors to excess,
and when on a ''spree" would spend large
sums Of money recklessly. This continued
until his resources were 80 diminished that
he was obliged to appeal to a brother for
assistance. This was promised on the con-
dition that he sign the pledge,
A few days later he was talking OF his
affairs to another man.
"Sign the pledge?" he exclaimed. "Egad,
I'll not do it. I'll be q free man."
Some time later one OF the friends OF Ills
earlier days CHANGED to drive into a neigh
boring town. As he stopped at the hotel
the hostler came forward with tottering
steps to take his team. He could scarcely
believes his eyes, for that poor wretch was
none other than Joel B.
In a few years he had ruined not only
himself, but his family, and died a poor,
degraded sot-one of that vast army Of 3d.
900 souls which annually goes down to the
drunkard's grave.
No one would be a slave. So It behooves
each to "stand fast, therefore, in the
liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free,
and be not e%ntangled again with the yoke
of bondage"
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MINISTER TO SPAIN CHOSEN,
General Stewart L. Woodford Nominated
by the President.

General Stewart L. Woodford Nominated
by the President.
The President nominated Stewart L.
Woodford, of New York, to be Minister to
Spain.
Stewart Lyndon Woodford was born in
New York City on September 8, 1885. He is
a descendant from Puritan stock in the
eighth American generation. Mr.. Wood.
ford went to Columbia College, then to
Yale, and in his junior year returned to Col
umbia and finished his course with high
honor. He studied law, and was admitted to
the bar In 1857. He was a natural cam.
paign speaker and took the stump for Lin
coin In 1860. When the war began Mr.,
woodruff enlisted. He rose to Captain,
Lieutenant-Colonel, and for gallantry was
promoted to the rank of Colonel and
breveted Brigadier-G General. In 1866 Gen.
eral Woodford was elected Lieutenant
Governor. the youngest man that ever pre-.
sided over the State Senate. Four years
later General Woodford was the Republi.
can candidate for Governor of New
York, but was defeated by John
T. Hoffman. General Woodford repre-.
sented the Third District in Congress in
1872. He was a candidate for Vice-Presi.
dent in 1876, but withdrew in favor Of Will.
lam A. Wheeler. General Woodford was @
member of the Greater New York Commits.
sion. He has made a fortune from his law
practice.
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AGED WOMAN STARVED TO DEATH.
Tier Idiotic Brother Sat Beside the Body
LARGO Sums Of Money in the House.

Tier Idiotic Brother Sat Beside h Body
Large Sums of Money In the House.
Miss Hannah King, aged eighty-fve, was
found dead in bed at her home In Philadel-
phia, and sitting beside her on q chair,
alive, was her idiotic brother, a man about
her age. There was every indication
that the woman had been dead for some
time, and that her death was due to starva-
ton. The only food found in the house
was a crust of bread as hard as a stone and
covered with mould. The two occupied
the same house for fifty years, but for the
last eight years have seldom been seen on
the streets. The aged couple possessed
considerable property between them,
which, it is said, will amount to 300, 600.
1t Is believed that large sums Of money are
hidden about the house, and q squad OF po-
lice has been placed on guard. The tdiotic
brother, who is unable to give any expiana-
ton, was sent to the Philadelphia Hospital.
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A TEMPERANCE COLUMl
THE DRINK EVIL MADE NANTES
IN MANY WAYS.

Satan's Neutrality-suspicious. Does Not
Affect Man Physical Nature Alone,
But Destroys Self-Respect n All
Sense OF personal Honor-Drink's Slave
johnson, the drunkard, Is dying to-day,
With traces Of sin on his face;
He'll be missed at the club, at the bar, at
wantedEa boy in his place.
Simmonds, the gamble, was killed in a fight,
He died without pardon or grace;
ONE one must train for his burden and
blight,
Wanted-a boy in his place.
The scoffer, the convict, the idler, the thief,
Are lost, and without any noise,
Make it known, that there come to my In
slant relief
Some thousand or more OF the boys.
Boys from the 1reside, boys from the farm,
Boys from the home and the school,
Come, leave your misgiving, there can pc
no harm
Where "drink and be merry" Is the rule.
Wanted, for every lost servant Of mine,
Some one to live without grace,
Some one to die without pardon divine,
Will you be the boy for the place?
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Alcohol and Self.Murder.

At the recent international congress OF
psychology DR.. Muller gave an interesting
historical sketch Of the etiology OF self
murder, and, by means OF an elaborate
series Of statistics, traced to alcohol the
primary cause Of its marked increase Of late
wears. The author estimates the number
Of suicides in Europe at $4,000 a year, thus
showing that the evil is increasing at a
greater rate than the population. The
largest number of suicides take place In
June, the smallest in December. Early
morning Is chosen In preference to the night,
while the mechanic class furnishes the
largest number Of subjects and the peasant
the least. DR.. Muller considers brandy the
most pernicious form Of alcohol, and traces
to its influence the bunting OF those
weapons which in the struggle Tor me are
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Labor World.

France has 8 1000 union r~ailroaders.
Agriculture employs 28O, 600, 900 men.
Louisiana levee repairing employs $4,000
men.
The United States contain $50 900 seam
stresses.
Sixty Moscow (Russia) labor leaders have
exiled to Siberia.
Canton (Ohio) idle printers have estab-
lished q cooperative daily.
In many Scotland towns furniture workers
get fourteen cents an hour.
Milwaukee peddlers have organized to
establish a scale OF street prices.
The city gas works at Wheeling, W, Va.
have inaugurated the eight-houE DAY.
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consequences Of intoxication.

Did the ruinous effects Of intemperance
pertain only to the physical nature It would
be sufficiently sad, but the blighting powers
stop not here. To trust, to revere, to pray,
to aspire to be patriotic, benevolent, CHI
valric, to love home and children and fell
low men-all these pure and noble emotions
are movements Of the soul. And there Is
not one Of them which the lust Of intemper-
ance does not war against. M%addening
liquor devours the citizens patriotism.
The stars and the stripes signify nothing to
him; the National songs cease to stir his
spirits. Intoxication destroys all sense Of
truthfulness. No reliance is placed on the
word Of an intoxicated individual. Pre-
varication, pretence, all falsehood, not
only in reference to the appetite which en-
chains, but for the sake Of its qualification
who has not seen much Of this? Kindly
instincts are blunted, sensibilities of symps-
thy and affection will dry up, and the SUI
ferings Of others, even the family's destitu-
ton will make nc controlling impression.
Whatever ~benevolence Of native DISPOSE
tion may have been enthroned becomes en-
crusted, overlaid, buried. Appearances
and appeals which otherwise could have
reached the heart meet no response. This
ruling passion destroys self-respect and all
sense Of personal honor, driving the being
whithersoever 1t will, bringing him to the
lowest practices and sinking him to the
lowest condition. 4
Intoxication obliterates, or at least puts
aside, family affection and Stays the inner
most citadel Of nature, until there Is aceas-
ing of tenderness and considerateness as a
helpmeet, or kindness or afectionateness
or dbtifulness as a child. "
Only too frequent are the cases where the
want, the sickness and suffering Of an in
temperate mans family make not the slight
est impression on his callous heart. That
part OF his nature seems deadened.
Shakespeare describes drunkenness, q
devil put in the mouth. It infsmes all
other passions, stirs up strife and anger, ex-
CITES pugnacity, breeds fights and brawls,
and 1t Is the direct occasion Of many g
homicide. Profanity seems to go naturally
with it, even though in sober intervals the
poor drunkard Is not given to swearing.
How easily, too, 1t links on with obscene
speech, and with the practices Of impurity.
But even though all this brood Of vice should
not follow every instance, the practice ID
sure to foster areadiness for low and wicked
associations.
Drunkenness hardens the individual
against the appeals and claims Of the Cos
pel.-Sacred Heart Review.
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Cycling Notes.

England granted 1000 bicycle patents
last year.
Nearly all our missionaries take bicycles
abroad with them.
The cyclists of England participated in
the Queens diamond jubilee celebrations.
Between ten and fifteen United States
Senators ride bicycles. Now they are look
ing for a room in the Capitol where they
can store their silent steeds.
An up-to-date coroner at Woodside. N.
Y, has bought a sextuplet, On which his
juries will hereafter race around the dis
trict in performance Of their duties, the
coroner and his clerk accompanying them
on q tandem
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He Feared to Be Lynched.

Twas developed In testimony at the In
quest at Cincinnati, Ohio, on the death Of
Alfred Quick, who killed himself, that the
motive was to escape mob vengeance.
Quick had been discovered in the attempt
to assault a girl ten years old, and with the
Urbana incident fresh in his mind, took his
own life rather than risk death at the
hands Of a mob,
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Minor Mention.
There are SO4,637 Bell telephones.

There are SO4, 657 Bell telephones.
Detroit, Mich, exempts her Masonic hall
nom taxation.
In four years the United States have ex-
sorted $50 locomotives.
California's orange crop this year is
sbout $500 car loads, against 1900 last year.
The Florida Legislature has appropriated
s,l, 500 for the erection of a State Reform
School.
Wisconsin is suing her agricultural so
eiety for money advanced to buy State fair
grounds.
Avoiding Of an epileptic and en- almost
Aelpless paralytic is reported in Cumber'
Ind County, kentucky.
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DROPPED TO HER DEATH.

A Woman BalIoonist Fell Into the Ten
nessee River and Was Drowned.
Mrs. Edith L. Bruno, a bold female bal
~loonist, met a terrible death by drowning
in the Tennessee River. The basket which
she had relied upon as a buoy against the
water, overturned and dragged her under.
Her feet became entangled In the ropes and
she was unable to extricate herself.
The accident occurred at Riverview Park,
five miles north Of Chattanooga, Tenn. A
large crowd, as usual On Sunday, was pres
ent to witness the ascension. When she
was 1000 to 5000 feet high the parachute was
1t struck the water the spectators groaned.
Mrs. Bruno was twenty-three years old,
and was assisted by her husband.
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THREW ABOMB At FAURE.
The President Of France Narrowly
Escapes Death in Paris.
FIEND HID IN A THICKET.

The Chief Magistrate Was on His Way to
the R~aces-There Was a Report, e
n Cloud of Smoke and Terrible Con-
sternation - Evidences of Premedt-
tated Assassination Hid in h Bushes.
PARIS, France (By Cable).-An attempt
was made Sunday to assassinate Felix
Faure, the President of the French Republic
while he was on his way to the horse races
at Longchamps to witness the running Of
the famous Grand Prix.
While NJ. Faure's carriage was passing o
thicket near La Cascade restaurant, In the
Bots de Boulogne, a bomb, which subse-
quently proved 20 be a piece OF tubing
about six inches long and two inches In
diameter, with q thickness of half an inch
charged with powder and swan shot, ex-
ploded.
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REDSKIN LEGALLY SHOT.
Father and Brother Put Bullets Int
Chokat Ebin's Body.

Father and Brother Put Bullets Into
Chokat Ebin's Body.
In the presence Of the members Of his
tribe, Chokat Ebin, q full-blooded Creek
Indian, was shot to death near Perry, Okla
bona, for the murder Of Lama Anthony.
Ebin was shot by his father, Riley Ebin, and
his brother, Palko Ebin.
Three weeks before Chokat Ebin, during
a quarrel with Lama Anthony, shot the lot
ter dead. He was sentenced to be shot on
June 4. When the day arrived Ebin sent
word to the Governor that he was sick and
not able to attend his execution, and the
Governor respited him till the 18th.
1t Is law among the Greek Indians that q
victim for the gibbet or the shooting squad
can chooee his own executioner; that Is, he
can kill himself, or two OF his nearest rela-
lives can shoot him. In this case Ebin
chose his father and brother to shoot him.
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Temperance News and Notes.

The saloon is sims chief agent, the devils
head servant.
The licensed liquor-seller is a legalized
disturber Of the public peace.
The butcher kills meat for food, but the
~saloonist sells drink to kill man.
Drink is the great curse OF modern
civilization. 1t blocks the way OF every
thing that is good.
Saloon keeping is a leading industry: It
leads it's victims to the grave and to hell,
and their wives and children to disgrace,
poverty and misery.
The grog-shop is the pirate OF commerce.
the destroyer Of industry, the robber OF
every legitimate business, and shoud ba
opposed BY every worker. -
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FANcIULLI TO BE DISMISSED.

Marine Band Leader Found Guilty OF
Disobedience Of Orders.
The court-martial which recently tried
Professor Fanciulli, leader of the Marine
Band, Washington, on charges growing out
Of his refusal to play certain marches
ordered to be played on Memorial Day by
Lieutenant Draper Of the Marine Corps.
has found him guilty Of disobedience OF
orders and has recommended his dis
missal from the service. Colonel Hey
wood. commandment of the corps, has ap-
proved the recommendation, and it has
been forwarded to the Navy Department.
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The Centennial of Augusta, Me.

Augusta, Me-, has just celebrated its cen.
tennial anniversary. The city was elaborate
ly decorated. The day was ushered in with
q ringing OF bells Of the city churches. The
exercises OF the afternoon began at 2
O'Clock. J. W. Bradbury, President OF the
day, Is the oldest living ex-United States
Senator. He will be ninety-fve years old.
The invocation was given by the Rev.
Daniel Cony Weston, OF Washington, D. G:
Chief Justice NJ. W. Fuller, Of the United
States Supreme Court, delivered the ora
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Prominent peODle.

Emperor William Of Germany is a practi-
al typesetter.
President Mckinley has selected Cherry
Farm seven miles southwest OF Washing
ton as his summer residence. 1t is reached
from the city by beautiful drives.
Speaker Reed is said to be one Of those
persons who are constitutionally unable to
spell correctly. He is liable to make mis-
takes in spelling that annoy him very
much.
A Chicago real estate agent says Mar
shall Field is the richest man in Chicago.
His fortune is estimated to be all the way
from $50, O00, 900 to 300 900, 900 and he Is
undoubtedly the largest owner Of realty in
America.