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was killed by an anarchist uniforme,
as an aide-de-camp.
John w. Gates and his associate.
have secured control of the Louisvill,
and Nashville railroad.
The King of Siam owns an arm,
corps of 500 elephants, all well trained
for military purposes and under com
mand of a general.
Henry M. Flagler has haa built in
his new home at Palm Peach, Fla, the
largest pipe organ ever placed in pri-
vate house in this country.
Judge Buchanan has issued tenn
porary injunction against the expan-
slonists Of Brookland, a suburb of
Columbia, who wished the municipal
limits extended.
John a. Mccall, president of the
New York Life Insurance Company,
will present $4,000 pulpit to the
Roman Catholic Cathedral of the linz
maculate Conception in Albany, N. Y.
Thomas O'Day, who lives at Vevay,
Ind, is one of the very few survivors
Oh the famous British cavalry Light
Brigade, which immortalized itself in
history by the charge at Balaklava,
Russia, Sept. %, 1854.
January and October in the same
year always begin with the same day
of the week. The case is the same
with April and July, with September
and December, and with February,
March and November.
Prof ~ II II;oo,n,o,,, &c U1:
University, returned last week from
Cuba, where he went to collect speci-
mems of fish for classroom work and
The museum. In his collection are
l5S specimens of blind fishes.
A commission of experts, represent
ing the Lancashire cotton manufa.-
turers, accompanied by delegates re-
presenting the operatives, have sailed
from Liverpool for the United States
to investigate the cotton industry IN
America.
a new giant geyser of Rotomahana,
N. H., is attracting attention. A mass
Of boiling water half an acre in extent
rises in great dome, from which a
column of water and stones rises to
300 feet, while immense columns of
steam ascend as far as can be seen.
Helen Keller, the deaf and blind
girl, has written an autobiography
which will soon appear. She is now
student at Radcliffe College. Her
book, which is written in sign language
If the blind, is said to be remarkable
or the excellence of its style.
non, ,>,o@o,;ol r..
vas used in New Jersey hospital not
ong ago. 1t was the delicate inner
'kin of an eggshell. "A man was badly
calded, and in the operation of graft
ng, which was found necessary, the
'ggskin was tried and is thought to be
| success.
Bishop Hurst, of the Methodist
episcopal church, is very i'll, aud his
causes grave fears. He has
never recovered fully from the apoplec-
lc stroke he received at the mterna-
ional conference in London when he
heard of the assassination of President
Mckinley.
According to the records of the Con-
,ressonal Library for the winter, 3 900
people have gone into the building
very day during the season. OF these
'bout 1900 daily are supposed TO have
'ecn sightseers, the rest bciny people
Who wished TO make use of the reading
oom. Employees were not counted,
In Japan it is always the rule of po
iteness TO pay trille more than The
um mentioned on your hotel bill. To
,ettle the account net would be con-
idered an insult, or at least mark of
,ieat dissatisfaction. People who have
raveled in Japan say that the Japanese
always tip the waiter on entering the
lotel.
The geographical center of the
United States on high point of land
IN the public reservation at Fort Ri
ey, Kan, is marked by n large monu-
nent erected over the grave of Major
edmund Ogden of the United States
army, who died at Fort Riley in 1856.
~ Joseph o. Sawyer, formerly of Gin
,innati.
M. Cadet, an oculist, of Bordeaux. is
to have been successful i'm
he treatment of cataract without
operations by the application of baths
If salicylate of soda. He has arrested
he progress of the cataract in nu-
nerous cases, and is sanguine of success
the treatment is begun at an early
tage.
Senator Cullen, of Brooklyn, has
made himself remarkable at this ses-
ion of the New York Legislature by
lot introducing single bill. "My
lotion," he said, "is that there are too
many bills introduced and too many
avs passed. / have introduced but
i've bills in seven years and three of
hem became laws"
AS an instance Of the lcisurely man
ner in which the military authorities
of Turkey move in time of peace it is
said that committee appointed in
1890 to prepare plans for the construc-
lion of Notifications for the defense of
The strategically most important points
on the Turkish shores of the Persian
Gulf has just completed its labors.
The war department has decided
upon general courtmartial of officers
for their barbarous treatment of Fill
pinos. General Chafree has been
notified that President Roosevelt will
not take any excuse in Justification of
inhuman conduct on the part of Ameri-
can soldiers. General Smith is to be
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