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n a a? i I I. 7 THE STANDARD. THE STANDARD. ? J A ( I) THE VERT BEST ADVKKTISIXG MEDIUM. terms : CXE YEAR CASH IN ADVAMCE, $LM SIIMOHHS, .75 POETRY. i ('Brd Br It till. I GlUnt nation, foiled by numberi, Say not that your hopes are fled ; Keep that glorious flag that slumberi, One day to avenge your dead. Keep it widowed, sonlesa mothers, Keep It sisters, mourning brothers, Furl It with an iron will, Furl it now, but lore it still, Think not that Jts work is done ; Keep it till your children take it, Once again to hail and make it, All your sons have fought and bled for, All their noble hearts hare sought for, Bled and died for all as one. All alone ! aye, shame the story i Millions here deplore the stain ; Shame, alas! for England's glory. Freedom called, but called in rain t Furl that banner, sadly, slowly, Furl it gently, for 'tis holy, Till that day, yes furl it sadly, Ybeu once more unfurl it gladly Conquered banner, lore it still ! l b (Mt r 4r Army mm rMteBM. Enquirer and Express. We are accustomed to look with pity on the people of European na tions, and congratulate ourselves on the fact that we hare no immense standing army to support If we look up the facts we will reserve a large portion of the pity and sympa thy wasted on ur European neigh bora for ourselves. It seems that we are taxed for this purpose about as heavily as they are. The Baltimore Sun says the appropriation for pen sions in the year ending June 30, 1889, was $88,400,000, and it is a question with the Commissioner of Tensions whether the amount ex pended will not reach $105,000,000. Adding to this $88,400,000 appro priated for past services the $58, 000,000 we pay for the services of the 36,G00 men constituting our pre sent army and navy, we find that our total annual military and naval bur. den is $147,000,000. This is a vast expenditure for peace times, and the country is not the better pleased with it when it reflects that the most of it is money thrown away. It ex ceeds, it must be confessed, the ruili taiy expenditures of the much pitied monarchies of Europe. Our expen diture for pensions alone exceeds the cost of the most powerful standing armies of this age of bloated arma ments. Germany, for instance, spends but $85,000,000 a year to maintain her efficient standing army of 445, 000 men. The 16,750 men in the German navy represent an expendi ture of but $9,000,000 more. The amount, therefore, we are likely to spend this year in pensions would maintain the army and navy of the most powerful empire on the conti nent. Germany's annual outlay for pensions, however, is but $5,100,000, though Germany has carried on two great wars since our last in 1861-'65. Evidently we are very much over doing the pension business. England maintains her very expensive army of 210,000 men on from $85,000,000 to $90,000,000 a year. Her magnifi cent navy, wiih its complement of 48,280 men, costs her but $63,000,000 a year. Our present expenditure of $147,000,000 for pensions and a diminutive army and navy would, therefore, about suffice to maintain the entire force with which England holds a world-wide empire. With an annual expenditure of but $132, 800,000 France supports an army of 423,280 men. Her navy, which is second to that of England, costs her but $39,000,000. Austria-Hungary has an army of 266,000 men, which costs the empire $49,230,000 a year, and her navy, which numbers 22,500 men, costs but $4,500,000 more. We are accustomed to lament the condi tion of the populations of Europe on account of the vast burdens they bear. They are ground down, we say, with taxes to support ".bloated armaments," the object of which is to maintain the privileged classes in the possession of their ill gotten gains. WkIM fh niMt Pittsburg Dispatch. From where do all the flies come? The question is often asked, and sel dom receives as satisfactory an an swer as has been given by a contem porary : The common fly lays more than 100 eggs, and the time from egg-laying to maturity is only about two weeks. Most of us have studied geometrical progression. IIer we ee it illustrated. Suppose one fly commences "to multiply and re plenish the earth" about June 1. J une 15, if all lived, would give 150. Suppose seventy-five of these are females, July 1 would give us, sup posing no cruel wasp or other unto ward circumstances to interfere, 11,250 flies. Suppose 5,625 of these re females, we might have July 15, M3,720 flies. For fear of bad dreams I will not calculate what might be by September 15. The type-setting on the New York Tribune is now done by machinery. VOL. II. NO. 21. A Great Flood I HOVE VERY T1IIUEI.1XG INCIDENTS THOUSANDS OFLIVES LOST, AND MIL LIONS OF PROPERTY DESTROYED. Pittsburg, Pa., June 1. The ra ging rain storms that have prevailed throughout Pennsylvania in the past few days have resulted in an appall ing loss of life. The scene of a terrible disaster is at Johnstown, Pa., in Gambrea county, on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and the Conemaugh river. Two and a half miles north east of the town is a reservoir owned by a rich fishing club. It is the largest reservoir in the United States, being three and a half miles long and one and a half miles wide. Its depth in some places is one hundred feet. It holda more water than any other, natural or artificial, in the United States. The lake has been quadrupled in size by artificial means and was held in check by a dam from 700 to 1,00 feet wide. It is 90 feet in thickness at the base and the height is 110 feet. The top has a breadth of over twenty feet Recog nizing the menace which the lake had for the region below, the South Fork Club had the dam inspected once a month by the Pennsylvania Railroad engineers, and their investi gation shows that nothing less than some convulsion of nature would tear the barrier away and loosen the weapon of death. The steady rains of the past twenty four hours increased the volume of water in all the mountain streams, which were already swelled by the lesser rains early in the week. From the best information obtainable at this time it is evident that something in the nature of a cloud burst must have been the culmination of the struggle of the water against the embankment. The difficulty of ob taining definite information added tremendously to the excitement and apprehension. The course of the torrent from the broken dam at the foot of the lake to Johnstown is almost eighteen miles, and, with the exception of nt one point, the water passed through a narrow V-shaped valley. Four miles below the dam lay the town of South Fork, where the South Fork itself empties into the Conemaugh river. The town contained about two thousand inhabitants. It has not been heard from, but it is said that four-fifths of it has been swept away. New Florence, Pa., June 1. The number of lives lost is about 4,000: property about $11,000,000. C. W. Poppenstall. of East End, Pittsburg, distinguished himself by his bravery yesterday afternoon. He was a messenger on the mail train which had to turn at Sang Hollow. As the train passed a point where the water was full of struggling peo ple, a woman and a child floated in near the shore. The train was stopped and Poppenstall undressed, jumped into the water and in two trips saved both mother and child. Swollen corpses lay here and there in piles of cros3 ties, or on the banks of the river among the tangled green ery. Some little odds and ends they told me of. A beautiful girl came down on the roof of a building which was swung in near to the tow er. She screamed to the operators to save her, and one big, brawny, brave fellow walked as far into the river as he could, and shouted to her to try to guide herself into shore with a bit of plank. She was a plucky girl, full of nerve and energy, and stood upon her frail sup port, in evident obedience to the command of the operator. She made two or three bold strokes and actually stopped the course of the raft for an instant. Then it swerved and went out from under her. She tried to swim ashore, but in a few minutes 6he was lost in the surging water- Something-hit her, for she lay on her back with face pallid and ex pressionless ; and women by dozens, in pairs and singly, children, boys, big and little, and wee babies were there in among the awful confusion of the water, drowning, grasping, struggling and fighting desperately for life. Two men on a tiny raft shot into the swiftest part of the current They crouched stolidly, looking at the shore, while between them, dressed in white and kneeling with her face turned heavenward, was a girl Bix or seven years old ; she seemed stricken with paralysis until she came opposite the town, and then she turned her face to the operator. She was so close they could see the big tears on her face. The helpless men on shore shouted to her to keep up her courage and she resumed her devout attitude and disappeared tin der the trees of a projecting point a short distance below. "Do you see that fringe of trees?" said the operator, pointing to the place where the little girl had gone out of sight "Well, we saw scores of children swept in there. " I be lieve that when the time comes they will find almost a hundred bodies of children there among the bushes." Just above New Florence is the town of Nineveh. It was here that I found the first charnel house. One hundred and nine dead were here, the larger portion of whom were women. Here it was that the awful work of the freshet could he realized. What have been fertile farms now look much like worn-out brickyards. Great trees have been twisted and torn like weed3, and the broken house hold goods of hundred of houses line the shores for miles. Thieves of the vilest sort those who steal from the dead, thennfortnnate-have been busily at work, robbing trunks and boxes and articles of furniture, and there is nothing worth taking left. Four miles futhcr down, on the Conemaugh river, was the town of Mineral Point. It had eight hun dred inhabitants, ninety per cent, of the houses being on a flat close to the river. It seems impossible at this time to hope that any of them have escaped. Six miles futher down was the town of Conemaugh, and here alone was there a topographical possibility of the spreading of the flood and the breaking of its force. It con tained 2,500 inhabitants, and must be almost devastated. Wood vale, with 2,000 people, lav a mile below Conemaugh, in a flat, and one mile further down lay John stown and its cluster of sister towns, Cambria and Conemaugh, a borough with a total population of 30,000 on made ground, and stretched alon the right, at the river's verge, were the immense iron wcrks of the Cam bria Iron and., Steel Co., who have $6,000,000 invested in their plant. Besides this there are many other large industrial establishments on the bank of the river, the damage to which cannot be estimated. Treasure lu IheKnnd. Memphis, Tens, May 22. The people at Friar's Point, Miss., are much excited over the discoverv of a hidden treasure, and crowds are out digging as if the town were a gold mine. Yesterday morning when the steamer Belle Memphis arrived at the town, the passengers saw a fisher man's two sons "grubbing" in the loose loam a hundred yards below the wharf boat. Soon afterward the boys rushed up to their father at the land ing, and showed him several dingy peices of metal that they had found. The fisherman saw that they were twenty dollar gold pieces, and ran to the place and began digging. The passengers on the boat followed, and the spot was soon alive with eager miners. Pocket knives, parasols and fingers were the tools used, and they yielded a rich return. The fisher man got about $G00, a lady passen ger secured $500, and others got smaller sums, the whole amount ag gregating several thousand dollars and all in twenty dollar gold pieces, bearing date of 1859 and 18C0. The money was buried early dur ing the war by somebody unknown. Several years ago a wealthy planter spent about $3,000 in excavations on Montezuma Bar, some distance above Friar's Point, to find a treasure that was supposed to be bu r ied there. II e failed in his attempt, but managed to furnish another channel for the river at that point. Better Mall Ncrvlee. Landmark. Upon the subject of one cent post age Postmaster General Wanamaker is tolerably sound. He says that while there are so many places in the country which receive only one mail a week he does not think it wise to reduce letter postage but that the correct business principle is that of the sleeping-car companies to maintain the rate aud improve tbe service. "Penny postage," as it is called, would not be beneficial, anyhow, to the masses of the people ; it would result in immense saving to great "business concerns whose correspondence is very heavy and would be relatively helpful to busi ness men of all grades, but the masses of our people write few let ters and it would be much more to their interest to have quicker and more frequent mails than it would to have letter postage reduced from 2 cents to 1. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky., has just sent out twenty-seven graduates, twelve of whom had taken a full course. Ha CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1889. C.en. Buckner, Governor of Kentucky. Bolivar Buckncr was born in Ken tucky in 1823 and graduated at West Point in 1844. He entered the army, where he was made commissary of subsistence in 1852 with the rank of captain. At the outbreak of the Mexican war he was an assistant professor in the West Point Military Academy, but resigned to take part in the struggle. He saw active ser niee at Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, San Antonio, Chapul tepee and the city cf Mexico. In 1855 he was. super intendent of construction of the Chicago custom-house. In 1857 he was appointed colonel of the Illinois Volunteers for the Utah expedition, and in I860 became inspector-general commanding the Kentucky horse At the outbreak of the Civil War he joined the Southern army, and was in command of Bowling Green, which he evacuated on the capture of Fort Henry, falling back to Fort Douelson, where he was besieged by Gen. Grant, and on February ICth, 1802, surrendered to the latter, with sixteen thousand troops and vast stores, lie was a prisoner or. war at Fort Warren until August, 1802, when he was exchanged. He com manded a division of Hardee's corps in Bragg's army in Tennessee, and as major-general was assigned the third grand division engaged at Mur- freesboro and Chiekamauga, and was included in Kirbv Smith's surrender to Gen. Canby on May 22d, 1805. A ttOK Worth Own lute. Detroit Free Press. Daniel Cady Eaton, a professor in Yale College, has an intelligent col lie dog named Jimmie Brown. On Thursday Jimmie's master gave him an envelope and told him to go and buy himself a license for the coining year. Jimmie started out, reached the office of the town clerk and dropped the envelope at his feet. The note read as follows : Town Clerk of New Haven : Dear Sir I have been so busy chasing eats and barking at newsboys lately that I have not been able to ap ply "for a renewal of my license. Please renew license .No. z'.'b, and find fees inclosed. Yours respectfully, his Jimmie X Buowx. mark. P. S. I am a black, tan and white collie, and George F. Eaton, of No. 70 Sachem street, belongs to me and is responsible for my conduct. There was $1.1G in the envelope, and one cent was returned to the envelope in change, and the happy collie picked up his envelope and trotted off home satisfied that he was free under the law and had paid for the privilege of living another year. The Firat Xewspapert. New York Christian Advocate. The word "news" is generally supposed to be taken from the adjec tive new. But it is asserted by some that its origin can be traced to the custom in former times of placing on the newspapers of the day the initial letters of the cardinal points of the compass, thus : N w- -E S These letters were intended to in dicate that the paper contained intel ligence from the four quarters of the globe; but they finally came to as sume the form of the word news, from which the term newspaper is derived. The first newspaper was published in England by Nathaniel Butter in 1002 ; the first in France in 1032 ; the first in Russia in 1703, under the personal supervision of Peter the Great; the first Dutch in 1050,and the first in North America was the Boston News Letter, com menced April 24, 1704. A few weeks ao the Minnesota Legislature passed the law. exclud ing dressed meat. The market price of beef in Duluth has since that time advanced twenty-five per cent, fMk .-i Ml.. ' m jIII AND ARB. DROPS OF Tar, riteh and Turpentine, front the Old North Ntate. Wilmington has seventy rum mills. A fair will be ludd at Mt. Holly this year. Trinity College commencement is June 13th. There are 52 practicing physicians in Mecklenburg county. The Grand Chapter of 3Iasons met in Wilmington last week. The mayor of Mooresville enjoys the handsome salary of $25 a year. A number of negroes from Beau fort county have exodusted to Mas sachusetts. A gosling was recently hatched in Moore county that had four legs and six wings. The Newton Enterprise is pub lishing a History of Catawba County as a serial. The French Broad Hotel at Ashe ville was totally destroyed by fire Sunday night. The State Chronicle devotes about two pages last week to a write up of Wilson, N. C. David Yoder, of Catawba, is ninety-one years of age and shoots squirrels with a rifle. A company has been organized in Chatham county to work the coal fields in that vicinity. Four members of Mr. George W. Pound's family in Union county died last week of dysentery. Capt. J. B. Ilussey is very ill in Washington. His paper, the Greens boro Patriot, has suspended. A chamber of commerce has been organized in Statesville, with Mr. Jos. P. Caldwell as president." One Swetzer, a bigamist, from Massachusetts, is in jail in Charlotte. His wife number one is after him. A stock company at Mt. Holly has been formed to purchase a steamer to run on the Catawba river. There are 17 cotton factories in full operation in Alamance county, and arrangements are on foot for another one. This ;3 the year for the seventeen year locust and it has appeared at Asheville in this State and elsewhere throughout the country. The two weeks series of sermons by Evangelist Pearson in Fayette ville resulted in the conversion of 500 people it is estimated. During an altercation with an attendant at the Insane Asylum at Raleigh, a son of Dr. Eugene Gris som accidently shot himself. The Charlotte people hope to have President Harrison stop in Charlotte as he goes on his trip to Texas, which he contemplates making soon. Governor Fowle has accepted au invitation for himself and staff to attend the unveiling of the Lee monument in Richmond next No vember. Dr. W. S. Currell, Professor of English at Davidson College, has been elected Lecturer on English Literature at the Piedmont Chatau qua of Georgia. The officers of the North Carolina Horticultural Society report that the present season is so far the best on record for fruit The only trouble is as regards the apple crop. The Wilmington Messenger is right. It is dangerous for t"wns in Eastern North Carolina to be dig ging their streets in the summer. Let us wait until cold weather. It is said that the earnings of the Richmond & Danville syndicate for the first week in May exceeded those of last year for the same week by $20,000. A letter passed through Wilkes boro postoffice recently, addressed as follows: "To Mr. Benjamin Har rison, President, Washington post office, near Baltimore, Maryland, in care of Hon. Zeb Vance, Esq." The eighth annual meeting of the colored North Carolina State Teach era' Ass6ciation will be held at Liv ingstone College, Salisbury, June 11th to the 18th. Rev. Atticus G. Haygood will deliver an address. Mr. Robinson, of the Argus, cow- hided Mr. Roscower, of the Head light, both Goldsboro papers, because the latter made some criticism on his not publishing the Boyle scandal at Raleigh, attributing it to religious connections, etc. In taking out the foundation stone of the Newton court house, preparatory to enlarging the build ing, a paper was found giving names of inhabitants then in Newton, num bering seventy-five. The house was built in 1843. There are only three named in that paper now living in Newton. .Millions of Caterpillars. RAILROAD TRAIN IN MAINE STOPPED BY AN ARMY OF WORMS. Courier Journal. Lewiston, Me., May 21. The railroad men who went out with the pioneer train on a new line through the Maine wilderness yesterday had an experience which left them blis tered, weary and disgusted. The train was brought to a dead stop in the woods by millions of caterpillars which took a fancy to crawling on the rails and defied every device es sayed for removing them until an other locomotive was sent to the res cue. Moreover, droves of hungry mosquitoes swooped down on the trainmen and drank their blood. The advance guard was seen by a railroad time-keeper as he rode over the line on his velocipede the night before. He encountered a lot of small gray caterpillars which had spread themselves over the track so thickly .that he had to push his ma chine along on hand for half a mile. A big engine and eleven flat cars loaded with 1,500 ship knees, the Canadian Pacific's first train for bu siness, started from Seebois for Brown ville yesterday morning. It had gone but a few miles when it ran into a sticky, squirming mass which the locomotive wheels ground to a greasy pulp that clogged the driving wheels and prevented them from getting any grip on the track. The train came to a stand-still and the conductor and engineer made an investigation. "Pooh," said the engineer, "bugs.' "Ila, ha, ha," laughed the con ductor, derisively. They jumped aboard after a little scraping, but it was no use. The "bugs" were too much for them. As far as the eye could reach the lit tle caterpillars were in complete pos session of the track. The Canadian Pacific was turned into two lines of gray wriggle. The train was in the midst of the woods. "Cut brushes and try to sweep them off," said the conductor to the trainmen. All hands tried it, but the bushes crushed the pulpy mass and only smeared the track worse than ever. Sand was then sprinkled on the rails. This enabled the en gine to start, but the caterpillars soon greased the rails again and the train halted. A messenger was dis patched to the Seebois station and the situation was telegraphed to the manager of the road. He sent an extra locomotive and a crew of help ers to the assistance of the beleag uered train. With a force of men scraping aud sanding, with an engine to pull and another to push, the train crept through the woods at a snail's pace. A vast horde of large and fero cious mosquitoes came out of the depths of the forest and assailed the motley crew of railroad men, show ing no native predilections, but drawing blood from Poles, French men, Russians and Irishmen alike. Even a bishop would hav smiled to sec the crowd fighting mosquitoes with one hand and caterpillars with the other, all the time swearing in at least five different languages. Su perintendent Van Zile issued the or ders and charge after charge was made at the steep grades lubricated with the squeezed caterpillars. All day long and after the sun had gone down the locomotives and men toiled to drag that train from Sebois to Brownville. The myriads of cater pillars covered the rails for eleven miles. WThen the train reached its destination at last it bore the most exhausted and disgusted crew ever seen outside of a blizzard. The railroad officials are mystified and worried. They have some fears as to the reserve force of this army and its next attack, and are consulting the "bugologists" about it Super intendent Van Zile talks now of dig ging ditches and flooding the road with running water. A herd of about 300 goats were sold by the station agent at San An gelo, Texas to pay freight charges. They brought thirty-five cents per head. Allen Thorndike Rice gave but $3,000 for the North American Re view a few years ago. It now pays a net profit of $30,000 a year, and Mr. Rice refused $300,000 for it a short time before his death. A California paper tells of a man in that State raising a beet with which he fed two horses and three cows four days. The California pa per wouldn't lie about a little thing like that; and it refrained from adding that a piece of wood entan gled in the bottom of the beet was torn from the roof of a Chinese dwelling, for fear its readers might discredit the whole story. WHOLE NO. 73. Word to Opponents of Public Nchools. MA J. S. Jf. FINGER, SUPERINTENDENT OP PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. State Chronicle. If you are opposed to taxation for public schools for any reasons satis factory to yourself, look at your tax receipt and see how little you really pay on your property for schools. Unless you live in a community that taxes itself especially for schools, you pay only 121 cents on the $100 of property. Far the larger part of school money comes from poll-tax, fines, liquor licenses, &c. If you are worth $8,000, you are probably as sessed at about $4,000, on which you pay $5.00 school tax; if you are worth $4,000, your assessed valuation is probably about $2,000, on which you pay $2.50 of school tax. Is not your school tax smaller than you thought it was ? However this may be, is it not the part of wisdom to recognize the fact that public ed ucation is a part of our modern civ ilization, that it is fixed in our con stitution, and that we cannot get rid of it eveu if it were a proper thing to do ? Is it not the part of wisdom even for those who are opposed to public education to help the school officers to make good use of the mo ney which the State puts into their hands to manage ? After all, can North Carolina af ford to lag behind her sister South ern States in the matter of general education? We 'are very much be hind Virginia, Tennesse and all the other Southern States but one or two in the length of our public school terms. But perhaps you say the negroes are in the way. Well, Ave will not discuss the education of the negroes here. Bnt do you know that, includ ing poll-tax which they actually pay, and fines, forfeitures, and penalties, the negroes furnish a large propor tion of the money that is applied to their public schools ? But whatever may be said about the education of the negro, the fol lowing are questions every man should earnestly ask himself: Can we afford to allow the white children to grow up in ignornce because the negroes are here ? Shall I be a par ty to the ignorance of the white chil dren because I do not think education does the negroes any good, or because I do not want to be taxed for the ed ucation of negroes ? After all, are not liberal public schools a necessity for the State's welfare and progress as well as for the safety of my life and property ? Ought I not to ac cept the modern ideas on this sub ject, which are so emphasized all around me? Ought I not to accept the inevitable and lend a helping hand. The lcrn;na Cnnnl. Richmond Times. The first working party sailed from New York on Saturday, the 25th of May, and tbe friends of the enterprise out escorted the steamer "Alvena" down to the sea in excur sion steamers wiih bands playing aud flags flying. The "Alvena" takes out the first number of vessels chartered to transport the men and material for the great work. The Nicaragua Canal Company was organized ten years ago as the only practical scheme for an inter oceanic ship canal, but it had a ter rific fight in Congress against the lobby of Eads and the lobby of De Lesseps, each representing w hat have been since proved to be frauds. Nature had in her infinite wisdom provided a natural water transit be tween the oceans to spare man the toils and dangers of the long passage around Cape Horn. The route shortens all the ocean highways by one-half or a third that circumnavi gate the world by sea. The great inland lake is what the engineers call a natural summit lev el, just far enough above the level of both oceans to enable tbe canal to be built with only two difficult cuts, and with a river on each side to sup ply the water all the way across the Isthmus. No intelligent citizen of any country will fail to rejoice that this project, which is a benefaction to Ihe whole world of commerce, is now put on a footing of solid suc cess, with a charter from the United States and a company amply able to utilize the vast franchises and land grants from the States of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and a corps of engi neers and contractors capable of ex ecuting the great work. Chief En gineer Menocal studied the problem of an inter-oceanic waterway for long years under the direction of the United States Government, and when all the routes were open to choice, he and his able associates pronounced this route the only practicable one. One of the interesting points about the canal is that the contractors, af ter inspecting the surveys, were prompt to undertake the work at the estimate made by the engineers KatOH or Advertising: One square, one insertion, $1 00 One square, one month, " 1 SO One square, two months, 2 00 One square, three months, 2 50 One square, six months, 5 00 One square, one year, 9 00 ODDS AND ENDS. Killing grass at home to buy hay from abroad may be wise, but it is costly. Mrs. James O. Blaine has recently sold two of her Washington lots for $50,000. Blaine, Windom and Proctor deny that they propose resignrng, as wa3 rumored. The next House o? Representatives will have 164 Republicans, 1G1 Democrats. A triangular opal, surrounded by diamonds, is a scarf-pin of an attrac tive nature. Unique silver bonbon boxes are those modeled as owls' heads with The Georgia Press Association, sixty members, went on an excursion to Kansas City. A recent arrival from California says there hasn't been any rain there for eight months. Hawes, the Birmingham, Ala., murderer, has been sentenced to be hanged July 12th. Sterling silver photo frames, decorated in renaissadce style, elicit much admiration. Thomas Saint patented a sewing machine in 17G0, sixty years before Howe popularized it. Nearly 1,000 persons confessed conversion at Rev. Sam Jones' meet- ing3 at Danville, Va. The largest farm in America is the Grandin wheat field in Dakota. It contains 40,000 acres. In umbrella handles one of the -: dearest and nicest is the head of -fc crow in richly chased gold. The plate printers of Washington ' escorted their delegate to the K. of L. convention to the depot S:mi Jones cot 3.000 for ten days' preaching in Danville, Va He closed 1 his meeting tnere last week. The largest college in the world ... is that at Cairo, Egypt, with 300 professors and 10,000 students. The President will take his outT ing tins summer at ueer i ui m .i i -i-v n....i- : 4-1. a. heart of the Alleghanies, Virgma. The fifteen buildings that com pose Cresson, Kan., were removed to Palco, one and a half miles away. Miss Minnie Freeman, the blizzard heroine, is now taking a full business course in a college at Lincoln, Neb. There are G,000 girls preparing to enter the New York Normal, col-, , lege, and only 800 can be admitted. John Wanamaker's piety has led office-seekers who want postoffices to obtain the endorsement of leading divines. " Excuse haste an J a bad pen," was the message left behind by a convict on escaping from a Western prison. The Corean Government has placed an order in America for fif teen field-pieces, 2,500 rifles and 20, 000 shells. They say that Belgians will be imported to man the new plate glass shop at Jeannette, Pa,, near Greensboro. The Cleveland, Ohio, board of health has decided that no more ice shall be taken from streams within the city limits. Queen Victoria was seventy years old last week. Her health is ex cellent and her intellect is said to be as clear as ever. Barbers at Detroit are complain ing about losing the business of shaving dead men. The undertakers have learned the art. James Gordon Bennett paid a Paris doctor $5,000 for three min utes work in cutting a wart off his neck. 'Ihe charge in New York would only have been $50. The per cent, of insanity among fanners' wives is greater than among any other class, and it is constantly increasing. They work too hard and are left alone too much. Omaha Teacher What influence has the moon upon the tide? Omaha High School Girl I don't know exactly what it has on the tide, but it has a tendency to make the untied awful spooney. Ex. How doth the little busy pig im prove each shining hour, aud gather sausages all day, from every open flower ? And when the shades of twilight fall, he slumbers in his stye, or sings his pretty evening hymn " Root little pi,or die!" It is stated that II. M. Flagler, the Standard oil millionaire, intends to build a hotel at Charleston, S. C, to cost, c-500,000; also that he contem plates ti;e building of a system of fmo hotels in all of the cities be- jtween Washington aud St. Augus tiiv, Fia.