ROOSEVELT speaks;
j Fierce Wind Prevailed and the
Cold Was Severe.
UEMORABLE OCCASION INST. LOUIS
Roosevelt the Only One Whose Voice
Could be Heard Fifty Feet From
the Rostrum.
St. Louis, Special. The buildings of-
the Louisiana rurtuaae ajjuoiuuu
vere formally dedicated Thursday,
with all pomp and ceremony. In every
way, save one, the exercises were a
success, and this one circumstance was,
the weather. The wind blew fiercly
from the west, sending great clouds
of dust whirling into the faces of the
troops as' they marched past, the Presi
dent, and at times so nearly blinding
the President that it was well nigh
impossible for him to see across the
street upon which the troops were
marching. Added to the discomfort. of
the wind and dust was a.temerature
which sought for the marrow and gen
erally reached it. The ladies, who, on
the strength of the warm weather yes-
ierday, came in summer dresses to the.
reviewing stand, suffered Keenly, ana
but for the thoughtfulness of officers
commanding the guard, thrown around
the reviewing stand, who provided
them with blankets, many of them
would have been compelled to leave
the place. Both President Roosevelt
and Ex-President Cleveland remained
in the stand exposed, to the raw wind
until the end of the parade, although
their. faces were blue and their limbs
stiffened by the cold. Despite this
heavy handicap, however, the ceremo
nies proper were splendidly1 handled
and the programme was carried out to
the letter. The paraae, which took place
in the morning, was somewhat longer
In passing the President than had been
expected, and he was fifteen minutes
behind the sceduled time when he was
escorted by the committee into 'the
Liberal Arts building. In order to ar
rive even as early as that, v he " was
compelled to take his noonday meal
under somewhat uncomfortable circum
stances. During the luncheon the food
was placed on a rectangular, counter
and the President, like everybody else,
V "YieY&ed himself." The crowd inside the
1 tent was dense when - the. President,
I with Secretary Wilson and others, en-
fered. He was so closely pressed that
when he attempted to move his arm
his elbow disturbed a cup of coffee held
by General Corbin. With ; some diffi
culty the officers forced the crowd to
allow the distinguished guest" elbow
room, but they would allow him noth
ing more. This manoeuvre forced the
adjutant general out of the range of
the sandiwenes. but the President de
voted one hand to passing fopd to his
escort, while the other was devoted to
his own advantage. Owing to his ad
vantageous position the President soon
felt called upon to help, passing plates
which service he performed with alac
rity and cheerfulness. The important
ceremonies in the Liberal Arts building
were handled with all 'possible dis
patch. Early in the exercises Word was
brought to Senator Carter, the Presi
dent of the day, .that some portions of
the hall were being dangerouly con
gested, and he was asked to avoid de
cays as far as possible. He did so, and
from the first to, last the events on
the programme succeeded each other
rapidly. Of all the speakers, President
Roosevelt alone was able to make his
voice carry further than 50 feet from
the stage. By far ' the. largest part of
the assembly could hear nothing, and
thousands of people in -(he rear part
i the hall were constantly moving
about and producing a muffled roar
inat would have baffled a foe horn.
" When the . President rose to speak
was cheered to the echo. He bowed
again and again, and suggested by his
manner that quiet be restored. Finally
ne mounted the board railing in front
of the restrum, where he could be seen
irom every part of the hall, and again
Koticned for silence. There was fiverv-
thing but silence, and President Fran
ks suggested that he proceed with his
speech and ouief. wnnld foil
dent Roosevelt laughed and shook his
eaa. Taking advantage of the lull he
mailed, "Now you,' my fellow-citizens,
sxve me all the-ehance you can, for I
ueea it." The chance was given and
uf uegan lus address. A burst of ap
P'aUSe erPPtpri "hie Iffnfflmont Vo Vir.
Jutt'h had done great things for the
untry in its Infancy, and the Presl
yent laughed in a manner-which plain
Y said: "That means my? ancestors.'
pother outburst of applause, which
iung continued after he had spo
en about 15 minutes. "caused him t
augh and remark to President Fran
cis, 'NOW thpv thinV T'm rln-r, " nr
. . 1 J ...A. , AAA uisaai, auu
nen the applause died away , he went
vun nis speech..
Dispersion of the Squadron.
-urioiK, Special. Admiral Barker
surned command of the North, At-
ntic SQUadrnn find fnc Vrtmn
nsviiie, with the . battleship Kean
rge, Alabama, Ia and ' Massa-
jusetts, which will go Into dry dock
t Brooklyn, preparatory to making
cruise to the Azores this "sum
mer.
JThe battleships Illinois . and .Texas;
cruiser Olympia and the r'efriger-
ship- Culgoa, proceeded s to Old
ine torpedo flotilla and the
vessels which were at the drill
?iMs returned to the Norfolk: navy
BELIEVES PRIfcST INNOCENT.
Rev. Chas. Relchlin, Brother of tli
Murdered Girl Makes Statement. "
Loraine, O., Special. The Rev. Chas.
Reichlin, pastor of St. Joseph's church,
in this city, and brother of Agatha
Relchlin, who was , murdered last
Thursday night, .Sunday made a sen
sational denunciation of the authori
ties for the arrest of Rev, Ferdinand
Walser, on the charge of murdering
his sister. The occasion was at the
services in the morning in that church
and the place was from the altar steps.
Father Reichlin was greatly affected
over the happenings of the week and
could hardly speak. Several times his
voice was husky from emotion and he
naused freauentlv to overcome his
feelings. .Father Reichlin's statement
was as follows;
"Various events have happened dur
ing the week past. No doubt they are
a lesson to us. The lesson is that we
should always be ready for death, for
we know not when it will please the
Lord to call us to Himself. Avoid sin
and do good. The lesson is how little
we can trust the world.
"Brutalitv is not a thine that is
confided to so-called dark ages. It is
delusively confined to non-civilized
countries; it is right here at our home,
in this twentieth century. The world
sees it every day.'
"L am sorry to .see that Father Wal
ser is connected with the murder of my
sister. I am sorry because I know I
am convinced before God that he is ab
solutely innocent, arid that no matter
how strong public opinion is, how
spiteful, how atrocious that public
opinion may be, it cannot make him
out a murderer, the. murderer of my
sister. The time will come when I will
give the version of the bloodhound
story UDon which the character of
public opinion seems to be - based. My
friends; I believe Father Walser inno-
cent until he is nroven -suiltv.
"Personally. I must" say that I do
not know which assault is most brutal
-the assault of the murderer upon my
sister, or the assault upon the reputa-
tion of.. Father Walser the' 'assault
made by public opinion upon that good
priest.
"In your prayers pray for my poor
sister Pray also for Father Walser.
Let. us help him carry his cross and
heavy though it be let us act with for
titude and as becomes Christians."
The scene of the murder was the
point of interest for thousands of call
ers at the 'Reichlin home, where the
body was in view until It was taken
into St, Joseph's church, at 3 o'clock,
where the vespers for the dead were
sung by Rev. Chas. Reichlin and two
assisting priests. The congregation was
so great that it entirely filled all the
seats and all the standing room.
Father Walser, who is confined in
the county jail at Elyria, was not ac
cessible to visitors, and he has seen
no one. He is treated as any other
prisoner except that ho has the freedom
of the corridor. His preliminary hear
ing will be held probably on Tuesday.
here is no excitement at Elyria and
'no sign of any unlawful action.
Theories concerning the crime are as
many as there are individuals, while
the" authorities are not ; disposed to
give 'expression to any views. Sup
port of the belief that a burglar com
mitted the Crime was given impetuos
it,y by tne statements or several neign
bors who had seen a stranger hanging
around the Reichlin home for several
hours on the night of the crime.
Emperor Visits the Pope.
Rome, By Cable. Emperior William
Was received by the Pope Sunday. He
had. a conference with the Pontiff of
40 minutes' duration and then returned
to the residence -of the Prussian min
ister to the Holy See. The day. was
.bright and as the Emperor and his
suite traversed the streets of Rome.
His Majesty presented Prince Fredrick
William and Prince Eithel to the Pon
tiff. At the Vatican the Emperor was
received with military honors by the
Palatin Guards and a platoon of gen
darmes, and he was welcomed by the
high dignitaries - 'of the pontiflcial
court. The visit of Eniperior William
was returned by . Cardinal Rampolla,
Pcpal Secretary of State, at the Prus
sian legation. . . '
Spaldings Damaged by Fire,
Chicago, , Special. Fire destroyed
the five-story building at 151-153 Wa
bash avenue, causing a loss, of $150,000.
The principal losers are the Water-
bury Clock Company; Spiegle Bros,
tailors, and A. G.. Spalding & Co. The
latter firm used , the two upper -'stories
as a store room and their loss ia
heavy. , .
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A Triple Tragedy.
Ennis, Texas, ' Special. News has
reached here of a tripe tragedy occur
ring Sunday morning at Bristol, an in
land town 10 miles : north of Ennis,
Mrs. Lineberger, a woman of about 60,
and her son, Vestus,' 22 years of age,
were found dead, both having ; been
chopped to pieces with an axe.; The
husband and father, vWVC. Lineberger,
aged ; 70, was subsequently found on
his farm, four miles north of Bristol,
with his brains blown out with a shot
gun. The' Linebergers -came there
from Tennessee. No cause for the
tragedy ia knowiii ' ; - -
FALLS ON TOWN,
Hundreds of Villagers Meet Death in
.the Wreck.'
OVERWHELMED BY TONS OF ROCK.
Houses Were Crushed Like Eee-
Shelis Eighteen Mm Imprisoned
in a Mine.
.Vancouver, B. C, Special. Over
whelmed by countless tons of rock.
Wednesday morning shortly after 4
o'clock, and with probably 112 of its
inhabitants killed almost, instantly,
the little mining town of Aank, ; in
Southwestern Alberta is threatened
with complete destruction by flood.
Old Man's - river, which flows through
the centre of the town, .is dammed up
by the falling rocks 'to the heteht of
nearly 100, feet and the-entire valley
aDove tne town is flooded for miles.
A big body of water is pressing wth.
iprce upon xneuam, tne only protec
tion the town, of Frank nowi has, un
less the river shall find another chan
nel. Should the impromptu dim break,
the entire villaee would be ' sJert
away. - .-.,;' ;i ; J ,
A dispatch from Frank says: "A
tremendously; loud reverbratlon shook
the whole valley of the Old Man's
rlyer and scarcely half the inhabi
tants of this town awakened to a re
alization of the impending' danger,
wnen, from the top of Turtle Moun
tain, overlooking the settlement, mil
lions of tons of rock were hurled.
'"The Frank Mines, operated by the
French Canadian Coal pompany,
across from the town, were sjeen to be
burled under hundreds of feet of rock
just - as the morning light was break
S T t t m jn . m .
mg. msiae oi nve minuiesMirom tne
first thunderous shock, half the town
realized what had happened1, a . small
Torce of men had "started to jthe relief
of the miners, despite the great risk
they ran of being buried under the
rocks, which were still being preci
pitated from the lofty mountain top.
The volunteer relief force wias unable
to get into the mine, but managed to
get near enough to determine; that
not a man at the workings, had es
caped death. Many had beeh fearfully
mangled.! ?- v..
"The disaster was merciful to those
men who were employed' above groiiCSf
In that they must have beenj killed in-'
stantly, while those men in jthe work
ings of the mine may yet be alive if
they have air to breathe. If all the
air shafts to the mine were j closed up
under that" awful avalanche all the;
men . must have' died by this after
noon. The disaster was not confined
to the vicinity of the mine alone, for
many of the dwelling houses in the J
town of Frank were demolished by the
falling rock. Some of the 'occupants
of these houses escaped death, t but
many others were instantlyj killed. It
is conservatively estimated that " the
loss of life will exceed one hundred
and the latest returns place the num
ber of dead at 112."
'.'It is impossible to arrive; at any ac
curate estimate of the loss bf life, as,
owing to the excitement and. hurry
and rush of people on the streets, no
one could say wno is missing
and who is not. There are
no records available that will tell how
many men were working in and about
the mine at the time of th disaster.
It is variously reported tnat tnere
were from 18 to 50 miners ' under
ground. i
The railroad track for. a distance of
two miles or more east of the . station.
Is covered with from ten to; forty feet
of rock and the telegraph-wires are
down. All communication is bemg con
ducted over one wire, running": w,est,
and this one line is so blocked; with
private messages and inquiries from
the outside it is only with jthe great
est difficulty that press matter can b
sent out; The eruption influences seem
to centre at the. crown of Turtle
Mountain. i
An appeal has been made from
Frank to the government and ! mount
ed police are being hurried ;to the un
fortunate village. Aid is Also being
sent from neighboring towns, but ow
ing to the interruption of the train
service , and the mountainous country,
it will be several, hours before help
can reach the stricken community. '
r For Division.;
Tallahassee, Fla., Special. The
House 'voted to 'reconsider Represen
tative - Long's resolution atid passed
it byva vote of 45 to 15 One more
than the necessary majority. The
resolution proposes an amendment to
the constitution which would divide
the school fund between the races in
'tironortroh to 'the amount I naid by
each. Indications point to ' the defeat
of the resolution in the Sepate.
Killed His- Brother's Vf e.
Columbus, Ark., Special. Daniel
Dove, a prosperous farmer of jthls local
ity, shot and killed Mrs. Zan. Doves,
the wife of his brother, immediately
afterwards he rode to his home " and
killed himself... It is thought . that a
difficulty over a '. land matter between
Dove and his brother caused the' deed.
Rise in Silver.
Mexico . City, Special The sudden
rise in silver has created much interest
and. excitement ' New York! exchange
has dropped In three days 131 points,
from. 151 "to 120 ( premium;? and drafts
were, sold today at the latter figure
Bankers believe that the gold premium
will go still lower,
THE PRESIDENT IN ST. LOUIS
The Chief Executive Was Taken lm-
mediately to Good Roads fleet. ;
.: St Louis, SpecialPresident Roose
velt awived Wednesday afternoon to
participate in the dedication ceremo
nies of the Louisiana Purchase Expo
sition. It was expected generally that
he would leave his train at the union
station and a dense throng had con-'
gregated there. But to avoid such an
assemblage there, arrangement were
made to have him leave the train at
Forsy the Junction, three miles from
the centre of the city. Members of the
national commission of the World's
Fair, a reception committee headed by
President Francis and a crowd of spec
tators were present to welcome the
President ;
President Francis, cf the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition, seized the hand
of the President and -gave him an in
formal ; Welcome to St. Louis. Mayor
Wells and others shook hands with the
President who was at once driven off
to the good roads convention. Just a$
the carriage started, middle-aged wo
man rushed through the line of offi
cers, wildly waving her - handkerchief
and vociferously cheeking the Presi
dent. She attempted to reach in and
seize his n'dut the quickening pace
of the horses prevented and although
she rah after the vehicle, still cheering
and waving her handkerchief for the
distance of half a block.'she was final
ly distanced and lost inthe crowd.
The military companies' and a pla
toon of police had ' been waiting two
blocks away and as soon as' the line of
carriages appeared a slower march was
taken up to cover the three miles to
Oden Hail. People were congregated
along the streets and I wildly .cheering
as the President passed. He ; continually
doffed his hat n acknowledgement.
The hall was packed with a crowd
which had been waiting patiently, for
hours. - 'j H,
The President spoke of good roads -
in, tones which showed, as well as his
words, that he was thoroughly in sym
pathy with the object of the assicia
tions. "Roads," he declared, "tell the
greatness of a nation. The influence of
the nations which have not been road
builders has been evanescent. Rome,
the most powerful of, the old civiliza
tions, left ner impress on literature and
speech; 'she changed the boundaries of
nations, but plainer j than anything
else left to remind us of the Roman
civilization,, are the Roman roads." Jit
this point In. the President's speech the
crowd, rose, cheered and- "waved hats
and -handkerchiefs. The' President de
clared that good roads probably were
the greatest agency for regulating the
flow from the country to the city of
young men and young women.
. From Odeon Hall the President was
driven at a sharp trot to St. Louis Uni
versity., A few minutes were spent
Here, after which the President and
other guests repaired! to the home of
President Francis for dinner.
, President Cleveland arrived over the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern at 5:30
o'clock, 25 minutes late, and a large re
ception committee was waiting for him.
The, members of the diplomatic corps
arrived shortly before. As Mr. Cleve
land alighted from the train, he was
warmly greeted by President Francis,
Who had driven rapidly to the depot
after greeting President Roosevelt at
Forsy the Junction. The members of the
committee crowded around and Mr(
Cleveland was unable to proceed for
several minutes, so thick was' the
throng about him. A passage was
finally cleared and with. President
Francis he. walked through the aisles
formed by, the crowd and entering a
carriage was driven to the residence of
President Francis,, where President
Roosevelt, is also a guest.
-. Killed In Wreck.
Terre. Haute, Ind.,i Special. Three
persons were killed, two fatally injur
ed .and a dozen seriously injured in a
-wreck m the railroad yards here Tues
day night. A west-boend Vandalia
train struck a switch' engine and two
cars near the Highland Steel Mill. The
killed are: Clarence Barnhart, Colum
bus, O.; Nicholas A. i Lutz, baggage
master; ;i, unidentified man. Attached
to the train was a special car carrying
a party of 27 people from Philadelphia
to the national M: C. A. convention
Topeka, -Kansas. Another car carried
the New Jersey delegation to the
Louisiana' Purchase Exposition dedi
cation. None of the . members of eith
er party, was injured. The killed and
Injured were In the day coach.
. 1 16 Years Old.
Montgomery, Ala., Special. Mrs.
Marsylla Keith', the oldest person in
Alabama, ; died Wednesday, having
celebrated her ,116th birthday March
V. She retained her intellectual facul
ties .till death. "She had 18 children,
44 - living- grandchildren, 20 great-
grandchildren and two great-great
grandchildren. V ;
. Lumber Boat Disabled.
Newport . News, Va., ' fSpecial The
new lumber ship Francis H. Leggett
from Newport News to San Francisco,
returned to port, having been badly
crippled In a gale i off Hatteras. On
her voyage out to her home port, he
ran -into a nasty,, northeaster. Her
steering gear broke T and the vessel,
which has very little free board, ship
ped a : quantity of water. With diffi
culty she was brought about and pro
ceeded to the shipyard here for re
pairs. The Leggett had on board 1,300
tons of steel jails and two locomotive
for the Hammond Lumber Company.
I
LIVE ITEMS I W NEWS.
Many Matters of General Interest la
Short Paragraphs.
Down In Dixie.
The firm of George M. Hoke & Co.,
of Martinsburg, W. Va made an as
signment yesterday for the benefit of
the creditors. 'The assets will exceed
m c i id unities.
Mr. M. C. Bay less, 52 year?, old, a
farmer of near Winchester died Thurs
day night. A widow and four children
survive him. j ".
Governor Aycock jhjas sent out sea ap
peal for contributions toward the $10,
000 necessary ito make a like amount
from the State available, provided
there is no shortage ! in the Treasury,
for a State exhibit at the St. Louis Ex
position. .'', '"'-
Lloyd Southworthj 22 years old, a
Baltimore and Ohio: brakeman of West
Union- W. Va.,- who had been in the
Baltimore and Ohio1 service six weeks,
was struck by a passenger train at
Grafton last night! and killed. , ,
A Pensacola, Fla., dispatch says:
"The Curry Fertilizer - Company, of
Louisville, Ky., has purchased 7 acres
near this city, upon which they will
erect one of the I largest fertilizer
plants in the South." .
The capital stock to the People's Na
tional Bank of Roanoke has been over
subscribed by $10,000. More than two
thirds is taken by local merchants and
business men. Dr. George H. P. Cole, a
well-known local capitalist, was slated
for president. '
An association of colored men ha3
been formed in Suffolk, Virginia, for
the. purpose of stimulating the interest
of -the race in business pursuits and to
encourage the concentration of the
race's patronage las j f ar , as ' possible
by colored people! The officers are:
Dr. W. T. FullerJ president; W. H.
Crocker, secretary, and John Mar
shall, ' treasurer.
The Association Is
to be a branch of
the National Negro
Business League, ,and will send dele
gates to the Nashville meeting. Stu
dent....;. . ! -. i.'. ... :
At The National Capital.
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial As
sociation executive, committee decided
to erect a memorial in Washington in
tne; snape or tne ratnenon, witn a
statute of Jefferson inside. -
It is thought in Wcshington that
any demand this' country will make
concerning China will alien! ate the
powers and provoke from them de
mand affecting the Isthmian' canal.
At The North.
It Is announced that Dr. Wm. T.
Councilman of the Harvard Medical
School, has discovered the germ of
smallpox. i . .
Senator Depewj was presented, witn
an enormous birthday cake Saturday
night at the twelfth; annual ainner
given in honor of his birthday by the
Montauk'Club in i Brooklyn. '
From Across The Sea.
Venezuelan rebels claim several vic-v
tories over government troops.
Elaborate, preparations in Paris to
receive King Edward continue.
Hugh J. Cannon, head of the Mor
mons in Germany., appealed to Emper
or William to permit them to remain.
Major Goug.'s British force inflicted
new losses on the Mad Mullar's forces
in Somaliland, killing 200 men.
Elections in Spain! are reported to
have resulted favorably to the republi
cans. r :- i-: :" '! - r-v
A Rome cablegram states that prob
abilities favor Rev. Charles H. Ccltbn,
of New York, being appointed Bishop
of Buffalo.
Miscellaneous Ilattersv ' ,
Dr. George .Dana.. Boardman; author,
orator and preacher, -died ' Wednesday
after a ling illness. ; , " A
Anthony FialaJ head of the Zeigler
Arctic expedition! arrived in New .York
and said the ship America would sail
for the pole in June, j,
Phillip Doblin,! who achieved no
toriety from his j testimony in the in
vestigation in Washington of the pur
chase of sub-marine 'boats was de
clared insane in the Supreme Court
Jim Jeffords, of San. Francisco, and
Chris Himmler, of Cumberland, Md.,
heavy weights, went on for 20 rounds
before the Savannah Athletic . Club
last night. Jeffords had the advantage
in height, weight and reach and
science. Himmler-was knocked out in
tb ninth round. - , '
Judge Parde, ' of ' the ; United States
Circuit Court, has 'granted a tam
poraiy ' injunction restraining the
Florida1 railroad jcommission from en:
forcing 1 a 3 ;cent rateyior. passenger
fares on ttie division of the Louisville
& Nashville Railroad in that State.
By order of the commission the 3 cent
rate was t0, have gone into effect May
i. Argument on the motion to make.
I thQ injunction.
-Former President Grover Cleveland,
en route to St Louis,! was greeted at?
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad station
at Cumberland, Md., by 1,000 .persons.
Mr. Cleveland addressed the gathering
from the platform of his car. He was
enthusiastically cheered by the crowd.
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SCIENCE NOTES.
It Is said that the wettest place fa
the J world is , Cherra ? Ponjee, In the
Khasi Hills of Asaanx, Indian. , The
rainfall there often reaches a depth'
of 100 to 200 inches in a single month.
.. . , .'
Dr. Sleich, of Berlin, In. experiment
ing with cocaine, to see how weak a
solution would be efficacious as a lo
co! anesthetic in minor surgical oper
ations, accidentally - discovered that
plain water, ff Injected under the skin,
renders the fish at that point insen
sible to pain. The effect of the water
Is to cause 'a slight swelling in the
form of a white blister, the size of
the swelling dependinon the quart-
itity of water used. Half a minute
after the injection ( the place marked
by the blister may be cut without sen- .
sation. .- . -: . - , . . . ..'
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A professor In the'TJniversity ot,
North Crolina has discovered a new
species of -mosquito, and In order to
get some of Its-eggs he adopted a
homely but unique plan using a, horse-'
as his medium. . He drove "the horse
into the low ground haunted by the
mosquitoes, and when he . drove out'
he found the mosquitoes clinging to
his body and hard at work drilling,
for their meal. He carefully removed
them, put them into a tin bucket and '
fed them daily for five days on blood
from the hand;, at the end of that time
they laid their eggs inf the water, r
One of the latest, and certainly one ,
of the most interesting, discoveries in
botanical science; is the practicability
of inoculating plants to render them
immune to attack of parasites, just as
animals, by inoculation, are rendered
immune to certain diseases' -Experiments
made by several botanists have
been wholly successful. One of them
was made with cuttings of begonia.:
The cuttings were allowed to grow, in
earth (impregnated with a species of.
fungus that is a destructive parasite,
and when they were afterward subject
ed to attack by the parasite, they re
sisted it perfectly. " , '
Professor- Duner, the Swedish ' as-,
ironomcr, obtained, some time ago, a
thitherto unknown exactitude, in the"
measurement of the sun's rotation. By
observing . the displacement of .the
lines of "the ;solart spectrum, in the
Potsdam ' observatory, he- found that k
the sun revolves around its own axis,
at the rate of one mile and two hun
dred and forty-two feet In. (one .second
of time. The sun's day at its equator,
then, lasts 25 of our days and 12 hours.
His measurements also show that the ,
different parts of the sun's surface
have a different rate of revolution,
ita v npnr thn nr1p! hAlnET enuiva-
lent to 46 of our days.
In a paper recently presented to the
Society for; the Promotion of Agricul
tural Science attention is called to the
great variations that exist in the nu
tritive value of butter. One pound of
butter may be more valuable' than an
other, apart from its physical appear--ance
-and taste, while alone are the de
termining factors of its market value.
Determination's of the percentage of
water in 800 samples of butter, from
400 creameries in 18 different states,
showed that the amount of water in
butter-varies from 7.2 percent to 17.62,
percent, the average being 11.78 per-.
cent. Unfortunately, the quantity, of "
water contents cannot bS judged .from
the general appearance dt the butter,'
and the scientists has as yet been un
able 'to offer any guiding, rule.
A foreign, paper relates the follow
ing curious incident which occurred at
the fislvbreeding v, establishment : at
Helmsbach, Germany, in 1899.i; In one
of the buildings werd some tanks con
taining a number of live trout about
to be dispatched to Berlin. During a
thunder storm a heavy flash of light
ning appeared to strike the building
and on examination it was found that
all the fish were dead. Although the,
wire netting covering the tank was
damaged and the fish themselves
showed no special sighs ; of having
been struck, there, seems every proba
bility that , the deaths of the latter
were caused by the lightning. A sim
ilar 4 experience vas recorded in Ger
man in 1901, and some years ago, after
a severe thunder; storm, a number of
large trout were found dead in a pool
emptying into the River Lea, England.
A similar phenomenon has - also been,
observed at the hatchery, at Cqrry, Pa.
A Union of Gutter! Merchants.
The latest trade tinicn". to be formed
in Sydney, Australia, is one embrao
ing all manner of gutter merchants. It
is called an arsociation.'of rnews-ven
dors, street musicians, shoeblacks
lace and stud sellers, fruit hawkers;
fish sellers, flower sellers, and gene
al street workers." It is to be - gov
erned by a' tribunal, with two "trib
unes, from each calling. -
' , I mp ractica 1. 1- '
4Very few childVen are educated at
home nowadays.'' " t
"No," said' Miss Cayenne; "it is 'dif-;
ficult now to find & child more thari
ten years old who' does not fe&l , con
vinced '- that it knows more than ita
parents." Washington Star. -