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The widow of Ernest Renan. who died the other dav,w&s a. Miss Cornelie Schefler, a. niece of Ary Schefier, the Dutch-French painter, who educated her along with his daughter, and is said to have predicted the fame of Renan. Henry Yates Thomson. former owner of the Pall Mall Gazette, has offered to give $190,000 to build a chapel. connected with \Vestminster Abbey by a Cloister from the poet’s corner, for monuments for great men and women. Norway is to adopts. uniform time for the whole of that country from Jan. 1 nexc. The mean time will be that; at. the meridian fifteen degrees east of Greenwich. At preseht- nearly every locality in Norway has its own local time. For the feeding of London a. little more than 323,083 tons of meat, poultry and general provrsions were delivered last year from the public markets alone. The Gonzo Free State is really a colony of Belgium, having a central government at Brussels, by which the affairs of the Free State are administered. Its area. is estimab- ed at, 900.000 square miles, its population is 17,000,000. M. Dupuy, ‘ president of the French Chamber of Deputies, has just been elected honorary corporal of the regiment of Sou- danese Sharpahooters, one of the crack corps of France’s African army. The largest cave in Mexico, if not in the World, has been found by a. French engin- eer in the wilds of the north-west. In it he found a cemetery, proving that the cave had been inhabited. An Irish arts and crafts society has just been formed in Dublin for the purpose of stimulating the industries of Ireland and attempting to raise the craftsmen to a high. er artistic level. A German scientist has succeeded in pro- pagating sponges artificially. His first cost. was $20, costof maintenance almost, noth- ing, and a. crop of 4,000 sponges as a. result. Greece is threatened with a plague 0f locusts this year. Swarms of these insects are reported by the local. aubhdrities to have appeared in various districts of Buboea. A whee] is being built in London willich is much larger than the famous ferris whee]. It W111 carry 2,000 people 1n 50 cars. A big baloon will crown the supporting towers. A German officer has invented a. motor in which a. fine stream of coal dust is util- ized to drive a piston by explosxou in the same manner as the gas in the gas engine. In the French Senate a motion to the effect that the sons of divorced women should be free for military service was re- cently adopted by a vote of 116 to 114. ROUND THE WHOLE WORLD In certain parts of Africa. Where a. person is suspected of a crime a chicken is killed. If the intestines are White, the person is innocent; if yellow. guilty. WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE GLOBE. The most common ofieuce in Jamaica is the use of obscene and offensive language. Over one fourth of the arrests made last year were on this charge. A Dffi'tch paper publishes the following advertisement from a disconsolate wife: “Adolphusâ€"Return to you? Matilda. 1he piano has been sold.” Paderewski has got along so far with his Polish opera. than he hopes to have in pro- duced next; May an Buda-Pesbh under the direction of Mr. Nikisch. 01d and New “I'm-Id Evvlm or lulu-eat Chrnnicled Brieflyelnlerestlng flap. pcnlngs of net-em Dale. It is possible for any Chinaman, on the payment, of a. suflimently large sum of money to become a. deity. From Ostrogosk, on the Volga, it is re- ported that the whole of bhat. district is being ravaged by rats. Nearly 1,000,000 people still speak Welsh. One of the largest hospitals in the world is the Misericor'iia of Rio Janeiro. IL receives annually over thirteen thousand patients. A lieutenant in the reserve of the Italian army and a resident of Genoa. was recent» 1y discharged on account of his socialistic tendencies. Great Britain go: two of her possessions from piratesâ€"the Leeward islands in the \Vest Indies, and Sarawak,iu the northwest of Borneo. Paper stockings now manufactured in Germany are said to he a preventive of colds. The Englishman who detests s bicyclist bitterly refers to him as a. “ cad on cas- tors.” Duke Carl Theodore of Bavaria, who is a pmcticmg physician, attended more than 5,900 patients last year. words : “ Left till called for.” ' There are now seventy-four survivors of the famous Balaklava charge, so far as the British army autharities can trace. The Austro Hungarian refuges for the aged and infirm support their inmates at an average expenditure of fifteen cents a. day. In Roumania a. duty of 25c. a bottle has to be paid on foreign wine. There is a tax on female servants, on door plates, and on doctors. Austrian law permits boys and girls to marry an the age of fourteen. The Aino of the Japanese islands tatoo mustaches on their Women’s upper lips. Menezuela is said to have 56 authorized national holidays each year. Mexico has 13 and Brazil 22. Atombstone in one of the fashionable cemeteries of Belfast, hears only those four words : “ Left till called for.” IDi santient Poles, who have had trouble with the authorities of the Catholic church, talk of organizing a religious body of their own. Boiled aligator fles'n tastes very much ike veal. ID is much eaten in India. D'aughterâ€"Yes, mamma; but Charley applied an antiseptic immediately. Motherâ€"Did I h 31' you kiss young Ph_lynn at the dwor ‘3 The Sultan of Turkey is the most extrav- 'aganthousekeeper iu the world. Accord- ing to a. recent estimate his domestic budget runs thus. : Repairs, new furniture, mats, beu's, etc., $3,000,000 : toilet requisites, in- cluding rouge and enamel for the ladies of the harem, and jewellery, $10,000,000 ; extra. extravagancies. $12,000,000 ; clothes and furniture for the Sultan personally $2,- 000,000 ; douceurs and wages. $4,000,000; gold and silver plate, $2,500,000; mainten- ance of carriages and horses,$500,000 ; a. total of $34,000, 000. The Prince Archbishop of Austrian Poland, Cardinal Dunajewski, who hasjust died, enjoyed the unique distinction of hav- ing in his youth, and prior to his taking holy orders, worn the garb of a. convict. served a term of three years’ imprisonment in the great Austrian penitentiary of Knefâ€" stein, and of having on two occasions been condemned to death, the sentence in each case being commuted at the very last mo- ment. M r. Gladstone and Professor Blackie,says the \Vestminster Gazette. are both going to Pitlochry this summer, and will probably spend some time together. They are old friends, but they don’t agree on politics nor on Greek, and It is not unlikely that they may fight some of their battles o’er again. VVheu Professor Blackie was addressing his students he used sometimes to say, “Gen- tlemen. there were three great men born in 1809~Tennyson, Gladstone, and John Stuart Blackie.” Abraham Lincoln undoubtedly was the tallest President of the United States; he was six feet four inches in height. The shortest was probably Benjamin Harrison, although Van Buren and John Adams were very short men. The oldest’President was William Henry Harrison. who was sixty- eight years and one month old when inau- gurated ; the youngest was Grant, who was not quite forty-seven years old. Queen Marguerite of Italy has been seized with the prevailing cycloma’ia, and every day she spends a. couple of hours practising in the gardens of the Quirinal. All Rome seems to have gone crazy on the subject, and not only society, but; also the diploma- tic corps and the two Houses of the nation- al Legislature have succumbed to the temp- ' tation. Miss Sara Jeannette Duncan, the author of “ A Social Departure,” is the daughter of Charles Duncan, of Brautford, Out. After teaching awhile she entered upon journal- istic work, and in her journey around the world was correspondent for several En - lish and Canadian papers. She is now t 6 wife of Professor Everard Cotes, who holds an important position in tlieIndian Museum, i Calcutta. “Mignon” had its thousandth perform- ance at, the Paris Opera Comique two weeks ago, and the occasion was celebrated by admitting the public free so all parts of the house. The composer, Ambroise Thomas, who is 8'2 years old, was present. A French physnciun has devised a. vibrat- ing helmet for the cure of nervous head- ache. It. is constructed of strips of szeel pub in vibration by a ‘small electric motor The sensation produces drowsiness. the patient. falls asleep under its influence and awakes free from pain. Lide Gharnit for twenty years past the Foreign Minister of Morocco; practically hecomesits Sultan hy the action of France, Spain and England in recoanizing Abdul Aziz as its sovereign. The new Sultan is a mere boy, and the work of rule will fall on the veteran Minister. Berlin claims the record for quickness in turning out the fire brigade. At. a. test, the other day thezcumpany tested was out, of quarters, fully equipped for the fire twenty-LWo seconds after the alarm was burnei in. Amsterdam has hitherto claim- ed to hold the record on :26 seconds. A rainmuker in India. has an apparatus consisting of n. rookeb capable of rising to the height of a. miie, containing a reservoir of ether, [in its descentib opens a. para- chute. which causes it. to come down slow- ly. The ether is thrown out, in fine spray. and its absorption of heat, is said to lower the temperature about it, sufficiently to condense the vapor and produce a. limited shower. Some Readable "on" About a Few orllw Great Fnlka of un- World. The Queen of England has a. horror of peacock feathers. Curmusly enough a great many weILkuown people share this dislike. To Queen Natalie of Servia. belongs the distinction of owning the finest beam of hair among the royalties of Europe. She usually wears it hanging in two long plaits down her back. The. death is announced of J. O’Neill Daunt, who was once very prominent, in Irish controversies, but almost forgotten of late years. He was a contemporary and lOYnl supporter of O’Connell. of whom he published a book of recollections. He was an ardent patriot, but had no sympathy with either dynamite or the Land League. One of the last acts of Lord Houghton previous to leaving Crewe Hall the other day was to write to the Castleford local board offermg to present six acres of land near the town for a publlc park. The ofier was gratefully accepted. There has just died near Ballymena. Ireland, David Yaston. who, at the ageof 50, had attained the height of three feet. A widow and several children mourn his death. He was well known as an evangelis- tic preacher, and carried on thevfgroccry business. The late President Carnot; of France. according to French papers, was never baptized. He belonged, it, is said,to the Theophilanthropists, founded by La Rev- illiere-Lepaux. Among the original memâ€" bers of the sect: was Lazare Carnot, grand- father of the President. Andrew Carnegie will return to Pitts burg in the fall to arrange for the forms. opening of the library which he is to give to his fellow-citizens. From all accounts the institution promises to be worthy its great purpose and fix: to do its donor honour. The building’s capacity will be 230,000 volumes. PERSONAL PAR AGRAPHS‘ No Fear of Microbes. A wfitex' of experience says about horses. Don’t be afraid to buy ahorse because he is thin. In other words look out, when buying a fab one. Flesh hides blemishes. Better The prices of horses are Very low at, the present time, yet when we consider the prio ofotlzer farm products horses are compara- tively profitable. In fact good horses find a. market at fair prices. It is only the com- mon horse that is a drug on the market. Good horses are finding an outlet to foreign countries and to encourage the exportation, the farmers should strive to breed up to higher standards of merits. The large cities also want. the best and the demand is on the increase as prices recede. The care of horses has much to do with development of the best class which is most easy to find a market. Feeding for muscular development and vigor rather than for fat is essential. Does Horse Raising Pay ? AGRICULTURAL. Pastures for Sheep. It has been stated that as a result of a. conference following the recent outbreak in Chicago an order was promulgated through- out the labor organizations in the east directing the men to eniist in the militia. This is denied by the labor leaders, but the fact remains that the applications for ad- mission to the regiments of the National Guard in New York state have recently been more. numerous than ever, and among the applicants are many members of labor or- ganizutions. Some of the applicants are members of the Knights of Labor, and this is regarded as significant, because of the fact that after the railroad riots in Buffalo in 1890 the district assemblies of that order passed resolutions requesting their members to refrain from enlisting in the National Guard, and of those already enlisted it was asked that they should retire at the expira- tion of their terms of enlistment or earlieri possible. beinginistaken foraomebodyelse. Onewomnn claimed he was her son, and, strangely, too, his name was the same as her son‘s. So much trouble did this cause him that he gave up peddling and came hack to Pitts- hure. He had scarcely been in the city a. day when a man came up to him, while he was stanfiing on Diamond street. and with- out cause deliberately struck him with a. billy on the nose. breaking that organ. Well, his luck never seemed to change. He continued having one misfortune after another piled upon him, until one (lay he went out; hunting and then he lost his life. A friend made a. shot which by mistake struck my brother in the side, and he died of the wound. Surely fatality followed him.” in California, who refused to do durtymiii quelling the railroad riots, as an evidence of what» the plan may gccomplish. And Thus Win the “Huh over to Their IIIIL‘I'PSIH. The report is current, and its authenticity is vouched for by an official attached to one of the most influential labor organizations in New York city. that organized labor throughout the United States is to unite in an effort, for Lhe conversion of Lhe militia. to labor interests. This is to be accom- plished by the enlistment of labor men in Lhe National Guard in the several states. The movement was inaugurated in the west more than a year ago, and labor leaders in this city who favor the scheme point, to theArecenL conduct: of the National Guard A Man Who Seems to Have Been Born llmlcr an Unlucky star. “ 'Ihat some men are born under an un- ‘ lucky star, I verily believe," says a writer in the Pittsburg Dispatch. “ Fatality surely follows some men, and try as they will they cannot avoid it. It was so in the case of my brother:; misfortune followed him from the cradle to his grave. He seem- ed never to be able to escape it. Wherever he would go it followed him like a shadow. I remember how, when a boy, sitting 'in a. high chair, he fell from his. seat into a tub of scalding waterI scalding his feet so severe- ly that it was months before he had fully recovered. All during his childhood and boyhood he had a. greater number of acci- rlentsthan usually befall reckless youngsters. When he grew up the first serious accident which befel him was one day when he was grinding a chisel. The tool slipped, hi hand got caught in the machinery-â€"itwasa steam grindstoneâ€"and the back of his hand and half his thumb weresacrificed. Shortly after this he was working at a. machine in a manufactory when he had two fingers taken off. In adjusting a mowing machine some time after this the blade took off another finger. Not only in accidents was he un- fortunate, hut he seemed to be marked for all sorts of mistakes and blunders in which he was always the sufferer. One evening he took a walk down Liberty street, and was standing looking at a. building,' when three tough lookingmen began to eye him; then he heard one say: ‘ Yes, that’s our man ; go for him.’ He told me he did not know what made him do it. but as soon as the fellow said this he was seized with an impulse to run, and he followed it. He was an athletic man, and soon got the lead of the three fellows who followed him, but i not until he reached Soho did he succeed in l eluding them. There he hid ina sawmill. He 3 had not the least idea for what the men were ‘chasing him, but knew instinctively that it was dangerous to fall into their hands. When he had hidden there for a long time he came out only to be chased again ; but he reached home in safety. While working in a. mill shortly after this some white hot molten metal splashed upon the palm of his hand and burnt its way through. W hile working in the same place a fellow work- man droppod a heavy bar upon his head, taking away part ofhis scalp. Thinking that luck was against him in Pittsburg. he went to Cleveland to find work. \Vhile walking along the street there one day a. man whom he had never seen before, with- out the least provocation, slipped in front of him and gave him a blow which broke his nose. Not being able to find work, he shipped on Lake Erie, and on his first trip was wrecked nearly losing his life. That settled shipping for him and he went to peddling. In going about he was constantly \Vater is good for a horse’s feet. If they get. hard soak them in warm water. Never oil or varnish any part of a. horse’s foot. Keep a. foot hook handy and clean out the feet every (I ny. [b will prevent thrush and other diseases of the foot. Have the col- lars made thin an the top and full where the draft comes. muzzle the horses than hinder the free use of their necks by checking while at work. Checked horses sweat more and grow thin faster than free horses. A team that is yelled at and jerked will become so nervous that, they do not know what. they are about, they grow thin with half the work of one than is used kindly and steadily. The man- ners of the team show the temper of the driver. If for any reason the horses have not shed their coats or are unthrifty, give them a little oil meal in their feed daily. Begin with a. tablespoon and gradually in- crease unbil feeding a pint twice per day. Few feeds will give a. horse so much strength and make him look so well. LABOR MEN WILL ENLIST BORN T0 BAD LUCK The Price of Gas in England. In a. pamphlet recently published in Eng- land some interesting statistics are given regarding the cost of manufacturing gas at both governmental and private plants. The figures are based upon the official reports from municipal plants and board of trade statistics gathered from private manufactu- ers relating to the business of the year 1889. Municipal or public gas works, of which there were 173 in England during the year 1889, supplied gas to all applicants at an average rate of 82 cents per 1,000 feet. The average profit at this figure was phenomena â€"-no less than 2:35- ceots on each 1,000 cubic feet. The actual cost of manufacture of gas in England, then, taking the average receipts and profits of the 173 municipsl gas works for 188‘), is a fraction over 59 cents per l,000. The figures of the private manufacturers, representing 405 plants, show that it costs them 33§ per cent. more to manufacture gas than it does the muni- cipalities which own their own works. The profits of the private plants are much less too than those of the public ones, for, according to the figures (given in on the one side of course by interested parties), the public gas works have an average of 6,646 customers each, while those owned by individuals or private corporations have on an average only 2,787. These figures will apply in all cities not too far removed from bituminous coal fields without change, for, while the price of labor is greater here, most American coal is so much richer in gas than that found in England that the savmg of material more than compensates for the extra. expenditure for Wages. The statistics show most conclusively the advantages of municipal or state owuership of lighting ,plsnts in England. a. distresed and discontented majority. For with you the majority is the govern- ment, and has the rich, who are always a. minority, absolutely at its mercy. The day will come when, in the State of New York, a multitude of people, none of whom has had more than half a. breakfast, or ex- pects to have more than half a dinner, will choose a legislature. Is it possible to doubt what sort of legislature will be chosen? On one side is a statesman preaching patience, respect for vested rights, strict observance of public faith. On the other side is a. demagogue ranting about the tyranny of capitalists and userers, and asking why anybody should be permitted to drink champagne and ride in a carriage, while thousands of honest folks are in want of necessaries. \Vhicli of the two candidates is likely to be preferred by a. workingman who hears his children CRY FOR MORE BREAD. Iseriously apprehend that you will, in some such season of adversity as I have de- scribed, do things which prevent prosperity from returning , that you Will not like peo- ple who should, in ayear of scarcity, dovour all the seed corn, and thus make the next year a year not of scarcity, but ofabsolute famine. There will be, I fear, spoliation. The spoliation will increase the distress. The distress will produce fresh spolintion. There is nothing to stop you. Your consti- tution is all sail and no anchor. As I said before, when society has entered on this downward progress either civilization or liberty must perish. Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of governâ€" ment with a. strong hand ; or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth cen- tury as the Roman empire was in the fifth, with this did'erence, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman empire came from without, while your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institu- tions.” lord Macaulay on the Future Vofvtl‘l; finned States. In a. letter written to Henry '3, Randall, of New York, in 1857. Loxdfiircaulay made a. prophecy which, judging; from recent events in the United States, appears to be in process of fulfilment. He said : _.. “Hanna; Po=a three or four times through such critical seasons as I havedescribed. Through such seasons the United Scates will have to pass in the course of the next, century, if non of this. How will you pass through them ! I heartily wish you a. good deliverance. But my reason and my wishes are at; war ; and I cannot, help foreboding the worst. It is quite plain that your government will NEVER BE ABLE TO RESTRAIN “Your fate I believe to be certain, though it is deferred by a. physical cause. As long as you have a boundless extent of fertile and unoccupied land, your laboring population will be far more at ease than the laboring population of the old world ,' and, while that is the case the Jel‘fersonmn policy may continue to exist without causing any fatal calamity. But‘ the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as Old England. \Vages will be as low, and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your Manchesters and Birminghams ; and, in those Manchester‘s and Birminghems, hundreds ofthousands of artisans will assuredly he sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test. Distress everywhere makes the laborer MUTL‘IOUS AND DISCOXTENTED, and inclines him to listen with eagerness to agitators who tell him that it: is a monstrous iniquity that one man should have a. million while another cannot get is full meal. In bad years there is plenty of grumbling here, and sometimes a little rioting; but it matters little, for here the sutferers are not the rulers. The supreme power 15 in the hands of a. Class, numerous indeed, but select, of an educated class. of a class Which is, and knows itself to be, deeply interested in the security of property and the maintenance of order. Accordingly the malcontenis are firmly yet gently re- strained. 'Ihebad time is got over with- out robbing the wealthy to relieve the indigent. The springs of national prosper- ity soon begin to flow again : work Is plen- tiful, wages rise, and all is tranquility and cheerfulness. l have seen England pass flmrna nr 6...... one“... LL_,, lord Macnul A GREAT HISTORIAN'S PROPHECY 8‘), is a. fracLion overr59 The figures of the pnvate representing 405 plants, ‘5 them 33$ per cent. more gas than in does the muni- is figure was phenomena ‘5 cents on each 1,000 Lual cost of manufacture then, taking the aVerage cnrough such critical cribed. Through such Rates will have to pass next century, if non of Air'caulay made I from recent , appears to be and It is