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i1 I"... RUSSIA IN PERSIA. l‘nghsh Influence in the Shah’s Domains 3. Thing of‘ the Past. .â€"._. nt’ssu‘s DOHIKATION All. BIT (‘0‘!- I’LE'I'E. British diplomacy has lost Persia. That, at least. is the present app’e:mnee of affairs in the oldest em ire of the world. 5 For several yearsextrw inary efforts have ' been made toextend British influence there. l The British Government. has cfiicially done all in its power whom the favor of the 'Bhah, and to get a grip upon the whole Persian administration. Private efforts. too, have not been wanting. Not so very long ago it was exultingly proclaimed that u. concession had been granted to an English corporation by which it would absolutely control the finances of the Persian empire ‘ for the next hundred years. And it has been a common boast that British Ministers 4 at Teheran have long had far more influence f'_ _ _ l (lieutenant-colonel), and sartip (colonel). at court than all the rest put together. There is still fresh in mind an address undo by Lord Salisbury, in which that statesman dwelt at great l( ngth u on the wealth and resources of Persia an the close relations that existed between it and Great Britain. This has been a fool’s paradise. To-day ft is evident that Russia not only has got far ahead of Great Britisu, but has practically won the game. Persia. is still nominally in- dependent. But it is altogether ' UNDER RUSSIAN D01“ l.\'_’lTlO.\', and is practically as much a part. pf the Czar’s domain as is Turkcstan or, the Caucas- I 99. Alreadythc foreign relations of Persia. are negotiated by Russian Ministers. In a few weeks all Persian legations throughout the world will be abolished and their func- tions will be openly exerted by the Russian legations. Then a "protectorate" will be proclaimed and Persian sovereignty will be a , thing of the past. How this state of affairs has been made possible is interesting to observe. In Persia, as in other countries she has set out to sub- jugate, {ussia has proceeded by creating antagonism against the sovereign. There is no doubt that Nas-ed-Deen is a thorough angiophile. His preference for England and English things is most marked. And the same may be said of his great Minister, Mirza Ali Asghar Khan. To them British blandishmeuts have been directed, and with them British policy has succeeded. They have been ready to grant almost anything Lord Salisbury might ask. But they are, after all, not Persia; and with Persia it- self England has never been in favor. ' The war which Lord Palmerston waged against Persia has never been forgivcn,.and to this day no one is so bitterly hated by the mass of Persians as an Englishman. By his fondness for "European ideas and manners the Shah has given serious offence to his people. By his especial , .rosnxnss YUP: Excnaxn be has intensifiedithat feeling to sucha de-- districts in which the troops are recruited inted oflicegs. Persian troopsare yet‘far to perfection. Native officers are mostly incapable, and unacquainted with military matters; while the European officers of all ranks have no real clouding in the Persian army. \Vith firstoclass instruction and good officers, the are almost exclusively an l Persian sarbcz (infantryman) might bcmade an excellent soldier. Though on the march Persian infantry immoderately avail them- Selves'bf the services of the ‘ longsufi'cring donkey,the physical strength and endurance of the snrbéz deserve recognition, the more that he is very unsatisfactorily‘fed. If he is wantingin discipline the fault. lies with his superiors, who command him badly, teach him badly and set him a very bad. example. In Persia, as in Turkey, the moral qualities of soldiers often become deteriorated as they ' rise in grade. The rank of vakil is thus the first step toward moral ruin. After the vakil, or sergeant, come the naibflieutenant), sultan (captain), yavar (major), sarheng By the time aman becomes colonel he is hopelessly lost. ~w...x Y The Sagacity of tne Dog. An English paper presents the following account, which sets forth the sag'acity of the dog in a manner which will please all its lovers. The paper says : “ A serious ac- cident happened a few day ago to Mr. Plant, farmer, of Knoll \Vood, who might have suffered considerably more inconvenience than he did hpd .« licgiot been accompanied by his Collie dog, an animal worthy to vie, as far as intelligence goes, with the most gifted of the canine race. Mr. Plant was leading a young horse along, an unfrequent~ ed and rarely used by road when the animal he fell, being quite unable to stand or make his way home, which was a considerable distance away. kThere was no house near and none whose attention could bc“att1fact.-' ed, so Mr. Plant wrote a few words upon a piece of paper and, fastening it to the dog’s neck, told him to take it home. This the dog did at once, and led the ’ relief part-y straight back to where his master lays The latter when conveyed home and medical aid procured, was found to havcsustaiped two severe fractures of the leg, and might have lain many hours in misery in "so lonely in. place had .he not possessed a Collie of more than average intelligence. ‘ ’ ' ’ Here is another canine story. It is of a dog that can tell the time of day and that is owned by Col. F. N. Barksdale, a gentleman on the staff‘of the Pennsylvanian railroad. The dog acquired its peculiar talent in a very remarkable way. , .Col. Barksdale has a. fine clock that strikes only on the hour and then very Zsldwly. The Colonel'got into'th’o way of making tliefdog tap with his, foot at ,cach stroke of the clock. Finally he got so he’would'tap at the hour without being told. Just before - the clock strikes it gives a_little chick, and whenever grce than people, have actually talked of the dog‘lieard this, 'hc‘wquld lip doposiug him. And while England has been ' CMS’ “use ms PM“ and gently up his pa‘w making up to the Shah, she has been really weakening his authority and swelling the opposition to him.- Russia, on the other hand has addressed herself to the Persian people. and has so skilfully insinuatcd anti-English ideas among them that the pressure has now become felt upon the, Throne 'of Light. in plain' words, the Shah is conquered by public opinion. and is literally forest], against his will, to throw himser into the arms of Russia. He had the choice either to yield to Russia or to bc‘swcpt from his throne: by a fanatical revolution ; and he has chosen. . ' ' u England has been always a blundcrcr in her dealin, s with Persia. She has used threats am force too much, and not enough Englishmen have settled in l’crsia to exert ' any social or commercial influence. No" wherein the world are Englishmen more scarce. There are a. dozen of thcm at the Tuhrccz consulafc. At the British Resi- dency on the Persian (3qu there are five or six. At Ispahau there are two missionaries. Some three or four commercial agents are al- so to be found, and there are about fifty tele- gra 11 operators on tho Tchcran line. That is a l ; about seventy-five Englishmen in all I’orsia. And how many Russians? Seven- ty-tive hundred, or more. ~ ' . There is one strong bond of sympathy between Persia and Russia, and that is their persecution of the Jews. In Persia there are nearly 20,000 Jews, and they are all practically outlaws. Every other religion is tolerated. iron the Zoroastrians, orl ,b‘irc-\\'orsbippers. are treated with the utmost. respect. But every man’s hand is against the Jews. One might say they are the chattels of various petty officers. Thus I in each province, a certain tax is assessed ' AI-‘ALVS'P Tm: JEWS 1 who dwell therein: and it is about threcl times as heavy as the tax against any other 3 people. This tax is sold. That is to sav, some otlicer of the province pays it to thc' Howruor, and then sets out to reimburse himself from the Jews. Often he pays a premium for the privilege, and the job is mocked down to the man who will pay the biggest premium. Then the speculator sets at each stroke without being told; After, awhile he got so that when any one elucked like the clock he would get into position and wait for the strikes. Herwas for along time confused at not hearing- tlierclock, but after awhile began tappin g his paw anyway. The remarkable point is that after awhile he remembered how" many strokes were due at each succeeding hour, so that now when- ever the colonel clucksdio get? into position, and taps the numberi’of stro {es the clack! should make next time. -â€"'l‘hus at any time after 10 o’clock he taps:.‘clle,ven times,-after '4 o’clock five times, eté;""SOiné learned scientists are going to investigate the mat- for to see whether the dog actually posses-‘ 808 reasoning faculties. ' i ' 1' ' ' i ' : GIANTS or Inn oosDILLsRis. 1‘ch Guard Fabulous Trpusnrcs jol‘ gold and Sliver in Their Mountains. In Western Ilatagoniammong the Cordil- lcrus mountain’s; dwell the giants of whom so manybiv stories have -.bc.-eu told.. .As a. ,iuatterof I:le these Araucunians, as they are called, are ' rarely v under: six . feet in height and sometimes reach eight feet, seyen foot men being not infrequent." Tho'ugh mildly disposed, they admit no strangers to. their territory and by stubborn resistance they have compelled Chili to let theinfalOan Fabulous treasures of gold and silver are believed to be stored away in their moun- tains, but prospectm-S' who" have ventured thither have always been, driven away. They commonly adorn themselves in rich and heavy ornaments of these precious metals. The greater part of Patagonia belongs now to the Argentiucsltepublic, Chili holding by treaty the strip along the Pacific coast, which continues its shoestring-like territory for nearly half'thclcngth of South.America. Most of the country is a. desert waste, cold of climate, and contrasting stiongly wit h the richly productive pampas or plains of Southern Argentine. These pampas are remarkable for the strange illusions which beset the eye of the travelers who journey over them. On any bright day a distant out, armed with the full authority of the ' thistle field is as like as nu“ ‘0 be thS' Government to collect the tax from the formed seemingly into a forest, while a few Jews, and as much more as his avarice 1 clumps of grass Will take on the appearance prompts, or the prosperity of his victims make possible. No one evurmakes him give an account of his collecting, and ifho wrings from the Jews twice tho amount of the tax, he is so much richer and they so much poorer, and that is all. The military powa of Persia. is not great, yet it has great ossibilities. The regular army was cslablis led by Shah Abbas Slims in l.“.’tl, but the present Shah was the first to organize it on a European model, which he did by the em loymcnt. of German and Austrian officers. ' ‘he Persian army consists of l0.'u,000 men, comprising 5,000 artillery, 53,000 infantry, 31,000 regular and irregular third fthis force is maintained in service during ace, and the whole of the standing army 0 Persia on a peace footing does not exceed the total 0 Russian army. By in: susu's menu: - active officers in the of July, 1875, the army was for the future to be recruited by conscription instead of mnnsionsl levies, and the period of service for soldiers fixed at twelve years, instead of for life, but this decree was put in execution in only a few localities. Christians, Jews and Fire-\Vorshippers are free from militarv liability in Eersia. The armv is organized by provinces, tribes and districts. A prov. no) furnishes several regiments, a tribe one, ravalr '. and 7.200 militia. Less than 0110- meant by the writers of the new tests- of a troop of horsemen. Mirach are con- stantly in view. frequently offering a delu- Bl\‘C prospect of water, by which men are often deceived but their horses never. Living Upon Locusts. M correspondent of the London Daily Urava, writing upon the locust plague in north Africa, says: “ In reference to the diet of St. John the Baptist, who lived on locusts and wild honor in the wilderness, there are Sumlay-schml teachers who can not believe that any one would voluntarily live on such food, and, therefore, say that the ‘ locust beau,’ the fruit of the comb tree, I. meat. I can only reply that the locust cricket, tho acriduzn, pelerinum, order or- tho tern, variety Ssltatoriaathc flying saut- erel oof Africaâ€"is sold at a half tenuy per pound in the market place of iskra (which is the second oasis from the north in the Saharan, and that there it is cooked by boiling with salt and water, as shrimps are boiled here. I myself have little doubt that it is more nutritious than the latter, because in March, when the insect is gathered and dried, it is as full of albumen as an egg." m «o» If the world, as it is said, owes everybody a livin . the world ought to get a mortgage on itse f to pay its debt-t. The Ins: "landfall" or the Great liv- ' purer.- Un the eve of the celebration of the four- hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America, scientific men are earnestly, but, to allappearances, va‘inlv, endeavoring to . . W. _- ‘ ' ""'- -"':â€"-_-“i WHAI' EUROPE TALKS ABOUT. I SAVED N0 LIVES AFTER ALL.” Personals and Youth-s from the Great Volunteers Put "Sea In a Storm that R- The Steamship Conference opened at Bre- men _vesterdsy. Representatives were here from the North German Lloyds, the Hamburg- American,the French Line, the Netherlands retliSl‘over and identify" the island upon iAmerican Line and the Red Star Lino. ‘I_t which Christopher Columbus landed on the {was decided that the examination of cm!- morning of Friday, October 12, “92!. Strange as it may appear, it isnndoubtedly a fact. that no definite and satisfactory con- clusion concerning the .“tirst landfall” of Columbus has ever been reached during all the centuries that have rolled away since :grants for America should not. be made by consular inspection, but by sub-agents conx trolled by the companies. The singer Marie “'ilt, who recently com- vties. She disiuhe’rited several members of the Great Djscovercrfigsh crossed the sea of : her family, accusing them of intrigues to Darkness and “ unburned the gates of the New World." “'c do know that on the date above mentioned Columbus, then on his first voyage of discovery, arrived at an island of the Lucayos or Bahama' group called by its natives (luauahani : this island, as he himself tells us, be renamed San Sal- vador; but expat-1y where Guanabani-San- Salvador is situated, and by what name it is known in our day and generation, are questions whichihavc never been conclusive- ly answored, (“although many investigators have dcvotedhuuch time and study to the subject. ‘ 1 In 1825"»Don M. F. Navarract-e, civil oflicer of the Marine Department of Spain, found in the archives of the Duke do! In- fantado a manuscript of the “ Journal . of the-First Voyage of Columbus to the Indies,’ ’ secure her money. A Madrid dispatch says that-the judge who has been inquiring into the cause of the Burgos railroad collisxon, has issued an order compelling the Northern Railroad Company to deposit $400,000 as security for damages claimed by those who suffered injury, and by the relatives of those who lost their lives through that accident. A letter from Venice says that Don Carlos, the pretender to the throne of Spain. is in Very straitened circumstances and recently pawned a valuable jewel. , A A dispatch from Bridgcnd, Glumorgan‘ iCounty, \Vales, reports the killing of eight miners by the overwiuding of the pit gear at the Abergwnfi collicry, near that place. ' 'M. Ribot, the French‘Minister of Foreign mitted suicide, lef t3200,000, mostly to chariq ('aplmls or lie our world.” ‘ .l-flbsavls: (‘reu Dare Notfi‘lce. abridged from the original document by and éll‘fllfsi has P981! informed by the Chinese in the handwriting of Bishop Las Casas, a Charge dlAflnjl'CS 111 tlllsclt)’ “lift the 20V' cqntempomry and companion of Columbus, crnment 9f \l uchu, province of INgan-Hoei, who had: visited the New world several on the \ang-tsc-Kiaug, ‘wbero the recent or in some cases two, and a district ,.. wuss}: mo COLUMBUS LAND *2 one battalion. Chiefs of the tribes and .~ ’ knockedhimdownandinjured him so severe- and his subsequent, cruising among the 13’ that he had toremmnonl‘hegt O‘dehm‘e Bahama Islands. Therefore it might readily' times. Las Oasas, fortunately, did not abridge that partof the Journal which gives the account of Columbus’s “ first landfall” besupposed that both'the landfall" and his “ track” through the Bahamas could be identified by Columbus’s own descriptionsr'of Guannhani aud‘thc four other islands bc vis- itcd‘on his voyage from San Salvador to the coast of Cuba. gf‘The genuineness and nut hen- city of this abridged copy of; Columbus’s Journal have yotto be impeached,”aud it is the. only existing evidence regarding his discovery of the Bahama Islands taken from the writings ’ of Columbus him- self: All other original documents of Columbus have " - disappeared. and and his contempriraries and followers, even his own son Fernando, give no information to aid us in deciding which of the Lucayo's Islands is the veritableGnanahani, or what “track” Columbus followed on his cruise through the liphamas to Cuba. Therefore, to quote tlic‘word's of Est-Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Navy Captain G. V. Fox, "no ‘landfall’ or “ track’ of Columbus through the Bahamas, supported by assertions in op-. "position to. the statements ofgLas, Casas’s abridged copy 'of Colufiibus,s log, can stand.’ ‘ This is the opinion of’a careful‘st‘udcnt and :a most patient. investigator: it is, moreover, an opinion no‘tlikely to be gaiusaid or con- ..t'rovert-ed. By' the log ofColumbus‘, there- fore, all theories concerning his " landfall” l and “ track” pinst stand orfall: and in order to identify any of thefBahamalslands with G uanahani, two distinct proofs of such ident- ity must be produced: first, the island must ‘corrcspoudwith Columbus’s dcseription.‘of Guanuhaui; second, it must ochupv a posi- tion relative to the other islands visited by Columbus which shall accord with the statementsof the log respectingthcdistances and bearings of Guanahaui, from the second and third islands at least. It is‘pbssiblcjto select arbitrarily a "first island" which, while it tallies with Columbus’s description of Guanahani, does not give a. point of ‘de- parture‘ from which the second‘ or’thc third island can be reached by sailingo'n the courses _ 'laid down by Columbus, or by traversing the distances he gives-us separating the “ first landfall” fronuthefislaudshc came to farther-ion his cruisc.; ‘f- “v v On the other hand, it is equally possible todesignate an island which, so far as its distance and bearings from a second and a. third island are concerned. satisfies the re- quirements of Columbus's log,” while: in physical aspect and tapo’grap‘ny it in no way co'i responds with the slight sketch Columbus ‘has given us of Guanahani. It may readily be seen, therefore, that the question of this ” first landfall ” is away complicated and xnot-to-bc-ca.sily-solvcd problem. ‘Jt is like the ” map puzzles ”'.‘givcn to children, ' of which each section must be carefully fitted relatively to all the others in order to make a. complete and perfect: whole. That the “Columbus puzzle ”; has been successfully ‘ put together by any fame of the eminent gentlemen who have attempted to do so, the writer is not-prepared to admitâ€"[From an article by William Agnew Paton, in Oc- tober Lippimofl’s, INGENIOUS GERMAN INVENTIONS. Paper Soles for Footwear and Shoe Lures from Scraps. ' In military circles in Germ my consider- able attention is given to a recent discovery, which would bring about the putting into use of paper soles for the footwear of the army. All the elasticity that can be de- sired, and perfect protection against water is claimed for these sales. They are com- posed of layers of parchment-like paper, which are made waterpicof through a turpentine treatment the layers being stron ly put together with a cement. made from 'enetian turpentine, Spanish white, shellac, and a preparation of linseed oil, treated with oxide of lead. The soles, when put together, are subjected to a strong hydraulic pressure; and can be adjusted to the shoe either with glue or through nailing process. A new German invention is announced for tlie'cntting of shoe laces from scrap leather, by which even the smallest dealer is enabled to apply his ofl’al to this use. The machine is simple and cheap, selling at the price of eighty-six cents, our money. Scraps inoval or round shapecan be nsedrthe opera- tion consisting simply of putting your piece of leather in position an then drawing it from the other side until the material is used up. This ingenious little contrivance regulates the keeping in proper fposition of the leather to bccut. Theplateo the ranch- ine is provided with three holes so adapted to secure perfect rounding of the laces by having them passed through once. The knife is adjustable and permits of cutting from the finest to the thickest work that can be asked of it.â€"-[Irish Leather Trades Journal \ut fiftyyears women have been cliniorirng -outrages on foreigners were perpetrated, has been dismissed in compliance with the demands of the powers. ‘ Report’s received in Dublin from Bore Haven and from other fishing stations in the southwest of Ireland indicate a complete failure of the mackerel-curing industry, which furnishes a supply to the American market. The failure is due'to bad packing and had curing. ' ‘ " The London Dmly News says: “ The pay-'“ ment of members of the House of Commons will become a practical question in t-henext Parliament. The theoretiCal objections do not amount- tomuch. L The London. Chronicle’s Berliu‘ corres- - ponuent says that the isshé‘bf all-rye bread lhas been resumed in the German Army. ~: ‘ -W r Woman Suffrage in New Zealand. Sir George Grey, cx-premier of New Zea- laud, has outdone all other cliivalrousfat- tempts .in behalf. of woman sufi'rage. .;He hits madea proposition,_which will be Sub .' mittedto the house of representatives, that anew upper chamber bar-formed in the gov- eminent of New Zealaull composed entirely of women, andthatit replace the present upper‘ehamberf This plan: if successful, would be overdoing the matter. For the for an eqpal share withfmiu‘i in the govoi‘iiv, meat. -_-‘ heir wildest Vision never ,discer '_. ed anything beyond this. Now Sir Georgé‘. comes forward with all the chivalry of. of medieval knight and wishes to enthrone and ensky women by givin to f‘them alone the highest legislative out ority. This power at present consists of fifty members appoint- ed by the crownifor life. It is truofthaf; in the nature of things there is no valid reason why this upper chamber should n61: consist exclusively ofittwoinen, as it has hitherto consisted exclusively of men, but the loudest protest against it 'would conicf from 'I‘p'onten' them- selves. \\’liat~4tltey want and what they have been clamoring for is aplacc by the Side of men. :They do not wish‘to migh- alonc,‘cvcn if the highest assembly were 1 given to them. Sir George ii; his excess oil-head or women defeats his own ends. Let him. I The li about men refused to launch their clared that (my would man the lifeboat themselves. All the able-bodied visitors dc- Imxnox, Ochâ€"Despath received here from St. Ives, Cornwall, toll'of the braver}: of volunteer lifeboat. men. ; chiefly seaside visitors, and of the cowardice of eight pm fessional life‘savers. A storm valet-day swepngvex Land‘s Had. A small schooner. sppircntly an English coaster. was (165N390 off Senner. Shawna so ppundsd and over‘ swept by the seas that she was evidently doomed to destruction. ller skipper mau~ a ‘cd to fasten in the rigging the cusigr of England with the jack downward, the sea- man's si ual of (llSll‘CCKS. boat. They said no lifeboat could live in such a son and it was uselcu to launch one. The seaside visitors who had flocked to the spot were loud in their denunciations (f the eight meu,an«l insisted that they'should at, least make an attempt to rescue the endangered crew. The eight men positively refused again and again to launch their boat. This curan Yed the visitors, and they dc~ sired to volunteer, and the places of the eight regular lifeboat n‘ on were soon filled, chiefly by visitors from {motionâ€"lawyers, la}: 'crs' clerks, a Welsh artist, and unlock- bro .er. They ran the boat into the surf, having huge life belts around their waists, which greatly ham rod their movements. 'and'finally,‘ at 9:30 ‘. M., they managed to get away from the shore, drenched to the skin, and their boat half full of water. Pluckin they tugged at their cars, and soon dissappcarcd in the darkness on their way to the point where the schooner was last seen. . Hours passed, the men did not return, and the people on shore began to despair of ever seeing them again. Finally morning brpkc, there was still no sign of the missing lifeboat. Then the news was flushed from St. Ives that the lost lifeboat, its crew all safe, had managed to reach that harbor after a most dreadful experience, passing the whole night at sea, their boat tossed about like a cork by the huge waves. In spite of- their gallant efforts they were unable to rescue the schooncr’s crew, and all trace of the latter has been loét, and it is supposed that the schooner foundered during the night. ' ' ' . commons" VESSEL. 'A' I‘ur Simile‘or (lie-Same Marla to be made ‘ l'olithe World's lj‘afr. “‘Lieut. McCarty Little, one of the ublcst oflicérs of the United States Navy, has been detailed by direction of the Presidoutof the United/States to procccd'to Spain to super- intend the construction of :1. inc simile of the caravel Santa M via, in which v-olumbus sailed. It is p o'poSed to'havo ll'bc manned by Spanish sailors vinthe l-c, stume of the time of Columbus, and it ‘ivill be rigged with the same sort of rigging he used. There will be “on board copies of thesame charts that he had, fac similcs of the same nautical instruments. The crew will the of. the samenuiiibcr,'aiid' it’bus' been. suggested that to curry out the truth of ShistOry there should be in the crew on Eng.- lislfmun and an Irishman, for according tr. Nax’hrcttc, the eminent: Spanish historian. \Villiam .l-larris, an ,Englislunun, old Arthur Lake, an Irishman, were memlmrs of Columbus’ crew. ‘ > There will also be a. notary on board, zg-weat‘ing the ancient costume, and represent. Ethics of all other functionaries who accom- panied Columbus. : It is proposed to have this vessel make its first appearmiccut’tho grand naval review women themsél'ves “rmmmlby dcgmc‘sglm which is totakc place in the harbor of Now "will see that popular sentiment is taking" care of all that, and that women are gm ual- ly comingto‘hav‘c a share in the public 0 , p I and in all the perquisites that public o‘fllc‘é‘ implies. Inordinatc chivalry savors of un; 13,13“) bounded sentimentality, or, coming as“ it ‘bc moderate and rational "in his demands, as pulling, hints of some political motive. {\Vo- -thcir-guard against excess of courtesy, and docs in. this case froui one skilled in Wire’- especiully against those oucrfrce in bearing gifts. -' o â€"-O~‘â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"t " J» 4,1...» A Philadelphia Chinaman has thirty gods. Berlin, with l,3]5,60.0 people, has only 0 :,SO() dwellings. ,. three are in Japan. ‘cea. .. . . . , ' .world.‘ Atthc close of the naval rcv1cw xt- 3york, 'thre the little ship will be 'sslutcd 18' the monstrous cruisers of modern invcn-r pica, representing all the uavies of tho ‘ posed to'have this vessel transferred, with ccrcmony,by the representative of the {v‘ovcrmncnt of Spa-lint!) the President of the United States, and then have it towed "Chicago, where it will be one of the most interesting features of the exposition. At theolose’ofjhc exposition the vessel . . A... , . wxll be returned to l\ ashington and snchor~ cd in one of the new basins of the Poto- . ' 111313. Facts and figures. , W ‘ ‘ * ._._.___ The'Plessu'xcs of Prison Lil's. Here isa very suggestive passe e taken ‘. ‘ , from \Villiam l’. Andrcws’ artico on the sons" in the October Forum : Robert’Bonncr does not thin thc'trotting ~ - " Several times the risoners have com- mile will reach 2:05. , lt is estimated that at least 1,000,000 pounds of rubber, are annually ustd for bi- cycle tires. ’ ’ ' ' ‘ 1' ' . The census men found in the Unit'ehd States 14,056,750 horses, 13,296,532 mules, lti,0l9.5f|l cows, 36,875,048 oxen and cattle, ’43A3] ,l30 sheep, 50,625,100 swine. During the past year 22,017 persons visit- ed the birthplacc of Shahspcare, as compar- led with l2,300 in 1880. .~ The your shows a balance of over $1,500 to the credit of the birthplace. * llarvard University has 365,000 bound volumes in her library: Yale has 209,000, Cornell lbU,000, Columbia 00.000, Syracuse. 75,000, Dartmouth 03,000, l.chigh(37,000, llowdoin 84,000, University of Virginia’ 40,000. The estimate of the world's population in 1590 is as follows: Europe, 380,200,000; Asia, 850,030,000; Africa, 127,000,000; Australia, 4,730,000.; North America, 80,4 250.000: South America, 30,420,003 ; total, 1,487,603,000. Things She Won‘t Confess t That she laces tight. That her shoes are too small for her. That she is ever tired at a ball. That she paints. That she is as old as she looks. That she has been more than five minutes dressing. That she keeps you waiting. That she blushes when certain person’s name is mentioned. That she ever says a thing she doesn’t mean. That she is fond of scandal. That sheâ€"she of all persons in the world- is in love. ‘ ‘ ()f the twelve largest cities in the world it Increase of Crime by “dormaww p“- plaincd to the water i; sit the officers have made a mistake in copying their millinan and nut given them time enough. Hero is acompluiutgof this character lust made to him: ' I have got but two months, and I am entitled to four. l’lonsc have it altered for me: I want. all four months that I was sentenced for.’ Again : meeting in a county prison aphysieian sentenced for two years f‘ormalpractirc, the. writer was astounded with this conversation. The prisoner was a man \vholiad been noted for his enjoyment of the luxuries of existence. . He said. ‘ It is a great mistake you fellows make in thinking you are inflicting punishment when you send mcnhcrc. I have been here a year, and can truly ray 1 have enjoyed it so much that I shall not feel sorry ifmy ardon is not obtained. You see, it has icon vacation. with inst rnough to do to amuse me. The novelsiin the prison library are entertaining, and I am very fond of dominoes and checkers, and find some first. rate players among the men. Now ifit strikes me in this way, who have been M:- cuslomcd to every luxury, how must it be to the poor devils who never have a square meal outside? Do you wonder that they flack by hundreds and thousands to the {jails in winter? My only surprise is that lyou can keep any of them out at all.’ This is the opinion of an educated man who has experienced the benefits of the system in his own person, and finds them ‘ delightful’ "a life from which he is loath to part. But it is evident that it is far from the ‘austelo ity ’ which once did ‘pcrvulc the prison place ;' and it will be hard flom this to real» fan the good man's drsire of ‘ impressing the prisoner with the idea that the u uy of the transgressor is hard.’ " -â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-¢â€" Don’t worry your ln-ain about the mania the moon, but study the man in your mm overcoat. t is caravel asnearly exact as possible. It . mcu’howcwr’ learned 1,’,,,,,,,gotobey-; on throughthc-lukcs and Welland Canal to. .‘ - , ,.,... 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