Show if maeon why now me mexico alco ie Is bottled settled so slowly la Is that tho the great majority ot of laud grants are held by native cans ono one don sometimes owning an entire county A launched baltimore Balti moro schooner echo onor waa was christened with water instead of wine tho the liquor always heretofore used on such occasions tho the owners aro are eald sold to bo be strict temperance men V CANADIAN if militiamen bold hold smoking concerts at which every roan man must from the timo time he be enters tho the room until ho he leav as a it their object la Is doubtless to accustom themselves to tho the of battle juat just as our own militiamen give balls to accustom thorn them salvos to tho the music of bullets haa has found use in tho the stable in a now ider for grooming horses tho the power fum lahod by an electric motor la is taken by a flexible tubo tube to a brush that revolves rev elves rapidly with thie this brush a man can groom a horse better in five minutes than in a much longer timo time by hand any lazy man can cun hereafter bo be his own houtler hoat lor are railroads in tho west on which thoro there is a private car to about every miles of line an export expert railroader that it costs a railroad company 25 a day when a private avato car is out on the line ordinarily and when ln in cited parties aro are along it will require twice that sum to keep tho the car provided and haul it over tho the road A mETr stono itono resembling granite granito recently fell near the mouth of pistol river in curry county oregon it weighs something over four h indred pounds and imbedded itself foot in tho the earth parties who saw it wont went to digit out outs but found it so hot nothing coald be done with it after it hod had cooled it was removed and will soon be placed on exhibition tn earliest known lens is one made of rock crystal unearthed by layard at nineveh this lens ions the ago of which is to be measured by thousands of ot years now lies in the british mu scum with its surface as bright aa when it loft left the makers hands by tho the eldo side of it aro are very recent specimens of lens lem which have been ruined by exposure to lonbon fog and smoke WELL INFORMED newspapers have said that the outnumbered the whites ten to ono one in louisiana and south carolina and oro are in a majority in lu every southern state and many other similar absurdities havo have be become ome current oin oln of the barug paragraph raphers ors the negroes outnumber the whites in but three came states namely mississippi south carolina and Loat slana and in south carolina which has the largest population they aro are but throe fifths of the antiro population in kentucky they constitute only ono seventh of the population PERHAPS the moet most potent influence of all in producing railway disturbances Is the pernicious principle of imposing on the local all the burdens of fixed charge charges and profits and regarding competitive traffic as something it Is profitable to secure at any charge or ony any methods there is a prevailing tendency to this thing among all roads and no stronger evidence of this tendency nood bo be cited than tho the formal assertion of tho the loading leading advocates of the railway school that on competitive traffic I 1 everything above tho the baro bare cost of movement is profit NEW ideas in palestine ra lestin othe O the railroad I 1 and the electric light have invaded judea and the awed mohammedan gazes upon tho the unwonted spectacle and nd cries mashallah Mash allahl god is gr entIll and goes on his way wintering won wont Ayring ering jerusalem is already lighted by electricity tri city the plant Is placed in a flour mill close to the damascus gato by which st paul raul escaped from his perse cautions cut lons ions and adjoining mount calvary work Is 1 being pushed on tho the railroad of from jaffa to jerusalem and when it Is a completed and tho the locomotives whistle is heard in tho the valley alley of jordan extensions of the uno line will bo be mado made from dan to D ors hobs thew improvements improve mente naturally attract in numbers of pilgrims and ono one great carm caravan an of visitors recently entered the holy city with a band of iksic at their head |