| Show GENERAL ITEMS X I 1 I 1 the phonograph adems to be mats kl ing greater headway la in mexico than ban la in the united stata st a tee the director it I general ot at the telegram telegraph ph la 10 to i milks a contract for or its introduction I 1 at once I 1 russian officials hatto decided that j 5 the th telephone Is danger dangerous oos to the t at elate at la in warsaw orders be have been i given that telephones be ba removed from all region restaurants ran to coffee houses band and liquor baloo saloons Ba loons ns similar orders chave have teen been leaned issued la in all othi othir r large t polish town 1 the natural loaning cunning of at the tot for was shown at sew new ipswich ipswitch 11 n H tie the J iother other day A fox that ill at was started by i ya a hooter ran directly to a pond and passed around the adge on art the tee ice as j near the open water as possible the I 1 dogs dogo followed elp elesely sely and nd coming upon weak ice broke through thron gb and lint bat tor for help given ghen them would have bare drowned meantime Royl reynard lard escaped to a place ot of eatery the roman catholic Cat hollo dihedral at pittsburg has been presented by i andrew carnegie with a superior copy in oil all of Ma madonna doans it la Is the work ot of herr hart ii the historical painter ol of no saxon court tte the ori original gloal san madonna Madon tia that noblest ot of IMado as ruskin colla calls it la Is and I 1 has been for centuries la in the great dresden gallery the jews ira are said to be rapidly increasing in numbers wealth and influence I 1 conr new syna bognes were recently opened within the space epoco often days and the city forty men ot of these places ol of worship which la 18 a larger number than can be found in any other city in the world the tha hebrew population has doubled in ten years yeam some trades entirely control it Is believed that the largest farm arm under cultivation in this country belong to col john W bookwalter of 0 ohio at one time the democratic candidate for governor ot of hla his state the farm Is on off the nebraska line of beatrice and the kansas city wyan dotto dotta northwestern road ran a through it it contains nearly thirteen thousand thon sand acres covering twenty square miles all under an excellent state ol of cultivation great selling balling ships are loading with wheat tor for liverpool and lisbon at the brooklyn wharves whar vesa al sight eight which has not teen been seen tor for a long time before the merchants say that they cannot get suitable steamship tonnage fast enough the wheat Is shipped in bags the movement of grain from the west to the eastern ports porto just now to la so enormous enor mons that the railroads cannot handle it baltimore profits most by new yorks incapacity to take lit the grain an interesting table shows that european russia exported ported ei bushels of wheat in IS SOLand IZ lilU 7 20 bushels in buhlah india 13 bushels irk in ISSO and bushels in ISK and the argentine argentina republic ollo 4 2829 2 9 bush olain in asso and it 51 bushels irk in while the export from this county oil fell fro from in H bashela in laso 0 o bushels ILL IM meantime the average export price ot of american wheat fell from I 1 in 1880 to kac lu in no ko wonder the western farmer la Is not happy the standard of size for a ladys watch isa is a little over an inch in diameter A ladys watch usually has a hunting case or a halt half hunting bunting case caie a circular opening in the center ol of the lid ild showing the hands and flig ures are enameled on the outside thostee ahns tie time Is 13 sun seen without opening the watch chatelain Chatel aln watches usually have open laces faces in ili some borne cases the monogram ol of the owner Is engraved in long slender letters on the outside of oc the smooth case or CIL the 0 watch is elaborately decorated in enamels of jewels northwest of milan in tile lie neighborhood ot at somma lombardo there has recently been discovered through the drainage at 0 the large tart tarl moor ol of la La labozza Lago gozza iia a lake dwelling which differs in many respects ecta hum from the he others in upper italy nod and switzerland Tha charelle Th orello relle of civilization was mot met with under the he peat bog find and the he underlying layer of mad fund the former wag a meter in thickness and the latter thirty five centimeters the building was rectangular eighty meters long and thirty meters broad and between the posts which fire are still standing upright lay beame and half hal burnt planks the latter haung havin C been made ty by splitting the trees and an it without using a saw pieces at 0 burnt clay polished stone hatchets flint knives and arrow heads were also boand in algeria every girl born ot of native parents Is tattooed on oil her forehead between the eyebrows and just at the root of the nose with a cross formed of several straight lines of mall stars TOW close together these tattoo marks are a dark blue color algerian women are also able tattooed on the backs of at their hands bands their forearms and cheats as well as on a their heir shoulders ahon their heir wrists being eo especially 3 ally adorned with drawings TO representing P bracelets and flowers strung sire rig together As a rule women are ar tits the operators slid and it Is ie principally on chIld roa between the ages agea ot of seven rod and eight that bat they have hae to ex exercise erciso their art they use nse sometimes a needle boodle but more frequently a barter barbar 7 attree thorn they employ kohl as a coloring substance it is in a klad kind of fine powder made from sulphur of antimony which IB also in great request by the algerian women for the par ot at tace faeo wages la in the congo region have bays been greatly increased by the lie do mands for or labor created by tile the ex cipe w dillons of stanley and others othera and the cho enterprises of 0 patch dutch gorman german ea english french and traders dero it Is related that la in IW a porter would carry a load of 0 sixty pounds from MAWR to stanley poola pool my LOY ot of from boru fifteen to eighteen diya days for or as 3 sow NOW lie be from rom ta 7 to 10 and the batties are beginning to work by the day doman dlag cents per day including rood food ebli seems arery small fur for the the labor involved but it to ii a great improvement on OB the tha wages formerly for meily paid for tile he natives now BOW require to be paid in hard cash whereas in for or met days they took their pa pay to la cloth leads bead sote etc to the european price ot of which rom to per der cent tad had been added it will not be tonj long before a railway takes tho the work a 0 tile the porters away from tta ibarro m bat it wit will 1 abt as surely bring to the tham uglier waged WBK at battle other oilier occue aion 1 I |