Show THE liquor dealers of the country are working themselves into a terrible state of blind over the continued progress of the temperance cause the personal eights league intended as a national to work against the prohibition movement was chartered in chicago last week under the laws of illinois branches are to be established in other cities the design is to have a popular national movement against prohibition though in favor of temperance the liquor dealers of new york state are to hold a convention at buffi lo 10 on september 4 to consider w hat ac tion shall be taken in view of the approaching pro aching elections the wine liquor and beer dealers association of new york city lias been sending out a circular to the liquor dealers of the country calling for a thorough organization in every town and city in the state to defend our vocation against the attack of an organized band ol 01 fanatics who do not represent any one sr anything but themselves vee nd who through their indefatigable de labor came near driving thousands of our craftsmen out of the business that enabled them to make a living for themselves and families for years the association is proud to stata that in the five years since its organization not one obnoxious law has been placed on the statute books of this state whereas it has been instrumental in passing several laws beneficial to our trade recipients of the circular are le quested to study carefully the position today to day of those in our business in the states of new jersey and pennsylvania in the city of philadel phia alone thousands of dealers who had their money invested were deprived of their means of livelihood and compelled to abandon the business they biad beau in for scars THE bill introduced in tho senate by mr blair of new hampshire for alie amendment of the naturalization laws has some excellent features the measure requires five years residence in the united states immediately preceding i for naturalization papers proof of moral cliar acter by two witnesses and the ability to speak bead arid write the english language such intelligence and facility as to prove that alie applicant has the capacity to transact ordinary business in the language the bill provides that no naturalized person vote for one year after receiving his papers and forbids judges to try more alian twenty naturalization cases per day we be glad to see these amendments made to the naturalization laws though we think eliat the right to vote should bo allowed immediately proceeding the issuing of the papers the requirement in regard to the trial of naturalization cases is a good one if adopted it would correct one of the worst abuses of the present system the wholesale naturalization of raw aliens by corrupt juat previous to election mr ban bill however will probably not b heard from again this session A TELEGRAM from fergus falls minn bays the grasshopper war at perham continues unabated although over bushels have been caught they arc still catching them at a lively rate nono to speak of have flown off A lot rose up and fiew five or six miles and when they alighted forty five bushala of them were caught last monday night one hundred bushels were caught in one field one man caught forty bushels the same day these arc big catches and only made occasionally THE customs division of the treasury department is in receipt of a list of chinese medicines as exported from bankow and other parts among which are the following tigers bones ground blood bears gall asses glue tree bugs elephants gall fossil crabs fossil teeth fowls gizzards giz insects of nine smells jobs tears cow hair glass rhinoceros horns cows knee pun balls dragons teeth straw hog skins dried silkworms anake eking crabs eyes horse tails and centipedes DR W K f john hopkins university has been up pointed a naturalist of the united stales fish commission for alie summer major mcdonaad McDo the fiffe commissioner lias placed at his disposal one of the vessels belonging to the commission and a part of alie summer will bo spent in cruising for natural history specimens in alio gulf stream and the remainder in carrying on researches in tle station at woods cioll cape cod mass ana department of state at washington has been informed of tho opening on june of the first line of railway in persia it has been constructed by a belgian company and extends from ie heran to shag abdul azima a distance of about ten bucs the cost was more ban ans newspapers report alie proposed removal of a prominent chimney glass manufactory from pittsburg to belgium one of the reasons given for removal is alie continual recurrence of among alie men employed there A member of the manufacturing firm is reported saying just at the time our works are lying idle and the men are sitting around and taking it easy we lantto be at work and so do at least three quarters of the men but on account of the union not a single man dare go to work nor do w e dare to start up it is just this condition of affairs that has almost decided us to pull up stakes and leave we shall not be surprised to hear more of these lem ovala in alie near future it must come to this 01 something worse if the business of striding ia not brought to an end it is a humiliating state of alfurs outlined in the statement that tarco of tha men in the glass manufactory desire to go to work but on account of alie union not a single man dare go to work nor do we daro to baart up Is clero any tryanna in the land like this union tryanna tr yanny how can any industry succeed that 13 subject to it ON wednesday there were twenty five prostrations prost rations by heat five of them fatal in st bouts louts it was the hottest day of alie season the temperature being on the same day in kansas there were eight prostrations prost rations and three deatris de atlis the temperature ranged from 93 to degrees TUB records disclose tho astounding facts that in a certain town InKo braska which contains ax mules there is not a single acon buney clock watch sewing machine musical instrument or agricultural acri cultural tool personally possessed by tb when will dirt commence on the bah central extension to the coast was the question recently put an official bf that toad if I 1 was able to answer that question I 1 would leke in doing so wan the aply 1 if it A |