Show anus far an aggregate of has been appropriated by twenty nine states for representation at the worlds fair MINISTER PHILIPS has hopes of ii dancing to exhibit home of his immense guns at tho chicago exposition hesitates for he says it will cost him to make an exhibit creditable 0 o his establishment WHEN the fall trade opens two now industries will bo introduced in philadelphia as the result of the mckinley bill one of those will be the manufacture of lace curtains and the other of linen these two in destries dus tries will probably give work to or people and thus the work of progress and protection to american enterprise under can legislation goes bravely on THE present administration has paid of the bonded debt of the country ind if it should not pay another dollar will have a splendid record in that respect this reduction may bo checked by the increase in the pension payment but no better use can be made of the surplus than in dealing honorably with the soldiers there is no fear of a deficit and the democrats should know that before the election of 1892 all their bugaboo talk of today will have exploded itself and exposed choir misrepresentations the Ee publican party can well afford to abide the demonstrations rations of time THERE is no use of A D GASH attempting to creep out of tho obligation he voluntarily placed himself under to discuss with mr the latter was challenged by GASH in the presence of a score of persons in front of the opera house in this city on monday night last immediately after mr HORIS lecture and accepted the challenge the writer of this heard the challenge made and heard thy acceptance given does gash now repent his rash act and wish to ignore those witnesses of monday nights challenge can certainly come to no other conclusion everybody acquainted with mr 1 frequent street challenges will now perhaps after tho lute unmistakable back down on his part regard his moro recent challenge to the republican party of provo city as equally meaningless and insincere amt dispatches inform us that tl e canadian gulf fisheries this season have been total failures so far as the north shore and palileda Mal ileDa islands are concerned bilici Oil ici formation hasS been 0 dived by the dominion agency of fisheries at baebeck from the agent at grindstone Is aid hit spring school cod passed the island while the entire population was down with la grippe and that none could ba caught and for the same reason lobster which was in great abend i ance could not be taken factories have been all closed down sustaining serious losses the agent writes that unless autumn mackerel fishing is good there will be dire distress en t ue island next winter since june ath there have been seventy five deaths on the island from la gappe ADVICES from london bay that the worlds fair commission headed by hon BEN is being anticipated with a good deal of interest in all the large cities of commerce an areat buntain JUn tain and that there is no doubt but that the commission by informing intending exhibitors of what has been dolp and what it is intended to do will give the worlds fair movement in this country a decided impetus the commissioners will probably be in london to day aney will be handsomely entertained by the american colony and a grand banquet ac which the PRINCE OF WALES and other notables will bo special guests has been mooted from london they will go to paris berlin vienna st petersburg copenhagen pen hagen stockholm and brusselle at each place they will confer with local and national commissions and officials and give valuable information relative to transportation space site and other points upon which the people abroad are not at present very well informed |