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Show cusuans. Work I 'be Boao by lh aloa ThU Wik. Washington, Dec. 14. What will lake place In tho Senate this week Is largely dependent upon the republican caucus tomorrow or Tuesday. Tomorrow will be the twelfth day of the pendancy of the election bill, and the probabilities are, unless the caucus decides to tako a decided step towards a speedy ennlnation the pressure for financial finan-cial legislation will become too great to be resisted. In the House tho reappointment bill will bo. called up Tuesday. There is no concerted opposition on the port of the Democrats, and the fight which, at the beginning of the es!un was generally predicted, will not come off. Cutcheon proiiosefi to call up the .army appropriation bill at tho first opportunity. The friends of the shipping bill have teii assured of a friendly disposition on the tart of the rules committt-e towards their measure, and possibly the reap-iwlntrnent reap-iwlntrnent bill may 1 dUjosed of quickly enough to permit the shipping ship-ping bill to come up this weak. The Oortev bill to reduce the compulsory compul-sory deKU of b&iidi by National banks and lo authorize the issue of rlrculating notes, etc., will heurgtd for immediate consideration. THS ASTClUAI. IMUVKT of the chiif of the chemical division, agricultural department, contains aitaccouutof a proceM recently (perfected (per-fected at the department as a result of experiments lu the chemical laboratory with reference to the manufacture ot orgliuni sugar. The report of the chemist recitw some of the various difficulties hitherto found in tho economic manufacture of sugar from sorghum, and indicates indi-cates tbat a solution of the question will be found in some process which would separate as nearly as possible the gummy, agglutinated bodies from thojnlco without precipitation of the sugar. The known property of alcohol to produce precipitation In the Juice was made use of In a farthec study of UiU problem. Thechemut claims substantially an increase In the yield of sugar per thousand gallons Juice of from au average of about lU.OX) pounds to an average of over 21,697, at an Increase In-crease ef cost of production of JS.'.l fcrthe alcohol which enters Into the new pruceii. Naecl'a 1'aal. Nmv Yoorr, Dec 14. "A forty-five forty-five days' fast Is long enough for me." That IsSucci's opinion cf fasting fast-ing at the beginning f the thirty-oiuth thirty-oiuth day of his abstinence from food. The medical committee are quite of the ame opinion too. They fcund Sued In a condition of extreme ex-treme lrritabi..ty at their daily examination ex-amination of the physical state of affairs tbat had lasted up t that time, ovtr thlrty-olx hours, and noted In their bulletin tliat the Italian bad lost twenty cuneen since he was previously weighed, which Is an alarming loss of tl-suo at the stage of the fast. Thu doctors, like the faster, are worried for fear that forty-five days will be a few hours over his capacity for endurance. Already Succl has lot-t nix and a half pounds rnoro than he had at the finish of his last fast and nearly seven long weary dojs must le yet put lieblnd without breaking down, to complete the task Sued has worntto accomplish. ESSsC X Caique CollretloD or C lr. LOXUO.V, Dec 11. An exhibition that I unique Is now iu progrifs at die Savoy Hotel. It U nothing more or less than an exhibition 01 clgatp cigars that are favored by royalty, by the bou ton and by the landholder! and coupon clippers of the British empire. It is exciting great Interest aud alt Iondon goes there. The display Ls a collection of tlio fintfet of example of the finest brands of the crop of lSSb. There are in all 2-V),000 separate cigars contained con-tained in tho cabinets, caskets and on shelves. One cedar cabinet contains con-tains H,noi)of the finest Cubans of various sizes, and this cabinet has the distinction of acting as a cigar-guagefor cigar-guagefor the JCotlischllds, as that family ordered here three fillings of this cabinet at one time. Tbat is 4.2,000 cigars. The catalogue says that the cigars contributed by the Prince of Wales shows tbat he has a craze Just now for green goods. He wanU them of fine quality, but lliey must bo frtf h ucdrled gteen. |
