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Show M1TLS AMI COM.nr.XTS. Umbrellas were In use In Oreece and the far inl long before the Christian era, and there la no record to show that tbe people didn't steal them Just aa often then at now, Aicotdlng to the assertions of (he American Colonltstion society, 1,(K),-IWO 1,(K),-IWO colored people are rerloutly looking forward to a change of residence from the United Btatea to Africa. At the presidential election 10(1 years ago 193 voles were cast. Virginia Vir-ginia led In Iho numlier of electors, having twenty-one, and Massachusetts followed with sixteen, while Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania bad twelve, New York and North Carolina had twelvo each, and Maryland ten. The .utulx.r uf electors this year It lo be 412. Hwitxertaud has had a public execution, execu-tion, tho first that hat occurred lu that country In a long time. The victim wat a murderer name! Oatll. He was guillotined. This process of capital punishment Is not to tclentlflc or modern mod-ern as electrocution, but It It much more humane and ta decidedly cvrtsln. The length ol time a man call live inlnui hit caput It not iirreclablc. It meant comiouatlvely small exns and much dltpatch. ltlchard III wat In a hurry when he aald, In reference to poor llucklngham, "cu" wllh hit head!" The clerical! nuanlng tbe Iloinen Catholic) of I'll I to are working against President Monti. Tho latter ttandt by the nitjorlty of tbo ipula. tlon, who are Liberals. He probably Imagines hlmsvll secure In taking this position. Perhaps he will find this lde a delusion. Ten to one the clericals will ultimately get him down. The lloman church Is gaining political tower In many parts of tho world. A I few daya ago It demolished the Mer I cleradnilnlstralloii lu Canada. At tho present rata of lucreue the population of tho earth would double Itself In EDO years. ft Titles confer privileges and power, but not knowte-dge. The Hmprest of Austria was buncoed by two Arabs In Alexandria, who sold her aworthleas statuette, uf Itts as a real excavated Egyptian antiquity, for Ji.uW. (Ireat llrltalu list Indulged lu (If-tetu (If-tetu wartdurlug tbe relgu of tjuteu Victoria. . Deeming, alias Williams, the alle;ed perpetrator uf the latest atruolout murder mur-der In Liverpool, stoutly declares his Innocence. Tills declaration It com. mon wllh niiirdfrers,aud rimludtui of an Ironical remark once made by an acquaiutane'si. Borne one made. In his hearing, a dlipiratlutr remark about a vrtou not etieclelly noted for modesty. "Why," said the acqualntauce, "tbe (lerson you sak of Is a most excellent man." ."How do you know?" "Well, I heard him ray ro himself." The Idea that Deeming It the original "Hipper" la evidently correct. Tho Uerman feople are not ready to havo their religious education eooked, rut and dished up to lliein by the ICalier. It appears that the new education edu-cation bill It 011 the verge of defeat, and a crisis lu tbe government has leen precipitated, Count Von Ketlllz, MlnlHir of Hits Interior, has resigned ar.il Premier Caprlvl has followed suit. The present date of the world's history is not propitious for unquestioned re. Uglous sinning. Tho people are beginning be-ginning to Insist ou ruaklug the selection selec-tion for tbemiclvea. llountlful, Davit County, has two resected veterans, whose respective ages aro creeping close up to the full century. Onu It Father Daniel Woods, of Woods Crosi, agud UJ, and Mother Sessions, who, we have been luformvd, tackle little Jeis than two )ear ol being ICO. This It from the Ugden famurii: "Several things happened at about the same lime: The killing of tbe bounty bill, tbe adlournraent uf Ibe Legislature, Legisla-ture, and tliss uslug up of last year's product of the Ijeht sugar factory, The-u camelho-Callfornla reflnera' op iortunlty, for which they bad worked and watched and walled, and they wero not slow to Improve lljtlielr good friends, the I-lritiocratlcleglalaturs, had hardly ruaihed Ihelr hornet'' before they (tho refluers) jumped the price of rugnr one-fouith of a cent a iund. This applies to Utah alone. The price wim not reduced for Idaho (which had no tugar factory of Ittown) uud tho price ha notbeenJumoJ fur Idaho." |