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Show MITLS Mt (UMJIINTi. CovtntVAIiVE estimates of the lots of iroirt) caused by tho recent western llooda jlacu tho amount at $.0,3(10,000. Including the loat to merchants, through tho stoptnici of buslneaa, tho grand total reaches $50,000,000. TllR oilnloti of Dr. Bargent of Harvard that Johu L. Hulllvan la Ihytlcally without a leer coluclJcz with that of about all Ihotu who have met thla fellow In tho ring. Hclence ant radical exforluiCH nro thua found to be In outlrencoord luru. Cti tain Juiin I'ai jirit, command-ir command-ir In chlvf of the. (J, A. it., haa fallen in with Iho John Hoyd Thacher Ilea, that the four huuJrcJtli nnnlvoiiuri of tho Columbian dlsiuvery will rail on Friday, October "1st, 1892, and has ecnt a letter tu Congressman Duborow of Illln ill, ihalrman of Iho Coluui blan i'.xpoilllou ooramlttre, asking for n cliaugu of date from OctoUr 1 J to October 1 for the commemorative. er vices of tbu U, A. It. and the school children. HuMf Bt hitakv MATTItnta ap-1 ap-1 1 are to be troubled with the same obliquity of vision aa lhat wulch p-e-valla lu Cilllcla! circles lu other quartcra of the elolo besides London. He haa n olllclal kuowledg that a prize fight took laco In Isondou under hla very noao the other day,nr.d the pollen look no cllldal logiiltauce uf It-Jlent., It-Jlent., crucially speaking, Pelc Jack son didn't marly t cund the life out of Mr. Hltvlu. This will be newa lo the Australian Tin: newest of the many eubatltutea for glass which are constantly apt ear log Is tbo Invention of a Vienucso glass manufacturer, anl see me likely to beeituclally useful for photogr hlc purjoeea. 1 hla product la said to have utstaulhlly the samo roper Ilea aa Sloes, resisting the action of salts and alkalies aud dilute aclda, hcaldia being Inodorous anil transparent. It has, however, Iho advantage of being llei-II llei-II le and Infrangible to a great degree, while lis liillemmablllly t much lass thau that of Ita collodion prototype. It laao simply mule, according to the Philadelphia frtu, thai pbolojra here can undertake the pruceaa of manttfac-turn manttfac-turn for tlienm Ivea v. llhcut much illfll-cully. illfll-cully. From four to eight partaof collodion col-lodion wool are dissolved In about 100 pails by weight of either alcohol or aoellc ether, and from 4 lo 10 per lent uf rest re of Canada balsam (soltrrtln). Thn comtaiund, when tioured on a Klzta plate and tuljecled to the drying notion cf current ornlr of about filly degrees centigrade, solidifies in a ccin-paratlvely ccin-paratlvely short lime into atranajar-en atranajar-en I, glass-like si eel or j lata. Ibo thick-n thick-n of which may bo regulated a required. Ham Ibe Ilrooklyn 7.mi. The World sumellmts nil eara like rretle well trodden and well sailed Itatllu-tloo; Itatllu-tloo; Lut theie allll rimalu many 1 acea for tbe activity of the nJvrntiiN oua explorer. The North Po.'eitlll hi lea wllhlu the mysterious area serosa whose frozen border man hat never been al le to pass. The Antarctic region la a terra Incognita. Africa and Houth America are, after all, bulaurflcl-ally bulaurflcl-ally known. For those who wish to risk the cold aud hunger uf tbe poles, the fever or the Jungles, Hie teeth of beast aud lauulbal, and the poleoned arrow, there la still ample elbiw reom aud a fair sharo of nlue day gratitude Horn a atort.lovlug world. Hihktii Cnm, remarks the New Vork tribune, ma lean observation tho other day which a good many preald-liigofriiera preald-liigofriiera at banqueta can a predate. A prosy, long-winded member waa making a eech, aud the rot ol the House, Indirjerent, waa engaged In audible conversation anl Irritating bustle. H me one asked tho Chair lo supircei hu noise; whereupon Mr Crisp replied with a amllet "II the geullxuiau who haa the iloor can't I keep the House still, I certainly can't." Uimkai. ODlitnvinn., ncently placed In command of the ltuasltli armies, Is too ttoul to alt Inn saddle, and even walk, with dlfllculty. The fall Milt Uattlte saja lhat Ida wife Is a French woman, and he Is one of the most enthualaslla advocates of a tTinio-Ituesau alliance. Thla being an, he la an ardent Pail-Hlavls', and a bitter foe of everything Oilman. Ueu-cral Ueu-cral Obrutchell Is about OS years of ac.o. J cm Tumi DAViawaahornlnKeu. lucky 8t yenra ago Friday, aud In many parts of the Houth Iheanulver-iary Iheanulver-iary waa observed. In Mississippi, under a resolution passed by the last General Assembly, the day It declared a legal holiday, Tllltt-r thouund deaths from cholera have occurred thus far at Herluegur, lu tlm vale of Catlntere. The city, which la the cai Hal of n district of the earn name, contains a poulatlouof about tio.ooo, and hence Soon deaths means one out of every twenty In. habitants. This Is, of course, a fright-fill fright-fill mortality; but cholera seldom does thlnta ty halves In India. The wretch-td wretch-td sanitary condition of many Indian towns, the Iguoranco and loverly of Hi luwcr classes, Ibe lack of phyal-clans phyal-clans worthy uf the name, aud a hot, ruol.t climate, all favor the spread of tho disease, and make It tho. scourg of the country. Cholera hat been epidemic lu various loiulltlit In the 1 est this year, aud It would not I e surprising Hit made Its appearanco lu l.urope before the end of sumrnor |