| Show EDITORIAL germany is preparing for another international exposition this time it is to be one of musical inspru mentis it ia Is to occur at berin and will be held next year an am official report shows that eighteen per fer percent cent of or the fires in massachusetts Bachu betts during the past year were wea re incendiary origin kerosene stoves produced about four per cent of the whole number A southern paper says virginia drinks up her entire wheat crop annually and the liquor drank in louisiana costa costs 2000 mora more than its combined suga sugar i r cotton and rice rica crop ero cro p 31 the russian poll tax lg ig is 19 by order of the emperor to ba be gradually abolished and the revenue hitherto derived from it la Is to be replaced by taxes to be proposed by the minister tn n the mean time those peasants who are not owners of the ground they cultivate or whose possessions are of small extent are to bo be free from the impost on the of january 1883 the final abolition of the tax will take place in 1890 1690 the prohibition amendment to the iowa constitution which has obtained a majority of over forty thousand votes does not forbid anything but bat the making or importing of intoxicating liquor liquors bor boy sor foy for sc ethey can be made in any quantity for the ubbe ute of the maker or to alve give away they can be brought into the state for the same purposes such an enactment leaves too many loopholes and before a decade has passed iowa will be asked to vote on a amendment to correct the defects of the first unusual hall hail storm aro are reported from various parts of the south the hail hall stones stories being of excepts exceptionally anally largo large sizel Ino or two instances men have been killed by the pelting blocks of ice as large as a mans mane flat still SUU worse storms have been reported in europe the sicilian gazette tells of ono one which wrecked a village when it was over it was found that eleven persons had lost their lives their bodies being found disfigured beyond recognition hories horses and cattle weno killed ang and many buildings so badly injured that they had to be tom torn down the meeting of the austrian and german emperors which as for sev etal seasons past will take place in tho the middle of august next at gas tein or bischl ischl or promises promis promie os to be this year of moro more than usual political importance thebe these imperial interviews in the recess which have happened hap paned regularly for several years havo have come to be looked upon by the austrian and german public as the outward rd and visible sign signor of the austro german alliance aud of the undiminished cordiality of the relations between the two imperial imper lal lai governments the meeting this summer bummer will ill lii bo be attended by prince rice bismarck and the austrian pre pro mier at at recent monthly meeting of 0 the london musical association a music electrograph invented by J fohr of Stutt gardt was exhibited the apparatus writes down on a band of paper unwound fr frem fram m a cylinder by bf clockwork clock work any music played extemporaneously on a piano forte to which it may be attached the result is attained by the current staining the paper chemically prepared for this purpose a blue color on the parts of the music staff corresponding to the position I 1 of the notes struck the durat de ration duration ion lon of the sounds is indicated by the length of the strains and the positions of the bar lines aie tue shown by dep depressing ling ming a pedal about one third of the ellk silk gon used in this country are of hon hoo manufacture the total produce pro dutt duci last jast year was waa thirty five million dia did da larb lara worth and it gave to thirty nive five thousand persons 41 1 yet however almost all the nit rait silk bilk used in the three hundred a nineteen silk factories in the unit states is imported the subject f raising allala eilt is attracting attention and many newa newn pape gra era t press themselves in this thia V rif rie A there is no reason why the ralael dalal of silk worm worms may not becort widely extended and paying blu ins b ness in this country either en oz large or a moderate scale s I 1 the russian ministers have t proved the plan for the railway which will extend thee railway system beyond ti ural mountains and connect w 1 I the projected central aslan asian rala starting from on the C aslan asian rala starting from on the C river biver the line iino will run lun nil ink westward to bamata samata to join fi 0 european systems then nearly miles northeast to afu a distance in the same direction a al passing the ural mountains to fk Q te to enburg westward miles and finally somo some ma to the terminus at omok on thel ush tish a big river running past tc TV oak the capital of Western Sibo into the northern oce ocean the folly and wearing high boiled shoes has bbs 6 widely proclaimed by physicians a dress reformers it has for an english E tj glish jury to render arol arel a ve diet ngat agat against rist riot them as ag the came cause of serious accident A woman ente ing a steamboat at brighton tripps and fell on h gang plank ly y herself and after wan wag warf brought suit for damages in th it course of the trial the fact was d do that the woman wore blat 4 heeled shoes which general testa tes teb 8 mony showed to have been tui tin main cause of her fall the jwj jmj returned a ver verdict d iet let against the hew ley and absolved the steamboat coo co pany sensible dech decision lon the henrietta texas shadd shields ro ports that a short time ago a sine cloud passed over wichita sarey valley it lingered but a moment yet to in that moment unheard of transpired it did not hall hail bu hae hat dropped electric ice pieces colw five inches la a diameter staw filk inches around were hurled frai fral the upper realms dashing upon th ground like cannon balls from helvi bek artillery dozens of pieces ve wen gathered up and weighed as ani round found to run from fifteen to ounces some of the pieces vet wet crashing through the roofs of housa hout A lou iou number aber of sheep vere were yere killed R as cattle had their legs broken ft tuna tely there t h ere were but few plea piece to the acre fell feil or the resu it bcd have been tal to trible T according to iowa papers thim them theeb of the prohibition clause lna ina in state constitution ia Is due to thil thel fluence of the ladies in I 1 D moines and other othen cities and top toy the women took a moat most active pit dit fl and long lists of c remit tees ja ce slating elating c if f tho the most ladies aro arc printed who the polls all day and used all M powers of persuasion ono one 0 was espEcIal especially Ty noticeable wk me ever the women were the ct ra were careful to bo be respectful edda aa il avoid everything that would be beb bet the least disagreeable to dadles jadi ladi besof of the women instead enste being dragged down into the cc mai of politics dragged the men up now of it several school exam inactions B have taken place plaze this bumm llave flave ef demonstrated that tho the girls hue hub 3 least as active brains as the ba bor bok As a aE ed ample ampie the new york sv gives particulars of the examina of graduates 9 radiates radu ates at the normal coller colle when the same questions were pil pounded to both sexes the sun suns so tho the girls did far lar better batter thana boys out ot boys it about 45 per cant were sumal buc suc cessa while out of girls or cent were successful the g made their best records in and tho the poorest in algebra tt 00 hundred was the highest poa poss mark and 75 was the lowest lo 10 t for foi mission the highest M markk k BS ar by any boy w wab waa as 96 thereasa reasA reasi Kra rna kramer merand and aud susan brothers rael made 98 there are two taws thih thin which tho the boys beat the rhill galil girla a aro r el smoking in oki ng and fighting figh tin bul n t seo score re much to their creep cre 1 i how now often 1 leopla copl wish baj ini I 1 for that which they could ww no dure durol in reality I 1 JN be shut abut up in an icehouse ice house la Is a common ex expression r esclon in these days daya of july hat bat a t a butcher in bridgeport connecticut was recently engaged in hanging up beef in his ice box bein nein being a warm afternoon and not wish vish wishing i ng more than necessary cf of his ali alt he pulled the door partly shut each time as he went in the last time ho he pulled just a little too hard and the spring lock on the door caught with a snap snap and hn he WM fastened io in As ho he wag waa all alone there was no one to 0 o let him out and stay there he must he ho could ht get hick and pound shout till he was hoarse he had bad to stay and stay he did for two long hours until his little littie girl heard the noise and ran into the house for his wife wira who ho soon had him out one man has quit vi wishing shing for such a cooler |
