| Show EDIr EDITORIAL ORIAL A miner named carpenter was rather serio seri oly 9 y injured in no 4 mine rock bock springs wyoming on thursday by a rock ro failing and hitting bitting him on the shoulder kud back the king of the belgians has been visiting in scotland he is a vary quiet man and lie he went about in knickerbockers erb and hobnailed boots so that no one suspected his bis rank and as he be did not look in the least like a king aking he was allowed to enjoy himself in peace professor Picken ng of the harvard college observatory i regards the so called canals of mars as areas of vegetation possibly immense cultivated tracts ane canals are usually some 30 to miles broad by 2000 or miles long and most of them appear in parallel pairs public opinion even in england is waking up ap the necessity of placing severe restrictions on pauper immigration grat iori at the trades congress which has lust just been held at bradford england a resolution was passed favoring the exclusion from tile the country of semi pauper immigrants unless they are skilled workers during the past year france has bad suicides one fifth ot of them ahem in and around paris of these 1965 were traced to mental aberration 1223 1228 to physical buffering eting and only to want and fear of it domestic trouble and alcoholism were the chief moral causes disappointed love resulted in 0 observations at 67 stations in spain show enormous differences in the annual rainfall rain fal which is no less than inches on the serra berra da estrella and only 11 inches at lerida in catalonia the minimum rainfall at all stations occurs in july and august and the maximum fall at sime stations in may and at others in october the farming world of Edinbur edinburgh gb scotland reports that at a recent meeting of breeders bleeders bre eders of shetland ponies in glasgow complaints were made that iceland ponies had bad been imported into scotland and then shipped to america and sold for genuine shetland ponies A committee was appointed to investigate the matter and arrange some some plan to prevent f farther deception of this kind dr nansen who proposes to cross the eternal snows of greenland has been heard from as late when lie he had landed at sight si chief ef cape dan latitude 60 deg and hoped to get across to disco bay about four degrees further north by september in time to catch the latest danish vessels homeward bound he had tried to land june 9 but there was too much lee ice Puppy mania is bad enough but in england a cattad cat tad fad has set in which is ar wora corae queen victoria this year went from windsor to osborne and took a number of cats with her now whenever any fashionable lady transfers herself from one site to ano another ther she takes along a lot of cats it must be very entertaining to the trien roen to 10 be obliged to troop about with a set of felines it is bad enough to be burdened with trunks and band boxes burcats but cats are unnecessary annoyance has a new sect whose title is fearfully constructed ted it is iq the ecclesis of israel the or Worship worshipping Wor shipping piD 9 congregation of our fathers kingdom on earth they have revised the opening sentences of the lords prayer so that they read our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy aade thy hand of power pur our sons do lear fear thine ear of love our oui prayers do hear thy voice of light illumines our feet unto thy house our steps we bend thy kingdom has come now let le t thy will be done on earth as it is la in heaven the new chief justice is the smallest man of the supreme court of the united states weighing 1255 pounds and being 5 feet 6 inches in height associate justice gray is the largest measuring 6 feet 5 inches in height aad pulling the scales at almost pounds justices Fust ices bradley Bradle yand and blatchford are about an inch higher than the chief justice ustice and weigh twenty pounds more associate justice harlan Is next nest to gray in height 6 feet 2 inches being his distance from the ground around and I 1 pounds his bis weight the other justices are an even height being between 5 feet 9 and 10 inches the fifth volume of Applet Apple tows oy cy of american biography is passing through the press and will wid be ready for delivery in a few days among the im important articles are those on lmh in prescott escott rr by dr SA S A allibone aenry H richardson 1 by rev phillip prillip brooks D D the randolph family by moncure D conway generals philip H sheridan and william T sherman by prof henry hen C coppee 0 p pee 6 harles charles zeo sumner by george r g e i W curtis horatio potter by the rev morgan dix D D george ripley by the tae rev 0 B frothingham Frothing aam james knox polk bv J henry hager whitelaw reid by col john ray hay baron von steuben steaben 11 by the rev kev a T headley george edward 11 by general bradley T johnson peter and gerrit smith by rossiter johnson edwin M stan too ton I 1 I 1 by edwards pierrepont I 1 george M hilman pullman b by gen gea horace potter porter and george W W smalley by john russell young among the contributions to the now new volume by the editors may be mentioned the articles on samuel provost winfield Wintle ld and alexand Alexa oderT T stewart by gen jas grant wilson and 11 israel putnam and thomas sumter by prof john fiske the sketch of Pm president aident polk has been revised by hon george bancroft the only mema ber of his hia cabinet now living waft those of generals sherman and sheridan were submitted for correction to those distinguished officers general sheridan revised what prot prof coppee had bad written of 0 him A on july only ten days before his bis deal death the forthcoming volume will rival its predecessors in its wealth of illustration besides ten f oil foil page steel engravings of generals sherman scott and sheridan presidents polk and pierce admiral porter william E H Sew arik william gilmore gil more simms harriet beecher stowe and charles sumner so inner it will contain about two hy hundred andred and fifty vignettes including pictures of public buildings birthplaces menu monuments ments etc this novel national undertaking will be be completed with the issue or of volume six which will contain besides an analytical index a supplement containing contal many additional names such as the recent recently appointed chief justice of 61 the united states |
