Show NEWS ITEMS krivec uv af japan is turning his attention 0 n to the manufacture ure of bf silks for the en english 0 lish and american markets I 1 AT a printers festival on franklins birthday the followill following was one of the regular toasts the editor and the lawyer the devil is satisfied with the copy of the former but requires the original df the latter THE tue fever which a year ago committed such ravages at st petersburg russia has broken out again gain with great viol violence ence once at X moscow gal and at moscow a ne new who hospital has had tabe opened for the accamo dation of the sick IN borix bonina boring 17 for an a artesian well weli wo near st louls louis a five feet vein of or coal was struck ata at a depth of 50 feet and abed a bed of su superior p arlor fire clay 26 2 feet thick at 70 feet tim tire tycoon has sent several young japanese to russia to learn the language and to study naval and military science tim THE epst cost of tho the chicago fire department mend ment last year was 17 the losses nor forthe for the year amounted to 1157 Gl of which was covered by insurance A youna man wa was killed in london recently by crinoline walking along lon ion the street his is foot caught in a ladys skirt and he was thrown to the pavement the coroner on tho the inquest stated that he know of four recent cases i of death from similar causes the Th ejury jury rendered a verdict of accidental death from treading ona womans comans enli crinoline nolane 11 tim tufi candie candle nish fish a most curiola cu riols specimen ci of the ninny finny ig caught on the cost of BrItIsh Columb columbia laIt it is is of aar bellous fatness and us use 6 nas ras it as a lamp by drawing a rush pith through i it when it will burn steadily until consumed and give a good clear light for reading or other purpose SOME astron astronomers shy say say that the moon is gradually ra dually drawing nearer th fro the thel min sun aig nig about aboul out an inch a year 1 r tnie trie results of tho the first census of livestock in spain have been published there are 3 animals wm horses mules asses assess eattle battle sheep TG goats olgs camels pain spain is 4 about million acres xeres and ats is population Is is 15 persons t grats GRAIN that has been injured and become musty may be rest restored orbil to nearly its orl ori swept sweetness ness by pouring boiling bolling wate water over it and permitting it to stand till cool tile the scum ahil which rises riye rike to tp the surface of the liquid during daring t the c process of purl puri faction should bo are gre carefully removed ved unless the gluten of the grain has become chemically affected which vl lieh ilch is rarely found to be the case caso except in very old grain every trace of mustiness will be and the tho grain fit tor use OF or 22 lots of kerosene oil lately tested at providence B R ionly five were were safe for illuminating purpose the rest were as explosive as gunpowder tye TUB volcanic eruptions in the crater harbor of the island of San torin forin are arc increasing in violence the new now crater which has shot up from a depth of iou 1100 fathoms sends forth constantly augmenting showers of red hot stones and cinders great sheets of fire are occasionally seen qui quivering in the depths of the sea an and the roaring noise coupled with the slight shocks of earthquake has so terrified the inhabitants that the whole of them in number ire are lre preparing to leave the island the en glish lish Fren eren french chand and turkish governments 6 havo have avo ave ordered vessels to be ready to tian transport sport them from sau San torin IT is announced that a substitute for magnesium has been discovered which will win produce a light nearly as brilliant as that given by iro lre ito the burn burning lilg 1119 of mag magnesium n es wire at a much lower cost the new now light is produced by burning a mixture of twenty four parts of well drie dried dand and pulverized nitrate of potash seven aarts parts flour of sulphur and six of the re red sulphide of arsenic AN englishman in new zealand has suspended a wiro wire rope across the moly paux river niver to enable persons to cross and that river the passenger has only to td seat himself in a sort of chair and with little exert emert exertion lon fon on his part he is carried across the river in a very short space of time ROMAN TOMBS queen victoria has presented to the british museum one of the itoman boman tombs recently discovered upon ripon the crown property at old windsor the other tomb is presented to the town of windsor and is to be deposited in the contemplated local museum ir IT is reckoned that in belgum belgium at the present time there are thre three sand inui luuk musical leal ical societies with seventy thousand executants including one thousand choral societies and thirty thousand sin singers gers these statistics show that the little king kingdom doin doln of belgium surpasses all germany in in its number of choral societies and in conjunction with instrumentalists their prosperity exercises a salutary effect on the manners and kopial habits of the working classes in brussels and the provinces THE first party to reach the summit of mount mansfield Ver vermont monty this dearwent year went up on the of A april the ro road a d up the mouA mountain tain for t three miles was filled with snow from three thre 0 to five feet deep and near the summit it was ten feet deep more afore than half tho the rooms at the mansfield house w which aich will accommodate from three to four hundred people have already bee been n taken for the season and it will be opened this year several weeks earlier t than ha n u usual s ua 1 WHETHER on account of the great number of dead bodies found in the lake or because of the mysterious murders which the local papers report every day or from fear of cholera chicago ill iii is just now exhibiting a general hegira of its population 0 one ne evide evidence nee nce of this is found in the fact that a single auctioneer establishment has the furniture of nineteen hundred families to sell A CHICAGO III ill paper asserts that a tobacco nirm firm in that city employing from twenty five to thirty hands have haic adopted the eight hour system their experience is that as in much uch ucb work is turned out in eight hours as used to be in ten audas andas and as a fruit of their experience they pay the thib workmen the sa same m e wages under the new as the they y paid under the old system A MATCH type sticking race nace came ow off between two compositors comno a few days ago at iowa lowa a city A J renny kenny of the iowa city PRESS and 0 B bell bel of the council bluff NONPAREIL each setting four thou thousand saud ems solid bourgeois in two hours the speed is unprecedented tin THE j house prin trin printers of washington I 1 D C haxe haw been teen on a since monday iafet for per day faling fabing X lra ire which dich bich they have havo themselves bimel antoan is association for the purpose of procuring work on thein their own responsibility thus defeating the bosses T TH maplewood Map lewood institute at pitts 11 field bid mass has been a w second time visited with a fatal epidemic andis again closed two years ago the breaking in ti out of a fatality among the tupi rupi pupils 1 3 led to twe tho suspension of t the he heschol school and the principal mr spear endeavored to prevent a return of tho the disease by perfecting tho the drainage of the premises promises the ir institute was reopened and the i school terin term progressing progressing when about I 1 two weeks ago as we learn karn from the i troy zime time one of tho the pupils a young ads ady lady from north carolina was nes tal taken talen en ill in church and died within a few hour hours of what was believed to be an epileptic nit fit last thursday two more young 0 ladies were seized with sudden ti illness ln e A and a council of physicians lans ians was called the doctors decided that the disease was spinal meningitis a terrible and fatal scourge it was thereupon decided tp close the school and send the young lady pupils hame home up to sunday ay P al my sik six of the scholars erill with the fatal disease two 0 of I 1 them lying alyin at tho the point of death f j r |