Show CURRENT COMMENT A company is being organized in los angeles cal to build a tube from that city to pasadena through which parcels S and packages will be forced by p pneumatic power A is about to be tried in the austrian army which weighs forty eight kilos and can be carried on a mans back and which will fire 1000 bullets in a innate and a half As a de defensive weapon it is thought to be without a rival it is said that when jay gould asked for a map in a kausas kansas city book store the merchant apologized that the only one he be had bad left was eight days old and therefore not very reliable after taking a long lingering look at the boom there he fie remarked rem arkad A boom is a very sound condition of things so long as it continues to boom 10 at new westminster near victoria B C on the ath J E M burne urne a sem bamboo logger was murdered mui dered on the railway railia 1 wharf by william shearer there gad had been a longstanding long standing dis between the two shearer who was wa discharging lumber from a t cow walked deliberately to where burne was standing and without cg 11 a word stabbed him repeatedly burne i attempted to get away when the murderer caught him by ye oe collar and held him until be accomplished his purpose he then threw his bis knife into the river and gave himself up murrie died in a lew few minutes on examination 11 wounds were found on his person f T the new york world says queen victoria has hag provoked u universal eversal n grumbling in great britain by fixing upon june as the jubilee holiday instead of allowing aU owina it to be celebrated I 1 on the day before namely the instant which is the anniversary of her accession the reason which has induced her to make this unpopular change Is that she disliked london and simply abhors buckingham palace where she always suffers from bad headaches nea daches if the celebration were to take place on monday she wo would uld have to go to town from windsor on saturday night and be compelled to spend three nights in buckingham palace by postponing the festivities until tuesday ay she is only obliged to go to london on monday right bight and is free to ave on wednesday morning had she shown more consideration for the gen general eral public the latter would have been able to enjoy an uninterrupted three days holla holiday hallasy sy viz saturday sunday and monday the springfield republican Jle mass says sayi bour our news hews columns occasionally reflect in a startling wy way on the decline cily of certain towns in M massachusetts ati and their tendency ten deney backward when he n an old farmers widow and a mother who has a farm worth 1000 has to go to the poorhouse poor bouse as in prescott and ad Is there fastened to a ball and chain by the leg to overcome her repugnance tu to the disgrace the massachusetts countryside has drifted a long way irom what it once was as the nursery of hardy yeomanry and the soil of the best beat stock of 01 the american people when the fleeting population of franklin county is supplanted by the most ignorant imported labor in ia order that dense igner ignorance arice of the language langua gc may reduce the laborer to the helplessness of the brute it would seem as though civilization had bad got to begin all over again right here in the connecticut cut valley these are dreadful and humiliating lights upon the underlying social status |