Show k The Oldest Paper In the World j Newspaper men and city socials will be he surprised to learn it Is a historical fact that the Chinese were A the first newspaper publishers The Journal of Pekin established in A AD D published In three E editions The first called The King Journal of the on yellow paper is the official organ of the Chinese empire the second edition China Commercial Journal also painted on yellow paper publishes commercial news the third issue The Paoli Provincial Journal which appears printed on red paper contains ex- ex extracts ex extracts tracts from the two first named 3 editions It It is forward forwarded d per post 9 to its country subscribers L subscribers 1 subscribers man man A Lilliputian Railway The most moat wonderful railway in c the world according to the St StLouis Louis M Mr r Republic is that connecting the 3 towns of Bedford and north Biller- Biller h Fr t r ica Mass It is but eight anda and a 1 hall half miles in length However thiS J Jis is an astonishing dista distance ce when we consider that th the g gaage e t ten j inches In the short agee nee tra tra- traversed traversed j versed by this pigmy it crosses elev elev- eleven eleven eleven j en streams with bridges from fi five ve to thirty feet in height I IThe The rails weigh but twenty j pounds to the yard bout yard boul the size 4 of tho those used in th the mines of Missouri I and Illinois The cars and engines are constructed so as to bt be very near I Ithe the ground insuring great safety 1 The cars are provided with simple seats on each side of the aisle The car car itself weighs but four tons the j weight of an all ordinary car being j from twenty to twenty six tons i iThe The engine without the tender weighs seven tons and runs with two passenger or three freight cars 4 at the rate of twenty miles an hour The road cost about per mile c There re re is a 11 smaller railroad than this in the United the States States the one in Bucks County Pa but it is only kept as an aM a expensive toy by a rich farmer who has made a fortune in inon on oil j Mormons In Norway WASHINGTON Oct Gerbard 16 16 Glade Gade United States consul at Chris Chris- Christiana Christiana Christiana tiana Norway has sent the follow follow- following following i ing ng dispatch to the State Depart Depart- Department Department Department ment it It says At the semi annual semi conference lately held in this city by Mormon residents it was w s r re- re reported re reported ported that the aggregate number of Mormons in Norway is of whom belong to their clergy Of the latter 12 are leaders residing in Utah but working here heie as mission mission- missionaries missionaries missionaries aries for a short time During the past four our months 86 36 we baptized 06 66 including children emigrated to Utah Last year seventy emi emi- emigrated emigrated emigrated grated but the Mormons emigrating emigrating emigrating ing this year were become more numerous as a larger emigration will take place next month The passage money for the Norwegians is N already settled In Utah in most cases they are powerful in inducing inducing inducing ing their relatives here to follow them to America In this country the Mormons have nine stations viz In Christiana where they count members in Province of ken I ken in L Bergen and Trams Their first station at Bre- Bre Brevik vik t vik was established in 1852 Since that tune time Norwegians have Looking for Dl tIL Efforts are being made to capture Uncle deserters from the army aimy of Uncle Sam and to punish them thum severely in the hope thereby of reducing the number of d desertions It is said that there were so 80 many desertions from the army that the Secretary of War contemplated raising the re- re reward re reward war ward to 30 for the of a aL aF L F deserter to Local dete detectives t are all the time on the lookout for deserters Most of the recruits find nd the life 0 of a soldier entirely different from rom 1 what they pictured it to be said Detective J M Fuller and Gland after three or four our weeks spent in idle idleness ness become deserters Our Oar lists show tf r r I I t 72 e hat nearly neady five ve hundred men deserted during the summer Rummer believe that nearly all aU of men came to this city I am by army that there a set ot of men who follow up t-n- t en in the army and then dt- dt de as a business It is certain hat some of those whom I have have admitted that the they enlisted twice and three times purpose was to defraud the out of bounty money their clothing As a general thing it is easier to that a man is a deserter than is to prove it The information possession of the government of enlisted person is meager indeed color of of his hair and eyes and marks birth-marks he may have are re- re re Some of the men ruen do not themselves the name un un- which they enlist BO so that the sometimes is worse than use use- use ess York Sun j An Anxious Moment A number of boys just about the age when boys feel the most mis mis- mischievous mischievous mischievous chievous got a piece of gas pipe filled it with sand it at the ends leaving room at the end for a apiece apiece apiece piece of to hang out After this was done the gas pipe presented a very formidable appearance and that night the boys placed it at the thedoor thedoor thedoor door of a resident in their neigh neigh- neighborhood neighborhood neighborhood All AU in the house had gone to bed and it was left undisturbed tin till morning The lord of the house huse was the first to discover it and after he recovered from the shock it caused him he began to cautiously examine it After awhile he went back in the yard first warning his wife and daughter not Dot to go near the bomb Presently he returned carrying the clothes line on one end of which h he had bad made a u slip noose He advanced toward the cause of all althe the trouble and carefully slipped the noose over it and drew it taut Then telling his wife and daughter to go down to the corner he retreat retreat- retreated retreated retreated ed to the back yard and climbing over the fence he shut his eyes and gave the rope a sudden jerk This was all the young scapegraces who were watching hi him m from a distance were wert able to stand and when the I poor man miln who had suffered an aw- aw awful awful aw awful ful strain on his hia nerves pulled him him- himself himself self up till tm his nose rested on th the top of the fence that he might see the result of his desperate effort an tx ex- ex explosion of laughter far tar louder than thane he e ha had expected from the bomb greeted him and and e a isn't a boy in the neighborhood who will go by that house Buffalo now now Buffalo Express Lamp Chimneys and Sandstone A man of advanced years pro projected jested himself into the NEWS editor editorial lal ial rooms In his aright was a small Irregularly shaped of sandstone of the same quality a that being used on the bank build building lug ing across the street It was not Hot matter of certainty whether or nohe nohe he was about to exclaim Who them article about me and with without without without out pausing for tor a reply let th rugged slab descend with tellin force upon the cranium o of th city reporter This suspicion w soon dispelled by the who visitor visitor had reached the ripe age of 76 years year stating stating that he had a grievance but not against the NEWS It W directed toward a party by the n name me of Harris the bilk who as 88 announced in this journal a few days ago had been defrauding the people in the settlements of this county by selling pieces of sand sand- sandstone sandstone stone stolle similar to that held in the hand of our caller under p pretense ten e that they are an infallible prevent tive preventive t tT T the l I IL L against breaking of Ia lamp p chimneys This Harris had hired K the old gentleman's horse and had gone off oft without paying him the amount due being thirty dollars He had also induced the man who made this representation to act as 8 his agent in selling the anti chim stone sand But But said the venerable man raising his index finger Im Pm through with It it itI Im I'm m a veteran of the Mexican war but m my pension is not large enough j l for a living I want to make a Uv- Uv living liv living ing but I r want to make it straight or not ataU atall at all aU With this remark the aged man and his rock retired Brigandage In Macedonia The causes and character of Mace Mace- Macedonian Macedonian Macedonian donian brigandage are complicated by a possible political element element but it is no easy matter to learn the true state of ot the question Turks s and Turks Turks philo-Turks Turks ilo assert positively vely that It Itis its ItIs is s supported by secret societies In Bulgaria and Greece with a view of discrediting the Ottoman govern govern- government government ment in the eyes of the powers but butin butin in spite of the preponderance Of Greeks Greeks in the brigand bands one Is 18 I loth to believe in the complicity of et the Greek nation even through a secret society In any case the authorities au- au are absolutely innocent of such foul play and do 10 io what they Y can in the absence of an extradition treaty 1 It t would be well nevertheless nevertheless nevertheless less to be more careful and not to allow notorious ruffians to harbor in Thessaly as was asserted to be the case not long ago for no diplomatic jealousies ought to give security to toa toa toa a stained blood-stained monster like Uke the famous Nicko who was said to have lived for some time at Larissa The taking of Col Vol Syn was the least of this brutes brute's misdeeds the atrocious character of which shock shock- shocked shocked shocked ed even his bis own villainous prof profession profusion l sion Here is one which can be absolutely ly certified Some Home years ago he took two little children for whom he demanded four and three hundred liras respectively The larger sum was paid and like Uke a of the chil child in the s second M cond-M case he he hat had to do with poor parents parents to whom the sum Bum demanded was an i- i impossibility Fifty liras were sent up and s sent nt back again The wretched parents sold all they bad had raised a subscription and awl got tog together ther au- au i au-i other hundred Nicko sent this back as before Lefore with the brief m mes- mes message sage that If he was not satisfied In int int t three days the child would not be bet bet t living He kept his word the p parents par pf- r- r rents received ved the body in four lr quarters quarters and Nicko told his own horri horn fled ruffians that business was busi busi- business business ness in this as in everything e- e else II- II Y i Macmillan's Magazine t |