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Charge of the Forces In the United
States, and English Ideas, It
Is Thought, \Vill Prevail.
NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—The announce-
ment that Commissioner and Mrs. Booth
Tucker had been designated by General
Wiliam Booth of London to succeed Com-
mander and Mrs. Ballington Booth as
head of the Salvation Army in this coun—
try, it was said today, has had the eficct
of intensifying the trouble among the
friends of the former commander and his
wife.
The following is the, Official anounce-
ment of Commander and Mrs, Booth’s
successors, posted on the bulletin board at
the commandery’ headquarters in Four-
teenth street, which was. read with great
interest by the rank andfiie of the Army
today:
“Commissioner and Mrs. Booth Tucker
have been appointed as successors to Com-
mander and Mrs. Ballington Booth, and
may be expected to arrive in this country
with all dispatch.
“ALEX. M. NICOL, Colonel.”
It is expected that Mrs. Tucker will or-
rive in this city first, as she is now in
London, while the commissioner is on his
way from India, where he has been trav-
eling with General William Booth. Just
what the outcome of the new appointment
will be cannot be prophesied now, but no
one on the inside would be surprised if
several thousand men and women should
resign in a body and ask the former com-
mander and Mrs. Booth to lead an entire-
ly new Salvation Army in this country, to
be conducted on an American basis.
The opponents of the former com-
mander are doing everything in their
powerto hold the rank and file together.
They have issued several bulletins for that
purpose, and it is understood that The
War Cry will comeeut in support of Gen-
eral Booth’s side of the trouble.
English Ideas to Prevail.
Ever since former Commander and Mrs.
Booth, turned over the Army property to
' Colonel A. M. Nicol and retired to private
life the English flag has been flying from
the top of the headquarters building. This
and other indications on the same line
form the foundation for the belief that the
new regime will reorganize the Army on
distinctively English lines and make every
effort to relegate to obscurity every shadow
of Americanism that has heretofore been
identified with the progress of the work.
Mr. and Mrs. Booth are still living in
seclusion. Since the present trouble he-
came public Mr. and Mrs. Booth have re-
coived many letters from their friends
both in and out of the Army promising
to support them. So it is generally be-
lieved that should the Booths say the word
a ‘great number of the Salvation Army
workers would join any new evangelistic
movement that they might inaugurate.
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Booth say that
they are reluctant to take any such steps
because of their family ties with those
who have been opposed to them in the in-
ternational controversy. The Booths,
however, may be persuaded. some think,
to organize another Salvation Army to
confine its labors exclusively to this coun-
try. -
_ Mr. and Mrs. Booth have made another
statement, in which they deny the utter-
ances of Colonel Nicol upon the subject of
iheir joint resignation. In this statement
Commander Booth declares that his broth-
er, Herbert Booth. and the other two com-
missioners demanded that he turn over all
of the property or gO'to England as or-
dared.
The national and field Officers of the
Salvation Army met in council at head-
quarters this morning. All information
in regard to the subjects to be discussed
was denied, but it was reported that Colo-
nel Nicol had explained to his fellow offi-
cers his course thus far in the Booth mat-
ter and attempted to justify it. It was
also said that the friends of Ballington
.coth had shown their dissatisfaction at
the meeting.
Retaliation.
25.—-'l‘he state in-
.ued an order
debarring numerous his ‘husetts and
Fennsylvanla companies from doing busi-
ness in this state. "he action is retalia-
tory, in connection with the refusal of the
insurance authorities of Massachusetts
and ”Pennsylvania to admit certain Ohio
Companies. All of the companies have
been carrying on large operations in this
slate.
Ohio Insurance
COLUMBUS, 0.. Feb.
surance commissioner has i
The Blonhcim’s Stormy Voyage.
QCEENsmova. Feb. 25.—The British
steamship Blenheim, Captain Watson,
which left Newport News Feb. 7, arrived
here today. She reports having had a
stormy voyage. during which she shipped
sees that flooded her cabin and engine
room.
steam pipe covering was broken.
German Acquisitions In Africa.
Liszto‘fi l-‘cb. .‘35.—In the chamber of
deputies Senhor Carvalho inquired as to the
truth of a report that the territory on the
bank of the Catcme river, opposite Lou-
renco Marques, east Africa, had been con-
ceded to a German named Eifi'el, who had
sold the concession to Germany. The gov-
ernment deferred its reply.
Found His Father Dead.
NEW YORK,
Kapriza arose, he missed his father. He
went into the sitting room and found on
a table a note, on which was written,
“Search the cellar.” "‘ ‘ ' ‘
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Hanged Himself to a Bedpost. _
NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-—Frank Hebyosk
committed suicide by hanging himself to
a bedpost with a braided leather dog leash.
Hebyosk kept a saloon until a. week ago.
when he was compelled to close. Since
then he had been morose and melancholy.
Great Floods on Grand Canary Island.
MADRID, Feb. 25.-—-Advices from Las
Palmas, Grand Canary, show that disas-
trous floods have occurred in that island,
destroying houses and crops and causing
much misery among the inhabitants. The
damage is estimated at $350,000.
The Saco Strike.
SAGO, Me., Feb. 25.——Indications are
that the striking weavers of the York cor-
poration, who went out 1:3 days ago,
throwing 1,600 other operatives out of em-
ployment, will go back to work shortly.
WASHINGTON’S GOLD FEVER.
Thousands of Prospector-s “Waiting at Mar-
cus For the Opening.
MARCUS, Wash, Feb. Eli—Thousands
of prospectors, some with provislons for a
long siege, others with nothing to with-
stand tho terrors of the remainder of the
winter, are encamped on the borders of
the Colville Indian reservation. They are
awaiting the proclamation of the president
opening the mineral lands to settlement.
The rush is unprecedented. At few times
in the history of this country has there
been such an influx into a new mining
camp as is now coming into Marcus, 8.
place hardly known on the map.
For half a century Marcus has been a
frontier trading .post, with less than 100
inhabitants. It was such until last Wednes-
day. On Tuesday a select few pros-
pectors dropped off the Spokane and
Northern train here, ostensibly bound for
the British Columbia fields, and they scat-
tered into the woods across the Columbia
river. They attracted no attentiom On
Wednesday there were more than 100 on
the train, many of them with no supplies
and no means of getting into the woods
or of staying there once they had crossed
the river. They had heard of the few of
~the day before and had dropped every-
thing at Spokane and made a rush.
The number had increased on Saturday
to 1,000, and the country about Marcus is
now crowded with half starved and frozen
prospectors waiting for the document that
will open the coveted lands.
There are five feet of snow over all the
mineral lands in the reservation, and
there is no possibility of prospecting until
spring, while great hardships must be en-
dured by the men in waiting. Accommo-
dations at hotels and boarding houses
were not to be had after Wednesday night
at any price, and the scenes enacted at
Cripple Creek are being repeated.
The town is the only telegraph station
for 100 miles along the boundary, and
from it the reserve can be reached most
quickly. Every river craft to be had in
many miles has been engaged by those
who were early on the ground, and the re-
mainder, or such of them as can beg, buy
or steal timber and material, are busy
building boats. Already many are in the
reserve, and the locations known to be
valuable are guarded by armed men.
The Colville reservation is the size of
Rhode Island and is rich in mineral. In
the past two weeks over 200 locations have
been filed on lands in the ceded por-
tions, and the notices claim gold, silver,
cinnabar, copper, iron, mica, galena, coal
and other minerals. If one-tenth of the
records of these claims are true, the unde-
veloped wealth is very great. The reserve
is in the upper hills of the Cascade range
and has few streams of importance, the
Kettle river, which enters it twice, being
the largest. .
Prom inent Ed ucntor Dead.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25,—Professor Al-
bion Dwight Gray. mathcmetical instruct-
or in the William Penn Charter school of
this city, died of typhoid pneumonia. De-
ceased was born in Foxcroft, Me., in 1861,
and was educated at Bates college, where
he spent his senior year, graduating with
honors in the class of ’81. At Bowdoin he
made a name for genius, wit and analytic
power.
National Baseball League.
NEW Your, Feb. 25.——The business of
the twenty-second annual schedule meet-
ing of the National Baseball league was
begun at the Fifth Avenue hotel. It will
continue tomorrow and may. probably
take up part of the next day. The magor-
ity of the principal representatives of the
National League club reached the city last
day. . ,
The Bursa. Sold to Colmnbia-.
PHILADFLI’HL'A, Feb. 25.—The United
,States of Colombia has },x*n'cl‘-.asc'l the
Danish steamship Bursa, “Lich will be
converted into a gunboat. The Horse, it
is said, has landed no less than a. dozen
insurgent expeditions in Cuba. and being
worthless for the merchant service, be-
cause of the threats of the Spanish to seize
her, was sold at half value.
Diphtheria. and Scarlet Fever.
LYONS, N. Y., Feb. 25.-—-An epidemic
of scarlet foyer and diphtheria is raging
throughout Wayne county. At Newark 8.
number of cases of scarlet fever are re-
ported, and the public schools are closed.
At Port Gibson the same condition exists.
Wolcott has a. large number of diphtheria
'cases, and the public schools there have
also been closed.
-. Advertise in the “Gazette.”
night, and there was a full attendance to-
WEAT WILL SL‘CGGBRB SAY?
Here Is a Club “firmly. Actually Expects
Flt-z and Corbett to Fight.
LONDON, Feb. 25.-—-If Robert Fitzsim.
mons, the new champion pugilist of the
world, and James J. Corbett can be pre-
vailed upon to stop talking at each other
and come down to business, a fighting
place and a suitable purse can be prompt-
1y. arranged for them here before a good
club. ' ,
When Fitzsimmons defeated Maher on
Friday last, a representative of the press
was‘instructed to ask Manager'Fleming of
the National Sporting club here if that
body would put up a purse for Fitzsim-
mons and Corbett to'compoto for.
The reply was that under no circum-
stances would the-National Sporting club
subscribe a cent fora contest in which
Corbett was one of the principals, but that
any other American pugilist might apply
with fair prospects of arranging a match.
The objection to Corbett is based on the
bitter tongue lashing he gave the club
when he returned to Nexv York after his
appearance here. The members claimed
they had treated Corbett with every con-
sideration and that be repaid their kind-4
ness by abusing them to the utmost.
The press representative then called
upon Secretary Stevens of the Bolingbroke
club. ‘ After consultation with his organi-
zation, Mr. Stevens said that the Boling-
broke club would give a purse of $8,000
for Fitzsimmons and Corbett and that the
club would also allow the contestants $500
each for expenses.
These are, it is understood, the best
terms obtainable here, and it is hoped the
offer will be promptly accepted or refused.
The fairest treatment possible will be
meted out to both men.
Should Fitzsimmons refuse this offer or
fall to accept it with the promptness desired
by his wollwishers, Frank Slavin is ready
and anxious to meet Corbett.
Slavln already has an offer, in The
Sporting Life, to meet Fitzsimmons for
$5,000 a side, the fight to come off in Eng-
land, or Slavin will bet Corbett $5,000
that he can stop him 'in six rounds.
Under these circumstances there seems
to be no obstacle in the way of bringing
Fitszimmons and Corbett together in a
ring here for a fair purse. The purse offer-
ed is not so large as the purses offered in
America, but, on the other hand, the ex-
penses of the pugilists will be small.
Corbett Is \Villing.
CLEVELAND, Feb. 26.-—-James J. Corbett
was shown the dispatch from London con-
cerning a match between himself and
Fltzsimmons. Corbett read it carefully
and then said: “I will accept the proposl;
tion. You may state that if the Boling~
broke club will, forward the article of
agreement I will sign them without de-
lay. As to the bluff made by that ‘second
rater’ Slavin, who has been defeated
about 50 times, more or less, I shall pay
no attention to him.”
THE JAMESON GANG.
Arrested on Arrival In England—Kean)
Released at Port Said.
LONDON, Feb; 25.—-The Globe publishes
a dispatch from the Exchange Telegraph
company saying that Dr. Jameson and his
. Officers, who were brought to Devonport
by the troopship Victoria, have been ar-
rested. Captain Heany, the American of-
ficer under Jameson, who started from
South Africa. with the others on board the
Victoria, was released from custody at
Port Said.
DEVONPORT, Feb. 25.~——The steamship
Victoria, with Dr. Jameson and his officers
on board, sailed for Southampton or Lon-
don today. The strictest secrecy was ob—_
served in regard to the prisoners. and no-
body was allowed to board the ship. The
officers of the regiment say that Dr. Jame-
son and his companions are all in the sec-
ond class cabin. During the voyage they
were allowed to see the officers of the Lao
caster regiment, but only in their own
quarters.
Funeral of Bill Nye.
Asnsvnmn, N. 0., Feb. fad—The fu-
neral of Edgar W. Nye will occur at 11
o’clock tomorrow at Fletcher's, N. 0.,aboui
12 miles south of Asheville. A special
train will leave Asheville for the scene in
the morning.
Italy Calls Out Reserves.
ROME, Feb. 25.—King Humbert has
signed a decree calling out all the reserves
. of 1872—recruits born in that year.
The \Veather.
Generally fair; somewhat colder; north-
westerly winds.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Closing Quotations of the New York Stock
Exchange.
NEW YORK,Feb.2l.——Money on call easy a1
3% per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 5@7 per
icent. Sterling exchange steady, with actual
business in bankers’ bills at 84.87%3LB7V4 for
demand and $4.86%@4.565é for 60 days. Posted
rates, [email protected]}é and $4.88}§?M.89. Commer-
cial bills. Sled/é. Silva: certificates. sales. 840,-
000 at 693417970. Bar silver, 68%. Mexican dol~
lars, 54}§c. Government bonds steady. State
bonds dull. Railroad bonds strong.
Closing prices:
Atchison .......... 17% New England ..... 51%
Bur. & Quincy. . .. 81 N. J. Central ...... 108%
C., 0., C. & St. I... North American. 6
Chesapeake & 0.. 17% Northern Pacino" 45:
Chicago Gas. ..... 695} Do. pref ........... lfilsi
Cordage ........... 6% N. Y. Central ..... 9353.;
Cotton Oil ......... 17%; Omaha." ...... ..... 42
Del. & Hudsou.. . .129 Ontario & W'est. . 15%
Distillers’ Truss.. 19 Pacific MaiL. .. 29%
Erie ................ 1754 Reading ........... 13%
General Electric.. 82% Rock Island ....... 74%
Hocking Valley.. . 17% Silver Bullion. . . . 70
Lackawanna. ...... 161% St. Paul ....... .... 791-2
Lake Shore ........ 149% Sugar Refining. . .117
Lead .............. %% Texas Pacific" . . . . 8%
Louisville & Nash 55% Union Pacific. . .. 9
Missouri Pacific. . 23% Wabash pref ...... 19%
Northwestern ....105}é Western Union... 86%
General Markets.
New YORK, Feb. 24.—-—FLOUR—Sta.te and
western quiet. but steady; city mills patents.
[email protected]: winter patents, $3.80@4: city mills
clears, $4.15®4.25; winter straights. 83.6%315.
WHEAT—~No. 2 red opened firmer on cables
and foreign buying. afterward advancing on a
big reduction in local stocks and talk of lighter
spring wheat receipts; May, 71 7-16@720.; July.
71%@71 9-160.
CORN—No. 2 strong and higher on covering
of shorts, due to predictions of a lighter move.
ment: May. 36%@36%c.: July. 37%@37%c.
OATS—No. 2 quiet. but steady: track. white.
state, 26®29c.: track. white. western. 26@290.
PORK—Quiet: mess, [email protected]: family. 311.
LARD—Steady: prime western steam. 35.72%.
BUTTER—Firm: state dairy, 9@18c.; state
creamery. 13®17léc.
CHEESE—Steady: large. 6©10%c.
small, 6®10%c.
EGGS—“Teak: state and Pennsylvania, 13%
@13%c.; western, 13c.
SUGAR—Raw firm; fair refining. EMCJ-COD-
trifugal, 96 test, 49“.: refined quiet; crushed.
5%c.: powdered. 5%0.
MOLASSES—Firm: New Orleans. 29®36c.
RICE—Steady: domestic. :l%@6c.; Japan. 3%
state,
@40. .
TALLOVV—Steady: city. 3 18-160.: country.
315-16c. .
HAY—Firm: shipping. 803.850.: good to
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UTILITY or WOOD "PULP.
Growing Demand for the Mate rial
in the Industries.
It Is Largely Used in the Manufacture of
Tiling“ and Promises to Become an
Important Factor in Build-
ing Operations, Etc.
The demand for pulp for other pur-
poses than paper making is likely to
increase largely the next few years
should the various branches of indus-
try which are cropping up around about
. here meet with the great success which
sanguine inventors and patcntecs
anticipate. Whatever opinion may be
expressed with regard to these new
ventures there are already a couple of
manufacturers who seem to have struck
out in the right direction in the making
of marketable goods where pulp is the
chief factor as raw material. One of the
undertakings which deserves to be noted
is the Fieldhammer Drug, started by
the go-ahead and enterprising I-I.
Bache-Wug, and managed by the well- \
known Christiania firm of Ambrosius
I-Iausen. ' This mill began operations
about two years ago. making roofing
tiles, and is now shipping to dififerent
parts of the globe a product which has
gained a reputation for its superior
qualities over all other slates in the
market. “Norway tiles,” as they are
termed, are made from wood pulp,
which, under very high pressure, is
formed into thin cakes of sizes like the
ordinary roofing slates. After a chemi-
cal treatment, which is the invontor's
secret, the tiles become hard, like brick,
and attain a deep black appearance,
which lends itself admirably to give a
soft tone to houses with prominent
roofs and gables. It- is claimed for the
“Norway tiles” that they possess every
advantage of the best slates in the
market; their composition makes them
light and durable and they are not so
liable to breakage as the ordinary
slates; they are not subject to any ex-
pansion or- contraction, and when a
roof is once covered with this material
it will stand for a good many years
without wepairs whatever. The price
of “Norway slates” is very low, and
compared with what other roofing
costs admits of a. saving of 35 per cent...
an item of no small importance in our
days, when competition is so keen.
Prominent- architects who had the op-
portunity to examine “Norway tiles”
pronounce them superior as to quality,
appearance and price, and the insur-
ance companies appear favorably dis-
posed. and stamp the tiles as a very be-
sira-ble and safe roofing material. The
new mills at Embrctsfos, 'i‘hursfos and
kein are covered with “Norway tiles,”
and from'information gathered the pro-
prietors of the mills are well pleased
vith the new roofing.
An enthusiastic advocate of wood
pulp for building material as a substi—
tute for stone is G. D. Rice, who has
made. the subject one of close study
and investigation. His conclusion is
that it possesses the needed elements
of a durable constructive substance,
being at the some time devoid of some
of those fo..turcs which dc’rract from
the value of stone and brick. II-o sum—
marizes some of the qualities presented
by this new factor in building as con-
sisting; of being light in weight, ex-
ceedingly hard, a poor conductor of
heat and sound, and sufficiently elastic
to meet all the usual requirements for
the purpose; it is tough, though a nail
can be driven into it, and it can also be
drilled, while the other necessities of
a stone substitute, are enumerated, to-
gether with resistance of frost and
heat, with ability to stand strain, and
so on, are said to be met, besides the
transportation. It is urged further
that the difficulty, of producing per-
fectly square stone blocks, except at
high rates, is thus overcome, for the
pulp blocks, being cast in a square
mold, are necessarily uniform. Dif-
fering from stone and brick, which
absorb so much heat in summer, the
proposed material is claimed to be
cooler in summer, while in cold weather
it prevents dampness, so common in
stone'.—-—World’s Paper Trade Review.
Two Irish Anechtes.
An Irish relation of mine found two
countrymen in the dust of the highway.
The uppermost was thumping the beat-
en foe severely. The newcomer cried:
“Let him get up. ’Tis a. cowardly thing
to hit a follow when he’s down.” The
victor panted: “Yer honor’d never be
after asking“ me to let him up av ye
knew the thrubblc ’twas I had to down
him.” The same gentleman tells how
he visited a wild—beast show, and saw
a countryman come in, bearing unmis-
takable signs of having had a glass too
much. A tiger scratched the back of
the hand with which the man grasped
a bar of the cage. The laceration was
severe. and the pain great. The sufferer
danced about and twirlcd his shel-
lelagh, crying: “Let him out, let him
out,'till I have me will a-v him'.” A c011:—
punion tried to soothe the irate danccr
with this neat impromptu: “Never
mind, Pat! Sure he only wanted to
scrape acquaintance wid ye!”—West-
minster Gazette.
The Schoolboy and the Inspector.
In an Edinburgh school the other day
an inspector, wishing to test the knowl-
edge of a class in fractions, asked one
boy whether he would rather take a
sixth or a seventh part of au‘Orange if
he got his choice. The boy promptly
replied that he would take the seventh.
At this the inspector explained at
length to the class that the boy who
would choose the smaller part, as this
boy had done, because it looked the
larger fraction was very foolish: but
the laugh was on the other side when
the chirping voice of another urchin
broke in in remonstrance: “Please, sir,
but that .boy disna like oranges!”—
Westminste'r Gazette. ’
——Chicago has in its p0pulation more
Bohemians than live in any cities of
that conut-ry with the exception of
four. .
7THn nqu1NG GAzErrn
BREVITIES OF FUN.
Duzby—“What’s in that, "bottle“
poison ‘3” Dooley—“I guess there must
be; there isn’t any label on it.”——Rox-
" bury Gazette.
Charley-“There is nothing I admire
more than a good deed!’ Tom—“Nor
I—if it is made out in my name.”—De-
troit Free Press.
There is a lady who is so particular
about her daughter’s morals that she
allows her to pin y only upon an upright
piano—Household Words.
Proving Her N ced.'—llc—“I thought
Mrs. Brown seemed quite cold towards
her husband.” She—"Yes; she wants
him to get her a. scalskin ca.pe.”—Puck.
“Poor fellow!” she said sympathetic-
ally. “What’s the matter?” he asked.
“The poor man was disappointed in
love,” she replied. “Of course,"'he re-
turned. “It never does come up to ex~
pectationsP—Chicago Evening. Post.
Bacon—“I believe the introduction of
cable-cars and horseless. carriages will
make theworld better." Egbert—“I
can’t understand why." “It will reduce
the tendency to lie. Horse trading will
be unknown."-—Yonkers Statesman.
A gentleman made the following re-
turn to the income tax commissioners:
“For the last three years my income
has been somewhat under £150. In
future it will be more precarious, as the
man is dead of whom I borrowed the
money.”—-Tit-Bits. '
Not 100 miles from St. Paul’s there
is suspended over a. pile of dusty vol-
umes in a. second-hand bookseller‘s
shop a chart showing the human skele-
ton, and underneath the following:
“This is all that. remains of the trades-
man whose customers only looked.”-—-
Household Words.
Creditor (roughly)~—“Say, when are
you going to pay me that bill?” Debtor"
(genially)-—“My friend, youput me in
mind of a. little child.” Creditor—“I
do, do I? Why ‘3” Debtor—~“ locause
a little child can ask questions that the
wisest men cannot answer.”——Tit—Bits.
SCIENCE AND INVENTION.
To prevent a further spread of scarlet
fever all the school children in Saco.
Me., had to submit to a. bath of car—
bolized water the other evening.
A Dorsetszhire zoologist seeing an ad-
der swaltv its young tied a string
around its neck and then killed it. On
reaching home he cut the string, when
13 little adders wrigglcd out unhurt.
A safety‘pursc, for ladies’ use, has
been invented. It has two straps, one
to be connected with a. ring on the
finger. and the other to be attached to
the waist. It cannot be dropped or
wrenched away.
A waterproof fabric to prevent the
rotting of the cover of umbrellas by the
rusting of the framework, the fabric
being placed between the cover and the
topnotch joints, has been invented.
By the side of the Scientific American
now appears the Scientific African, a-
'mo'nthly journal of South African sci-
ence, arts and crafts. It marksin a
surprising way the extent to which the
white man has established his civiliza-
tion in the dark continent.
GASTRONOMIC ITEMS.
A groom of 84 years led a bride of 62 to
the altar in West Paris, Me., the other
day.
A Brooklyn man cured himself of
insomnia by drinking a pint of warm
milk or soup just before retiring.
Common brick dust is used in adul-
terating sausage, sometimes to the ex-
tent of one part in five. '
Milk should be sipped slowly, if it is
to be properly digested; for if it is swal-
lowed quickly it enters into the stom-
ach and then forms in one solid, curdlcd
mass, difficult of digestion.
Acidity is due to the presence of an
excess of gastric juice in the stomach,
and is one of the many forms of indi-
gestion. It is not by any means a. seri-
ous complaint, and can be readily cured
by a little judicious management.
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.-
Fifteen per cent. of the population of
Venezuela are pure-blooded Indians.
Two American missionaries guard
the king of Coreu at night.
A St. Bernard was sold for $2,350 at
the Birmingham, England, dog show.
This is said to be the highest. price. ever
paid for a St. Bernard atauciion.
Something unusual Occurred not
long ago in Copenhagen. A retired mil-
itary oiiicer, aged 82, celebrated his sec-
ond silver wedding. His second wife
is 52 years of age.
In Haguesund, Norway, which has a
population of 6.200, no liquor has been
sold for 29 years, nor has any been given
away. The inhabitants simply do not
use it.
RIVERS OF THE NEW WORLD.
The St. Lawrence river is only 775
miles long, but if the lake system be
also taken into account its total length
will exceed 2,000 miles.
The San Francisco, a river of Brazil,
is 1,400 miles in length, and was so
called because it was discovered on the
feast day of St. Francis.
The Mackenzie, the principal river. of
the Dominion, is 2,500 miles in length
and drains an area equal to one-half
of the United States.
The Ohio river is 975 miles long.
From the source of its longest tribu-
fary to the junction of the Missismppi
the total length is nearly 1,500 miles.
INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Chewing gum costs the people of this"
country $20,000,000 a. year. ‘
Fpur-fifths of the cottOn cr0p of the
world is produced in the United States.
For the fiscal year ending November
30 the output of the 113 salt‘plants in
Michigan was 3,675,751 barrels.
Preparations are making for exten-
sive prospecting for oil in ten counties
of eastern Kentucky next spring. The
indications of the existence of valua-
ble oil fields in that region are said to
be very promising. >
RTEOUS.
HIS RETORT
So as tolélve .
Would Change th
Due . C dlt.
Dr. Chalmers, the eminent divine,
was fond of telling the following story:
Lady Betty Cunningham having had
some difference of opinion with the
parish minister, instead of putting her '
usual contribution in the collection
plate, merely gave a. stately how. This
having occurred several Sundays in
succession, the elder in charge of the
plate at last lost patience, and blurted.
out: “We cud dae ‘wi’ less 0’ yer man-I
ners, an’ mair o’ yer siller, ma. leddy.”
Dining on one occasion at the house
of a nobleman he happened to repeat
the anecdote, whereupon the host, in
a. not over-well pleased tone, said:
“Are. you aware, Dr. Chalmers, that
Lady Betty is a relative of mine ?”
“I was not aware, my lord,” replied
the doctor; “but, with your permission,
I shall mention the fact the next time
[tell the story.”
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rag:
A Sure Remedy
in every case and every
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Piles is
Salve-sea
(TRADE-MARK).
J This statement can’t be
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emphatic. '
It is a simple, certain,
l speedy cure for
Eteumailsm, ' Eczema,
convulsions, Ghilblains,
Sore Muscles, Burns,
Toothache, Outs,
' Facoacha, Sprains,
, lieuralgla. Balls,
Sore Throat. ' Ulcers.
Two sizes, 25 and 50 cents.
At druggists, or by mail.
Tun anncru Co., 274 CANAL Sn, N. Y.
DRINK
HATHHRN
FOR THE -
Stomach,
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Live ‘ and
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A Pure Mali Extract.
i Substitute far Solid Fuel
Highest percentage Extract. LOW-
Hit percentag e Alcohol. An Effect
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A mild Stimulant.
Just what physicians will pre-
scribe for Nursing Mothers. Con-
vales‘cents and victims of Insomnia
or Nervous Disorders resulting from
I'd-paired Digestion and Overwork.
1
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vrAyfiwg,
Norwalk Chronicler