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Tided a 



the public debt The last CongreM oro- 

 revenue harorfullv inadequate, an- 1 by 



ministrations the burden of their outlay." On 

 the currency question the platform declared that 

 the Government >h-uld maintain each dollar 

 which it issues on a par with its standard gold 

 dollar, ami should not permit the free coinage 



r at any ratio not established by in 

 tiooal agreement; expressed regret that the 

 DssiOTrsnr m; '"F 600 "* ' orced the 



inrionsl Treasury to a humiliating dependency 

 on private bankers, and believed that there 

 should be legislation to protect the metallic n- 

 strve from concerted attacks of speculators ; de- 

 clared in favor of the Monroe doctrine, civil- 

 arvico n form, restricted immigration, and in- 

 creasingly rigid liquor laws. 

 On Sate Issues, the resolutions urged that 



i; . : . . ;:-, -s , ndeftfOT 1" secure 



improvements in Boston harbor, that the laws 

 for regulating State corporations be extend 1 t 

 those of other States doing business in Massa- 

 chusetts, and that additional laws be passed for 

 promoting road improvement and for suppress- 



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<-ts were also placed in the field by the 

 People's, the Prohibition, and the Socialist-La- 

 bor para -. 



At the election. Kov. 5, the Republican ticket 

 was successful. Following is the vote for Gov- 

 ernor: Greenhalge, Republican, 186,280; Wil- 

 liams, Democrat, 121,599; Kendall. I'rohibition- 

 '.pulist, 7,786; Ruther, So- 

 cialist-Labor, 3,249. 



< >n the question of granting municipal suffrage 

 to women the vote stood: Male vote yes 86.- 

 . 186,976 ; female vote yes 22,204, no 861. 

 re for 1896 stands : Senate. 

 88 Republicans and 7 Democrats; House, 180 

 Republicans and 59 Democrats. 

 The Supreme Court handed down a decision 

 >ber that the Australian ballot law is con- 

 st it utional. 



e municipal elections in December Demo- 

 cratic mayors were elected in Boston, Newbury- 

 port, and Lowell, while in Beverly. Lynn. Sa- 

 lem, Chelsea, and Cambridge Republican mayors 

 were chosen. In Kverett and Worcester, Citi- 

 xens* tickets were successful. On the vote for 

 license, Boston, Lowell, Worcester, and New- 

 burynort gave majorities in favor, and Beverly. 

 ridge, Chelsea, Everett. Lynn. Medford. 

 and Salem majorities against license. 



Ml NNoMIKS. The 12 branches of the 

 Mennonite Church report for 1895, according to 

 the table* given in the "Independent," New York. 

 090 ministers, 600 churches and 47,669 commu- 

 nicant members. The largest of these branches 

 ie Mennonites, 18,378 members, and the 

 Anmh, 10.700 members. These two branches, 

 between which a close affiliation has been de- 

 veloped, report, together, a gain during the year 

 of more than 2.000 members. A commit tee "rep- 

 resenting the several State and district confer- 

 ences is engaged in arranging for the holding of 

 * general conference of the two branches. I f it 

 Is sacewwful in bringing this meeting about in 

 the event will mark the two hundredth 



contributions of these two branches for r 

 and other pur|ins< amounted t" a lir 

 than $9,000. A home for orphan- In 

 prowled near Orville. Ohio, and a coinnn 

 school building has been erected u 

 Ind. Several \iiiim; men an- |.re|. ;i 

 selves f>r medical I 



The Mennonite Hrethn-n inChri 

 ten, 54 churches, and 4,000 m.-n 

 about 500 accessions to church memtarshi^^l 

 contributions of $28,629 for mission an<: 

 table purposes. Mi^lit m-\v home-mi-- 

 were founded lurin^ the y< 

 has been esiaMi-h.-d at Berlin, on- 

 foreign mission has> been begun nt Wuhu. 

 with 1 missionary, to whom 

 idded 



The General Conference of M> n 

 ministers, 50 churches, ami J.o. 

 turns an increase during the yei 

 members. It has an Indian mission staH 



anniversary of the division of the Mennonite 

 Church, which took place in 1696. The year's 



Cantonment, Oklahoma, has 

 among the Cheyenne Indian^, ami 

 open an orphans' home at ]'>luiTton. < 



The Bundes Conference of 

 ministers, 12 churches, and 2,000 m> 

 made an appropriation for a mi 

 among the Comanche Indian-, and has 

 first foreign inis-i..nary to Africa. 



The Light and Hope Society, of whic!. 

 J. A. Spreenger, of the Swiss Rlennoi 

 is president, sustains deaconesses 1 I 

 cago, 111., and Cleveland, Ohio, and an or 

 home at I'.erne. Ind. 



Ml. I M I.I \U.\. Iron and Steel. 

 nature and properties of malleal 

 have not been studied with suflicient th- 

 ness. Now that larger uses have i 

 for it in railroad-car couplers, etc.. tl. 

 smaller articles to which it had been app 

 qualities have become a subject of n; 

 tance. Mr. II. \l. Stanford supplei 

 count he gives of the process of mam/ 

 with a few general conclusions. Next t 

 the most important element in n. 

 iron is carbon. A high percentage of thi* 

 stance is necessary for fluidity a <|i- 

 prime importance. For strength 

 ability, the unannealed castings nm-t |. 

 graphitic carbon, but the total | 

 be in the combined state. Variati 

 qualities and in the fra-tuK an 

 connected with the larger <T smaller seo^^H 

 the mold. The chemical action in the i 



to lie primarily the combin; 

 grapliitic carbon of t lie charge with the 



:>ination made po^Me in the fused mass! 

 the temperature, and a small burniir.- 

 carbon and slagging out of silicon and 

 nese. The secret of mixing is in n- 

 containing combined and ;rraphi! 

 -uch j.roportions that at the tempi 

 adapted for pouring the grapi 

 all nave combined with the iron. 

 ti'.n iniirht IK- given f--r mallea! 

 it is essentially a mixture of malleable i: 

 graphitic carbon, the carbon 

 divided or atomic particles, and the iron H 

 the matrix for those particles. Gray i 

 from malleable cast iron in that the 

 stead of being in atomic particles, is in crystals. 



