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THE RUBAI, HEW-YORKER. 
jews of t!) t Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, August 3, 1889. 
The rejuvenating effects of Dr. Brown-Se- 
quard’s subcutaneous injections of his newly- 
discovered “Elixir.” lasted only two months, 
and he is now lively and young again at 72, 
under the effects of a second experiment. The 
effects passed off in the same time in the cases of 
several other old men who had been similarly 
treated. Dr. Hammond, one of the most 
skillful aud probably the best known physi¬ 
cian in America, has just been making simi¬ 
lar experiments on some feeble old subjects at 
Washington, and reports marvelous results in 
the way of restoration of mental and physical 
strength, and buoyancy of feeling. Some 
doctors are in hopes of marvelously beneficial 
results from a discovery which is still in an 
empirical stage—simply in its infancy—others 
declare that the fuss is all poppycock, caused 
by the senile maunderings of an old scientist 
in his dotage.. • • • 
Slugger Sullivan was arrested here last Wed- 
nesday by a Mississippi deputy sheriff on a re¬ 
quisition from Governor Lowry indorsed by 
Governor Hill. No useless opposition was made 
and at 4.30 P, m. Thursday the party started 
quietly for Jackson, which they will reach 
on Monday. In Mississippi pris;e fighting is a 
misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not 
over 81,000 or under 8500, or by imprisonment 
for not over one year or under six months, or 
both. Most people here think the Prince of 
Sluggers will get off with a fine; many, how¬ 
ever, believe he’ll be punished to the full ex¬ 
tent of the law as a warning to all other 
bruisers. Kilrain has hitherto escaped arrest. 
.On June 11, the United States 
revenue cutter Rush, cruising in Behring Sea, 
overhauled the British sealer Black Diamond 
cruising in forbidden waters. The Diamond 
refused to heave to until the Rush’s guns were 
run out to sink her. An investigation discov¬ 
ered 1U3 fur-seal skins. A demand for the 
sealer's papers was refused, and Captain Shep- 
perd of the Rush broke open the Diamond's 
cabin and strong chest and secured them. 
The Diamond, like several other sealers in 
Behring Sea, would have resisted if she had 
not met with superior force. The Rush also 
stopped the Triumph,another Canadian sealer, 
outside of Behring Sea, but as no seal-skins 
could be found, she was permitted to go. A 
good deal of warm feeling finds expression in 
hot words at the “ outrage ” across me border, 
especially in British Columbia on the Pacific 
coast. Such intemperate heat would be fool¬ 
ish at any time, but is specially so in this 
torrid weather. If the American officer 
transcended his rights, due reparation will be 
made; if not he’ll be sustained. When, in 1867, 
the United States bought Alaska, the Aleutian 
and Seal Islands, etc., from Russia for 87,200, 
000, all the rights Russia had previously claim¬ 
ed were transferred to this country. Among 
these was a claim to exclusive jurisdiction over 
about half of Behring Sea, Russia still claiming 
jurisdiction over the part adjoining her Asiatic 
possessions. England, the United States and 
other maritime nations refused to concede 
Russia’s claim at an earlier day, on the ground 
that it could be maintained only if the Sea 
were inclosed or land-locked, whereas on the 
south it merges into the Pacific Ocean from 
which it is here and there separated by the 
long chain of the Aleut.an Isles several thous¬ 
ands in number. England, or rather Canada, 
now insists that the jurisdiction of the Unit¬ 
ed States cannot extend over an open sea, 
upwards of 1,000 miles across, out must be 
confined to three nautical miles from 
the coast of the mainland or any island. 
The Alaska Commercial Company leases from 
the United States the exclusive right of catch¬ 
ing fur seals in Behring Sea under strict 
rules against the extinction of the animals, 
and takes over $125,000 worth of skins a year, 
almost entirely on the Seal Islands, in the 
middle of Behring Sea. Many Canadian and a 
few American vessels are engaged in catching 
seals surreptitiously, on the islands when they 
can, but generally out at sea as the animals 
are engaged in their annual migration. Most 
of those struck then sink and are lost, while 
the skins of many of those caught are worth¬ 
less at that season. These “ piratical ” opera¬ 
tions have in five years destroyed two-thirds 
of the seals and would have annihilated the 
business in five more. This would be a serious 
loss to this country which produces the ani¬ 
mals; to England where the skins are prepar¬ 
ed, and to the world which uses them. The 
United S ates insists on a stop being put to 
the reckless, cruel, wasteful and greedy 
slaughter, aud England is hardly likely to 
embroil herself with this country in support 
of a few unscrupulous men who persist 
in it for purely selfish gain... 
The Canadian Department of Justice has 
granted extradition papers in the case of 
Burke, the Cronin suspect, imprisoned for 
several weeks at W innipeg. A mint of money 
has been vainly spent to prevent ms extradi¬ 
tion. As be hadn’t a cent, and all his people 
are poor, where did it all couio from?. 
On Thursday, August 1, Plymouth, Mass, 
witnessed t»e dedication of a fine monument 
to the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth 
Rock. The day was the anniversary of their 
departure on the May flower from Delft Harbor 
269 years ago. On November 20, 1620, Cape 
Co ) « as sighted, and on December 30, Ply¬ 
mouth Colony was founded: while the ouild- 
ing of the town was begun on January 2, 1621. 
Thursday’s celebration was fauly good 
in spite of a heavy downpour which 
deluged visitors and made the streets 
sloughs of hub-deep mud.. 
A disastrous storm of wind, rain aud lightning 
terrified and greatly damaged Chicago a week 
ago. The “oldestinhabitant” had never seen 
anything so bad. Houses were blown down, 
causing several perrons’ deaths and wounding 
others; trees were up-rooted, telegraph and 
telephone wires prostrated; cellars aud low 
parts of the city flooded and general havoc 
created. Loss over $100,000. With a sewage 
system for a place of only 100,000 inhabitants 
and a fiat situation, the culverts couldn’t ad¬ 
mit the deluge into the sewers nor could the 
latter carry it away fast enough. Hence the 
town was flushed with sewage from the sew¬ 
ers and privies, and this having made its way 
into the lake, floated to the Crib through 
which Chicago gets its water supply. Hence 
danger of pestilence. So many molded 
bricks were reduced to mud that bricks at 
once went up $1 per 1,000. The drainage of 
the Lake City has long been a puzzling pro¬ 
blem, now it demands prompt solution.., 
The Montgomery Cemetery at Norristown, 
Pa., draws the line atnegroes. The other day 
it refused a burial permit to a colored war 
veteran despite pressure from the G A. R.; 
but on the same day it granted one for the 
interment of a pet poodle. The veteran was 
incased in an ugly, plain pine coffin, however; 
the dog in a beautiful, silver-handled black- 
walnut casket. One was jolted over the stones 
in a rude cart; the other borne smoothly in a 
gorgeous hearse.Every summer there’s 
either a strike or lockout, or both, in the glass- 
workers’ trade. The men get higher wages 
than do any other class of operatives in the 
country or the world, and are protected from 
competition by rigid rules with regard to the 
number of apprentices that can be employed 
by any firm. The work round the furnaces is 
hot in summer; hence the strikes to give the 
men holidays aud the employers an opportun¬ 
ity to clear out surplus stock. Both having 
partly gained their objects, negotiations for 
settlement are becoming friendly, and no 
doubt will soon be of fraternal warmth. Sym¬ 
pathy for striking glass-workers is foolishly 
wasted.Charles M. Reed, a level-head¬ 
ed millionaire of Erie, Pa., offers to pay off 
the city’s debt, amounting to $1,100,000, if it 
will give him the franchise of supplying the 
inhabitants with water. It would be worse 
than folly to give the control of a necessary of 
life in constant use to a speculator. Henry 
George has arrived here hale and hearty after 
five months in Europe, spent chiefly in lectur¬ 
ing. He says the single-land-tax doctrine is 
spreading steadily across the water, especially 
in Great Britain. There’s a split in 
his party here.... 
Is it a matter for regret that there has been a 
falling off of over 100,000 in the immigration 
for the year? Hardly. There’s no lack of all 
kinds of labor here already.A syn¬ 
dicate has bought the natural gas rights on 
80,000 acres in Indiana, and intends to lay two 
eight-inch pipes, 138 miles long, to Chicago. 
Gas is to be pumped through these for the 
supply of the city, for lights and fuel, the 
work to be finished by Nov. 1. An Indiana 
law prohibits any gas being run out of the 
State, but the lower courts have already de¬ 
clared the law unconstitutional, and the high¬ 
er courts are expected to do the same. 
An English syndicate has purchased 78 grain 
elevators in the Northwest, and another is 
negotiating for those in St. Louis. Other 
English syndicates are trying to get hold of 
the largest dry goods concerns in the country, 
and one is negotiating for the leather facto¬ 
ries of Newark. N. J., the largest in the coun¬ 
try. When these syndicates or trusts are 
formed, they are well “ watered ” and the di¬ 
luted stock or certificates are offered for sale, 
to the public, the “promoters” giving the or¬ 
iginal owners a large proportion of the 
“water" as an inducement to sell, and re¬ 
taining the rest as their own perquisite. Their 
contract for the various kinds of business us¬ 
ually is on the “option” plan—if they can 
“ place ” the stock within a certain time the 
purchase is completed; if Dot, the enterprise 
collapses. Many of the “promoters” have 
little or no money of their own in the con¬ 
cerns they set “ afloat,” so that they may 
make a groat deal and can lose only their 
labor at the most, and generally they man¬ 
age to get paid for that. The American Balt 
Syndicate or Trust has just collapsed be¬ 
cause the public here and abroad refused to 
invest largely in the enterprise. Salt is a 
necessary of life, and is one of the most plen¬ 
tiful of minerals; it would be an impossibility 
as well as an outrage therefore to monopolize 
it; and, again, the outcry here against the 
project frightened off possible investors. 
“They say’' it may start again later on; 
but-•. A financial panic is inevitable in 
the future when the bottom falls out of many 
of these undertakings. 
A Ballet Girl Trust! Yes, a Chicago syndi¬ 
cate, three-fourths of whose capital has been 
contributed by Englishmen, has already en¬ 
gaged the services of 3,000 Western Amazoni¬ 
an beauties. Some will get full pay and 
work; others half pay while unemployed. The 
threaters first and the dear public last must 
foot the bill—the least evil kind of trust: one 
on “ luxuries pure and simple.”.The 
axe-wielder of the Post-Office has beheaded 13,- 
000 fourth-class postmasters since March 4, 
1888, against 9,000 decapitated in the same 
time under the last Administration. 
...It is probable that the Dominion militia 
system will be extended to tbe Northwest next 
year. One of the richest deposits of pe¬ 
troleum ever struck, is said to have been 
found, on July 13, near Crow’s Nest, in the 
Rocky Mountains, 4,500 feet above sea level 
in Canada. Samples show 91 per cent, of 
lubricating oil, five jer cent, of heavy oil, and 
the rest water.•• •••• 
St. Louis, unwilling, of course, to yield a 
point to Chicago, insists that it is the best 
place for the great International Exhibition 
of 1892. Tne Chicago papers are villiflying 
New York and everything about it, by way 
of boosting the chances of the Windy City for 
the Saow. Cincinnati, too, is putting in a 
modest but firm claim, as a central point, and 
Boston wants a side-show display of her own 
for the products of New England. New York 
conscious—perhaps too conscious—of her par¬ 
amount advantages, is calmly—perhaps too 
calmly—preparing to secure the prize, while 
Washington is husbanding her strength until 
she can overwhelm Congressmen with it. All 
agree that it ought to be the finest thing of 
the kind the world has ever seen; can there 
be really more than one opinion as to the city 
that is best able to make it that?. 
Ex-Senator E. H Robins, of New Hampshire, 
died at eight o’clock Wednesday morning at 
the Appledore House, Isle of Shoals, aged 64 
years,.. .Based on tbe data of its 
city directory, St Paul, Minn., claims 185,000 
population; based on the data of its. city 
directory, published nine days later, Minne¬ 
apolis claims 230,0001 Both are marvels in 
their growth as well as in their pretensions.. 
.A movement is on foot to celebrate the 
30th anniversary of the discovery of petroleum 
by sinking the first well, at the junction of 
Pine and Oil Creeks in Western Pennsylvania, 
by Colonel Drake in 1S59. Oil was struck at 
a depth of 71 feet and the flow was 400 gallons 
a dav. The total output was 2,000 barrels in 
1859; 104.000 000 in 1864 ; 470,000,000 in 1874, 
and 1,148,000,000 m 1888. 
Murat Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commer¬ 
cial-Gazette, who was so unceremoniously re¬ 
jected by the Senate as Minister to Germany, 
and who has been abroad for the benefit of 
his health since May 22, has just returned in 
good health, to make things lively for the Re¬ 
publican Senators who defeated his nomina¬ 
tion, either as a virulent colleague from Ohio 
in the Senate, or as a vitriolic scorcher m the 
press.....The Standard Oil Trust has 
bought out the White Lead Trust—for 
$60,000,000, “they say.” The W. L T. is 
“protected” by 40 per cent, duty on foreign 
competition, and there’s much talk on all 
sides about “disciplining” this “conspiracy 
against the people” when Congress meets..... 
State Judge Man waring at Stillwater, Minn., 
last Monday, decided that the anti-dressed 
meat law of Minnesota is unconstitutional in¬ 
asmuch as it infringes on the domain of Con¬ 
gress, which can alone legislate on inter-State 
commerce. 
Recent inquiries with reference to the wages 
of negro labor in industrial enterprise in tne 
South shows that things there are somewhat 
different from what is generally believed in 
the North. Inquiries were sent to 300 leading 
Southern manufacturers, representing blast 
furnaces, rolling-mills, iron works, mino3, 
lumber mills, saw mills, etc. Replies were 
received which represent 9,000 negro em¬ 
ployes, of whom 2,500 are skilled. The 
average wages paid common negro labor is 
$110 per day, and skilled labor runs from 
$1.75 to $2.25 per day, though several cor¬ 
respondents pay colored pudd lers, heaters and 
rollers $4 to $5 per day. There is no differ¬ 
ence between the pay of whites and blacks for 
the same class of work. The manufacturers 
are unanimous in the opinion that for com¬ 
mon labor in the Southern States the negro is 
more efficient and useful than the white. 
Many state that the negro is making progress 
in skilled work. 
of the many other demands on their pockets 
made by various other phases of the Irish 
cause.Recent bye-elections for mem¬ 
bers of .Parliament still indicate a steady cur¬ 
rent of public opinion in favor of the Glad¬ 
stones. The last bye-election was in Mary- 
lebone, one of the western precincts of Lon¬ 
don, and a hot-bed of Conservatism. The Tory 
candidate won, of course, but there was a Con¬ 
servative loss of nearly 1,000 votes from the re¬ 
turns at the last general elections, and a corre¬ 
sponding Liberal gain. The story has all along 
been steadily the same; Home-Rulers have uni- 
formly succeeded to Home-Rulers: Horne-R il- 
ers have nearly always succeeded Conserva¬ 
tives where the former Conservative majority 
was small, and where it was too large to be 
entirely overcome, it has in nearly every case 
been greatly cut down. If a general election 
were held at present, there’s little doubt that 
the Gladstonites would secure a majority ; but 
the consciousness of this fact will induce the 
Conservatives and Liberal-Unionists to keep 
in power as long as they can byrefusing to 
dissolve Parliament. This body must be dis¬ 
solved once every seven years ; but the term 
of the present House of Commons has over 
three years yet to run unless the Ministry 
should voluntarily dissolve it after a defeat 
on some vital piece of legislation, or if they 
thought that, in consequence of some turn of 
good luck, theycoul 1 “ carry the country, ’.... 
The other day a dreadful earthquake caused 
great loss of lifo and property in the western 
part of Kiou Siou, the southernmost and 
smallest of the three large islands which, with 
about 4,000 smaller ones, comprise the Empire 
of Japan. Its area is 16 836 square miles and 
its population about 7,500,000. In the last 
1,500 years 157 earthquakes have been re¬ 
corded in Japan—an average of one in 10 
years. Within the 1-st 100 years they have 
been increasing in frequency. The most de¬ 
structive was that of 1854 whon 200,000 lives 
were lost in Yeddo (now called Tokio) and 
the surrounding country... 
The Yellow River in Central China, with a 
course of 2,000 miles and a drainage basin of 
200,000, is again on the rampage in the prov¬ 
ince of Shantung through which it passes 
before entering the Yellow Sea. Broad, 
Shallow and tortuous, it frequently overflows 
vast areas of the country along its lower 
course, causing enormous losses of life and 
oroperty, and all efforts by native engineers 
to confine it within its banks have proved 
vain. Foreign engineering aid is con¬ 
sidered imperative. Ten large government 
sections are now 12 feet under water. 
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Saturday, August 3, 1889. 
Saturday last, the Princess Louise, aged 22, 
eldest daughter of the Priuce of Wales, was 
married at Buckingham Palace, London, to 
the Earl of Fife, aged 40, who thereupon was 
created Duke of Fife, by his grandmother-in¬ 
law, Queen Victoria. The wedding presents 
were worth over $750,000. 1 he de¬ 
bate in Parliament on tbe annuity grant to the 
Princess and that to her eldest brother, 
Prince .Victor on his approaching marri¬ 
age, ended, as was expected, in an overwhelm¬ 
ing majority in favor of the grant, or rather 
an increase of $200,000 a year to the civil list 
of their father, the Prince of Wales, who will 
hereafter provide for his own children. 
After all, the national income of the Queen of 
Eagland and Empress of India and her family, 
is much smaller than that of any other royal 
or imperial family, considering the wealth, 
power, area, and population of the differ¬ 
ent governments.The oiher day vast 
crowds turned out at Edinburg to welcome 
Parnell who received tbe freedom of the city, 
a mark of the highest appreciation of honor¬ 
able service in military or civil life. Of couiss 
there was a strong protest from a large min¬ 
ority of disgruntled citizens, but all the world 
over, while the acts of the majority, however 
slim, bear lasting fruit, those of the minority, 
however stout, are generally barren . 
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virtually over, it is found that the Par¬ 
nellite Indemnity Fund, contributed by 
friends of the Parnellite cause all over the 
world to defray the expenses of the defend¬ 
ants, exceeds $200,000, while the actual costs 
were only about $100,000. Good judgment 
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the benefici: nes, and wonderful generosity on 
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