Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 6, 1890, Page 15

THE (ONDITION OF TRADE, Finaial Bky Bright, With a Brilliant Out- 1ok for the Futare, ! CROPS RAPIDLY APPROACH MATURITY, The Local Produce Market Fairly Ac: tive, With Liberal Receipts and a Brisk Demand at Un= changed Prices. [ Theclearings for the week 18 reported by o8, minager of the clesring louss woelated banks of Onialia, 00t 45,2 5, un fnerease of 16 7-10 per cent; balances orot1.072,210.% his 1 the first time fn the history of the alia cloaring house that the record has shown cleirings of amillon and upward per duy throughout the w Bankers report a Yery easy money markot smfortable situation In every respect Bnancinlly, Doposits are 1iboral, thero is & good deniand from borrowers, rates ary firm and oxchunge o supply fsequal to the demand “he pastsix months has undonbtedly ¢ da busy and prosperaus perfod in Omahs financial and commercil history, Gone de hias heen good, yinhe 3 of 184 | lines except bufliing, Fallures havo mfow collections readlly g Thaut the building trades In_Omaha are duil is due citirdy (0 the fear on the part of owners of real estufe that prohibition Average Cost of Hogs. The followingz table gives the average cost of hogson the dates montioned, ineluding the cost today. 18 based upon sales 3 Jine 4 70 ( June 10, June 11, June June Jine June June 18,0 June 100 Comparative Tablos. The following table sl during this Thu radsy Friduy Hogs. Prloo paid torlonds o icated in 1957, 1898, 1850 Showlng the average s on the days ind ane '%. | June "33, Juno '87. July W | 0 400 ‘ 4 08 June %0 W iy B0, [July . Sunday. | 8408 4T Sunday. Hol Hol. a1 nd Lowest willearry andrents decine. ind while archi- tects' offccs are full of plins for proposed bulldings there 1s no disposition to let con- U 18 when the future Isso uncertain. Tho J aly dishursements of tterest and di dends this month are the largest over known ry of thocountry, Interestis due 1rds “of two tho over 800,000,000, ments will aggre willumount eks, state and municipal bonds, adl tovaal will then bo upwards ollowing table compares the July di pments onsceount of intorests and divi- ads on raiiroud and shnllar properties for pustyears. 1884, 1 24578 41,712, ] 1890, T4 82,2218, 00 7 B monts Hore isan tnerea: terest is pay able comp: r, and 018 on while! with the 121,423, ars o, The eap pdsare payable slows an 18Lover last yvear, and $220- . The total disburseraents ks nrid honds 1< 31,040,100 nox hlust year, and i on whichdivid orease of sof domestie produc vl for the pust for followl poxis (exiusive of'y ew York for the w | with the 15y Forthe weel,$ Provy riporti 16 Slnee Jan. The | from this 1o M shows tho ) from (he por k ending July 1, 150, stiternents of the two previ 1. 8100,504,551 817073451 #1 portsof dry ools at th is port for the kandsinceJannary 1, 1990, compared W With the samoe period of the lst two or the week, el at the e Thrown on rn 1838, 014683 103,00 ceding wis about 313,000, L} ducpurty to the lurge pension drafts w parily tolnerased curmnt ewpendicur purchases of onds for the fiscaly elosed toduy reached a totul par value of $104,- B46,70, and Toaddition 37 was pald out in preminms and aceried ntorest. 0f th valie of the londs pu i pervents and €30, feents. The total amon ngthe your was 12 fncluding ubout B45,00.000 for honds purchnsed on aecount of thesin i fund. The purdhases during the fiseal v ear ending June i, 189, wore 55,108, 0 dn 4 per cents and $52,58,050 in 415 percents, miakingg 4 total par value of 820,674,450 and o total o < ponditure of § is nocertainty to_any forecasts for thelastlalf of theyear, but all indictions POINL Lo a contimance of, the present pros- perity The Crops are in magnificent condition, the hot weather of the pist on days having Drowgh tthem nearer tomaturlty ot this tine than was thoight possibie @ fow weeks sineo. Prices are steady. Sugas vittually un- | If we except & slight advance in XXX jow dered, which is always in demand durinis the hot season. A decline in reight rates hetween New York and Omaha lns lod o a reduction of %o perpound in roasted eof- feos whith will take effect Mond In oo cofl © i3 no change, loldersire wiltig forbuy ers tocome forward _und claim it an AdVINCO s soon e el but the soem to e Losing confidmee. The total stock f Hrazil cofe wnd uflont for the United States s Inst 570272 bags atsnne e last y Dried fraits are quiet and the market sker. y fraits ace indemand and Sttt Nat quotations. Rive fsfirmand llkely to go higher. Thelron and s rkots are un- chunged, Production and consumption p- pear to e proty. w 1 and prices aro v, Copper isfirra, Pig tin Is somewlat and Ui plate slow with no important i prices ulnin e in aetd figires. Boux s shows diney to adya st anid lowest ot 5 in 41 per ¢, thus expended dur- s weak, oplum higher and tsLightly red uced and “ammonia s At Ol > June were as follows: Whent—J une, A ugust. i, 1 L e 3 iy, Septeih 20,1714, 80 o i Agust, 1 5 Tt Septeni mirket has been receipts and a brls prices, City trade is fons are sonewhat better. e Lieul produce wetly with libera mand at unchanged ut coll aturday. July 5 1 recelpts of catle S conpard L ayof lust Pl receipis are fnsufficiont tomaken murket, The recipts during e week were 600, e with 10319 the week prior, a falling ol of 4241 OF theZ lowds In todiy, one man has o loads of cornfed westerns, and prices e asks the, rket. Of the bala ean Stern stoe kers wnd te only sIxor seven loads of stec four louds of cows on sale made b an advinee of 10 oy Stockersand fee v of soor 05 woro r Thursduy's ors were slow and Hogs. celpts of hoss velay and 8,512 Saturday of 2 the wedk ) i Hponed oh ing stronge with all sold. of prices was mived. 4 average of (he ared with §ilte Aay of last week. wis &b, ¥ und K404 com= atur- Prevailing X The following s a ;llhn rket for th ices le of pri e Ofstoek n steers, 1300 10 Mib hs Good stoers, 1250 t0 150 hs s, 100 10 L3N s 1000 to 1% s, Common nners " Ordinury tofale wws Fair to good cows, Good tochalee cows. .. Clolee o faley eows Fulr togood bulls, .. Cholee to ¢ bulia. Light stockers and fecdors.; oders, 1060 (0 110 B i to chofeo 1igit hogs ir tocholce hoavy. hogs. ice naired hogs Range of Prices, HOGS. The followir= table shows rices paid fo1 ho 3 alF tochotw gh Falr tocholeo bhouvy. - Falr tocholw mited x P the range of A @30 60 @i 3 57hS hogs Prime fat sheop Gooa fatsheep . ... Coumon to ued i sh LA 0 @50 425 wa 0 @4 0 Tlig Lowe: OMalal Yo Showin £ the number of hozs purchased b, the differ ) 4 nt_buyers on today s market: HOGS, The Armour Cudahy P Omaha Packing( The G, H. L Representa tive Sales. DILESSED IBEF STERIS 21038 3 & SHIPPENG AND EXPORT §1 E 100,120 30 CANNERE, o1 L. 80 163 8 10 1210 18 1 COWS, L0 1. NS, 168 L1406 B.. 688 1120 100 100 o0l n 1200 HEIPERS, 6.. WY No. dressed heef rs, aressed beef. ¥ feciders. No. 1) natives, feeders. Mark et M R. T Jones came In from car of eattle J. F.Fairmanhad acarof hogs on the mar- kot from Axtell, Ripp & Lambert sent ina carof hogs from Humiphreys. 1. B Hibbard brought in three cars of cattie from [rvington, A. Nickel, ir.,of the firm of A.Nickel & Son, breeders of Poland China swine, was a visitor ot the yads. Wiley Blick mouth, ¢ ane of hogs. The regular monthly meethz of the ex- change and board of directors will oceur Mon- mbers should be Atkinson with a the ploneer shipper of Platts- up with two carsof cattle and at Wray, Col., ar'of hogs. (Special Tolegram to Tre t native cattle sold out prices, in some cases sub- stantlally higher than on Eviday, and prime handy steers aro 106 to 15 higher than at the ping of the weel, while common and y stock may bo quoted lower th the opening of the week. Theran of T for the week has been heavy and some sales- men are quoting a decline of 2 to Me for the week, Native butehers' stoek has hd to fol- low the down turn inTexans 0 a greater or less extent. Prices on natives have ruled 1ow from sturt to finish, with #. the top for the week, a wreat bulk of _prime stock selling within_a ra 245, Shadebelow good, £51504.10 there, with common Clhoieato exir edium to good ste HLO0GEA0; 1,200 to 1, 10 100 Ths., " 84015 feedors, Wi mixed, $L.006105 bulk, 82.0001.25; cows, 1. Business was ne- tive with an upiurn of 50c, making an. ad- vanceof 10 15esinee Thursdiy wt (h 3y The bulk of the mixed sold nt #i. 0 §152003.00 Heht mixed and assorted D oid b RN, and ot of tanoy light W. and and Texns l;ll'l} ST0¢C CHI0AGO, market gu ELAODAA0 bulls and mix; colpta, 3,000: market strong heavy, §.700 o RAOK nents, 2, 150; mar .00, b fir )T} o) S ringly; LIVERPOOL & demand Iler alifornia The Gold in the United States, To determine mv.e exactly the amount of gold held in the country the tr depart- ment somo time ago sent out inquiries to pri vateand state banks as to the size of their stocks of the metal, Some , or all but about 741 of these banks, have been heard from, and report a total amount of about &34, 000,000 of gold in their possession. There is 313,067,805 of gold coin and bullion in the government, treasury and 1,910,407 in the national banks, making a total altogether of #4107 Hut the treasury department bas estimated the total supply, on the basis of the mint records, at. $080,275,000, and thus there is §209575,038 to be otherwise ac- counted for. This cannot bein circulation, unless on the Pacific coast, for gold is seldom seen in cireulation, and must, therefore, e hoarded in the nooks and crannies of dwell- ings or non-existent in the Unite ates, In the latter case it must either ave boen taken by Americans traveling abroad, or ex- ported without beiug rocordel at the cusiom ouse. e —— Counterfeit Ten-Dollar Bills, For the past_two weeks some one has been CTFCUlating counterfolt 810 bills in Baltimors, Md. The police have been at work on them, but as vet have mot discovered where they are, coming from. Omo day last week tho Drovers and Mechanics' bank recoived several of the notes. The German National bank has reccived five in the last week, and the Eutuw Savings bank severil. Other ! banks havo had them presented. The coun- | terfeit, ison the Germania National bank of | New Orleans, La., bears check letter C, and {is signed W, S. Rosecrans, register of the ; treasury, and C, N, Jordau, treasurer., DUN'S REVIEW OF THE WEEK, The New Fiscal Year 8hows Heavy Disburse- ments and Easier Money, TRADE A LITTLE SLOWER THAN USUAL. Pending Leglslation Caunses Consider: able Hesitation in Enstern Markets —~Wheat Rules Higher and Pork Products Steady, New York, July b5, TarBe Review of With the beginning of a new fiseal y have heavy disbursements and easier money, better crop prospects and a continuance of larger trade for the scason than has been seenin any previous year, At the same time it is to beadmitted that there scoms to bo within the past week or two a little more than the ordinary hesitation ov slackening of trade at the arrival of midsummer and confl- dence in the futurcas affected by legislation is rather less strong than it was a fortnight ago, Mone apprehensions excited by ex- ports of gold have been allayed by the heavy disbursements in dividends and interest, said to be the largest ever made at this scason, and exclusiveof government payments esti- mated at 74,000,000, against 861,000,000 last year, Foreign advi and rates of exchange do not at present indicate danger of any seri- ous drain from abroad and the interior mar- kets aro all fimly supplied at usual T The volume of trade shown by the clearing house returns at all cities out- sideof New York is 14.1 per ent larger than last week for the month of June and 15.0 per cent larger for the half year, The last week or two have witnessed a smaller increase, the extreme hot weather having depressed trade at many western points, while at the east the hesitation on account of pending logislation is now noticeable. Failures have been fewer on the whole, and liabilities of firms failing slightly smaller than in the first half of last but in some important branches of rade the situation is plainly rather fess healthy than it seemed six months ora year ago, Railroad eamings thus far reported for June show a gain of about 10 per cent over last year, but th also show '~ 4s gain for the latter than for the first half of the month, This may be due in part to further cutting of rates, attempts to adjust castbound freight wars having thus far failed, and the strife between 1adian lines and those nearest the border having grown more bitter, Notiing has occurred to make the pros- pects regarding legislation more definite, The demand for raw wool is scanty, pr tending downward in spite of the smallness of stocks on hand. The iron trado is more steady, but ratherdull. The mileage of rail- roads built this y is estimated at 1,900 against 1,450 for the first half of last year 1A a total of 6,000 miles for the year is ¢ ed, but this does not go far toward pro- ding use for the greatly increased supply of pigiron, I ~[Special Telogram to Dunn & Co's, Weekly ar wo all leading markets and ¥ in building still renders lumber and Lher materials in active demand, while an- ite coal is a shade stronge has been cents higher, the visi- ble supply having rapidly diminished, but those who elaim that much less than 70,000,- surplus has been brought over to the new erop year are compelled to dispute the correctness of the official and only infor- mation of Last year 1d. Cornlas been a shide stron, oats are unchanged, Pork products are steady and raw sugar a shade lower, reported stocks in_all coun being 1,020,000 tons against 667,000 a ago, Later reports from the south are very favorable as to growing cotton, and in Texas the estimated yield is the largest on record. Coffee has grown steadier, after large liqui- dation, but the demand for cousumption is disappoluting, In general the speculative m ve been rather inactive and the level of prices for all commodoties July 1, though a shade lower than a week ago or January I, is fully 3 per cent_higher than at the same date last year. The future of specnlation and of the money market now de- pends largely upon the measureof activity developed in the movementof crops and in the branches of trade which full crops stimu- late. The accounts from the interior cities are most hopeful, though_at present, quiet, is noted at Philadelphia, Boston, and, on_ ac- count of the great heat, at St. Louis, Mil- waukee and many other western cities, Chi- cago reports the dry goods and elothing trade larger than last year, with good fall orders and satisfactory payment. Minneapolis notes better prices forlumber and a bottor demand for flour. Iron is dull at Cleveland, but groceries « hardware active. In all the reports received there is mowhere com- plaint of collections, and confidence in ularge trade next fall is almost universal, though it is recognized that an incrcasing volume of business has not of late brought a corvespond- ing increase in profits, The business failures occurring during the past seven days, as reported, number 109, as compared with 202 last week. For the cor- responding week of lust year the figures were 202, R wa The Pullman and the Wagner. Discussing the affairs of the Pullman Pal- car company, a prominent western rail road official said : “There is a big contest on between Pull- man and the Vanderbilts,which attracts very little attention, but which has been on for flve years now, ever sincothe Vanderbilts boughtinto the Wagner palace car company, and which is getting fiercer all the tim About once each yearthe announcement is made that the Vanderbilts have purchased o new road. Thi ar it was the Big Four system. Fach such announcement mea more to Pullman than anybody else in th country, for it means the throwing oft of the Pullman and the suvstitution of the Wagner sleey The New York Central, the Hud- son River, the Michigan Cent the Lake Shore,the Big Four,and the Northwestern all use nothing but Wagners. Pullman hap- pened to have a twenty-five years' contract, with the Union Pacific, or, when the North- westera-Union _Pacific’ deal was made, th use of the ‘Wagner would have been part of the cont Undoubtedly the Wag ner will be ranning on the Union Pacifie in 14 Pullman, evidently dreading the V derbilt extension, been n these twenty-fiv 5 saved him the t Union Pacifl iam H. derbilt had succeded in his fight against R. R, *able and H. H, Porter in 1858 the Rock Island would not be running Pull- mans. Pullman got the Atchison and the Atlantic & Pacific last year, when h¥ mado his contract with the Union Pacitic. He has now about 110,000 miles of road, ngainst 30,000 controlled by the Wagner people.”’ Silver Coinage. The dire of the mint has prepared a comparative statement in rogard to the pur- nd coinage of silver, from which the following figures are taken: The amount of silver purchused under thelast administra- tion, that is, from March 1, 1885 to March 1, 1880, was $05,116,628, an average of £2,044,006 worth per month, The number of silver dol- lars coined was 126,847,459, or an average of per month, Dunng the fifteen 15 of President. Harrison’s adminis tra- the amount of silver purchased has been an average of §,154,521 worth per month, and the number of silver dollars coined has been 45, 76, or an average of per month. ' Since the present ovof the mint took chargeof the pur- chase and coinage of silver, thav is, from October 1, 1889, 0 Juue, 1500, the number of silver doll , 135,610, or & wonthly averuge of Xy Chemical National Bank Stoc ou recently one shave of the Chem- ical bauk’s stoek sold for #,0%0, This is the highest prico which the Chemical's stock has ever brought, A Wall street broker, after the sale, remarked: “A share in the Chem- ical banlk is a good thing for a man to die and leave 1 a strong box." Forty-vine hundred aud eighty dollars for a share, the par value of which 'is $100, is the highest bid on record in this country. A Dangerous Counterfeit, A dange rous 8 counterfeit bank note has been dotec.ed in the Now York postoftice. 1t has the appearance of being much worn and Purports to have been issued by the Natioual ( bank of Tamaqua, PETTh July, 1803, 1 almost }l‘rfi\'( in api printed from a genuing Fections being only off e back and in the quality of the paper. The note presented at the postoftice was promptty defaced. LISPETH OF THE MISSION, —e tional Tale of Love in the Kotgarh Hills, Following isn story'from the pen of Rudyard Kipling, the English novelist, whose work is creating so much interest in lLiterary circles: She was the daughter of Sonoo,a Hill- man, and Jadeh, his wife, One year their maize failed, and later their only poppy field; so nexts¥eason they turned Christian, and broug’ heir baby tothe mission to be baptized. The Kotgarh chaplain _christened her Elizabeth, and “Lispeth” is the Hill pronounciation. Later, cholera came into the Kotgurh nd carried off Sonoo and Jadeh, spoth becamo nhalf-sorvant, half- companion, to the wife of the then ¢ lain of Kotgarh, She grew very lo Whena Hill girl grows lovely she worth traveling fifty miles over bad sund to look upon. Lispsth had a sek faco—one of thoso fuces people puint so often and sce so seldom, She was of a pale ivory color, und for her vo extremely tall. Also sho pos- sossed wonderful ey Lispeth’s own people hated = her because she had, they said, become a mem- 1ib and washed herself d and the chaplain’s wife did not know what to do with her. Somehow one cannot ask a stately goddess, five foot ten in her shoes to cloan plates and So she played with the chay children and took classes in the Sunduy school, and read all the books in tho house and grow more and more beautiful, One day, a few menths after she was seventeen years old, Lispeth went out for a walk. She covered between twen- ty and thirty miles in her little constitu- tional, This time she came back at full dusk, stepping down the breaknec scent into Kotgath with some heavy in her arms. The chaplain’s wife was dozing in the drawing-room when Lispeth came in, breathing hard and very exhausted with her burden. Lis peth put it down on the sofa and said simply: “This is my husband. I found him on the Bagi Road. He hns hurt himself. We will nurse him, and when ho is woll your husband shall mavry him to me.” This was the first mention Lispeth had ever made of her matrimonial views, and the chap- lain’s wife shrieked with horror, How- ever, the man on the sofa needed atten- tion first. e was a young Englishman, and his head had been cut to the bone by something jagged. Ho was put to bed and tended by the chaplain, who knew something about medicine. Lispeth plained to the chaplain that this wasthe man she meant to marry: and the chap- lain and his wife lectured her severely. Lispeth listened (kuln'lly. and repeatéd her proposition. Having found the man she worshipped she was going to nurse him until he got well enough to marry her. That was her programme, After a fortnight of fever the English- man recovered coherence and thanked the chaplain and his wife and Lispeth— especially Lispeth—for their Lindne Hoe was a traveler in the east, he said, and had come from Pehra Dun to hunt for butterflies among the Simla hills, He fancied he fell over the cliff while stalking a fern. He made small haste to go aw and recovered his strength slowly. Lispeth objected to being advised either by the chaplain or his wife; so the latter spoke to the Englishman and told him how matters stood in Lispeth’s heart. He laughod a good deal and said it was very pretty and romantie, a perfect idyl of the Himalayas; but, as he was en- gaged to a girl at home, he fancied that nothing would happen. Certainly he would behave with discretion. He did that. Still he found it very pleasant to talk to Lispeth, and walk with Lispeth, say nice things to her and call her pet names, It meant nothing at all to him and everything in the world to Lispeth. Being a $avage by birth sho took no trouble to hide her feelings,and the Eng- lishman was amused. When he went away Lispeth walked with him up the hill as far as Narkunda, very troubled and very miserable, The chaplain’s wife being a good Christian, disliking any- thing like fuss or scandal, had told the Englishman to tell Lispeth that he was coming back to marry her. So, all the twelve miles up thehill the Englishman, with Lis arm around Lispeth’s waist, assured her he would come back and marry her. She wept on the ridge till he had passed out of sight. Thenshe dried her tears and went to Kotgarh again and said to the chaplain’s wife: ‘*He will come back and marry me. He has gone back to his people to tell themso.” And the chaplain’s wife soothed Lispeth and said: “He will come back.” At the end of two months Lispeth grew impatient and was told that he had gone over the seas to Eng- land. There was an old puzzle map of the world in the house. he put it to- @other of evenings, and cried to herself, and tried to imagine where her English- man wi she had no ideas of dis- tanc mboats, her notions were somewhat ervroneous. This, however, made no difference. The Knglishman had ho intention of coming back -to marry a Hill girl, He forgot all about her by the time he was butterily-hunt- ing in Assam. Ho wrote a book on the east, Lispeth’s nume did not appear, Attheend of three months Lispeth | made daily pilgrimages to Narkunda to see if her Englishmen coming along the ros It gave her comfort, and the chaplain’s wife, finding her happy, thought that she was getting over her “folly.” A little later the walks ceased to help Lispeth and her temper grew very bad, The chaplain’s wife thought this a profitable time to let her know the real state of affairs—that the Eng- lishman had only promised his love to keep her quict—that he had never meant to marry her: * Lispeth said that all this was impossiBle, because he had said that he loved her.” *“How can what you and he said be untrue?” “We said it as an excuse to keep you quiet, child.” “Then you lied to me,”said Lispeth, “you and he?” The chaplain’s wifo bowed her head and $aid nothing, L peth was silent, too, for a little time; then she went down | the and re- turned in the dress of a Hill girl—infa- mously dirty, but without the nose rings. %I am going back to my own ple,” d she, ".*You ha illed s only left old Jadeh’s daughter of a pahariand i, Youare all rs, you English.”’” She left and took to her ‘own uncleun people savagely, and in a little time shenarried a wood- cutter, who beat her and her beauty faded 'soon. Lispeth was a very old woeman when she died. She always had a perfoct command of English, and when she was suffigiently drunk could some- times be induced to tell the story of her first love adff It was hard then to lize that the bleared, wrinkled crea- 80 like a wisp of charred r could ever have been “*Lispeth of the Kotgarh Mission.” Tt is apce, the face being ate, and the imper- An Unconve! It is semi-oficially stated 1 strike cost the Illinois Cent or $100,000 in all. 14t the rec 181,000 hourly, There. That is my latest composition. What do you think! Cynicus—Well, candidly, Thumper, wy boy, if architecture is frozen ' music that compostion might be cesstulimorgue, but otherwise— - w York Sun: Musician ELECTRICITY IN DAILY LIFE Its Utilisation Began Only a Quarter of Oentury Ago, ELECTRIC ROADS IN THE CENSUS, Data Which Wil Be of Great Gen: eral Toterest — Lighting Trains by Electricity A Large Domes: tic Plant. The life of today has derlved {ts most essential charactoristio—rapidity—from the wonderful natu; force, electricity, Weare living under the signof elec: tricity; and yet the sclence that has brought it about is very young, writes Franz Bendtin Unsere Zeit. The com- ing year will witness its twenty-fifth birthday only, for there could be no talk of a technical utilization of electric cur- rents prior to the invention of the dyna- mo machine, And next year will give us, s has been finally decided, an inter- national electrical exhibition in Frank- fort-on-the-Main, Although Germany was the original home of the telegraph, the methods of quick telegraphy that have done more than anything else to create this age of electricity have been developed in England and Amevica, Inthe past year the Wheatstone apparatus, which fs capable of transmitting from 460 to 600 words aminute, was first introduced into our country, Similar mechs are in uso in France,among them the Baudot multiple printing instrument, with which from 216 to 252 dispatches of twenty words can be forwarded on a single wire; whereas with the Morse in- strument the limit was twenty-five, and with the Hughes instrument sixty messages. Theso improvements in the apparatus have heen accompanied by o remarkable economy in the wiressinco Siemens, Frischen and Edison have de- veloped the method of multiple tele- graphy. It isnow possible to send sov- eral messages simultaneously on tho same wire, and even in opposite direc- tions. In a shovt timo the entire globe will b2 encircled with the telegraph, as the San Francisco board of trade has re- solved in favor of laying a Pacific by way of Honolulu and Tutuila, Another memorable advan: is tho bringing of widely distant places into direct oral communication, as by the Rome and London line, that has been in operation since December 1, 1880, Dur- ing the year 1888-89 the number of cities provided with the telephone increased from 174 to 200, and the number of tele- phone stations rose to 88,760, an icrease of 7,444, For generating currents for electric lighting throughout the world about one million horse-powers are employed, capable of atotal illumination of 200,- 000,000 standard candles. The floating eapital employed amounts to $400,000,- 000, Inthe United States alone 000,000 ave invested in the electrical in- dustries, In electrical conduits Ger- many leads all nations, even the prac cal Americans, as no less an authority than Edison has acknowledged. Cen- tral generating establishments exist in the great cities, not merely for the pur- pose of supplying illumination, but for condueting electrical currents for other purposes into the ho of con- sumers; and here a prospect s opened for electricity to play an im- portant part in the domestic and social economy of the future, With the growth in the number of consumers, and im- provements in insulation and ' dynumos, the supply of power is becoming con- stantly cheaper, and the time is not far off when the artisan will be enabled to drive his little machines with the elec- tric current, relieving his muscles, and placing it in his power to develop a manual dexterity that in certain direc- tions can produce results beyond the attainment of manufacturing processes, Thus it is seen that there is virtue in electricity to aid in the solution of some of the social questions that ave stirring the world. SIS Hlo Electric Railroads in the Census. The use of electricity as a motive power for street cars will be an import- ant section of the census investigation of tho electrical industr None of the many forms of the application of elec- tricity has been developed more rvapidly or been accompanied by more sati tory results thanthatof the transmission of power for street car purposes. The census investigation of the gen- eval subject of transportation has been very properly assigned to Prof. Henry C. Adams, statistician of the interstat commerce commission, says the Electr cal World. He has divided the subject in several sections, one of which is *“Rapid Transit in Cities.” This section has been assigned to Specinl Agent Charles H. Cooley, a son of Thomas M. Cooley, chairman of the interstate com- merce commission, The plan of investigation that has adopted is de parison between the different mot pn\\w-rncml)h)\' sd—animalsteam dummy hles and electricity—to show the economic value of each. F n wish for nothing better than St railronds are now being transformed into electrie roads as fas manufacturerers and construction com- panies can take care of the business, How they will manage withan added impetus given to the business, is hard to predict, The schedules for the section of rapid transit in cities will include the inqui iesto bo made regarding electric rail- roads, That part of the schedules p taining to the elee al branch of the subject, will bo prepared under the supervision of Allen . Foote, special agent,and that portion of the report pertaining to the use of clectricity nsa motive power for street cars will he bodied in a report on the investig: i of the electrical industry, as well as in the report of the section making the in- vestigation, The census office is performing a ser- ice of great value for the public in mak- ing such special investigation, All who have todo with questions of municipal management of public affaivs are keenly aware of the necessity of securing trust- worthy de by which to guide their actions, The cost of obtaining such statistics through the census office, is but an infinitesimal tax on the capi- talization of the industries interested, while its impartial and impersonal character gives it the weight of an un- questioned suthority, A Simple Storage Battery, The following directions for making a simple storage battery are due to the Journal of the Telegraph, Get two half- und porous cups and @ round glass jar gh for the two porous cups to stand in upright, Get two plates of sheet lead one-sixteenth of an inch thick, wide enough to fit the half-round side of the porous cups and decp enough to come an inch or so edge of the cups and jar. Solder a stout coppor wire or a screw t to ench lead plate at tho top, Jlnce the lead plates in the cups and fill_the cups nearly full with a paste made of red lead mixed with a solution of sulphate of soda thin enough to run like a cement. The glass jar containing the two cups should be filled to within halt an inch of the top of the cups with sulphuric acid and water, about one part of acid to cight of water. The plates should be marked so that, in char tho currents may be sent in the right direction, The cell n be charged by attaching it to aserics of adozen sul- phate of copper cells for twenty-four 10Urs, OF ?run\ adynamo. A wooden cover may be fitted to the glass jur, and evaporation of the fluid shoull be re- plenished by adding water, Two or more cells of this battery will work small motors, lamps and induetion coils, and if thoroughly charged will ret a largo volume of electricity fora con- siderable time, After once boing well charged, four to six cells of sulphate of copper battery will recharge it. Determining Distance by Electricity. “Licutenant Fiske of the United States navy has invented an instrument to determine the range of an object, of 1 principle,” says the Engineering Mining Journal, “that of determining the distance by the difference of angle at which it appears from the extremities of o known baso lino, is well known, but in Lieutenant Fiske's instrument tho difference of ngle is detormined with aecuracy and rapidity by means of a_ wheafstone brid nd either a sensitive lvano- meteror o telephone. In - practice two telescopes are mounted at a known dis tance apart and focused on the obj whose distance is to be dete mined, They will, of course, make an angle with cach other, A’ simplo electrical arrangement with galvano- meter o telephone in cireuit is so o vanged that a current will flow through the instrument unless the two telescopes ave exactly paralloel. The ob- server notes on one of the two telescopes the angle requived 1o prevent @ eurrent from passing through the instrument and thus measures, or rather electri ally woighs, the difference in the ang Thus,a single observer with an un- lenrned assistant, c nine with great rapidity the distance of o vessel or other object. the range-finder is intonded naval warfare to allow accurate groat guns, but, if it prove & tory in practical use as it is elaimed, it should prove far more useful in the pur- suits of pe above the top use in ing of Lighting Trains by Electr Despite the fact that several milronds venup for the p it systems of lighting trains by electricity, the Con- neeticut river raile tains the illuminutic improvemoents in its practi For the past three years o train rumning between Sprinfield and Northampton, Mass.,, has beenlighted by the fluid, which scldom fails to wor successfully, The apparatus used was put in by 8. FL Bavrett, who has recently perfected an improved form of storay battery, from which he expects mor nomical results than anything heretofore attained. The electrie lighted train hitherto used has been kept in local service, and has been run by a dynamo placed in the b go car, The bat- teries, however, have worn out, and ad- vantage was taken to put in new bat- tovies of fifty colls, which are stronger than the old style. Animproved switch board has also been placed in the bag- gage car, and with this areangement the fluid can be regulated in any part of the teain, The old way to turn on the lamps manipulating a number of sepa- rate switches, Animproved meter has also boen added to the equipment and this shows the strength of the current as it passes through the cars, Another new device is the Jordan electric coupling, which connects the wiresas they pass over the platforms. New and handsome lamps have been hung over the plat- forms, shedding sprays of light over the steps, A Large Domestic Plant, The Societe Ile que of Brussels, which works the Julien system of ac- cumulators, has just made an important installation of the electric light in the palace of the Comte de Flandve at Brus- sels. The lighting includes at present three are lamyps in the state court yard and 900 incandescent lamps, divided as follows: 178 in the library, the dining hall, the billiavd room, and the princo’s private apartments; 574 in the reception rooms, 27 in the guests’ chambers, 28 in the children’s apartmencs, and 98 in various other rooms. The primitive in- stallation of the motive power, placed in the cellars, included in the first place a 4h. p.dynamo for charging a babtery of Julien wecumulators for serving the private apartments only, This mereased by the addition of a h, amo for charging a batte of 3 ulators. These are chargéd every eight days, according to need. This plant which is entively supplied by aceurula tors, ullows the light to be had at any hour without setting the engines at work, The success, it is said, has been so great that the Comte de Flandre is now preparing to light the entive pace, which will raise the total installation to 1,500 lamps. - SHARK AND PORPOI 1 FIGHT. A Battle Off the Jersey Const Made the Sea Waves Red, The other morning at 5 ock, while the bathers wove enjoying a bath in the buff at Avalon, a large school of por- poises made a dash up the const just be- hind the breake There was over a hundred of these slippery mon- sters, 80 hard to catch in [ net, and they nevi bite at any known bait. A good sized por- poise will devour.a bushel of moss bunk- ers or a young drumfishat a single meal, and just now the surf is filled with small drumfish feeding at flood tide, The man eating shark likes the same kind of diet, and many a bloody conllict ensues between these robbers of the great deep when they meet on common feedin ground. In front of the hotel the considerable depth of water, and the porpoises cume s0 newr that many of them could have been reached with a fishing rod Suddenly, as the school of were tumbling over each otherin play, a four-foot s k made a dash out of the water, pursued by a ten-loot porpoise. The porpoise succeeded in biting a piece out of the man-eater, and made a vicious plunge at the shavk in mid-air, while the sea became red with blood. Both fish were ina duel to the death Neither tried to escape, The shark was the swiftest in motion, but wasan un- equal antagonist. The porpoise would dive under him and strike him in the belly under water, to the great discom- fort'of the man eater, whose jaws wer not big enough tomake an impression on the tougl hide of theslippery sea hog. Three times they met in midair and struck each other as two bull elks butt each other with their antl The porpoise slowly retired ten feet and with the swiftness of lightning struck the shark in the middle and ripped him open, The man-eater soon floated, dead, out on the sea, whilo the porpoise, badly hurt, followed his cf panions up Townsend inlet, that porpoise THE HALF YEAR'S RECOAD. Roview of tho Building and Realty Bush nees for Bix Montha, A BIG JUMP IN BANK CLEARINGS The Real Estate Transf Snow an v crease of Two Millions <A Small Decrease in Bulld« ing Permits, The following flgures show tho totals of real ostato transfors, building permits and bank clearings for tho past week compared with the corresponding period of last year s IEAL ESTATE TRANSFERS, Day. Monday Tuesdig Wednesda Thursday i 1800, . LTI BULLDING PERMITS, 180, 5,80 Totals Day. Monday..o... FRTTPRON | THIRY. (iveesids srivevsi Wednesday Thursday.... Fridiy 2,50 18,405 21010 Monday . Tuosdiy Wedn Thursd 1rid St 18074 00, 806,50 P S T nt over the corre: sponding we ‘The following figur the totals of real estate transfor, building pormits and bank clearings for the first six months ot tho present year, compared with the samo period of last yoa January February. tyse 1,740,110 BANK CLEARTNGS, WOMIEN DO SCARE BL Policeman Relates Incidents to Prove “[think burglars ave more often ut- terly routed by women than by men,” saida policeman to a New York “Pribuno reporter the other da; St is wonder- ful what awoman will do sometimes when sho hearsa steange noise in her house at night. [ know that my own wife is a nervous, excttable invalid, who often lies awake in the night when I am outon my beat, trembling in her bed with apprehension lest aburglar might enter the house, Sofar, she s an abso- lute coward. “Butlet her really hear a noise in any part of the house which might ho made by a burglar, and the opportunity foraction isu positive velief toher, Up she gets in o minute, and without o sce- ond’s lhesitation makesher way in the dark all over the house, looking for the intruder—not a sign of fear then —hut as the fact that nobody has actually en- tered the house becomes apparent, her fear lest some ono might do so returns, and she goes back to bed a coward again, Strange, isn't it? <L remember a desperate burglar, who was hanged for killing a man whoso house he had been discovered robbing, telling me that the only time he actually felt scared at finding himself face to face with one of the inmates of thehouse he was ‘cracking’ was when a slight, delicate woman, clad only in her night dress, came running down the stairs, and, putting her hand on his am, cn- quired in a terrified tone: W hat's the matter? Ts theve ahurg- n the house? O, proteet me!” “In her terror she did not think of him as the robber, and the evident com- fort it gave her to find some one to *pro- tect’ her gave him a new sensation al- togethe “He was staggered amoment by tho sitoation, but hearing other imnates moving upstairs, who had cvidently beon aroused by herloud exc he quickly said? ‘Cortainly, ma'am, Ul protect you—have no fear. Just stand h behind the door while T loolk in the kitchen where the noise scems to come from.’ 0, thank you,” she v slipped out intd the kiteh hisshoes and plied, 1s ho n, picked up vanished out of the win- hooty piled upon the a tablecloth, which he wis just up when the woman eame upon R v Lucomotive Powor acle of uprooting 1 Joco= Sarntogo, Lying the reand Hudson b the village, it became 3 moven numbor of large A stout ropeis fustened to the teunk of the tree about halfway up, the largest branches chopped off, and the earth dug aw from the roots. Then the end of the ropeis fixed to the front of the engiu and it is backed slowly along the track, lifting the tres out very cleverly. Uprooting The novel 1t trees by th olis being says the Albany Ex pi double track of the Delaw, flrond throug HE REALTY MARKE and wife lot 1, bk wnd and , South O nd wife t 5. Stowart P TP Davis to Jnec 1, Birlaes Place G W Wikershim lot 12, ik 1 Any Silver to N § Graves, lot Hanscom Place, w R A Morrls to M lard & Caldw f i Ballou Brothers o C M Bump, 1ot 9, bik Everett Place, w d Jacobh Soltner and wife o William Ros: i, Lot i, bik 4, Arbor Place, w d v MG Clark aund wife to 0T Fillk, n''4 Tots nd i, bk 2, Dupont Place, wd . E I Ratoktn and wife o Albright L& L Co., 1ot 8, blkis, AIbrlzht’s Choie W Lelby and wife 10D V Stor i, ot 2, Lk 2, Kirkwood, wd E8Rood and wifeto W Youn, bk 16, ALbright's Annex. wi % South Omahi Land Coto 1L Flolines ¢t al Dlk 136, Bouth Omihi, wid v I Coman and wife to 1 J Windsor, lots 11 to 16, bl 1, 10t 6, biki 1 ots 1t and 12, bik 6, MeCormick’s 2nd add, wd E D Pattce toC C Lazarus, ot 5 biki, Dollones' udd, wi . {zabeth Milbourne M Marshall, lots 1 mond Placo, wd W Graves 0 G N Hanscom Place, wd Kenn isad.wd lot and ek, lot 24, BIk 5, Twenty transfors.