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Nearly half the Chinese seeking ad-
Imission to this country at San Fran-
cisco are refused.
The United Kingdom gets. on an av-
erage, 33 inches of rain in a year. Eu-
rope generally 26 inches and North
America ~0 inches.
Londo~'s tire brigade ptrts out a fire
at a~ average cost of $200. _New York
pays $69{} for the same service, and
Cincinnati holds the recerd ,with $1.475
per fire.
The only states in the country 'in
which no brewers' tax was paid last
year into the Federal Treasur~ as a
~trt of the internal revenue w, ere Mis-
al~sippi and North Carolina.
The thrift of the French mat :be
inferred from the fact that on~.-fourth
-of the whole population are del~ositem
in savings banks and that the Rmmmt
to thei~ credit is over ~ur ,hllJlen
francs
In the Atlas Mountains of Northern
Africa t!~ere are goats which ~cl~im~)
trees to browse on the foliage. Some
ef them have been seen standing erect
on branches thirty feet from the
ground, while others were lazily re-
clining on boughs gently rocked by ~e
wind.
The Bismarck column, which the
Cerman students have decided to ereet
to the memory of the first Chancellor,
will be built on the so-called Ham=
melsberg, near the estate of Silk• in
the neighborhood of Friedrichsruh.
The site was fixed upon by Prince
Herbert Bismarck.
Judge Frank P. Longley, of the coun-
ty court at Troup, Ga., has resigned
on account of his health, and has been
succeeded by his father, F. M. Long-
Icy, who was at once appointed to the
poSition by the governor. This is be-
lieved to be the first case of thl~ kind
en record. The new Judge Is 60 years
old, his predecessor being 33.
A thief lately arrested in Madrid car-
ried a concealed electric battery in his
right hand. He would approach a man
offering his hand in friendly fashion
If the man responded by clasping the
outstretched hand h~ overpowering
chock was the result an]~ the thie[
would get through his work and away
before the victim recoverad.
Baron Nathaniel Rothschild has
leased for five years a piece of ground
at the highest point of the Ampezzo
road, between Toblack and Ampezzo,
in the Austrian Tyrol• In this charm-
|rig spot he intends to erect an asbes-
tos house in separable compartments.
The workmen have already left Vlen-
na to lay the foundations of the new
villa.
The frontier defense of the Roman
Empire' between the Danube and the
Rhine has been under examination by
a royal eommissibn for eight yearn,
and the work is nearly completed. At
Carnantum, in Austria-Hungary, an
ancient bakery has been discovered.
The room contained two baking ovens
and a row of charred, completely pre,
served bread loaves. Ancient bread
has been known hitherto only from
Pompeii.
Of all the young men in the country,
only five per cent are members of
churches; of college young men, fifty.
two per cent are members of churches,
~so says Dean Hulbert of the Univer-
sity of Chicago. College !~e has its
~eculiar temptations, of course, but it
abounds in opportunities also, A young
man must grow. If he alms to grow
upward, his college will help grandly.
But he may prefer to grow downward,
Imd ~that the college cannot always
hinder.
A fire recently broke out at Her-
mannsrsuth, an-Austrian village near
the Bavarian frontier. A Bavarian fire
brigade, which was stationed only
three miles away, hastened to the res-
cue, but the Austrian customs author-
lties refused to allow the fire engines
"to Pass the frontier without paying the
:~mual tax on imported machhnery. The
Bavarian firemen naturally turned
back and half the village was burned
~lolm before the nearest Austrian fire
brigade could reach the scene.
"The sound of "a kiss is not so loud
4m that of a cannon," remarked the
Profes~or at the breakfast table, "but
its echo lasts a deal longer." Latterly
it seams topmast before it begins, Nearly
a year befo~ his coronation King Ed-
ward has announced that the cere-
mony 9f kissing by ~ the peers be
omitte~. "Imagine me compelling
Devonshire to kiss me!" he is said to.
have exclaimed. "He would never sur-
vive the ordeal." William IV, who oh-
J~ted to this part of the ceremony,
submitted to it, but declared he would
renounce the ~lngship rather than re-
Deaf the experience.
The humor of the~' locomotive that
"~Puek a cow and e~t it into calves"
is due to an oversight of the proof°
readar. The work of elevating rail-
way-tracks about street crossings, now
• bei~ Duab~d in half a dozen cities of
;~Jnld~dle We~t, is due to a dl~erent
overnight, that of "reform" mayom
lad-aldermen, who believe that. psdes-
trla~ and occupants of carrtage~ have
corporationa are lmmld
tO t the rumlnatinff ~Ow
m~ prom~
Jt~et.
NEW RAILROAD LINE PLANNED
DENVER TO SALT LAKE
Denver, Aug. 31.--The News this
morning prints the following:
The Colorado & Northwester~ ea~l-
way is to be extended ~o Sakt Lake
City. The announcement is ma4e by
Thomas H. Mann. who arrived f~om
Chteago yesterday, and is a guest of
the Brown hotel. Mr. ~L~nn was ,called
to Chicago Mopday by Colonel & B.
Dick. one of the ,prejector~ a~d buikl-
ers of the Colorado &Nortbwesterm
and who recently gained eontr~l ~£ t_he
stock of that road.
Colonel Dick has arranged fay the
construction of a new line ~cross the
mountains, using the C~loeado &
Northwestern as a basis. The route
will ultimately begin at Den~er, thence
to Boulder, up the line of the Colorado
& Northwestern for six miles to Cris-
man, thence northwest, crossing the
main range into Middle park. The
line will then continue to Hot Sic'tags,
across the range into Egevia Dark,
north to Steamboat Springs, west past
Hayden, Craig and Lay, across theI
Little Snake river, 'up the Green and[
almost directly west to Salt Lake City. [
This is the route as projected, al-[
though a closer recognizance may lead [
to minor changes. A number of the[
mountain passes have been surveyed[
and Colonel Dick, who iS the moving[
spirit in the enterprise, i$ in possession
of a large amount of Information and
recorded data concerning the m~st
feasible routes. He has been studying
the subject for three years and a few
weeks ago came to Colorado and rode
on horseback several hundred miles in
order to gain an accurate idea of the
possibilities of mountain railroad con-
struction.
Mr. Mann. who is manager of the
John A. Logan mine of Boulder coun-
ty, one of the best paying mines of the
county, is a close personal friend of
Colonel Dick and is to represent the
colonel in the initiatory proceedings.
He desires to secure at once competent
engineers and will .place them in the
field for the purpose of making the pre-
liminary surveys. Engineering corps
will be sent into Middle park, as it Is
desired to extend the line into the park~
at the earliest day possible. Hot
Springs, in Mlddlo p~rk, and Steam-
boat Sprktg~ ~n ':Routt county, are d~
sirable pohats ~hich are to be reached
by the railway.
The ~ t, all~a~ is ¢o be standard-
gauge .throug~mt and it will be bull~
as oi~e of ~I~e l~nportant llflks of a new
transconttnentM System. It is lnti-
ma~ that an ~m~ers~andlng already
exists between .Senator "W. A. Clarkand
the flna~eietm heh;~nd the Northwest-
ern enterprise by ~:hich the Clark road
from Southern California and the
Northwestern will form one system
from the PaCific ~oast. The distance
by rail from Denver to Salt Lake, it
is claimed, can be r.educed 200 miles
by the proposed r~,ate. The distance
~nnder present rail conditions is 658
miles.
Colot~ S. B. Dick i~ well known in
this ~ate, especially iu northern Oolo-
rado~ He makes his tmme in Pennsyl-
vania, and was the projector and
builder of the Pittsbu~g & Western
road, which he disposed of, making a
handsome fortune. He is a business
man o£ large resources and ever since
the Northwestern road was completed
to Ward, in Boulder county, has been
desirous o~ continuing the line west-
ward.
The Co|oracle & Northwestern, a nar-
row-gauge line, was built about five
years ago. W, C, Culbertson of Gi-
rard. Pennsylvania, was the principal
stockholder ~ud has virtually con-
trolled the policy of the road since it
was completed. The retirement of
Culbertson gave Colonel Dick the op-
portunity he had desired. Within six-
t¥ days the road is to have an entirely
new management, and a vig0~us poli-
cy is to he inaugurated in the develop-
ment of mining camps and in low
rates upon ore and suppl~e~.
The road is now twenty-six miles
long: extending to Ward. A branch is
to be built to Eldora and the present
narrow-guage system will, later on, be
only a branch of the larger'~,
which Is to extedd, to the sheer'of f~t
lake. Boulder wilt not be dm"h~Ld-
quarters of the larger enterprise, as it
will be necessary to establish general
offices In this city. Whether the com-
pany will build a line of its own to
Denver or operate over the tracks of
the Colorado & Southern will be deter-
mined.
FLOOD AT CRIPPLE CREEK
DAMAGES MANY BUILDINGS
Cripple Creek, Colo., Aug. 30.-
Denver News Special.)--Cripple Creek
and the entire district was visited by
the severest thunderstorm in years at
4[:30 o'clock this afternoon. Rain came
