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-v THU OOHVAlAia QAZBTtQ FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1801. MAY BROOKYN'S SUPERSTITIONS. tlve Actress Kept In Her Boom What Seems to Be a List of Omens. In Miss Brookyn's room were writings which attested her superstition. The name of a "test medium and psychome triat" of this city was on a card which she kept. In her handwriting was what ap peared to be a list of omens. It began with an incomplete account of what the months had in store for her. This was as follows: Feb. Avoid O. S. Jane-P. L Aug. Good. Nov. Below this was a statement of what the letters meant. This was as follows; H-Good; deal freely. E Not so good In woman as man. O Very bad. 8 Unpleasant news from a dlafacooj sur prise. A Good; male or female. P-Good. L Very good; male or female. K Good: new friend. V New friend: good; fair man. Don't marry in tt; S6 good. 68or6L 8Q.6S. B Is very good; deal freely. W Proposition; good for flirtation) never marry. O Good; male or female. M Better woman. T New friend; good. G Very good. N Not quite so good; be carefuL She had drawn a rude circle, and there were dots in it as if a pencil point came down in many places. The supposition is that the letters were placed inside a circle, like the numbers on the face of a clock, and she then let the pencil held in her fingers drop wherever chance brought it. The letter on which it hit signified the outcome of whatever she might have been thinking of. Inlhis manner doubt less she found whether the months were to be good or bad for her. She had marked February as a month to avoid and with the letters "O S." Ac cording to the mystic dictionary, "O" meant that February was very bad for her and "S" that she would receive un pleasant news from a distance. Curi ously she did get some news from New York lately, which is presumed to have been unpleasant, and February proved . to be the month of her grievous exit t from the world. cpixitaalistic doctor lingered around the Baldwin theater yesterday until be Could tell Mr. Presbrey, manager of the j Palmer company, that he had received j knowledge of the reunion of the souls of . LoTecraft and Miss Brookyn. The spirit ualistic theory is that when her efforts '. to establish communication with her lov- ' er' spirit failed she felt the necessity of taking exactly the same terrestrial route that he had journeyed on. To employ ; any other poison than carbolic acid might '. net is to keep them parted forever, and se she aobmitted herself to the searching UtJ. She bought the deadly draft is Oohunboa. O., oa Hosr. SO and treasured st utfl afce felt impelled to put the bat Is) t hat llpcSan Frandsoo Chronicle. A WEIGHTY YOUTH. A Tlrgfnta Boy Who Is Oadjr Fifteen Tears Old, bat Weighs S35 Pounds. Wythe county numbers within its population the greatest man in the com monwealth, if one considers his dead weight Melvin Grubb, whose wondrous girth and ponderous limbs make him the daily wonder of his neighbors. He was born something more than 15 years ago and has ever since that event kept his 1 neighbors wondering at his growth. Each year since he was 10 has Been from 00 to 100 pounds added to his weight, until he is believed now to be the heav iest youth alive, and should his avoirdu pois appreciate at the same rapid rate he will soon break all the heavyweight rec ords since Adam. At 13 years of age he weighed 410 pounds; at 14, 450, and now at 15 the scales creak at 635 pounds, and the end is not yet. Grubb is not merely a mountain of flesh, but an active and intelligent boy. He can follow a plow all day without unusual fatigue and is a bright and in telligent pupil of the public school near bis father's farm at Walter's Bridge, 2 miles west of Wytheville. Richmond Times. . . A Haajr Named Royalty. The extra two characters "Chung 1181" containing the name which is to be given to that already greatly benamed personage, the empress dowager of China, in honor of H. L 21. 's sixtieth birthday anniversary next year, accord ing to a Peking letter, have been ordered by edict to be presented to the imperial lady in the middle of the eighth moon of next Chinese year (September, 1894). As it is, her majesty has already 7 names of 14 characters which ministers at court have to labor through whenever mentioning her majesty, but with next September one has to go painfully through the long list of Tze-hsi-Tuan-yu-K'ang - i- Cbao - yu-Chuang-ch'eng-Shou-knng - Ch'ing - hsien - Ch'ung-hsi Huang Tai-hou, or dowager empress, before a bystander could detect that her majesty Is meant. North China Herald. In George Washington's Arms. In Dr. Mines' volume of reminis cences, " A Tour Around New York," the author devotes a paragraph to the attractions of Battery park and adds a pleasing little story of a time before his ownt I remember a dear old lady who loved to talk about this park and tell of the people she had met here and the , scenes she had witnessed, and of these one man and one morning's adventure stood out most prominent. A little thing in white, her nurse had brought her to the park to witness a civic ceremony, and the crowd prevent ed ber from obtaining a good vitw of 0 pageant. As with a child's impatience she tried a press through the throng a tall and handsome elderly gentleman, clad in a msilt of black velvet and with a dress rword at his side, stooped down to ber. Inquired pleasantly about ber trouble and then lifted her upon his shoulder and held ber there until the procession bad passed. - Delighted . with what she saw, the child thought little aboat the gentleman who bad brushed away her trouble, but I we are among or to receive those bene thanked him when he released her with fits ourselves, which whoever will con a kiss and set ber down upon the ground. 1 aider cannot possibly run into either of As he moved away the nurse in an awe- ' struck voice asked the child if she knew whose arms had held her and then told her that it was President Washington. The little eyes watched him out of sight and never forgot his stately appearance. I think dear old Mrs. Atterbary wag prouder of having been the heroine of this incident than of all the social hon ors that afterward fell to her lot Youth's Companion. THE MYSTERY EXPLAINED. Frank Hattou Reviews In Facetious Style Senator Morgan's Hawaiian Report. . Some day, in the sweet by and by per haps, we shall know exactly what Sena tor Morgan's report on the Hawaiian in vestigation really means. We shall know whether it is intended as a manly dem onstration of American sentiment or a suave and servile whitewashing of a dis creditable bluuder whether it is a shriek of the noble bird of freedom or the still email warble of tne lowly cuckoo. For the present we are able to disen tangle from the bewildering labyrinth of its language one isolated fact of mo mentthe fact that Mr. Morgan and a majority of the committee with him be lieve in the annexation of the islands. Out of that wild and tossing sea of rhet oric we have succeeded in snatching this lonely derelict. But all the rest of it is enveloped in a tender haze of volu bility, which, while it accomplishes won ders In the way of stimulating guess work, is valueless as a guide to definite conclusions. The utterance appears to I be confused with howevers and notwith standing and moreovers, and there is in it an opulence of "if so, why not?" pro fundity that baffles exact analysis. According to this astonishing docu ment, everybody connected with the Hawaiian incident behaved like a states man, a scholar, a hero and a patriot. Mr. Stevens was correct, and eo was Mr. Blount. President Dole is a great man on the right track, and Liliuokalani a perfect lady, if somewhat in distress. The United States authorities acted wisely in recognizing the queen's down fall, and the administration has kept well within its lawful powers in trying to set her up again. In a word, the re port furnishes a common ground upon which all men may meet and where all sorts of opinions can find encourage ment and sympathy. As we say, there is just one downright proposition to which the bewildered citi zen may cling, and that is the clear, un equivocal and unmitigated declaration by seven, out of the nine parties to the report that they favor the annexation of Hawaii by the United States. Washing ton Post. HARK FROM THE TOMBS. Conviction of Voters Who Came From New York's Doleful Prlion. Three men were convicted in the court of oyer and terminer on Monday (two of them pleaded guilty) of the offense of : voting from the Tombs in violation of section 3 of article 2 of the state consti- . tution, which declares that "no person . Bhall be deemed to have gained or lost a '. residence by reason of his presence or absence while in the eervice of the Unit ; ed States, or while kept in any alms- house or other asylum at public expense. ; or while confined in any public prison. Tfaa "case of the defendant Cady, who waft found gtrilty by a jury, was peculiar. He had voluntarily resided for sev9 years, without commitment for any of fense, io the Tombs. He bad no other home. He was not qualified to vote from any other domicile. He registered and voted from the city prison, from which i he readily obtained egress, and he was ' tried and convicted. Judge Barrett an j nounced, however, that he would give a 1 certificate of reasonable doubt, so that j the question whether a man without a ' home, except such as he obtains for him self in a city prison, is actually and to- I tally disfranchised, might be decided by j a higher court. The situation is certain ly an odd one. New York Sun. Heavily Insured Slonarehs. The crowned heads of Europe seem to take a great deal of stock in life insur ance. It is announced that the king of Portugal has just taken out a $200,000 policy on his life, but that is an insig nificant investment compared with those of some of the other potentates. The late Emperor Frederick of Germany was insured for $4,000,000. The queen re gent of Spain has her life insured for a large amount in behalf of her two little daughters, following the example of her husband, whose death mulcted the vari ous companies in which he was insured for $5,000,000. King Leopold of Belgium's life is heav ily insured, as is also that of Queen Vic toria. The queen's husband, the late prince consort, was insured for close up on $5,000,000, the income of which has been enjoyed by his widow. About the only sovereign in Europe who is not in sured is the czar of Russia, the companies regarding him as too unsafe a risk on ac count of the nihilists. Boston Herald. High Praise For the Landlord. Two well dressed strangers came to the Virginia hotel four days ago and reg istered from Louisville. They left yes terday, leaving their bill of $17 unpaid, and the following note: "Man's inability to successfully por tray his thoughts, his mental powers be ing incapable to correctly define his meaning, is why I will not endeavor to burden you with an attempt at express ing my thanks for your treatment so gentlemanly, etc., during my stay. Ex tend to your menials also my thanks. May your -shadow never grow less, and may continued prosperity shine in un clouded warm rays on your benevolent head." Staunton (Va.) Dispatch. The Khedive's Favor. It is well to be on good terms with the khedive of Egypt. This young monarch has lately presented a beautiful bracelet to a young English woman who took his fancy, the value of which is beyond cal culation. It is gold set with scarabei, and each stone is upward of 4,000 years old. Some of these belonged to high priests in the days of the pharaohs, and the inscriptions on them relate to magic Alexandria Letter, Fanlta In Conversation. Dean Swift once said: "There are two faults in conversation whioh appear very different, yet arise from the same root and are equally blamable. I mean an impatience to interrupt others and" the uneasiness of being interrupted our selves. The two chief ends of conversa tion are to entertain and improve those those two errors, because when any man peaketh in company it is to be supposed be doth it for his hearers' sake and not bis own, so that common discretion will teach ns not to force their attention if they are not willing to lend it, nor, on the other side, to interrupt him who is In possession, because that is in the grossest manner to give the preference to our own. good sense." 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