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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." New York
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