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r 7, mil t v nrrn ' t-nllVOERTHAN hVLK , 1 Ul,u LraH BERNHARDT THINKS BICY f CUNQ IS THE CAUSE. ninnmara Dons'I K now f' M llflf I Ttt-Tn. - .... mim Her Ideal Talks of the fan""" ' carah Bernhardt arrived in New k on tli" French steamer La Cham ci.. uaiiI immediately to tha t'ffiiiau House, 'n,,re partmenta hud !" pr,rarfd fur her on thn second T r tiimiP. a spaniel, which waa a - bet"' her nntuerons retinue, seemed f'?o0, ot the attention! Mine. Born ?aj. - bestowing upon her visitor. The r' "' 'rul"'n "c1""11 ,D w iIy bettor health thun she did tiie ', time she came to thin country. Kim looks a row yeurs younger, ner re-...-j .niiiAiirHTif'A she attributes to vrnuito ,.,.------- L.....I,.. ftl.ut ttl.A hfta tMitl Aft. king of laf- , a . If I rumP ngaiu uy jrvura unirt, 11. 1 Ami It f tunnlfl Va Irtrt 16 WlU, Willi a WM w long then, Americana would not reo- HA It AH IICUNIIAHDT. t-i n wn ze me. I0U Know, i w a uictciihi. 9 m 1 . M 1.1 !;. All n...i. m verV I0UU oi ur vljiuk. aii l mi nn wheel now. Perhupa tho improved lipfarunce people notice i due to that. Iweur t lie costnme uiai mwi uiiiuk r bicvcliHta the bloomer' but I al- iit ride in the Boia de Boulogne or iuo gcclndea pluce. "I shall appear here in new play, rieiL ' Then I play, for the Brat time . . . 1 T 11 ... I fcre, tilHIllOIKlB. 1 Kill jirwiuco iu llier new play a -'MuDda and 'La Irmme de Claude, by Dumaa. I fear urodnce 'L'ArtPaieune. That ia not nlav the luniea would line, i am re inu 'La Princt'HHeLointuiue, pnttinfi .re action iu it. Of courne I shall iiT 'La Dame aux Cumeliaa and 'ildrieuiie Leconvrenr. ' I play it every time I come here beoauce it was iu that Aaracter I made my debnt iu the United State and wai successful in it I like all the churnctera that I play, but I do lpve ('ami lie, I can cry every time I pj:iy the role. Oh, I feel the character 4) much iu the pathetic pnrto of it that ler awhile I faucy I am participating a drama in real life, Yon know. ore are many such scenes iu real life," added, with a augseHtion ol a sign. 'How long will I play borer Ma foi, ne eaia pus. Suzuuue (that a Aiue. Tlord, a member of her company). w long do we pluy here? Till the jam February. Urxm my word, 1 rutin t iow. Suzanne, wncre ao we ho ineur 6 Canada? Oh, yes, I remember now I ?ewill then make a tonrof the United fates, uoiuii as fur as New Orleans. Thi-u we so to Enolnud. f'So Yvette Guilbertisetting $4,000 week? Snzanno, how much is $4,006? Tueuty thousand fraucs. Ah, that's a big price 1 But I suppose she js good in her hue. althnnch I don't know her. I heard ttlie wus quite sncofssful iu Paris, bat I never saw her. Yon tee, I never go iuto concert hulls. But I'm glad she is tuceemiful here. Got 1 1,000 for a pri vate soiree? Suzanne, how much is$I, 000? Five thoDsuud fraucs I Ab, well I f But how is it, then," she aked Winwtly, "that Be jane, such a real, gOud artiste, was not successful here? I don't understand this. But the publio Ua riddle that we shall never solve." tvette Guilbert said recently that Mine. Bernhardt wa8"passee" in Paris; that prople said she had lost her sweet voice, it il that Yvette bud found it. i "What do I think of Irviiig'a inter pretation of 'Macbeth?' 1 can't criticise Jim impartially, for I simply adore him. Oh, I a-d-o-r e him I He is the acme of apt It ia uo lunger Irving as Macbeth, out Macbeth a Irving. Oh, I adore Mini Now. there is Sibyl Sanderson, bo is a great friend of miue. I love r very uio.cn. ene is a cuntunus a charming girl. She bus been very iccessful in Paris, aud she deserves noccess. Massenet loves her very uch too. He wrote 'Esclarmoude for r, you know. He thinks she is a very tsltnted woman. And she is.' i"Havo you met theComtesse De Cas llnne?" I "Often. I know her well Do you fciow, she Lns got pretty since she lias teen in Paris? She is a charming wom an. She ia very successful socially. She been received in the best society in farts. She hns dined with Mrs. Mnckny lud Mrs. Ajer and will in time bnv a 1m of her own that is likely to be- Ame feature of Parisian society. She I to build a boose that will doubtless fcrrmss all other private establishments Paris. There is no re.mon why she would not be received in the best so- f'lty. The De Custellanea belong to the t fumilies of France, I've lot of ntter to the effect that the comte burs is wife's) wearing apparel. It is tliiB Fay: Ha counsels her. That is the toper thing to do, as Parisian, you now. He knows better what is suitable ti Paris thun she, an American." "It ia said be is very extravagant at he has already spcut $1,000,000 of 11 Wife dowrv. " Lull Mon Dien, non I He is a veri 'able misr. But he is a good dresser. be reports that he wes seen at the rouville races (Aa! Ah! Yes! I've fad that) in t Prince Albert mrde oi hits linen, wpurina a nink shirt. bite collar and red necktie are only ig jokes. No, I don't believe France would r'rm a passive alliance with (iermany n case tha latter went to war with fcng and. I don't think co-operation in war tween these two countries will ever Possible, But I'm not much of a poli I'eian. Yes, I have followed the Vene oeian trouble. We in France never J bought a war possible. England wonld pot go to war with this country any She ia generally submissive when kfd Dremed. "The new fashions in Paris? I think Xaey axe limply horrid. I don't lik .ff't. t . i ?m " Parl"iaD om,, y bell shaped. They really look like fc.Un. Sleeves? Well. thov arc not as lnro .. formerly. They are not puffed uu the huuldere. Will (lie fluriug skirt be re placed by more graceful clmging ouea? well, i nope ia Small bonnets are out worn any mure. "The prevailing colur of hair? Ha, ha I Well, it ia brown Just now. worn flut on the sides. Cosmetic in very much need in France, and uu in rouge. lea, I (till huvea sroull menagerie, have five liouit, a tiger and several dogs, but I gave my monkey and my ! jeopard to t tie Jardin ilea Plantos." Sural) Bernhardt wan born in Pari on Oct. 22, 1844, and ia therefore in her fifty-second yeur. New York Journal THE MARRIAGE RECORD. Factor Schnrlder I'erronufd 730 Ccrvno- Bl la tha Trar Jut Kndcd. Pastor Schneider of New Yotk, who marriea all the eiu-t aide girls and their ! young men, has just finished figuring np the number of ceremonies he per formed iu lhi)5 and has fouud the total to be 730. This is a record of records, fur it beats anything that Pastor Schneider ever did before iu the marry iug line, aud yet for the past five years be has held the marrying record iu this city, aud it is doubtful if any other minister has eclipsed him during that period. Pastor Schneider is a short, stout. good natured Uernmn, with a shiny bald bead aud a genial smile that has sent conrage into the hearts of many a fal tering couple whose nerve failed them on the very edge of matrimony. He lives in the big four story brick house at 100 Second avenue, right in the heart of the German colony, mid iu oue win dow there is a big glusa sign, which reads, "Pastor Schueidur." At all hours of the day and night the genial German is ready to tie loving hearts together. He will tumble out of bed iu response to a ring at the bell at 2 o'clock in the morning as willingly as be wonld walk into bis front room aud confront a blushing conple at the sume ! hour in the afternoon. He never has a I word of reproach for anybody who comes to him and is as full of advice aa London policeman and as careful of j whom be marries as a Quaker, for if Pastor Schneider murried all who came to him be wonld indeed bave bis bands fulL During the past year be bad to turn away nearly SOPonples whom bis con science would not allow him to nuite in marriage, and there was excellent reason fur bis action in each casa Pastor Schneider does not meun to bave a hand in any fatal marriages. When two youngsters come to him, a most infre quent occurrence, be sizes them op and demands to know what they wont. When they tell him, he puts ou his most fatherly smile, makes them sit down on a lounge side by side, aud then draws a chair up in front of them aud scuts him self in it. He has a stock lecture for such occasions. New York Sun. Sir Claude Maxwell Macdonald, Re cently Appointed by Great Britain. It Is predicted that Sir Claude Max well Macdonald. the new envoy extra ordinary and minister plenipotentiary from Great Britain to Pekln. will prove a great surprise to loose who have not fumillarlzed themselves with his char acter. He is ambitious, capable and shrewd, stands well lu Downing street aud has been promoted with great rap idity. He la not yet forty-four years old. He Is the bou of .Major General James Dawson Macdonald, was edu cated at rpplnghnm and the Royal Military College, mid Joined the Seventy-fourth Highlanders. He lias beeu through a campaign In Egypt, and from 1883 to 1S87 wua employed on special service In that country. Leaving the Cl.AVDB MAXWELL MACPOSAl-D. special service, he was appoluted com missioner on the west coast of Africa, and In 188U he was made the lu- otilrlnif agent Into the administration of the Xleer territories. Then he was sent to Berlin to settle the boundary be- tween the Oil Rivers protectorate and the Cameroons, which errand being ac complished be returned to the const to his duties as commissioner. Mr i ia tine married the widow of P. Crnlgle Rob ertson, or the lutnnn civu service, m 1802, the same year In which he was rewarded with K. C. M. G. for his suc cess In handling the native troubles In West Africa. Lady Macdonald went to Africa with ber husband and. with Miss Klngsley, was the first white wo man to enter the villages of the na tives of the Brnsa River. Gennine Incaa. In the Interior of Peru are to be found to-day many full-blooded specimens of the ancient native races. These people. always gentle, though solemn and tHcl- j turn, avoiding traffic with the wnites. have never forgotten nor forgiven the ; subjugation of their ancestors. To this , day the women wear a garment in i memory of the martyred Atahualpa j a long black apron with a white border. In Peru the climate Is so dry that the dead escape the ordinary process of pu trefuction. The preservation of bodies la assisted by certain salts in the soil. A story Is told of a traveler w no was acnndaU ed bv seeing In a cemetery the ESi of a deceased l-rlesr, lying out In doo oi a i .i the Clear llgiu oi me -uu. ... the curate of the parish for the purpose of reporting this Irreverent exposure. But the curate suld: "My dear sir. you do not understand. That Is the Imdy of my friend which I hnve put out there to dry, so that I may send him to his fam ily In Guayaquil. May he rest In peace!" Thus It comes aboAt that the ancient people of Tern are dug up nowadnys In as perfect a condition of preservation as the corpses of old Egyptians arti ficially mumlfled. O GENESIS OF A SONG. HOW "IN THE SWEET BY AND BY" CAVE TO BE WRITTEN. lu Author Telle an lutereetloa- Story o lu Compoeltlon-Within aa Hoar After the Mr fame Tour Gentlemen Were Rlnflna th Son. In Richmond, a little town of lea Ihuu l.noo inhabitant, almotit on the southern boundary line uf Illinois, live the author uf "In the Sweet By aud By." He is a practicing physiciau aud is uudet tiO years of age. The immortal hymn was written when ho was only 81 and is the single aong of his life. During the civil war a wave of moral elevation and intellectual activity pass ed over the couutry. In this grand awakening of the conscience thcewasa nood ul music martial, reunions. do- niextic. George F. Root aud Stephen J roster wer both writing songs that lived, and Sunday school hymns passed out of the driveling period iuto oue of elevuted simplicity. Just at this time Samuel Fillmore Bennett wai graduated from Ann Ar bor, Mich., and began a newspaper ca reer at Elkhorn, Wis., ou The Independ ent. J. P. Webster, the musical com poser, was living iu the same town, and it was ouly a few mouths before the editor and the musician were collaborat ing. The war intervened, aud Lieuten- aut Benuett of the Fortieth Wisconsin volunteers returned to Elkhorn to open a drug store uud resume his verse writ- , iug. tin ami airs, wensrer Degan in IhOT to work on a Suuday school song book, culled "The Signet Ring," which was afterward published. This period of bis life is the most precious uf all his experiences to Dr. Bennett Not long ago be told the whole story to an interested group of listeners, bis eyes filling with tears as he vindi cated his friend from calumnies: "Currency has been given to the shumeful story that Mr. Webster was drunk when he wrote the music, and another account has it that we were both drunk. I am thankful to do justice to one of the noblest men that ever lived a flue, sensitive soul, with the true artistic feeling. Again, it has been said that we were both infidels, and the song the ribald jest of a carouse. As to my religion, thut is my own affair, bnt the hope uud longing of every immortal soul as expressed in that song were the faith of both of us. To both creatiou would have seemed a farce if infinite love aud immortality had not overshadowed us aud promised a life of bliss beyoud the grave. "Mr. Webster, like many musiciuns, was of an exceedingly nervous aud sen sitive nuture, aud subject to fits of de pression. I knew his peculiarities well, uud when I fouud him given up ta blue devils, I just gave him a cheerful song to work on. One morn iug he came into the store aud walked to the stove with out speaking. " 'What's np now, Webster?' I asked. " 'It's no matter. It will be all right by and by. ' "The idea of the hymn came to me like a flash of sunshine 'The Sweet By aud By.' Everything will be all right thou. 'Why wouldn't that make a gcod hymn?' " 'Maybe it would, 'be replied gloom ily. Turning to the desk, I wrote as rapidly us I could. :u less than half an huur, I think, the song as it stauds to day wus written. Here it is : "Thero's a lunJ (list la fairer than day. And )y faith we can see it afar. For tha Futher wnlts over tl:a way To prepare us a dwelling placa Ultra. CHOIlt'S. "In the aweet by nnd by We shall meet on that beautiful shore Id the sweet ty aid hy We thai I meet ou that beautiful ahure. "We ahull aim on that beautiful ahure The melodious Minga of the bleat. And our apiritn shall sorrow no more Not a sigh for the uluaetng of rest. "To our bountiful Father above We will offer the tribute of praise For the glorloua gift of hia love And the blewlnga that hallow our day a. "In the meantime two friends, N. Ii Carswell and S. K. Bright, had come In I hnnriri the verses to Mr. Webster. a little tremulous with emotion. Ashe rend it bis eyes kindled. Stepping to the desk, he begun to Jot down the notes. He nicked nn his violin aud tried them. Iu teu minutes we four geutlemeu were singing that song. Mr. tt. R. Crosbv cume iu. nud with tears in his eyos said, 'Gentlemen, that hymn ; feotly familiar with every detail of the is immortal.' We were all exoited, ' entire complicated maohiuory. Upon In elated. Within two woeks the children arJiry it wus learned thut the lady, a of the town were singing it ou the streets. "In 1868 'The Signet Ring' was pub lished, the published distributing circu lars to advertise it and on the sheets was 'The Sweet By and By.' Ou the gtrenuthof that oue song neurly 250,000 : copies of the book were sold, l song I woo uitermaiu utuuifui nu m - sic. and it hus been translated iuto a . .l I...... ..! . , .... . i ii ki. mn number of foreign languages. "Webster, Crosby and Carswell are all dead, a E. Bright of Fort Atkinson, Wis., aud myself are the ouly living witnesses to the origin of the song." Louisville Post Warriors Enjoy a Joke. General McAlpin always relishes his little joke, and he always has a good stock ou hand. Now, Captain A. A. Yates of Seheuectady is another great joker, and 'is never so happy as wheu nrnnnnndiua an apparently unanswer able conundrum. The captain's friends know this, and never lose an opportunity of firing conundrums at him. The other day Captain Yates called at goneral headqnartcis, and had the following launched on him by General McAlpin: "Why is Police Commissioner Roose velt like a tailor?" Anty pondored and puzzled and nuai ly reluctautly gave it up. "Why, that is inn easiest m mo o ur " .aid the aeneral. lijcaus be made the saloon keepers close, bany Journal. Al- - - Married A 1 moat ....,-- Tear Wayne county, Iud.. probably p miA of the must remuikable old ..... . for COuyifB ju ui " 1 i " thst matter. They reside on a rarm iu the northwestern part aud are John and Martha Cates. The former ia95 and the latter 98 years of age, and they have been married almost 77 years. Indian apolis Sentinel. Matthew Arnold on SaJUbory. "Lord Salisbury is I dangerous man. i I know of do oue, indeed, more likely I to provoke shocks and collisions than I ma like Salisbury. "-York Otsett. CAUGHT H19 train on horseback. A Ranaway Locomotive Had Many leea tag l'MMDKrr la Tow. Early oue morning the eugintvr and fireman of tin' Santa Fe overland tram, bonud east, wheu tii'iir Cajou puss, im RKned they mw donii'tlniiu on the truck right aliciid. TliinkiiiK the train waa about to be wrecked they fcith jumped. The engineer was rather badly hurt, but when the fireman picked himxelf up out af the dint he found that the engine had made kindling wihxI of a wagon to which two hoi-M-a had been nttachel. Their driver had ncen the headlight of tue eU(,lm, aud had Jumped in time to save bliuselr, ami the animals them selves were rroppitig the dried grass along the roadside, w hich showed that they bad nut been greatly disturbed by the accident. But the train, with uobixly at the en gine's throttle, was plunging away through the darkness, the passenger asleep in their berths, utterly uncon scious that they wero beiug drawn by a ; wild locomotive. The fireman, who had Iwn left bo hiud, thought he would try to overtake the fly ing truiu ou foot. Then he changed his mind and, jumping astrido one of the horses, he set out after the runaway 'train. He knew it must stop shortly, aa ' it had to climb a very steep grade, aud if the firo under the boilers was not kept ' np the supply of steam would not fur nish suthcieut pressure to keep the wheels going around. The vagraut train did stop a mile aud a half from where the accident occurred. There did not aoem to be any reason for an iuterrup- tion of the journey just at that point, ; aud so the conductor ami brukemuu hur ried ahead with their lanterns to ask the engineer what had giveu out When they found the cub empty, of course the trainbands were very much mystified. They asked each other a good many questions, and were engaged in looking np theories to account for the strange disappearance of the engine crew when the fireman came loping along on the horse he had borrowed. After explanation had been tuudo, ho turned his horse toward this city and brought the first tidings the railroad neonlo had of the missing train. A buck j was sent out to the sceuo with another ' engineer, and us soon as steam wus j raised the overland went on over the j bill through Cujmi pass. The sume car j riage brought the injured engineer to the city. Sun r rancisco examiner. ARTISTS AND TRADESMEN. In the Early Iaye tha Former Dad (ttruggle to I.lTe. Among the nrtists resident iu Glas gow who had acquired before 1840 some what of a reputatiou Graham Gilbert, Horatio Mucculloeh aud Daniel Mueuee are those most widuly kuown to geuorul fume. To those men foil the priww of the professiou such as they wero at thut time. Prices were then ou a scale thut would not pie: e the popular landscape and portrait painters of today. The smaller men not very numer ous, it is true, and yet some of them most deserving had a tolerably hard struggle for existence and had to eke out their iuconie by other work than that of regular picture puiuting. Mac culloch and Mueuee themselves made money in thoir younger days by decorat ing the lids of snuffboxes. The average painter was frequently pretty much of a I bohemian, living from hand to mouth and glad to clear off a tradesman 'a bill I by painting the portraits of the worthy I shopkeeper and his wife. I Oue of our best known artists tells how on occasion in the long years ago when he was engaged at a sitter's house on the portraits of a successful clergy man and his fumily the diuner hour ar rived. He was uotconsidered "genteel" enough to be asked to take a place at the table, but the mistress or llie uoubb kindly sent to the parlor, where he wa working, a pate of stewed rhubarb to keep him from wearying while tue turn ily fed. Magazine of Art Is a Countess and a Drearer. A unique occupation for a woman is renorted from Berlin. The proprietor of , iurge brewery there received a request tVn, a Rnmtfan ludv to be shown the juterior arrangements of the brewery. After looking at various processus through which the golden beverage has tn no the ladv inuuired for several do- ' tails of the puenmatio machinery iu the j nialthonse, which proved to the brewer, to hia treat surnrise. that she w as per Russian countess, hud a large acreage of harlev arowiuif ou her estute, and in order to increase her revenue from this ource she hod built a brewery, which ahe managed all alone. She was interested ver- much in the pueuumtio multing amiuratua because she could not get skilled labor necessary for the produo Hm, nf malt on her Russiun estates. Tastiua the product of the Berlin brew eh atnted that her own beer was not much inferior to the German prod net When a few days luter the brewer received some samples of the lady's Russian beer, he prononnced it exoel lent and not Inferior iu any respect to the best Bohemiun or German beer. This lady is believed to be the only woman brewer in Europe. runauei phis Record. An Indian Taboo. The penalty for violating, even un wittingly, the taboo of a gens is a Tiai tationof sore livid spots, inflammation of the eyes and even blindness. The In-shtasuudu, or t hauler gens, no noi touch reptiles, tomls or beetles. Some years ago the vegetable garden of the Omaha mission was visited by the pota to bug. The good missionaries iu charge engaged the children iu the work of ex termination by offering a bounty of fi jeuts a quart, solid meusure, for de funct bugs. As the extinction of the ipec.ies became imminent, some of the funug wits adulterated their bugs liy the addition cf spurious beetles. About this time oue of the little girls became suddeuly covered w ith sores. Her par ents, hoanug of it. came iu consterna tion to the mission. She belonged to the thunder gens, and tho child's bug In i .n. rooted at dice. She had onwit- tiugly been carrying on a traffic in her taboo. Alice C. Fletcher in Century. Cnderatood of tillpper. Slippera pluy an important part In Ibe life of almost every muu. In child hood they are laid on him ; in manhood, just after he hiss been married, they re ihVjwn aftoT him. and for couaidera bla part of the real of his life they are ooder him. Rcxbury Gazette. XOAirSCURSEOFHAM POOR AFRICA FEELS IT EVEN AFTER THE CENTURIES. The Pari It loo of the "Kara Continent" by the rnwere of Turnoe- Hot Twenly-twa Million Square Mllra Not Appropriated. What Karh Nation Helena. Thecoutitieiit of Africa has been carv ed out by Greut Bntain, France, Portu gal, Spain, Germany ami Italy. The area claimed by each of these is as follows: 8.iuatv mllin 2.&TU.KM V.MU.tt.'a tl,o;i Aii.;ii; tf.'.'.UO ttu.uu) P. I Inliim. 0.?il4.lU iti.7.m) i t.iis.itv 4.I7.UV ' a.uo.uu I Orvnt llr.uin J Franco IVruwil ! tiiuun (i.TtiiHiijr .... linly Besides these apNrtiouments Belgium owns the Kongo State, with u imputation ! of 8,000,000 and uu area of S02.000 I square miles. Turkly claims, but Eng i land practically uwus, everything iu Egypt uud Tripoli population 7.U0, 000 uud urea SIIH.OOO. Lilicritt is o j black republic, with uu area of 14.000 square miles and a population uf IJ'OU, 000. Swaziland, under the protection of the Boers, includes uu urea of 6,. 170 j square miles uud 00.000 people under a tribal monarchy. Vhe Boer state, the j South African Republic, has a popula tion bordering ou 1,000,000 uud uu area ! of 112,700 miles, w ithiu which lie some of the richest mines on the continent. There remains unappropriated a total estimated at '."J. 000,000 square miles. Great Britain has becu openly anx ious to extend her protectorate by In trigue, stealth or filibustering, but if France, Ituly and Germany shall com bine to preserve the balance of power iu Africa further aggression ou her part will be checked effectually. Numbers, it is true, are in her favor. Population to the square mile is Irt for British Africa against H for French, 7 for Ger man nnd 10 for Italian Africa. Fleets, however, and diplomatic menace will In convincing uguiust a disparity of colonizers uud natives whose fidelity cannot always be relied npon. The oth er partitioning powtrs are likely to profit by the Venezuelan contention and leave no boundary lines for future SchomburKks to reudjnst or British pre miers to refuse to arbitrate. Chicago Times-Herald. TO COLONIZE ARMENIANS. New Meileo CapltalUt OftVre the Oppreeaed I'rople AUO.uOU Acres of lnd. AiiiailoChnviw, territorial superintend ent of publio Instruction for Now Mex ico, hus addressed a letter to Edward F. Crugin. chairmuu of the Chicugo execu tive committee to aid the Armeniaus, thunkimr him for his suggestion of col onizing these people in New Mexico aud offering to supply tho necessury land free of cost. Sir. Chaves considers Mr. Cruiriu's idea the happiest solutlou ot the Armenian problem that lias yet noeii udvuuced. Ho hus looked into the char acter of tho Armenians and regards them as a vory desirable olass of settlers. In West Valencia couuty, along tue line of the Atluutio aud Pacific railroad, Mr. Chaves has exteuded lunded Inter ests, antl he proposes to pluce at the dis posal of the Chicago Armenian associa tion, free of cost, all the land it may desire to colonize up to 600,000 acres. Or if tho committee deems btt to locate the colonists on publio lands Mr. Chaves offers his services to euuble the people to secure suoh locations. Washington Post. STOLEN, A POSTOFFICE. Wee at Top of Alleghany, Va, and Paid 4 I'er Year. When Undo Sam gets the present woighty affuirs of the nation straighten ed out and cuu give attention to minor details of the government, some uf the people living iu Pocuhontas county, vs., will be glad to have him scatter a few handbills worded soiiiuwhut as follows: 'Lost, Strayed or Stolen. Postolllce known as Top of Alleghany. Descrip tion : Pliiiu country office, paying a sal ary of $4 per milium." The ubove named postofflco has been kidnapped. Prior to 18115 T. J. Williams had boon postmuster. Thou he chungud his residence, leaving W. F. Willfoug as deputy. A thi days since Willlums our ried away the entire postolllce puraphur ualia, aud when lust heard from he uud the postofflee were iu Green Bank, teu miles awuy. Some of the patrons of the abducted office weut to Monterey mak ing inquiry as to how to proceed to get the office bock. New York World. GREATEST ON EARTH. Edlaoa Thlnka Wa Can Heat Kvary Nation, Ilia Mew Phonograph. Edison, the arcat Inventor, was re cently interviewed in regard tohisopiu ions on the war qnestion should we get entansled in one. The reporter says Edison was busy. He was working on a phonograph. He had been trying for 14 months to make a phonograph that would reproduce the uiusio of a piano without a tin tiun aud snare drum ao companiment He had just succeeded and was glorying in the success, finish ing np the lust details. This thing was fully occupying: his time, bnt he drop ped everything and talked for au hour or more about the most terrioie couiriv anoos of offense and defense. "But there isn't going to be any war." said be. "If there is and Eng land fiuhts those fellows on the other aide, she'll whip them, any one of them or all of them put together. She's the greatest uutiou on the globe except America, She's the worakhop of the world, the machine shop of the earth. They can't beat her." "But how about her commerce?" "They can't doatroy it," answered Mr. Edisou. "They don't know how America Is the only nation thut can do that. We are the only people who make urivatoersmen. There never was a suo cessful privateer who wasn't an Amerl cun. "Yes, there are a lot of schemes for killing men thst I've thought about luce this thing began, " ho said a mo ment luter. "bnt w hat's the use or talk lnir about them? I've told of enough al the business. Come and hear a phonograph play the piano with out sounding like a tin pan. And Nothing nooeeedj Like ueeeae. Two week ago Cecil Rhode wa the "uncrowned king of Africa." Now the Loudon papers csll bim "reatles adventurer. " Nothing In England' policy of ierrltorilggrwditeniut fail i i , j , et.l..i.i, tnnrnll lute taiiuxw. im.wv - HAVE VOU NEURALGIA! ometblua About That Ma t.l.ulLj III That r le.h la Hrlr To, Though it may a per strange to ns whu think we are familiar with the commoner forma of uenralgia, or nerve pain, such si toothache, headache and the like, it is not eusy ulwaya to say whether the paiu we are aufferiug be really a neuralgia pure and simple. lu point uf fact, neuralgia is a name for a condition rather thun a disease, aud ouly implies thut iu the course of the nerve in question there is pain thut is uot caused by any disease of l ho puns supplied by thut uerve or of the nerve itself. The causes of neuralgia, then, are to tie found in conditions outside of the trouble itself. Fur iustauce, there may be a tumor pressing upon the uerve uud continually irritating it Iu tho same way foreign bodies, such aa bullets, may set up a persistent neuralgia. Ends of nerves, by becoming involved iu the oonttactiou of a scar, may become suffi ciently compressed to give rise to un bearable pain. Sometimes veins that are near nerves, or follow their course through loug, bony canals, become suffi ciently distended to irritate the nerve. Or there may be poison iu the blood, like miliaria, arsenic or loud, which, by lowering the general vitality of the hotly, contribute to a general nerve weakness and Irritability. Iu a largo proportion of cases the real ! cause of neuralgia is so general as to be quite obscure. The exciting cause or invasion of a single attack of neural gia is usually getting chilled or over exercisiug the part subject tothecwu plaiut. As many of ns know by experience, thn course of an attack of neuralgia ia extremely viirled. Tho pain may be con tinuous, remittent or Intermittent, tern porary or persistent, located at one spot , or diffused over a large area, aim nitty bo shooting, aching or burniug in char acter. By way of treatmeut we may nso lo cully any gtmd liniment, blistering, hot fomentations or electricity. Irou and quinine are of the greatest value inter nally, especially where the aystem is run down or there is a malarial taint iu the blood. Antirheumatics must, of course, be resorted to iu canes of a rheu matic origin. Iu these latter rases there la nothing like absolute rest and regular and nourishing diet Morphine or other opiate should be used but auuriiulv In neuralgia, and never lu case of debility or old age. Youth's Compuniou. Who's Oambettaf " Your improvised chiefs of the na tional defense are simply to many 'knights of the pavement " (chevalier du pave), said Bismarck to Jules Fuvro at their interview at Ferriere a fort night after the fall of the second empire. Bismarck was not absolutely within the truth, though he was very near tn it, but iu this instance he reflected the feel lugs of the courts of Europe with regard to the men whom we now complacently term "the founder of tho third repub lic." Europe hud beard of Jules Favre himself, of Jules Simuu, of Gamier Pago, of Eugene Pelletan (the father of Cumille Pelletan), but Gambetta, Pi card, Ferry, Glais-Bisuin aud naif dos- tKa u'lt.i aiifl.lnlilv firnfi'SUld to pick up the sword thut had fallen pow- erless from the hands of the) marshals of France, in order to stem tho tide of for- eigu Invasion, they did not know. It I " - ... doubtful whether the Frvucb them selves, outside of Paris, knew niirch about their self elected would be saviors. When on tho Cth of September, 1870, Victor Hugo, bi ion and daughter, Mine. Drouais, and several friend left Brussels fur Paris, where the poet ex pected a triumphal welcome, their train was brouuht to a stop at Maubeuge by the side uf another containing part of Viuoy's army that bad escaped the dis aster of Setlun. Mon aud horses were huddled pellmell iu cattle trucks, the men silent and depressed, brooding over their unexpected and blastlike deteut. Hugo tried to cheer them. He leuued out of his carriage aud shouted: "Vive la France I Vive lu repnbliquel" but there was no response, uot even when Mme. Drouuis told the men who was speuking to them. Ou the platform, though, Just as the train moved ouce more, a franc tlrour waived bis kepi uud yelled: "Vive la republlquel Vive Gambetta!" "Who's Gumbcttu? I do uot know Gambetta," remarked the pott to M. Autouin Pronst, who wa seated by bis side. Furtulghtly Review. Meni'fieeoha's Bonaa. Kur must we forget to acknowledge Mendelssohn's power, dlspluyed In muny of bis best songs, of producing effect on ik nmutlrma of h(i hearers bv th Sim plest means. It i true that many of hi 1 melodio creation nave t strong lumnj likeness, but it 1 none the lea true that considerable number may be extracted from hi work wh'cb have perfectly distinct individuality, which can hardly be turpassed in pure molodlo bounty, and which require no elaborate orches tral framework to let them out with ad ventitious Interest I wa much im pressed by his power in thl respect when turning in once during the dead period of the Loudon musical season to "closaical evening" at oue of the promcuade coucerts at Covent Oarden. The house was crowded in every part, and promenade couoert audience are not alwaya very quiet, bnt the ong "Auf Flugeln de Gesanges" wa lis tened to in breathless silence, followed by a borst of applause and a redemand, the repetition being listened to with the tame reverence a before. I remember thinking at the time that to be able to bold large and very mixed kind of au dience pellbouud In thl way by a per fectly imple ong melody repeated in each verae without ornament or embel lishments of any kind and supported only by an equally simple pianoforte ao nomnaniment was a test of geulus not to be despised, while the applause ot the "popular audience teemed very suit able tribute to the composer, who laid in bit kindly way when suggesting that the programme for proposed coucert wa little too severe in lu character, "For tha people have right." Fortnightly Review. Cloth Made From Peat. Peat fiber can be bleached to snowy whiteness and will dye any color. One nf tha oreat advantage of cloth made from neat fiber ll that It IS entirely sun teptio and possesses propertie which render It Inimical to parasitical organ ism- In appear a oca the nner mo are .j t the beat twaed and cIom- 1 . LI. .L. ...,)' kal alilth. r raaatsBJv iu - THE SEA IN HARNESS. MARVELOUS INVENTION FOR PRO PELLING VESSELS. Movement of Sea and Ship Compreesa tha Air Which Supplies the Power Soeeiaa fill Teat Made of Device Company A I. ready Formed to Kiplolt the Idea. A new invention, which promises to revolutionize the coastwise freight car rying Undo, uf the world, was ancceas fully tested in Providence a fuw days since. A number ot the leaning men in local financial circles were present at he trial, and ull were euthusiustio at the success of the device. While many uf I hn foremost invent ors have been spending years iu at tempting to harness Niagara falls an old sailor has stuveeded in harnessing the wean, and, if one may Judge by the success of the model, it will not be long before the cost of fuel will be oue of the sinullest items iu the expense of running a freight steamer. At present tho inventor, George W. Price, has uo intention of applying his inveution to the nse of the ocean greyhounds, but an attempt will be made to use it npon the slower Atlantic steamers. The invention is nothing more nor less tbaii the utilization of the forces of the ocean to obtain therefrom a means of motive power for craft at sea. If there are any two things of which there is au overbuiiilaucc on the ocean, they are air aud motion, and the inventor baa succeeded iu obtaining his motive power from these simple factors, by an in genious device of using a swinging cargo attuehed to air compressors in such a manner that evory mot ion of the vessel, however slight, whether pitchiug or oscillating, acts as a means to compress the air. which, being conveyed to an or- diuury upright boiler, quickly attains the necessary umouut or pressure, wnitili, let into the engine, starts it in motion, and the propellers or twin screw eud the craft riding over the waves. The derails of the device are simple. The air compressor are housed on deck, and any motion of the water force the air into them by means of piston. In a vessel of 8,000 tons only ono-thlrd of the space would be used, aud iu thl space there wonld be a large steel outu partment, which would be hung on trunnions in such a manner a to meet , every motion of the waves. In thi i mi ii fiuiN in inn nirui wtiuiu ipo iiuutcui so that the cargo would provide it own motive power, and when the vessel is empty the compartment will be Oiled with water, lu this way, the iuveutor cluims, the vessel would not have to go iuto coaling station, but little fuel would have to bo carried, and the aery ices of au engineer could be dispensed with, aa a common seaman would be able to manage the new power, the turning of a screw beiug all that i needed to regulate the sieed. At yet the inventor hus devised no scheme for storing the air, so it wonld be necessary for vessels to got np steam when entering a harbor. The test, how evor, ho demonstrated that the inven tion can be nsed with the greatest suc cess at any point not loss than two mile from shore. Mr. Price has also incoeeded In put ting hi inveution to other use. A wa aemonstratea. tue same utilized to run a dynamo, by which th boat can be lighted by olectricity. and to run the donkey engine witn wnion I . 1 11. L. . . i -. . . . 1 ..., Inn n.url II1Q sane BIO l.uienJU ouu .wt,w,v. The inventlou i one of plain me chanics, the force of weight and th power contained in the roll aud twell of the ocean having been used to furnish the motive power. It it estimated that the coat of placing this complete dovioe in an ordinury boat will not exceed $5,000. It can be nsed in any large or mall (ailing vessel. All of the itoek in the present com pany bo already been taken by Provi dence capitalists, aud New York and Boston fiuauoial men are already con sidering the advisability of funning syndicate to control the lubcotupunte in thi country aud Europe. The com pany has already been capitalized for f2&0,000, but the secret ot th inven tion bas boon kept sub ros until th publio test wa made in Narragansett bay. The working modol la soven feet long and is built like an ordinary barge. It Is supplied with swiugtug cargo and an ordinary rudder antl propeller. The inveutor, George W. Price, wa born in Smithtown, N. Y., Jan. 14, 1860. On Murcb 14, 1804, he made bi first voyage as a cabin boy, and from that time until Jnne uf lost year he baa followed the sea. On Sept 4, 1876, h was wrecked on the stenuior Senora, from San Francisco to Liverpool He ha alio been In the United State reve nue service, and bis last position wa first mate on the Benjamin F. Poole. For more than ten yeart Mr. Prio baa been at work npon hi invention, but early lost year he made practical demonstration of the dovioe, and it wa to successful that he decided to leave the sea and perfect bit plant. Hit first step wai to obtain the support of local capitalists, and, being a skillful me chanic he took charge of the work of building bis model, which was done al the works of the Cruikshank company in Providence, Mr. Price does not claim that his Inveution will at present make more than from 7 to 13 mile an hour, ao, while it would be of little value to th fast ocean steamers, the great lav ing iu feel and running expense will make it of inestimable value to the lower ocean iteamer aud the freight aud other vessels that are eugnged in the coastwiso trade. It is to be placed on the market at uuce. New York Journal. ' True Teet of Knowledge. "Watts, you know something about this Transvaal affuir, don't yon?" "I thought I did until I tried to tell my wife something about it" Indian apolis Journal. Curious Iuela. About eight year ago a curlon duel wa fought in Pari when two rival mot st the bouse of their divinity. Aft er a few high words an immediate eu cod liter was decided upon, and neither worda nor pistols being at hand two or nameutulcrossbowi were taken from the walla of the drawing room. An adjourn ment into the garden wis made, and in a few minute one of the lover wa pierced in the arm by hie oppoueut' ahuft. In 1 sj 1 a still mora lingular duel was fought, the weapon! In tbi case being umbrellas. After a furlou struggle one of th combatant fell, run through th y. and aoon ftrward died.