Tfcs Dalles Daily Ctooniele. THE SINGER'S FORTUNE. Wn Deatli Separates the Great Pavttl from Her Money. The death of Nicolini, coming as it has before that .of Adelina Patti, prob ably means that a large share of her fortune will fall to American heirs. Mme. Patti has few living relatives. Her nearest kinsman is believed to be Alfredo Barilli, a popular musician of Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Barilli is the son of the prima donna's half-brother, who in his day was also a musician. The half- brother was almost grown at the time of the diva's birth, and it was by him that the voice which was to make her fame and fortune was discovered and given its first development. Many tales are told in the Barilli family of the strict measures resorted to by the elder Barilli to force his young charge and pupil to diligent study, and of the oft-repeated but harmless punishments which resulted when in the exuberance of youth she Blighted her tasks and failed to live up to the possibilities oi her wonderful voice. Although in the brief annals of Pat ti's life little or no credit has been given to Sig. Barilli for his part in hei musical education, the singer herself has acknowledged her indebtedness to him on the back of a large photograph of herself sent to him before his death and just after Patti's first great Euro pean triumphs. On the back of this photograph, beneath his name and hers, she has written: "To my first and only teacher." This souvenir, furnish ing as it does almost the only proof of the elder Barilli's intimate connection with her career, is naturally greatly prized by the family of his son, who still have it in their possession. , , ul t J Alfredo Barilli, an artist and a man of taste and culture, has always been a favorite with his aunt, and has spent several summers with her at Craig-y-Nos. Two years ago his wife and chil dren were invited to accompany him to her castle in the Welsh highlands. Every preparation was made to accept, but Bickness prevented them from go ing as a family, although Mr. Barilli himself paid his respects and expressed his wife's regrets. During Patti's last American tour, when she sang in At lanta, the Barilli family were invited to dine with the singer at her hotel, and were the recipients of affectionate fa vors at her hands. - -. -The death of Nicolini, therefore, places the Barillia in the direct line of inheritance, as the indications are that the great singer holds them in high re gard. They have an attractive and artistic home just outside of Atlanta, in a suburb known as College Park, al though Mr. Barilli's musical studio is in the city. There they live a quiet and unpretentious life. They have never flaunted their relationship with the great prima donna, nor by word or deed encouraged the belief that they had any expectations from her. Her photo graphs, however, are enshrined in state in their home, and every detail of her life is followed by them with the great est interest. N. Y. Times. r. LIBERTY OR REVENGE? Woodealesr Mtsht Have Got of Ja.ll Bat Preferred to Keep Corlclegr In. ' Two one-legged .men were confined recently in a jail ini a little Kentucky town. One had a wooden leg and the other, who was a. greater rascal and had had more means at his command, wore a cork leg. Apparently well-behaved and quiet, both men got the privilege of the prisoners walk which ran around outside of the cells. Beyond this was the jailor's walk and beyond-that was freedom. The, cork-legged man was really a desperate character, but sly and cun ning. He meditated much ontherelationr of the jailor's walk to the outside world. It was only a "step farther," he face tiously told his com p anion., who ad mired his humor. In some manner he became possessed, of a file, with which he converted a case knife into a saw. With, this he succeeded in sawing in two one of the bars of his cell. He made a confidant of his fellow prisoner, who expected to join, him in his es-cape?-; The plan was so well concealed that finally nothinir but one iron Yv wnich couid easily be sawed in two dur ing the night, stood between them and liberty. At almost the critical moment, Wooden-leg, -thrusting his . hand into his trousers' pocket on the side where he didn't feel, found, that Corkleg had robbed him of his pile, a five-dollar bill. He hesitated a moment. Free dom is sweet; he knew that, because he had been deprived of his joys. But re venge, to him, was sweeter. Just as his companion, flushed with success, was almost ready to step out into the wide, wide world, Woodenleg squealed, and the escape was frustrated. The two are still confined in the jail, and, white the one meditates -upon honesty being the best policy, the other ponders over the question: "Is liberty r revenge the sweeter?" N. Y. Sun. Boiled Chocolate Glase. Place a small saucepan over the fire with one pound sugar, one-quarter pound grated chocolate and one-half pint water; stir and boil till it will form a thread between two fingers; remove from fire and stir until a thin skin forms on top of glaze; then use at once; spread evenly all over the ; cake and set a few minutes in a cool j oven. American Queen. j ELEPHANT BLOCKED THE WAY. EmgHsh Cleicymiin While Cycling Hu a St.ra.nare Experience. This story comes from Birmingham, England: The clergyman of a neigh- boring town was returning home on bis bicycle. He had been preaching in an adjoining village, and this means of locomotion was the one most suited to his tastes and to his convenience. The night was dark, and the rays of the reverend gentleman's lamp did not pierce far into the gloom. Suddenly something seemed to loom large, vague and ominous before his eyes. He had a short sensation that he was rushing on to' some unknown doom; there was a collision with something soft and of shape most curious, and away flew the machine one way and the cleric the other. When the reverend cyclist had pulled himself together he heard noises, and there was a gleam of a lantern near at hand, flickering as though in dicative of much agitation. Through the darkness came a sleepy-looking man, rubbing his eyes. From him the cleric discovered that there was an ele phant stretched across the rather nar row road. The animal had been as awkward as "My Lord the Elephant' of Rudyard Kipling creation. True, he was not blocking a rars, tmt he had fallen in the road on his side, ard had stopped there, refusing to move. He belonged to a circus, did this trunked obstruction, in course of transition from one town to another, and since his fall had been left in charge of two men with lanterns, who appear to have fallen asleep. Beyond a few quiet and quaint utterances, the elephart did not mind. What the front wheel of the bicycle thought about it is not known. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. A Chinese typewriter has been in vented by Dr. Slieilield, of Jungcho, China, which has a wheel carrying over 4,000 characters, arranged in 30 circles. It is said to exuted so far the speed of the swiftest Chinese writer, that its value is assured. Heretofore, perfumery has been de tached from flowers by soaking them in lard. A Parisian has now found a way of gathering the fragrance by simply soaking the flowers in water, a process which can be repeated several times without destrojir.fr the flowers. Nearly 48,000 patents were granted by the United States patent office last year, or more than in any preceding year. Inventive genius is evidently active in this country. Not one in a hundred of these inventions will per haps ever come into practical use. The total value of the mineral prod ucts of. this country last year is re ported to be shout $740,000,000. The greatest loss is in silver. The yield was 2,370,000 ounces less than in 1896, and the value dropped about $5,700,000. The gain in gold was 127,000 ounces, or $2,650,000. "During the course of a recent lec ture at Montevideo," says Science, "Dr. Sanarelli stated that the serum he has obtained from the animals with which he has been experimenting, is effective against yellow fever, and that it will very probably cure yellow fever in hu man beings." The Massachusetts cattle commis sioners' annual report, just issued, says that the number of cattle paid for as victims of tuberculosis during the year was 5,255, and the amount paid for them was $179,867. Quarantine and killing expenses and arbitration brought the average amount paid for condemned cattle to $34 per head. INSECT NURSES. Beea aad d Anta That Look After the Sick. The care of the young is always con sidered one of the most important ol the industries of the commune. Among the bees and ants the care of the young is relegated to the younger sisters, al though the elders do not scorn these duties if they find their performance necessary. However, the first work oi the ant or bee just emerged from the pupa state is that of nurse, and a most tender and devoted one she is. Espe cially are the ant nurses solicitous about the health and comfort of their small charges. In some species the young ant grubs are assorted into sizes, those of the same age being kept in the same apartment, suggesting a graded school. When the ant babies are hun gry they tstretch up like young birds. and their nurses regurgitate partly di gested food into the gaping, hungry mouths. The nurses keep them very clean by licking them with their long tongues, and, what is more interesting, are very careful to keep them in the right temperature. When the sun shines hot on the nest in the morning the nurses carry their charges to the lower compartments, but toward night they carry them again to the upper nurseries. The nurses show great in terest in the young when they emerge from the pupa state, helping them to straighten out their newly freed an tennae and legs, then taking a hand at their education by leading them around the city and showing them the ways of the formic world. All the members of the insect com mune are shining lights in their devo tion to the young. The moment an ant nest is attacked those citizens who are not detailed to fight the intruders will snatch up the babies and flee with them to places of safety, or when hard pressed will fight to the death for their protection. This is worthy of note, since it is not the mother instinct for saving her yountr but is a race, instinct f instead, it may here be stated that ihe objects popularly known as ants eggs are not the eggs, but the young i grub ants; the eggs are too small to be seen well with the naked eye. Insect Communities, by Anna Botsford Com stock, in Chautauquan. - THE CARE-FREE VIENNESE. They Rarely Take Life Serloasly, Umv . leaa at a Faaeral. The native Viennese is a jolly, good- natured, shiftUess creature. No people on the earth are so jolly, or so easily and so much amused. Go to the Prater, the largest public park in Europe, and from a hundred different beer-gardens comes the noise of toot ing brass bands and stamping feet and beating-drums. Merry-go-rounds swing old and young, and dime museums and music halls are as full of people as they are empty of decency. Go to the thea ters on any night, and you will find them crowded by an enthusiastic audi ence, the galleries filled by noisy stu dents and working girls. The court theaters, which present only legiti mate dramas and operas, have also their numerous devotees. Go to the coffee houses, of which there is one on every corner, and you will find them full, especially in the afternoon, with mer chants with their , noses in the news papers, and clerks sipping their Mocha, and officers smoking their cigars, and cue-pushing and card-shuffling youths. At night these coffee houses become tihe rendezvous of the lower element. I have never seen the Viennese serious, unless it be at a funeral, and I suppose that even out of that he manages to get some fun.. Yet he is easily excited, and although loyal and law-abiding, his good nature may quickjy turn into a fiery passion, end a Viennese riot is a serious matter. Edward A. Steiner, in Woman's Home Companion. REMOVING THE KINKS. Colored Ministers In AVaslilnsrton Preach That "fleah In Vr.rMty. " The colored ministers of Washington are preaching that "flech is vaxitj" from a point of view which dees not give their white brethren any trouble, says a correspondent in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Dis-piayed in a show window on one of the principal shop ping streets is thissin: "Attention, colored pe3plc! Blank's take-out-kink will take the kink out of your hair and make it silkj scft, pliable and beautiful." Then follow instructions for the use accompanied hy the guarantee of harmlessness. and by other statements calculated to encourage the application of thepreparation. Hut the sign is not what draws the colored peopie to the window and causes them to remain there with admiring- eaze. The bottom of the show window is piled high with black hair in the natural state. There is enough to make a good beginning with a mattress. Above are exhibits of what "Blank's take-out-kink" can do. Switches and bangs and braids and otlher forms of black hair. Foft and glossy and wavy, are shown in strong contrast with the raw material under neath. The sight is temptation. Col ored pastors of Washington have dis covered that the fashion to experi ment with "take-out-kick" is sweeping through their congregations. They are denouncing from the pulpit in vigorous language the wickedness of trying to change the natural order of capillary growth. ANXIUUS I U IVlAUrt 1. Bo Popped the Question Before Ila Wife Waa Dud. I Widowers, as well asi widows, are the targets for many jokes. Here is a story they tell of a farmer in a certain county' not 50 miles away from St. Louis, says the Republic: His wife had been in poor health for some time, and one day he was called in from his work because she was so much worse. The neighbor women told him to hurry to town for the 'doctor. He rushed out to the stable, saddled a horse and galloped toward the village, a few miles distant. As he rode he met an interesting wid ow. Shewas interesting because she had been a widow but six months, and the departed one had left a good farm to her. Of course, she wondered why Neighbor Jones was hurrying so. She called to him to know what was the matter. He pulled up his horse, turned toward her and said: . "My wife is very sick. They don't think she will live, and I am on1 my way for the doctor." He paused and seemtd L about to ride on, but a thought 6truck UIi TT 1 J, J 1 . 1 , . mm. nc ivuueu over xowara xne wiaow and asked, anxiously: "If she does die, will you have me!" She Waa Coatly. ' "The man I refused," she said soft ly, "is now rich, while the man I ac cepted is poor." "Of course," replied her dearest friend, "it would be just the same if you had married the other." The young matron could readily see that this was a reflection upon her, but it was two days before she was able to see in just what way, and even then she wasn't sure of it. Chicago Post. Manitoba Soil. In Manitoba you can turn a furrow many miles long and not encounter a stone as large as your fist. The earth, for a distance down from three to five feet is a rich, black loam, made by cen turies and centuries of .decaying vegeta tion. . .. LOOK OUT FOR A STRAY MOON. Rennd Black BodyUO,000 Mllea Avray Wanted by an Aatronomer. -American astronomers are requested to keep tl:eir eyes' open for a stray moon, which Dr. WaJtemath. of Ham burg, is anxious to find again. His ob ject, says the New l'ork Sun. is to ac count for and control certain irregular ities in coming to time on the part of the old noon that we are accustomed to see. He knows exactly what sort of a moon he wants and where it ought to be. Its apparent diameter is 140 sec onds, but its real diameter is 420 miles, its surface about one-twenty-fifth and its bulk one-eightieth that of the visi ble moon, and it is 615,4300 miles distant from the earth, and two and two-thirds times as far as our moon. This little moon has been seen a num ber of times in the Inst 300 years. Dur ing the seventeenth century it "ap peared as a fiery red ball with a white streak across it. Later observers de scribe it as of the dark gray color of the spots on the moon, and as a round, black body, so that it had probably cooled off in the interval. Cassini, the father, saw it at Montpelier November 7, 1700, and seven other appearances are noted in that century. Dr. Hitter, a Hanover school-teacher, saw it with the naked eye in broad daylight in the neighborhood of Naples June 11, 1855. It crossed the sun from right to left. Mr. Gowey saw it at North Lewisburg, O., September 4, 1879. None of the ob servers had any idea of its true nature, however, till Dr. Waltemath made his discovery. February 3 of this year the little moon passed over the sun, and it will do it again July 30. Its mean synodic course is 177 days,- and its daily mo tion a little over three degrees. Any one noticing its wanderings will please inform Dr. George Waltemath at Ham-burg-on-the-El be. A WELCOME TO A MONARCH. Reception Given by Mayor Col-rln, at Chicago, to Kins Kalakana. Three men were discussing the pro priety of the call made by President Mc Kinley upon President Dole. The dis cussion brought out this story: "I think old Harvey D. Colvin knew how to do things when it came to enter taining folks from abroad, especially hand-me-idown-kings," said one of the two. "He was mayor of Chicago when Kalakaua passed over the country in search of a loan. Colvin was rough and ready, and wore a shirt with a ruffle front and a diamond in the middle, which always made me think of a bar keeper on his day off. When the king and his suite arrived in Chicago, Colvin and his staff were at the station, and the mayor took the king by the hand as warmly as if the king had been a ward politician. The carriages moved quick ly to the Grand Pacific hotel. Clark street was jammed with people clamor ing for the king to come out. The hour was early in the day. At the re QUCSt of Mavor Col stepped out on the veranda and bowed. The populace, unused to sights of kings in flesh, yelled. Mayor Col vin waved his hand and shouted: " His majesty, the king of the Sand wich islands. "The populace veiled. laiicrhfvT iml hooted. Then the mayor, remembering tne eariy nour, turned to his royal guest and said: " 'Well, kins', von mnt Ye tli-oii. Rot ter go and wash up and then well have HOSTILITY TO EDUCATION. The English Are Opposed to the Teaching of Servanta. An American visitor to England who spends some little time in the country, says J. N. Lai-new, in the Atlantic, can hardly fail to become conscious of three serious facts: (1) That there is a strong class-feeling against much educa tion for those who ere looked on as un derlings and servants a feeling more prevalent and more pronounced than the shamefaced sentiment of like mean ness that is whispered in some snobbish American circles. (2) That the "school rate" seems to be the most begrudged of English taxes, the most sharply criti cised, the most grumbled at; and this to a degree for which there seems noth ing comparable in America. (3) That the opposition to secular schools, fos tered by the church and ostensibly actuated by a desire for religious in struction in the schools, is largely sup ported in i eality by the two sentiments indicated above. Looking, there fore, to the increasingly democratic conditions that are inevitable in Eng land, the reluctance and factiousness of disposition that appear among its citi zens touching the vital matter of popu lar education are ominous of evil to the nation, and gravely lessen its chances of holding, under the reign of democ racy, the high place to which it rose under the aristocratic regime. The Meeklenoars; Declaration. The Mecklenburg county (N. C.) com missioners have given a plot of land 30 feet square in front of the new court house in Charlotte for the erection of the monument to the signers of the Mecklenburg declaration of independ ence. Four thousand dollars of the $6,000 desired for its erection has been subscribed. ' Grain in Brazil. The facilities for inJand transporta tion are so limited im Brazil that theh habitants, of the ports find it cheaper to import grain from North America than from their own- farms. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. Greenwich observatory claims that 4t has little clear weather, sun and stars are wholly invisible every other day in winter, 'one day in four in fall, one in eight in spring and one in six teen in summer. In the 20 years end ing with 1896 there were only eight in stances of sunlight for 14 continuous hours. " The number of asteroids discovered up to the present date is 423. A num ber of these small planets have not been observed since their discovery and are practically lost. Consequently it is now a matter of doubt, until the ele ments have been computed, whether the supposed new planet is really new or only an old one rediscovered. Oil can be automatically fed to rap idly revolving shafts and pulleys by a new attachment for ordinary oil cups, consisting of a tube curved the way the shaft runs, with a screw cap at the in ner end, the outer end being left open to receive air as the wheel turns, thus forcing the oil through the cup instead of letting it run to the top of the cup from centrifugal force. It is supposed that a Centauri, one oi the brightest stars of the southern hemisphere, is the nearest of the fixed stars to the earth. The researches on its parallax by Henderson and Maclear gave, for its distance from the earth, in round numbers, . twenty billions of miles. At the inconceivable rapid rate at which light is propagated through space, it would require more than four years to reach the earth from this star. The president of the Agassiz asso ciation, Mr. H. H. Ballard, recently caught an ant near its hill, shut it up in a box, carried it 150 feet away, and set it free in the middle of n shady road. What followed he thus' describes: "It seemed at first bewildered. Then it climbed to the top of a ridge of sand. erected its body as high as possible, waved its antennae for several seconds, and then started in a straight line for home." Last year Dr. Abbott, of Philadel phia, published some researches which tended to show that microbes which could not accomplish the death of healthy animals proved fatal to ani mals under the influence of alcohol. A French investigator has gone a step further, and has succeeded in demon strating on irrefragable evidence that alcohol not only destroys what we may call natural immunity, but tends to prevent the acquisition of the immu rdty conferred by the various serums. , Stories of the ravages of termites, or "white ants," come from the curator of the Australian museum at Sydney, Some time ago they destroyed the roof of the museum building, and it had to be replaced with a covering composed largely of steel and copper. Their work, being carried on in the interior of the timber, does not reveal itself un til the structure is about ready to fall to pieces, and so it was only recently that the fact came out that the ants had also destroyed the underpinning of one of the important floors of the museum. COULDN'T FIND HER. Lady Who Sent Senator: Perkins Her Card Wore Male Attire. The. owners of probably half the cards that are sent in to the senators are unknown to their recipients. Sen ator Perkins one day recently,, in re sponding to one of those unknowns, who happened to be of the feminine gender, told the page who brought the card to show the lady to the marble room. He went out there a few miu utes later, expecting, of course, to be recognized by the lady who had called on him. None of the three ladies in the room came forward," so he politely asked each of them in turn if she wished "to see Senator Perkins." Re ceiving a negative to each inquiry, he started back to his seat in the cham ber when he met, in the corridor of the marble room, the weather bureau man, who is stationed there, and who is often called upon by visitors to point out senators whose faces are unfa miliar to the former. Seeing the sen ator with a card in his hand and a per plexed look on his face, he asked him if he were looking for some one. , "Yes," the senator replied, "I re ceived this card,, and told the page I would see her in the marble room, but she isn't there." The weather man "glanced at the card and grinned. "But she is there, sen ator," he said, at the same time point ing to an individual clad in broadcloth trousers and Prince Albert coat seated on a soft in a corner of the marble room. The card bore the name of Dr. Mary Walker. N. Y. Sun. - ' A Fine Point in Hanking-. Banks do not usually accept checks which call for one dollar more than the amount of deposit, unless the customer is well known, and the officers are con fident that he will promptly make up the balance. Thus, if a check for $200 is presented and the maker has only $192 to his credit, the paper will usually go back stamped "no funds." But one attorney recently got around that. He had, after long dunning, secured a check from a slow-pay debtor. When it was presented for collection he found that the deposit lacked eight dol lars of the amount the paper called for, and payment was refused. Thereupon he promptly deposited eight dollars to amount of the creditor and gained $192 by the operation, for the check was cashetL Worchester (Mass.) Gazette. i! A n III litis U!i Ida It dlpabt tims bch1dul1. abktvs fob. . From Daixxs. Fkom. Fast 8alt Lake, Denver, Ft Fast Mall Worth, Omaha, Kan- Mall. 11:50 p.m. caa City, St. Louis, 8:10 a.m. Chicago and East. 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