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ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, JULY 24 i885.
NO. 51.
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ANDREW JACKSON'S HOME.
"On H'ckorjr'V llo.lj Servant Kelates
Somr Interesting: ViK-ts a4 to "Old M;r
IrcV'lVroll rit!e.
The propos'tion which lias been
ruade, and which is no v before the
I.eis!at'.in. to tender tin; Hermitage
Farm, a first-class tract of some ."O0
acr.s. the property of the State of Ten
nessee, to the United States Oovcrn
nient. for the purpose of having built
thereon a home for the soldiers of the
war of 1-S12, the Floridian war. the
Mexican war. a id all wars prior to
the late Confederate war, is now be
fore the Tennessee Legislature.
The oilier day a legislative commit
tee went out to the Hermitage to 4 pv
out" tl.e property, and their arr.val
and the r pretence iu te completely
broke up the quiet colored people lo
cated on -C)!d Marater's Turin. "
They.eroc to tow to sec Governor
IJa'e about it. They had heard that the
farm was to be sold, and its occu
pants turned o;jt to shift elsewhere.
The speaker of the delegation was
Uncle Alfred Jackson, now eighty-two
years old. one of General Jackson's
old-time servants. He was in great
trouble. He sa'.d to the Governor:
Gin'l Bate, I done heard dat you're1
gwine to turn all us old Jackson' nig
gers out, and I come here for to find
out about it."
"lV.ua w, Alfrod! Somebody has been
fooling you." s-aid Governor Bate.
"Don't trouble yourself; go home and
rest contented. You can live at the
lie: m tajje a long time yet. and 1 will
see that )o;i are not disturbed."
The o'd darkey took the Governor's
assurance W:th such good grace, and
scorned o well s it'slied with the turn
things had take.i the World reporter
ventured to pump him as to General
Jackson's pecul antics.
Uncle Alfred," sa d the reporter,
'wasn't the General pretty liiflrh-teni-perel?"
"Well, young n.arster. dat depins on
de c'rcuni-tanees. He wouldn't allow
for no man to '.- ute his word: and he
wouldn't allow no man for to cry him
do.n. He were jokey and full of fun,
but whenever he said by the eternals
Go 1!' den everybody knowed just what
he said."
"Dis here statue out dar," said Uncle
Alfred, pointing to the bronze General
rampant, "dis h.-re statue looVs like
b in af out de head and face, but one
at New Orleans is de 1 est. I was dar
at ho ne when Mr. Healey ::n I Colonel
Earle pa'nUd de portrait of de. Gen
eral." "And you rem m' er their visits?"
"Ob course. 1 does. I ain't lived wid
any udder white people. 1 were lorn
at de Hermitage in 1803. and I were
twelve year old when o'd marster left
Nashville for to fight de battle of der
New Orleans. 1 remember when old
marster died in 1840, for I wer staudin'
right dar longside of his bed. -He wi r
d greatest man what ever lived every
body sa d so. and all of his black peo
ple believed it." Xa.hcille Worli.
THE "V.CTORY.
How Lnrd Nelson's Flag-Ship Survives thi
1-apse of Three-Ouartr of Century.
I feel quite sure that few American
boys have visited Lord Nelson's Hag
ship, the glorious old "Victory," on
whose deck the gallant Admiral re
ceived his dcath-wonnd October 21st,
l.v05, in that famous battle in the I3av
of Trafalgar The "Victory" led the
attack against the combined navies of
France and Spain. It was Lord Nel
son's mightiest victory, and the power
of France on the ocean was destroyed.
The good old ship .--till presents a. line
appearance and looks strong enough
for another sea-tight. Few of her orig
inal tmbers remain, however. The
"Victory" floats high out of water, and
her ports, from which the cannon have
so often proclaimed England's victo
ries are mostly closed, and the few
guns o l board are used only for tiring
sabres. The British Hag still waves
fro 5. 'he m i t and a small company of
sail n'.i U-ii'-l tiivi ship.
After coming on board, an escort is
provided. Visitors are requested to
register the:r names and contribute a
tr'me toward paying for this escort duty
ty the crew, whose chief employment
is to show visitors the interest ng
places on boar I. We first went on the
m iin-de -k. A brass plate set in one
part of this deck is inscribed: "Here
Nelson fell." Our gu de said that
"Lord Nelson had no right to stand
near this spot," and that "ne was
k lied by one of his own men, who shot
him from the cross-trees;" but we did
not care to listen to such a story, be
lieving, rather, as is indeed the truth,
that Nelson was killed by the en my.
The great deck, as it now appears
withoul a single gun. looked lonely
enough, and we descended, by way of
the d'ecks between, to the cock-pit,
where the gallant sa lor died. It is a
damp. gloom' and silent place,
where, on tliat eventful day,
and at the close of Nelson's great
est battle, the great chief was
tenderly carried. The gallant sa lor
had re ,ue-ted that a mantle be thrown
over hini, so that, as they passed
through the decks, lie ni ght not be
reeogtii.ett. lest his crew should lose
heart in the desperate struggle.
Around him. in the moment of death
and of victory, stood a few of his
faithful oiheers waiting for h's spirit
to take, its light. It was at South
sea that the hero had embarked to
liirht the enemies of li s country. The
spot is now marked by ohcof tile "Vic
tory's" old anchors; and to the same
spot, later, came the return ng boats in
solemn proems-ion, one of them bearing
the remains of the hero of Trafalgar.
What a cntra-t! England can well
a fiord generous honors to such a naval
chief. IT. Thom'on I'arkzr, M. !., in
St. Si I tolas.
"Are you going to Newport next
summer?' asked one actress of an
other. .'No; I don't think I w 11. I
can't afford it." 'Can't afford it?
Why, you have made over -'o.ooi) so
far this season." "Yes, 1 know; but
vou seem to forget that I have a hus
band to support." l'uck.
. A freak of nature owned by a
Tinner at Derry. N. II., is a ca'f with
two noses, two tongues and three eye
KING MTESA.
The Most Notable I'otentuto of Purel.V
Js'atlve Orlcln Produced by the Dark
Continent. -
The King of Uganda, whose death we
announced on Wednesday, was, for
Africa, a remarkable man, probably the
most notable potentate of purely native
origin that the dark continent has pro
duced. According to the estimate of
Colonel Grant, who, with Speke, was
his guest twenty-three years ago, Mtesa
whs probably not more than forty-eight
years of . age at the time of his death.
ind, having succeeded his father, Suna,
m lo.x, he has nejrneu twentv-eiirht
years. The Waganda have the names
f thirty-live Kings who have reigned
down to the time of Mtesa in regu'ar
successimi, ami, as Colonel Grant points
uiti,.iiif i.rooaoiv account lor the
blue b;oou and vanity which certain
ly ran in tle veins of Mtesa. Tlrs van
lty conies out in all the narratives we
have from foreign visitors Speke and
(rant, Stanley, and Wilson and Felkin.
It was ecu-able in a potentate who
had probably never been a hundred
miles from home, and who had never
t onie into contact with any greater
power than his own, to send ambassa
dors to the Queen of England, aud to
believe their reports of the insignificance
of the British Kinpire as compared with
Uganda. Probably, however, no other
native African Prince, not even the
Muata Janvo hini-eif. had Iteen able to
organize a state so comptetey and
make so great an advance toward eiv
iliat'on as the King who has just died
and his predeji ssors. Colonel Grant,
who knew hint we'd, speaks of him
(Froc. R. G. S., vol. v., p. 47l) in terms
of real respect, and his estimate is es
sentially supported by such men as Sir
Samuel Baker and Mr. Stanley. We have
all read the hitter's long, interesting aud
dramat c account or his many conver
sations with Mtesa about civilization
and Chri-t:an;ty. As we know, th'e result
of Mr. Stanley's visit was that Protes
tant missions were established in the
country, and, acceding to the mission
aries' own reports, have had gratifying
success. But Mtesa wa.s much per
plexed when he learned that there are
two Chritian reiig'ons, the adherents
of wh'ch are as hostile to eaeli other as
both are to Mohammedanism or heath
anism. For a time, we believe, the
Komau Catholic emissaries succeeded
in placing their Protestant brethren
under the shadow of Miesa's neglect,
if not absolute displeasure, and in the
end he and1 his chiefs abandoned both
and reverted to Mohammedanism. As
ni'ght be expected, the missionaries
from their point of view do not speak
so favorably of the late King as the ex
plorers. Certainly from the European
point of view Mtesa was guilty of great
cruelties; but. as Colonel Grant shows,
these apparently indiscriminate sacri
fices of human hie were really, the recog
nized and organized modes of admin
isterinr justice in Uganda. Mtesa him
self was evidently a man governed
largely by impulse. It was a good point
in his character that, when Colonel
Grant visited him, he made a point of
vis ting his mother every two days at
least. When Baker, as V.'oldtiel Grant
reminds us, was all but d feated by the
Wanyoro, a force from Uganda arriv
ing in the distance was the Anise of the
dispersion of the enemy. Mtesa for
warded letters from Baker to Living
stone by his swift-footed soldiers, who,
after a journey of six hundred miles,
found the veteran traveler was dead.
These and other facts, which may be read
in the pages of the truve'ers we have
mentioned, show that Mies v was c.u a
ble of taking a real inter, si in matters
far outside the rane of the ord nary
savage m'nd. His army, wonderfully
organized and dieiplined, Mr. Stanley
stimates at l'o.'M) men, and his licet
at ."' i canoes. The population of
Uganda proper is probably about a
m il on. but with neighboring depen
dent territories about three millions. The
capital is fnely situated on the slopes
of the north shore of Lake Victoria Nv
anza. fiom which, as Mr. Stanley's il
lustration shows, a broad path leads up
to the royal quarters. It is gratifying
to learn that there have been compara
tively l.ttle violence and bloodslr.-d at
the change of monarchy. It used to be
the custom at the coronation of the new
King to sacrifice his brothers, a custom
which the latter evidently regarde 1 a.s
perfectly natural. Mtesa' s brothers, at
the time of Colonel Grant's visit, went
about in chains, but all the same, and
though conscious of their fate, "con
versed, and attended icnies, and
boated, and played musical instruments
with their brother, the King, with per
fe "t freedom of action and of speech."
What all the outside inlluences have
b n that have had a civilizing effect on
Uganda before it was discovered by
Europeans, w.; do not know: what they
have been since we do know pretty
fully, and the results so far have been
on the whole goo l. It is to be hoped
that, under the young prince who now
succ els his father, this native state
may be allowed to develop itself along
its own lines, without any undue at
tempt to force it into European grooves;
above all things both prince and peo
ple pray to be delivered from European
"protection." London Times.
Recently some wood-cutters in
Wuiteniherg came upon the remains of
what seems to have been an extensive
set of farm buildings of the Roman
period, the upper story of which w as
built in compartments. A subterra
nean hinting chamber wis also found;
at least this may be inferred from the
lows of short pillars, on which Hags
rested, ornamented with tiles? both
Hags and tiles being perforated with
holes to allow the escape of heat to the
chamber.
The following is a new remedy for
blackleg in cattle, and it is said to be
excellent: Add to one hundred pounds
of salt ten pounds of sulphur, six pounds
of copperas, three pounds saltpeter and
three pints of flaked lime. Mix and
feed in the same manner as. when fee l
ing salt.
After suffering some days from
rheumatism, a she supposed, a Mich
igan woman consulted a physician, and
was astonished upon learning that her
shoulder was out of joint. She has no
idea of how or when Lhe accident oc
curred. Detroit l'ust.
WILLIAM PENN'S RAPACITY.
Tlio Delaware Flailing Question A Grant
that Han Lleen Disputed for Two Hun
dred Year.
lhe Delaware fishery question If an
example of the cases which have made
every lawyer of prominence in New
Jerrscv an antiquarian, with all sorts of
curious facts at his lingers' ends. Ex
Attorney-General Robert Gilchrist en
gaged in the fishery case in 1873, nnd
he has been associated with Cortland
Parker, John P. Stockton, ex-Secretary
Frelinghuysen and others in its dis-
cussion. and Secretary Bayard has
championed the claims of Delaware.
Mr. Gilchrist s connection with the case
has made him curiously familiar with
the times of Charles II. and with the
lMJculiarities of the Duke of York and
that "able politician" William Penn,
who seems to have been successful in
getting almost anything he wanted
from the Duke until the latter ran away
from Whitehall and threw his great seal
as James II. into the ltivcr Thames.
One of the strange phases of the Lei a
ware chilm to exclusive privileges on
the Kiver Delaw are aud Delaware Bay
is that its people, or some of them,
iought the claim a hundred years ago
and up to near the beginning of the
present century repudiated the guileful
yuaier 8 claims. ivir. i cun was a
grantee under the Duke of York as a
Jer-evnian, and a claimant from the
same source in Delaw are and Pennsyl
vania. The Jersey grant, in 1(:$-G4, re
newed after the Dutch defeat in
io 4, was made to I enn among
others, and the claim for Delaware was
subsequent to nnd inconsistent with
tins. jev Jersey s titles to land were
confirmed in 1702 and by the Revolution
Delaware's claim to the fishing privi
leges and to the right to keep Jersey
men from the waters of the river date
back to 1GS2. William Penn had ob
tained the grant of Pennsylvania, but
when he arrived he found ten Swedes
in Delaware occupying the fair water
front. He fixed lustful eyes upon the
place, and at length got a grant from
the Duke of York for the town of New
castle and all that lay within a twelve-
mile circle thereof. The Duke, unfort
unately for Peun, had no right to make
that grant, his brother. King Charles,
having never given it to him. Penn
evidently understood the deficiency in
the grant, for when the Duke became
King he got his dee.1 redrawn, and it
pa.-sed through the preliminary stages
and needed only the King s great seal.
Just :;t this juncture Kiug James
thought London was getting too hot for
him and ran away. It is recorded in
an ancient chronicle that 'during an
unguarded moment that able politician,
Penn, confessed to the Board of Trade
that had King James remained two
days longer at Whitehall he would have
obtained a grant under the groat seal
for the three counties of Delaware." In
17U8 the Delaware Assembly knew that
Penn had a claim on the counties, but
denied its legitimacy, and before that
the King ami council had repudiated it.
There was a war over the possession in
1 io4 between Lord Baltimore s men and
the Penn tenants, and again the council
decided that the province belonged to
the crown: and in 17'Jl the people of
Delaware themselves formally, at a
popular election, decided that the crowu
ha l possessed the State until its claim
had bi-en transferred by the Revolution.
It has seemed strange, therefore, that
the Penn grant should be made the basis
for a claim in the river, which had been,
in fact, always possessed by the crown,
or general government a fact the Dela-
wareans had Used violence to maintain.
The Penn grant, which was never
really granted, has therefon; been a
ub ect of dispute for nist two hundred
and two years. Rejected at first by the
residents of the colony, admitted to be
void, fought by Lord Baltimore "with
drawn swords," fretfully alluded to as
i s nrce of trouble by the Delaware
Assembly one hundred and fifty years
ago. formally repudiated by the Jxing
and Council, rejected again by the Del-
awareans, further invalidated by the
Revolution, it might have been consid
ered as itead as the wily 1'enn himself it
it had not come forth as an argument
upon the ipiotion or who owned l ea
Patch Island in the Delaware River forty
years ago, and had not then been mip
und rstood and miseontrued so that
Delaw are was able to lay some claim to
its genuineness, and, a few years ago,
set up that it was, as heir to Penn's
privileges, the sole posses-or of juris
diction over the Delaware River within
twelve miles of Newcastle, and has the
right to make Jerseymen pay a license
for fishing therein. An injunction of
the United States Courts has sustained
operation s;nce, and is admitted to be
effective still. The end is not vet, for
the case is not fully adjusted. It affords.
at least, a glimpse of early colonial his
tory wh oh is not without interest.
Trenton (A1 .) Cor. X. Y. Tribune.
RUSSIAN OFFICIAL LIFE.
IVfll IVumled St :tN-ment of the Corrup
tion of Hus-thwi Officers.
I wonder if the reports of the corrui-
tion of Russian official life are all true.
I remember a gentleman connected
with an enterprise having an establish
ment in a Russian Pacific port, telling
me of the miserable condition of the
place and the people.
"Does the Government do nothing
for them?" I asked.
"Yes; that is, the Government gives
an appropriation, but tho jdacc never
gets the benefit of it."
"Who does?"
"Tho officials. There was a Gov
ernor there onco who received an ap
propriation of some sixty thousand
rubles to be 'devoted to the improve
ment of the towns. He had no plae
to keep it no safe; so he built a brick
kind of man oleum in the garden or
back-yard of his official residence, which
was completely closed with brick or
stone. It was never opened.
"I don't understand."
"Another Governor came out find
took this one's place. He d d not dare
to open that mausoleum, so it remains
closed till this day."
"Why?"
"Because the money is not there. It
never was put in, and the olhcials have
to stand in with one another. un
Frit iicivco ( 'hronii lc.
STYLES FOR GENTLEMEN.
Novelties in Neckwear, Hose, Gloves and
Handkerchief, Suspender "With Ii:t-
iiioii.l Ituckles A JU'iuarkable Outflt foi
rt Chiciiffoan.
"l'laids are all the rago now in gen
tlemen's neckwear," said a dealer in
men's furnishings. 'The tendency of
tho day, too, is toward an increase of
color. Everything nearly, except for
full-dress evening toilets, is bright-
hued. The plaids are broken, similar
to those seen in ladies dress fabrics
this spring, ami in pin-hea l checks.
The styles are the 'four in hand,' which
has been popular for some time, the
Gordon knot,' which Is. a similar de
sign.4 partial Itlats, and small flats.
'Dude bows' 'are used t-xclusively for
evening wear, and all come in fnts,
white be'ng now excluded in neckties
as well as in gloves. This is the style,"
and he displayed a tray containing
small. Hat bows of pale heliotrope,
p'nk and blue, with tiny polka spots of
deeper color.
"Are turn-down collars still consid
ered stylish?"
"Certainly, -although' there is a dis-
Iiosltion, transient, -of course, and
lotind to disappear with warm weath
er, to affect verv high standing ones.
The extreme style can not be becoming
to any neck, no matter how long or.
scraggy it maybe. No man looks well
whose head appears to. receive its sup
port from an expanse of stiff, board
like linen, that completely conceals
even a suspicion of his neck from the
gaze of the world. It may be illustra
tive of a superb triumph of modesty
and a rebuke to the feminine decollete
bodice, but it is far from enchanting.
The highest collar we sell is two and a
half inches wide; the narrowest three
fourths of an inch."
"Do half-hose still come in fancy de
signs?" !
"Oh, no, that's all out. Thev are
all in plain colors this season and near
ly all in green or brown wood-tints.1
Lisle thread is the standard, of course."
"How about the full-dress sh rtr I
"That has tho bosom made in small
pla'ts, twenty-one being considered the
requisite number. It is open m front,
and handsome studs, small in design.
are worn in it. Pearls are just now in
favor, ecpecially w th ultra exqirite
young men who profess an extra
amount of refined perception and senti
ment. No, there is little change in
underwear, except that the colors are
quieter and in silk goods the natural
tint is more worn than the dyed."
"What is the regulation giove?"
Tan color, whether for evening or
street wear. I hose for the street are
stitched up the back and of a deep red
tan, while those tor evening wear have
plain backs and are of a golden tan
liue. No one wears white erloves tow
but wa:ters."
'Are silk handkerchiefs in vogue!".
"Not to any extent except pure white,'
with a monogram in one ruer,.or the
pin-head check in black and white.
The linen handkerchiefs with colored
borders now show only a mere line of
color. The hem-stitched white is no
longer carried. The most fashionable
handkerchief for gentlemen now is a
twenty-four inch square simply hemmed.
Ihev are used on all occasions. (
"Here's a mighty nice thing for a
present, continued the gentleman,
taking down a box containing a pair of
satin suspenders, embroidered with
moss rosebuds and leaves, and having
gold-plated buckles. "Now, these sus
penders are lined throughout with k'd.
Notice how beautifully they are bound,
l'hev are just the thing tor a birthday
gift to a young fellow. These are wed
ding suspenders, and he showed a cou
ple of pairs of pure white, eluoossed, :
with silver buckles. These are only 4
a pa'r. Fine suspenders run from !?:5
per pair to 815 or O, or where jewels
are set in solid gold buckles, they may,
be got up to bo worth more than the
price of a fine farm.
"Speaking of weddings, he added,
I furnished tho outfit not long since-
for a gentleman who married a Chicago
girl the other day. It was a dasy out-
lit 1 can tell you. He had several su.ts
of spun-silk underwear, none of which
ost less than ?co. Ihev were all in
the natural color. His hose were de
lightful things of beauty and joy, and
it d'd seem almost too bad to think of
holes being made in them by horny toe-
na Is and corns. His handkerchiefs
were twenty-six inches square,
with a monogram in the corner of
each, and worth !;?.o) apiece. With
the exception of his wedding suspen
ders, which were of the accepted nup
tial tint pure white they were all of
atin, and embroidered. His night
robes were of surah, part being cream
tinted, with polka spots, some of pale
blue, others of gold and various hues,
and furirshed with silk cord and tas
sels. They were made with rullles
and puffs from the waist up, the
sleeves being ornamented. The exclu
sive wedding garment was, however,
of the same. original color as tho sus
penders, and most lavishly trimmed."
"lie was a very youthful bride
groom, no douot, hazarded tho re
porter, gently.
"rsot so very somewhere betweer
forty-five and fifty."
"And the bride?"
"Oh, a glowing girl about eighteen
or nineteen years old. 1 chanced t:
have an opportun ty to see her wed
ding night-robe, too. It was a most
beautiful creation of Canton crepe, a
mass of embrodery from the neck to
the floor.' I tell you, there were lots of
magnificent trappings to set off thai
marriage." Chicago News.
Scientists tell us that there will not
be a total eclipse of the sun until 19U9.
This is a -ery discouraging state ol
things, truly; and some persons may be
unwilling to wait so long to see tho
phenomenon; but if we continue to get
three meals a day, and tho peach-crop
doesn't fail oftener than onco a year,
nnd that in February, we should try to
worry along without a total eclipse of
the sun. Norristown Herald.
"Why should a red cow give white
milk?" was the subject for discussion
in an Arkansas literary society. After an
hour's earnest debate tho Secretary was
instructed to milk tho cow and bring in
decision according to tho merits of
lhe m lk. It was blue.
New York women put tissue veils
on their poodles to protect them from
dust. A. 1. h:in.
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PRESIDENTIAL AUTOGRAPHS.
I
How the Presidents of the United States
Signed their Name. J
We reproduce below in fac simile the sig
natures of all the presidents. They are taken
from historical documents In tho possession
of Mr. 12d. W. Bok, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
GEORGE WASHTXGTOIC
What firmness 'and dignity is expressed hi
the signature of v ashington. Ilia writing,
like everything else he did. was executed with
rare deliberateness and ability.
JOHN ADAMS,
The above autogragh is taken from a letter
of John Adams while he was vice-president.
He was precise and methodical in his letters, as
he was bhrevvu and sagacious in business.
THOMAS JEFFERS0IT.
Thomas Jefferson's hand was just 'such a
one as a young man acquires in college, where
little attention is usually paid to penmanship.
His signature was graceful and dignified com
pared to his other writing.
i i
JAMES MADISOIT. j I
Madison was another college graduate, but
his "fist" was firm and plain, I
JAMES MONROE. j
Monroe was a busy man and did not waste
much time on his autograph. J
JOHX QUIXCT ADAMS.
John Quincy Adams' chirography was as
graceful and formal as copper-plate script.
ANDREW JACKSON.
Andrew Jackson subscribed himself as if,
"By the Eternal," ho meant it. He bore so
hard on the paper as to force tho ink
through.
MARTIN VAN BUREN.
Tho alwve signature of Martin Van Buren's
was written a few months before his death,
in 1SC2, at the age of 80. j
WILLIAM HENRT HARRISON.
Harrison wrote in a cramped, j ungainly
hand. His education had been neglected, for
at the age of 19 bo was engaged in an Indian
war.
JOHN TYLER.
Tyler wrote but little, and judging from his
autograph it was hard work to accomplish
that which ho did.
JAMES K. POLK. i
James Knox Folk considered that a few
characteristic flourishes would add impressive-
ncss to. his signature.
ZACHART TAYLOR.
Stern and bold like its author is tho chirog
raphy of Zachary Taylor. j
MILLARD FILLMORE.
One year before his death in 1374 ex-Presi
dent Fillmore indited the above. He was
born in 1800, so that his hand had lost much
of its early grace.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
Pierce wrote in an old-fashioned, digniflod
way. lie did not spare paper. He would
scrawl a few words over a whole sheet. :
JAMES BUCHANAN.
Staid and formal was the writing of bacho-
lor Buchanan. I
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.,
Honesty and homeliness characterized the
handwriting of Abraham Lincoln. Ho wasted
little timo on his signature. j
ANDREW JOHNSON.j
Painfully labored -was Johnson's penman
ship. For a man who was apprenticed to a
tailor at the age of 10 it is all that could be
expected. j
TT. 8. GRANT. I
Gen. Grant writes in a bold, firm, decisive,
rapid way. As a boy he wrote it U. H. Grant.
RUTHERFORD B. HATE.
Liko tho scratches of his favorito hens does
Rutherford's pon make tracks over the paper.
He is saving of both ink and paper.
JAMES A. GARFIELD.
A clear, bold, business-like writer was Gar
field. Ho was a rapid writer, attending per
sonally to much of tho voluminous correspon
dence which accompanied his busy life.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
Ex-President Arthur writes rapidly. From
the start to the finish of his signature his pen
never leta go of tho paper even to cross the
ts."
G ROVER CLEVELAND.
Tho President's manuscript is positively
painful to decipher. Tho style is sharp and
incisiva Ho writes with lisrhtnimr rapidity
nd with little regard for the reaur. .
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A JUGGLER'S LUCK.
Frank Xaonl Win Fifteen Thousand
JoIIarH.
" Look here, Frank," fi.id Ike Marks,
the stage manager of the Vienna Gar
dens, "I've got a, coupon of the big
Louisiana drawing: don't vou want
to buy it?"
The man addressed was Frank Xaoni,
a juggler and balancer, well known to
the patrons of the variety theatres of
this city as a neat perfornicrand a nice
little fellow. lie was generally pet
down on the bills as "the celebrated
equilibrist," and really the way in
which Naoni played with unwieldy
objects and seemed to ignore the very
existence of a. centre of gravity was
quite remarkable. Naoni looked at the
lottery ticket coupon, remembered the
number of times he had plaj'ed and
lost, hesitated a moment, thought he
would have one more try and bought
it. He tucked the coupon in his vest
pocket, with but a glance at the num
ber, which he read as 51,100, and then
forgot all about it. This occurred alxmt
the 1st of the month, and on the lGth
the extraordinary drawing took place,
the capital prize being $150,000. In
the mean time Naoni had gone on in
his usual course, playing at Wood
ward's, working at some apparatus and
never thinking enough about the little
crisp piece of paper in his vest pocket
to tell his wife he had it.; On the 17th
some one asked him if he had looked
at the telegraph list of first prizes in
the Chronicle, lie said f'No," got the
paper and found that the capital prize
was No. 51,10G. j
" By ginger," he exclaimed, " that's
just close enough to be mean."
"Why, what's your number?" asked
the friend.
"Just six this side of that," said Na
oni ; "its 51,100." j
He felt blue for the moment to think
how closely Fortune had rolled her
wheel by him, then brightened up and
went home to 108 Sixth Street, deter
mined to close up the episode by play
ing a good-tempered practical joke on
his wife. I
"Well, little woman,') he said, "I've
drawn the big Louisiana lottery prize."
"Guess not," said Mrs. Naoni, who,
in reading the paper that morning had
noted the number of the capital prize
and had wondered whoj the lucky hold
ers might be. "If there was anything
so good as that to tell,"! t-he went on,
you wouldn't come creeping in : you'd
come in with a whoop." ,
"Well, look here, if you think I'm
joking," said Frank. With which he
pulled out the coupon and holdirf his
thumb across the minuter so X hat . .;. y
one tigtire appeared at a t'friie asked
her what the first was
" Five," she said.
"And the next?"
" One."
"And the next?"
"One."
"And the next?"
"Ought." j
" And.the next?" j
"Six," said his wife.
"What!" screamed Frank, leaping
five feet in the air. !
" Six," repeated his wife : " 51,100."
Then she turned pale,: made a dart for
the Chronicle, gave one glance at the
dispatch, another at the coupon, threw
up her arms, sank all in a heax on the
floor, and began to cry softly.
" Whv, Frank," she paid in a verv low
and broken voice, "it's come at last."
" Gewhilikins ! " shouted Naoni, " I
should think it had. Why, little
woman, that means fifteen thousand
dollars. Hold me down or I'll fly up to
the ceiling."
But he did nt fly up or go out of Ins
mind, and yesterday he drew $15,000
from Wells, Fargo & Co's Bank, all in
greenbacks, making a bundle as big as.
his two fists. Lvc-tt then he did not
lose his head, but gave $150 to Marks
as a Douceur, ordered four suits of
clothes, and m de his wife go out and
buy herself a handsome new dress. On
Friday or Saturday next, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Naoni will go Last to bring out
the old people and settle them here.
Nor will the "celebrated equilibrist" dis
appear from the bills, for he is determi
ned to stick to his profession, even
though he is $ 15,000 richer. San Fran
cisco (Cal.) Chronicle, June 30.
Unme in urcat Uritain.
Accord ng to S r
the number of cases
for ind ct.ible o ien;e
Wales, on an aveiiri
Joh'i Lubbok.
of impr'sonmcnt
-; in Knglaud and
of live year. Mul
ing in lS.V.t. was 1 i '; in 1NM. 12,4"X);
in IHT'J, 10.O0O; a;id in 1881. J,V00.
The s -ntenccs f v penal servitude for
the same p r.ods wen re -jtec tively '2,
;M), 2.00O, l.COO and 1,.A) . This is
the more satisfactory when we bear in
mind that wh le o.i th one hand the
oileives are tlo roas'ng. the population
on the other hand is incivas'ng. In
ls.V.) it was P. I. oi)'). 00): in li.. Jl'.
OJiO.OOO: in 1S7:. 'Jl. 7; ').!); in IhSI.
2(.(XX),()-M). if we turn to juven le of
fenses, the result Is ee i more sir king
and sat'sfitclorv. '1 I o numb.-r of
juven les c tinm ited for ind ctaidc of
I'er.s. s in Kn .Ian I in l'.rji was 11, o(M;
in 10(5. !. loo: n is7;, 7.100; In 1SS1,
o.ioo. I can no et;ibt that those re
sults an! grealh du.! to tli
mi nts in ediu at o i and to Hi
beinir ke:t oalof the streets.
improve
! eh Idren
Mho liirector ot Primary instruc
tion in Italy recently submitted to the
Government his report on the operation
of the obligatory law during 1S.S1-2.
He makes a very remarkable showing.
Out of 1.D0--M72 children subject to the
law, 1,73"). 1S5 were enrolled in tho
schools at the beginning of the school
war. By March there were l,oOO,7.V
in attendance, and of this number only
2;)2,y"2'. were-, at the end of the year,
presented for examination. This lamen
table condition of things tho Director
believes largely due .the poverty of the
people.
ITIr. Anna OttfMirioi-rcr,
, V-. : ...'V i A-r-
The late Mrs. Oiteti'lorfoi, wif.j of the edi
tor of Ttio Sta'itz-Z-:ilti:i'j was during tlto lat
ter years of lier lifo as iciaU'd with many
charitable enterprises. In lS7.)&ho started
in Astoria, N. V., tlio Isabella home for
aged women. In lSsl el.e presented a fund
of $30,000 for tlio ben lit ef various G ritian
Araerican schools. In JS'sS s-ho founded tJio
German hospital, at nu cxpenso of f .-.'j.OOO.
Last year she inaugurated at tlio Normal
colle, N. Y., tho presentation each year of
gold and silver nie-'.al for proficiency in
Gorman, and at the present timo U being
erected a Gorman dispensary and free read-
ing room for which i-ho ha providovl f 1 j0,-
000. For thcaa and ma!:y other charities gho
received hut a few weeks airfl from tlio Em
press of Germany a special decoration.
Mr.- Ottead rfer wai bor.i In 1M5, at
Wurzhurg, Bavaria. Kiw camo to New
York in 18."50 with her first husband, Jacob
Uhl, a rrintcr. In 1S4.J they purchased tho
Btaatz-Zeitung, then a small wet kly pajter.
Mrs. Ottendorfer t ok an active part hi
C inducting the ppper, nnd on tho deatli of
her Lubbaud in 18.VJ tdio assumed control,
which position sl:o rttainod, being business
manager until shortly b. f oro le-r d at'i.
She rnarrio 1 Mr. Ottendorfer in 1S.VJ.
lie never Anlrol tlio Acrumpiiaxi-
IlkCllt.
Merchant-Traveler. - "
A nice, fresh young d i le was invited Int
the country to spend h few days at a plain
farmer's to secure a need 1 reiuxation with
out excitement. Ho wus sesthotic and ac
complished, but his frien.1.4 watched him tho
firt morning of hi3 arrival, nu 1 the cows
didn't eat him. Tlo was Bate at diuner-tiino,
and taking his plaeeat the tr.ble, ho watched
the lady of tho housa curving a chicken.
She nctiejd him, an l torcli-va tho embar
rassment, inquired:
"Urn, Mr. i'itzclarence, do 3011 carve?"
"Aw, I Leg 3-oah pardon," La replied,
startled from liL reverie.
"I didn't do anything. I only asko.l if
you carved."
"Beg pahdon, no. I nevvaw ncquiahed
tho accomplishment, don't you knaw, but 1
point rawthaw well, 3011 knaw, on chinaw,
far an amat:di, tnl I pwoposo taking
cahving lo.-sons at tho acahdemy this wiu
taw, don't 30U knaw."
Tho poor lad- let her knifo fclip, and Mr.
Fitzclnrcnco had to lio taken out to tha
horso trough to get tlio gr.v3' off his clothes.
ranor 01 lite 'lurf field and
I'nrm.
nAMILTO.V BCSBEY.
Mr. Busboy, known to all spirting men tho
world over, is 43. Born in Clarke County,
Ohio; was patriotic when young and went
to war; retire! frm army to lenrn jour
nalism; was shown how to do It, by Goorgo 1
Prentice, of the old Louisvilio Journal; was
two years with him; camo to Nw York ia
rammer of 1N5, and helped to establish Turf
Field and Farm; t een with paper ever since,
as editor-in-chi'-f and part owner.
Mr. Busboy was conspicuous in organizing
pedestrian contests. Ho has been stake
holder and referee in all tho great six-day-walks;
holding S10,0o0 in stakes 011 ono fnc .
He also helped organize National Trotting
association, and hn3 dono much to shapo it
rules and aims. This association now
guards ropcrty estimated to bo worth moro
than CJcO.OOO.COO. Mr. Busltey has boon
on all the prominent breeding farms of
America, from Maino to California, nnd has
also visited many of thoso of Europe, !o
Bidos studying rancho brooding In Wyoming
and Colorado. For 3-ears ho has been in tho
thickest of discussions of brooding theories,
being styled the great advocato of thtrough
blood in trotters and holds that Maud S. an I
Jaye-E"e-Seo are hard nuts for thoopjxts.ing
fellows to crack, as both nro bred according
to his theory. Ho has made hard fights for
qualified men in veterinary practioa as a
member pf tho Board of Trustees of Amr
ican Veterinary College. Ho is down on
quacks and old fashionod "boss doctors."
Tlio I'ntMrni of All Time.
Somervillo Journal.
After the Concord School of Philosophy
pets through discussing Emerson it mi rht
add something to human knowledge if it
would discuss this subject, vi..: Why is it
that when two young men and two young
ladies who arc drifting toward :i!f ctioiiare
acquaintance, set out for a walk in pairs
within speaking di-tancc of each other the
3011m: lady behind feels herself hi duty
bound to speak to ib't 3-oiing man in frou',
and the young 1 .idy in front coiiidiis ii
equally her diily to pmk to theyoung man
behind; and why, if theyoung men sle-uld
change partners, this jxculiaiity wo ild
still be observed.' It is strange that thi
should be so, but it is so, and perhaps the
Concord School of Philosophy' can tell
why it Is so if it will devote its powerful
mind to it.
"I'll Fool Him Yet.
Now York Star.
Ilonry E. Dixey, tho comedian, at tha
commencement of his current engagement
In this city, took board at a Broadway hotel
near the theatre. Ho wroto his namo on
three linos of tho register, after tho modt
manner of an actor, anl thon tho clerk pu
down the number of tho room atstgned to
the guost. simultaneously a huge muwruito
alighted on tho pngo, straddled slowly to
the figures and stool still by thorn. Dixey
gazo 1 In affected alarm, and hold his dra
untie attitude until the insect flew away.
Til fix him yoU" ho exclaimed, "chanffl
my room !"
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