The Dalles times-mountaineer., July 10, 1897, Image 5

John B Allen N X of sec 17 tp 10 r 35..$1310 00
John Singleton Eat NE X of BE K of gee
J9tp7r38 000 00
D S Baker Est E i of BE X of sec 34 tp
r87 00
David Turner NW X of 8E X of ec 1
tp8r 88 105 00
Mary A Barnett lot 21 block ( Bryant'a
addition to Walla Walla 40 00
H Parker lota S & 4 of block S Shanble'a
addition to Walla Walla 150 00
H Parker lot 6 block 8 original city of
Walla Walla 460 00
First National Bank Walla Walla W 4
of NWX of block 7 Seed's addition
to Walla Walla 625 00
It la further ordered by the board that the
value of all property not hereinbefore specifi
, eally mentioned shall remain as fixed by the
Theminntea .of the foregoing proceedings
were read and approved.
Whereupon the board adjourned sine die.
Seal. FRANK NALDEB,
Chairman of the Board of Equalization for the
year 1887 in and for Walla Walla County,
Washington.
State of Washington, I
County of Walla Walla, J
I, Q. A. McQulre, Auditor of Walla Walla
County, State of Washington, do hereby cer
tify that as Clerk of the Board of Equalization
of said county, I have kept true and correct
minutes of all acta of the Board relating to al
terations in the assessment rolls for the year
1897, and all alterations agreed to or directed to
be made by the Board have been made and en
tered in said rolls, and that no changes or al
terations have been made thereon except those
authorized by the Board.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the official seal of said Board
this the 20th day of August, A. D. 1897.
Seal. G. A. McGUIBE,
County Auditor and Clerk of the Board of
Equalization for the year A. D. 1897, in and
. for Walla Walla County, Wash.
IMPERIAL. PAWNSHOP.
Austria Conducts the Pawnbroklns;
- Business for Her Poor.
Austria has an Imperial pawn shop
It was established in Vienna in 1707,
when there was great distress among
the poor in the southern part of the em
pire. It was designed as a way to secure
to the starving some means of immedi
ate relief, and by putting the rate of in
terest as low as possible, and embody
ing in the system every advantage that
could be given to those who sought to
make loans, it was found to be so ef
fective that it soon gained the imperial
sanction, and it was not long until its
managers were made public officials
under the direction of the minister of
the interior. This is substantially the
status of the institution at this time.
The rates are so low that the business
done on the cheap goods and chattels
of the poor could not possibly make the
establishment self-sustaining; but peo
ple who have been suddenly reduced
in circumstances or who are temporarily
embarrassed, keep the margins on the
right side and enable the institution to
keep open without the aid of a subsidy.
In the year 1893 a total of 666,015 ar
ticles were pledged, and of these 848,
562 were redeemed, a remarkable re
demption as compared with the propor
" tions of the average pawnshop. The
unredeemed pledges were sold by pub
lic auction and whenever they brpught
more than the face of the pledge the
balance was set to the account of the
pledger, to be refunded any time with
in three years.
COMFORT FOR MAN AND BEAST.
The Picture Presented on n Btar Cnnnl
Boat Tied Up Over Snnday.
' Tied alongside a bulkhead in the Har
lem river was a big canal boat. In the
stable at one' .end stood three horses
munching hay out of their manger, says
' the New York Sun. The deck over the
horses, forming the roof of their stable,
was a foot or two, or maybe more than
that, higher than the surrounding deck,
and it was open all around, so that the
breeze blew through freely. It was a
hot day, but the horses were in the
: shade, in place where they could get
. the air if they could get it anywhere;
then they had plenty to eat, and they
were apparently as comfortable as
horses could be.
Down at the other end of the boat an
other scene presented itself. There an
awning had been stretched over the
deck from side to side, aft of the cabin.
It was a Sunday. Under this awning,
in a comfortable rocking-chair, sat the
canal boat's captain, reading a news
paper. Here, too, sat the captain's
wife, reading a book. Under the awn
ing, stretching from the cabin door,
they sat as on a veranda in front of a
house on shore, and quite as much at
home. ,It would have been difficult to
find a more comfortable spot, and, in
deed, the boat was a picture of comfort
for man and beast.
VICTORIA'S ANCESTRY.
Generations That Connect Her with
William the Conqueror.
' Queen Victoria, who has been 60 years
on the throne of Great Britain, is the
niece of William IV., who was the
brother of George IV., who was the
son of George ILL, who was the grand
' son of George II., who was the son of
George L, who was the cousin of Anne,
who was the sister-in-law of William
IIT., who was the son-in-law of James
II., who was the brother of Charles II.,
who was the son of Charles I., who was
the son of James I., who was the cousin
of Elizabeth, who was the sister of
Mary, who was the sister of Edward
VI., who was the son of Henry VHI.,
who was the son of Henry VIL, who
waa the cousin of Blchard III., who was
the uncle of Edward IV., who was the
cousin of Henry VL, who was the son
of Henry IV., who was the cousin of
Bichard IX, who was the grandson of
Edward TTT., who was the son of Ed
ward II., who was the son of Edward I.,
who was the son of Henry III., who was
the son of John, who was the brother of
Bichard L, who was the son of Henry
TJL, who was the cousin of Stephen, who
was the cousin of Henry L, who was
the brother of William Bufus, who was
the son of William the Conqueror, 800
years ago.
Telephone 74 or 70 for a load of
good wood. Chamberlain has plenty
and it is for sale. . aag21d8t
SIGNS OF PE0GKESS.
pr
Sura Indioation of Growth In
American Cities
Taj; Number of Miles' of Street Pa-re-
- .Stent Shows Their Material De-
veiopment Some Interesting-
Fiarnres.
There is no surer Way .of determin
Jig the growth of an American mu
mcipality in respect of material devel-
opment than by comparing the relation
which its paved streets bear to its un-
paved. The civil engineer is an impor
tant functionary in the foundation of
municipal corporations in the United
States, and especially in such of them
as are in the region west of the Alle
ghanies. But street pavements are ex
pensive, and it is not until a city is
opulent enough to enjoy the luxury of
a big municipal debt and a large credit
that the question of modern and im
proved pavements secures adequate at
tention.
In Boston, for instance, one of the old
cities, there are 312 miles of paved and
140 miles of unpaved streets. In Balti
more there are 306 miles of paved and
only 47 miles of unpaved streets. In
Philadelphia there axe 943 miles of
paved and 433 miles of unpaved streets.
But in the newer cities of the country
this condition is reversed, and Chicago,
which has 1,000 miles of paved, has
1,500 miles of unpaved streets. In St.
Louis the number of miles' of paved
streets is 370 and of unpaved 500. In
Omaha there are 82 miles of paved
streets and 450 miles of unpaved. In
Minneapolis, a city which is growing
rapidly in population, there are 98
miles of paved and 800 miles of un
paved streets. In Brooklyn there are
515 miles of paved and 999.5 miles of
unpaved streets. The pavement of
Brooklyn streets, which is now a sub
ject of local grievance and complaint,
shows a certain backwardness, which
it is expected the Greater New York
project will do away with by making
available the municipal credit neces
sary for the issuance of bonds for new
pavements. At the present time
more than 260 miles of Brooklyn streets
more than one-half the whole length
of paved streets have the primitive,
unsatisfactory and unpopular cobble
stones. There are 110 miles of streets
paved with granite, 60 miles, especial
ly in the neighborhood of the parks
and parkways, macadamized; 44 miles
paved with Belgium blocks, 40 miles
with asphalt, and one mile with a still
more primitive method, practically un
known to New York, though quite fa
miliar in Philadelphia brick pave
ments. A meeting was held in the
annexed district of Brooklyn last week
for the purpose of agitating the ques
tion of the improvement of the pave
ments of that city, but in this respect,
as in some others, Brooklyn, for ob
vious reasons, is much behind New
York. .
In this city there are no streets
paved with brick, and there is less than
one-quarter of a mile of cobblestone'
pavement in all. This is to be found
in one of the streets of the Ninth ward,
There is a small section of town a par
tion of one street paved with wood,
but wooden pavements have long ago
been voted a failure in practical opera
tion in New York. The city has 185
miles of granite, 142 miles of macad
amized roads and streets, 94 miles of
asphalt, and 90 miles of Belgium pave
ment. The city of Philadelphia, much
larger territorially than New York, has
331 miles of Belgium block pavement, ,
172 of asphalt, 152 macadam, 76 of vetn-
fied brick, 11 of granolithic, three of
slag, and nearly 200 of cobblestone.
The growth of an American city is
shown clearly by the number of miles
of improved pavement in streets, and
it is believed by public works officials
that after January 1, 1898, there will be
a visible improvement in all the pave
ments of the city outside of its present
boundaries. I. Y. Sun.
Before Vaccination.
Before the introduction of vaccina
tion, now admirably supplemented by
isolation, smallpox was never localized.
and it was always with us. No one was
safe from it, and there was a German
proverb to the effect that love and small
pox were the two things from which no
one . could hope to escape. Trust
worthy estimates fix the annual death,
rate from smallpox in England during
the latter part of the eigh
teenth century at the propor
tion of 3,000 to every 1,000,000 persons
living, which would mean, with our
present population, a death rate from
this cause alone approaching 100,000 a
year. Even if this estimate is much
too large, there can be no question as to
the enormous difference between then
and Trow. It is going too far to say
with Mr. Hutton that "smallpox, in
spite of all the fuss made .about it, is
pretty nearly as extinct as the plague,'
for though preventive measures keep it
within an extremely narrow compass,
we have seen how readily it may revive.
In the year 1890 there 'were only 16
deaths from this disease registered in
the whole of England. Westminster
Beview.
The "Heathen Chinee."
The Chinese are not always honora
ble in their dealings with foreigners.
Col. Jeff erds, of Texas, who has recent
ly returned from China, and is now in
Washington, tells a remarkable story
of the manner in which he lost a big
contract through the duplicity of Mr.
Sheng, and a number of other gentle
men English, Germans and Ameri
cansare complaining of unjust treat
ment. The "heathen Chinee" can be
depended upon to look after his own
interests and take advantage of the in
nocence and trustfulness of . others.
People who engage in' trade with him
must keep their eyes open, for he has
learned a lot of tricks from Christians
of Europe, and has a retentive memory,
Chicago Record.
GREAT UMBRELLA AT OMAHA.
Novel Mechanical Device at the
Transmlsslsstppl Exposition.
The last Paris exposition had its Eiffel
tower, Chicago had its Ferris wheel,
Nashville has its gigantic seesaw. The
department of concessions of the Omaha
trans-Mississippi exposition of 1898 has
also received application for space for
the erection of a novel mechanical de
vice. It resembles the framework of a
gigantic umbrella more; than anything
else which might be mentioned. The
part corresponding to the stick of the
umbrella in- an immense cylinder, 30
feet in diameter, constructed of steel
plates firmly riveted, making a stand-
pipe which rears its head 250 feet above
the level of the ground. At the extreme
top of this cylinder are fastened 12
long arms, resembling the ribs of an
umbrella. These are steel trusses,
reaching almost to the ground. At the
lower end of each of these ribs is sus
pended a car for carrying passengers,
each car having a capacity for 20 per
sons.
These monster ribs are raised by hy
draulic power, acting by means of
steel cables operating1 through the cyl
inder, aided by a mechanism greatly
resembling that portion of an umbrella
which comes into action when the um
brella is opened. By means of this
mechanism the gigantic arms are raised
until they are horizontal, the cars in
the meanwhile being carried outward
and upward until they reach a point
sou ieet aDove trie grouna. lne amme
ter of the huge circle formed by the
suspended cars is also 250 feet. When
the highest point has been reached
another mechanism comes into play
and the suspended cars are swung
slowly around m a circle, after which
they are lowered to the ground. The
sides of the cars are of glass, so that
the passengers may secure an exten
sive view of the surrounding country.
Manufacturer.
SNAKES PLAN A ROBBERY.
An Inarenlous Arrangement by Which
Bank Swallows Were to Be Caught.
A number of Baltimore naturalists
had an unique experience the other day
while on an ornithological " excursion.
They were searching for bank swal
lows in the neighborhood of Tolches-
ter beach, about a mile from the pier
where the excursion boats land.
The nests of bank swallows are built
in holes in perpendicular banks, gen
erally in colonies, dozens of holes be
ing only a few inches apart. The bank
the young men were exploring was
about 30 feet in height, with the nests
averaging seven feet from the top. The
bank was almost perpendicular and
the nests were reached by means of
ladders constructed of trees. '
One of the naturalists, after work
ing for some time at one of the nests,
felt his hand come in contact with
some thing unusual. Drawing out his
hand and. looking into the hole he was
surprised to find, coiled down at the
bottom a huge blacksnake, which, after
being gotten out and killed; proved to
be nearly seven feet in length. -
Afterward two other snakes, equally
as long, were found in different holes.
The surface of the bank was perfectly
smooth, so the only possible way for
the snakes to have reached the nests
was to have let themselves down from
some short overhanging roots at the top
of the bank.
The snakes seemed to have worked
along the bank from nest to nest, as'
several nests were found in which were
eggs that had been emptied of their
contents. In a nest with one of the
snakes was a bird which had been late
ly killed, and which the snake evident
ly was about to devour when its own
end came.
The naturalists said they had been
aollecting eggs for. many years, but
had never before seen anything so like
a, well-planned attack of snakes upon
birds' eggs. Baltimore Sun. . .
MARRIED BY PROXY.
Ho Less Than - Three Queens Have
Thus Acquired Their Titles. '
One of the queerest features of court
life in Europe is the marriage by proxy
of royal personages. There are at the
present moment no less than - three
royal ladies who have been thus wedded
the queen regent of Spain, the dow
ager queen of Portugal and tne ex-
queen of Naples. '', -:
Kings and reigning sovereigns are
held to be too important personages to
be married anywhere else than in their
own dominions. On the other-nana,
it is held to be infra dignitate for a
spinster princess of the blood, who is
about to blossom forth into . a full-
fledged . queen or empress, to , travel
abroad in quest of a consort. . .
In order to meet this difficulty the
royal or imperial bridegroom delegates
one of the principal nobles of the -realm,
who goes through the religious and civil
portion of the wedding ceremony ,in the
capital of the bride's country on behalf
of his master,1 making' -the responses for
him and tendering hid hand, as well as
the ring, at, the prescribe points of the
ceremony. ' He then, accompanies her
to his master's dominions, aotihg as her
chief escort. ' -' " -'- -.. ' ''
According to the ideas of the Soman
Catholic church, a ceremony of this
kind is sufficiently, binding upon the
bride and upon the royal bridegroom to
render any further, ceremony, ecclesi
astical or civil, superfluous, and when
any additional religious function takes
place it usually assumes the 'form of a
Te Deum" and a solemn benediction, at
tended by both husband and wife im
mediately on the arrival of the latter in
the capital of her adopted country.
Ben. Francisco Argonaut. -
William Goes Armed.
The German emperor invariably car-
Vies with him wherever he goes a small
revolver. His majesty is a skillful shot
and the chasseur who accompanies him
everywhere has received orders to in
spect this weapon every morning to as
sure the fact of its being in working or
der. Chicago Times-Herald ,
ABSTJED BELIEFS.
One
Reason Why Medical
posters Prosper.
T
Credulity and Lxnoranee of. Some
People Hake Them Easy Vietlaaa
for the Fakirs to Practice
Their Wiles Upon.
"Nine out of ten people believe," said
a surgeon to the writer, "that the eye
can be taken out for repairs, just like
iTir -works of a watch, and aeain re
placed in the socket precisely as it was
before. A moment's reflection ought
to show anyone how impossible this
would be. As a matter of fact, the eye
is held in place by no fewer than six
taut muscles, and, in order .to turn it
out of the socket, at least four of these
would have to be cut through. Besides,
it is connected with the brain by
thick nerve which cannot be stretched.
and it is also connected with the inside
of the skull by blood-vessels; and if
these were cut they could' never be re
united. Perhaps a time will come when
a dead man can be restored to life; but
you may feel perfectly sure that the re
moval and restoration of the eye is a
surgical feat that will never be per
formed.
"Another extraordinary popular be
lief is that respecting the nature of a
common cold. You will hear the most
intelligent men saying that it is due to
an excess of cold inside your body, and
they will advise you to use a mustard
plaster 'to draw out the cold. In re
ality the cold is simply an excess of
heat inside, and the mustard plaster is
intended to draw out the heat. What
happens when you get a cold is that the
cooling of the outside of the body
squeezes the blood vessels and forces a
lot more blood into the lungs than can
be accommodated. They become regu
larly flooded and gorged, and the result
is really a fever, though we call it a
cold. ' ' '
It seems a small- th'pg to make a
mistake about the value of beef tea to
a sick man; but I can assure you that
hundreds of lives have been lost under
the popular error that beef tea is a
nourishing food. It is nothing more
than water in which the pleasant and
stimulating salts of the beef are dis
solved and has the same effect as a mix
ture of whisky and China tea. But it
has scarcely a particle of nutriment,
and both doctors and public have
starved to death more people than I'd
like to state through believing that it
has.
"Very similar is the belief that an
egg is as good as a pound of meat. If
you feed yourself on eggs according to
this absurd theory, you will simply
shrivel up into skin and bone. The real
value of oh egg is its weight in good
beef; so that it would take eight eggs
of the average size to supply the place
of a ponnd of meat.
'Then there is the universal fallacy
about the liver. I dare say that a mil
lion of money is spent every year on the
livers of .Great Britain and about nine
hundred, thousand of that sum does
harm instead of good. The liver is sub
ject to about one hundred diseases, and
the cure for any one of these may. in
tensify' any other of the ninety-nine.
To take one case as an example: . The
liver may be making too much bile, or it
may be making too little. Obviously,
the remedy for one of these disorders
would make the other worse than ever.
So that when a . person recommends
something as being 'good for the liver,'
just think that it may be good for his
liver, but not for yours. '
"Women are far worse than men in
their beliefs about the body and its ail
ments. - I am quite sure that out of
eTery 100 children who die under
one -ysar old 50 are actually killed
through the mother's belief that
food is not nourishing unless it is solid.
They don't understand that milk has
an immense amount of solid matter
dissolved in it, as sugar is dissolved in
water; and so they give the unfortun
ate children cornflour and bread, which
they can no more digest than they can
digest iron nails. The result is a short
life. of misery and then death, while
those of us who manage to survive are
made martyrs to dyspepsia all our days.
"Many beliefs are merely absurd
without being dangerous. Hair, for in
stance, is composed of almost the same
material as the finger nails, and it is
perfectly dead. Cutting the ends of
it cannot possibly make it grow, al
though it does prevent the hair, from
splitting up; nor' can the hair become
white in a night, any more than a wig:
When novelists, too, by the way de
scribe a person's hair as standing on
end they speak of a phenomenon that is
perfectly impossible. Many of the low
er animals have little muscles attached
to the hairs by which they can erect
them, but human beings have no such
muscles, nor any other means of mak
ing the hair stand on end except their
hands or a Pomb and brush." N. Y.
Tribune. -
A Laplander's Dress.
'.'The operation of dressing in cold
weather- in the 'far north is so elabor
ate that it is difficult to understand how
a deliberate boy or girl in Lapland can
be ready, for' breakfast before dinner
time. First, two suits of thick woolen
underclothing are put on, and over
these goes a shirt of reindeer skin, with
cloth bands to fasten at the wrists;
sometimes two of these shirts, or kap
taa, are worn, and a reindeer vest be
neath them. The trousers are of rein
deer skin also. Two pairs of heavy
woolen, stockings are., worn, and
the child who puts these on when they
are damp is sure to have trouble with
his feet. . Around the feet a peculiar
grass, well dried, is carefully bound,
and over all this goes the shoe. -Buttons
and hooks and eyes are scarce in Lap
land; all clothing is fastened by strings,
and it is dreadful to think of all the
"hard knots" that Lap children have
fumbled over , while too sleepy to be
amiable. Moderator. '
SOME QUEER CUSTOMS.
Mining; Cnmjt Dishwashing; and Tory
I Island Tcamaklnar.
-An old camprr-out once related to a
' horrified housekeeper his experience of
: dishwashing i:i a miners' camp. It did
not take muc-u time, tnougn tne com
pany was E'uu.cious, and the utensils
of the kitchen were in constant use.
The reason why i b took but little time
he sufficiently indicated by the state
ment that the rcol: pot was not cleaned
till it became ico small to hold a pud
ding of reasonable size. Then some
body got a hammer and knocked off the
hardened accretions from its interior
till it was restored nearly enough to its
original capacity to render further serv
ice.
On Tory island, an out of the way
bit of an Irish islet, the natives are not
much more dainty in their living, and
their habit of letting the grounds re
main indefinitely an their teapots has
disastrous consequences.
"Every day and all day long," says a
recent writer, "lie teapot sits stewing
in the embers of the hearth and at each
successive blew fresh tea is thrown in,
but the old is i.ever thrown out until the
pot is clicked." The result is an unusual
and excessive rate of insanity. little
wonder, when a Tory island boy who
was questioned as to his usual meals
could reply:
"Stirabout for breakfast and tay for
dinner; tay, cf coorse, at taytime and
stirabout for supper; whiles we have
tay for breakfast instead, and stirabout
for our dinner, and then another sup of
tay before bedtime.
However, this diet, injurious as it is to
the nerves,' does not seem to affect the
muscles. The Tory islandecs are a ro
bust and vigorous race, the men aver
aging six feet in height and the women
unusually tall and strong. The women,
indeed, have need of all their physical
strength, since it is thy who-do the bulk
of the outdoor work, while the men stay
at home and spin and weave.-
"At Anagry strand on a Sunday morn
ing, says tue same observer, "one may
witness a strange sight. At low tide
more than a mile of roundabout
is saved by wading across ' a
narrow bay. The men include
in their Sttiiay's wardrobe shoes and
stockings. I'he women, by courtesy and
custom, wear 'martyeens' footless
stockings with a loop passing over the
toe. Each good wife takes her good
man upon her-shoulders and the heroes
are conveyed across dry shod." Youth's
Companion. -
MARRYING FOR TITLES.
The Adaptability of American Wom
en Aids Them Vastly.'
It is well understood! in Europe that
if a man marries into an untitled fam
ily it is better for turn to marry an
American than a woman of any other
nationality, for the same reason that
Napoleon gave for making choice of a
Spaniard she had no family in France
to be enriched and ennobled. Euro
peans don't trouble themselves much
about American social distinctions and
can't understand the difference be
tween a fortune made in 1796 and one
made in the same way in 1897. Many of
the diplomatic corps have married
Americans; there have been several
marriages of Washington girls to sec
retaries of legations and' attaches with
in the last year, a-ndt a large propor-
on of them have turned out welL
American women are natural diplo
mats. A European woman is born and
bred, in a certain, rank of life, and; al
though Ehe may be transported to an
other rank she takes with her the stamp
of the grade to which she belongs. Not
so with an American woman. As the
wife of the premier of Great Britain
she would put Lady Clare Vere de Vere
to shame by her quick adoption of most
of the characteristics of the daughters
of a hundred earls. There is less risk
in en- American girl marrying a diplo
mat than any other sort of a foreigner.
for a diplomat' is under bonds to be
have himself. But if she is ambitions
and desires to make a really brilliant
match ehe ought to marry a citizen of
the .United States. Illustrated Ameri
can.
How a Caterpillar Defends Itself.
The caterpillar of the puss moth,
quite a common insect in this country,
has a most effective way of defending
itself, and may prove, as we shall pres
ently see, dangerous even to human be
ings. This well-protectedt caterpillar
is provided between its head end fore
legs with a cleft, from which it can pro
trude an organ capable of squirting
out a quantity of very acid fluid to a
considerable distance, and ... when
alarmed it habitually makes use of this
formidable weapon. Ia one of the en
tomological matgazines a correspondent
states that 'he was observing some of
these caterpillars in captivity when
he happened to disturb one, and it sud
denly squirted out a quantity of fluid
in a jet,, which struck one of his eye
balls, though his head at the time was
quite two feet away from the insect.
He rushed off in great agony to a doc
tor, who told him that the eyeball was
in a very dangerous condition. His eye
was totally blind for -hours after the
occurrence, and it waa some days before
he finally recovered. ' What the effect of
this fluid must be upon smaller crea
tures we leave our readers to imagine!
Chambers Journal. -w"
Cowboys of the Asphalt.
The cowboy and other dashing plains
riders lean far over in their aaddles and
pick up, as they go dashing past, arti
cles that they have dropped upon the
ground. So does the dashing' bicycle
rider of the city. Not on the boulevard,
perhaps, where the crowds would
scarcely permit, but on some quiet,
asphalt-paved block. , There you may
see a skillful and daring rider cast his
cap upon the ground, and tlhenyou may
see.him as he sweeps past it on his wheel
bend over and pick it up without paus
ing in his flight. This before a small
but appreciative audience - of friends
and neighbors sitting on the doorsteps
and such passers-by ' as may happen
that way. Nl Y. Sun. i
. ANGRY FOR THIRTY YEARS.
Beeanse His Wife Sewed the Wrot
Button on Ills Vest.
Because Mrs. Marion W. Hattnn threw
a stool at him and sewed a pants button
on his vest nearly 30 years ago, Theo
dore Hatton wants an absolute divorce,
says the Syracuse (N. Y.) Herald. The
action is brought in the state of Illinois,
and evidence is being taken in this city,
both for the plain tiff and thedefendaut.
The parties are well advanced down the
toboggan of time, the defendant being
upward of 50 years old and the plaint'ff
at least es aged.
There are some interesting things
about the case. Until about 1872 the
Hattons lived near Amboy, supposedly
happyk as all married people are to be
considered until they reach the courts.
One day the plaintiff, after a quarrel
with his wife, which neither claim was
regarded more than a trivial matter, left
his home and went west. He was heard
from at various times, but no contribu
tions to the support of his wife and
child were received.
A short time ago Mrs. Hatton heard
that her husband had brought suit for
divorce, and that judgment was about
to be entered by default. The matter
looked irregular, as Mrs. Hatton had
never, she says, received a service of the
papers or an intimation of the litiga
tion until informed by an acquaintance.
An answer was put in denying - the
charges made and alleging the facts as
Mrs. Hatton and the people about Am
boy remember them. It is said' that
Hatton, since living in Chicago, his
present residence, has 'accumulated
some property.
LINCOLN'S MOTHER'S GRAVE.
Lonely. Tomb on m Wooded Hill in
Indiana.
The recent communication between
President McKinley and Gov. Mount
in which the former called the attention
of the latter to the neglected grave of
Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lin
coln, has attracted attention from all
over the country to the grave. It is
located on a hill of gradual ascent and
is right in the middle of the woods.
about a mile from Lincoln City, a little
station on the Air Line road in Spencer
county, Ind. It is inclosed by an iron
fence, which separates it from a num
ber of other graves around it, and has
a neat headstone which gives the name,
age, etc., of the occupant. An inscrip
tion also says: "Erected by a Friend
of Her Martyred Son, 1879." It is com
paratively isolated, and any improve
ment made in its surroundings would
not prove of any great value.
In order to fittingly honor the dead
the people of that vicinity suggest that
the remains be taken up by the state
and reinterred at Indianapolis, or that
the United States reinter them in some
national cemetery. A $1,000 Fhaft could
be placed over it where it now stands
and ten persons in a year would not see
it unless they made a special trip there.
NEW WESTERN IDEA.
Who Give Gold Models of Their
Little Fingers.
Do little girls here give gold models
of their little fingers to their fiance 7"
asked the western girl of the Gotham! te,
reports the New York Sun..
'Heaven, not" answered the Gotham-
ite. - "It seems to me that that is a rather
grewsome souvenir."
'Not at all, answered the western
girl. "It is decidedly dainty, and I'm
a little surprised that New York ia so
far behind the times. The fad started
in this way: When the daughter of one
of our big western politicians was six
months old he had a model of her little
finger cast in gold. Around the little
dimpled digit is a ring of turquoise,
which is her birthstone, and it makes a
lovely charm for her betrothed's watch-
chain. He valued it 60 much that it set
other men to thinking, and the result
is that as soon as a girl wraps one ol
these chaps around her little finger suf
ficiently for a proposal to follow, he im
mediately insists upon a gold facsimile
of the flesh and blood original. It is a
pretty conceit, and is being followed
by every westerner who is in subjection
to somebody's little finger."
Concerning "Parfessors.
The misuse of the title, "professor" ai
often vulgarly applied to musicians in
general finds a laughable- example in
the following story credited to Band
master Sousa. It seems that some years
ago, before the existence of the organ
ization which bears his name, and be
fore "The Washington Post," "Liberty
BelL" "Cotton King" and "El Capitan"
had made the American march king fa
mous, he was leading a band in the gov
ernment service, at some small country
festival. The advent of the band bad
been awaited with intense interest by
the local population, and, as a conse
quence, the bandsmen were soon sur
rounded by a surging crowd which
hemmed them in so that it became well
nigh an impossibility for them to keep
on playing. Sousa pointed out the fact
to a local official, adding that unless the
crowd fell back his band would have to
stop. That personage shook his head
warmly, and turning to the assembled
multitude, ' bawled out: "Gentlemen,
step back and give the purfessor's pur
feasors a chance to play!"
-A Clever Rase.
It was an ingenious ruse that a pris
oner who escaped from a South Carolina
prison recently hit upon to throw blood-'
hounds off his track. The convict was
tracked by the dog to a farmhouse,
where he had begged breakfast. He
stole a pepperbox, and after leaving the
house peppered his tracks. The dog al
most died from the effects of the pepper1
and Had to be called off.
New Wire Gun. .
A projectile from the new wire furl
in a recent trial completely penetrated
an 18-inch steel-faced compound armor
plate backed by a six-inch wrought
iron, plate, by eight feet of solid oak
and three inches of iron and was found
imbedded in a clay bank 35 yards be
hind the target. . . . .