The Oregon Scout
Jones &. Chanoey Publishers.
UNION, OREGON,
ELECTRICAL EXECUTIONS.
Experience, Anrlont anil .Modern, With
Criminal In I'rnnre.
Those who are in favor of tho execu
tion of murdorors condomned to deatli
oy means of olootrlclty, as biting tho
quickest and least painful method of
ending them out of tho world, havo
boon led to this conclusion by motives
of humanity which do them tho utmost
credit, btrangoly enough, howovor, it
la preclsoly on humanitarian consider
ations that M. Doauquosne, tho Gov
ernor, and tho Abbe l-'aure, tho chaplain
of tho Roquotto jail, aro opposed to such
an innovation. It is to tho Roquotto
that prisoners sentenced to death aro in
variably transferred after their con
demnation by a jury sitting in tho Soino
-Assize Court, and nono aro moro compe
tent than tho Governor and tho chaplain
'to pronounce an opinion on tho subject,
except, perhaps, "Monsiour do Paris,"
as tho chief executioner is culled, and
oven then his vlows might bo regarded
us based, in a cortain mcastiro, on mo
tives of a personal character for tho
man who lias gono about tho country
chopping olf heads witli his guillotine
could scarcely bo oxpectcd to deliver a
thoroughly impartial opinion. Woro ho
to express a proferonco for tho oleutrla
system ho might lay himself open to tho
roproach that ho was not quite as skill
ful as ho ought to bo. Tho Abbo Fauro,
who for tho past llvo years with ono
Ingle exception, that of .Schumacher,
who as a Protestant receivod ghostly
counsol and advlco from a puatcur of his
roliglon has accompanied to tho scaf
fold all tho criminals executed on tho
equaro In front of tho Koquotto, ox-
prosscs tho utmost horror at tho idoa of
uch n change. Tho worthy ecclesiastic
says that lie lias tho utmost sympathy
for all scientific inventions, but lie re
fuses to beliovo that French legislators
will bo so cruel as to protract by prepar
ations which require a certain amount
of timo tho suirorlngs of even mur
derers. Tho Abbo Fauro has attondod during
their last moments upward of Blxteon
criminals, and ho says that scarcely two
seconds olapso from tho timo when,
after a farowoll embrace, lie giyos up
-tho prisoner to tho executionor, to that
at which tho bond of Die murderer rolls
on tho ground. Ho remarks indignant
ly that ho nover can admit that mon,
liowovor dobased thoy may bo, ought to
bo placed liko common animals in a
jrlass apparatus and struck dead with an
olectrio spark. Tills is opposed to every
"principal of humanity. Tho chaplain
of tho Koquotto is, aftor every execu
tion, in tho huhltof writing notes of tho
ghastly sceno which lie has just witness
ed, and ho declares that not onco during
tho whole of IiIb oxporlonco lias tho con
demned man oiTored the slightest resist
ance This ho attributes, in a great
tnoasuro, to his own prosonco on tho
caffold, and ho says Unit if tho electrio
ystom woro introduced ho would bo un
mblo to oiror tho prisoner tho consola
tion of religion up to tho last moment.
Of J'rado tho Abbo rolates that although
bo was generally regarded as a brazen
faced and hardened scoundrel, ho spoko
earnestly with him during his last min
wtos, and that his conlidenco in him was
o great that ho begged him to hiivo his
body from dissection at tho School of
Jlodlclno. Of Geomay, tho murderer of
3tlmo. Roux-Couloumy, lie wrote that
bo had died liko a soldier, a liroton and
a Christian. A few minutes before ho
was executed ho asked the Abbe to con
voy his last farowoll to his old mother.
Tho Abbo Fauro says that at the Ko
quotto every tiling is done to render tho
last moments of criminals as easy as
possible, and, liko M. lloauquosiio, ho is
wsitivo that, far from being a merciful
Innovation, tho system of executing
prisoners through the medium of elec
tricity would really subject them to a
doubled increase of moral torture.
Ixjndon Telegraph.
A N O-TI P WAITER.
TThe Knlulit of I tin Napkin Iteplucect by
1111 Klri'trlo Siirvnnt.
Electricity played an important part
at tho ball and banquet of the llaltimoro
Cycle Club the other evening, tlwynn li
l'aintor, a young electrician. Introduced
some novel features in lighting. On tho
-wall facing the musicians was a patent
automatic indicator, with tho names of
tho dances painted upon its face. This
was operated by means of electrio but
tons which were placed in an adjoining
room.
When tho lloor manager wan tod a
waltx, york or borlln lie touched a but
ton and tho hand of tho indicator How ,
to the dance wanted. Hut by far tho
prealest novelty was at supper, which
was served in tho ballroom. Tho table
was in sections and at a given signal
these woro, in tho presence of tho
pueats, connected. In tho eentor of tho
table was 11 truck on which two brass rails
woro lilted.
On tlio track was placed an electrio
car about thirty inches long and a foot
wide, which was operated by moans of
a cable hidden in tho groove of the track
and running over a roller at either end
of tho table. Tills car shot through u
door in 11 closed window to tho butler,
who then placed ujkih It the courses in
trays, and the ear was then hunt bnuk
along tho table, tho guests helping
themselves as it paused along.
Three trips were necessary to supply
all. In tho car was an electric bell,
which rang ut tho will of tho operator.
Connected with tho hutlur s pantry was
a speaking tube, through which till or
ders woro sunt
night.
Not a waiter was la '
Under tho middle of tho table was a
muuio-box, which wus ulso operated by
electricity, and whenever an air was
wanted a button was pushed which tot
tho machine in motion. Tho car ran very
imioothly, ami a cup filled to tho brim
reached itsdostlnatluu, not a drop being
spilled. Five minutes after the ban
quet tho tables had been again eoparut
od and run oil Into tho side room and
tho lloor was again lit poskObsiou of tho
danccr.8. N, V. Journal. .
WI-MO-DAUGH-SIS.
A Movomont for the Advance
ment of WomovV
A. Stock Annoclrttlon of Women Of!V Em
inent I'loneem Tlio llniiliimrt or to
lie In Winlilnctoo -lrililc sjkutche
of the Lending OrRitnlrer.
WASHINGTON LETTER, COI'YIIIGIIT. 1890.1
OU may as well
learn right now
to pronounoo
"W i m odaugh
sis" as if it wero
spoiled Wco-mo-dau-sis,
for first
and last it is go
ing to bo moro or
loss written
about and talk
ed about and (I
grieve to pro
d i c t) j o k o d
about; and this
is tho pronunci
ation author
ized by tho oxamplo of tho Seven Wise
Womon. May bo you don't know who
tho Sovon Wlso Women aro. Well, bo
pationt and I will tell you. Hut, first,
lot us sco what the Wimodaughsis is.
Tho origin of tho word is a profound
Bccrot in tho keeping of tho sovon a
ficcrot which nobody olso, and especial
ly no man, is over to know. Thcroforo
I am onahlod to impart to you the infor
mation that it is a composite namo
formed by combining parts of tho four
boautiful words "wife," "mother,"
"daughtor" and "sister;" and you will
boo at once that it is an ovidonco of
thoir wisdom that tho sovon havo do
cided to keep tills fact forever a secret.
For many years Miss Susan 15. An
thony has cherished a dream of a cen
tral organisation a sort of National
club in which all tho associations of
womon might meet on common ground
and labor for those gonoral interests
which aro related to tho especial works
of all. And as Miss Anthony has a way
of making her droams coino true, tho
'Wimodaughsis has become a tangible
reality an organized and incorporated
stock company, competent to suo and bo
sued (this is moro logal phraseology in
nowlso intended to allude to tho fact
that tho incorporators aro all maidons),
and having capital stock to tho amount
of $25,000, dlviaod into r.000 shares of
Sfl each. No share of this stock is ovor
to bo sold to a man, so of course no man
can ovor become a director or an olllcor
of tho company. Tho gonoral purpose
of tho Wimodaughsis is to provido for
tho education of womon in political
economy, in art, literature, science and
such other Holds as thoy must needs bo
familiar with in order to obtain and
maintain acknowledged control of af
fairs; for it is now no longer doubted by
tho disciples of Miss Anthony that in
tho twentieth contury tho relative posi
tions of man and woman, so far as gov
ernment is concerned, will be roversod;
and when thoy oHor tho argument of
tho long stride taken in tills direction
within tho last quarter contury, it re
quires a hardy man perhaps a fool
hardy ono to toll theso disciples that
thoy orr in this prophecy.
Tho first s peel lie purpose of tho
Wimodaughsis is to erect in Washing
ton a splondid building witli a largo
auditorium in which all tho National
conventions of associations of women
may bo held, a grand music hull, an art
chamber, a library and reading room, a
restaurant and reception room, a gym
nasium, a natatorium, a bowling al
loy and billiard parlor, all thoroughly
equipped and provided with instructors,
ladies, of course. Can they do all this
with twonty-flvo thousand dollars? Why
not? Mon can and do build magnificent
club houses with as little cash capital as
this; and thoy keep women outof them,
too, by tho way, just as the women now
purpose to keep men out of this ono.
In parts of the building not otherwise
occupied olllcos will bo lltted up, but
no man will bo permitted to lilro ono of
thorn. It is believed that there aro
femlulno lawyers, doctors, claim agents,
real estate agents, etc, enough to occupy
all the room to be devoted to olllcos. Hut
If there bo not, why thore aro art teach
ers, muslo teachers, milliners and dress
makers enough, not to speak of tho
probability that many such organiza
tions as tho American Suffrage Associa
tion, tlio Woman's National l'ross As
bociatiou, tho Woman's Christian Tern-
ANNA
SHAW.
poranco Union, tlio Hed Cross Associa
tion, tho Woman's llollef Corps, tho In
dian associations and such will tako
rooms hero for National headquarters.
At any rate the Seven Wise Womon on
tortaln no fear that they will not bo
bio to dispose of all their ofllco room
ut good rental figures without admitting
11 "um ',l8lll tbo portals, save suoh as
may do employed uy mo lomlnlno ton
ants, Tlio Sovon Wise Women so-oallod,
may bo, because they havo avoided tho
follies of matrimony aro tho incorpora
tors undiioaitltnto tlio board of direc
tory for tho first yoar. Of this board
Itov. Anna II. Shaw is president. She
is stoutly built, below tho medium
height, lias a bright but very kindly
brown oyu and a manner that attracts
Btfootlon no lass than admiration. Miss
bhaw, besides lulug ouo of tho first
ItKV.
womon to tako the medical course In
Boston University, is tho only woman
ever ordained by tho Mothodlst Protest
ant church. Tho novel ceremony of or
dination took place at Tarrytown, N.
Y., in 1880. For sovon years sho
preached at Dennis and Hingman,
Mass. About threo years ago sho re
signed her pastoral charge. Sho is at
presont superintendent of franchiso for
tho National Woman's Christian Tom-
peranco Union, but will on tho 1st of
August begin her salaried engagement
as National lecturer for tho American
Woman's Stitrrago Association. Sho is
declared to bo tho most eloquent of all
our womon speakers being tho equal of
Miss Frances Willard in ovory respect
and having tho advantage of a much
fuller, rounder and moro pleasing volco.
Last year Miss Shaw traveled moro than
twenty-eight thousand miles and deliv
ered an average of ilvo lectures a weok.
Sho is now in South Dakota, whoro sho
will remain until the close of tho fall
campaign.
Miss Adelaide Johnson is tho vlco
prosldont of the board. A fow years
ago ton or twelve, perhaps Miss
Johnson, then a timid, delicate, but
pretty and plucky girl of fifteen, loft
her father's farm near Plymouth, 111.,
and wont to St. Louis to gratify her de
sire for an artistic education. Whon
she had been in tho school of design
t'vo years sho took tho first prize offered
by tlio agricultural dopartment for tho
bost original design in wood carving.
MISS ADKI.AUli: JOHNSON.
Not long afterward she set out for Chi
cago, dotormined upon earning her liv
ing by her art if possiblo. On tho way
sho was cruelly robbed of all tho monoy
sho had carefully hoarded for this risky
enterprise, and whon sho arrived in
Chicago sho was literally penniless.
Unwilling to lie cared for by friends
tiiero, and unable to earn any thing im
mediately by her art, sho worked at
dressmaking until sho had saved enough
monoy to establish her in art rooms in
Contral Music Hall. Hero sho taught
and studied, and dreamed of a glorious
f uturo, for pupils camo and work was
ordorcd, and success boomed almost at
hand whon, ontering tho building one
dark winter morning, sho walkod
through tho open door of tho olovator
and foil upon tho stone floor some fif
teen feet below, shattering hor bones in
such a manner that months woro re
quired for thoir amending, and ovon
then ono log was moro than three inches
shortor than tho other, and sho had to
go upon crutches. By many moro
months of toil and sacrifice sho amassed
a littlo money and sot out for Europo
alone. After a few months of study In
England ami Scotland and a year in
Italy sho returned to Chicago and re
sumed her work of modeling and of in
structing class os. Soon after Gonoral
Logan's doath sho camo to Washington,
bringing with hor a roliof portrait of
that distinguished soldier-statesman
which so delighted Mrs. Logan that she
invited tlio young artist to Calumet
Place and turned tlio conservatory into
a studio for her. Hero Miss Johnson
modeled a bust of tho General In clay,
and hero began troublo botwoon Mrs.
Logan and her protege. According to
Miss Johnson's story, Mrs. Logan was
so much pleased with tho bust that sho
ordered it done in marblo, discussed all
tho details and mattors of expense, and,
In fine, gave an order for marble busts
of tho Gonoral and herself, which Miss
Johnson was tomako in Koine after in
curring cortain expense for furthor in
struction in carving.
Miss Johnson says that her mother
raised the SI, 400 necessary to tho trip
and tlio work by mortgaging tho farm n
Illinois. The ariist remained in Komo
ilvo months studying and working on
tho busts under the direction of Altini.
When site returned Mrs. Logan is said
to havo denied thatshe ovorordered the
busts and declined to take them. Sub
sequently she did accept tho bust of
herself and paid $400 for it. Once moro
moneyless Miss Johnson opened a
school of art. in connection witli which
site touches the Delsarte system of phi
losophy. Sho also holds a position in
ouo of the departments and In tho ca
pacities of clerk and teacher works
nineteen hours a day. Sho lives entire
ly alone in a small house on S street,
where she carries out many pooullar
ideas of life. Her house is now in sum
mer garb, the Willis covored from coll
ing to tloor with white cheese cloth
gathered and tinted into a soft back
ground for the few pictures and carved
cabinets artistically disposed. Filmy
white curtains are looped baoK from tho
windows, in one of which hangs a bird
cage, li another a globe of wator for a
growing vine. A whlto-drapod tablo
and couch and a few whlto-palnted
ohttlrs with a rack for photographs con
stitute tlio furniture of tho studio. Horo
Miss Johnson lives her eccentric lifo,
oatlng almost nothing (never any meat)
and enjoying her enthusiasms with lit- 1
tlo hludranco. Sho is what people call a j
thoosophist, uud Is a firm bolieverin and
praoticor of Christian science, which,
sho avers, has utterly eradicated all
traces of the results of her fall down ,
tho elevator shaft in Chicago. Sho also I
deolares that her Christian science has j
rostored her eyos, which at ono time j
woro in a fairway to loso thoir sight. ,
Since Miss Shaw, tho president, will bo i
tb&ont from Washington most of tho
time, Miss Johnson, tho vico-prosldont,
will bo tho rwsiduut head of tho Wimo
daughsis. ilia Lucy Authony, tho youngest of
tho Seven, Is tho daughtor of Captain
J. M. Anthony, of Fort Scott, Kan., tho
youngest brother of the "grand old wom
an," and as tho young lady's education
has boon directed entirely by Aunt Susan
sho is not only ono of tho mostdovoted
of tho illustrious spinster's disciples, but
is in training ts wear tlio mantlo as sho
bears tho namo of that remarkablo
woman. She is as thoroughly acquaint
ed with the business of tho Suffrage as
sociation as her aunt is, and, since this
business is done with fow accountings,
and nobody else know much of the de
tails of it. Miss Lucy is likely to be
earnest in the work of raising hor fellow-women
to what sho sincerely be
Hoves is thoir right and proper sphere of
action.
Miss Fanny Norris Edwards is a clerk
In tho Ponsion-ofllco. "I was born in
Ohio," sho says, "and brought up in tho
Ponslon-oflico." Sho was very young
whon sho entered this ofllco at a salary
of S400 a year. Sho now rccoivos SI, 200,
which is a tip-top "woman salary." (Of
courso when sho and her sisters of tho
Wimodaughsis shall havo accomplished
thoir purpose of sulTrage, women will
got as much as men for as much work
as well done; and that certainly is a
consummation pleasing to look forward
to.) During tho years which necessity
made hor dovoto to this daily work sit
employed her evenings in school whera,
by greedy attention to her studies, she
gained a good educational foundation.
Miss Edwards says sho inherited her
desire for woman sullrage from hoi
mother. Sho is onthusiiwtically inter
ested in nearly all tho reforms, an ear
nest advocato of "tomporanco in all
things," of tho Jonness Miller reform
dress, and indeed of all those things
which tho Wimodaughsis clll strivo
for. Sho is tho socretary of tho District
Woman's Sulfrago Association and sec
rotary and treasurer of aclroioof King's
Daughters. Her residence is at High
land Station, in Princo George's Coun
ty, Md., whoro sho planned and person
ally superintended tho building of her
house.
Miss Emma M. Gillott, still another
of tho Seven, was born in Wisconsin and
educated in Ohio. Sho claims the dis
tinction of having boon tho youngost
girl over graduated from tho Palnesvillo
Acadomy. Hor oxcuso for studying law
was that sho was "tired of tho intellect
ual stagnation Required of socioty wom
on." After being admitted to tho bar,
sho established herself in Washington,
whoro sho now controls a profitable
practice. Sho confines herself almost
entirely to tho ofllco work of hor pro
fession. Sho was the first woman ever
appointed notary public by a Prosidont
of tho United States, hor commission
having boon signed by Presidont Gar
field, and sho was tho soventh woman
admitted to practico in tlio Supromo
Court of the United States. Miss Gil
lott is a mombor and tho legal adviser
of tlio Order of Chosen Friends, and has
for many years invested its funds and
transacted its business with markod
skill and considerable profit to tho order.
In appoaranco, sho is slondor and deli
cate timid, ono might say, woro it not
7 ri ccj
MISS OII.I.KTT.
for hor keen, searching gray oyos and hor
calm, confidont voice. Surely Miss Gil
lot is a convincing oxamplo of womanly
modesty, combined with professional
and business success. Sho is, of course,
a suffragist a temperance woman and a
do voted partisan of hor sex.
Miss Eliza Titu Ward's peculiar fit
ness for tho pioneer work of tho Wimo
daughsis is her notable administrative
ability and financial sagacity. Sho is
ono of tho pillars of tho District Suf
fragist Association, a working member
of tho Moral and Educational Socioty
and of the Association for Social Purity.
Miss Ward was born in Duchess County,
N. Y., and prizos as the most important
bit of hor family history tho fact that
hor parents wero schoolmates of the
good Lucrotia .Mutt
Those are tho Sovon Wlso Womon,
under whoso management tho Wimo
daughis has been sot up on Its way.
Wilms B. Hawkins.
ot So Sum About it.
"Hero's nn itom," ejaculated Mr.
Blllus, who was reading his newspaper,
"about a superstitious crank that got
up from the tablo rather than bo one oi
thirteen at a supper."
"That roininds mo, John," said Mrs.
Billus, "that there wero just thirteen
that sat down at our wedding supper."
"Well, it didn't bring anjbody bad
luck, did It?" growled tho husband.
"No, I beliovo not. That is, none of
tho others."
Mrs. Blllus stared abstractedly at tho
"God Bless Our Homo" on tho wall, and
Mr. Blllus read his paper upside down
in sllonco for tlio next ton mlnutos.
Chicago Tribune.
Captain Thomas Shormnn, of Choi
sea, Mass., can claim honors as an ex
cellent swimmer, though ho is eighty
three years old. Ho was visiting a
friend, Dr. A. S. Davis, of Islesboro,
Me., nnd whon ready to tako the Belfast
steamer found that tho only boat avail
able from shore had Its mooring Una
caught. Ho promptly stripped, swam
to tho boat cleared hor away, and rowod ,
to tho shoio.
Sorvant "Madam, tho marquis n
without and duslros an audience."
Star Aotross (surveying a noarly ompty
bouse) "So do L" America.
HUMOROUS.
Jack "I havo a pressing quostlon
to ask you, Miss Amy." Amy "0 n
Jack. Press ahead." Loigh.
"Do you believo in fato, Pat?'
"Sure, and phwat would wo stand on
wldout 'em?" Kansas City Star.
Debtor "I want to pay that little
bill of yours." Creditor "All right,
my dear boy. Debtor "Hut I can t
Somorvillo Journal.
"Great Heavens, what a smolll You
can almost hear it What is it?
"Must bo a colfish bawl." Puck.
"Did my argumont strike you forci
bly?" "Yes; if you had continued ten
minutes longer I would have had brain
fovor." Munsoy's Weekly.
Prisoner "Ycr honor, would you bo
kind enough to dischargo me. I want
to go oil into tho country." Judgo "I
am afraid to discharge you, Sullivan.
You aro too heavily loaded." Toxas
Sittings.
Mr. Bullion "You are far too young
to marry my daughter. You aro only
oighteon." Tom "Yes, sir, but Miss
Julia is thirty-four, so tho two of us
would avorago about right." Tho Bos
tonian. "1 can seo now why you advertise
rooms for single mon," romarked an ap
plicant to tho landlady. "Why?" "Be
cause tho rooms aro too small to hold
doublo ones." Judgo.
Littlo Miss Lily was paying hor first
visit to tho country. Seeing somo birds
in a meadow, sho exclaimed: "Poor
littlo birdies of tho field! Thoy haven't
even a cage to sleep in." Judgo.
This is tho soason whon you ask
tho bartender to mix you a drink to
keep out tho heat, and ho gives you tho
same prescription you took last winter
to keep out the cold. P. S. So wo'vo
boon told. Norristown Horald. i
Littlo Tommy had spent his first
day at school. "What did you learn?"
asked his auntie on his return. "Didn't
learn any thing," said Tommy. "Well,
what did you do?" "Didn't do any
thing. A woman wanted to know how
to spoil 'cat' and I told hor." Louis
vlllo Tib-Bits.
"Now look here," said tho Professor
to tho iniuriated Bull, "you aro my
superior in strength, I am your superior
in mind. Lot us arbitrate this matter
and seo which should by right got tho
bottor of our controversy." "Oh, no,"
replied tho Bull, "lot's toss up for it"
Later. Tho Professor lost N. Y. Sun.
Each tins Its good nmlevll sldo;
A Jckyll, nltcnutte with Ilydo,
To tickle or to trouble.
Thus history repeats Itself;
Tho apples screen the small boy ents
Aiu sure to inuku him double.
Philadelphia Press.
"Now, my friend, what will you do
with all that monoy?" said an old gon
tloman to a tramp to whom ho had given
a nickel. Tramp (gazing at tho coin)
"Well, I guess I'll go to tho races and
botsomoof it If I loso I reckon I'll
spend tho summer at Asbury Park In
stead of going to Saratoga." Toxas
Sittings.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
Goneral Longstreot is understood
to bo writing his military memoirs.
Mr. Robert Barrott Browning has
given tho MSS. of his father's poo ma to
Balllol College.
Henry M. Stanley's manuscript is
vory legible, and scarcely an alteration
is made in a folio.
Tho Emperor of China has sent tho
Gorman Emperor a largo box of play
things littlo dragons and things for
his ilvo littlo sons.
Tho Confodorato Memorial Liter
ary Socioty has boon formed in Rich
mond to collect litorary works and
rolics relating to tho lato war.
Thoso who advocato spoiling reform
in tho English languago argue that ono
lottor out of ovory sovon, used accord
ing to tlio present practico, is absolutely
. usolcss.
Cardinal Lavigorio has an oxton
' sivo acquaintance with modorn litora-
turo, especially history and polemics,
though ho is known to tho world moro
, as a man of affairs than an oloquont
I proachor and studont
Dinah Salifou, an African King,
l was so impressed by tho splondors of
I civilization at tho Paris Exposition
j that whon ho roturned homo, ho
ordered all his malo subjects to wear
trousers. So thoy havo killed him.
j Liko many other wiso elderly man,
Francis Parkman, tho historian, has
' takon to gardoning, and is as successful
at it as was Evolyn. Ho is particularly
i fond of roses. Ho is writing again,
i having in a groat moasuro recovered
1 his health.
John Ross Ward, tho British Ad
miral whoso deatli was recordod ro
contly, organlzod tho working dopart
ment of tho National Llfo-Boat Insti
tution, and during his thirty-one years
of sorvlco as Goraoral Inspoctor of Lifo
Boats that institution saved moro than
twonty thousand llvos.
Tho nowost and most solect club
about London is tho Two Pin Club, com
posod chiefly of Punch's young mon,
with tho addition of a fow porsons like
Sir Charles Russoll and Lord Roo
borry. The two pins in quostlon coino
from tho names of Dick Turpln and
John Gilpin.
Dr. Hoinrich Schliemann is a mom
bor of thoGrocors' Company, of London.
Boforo ho unearthed anciont Troy and
dug up Agamemnon's tomb at Mycomu
tho irrepressible oxcavator sold horrings
and butler, potatoes and milk for ovor
five years in a littlo shop in Furston
burg, whore ho was a grocor's clork.
It is an interesting fact that Gold
roith's Dosortod Village has been
translated into tho Hindu tonguo, by
Garl Dhara. It is said to havo boon dono
with much skill. It is an almost line-for-lino
translation, and presorvos noar
ly all tho ideas of tho original.
Tho Princoss of Wales usos a cos
mo tic, tho nature of which tho ladles in
hor court would willingly pay dear for.
Although noarly fifty years of age, hor
Highness has a complexion as smooth
in toxturo and as delicate in tint as tho
beauty of a schoolgirl. It will stand
tho closost scrutiny, the tost of sun
hins and tbo olootrlo lanUrn, and U
proof to haudkorohlof and lorgostt.,'
STORIES ABOUT MEN.
Governor Joel Parker' Success In Cranio
lug Out of n Small llolo.
An incident which illustrates Governor
Parker's readiness in extricating himself
from an une.iected dilemma was related by
him to tho writer Mime years ago. While bo
was a member of the house of assembly, in
184S, a question of some local nnd political
importance came up, and the then 3'oung nnd
rising statesman decided to opioso it vigorfK
ously. To this end ho pri'iwiied an elaborate
speech, in which ho let his patriotic fire
burst into flame, Ho was so well pleased
with his effort that lie told n friend what ho
was going to say. To eniphasizo one iortion
of his siH.-ech he referred to nn oil portrait of
Washington, which hung on tho wall at the
right of the sjKMiker's desk. AVhen he got to
that iortion of his sjieech, he exclaimed
"And even tho Father of his Country" llf.
raised his hnnd and lifted his eyes townpi
where he supposed tho picture was. it. had
been removed by his waggish friend, lie
instantly added, "bus lieen taken away in
fear that ho would blush for shame at tho
passage of this iniquitous measure." New
York Sun.
Tot-got Himself.
Onco when Edwin Forrest went to Detroit
ho produced 'Metuinoru." Supeis vt ere en
gaged to personnto warriors, and amoi'g
them was a bright Irish lad who had a hind
admiration for tho great tragedian. At that
jwiiit in tho play where Mctamora n.l;s.
"Am I not tho great chief of the Pottawato
niiesi"' tho supers are supposed to grunt,
"Ugh! Uglif Tho stage manager hud care
fully drilled them in what they were ex
pected to do, hut on tho night of the )er
formanco our young friend was so trans
jiorted by Forrest's acting as to quite forget
that he was impersonating mi Indian. When
Forrest turned to the assembled warrior.', ami
thundered forth, "Am 1 not tho great chief
of the Pottawatoiniesf the Irish boy's en
thusiasm broke all restraint. He leniK'd into
tho air with a wild shout, nnd, twirling his
tomahawk about his head, replied: "Yees
air! yees air!" Boston Traveler.
Our "Tim" Knjoyed !r. Whitney' Dinner.
Congressman Tim Campbell is a quaint
figure in the hulls of legislation. If there is
anything that will rufllo his temper more
than another it is to be balked in his efforts
to get an otllce. lie has been having some
troublo with Pay Director Stevenson late!; .
and Secretary Whitney has hud his bund
full keeping Tim within Ixiuuds. Is'oi, nng
ngo he hit upon tho idea of inviting Campbell
to dine with him. Ho was careful to make
Tim the stile guesjc' o cuing. erljaps
not ns a distinguished honor, but rather as a
precautionary measure. Campbell came and
had a good time, without making any partic
ularly queer remnrk. When he got into his
overcoat ho suddenly turned to Mrs. Whit
ney, and in a hurst of enthusiasm over his.
entertainment he said: "There were no flic
on that dinner. You can U't your life uu
that" Washington letter.
Wlirre It Touched lllni.
1 In his youth tho late Charles Darwin wa.
passionately moved by music. He ntwn
spoke of a ecuhar sensation of coldness or
shivering in his buck on hearing beautiful
music, and an old lriend quotes n lvnmrl.
made on the occasion of their hearing a fine
untheui. At tlio end of an exceedingly im
pressive part ho turned to his friend, asking
seriously and with n deep sigh: "IJowV
jour backbone Tho Argonaut
On tlio 1'iine.
People who havo been clubbed by jKillce
men naturally seek court piaster. New
Haven News.
A Baltimore policeman has for a recom
Herniation that ho walks in his sleep. YonK
t ers Statesman.
Policemen are mj'sterious crentun-, ami
frequently express themselves in a rrtu-t-sticks.
New Haven News.
It is said that Diogenes could sleep somiJiy
even in a tub, und it is hinted that lii-(''i
man had policemen's blood running thruiigb
Ins veins. Yonkers .Statesman.
No :iiulli!K ClilriiKo.
Omaha Child Did you see- the pellr 1 1
thomoimi 1 did. You ought to bur sw...
it It only happens once a year.
Chicago Child Don't you bov tl.nip
oftener than that in Omaha !
"Why, no."
"Such a place! Pooh! Why in Chicago)
tho moon gets eclipsed 'most every night."
Omaha World.
Higher I'llllCillion.
Mrs. Biggs Now that your son lint re
turned from college, do you feci repaid for
your outlay for his education.' Did he tako
any prize I Mrs. Kquiggo Ob, yes, mum,
j-es, indeed. Ho got n medal for what ho
calls sprinting, and lie must bo high up in
mathematics, for ho says bo's learned four
now curves. Scrnnton Truth.
A llllcntcd Kill.
no (to Miss Breezy, of Chicago) Your
friend, Miss Shawsgardon, of St. Louis, is
something of a linguist, is sho not, Miss
Breezy '.
Miss Breezy Yes. Clara speaks French,
German and tho .Missouri languages. New
York Sun.
Variety Hid ,-jiIco ut Life,
lie (after having slipped tho enagement
ring on her finger) Aro you pleasod with it,
darling f
She Delighted, George. It is different
from anything of tho sort I've ever had be
fore Texas Siftings.
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