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GENERAL '."NEWS.
Decay of the Ksyptian Obelisk In
tVniral Park, N.-Y.
PATH'S TiH R XKTS HER t.iOO.OOll.
A Kiir Marries Twenty New WJvm. A
f 25.M Portrait.
The kins of Si;tm has just married
twenty new wives.
Dom Pedro. ex-enieror of Brazil, ia
an honorary member of the New York
Historical Society.
John GiWhittier. the aged poet, re
cently refused $2,000 from a magazine
for a'short Christmas oeiu.
Theodore l. Weld, the well-known
anti-slaverr agitator, celebrated his
eighty-sixth birthday recently.
The eldest daughter of General Ma
hone has tue of the finest ami sweetest
voices Mrs. John V. Maekay has ever
lie ant.
The Russian government gets aliout
thirty-six hundred pounds of pure
gold every year from the mines of
eastern Siberia.
Miilaia has received the sum of $25,
1)00 for his latest portrait of Gladstone.
It was paid for by subscriptions of the
women of England.
Swinburne, Alfred Austin, and Lew
is Morris are prominently mentioned
iu connection with the English laureate
ship as a successor to Tennyson.
Governor-elect CampleU. of Ohio, Is
a Knight Templar, a memlter of the
Knights of Pythias, the Grand Army of
the Kepnblic'and ihe Onler of Elks.
Kev. T. P. Sandford, who has be
come the pastor of & baptist church in
Birmingham. Eng., is a full-blooded
negro w ho was bora a slave iu Vir
ginia. An eccentric old lady living near
; Dresden, Tenn.. has purchased her
burial role. Site is seventy years old
and insists that she can't last much
longer.
Her American tour will net Fatti
$500,000. This will go a long way to
ward her household expenses iu the
Welsh castle with the unpronounce
able name.
The Egyptian obelisk in Central
L Park. New" York, is rapidly going to
decay, notwithstanding the efforts
made to preserve it. The climate is
too severe.
Chartotte M. Yonge, the historical
writer, has written and published
exactly 100 books. She is now en
gaged upon her 101st work, to be pub
lished shortly.
Sir Julian Pannccfote is devoting
good deal of time to the study of Amer
ican literature. He says that he had
no realization of the richness and va
riety of the work of our men of letters.
Editor V. II. Mable of the Christian
at Work thinks too much professional
ism has crept into the churches, and
says: "We need dirtier churches, more
shabby churchesimade so by the masses
attending."
The contract for the organ for Tal
nwge's new tabeSnacle in Brooklyn has
beeu awarded to the firm that built the
old one. It will have 5,078 pipes and
1 19 stops, and it is said it will be the
largest ever built.
A bright J'oung fellow in London
earns his living by writing speeches for
wedding breakfasts. In England
- speeches are still expected from the
bridegroom, and they are generally very
bungling affairs;
The library of the late Dr. Bauer, the
celebratedGerman scholar of Ieipsic,
has just been purchased by the Haver
ford. Pa., college for a large price. It
, ausists of 3, WO volumes on ecclesias
tical literature and history.
Senator Edmunds of Vermont has
served longer in the Uni ed Slates Sen
ate than auj- of his colleagues. April
6, ISiH), he will have been iu the Sen
ate without a single break t went v-f our
vears. Air.
February.
Edmunds will be ti'2 in
Mrs. Emma E. Forsyth, the daughter
of a former American consul at Samoa,
is claimed to be the largest land-owner
in the world. She has a plantation of
about 150,000 acres on au island near
New Guinea and employs over 500
people on it.
A Lower Soncon, Northumberland
county, Pennsylvania, farmer, while
butchering the other day, struck a bul
lock with a sledge hammer, and left
the animal for dead. When he re
turned from his breakfast the animal
was finishing a chest of meal.
Frank R. Stockton, who stands at
the head of American short - story
writers, is a thin, intellectual-looking
man, with a fascinating smile and a
pleasing mode of conversation. He is
a tvpical American in apiearance, of
the highly strung, nervous kind.
Charley Crew, a Marion (O.) jewel
er, has completed a medal which is to
!e given to lra Williams. Mr. Wil
liams is the farmer who had the fol
lowing sign posted on his farm regard
ing hunting: "Hunt all you please,
and when the bell rings come in to din
ner. "
Miss Maud Banks, who fijnired on
the stage awhile, is now in Washing
ton acting as private secretary for her
father, Gen. N. P. Banks. The Gen
eral looks as large and strong as he
did twenty years ago, although 74 win
ters hare made his thick thatch of hair
and his heavy mustache snowy white.
A countryman went to a store in
Morgantown. W. Va., the other day
and purchased a Kerosene
"That's the first one o them notions
that ever come 'to my house," be re
marked. "Candles was alius good
enough for marm and me, but darter's
got a beau and thinks we ort to put on
a leetle style.
A New Yorker says: "Men marry
their secretaries and typewriters so
oiien in tne ousmess wona oi jew
York that there is now no novelty at
all about the performance. 1 have
known dozens of such cases. In our
house alone four men have married
typewriters or women clerks within
the past twelve months."
The schedule for service by the great
guns is thought to be as follows: The
160-ton gun, with good luck, can be
fired ninety-five times before becoming
unfit for service; the 67-ton gun 127
L'tttnes and the 45-ton gun 150 times.
The cost of each round for the big
one is 327; 184 for the 67-tonner
and 98 for the 45-tonner.
In the past twelve years something
like 400 out of those who have been
candidates for the post of officer in the
English mercantile service have been
unable to distinguish colors. No few
er than mistook drab for green;
over one hundred confounded pink
with green. Two persons could not
recognize white to them it was green
or pink.
An officer high in army circles sug
gests that as a "solution of the Indian
question the red man be enlisted in
the regular army. He says that they
make good soldiers but very poor farm
ers. The Americau army has found
the former to be a serious fact, while
theluterlor Department has made al
most an utter failure of converting
them into farmers.
When Mr. Browning's friends first
made known the poet's intention of be
ing buried by his wife's side the Flor
ence authorities stated that It would
require an act of parliament to re-open
the old cemetery where Mrs. Browu
ing was buried; but they have since
announced that, out of respect to the
poet's wishes, thev are willing to re
move Mrs. Browning's remains and the
monument over her grave to the new
cemetery.
An American lady who recently
risked Count Tolstoi, the great Rus
sian novelist, complains that he is not
quite consistent in practicing what he
preaches. He holds thai, there is some
thing degrading in the mere handling
of money and property, and according
ly delegates to the countess the control
of the household and the entire man
agement of his pecuniary affairs. She
observed, however, that he has a lux
uriously furnished study, and horses,
carriages, and servants at his com
mandalthough they are his wife's.
On the whole, the great man would ap
pear to have beeu lather a disappoiub-lueuU
Rumbletborpe and the flail.
Gen. Bumhlethorpe is certainly a
very big man big iu statue and big
ger still in his own couceit, brimming
over, as he constantly ks, with his own
Importance, says the Boston lYanaeript.
Gen. Bumhlethorpe was never in the
army; he never was even in the militia.
But he was surveyor-general once, a
good while ago, ami has of course worn
the title of general ever since, aud has
always insisted upon it. He has been
a shade more over!earing since he be
came a general in this way, though he
was sufficiently overbearing before
that.
One fine afternoon last summer Gen.
Bumblethorpe was taking a walk
through the outskirts of the country
town which he had honored by choos
ing it as his place of summer sojourn. In
the course of his wanderings lie came
upon a pair of bars leading into a
C-assy and inviting meadow. The
irs "he let down and walked into
the meadow. He had but half crossed
the meadow when he saw, to his
horror, a great black and white
Holstein bull emerge from the dark
shade of an apple tree and advance
toward him. Gen. Bumblethorpe
is not an active man, but the steady
advance of the enormous auimal stim
ulated him for the moment to great
activity. And his own rapid llight
also served to stimulate the bull, who
lowered his head and charged fero
ciously, bellow-ing the while.
It was a mad chase, but Gen. Bum
blethorpe had some good rods of ad
vantage in the start, and the opposite
fence of the field w as not far away.
The geucral ran rapidly and succeeded
in turning a somersault over the fence
just in time to eseaite the infuriated
animal.
And then it was Gen. Bumblethrope
was infuriated, r roni the sate side
of the fence he stormed and raged
at the bull, and. seeing a farm-house
not far awav. he stalked over to it.
The farmer was cboring around the
barn when the general rushed up to
him.
"Is that rour bnll over there, sir?"
exclaimed Gen. Bumblethoriie.
"Wal. I guess 'tis," said the farmer.
"Well, sir, do you kuow what it's
been doing?"
"Chasm' ye. mebbe."
les, sir, chasing me: and it is an
outrage I will not tolerate an out
rage, 1 tell yon, that 1 should be pur
sued and humiliated in this way?'
"Wal," savs the farmer, "it's a thing
that bulls will do; ye can't help it, ye
know.'1
"Help it!" said the general, black
with indignation; "do vou kuow who I
am?"
"No, I don't."
Well, sir, I am Gen. Bumble-
thorie."
"Is that so? ' said the farmer.with
a great deliberation; "is that so?
Why in thuuder did' nt j-e the the bull,
geuralf"
The Jews Still Wander.
It is remarkable that Emin Pasha
should be a Jew by birth, and one of
his rescuers Vita Hassen a Jew by
profession. But the presence of these
Jews in Equatorial Africa does not
stand alone. From the time of Abra
ham downward the migratory instinct
has been dominant in the race. Me
sopotamia, Canaan, Egypt, Canaan
once more, Assyria, Babylonia, Persia.
Canaan a third time, and then the
world at large such are the successive
stages of Israel's national migrations.
The Jews, indeed, have ever leen the
'tribe of the wandering foot." Ia an
age when movement from one country
to anot her was a rare and hazardous
proceeding in the twelfth century,
to wit Benjamin of Tudela and Pe
techia of Ratisbon traveled through a
great part of Europe, Asia and Africa,
and were thereby able to make con
siderable additions to the world's
knowledge. The second Benjamin and
Halevy, who explored the Felashas,
may also be mentioned. The existence
of Jews in out-of-the-way corners of
the globe, the Felashas and Beni-Israel
and the Cochin Jews, has only been
made possible by the migratory ten
dency of the race. The four young
men who kept last Yom Kippur in so
queer, yet touching, a fashion in the
wilds of South Africa, are among the
latest illustrations of the tendency. No
doubt the waudering instinct has been
strengthened by persecutions, but now
that peace and quietness are his in
freater measure, the Jew still retains
is predilection for travel. Jewish
Chronicle.
On the Verse of a Panic.
Jackson (whose financial credit is
gone): "I tell you, Withcrbee, we are
on the verge 6f a financial panic"
Witherbee: "Pshaw! What makes vou
think that?" (Confidentially): "Well,
ir, Bagley aud Roberts used to leud
me small sums a year ago, but when I
go to them nowadays for a live or a
ten they tell me frankly that they
haven't got it. Bagley and Roberts
e two of our best business men, too.
I tell you, sir, we're going to have a
3a,nic"
Six of the 111 members of the Tale
law school are Japanese.
Charles V. Pier. of Seattle, has
covered a new kecres of pine.
dls-
EASTElliY iNES.
The Kansas fliv Treasurer
$-20,-
000 Short.
MISSISSIPPI WIIITK PAPS Klt.LKD.
N n ii s KtlrtiMl. Steamer r'tiinnliTeil. A
Xatetl t'liiiintiscr Dd.
The Minnesota Iri vinii Club, of St.
Paul, has received a character.
Teiinv is now tlrst choice for the Sub-
urban, with Kuceinnd ami Prince lioval
clone up.
St one unison, owned bv the Canadian
turfman,.! I-".. Soaurain, is a race horse
and no mistake.
Pettit, the American champion tennis
ulaver. defeated Latham, a orolessioniil.
at London, Falkland, by :J sets to I.
The Intel col leijii te Football Associa
tion met in New Yoi k City on Mav 10,
and changed the collep dx it bull rules.
At Bethlehem, Ph.. May 10, the Le-
high Fniversity football team defeated
tin John Hopkins team by:! itonls to 2.
At Brooklyn, N. Y.. on May 10. the
Brooklyn Lacrosse team I vat the l'l-
leije of the fit v of New York bv 5 uoj.ls
to 1.
Harry Hill's latest venture, his ealoon
at One Hundred and Thirtieth Mrect and
fhird avenue, New York, with bin old
picture gallery nf wirs was nobl at
mctioii.
In the jwH'l-chilinpioiiHliip ttetween
Messrs. IeOro and INmers Mav II,
Powers won, the score U-inji ti H to IV-
Dro's 5.VI. IK-Oro made 12 MMiitcbes,
Powers 5.
Tommy Nverson, of Syracuse, X. Y ,
and Tom Gilford, of New York, fonht
at 14 jHMiuds for bx, near Jcisey fit v.
(iitl'oKl knocked his opoiieiit out "in the
third round.
At IVnver, Co!., Billy Vvls and Jim
Rates fought for a pure of f,"t0, "Police 1
tJaiette" rules. In the twelfth round:
Woods knocked Bates out. The tiltt '
lasted 4tl minutes. j
L. Iavenpirt, of the Fountain Gun'
Club, Island, and Thelore 1'eck, I
f Haverstraw, N. Y., tlt at 100 birds!
tor fl.OOi), at Woodlawn, L. 1. Peek j
won. h-eore, Peck, 77; Ihivenort, 71. '
Charley Mitchell and Kratik S'a in j
are wraiiglind over conditions for a
match for JEl.iHM). Slavin want to
make a match to a finish. Mitchell de- j
sires 10 or 12 lounds, for IT0 1 or 1,0 hi. ;
Princeton Col lew and Stevens Insti-!
tute teams played a gaine 0f Lacrosse j
tor the championship at Princeton, N !
I., on Mav 1 '. Piinceton's team tdayed j
in great form and won by 12 goals to 0. ;
i
J. E. Sullivan, Secretary of the Ama-i
teur Athletic I'nion, is business mana- j
er and athletic editor of the Sporting i
rimes. He owns sixtv-eicht medals, as
crophies of bis athletic piowess in days j
gone by.
1
I. J. 0' 'onnell, the deaf mule who'
shoots with a ri lie in over 5 1 positions,'
writes that he is willing to arraiiire a
match at trick rifh shooting with any
man in the world. O'lVcmell lives i.i i
White Clou I, Mich.
The Golden Gate Athletic Club put up:
a thousand dollar purse for IVnnv Kt 1-i
leher, of tjuincv, Mass., and Joe l-'llings- '
woith, of New York, ijneenslieriy rules ,
will govern the match. The l-jser's end .
of the purse is f 1 oil.
i
Fd Barton, the colored pnjrili.Ht, and
Harry Cumminir fought ut the lclipe j
Club, IjOiidou, Kng. Barton knocked ;
out t'umniiiiffs in the second round.
Barton is HI years of age, ntands ." leot (1 !
inches in height, and weighs I2S ounds. j
i
Jimmy Nelson, of New London,
whipped Christopher Cornell, of I'as
coag, in a lK-round fight near I taught. :
Mass., on May 11. Tne stake was $: 0, ;
of which $:!."0 went to the winner. Nel- 1
son knocked his man out in the bitli!
round. i
Ciarlev West field, the champion bul
lock-dresser and butcher of South San
Francisco, and M. F. Mullins, champion
butcher of the Chicago stock yards, have
leen matched for a bullock dressing con
test for 1 1 ,00 ) a side, to take place in
San Francisco.
In the Yale College spring regatta at
New Haven, Conn., on May 10, the 2
mile eight-oared race lietween the Soph-
mores, Ficshman and junior crews, the
Sophmores won by a half a length from
the juniors in II minutes 4H seconds.
Butler won the single-scull race 1 x$
miles, for tho Cleveland Cup in 1:1 min
utes 30 seconds.
Edward Haulan and Fred A. Plaisted
rowed a single-scull raco at Bi'idgeMrt,
Ala., for a purse of $2,000, offered by the
Bridgeport Land Co. Hanlan displayed
great sjeed and won easily. 'Ihe dis
tance was one mile, and lianlau's time
was 4 minutes and .'!0 seconds. It was
the first professional race ever rowed on
the Tennessee river.
Fred Miller, well known to followers
of the races and sporting men generally
throughout the country, has lieen ar
tested at Alexandria, Va., charged with
using the mails for fraudulent pin oses.
It is alleged tbat lie sent, out circulars
Seeking purchasers for counterfeit
money.
Nancy Demerire, in attempting to es
cape from a west-bound train on the
Kiie road at lavitsburg, Ohio, tepied
in front of a train going east and was de
capitated. A brakenian who tried to
save her lot-t an arm The woman's
husband was killed at the same place
and under similar circumstances a few
weeks ago.
Jack Falvey of Providence, and George
Mickle of Taunton, Mass. , fought in ihe
Gladstone Athletic Club, for a purse.
The battle developed into a rough-and-tumble,
and Mickle lay down after fight
ing 23 minutes. Six rounds were fought.
Both men are light-weights, and Falvey
has figured in over 20 glove fights. Ibi
ly Maboney of Boston was referee. Fal
vey was seconded by Jimmy .Murray of
New York, and Hippy Homer, while
Mickle was attended bv Jimmy Nelson
of Fall Kiver ami Jimmy Pol an.
j The King of Bavaria, at Munich, has
presented Win. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill),
the American ?ortman, with a decora
tion and a diamond ring. Miss Annie
Oakley, the "Police Gazette" female
champion rifle shot, was also presented
by bis majesty with a diamond bracelet
and a decoration of honor. The king's
monogram is on the ring and bracelet.
The shooting of Buffalo Bill and Miss
Oaklay created quite a sensation.
MUSIC.
Balaaraan Who tlaa Man? l'elly
and IMvrrtbig Incident.
Trial.
"The petty trials and tribulations of
the salesman who retails sheet tutislu
behind a counter are a vexation to the
spirit and a weariness to the tlesh."
'1 he speaker, says the Boston Herald,
was a well-known publisher of music
ami the senior partner in a West street
firm. "1 served a tedious apprentice
ship to that sort of thing myudf," he
continued, "ami so I kuow whereof I
speak. It Is notorious that the musi
cal world la peopled perhaps more
largely than any other profession with
cranks. I suppose that when a mail Is
thoroughly absorbed In the theory and
1 ract ie of harmony he Is prone to be
arred by the discords of everyday life
and Is disagreeably conscious 6f Itelng
out of tune with the universe. But,
however we account for it, the fact re
mains that music-buyers are, as a class,
tho most exciting and techy of custom
ers. Half the time they haven't the
faintest idea as to what "they want, and
they will frequently own to this frank
ly, "reiving on the clerk to make selec
tions for them.
"But the life of a music clerk has Its
compensations. The grotesque and
picturesque incidents that come under
bis eyes are numberless. You see that
pale" young man with the saffron
w hiskers o er there. Well, only yes
terday t beautiful, lauguoroiis-eved
young 1 idy tripled in here, and glid
ing to the' counter iu front of that
guileless youth lisocd dreadfully; 'Will
you give ine your hand in mine?' The
clerk happened to le as bashful as he
looks, and he was taken completely
aback. He flushed a vivid scarlet,
stammered 'Why certainly,' made as
if to extend his hand, aud then, he
thinking himself in time, climbed to
yonder shelf and brought down the
song -Your Hand in Mine, for which
the artless damsel had inquired in such
a bewildering fashion. Aud the young
lady, w ho was evidently not w ithout a
sense of the humor of the situation,
drooped her languorous eyes and
smiled serenely.
"The man who gives the most trou
ble is, perhaps, the funniest of all the
bores that drift into the music store.
He is the individual who wants the
music to an air which he does not
know by name. With the assurance
of a Mozart he says to the tired clerk
who waits mi him: 'What I want goes
something like this; "1 ra-la-la, tra-la-lee.
tra-ladoo." Don't you rewenilwr
it? Uh! yon must kuow it. Tra-la-!a,
tra-la-lee. If you'll run over the names
ot songs that sound like that t may re
call the title. Tra-la-Ia, trada-la, tra-la-loo.'"
There's only one thing to do
with this particular crank, and that is '
to tell him bluutly that you have no j
car for music and that consequently j
1. . , 1.. !
iuu imc no loea oi me tune ne is try
ing to hit. After that he is reasonably
sure to ceae his discordaut trilling
aud take his leave.
"One day last week a stalwart son
of Erin came iu, accompanied by a
buxom young nunian, whose brilliant
costume aud affectionate manner
stamped her as a newly wedded bride.
Iu a timid tone, enriched bv a delight
ful brogue, the toung woman asked
one of the clerks if he hud the song
Let Me Fold Thee Close, Acushla.'
"We have ' Let Me Fold Thee Close,
Mavoureen,"' replied the clerk.
"Sure, it's all one, me loy,' broke
iu the happy groom. 'Acti-dila or Ma
voureen, it comes to the same thing.1
"The smiling clerk bu-ded himself
with wrapping up the music, while the
blue-eied bride shlv whwitR-red to her
spousc: 'Airah, leddv.
be aisv now
How cud yer expect the
man to have any Gaelic'
young gintle-
"All in all. tin-re are some very d
Verting incidents to Ins met with iu iin j
establislin t of this sort, ami
might pick up a much worse place for !
the sillily of Ihe funny tido of huiuau '
nature.''" i
Trnckhig Snnke lj Scent
When the Australian black fellow is
pushed and can liud no other game he
catches snakes, lizards, iguanas aud
kangaroo rats, the wiliest and most
agile of all wild animals on their own
ground ami amid surroundings the
most fa vol able to their concealment,
by simply exercising their faculties of
! a superior wild animal,
j With those woudcrful. great brown
j eyes of his he can see the faintest trail
where a snake lias zigzagged through
the dry moss and leaves, or the slight
est footmark where au iguana had lied
from his approach to its refuge in a
hollow tree, says the Fore.it ami (Stream.
When daylight fails him and the dews
of evening begin to fall, his broad nos
trils take up the chase, and. stooping
down among the hushes, with a tough
forked stick in his hand to support him
in his tiring attitude, he follows the
track as unerringly as any bloodhound.
When he runs a snake to earth, if he
cannot surprise it in the open and kill
it by a sudden blow of his stick, he
squats over its hole, holding the fork
ed end of his stick downward, and
makes a low, hissing or whistling
sound with his lips.
Soon the snake puts his head out of
the hole and peers around. In an in
stant the forked stick descends and
fixes it to the ground by the neck, and
the black fclloNV, seizing it lirmlv by
his muscular hands just behind the
head, so that it cannot bite him, drags
it out of the hole and twists its head
off; or, if it is to strong for that, iiouiids
it on the ground till its back is broken.
So with the igautias and all the other
animals. The black fellow never loses
their trail when once he gets upon it.
aud having followed them to their lair,
he patiently awaits until they come out
or until he is nblo to get a hand in and
put them out.
The black fellows declare, and prob
ably with truth, that not a single ani
mal can escape them if they have time
to hunt a niece of desert country thor
oughly. When they want to return to
camp they can follow their own trail
by sight with the greatest ease, but
they say they cannot follow their own
trail by scent at all. It has no scent
for them, though another man's has a
strong scent. This is one of the most
curious facts conuectcd with these
strange people; but it is only in accord
with the well-known natural phenom
ena. A Sagacious Dog.
ltoscoe Whitcomb of Waldo, Me.,
has a shepherd dog which he prizes
highly. One day a colt that was fasten
ed by a halter got his feet through the
stall and fell iu such a manner that he
was choking to death. The doj was in
the barn, saw the trouble, aud. run
ning to the house, caught Mrs. Whit
comb by the dress and attempted to
pull her out of doors. The dog would
run toward the barn and then catch
Mrs. Whitcomb by her clothes. She
tiually went to the barn arriving just
iu time le save the QkV
SELLERS OF SHEET
'SPORTING NOTES.
Numerous Pugilistic Events for Ihe
Near Future.
IIVXMlX KP0 It KM AXOTIIKIt Vlt'ToltY.
Trail Xetvs. ' lluffals Uili" llonernl. A
Live llird Mahh.
Nasselock, Ihe
dead.
German coinner, is
The authorities have cloned all gam
bling houses at lleiieva.
At the next consistory at Home, three
bishops w ill receive cardinal's hals.
The Mingle wood mine ut North Law
rence, Ohio, is on tire, and :HM men are'
thrown out of employment.
The steamer Harold, bound from Bil
bao to Glasgow, foundered oir the Irish
coast. l-ix per nous were drowned.
At ihe papal consistory to Ik held in
June the bishop of Geneva ami the papal
nuncio at Lisbon will bo created cardi
nals. The nuns in a Catholic convent at
Porno, Austria, have Is-en evicted, ami
the nunnery has been converted into a
magaxine.
The Brazilian government has decreed
that ufter July I customs duties to the
minimum amount of 20 peri-ent. shall
be payable in gold.
The grand lodge No. 2, B'Nai B'Kith,
composed of delegates from the lodges in
the Missomi valley, held its first busi
ness Hession in Kansas City.
the Be publican convention in the
Third I ennslvania congressional dis
trict decided it iiiexedient to nominate
a candidate and adjourned.
Near Hover? Ind. T., Her. F. F. Grif
fin, organiser of a large colony of colored
people ho had settled near tbeie, was
.l lot and killed by Samuel Moore.
It is reported that Patrick Hyne, who
syrved two terms as national "treasurer
of the Ancient Order of Hilternians, has
confessed to a defalcation of t2,HOO.
The Vienna corresondent of the lAm
don Times learns that all the owers ex
cept France have concluded commercial
treaties with Turkey umii the- basis of a
lixetl tariff".
1 he trial of Secretary of State Hice
ami Public Printer Collier and Cleve
land of Colorado upon the charge of con
spiracy to defraud the state resulted in
their discharge.
I jiw ver ( linto G. Ucynolds died in
New York from a pistol hliot wound
which he received in bis office on Wall
j stieet a few davs ago at the hands of Al-
phoiise J. Stephani.
A shortage of lietween $17,0 0 ami
120,0. 0 in the accounts of City Treasurer
I'eake of Kansas t ilr was discovered,
and he wan stisnded from office land
ing an official investigation.
The murderer of Jarob S. Heisingcr,
suHiiiiteiideut of the Hr farm at Free
port 111., has tieen captured, and is now
in jail. The murderer expresses hiitisell
as glad that he committed the act.
Near Meridian, Miss., White Caa set
lire to the cabin of a negro named An
ilervon. Anderson ran out, fired into
the crowd, killing I ami is Ijtnd and
wounding two others and escaped.
Thomas B. Musgrave, of the Union
league club, New York, who was ar
rested on a charge of sending obscene
mail matter to Augustus 1. lasigi of
KltincU'ck, N. Y., has been discharged.
Advices have lieen received from
j Fast Afiica that .Maj. Wissmann cap
! tured Makind.tni on I lie 14tli inst., plac-
I ing the whole coast from that place to
! Zanzibar in the hands of the Germans.
In New Yolk Judge Ingraham decided
I that Uei-eiver Hentv Wintkrop Gray, ol
'the North Kiver Sugar Refining coin
i puny, has no right to the profits of the
illegal combination known as the sugar
trust.
Henry innwoody s lurniture estao-
lisbment, a tine three-story brick, was
completely destroyed bv fire at Salt
Lake, I'lali. The loss on stock and
buildings aggregates f 125,0 0; insurance,
71,IK0.
Joseph Butcher and Frank Perkins,
brothers-in law, quarreled over a mort
gage on some proiierty near Mount Vei
non, Ohio. Pcrkiim struck Butcher
with a club, crushing his skull and caus
ing instant death.
At Bangor, Maine, James McGuire,
lespondeiit in the "Oiiginal Package"
case, was fined 10J and costs or ninetv
days in Jail, it lieing Held tbat he was
amendable to state laws. He has ap-
is'uled the case.
The Ohio He publican central commit
tee decided upon Cleveland and July 10,
as the place and time of holding the next
Republican convention, hx-ltov. ror
aker was selected as teniorary chair
man of the convention.
Ludwig Marqiiardt, an artist, attempt
ed to murder ins wile, rrederika in
Philadelphia, by shooting several times,
and died shortly atterwards from the
effects of poison he had evidently taken
lieforc attempting lus wife s life.
Leslie MacI,eod, the associate editor
of Wallace's Monthly of Ne York, lias
lieen discharged. MacLeod was charged
with lieing implicated with Robert L
Wallace in stealing tiouds from John II
Wallace, proprietor of the monthly.
j Arthur Newton, the I-ondon solicitor
j who pleaded guilty to the charge of con
i iiivuig to defeat justice by assisting ecr-
tain Hrsoiis charged with complicity in
; the Cleveland street scandal to escape
I was sent to imprisonment for six weeks
i
I At Ihe New Jersey Jockey Club, only
; live noises laced tne starter in tne rsew
Jersey Jockey Club Handicap, at $25
each, with $1,500 added; mile and a
quarter. Castaway JI, with Hamilton
went to the iiost the favorite at (I to 5
; with Badge, with W. Hay ward, second
choice at 2 to 1. The race proved to be
! a surprise as Dwyer Bros.' F.on won eas
ily, w ith Badge second, w hile the favor
ite was absolutely last. Bergen rode the
'winner. It was the general impression
Castaway II was stiff.
Mike Daly, of Bangor, Me., and Jamei
Dwyer, of Ijewiston, Me., have signed
articles to contend according to "Police
Gazette" rules, six rounds, at Lewiston
Me. The conditions stipulate that the
winner will take HO jer cent, of the net
receipts aud the loser 20 per cent. Daly
agrees to torteit foil to Dwyer it lie fail
to knock him out in six rounds or 24
minutes, the time limited for the rounds
including the one minute rest lietween
each round.
AN UNKNOWN LAND.
a Sort Ion nf tha Unt1 Rtataa
Kaar
lrnllin by Whlla Mm.
Washington has her grsat unknown
and like the Interior of Africa,
says the Seattle "reus. The country
hut in by the Olympic mountains.
which includes an area of about 2.600
miles square, has never, to the positive
knowledge of old residents of the ter
ritory, been trodden by the foot of
man, white or Indian. These moun
tains rise from the level country within
ten to fifteen miles of the straits of Kan
Juan ile Fuca In the north, the Pacilie
ocean in the west, Hood's canal in the
east, and the basin of Quinault lake in
the south, aud rising to the height of
6.00U to 8.1)1)0 feet, shut iu a vast unex
plored area.
Ihe Indians have never penetrated
It. for their traditions say that it is
inhabited by a very tierce trllie, which
none of the coast tribes dared molest.
Though it is improbable that such a
tribe could have existed in the moun
tain country without their presence In
coming known to the white men. no
man has ever ascertained that It did
not exist. White men, too, have only
vague accounts of any white man hay
ing ever passed through this country,
for investigation of all the claims of
travelers has invariably proved that
they have only traversed its outer
dge.
I he most rer.erallT a?cepted theory
In rcgarl to this country is that it con
sisted of great valleys stretching from
the inward slopes of the mountains to
a great central basin. This theory is
supported by the fact that, although
the country around has abundant rain,
and clouds constantly hang over the
mountain tops, all the streams flowiug
towsrd the four points of the compass
are insignificant, and rise only on the
outward slrqte ot the range, none ap-
leartng to drain the great area siiut in
iy the mountains. This fact appears
to support the theory that the streams
flowing from the inner sloies ot tne
mountains feed a great interior lake.
But what drains this lake It must
have an outlet somewhere, and as all
streams pouring from the mouutains
rise on their outward slope, it must
have a subterranean outlet into the
ocean, the straits, or the sound. There
are great discoveries in store for some
of Washington's explorers.
A irentleman named Drew, now re
siding at Olympia, states that he has
limited to the summit of the eastern
range from Hood's ranal. and looking
down could see great Talles stretch
ing toward the west. A party of rail
road prospectors claim to have pene
trated the interior, but could give no
account of it, and appear only to
have skirted the outer slopes ten or
fifteen miles from Hood's ranal. A
party of United States soldiers are said
to have traversed the country from
Port Townsend. but mo data is obtain
able as to what they saw.
Numerous attempts have been made
to organize exploring parties, but ther
have invariably fallen through, the
courage of the projectors oozing out at
the ttst moment. There is a line oi-
iHUluniiv for some of the hardy citi
zens of the sound to acquire fame by
-tiuveiliug the mystery which wraps the
laud encircled uy the suow-capiieu
Uljmpie range.
tie naa 1 ne iracaraeats.
We were waiting at Trenton for tha
cross train to Long Branch, when a
lame and sorrowful-looking man began
to circulate among the jieople and
solicit alms on the ground that be had
just buried his wife after a long illness.
which had. coupled witu ui-ueaitn, re
duced him to poverty.
Look here, sir!" said the third
mau he came to, "you are a liar and an
imisistor!"
But I am not,
quietly replied tne
man.
But you are!
You told me this
very same stor
i-v in
Buffalo a year ago!"
"And he told it to me in Pittsburgh
aliout two years ago!" added a second.
And he related it to me and got
money in i'atteron inree months ago!
exclaimed a third.
"Gentlemen, I am a truthful man!"
protested the beggar.
"But you are telling a mighty old
storv."
"No, I ain't. My last wife died four
months ago."
"Y'ourlastP How many have you
had?"
"Three. I told this story In Buffalo
because I lost my second one there.
Please read this document."
It was a doctor's certificate of the
cause of death, with a newspaper notice
pasted thereon.
"But you told It to me a year previ
ous in Pittsburgh," said the Tennsyl
vanian. "No doubt of it, sir. Please read
tb:s. It relates to the death of my tlrst
wife."
It was some such document as the
other, and its genuineness could not be
doubted.
"And the story you told me atFater
son relates to the death of the third, I
suppose?" queried the third accuser.
"It does. Here is the document."
That jiajier was also straight, and the
first accuser scratched his head, looked
puzzled, and finally said:
"Well, I take it all back. You are
not an impostor, but excuse me and ac
cept this half-dollar, when I rise to re
mark that you are stopping in a house
next door to a fool."
And the thrice bereaved was sent
limrdug away with a purse of about &
A. 1. ISun.
The Deadly Cold Bed.
If trustworthy statistics could be had
of the number of persons who die every
year or become permanently diseased
from sleeping in damp or cold beds
they would probably be astonishing and
appalling, says Good Housekeeping. It
is a perifthat constantly besets travel
ling men, and if they are wise they
will invariably insist on having their
beds aired and dried, even at the risk
of causing much trouble to their land
lords. But the peril resides in the
house and the cold "spare room" has
slain its thousands of hapless guests,
and will go on with its slaughter till
people learn wisdom. Not only the
guest but the family suffer the penalty
of sleeping in cold rooms and chilling
their bodies at a time when they need
all of their bodily heat by gettiag be
tween cold sheets. Even in warm sum
mer weather a cold, damp bed will get
in its deadly work. It is a needless
peril, and the neglect to provide dry
rooms and beds has in it the element of
murder and suicide.
Periodicals tn Russia.
There are 686 periodical publications
In Russia. Seventy-eight of them are
political aud news dailies, 109 are
icientitlc. 86 religious. 15 artistic, S3
agricultural, 82 statistical and biograph
ical, 15 pedagogic. IS for children, aud
the rest miscellaneous.
COAST jXEWS.
(Vur d'Alene Mining Properly Pur
iliasetl liy a Portland Sjntlicate.
C'AXXHtlKS AT KALKM AXI) ALU AX Y.
Marble IMsrsvfry at Little Dalles. JrflVr
sa Mills Is be (trapeses.
A new w harf cost
built at Fairhaveu.
ing 175,000 is leing
The electric street curs have com
menced running at Salem.
The road from Tillamook to North
Yamhill is now clear of snow and can be
crossed with teams.
The New Whatcom cily council do
nated (iiO to the lire department for
suits for the men.
Frank Carroll, a native of New York,
has Is-en adjudged insane at Albany aud
J committed to the asylum.
Itanglas county i to have three new
i-ells in its jail. They are to lie ready by
August 1 and will cost $5,001.
The Nook sack Indians are said to own
in severalty some of the very finest lands
in the valley of the Nooksack.
The starch factory proioition made
by Tai-oma men to the Albany Board of
'lrade has teen rejected by that body.
The Albany city council has forwarded
tocongiess memorial for the right to
bridge the Willamette river at that city.
The bunch grass everywhere on. the
range reminds the old settler of many
long jrars ago, it is so abundant this
siting.
The work of building the new steam
boat for the upiier Snake liver lias been
delayed by difficulty in securing neces
sary material.
Woik on the motor line lietween Inde
pendence and Monmouth is progressing
favorably. The line will lie in opera t inn
by the first of July.
The Old Itaminion mine has an K00
foot tunnel on the 50tMoot level. The
rciort received by the owners is that the
reault is mot satisfactory to all.
A Seattle cable car ran into a delivery
wagon, completely wrecking it. The
dummy was somew hat damaged ami the
paseengers in the car slightly injured.
A fine quality of marble lias jnst lieen
discovered within one and a half miles
of the Spokane Falls A Northern, and
only a short distance from lit'ie Dalles.
J. B. Irvine, of Spragne, Wash., has
written to J. II. Townsend. of Albany,
offering to start a cannery at the latter
point if sufficient inducement is offered.
An assay was recently made of ore
from the dandy mine, near ColviPe. It
ran five ounces in silver, 58 per cent,
lead and 12 per cent. copjcr, or $78.50 to
the ton.
It. P. Hume has purchased the tug
Katie Cook, of the Coquiile Mill and Tug
Company, and will take her to Smith
river to tow vessels out and into the
river.
John Carrey, of Fox valley. Grant
county, an insolvent rancher and stock
man, lias made an assignment. C. D.
Dustin, of Ixmg
creek, was apiomted
bis assignee.
The machinery for Salem's big can
nery plant is already on the way and
will lie ready fw business i.i a few weeks.
Two hundred eople will lie employed
this summer.
The boarding bouse of the Enreka &
Excelsior Mining Company at Cracker
creek was totally destroyed by fire last
week. Tlie Iokm is estimated at $1( OJ.
The origin of tlte fire is a mystery.
Hoquiam cast 205 votes, all for incor
jioration. J. T. Bums was elected may
or. It. K. Hawdy, treasurer, ami A. M.
Murphv. C. F. Iincastet, P. An'zen,
John Hichardson and G. W. France
conncilmen.
The little steamer I'uritan, C. F Mon
tell master, has left Astoria for Chilcat,
Alaska, where she will engage in the
fishing biirtiness. When she left here,
says the Pioneer, she looked like a float
ing wood yard, her deck tieing filled with
fuel.
The school house is the pioneer of civ
ilization. All over the state new settle
ments arc springing up and as an evi
dence of their substantiality stand the
pel tool houses. Citizens of Long Creek,
(irant county, will build a fine new one
this year.
Fifteen thousand dollars have been
raised by the people in ami around Jef
ferson to reoen the mills at that place.
The farmers of Jefierson and vicinity
are feeling more hopeful and confident,
as they are discove.ing tbat the affairs
of the mill are not as bad as at first re
orted. Snow in the mountains adjacent to
Cornucopia, Union county, is rapidly
disappearing and mining operations will
soon be n mimed. The Oiegon Gold
Mining Company's tramway, which was
injured by a snow slide last winter, is to
be repaired at once and will he in oper
ation in less than a month.
Yakima has secured another educa
tional institution in the college of the
Congregational Association, which will
be located in the neighliorhood of the
Ahtanum church, three thousand dol
lars and forty acres of land have !een
tledired the association, and it is be
lieved tbat this lonation will be still
further increased.
The Dunlap Mining Company, of Fox
valley. Grant county, were compelled to
shut down worn on tlieir upper placer
mine, due to the failure of water. The
company anticipates the construction of
a leservoir during Ihe present season, as
that will be the onlv means to secure
sufficient water to run any length of
time.
A contest is now iending at Oregon
City which involves ownership of a val
uable piece oi land back ot Astoria on
the John Day's river. The claimants U
the' proiierty are Neil Gilmore and Miss
Nora Simpson. The first named filed on
it as a homestead, while Miss Simpson
entcied it as a timber claim. The result
of the contest will not be known for sev
eral months.
The settlers living on the upper Nes
tucca river, after putting in 108 day's
work, have opened up the Jones trail
and placed it in good condition. By
this trail horsemen can save from fifteen
to eighteen miles travel between Sheri
dan and Tillamook City. This route is
already becoming popular, and it is
thought that but a short time will elapse
until a good wagon road will be put
through from Sheridan to intersect the
county road already laid out in Tilla
mook county up the Nestucca valley
SKETCHING fffOM THE NUDE.
A Paap Into
tb
Stadia nt a f'hleato Art
On a platform rais-d tlxnit thrr.n
feet above the level of the floor stood
what appeared at the first glance to tsj
a magnificent model of a woman in
wax. One hand rested lightly on a
table, the other on her hip. The figure
was of robust build and beautifully
proportioned, while the pose w:ts
graceful, easy and as Immovablr main
tained as that of a statue. A faf.'-t
wave of color mantling the check was
the only thing which warned the re
porter that this was no triumph of the
wax-worker's art, but in reality a living
woman clad in nothing beyond blush:
and her native modesty.
As the Journal man made a tonr of
the easels and diffidently compared the
different studies with the original, not
a word was spoken, and the work went
on as unconcernedly as if the living
model had been nothing more than one
of the plaster casts from which the
young women in the antique class were
working. As for the model herself,
after one furtive glance at the stranger,
she asraia fixed her eyes on a poiut
high above the heads of the stndents
and devoted all her energies to the ex
tremely difficult task of standing per
fectly still. This relieved the news
paper man from his natural embar
rassment, t.nd he was aide to critkally
examine the various sketches.
The human figure is one of the most
difficult things to draw, and perhaps
for this reason the sketches were not
-arly so uniformly good as the work
had been in the other rooms. At the
same time some of them were rigorons,
accurate and effective, and one study
in oil was a particularly strong piece
of work. A strange fact noticed was
that no matter how slight an amount
of work had been put on the face. - and
notwithstanding that the whole figure
had been sketched in every case; thus"
reducing the head to a small size.every
student had caught a likeness of one
of the most entirely unattractive faces
it was ever the reporter's lot to look at
Apart from a head of magnilicen
blonde hair there was nothing even in
teresting in the dull, cold" features.
The model was evidently quite osh1 to
posing, the students treated the matter
as one entirely of business, and after
the first uncomfortable embarrassment
had passed away even the reKrter
forgot the entirely unconventional
presence and made his notes with even
more sang froid than had been the case
in some of the other class-rooms.
Chicago Journal.
Made to Look New.
Old elothin may lie made to look
nearly as good as new by pursuing the
following plan, says the Philadelphia
JRerord:
Take for instance a shiny old coat,
Test, or pair of trousers ofjlroadcloth,
Cass i me re, or diagatr Thesoourer
makes a strong, warm sospsud and
plunges the garment into it, rubs the
dirty places; if necessary puts it
through a second suds, then rinses it
through several waters and hangs it to
dry on the line.
When nearly dry he takes it In. rolls
It np for an hour or two, and then
presses it. Aa old cotton cloth is laid
on the outside of the coat and the iron
passed over that until the wrinkles are
out; but the iron is removed tKTtnsvXLa,
steam ceases to rise from the eooda.
else they would be shiny. Wrinkles
that are obstinate are removed by lay
ing a wet cloth over theru and passing
the iron over that.
If any shiny places are seen they are
treated as the wrinkles are; the iron is
lifted, while the full cloud of steam
rises and brings the nan no with it.
God cloth will bear many washings
and look better every time because of
them.
The Man fbr the Emergency.
We were humping along down to
ward the Gulf on a trunk line road
less than a year ago. when we stopped
at a small station thirteen minutes late.
We had been reported as late from the
last, aud exiected orders here to
change the run. A brief investigation
disclosed the fact that the station
master, who was a!-o the operator, was
drunk. He had felt a chill coroiug on.
and had downed about a pint of redeye
to keep it off. . He sat in a heap in his
chair, his strength all gone, and his
eves blinking, aud all the reply he
could make to the conductor was:
"Shay, ole feller, whazzer mazzer
wiz vouT
The conductor pondered a minute.
The side track there was full of freight
cars. It was six miles ahead' to the
next station, but did the north bound
express have orders to let ns make it?
lie suddenly grabbed the Ojierator,
hauled bitn ont of the office upon the
platform, down njton the earth, and
then carried him to the water ditch
and damped him in. There were
three feet of water, and it was cold as
ice. He hauled the operator up and
down for two minutes, dragged him
out and stood him on bis pins, and
then said to him in a voice as menacing
as the point of a dagger:
"liO in and teleirrapa lor my or
ders!"
The man walked in all drippinz. sat
down to his table and sounded his call,
and in fifty second our train had orders
to make Six-mile Siding," and make it
like !" The engineer got the word.
and away we went, and five minutes
later were at the switch. " Just then old
north-bound tooted, and our last car
was in and the switch thrown over not
a second too soon. She came past us
at the rate of fifty miles an boor, fling
ing dust and gravel clear over every
car. but we had saved our bacon. Two
months later I met the operator in
New Orleans and asked him if his cold
water bath left any ill effects. -
"Not the slightest," was his reply.
"The only trouble was that the com
pany objected to my way of taking a
bath, and fired me out." N. T. Suti.
Travel la Asiatic Turkey.
Official notice has been sent to all -the
foreign legations in Constantinople
warning tourists in Turkey in Asia not
to take any rides, revolvers, wearing
apparel, silver coin, pictures, books,
or manuscripts in their possession, as
all such things will be confiscated by
the custom-house. All printed matter
will be taken away on the plea that it
may refer to the political or religious
system of Turkey.
The Art of Sharpening a Kail".
Do you know how to sharpen a
carving-knife?" The question was ai.
ed bv a bi? butcher ia u.ton street.
"Very few people do," said he. The
carver ought to be held at an angle of
twenty to twenty-five degrees on the
steel. "When the" other side of the blade
is turned you must be careful to pre
serve the same angle. Then draw
steel from heel to point a."' . .
edge, using only a slight
Jf. r. lltruld, ' '