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THE PACIFIC COAS
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Steamship Runs Into an Iceberg in
Glacier Bay, Alaska.
An Effoit Being Made in the State
Oregon to Secure a Repeal of
the Usury Laws.
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The Masonic Grand Longe of Idaho lf
in session at Boise City.
An approximation of the population
of Helena, Mont., under the recount
makes it about 15,00.
The cra'.er of Mount Baker is reported
bv the ranchers of Baker river as spew
ing out volumes of smoke and fine lava
at intervals this summer.
The assessment rolls of Spokane Falls
show the valuation of her citv property
to be tl8.7Wl.0lX). This is an increase of
110,000,00.) over last year.
A mort trace was recorded in Seattle,
on Saturday that calls for ?0,009,0 X) to
extend the Northern Pacific from Assin-
aboine, Mont., to Puget sound.
An effort is being made in Oregon to
secure the repeal of its usury and mort
gage tax laws. It is claimed they have
stunted the State and driven capital into
.Washington.
Bv an explosion of giant powder at the
Vlnin onicksilver mine mar Colusa. Cal.,
Alex Davis was fatally injured, and
others were badly bruised. The report
was distinctly heard at a distance of lour
miles.
Copper from the mines in the south
part of Josephine county. Or., has begun
to arrive bv the wagon-load, says the
Grant's Pass Courier. This will be
shipped to San Francisco for a practical
mill test.
Bradstreet'a Mercantile Agency reports
twenty-three failures in the Pacific Coast
States and Territories for the past week,
as compared with eleven for the previous
week and nine for the corresinding
week of 1889.
Large strings of carp are taken from
King's river by fishermen. The fish bite
easiiv, and are from one to fourteen
inches Ion. Thev are from the stock
put in several years ago by the Fish
Commissioners.
James II. Barry, publisher of the Pan
Francisco Weekly Star, who some time
ago was arrested and found guilty of con
tempt in cntieistng judge 5awyer oi me
tuoenor court, nas Deen aeniea a writ
of habeas corpus.
The Trustees of the Lick estate have
accented HaDPersbereer's desiirns for
bronze statuarv provided for in the will.
and contracts will be let immediately.
The statuarv will be placed in the City
hall at San i rancisco, and will cost ?l ou,-
000.
The sailors at Nanaimo and IVparture
Bav met and passed resolutions of sym
pathy and support of the Wellington
coal mine strikers. The sailors will en
deavor to prevent any of their class
shipping on any vessel that is intended
to earry coal mined by scab labor.
A special from Helena, Mont., says
that the killing of Hugh Boyle by Chey
ennes, following the discharge of Fergu
son's murderers, has so incensed the set-
" .-.i tiers that they declare they will send i
"" their women and children to Miles City :
. -and start on a war of extermination .
against the Cheyennes.
W. B. Taylor, tried and convicted in
I he United States District Court at San
Francisco for cruelty to seamen, was sen
tenced by Judge Hoffman to one year's
. imprisonment in the Alameda county
. jail and to pay a fine of 100. The com-
plainant was Captain Alanson Ford of
the American ship St. PauU
Delegates to the California World's
Fair Convention assembled at Metropol
itan hall, San Francisco, and effected an
organization. Every portion of the State
was represented, and the delegates were
enthusiastic in the preliminary work of
placing California in a condition to be
fully represented at the World's Fair.
The steamship George W. EHer while
E seeing through Glacier bay, Alaska, at
alf speed ran into an iceberg, which
drove a hole three feet square into
the vessel. She had to be beached and
the break temporarily repaired so as to
allow her to continue her voyage to Vic
toria. The vessel will go to San Fran
cisco and be docked.
The schooner Citv of San Diego has
just arrived at San Francisco from the
North. The captain re porta his catch as
two seals and one otter. The catch for
- the Beason is Baid to have been only four
teen otters and twenty seals. The
schooner brought back three men out of
a crew of hfteen, the others having de
serted in Alaska. The captain said that
dnrinir the entire season he was able to
lower his boats only twice.
The California Athletic Club at San
Francisco gave its usual monthly exhibi
tion the other evening, MUnev Hunting
ton and Charley Rochette, local light
weights, being matched to a finish for a
small purse. The contest was very tame,
but after Huntington had drawn blood
from Rochette's nose in the sixteenth,
nineteenth and twentieth rounds the po
lice entered the ring and ordered the
fight stopped. The bovs started to fight
" the twentv-first round, and were, to
gether with their principals, promptly
placed unaer arrest.
The Board of Equalization of Lake
county made a reduction of $41,848.18
from its Assessor's returns, and added
$3,109, leaving the total taxable property
of Lake county for 1890, as equalized by
the Board. 1 .395,988.21. This amount
will stand as it is unless the County
Court should conclude te make some
changes. The total taxable property
for 1889 was $1,678,356.81, considerable
more than this year, which is accounted
for by the great loss of stock last winter. !
The rate of taxation is the same as last j
year-rrf 1.7S per iuu
A new town has been laid out sixteen
miles above Mehama, where the Oregon
I acme crosses me iuriu ui urc om
tiam. The townsite embraces fifteen
acres, and is on the land of Clarence
Brown. It is now the eastern terminus
of the Oregon Pacific, and contains a saw
mill and about fifteen houses, among
them a schoolhonse in course of con
struction. A postoffiee will at. once be
petitioned for. The new town is in Ma
riqn county, and Niagara is the name
chosen for It.
Flemming J. Pratt has been acquitted
of the charge of murdering Charles A.
Dobson at Seattle last June after a trial
lasting nearly three days. The testi
mony was to the effect that Pratt and
Dobson became engaged in a quarrel for
a key of a new house, which Dobson was
building for Pratt. The evidence showed
that Dobson first made the assault on
Pratt. Pratt dodged Dobson 's blow, and
the latter fell to the ground among the
stumps. Pratt hit him two or three
blows with his fist. Dobson was found
2 to be dead frombeminLi"-cf the brain.
POINTS ON HOUSE CLtANINO.
Timely SuRK.tlon. Regarding Renova
tion and Spring Cleaning;.
A dear old housekeeper confided to ms
tome tricks to which she had resorted
with good effect in the renovation of her
domicile during her forty years experi
ence in town, and country at the head of
a household of large number. Thia vet
eran in her vocation never covers the en
tire surface of her bedroom floors, by
which plan she can have the corners kept
scrupulously free from dust, and she
ays one can make the margin look well
and last a long time by first cleaning it
nicely and then putting on a heavy coat
of linseed oil, which she follows, after
the oil has thoroughly dried with two
coats of brown shellac varnish. Reno
vating the bedsteads bureaus and chairs,
my authority insists, is one of the acces
sories of cleaning house, and a great ad
vantage to all housewives who desire to
combine economy and perfection.
All my hardwood furniture, pur
sued the old lady, "I thoroughly wash
free of all dust, grease and finger marks
with, soap and water, and dry as thor
oughly with clean cloths. Then, as 1
wish to keep the appearance the same as
when it was new, I pour soma linseed
oil into a dish and, dipping a bit of flan
nel into it, rub it over every bit of tht
wood, which was originally finidhed in
oil, nsing a good deal of energy and con
tinuing the rubbing until I can pass my
hand over the entire surface without soil
ing it. If there are any portions that
were varnished, I buy a pint or so of or
dinary furniture varnish and spread it
en generously with a small varnish brush.
- "Picture frames usually need a little
renovating now and again, and such aa I
have of black walnut or other hard wood
I generally rub over with the flannel rag
and linseed oil. Sometimes they can be
made to look better than new by nsing
shellac varnish on them, which doe not
dry so glossy as furniture varnish. For
a brush I prefer a flat paint brush, such
as is called 'chiseled' that is, ground off
on each side to form a thin edge and
after it haa been used in shellac varnish
a painter told me to wash it in strong al
cohol, and never in turpentine or soap
and water. If a person desires to touch
tip a pianoforte, they can procure from
the manufacturers some varnish which
is known as 'piano polishing for the case,
and piano flowing, which ia another
preparation, for the legs.
"In apartments where it is practicable
I always like to lay a matting for the
summer months; it looks so clean, cool
and comfortable during the hot weather.
But it often surprises me that so many
people follow the custom of tacking each
breadth to the floor with either the sin
gle or the double pointed tacks that have
recently been devised to lessen the num
ber to be driven. Tacking down each
breadth in this manner is not only de
structive to the matting, but it spoil the
floor as well. Every tack put In or with
drawn breaks at least one of the straws.
I have found it a far better plan to sew the
breadths together and then tack it to the
floor in the same manner one would treat
a carpet. Previous to laying the mat
ting, however, I always sew the two laid
pieces where they are joined, across and
across, which keeps the joints from open
ing. I think housekeepers to whom
economy is an object will find that mat
ting made and laid as I suggest will last
fully twice as long as when it is tacked
down breadth by breadth.
"When there is a marble washstand,
bureau top, mantel or buffet that needs
especial cleaning, some washing soda,
crushed fine and mixed with pulverized
quicklime, worked into a paste with
some water, should be laid on and left to
dry, after which it may be scraped off
and washed clean with soap and water.
"The oilcloth m my kitchen haa been
down for years. I never allow soap, or
only the least bit, to be used on it, as it
removes the coloring, but 1 always keep
some varnish on hand to have it treated
with occasionally." Grace Conroy in
New York Star. .
The Prince of 'Wale' Daughters.
The two princesses, Victoria and Maud
of Wales, are pretty and bright young
women. Seeing the good time that their
older sister (the duchess of Fixe) has had
since her marriage they are pining for
husbands, and they make no bones of
Baying that they are weary of the re
straint in which they are kept. The
Prince of Wales has insisted that his
daughters should be reared in the strict
est simplicity, and the plainness of their
attire has occasioned general remark.
These girls seem to have inherited much
of that strength of character for which
their grandmother is noted. Maud is
particularly pretty. Cor. Chicago News.
The Secret of Married Life.
Here is a bit or advice from a woman
who isn't one of the Mona Caird dissent
ers, though the wedding ring on her
wrinkled hand has lost its brightness:
"Preserve the courtesy of the beginning
of married life if you wish to keep its
joy to the end, and, remember this: It
isn't safe to be too intimate with your
husband. Have your own thoughts and
let him have his, and never let him think
he has found out quite all of your per
sonality, characteristics and ideas that
are interesting. And if vou want to cor
rect his faults try praising his virtues.
Praise of this kind may fail, out criti
cism is almost sure to.
A Spring Wedding.
The announcement that "Jack" Blood-
good, Jr., and Mrs. Clara Stephens Have-
meyer are soon to be married has created
quite a flutter of excitement in New
York. Mrs. Havemeyer la a beautiful
blonde, 22 years of age. She has blue
eyes and an abundance of silky brown
b air. She is spoken of as one of the pret
tiest women m New York. Young Blood-
good is about 23 years old and handsome.
and is worth nearly $1,000,000, which he
Inherited from his grandfather, William
! rttinw.
He is also one of
the Four
Hundred.
-Boston Record.
Oriental Matting. .
The variety offered in the newly im
ported mattings is endless. Notably
among mattings ire the Japanese impor
tations, which exceed in variety of de
sign and happy combination of color any
hitherto manufactured. There are five
grades, "fancy jointless," -"best joint-
less," "medium jointless," "best jointed,
"medium jointed." Ail these are one
yard wide. The "fancy jointless" shows
some unique designs, and may readily be
used as a substitute for carpets, as their
rich patterns and colorings make them
charming for floor coverings. Among
examples may be cited those which have
a ground of solid dark colors, such aa
navy blue, old red, maroon and green.
with an all over geometrical design -of
octagon shaped medallions, each four
being joined together by a gm<or m
'&tHion. iloaixaal Eta.
EASTERN ITEMS.
Plan for Kidnaping Children Dis
covered in Kansas City.
The United States Takes Hold of the Census
Cases, and Will Investigate the
Crookedness,
Madam Bavatsky
York Sun for lible.
has sued the New
John K. Foster of Indiana has been
otlered the Spanish Ministry.
Mexico has decided to reduce her
army and change her system of recruit
ing. " -
A strong movement to defeat Powderly
for General Master of the Knights of
I.abor at the coming election is being
made.
The eash receipts of the Mexican
Treasury the past year were $37,000,00,1,
a sum never before equaled in Mexican
history.
The population of the State of Ver
mont, as announced bv the Census
Bureau, is 332.350. a decrease in ten
years of thirty-one.
Efforts are being made by citizens of
Galena. 111., to secure the removal of
General Grant's remains to that place,
his lionie m early life.
The Postal Telegraph Company of
New Jersey, which is to open an office
shortly in Grange, ia going to mount its
messengers on safety bicycles.
New York has suffered this year con
siderable from the drought. All the
streams in the northern part ol the
State are so low aa to affect the canals.
AH thddesigns submitted in the com
petition for New York's monument to
General Grant are drawn on the suppo
sition that the work is to cost toOJ.OOO.
Presumablv owing to some religious
isasrreement six Icelandic students.
ho have been studvina in innepee.
have gone to IMkota to hmsh their stud
ies.
The Cincinnati Board of Public Im
prove-nents has adopted a resolution
providing for competitive bidding for the
purpose of introducing natural or luei
gas-
A company has been organized at Des
Moines, la., to establish a colony at the
Mnnth litn Edward Hellauiv's nlan
of a Socialistic government can be prac
tically tested.
New York's mounted park policemen
have appeared in anouthtof tight riding
breeches and top boots, w hitman sad
dles and Prussian army bits for the
horses' bridles.
Clara Belle McDonald, well-known on
the Pacific Coast on account of her mat
rimonial troubles, has arrived in New
York with her child, where she pro
poses to study law.
A boycott is being established by At
lantic steamers against cowboys who
are returning after taking over consign
ments ot cattle, l he actions ol the
men are declared to be outrageous.
Philadelphia iron manufacturers and
dealers have subscribed $10,000 for the
entertainment of the members of the
British iron and Steel Institute, who
are to visit the united Mates next
month.
Reardinsr the Chicago dispatch stat
ing that J. F. Goodard would succeed
Kichard Gray as trame manager ot tne
Southern Pacific, l'resident Crocker
stated that Gray would remain with the
company.
Uncle Ben Baker, Assistant Secretary
of the Actors' Fund, and one of the
most widel v known and popular members
of the profession, was found dead at his
, i ii.
resiuenee in ew i or. u -
enty-two years old.
The State School Commissioner and
Attorney General were in consultation at
Atlanta, Ga., in regard to securing for
purposes of negro education in that
State a sum of money that has lain in
the Bank of England" for many years.
The total gross exchanges for last
week, as shown by the dispatches from
the leading houses in the United States
and Canada, is $1,094,720,790, an in
crease of twenty-one per cent, as com
pared with the corresponding week last
year.
The Boston express Saturday evening
struck a surburban train on the iwn-
burv and Norwalk branch of the llousa-
tonfc road in Boston and badlv dam
aged it, besides shaking up and painfully
mmnne thirty or more passengers, none
of them dangerously.
The United States Grand Jury has
taken hold of the census cases, and will
investigate the alleged crookedness in
Minneapolis and St. Paul. Subptenas
are out lor almost-all the enumerators
in both cities, and also for a number of
Bohemians and Swedes whose names'
are said to be duplicated.
Among the passengers on the Teutonic.
which has arrived at New York, was Sir
treorge Baden Powell, a member of Par
liament. It is not unlikely that his visit
will have something to do m the way of
settling the fisheries questions now in dis
pute between this country and Great
Britain. : He is bound for British Co
lumbia.
The Brooklyn Board of Education has
ordered that the law against minors
smoking shall be read in the public
schools once a month. The street arabs
have already arranged a plan to defeat
the operations ot the statute, it pro
hibits smoking tobacco and especially
cigarettes. Hereafter they are all af
flicted with catarrh and smoke cubebs.
An audacious plan for attempting to
kidnap children has been revealed at
Kansas City. The plan was to kidnap
children ot wealthy parents, conduct
them to some secret place in some dis
tant State and keep them there until
their ransoms should be paid. The
Grand Jury found a true bill for the of
fense against Henry C. Wilson, the
owner of a livery stable.
W. F. Murdock, the young man - who
claimed to have discovered the-- rail
across the track of the Boston and
Maine railway, near Lynn, and warned
an approaching train of the danger, has
been arrested, and confessed that he
had himself placed the obstruction on
the track, though he disclaimed any in
tention of wrecking the train. He said
the act was done in the hope of being
rewarded.
The annual election of the Northern
Pacific Company will be held on October
16 at New ork. It will be one of the
quietest on record, no contest is antici
pated, and, as one of the officials put it,
" We expect every thing to pass off as
smooth as a silk ribbon." Not even a
committee of proxies has been appoifctid,
but there will be proxies enough present
to transact all the necessary business.
The fact that no committee has been ap
pointed to solicit proxies arises from the
fact that the company has no important
change from the present situation to
suggest.
Baltimore' Prettiest Belle.
The most talked of beauty in the Mon
umental City ia Mia Adelo Horwltx.
Bhe haa a reputation as assured aa that
f Marion Langdon or Sallie Hargous in
New York, and she has won her laurels
as the Baltimore beauty par excellence in
Philadelphia, Narragansett Pier and Bar
Harbor. She is the only daughter of B.
F. Horwltx, a prominent business man
of Baltimore, and through her mother,
who was the daughter of the worlj
known physician. Dr. Orosa, she ia con
nected with the best Philadelphia and
Kentucky families.
She is tall, fairly slender, and royally
carries a head of marvelous beauty on
her white shoulders. The coloring of
that head is equal to its grace, for it ia
produced by the palest rose of the cheeks
and the golden brown of the hair. Her
color la never high, but always of that
pale tint seen In the hedge rose. Eyea
blue and well opened, brows arched, nose
fine and small, and a riante mouth make
nr the other attributes of the beautiful
Miss Horwits. She haa the well groomed
look of a high bred English girl, but
dresses in the quite fetching fashion of a
French maiden. Two years ago, when
ahe made her debut, even Baltimore, the
city of beantlea, was taken by storm.
Cor. Kansas Ctt? Globe.
To Drive Oat File.
t haven't a mosquito bar nor a screen
door about my house, and yet there are
seldom any flies and never any moequi-
toes about it. 1 learned the secret of
successful warfare against these pesta
when living In the swamps of Louisiana,
where, sunnuer and winter, mosquitoes
swarm. For some years life was unen
durable, aud no meal could be eaten in
peace. But all at once there was a
change for the better. Bars and screens
were often out of place, but there was
almost an inimnnity from insects. 1
was batching at the time and bad just
changed my colored boy. J. he new
comer explained to me how he kept the
"critters" away. He burnt small pieces
of gum camphor on the cook stove and
used a secret preparation he called "snde-
killo." . When 1 got married and came to
Missouri I Imparted the secret to my
wife, and as there is no patent on it that
I know of, I would advise all fellow suf
ferers to go and do likewise. The gum
camphor alone ia ample for the purpose.
and need only be used two or three times
a day. Herbert A. Finley in St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Sleeves of the Put
Simple as the present fashions are.
they have not yet reached the limit of
simplicity. For next winter the skirts
of gowns will be entirely plain from the
waist to the hem, which may be finished
with a handsome border of embroidery
or applique, itie bodice win also be
plainer than at present, with the excep
tion of tiie vest trimming and the sleeves.
The ornamentation of the sleeve will be
the distinctive feature of gowns for a
year to come. Where the rest of the
gown will be simplicity itself, the sleeve
will be of a different stuff from the rest
of the costume as rich a stuff as possi
ble made full aa now; thickly embroid
ered or braided, or decorated la some
way from wrist to shoulder. What the
sleeve was to the costume in the time of
Queen Elizabeth it is to be to the dress of
the woman of today. Let the fashionable
woman look well to her sleeve. Inter
view in New York Evening Sun.
A New Order In Kew Terk.
An Intense young woman, a member
of the Art Students league of New
York, has founded a new order called
the Order of the Zinnia, named for that
prim and unyielding flower which is be
lieved to be the emblem of perpetual
maidenhood, and the students who wear
the zinnia have declared themselves
wedded to their art Each member
takes an oath never to marry, but to
pledge herself to her work. But, as usual
with the irrevocable, there Is a post-
cript. When she has taken the oath she
adds the following sentence: "But if 1
ever do marry I promise to give a dinner
to the Zinnias, which shall not cost lesa
than $100, as a penalty for having broken
my vow to my art and to my order."
Cor. Hartford Courant
Mlafeloa Kindergartens.
Under the auspices of the Mission Kin
dergarten organization, of which Mr.
Richard Watson Gilder is president, and
Mrs. Grover Cleveland vice president, its
first free mission kindergarten lias just
been opened on the corner of First ave
nue and Fifty-third street, a squalid
quarter of the city. It is the object of
the organization to establish these asy
lums in poor neighborhoods, where the
children from 8 to 7 years of age have
hitherto been turned into that high school
of vice the public street The teacher
of the First avenue school is Miss White,
who has had a long experience in kinder
garten work at Cape Colony, Africa, and
who haa high hopes of her present classes.
New York World.
Manufacturer of Soprano.
Sopranos, and first rate ones, are being
manufactured In such quantities as to be
now a drug in the musical market
Mine. Marches! is one of the most suc
cessful manufacturers. Then there are
the classes of Mesdames Marie Sass and
Lagrange, of Ernest de Munck, and now
Mile. Paule Oaynard, musical precep
tress to the daughters of the Prince of
Wales. America is rich In light so
pranos and Sweden in others who have
the charm of strangeness. But the first
rate contralto is the rara avis, and is
worth her weight in gold. And who
ever knew a singer of this kind who was
not powerfully built and apt to run into
a Rubens like sort of flesh?
Mme. Sanz perseveres in living in re
tirement Mile. Richard haa become
the wife of a man who made millions in
a big grocery. She refuses to sing at
the opera except on her own conditions,
which the managers think exorbitant
They offered her a third more than what
they usually gave her to appear in "As-
camo as La Scozzone, but Bhe required
twice as much. That part was written
by Saint-Saens for a contralto. Hence
the hunt for one over Europe. Chicago,
where there is a Mrs. Wymans, was not
thought of. A wonderful contralto was
discovered at Dresden, but she German
ices French in speaking and sings it in a
way that would force the most long suf
fering of French audiences to hiss her off
the stage. The next best is a Senorita
Domenech. She is, however, inexperi
enced in the art of the scena, Paris
Cor. London Truth.
An Appropriate Costume.
Elderly and Dignified Personage
What kind of a dress should a super
annuated minister assume?
Clerk Might I suggest retirinj
robes 1 Chicago Times.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Emiieror
William Will
an Kditor.
Become
The Guatemalan Government Decides to
Exile Barrundla's Daughter for
Shooting at Mizner.
The floods In Central Europe are sub
siding.
Francis Robert St. Clair Erskine,
toiirth r.nrl ol Rosslyn, is dead.
It is estimated that the locses bv
Hood in Central Europe will reach ,2J,-
000,000.
Advice from Spain say that the Em
press of Austria intends to visit Havana
and will travel incognita.
The maneuvers of the German navv.
according to exierts, show the condi
tion of the fleet to lie excellent.
The province of Ferrea. in Italy, is
teing devastated by rats, and has already
IxH-n damaged to the amount of 800,-
ooot.
The mock war going on before Hali
fax is much enjoyed by the people. The
whole flevt will take part in " the siege
of Halifax."
The long-talked-of scheme of render
ing the Seine navigable aa far aa Paris
for sea-going vessels Is at last likely to
lie carried out.
EmtK-ror illiatn has expressed In a
speech at Berlin great pride in the
working of the fleet as displayed at the
recent naval maneuvers.
vi imam o linen advises the insn
easaiits under the present' condition of
the potato crop to iav no rents until
their families provided for.
The latest reiorts from Tonquin an
pounce the arrival there ol a portame.
cathedral. It was imiKirted from the
town of Kesub, and is of iron.
Owing to the damage to the leet crop
bv the recent floods in Central Europe,
it i likely the Austrian sugar exports
will be 00 per cent, under the average.
A bell, cad recently for the Kharkow
Cathedral, contains 8 per cent, of pure
silver. It weighs 4i English pounds,
and its vibrations laid several minutes.
As soon as the telephone lx-tween
I-ondon and Paris is completed arrange
ments will be niade to extend the
system to Brussels, Bordeaux and Mar
seilles.
Lniruerre. a well-known supporter of
I?oulanger, is preparing a speech in
which he will renounce fealty to the Bou-
lanirvr partv and assume the position of
revisionist.
The cholera is tweimrine for the fall
business in varioua European Capitals
But, leing better umlershxHl, it is no
longer regnrded as the dreadful disease
it used to be.
The Anglo-French agreement with
reference to the parceling out of African
territory seems to give mutual satis
faction. Each country thinks it has the
better of the other.
The Guatemalan government has de
cided to exile the daughter of Barrundia,
who at tern uted to sill Minister Mizner.
It is said all of Bamindia's relatives will
be ordered from the country.
The Berlin Kreus Zeitung alleges that
Etnin Pasha has not received the arrears
of salary due hun by the l-.gypnan gov
ernment. Germany pavs him 15,000 a
year, the salary of a Major-General.
On and after October 1. the Emperor
of Germanv will imblish a newsrtauer to
ie inspired directly ty nimseii, and to
le theothcial exponent ol his views on all
subjects military, civil ami political
A committee has been formed in Ger
many for the purpose ot purchasing
Moltkes birthplace, the object being to
present it to the nation on the occasion
ofttie great warriors ninetieth birth
dav.
One of the wedding presents to Stan-
lev was a eold geographical watch . from
a firm of watchmakers, the first of the
kind ever manufactured. It tells the
time in almost every important citv in
the world.
"A cablegram from Berne says the ad
vanced Liberals are taking a leading part
in the opposition to the Conservative
government. The government became
unpopular, owing to the Treasurer's re
cent embezzlement.
The recent mutiny in the First Bat
talion of the British West India Regi
ment at Jamaica, by which Sergeant
White lost his life, was a deplorable ex
hibitionof want of discipline and de
moralization in the regiment.
The English journals berate Lord
inrkville for his action in respect to the
Strafforvl-on-A von monument, lhe Alan
chesfer Guardian savs it amply proves
how unfit he was for the position of En
voy or Minister to anywhere.
A passenger elevator to the summit of
Mount Blanc is proposed by an Ameri
can mining engineer. The shaft ia to
be of eight compartments, each six feet
square, intended to carry a triple
decked elevator for twenty-six passen
gers.
The Indian government publishes a
return showing that in the years 1887.
1888 and 1889, 372 males and 132 females
were tortured bv dacoits in the central
division of Upjer Burmah. One hun
dred and eighteen cases resulted in
death.
Dr. Henry Muirhead, the late Presi
dent of the Glnpgow Philosophical So-
cietv. has bequeathed the sum of $125
000 for the erection and endowment of a
college which will be devoted entirely to
the instruction of women in the theory
and practice of medicine.
The large sums of money that the
irovernnient of India devotes annually
as rewards for the destruction of snakes
has brought about an unexpected result
The snakes are being bred and reared
by the natives for the purpose of obtain
ing the usual head money otlered.
An important feature of the cavalry
maneuvers at London was the attempt
of twenty officers of the Guards to swim
cavalrv horses across the Thames. Dash
ing into the river amid great excitement,
several succeeded in reaching the oppo
site bank in safety, while three riders
fell off and had to be rescued by boats.
It is held that the trial proved the futil
ity of attempting to swim cavalry horses
across a stream in a uouy.
The ravages of phylloxera are causing
consternation in the Champagne dis
trict of France. Extensive preparations
have been made to give the ground a
thorough drenching with a solution of
carbonate, of sulphur, and the covern
ment will render assistance in the work.
O .ving to the apprehensions of the wine
farmers, the market has been alt ec tea,
and the price of hne grades of cbar
pagne may probably be advanced.
I A COLLEGE MAN'S STRANGE CAREER.
Tlelssltndes la to Ufa nf a Man
TFhi
Was Cremated In Missouri.
John R. Duflln, who died at the Plus
hospital, and whose body was cremated
at the Missouri Crematory, was well
known at BelleTille, and seems from his
own statements while there to have had
a very eventful lifo.
Duflln, wbos real name was Hamlet
Shakespeare Felton, was released from
the penitentiary at Chester, Ilia., Feb. 23,
1890, uiwn a pardon f.nsued by Governor
Fifer, having been sept?nced to that In
stitution by the circuit court of St Clair
county, April 6, 1883, for twelve years
for forgery. Duflln made hta appearance
at Summerfield, a little town in the
northeastern part of St, Clair county, in
the fall of 1S79, and secured work aa a
farm laliorer.
Ilia Intelligence and gentlemanly bear
ing soon gained him many friends In
that locality, and it was not long till he
began transacting legal business, mating
loans, e'x, for a number of the wealthy
and prominent farmers at Lebanon town-
.1 t a Ft a a .-r,st a .
snip. ja April i, isf-w, ne secured a
blank note at the First National bank of
Belleville, with whose officers he bad be
come acquainted through acting as agent
for the buinuierheld farmers, and on
April 12, 1890, he returned the note.
igned by Mr. Jacob Schmitt aa principal
and Messrs. William R. Pad field and
Julius Winkler as securities, and eot
$4,000 on the note, which was drawn for
$4,108.70, payable in four months.
The bank officials did not suspect any
thing wrong in the matter until two
weeks had passed, and then, upon com
municating with the parties whose
names were on the note, they learned
that the signatures were forgeries. In
the meantime Duflln had fled, and.
though a large reward was offered for
his capture, he was not apprehended till
June, 1882, when he was accidentally
met with in Decatur, Ills., by Mr. E. A.
Winkler, of Summerfield, Ilia., a son of
Julius Winkler, oneof the sureties on the
note. He was at once arrested and
brought to Belleville, where he was tried
April 8, 1883, and sentenced, as stated,
to twelve years in the penitentiary at
Chester, Ilia.
D'lflin made a pathetic address to the
jury that convicted him, in which he
said he waa an orphan and was born un
der the English flag in Spanish waters.
and had been adopted by one Randolph
Duffin, who had him baptized into the
Catholic Church as John Randolph Duf
fin, although his real name, he claims, was
Hamlet Shakespeare Felton. He com
pleted his collegiate education at Eton
college, England, studied law at Har
vard university, and completed his la
studies at Mary's Inn, Oxford, England.
He also claimed to have visited South
America, China and other foreign lands.
and to have been a member of Walter's
filibustering expedition to Nicaragua.
In la in jail at Belle vole, and also
while In the ienitentiary, he wrote many
poetio effusions to friends here and for
the press. That he waa talented there
was no doubt among those who came in
contact with him, and be protected
against bis conviction for forgery and
claimed that lie obtained the signatures
of the parties to the note bv fraud. Gov
ernor r ifer granted him pardon after he
had spent nearly seven years of his
twelve year term, when it became evi
dent that consumption, with which dis
ease he had been suffering for some
months, would soon end his days. St
Louis Globe-Democrat
A Dangerous "Fountlne;.1
Hie more prominent citizens of a small
western town had come together one
evening for the purpose of getting the
sentiment of the community regarding
tlte purchase of a fountain for the park
in the center of the village.
Several men had expressed themselves
as heartily in favor of the measure, when
a penurious elderly resident, famous for
always opposing' the majority, rose and
said in bis squeaking, irritable voice:
"Well, gentlemen, I ain't in favor of
this founting business; no, sir, I ain't
You ve went and got a park laid out that
the town didn't need, and now you want
to spend more money on a useless old
founting. Well, now, e'poeing you gil
your founting, and some day when
there's a big crowd around looking at
that founting it blows up and kills four
or five people, and they come on the
town for damidges, then where will you
be with your founting? Then you'll wish
you'd never had any founting!" Youth's
Companion.
The Kind of Butter That Is Wanted.
If vou study the market and learn
what kind of butter is wanted now, you
will find there has been a change. There
is not much demand for butter that will
keep, but for butter that is high flavored
and also milk flavored a butter that has
no taste of buttermilk. They demand a
butter that has very nearly the same
taste as cream. The whole tendency is
toward getting butter more nearly like
cream, getting butter that is very nearly
the same as fresh cream. We have al
most reached the point where public
taste demands butter made from sweet
cream. Professor Cooke before Ver
mont Dairymen's Association.
St. Cuthbert, th Woman 'Rater.
St Cuthbert would have no female
creature about hia place at Landisfarne,
not suffering even a cow, saying:
" vv here there is a cow there must be a
woman, and where there is a woman
there must be mischief." In the cathe
dral at Durham, dedicated to him,
black cross in the pavement marked the
spot beyond which no woman was al
lowed to pass. In 1333 Edward III and
Ills queen went to the priory at Durham
and lodged together.
In the middle of the night a monk
broke into their room and rudely awak
ened the royal pair, saying to the queen
that St Cuthbert loved not the sex and
that she must up" and go. The queen
tumbled out of bed and spent the rest of
the night in the church, praying for par
don to the patron saint, whom she had
offended. In 1417 two servant girls
dressed themselves as men and "impi
ously approached the saint's shrine,"
only to be severely handled by the au
thorities. St Louis Republic
Was Cleopatra White?
Dr. Rudolf Virchow examined all the
the royal mummies to which he had ac
cess during his stay in Egypt, and took
innumerable and minute measurements
of their skulls and bodies. From his re
searches, he reached the opinion that
there was no negro blood in their veins,
and that they were distinguishable from
Europeans only with difficulty. Ideas in
regard to Cleopatra's looks should there
fore be revised, Exchange.
CONCERNING HOS9IE3.
Oood Basalts from tbs Oscar Wild Furor,
and Evea from th Dad.
The natural tendency to run after
fads is a constant source of ridicule,
and if it were not for the constant in
fluence of such ridicule society would
be kept in a state of absurd extremes
by the freaks of fashion. Aa it ia,
these fada often subserve useful ends
and on the whole do good. They ac
centuate ideas, and by their very exag
geration are educational in effecL
A few years ago Oscar Wilde came
among us with his Little Lord Faunt-
leroy hair and knee breeches. His
dress was grotesque, his manner
open to criticism in many ways, and
intellectually he waa little better than
pretender. The furor over him was
one of the most absurd fads that ever
swept the public from moorings of
common sense. But even tliatfad had
its US'. The fellow provided himself
ith a small quantity of Buskin's
ideas of art, more especially in their
application to household adornmenL
A great many people with more money
than culture listened to his sugges
tions, or, more likely still, received
them through what might be called
atmospheric pressure. The result was
wholesome. Some American crudities
were eliminated. A little more atten
tion is now paid to harmony in color
and the other rudimentary principles
of decorative art This country is no
doubt better for that visitation, even
though it did serve to expose our peo
ple to ridicule.
There u no end of fun made of the
dude. He is a preposterous specimen
of humanity, but he is less harmful
than the old fashioned prodigal son.
Better that his father's surplus money
should be squandered on clothes than
on whisky, and the general influence
is far less harmful. The average young
American is not in much danger of
being too genteeL On the contrary,
he can stand a good deal more of it
and still not have his manliness im
paired.
iue dude is not only an improve
ment on the prodigal son, but from
him goes out a general influence that
makes for refinement of manners. He
is an exaggeration, and when toned
down' to reason is a gentleman. The
influence that goes out from dissipa
tion in high life is altogether bad and
pernicious.
In the constant shifting of the sands
of fashion the greganousness of hu
man nature seeks for itself new chan
nels from time to time, and it is no lit
tle comfort to know that the foibles of
fashion have their bright aide, their
redeeming qualities. Much as could
be said with fairness against the foil v
of fads, they are not without their
defensible qualities. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
A Bird Caught ?
Harvey Cook, of Saratoga Lake, tells
the following story:
"I have lived on these waters, so to
speak, for fifty-four years, but I never
before saw anything like what I saw a
few days ago. I was moving along
the shore of the lake when I saw
sand snipe, or 'tip up. as the boys call
them, standing at the waters edge,
and struggling as if its feet were in a
trap.
"Soon the bird arose a little way in
the air and Sew as far as the road.
where it fell and fluttered as though
calling on me, as on an old friend, for
help.
"When I reached the spot I saw that
one of the bird's feet was clasped by a
large fresh water clam, but before I
could render aid the bird again with a
great effort arose into the air and made
few wild circles, unfortunately over
the lake, but the clam held on, and in
& minute more both were in the water.
"After ft brief, fluttering resistance
the poor sand snipe succumbed to the
weight of the clinging clam and was
drowned. Harrisburg Telegraph.
Reform la Men Press, Too.
Even men wear too many clothes.
with an awful waste of material that
does not embellish or add to comfort
Some day the "biled shirt," with its
starched front, will disappear. It can
not go too soon. v by should a man
wear a stiff board under his waist
coat! It may be useful and orna
mental for evening wear, when it cer
tainly looks clean. But with the won
derful development in the manufac
ture of materials, why should soft
white silk not take its placet Or, in
deed, why should all colors be left to
the female sex I Between the gaudy
and the tasteful there is a great differ
ence. Oscar Wilde only carried hia
ideas a little too far. He had sense at
the bottom of them. We will come to
it by and by. San Francisco Chroni
cle.
A Cat with Sli Legs.
T. Kenney, of Hamlin, N. Y., ia the
owner of a most extraordinary cat In
addition to the four feet usually al
lowed to cats thia feline glories in two
more. Branching outward from each
front leg is a smaller leg, terminating
in a perfectly formed foot As she
walk toward one with those four feet
breast she creates a curious impres
sion. Her surplus feet are evidently
of ne inconvenience, as she is an un
usually good mouse r. She is very do
mestic in her habits and will grab for
ft ball or string as quickly as her more
common sisters. Rochester Post-Ex -
oress.
rfnagea 07 tits ciotne.
An engraving by T. Landseer of Sir
Edwin Landseer's "Monarch of the Glen
was sold at a recent sale in London for
$550 to a fellow who looked like a coun
tryman, but who bid experienced collec
tors out of the field. Nobody found out
who he was, and it was concluded that
he was simply some rural man with a
little money in his pocket, who had taken
a fancy to the picture and bought it to
humor a whim. San Francisco Argo
naut "
Th "Ad" Explained,
Former "Pal" What do you mean by
that advertisement in the paper reading,
"Big opening for right party with small
capital. Fortune In a year!
All Round Advertiser I mean that
there'll be a fortune for me in a year if
enough fools put their money into the
hia opening. Chicago Times.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
-The CotigrerationallHts added 4",1
missionaries to their forces at home anJ
broad last year.
It you don't want to get your fingers
burned, never shake bands with tit
deviL Ram's Horn. -
There are In France about thirty
thousand elementary schools where
teachers, having passed an examination,
train boys in gardening.
-The issues of Bibles by the Ameri
can Bible Society during seventy-tfcre
years amount to 52,738,0"5 copies. And
yet the larger part of the world la still
"heathen."
The best worker to send abroad are
those who are most effective at home.
He who takes no interest in the religi
ous advancement of his neighbors will
not accomplish much in the foreiga
field Presbyterian Observer.
Brain culture, like physical culture,
is governed by regular laws, and it ia
only by complying with these law that
the result can be obtained. Plenty of
good food for nutrition, and vigorous
exercise to strengthen and discipline
natural power, are the two fundamental
aws in both forms of culture. N. Y.
Independent
The University ef Moscow recently
celebrated its one hundred and thirty
fifth anniversary. Its teaching force
consists of 88 regular professors and 55
private Instructors; the number of stu
dents is 8,805. The Minister of Instruc
tion baa, in recent years, made several
efforts to lessen the attendance at th is
and other Russian universities. In
Russia, as well as In Germany, the pro
fessions are overcrowded.
Rev. Dr. Wm- Taylor, of the Broad
way Tabernacle, recently said: "v hen
three or four gentlemen a month call
upon me for aid for colleges, I feet there
are too many of them; but when I reflect
upon the greatness of that Western
co on try and on the rapidity with which
it Is filling op, and on the neetssaity that
the social foundations be well laid, I do
not think so, but rejoice that there are
those willing to nnderttke such work.
The moral character of Jesus is har
monious in all its parts. It ia a miracle
et celestial beauty, blending the inno
cence of the lamb with the dignity of
(od, sweet in its benevolence, and In
tense and strong in Its aversion to sin,
and without a blemish or a fault It
has in all ages commanded the universal
tribute of human thought. The most
arrogant infidelity forgets its sneer ia
the presence of this character. N. Y.
Independent
Man, as a mere animal, is the infe
rior of many earthly creatures la
strength, agility, beanty and warlike
equipment When we regard hita ;
mere brute, though we place him in the
front rank -of such creatures, we can not
but feel a contempt for him. It ia only
when he is viewed as a moral being, en
dowed with features of soul that ally
him to God and ennoble him above the
animals, that he commands oar venera
tion and love. The more perfect this
moral excellence becomes, the higher
the man stands ia the estimation of
those who are themselves worthy.
Christian Instructor.
WIT AND WISDOM.
"Oh, you
'Y-e-e-s dress
darling old papa!"
or bonnet?" Ashland
Prea
Truth is as impossible to be soiled
by an outward touch as the sunbeam.
Denver Road.
You have not fulfilled every doty
unless you have fulfilled that of being
pleasant Charles Buxton.
A Long Branch belle has a girdle
made of silver dollars, and it locks like
a waist of money. Yonkers Statesman.
-The woman who is least popular
with men in general is most apt to make
one-faan happy in particular. Atchison
Globe.
He (despairingly) "1 wish I could
find something to take up my mind.'
She (softly) "Try blotting paper."
Boston Post
This is the time of the year that a
good deal of comfort could be found in
the possession of a cool million. Terre
Haute Express.
A writer says: "There are some
things a woman doesn't know." There
may be, but no man can tell her what
they are. N. Y. Ledger.
It takes a man with keen eyesight
and a brain of . much scope to see and
grasp the golden opportunity before it
turns the corner. Ram's Horn.
Whoever will reverence the glimpses
of his better mind shall find them mnU
tiplied, and even while they pass, they
may be rich in revelations. Martineau.
A broken heart is a sad, sad thing,
A brokss head Is worse.
But a broken pocket-book, my friend,
.Is mankind's greatest esrse.
Kearney Enterprise.
After you have weighed your neigh
bor in the balance, drop a nickle of fair
ness in the slot of self-examination and
ascertain your own moral avoirdupois.
Dover (DeL) Sentinel.. -
Teacher (to class) In this stanza
what Is meant by the line, "The shades
of night were falling fast?" Bright
scholar The people were pulling down
the blinds. Lynn Press.
An admirer said: "Of all that is
given him, woman is man's sweetest -present.
There are certain surfeited
boors to affirm that she is also sweetest
absent Philadelphia Press.
"What is the difference between ice
and water?" "Ice is frozen water, that
is all." "There is a greater difference
than that" "What is it? "Water al
ways finds its level, but Ice ia constantly
going op." Boston Courier.
It is easy in the world to live after
the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude
to live after your own; but the great
man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the inde
jendence of solitude. Emerson. :
They had been discussing the sub
ject of intelligence in the lower animals
the other evening over in Coffee's gro
cery store, when a large farmer from
Bethel Township stated as a fact that
he had a dog at home that did all bis
churning. "That's nothin, remarked
a wag who haa recently come into pos
session of a brindle cow; "I've got a calf
that does all my milkin'." Harper's
Baiar.
A sparrow at Colestown, Pa., built &
nest in the running gear of a farmer's
wagon, and makes a trip to market
very week.
A Scotch writer says that he has
sprinkled wasps and bees with rose-colored
powder and has found that theft
handicapped they could with ease keep
up with the fastest trains. They were
cot carried along by the rush of air
caused by the train, but would enter and
leave the cars by the windows, soro
times disappearing for a minute or W
sad then returning. . ..y '
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