TtMnoif Express.
FRIDAY, FEB. 28, 1894.
(Additional locals on first page.-l
Atty. Stowe In iu Jacksonville thl
week.
Judge Miller la ugiiili quite nick with
I grippe.
Great cleu ranee title at Reud, Peacock
it Cn.'n.
tin, Rnwllngs Is vetting her par
cn tii In Alhuny.
Bu'V your groeerlee at Peebler'a, and
aave n.oney.
Outs, I 'I"!', hrun, chops and all kinde
or feed, ai'. Peebler'a.
Mr. Gore i not expected to live liut
a very short time.
J. E. Arte ox In now agent for the Al
bany Steam Laundry.
Fresh plow, cakes and hreud at
Peebler'a grory store.
Editor Wariioi k, )l flilvertnn, made
us a fraternal visit lust Huturday.
For gi'iils' furnishing goods and gro
ceries, go to Pugh & Wallace.
J. J. Dubrullle and family spent Sat
urday and Sunday In Alliatty.
Every customer at Boruin i, Kirk's
barher shop gets a clean tuwel.
Jos. Id-elder, of Oakland, was In the
oily last Ftlilay and Saturday,
For the choicest groceries at hard
tlnu prices, go to Pugn A Wallace.
Horn, to l he wife of Frank Parilsh,
Wednesday, Feb. 21, 1804, a son,
Cruaoti & Mcnzles are doing a strict
ly cash ImsliiesB, and no use to talk,
Ed Kcllciibcrger left yesterday for
Oakland where hi goes in buy cattle.
Mrs. W. E. Chandler spent Wednes-
' Afty night with her parents In Albany.'
J. 8, Courtney M, P, Pliyalulan,
Kurgeon ll'd Aiiiiuoln-ur, Lennwin,
Or.
Take your rash or produce to Pugh
A Walbioe, and get equivalent In
griu'erlea,
Prof. Mii'heuer sent last Saturday
and Sunday In Albany, with the school
teachers.
Have you tried Pugh A Wallace for
gents' furnishing goods and groceries?
If not, why not?
J. E. Adcox, agent for the Albany
etrum lajndry, sends washings down
on Thursdays nniy.
Agent Bennett Informs us that here
after he will not receive any perishable
freight on Monday.
The confectioner's art, making cream
caudles and other confectionery,
taught at Zalin's stnre.
W. E. Chuiidler came over from Cor.
vulils last Friday and spent several
days with lilt, better half.
CAKH is the word. No use to any
Miything else to us.
CRtlWIN & Mknziek.
If you want to get value received for
ynuf hard-earned money, cull at
Baker". and buy your boots and shoes.
G. W. Crusnn and wife were called
to Hulaey Tuesduy, to attend the
fuin rul of tin Ir cousin, Mr. Duvirisoii.
1 have a few second-hand books that
I will clone out at a baigaiu.
M. A. SIlI.fcEK.
These hard times we want tsae all
ifte van, but of course we have to eat,
if you will save some by getting your
grocCl"tes at Buch'a.
The JOJ,ir.,nen drawn from Ibis plaoe,
for the oirculi,' court, are: J. K. Charl
ton, John Lcedy, E- E- Keebler and
J. W. Bland.
Bach Is not selling hit clothing at
coat, but still you can get a J'ter ault
there for less money than anJvw,1re
else,
Mr, Crow, the engineer on the Leb
anon branch, showed us a nice engine
chair which wrs given him by a friend
a short time ago.
Lost week we stated that Mrs. Eaton
'hail returned to Lebanon to atay, but
in this we were mistaken. She came
up to move their household goods
Jown to California. They have traded
their property at this place for proper--ty
down there.
Keep your feet dry and warm and
you will escape the grip and avoid
further colds; and aave money by hav
ing your old shoes and boots repaired.
Bemombor I guarantee first-class work
and reasonable ohargea. Shop opposite
hotel. E. Rmnhold.
Messrs. J. R. Metzger and G. W.
Vhlttlor of Jefferson, were In Leba
non a couple of days the first of the
week, ,,0klug around with a view of
atartluiTk' butcher ahop at this place,
They aeemev'1 to '"ere was a good
opening here a. na " v'y P"'
able they would 7P '"P nere ln
few weeks.
The Ladles Aid Boole"'" of tuls P,lloe
havejust finished a novel' lant- lti
ntade of aquarea, eaoh
squuve being
filled with names, eaoh person w'hoae
name was on, paying ten cent). The
received about 185 for the names, and
have been offered $10 for the quilt.
This makei a pretty good autu for one
quilt.
afuSaW
Mrs. Isaae Benjamin arrived ln LeU
anon Tuesday. .
Squire Elaon la. agalu able to attend
to business.
A. Umphrey was In Allony two
days this week.
A great reduction In prices of goods
at Read, Peacoi k & Co. 'a.
It la reported tha. Rev. Joe Waldrop
la dangerously ill at Solo.
Hereafter both barber shops will be
closed at 12 o'clock, on Sunday.
Cash paid for produce at Peebler'a
grocery store; highest market price.
Pugh A Wallace will sell you gro
ceries as cheap as any one in the city.
Try them and see.
Rev. Bailey has accepted a call from
the church at Sherldau, and he moved
there, with bis family, yesterday.
W. F. Read, of Albany, is in the city
this week, assisting iu taking account
of stock at their store at this place.
Suffer the little ones to come unto
nie and forbid them nut, for of such Is
the delight of Boyu the photographer.
Hiram Baker has Just received a
large Invoice of bo.,l and shoes. Cull
and examine before buying else where.
Anyone having any second hand
clothes to spare will please leave them
at the pis tofilce for the Dorcas Society.
Ed Relleiilierger has been serving
his customers with bear meat this
week, having killed the bear that was
owned by Jot Urubb.
A. H.Crusou returned to Lebanon
Monday from a vlrlt to his sisttr, at
Roechurg. Al has suffered a great
deal with a sprained ankle, while gone.
J. D. Moore, the electrician who
wired Lebanon, la iu the city, on his
way to the Midwinter fair. There
seems to be some attiacllon here for
Jack,
Sheriff Jackw n returned to Albany
Widner-duy night, with the defaulting
school superintendent. The examina
tion will take place to-day (Th jrsday)
at 1.80 p. in. Russell says he thinks
lie can establish bis Inuooence.
Mr. Wilson, of near Albany, and
Miss Nora bucket!, of this place, were
married in Albany Thursday, Feb. 15,
1K94, Judge Duncan officiating. Mr.
Wilson is a well-to-do farmer, and la
said to be three times as old as his
bride, -
Iu au interview with residents of the
Suntlaiu, and of Mill City, a represen
tative of till paper has ascertained the
true state of affairs in that section of
the country. It In quite true that the
resldt Ms up there are somewhat short
of provisions just at present, but they
are not asking charity from any one,
or from any source. They are all
American oh Izctia; are honest and will
ing lo work, and are not under obliga
tions to any one. But what t he people
of Sulem should do, and which would
lie received by them, Is a loan from
different soi rees whiub would be re
turned as aoon as they could realise
upon their propeity. They will not
under any condition accept anything
from a charitable source, for they are
not jaupers, therefore they are inde
pendent. Sulem Independent.
Died.
Joseph Leonard, of the firm of J.
Leonard A Son, of this city, died
Wednesday morning at 0:45.
Hp n'HM luini In Ruth M,tii,i .!
24, 1810, where in early life he learned
hls trade aa a boot and shoe-mak, r,
after which he went to sea and fol
lowed the life of a tailor for B 'lnc fif
teen years. Ill the year 1834 he uiur,
ried a young lady witli whom he lived
until about eight years aan when death
culled her away, after fifty-two years
of married life, About twenty years
ago he removed from his native place
to Pennsylvania where he spent eleven
years, most of which was In Philadel
phia, iu the boot and shoe business.
Nine years ago he remeved to Nevada
where lie lived about four years, alter
w J) Ich he came to Oregou and settled
la Coos county, from which, after a
ree!npoe of six months he came to
Lebanon1, where he has lived with his
sou for about flye years. He was the
father of eight children, all of whom,
exoeptone, are living one daughter
in Rhode Islaud, two sous lu Phila
delphia, a aon in Nevada, a sou and
daughter in California aud tha other
aon la well and favorably known in
Lebanon.
Mr. Leouard was an honest and in
dustrious man, aud a faithful husband
and father.
The funeral will be at the Methodist
Episcopal ohurch, this (Friduy) after
noon at 2m ;
, D. T. 8.
Council Proceedings.
Council met Tuesday pight in regu
lar session, with all the niembers pres
ent but Couuclmen Cotton and An
drews. Several email bills were read and re
ferred to proper committees, Several
old bills were reported upon favorably
and warrants ordered drawn,
The committee ou ordinances was
instructed to prepare au ordinance re
du4)ig the liquor license for the pres
ent.
Couii'c'l adjourned to meet to-night
(Friday).
Evans Again In Jail.
VtSALlA, Oal., Feb. IS.-rEyana and
Morrell have been In Evans' house
sine daylight, since which time the
house has been completely surrounded,
At 9:16 a.m. a messenger wag sent
into the house, with a note advising
them to surrender to aave life, aa their
capture was certain. The outluwa de
tained the messenger aa a hostage.
After an exchange of several notes
hetween Evans and Sheriff Kay, they
finally agreed to come out if the offi
cers would be Instructed uot to shoot
and the large orowd of people who had
gathered were sent back.
At 10:40 the door of Evans' cabin
opened and Morell appeared and held
up his hands, followed Immediately
after by Evans without anus. They
were Immediately oovered by 20 rifles
and Sheriff Kay and Marshal Gard
advanced and shook bauds with
Evann. A delivery wagon was pressed
Into eervioe, and they were driven
rapidly to jail.
The man captured with Evans is not
Morell. He says he is a man who
worked ln the dining-room with him.
Several citizens now claim that the
man's name is Eulow. The young
man was raised eight miles east of this
city, in what was called the .Swamp.
Marshal "Jard says Evans and Morell
were not In the Roscoe robbery. He
has known their whereataiute, he
eluinia, for weeks. !
Visalia, Cat., Feb. 20. This morn
ing develops the fact that there was a
well-organized vlglla'.oe committee
last night who fully intended to take
Evaua and Morell out and hang them.
The attempt on the jail was to have
been made at 10 o'clock, but the officers
got wind of I' and spirited the prisoner
away.
Evans was taken to the superior
oourt at 10 o'clock this morning. Judge
Harris asked the prisoner if he h- d
anything to say. HIb attorney made
the customary motion for a new trial,
which was denied. He then, in behair
or bis client, asked that Evans be sent
to San Quentin Instead of Fdlsora, t.ut
the judge disregarded the request and
ordered him Incarcerated at Folsom
for life.
WATKKLIKI GAKUAI.r..
This time It is our Intention to vary
our writings from mud, anow and rain
to modern writiug like Mr. Three J. J.
J.'a writings.
Firstly, our town is the home of the
crank and literary aspirant Slander
runs riot on our Btreets, and chroulc
g'umhllng takes the lead lu society
circles. Men are chosen to govern and
then a few who would not have ac-
oepted the offloe for any consideration
get ill and work their jaw at the rate
nf an electric car.
Our schooi board Is in the midst of a
muddle. At the time when the debt
over which there la so much wrangle
was contracted, a few stood out on the
legality of the debt, Now tie chickens
come home to ronat and they are find
ing that it takeB more than brow
beating to run the affairs of the public.
There ia a class here in fact we are
all of that class, at present who have
no occupation except gathering at the
P. O. In anticipation of some foreign
legacy being forwarded to our address.
"Satan atlll will find souie work for
Idle hands to do," and almost the
whole town has gone over to the
Pe"P1',' P"'
There are three demo-
-rats In town, viz: Rice, (.'rank, and
Co. But what makes us smile ia to see
'the way In tihich they elbow each
I oilier for the otlkvs to be let next June
to i he highest bidder. Here we have
iu would be senator, sheriff, county
I school supt., constable, J. P. and repre
! Mutative, end If they average cai'di-
! Htltl.u iWtxP ttto nnlllili, lihn LI
I....VUV.... vifu,,,,, nne iiiiQ mine
one piny he left. They reason that
both of the old partes art) oorrppt, and
from the timber the P. P. Is composed
of we begin to think they are, but If
the weeding continues they stand a
fair show to become perfection for to
our certain knowledge the democratic
parly lost nothing by the culling they
are receiving, He-publicans (Re for,
Publicans sinners) may cheer up also,
for should tuedemocrats and P. P. fuae,
we, for one, will vote f be Bloody Shirt.
There is a sure way to tell a P. P.
man in our town. They are all branded
with a large O, caused by trying to
head uall kegs, and this party should
be known aa "The Kail Keg Delega
tion," Oh, how bitter they howl at
the secretary for lasuiug bonds, and
desert our ranks with a great blast of
trumpets and open letters, but when
they are personally Interested how
they will struggle aud connive to have
bonds laid across the taxpayers. If
bonds will ruin a government they are
not healthy diet for school districts.
TheW. D. Co. are doing Lothing
fp apeak of and we fear the boom of a
year ago was only speculation, and our
little part at least was a failure. If it
waa done to sell lota, the perpetrators
of this ghastly joke ought to be made
to live here a month and hear the
abuse that daily pours down on their
beads, If It was done with a mod In.
tent, we, for one, feel very sorry, both
financially and otherwise, for them.
This Is rather a disjoiuted letter and
written under trying olroumstanees;
and yet, Mr. Three J. J. J.'s, Elder
Jewpepper, Cal Wayback, Proxy Sal
vationist, our love salutes you all,
c, Rank,
MimvlNTKH FAIR I.FTTKR.
Paiwobota MtowiOTHi Interna- )
Ko.iAi. ETeoarnoN. Department I
Puiruoirr aud Promotion.
rWMfcly Otamlu- Wtw-No. 15,1
Swt FrancibCA Feb. 18, 1604.
The attesdano at the Midwinter Ex
position oontinuea to average between
8,000 and 10,000 per day, and everybody
it correspondingly encouraged in the
belief that this fair will realize the most
anguine expectation ln regard to ita
financial ancoeiiB, In proportion to the
amount of money invested, the attend
ance ttraa far has greatly surpassed that
accorded the Columbian Exposition dur
ing the first month of ita existence, and
at the same ratio of increase which waa
noticeable at Chicago, there will be an
attendance at the Midwinter Exposition
before it close which will turpafs the
fondest dreamt of ita most enthusiastic
boomers,
The number of Eastern visitors to the
Exposition is increasing Jay l.y day, and
tt ia with a sigh of groat relief that they
come out of the snows and blizzards of
of the East and the middle West, over
the mountains into the midwinter splen
dor of the Pacific Coast. It has been
what is called a "hard winter" in Cali
fornia, but that means only that it has
rained a little more than usual, and that
the warm midwinter days have not boon
lo continuous as is generally the rule.
But even this weather has been so wel
come to people who are used to being
snowbound in February that they call
it "Paradise" in comparison, and they
really revel in their experience.
One enthusiastic traveler came into
the office of the DepartmontoIJublicity
and Promotion the other day and told
the following story: "I could hardly
get to the railway station. in my town
for the snow drifts. The street cam
were not running, and the horses of a
hack on wheels conld scarcely plunge
along fast enough for me to make my
train. Once on board the train I read
in a daily pa-ier, for this was Jan. 28,
that the California Midwinter Exposi
tion had baen formally opened on the
preceding day with thousands of people
seated on a grand stand in the open air
with heads uncovered under a broiling
ann, and with the green foliage of a
beautiful park forming a background to
the scene. At diiZerent places along the
railway where we stopped for a few
moments, I noticed bulletins of 'Mid
winter Exposition Weather,' and the
thought Btrtiok me that this was about
the most striking piece of advertising
that conld be done in connection with
California's exposition. When one
stands in an atmosphere in the neigh
borhood of zero, and reads that the
thermometer rcjisters 75 degrees in San
Francisco, one wishes to he there, and
as for myself I was glad to feel that I
was on my way. At Chicago I was de
layed several hours waiting for it to he
come possible for trains to start on west
ward, and we dragged along across the
plains, but when we began to descend
the slopes of the Sierras we left the
snows behind us and found the green
fields at onr feet, for we were, indeed,
in the land of sunshine, fruit and Mow
ers, and I intend to stay here just as
long as I feel I can afford to. "
This has been the experience of many
westbound travelers during the prefcut
uiidwinter season, and every effort is
being made on the part of the Etposi
tion management to impress the Eastern
visitors with the fact that, aside from
the climatic advantages, it is good lor
them to be here. During the past week
there has been a succession of interest
ing things at the fair. First came the
unveiling of the Harriet Hosmer statue
of Isabella, in which a host of ladies
Well known in social and literary circles
ou the Pacific Cpast took an interesting
part, and in which the Palace of Art
was dedicated. The formal opening of
the Vienna Prater introduced to San
Francisco the Imperial Vienna orches
tra, one of the finest musical organiza
tions of the world.
A series of days which are to be cele
brated under the auspices of the differ
ent fraternal organizations was inaug
urated on Feb. 13 by the Independent
Order of Good Templars. On this oc
casion Festival Hall was first brought
into service, and a huge audience as
sembled there to witness the exercises
of the annual convention and anniver
sary of the organization of that body.
A pleasing feature of the day was the
parade through the grounds of the oiy
phans from the Good Templars' Home
for Orphans, ' aud whose enjoyment of
the concessional features to which they
were made welcome was accepted as the
forerunner of many similarly joyful oc
casions in the near feature. There is to
be a general "Orphans' Day" before
long, when every child from the chari
table institutions in San Francisco aud
vicinity will be given the run of the Ex
position. There is also to be a public
school childreus' day, for which the
people of San Francisco are now making
groat preparations, and such a day the
school children of San Francisco have
never seen before. This school children's
iuy has been set for Feb. 23, and coin
ing as it does between the national holi
day and Saturday it is a school holiday
of itself, but it will be made in this con
nection an Exposition holiday in which
avery person connected with the man
agement or with the Exposition iu any
way will vie with every other amuse
ment maker to add to the children's
pleasure,
The Transmississippi Congress has
been in session in San Francisco during
the present week, aud on Wednesday
evening lis delegates were made the
guests of the Exposition. There was a
grand display of fireworks and .a gen
eral illnminatioa of the buildings. Even
the electric tower was illuminated,
though this great structure is not quite
complete, and there were band concerts
at the fireworks and on the grand cen
tral court as well. The arrangcuiente
for Washington's birthday include more
fireworks, more illuminations, the open
ing of the elcetriu tower and the in
auguration of the electric prismatic
fountain. .
Subsorlbfortheji'jtcesuow. m
DEATH THROUGH A KISS.
Wlilla CMMHtne Bis Grandohllil th CUA
Ilan Iuhtled a Hair Which Killed Htm,
It was a joyous company of young,
middle aged and aged people who con
grcgated at the home of Mr. and Mr.
Samuel Larkin in Susquehanna, Pa.
They met in honor of the fiftieth wed
ding anniversary of their host and host
ess, who had passed their allotted three
score years and ten and were still ln the
enjoyment of perfect health.
Several sweet faced, laughing grond
thildren were present to contribute;
their share of sunshino to the occasion.
Little 6-year-old Mary Edwards, with
her bright bine eyes and light tresses,
was there. After kissing her grand
mother affectionately she sprang upon
her grandfather's lap, exclaiming,
"Grandpa, I have lots of kisses and a
bear hug for you."
Then the old man pressed the sweet
face of his favorite grandchild to his,
forvently remarking: "God bless you,
Mary. No company would be complete
without you. You aie the embodiment
of sunshine itself, and I trunt yon will
grow to he a noble woman."
"Tell me how much you love me,
grandpa, " said the child, "and then I
will give you the kisses and the bear
hug."
"I cannot tell you how much I love
you, child, ' answered the old man,
"but I can assure yon it is a big lot."
Then Grandfather Larkin imprinted
kies after kisa upon the ruby cheeks,
and the child, delighted at the mani
festation of affection, returned the com
pliment, and then, throwing her littio
arms about the old man's neck, gave
the promised "bear hug." She then
crawled down from grandpa'a lap and
busied herself for a time among others
of the company. An hour Inter, and
just before the joyous party were about
to partake of dinner, the same little
Mary approached her grandfather, re
marking, "Grandpa, I want to give you
one more kiss before dinner, and then 1
want you to sit by me at the table.
The old man smiled and lifted the
little girl in bis arms. Two minutes
later be felt a tickling sensation in his
throat and realized that in returning
the last kiss a bair bad caught in his
mouth and been sucked into his wind
pipe. This immediately produced hard fits
of coughing, and before relief could be
obtained a blood vessel was raptured,
and death resulted instantly. ,
Consternation reigned for a time, and
the aged partner of the unfortunate sep
tuagenarian, overcome with grief, fell
in a swoon. She rallied an hour later,
but it is thought her great grief will
cause her death in a short time. New
York Herald.
NOW A DESERTED VILLAGE.
Virginia City, Key., Once Gay and Proiper
ooi, Rapidly Fallluff to RuIdh.
"A poet could write on 'The Desert
ed Village' with Virginia City as a sub
ject and surpass Goldsmith's immortal
production on the same topic," said E.
L. Hearne of San Francisco to a Globe
Democrat man. "The Erst time that 1
was ever there the population of Vir
ginia City was greater than that of the
entire state now. Everything ran wido
open. Magnificent hotels and opera
halls, palatial residences, stores that
would have done credit to New York,
millionaires who spent money freely,
maintaining a society that for brillian
cy and guyety could not be equaled in
the United States. 1 was there a short
time ago. The hotels and opera houses
are closed, the residences empty, the
stores removed to other and more pros
perous places. Dwellings that cost hun
dreds of thousands of dollars are given
over to the bats, and the broken panes
of glass, the shutters hanging upon a
single binge or flapping in the wind,
give a grewsome sense of loneliness.
In years to come it will afford magnifi
cent spectacles of ruins, aud even now
in some sections of the town there ia a
sense to the beholder of being iq a city
of the past, Millions were made aud
lost, and the history of Virginia City
would be one of the most thrilling sto
ries eAr written." St. Louis Globe
Democrat. Savages Iu Modern Wav.
ft was curious to see the effect of
the seven pounder and hotebkisa sheila
upon the Matauoles when they were re
treating. On tho shell bursting among
them we could see through our glasses
the Matebeles turn round and fire at the
place where the shell had burst, think
ing it was somo diabolical agency of the
white man. From information we re
ceived after this fight we learned that
the enemy had intended attacking ua at
10 o'clock the previous night, but ow
iug to the rocket having been sent up
to recall Captain Borrow they wore
afraid to do so, thinking that we were
holding communion with our gods by
shooting at the stars and bringing them
down. London Telegraph.
A Fatal Rl under,
Blunders that are literally worse than
crimes are not uncommon. Such a one
was committed in 18S0 by a New York
druggist, who, by putting up tho wrong
prescription, caused the death of two
girls named Holtz by morphine poison
ing. But the consequences of the ter
rible mistake did not end there. The
betrothed of one of the girls, Dr. Low
enthal, whose prescription was mislead,
went insane. And nuw their father,
Christian Holtz, baa died abroad, where
hp retired, broken hearted, as soon aB lie
could close up his large business inter
ests in New York. Rochester Herald,
Boston's Crowded Tenements.
In the most crowded precinct of Bos
ton, the recent tenement house census
found the average number of persons in
a house to be 17,81, and the average
numher of persons in a room 1.09. In
the most instances, the average number
of persons to a room was 8.30, but in
oil Boston there were found but 658
persons occupy tenements in which the
average number to a room was three or
over.BQjtou Conjatenwealth, .
NIAGARA, NOW IN HARNESS.
Cbft Ornate Experiment Ew Bind tn
fileotrlolty la Being Pat to Teat,
At last Niagnra falls hnvo been har
nessed, and the dream of engineers for
years has been realized. One of the
greatest engineering enterprises ever
undertaken in this country and by far
the greatest experiment ever made In
olootricity has been put to the test to
decide whether $4,000,000 have been
poured into a hole in the ground or
whether thin sum has been planted iu
fruitful soil to bring forth a hundred
fold. .
The object of the company which an
iertook the stupendous task ia to catch
the immcnBe power of the fearful on
rush of water of tho great river and
turn it to utilitarian purposes. If the
water which rushes down the penatocl. i
HO feet turns the wheels below and
sends back np to the surface 6, 000 horse
power from each wheel, the day Ib not
far distant when every wheel in New
York west of the Hudson river shall be
turned with power from the falls, and
a mighty current shall be transmitted
probably as far weBt as Chicago, and it
may be as far south as Baltimore.
The tnnnel, through which 500,000
cubic feet of water will flow each min
ute when it is used to its full capacity,
is a gloomy place. It is at feet high
aud is horseshoe shaped, being 18 feeV
10 inches wide at the widest part and--14
feet 5 inches at the bottom. Since .
Oct. 4, 1890, when N. B. Gaskell, who '
was then president of the Cataract Con
struction company, dug the first spade
ful of earth for the tnnnel, 17 men have
been killed in the tunnel, 8 in the wheel
pit and 2 in the work outaide. While
the tunnel was being dug some 1,500
men were kept busy, and tho payrolln
ran as high as $69,000 in one month.
Dr. Coleman Sellers of Philadelphia
has had charge of the work during all
the late years of ita progress and super
vised the great test, of which the tele
graphic reports in the press have given
ample account. The realization of what
was once a scientitic day dream will
add new luster to the glowing achieve
ments of tho closing nineteenth century.
Jfnnadelpma frees.
STATESMEN'S ECCENTRICITIES..
Kate Field Sayi Our Senators Would ISO
Lost without Tronsers toelcet.
"Do yon prefer aide or slant or ton
pockets in your trousers?"
"I don't care, I'm sure. All I want
ia pockets that I can get my hands in
to." This was the conversation I overheard
the other day between a tailor and his
customer, and I waa reminded of it an
hour later as 1 looked down npouthe
floor of the senate chamber and watch
ed our grave and reverend lawmakers
going through their work. In the mid
dle aisle, carrying on a triangular de
bate, were Senator Proctor and Senator
Gorman, each with his left hand in his
trousers pocket, and Senator Allison
with both hands similarly incased.
They were presently joined by Senator
Brice, who had his right hand pocket
ed, while Senator Lindsay strode from
the democratic over to the Republican
side, with both his hands in his pock
ets, almost running into Senator Xodge,
wno was carrying his in the same way.
I could not help thinking of the old
story of Daniel Webster and tho button
on hia jacket, which he always used to
twirl while making his best recitations
in school, It is said that a little girl
who had long stood next to hlin in his
spelling class, and who was ambitions
to pass him, contrived one day to snip
off this button, and at the next recita
tion, when Daniel felt for it and found
it missing, he was so overcome that he,
missed the world put to him, and bis
clever rival went to tho head of the
class. Suppose some malicious person,
bent on destroying the comfort and dig
nity of tho' senate, should contrive to
have the trousers pockets of all the son-
atora aewed up over night, what would
become of American oratory and legis
lation the next day! Kate Field's
Washington.
Picture Owuera Oettlug Tired.
The owners of worka of art not only
in England, but throughout Europe,
complain of the injustice of the increas
ing demands for the loan of their treas
ures for international, national and lo
cal exhibitions, says a New York Sun
correspondent. The pictures just re
turned from Chicago are wanted imme
diately for Vienna and then for Ant
werp. English owners are openly talk-
Ing of refusing. To refuse to lend seems
churlish, bowever, and might prove,
damaging to the leputation, not merely
of individual artists, but of the British
school. On the other hand, if the own
ers lend whenever they are asked they
never have possession of their own pic
tures. The Royal academy will prob
ably soon consider the dilemma.
Buddhism In Paris,
A fresh propaganda of Buddhism is
being undertaken in Paris, says n corre
spondent. It ia asserted that 00,000 Pa
risians now profess the ancient religion.
Many well known women describe them
selves as oclectic Buddhists. A littio
volume gives a summary of the doc
trines of the new creed. It has just been
printed, and large uumbers have been
bought by wealthy neophytes and will
he distributed next week among all
classes. The converts are not expected
to desert the churches of which they
are members. The copies of the book
have been bound in black morocco, gild
ed to resemble prayer books.
Her Faith Led to Death.
Mrs. William Seidentopf died Satur
day from the effects of a dose of poison,
which she spread on a piece of bread
and then deliberately ate. Mrs. Seiden
topf was a Christiau science believer,
and it is thought that she ate the poi
son to prove her faith. Even after the
agony resultant from the action of the
poison had begnn, she refused to allow
a doctor to be called and was beyond
hope of saving when one was summon
wt'CttUKtl Bhal,) Diipatco,