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Late News.
F. H. Lowell, a fruit grower near Los
Angeles, has failed for $120,000, with as
sets of $8,500. , ;
'"" Yuma, A. T., has elected a Republican
municipal ticket for the first time in
twenty years.
The Good Hope mine in Riverside
county, Cal., has been sold for $500,000
to Eastern mining men.
The new schedule of wages at Mare
Island went into effect January 1. The
same reductions were made in the navy
yards in the East. -
It now turns out that the story of the
burning to death of a Mojave squaw by
her tribe near Needles, Cal., because she
gave birth to twins, was a hoax.
Since Rogue river in Oregon has re
gained its normal stage of water, a deep
channel is being cut straight out to sea,
while the north spit has moved out to
sea fully half a mile. At low tide a low
spit can be seen reaching out from the
McCormack rock in a semi-circle to the
mouth of the river, half a mile farther
out than the former spit, and where the
mouth of the river formerly was is now
dead water.
The Scottish-American Investment
Company has begun suit against the
Portland Industrial Exposition for $55,
000 on a promissory note, and the ap
pointment of a receiver and foreclosure
pi a mortgage on the exposition grounds
as security for payment of the note are
asked for. The amount sued for was
loaned -to the Exposition last February,
and was due in seven years, but the com
pany defaulted its interest, and the
whole sum is now due. , The exposition
last fall was a failure.
Suit was brought at Portland to re
cover $22,000 damages on account of G.
W. Hazen, cashier of the Portland Na
tional B .nk, having given letters of rec
ommendation to the Ainslie Lumber
Company, whereby it secured credit to
that amount at the Bank- of Nevada.
This sum proved a iotal loss. It is al
leged that at the time the letters were
written the lumber company owed the
Portland bank $90,000 and was insolvent,
which fact was known to the defendant.
The defendant's demurrer was overruled
by the Judge, who held the Nevada Bank
had cause tor action.
According to the report of the Bank
Commissioners who are liquidating the
alfairs of the Pacific Bank of San Fran
cisco the realization of theassets is like
ly to prove a long and troublesome affair.
The estimated amount of assets is slight
ly over $1,600,000, against total liabilities
due all classes of creditors of $1,592,000.
Nearly all the large assets of the bank
are complicated with all manner of en
tanglements, both legal and commercial,
and in many instances are disputed. Ef
forts toward realization on notes and
overdrafts have so far yielded but little,
although a formal demand for payment
has been made upon all debtors. . In re
gard to the indebtedness of Mr. Gage,
amounting to $100,000, and that of the
John Brown Colony, which owes the
bank $260,000, several actions have been
instituted against the respective parties,
but it will require much time and many
suits to unravel the matters. The com
missioners state that chances of a speedy
dividend appear remote; that there is
only a little more than $32,000 at pres
ent in their hands in addition to the $50,
000 held by the Sheriff to secure judg
ments, and that their attempts to realize
upon assets have thus far been most un
satisfactory and will necessitate long and
tedious litigation to avail anything. --Charles
Clark has been appointed re
ceiver of the Oregon Pacific. 116 quali
fied the other day, and a capable and
economical . management is assured.
After the resignation of Receiver Had
ley it was generally believed that F. J,
Miller, who had been named for the po
sition by the employes, would be ap
pointed, but some opposition was made
to his selection. Mr. Clark is a practical
railroad man, and has been with this
company several years in the capacity of
train dispatcher and acting superintend
ent in the absence of that official. As
the position came to him unsolicited and
without objections from any source, the
appointment will no doubt meet with
the approval of all interested in the road.
No radical changes are anticipated.
Many are of the opinion that an error
was committed in asking for Mr. Had
fey's removal. People are beginning to
realize that whatever mistakes he may
have made, if they could be called mis
takes, were made under the promises of
certain Eastern capitalists in whom he
had placed confidence, but whom he has
gince learned to distrust ; that his efforts
on behalf of the road were for what he
sincerely believed to be for the best, and
that they would have proved such had
the promises of New York parties been
carried out, ;
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
The pension office has decided that in
view of the act of Congress of December
21, 1893, it no longer has the right to
withhold the pension of Judge .Long of
Michigan, and has directed he be again
placed on the pension rolls.
' The Secretary of the Treasury has sent
a communication to Congress in which
he estimates that an appropriation of
$7,280,053 will be necessary to defray the
expenses of collecting the revenue from
customs for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1895. At Port Townsend $62,365 will
be necessary to defray the expense of
collection.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company
after February 1 will form a once-a-week
mail service between New York and Co
lon instead of thirty-Bix trips a year. A
four years' contract with the government
requires the company to make thirty-six
trips a year during the first two vears
and fifty-two a year during the latter
half of the period.
Representative Maguire has introduced
a postal telegraph bill providing for an
issue of $25,000,000 in bonds to be ex
pended in the erection of telegraph lines,
starting at thirty-two of the largest cit
ies in the country..; The tolls are fixed
at 10 cents for ten words, and the Postmaster-General
is authorized to arrange
for a rate of 20 cents per 100 words for
news dispatches.
The report on the mining resources of
the country, prepared by Chief Day of
the division of mining statistics of the
geological survey, shows that the high
water mark in mineral production was
reached in 1892, both in this and every
other country. The ; total value of all
the mineral products of that year was
$684,778,768. This is $20,000,000 greater
than for any previous year.
The monthly issue of a pilot chart of
the Pacific Ocean, similar in general
character to the chart of the North At
lantic, is in contemplation by the naval
hydrographic office. At present there
are no means of distributing informa
tion to mariners of the Pacific Ocean,
and the demand has been so general not
only among American mariners, but
among foreigners, that the hydrographic
officers believe there is as much reason
for publishing a Pacific pilot chart as
there is a chart of the Atlantic Ocean.
Congress will therefore be urged to au
thorize the publication, which is attend
ed with very slight expense.
The Secretary of State and the .British
Ambassador are pursuing negotiations
for an agreement upon the regulations
to police Behring Sea. It is important
that these regulations shall be agreed
upon before the opening of the sealing
season. The formalities to be gone
through between the two governments
will consume much time. The Navy
Department is apprehending some em
barrassment in supplying sufficient ves
sels of the email class required to do the
work of patrolling the territory desig
nated by the tribunal at Paris. When
found necessary to police Uehring fcea
before, the Treasury Department had to
be called upon for revenue cutters to aid
in the work temporarily. They cannot
well be spared for permanent use in that
work. No active steps have as yet been
taken toward the preparation of a patrol
fleet.
Secretary Morton has expressed Bur
prise at the utter misapprehension on
the part of the public of his position in
regard to the agricultural experiment
Btations appropriations and of the mo
tive which induced him to omit this sum
from the estimates of expense in his de
partment for the ensuing fiscal year. He
said : "As a matter of fact I have taken
the same course in this respect as was
adopted by my predecessor, General
Rusk, and (as I understand from George
William Hill, to whom Secretary Rusk
expressed himself on the subject) on
precisely the same grounds. The read
ing of the sixth page of my report to the
President shows clearly what the grounds
for my action are. The fact is plain to
any one who takes the pains to review
the only omciai utterance i nave ex
pressed on the subject, that no sugges
tion of the abolition of a State station
was suggested by me."
It is generally agreed among Demo
cratic Senators that the financial ques
tion will remain untouched in Uongress
till the tariff bill is disposed of. voor
hees said that no effort whatever would
be made to press his silver bill until the
tariff is out of the way. When reached,
however, he thought it would prove a
solution of the problem. Bland also an
nounces that he will not try to get his
free coinage up in the House till the tar
iff bill is passed. Carlisle's bond issue
proposition will probably give way to the
tariff, as the latter is considered a matter
of primary importance, and its decision
may put matters in bucii a cunuiuon as
to make issuance of bonds unnecessary.
Furthermore, it is known that the silver
men approve of bonds and are prepared
to vote for their issue against any man
who does not favor free silver. Hence
there need be no cause for surprise if the
taking up of the bond proposition may
be delayed so long as to render it. impol
itic to take it up at all.
It has been decided to increase the
whisky tax 10 cents a gallon, from 90
cents to $1, to be levied against whisky
in as well as out of bond. Upon a rep
resentation that this increase would work
undue hardship to the owners of whisky
in bond it was decided to extend the
bonded period from three to eight years.
The tax on playing cards, at one time
fixed at 6 cents a pack, was reduced 2
cents and the contemplated tax on per
fumes and cosmetics discarded. No in
crease was mae in the tax on cigars, but
the increase on cigarettes of $1 per 1,000
was allowed to stand. The committee
estimates that the tax on incomes from
corporations and individals (corporations
being treated as individuals) will raise
$30,000,000 revenue $12,000,000 from
corporations and $18,000,000 from indi
viduals. The increase in the whisky tax,
it is estimated, will give an additional
revenue of $10,000,000. The tax on in
heritances, which was to be introduced
in cae the proposition for the individual
income tax failed, is not deemed neces
THE MIDWINTER EXPOSITION,
Weekly Circular Letter No. .
With the single exception of the Ad
ministration building, which needs a,
full week's work before it will be com-
pleted, the five main buildings of the
California Midwinter International Ex
position are practically finished. Still,
it has been found impossible to open the
Exposition in all its departments on Jan.
I. When the projectors of this indus
trial enterprise took advantage of the
glorious midwinter weather in Califor
nia they did not expect that the wintry
Winds on the shore of Lake Michigan,
nd the mountains of snow between that
point and .this, would array themselves
In opposition to their plans. This, how
ever, has proven to be the case, and
hundreds.of carloads of exhibits which
were to come from the Columbian Ex-,
position to stand on dress parade in
Golden Gate park have been seriously
delayed by the weather. There has been
great difficulty experienced in getting
cars to load goods on at Chicago as fast
as they were ready, and when they had
once been started westward, a series of
obstacles had to be overcome until, even
though the buildings in San Francisco
are practically ready for their reception,
the bulk of the exhibits which are to be
made by foreign nations have not yet
arrived.
It has been found necessary, therefore,
to postpone the formal ceremonies of.
opening the Exposition for a few days,
or until everything is in place. On the
first day of January, however, an infor
mal opening tfccurs. The flags of all
nations will fly from the flag poles on
the Exposition buildings and in the
grounds, there will be music and gen
eral gala day effects, but the "day of
days, " the day when San Francisco shall
be a perfect sea of bunting, when her
people shall turn ont en masse, when an
extra legal holiday shall be declared and
when all California shall join in the
great ceremony of the opening of this
great midwinter festival that day will
come a little later on. '
Quite a number of the concessional
features of the Exposition are all in
readiness and will be in full blast on
Jan. 1. The great Firth wheel begins
its revolutions with the New Year; the
lions and tigers in the wild animal arena
will roar to New Year audiences; the
Santa Barbara sea lions will roll and
roar in the great tanks that have been
provided for them; the forty-niner
mining camp will receive calls in true
frontier fashion; beer and pleasure will
flow at the Heidelberg castle; the Ha
waiian cyclorama will be open to ' the '
public; the curious ones can do down
into the Colorado gold mine; and even
the great electric tower will be almost
completed. But this word "almost"
will be changed into "quite "in its appli
cation to everything projected in con
nection with the Exposition before the
grand opening day comes on, and when
that day comes there will be spread out
before the visiting multitude the most
complete an.dmost picturesane exposi
tion that the western sun has ever
shone upon.
Speaking of the great Firth wheel sug
gests mention of a very interesting in
teresting incident which took place in
connection with its construction the
other day. During a temporary lull in
the work of putting up the spiderlike
spokes of this wheel, a man was observed
to clamber up in the mass of timbers
surrounding the base of the superstruct
ure. He was at first supposed to be a
workman, and no special attention was
paid him. Presently, however, he clam
bered out on one of , the lower spokes.
The superintendent of construction,
catching sight of him, asked what he
wanted up there. The adventurer
made no response, but continued his as
cent, working his way inside the ,
periphery with catlike agility. The
superintendent ordered him down. The
only answer he got was an invita
tion to come and fetch him. He kept
on climbing, and where the periphery
has not been placed he had to slide down
the big spokes until he reached the chan
nel irons. Crossing on these to the next
spoke, he worked out to the periphery,
and proceeded as before.
By this time quite a crowd had
gathered, watching the progress of this
daring fellow, 120 feet from the ground.
He was repeatedly warned to look out
for himself, but showed himself abund
antly able to do so. Finally he reached
the the highest point, and, standing at
full length, gave an exulting yell, which
was answered by a group of friends
near the volcano building. Of course
he came down the other way, and thus
made the first revolution of the great
Firth wheel. On reaching the ground
he disclosed his identity, and was recog
nized as a sailor and rigger. He said he
had made the trip to settle a bet that he
would make the first trip around this
great rotary construction.
One of the sensations of the Exposi
tion will be the famous diver, Kohana
Maka, whose record as a long-distance
swimmer, deep diver and shark hunter
surpasses that of all aquatic wonders of
the great Pacific. It is' Kohana Maka
who has kept alive the old shark-hunting
custom of the early kings of Hawaii.
In former days it was the custom of
royal sportsmen to go to sea in their war
canoes or catamaran, taking along a
large bowl of chopped enemies. This
bowl was placed over the water, and
fragments of hashed Kanaka were thrust
through a hole in the bottom of the
bowl, thus attracting schools of man
eating sharks. When the sharks be-
oame'thick around the boats a native
king would dive in among them, knife
in hand, and, coming np under the
school, would stab one as he arose. This
Is one of the things that Kohana Maka
does in these days. There will be no.
harks in the little lake within the
Hawaiian enclosure at the Midwinter
Exposition, but there will be .ample
room for diving and for Kohana and
other great swimmers to exercise. Four
women and three men, all experts, form
the little company of swimmers, headed
by Kohana Maka. They will not only
illustrate the wonderful aquatic feats
for which the islanders are famous, but
they announce themselves as ready to
meet all comers in any form of aquatic
sports. - . , .' j , i
FOREIGN FLASHES.
A famine prevails in Central Asia.
"-"Paris ' is to have a World's Cook Con
gress. The Argentine navy now comprises
fifty-four first-class vessels.
It is confidently predicted that a Congo
boom is about to commence.
A German company is said to be after
the Nicaragua canal franchise, . ,
The drouth in the Argentine Republic
is causing serious damage to crops.
The annual cost of the British army is
17,000,000; of the navy 14,000,000. ,;
Tin-plate workers of Meath, Wales,
have had their wages cut 10 per cent.
It is reported that Italy is negotiating
a loan of 600,000,000 lire in Germany.
The Shah of Persia will visit Berlin,
St. Petersburg, Paris and Vienna next
spring.
. The Kaiser has ordered that alumin
ium cooking utensils be used in the Ger
man army.
The Barcelona police have hit upon
another factory containing forty pear
shaped bombs. ,
Two thousand new books will be put
on the market by London publishers
alone this year.
England, it is said, will Spend more
than 100,000,000 on her navy within
the next five years. .
Greece will probably be forced by the
creditor powers to reduce her army and
navy and pay her debts.
Morocco ought to pay Spain $12,000,
000 indemnity for the Mehlla troubles,
says a Madrid newspaper, a .: '
The Prussian government has demon
strated that petroleum is a reliable scale
preventer in steam boilers.
It is announced that a charter for a
university for Wales has been signed by
the Queen, and consequently has become
law. " .;" .
A committee of the London Stock Ex
change is at present elaborating- a plan
to abolish or at least cripple the bucket
shop business. ; ;.
France intends to abandon her demand
for the extradition of Dr. Herz, because
it is alleged she is averse to reviving the
Panama scandal.
The annual returns of the Clyde ship
building industry show that the total
output for 1895 was 208,000 tons, against
330,uuu last year, v
Japanese feeling against foreigners
continues to increase. The chaplain of
the British legation was recently as
saulted in Tokio's streets.
Seven persons have been arrested at
Odessa, Russia, charged with having
formed a combine for the purpose of rob
bing the famine-stricken peasantry.
A Buenos Ayres paper savs that the
agricultural products of Argentine have
trebled in the last ten years. The value
of this year's crop amounted to $87,000,L
000.
The Royal Commission reports that in
Scotland, as elsewhere, the supply of ag
ricultural laborers is much less than
twenty years ago. They have gone to
town.
The electric railway has penetrated
even the fastnesses of the Tyrolese
Mountains, a road twenty-seven miles
long being projected between Riva and
Pinzolo.
Paris is to have a mahogany roadway.
A part of Rue La Favette is being payed
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wiiii mat woou. j, la oniy an experi
ment, but it sounds like a very expen
sive one. -
The Cairo correspondent of the Lon
don News says that the native Egyptian
press is renewing its violent attacks on
the British and inciting the people to
rebellion. . '
A significant sign of the hard times is
seen in the fact that the Scotland Yard
authorities have after much discussion
voted to allow the London police to carry
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piHLoia ior mis winter oniy. ,
The British government has decided
to expend a large sum on strengthening
the defenses at Portland. Half a million
sterling will be required, and the works
are expected to occupy ten years.
Mr.. Holinsworth has given to Bir
mingham some rentable houses, simply
as an endowment for a city. The Town
Council accepted, with the hope that
this " will he the hrst of a long line of
such gifts." ' .' ;.;
In Holland women and persons of
either sex under the age of 16 are now
forbidden to begin work earlier than 5
a. m. or to continue work after 7 p. m.,
nor can their work exceed eleven hours
a day in all. . .
A British old fogy laments that what
was once " I thank you, sir," long ago
lost the " I " and became " Thank you,
sir." Then the " sir " was dropped, and
soon " Thank you " became "Thanks,"
and then " Thanks, awfully," and finally
has disappeared. .
The German War Minister, Von Asch,
has given a semi-sanction to dueling in
a speech in Parliament. Under the pres
ent circumstances of society, he said,
dueling cannot be abolished in spite ot
the law. The speech raised a storm of
protests in the Diet.
EASTERN ITEMS.
Chicago has a deficit of over $3,000,
000. Pittsburg's relief fund amounts to
$60,000.
Chicago is now claiming a population
of 2,000,000.
', Philadelphia is to try water-gas mak
ing on its own account. '
The Indians are costing the govern
ment $7,000,000 per year.
Reports from the winter-wheat sections
show a much smaller average than last
year.
Another wonderfully rich streak of
gold quartz has been struck at Cripple
Creek, Col.
The health department of New York
Eroposes to make war against the use of
ituminous coal.
Speaker Crisp says that the'Wilson
bill will pass the House of Representa
tives by January 31. '
The Colorado Farmers' Alliance wants
Congress to issue legal-tender notes to
the amount of $200,000,000. .,
Bishop Coxe at Buffalo has again de
nounced the position of the' Catholic
Church on the public-school question in
this country.
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,' ; Michigan,
Kansas and Missouri each reports a
smaller acreage sown to winter wheat
this season than in 1892.
The financial and commercial depres
sion existing in Canada at the present
time is being more severely felt than
any depression since 1867.
There is considerable force in the as
sertion of Governor Fishback of Arkan
sas that the Indian Territory is being
rapidly converted into a school of crime.
a A shooting scrape at a ball at Cedar,
eight , miles from Columbia, Tex., re
sulted in the death of three, the fatal
wounding of four and slight injury to
several.
A recent decision of the Indiana Su
preme Court admitted women to prac
tice before the Indiana bar. ; Miss Stella
Colby was the first to take advantage of
that decision.
A project is on foot in Mississippi and
elsewhere in the South to purchase Jef
ferson Davis' house at Beauvoir for a
home for indigent ex-Confederate sol
diers and widows of soldiers.
It iB a good sign of Mexico's credit in
the markets, of the world that Finance
Minister Limantour has completed ne
gotiations with a Berlin house for a loan
of $15,000,000 upon favorable terms. .
The Iron Age thinks that the extreme
ly easy money market and low cost of
material will induce very considerable
extension of electric railways in various
parts of the country during this year.
Many people living in Rochester, N.
Y., who would and could work, are de
barred from so doing because of insuffi
cient clothing. Children, too, are unable
to go to school because they have no
shoes. '-''.' '
The State Department is dissatisfied
with the reports of Minister Thompson
at Rio. It is thought he is enjoying him
self in the neighborhood and is not keep
ing himself well posted as to the condi
tion at Rio. His reports are directly the
opposite of Captain Picking, and favor
the insurgents. . ' v .
The hydrographic office of the Navy
Department has started the new year
with the issue of the first number of a
pilot chart of the North Pacific OSean
for January, 1894. Its purpose is to il
lustrate ,the character of the monthly
publication which has been planned by
the hydrographic office for the benefit of
the maritime people of the Pacific Coast.
The estimates of the Secretary 'of the
Navy for the next fiscal year contain an
item of $10,000 for the publication of the
chart, and if Congress should grant this
sum, it is proposed to issue the first day
of each month an edition showing graph
ically such information of timely inter
est and warning to mariners as can be
collected from reports of incoming navi
gators. Of the 47,000,000 acres of land granted
to the Northern Pacific railroad by the
act of Congress July 2, 1864, only 6,363,
423 acres had been patented to the com
pany at the close of the last fiscal year.
The records of the general land office
also show that 8,945,400 acres of indem
nity lands located in Wisconsin, Minne
sota, Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washing
ton and Oregon have been restored to
the public domain. By a decision of the
Commissioner in 1886 32,400 acres of the
grant located in Washington -have also
been restored. Over . 20,000,000 acres
more of government land have been cer
tified to the company, and it has sold for
cash since the grant was first madedown
to the present time 8,386,588 acres. ' The
total cash receipts from all sales have
amounted to $32,719,974, and there re
mains outstanding on account of time
sales $5,079,651, principal and interest.
The receipts of the land department of
the Northern Pacific Company for the
past year were $1,660,224.66 and its ex
penses $577,643.82. : . -
The indications are that the stock
holders of the Columbian Exposition
Company will soon receive 10 per cent
dividend on their stock. According to
the report of Auditor Harrington there
was December 1 $10,000,000 in capital
stock. Of this amount $3,000,000 was
subscribed by the city of Chicago and
the other $5,000,000 by individuals. In
the December reports there was an esti
mate that the net assets of the exposi
tion company would be about $1,765,858.
Allowing for" the closing up of the expo
sition affairs, it would appear that not
more than 10 cents on the dollar could
be returned to the stockholders. One of
the considerations which deterred the
Finance Committee from making a rec
ommendation was the fact that, if a div
idend of any amount were paid now, it
would interfere with the donations of
stock to the Columbian Museum. In
accordance with the conditions of Mar
shall Field's gift of $1,000,000 to the mu
seum there should be donated to the
trustees of that institution $2,000,000 of
exposition stock and $500,000 cash sub
scriptions. The condition is not fulfilled.
BABY AND HIS CAT.
The Unwonted Sight Which Attracted All
- Eyes on a Crowded Street. "
The sidewalk was filled with hurrying
people. Three peddlers stood on the curb
one with shoelaces, another with candy, an
other with gold paint. Neither looked as
if he expected to sell anything. Nobody
paid the slightest attention to them. A
man without legs came stumping over the
sidewalk. People merely hurried out of his
way. A man passed, dressed in outlandish
garments, advertising a patent medicine.
Nobody looked twice at him. An old wom
an whose tangled gray hairs were blown in
the wind shuffled feebly along, and nobody
saw her. A pair of Chinese, an Italian
woman dressed as for a fete, a negro nearly
7 feet in height, a Turk swaddled in turban
and baggy trousers, a drunken woman, a
man with locomotor ataxia all passed
within a few minutes, and nobody stopped
even for a moment to look at anybody else,
except the beggars, and they were utterly
disregarded.
Then appeared from somewhere, as if out
of a hole in the ground, a child about 3
years old, ragged and smeared as to its
hands with mud and as to its face with
traces of bread and molasses, besides plain
dirt. Its hair was tousled, and its large
blue eyes were fixed straight ahead with all
that sweet unconsciousness fibf childhood
written of by poets; In its hands it carried
a gray striped cat. One little fist grabbed
the loose skin at the nape; the other grasped
it firmly over the hind quarters. Each par
ticular leg of the cat stuck out straight and
rigid. Each claw showed its shining curve.
The cat did not appearto be uncomfortable,
and the child was gloriously unconscious
of everything but its own baby thoughts.
The child was so young that it went un
steadily tottering down the middle of the
sidewalk, with the cat held up in front of it
like a drum major's staff.
There was not one hurrying wayfarer
man or Woman who did not pause and
laugh. A number stopped short and fol
lowed the child as it staggered.along. By
the time the baby had traveled half a block
it had an escort of 20 grown persons besides
the swarm of boys. The baby tottered
along, its magnificent gravity undisturbed,
and when a breathless, bareheaded woman
came running and snatched Up the young
explorer (still holding on bravely to the cat)
each person in the crowd looked sheepish
and hurried away. New York Times.
; DeTll's Lake. ' '
Tangago, the Chippewas, came from the
north and pitched their tepees on the norUi
shore of the lake. They had reason to be
lieve that the Sioux were encamped on the
southern shore, and they planned to cross
to the south before daylight and surprise
their traditional enemies. The Sioux had
a similar thought and design, and each
tribe proceeded to exterminate the other.
They met in about the middle of the lake
and fought, and all were lost. The time Is
not fixed except that the incident marks
an epoch in the history of both tribes, -1
... Another battle- was fought afterward on
the south shore between other contingents
of those respective tribes. The Chippewas
came in canoes from the north as before.
This was ia 1867. The Chippewa warriors
were all slain but one man, who returned
badly wounded and riddled. The fatalities
connected with the lake and the apparitions
gave rise to the name Minnewaukan, or
spirit water, mysterious water, haunted
water, fated water, and finally to Devil's
lake as the only English equivalent for the
Indian's idea as expressed in Minnewaukan,
The Chippewas came here in canoes. The
Sioux also used canoes. With but few
portages, the former could easily at that
time, while the lake was so far above its
present level, come from Lake Superior to
Devil's lake. Since the fatalities related
those Indians have a superstitious dread of
canoes. Young people are getting over the
dread, but old Indians will wade to their
waist fishing while boats are within reach,
but won't dare enter. Minneapolis Trib
une. ' : ' '
A Pass That Was Honored..
Senator Stanford once had in his employ
an old servant named Jane Wallace. Arter
being with his family a number of years
she had saved some money and went back
to her old home in New York. But the
climate did not agree with her. The doctors
told her that if she came back to California
she would get well. So she wrote to her old
employer and asked .him to furnish her
with transportation. Without thinking
much about it. but ready to ob ige his old
servant, he wrote on a sheet of note paper:
"Please pass Jane from New York to San
Francisco," signed it and sent it to her.
Jane never stopped to think of the pecu
liar form of the pass or that it might not
be recognized by some of the railways over
which she was to travel. She . knew that
her old master owned two or three rail
roads, and she had an idea that he owned
one all the way to New York. - So she got
on the train, and when the conductor came
round handed out the slip of paper. He
looked at it, then at her, and didn't know
what to do. There was Leland Stanford's
signature, and he didn't like to dishonor
that. So he telegraphed for instructions,
and his superiors told him to Send the
woman right through, and she came. San
Francisco Examiner. ,
How Often the Watch Ticks.'
Many watches make 5 beats per second,
800 each minute, 18,000 every hour, or 432,
000 per day. Thus it will be seen that a
half dozen turns of the key once a day,
taking up but a few seconds of time, stores
up a modicum of power in the spring
which is cut up into nearly a' million oi
beats. If we multiply the daily beats by
36 the number of days in a year, we find
that the watch ticks 157,788,000 while the
earth is making one annual trip around
the sun. St. Louis Republic. -v
Lack About Shoes. ,
A Yorkshireman will spit in his right
shoe before putting it on, when going out
on important business, to bring luck, and
many an English girl has been known to
hang her boots out of the window on St.
Valentine's night for love luck. London 1
Tit-Bits. - ' '",
" .. ' Matrimonial Note.
Wife What do you suppose is the rea.
son there are no marriages in heaven?
Husband You stupid goose, it is to off
set the fact that there is no heaven in mar
riage. Texas Sittings. ; -
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