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HE TELEPHONE-REGISTER Japanese Lite. Story of a Diamond. Spain’s Royal Rolle. It is difficult to understand why “There’s the most beautiful dia A correspondent writing from Yokohama has much to say of the mond I have ever seen during an i the Spaniards, a proud, sensitive larch - - - 13, 1890 curios of Japan. He says: “Out ' experience of thirty years with the people, should have submitted so here there are little gods, good gods i sparkling gems,” said a veteran long to a ruler whom they could Leper Stricken Warriors. and bad gods. They can be had J diamond merchant of Philadelphia not respect; her good-hearted, hap- We have no certain knowledge as from 50 cents to $10,000 each. I as he held up a stone that seemed py-go,lucky nature seemed to cast a > the manner in which leprosy was They are made from every material to live in fire. From every facet charm over them. Her total lack onveyed into Europe, but there is known to man from clay to crystal radiated brilliant colors, and the of reticence appealed to them; they evidence to the effect that in the and gold. Of course, the wood ; hue of the stone was that of steely could follow so easily the workings ast century B. C. the disease had 1 Budhas, as they are called, are the blue, which delights every connois of her mind, whether with childish stablished itself in the Roman em- oldest and most unique. Good old seur of the precious gems. The petulancy she was reproaching her lire. Its subsequent spread through- Budhas can be had from $15 to $35 diamond did not weigh over six ministers with betraying her or mt Europe can easily be accounted Mexican. These are the prices carats, bnt it was easily worth confessing with remorse she had wronged them, If her sins were or; wherever the Roman eagles here. It is always the best way to $5,000. “ That stone has a tragic history, ” open, so was her repentance. Year vent the germs of the disease figure that an article costing say continued the man of jewels as he by year, when Holy Week came vould necessarily accompany them $20 Mexican here will cost the pur laid the diamond to rest amid a round, this woman, who for the and from this source Spain, France chaser $20 in gold landed in the nest of snowy cotton. “It comes other fifty-one weeks had been out and Germany sooner or later l>e- United States. “I think Japan the most beauti from the De Beers mines, in South raging every law, human and di came affected, and, although there are no records which enable us to ful country in the world. The peo Africa, and was discovered by a vine, kneeled in chutch for the trace the progress of the malady in ple are quaint and picturesque; the coolie employed by the company. hour together, and with loud sobs Europe during several hundreds of flowers are marvellous. At present His practised eye saw that the and groans proclaimed her sorrow years afterward, the steps that were writing I see before me two plum gem was a marvellous one for beau for the past, her resolution to make taken to check its spread in the trees about 24 inches high, in full ty of color, and a desire to steal it amendment in the future. Her seventh and following centuries bloom, each tree about ten years overcame him. Well, he did steal subjects, seeing her sorrow, sorrowed sufficiently indicate the alarming old. A few days ago we had a lit it, and to conceal the diamond too, and when Easter day arrived frequency of the disease and the vi tle snow, and it was a sight to see about his person—for the coolies were as convinced as she was that a roses, geraniums, plum and cheery work almost naked in the diamond new era of her life was at hand. rulent character it had assumed. Leper hospitals would appear to blossoms, in full bloom, with snow mines—cut a hole in the flesh under The Maundy Thursday services have been established in Norway on them. Next month we have the his arm. But the wound did not never failed to win for her hearty somewhat later than in other Euro camelias, which are now in bud. heal, and the observant eye of the adherents. She washed the feet of pean countries. History tells us They are all out in the open air, foreman saw what was the matter. the beggars with such manifest zeal I i that in the Frankish kingdom these and in April two large cherry trees, A few days after he charged the and spoke to them with kindly, lov institutions were founded in the ranging in size from eight to forty coolie with having stolen a dia ing words; served them with food as if she thought it a privilege to eighth and ninth centuries; in Ire feet—though many Japs assure me mond, but the negro denied it. “When Jack, the foreman, reach do so; and at the close of the feast land about the year 869; in Spain that there are cheery trees eighty about 1007; in England in the feet high. I have never seen them, ed for his sore arm the thief made cleared the table with a dexterity eleventh century ; in Scotland and but it would not surprise me if it a dash and ran towards the out that showed her heart was in her the Netherlands in the twelfth, and were true, as I firmly believe the skirts of the camp like a deer. The work. Her splendid robes—she always j in Norway in the thirteenth cen Jap gardener <an do anything with foreman followed him, but the fleet- footed negro* outstripped him. He wore full court dress upon these oc tury. During and after the Cru trees and plants. I suppose young The distribution of knew that a severe punishment casions —seemed to enhance the sades leprosy spread with alarming sters will come that way some time awaited him if captured, and cen the premiums offered touching humility of her attitude, in the near future. In August we rapidity, and leper hospitals were will take place on the tred all his effort on getting away and although the free thinking part have the lotus flowers; these are al rapidly multiplied all over Europe. with the stone, whose value would Fourth of July, 1890. of the community scoffed at what It is estimated that in the twelfth so worth traveling thousahds of have made him rich for life, but in this city. This they called the popish mummery of century there were 2,000 such hos miles to see. October and Novem gives the lucky sub Jack was equal to the emergency, the whole affair, that was not the pitals in France alone, and 19,000 ber, the favorite flower, chrysanthe- scriber time enough i and drawing his pistol shot the feeling with which the bulk of the in the whole of Christendom. So um, for a month. This is the flow i coolie through the back just as he to use his binder dur population regarded it. One year, terrible were the ravages of the dis er show of the year. ' was taking to the hills. His dead ing the coming har while she was serving at table, a “ There is a little place called ease that it seemed as though some vest. body was dragged back into camp, diamond fell from headdress on to Dayozaka, near Tokio, where they altogether new plague had been seat to punish mankind. Indeed some have the chrysanthemum shows, his arm cut open and this beautiful the plate of one of the beggars. A historians have asserted that the and they are, for all the world, the gem in the rough was taken from I dozen hands were outstretched to leprosy of the Middle Ages was in same as old English fairs. Two the incision. It’s a tragic story, restore it to the queen, but she mo troduced for the first time from the criers at the door, clapping to-gether but true as gospel, and only a sam tioned to the man to keep it, re East by those who returned from two pieces of hard wood—this is to ple of what has happened more marking simply: “It has fallen to the Crusades. As a matter of fact, call attention to the show within— than a hundred times in the dia him by lot.” Her generosity was unbounded. however, leper hospitals existed in you then plank down two cents and mond mines of South Africa.” It is not in her nature to say “No” get your ticket, which is a piece of ; The New Stamps. England some years before any of to a beggar, while the one point up wood about two inches wide, six the Crusaders retraced their steps The new designs for the new ser- on which she made a firm stand inches long and half an inch thick ; westward. The Soldiers of the i?s of postage stamps have been ap i against her ministers was in insist- they are .made this size so as to last Cross doubtless brought with them proved by Third Assistant Post many cases of severe leprosy, and a few years. I have had several master General Hazen, and it will | ing upon her right to exercise mer- an extremely virulent form thus invitations to visit the Shibiya be only a few months before they i cy, and the hardest struggle she became engrafted upon the disease theatre at Tokio when the great are in general circulation. It is j ever had with them was apropos of already prevalent throught Eur Danturo acts. This man is called ' the first time in years that a post j a pardon granted at the request of ! Ristori.— -Gentleman's Magazine. the Booth of Japan; his pay is $10,- ope. master general has been identified 000 for twenty-one nights. A New Ganic. Turned Two Pages at Once. “The costumes of the company j with the issue of an entire reries ■ and this administration intends to Have you played speculation? If The citizens of a Virginia town are the most ‘lovely things I ever not long since, had been given due saw; they are beyond description. I I make the new stamps models of not, learn how and you will be hap notice through the local papers, really came out here to form j beauty. The American Bank Note py. A number of people sit around that on a certain evening Mr. Barnes another Japanese village, together I company, which has the contract, a large table. A pack of cards is would give an illustrated lecture at with a Japanese opera company is doing remarkably good work in dealt out. From a second pack a the matter and the designs submit card is drawn and hid. The play the Baptist church. There was a composed entirely of Japanese ladies large attendance, and at the ap and gentlemen, with brass and ted have greatly pleased Gen. Ha- ers receive fifty chips each, all of j zen. The change in size will be aqual value and given without pur pointed hour the church was dark string band. I’m sure of all except ened and the entertainment com the opera part, although there are I first marked, while the change in chase. The cards dealt are then menced. the lecturer fronting the sixty graduates from the Conserva color of the two-cent from green bought and sold, by and among the audience, while his assistant, who tory of music (in our music) they to red has already been rec different players. For this two manipulated the apparatus and cannot sing. My idea was to do ommended. Instead of the figure minutes are allowed. Then the produced the views,, was stationed ‘The Mikado’ with a Japanese com donating denomination being in dealer calls the board to order and Farmers take ad in the gallery at the back of the pany and proper costumes ; not one i the center of the stamp at the bot proceeds to call off fifteen cards vantage of this tom, one figure is in each of the from the second pack. As each church. The afl'air was progress- of the companies at home ever cost chance to secure the lower corners, thus giving promi card is called the duplicate from the ing with great satisfaction when timed the piece properly. best paper in the nence to the denomination. The players is to be thrown to the mid the lecturer announced the next "The brocades one sees out here county and a McCor new one-cent stamp, as of old, is dle of the" table. It becomes lost view to be the natural bridge of, are perfect dreams, particularly old mick or Deering blue, with the head of Benjamin and is worthless. Then two min Virginia, much to the wonder of priests’ robes. We have paid as the audience, who saw noteven a high as $160 for a full suit. If I Franklin. The new two-cent stamp utes more are allowed for buying Binder. The lucky place for a bridge, natural or un- had come out here ten or fifteen has Washington’s head. The four- ing and selling, when fifteen cards person can have his natural, in the little village of a years ago, I could have attained cent stamp has Jackson, while a more are called and discarded: a choice. If he wants western, state, when his very en- the finest collection m the world for change has been made in the five- third sale is made and ten more the McCormick bind thusiastic description was inter- niy little money that wou.d have cent stamps by placing the portrait cards are called. As cards grow er complete, it is his rupted by his colleague in the gal- been worth half a million at this of Gen. Grant on instead of Gar scarcer their value increases from to hitch his horses to lery whose angry voice shouted over moment. There are several men field. Garfield has been promoted, two chips apiece to as high as thir and take home. the heads of the people: that came here twenty-five and and his head now ornaments the ty or even fifty. The fourth call is “For heaven’s sake, stop Bill; thirty years ago who bought little six-cent. The other stamps of the for seven cards, which leaves four youv’e turned two pages at once.” ‘odds and ends’ from time to time series are not yet ready, bnt there cards more, one having been dis It was then that the people learn- at very small prices, and find now I is very litth change in the general carded. Bets of all kinds may be ed that the lecturer had been read- their collection to be worth from designs excAt some are finer and made, the remaining card bought ing his wonderful descriptions from $500,000 to $3,000,000. Pieces of i more delicate in engraving. New | or sold, and excitement at this Bets as to a book, and had not betn careful in gold lacquer work that cost a mere ' designs and dies have been made point runs high. turning the leaves, hence his blun- trifle ten to twenty years ago are i for stamps, and although the de which will be the last card, the signs of the stamps are in some one corresponding to the one drawn, now worth hundreds of dollars.” der. _____ cases the same, fresh portraits and are freely made. As each remain Where Beauties are Bred. i Gave Her Life to Save Her Dog. ’ better ones have been made for the ing card is slowly drawn, shouts go The great beauties who take the On Thursday, a week ago, as the new issue. up on the winnings and losses; bets social prizes in marriages are al lightning express passed through are doubled, every chip probably Great Men’s Doubles. most all bred in the lesser towns, the suburban town of Oak Park, When Grover Cleveland made being placed on some one card. where a less conventional society near Chicago, Mollie O’Brien, a his lecturing tour through the coun There remains two cards on the ta gives women a snatch at freedom in young girl in the employ of Mrs. R. try Henry Coe. of Indianapolis, ble and the dealer turns one. At girlhood. You don’t find them H. Salter, attempted to cross the chanced to drop into Watertown, this point the excitement is at its growing up with calisthenics, health track. She was accompanied by a Wis., at about the same time that highest pitch, and when the result lifts and a massage-use to do their Scotch collie, which was a great pet Mr. Cleveland was expected. Mr. is finally made known every one exercise. in the family. The young girl Coe, totally oblivious of his suppos shouts and pandemonium reigns. You all remember the painful reached the opposite side in safety ed resemblance to the president; The player having the last card re story of a girl in a city home sur and turned to see where the dog was greatly surprised at the excite ceives a prize, likewise the one hav rounded by every care who was had gone. Seeing that the dog was ing the greatest number of chips. strangled in the cords of her “health in imminent danger of being run i ment caused by his appearance up on the streets of Watertown. As Chips are again divided, cards pull” one evening little more than over she started to save him. The he passed along the store doors dealt, and from the second pack an a year since. Scarcely more pitiful crowd on the opposite platform were filled with people, while hand unknown card taken, and the game is her fate than that of girls brought screamed for her to go back, but kerchiefs were waved from the win proceeds. One beauty of the game up to depend on such substitutes she heeded not her own danger, and dows, and here and there a small is that each player furnishes a prize. for work and exercise if they live. as she reached the steps, slipped boy let loose a quavering “hooray.” The prizes ought not to be of more A sick, anaemic woman, unused, and fell, just as the great monster unable to care for herself and all rushed past. The train did not When he turned in at the hotel he than 25 cents value. If economical, was met with a proposition to dead they create all the more fun, as others, is the most pitiable, repug crush her, but the driver on the nant object on earth. You seldom i head him and his entire party—not each one is wrapped up so as not to find a lasting beauty which has not wheels broke her neck instantly, not the entire democratic party, but be recognized. The winners select People rushed to her assistance, had a 8en>i-Greek education of out the Cleveland travelling party— their own prizes from among the door life and exercise behind it. but it was too late. Placing her on Take the beautiful Gunnings, the platform kind hands and curi- and this gave the whole snap away. number. The selections thus pro who ran wild in their Irish country I osity seekers crowded around her, Gen. R. S. Foster had a similar ex duce great hilarity. home, till their calculating mamma perience when he went on to New had raked and scraped enough to bnt the great noble dog she had York to attend the funeral of Gen. I take them to Dublin and thence to tried to save kept all away from eral Grant. Wherever he went, | When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla. London. The Gunnings were un her. Placing himself by her side licensed hoydens, but their races lie licked her poor bruised hands, there were hundreds of people look- j When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, over the hills gave them matchless and in every way tried to awaken ing at him, and he was much dis- j When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, turbed at the interest he excited, I When she had Children, she gave them Castoria complexions. Later still Mrs. Langtry took her beauty course, her. No one dared touch her, and and the ungrammatical remark fre-' roving the Jersey lanes with |icr not until an old friend of the family quently repeated, of “That’s him!’’ brothers, in sea’ air, living on came would he leave her for u mo peaches and coarse bread, with as ment. Miss O’Brien was twenty- until he was informed that he was Children Cry for little lessons as sufficed to fit her three years old. was born and raised mistaken by many of the populace for Gen. 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