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TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1897.
The Tribdne hastens to assure
Mr. Cheyne' that the republicans
have "gall" enough to put up a
ticket this fall and it will be a
ticket that will commend itself to
the voters of the county.
The Tribune agrees, for once,
with the Era that a fee of ten cents
.should be charged for admission to
the meetings of the city council. It
is worth more than that sum to
hear an opinion rendered by the
city attorney or listen to the mayor
when putting a motion before the
council.
The editor of the Era knows that
prior to 1891 the delinquent tax list
was published in three newspapers,
each publisher receiving one-third
legal rate. No one publisher out
side of of Mr. Ellingham and Mr.
Cheyney, ever received more than
5750 for doing the work. The Tri
bune never received more than one
third legal rates for publishing the
tax-list, and is still willing to do
the work at that rate.
Every county populist who as
pires for nomination to an office
this fall and the hills are full of
them is seeking to ingratiate him
self these days into the good graces
of the court house ring. The ring
treats these aspirants courteously
and endeavors to send all of them
away happy. The members of the
ring are accommodating fellows;
they have promised their support to
a number of men who want the
nomination for sheriff.
The report of the state banking
board shows that deposits in the
Nebraska state banks are one mil
lion dollars greater than one year
ago, and it is fair to presume that
the increase of deposits in the
national banks of the state is cor
respondingly large, if the calamity
howlers will cease their yawps for
a year Nebraska will pull nobly out
of. the slough in which she has been
wallowing.
The reduction in the number of
failures gives another evidence of
rpf urninnr nrncnpntr TMipv worp
20 per cent less in last month than
they were in June, 1896, and 25 per
cent less in liabilities, while the lia
bilities were only one-half of those
in June ,1895. The above relates to
manufacturers while the general
statement of commercial failures
also indicates a falling off in num
ber and in liabilities.
The world's stock of silver money
is now. according to the New York
Journal of Commerce, a trifle over
4 billions ot dollars of which ?3,433,
000,000 is full legal tender. Of this
amount no less than 52,498,000,000
has been coined since 1873, and all
of this but about 15 per cent is full
legal tender, showing that the sil
ver money of the world has much
more than doubled since that
"crime" period, and the proportion
.which is full legal tender has been
well maintained.
The Era does not den' that the
taxes of 1896 which are being paid
this year are higher than ever be
fore, and it does not attempt to ex
plain why they are higher. The
populist administration went into
the court house three and a half
years ago with the promise that
they would show the republicans
how to transact county affairs in an
economical manner, and save the
tax-payers money. That the pop
ulists have not kept their promise
is shown by the increased taxation
the taxes have increased and the
floating indebtedness has not been
decreased.
The statements of the fiscal year
just ended show that the agricul
tural element of the country has
enjoyed a greatly improved condi
tion during the past year, while
other statements received are
equally gratifying as to the pros
pects for the coming year. The ex-
portations of breadstuffs during the
year ending June 30, 1897,araounted
to $180,838,828 in value against
S136.846.845 in the fiscal year end
ing June 30. 18, and $110,967,758
in the fiscal year ending June 30,
1895. This is an increase of $23,000,-
000 in the pockets of the farmers
for the year just ended for bread
stuffs alone, as compared with the
preceeding year, and an increase of
$79,000,000 compared with the year
1895. The exportations of cattle
for the fiscal year just ended
amounted to about $2,000,000 more
than in the preceeding year, iresh
beef increased about$l,000,000,hams
$3,000,000.
WHEXEABE THE BENEFITS!
Globe-Democrat
The time is coming when the
people of Kansas and Nebraska
will ask themselves what they
gained by a populist state govern
ment, and the pause for reply will
be so prolonged that the silence
will be painful.
THE OUTLOOK FOB "WHEAT.
Minneapolis Journal.
The price of wheat is encourag
ingly firm considering the outlook
for a 575,000.000 bushel home crop.
There are decreased wheat harvests
in Germany, Russia, Prance, Hun
gary, India, Australia and Argen
tina. Hence the bull statistical po
sition is eminently sound, espec
ially as the world's stock has
shrunk to 75,000,000 bushels. The
outlook is favorable of course, at
present for the American farmer.as
in 1879 when the country entered
upon a splendid period of prosperity
after the depression of the panic of
1873.
THE SUPPLY OF GOLD.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
A very significant feature of the
recent movement of gold is that
while the reserve has been dimin
ished by about $13,500,000, the ex
port of gold has been double that
amount. The principal reason for
this difference has been the do
posits of gold at the mints.
This would not have helped the
treasury in the least if the de
positors had insisted on receiving
gold for the bullion thus furnished.
That is what always happens when
there is an uneasy feeling in the
public mind with reference to the
standard of value. On the other
hand, in periods of confidence de
positors of gold bullion are content
to take payment for it in other
money. That is what happened to
a large extent during the recent
outflow of gold, and the circum
stance is notable as showing the ex
tent to which confidence has been
restored.
A RECOLLECTION.
It was indeed n perfect day.
I Bcarco recall the -weather.
But nntumn calm and bloom of May
Seem mingled there together.
Then melody inado sweet the hours,
Each sentenro was a ballad,
The rocilts wero jewel3. weeds -were flowcra.
When Mary dressed tho si lad.
No vcrnnl scone whose blandishment
Will wolconicly beset us
Can have tho fnciuation lent
By that email sprig of lettuce.
And vainly must musicians toil
From stage or festal wngon
For tones like those with which tho oil
Camo loitering from tliellagon.
Strange how these merchant chemists mar
Each once alluring savor!
How tasteless is the vinegar I
How dull the pepper's flavor!
Ofttimes when sterner moods are planned
Those memories como pressing
That salad day. the sunshine and
Tho girl who made the dressing.
Washington Star.
THE RETIRED BURGLAR.
A. Meeting With n. Gentle Hearted Woman
Hacked by a. Ferocious Dog.
"At tho foot of the stairs in the front
hall of a fariahonso one night," said
the retired burglar, "I crumbled over
something soft that turned out to be a
feather bed. If I had had a grain of
Eense at all, I should have snspicior.cd
something from that, but I didn't. It
looked as though it had been jnst tum
bled down stairs and left there tc be
carried off in the morning, and I let it
go at that and stepped into it aud over
it to tho first step of the stairs and on
up.
"Stepping up on tho fourth step. I
kicked against a string stretched across
the stairs and broke it. That mado me
suspicions, but I never connected the
feather bed at the foot of the stairs
with it. I looked up. I expected it to be
connected with something there. And
it. was, and it was coming down the
stairs at me and filling up the whole
stairway. It was a big feather bed.
Even then I didn't see that tho one
coming down had anything to do with
the one down on the floor, aud at the
same timo I couldn't understand why
anybody should roll anything like a
feather bed down on anybody bulky,
to be sure, but so light that it was an
easy thing to stop.
"I put up my hands to stop this one,
but might just as well have tried to
stop a mountain. It was soft and
squashy on the outside, but it weighed
a ton. It just bowled me right over
backward, and I fell on tho other feath
er bed at tho foot of the stairs. Then
I began to understand what that one
was for. It was to save tbe bones of the
man that was tumbled over by tho ava
lanche bed.
"1 lay there nearly smothered by the
bed on top and working out from undei
it gradually.
" 'I hope you aro not hurt?' I heard
somebody say from over the railing
along tbo hall up stairs, and I said.
'No, ma'am, ' because it was a female
voice, and I am always polite to the
ladies, 'but would you mind telling me
what's inside the one that camo down?'
'"Ohj'sbo said, 'it's tho summer
range, with tho flatirous inside. Can
you lift it off, or shall I let the dog
come down and help yon?'
"And with that I heard a dog scratch
ing up stairs. I supposed it started him
up to hear himself spoken of, aud I
judged from the sound of his elaws ou
the carpet that he must have been about
the size of a tiger and of about the same
kind of disposition.
" 'No,' I says, 'I can get clear of it.'
And I did and stood up in the hall.
" 'You won't carry off tho other one,
will you?' she said.
"And hearing the dog still scratch
ing up stairs, I said, 'No, I won't'
And I didn't. The lady appeared to be
gentlo hearted enough, but I knew you
couldn't trust tho dog." New Yori
Sun.
xio 11 an TaTTed.
"My friend," solemnly remarked the
man in black, "you don't know how
hard it is to lose your wife."
"Hard?" he echoed. "My dear sir, it
ia simply impossible. " Chicago Times-Herald.
f BADE WITH EUROPE
URGE INCREASE IN' COMMERCE OF
SOUTHERN PORTS.
Direct Trade With Europe Has Enormous
ly Increased of "Late Ports of the South
Beat Those of tho North In Percentage
of Increase.
The southern cities
good record this year in
our foreign trade, as the
tistics show:
aro making a
the matter of
following sta-
Inc.
P. C.
0.9
35.1
37.2
21.5
36.2
10.1
1890.
North Atlantio.f412,010,7C3
South Atlantic. 120,821,788
Gulf 12J,605,436
AH other. 8tJ.804.847
Southern 250,517,254
All other. 408,815,550
1S97.
$453,042,055
103,281,548
178,047,808
105,533,553
341,320,416
558,576,213
Total $749,332,804 $599,005,029 20.0
Direct trado with Europe is what the
south has always needed for the devel
opment of its business. It would be
best, of course, if this increase were in
imports as well as exports, hut then the
export trade is likely to bring a recipro
cal business from Europe in time.
General I. W. Avery, who has given
the subject of direct trade much study
and consideration, is particularly struck
with the favorable showing of these fig
ures and says:
"Wo see that of the 120 United States
ports the 29 southern seaports, 22.3 per
cent of the number, did 71.4 per cent
of the whole increase, while the rest,
77.7 of the whole number, only did 28.0
per cent of tho increase.
"Of the southern ports Galveston
leads with $21,307,697 increase; Balti
more, 19,962,997; New Orleans, 17,
821,043; Norfolk, $11,199,463; New
port News, 5,454,853, and Pcusacola,
$4,059,039.
"Compare tbo percentage of the
southern individual port increase with
tho great eastern and other ports, and
tho contrast is the more striking. "
"Norfolk's increase,. 200 per cent;
New York's increase, 10.5 per cent;
Pensacola's increase, 105 per cent;
Philadelphia's increase, 17.5 per cent;
Galveston's increase, 66 per cent; Bos
ton's increase, 6.3 per cent.
"These official figures are amazing
when wo consider that there were no
regular southern lines of steamers for
foreign trade but from New Orleans,
Norfolk and Baltimore. Only tramp
Ghips rau irregularity to other southern
ports."
It is probable that all this export
trado which has latterly been handled
by the southern ports has been perma
nently secured by them and will not be
lost, but wo should not be satisfied with
this business and should mako every
effort to develop and increase our for
eign trade. All the conditions are fa
vorable for it. New Orleans Times
Democrat. Railroad Building In Mexico.
Francisco Armendaiz, a millionaire
mining man of Monterey, was in the
City of Mexico recently concluding ar
rangements for building a railroad from
Monterey to Matamoras, on the Rio
Grande border, opposite Brownsville,
Tex. The federal government will give
tho road a subsidy of $S,000 a kilome
ter, and tho state of Tamaulipas will
give tbe road $120,000. It will be an
important military line and will give
the government easy access to tbat part
of tbo Bio Grande border.
An American company proposes to
build a railroad from some point in
Texas to connect with the Mexican road
at Brownsville, The building of these
line3 will shorten the distance be
tween the eastern and central parts of
the United States and Monterey and
the interior of Mexico by 200 miles.
The Forewoman Was a Man.
All of the employees of Henry Wall
ner& Bros, ' hat factory, Wooster street,
New York, were the other day discuss
ing the sudden transformation of Beckie
Feingold, forewoman of the shop, into
Max Feingold, husband of Sophie Gold
stein, who worked in Budnick Bros. '
paper box factory in the same building.
The person known as Beckie had
worked for Wallner & Bros, for the last
seven years until three weeks previous
ly. The employee had risen from the
place of an ordinary operator to that of
forewoman, as she was called.
One day the employee went over to
Brooklyn, changed his dress for man's
clothes, cut his hair short and married
Sophie Goldstein. A letter which has
been received says that Feingold is now
working as his real self in a Chicago
cap factory. His wife is with him.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
S. R. Crockett has been taking a
walking tour in'-Ponierania, no doubt
with a view to acquiring local color for
his new story, "The Red Ax," the scene
of which is to be laid in Pomerauia.
The earliest living graduate of Har
vard is Samuel Ward Chandler of Phil
adelphia, who was graduated in the
class of 1822. Dr. William L. Russell
of Barre, Mass., now in his ninety-ninth
year, is tho oldest living graduate in
point of age.
A missionary settlement for universi
ty women has bcen,founded in Bombay,
and one of its latest recruits is Misg
Mary Rachel Dobson, the eldest daugh
ter of Austin Dobson. Miss Dobson is a
graduate of London university, being
one of the only two women who ever
succeeded in gaining a musical bacca
laureate degree from that institution.
A syndicate of French manufacturers
and exporters has applied to the Argen
tine Republic for authority to establish
at Buenos Ayres in 1S99 a commercial
exposition for the purpose of exhibiting
articles of French manufacture.
A delegation of Marylanders recently
calNxl upon the president and invited
him to attend tho fair to bo held at
Frederick in October. If the conditions
are favorable at that time, the invita
tion will be accepted.
NEW IDEAS.
A pot that cannot boil over has recently
been invented in Berlin. It has a perfo
rated rim, through whiohthe overflowing
fluid returns-to the pot.
An umbrella covered with a transparent
material lias found its way into the patent
office. The holder is enabled to see where
he is going when ho holds it before his
face.
Air is injected into bread dough during
the process nf mixing in a new machine
eo that the dough will rlso by the expan
sion of the air when heated, thus doing
way with the ubo of yeast in raising the
ircad.
THREW AWAY A THRONE.
Irow a Shipwrecked Sailor Became Jtinc
of tho Cannibals.
'Captain Curtis of tho British ship
Enrydice, which recently sailed for Eu
rope from Tacoma, Wash., grain laden,
had a thrilling experience last year,
part of which is now made publio for
the first timo. He was first mate on tho
5hip Flora Stafford when she foundered,
fn tho south Pacifio ocean. The crew
embarked in boats, and after 15 days of
hardships, during which both provisions
and water gave out, Curtis' boat landed
on one of tho main Caroline islands.
Though they sometimes practice canni
balism, Curtis and his fellow sufferers
persuaded the natives to treat them
kindly. In fact, tho sailors olaimed to
belong to European aristocracy and an
nounced that warships would be sent to
exterminate the natives if they were
molested. Curtis was received with
greatest deference aud made friends
with King Ikickikee, who he claims ab
dicated in his favor. Curtis describes
his reign as follows:
"My reign was brief, but brilliant
Proclamations wero sent to all subjects
to desist from eating the flesh of any
white men who might thereafter bo cast
upon tho shores of my dominions, this
being done so none of my helpless ship
mates who were yet at sea would meet
death at the hands of tho subjects of
their erstwhile first officer. Ikickikee
had a daughter. She had most exquisite
golden skin and was tall, lithe ancl
graceful. I wooed the princess and won
her, and we had a gorgeous wedding.
My reign ended after six months. When
tho first steamer passed the islands, I
had become tired of royal life and ac
tually disgusted with the smallhess of
my kingdom. I kicked over the throne,
threw away my scepter and swam off to
tho ship. My guard of honor witnessed
the last act of my reign and summoned
tho former king from his banana patch. "
After several mouths Curtis reached
Hongkong, where ho was made skipper
of the Enrydice. St. Louis Globe
Democrat. DIED TO SAVE A DOG.
Rescued His Pet, but Was Himself Struck
by tho Engine.
As the engineer of tho Erie express,
New York bound, approached the River
side bridge, near Paterson, N. J., re
cently ho saw a young man, with a
conple of houuds at his heels, hurriedly
cross tho tracks.
Tho young man and one of 'tho dogs
got safely over. Tho other stopped be
tween the rails directly in the path of
the onrushiug locomotive and stood as
if dazed. Tho man turned, called the
dog and whistled shrilly, but tho hound
stood as if fascinated, heeding neither
whistle nor call.
Just an instant the young man hesi
tated. Then ho made a dash in front of
tho locomotive, seized tho dog and
threw it ont of harm's way. But ho had
miscalculated the speed of the train.
The pilot of the engine struck him
squarely and his mangled body was
thrown far into the air and out to tho
sido of the tracks.
The impetus of the train carried it a
mile or more. As soon as it could be
stopped it was backed slowly to the
scene of the .accident. When tho train
men alighted, the body lay still where
it had fallen. The two hounds wero
standing over it, baying mournfully at
the top of their voices. The trainmen
had to remove them by force while they
examined the man lying, bruised and
bleeding, on the ground.
Tho examination was brief. The
young man was dead. Ho had died in
stantly, nearly every bone in his body
being broken.
He was afterward identified as Jacob
Tiggelman, who lived at Riverside. He
was 22 years old, and his fondness for
his dogs was known to everybody in the
little suburb. New York Journal.
A Retired Rear Admiral.
"They can put me off the active list
because I've reached the lawful age,"
says Rear Admiral Brown, who has
just been retired, "but they can't send
me to the junkyard yet nwbile. I've got
lots of good stuff in me yet, and I don't
propose to be tied up to rot. That's an
other reason why I w.ant to go to Indi
anpolis. There's nothing for a retired
admiral to do in Washington but go to
the club and act as pallbearer at funer
als. I told John Walker the other day
that he would better die now, so that
tho secretary of the navy would name a
torpedo boat after him, but he said he'd
be hanged if he would. Walker is look
ing for a job too. We may go into part
nership. But there is nothing to do in
Washington but rot We go to the club
in the morning and read the paper and
gossip awhile, then go home to lunoh
eon, take a nap, go back to tbe club,
play a game of whist, gossip awhile,
go to a funeral (if there is one), home
to dinner, another game of whist and
then to bed. I'm too yonng a man for
tbat routine." New York Tribune.
A Flower Valued at Over S5.0C0.
A uuiquo orchid was shown at a re
cent Loudon floral display. It was the
superb Cattleyareincckiana in bloom
the flower winged like a sea gull, pure
white, with a body of gold and vermil
ion eight inches long. The famous or
chid hunter Arnold found it shortly be
foro his death in Venezuela on territory
which he had cleared of rival collectors
by threatening to "shoot at sight." Its
price in tho market is 1,000 guineas
which is pretty tall, even for a new va
riety. Girl Graduates.
Bo stately nnd to dignified
She looks in enp and gown,
I hardly dnrc to speak to her,
Thi3 grnd of great renown.
I scarcely can believe my eyes!
It surely can't be sho
Who always seemed so very shy.
So very coy to mel
But suddenly tho spell dcpartB
And I give thanks to fate,
Foranxiously she asks me if
Her mortarboard's on straight.
Harvard Lampoon.
.WOMEN'S WAYS.
Very few girls under 20 are. old enough
to be polite. Atchison Globe.
One of the dearest tilings to woman is
free speech. Yonkers Statesman.
An Arkansas womon has married a man
as tho only way to collect nn old debt.
That woman has n heart for business.
New York Press.
The Women's Medical college of New
York has just graduated a class of 16. 'We
prcsumo that this will be alluded to as a
case of "sweet sixteen" until the sweet
girl grads Iwgin prescribing quinine.
Omalm World -Herald.
THE BOOM COTTON.
SOME INTERESTING STATISTICS OF
-. THE CHIEF SOUTHERN STAPLE.
South to Enjoy a Monopoly of the Cotton
Industry 31111s of New England Xosing
Ground In Their Competition With Thoso
South of tho Line.
Mr. John A. Smith, manager of tho
Charleston freight bureau, recently de
livered a practical address before the
south and west commercial cougress at
Kansas City on the industrial develop
ment of this Eection.
In touching upon the phenomenal
growth of tbo cotton industry in tho
south during the past seven years Mr.
Smith cited data from official sources
to show that within the next genera
tion, if not sooner, the south would en
joy a virtual monopoly of tho cotton in
dustry. Tho following table, compiled
by Mr. Smith, shows that the amount
of cotton consnmed annually by our
southern cotton mills has been steadily
increasing since 1890, whilotho amount
consumed by tho cotton mills of New
England has been steadily decreasing:
Southern New Foigland
bales. bales.
1600 P04.701 1.000,271
1893 802.833 2,083,80!)
1891 718,513 1,001,173
1893 743,348 1,087,280
1892,
030,080
2,190,700
1691 004,001 2,027,3(52
1890 -540,894 1,799,258
During tho past seven years, as dis
closed by the foregoing table, tho ca
pacity of our southern cotton mills has
almost doubled, while that of New
England during the same length of time
has fallen off considerably.
Tho explanation which Mr. Smith
gives of theso figures is complete and
satisfactory. "In the south, " says he,
"our mills aro always suro of cheaper
raw material and cheaper labor than is
possible in any other section. Material
is cheaper because it is produced at tho
very doors of tho mill, and is thereforo
free from the numerous charges mado
for transportation, insurance and com
pressing. Labor is cheaper because the
cost of subsistence to a largo degree
fixes the rate of wages. Cheap subsist
enco in the south can be obtained be
cause the soil is easily tilled and the
climate mild."
Is it possible for tho cotton men of
New England to resist tho logic con
tained in theso simplo statements of
fact? Undoubtedly it is nature's plan
that the cotton industry should be re
stricted to tbo south, aud if such is the
case it is useless for our NeW England
competitors to defy tho inevitable. In
stead of trying to reverse the order of
nature, why should they not invest their
capital in this section?
On the line of nioro intimate trade re
lations between tho north and tho south
Mr. Smith argues that as coon as tho
cotton industry is fully developed in
this section it will profoundly affect ev
ery existing interest. Says Mr. Smith:
"Southern cotton mills will create
new traffic and new trado currents.
When tho south has products which it
can sell to tho west for less than simi
lar products now cost in New England,
tho west will buy them from the south,
and then fcr the first time in their his
tory southern railroads leading to tho
west will have long hauls, full cars and
return freights. The south might read
ily make most of tho cotton goods man
ufactured in America. An enormous
quota of these goods would go to tho
consumers in the great agricultural dis
tricts and the manufacturing centers of
the west. The cntiro west produces ne
cessities which . they could export
through southern Eeapcrts, tho shortest
way, aud in time to bo tho cheapest in
transportation. Long hauls, full cars
and freight both ways will create
through freight lines and low rates be
tween tho west and south, which will
enable western products from a largo
section to reach many foreign points by
way of the south Atlantic and gulf porta
at much less than the present cost
through northern ports."
In the course of this same address Mr.
Smith discussed at some length other
pertinent phases of our southern indus
trial development, showing that no sec
tion of tbe ronntry possessed more opu
lent or diversified resources than the
south aud that no section of the country
could boast of greater possibilities.
Exchange.
To Explore the Wilds cf Alns'ca,
Edward Mcllhenny, who was the or
nithologist of tho ill fated Cook expedi
tion, which was wrecked in Davis
strait in 1894, recently left San Fran
cisco on an expedition to Alaska and the
Mackenzie river basin. McIlheiiHy, ac
companied by W. E. Snyder of Beaver
Dam, Wis., and Norman G. Baxtcn of
Johnstown, Q., a Stanford university
graduate, left on the steamer Jennie for
Point Barrow. This lonesome station
within the arctic circle will be his base
of operations. There ho will leave the
bulk of his snpplies, which are intended
for two years' work in tho arctic. He
hopes to explore a large part of north
eastern Alaska aud tho basin of the Mac
kenzie and to make collections of fauna
and flora of this region, which has been
visited by few except whalers. His col
lections will bo sent to the National
museum at Washington aud tho Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. New York
Tribune.
Txit tho Impress of Her Foot.
A terrific thunder and electrical storm
passed over Melborue, Fla., recently.
Lightning struck tho house of James
Baker, tearing it badly on tbe back
porch. His sister, Mrs. Mitchell, aged
19, was pumping water. The electric
current struck her -with full force, her
feet seeming to receive the greatest
shock. Her stockings and shoes were
torn off into fragments, and the im
print of her bare feet was impressed in
the bard wood floor an eighth of an
inch deep, Ehowing as plainly as if
marked with a pen. Instant aid was ren
dered, but tho young woman was in a
precarious state, but will probably re
cover. St Louis Globe-Democrat
The Passion Still Ruled. -St.
Peter Here is a nice harp for you.
Former Bicycler (vacantly) What
make? New York Sunday Journal.
They Love Her Not.
Most all men love the summer girl,
In her costumes light and trig.
But the bag&ngc hoist crs hate her
' ' Because her trunks are big.
Chicago Record.
In the Spill.
"I hear that Miss Wnity finally sat; down
jn that fresh young Updyke."
"That's tho trouble with this tandem
business." Chicago .Tournnl.
NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY.
V'lll Bo In Homo nnd Students to Be
Sent There.
The American academy in Eomo was
incorporated in Albany recently. Tho
object cf tho academy is tho promotion
and advancement of fine arts in Amer
ica by the establishment aaS mainte
nance of an institution in Borne for the
study of painting, sculpture and archi
tecture. Daniel C. French, tho Eculp
tor, when seen at his homo in New
York, said that the academy is to bo
formed on the plan of tho French acad-
emv in Borne, to which a certain num
ber of painters, sculptors and architects
are sent every year. As in the plan fol
lowed in tho French academy, tho stu
dents will bo selected by competition in
tho various branches. The French acad
emy is under the control and patronage
of tho government, whereas the Amer
ican academy will bo controlled by it3
corporators and trustees.
The idea of tho academy had origi
nated with Charles F. McKim of the
firm of McKim, Mead & White, one of
the corporators. Among tho other cor
porators and trustees aro Frederick
Crowninshield, E. H. Blasbfield and
John La Fargo of tho Society of Mural
Painters, Augustin St Gaudens, J. Q.
A. Ward and Daniel C. French of tho
National Sculptors' society and F. W.
Chandler and D. H. Burnhnm of tho
American Iustitute of Architects.
The idea of tho promoters of the
American ncadciny is to establish a
home for tho students sent to Borne un
der one roof. It is proposed, if possible,
to make tho Villa Aurora the new acad
emy, and if this cannot bo done ample
quarters will be obtained elsewhere.
New York Tribune.
Third Timo Married at Ninety.
Considerable interest was created in
Kankakee, Ills., by tho marriage lately
of Joseph Dupuis, a wealthy French-
Canadian, 90 years old, to Miss Joseph
ine Huneau, a comely maiden of 38.
Mr. Dupuis has been a familiar figure
in Kankakee many years, where he is
known by tho French equivalent of Tom
Thumb, on account cf his diminutive
stature. Ho is only 4 feet tall, his wifo
standing a head and a half above him.
This is the third, rr.r.iriago for Mr.
Dupuis. His second wifo has enly been
dead two months, the present Mrs. Du
puis having been her servant.
Six sons and a daughter cf Mr. Du
puis object to the match.
Mr. Dupuis was born near St. John's,
Canada. His parents and three brothers
were of usual stature and lived to be
very old. In his youth tho short French
man was a horse jockey and rede some
years in France nnd England. His. sav
ings enabled him to purchase valuable
farming land in Bourbonnais, where ho
settled in 1 85-1. His fortune is estimated
at .$50,000. A good share of it has been
settled upon tho new Mrs. Dupuis.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
He Was Attacked by a rythou.
Walter Fox, aged 19, is an attendant
in a Tremout row (Boston) museum.
Becently he started to help the keeper
of a pvtbon give tho snake a bath.
The snake was in an ugly humor and
seemed ready for a fight.
In spite of their care the python reared
his head, made a spring at Fox, his jaws
wide open, and his teeth sank into the
youth's arm at the biceps.
The keeper attractei tho snake's at
tention for a second, when it relaxed its
grip, and Fox mado a leap from the
cage.
Tho snake soon quieted down and
crawled to a corner of the cage.
Fox's arm was badly lacerated. At
the hospital tho arm was found to con
tain two cf tho serpent's teoth, that had
been set into the bono aud had been
broken off when the yonng man
wrenched his arm away. Exchange
Generous Treatment of Employees.
A large London firm has secured for
tho entire Fencon a ccmmcdicus and
well furnished detached house at Wal-
ton-ou-the-Naze, where every ouo of its
hundreds of factory hands and ware
house staff will be accommodated m
batches cf 30 at a time with a fort
night's free board aud lodging, in addi
tion to receiving a present of three
weeks' wages. Moreover, on June 21
and 22 the works wero closed, and to
each of the woikers was presented
three days' pay.
HERE AND THERE.
Insanity is increasing in Ireland.
English statisticians say that one seri
ous cause cf lunacy is tbe abuse of tea,
another an overindulgence in alcohol, a
third the disappointment cf having tried
emigration and failed.
Daughters cf the American Bevolu-
tiou iu Maine are (ndeavoriug to col
lect Revolutionary arms which Massa
chusetts gavctoAiaiuow'hcn she became
a state, in JS20, and were sold by the
state in the sixties.
Lady Aberdeen presided at tho con
vention of tho national council of wom
en of Canada iccently held in Halifax.
A comnauy of men and some officers
of tho British ship Intrepid were taken
recently from Vera Cruz to the City of
Mexieo by the Eugii?h colony or the
capital city, at au expense ol fcd.UUU,
and gave concerts there which captured
tho town.
Tamworth castle, the homo of tho
Marmions, herein tary champions of
England, offeree! ly its latest possessor,
the Marquis Townshend, at auction, was
bid in recently by the corporation of tho
town for 15,000.
Accordiug to a calculation which
ought to Lo well informed. Dr. Nansen
will make abont $150,000 out cf his
arctic book. So far editions have ap
peared in Euglaud, America and Ger
many. Miss Mary Angela Dickens, a grand
daughter of the famous novelist, has
written a new story and called it "The
Love That Wins."
Concernlngops.
If the thought of getting married
You really will not drop,
Before you pop the question you
Had better question pop.
Up to Date.
Hotr to Work It.
"What do you do when your tailor won't
let you have any more new clothes?"
"I gefca ncw tailor." Pick Me Up.
Cookery.
When-Phyllla don her cooking rig,
It strangely docs befall
She makes herself look nice enough
, To eat, and that is alL
Truth.
INQUISITIVE SPARROWS.
flicy May Have Been Hostile, but They
Didn't Dare Attack tho Cockatoo.
There was trouble and to spare ono
day last week in a back yard on Brook-
lyn Heights. Tho canso of it was an in
nocent cockatoo which had flown away
from homo and found its way to tho
top of a tree near State street, between
Henry street and Garden place. Where
the strange bird camo from there is no
body to tell.
It was first discovered by the large
and noisy colony of English sparrows
which inhabits tbat vicinity. The first
sparrow to see tho foreigner lost no
time in communicating tbe news of its
discovery to its mates, and in threo
minutes no less than 50 sparrows had
assembled to examine tho strango visit
or and exchange views about him. They
took places on all sides of the cockatoo
and began a chattering which soon at
tracted attention from all tho neighbor
ing windows. They hopped about from
branch to branch, but never approach
ed nearer than a yard to tho puzzled
stranger. For a timo the cockatoo view
ed the conclave about him with sereni
ty, but tbo strain became too much for
him, and finally found expression in a
series of tho most penetrating screeches,
accompanied by the elevation of his
light green plume, which had previous
ly been partly concealed in his fluffy,
snow white feathers. This demonstra
tion added threefold to the wonderment
and fright of the sparrows and in
creased tho volume of their chattering
in like proportion.
But tho unwelcome foreigner soon
found that tho chattering was harm
less, and that the saucy sparrows lack
ed tho courage to make an attack. Find
ing himself surrounded on all sides by
the little nuisances, he gradually work
ed his way through ouo sido of tho cir
cle and out on the end of a branch,
whero he perched contentedly and view
ed his tormentors with the calmest in
difference. Having found that the in
truder would neither tako nor give of
fense, the sparrows ono by ono flew
away, leaving tho cockatoo to tako a
nap in peace and quiet.
Meanwhile tho cat colony of tho back
yards had been aroused by tho unusual
activity of tho feathered tribe, and
there had been a gradual concentration
of the feline forces near tho baso of tho
tree which formed tho cockatoo's perch.
This meant a cat fight as snre as preach
ing, and it was not long before tho hos
tilities broko out. Then the dogs had
their turn, and the cats disappeared,
but to tho last the cockatoo sat unruffled
in his feathers in the treo top. New
York Sun.
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