ffls tpe World Keuolpes-
I Helta of Bangor.
Tho big harbor dcfcnso monitor No.
8, launched from tho works or tho
Bath Iron company Saturday, was
christened by Miss Annlo Curtis Bou
telle, youngest daughter of Congress
man Charles A. Boutello of Bangor,
who broko a quart bottlo of Amorlcan
champagno over her bow. Miss Bou
tello Is ono of tho handsomest and
imost popular young girls of Bangor,
flho was Bcloctod by Secretary of tho
Navy John D. Long, when her slstor,
Miss draco Boutello, had declined tho
honor becauco of her devotion to hor
sick father, who Is an Inmato of a san
itnrlum at Wavcrly, Mass.
Monitor No, 8 Is tho largest of tho
covornmcnt floot afloat which has.boen
built bv tho Bath concern, and he.
launching was an event In Malno ship
building. Tho vessel Is designed for
harbor protection nnd will cost when
MISS ANNIE CURTIS BOUTELLE.
(Daughter of Congrossmun C. A. Bou-
tollo of Malno, who will christen
Monitor No. 8.)
completed over $1,000,000. Sho Is one
of four slstor ships bolng constructed
in Amorlcan Bhlpynrds for the United
States navy. She Is a Blnglo turret'
vessel, with many improvements not,
found in other vessels of hor class.
Hor batteries consist of two twelvo
Inch guns, four four-inch rapid lira
guns, throe slx-poundors and four one.
pounder. Her armor belt is 11 inches,
thick.
Victim of His Corpulence.
Frlvato Officer Levi, a watchman In
Cincinnati, was tho laughable victim
of his own corpulence ono night laBt
wcolc. Passing along Ninth street ho
noticed an upon door and walked in
to Beo whothor all was right. Tho
hallway, was considerably narrowed
some distance back and tho portly
ofllcor. who wolghs about 300 pounds,
uddouly found that ho was wodged
in bo tightly that ho could not movo.
Mot wishing to nrouso tho roildcnts
nnd. thereby alarm thorn unnecessarily,
Cio Btayod whero ho was for two
hours. Then a.pollcoraan camo along
and finding tho door open ho also en
tered. By main strength tho nowcomor
pulled out tho Falstafllan watchman.
" Marine Gas-Engines
t' It Is Suggested that It will bo profit
able to try tho experiment of using gas
engines for driving ships, tho gas bo
lng gonoratod on tho vessel itself. Coal
"will bo roasted in retorts aboard the
Bhlp in order to drlvo oft tho gas for
tho engines. Tho coko thus produced,
BftyB tho Electrical World, would fur-
nlsh tho fuel neoded to roast the. coal.
Tho purposo of tho experiment which'
is to take plnco is to ascertain whether I
tho Bavlng of wolght of tho gas produc
ing plant and gas consuming engines
ovor tho ordinary plant of steam boil
ers and engines, and the saving oil
space, aro BuOlclont to warrant the
adoption of a now systom.
Grand DuKfi Vladimir.
Comtnandar-ln-Ct'.Iot of tho Russian
army, and may bocomo regent until
tho sick rulor rocovcrs,
Locomotives "Rented
Hundreds ot locomotives aro rented
every year. Sovcral corporations ninko
tholr chief rovenuo this way. Tho
Baldwins havo many n machlno out
on the rental form ot payment. That
Is, the engines are rented In tho eamo
way that you would buy a atovo on
installments so muoh down, bo much
a month, the payments to apply ru tho
iltu! purchase money. It Is Beldom,
.However, that a railroad rents, locomo-
Guitcau's Wtdotv Carries.
The assassination of President Oar.
field was brought to momory In Chi
cago last week, when Mrs. Anna Dun
mire, formerly the wlfo of Charles J,
Qulteaii, tho assassin, took out a li
cense to marry Enoch Allen, Mrs.
Dunmlro Is4C years
of age and Is still
possessed of con
Bldernblo vivacity,
desplto this being
hor third marriage.
Mr. Allen is 52
years of age, nnd
has been married
before, his daugh
ter Lily, nged 19
ycarB, njt tho pres
ent time kecplna
houso for him. Ho
Enoch Allen
s an Irishman by birth, and for somo
yonrs past' has been employed at tha
McCormlclt Harvester worlo In tho
capacity of engineer. Ho Is well known
In tho Warren avenuo district of tho
city, bolng a member of several frater
nal soclotles, In which ho has alwnys
taken a, leading part Mrs. Dunmlro
ftlso has children, ono of her sons by
her first marrlago being a membor of
tho crow of tho United States man-of-war
LascaHtor, Slid is possessed of
somo portion of worldly gear, and
looks upon, hor marrlago with as great
zest as though It waB her first embark
ation upon tho waters of matrimony.
HoU to "Build Goad "Roads.
Tho way to build good roads Is to
build thorn. Wo have been discussing
plans and jnothoda ior a hundred
ycard. Tho problem loomed largo bo-
foro tho fathers of tho ropubllc. In
1800, when tho first steps wero taken
for tho construction of tho old national
road from Cumberland westward, good
wagon roads voro to tho country then
what railroads are to tho country now.
There was necessity for a road be
tween tho East and tho West, nnd it
was built. Tho government and tho
pooplo wero interested nnd tho ques
tion was grappled with in tho right
way. Tho National road in Maryland,
Ohio and Indiana remains to this day
ono of tho best roads In any of tho
states named. Tho beginning, thcro-
foro, was a good one. Tho method has
not been greatly improved since. Tho
success in that ono caso was in tho
spirit in which tho work was" planned
nidflG thoroughness with which tho
P'woro carried; out, :,
4 ,
t?hc Wade ofiZSiriS
Frank M. Brown, accused of cmbez
ding $201,000 from tho German Na
tional Bank of Newport, Ky., was a
high roller. Ho had an annual salary
of $1,500 and llvod on, a scalo Implying
an lncomo of ten times that sum. He
FRANK M, BROWN.
was a plunger on horses and cards,
and web plucked by tho professionals.
Ho was usually represented at tho
pokor tablo by a commissionaire, and
frequently lost $1,000 or raoro in a
night Ho in aaid to have been n party
to a "killing" to havo been mado by
Gold D'Or on an eastern raco track
last spring, but Instoad of winning
$40,000 that ho oxpectod, ho lost -heav
ily. Brown la reported to havo staked
$20,000 on Qreatland in a Chicago raco
when It was a "Buro thing," but tho
horso enmo in third. On tho other
hand, tho plungor Is oald to havo won
$25,000 or $30,000 on Morry Day, Ho
mado bets on all sorts of propositions
of chance, and it said to havo depos
ited somo of tho stakes with an ofllcor
of his bank.
Jfotselcss street Car Wheel
A now wheel has been tried ou tho
Chicago street cars, tho particular vlr
tuo of which Is its nolsclessncss. Tho
secret of tho abscuco ot noise Ilea In
a lnyor ot papor which la placed be
tween tho tiro nnd the whocl proper.
A description ot tho experiment says
that tho wheels aro qulto doad ami that
thcro is no metallic ring from them,
oven whon rounding curves. Pooplo
who got on tho car equipped with thesa
wheals would start talking In tho usual
loud tones, but soon tho unwonted ol
loiico would bo observed, and the effect
was tno sama as that uotlcod whon
tho orchestra in a theater unexpectedly
ceases playing.
Mountaineers far the Mills
Tho domestic offorlnga ot labor hav
ing becomo Insufficient, tho South Car
ollna cotton mills nro now compelled
to draw from other states. A fow
days ago a special train reached Co
lumbla with nearly 300 cast Tennessee
mountaineers to work In tho Olympla
cotton mill In that city. It Is said that
tho Spartanburg and Greenville mills
havo beon getting, labor from thq
mountains of North Carolina for sov
oral years. Now Columbia goos farth
er and gets sturdy Tennossoo nioun
SAYINGS and DOINGS
Hatvcits "Delegate.
Robert W. Wilcox, Hawaii's dolegato
to congress, has been prominent in tho
politics of tho Islands slnco 1880. His
father, who Is Btlll a resident of Maul,
tho inland upon which Mr. Wilcox was
born, used to bo a eoa captain of Now
port, R. I. His mother, who Is dead,
was a native Hawaiian named Kahia.
As a young man tho delegatclect was
sent to Italy by the lato King Kala
kaua to attend tho schools of that
country. He became a student in a
ROBERT W. WILCOX,
.military academy at Turin, and whllo
there mot and married tho Princoas
Victoria Colonnn dl Stlgllana. Ho re
mained In Europo and America until
1889, whon ho returned to Honolulu.
Mr. Wilcox was ono of tho leaders lit
tho revolution of 1889. In 1893 ho took
tho part of tho royalists, and In 1895
ho was also a leader of tho ntterapt to
relnstnto tho queen. Ho was Impris
oned, but was liberated by President
Dole.
English Beauty Coming.
Mrs. Oeorgo Koppel, tho noted Eng
lish beauty, who is coming to America
with hor husband, Is tho daughter of
Sir William Edmonstono and tho wlf
of a younger brother of the Earl of
Albemarle. Mrs. Koppol first attracted
widespread attention In 1899 when tha
Prlnco of Wales
snowed ins cspo
clal admiration for
her benuty whllo
tho Keppols wero
visiting tho Rlvlo.
ra. The Countos3
of Warwick was
rolegated to roar
in tho Prince's
favor, and tho new &2
social star was
shining brllllantlyMrs.aeorgo Keppol
when a snub from
tho Duke of Richmond Bomowhat
dimmed hor light. The duko positive
ly refused to allow her (o bo a guest
at his house. Tho Prlnco at once put
Richmond on his blncklist and refused
to make his tlme-honorod annual visit
to tho duko's homo. Mr. Koppel, tho
husband of tho beauty, is a wine mer
chant with a limited Incomo.
Onc-Lcggcd "Brigade
Among tho usual spectacles witness
ed on tho transport Shorman when
that vessol recently landed In San
Francisco was tho march of tho "one
legged brlgade,"aa It was called aboard
ship, Tho "brigade" consisted ot flvo
soldlors, each of whom had lost a leg:
They raossod togothor and slopt to
gether, nnd whon tho troops landed
they marched down thp gangplank to
gether. Held in "Papa's tOife.''
"Papa's Wlfo," with Anna Held as
the star, Is touring tho western cities.
Tho medium ot MIbs Held's appear
anco is n combination ot two French
vaudevilles skilfully welded by Harry
D. Smith with music by Reginald Da
Koven. Miss Held Is credited with
possessing not only tho charm ot
boauty, but has attalnod no llttlo
prnlso as an actress ot real powor. Hor
costumes aro described as wonders In
ANNA HELD.
their way and her choral contingent
Is said to bo tho most attractlvo bevy
ot girls on tho road this season.
Cjc "Red Man's Prosperity
Whether or not tho prosperity ilssuo
had anythlug to do with It, a jWlnno
bogo bravo, moekly followed by his
fawn-eyed squaw, stalked Intcj a largo
dry goods store yesterday afternoon,
and said: "Heap good times; wantlo
buy; have much monoy." The flrat
nurchaso was eight yards of red silk
und tho second a sot of Sovresvch!oa. ,
UfvV .VV-flt -yftiBSpS
IJSrTEHESTItfG
GO "REMOVE
London's Marble Arch is to be razed
t& tho ground beioro Jan. 1. Mo3t
"British Iron and JTtccl.
Tho severity of American competi
tion in iron nnd steel has led to tho
breaking of tho British pool In those
Industries. In Great Britain, as In the
United States, thoro was an agreement
to maintain prices, that of steel rails
bolng held nt from 7 to 7 5s per ton.
As soon as the manufacturers were
allowed a free hand open competition
ensued, a drop In tho prlco of nearly
1 a ton following. In Groat Brltnln,
as In tho United States, many orders
had been held up becauso of the un
natural prices, nnd theso were released
when prices reached a normal basis.
As a result the Ironmonger declares
that the manufacturers will be real
gainers. There la a hint In this inci
dent for thejnembers of tho Amorlcan
pool, who must know that many or
ders aro being hold In anticipation of
lower prices. There Is coming to be a
well defined belief that the plan of the
Iron and steel men Is to make succes
sive reductions nnd tako orders at
each rato until they can get no more
at that price, when they will make a
still lower rate. This, however, but
leads to tho holding of more orders
for tho lower prices.
Fear Causes Death,
Tho death of John R. Beart In Chi
cago tho other day, illustrates a point
that has been dwelt upon for yoar3 by
physlclanB and Burgeons. Mr. Beart
In August last had a struggle with a
dog and was bitten in thrco places.
The strugglo In itself wan of a charac
ter to produce, nervous exhaustion, to
say nothing of tho mutilation by the
dog. Upon examination It was shown
that tho dog was not aflllcted with
rabcs. Mr. Boart recovered from tho
Immedlato effects of the strugglo and
returned to his work. But a week bo
foro his death he was taken ill and ho
grow steadily worso to tho end. Those
In attendance believe ho died of fear of
hydrophobia. There Is no dispute as
to tho main facts In tho case. The
dog that attacked Mr. Beart did not
havo any disease. Mr. Beart had no
symptoms of hydrophobia, but he
lived for months in horror of the most
dreaded of dlseasos, and this resulted
In conditions that caused his death.
If tho dog that made tho, attack on Mr.
Beart had been killed, as is usual in
such cases, the case would undoubted
ly havo been catalogued in tho hydro
phobia list. As tho case stands, it
gives strength to tho theory that a
great many of the so-called cases ot
rabies are produced ! solely , by .fear.
The "Rummage Tale.
Tho latest lad of society Is tho "rum
mage 8alo," It began In Now England
and Is rapidly milking Its way all over
tho country. In a certnlu sense tho
"rummage- oulo" Is n sort ot house
cleaning on n largo scale, Tho house
koopor takes an account of stock, with
tho result of finding numerous thlugs
which aro too good to glvo away or
throw awny and yet aro hardly boqU
enough to keep. Such nrtlcles havo
usually found their way to tho second
hand stores or tho cart of tho peddler,
but as tho owners get llttlo or nothing
for them tho Now England spirit ot
thrift hns devised tho "rummago Bale,"
which, oo long cs It remains n fad,
will Insure profitable returns.
Co "ulh-Oan's Men.
Joseph W. Stickler of Orange, N. J.,
will cicct a monument In Athens, Pa.,
In commomorntion of tho soldiers and
callorn of Bradford county. It will
stand In the center of the old academy
lawn, on the spot whoro Gen, Sullivan
of revolutionary fame camped on his
march agHu3t tho Six Nations of New
York in 1779, Tho pedestal la to be of
pink Stony Creek granite. Surmount
ing tho pedestnl thoro will bo a brouzo
group of heroic bIzo, entitled "The De
fense ot the Flag." Tho entire struc
ture will bo 20 feet high.
General Juan Luis Buoron of Gttate
mala, who Is now in San Francisco on
a visit, was a nontenant colonel on
the staff of General John C. Fremont
wheu tho pathfinder mado his second
trip across tho Rockies. Ho wont to
Guatemala in 1879 and has a conccs
slon for n lino ot road over tho Chuc-
pacho Mountains, around tho great
volcano of Santa Maria, which Is 14,000
foot ulgu.
LOJVDOff'S MAHteLE ARCH
Londoners and most provincial peoplo
who como to London know tho Mar-
To "Discuss Sunday' Cars
It Is rather remark:blo that Edin
burgh is Btlll discussing tho question
whether It shall havo Sunday street
cars. This will bo ono of tho burning
aide questions of tho, municipal elec
tion. Thoro has recently been Intro
duced Into Edinburgh a splendid In
stallation of cablo cars, which Is en
tirely shut down at present oh Sunday,
and many peoplo do not seo why it
should not bo utilized on Sundays ris
well as on week days, especially to on
oble tho working classes to get out
Into the country to breatho tho fresh
air. One candidate, a lawyer, has como
to grief In an amusing way over this
question. When asked if ho was In
favor of running Sunday cars ho an
swered in tho negative, and followed
it up by an expression of his venera
tion for tho qulotudo of tho "dear old
Scottish Subbath.". A newspaper re
porter, however, found out that tho
gentleman In question spent most of
his Sundays at ono of the golf links In
tho neighborhood of Edinburgh, which
covered tho defender of tho Sabbath
with confusion. M. E. Gilbert In Chi
cago Record.
"Russia's "Royal "Palace,
Little Palaco at Llvadia whero tho
ruler of tho Russlus has his private
apartments.
Sunday Fishing JVot Sinful.
Rev. I. N. Marx Is rector of tho
Protestant Episcopal church at Lake
Gcnovn, tho Wisconsin summer and
piscatorial resort. He has delighted
tho hearts of summer rcsorters and
sportsmen by declaring in a recent
Bormon that Sunday fishing is not sin
ful if tbo fisherman Is too busy to fol
low his sport on week days and if
there Is "no neglect of duty or relig
ious responsibility."
Rov. James Gray, formerly Presby
terian minister in Pretoria, has been
appointed by Lord Roberts acting li
brarian of tho library thero. Tho
reverend gentleman a few weeks be
fore the outbreak of hostilities pub
licly denounced Krugerlsm from tho
pulpit and had to flee to Durbln In
consequence.
From December 31 to March 4 The
odoro Roosevelt will play what Is for
htm tho unaccustomed rolo of a pri
vate citizen.
i mil
Uhe Bcrt1lejhip Illinois
Tho first-class battleship Illinois,
which Is rapidly nearing completion at
tho yard of tho Nowport News Ship
building and Dry Dock company in
Newport News, Is expected to go out
on her builders' trial somo tlmo during
tho first week In December. At that
tlmo tho splendid fighter will bo prac
tically complote, and, it necessary,
could ongago a hostllo ship "while out
ITEMS.
bio Aroh, but notf oho In a thousand la
ncquaintod with Its history. Tho gsn
fcral Impression id that it is a memorial
of somo kind. Tho, Marblo Arch, how
ever, Is nothing of tho kind, for It was
built .by King Goorgo IV. as an en
trance to Buckingham palaco, whero It
illd duty In that capacity for many
years
But as tho gateway to Buckingham
palaco the nrch;wos a failure. It had
tho effect of dwarfing tho royal resi
dence, and visitors who went to view
the royal homo from tho exterior saw
"plenty of gate," to qttoto an old de
scription, "nnd llttlo palace."
Accordingly it was,, in 1850, removed
to its present situation in Hydo Park.
Eighty thousand pounds was tho orig
inal cost of tho arch.
Unlike tho majority ot such edifices,
tho Murblc Arch is not solid. Tho
"man in tho street" bellovcs It is, for
he has forgotten tho circumstance that
In tho tlmo of tho Hydo Park riots a
largo forco of pollcowcro hid In tho
arch and wero nblo to dfsperso tho riot
ers at tho specified moment Tho Inci
dent at tho tlmo excited some attention
for tho police scorned to rlso from tho
ground, "and tho most knowing of tho
rioters' never anticipated that tho arch
hid so many policemen.
Monument to Gtntcr.
A number df prominent coal mon of
Pennsylvania have decided to erect a
monument of coal to Philip Glnter, tho
discoverer of that fuel, at Summit Hill,
near Mnuch 'Chunk. Ono hundred nnd
nine years ago Glntor lived in a rough
cabin in tho forests on tho Mauch
Chunk Mountain. Whllo fa quest of
gamo for his family, whom ho had left
at homo without food of any kind, his
foot struck a black stone. By tho
roadside, not far from tho town of
Summit Hill, ho built a fire of wood,
and threw pieces of tho supposed stone
about It, so that tho embers might last
longer whllo ho was roasting a fowl.
Ho wa3 surprised, after a llttlo while,
to seo tho stones glow and retain their
boat for a long tlmo. He enrried a lot
of tho coal homo and burned Jt there.
Tho few neighbors soon learned of tho
discovery, but there was no mining
to any extent in Carbon county until
after tho war of 1812 had begun.
Icttx)c WorK.for fh?p Canal.
Tho exocutlvo committee of the Il
linois Valley association met In Chi
cago last week, and appointed a sub
committee which will go to Washing
ton this t. inter and urge upon Con
gress its project for tho building of a
fourtcen-fpot deep water ship canal
between Chicago and St. Louis. Among
those present at tho meeting wa3 Con
gressman Walter Reeves, who told tho
qommittco that in his opinion Con
gress would be inclined to listen with
more favor to a proposition to build
a channel with an average depth of
eight Instead of fourteen feet In this
opinion Mr, Reeves had tho backing
ot his colleague, Congressman Graff.
Tho two congressman wero overruled,
however, by tho almost unanimous
Bcnso of tho committee, which was
strongly' in favor of tho deeper chan
nel. Has Held the Title Longest.
Tho Prince of Wales, who has Just
celebrated his 59th birthday, has now
hold his title the longest in English
history. Previously tho distinction be
longed to Gcorgo IV., who was Prlnco
of Wales for 58 years. Within a month
ot .his birth the prlnco was croated
Duko of Cornwall and. Rothesay, Earl
of Carrlck, Baron Renfrew, lord ot the
Isles, Princo of Wales and Earl ot
Chester, whllo in 1850 ho was mado
Earl of Dublin. When ho wishes to
travel on tho quiet the Prlnco goes as
Lord Renfrew and sometimes as the
Earl of Chester.
In tho interest of reform Mme. Pras
covlc Arian publishes, every year in
Russia a woman's rights calendar, In
cluding tho laws passed relating to
women and various women's societies.
on her trial. Tho four thirteen inch
guns, which compose her formidable
main battery, will bo mounte'd In tho
turrets foro nnd aft, EoVen six-Inch
guns will protrude from each side ot
tho vessol, and even tho smaller guns
will bo In placo, whllo all armor will
bo riveted ou. The Illinois was launch
ed Oct. 4, 1898, and was christened by
Miss Daisy Loiter of Chicago,
Ofe. PiilkdelphU Record.
talncer.
Sioux City Journal,