n t ts a smut nCTi.
The tvnlrdeaele atarepeea)
nreaa.
An enterprising individual haa seen
fit to spend koine time collecting facta
and figure concerning the avoirdu
pois ol Minie of the Queens of Europe
and baa proud that, according to tha
atandurd of the sculptors, which dif
fers from tbut of tbe dress maker,
not one of the Royal women has a
beautiful tig u re.
Queen Victoria is the ghorteiit adult
sovereign in tbe world. - Her Majefly
ia only 4 ft. 11 in. high and weiJt
171 pounds. Her bust and bips meXf"
ore 44 in. and SO in. respective
while her waist is 35 in.
The tallest Queen in Europe ia thl
young Wilhelinina, of Holland. Sh
ia only 19 year old, but her height I
no less than 5 ft. 5ft in. She ia light
ly built, with a weight of only 131
lbs., but haa tbe buat measurement 01
a Juno 42 in. Her waist measure!
only 21ft in. and her hips 40 in. Ha
Majesty of Holland ia, in other word
WO III aavisea as to lace nerseti mom
cruelly. The young sovereign
buat measurement, despite her youth:
la surpassed by that of none of tb
Queens except Margherita of ItaJ,
and our own revered Kuler.
The heaviest Queen of Europe
Margherita of Italy, "the Pearl
Savoy." bhe turns the scales at 171
lba., but her height, S ft. i in., enable!
her to "carry otf" her stoutness an
to preserve tbe carriage of a youn,
woman. Her waist measurement o
M in. and her bust meausre of 40 it
show that despite her advancing
years, hhe still retains a queenl
figure. Her hips measure 48 in. He
noble profile still gives evidence o
tiie beauty which she possessed aa
girl.
A shade taller than Margherita if
4 1. : 1 1 1 1 . . l
ujc uiuic wiuowjr uecn iiegeut a
Bpaln. She is S ft. 5ft in. in heighi
With a weight of 147 lbs. Her bua
nd bips measure 36 in. and 40 in. rt
apectively, and her waist ia a boil
Si in.
One of tbe most superb figure;
among European royalties is that d
Natalie, the romantic Queen of Servii
Bhe is 5 ft. 4 in. high, with a bui
measure of 38 in. and a waist measui
of 22 in. Her hips are 40 in. roum
and ahe weighs 130 lbs.
Queen Sophia of Sweden and Quea
Marie Henrietta of Belgium are ead
It 4 in. in height, and their bui
measure is 36 in. Queen Sophl
weigns 140 lbs. and Queen Marie
lbs. more. Vhe Swedish Queen pol
aeasea on the whole, however, thT
more stylish, if less natural, figur
With a waist measure of 24 in., and
hip measure of 38 in., while trf
Queen of the Belgians measures 27 i
around tbe waist and 40 in. round tl
hips.
Ihe Queen of Portugal and tlJ
Czarina of Russia are closely paired i
the matter of size. Queen Amelia i
older and has a fuller an; mofl'"m!
tronly figure, bhe boaa bust meas
ure of 35 in. and a waist measure of
11 in., but some time aho she gave up
wearing corests, and the increase of
her waist measurement has not been
recorded.
The Czarina is only 32 in. around
the bunt and 22 in. around tbe waist.
Their hip measurement is or waa the
aame 38 In. The Czarina ia 5 ft.
2ft in. tall and weighs 120 lbs., r hile
Queen Amelia weighs 123 lba. and ia
half an inch taller.
BVVIXO TIP FROJI CBOOKS.
elagalar Policy Paraned by the Beak
or England.
All aorta of odd incidents occur in
England's banking circles, where
strictest measures are taken aa to
protect treasure from the robbers
and burglars. Some of the institu
tions pay cash for information of,
Sad in some casea from, the crimin
als themselves. The iank of England's
yearly budget always contains an ex
pense item due to such outlays. The
first experiment of the kind dates
back to lb50, when the directors of
the bank listened to a startling propo- :
sition made by a "ditch digger." I
The laborer told the directors that 1
he had discovered a new and unsus
pected method of getting into the
cellar vaults where the gold and sil
ver bars were kept, and that he would
sea his secret to them for money.
The directors hestitated, believing
that they bad taken every precaution
against loss from the vaults, In put
ting up heavy masonry, with plenty
of iron bars, and by manning the
building with armed watchmen. But
finally they granted the man, who
seemed to talk fairly, a chance to
try bia plan, and a night waa named
for the undertaking.
At the appointed time a committee
of the directors deacended to the eel
lar and heard a peculiar scratching
sound under their feet. Two hours
lster the door opened and the ditch
digger bobbed up serenly, like the evil
spirits in the spectacular drama.
Ail around them luy bars of precioua
metal, totaling in value 3,000,000.
The man explained satisfactorily
how it was done, and as a reward the
directors assured liim an income for
life on an Investment of $10,000. The
crook was content, and it is believed
he remained honest ever afterward.
But other cracksmen were tempted
by his luck to try the same game,
and the directors were inundated with
suggestions and tips on new methods
of burglary and how to prevent them.
Among other things they paid $20,000
for a process, invented by a young
chemist, for copying the ink, paper,
water marks and designs of the bank
notes so perfectly as to defy detec
tion. The directors found they could
use his system more satisfactorily
and more profitably thnn their own
in the production if their currency.
Despite the fact that theee expendl
turea have run up into big figures in
the last half century, the directors of
today say that all the money was well
Inveeted. The Boston Herald.
"What are you laughing atf aatd
erne one, aa the grocery clerk hong
tip the receiver.
"At Mrs. Newblood. She has lust
telephoned for a pound of ft e'ajeeh
tea. Detroit Free Prase.
tTMIC
aw Term BUga to mm Applied ta
Vskna4t4 Cauls.
George Maverick, a prominent citi
een of San Antonia and one of tha
largest real ettate owners in the state
of Texas, has been visiting in this
city, says tbe El Paso (Tex.) Times.
The gentleman is a son of the noted
Samuel Maverick, one of the old pio
neers of western Texas. The latter
waa a shrewd and far-seeing business
man, and knew that the day would
come when Texas real estate would
be valuable, so be began to buy up all
steer," and thia ia bow the term Mav
erick originated and began to ba ap
plied to ait unbrandad toak. The
term took with the cowboy nasi
stockmen, and It waa not long before
it was in universal use throughout tha
American continent.
George Maverick, who haa just paid
a visit to Li Paso, has papers to aup
atantiate the above facts and which
entirely exonerate his father from any
suspicion of wrong doing.
i;ty op iiovia wohen.
A Peculiar Type Unlike Tbal Which Is
DlMloctlv of the JVjrth
Northern beauty, however fine mar
be the line of its contour, is never, '
for good or evil, a mere beauty of the
body, a thing beginning with itself
and ending with itself; it contains al
waye a suggestion; it is haunted by a
soul; it leaves for its complexion some
thing to the imagination. But in ths
beauty of Roman women there is no
trace of spiritual beauty, none of the
softness of charm; it is tbe calm, as-,
aured, unquestionable beauty of the '
flesh. There are faces which should
be seen always in pure outline, for
they are without melting curves, deli
cate and variable shades or anything
but their own definite qualities, as
they are in themselves. 'J he faces of
Roman women of the upper cluKses are!
cold, hard, finished and impenetrable
aa cameos. In a face which is at all
beautiful you will not find a line which
ia not perfect, and this elegance and
aureness of line goes with that com'
plexion which is the finest of all com
plexionspure ivory and which car
ries with it tbe promise of a tempera
ment in which there is all the Bubtlety
of fire. The distinction between the
properly aristocratic and the strictly
plebian face is, I think, less marked
in Rome than in any city. Almost all
Roman women have regular faces, the
profile clearly cut and in a straight
line; black hair, often with deep tones
of blue in it and sometimes curling
crisply; dark eyes, often of a fine uni
form brown, large, steady, profound,
with that unmeaning profundity
which means race, and which one sees
in tbe Jewess, the gypsy. They have
a truly Roman dignity, and beneath
that the true fire without which digni
ty ia but the comely shroud of a
corpse, and though there is not a
trace in them of the soft, smiling, cat
like air of the women of Venice, and
not much of the vivid, hardy, uncaring
provocativeness of the women of Na
ples, they are content to let you see
in them that reasonable nearness to
the animal which no Itnllan woman
Is ashamed to acknowledge.. They
have often a certain inasHiveness of
build which makes a child look like
a young woman and a young woman
like a matron; but, for Italians, they
are tall, and though one sees none of
the trim Neapolitan waists, it is but
rarely that one sees, even among the
market women bringing in their bas
kets on their heads, tlinxe square and
lumpish figures which roll so com
fortably through Venice. llarper'i
Magazine.
Bill "And yon say that you won't
allow a fellow to throw himself head
first from the East River bridge?
Jill "That's what I aaid. It seerai
U be the only kind of a dive that th
slice Interfere with around New
Terk." Yonkers 8teU.aman.
ItlTU THAU Ml
CMatrtM Wkirt na Telle aa
(4 Arm r n.ra ValaeThaa Ummmf
.1 i- i i : i ; t . t i
much stress on the value of silvertl
und gold, says a writer in Pearson'
Weekly, but there is an island chiej
lain out in tbe Pacific who will ba
neither, nor will any of tbe 200,0OC
people over whom he bolda swa:
This chief is To-Kinkin, the ruler
the Bismarck islands.
In the land of To-Kinkin nothin
food but sh
I-
la
21
d
r
-Ire
"Sne other kinds of shell money n Hse
there, but the circulation is limit
and they are not like the dworra, ft,
tamer of tke people. ;
pint, there is little black aL
In which a hole Is punched, andit lg
put on a string. Ten inchea iaortb
fonrpence. Thia is known HTpeie r
f?!s monejTtenbf!, ,other
shell, a ten-inch string of which ia
worth from 8 to 10 ahillings. There is
a pig's tail on the end of the string,
and thia adds to the value, as a man
wii. soon find if he haa a string of it
and happena to lose the pig's tail. The
pig is a highly honored animal in
these islands. That is why his tail,
beautifully colored, adds value to such
coin current in the realm.
But the people of the Bismarck is
lands are not the only ones who dis
pense with gold and silver coinage.
In the Malay peninsula, for instance,
coins resembling small wafers are
made from the resinous juice of a tree.
They are probably of smaller value
than any other coins of the world,
1,000 of them being estimated to be
worth only a penny.
The islanders of hanta Barbara still
use shells, and a good horse may still
be bought for a string of them.
Among the aborigines of California a
species of abalone shell was so highly
estimated that a horse could be had
for a single specimen.
Among other peculiar forms of cur
rency used elsewhere may be men
tioned red feathers in certain other is
lands of the Pacific ocean, cubes of
tea in Tartary, and iron shovels or
hoes among the Malagasy. Corn has
been the medium of exchange in the
remote parts of Europe from the time
of the ancient Greeks to the present
day. In Norway corn is even de
posited in banks and lent and borrow
ed. Egga are said to have circulated in
tbe Alpine valleys or (Switzerland and
dried cod in the colony of Newfound
land. Salt haa been circulated not only in
Abyssinia, but in Sumatra, Mexico and
elaewhere. Copper bars or skewers
were used in Greece. In Thibet and
some parts of China little blocka of
com pressed tea are used as money.
envelope Hot Modish.
The latest fad among those who can
afford to be faddish is the disuse of
the envelope in correspondence. We
have gone back to the old days, when
red wafers and aealing-wax were all
that custom demanded or knew. Mod
ern faahion has produced wafers and
wax to match paper heliotrope, rob-In's-egg
blue, cerulean, lilac, fawn or
cream.
Large sheets are used for letters, i
smaller size for notea and invitations
When you receive a letter sent with
out Ita envelope do not cut and alaah
as you have been accustomed to do,
but remove the wafers, break the seal
and the writing will greet your eye
untorn.
The Sunday school class had Just
finished singing "I want to be an an
gel and with the angels stand,"
when the teacher, observing that one
af the boys had not contributed his
voice to swell the sacred refrain, said:
"And you want to be an angel, too,
deVt you, Johnny?4
Tee'm," answered Johnny, "hut not
right away. I'd rather be a baseball
layer a good deal lrat'
aucaiarrc amy.
g$tmi by eaaaral imki MMBk
Vathar Mixed Drink Alan
' Oa the Rial to, ard, in fact, in many
ethar portions of the town, tbe dispute
aa to who was tbe originator of that
most delectable of beverages, tbe gin
rickey, still waxes hot. But here is an
anecdote, says the New York Sun,
which goes far to confirm tbe claim
of Colonel Joe Rickey's friends that
be and he alone was the author of
thia most insidious of toddy. Last
August, during the invasion of I'ortc
Rico, the Missouri battery, which was
made up entirely of Missouri boys,
formed part of General Brooke's brig
ade. They were stationed at Guayama,
and one of the privates was young
Hyde Rickey, Colonel Rickey's son.
Now tbe captain of tbe battery was
not st all popular with his men, a
fact which haa been proved three
times since the battery disbanded, aa
each occasion the captain has been
made the defendant in a stand-up
flfht. In Porto Rico one of the men
who jarred most raspingly upon his
captain's nerves was young Rickey.
After all the minor penalties had been
exacted from him the captain finally
Bent him down to General Brooke's
headquarters with a message which
LA; scribed him as incorrigible. Young
ickey was taken to the general's
a headauarters in fear and tremblinr.
.Mle decided in his own mind that ii
he got off with two years in Leaven
worth he might consider himself
ii jucny. xi e was oraerea into me gen
V eral's room. While he stood trem
i bling at attention the general gazed
at him sternly.
"Are you Colonel Rickey's son?" he
asked.
"Yea, sir."
"You're the son of old Joe Rickey?"
"Yes, sir."
"The son of the man who invented
the gin rickeyY" persisted General
Brooke.
"Yea, air."
"Well, then, look here, young man,"
aid the general, sternly. "Just take
my advice. Leave your father's mixed
drinks alone until you get to St.
Louis. If you don't, you'll get into
trouble. Now don't let me bear of yon
and your rickey's again. Go!"
Storrettes.
The following pretty little story ol
England's future queen is vouched for,
During the late visit of her royal
highness the princess of Wales to hei
country home she called at the houst
of one of the most valued members ol
ber household, with whom was then
staying an aged relative, whom th
princess had known for many years.
This lady, being at present badly crip
pled by rheuinatinm, apologized to the
princess, saying: "i hope you will ex
cuse me, ma'am; I can't curtsey, bul
may I kiss your hand?" "No, indeed,"
waa the gracious princess' answer.
"You shan t do that. I will kiss youi
hand." And so, in very deed, she did
Princess Charlotte and Princess Vic
toria, sisters of tbe kaiser, recently
participated in an occurrence which ia
reflection on tbe airs assumed by somi
Of the German nobility. Not long ago
a servant in livery entered a local
station and asked to have a compart
ment in tbe next train to Berlin re
served for two princesses. When thl
train came all the compartments wer
occupied. In one there was only a
French woman, who was requested bj
the guard to vacate the premises. Thu
lady, however, stood on her rights ana
declined to budge. The augus. pair,
hearing of the trouble, came up and
cried: "What's all this fuss about 1
Why, there's room enough here foi
half a dozen," and got in forthwith.
George Selwyn had a strange pas
sion for seeing dead bodies, especially
those of his friends. He would go any
distance to gratify this pursuit. Lord
Holland was laid up very ill at Hol
land house shortly before his death.
George belwyn sent to nsk how he was
and whether he would like to see him
"Oh, by no means!" Lord Holland an
swered. "If I'm alive tomorrow I shall
be delighted to see George and I know
that if I am dead he will be delighted
to see me."
Positive He Didn't Have Them.
In a certain Kentucky district ia
which a company of volunteers was
enlisted for the recent war with Spain,
Says Lippincott's Magazine, military
genius was somewhat intimately aa
aociated with whisky drinking. In
this neighborhood Lincoln's reply to
the female society that objected form
ally to Grant because he was said ta
drink is still quoted with great gusto,
"And, sah," Colonel Hardin, of Lex
ington, still says triumphantly,
"dogged if ole Lincoln didn t write
back to know what brand of whisky
Grant drank, as he would like to send
a jug of ft to some other generals,
sah." So it happened that Captain
Clay, in command of the new com
pany, frequently crooked his elbow
In the good old Kentucky fashion.
While the company was encamped at
Greenville a few week ago some
Charitable ladies of Philadelphia, or
ganized for Red Cross work, forward
ed tbe company a box of pajamaa for
the sick soldiers. Not hearing from
them, in due time the secretary tele
graphed the captain of the company,
"Vie are anxious to Know ii you got
tne pajamas last week." .This tele
grim was brought to Captain Clay as
be waa cooling his brain with wet
towels after a hard engagement with
the officers of a Georgia company on
the night before. Great was his indig
nation, and he hastily dispatched his
orderly to the telegraph office with
his reply: "There la not a word of
truth In the story. Must have been
started by my political enemies. I ac
knowledge I am not a total abstainer,
but did not have the pajamaa laat
week or any other time."
Common mistakes.
It Is a mistake to labor when you
are not In a fit condition to do so.
To think that the more a person
eats the healthier and stronger he will
become.
To bto to bed at midnight and rise
at daybreak, and Imagine that every
hoar takes from Bleep is aa nour
ffalMi,
BISSKB IHCBBSOLL '
Hew the Cc-loael One lararlatedl
Political Andleuce In Chicago.
Tbe sudden death of Robert G.
Ingersoll recalls the prominent posi
tion he always occupied at Republi
can national conventions and tiie
eloquent speeches be made at those
assemblages. Ingersoll was always in
ueuiaud tu ij-.uj.e imu.1; a i g or politi
cal speeches, but on account of bis
agnostic news no j al ly ever dared
to lion. innate liim for oflice. Only
once did Jnger-Mill ever face an audi
ence tbut compelled him to htop hi
speech. It happened at tbe Republi
can national convention at Chicago
in IShfcK. The convention was meet
ing in the Auditorium bul ding, whicn
was not then completed, but bad been
fitted up for tiie occasion.
The convention bad been in session
a day or so and the great contest for
the nomination was on. Alison, Blaine,
Harrison, ( t klium and a dozen more
prominent Republicans were all in
field. The balloting bad continued
through several sessions and finally
on Saturday night it was decided to
take but one ballot and adjourn.
This was done, but instead of leaving
the great convention ball tbe delegates
and audience remained seated and re
solved themselves into a mass meet
ing. It was understood before the speech
es began that none of the speakers
was to make any reference to the
candidates for nomination by the
convention, and al the early speakers
kept to this understanding. Finally
there were calls for Ingersoll and
the great orator, who was on tbe
platform, was introduced to the con
vention. "Bob" had a great speech
ready and started in to make it with
his usual eloquence. But he bad
hardly got started before he began an
elaborate eulogy of one man and then
said: 'This is Walter Q. Gresham.
Instantly a storm of hisses came from
the crowd in the Aduitorium, and al
though the Illinois people tried te
drown then with applause, the shouts
and hisses of disaproval increased and
Ingersoll stood dumbfounded on the
platform. My seat in the press sec
tion was within a few feet of the
speaker and I never saw a man o
rattled and overcome. His big, round
face and bald head grew red with
indignation and as the hisses increas
ed the blood seemed to rush faster to
his face until his head seemed almost
purple. In vain did be try to quell
the noise by raising his hand, but it
only increased. He stopped and Iouk
ed around at the gentlemen on the
platform back of him and then started
to speak again. This was only a sig
nal for a renewed hissing.
One by one the delegations began to
leave their seats on the floor of tbe
convention, and this seemed to add to
Ingersoll's embarrassing position.
He made the final effort to continue
his speech, but by this time the up
roar was so great that he was obliged
to retire. The result was that there
were no more speeches that night.
It was always claimed by Mr. Inger
soll that he never intended to make
his speech a eulogy of Mr. Gresham,
but that be intended to speak of all
the candidates, but unluckily men
tioned Gresham's name first. It waa
not so much that Mr. Ingersoll had
praised Mr. Gresham that angered
the audience, but the fact that he had
violated tbe distinct understanding
that the speakers on that occasion
were not to mention any of the candi
dates or praise them individually.
Ft ml Camp-meeting in America.
"The effect of the McGee Brothers'
preaching especially of John McGee
at a Presbyterian quarterly meeting
on the banks of Red river, in Ken
tucky, was so startling, and seemed
so clearly to indicate that it waa the
result of Divine agency or some mys
terious force possessed by the
preacher, that the news of the occur
rence spread rapidly in all directions
throughout that part of the state, and
attracted unbounded interest," write
Clifford Howard in the July Ladies'
Home Journal. "If it did not at once
awaken a responsive religious feeling,
It at least excited curiosity, and when
it was learned that tbe McGee Broth
ers were to hold a meeting at Russell-
ville, Kentucky, a newly settled town
in Logan County, near the Muddy
river, persons from all parts of the
adjoining country, irrespective of
their religious beliefs or church alle
giance, prepared to attend, it soon
became evident that the four walls of
a county meeting-house would not suf
fice to hold the large numbers that
were making ready to go to Russell
ville. The problem thus presented was
solved by determining to hold the
meeting in the open air. Those com
ing from a distance were prepared to
camp; it would be no hardship to
them to remain out of doors. The re
cent experience at Red River had
proved this. It was not expected by
those who were coming that the lodg
ing accommodations at the village of
Russcllville would be sufficient by any
means. Why, therefore, attempt to
house the people? Prepare a camp
ing ground, and let the meeting be a
'camp' meeting. This, then, was the
origin of camp-meetings; and the firsl
one held in America was held on the
banks of the Muddy River, near Rus
sellville, Ky., in the month of August,
1799 one hundred years ago. Not
that religious worship had never be
fore been held in tbe open air, but the
special feature of camping out and
the nature of the services made the
camp-meeting a distinctive Institu
tion, and characterized this particular
gathering on the Muddy River as the
first of its kind."
"I am sorry to say," said Wind
split Adolphus Wierry, the tragedian,
"that Shakespeare has become a back
number,"
"Well, I would take all the blame
on my shoulders, if I were you, said
the cauatic critic, consolingly.
"Filipinos aren't worth $2 a head,"
said the man with the repeating style
of mind.
"Yea," answered the optimist; "but
I hope for a time when some of their
real estate la worth more than that
feet"
Bans at Ai
ad Bonurahnrg.
Tha Ban. Charles Francis AAnsas,
daring one of hie pablie addressee,
indulged in eome reminiscences of tha
civil war and told bow be was lulled
to sleep by tbe roar of battle. Ba
said:
"It was my fortnue at one period
to participate in a number o. battles,
among them none more famous or
more fiercely contested than Antietam
and Gettysburg. The mere utterance
of those names stirs the imagination
visions aribe at once of at Lack, re
pulse, hairbreadth escapes, carnage
and breathless suspense. There was
indeed on those occasions enough and
to spare of all these, but not, aa st
chanced, ia my particular ease. Soma
here will doubtless, remember that
that English fox banting squire who
has gained for himself a sort of iav
mcrtality by following his hound
over Mareby's fields, I think it was,
while that epoch making battle waa
going on. More yet will recall that
plowman, twice referred to so dramat
ically by Zola, intent apon his unin
terrupted day's work near Sedan wham
a dynasty waa reeling to its fall.
"So my abiding recollection aa a
participant ia both Antietam and
Gettysburg is not ef the fierce agonf
of battle at ita height, but the est-'
joyment ef twe exceedingly refresh
ing nape. As a statement this, I asa
aware, ia calculated to startle rather
rather than to excite admiration bat
te the historian truth is sacred, and
the truth ie a I have said. Neither
doee the statement imply in any ex
ceptional nerve or indifference ta
danger on my part. I make no claim
to anything of the sort. It happened
in this wise: In the campaigns ef
both Antietam and Gettysburg I waa
an officer ia a regiment of cavalry, a
mere subordinate, responsible oaky
for obedience to ord era.
"At Antietam, in tbe height of tha
engagement, the division to which
my regiment belonged was hurried
across the narrow stone bridge at tha
point where the little narrow river in
tersects the Sharpsburg road and
deployed on ita farther side. We
were thein directly in front of Fita
John Porter's corps and between it
and the Confederate line, covering
Sharpsburg. A furious artillery duel
was going on to and fro above oar
heads between the batteries of Por
ter's command and those of -the
enemy, we being down in the valley
of the river; they on the higher
ground. The Confederate batteries we
could not see, nor eonld they see us.
When we firstdeployed on the farther
side of Antietam creek, it seemed as
if we were uoomed so deafening waa
the discharge of artillery on either
side and bo incessant the hurling of
projectiles as they passed both ways
over us. Every instant, too, we ex
pected to be ordered to advance on
the Confederate batteries.
"The situation was unmistakably
trying. But no orders came, and n
one was hurt. By degrees it grew
monotonous. Presently to relieve oar
tired horses we were ordered to dis
mount, and, without breaking ranks,
we officers sat down on the sloping
hillside. No one was being struck. I
was very tired. The noise was dead
ening. Gradually it had on me a lull
ing effect, and so I dropped quietly
asleep asleep in the height of battle
and between the contending armies!
They woke me np presently to look
after my horse, which was gracing
somewhat wide, and, after a time, wa
were withdrawn and sent elsewhere.
I believe that day our regiment did
not lose a man, scarcely a horse. Sneh
is my recollection of that veritable
charnel house,, Antietam and I waa a
participantindeed, in the forefront
of the battle.
"Gettysburg wbb different, and yet,
as respects somnolence, in my eaae
much the same. During the daya pre
ceding that momentous struggle my
command had been frequently en
gaged and suffered heavy loss. We
who remained were but a remnant.
On the 3d of July the division to which
we belonged occupied the high, par
tially wooded ground on the right of
the line, covering the army's flank and
rear. It was a bright July day, hot
and with white elouds slowly rolling
across the sky, premonitory of a thun
derstorm during the later afternoon.
"From our position the eye ranged
over a wide expanse of uneven coun
try, fields broken by woods, showing
nowhere any signs of an army move
ment, much less of conflict. A quiet,
midsummer, champaign country.
Neither our lines nor those of the en
emy were visible to us, and the sounds
of battle were hushed. Waiting for
orders and for action, we dismounted
out of regard for our horses aa wel
as ourselves and sat or lay upon tha
turf. Inured to danger by contact
long and close and thoroughly tired
In body as overwrought in mind, we
listened for the battle to begin, and
shortly after noon the artillery open
ed. "We did not know it, we could ace
nothing in that direction, but it cov
ered the famous advance nf Htnlratt'i
Virginia division upon Meade'e center
that wonderful, that unsurpassed
feat of armsand just then, luued by
the incessant roar of tbe cannon, while
tne late oi tne army and the nation
trembled in I hp hnlaiiM t,a -
crisis of the great conflict, I dropped
quietly nsicep. it was not neroic, but
it Wan. T Jinlll PRuniallv wal Iknnnk
by no means war as imagined in the
wuikioomi oi ine meoreuc nisionun.
Yet. aa An 4fifKvl.li.nl iu1iiim fin
bim it has its value." St. Louis Globe-
.Democrat.
American Millionaires.
An article in Ainslle's Magazine for
June states that there are today in
America 4,000 millionaires, 1,400 af
whom are in New York City. Of thia
number 1,050 are simple, ordinary mil
lionaires, 189 are double millloaaircs,
six are worth $40,000,000, one Is worth
150,000,000, one Is worth $78,000,000,
and three are worth over $100,000,000
aseh. The same aathority states that
la 1MT New Yark contained only tea
milUanairea and thai the riebeat a
these, William Aetar, waa worth ealy
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