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A BOY PRODIGY The pet of the New York Institution for the deaf and dumb, the most Inter esting: of all the Inmates and the one who gives the least trouble to the teachers, Is a boy to whom the out aide world is an absolute blank. Deaf, dumb and blind. Orris Benson lives In a world of silence and darkness. Under ordinary conditions, left to himself, he would have gone through life a desolate soul wrapped In Cimmerian darkness. knowing nothing, thinking nothing hoping nothing. It would be difficult to thmaglne a more pitiful fate. For tunately scientific methods and patient endeavor are capable of lifting even an afflicted Individual such as one deaf, dumb and blind out of the slough of despond; indeed so many advantages and resources have already been brought Into his life that It Is not much of an exaggeration of the facts to say that he ia little Incommoded by the lack of the three most valuable senses. When seen by the writer at the In titutlon Orris seemed to be one of the most cheerful boys of all the silent crowd. He was holding an animated conversation with one of the teachers, making use of the sign language by the sense of touch alone, the pressure of the finger on the boy'a collar or the hack of the hand, or a few rapid touch es In the palm, being sufficient to con vey to him an entire sentence. A tat too on the finger tips, informed him of the visitor's mission. At once the lad faced about with an inquiring look on bis features. The principal of the Institution, Mr. Knoch M. Currier, ask ed Mm a question with the rapidly moving finger tips beating on the hand. To the surprise of the visitor, the an swer came in a queer sound from the boy's lips. It was not hard to make out that he was saying or trying to say, "In my pwket." At the same time a hand went Into the pocket and, with a laugh, Orris brought out a pocket knlf". The principal explained that he had asked the boy what he had done with a knife that had been given him. It was marvelous that the power of even such crude vocal speech as the boy used could be Imparted to one who had never seen or heard since baby hood. Oris Benson lost both sight and hearing when a child of 3, the direct cause of his affliction being spinal men ingitis. In the fall of 1SS9 he was taken to the New York Institution, and placed In the male kindergarten at the Mansion House. At the time of ad mission he had no remembrance of the general appearance of persons of things but had a somewhat indistinct idea of black and white. The first words he learned to spell by means of the manual alphabet was "key." the object having been previ ILLINOIS' BURGLAR TOOLMAKER. "The Toolmaker of Illinois" Is the so briquet of a mysterious charac ter who seems to be doing a profitable business Jn supplying expert burglars with Im plements of their criminal vocation. FAldenee of his skill in the manufac ture of such tools are shown In speci mens on exhibition at the office of the fjt. Louis detectives. Who he Is and where he lives Is known In St- Louis only to Chief Des mond, and he refuses to discuss hlB identity. The chief said: I have known of this mans where abouts and business for a long period, but as he has never apparently com mitted a violation of the Missouri law 1 have had no occasion to run him down. His tools that I have seen are of the very best quallty-ln fact, the finest that can be produced. He seems to employ some process, known alone to hinuielf, for the hardening of steel. His drill and punches are harder than any that have ever come under my observation, and certainly different from those produced by other makers. 'I first got onto the "Toolmaker of Illinois" through an arrest made by me of my men. The burglar, upon whom a complete kit of tools was found, said that he got them from this particular maker. He gave his name and address. I Jotted It down simpiy as a matter of future reference. In a few months another burglar was taken J:iio custody, and he had a similar equipment. According to his statement he bought it from the same man. And so It has been from time to time. On at least a doxen different occasions the name of this toolmaker has been given by men we have arrested. Ordi narily I should not accept as a fact the statement of any burglar, but since ao many have told me the same story without the bare possibility of cotlu lon, I cannot reasonably doubt their word. The character known as the "Tool maker of Illinois," exists and Is not a myth. He Is an expert machinist who conducts a blacksmith shop In a small town In the Interior of Illlnola. He ahoea horses, hammers out plowshares and does other smithy Work for the farmer simply as a blind. In reality h Is the tool-feeder for the most noted aafe-crackera In the country If the sep arate statements of the criminal may be considered authoritative. Men have told me that they paid him 110 for a single drill when ordinarily It may be had for $1.60 or $2. They, at leasti belleva that the Illinois ma chinist haa a auperlor process for the tianrdenlnf of steel and the manufac ture of tool. Joseph Boyer, of tha Boyr Machine IN NEW YORK. ously shown him. Then, little by little, step by step, he learned the names of other common objects. In the same slow, tedious way, he was later taught the elements of speech. He now gen erally makes use of this accomplish ment when with hearing persons with whom he Is acquainted. He shows great fondness for hlstor Accounts of the heroic exploits of the makers of the nation arouse him to gudr an extent that he has several times expressed regret that he cannot be a soldier. He also enjoys geography with the help of raised maps. After getting a clear Idea of numbers, he be gan the study of arithmetic, but as yet he Is not far advanced In this branch. At home he sometime assists his father, who Is a carpenter. Lest sum mer he helped a friend during the hay ing season. In the trade school of the New York institute, he learned to cane chairs, and In this and various other ways he manages to earn bis spending money during the long summer vaca tion When alone he thinks and plans and tries to Invent something useful. His chief aim In life is to fit himself to earn a comfortable living when his school days are over. The principal explained that Orris has become an adept In the use of the typewriter, rarely making a mistake in the work he does. It is possible for the teachers to dictate letters to him, by means of the sign language used in the way explained above. He Is especially fond of wood carv ing, and he has made several exquisite pieces entirely without help. He also models In clay, and has made an accu rate copy of General Grant's tomb on Riverside drive. The form of he building was explained to him and he modeled it with surprising faithfulness At chair-caning Orris is particularly skillful, and works quickly and care fully. When not working at something he sits patiently for hours going over and over In his mind the lessons he has learned. Nothing pleases him better than to be questioned on some matter of int.eret that he has studied during the school session. He has thoughts of his own concerning current questions and the teachers are glad to talk with him and watch the steady growth of his intel lect. Orris Is undoubtedly the most in teresting as well as the most talented deaf and dumb and blind boy In the country, and, according to the testi mony of his teachers, he Is the happiest boy In the institution. T?f,otnn Transcript: The eclipse af forded an opportunity for Brother Jas per to convert a few hundred negrvs In Richmond and Incidentally to reu erate that "the world do move." company, a recognized authority on steel and the various means by which it is tempered, said: This alleged tool maker of Illinois has no process for the hardening of Hteel that Is not known to all manufac turers of toils. The best method for method for tempering Is In the use of pure rain water. Nothing to surpass It has ever been discovered. Various other processes have been tested, but found inadequate to the desired result. Thla tool maker Is probably an expert and this, together with the fact that he Is In collusion with his customers. Is the c ause of the cracksmen patronizing him. They are safe In buying from him whereas a legitimate, law-abiding ma. chinlst would apprise the polic e of any attempt made by a buyer to get tools from him. It is not always In the quality of the steel employed in con struction, but the kltlful manner in which the tool Is wrought, that brings the best result. In our shop I believe we could harden b.ols to such an extent that they would eut or drill through any material and yet our process is the same as all other advanced machinists. 8teel costs from 49 to 50 cents a pound, and there Is -a special quality devoid entirely of iron. It is known as the Tungston. Tool workers do not use the best ior the worst but a grade that selli M about 30 cents a pound. The best tools are always made by hand I mean the ones that are em ployed by burglars such as drills, punches, tumblers, etc. This man. If he Is skilled In their making, doubtless derives an enormous revenue from the sale of his tools. WILUAM PENN. PHILOHOPHKK. William Penn was an Englishman be fore he came to America and founded Pennsylvania. An English publication haa just reprinted some of his pretty saylnga. These are sample: They have a right to censure, that have a heart to help. The rel Is cru elty, not Injustice. A reasonable opinion mut ever be In danger, where reason I not jadge (A Miser) In Rome sense mey be com par'd to Pharaoah's lean Klne, for all that he haa doe him no good. When the poor Indiana hear us call one of our family by the name .t ser vant they may cry out, what, call brethren servant We call out dots servants, but never Man, Not until Franklin' day did thu new colony have again so shrswd a pti.loio pher a it founder, LIVED ALONE A woman of Orange, N. J., is the heroine of a story that any melo- ramatist in the world would discard : s Improbable, even impossible. She has played the role of a Flip- planted wife, meekly and in silence fori fifteen years. She has lived In the attic of her own house while her rival oc c upied the par lor obr. tilie haa come Into the house by the back door because il cJlspleHf w- other woman to see her come in by the front. She has eaten the left-over bits of meat and the vegetables that were not good enough for her husband and his new mate. She was not allowed to carry a key and she must rap before she could en- er her own home. Her littel attic rooms were despoiled o make her rival's rooms otlll more at tractive. She lived on $2 a week, grudgingly given by her husband, and sometimes on the charity of friends. Virtually a prisoner in her own home, Mrs. Holmes, wife of Dr. Wil liam. J. Holmes, never Bpoke a word of complaint against her husband. Why? It is interesting to note the intricate workings of this one woman's heart. First, because she knew exposure would ruin him. Second, because she hoped he would 'get over his Infatuation." Third, because she did not know how to support herself if she left tliem. For these three reasons she submit ted In silence to humiliation and deg radation that have come to few women. Mrs. Holmes is a slight, sweet-faced, silver-haired woman of sixty-eight. Dr. William J. Holmes Is a big, hand some man, who looks a score les.B than hla seventy years. Mrs. Frederick William Hahn is a dark, robust woman of less than forty. These three are the dramatis pcrsonae of this stranger than melodrama. Fifteen years ago Dr. Holmes was one of the leading physicians of his state. He was rich and, which doesn't necessarily follow, respected. He had a large practice among the wealthy peo ple of Essex, county. He was fur halt his lifetime one o the medical staff of the Orange Memorial hospital. He was member of the exclusive Orange Mountain society. He was companion able to all the better sorts and condi tions of men and women. He had a stableful of fine horses and had a ken nel of famous sporting dogs. The home which Dr. Holmes bough- and built forty years ago was a luxur ious one. Peace reigned within and the sun of prosperity shone upon Its roof. One day a change came. It was con- temporaneos with Dr. Holm-' profes sional call pon Mrs. Hahn. She was the wife of the buyer for a big depart ment store In New York, and, with him and their young son, was living at the Central hotel, In Orange. She was a beautiful woman, with that Indefinable charm of manner that for lack of a better word is called magnetism. At the time of that visit Mrs. Holmes was In New York trying to ease the pain of her dying mother. When that was over Mrs. Holmes came back ty a pain that was greater than that which killed her mother. Satan came into Eden In the guise of a serpent. Mrs. Hahn came lino the Holmes house in the guise of a housekeeper. Her son and husband had disappeared. Mrs. Hahn alone knew of their whereabouts and the cause of their disappearance, and upon these subjects she was mute. Mrs. Holmes was surprised to find Mrs. Hahn thus Installed. But she was a meek little woman, grieved to SOME FACTS The hand, in the light of comparative r.atomy. most slenlflcantly marks the distinction between man ana oruie. n complex apparatus and the relation be tween its oerformancee and the mind are so remarkable that familiarity alone prevents their being observed with wonder. In aristocratic portraits the shape of the hand Is remarkably elegant, and Byron was undoubtedly correct In re gardlng the beauty of this feature as an Indication of gentle blood. One of most common signs of want of breeding Is a sort of uncomfortable con- lousnes of the hands, an obvious ig norance of what to do with them. In southern countries, kissing the h.nrt l. a loval salutation. The prac tice Is recognized In several of Shake speares' dramas "Why, this Is ha rho kissed away his hand in couriesy. -Ynu kiss your hand," says Colin to Touchstone, "that courtesy would be unclean at court If courtiers were shep herds." i4 ha nlcture of a troubled con science haa ever been Imagined equal to the nlghtwalklng scene In Lady vc.h.th?" Hhe had used to "lave her dainty hands" from childhood; but.hav- Ing once stained them with numan blood, It seemed to her reproachful heart that the spot would never wash out. There Is something- Irresistibly pa thetic In the moaning whisper, "All the perfumes of Araby will not sweet en this little hand." It Is the glorious boast of the patriot to oast . "With unpurchased hand Th vote that shakes th turrets of th land." IN THE ATTIC. submission by the loss of her mother Her protest was a faint one. "I don't think we need a housekeep er. William," the said. "You will find Mrs. Hahn charmink and her services valuable." replied th doctor, c losing the discussion. Far from being charming. Mrs Holmes found Mis. Hahn a woman ol violent temper. In a little difference of opinion at the table one day Mrs. Hahn hurled a dish at Mrs. Holmes. Mrs. Holmes appealed to her husband. Will you allow her to treat me so?" she asked. "Is she not a servant?" Dr. Holmes walked to the window and answered not a word. Mrs. Hahr laughed. That afternoon Mrs. Holmes' personal effects were moved to the at tic, and there she has lived for fifteen years. "My husband allowed me $2 a week for my support. Often he failed to give that, and the neighbors, who guessed that there was trouble, but learned it through no word of mine, used to bring me food. Such giving Is not systematic. I have known hunger and cold up there in the attic, but 1 never told my husband nor the woman In the luxurious quarters below. Per haps the woman kept the money from me. I don't know. I always blamed her more than him. He was always kind to me until he met her. "1 was seldom allowed to leave th' house. It all depended upon her whim. Sometimes she was afraid that I would talk to the neighbors about the way 1 was treated. She need not have feared. I would rather have torn out my tongue. I would not be telling It now but I could no longer keep the secret." Mrs. Holmes had been allowed to gr to New York one day to spend the night with her niece. When she re turned the next day the house waf empty. All the furniture of any value was gone. Three or four pieces, beside! the wretched furniture of the attic were left. Dr. Holmes and Mrs. Hahn hat .bought tickets for Philadelphia. Thej were lost In the crowd at the Broac Street station. A warrant has been issued for Dr. Holmes' arrest on the charge of aban donment. If he should wander back tc the place that has been his home foi fifty years this erstwhile society leadei will be lodged in jail to answer foi wife desertion. It was not the gentle, fill ver-halrec '. ife who was his Nemesis. It was f oman of stronger frame and face, oni ,iho resembled him, Annie Woodruff , his sister. ' "It took me a good many years tc I find out how matters stood. My sister In-law tried to hide their disgrace, and of course, the guilty ones did. She wai always allowed to receive me in the narlor. and it was only one day wher I insisted upon going to her room ane! followed her to the attic that I guessec the truth. She stubbornly refused 1 tell me why she had moved up there and why she no longer ate at the tabic with my brother and the housekeeper But I put the facts together piece bj piece. Then I talked with my brother He would not be persuaded to say word. I demanded that he send ana) the house-keeper. He refused. "I told the story to the governor of the Memorial hospital. They dropped him from the staff. The story got out and he lost his practice. "We will probably never see him again. I hope not. I could never for get his treatment of his wife, or that he broke my father's and mother's hearts. " Many a woman Is compelled to be s bread winner because her husband il a whisky winner. ABOUT HANDS. The hands are. by the very Instinel of humanity, raised In prayer, clasped in nfiecti.m, wrung in despair, pressed upon the forehead when the soul II "perplexed In the extreme,' drawn in ward to Invite, thrust forth objective!) to repel, the lingers point to Indicate and are snapped in disdain, the pain is laid on the heart in Invocation ol subdued feeling, and on the brow Ir benediction. The mere offer of the hand is the readiest slen of voluntary courtesy oi forgiveness and Its non-acceptance the most civil and yet meaning c f repulses Shaking hands Is a mode of greeting th origin of which is lost In obscurity, an Individuals display character in thel: manner of doing It. Who cannot at oice feel the antag onlstn between the touc h of a prude anc the cordial grasp of a friend j w nc knows not the sailor's grip of candle Heartiness from the conventional "pas slve giving of hands?" How perfect! does the graduated or lingering pre sure cause the mercury In love's ba rometer to rise or fall by the scale ol hope! What sympathies and anllpathlef are demonstrated by (he various do grees of kindly, irresolute, 'vivacious careless, fond or earnest manner ol shaking hands! It Is this relation be tween temperament, feeling, considera tion, and the Instinctive action of the hand which have given rise to palm Istry. A financier Is a person who makei hi fortune with other people' money In the bright lexicon of love there W no such word a peace. THE CARDS IKVISIBLYMARKED. That I. Tlief Ware luTlalblc M th Oilier FelloMa M'lio Mela tha . am M ien Him. A prominent turfman cere, attend ing the winter race meet, told a good story the other evening of an adven ture on a Cunarder. "You never heard of invisible ink?" he said. "Weil neither had I up to a dozen years ago, and my introduction to it was rather peculiar. At that time I was consid erable .greener in the ways of tha wicked world than I am at present, and coming acress on the Etruria, af ter a season in London, 1 was fool enough to sit in a four-handed poker game with three fellows 1 met in the smoking room of the ship. The vul nerable point about a rticnjwr-a-who-plays poker is his proud conviction that be can protect himself against any kind of "work." That was my own opinion, and consequently 1 didn't care a copper who my three acquain tances might be, as long as I found their society entertaining. Two of tbem, I may as well say right here, were plain, every-day business men from Boston. The other was a small, dark, smooth-shaven chap who Intro duced himself by the name of Cum mings and said he was a lace buyer for a firm of inporters In New York. "We began playing on the second day out of Liverpool, and inside of twenty-four hours were giving the game pretty nearly our exclusive at tention. The table we used was in the far corner of the smoking room and had four stationary chairs. As is cus tomary to many aboard ship, we se lected our seats at the beginning and kept them throughout the play. Cuin mings sat with his back to the parti tion wall, I sat opposite and one of the Boston fellows was on either side. I mention this arrangement, because it has a bearing on what followed. "We started out at a very easy gait," continued the turfman, "but soon raised the ante high enough to make it pretty warm. As far as I could see, none of my three friends played more than an ordinary club room game, and at the outset the bulk of the luck drifted to the lace buyer and myself. At the end of the first day we were each about $150 ahead. Next day 1 made most, of the winning myself and was astonished at the successions of good hands I held. As nearly as I can remember I cleared up something like $400, mainly from the two Bos ton men, and Cummings quit about even. Several times during the day I imagined the Bostonians looked at me with some slight suspicion, all of which afforded me considerable amuse ment and satisfied me incidentally that the game was absolutely on the square. On the third day luck veered around to the lace buyer, and he not only gather in my entire winnings, but nearly $200 besides: Meanwhile he tapped one of the Bostonians for $308 and the other for $150. Altogether he stood about $1,200 ahead at the close of the afternoon. By that time we were all pretty well fagged out, and we agreed to quit for a couple of hours and resume the play after dinner. Cummings left the table first, and I tarried for a few moments to smoke a cigar and chat with the Boston men. I had to get up to procure a light, and on returning I dropped into the chair which had been occupied by the lace buyer and began iaiy shuffling the deck of cards. Wnile so doing 1 hap pened to notice a peculiar speck at the upper right-hand corner of tbe top pastboard, which proved to be the king of clubs. It looked like a minute dot of some kind of analine ink. The end of the room where we sat was rather dark, and there was a fixed lamp in the moulding behind Cum mings chair mat was kept burning day and night. The spot caught the gleam from this light and couid only be seen when the card was held at a certain slant. From any of the other chairs it was entirely invisible. I was surprised, of course, and in running over the deck I soon found that all the face cards and aces were similarly spotted, some with one and some with more dots, the arrangement being dif ferent in each case. "The discovery upset me completely, and I could see it was an equal bomb shell to my two companions. We lay our heads together, and, to make a long story abort, we sent a steward after our lace making friend and after a very brief but spicy preface gave him two minutes by the watch to dis gorge his spoils. I must admit he car ried it off pretty well. 'This looks con siderably like a welch, he said, coolly, 'and if the deck is marked I know no more about it than you do. However, if you want your money back you can have it. 'A gentleman, said he, 'al ways wishes to avoid a scene.' With that he counted out his winnings and bade us good night. "A year or so afterward I saw him at Saratoga and learned positively that he was a professional short-card play er, who made a business of working the Atlantic boats. "To get back to the original point.the stuff he used in marking the deck was what is known as invisible ink,' and while it is seldom employed nowadays It can still be bought from any dealer in gambling tools. It has the peculiar property of being visible only by ar tificial light when viewed from a cer tain angle. How and when Cummings did his markings and why he left the deck on tbe table are matters of mere conjecture. Letting me win the other fellow's money at the start off and then winding me up at tbe finish Is easily understood. It's an old gamb ling trick and divprts suspicion." New Orleans Times-Democrat, Talk I njj of ithe Baroness Burelett. OoicUs, Ixrd Hotiglttton said: "Miss CoiMts likes me because 1 never pro posed to her. Almost all the young men of good family ell el; those who diid their duty by therir flamily always did. Mrs. Browne (Mis Coutts' com pnnion) used to see lit coming, and took lieraftlf out of the way for ten minutes, but dh only went into tbe next room and left the room open, and then the proposal took place, end tm. mediately it was done, Miss Coutti coughed and Mrs. Browne cams in again, Uncle Sam know how to handle the mall. He was awarded the grand price for the beat poeUl exhibit at Pari. rurotM ON TIE GULF STREAM.1 II EflrVet I'pon F.arapeao WMlkM Ureal, But V-ribl. Prof. Nasen has made the following statements with regard to the result of the experiments conducted during his last expedition on the Michael Sars. which has lately returned to Norfawy. The gulf stream, be say, is subject to great changes, and very little is as yet known as to its strength in winter. It was much weaker on th Norwegian coast this year than usual ly is the case, and the temperature was consequently lower. At the same time a very warm summer has been experienced in the west of Iceland, and the current that passes there was warmer this summer than usual. In general, tbe warm water coining from the Atlantic into the northern re- gions this summer appears to have had a different distribution than its usual one. This is most important as re gards the climatic conditions on tha coasts which the stream passe. It is generally admitted that the gulf stream considerably affects tha climate of the western coast of Britain and Norway, of Iceland, and possibly even of Spitsbergen. The effect la most marked in winter. While th harbors of the Baltic are ice bound, those on the western coast of Norway, even as far north as Hammerfest, are always open to shipping. In Great Britain the lines of equal temperatura in January run nearly north and south, instead of almost east and west, as in July, so that anyone in Middlesbrough would find a warmer climate in mid winter by going to Whitehaven than by traveling due south to an equal dls tauce. This, also, is one of the reas ons why' Aberdeen at that time la much warmer than Vienna. The lata eminent mathematician. Dr. W. Hop kins, estimated that without tbe gulf stream tbe mean annual temperature of Carnarvonshire would be 7 de grees, that, of the north of Scotland fully 12 degrees and that of Ireland aa much as 20 degrees lower than at present. From the gulf of Mexico, where its waters are raised to a warmth in win ter of 77 degrees F., and in summer up to 83 degrees F., it issues like a huge river of warmer water flowing over the vast mass of the cooler ocean beneath. As it issues from between Florida and Cuba it is equivalent to a stream about fifty miles broad and more than a hundred fathoms deep, which is then flowing at a rate of from three to four miles an hour. Gradual ly it spreads out like a partly opened fan,. the more eastern part losing itself in the Atlantic, the western and stronger flowing steadily in a norther ly direction, and fenced off from th American coast by the cold current which is returning southward from arctic regions. Thus it plays on uorth western Europe like a stream flowing from a hose, and tbe water which haa left the gulf of Mexico in the hot sum mer months probably comes near to the other side of the Atlantic in tha winter season. The amount of heat which it transfers was estimated by the late Dr. Croll as being equal to what is received from the sun by rath- er more than a million and a hall . square miles at the equator. eretf to?. journeys from the boiler In the gulf ot Mexico in thft refricprntor in Aretln nu-n- Ol 1 seas. But Prof. Nansen's observation "v commi kM suggest that the current does not al-" or the faS ways follow precisely the same path. of. ks c grsE-i That, indeed, is only to be expected. Jjji JZ.r a, M While its general direction will be eon-'A , ,T JaW huiui iur mac uepeiiua uu great ynyTA . e?i , a f . i . .1 ., -1. i r a- vu - ical causes minor variations are poaj,, Bible. If, for instance, the southward arctic curents be a little stronger than usual, they will push the gulf stream rather more to the east, and then Ice land will suffer. If the observation were taken over a sufficiently wide area of the north Atlantic, and for a long enough time, it might be possible to prophesy the direction which the gulf stream would follow in its jour ney across the Atlantic, and the places on which it would have the greatest influence at any particular times in other words, to foretell what kind of a season the farmer might expect HOW ION THUMB GOT TITLE. The Nam Was (fciveu by Barn am and lk "(altars!" byOrdar of Quean Victories The Countess Magri, formerly Mra. Tom Thumb, in a paper in the Wom an's Home Companion, entitled "The Recollections of a Midget," gives the following account of how the famous dwarf came by his name: "In speaking of Mr. Stratton I hare used the name General Tom Thumb, for by that name the public bent knew him. Perhaps a statement of how he received his title will be of interest a story which even Mr. Barnum has neglected to make known, but which Mr. Stratton himself toiu me. When Mr. Barnum first made his acquain tance and persuaded his parents to al low their child to travel, it was thought a good scneme to Introduce him to the public as "Tom Thumb." So as Tom Thumb he was heralded by the skill which made Barnum so fa mous, and by that name, he was In troduced to Queen Victoria and many of the royal and titled frequenters of St James. "On his first visit he had amused the queen by asking particularly after the prince of Wales, and when he waa the second time summoned to appear at the palace he was presented both to the prince of Wales and the princess royal, who afterward became empress of Germany. As be stood beside the children his smanness was more no ticeable. The duke of Wellington waa present, and noticed this fact, evident ly with much Interest, as he said to some one standing near, their royal taller than Tom Thumb. This re mark,' the general told me, 'was over heard by the queen.and, turning to the duke, sne said: "General Tom the duke gave me the miilltary aalute, from." Bowing low to her majesty, repeating the title. General Tom Thumb. Everybody bowed, and al though I did not fully comprehend then 'that her majesty's simple say-so could make It unchangeable, I found that ever after that 1 was always ad dressed as general.' "Mr. Stratton also said that he knew enough of the war history of the duke of Wellington to be greatly Interested In him, and to feel that an lntrod mo tion to this 'great fighter,' as hs called him, waa worth more than a hat with this royal boy and girl." 3 re?prrt $4 f lroad c wa;; tor 3 mlpcl is the l ere i tbJ .if-nw raUT: !re the grv; ay be, ght for somj rftered for broads by (atlon- -Not to yk Whnderson 't L v' i .Vv arc,. - I 1 ... '!!"" ''I.' '