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BISHOP HARTZELL. THE SUCCESSOR OF BISHOP TAYLOR IN AFRICA. WIU Boon l.rnir Till* Country to In •pert HI* I*o*l of l»uty on tlir Uurk Continent — A t'*efnl CHrUtlnn Life Tail of (ioodnem. ______ IflHOP JOSEPH : HARTZELL, M. I)., LL. I)., who was elected to the last general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church to fill the bishopric made vacant by the retirement of Bish op Taylor from the bead of the mis sionary work In Africa, Is making piep aratlona to leave this country for a tour of inspection in his new field. The new missionary bishop is of med ium height and of muscular build, and his hair and beard are white. Among the ministry of his church he is held In high esteem, and in the south, where most of his life has been spent, he Is very popular. The bishop Is the son of Michael and Nancy hartcell of Moline, III., who celebrated the sixtieth anni versary of their wedding day last May. He was horn In Moline In 1841. At the age of 1(1 years he entered the North western university at Bloomington, III., and from there went to the Garrett Biblical Institute at Evansville. He gpent eleven years In IhPse Institutions fitting himself for the ministry. Before ha left the Garrett. Institute he proved bis courage by swimming out during a storm lo a schooner wrecked on the lake shore and saving the lives of four faen. The young preacher stayed In lllnols for two years. In February of IS70 he was transferred to New Or leans, where for three years he was pas tor of the Ht. Charles Avenue church. During his pastorate there he became deeply interested In the work of the church among the negroes, and when by the rules of the conference lie was obliged to give up Ills pastorate, ho waa elected presiding elder and superin tendent of the churches and education BISHOP JOSEPH C. HARTZELL. •1 institutions in the conference. This post he held for ten years. During that time he has founded many schools and churches, and devoted himself to the practical work of the church. He found ed the Southwestern Advocate, and was Its editor for nine years. In 1882 Mr. Hartzell was elected as sistant secretary of the Freedman's Aid and Educational society, and since then h'ls work has been mainly among the negroes. So successful was he that In 1888, at the general conference in this city, he was elected corresponding secretary of the society for four years, receiving re-election at the conferences at Omaha in 1882 and at Cleveland in May of this year. As the execu tive officer of the society be has han dled more than $2,000,000, and his work has been most successful. When the general conference decided to retire Bishop Taylor on account of his age, the Rev. Mr. Hartzell was elected to the poet. Bishop Hartzell has three sons. His wife was Miss Jennie Culver of Chi cago, a relative to Miss Helen Culver, who recently gave $1,000,000 to the Chi cago university. His son, Joseph, is a teacher at Johns Hopklus university. Mrs. Hartzell will remain in this coun try while her husband is making his first tour of Africa, and when he goes there two years hence she will accom pany him. Mlrrubea l.rxp Niagara. Prof. Praukluud told some very In teresting things about microbes iu water during a recent lecture at the Hoyal Institution, lie said that these little organisms sent Into the Niagara river from the sewers of ItulTalo take the tremendous leap over the great falls, and pass through the fearful tur moil of the rapids and whirlpools be neath with little or no harm Hut after they have reached the placid waters of Lake Ontario they rapidly perish, sad almost eu.uelv dc-af t- > I'm. sad many other similar facts were ad tweed to shoe that gut«l subaid'nee in (••disturbed water la far More fatal to bacterial life than lit- n <! violent agi talloa In coals it with stun phertg alt Heme l*rof Prank land argues mat the storage of water In r»««ivuirs ta an r See 11- tu msthwd af fie tig b from ati srebea V Ns* Mini A bird in < vptlvtti gate an am t. tag proof si the s % cells n. - si n> to ot > and gab kuesa of Its ot*etvali< The irwt lime t« saw a huge Nona ant It neist t the ins*, t se t a > ■ 4 u u. . » moillk but hading (he b> tv dlcwgtee •kle, instantly icy ;*d i<- u. ► t **T%e i • *t 4c- m* h last i ».-n '» »L aaet- ho and «a p- > * *i«tug a se si a gnt af tbs so in. i spe -« ey»d It . nlaeeli and dc!vk«#»t» .> pud Ut n gbstok MS h - *4 and v .««■>>. /. *- flu | bonk nr11Ik anmtsi-tksMe *4g< • ... i.r i ■Mi : ■ i THIBETAN ANIMALS. Marro l*olo*n l)Mrrl|itl»n of Ihe Fam uli* Vak anil the >lu*k l>e«T. There are wild cattle in that country almost as big as elephants, splendid creatures, covered everywhere but on the back with shaggy hair and a good four palms long, says St. Nicholas. They are partly black, partly white and really wonderfully fine creatures, and the hair or wool Is extremely fine and white, finer and whiter than silk. Messer Marco brought some to Venice as a great curiosity, and so It was reckoned h$ those who saw It. There nre also plenty of them tame, which have been caught young. These the people use commonly for burden and general work, and In the plow as well, and at the latter they will do full twice as much work as any other cattle, being such very strong beasts. In this country, too, Is found the best musk In the world, and I will tell you how It Is produced. There exists In that region a kind of wild animal like a gazelle. It has feet and tall like the gazelle's and stag's hair of a very coarse kind, hut no horns. It has four tusks, two below and two above, about three Inch es long ami slender In form, one pair growing upward and the other down ward. It Is a very pretty creature. The musk Is found In this way. When the creature has been taken they find be tween the flesh and the skin something like an Iinpostume full of blood, which they cut out and remove with all the skin attached to K. And the blood in side this lmpostume Is the musk that produces that powerful perfume. There Is an Immense number of these beasts In the country we are speaking of. The flesh Is very good to eat. Messer Marco brought the dried head and feet of one of these with him to Venice. The peo ple are traders and artisans and also grow abundance of corn. The province has an extent of twenty-six days' Jour ney. Pheasants are found there twice un big us ouiN Indeed, nearly hh big an u peacock and having tails seven to ten palniH In length, and beside them other pheasants in aspect like our own and birds of many other kinds and of beautiful variegated plumage. The people, who are idolators, are fat folks with little noses and black hair and no heard, except a few hairs on the upper lip. The women, too, have very smooth white skins, and in every re spect are pretty creatures. Srotih llluuil In till! Klliprc»« Kugcnlr. Seventy years ago last May a little daughter was born to Don Cyprien Guz man y Palefext y Portocarrero, Comte de Teba. She was the second daughter of the Spunlsh nobleman by his mar rlago to Miss Edith Patrick, a lady of Scottish parentage, famous both for her beauty and for her ready wit. A few years after the birth of the little Eu genie, as she was named, her father'!1 ,,i.i. . iv, ti'AuOliy (*omf»i dp [ Montijo. died suddenly without an heir, and his noble title, together with hIs great possessions, went to Don Cyprien. When Louts Napoleon, after he became imperor, met Eugenie de Montijo, she was In the full girlish splendor of her strange beauty. In her red gold hair she wore a wreath of Parma violets, the emperor's favorite (lower, and the color of the flowers was repeated in a deeper, richer shade In her wonderful eyes. Seeing her and falling In love with her was the same thing, and in January, 1853, an Imperial crown spar kled oil the brow of the Spanish maid en, and Paris and France worshiped in deep humility at the feet of its empress —that Is to say. all France except the high nobility, who, from first to last, and, Indeed, to this very day, never ad mitted that the empress was their equal In rank, or that, indeed, she was anything hut a beautiful parvenu. Strange to say, this opinion was khared at the courts of the entire European continent, and only In Britain were the Emperor Napoleon and his Spanish con sort officially acknowledged as of equal rank with the royal family. Darwin** Whlou DpihI. The widow of the renowned scientist, Charles Darwin, died at her residence in Kent the first part of this month, at the age of 88. I •-’Ha v\ \iwt» ciianlk* darwin Itolor* l»rr mnrrlnta »hi> «m K mm a V' •••!** ihhI. UaUghlnr of iuiivk an I «t ik« faun* il«-r o» Ik* writ kntinn iHiltarji nark*, tiurnln »a» h*r cuMit aui) tkr mgr- t tM him in !•'<» Kn « |>t Ik** tuna ak«* | fcaa *t**ut nlth ktr mm, a ho tr* nil I <titHng*ilak*<i u i>b'tat* an*l a«ur«, j 'It* Iktrttin ban lit*) in k*r i|us»« j krntuk k»m* »fc*i<« k«>r bu»!mr,4 ■!«-1 *in«*» ki* •(* ntk h* • »*k g-.«*i i rM« in j (**» pin* kin tlfcinrv in Ik* a»4«r k* bn I j In S ' I ■>n*l *k» h! ,■ *.,» gsiaitjr in* H i«al«*l li tM‘t*n, a. »*>« !■ *»**•* I**«r t>r. I*, Mart W* * * i <w «l Wnaktnglan ‘ k*n re* unity |»nu;u! >t a n>|*niikt‘ »* * [ »»>» ill in Ik* t»*l« >'i \*hk kiuafIt’ll. in %ki#k k« #i -1 #a liti ik* (411*1 t k*»m at *n» »4**f*i#n nun tiling arn ikn * KgJ ■ k knnm.” »»• k Ink •< i> n»itk-> j • win i k tank a Tk»i 4 *»» h-tm nil IS A' NOBLE WOMAN. MBS. HEARST'S MAGNIFICENT CIFT TO BERKLEY COLLEGE. One Million Dollar. Turned Over to the Cause of Free Flduratlon Tlte Donor Is Noted for Her Kind Heart and Hood Deeds Done Aiiiuiik the Poor. RS. PHOEBE A. HEARST, who has startled California hy her gift of $1, 000,000 to Berkeley university, has made a departure that Is notable In asmuch us big in dividual donations are seldom made to state universities. The California State university at. Ber keley and the private foundation of Senator Stanford at Palo Alto are in tense rivals. Stanford is much more richly endowed than Berkeley, and Mrs. Hearst bus started a movement the end of whleh will be the eclipse of Stan ford hy Berkeley In wealth and power. Regent Relnsteln believes that Mrs. Hearst's gift will he added to from ot ti er sources until the state university will have added to Its wealth the sum of $4,000,000. She will spend at once $300,000 for two new buildings. There Is to he an international competition of architects for the work, and Mrs. Hearst will pay all expenses Involved in that undertaking. Californians are very fond and very proud of their state educational Institution and desire that It may be made the greatest triumph of American free education. The site at Berkeley, on tlte mountain tilde, with Its eucalypti and oak, overlooking the great hay, Is the noblest university in Hon Gold PMiftrutm T.e»«t. Very wonderful are the experiments of Prof. Roberts-Austen on the "dlf j fusion of solid metals." The professor lias proved, for instance, that gold, without being melted, will diffuse its | atoms through a mass of solid lead. Of i course the amount of diffusion is slight. ! but it is easily measurable. In some of | the experiments cylinders of lead about two and three-quarters inches In I length, with gold placed at the bottom, i were kept at a high temperature but i not high enough to melt either »f the metals for various periods of time. In three days enough gold had passed tip ward through the solid lead to be de tected at the top of the cylinders! Gold and lead kept pressed together for four days, without being heated above ordi nary temperatures, were strongly unit ed. Solid gold also diffuses lit solid sil ver and solid copper. These facts are regarded as furnishing confirmation of the view long held by Prof. Graham that "the three conditions of matter, solid, liquid and gaseous, probably al ways exist In every liquid or solid sub stance, but that one predominates over the others.” A llfrp I’olHr N»*n. Dr. Nansen, who returned last sum mer baffled lu ilia attempt to reach the north pole, although he got nearer to It than any one else lias ever been, re ports a fact which upsets seme old Ideas about the Polar sea. He found that the sea north of Siberia is shallow in Its southern portion, averaging only 90 fathoms deep, but that above lati tude 70 deg. It suddenly becomes pro found. tlte bottom falling to a depth ol from 1,800 to 1.900 fathoms. If this ap plies to the entire polar basin, then the north pole does, not lie in shallow water, as many have supposed, but is situated tr. the midst of a deep sea a fact which has a hearing upon the prob lem of how best to reach the pole. MRS. PHOEBE A. HEARST. the world, and Mrs. Hearst wishes to place it in the fore-front of the world's universities, In point of architecture and erudition. Ai a recent meeting the board of regents passed a vote of thanks to Mrs. Hearst, and Urgent Heinsteui and Governor Hudd sent her personal letters expressing their grati tude for her magnificent gift, Mrs Hearst Is the widow of the late United States Senator Hearst and mother of the proprietor of the Sau Francisco Kxantlner and the New York Journal She Is a most charming woman, and was one of the most popular Indie* at the nutlonal capital when her husband was a member of the upper house of congress. Perfect hostess as she is. an>l much as she adorns society, Mrs 1 Hearst Is not alone a society woman she Is a great deal more She Is it i*vel*hwaded business woman, thor (Highly understanding all the ins and outs ot her large mint tin and other In* j terests. Iktlnty and re lilted as she Is | In her dress and all personal belong ing*. she does not hesitate to go don n tr.to mines and other rkskt soiling I places, if k) doing so she can add io her already large sturh of ka»*lt>dg> Mh e h4« 4 * arm Ntatl. it*** ih« >jth *ti«> tri*# la h*r ht*u t to h« r I iuilimtut 4 ml it* tn»|im tait»<**4 | ! ujwtt Hht Uvn ta (Uv 44 11 iltM# 40 ilk iMDV 1)1141), I 4**4, AlkwVtp 4)1. »ht* |a H 1 tlH| |M tit*!*' la tllv i«N ttf ' In I fiPf HieU. V V4*4ta B4*k t(l!fit 1! pff • i thin good It sunt to the edu* at two of youog HWk amt women in tkms tw* Mu*** *r * n • •id and the H-> »se • f k - - • It « New HUhop of Dulutli. Rev. Dr. John D. Morrison, recently elected bishop of the diocese of Duluth, Minn., is one of th« most scholarly men in the Protestant Episcopal clergy of the United States. The new bishop is not an American born. He is a native of Canada, and it was in that country he was given his secular education. He entered McGill university, the lending •Hlucatlonal Institution in the domin ion. and was graduated from that col lege with the degree of LL. D He theu came to the United Stales and entered 1 Vt!*'i4oah*#i •.•HUttAi» la in* -'•*» «< Now York Thai vottogo l*rt«4 now him Ik* 4«a:> * of ilurto* of lUvtaio Hi* Rr«f .b*>f • » «• I'lntt knrufc ta H»»Itnor .nv« York. H* Uhihit ia tkot I M with af«ot »* <<•«* for »U ***** *w4 414 mu;it to tut • *(4 lh« «-tii«u of th# K|i<*iotlii* tlth *a4 bolls o|« ku ckor t*. H*> wo* th«a it»a*f*«*«4 *h u*4 *i’'O’a. wh ** | ** u m* **vi i» of at foka’o t hot i-ii I tii * oi1 h i' *io* of I";* Mi i »<■ ||* wo* ] • *tl“4 IO Ik* M of linin'a k* • • Yw**ri’.*a h*wt* of bubo** at th*i# I GEN. J. T. TORRENCE. THE ENERGETIC LIFE OF ONE SELF-MADE MAN. Hl« llrrnit l»ei«th Hrmovni One of the Country’. Moat Ilf-markable Ksaapln of the Triumph of rer.everi.nce— Made a gTnrtiine Since tlie War. ENERAL JOSEPH T. Torrence. who died in ’ Chicago recently, wax a native of Mercer county, P a. He was born March 15, 184.3, his parents being James and Rebecca Torrence, both natives of the Keystone state. Clolng to Sharpshurg. he was there employed three years by Mr. John P. Agnew, who owned large ldast furnaces, and thence went to Briar Hill furnace in Ohio, where he worked in various capacities, finally learning the blacksmith trade, , and rising to the position of assistant foreman, before he bad reached his 17th year. Ills business connected with the furnaces was made a careful study in all Its details, and he mastered it, both practically and scientifically. Upon the opening of the war of the rebellion his heart was stirred with pa triotic ardor, and at the call of Presi dent Lincoln for .300,000 men he promptly offered his services, enlisting as a private In company A, 105th regi ment, Ohio volunteer Infantry. Though young In years he had a strong and well-developed physique, and was natu rally of a commanding spirit, qualities and characteristics which at once led lo his appointment as a non-commis sioned officer. He served faithfully In the numerous engagements In which he took part, until the battle of Perryvllle, in which he received four wounds, being so se riously disabled that he was granted an honorable discharge from the army. He was afterward given a light pension from the government. In 18«y he removed to Chicago, be ing called thither to take charge of the furnaces of the Chicago iron works, and in the following year became cou, nected also with the Joliet Iron and Steel company. In addition to his other duties, he superintended the construc tion of furnaces at De Pare, Win., and Menominee, Mich., and later built two improved furnaces for the Joliet Iron and Steel company, and had charge of them until he became consulting engi neer for the Green Bay and Bangor Furnace company at Chicago. His good judgment, his cool-headed ness, his tact in managing men, his eminent fitness for leadership, and his familiarity with military matters made him a conspicuous figure among Chi cago's prominent public-spirited men, and at their solicitation he consented, notwithstanding his overwhelming duties, to accept the colonelcy of the Second regiment, I. N. G., to which po sition he was elected and duly com missioned by Governor Beveridge in 1874. After the law organizing the guards into three brigades he was rec ommended to Governor Cullom as a most suitable man to be appointed brigadier general of the First brigade of the Illinois National Guard. Gov ernor Cullom acted on the suggestion, and sent him his commission. This was just on the eve of the riots at Chi cago in July, 1877. After organizing his staff he. a; the request of Mr. Monroe Heath, then muyor of Chicago, established his head quarters in the office of the chief of police, and at omc proceeded to organ ize cavalry and artillery force* to pre serve cider, amt placad guards at the water and gas work* to forestall any attempt of the rioters to destroy them (tuhsequently he became one of Chi cago's leading business men and aiunssrd a fortune In the Iruu Indus try. On Sept II. 1*72. he married \ll«* | Elizabeth Nurton. the accompllsh-d daughter of the late Jesse O Nortuu of Chicago aud by her had one daugb tei, Jessie Norton Torren e, The sud den death of Mr. Torrence Ocl 12. Utl. the recu*t of an accident while tahing n ride with her daughter, was a | Sever* bin* to hei fuiully and w i !*• tire I* of devoted friends. In the word* of another ' Mr*, Torrence w*« one of a type of wotnew peculiarly the prod- I net of the freah. free vigorous west. t*u the world she aaa tuily known for her beauty h*r cultivation, her hm 1 runty tharosa a* the hoed id a »pl*’t*<li<i 1 and bn.pliable l®*r. only lately t» i pted whi h she bennidied by her I and adorned by ber preoeniw. Hut tu those who hne* h < in .1 these z<mI||I* wire but the tarnish on a lurety pt**> tor* ghe was pefhut In her .tons, * tt tty In her huu*. >otd ui * ** t* ■ r-oi i , her devotion m her' hour* and family, and, what waa tee* to be .spet t.d, she | waa of unerring i*t !#•*• tu tn the zn-irw weighty ahwrw of b<< i .a In alt t\* l>Vg* till sftrnded enter prise* Hi Skill * * 1 ns.. * d *ge was n*r husband's confidant anil adviser, and nothing to which she had given her unqualified approval ever went amiss.’’ OUR SUBLIMINAL SELVES. How a Hoy >l*y He l ured of IheC lffAT ette llaldt. When a somnambulist is put into the hypnotic condition and then talks it is found that the speaker Is that same personality which spoke and acted dur ing the time of ordinary somnambu lism, showing that the personality which acts during ordinary somnambu lism and the personality brought Into action by hypnotism are the same, gays the North American Review. This new personality has of late become a sub ject of great interest and persistent study. Not only does it come into ac tivity in ordinary somnambulism and in the hypnotic condition, but also In dreams, in reverie, in abstraction and sometimes, apparently, in a normal pas sive condition. The second personality has been named the subconscious or subliminal self and it possesses many curious faculties which we have not time to consider here, but whatever tills subliminal self may be we have in hypnotism the means of experiment ally reaching and influencing it. and tills Is where the great power of sug gestion appears and is utilised Sup pose, then, liie physician had a patient in the deep hypnotic sleep; the patient hears nothing, perhaps feels nothing. The physician then says to him: “When you awake you will take the book which lies on the table, open It at ihe forty-third page and read four lines at the top of the page.” He Is then awakened. He had heard nothing but ills subliminal self, which has been made accessible by hypnotism, lias heard and influences him, to carry out tile suggestion. Me goes to the tablet and takes up the book, finis the forty-* third page and reads the four lines at the top of the page; he lias no thought hut that he is doing It all of his own accord, and so he Is he Is obeying Ihe impulses of Ids own subliminal self. Suppose the patient to be a boy with iho cigarette habit and the physician had suggested as follows: "When you awake you will no longer desire to smoke, On the contrary, the very thought of it will be disagreeable to you and you will avoid it altogether." He awakes, he knows nothing of what has transpired, but he finds lie no long er has the desire to smoke and conse quently he ceases the practice. Htorlp* About l.onl Hjiiulolpb t tiuri'hlll In the Nineteenth Century these are. seme good stories told by tfir Algernon West In an article on "Lord Randolph Churchill us an Official.” A treasury clerk put some figures before the then chancellor of the exchequer. "I wish you would put them plainly ho that 1 can see them,” said Lord Randolph. The clerk remarked that he had done bis best, and pointed out that lie had reduced them to decimals. "Oh," said the minister, "I could never under stand what ("hose dots meant." Once when bimetallism cropped up at. the treasury he remarked to Sir. A. God ley, "I forget; was I a bimetallist when 5 1 was at the India office?" Ther" >« a tale which illustrates his abiding sense of humor. Shortly after he had writ ten a letter to the Times violently at tacking Karl Granville he was cross ing the channel and was dreadfully sick. "How Granville would like to see me now,” he said. Sir A. West te calls the funeral service for Lord Ran dolph at the Abbey, when he says: "I could not but think sadly of what he many a time said humorously, ‘Mr. Gladstone will long outlive me. and I often tell my wife what a beautiful let ter he will write on my dpath proposing my burial in Westminster Abbey’ and Mr. Gladstone, as we all know, did write to the Duchess of Marlborough a very noble letter of condolence. A Famous Fantrr Dpm<I. A Cleveland dispatch to a New York paper states that the noted "long fast er," Dr. Tanner, was cremated or crushed in the burning of the Whit niore-Robinson company’s plant at Cleveland and lies under a huge pile of debris. . Dr, Tanner's real name was Francis 1 I * OR. TANNKIt Harriann. and be achieved fame of a certain kind by bln long I net a. He b** torn heard of but little of Inie year*. S*\etal year* ago be aotd hla «>(• to a «(• tuiau named Adam Hlld for tlo and an old tearing machine Hlld married Ike woman and recently. when be went to the worhbouee. *h*' applied for a •livorer but *ai teftmed iximiti Ham o*m|* The tnt*re*ttng do Met and i“ • ut *: « m U»-1 in drink from a d'*b after the nMtatter m! a ebb. ». a f** « W«4t Mr It • w<> «a to ewggeat ibat bln*turd* mar' h in 'be babM of tuitrtiiai tbetf thin) by »atg«