Current Topics KShc Le/fion of Honor. The conferring by the French gov ernment of the decoration of the le gion of Honor on Ferdinand W. Peck, commissioner general for the United States to the Pa;i3 exposition, draws attention to this order, a membership in which is greatly prised In Frame. Officials of the administration at Washington say Mr. Peck cannot re tain the decoration unless authorized by a special act of congress, as pro vided for by the constitution. The order of the Lesion of Honor was instituted In May, 1802, by Na| o leon as consul. In class it is an order '‘of dintinctlon and reward for civil and military services.’’ Under the first empire the distinctions conferred in vested the persons decorated with the rank of legionary, officer, commander, grand officer of grand cross. Napo leon’s ostensible intention in creating FEUD W. PECK. the order was through ItH medium to protect republican principles and the laws of equality, and to abolish dif ferences of rank in society, every so cial grade being considered eligible. The Rev. W. H. Murray, one of the missionaries whose fata was a matter of douht, is one of the men who be came interested in the Chinese blind, lie asslstad In devising a system of raised dots by which a blind person can learn to read in three months. Cains Distinction. Prof. Albert Michalson, head of the department of in the Univer Prof. Mlchelaon. Buy or Chicago, has JuBt been awarded the "Grand Prlx" at the Paris exposi tion for his exhibi tion and applica tion of his new In vention, the inter ^ ferometer. Presi dent Harper has received word of the di3ti n c 11 o n which his inven live protessor nas gained auroau. me Interferometer ia a new kind of spec troscope which Prof. Michelson has lecently constructed. Prof. Michelson has made a new ap plication of Ilia interferometer where by the diameter of stars can he meas- ' ured with a very high degree of ac- ! curacy. The interferometer, which , Prof. Michelson has been engaged in ] perfecting since 1880, is an Instrument j by means of which it is possible to ] use the wave length of light as a stand ard of length, and thus obtain accu rate measurements of infinitesimally Rmall distances and differences of op tical density. So sensitive is the in terferometer that it is capable of measuring dlHtanres as small as the one five-millionth part of an inch. Por measuring the diameters of stars it is more powerful than the largest telescope. Pulls the “Purse Strings. Here Is the latest photograph of r he Hon. W. W. Otbbs of Philadelphia, who lias been nominated by Senator Hanna to lie treasurer of the republi TKKMI HKH UIQttt cu rumiMiiiM Mr. (ItbM u iM 4irv> »or uf m«i|f Ui|i> turpui« u* It* ti ih« futtiih I'kiU il«l|»kl*>t lu h.»i I tkta iint»i 9o i Tk« llrnkr! Id *«*« ■ fuaflil ***** Ik* »!>♦.«>*. ff of « ku irMlIf Mm Tka Iu4tl ko«M If* •*■'* »« k MUM |IUM lu Ik* Mark lk*« aaxk'na karate**™ **•••■ Sought Cheap Fame. Telegraphic dispatches iu the news papers tell of the feat of Letty Clifford South Hrcwer, Me., who proved hei “bravery’* by scaling a flimsy iron lad der leading to the top of a 126-foot chimney. Several me n hail essayed the feat but had given up and descended Letty Clifford. after making hut half the ascent. For the sake of demon strating her nerve and winning the $5, together with the plaudits of the gaping multitude, this fool In petti coats jeopardized her life utid accom pllshed nothing of any real merit, ny her daring she fill ed no empty stomach unit clothed no naked feet. The world In full of hero ines who would scream at sight of a mouse and who would grow dizzy at the top of a step ladder, but whose willing hands are the support of wid owed mothers or orphaned children. Our admiration should not be wasted on bridge-jumpers, on lunatics who ride bicycles night und day to the last heart beat, or on steeplejacks In skirts. Such foolhardy feats should be frowned on rather than applauded. Alvasovsky, the Russian marine painter, some of whose pictures were shown at the World’s Fair, died re cently at the age of 82. His native town of Ferdosia, on the Black sea, rave him a public funeral. Nearly every gallery In Europe possesses one or more of his works, and in the Plttl palace at Florence bis portrait Is placed between those of ILeonardo da Vinci and Michael Angelo. It would appear that Thomas B. Reed as a practicing attorney Is doing better financially than as speaker of the national house of representatives. Announcement Is made that he is about to purchase a large tract of land at Oyster bay, Ixmg Island, adjoining the property of Gov. Roosevelt. ‘Preacher to GrucK. Farmer. Rev. Dr. J. A. Thayer, one of the best-known and most able clergymen in western Pennsylvania, and who had held the pulpit of the bis Cimrch of Disciples in New Castle for nineteen years, has resigned his charge and Is now conducting a truck farm near New Castle. Dr. Thayer felt his health going from him preaching and lectur ing and editing the church paper, and , DR. A. J. THAYER, let go one day, finding he couldn’t keep up. He bought a piece of wild land, entered upon the studies of the state agricultural college, dug furrows in the earth, planted seed in the springtime and all that kind of primi tive thing, reaped his own little har vest aud Just went from shop to shop —and sold out. Everything he raised was a little bit better than that raised by his neighbors, and besides he’s got back his health and is happy. From a few acre* of wild land his investment is now a model farm; so much so that the department of agriculture has ap pointed bun ns state lecturer to the farmers’ Institutes for next season He will begin this work in December. Count Von Waldwrane, who la going to China to dear up what ik left of the celestial empire, in old enough to think a good deal of his personal comfort while campaigning Therefore, he la taking with him a portable house built of an aidmatoa preparation, light, fire proof and weatherproof, containing reven roosts and a bathroom With this section of civilisation at ronimand the Uerman veteran will be able to eats* paign In comfort. A Stmuh P ly Ejrterminutvr. 1’ioplr In the country who are a » no>ed b) flies should r> iu< nilter Inal i duster* of ted clover, If huug In the i room and left to dry and shed ita faint 1 fragrant perfume through the air, will It he away1 more flte» than »tuh» ' saucer* of nioi***M and other fltfap* and flypaper t an ever roll* ' t It timid appear that k*ng before the late llcnry living* wioie * l*r«>giv*a as 1 l*overt» * at Aen.»tn» (to il*. II naa a •Inal* Itt ad v ovate V< long ago at ItTI IS • nd»ll I’hitlipw delivered as ad drsaa before the tabor party of Maes* i htMtli la which he ue.td Mr Hoot ■ well aa car tug that flfy year* a*a> • the idea that a mra omM owa laad •ad leave It to hia rhlldres will b« ye |ttiM as rldtcuhiu* * 15he XOeeKJv Panorama. Hunringtcn Mausoleum. Nearly twelve years ago In New York, Mr. Huntington began to build the tomb in which his body will re pose. No building In the world can compare with this tomb in strength, massiveness and durability. Each tier of the steps in the ilfty feet of solid rock from the roadway to the door of the mausoleum is hewn from a single forty-ton stone. Its foundation is six teen feet underground. The mauso leum is forty-two feet long, twenty eight feet wide and twenty-four feet high. The gates are of bronze and the Interior U of Italian marble. There are sixteen catacombs. In the struc WHKRK HIS BODY WII,L REPOSE, turn there Is not a stone weighing less than eighteen tons. Over the door in severe letters is the single word ‘Huntington." Among the officers volunteering for active service in the far east Is Prince Jaime tie Bourbon, only son and heir of the Spanish pretender, Don Carlos. He is a corn let In the Grodneo Dra goon guards, stationed at Warsaw, and will go with his regiment to Port Arthur. He has a commercial Interest in the far east, being part owner of a large steamship named the I.lllia, trad ing between Odessa and Russian China. Mrs. Laura A. Alderman of Harley, I urner County, S. I)., Is said to own one of the largest orchards In the coun try. It consists of 150 acres on which are planted 8,000 trees, besides 1,000 currant, hushes, 1,000 gooseberry bush es, and 500 grapevines. "Reference the Old. Bow low the head, boy; do reverence to the old man. Once like you, the vicissitudes of life have silvered the hair and changed the round merry face to the worn Cisage before you. Cnee that heart beat with aspirations co equal to any that you have felt; aspira tions crushed by disappointment, as yours are perhaps destined to be. Once that form stalked proudly through the gay scenes of pleasure, the beau ideal of grace; now the hand of time that withers the flowers of yesterday has warped that figure and destroyed the noble carriage. Once at your age, he possessed the thousand thoughts that pass through your brain, now wishing to accomplish deeds equal to a nook In fame; anon imagining life a dream that the sooner he awoke from the better. But he has lived the dream very near through. The time to awaken Is very near at hand; yet his eye ever kindles at old deeds of daring, and the hand takes a firmer grasp of the stafT Bow low the head, boy, as you would in your old age, be reverenced. Robert Planquettc, author of that tuneful opera "The Chimes of Nor mandy,” Is to have unique honor be stowed upon him. The new chime of bells is about to be rung at the village church in Corneville, and the leading bell bears this Inscription: "I have caused Normandy to be sung all over the world." The Freni h title of the opera, it will be remembered, Is "Lcs Cloches de Corneville.” Illncss of “Ri C- Hun. R. G. Dun. the financial statistician and commercial Intelligencer, Is ill at his summer home, near Narragansett Her. Mr. min id the principal mem ber of the famous mercantile agency hearing his name. He has been asso ciated with the concern since 1851. In 1854 he was ad* milted to member It. 0. ■ Mt Sine# that tint* the agency hui« attained world-wide renown, and It* growth and importance were larg-ly due to the individual effort and geniua for organUation pertaining to tin prln cl pal owner Mr. Dun waa horn at Chillh-olh#, Ohio, in UN and Iwgun life «i an wand hoy In a country ature with a »alary of I.' a week. Th* rniii ut He-man mullat. Ith hard l.lehichh who haa lived iu laindon •luce the I’m*a Pt mUd war, recently celebrated h>« twentieth birthday. Ho ia the author of motiI *»irniili worha. annng them one in whhh he claim* that the peiulltrUl** la many of the phluree hy famoita paiateia are due to d*fr U In Ihe * talon of the paiateia. I run N li e ah h the man who laptured ihtit* Ana in the Meihan war. i* *illl Hviai at i*un uj the firm, and In lsr.9 he pur cha., Hcpt, 1,—Andrew Anderson, a sub-contractor for a star mail route south of here, has left the country without settlliiK with hi* creditors, or hi* bondtuncn. Ills de partuje, which took plate Sunday was hot known until yesterday when he failt'i] to call at the postofflie lor the mail sacks tie Is said to have writ ten t<> his landlord to «end hie effect* to Oinahu I hurt It |iv«tlr*t»«l. fITOnCHAM, Neb, Aiik. 29 The new Presbyterian church here wut dedicated Sunday, the set vires helm; conducted t>y Itev. It M Uivt. It It., j of l.tnioln. assisted hy Itev. II. M (llllner and Itev W. K. Williams of the Methodist Kplscupal church The chinch I* a neat structure 3t»ls feet co ,tins. escluslve of the material d the old church, about and seats St*, The «s4 08111) ml »«(» I Mikiai mtoKKN |,mv Nets, tfsnt l-j VVheti f , ,,,, i . on Vi Iti d tt .*et . and Ite.ldinv the men who br»k« | opeii dts .1 It Ti* i t*»v s safe at Alts* ley on the l'iih «>f Jitl), were pot on j trial After the jt.ry was out Hires 1 hours It brought In * rsrdul »f guilty Of the two hundred and MVent) Hi* dollars stoles most of it ws* re.u* sr-| II aisUnl an I W Whs ns will Us I trt«*| asst uy a vhatge of rati s s ssl log » $50 Wheel Bought Pfrect from Our Factory Costs You But S22.fl!; a Tires Guaranteed One Year. Highest Equipment Send Us One Dollar And .t.ilo whether LADIES' or GENTS' bl.ycle, Clear urul Color Wanted, and we will gend youour new lOOO, regular 160.(10 model AKRON KINO BICYCLE byei‘ preset!. O. P., euhjrtot to examl Iia*!<)S. 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