Washington Day by Day
News Gathered Here and There
at the National Capital
DEWEY TO LEAVE HOME
PRESENTED BY PEOPLE
WASHINGTON. —Admiral Dewey
and wife are to rent out the
horn" in Rhode Island avenue, pre
sented to them by the contributions
of the American people, to live at
1601 K street, the home of Mrs.
Dewey before her marriage. The
smallness of the dining-room in the
gift house is said to be the cause of
its abandonment by the admiral and
his wife. Admiral Dewey explained
that while the gift house is very com
fortable, the dining-room is capable
*of seating only 14 persons, and this
fact has prevented Mrs. Dewey from
entertaining to any great extent. She
is fond of society, accepts many din
ner invitations and naturally wishes
to return the hospitalities of her
friends. She has given a number of
dinner parties, but has had to restrict
the number of her guests more than i
she likes to d*.
After Mrs. Dewey's marriage the K.
street house was leased first to the
late Senator Alger, and latterly to
Secretary Hitchcock. Mr. Hitchcock
recently gave up the place, and im
mediately workmen began making re
pairs and alterations. Their, orders
were so imperative that they worked
far into the night.
Mrs. Dewey’s home in K street is
magnificently furnished and it is said
that the Khode Island avenue place
will be leased furnished. The K
street house was the home of Mrs. I
Dewey during the lifetime of her first
husband, Gen. Hazen of the signal
service. Her K street house is much
nearer the residence of her mother,
and she likes that location better
than the house presented by the
American people to her husband. The
title to the Rhode Island avenue
house row stands is in Mrs. Dewey's
name.
MISS NORA LANGHORNE
MAY BECOME PRINCESS
SOCIETY here and in Virginia is
deeply interested in a rumor from
London to the effect that Miss Nora
Langhorne, youngest of the five hand
some daughters of C. D. Langhorne
:if Albemarle county, Va.. has cap-1
.ured the heart and received an offer
of the hand of Prince Francis of Teck.
the good-looking brother of the prin
cess of Wales.
That Prince Francis' family were
willing that he should marry a
wealthy American has been known |
Tor some time, but Miss Langhorne
has not a great fortune. Her brother
in-law. Waldorf Astor, and the lat
ter's father, William Waldorf Astor.
however, have more money than they
know what to do with and are said
to be heartily in favor of an alliance
that would place them in the inner- i
most circle of English society, which, :
?s is well known, has not taken very
kindly to the elder Astor. The latter
is already reaping the benefit of the
uopularity cff his daughter-in-law, who
was Miss Nannie Langhorne and who
at the time of her marriage to young
A'aldorf Astor was Mrs. Shaiv, having
married and divorced Robert Gould
Shaw of Boston in a surprisingly
short time after leaving the school
room. It was under her chaperonage
that Miss Nora Langhorne made her
London debut last season and at once
attracted the admiration of the smart
world.
Should the alliance in question' be
arranged, the Astors will receive full
credit for the match, as without a
handsome dot from them it would be
impossible for Priuce Francis to think
seriously of marrVing the charming
Virginian.
Miss Langhorne’s sisters are all
handsome and popular matrons, just
as they were great southern belles.
They are Mrs. K. Moncure Perkins of
Richmond, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson
of New York, Mrs. Reginald Brooks
of Boston, and Mrs. Waldorf Astor.
Their father's estate, Mirado, in the
mountains of Albemarle county, has
been in the possession of the family
for many generations, and although
somewhat run down since the war,
is still a beautiful property.
Young Mr. Astor, who passed sev
eral weeks at Mirado last September,
is said to be anxious to restore the
estate to its condition befifre the war,
when the grandfather ol’ his bride was
tne owner of 1.000 slaves, and every
thing about the land and mansion
was kept in the highest state of or
der.
TEACHING SCHOOL BOYS
TO SHOOT WITH RIFLES
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT S ardent l
wish to make America a nation of
sharpshooters is in a fair way of
realization. Shooting clubs are being
formed in the various states and are
procuring arms from the war depart
ment: agents are being sent to the
large cities for the purpose of in
structing the students in the public
schools how to load and sight rifles
so that the school boys may acquire
proficiency in the art of killing.
Not the least startling of the varied
progressive ideas incorporated in
President Roosevelt's last message to
congre^* was a suggestion that rifles
be put in the hands of public school !
boys and a course in firing at targets
he included in the education of Amer
ican youths. This recommendation
was the final chapter in the presi
dent's message, apparently having
been added as an afterthought.
In the Washington schools a brisk
competition has been started to de- |
termine the best marksman. The boys !
are tested by firing the guns from !
standing, kneeling and lying posi- !
tions. The most expert pupils in the j
different grades are to meet in com
petition among all the city students.
In all schools and colleges where
military science is taught under fed
eral appropriation a strict course in
target work is compulsory. Regular
army officers are on duty at these in
stitutions. If the movement contin
ues to grow it is hoped that shooting
ranges will be established in every
public school in the land.
While the president’s idea is gen
erally approved, there are some per
sons and some organizations very
much opposed to it. The Interparlia
ment Art Union, which is working tc
bring about the peace of the world is
antagonizing the president’s pro
gramme on this particular question
although it regards him as one of its
stanchest supporters in the world
movement for universal peace. Tht
union takes' the ground that if uni
versal peace is to be established b>
means of international arbitration, it
becomes a false step for a nation tc
be cultivating a warlike spirit among
its youths and young men by teach
ing them to shoot with the idea that
they may some time be called on tc
shoot to kill in battle.
GOVERNMENT MAKES BIG
SAVING IN COST OF INK
ALLEGED irregularities in the pur
chase of dry colors for use in the
bureau of engraving and printing
have been brought to light through
which the government has paid about
$1,000,000 too much for its supplies.
Whether the irregularities are action
able or not is now under considera
tion by United States Attorney Baker
of the District of Columbia.
The matter has been under investi
gation by the treasury department for
about a year, and has been kept very
quiet. It finally transpired through
the publication of the hearings on the
sundry civil bill before the house com
mittee on appropriations.
For "several years the government
paid from 45 to' 60 cents a pound for
these colors. Concerns which had lost
in the bidding finally made charges
that something was wrong. It de
veloped that the ink used was made
by a process invented by a man in
the bureau. The government paid 45
cents a pound for a “hard black" and
as high as 65 cents a pound for a
“soft black.” When the charges were
made last year, Director Sullivan of
the bureau made a personal investi
gation of the manner in which the
color contracts were made, and found
that a satisfactory black could be pro
duced for 12 cents a pound.
Thereupon the price was reduced,
and the saving for the year was more
than $114,000. The color contracts
theretofore had been in ebarge of the
ink export of the bureau, and the
price had been about what is charged
by several different ink concerns ir
the open market.
Prosperity in Canada.
In his annual report the president
of the Bank of Montreal, Canada’s
largest banking institution, says that
the business in 1906 surpassed all
former records and the condition ol
Canada at present is one of general
prosperity. The farmers fared well;
mines of all kinds produced more, and
the output of the forests and the seas
exceeded that of any former year
Canadian railway earnings continue
large and manufacturing concerns ir
many cases are refusing to take
further orders. The immigration foi
the year (215,000) was the heaviest
on record.
Worn by Ancient Britons.
Relics of the days when Boadicea
conducted her campaign in the neigh
borhood of what is now King's Cross,
or, perhaps, of even ail earlier day
were turned up recently by some
workmen at Crayford, Kent, England
The men were digging in sand pitf
on the Wansunt estate, when they no
ticed some metal articles. On ex
aminatiun these proved to be nine
gold armlets of uniform Bhape but
varying sizes. The articles wen
taken to a police station, where th«
police took possession of them on be
.half of the crown as treasure trove*.
Gathering Cri ?1e Turpentine.
from stereograph. copyright, by Undsrwood A Underwood, S. V.
Scene in one of the great pine forests in North Carolina.
RAISING CANARY BIRDS.
GERMANY CONTROLS WORLD’S
MARKET OF SINGERS.
Exceptionally Good Ones Command
Fancy Prices—How the Young
Are Trained—Are Very
Sensible to Drafts.
Washington.—Writing front A adge
burg, Consul Frank S. Hannah says
concerning the business of raising
tanary birds in the Harz, mountains:
"The breeding and selling of canary
birds in Germany, which has reached
such proportions that it now co ntrols
the markets of the world, is con-orva
tiveiy estimated of a value of $238.
000. In St. Andreasburg alone bO.OOO
canaries are yearly raised for e :port.
For an exceptionally good singe • and
breeder at least 300 marks ($,1.40t
must be paid and 100 marks ($::3.80)
Js often paid for a good so-called
‘Vorsaeuger.' a bird used to teach the
younger canaries to sing by example.
The normal price for good singers
varies from $2.86 to $8.57. Absolute
quiet and undisturbed intimate rela
tions exist between the breeder and
his birds. Similar conditions are at
tained by the Madgeburg breeders.
Many of tile so'-called ‘Harz canaries’
which are exported to the United
States are bred in the city of Madge
burg. where some of the best singers
are produced.
"The training of the young birds to
eing correctly is one of the most :m
portant and laborious features of the
breeder's activity. The young birds,
learning by imitation for the most
part, acquire bad singing as well as
good, and while it is the plan of the
breeders that the birds should only
hear the good singing of the ‘Vorsaen
ger,' yet some of them naturally chirp
and whistle in an unpleasant manner,
and care must be taken that these
birds be removed before the other
birds have acquired the same bad
habits and are rendered unsalable.
The art of the breeder lies in his be
ing able to discover the slumbering
talent in the bird at an early age, de
veloping the same to its highest point
of perfection in its particular line.
These birds are divided into classes
and kept in separate rooms, those
having harsh and sharp voices being
often placed in covered cages, where
instead of singing they are forced to
listen to other good singers, through
I which their faults arc often overcome.
The better singers, after passing a
I certain stage where their habits are
| established and they do not require
i the close daily watching of the breed
| er, are taken into a room reserved for
! he best singers. The elementary
•alning for the singer is generally
i inished by the end of November and
; ::ie singing is at its best at the be
ginning of January and again after
he mating time. Canaries are very
j sensitive to drafts and some singers,
I the results of years of careful breed
ing and training, have been ruined by
a few moments’ exposure by an open
Aindow.
“The exports of canaries from this
district for the calendar year 1005
was $37,685 and for the calendar year
iaO« $40,048."
NEGROES AFRAID OF COMET.
Report in indian Territory Towns
That Earth’s End Is Near.
Muskogee, I. T.—'The ignorant ne
i groes throughout Indian territory are
| greatly excited by the reported ap
j preach of a destructive comet. In
many places they have quit work aud
are assembling nightly in churches
and holding religious services.
It is reported at Fort Gibson and -at
I many other points along the Arkansas
river where there are large negro set
tlements that the comet is the only
, thing talked about, and the negroes be
j lieve that the world is coming to an
1 end. This condition has reached Such
j proportions that the Times-Democrat.
a local newspaper, telegraphed Prof.
! P. .1. .1. See, of Mare Island, asking his
opinion about the comet. His reply
| was:
"The comet is a ghost of the air. It
{ is going from #the earth instead of to
j ward it. There is no danger of eon
I tact.”
A great many Indians have also be
come alarmed over the agitation, but
they-are not demonstrative about it,
as are the negroes. At VVestville it is
reported that meetings are being held
nightly and prayer offered. These re
ports come from the smaller towns
and rural communities. There is not
much excitement among the negroes
of the larger town, although it fs un
derstood that in nearly every church
service Sunday reference was made
to it.
WATER CURE FOR THE INSANE
Philadelphia.—Treatment of the in
sane by water with the idea of wash
ing away insanity germs will be an
innovation in the new quarters for the
insane at the Philadelphia almshouse,
which will be opened soon. Dr. Coply,
director of the department of health,
is confident of the success of the move
ment.
The plant is designed primarily for
the treatment of cases of acute mania
by a system of bathing by which the
body of the patient is kept completely
submerged in running water for as
long a time as is deemed necessary to
effect a cure. The plant, in its present
form, is composed of a number of
rooms, of which two are specially set
aside for this kind of treatment.
In each bathroom a hammock is ar
ranged on which the patient’s body
rests. Above r—' not and cold ’.vater
faucets with a thermometer attached
for gauging the temperature. There is
a special appliance for emptying the
tub instantly. The water generally is
kept at a temperature of 100 degrees
and is kept continually flowing.
The patient remains in the ham
mock for a period varying from four
to eight hours at a time. At the end
of each period he is taken from the
bath and placed on a cot, rubbed down,
and allowed.to rest for half an hour.
He then is returned to the swinging
hammock and immersed in water. The
only purpose for which he is taken
from the water is an occasional rest.
His meals are given to him in the
bath.
The head, which rests on a circular
rubber cushion, is the only portion oi
the body not submerged.
Will Auction Her Brain.
Woman Offer* to Sell Gray Matter to
Colleges for Science.
Richmond, Va.—Mrs. M. L. Francis,
who has offered to sell her brain to
universities and colleges in this city,
Philadelphia, Chicago and New York,
and her body with it after her death,
to the highest bidder in order that she
may have the material comforts of life
luring her remaining years, said:
"YeB, I do want to sell my brain,
and I don’t see why the colleges don’t
want to buy it. I need money and I
need it badly. We are not in actual
want, but we need money. I have
heard of people selling their bodies
and brains, and I thought I would
offer mine for sale. I don’t care what
they do with me when I am dead.”
The woman is 40 years of age and
broken in health. She is the fourth
wife of her huBband, who was several
years ago incapacitated for work by
reason of an accident which deprived
him Of tba use (in* of his hand*.
Mrs. Francis said that she had
heard that the students of medicine
had access only to the brains and
bodies of criminals and paupers and
that they had no idea what the gray
matter of an intelligent person looked
like. Hence her belief that her propo
sition to sell would meet with instunt
acceptance.
May Call New City ‘•Lemon.”
New Haven, Conn—If the town of
Orange is divided, a part containing
25,000 residents being made a city, n
is proposed to call the new municipal
ity Lemon City. Charles E. Newman
proposed this name In the town meet
ing and it met with the approval of'
many of the voters, although it raised
some opposition. The question was
left to a committee, which will decide
whether the municipality shall be es
tablished and what its name will be.
If a drunken man doesn’t think he'
is funny he is pretty apt to have an
Idea he is wealthy.—Atchison (Kan.)
Globe.
GAIN IS POPULATION
CENSUS FIGURES SHOW MARVEL
OUS GROWTH IN SIX YEARS.
Nearly 8,020,000 More People in Unitea
States in 1SC6 Than in 1900—
New York Still Largest
City, Chicago Second.
Washington. — The population ot
continental Vnited States, according
ta the estimates of the census bureau,
was 83,941.510 in 1906. This is 7.946,
93f> more than the population in 1900.
The estimated population of the
United States, including Alaska and
insular possessions, in 1906 was 93,
182,240. The growth in population in
continental United States from 1903
to 1906 was 1,367,315.
The population of continental
United States in 1905 as obtained by
adding to the returns of the states
which took a census in that year the
estimated population of the remaining
stales and territories is 82,575,195, an
increase over 1900 of 6,579,610, or 8.7
per cent.
Computed on the basis of the esti
mate the density of population of con
tinental United States in t806 was 28
persons per square mile, as compared
with 20 in 1900.
Chicago remains the second city in
I the union in point of population. New
j York being first with 4,113,043. The
figures for Chicago are 2.049,185. In
1900 it was 1.698,575. The gain in six
years therefore is 350,610. New York
! is twice as large as Chicago. Six
I years ago its population was 3,437.202.
j so that its increase has been 665,841.
Philadelphia has 1,441,735, against
1,293,697 six years ago. St. Louis hat
[ passed Boston in the race, the Mis
! sotiri metropolis having 649,320 in
S '906 and 575,238 in 1900. Six years
| ago Boston had 595,083, while in 1906
the bean ealers' city had 602.278.
Illinois is the third state ot the
union in point of population. In 1900
' the census bureau estimates that il
' was populated by '>,418.670 persons
as against 4,821,550 in 1900. New
York is leader with 8,226,990; then
comes Pennsylvania with 5.928.575;
Ohio, 4.148,677: Indiana, 2,710,898.
The rapid growth of urban popula
tion is noteworthy. The total esti
mated population of incorporated
places having 8,000 or more inhabit
ants. exclusive of San Francisco and
Los Angeles, Cal., is 28,466,624 for
1906, an increase over 1900 of 3.912,
188, or 15.9 per cent., while the esti
mated population of the Vnited States
exclusive of these cities showed an
increase of 4,480,003, or only 8.8 per
cent.
The SS cities with an estimated
population of 50,000 or more in 1906
had a total estimated population of
19.771,167. an increase of 2,766,865. ot
16.3 per cent., over that reported at
the twelfth census.
The states that took a census in
1905 are Florida. Iowa, Kansas, Mas
sachusetts. Minnesota, New Jersey.
New York, North Dakota, Oregon.
Rhode Island, South Dakota. Wiscon
sin and Wyoming. In Michigan the
(-3HSUS is taken in the years ending
vith a "4."
The population returns for these
states was 26,263,877, an increase,
since 1900 of 1.901,572, or 7.8 per cent.
For the remaining states and terri
tc^'es the population for 1905 as de
termined by the method adopted by
the bureau was 56,283,059, an increase
over 1900 of 4,374,040. or S.4 per cent.
The population of the 14 states mak
ing an enumeration, if estimated in
>te same manner, would he 26.204.762,
a difference of only 0.2 per cent, from
the actual returns.
PENSION TO POOR PARENTS.
Ohio Official Proposes New Method
of Preventing Child Labor.
Columbus. O.—State Shop Inspector
Morgan in his annual report submit
ted to the governor makes the novel
proposition that the state of Ohio set
aside a fund to be devoted to paying
parents in poor circumstances who
are now compelled to let their young
children work in factories, to enable
them to take the children from the
factories and put them in school.
Gov. Harris is inclined to look on
the proposal with favor and may
lecommend a law to the legislature
covering the matter.
Mr. Morgan says that Ohio leads
all the states in child labor legisla
tion, but he is openly opposed to giv
ing employers discretion to employ
children where parents need their
wages. Instead he suggests a schoo.
pension law by which the parents
may be paid an equivalent sum out of
the public treasury and the child seni
to school.
Youngster’s Grievance.
At 7:30 ]>. m. little Willie was busy
playing with some visiting friends,
when his mother reminded him that it
was already half an hour after his bed
time. Willie looked sad and remarked:
“Say, mister, isn’t it a shame that I
always have to go to bed when I'm
wide awake and get up in the morning
when I’m sound asleep?"
Cats on Railroad’s Pay Roll.
Cleveland, O.—The Euclid avenue
station cat of the Pennsylvania rail
road is to receive official recognition
Mr. Cat is to go on the pay roll and
receive a monthly appropriation large
enough to pay for his milk, and per
haps ilsh now and then. Then if he
doesn't keep rats out or the baggage
room he will be discharged and an
other cat will be employed to do rat
catching about the station.. A gen
eral order Issued by President McCrea
requires a cat to be kept at every sta
tion on the system to kill the rats
that tear baggage in transit.- The
Euclid avenue station cat has been
on the job more than a year, and has
given satisfaction.
$10 Clerk Elected Mayor.
New Haven. Conn.—William C. Gil
bert, a shoe clerk, was elected mayor
of Danbury by a majority of 425. He
is president of the Danbury Republi
can club. He earns ten dollars a
week. His opponent* William A.
Braum, was elected last year by a ma
jority of two votes.
An out-and-out lie is generally less
dangerous than on):; rurt of the truth.
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ttjiin FtfTnfUtreF
Old Mother Earth is seeing things
these days, for whichever way she
may turn her eyes must fall upon
some national or international exposi
tion. Japan has her .great exposition
at Tokio in full swing, the 1st of April
saw the formal opening of the James
town exposition in this country, and
during the summer there is to open at
Dublin, Ireland, an international expo
sition. Shortly after the clos6 of the
Cork exhibition, five years ago, a meet
ing of the then newly formed Irish
Industrial conference was called for
the purpose of establishing an Insti
tute of Commerce for Ireland and of
initiating a movement for the holding
of an international exhibition in Dub
lin. It was a very remarkable meet
ing, and the assembling for a common
cause of men of all classes, creeds and
politics showed the earnestness of the
new movement to establish Ireland as
a new factor in the industrial world.
Tlie meeting showed that the nation
alist spirit for which the Gaelic league
and other forces have been working
was about to bear fruit. From all
parts of the island men of the greatest
influence sent communications show
ing their desire to assist in the plan to
improve the industrial position of Ire
land.
The appeal which has been made to
the Irish people has not been lost.
They have replied with surprising en
ergy, and now almost every town has
its Industrial Development association,
and native prejudice against native in
dustries has been obliterated. Irish
goods are being demanded, and Ireland
may bo said to have awakened to a
realization that, with the necessary co
operation on the part of her people,
she may successfully bid for a share
of the world's trade.
There has been a well-defined indus
trial revival, and it may be traced to
the Cork exhibition of 1902. At least,
the beginning of the revival coincided
with the opening of the exposition.
Since then the people have shown so
much enthusiasm in their home manu
factures that it is said they have freelv
paid for native goods a greater price
than they would have had to pay for
similar goods of foreign manufacture.
Already the Cork woolens have driven
the English and Scotch weaves out of
the south of Ireland. Derry supplies
nearly the whole British empire with
shirts; Limerick has flour mills which
are *dd to excel American in quality
of product and in improved machinery;
Belfast for centuries has made the
linens for the world, and now new in
dustries are being created and fos
tered with every show of ultimate suc
cess.
Lady Aberdeen, the vicerine. started
the Irish lace depot, which has given
new impetus to the lace industries of
Limerick and Carrickmacross. A co
operative creamery has been, founded
by a duchess, and a countess is foster
ing the homespun tweed industry on
her estate. Lady Aberdeen's lace de
pot, since its establishment, has sold
$1,500,000 worth of lace, and has been
useful in reclaiming a native industry
which had been declining.
Belfast, notwithstanding its antiqui
ty, is, in the industrial sense, the most
modern city in Ireland. It is the
busiest municipality in that country.
Its great shipyards employ 10,000*
hands; its linen manufactories have a
trade of more than $10,000,000 a year;
its tobacco trade pays $4,000,000 in
duties each year,' and its distilleries
are famous. Limerick supports three
large bacon-curing concerns, and lately
has entered the new business of manu
facturing dried milk, which, we are
told, will be the form in which the
milkman of the future will deliver his
supply. Cork, owing to its geographi
cal position, is becoming a city of com
mercial prominence.
Out ot all this business activity the
first Irish international exhibition is
arising, as a very natural result of so
much mission work on the part of the
Gaelic league and the generally declin
ing prejudice against the efficiency of
native industries. The exhibition will
be held in Herbert park, adjoining the
Irish horse show grounds, about a mile
and a half from the center of the city
of Dublin, in grounds which hare a
total of about 52 acres. The greater
part of the site of the exhibition was
I recently presented to the Pembroke
urban district council by the earl of
Pembroke, in commemoration of the
coming of age of his son. Lord Her
bert. At the close of the exposition
Herbert park is to be dedicated as a
park and recreation ground.
According to the prospectus, the
scope of the exhibition will be Irish
and international in the widest sense.
Exhibits will be classified under 19 sec
tions, and many foreign countries have
; promised their substantial support for
the project. “Not only will the arts,
industries and manufactures of Ireland
be specially provided for," says the
prospectus, “but there will be exhibits
of the manufactures, industries, re
sources, machinery, science, art, arch
aeology. etc., of all nations.”
The objects of the exposition are
definitely stated to be “(1) to promote
the industries, art and science of ire
laud by a display of the produets for
which the country is famous, and of
the products of partially developed in
dustries for which special facilities ex
ist in the country; (2) to stimulate
[ commercial development and promote
I industrial education by inviting all na
’ tions to exhibit their products, both in
| the raw and finished state.”
! “An exhibition such as is to be held,"
! to quote once more, "will display the
j many opportunities which exist in Ire
land for the investment of capital. It
will place before the world her indus
| trial manufactures and products, will
I show the remarkable progress they
have made in a few years, and what
| further development they are capa
ble of."
The exhibition buildings now near
ing completion are of great extent, and
are more or less typical of exposition
structures seen elsewhere. The mail
entrance will open into a Celtic court
where will be placed some of the Irish
industrial exhibits. Directly opposite
the main entrance will be the main
building, consisting of a central octa
gonal court, 215 feet in diameter, sur
rounded by a corridor opening into
four radial wings, each 164 feet long
and 80 feet wide.
Over the center of the main building
rises an octagonal dome, 80 feet in di
ameter and 150 feet in height. Grouper
around this central structure will be
pavilions for British foreign and ca
lonial exhibits and the other exposition
buildings. Among the latter will be
the Palace of Fine Arts, in which will
be installed a collection of modern
paintings and sculpture, including work
of Irish artists. This building is de
signed to be of real fireproof construc
tion. Among other interesting build
ings will be facsimiles of certain his.
toric structures which are of interest
either from their archaeological or his
torical associations.
The visitor to the exposition will
find Dublin one of the most beautifu
of Irish cities. It has a population o
about 400,000, has well-kept streets
and buildings most attractive by rea
son of their architectural beauty o.
historical association. Thus the Banl
of Ireland, a classic structure, is th<
, old house of parliament, where the na
tive legislators met until the act o.
union a century ago.
Dublin Castle, where the governmei,\
offices are located, gives visitors thf
impression of a jail. St. Patrick'.
Cathedral has many interesting asso
ciations. and those of literary tas:e
will there seek out the burial place oi
Dean Swift. Altogether, Dublin is j
city of imposing edifices, and govern
ment buildings in no city of the sam<
size can excel in beauty those of thi
Irish capital.
“Dressed to Kill.”
A little girl about six years old was
looking at a picture of Marie An
toinette. She asked her mother Kb
it was, and her mother replied that i
was a noted picture of Marie An
toinette going to her execution
"Well,” the little girl said, “she i:
dressed fit to kill."
Faith in the Doctor.
“The most remarkable instance of
simple faith in the abilities of a physi
cian," says a Baltimore doctor, “came
within my experience when 1 was a
student in Philadelphia. I had a pa
tient, an Irishman, who had a broken
leg. When the plaster bandage was
removed and a lighter one substituted.
1 observed that one of the pins went
in with some difficulty, a fact i could
not understand at the time. It was a
week afterward that I removed the
pin. when I found that it had been
stuck hard and fast, it being neces
sary to remove it with forceps. To
my great astonishment, on examina
tion, I found that the pin had actually
been run through the skin twiee, in
stead of through the bandage cloth.
‘Didn’t you known that that pin was
sticking in you?' I demanded of the
patient. ‘Sure!’ he exclaimed. 'But as
1 thought ye knew your business I
held me tongue.”—Sunday Magazine.
Thrust at American Girl.
Some husbands are domestic. But
the American girl seems to prefer the
imported article.—London Opinion.
Winning a Raise.
Warden B. P. Bridges of the stat«
prison had as guests the other da.'
an English gentleman of title and lilt
Ifish valet who are touring in tlii
country. They were taken througt
every department of the prison, ant
showed especial interest in the deatl
chamber, where murderers are put t<
death in the electric chair. While tui
rying in this room the nobleman re
marked, with a wise wink to W’ardei
Bridges: "Pat, if the chair had it:
dues where would you be?"
Without a trace of a smile Pi i
quickly replied: "The wardin and m*
wud be looking at the chair alone."
Warden Bridges turned to hide a
smile, and after silence of about a min
ute the nobleman asked the privilege
of lighting a cigar, after which lit
wheeled toward Pat and said: "Youi
wages are raised a pound and sixpenct
a month."—Boston Herald.
And We All Do It.
There isn’t anything more uncoin
fortable than to jump at conclusions
that are not there.—Puck.