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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1879)
v-3.-tff-v- ? l: I ! 4 ? i :-?i s i l-i K . f I K ft. X U. lb I" ! K? IS & r. THE RED CLOUD CHIEF. X. L. T10JTAS, ftbllifctr. KED CLOUD, NEBRASKA. HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP. The entire length of the boundary of Texas is 4,630 miles, including 375 miles of gulf coast. The editorof the Hawkinsville (Tenn.) Dispatch has named his four children Brevier," "Long Primer," " Small Pica" and Pica," after the names of different styles of type. Among the various species of oranges now raised in Florida is the small, thin skinned, delicate mandorino from the Island of Malta, so highly prized on European tables. A marriage was brought about un der difficulties by two inmates of the Columbus (Ohio") Asylum for the Blind. They stole out slyly, found their way to a clergyman, and were united. The bride returned for her clothing, and was imprisoned in a second-story room; but she made a rope of sheets, slid down to the ground and rejoined her husband. Achille Murat, while residing in Florida, succeeded in convincing him self that alligator was good eating. He also tried buzzard, and when asked how he liked it said : "Oh! I can eat any kind of bird I am not affrate to eat any zing. I have no prejudice, but ze buz zard is not goode." Intelligence was recently received at Aden from the factory agent of a Hamburg house at Noesibe, in Mada gascar, of the death of Dr. Rutenberg, a young German savant, who, during 1877 and 1878, had been traveling in Eastern Africa and Madagascar. The report states that he was murdered in Menabe, a district inhabited by the Sakalava tribe, m the interior of the island. Mrs. Judith Beebe, who has just died at Tam worth, N. H., at the age of 102 years, used to relate among the in cidents of her childhood an encounter wiih a mountain eagle. The eagle at tacked an animal larger than it could rise with, and little Judith in turn attacked the eagle. Her hands were severely torn, but she held the monster bird until the arrival of assistance. There is a German colony of 425 persons on the Pozuzo on the eastern slope of the Andes. The colonists cul tivate coffee, cocoa, tobacco, cotton, rice, Indian corn, sweet potatoes, sugar cane, and tropical fruits. They keep cows and pigs. Ants and cockroaches are the only insect plague. The colony is prosperous, but its development is prevented by the want of roads. B. F. Russell of Milford, Mich. Eublishes a card in which ho says : " I ave been an infidel for more than 35 years denying the Bible revelations of God to man. 1 now renounce my form er belief, holding its positions to be ut terly untenable; and I espouse the cause of Jesus Christ, acknowledging Him a3 my only Redeemer and my only hope for an immortality of everlasting happiness with Him." Professor A. J. Cook of the Michi gan Agricultural College writes to the Scientific Farmer that having given the subject no little research and observa tion he is fully convinced that nearly all of our birds, not excepting robin, jay and grackle, are the farmer's efficient aids and very worthy of his fostering care. He has made " actual examina tion of the birds' stomachs purposely to eliminate every possible source of error." In Colorado the largest sheep-growing counties are: El raso, 220,000; Las Animas, 190,000; Huerfano, 180,000; Elbert, 100,000; Conejos, 115,000; Arapahoe, 90,000; Bent, 80,000; Lari mer, 70,000; Pueblo, 63,000; Weld, 50, CO0. The sheep average in value about S2.25 per head. The following estimate of capital invested in the business in the State is semi-official: Sheep, $4,500, 000; ranches, improvements, etc.. $1,000,000; total, $5,500,000. When Jeff. Davis was making his flight through Georgia in 1865,he passed right through where Bowersville now stands. One of his aids or guides grew treacherous near there, and when the party arrived in Wilkes County this guiuo aesenea tne uniortunate Presi dent. And this guide stolef a keg con taining $12,000 in gold and" rolled it into a millpond down in Wilkes: and soon afterwards the guide was convict ed to the Penitentiary for iiljfiand died a short time since, but before his death disclosed the whereabouts of the hidden treasure ; and men are now engaged in draining off the pond in search of the same. So says an exchange. At the beginning of the present cen tury the number of Jews in Jerusalem did not exceed three hundred, but in the past 10 years, owing to the removal of the restrictions of the porte, the influx has been great. Nearly all the old houses, as they became vacant, have been bought up by them, while a great many new ones have been built in all parts of the town. Schools, hospitals icjjiiiuua associations nave neen The Beykeed ef a Great Eariaeer. Colonel W. C. Church, editor of the Army and Navy Journal and late of the Galaxy, contributes to the April Berib ner a notable and important paper on Ericsson, the engineer, inventor of steam fire-engines, the screw propeller, the Monitor, etc., ete., etc. Mr. Eries en has heretofore so steadily avoided public mention that the present sketch will be to many the first adequate ac count of this interesting person. Before he was 11 years old, during the winter of 1813, John had produced a saw-mill of ingenious construction, and planned a pumping engine design ed to clear the mines of water. The frame of the saw-mill was of wood ; the saw-blade was was made from a watch spring, and the crank which actuated it was cast from a broken tin spoon. A file, borrowed from a neighboring black smith, to cut the sw teeth, a gimlet, and the ubiquitous jaek-knife, were the only tools available for this work. A much more ambitious undertaking was the pumping engine. The year be fore, when only 9 years of age, young Ericsson had made the acquaintance of drawing instruments in one of the draught offices of the grand ship canal of Sweden, and learned how these in struments were used to lay out the work of construction in advance. Mean while, his father had removed to the depths of a pine forest where he select ed the timber for the lock-gates of the canal. In this wilderness, a quill and a pencil were the boy's utmost resources in the way of drawing tools. Like Cru soe on his island, he had to begin at the beginning. He made compasses of birch-wood with needles inserted in the ends of the legs. A pair of steel tweezers, obtained from his mother's dressing-case, were converted into a drawing-pen, and the same good moth er was persuaded, after much entreaty, to allow her sable cloak to be robbed of hair enough to provide material for two small brushes with which to apply the coloring at that time deemed essential in all mechanical drawings. The pump ing engine was to be operated by a wind niHi, and here the youthful inventor was at fault. He had heard much about a wind-mill but had never seen one. Following, as well as he could, the description of those who had had the happiness to view this wonderful machine, he succeeded in constructing on paper the mechanism connecting the crank of the wind-mill shaft with the pump levers, but how to turn the mill to the changing wind he could not di vine. Fortunately John's father made a visit to the wind-mill, and, in describ ing what he had seen, spoke of a " ball and socket joint." The hint was suffi cient; the boy rushed to his drawing ta ble and had soon added a ball and sock et joint where the connecting-rod for the driving crank joined the pump lever. With the execution of this drawing be gan John Ericsson's mechanical career. The plan conceived and executed under such discouraging circumstances by a mere child attracted the attention of Admiral Count Platen, the President of the Gotha Ship Canal, on which Erics son's father was employed, and one of Sweden's great men. "Continue as you have begun and you will one day produce something extraordinary," prophesied the Count of his young protege. Richly has the prophecy been fulfilled. Ericsson was appointed a calet in the Swedish corps of mechanical engineers wnen ne was iz years old, was soon after promoted to nivellcur (leveler), and at the age of 13 was put in charge of a section of the ship-canal over which his friend, the Count, presided. Six hundred of the royal troops, at work upon this section, looked for di rections in their daily work to this child, among whose necessary attend ants was one who followed after him with the stool upon which he stood to raise himself to the height of his level ing instruments. The amusements of this boy-engineer are indicated by his possession at the age of 15 of a portfolio of drawings, made in his leisure mo ments, giving maps of the most im portant -parts of the grand canal, 300 miles in length, and showing all the machinery and implements used in its construction. Many important works upon this canal, which opens an inland channel across Sweden from the Baltic to the North Sea, were constructed from drawings made by Ericsson at an age when he might rather have been expected to be found playing foot-ball. A Bad Attack of the ont. USEFUL XSD SCIENTIFIC. Paper Napkins. Paper napkins are in increasing demasd. A Boston firms hare sold some 250,000 of then siace they were introduced, about a year ago. The place of manufacture of paper nap kins is not divulged. They are said to be all imported from Japan, but a sus picion prevails that some of them are produced by ingenious Yankee paper makers, who are well content to monop olize their manufacture for the present. The napkins are wholesaled at from $6 to $10 per thousand, and are retailed at 91 to 91.50 a hundred. A party o! 2UU or 300 can be supplied with them at less expense than would be requisite to wash and iron a similar number of nap kins. By their use, also, a host or hostess is relieved of all fear of haviag the table-linen stolen ; and if an absent minded guest does happen to put his napkin in his pocket after be has finish ed eatiag, he need not suffer any more remorse than if he had pocketed an apple-core or a nut-shell. A New Aksmtuetic. Nitrous oxide or laughing-gas, as it is commonly called, was discovered to have the power of producing insensi bility by Sir Humphrey Davy, at the end of the last century, and since that time it has been widely used by dentists and chiropodists in the painful opera tions of extracting teeth or corns. The process consists in causing the patient to breathe tbe pure gas until he becomes insensible. Nitrous oxide is not so dan gerous as chloroform, nor so exhausting to the system. Chloroform associates itself chemically with tbe body, but the gas merely remains dissolved in the blood, and when it is no longer inhaled it is quickly breathed out again by the lungs. But there is one serious draw back to its use namely, the fact that its application can not be prolonged for fear of asphyxia or fainting being in curred. Now, however, this defect has been overcome by a French physiologist, M. Bert, and insensibility induced by its means can be indefinitely extended. The patient is caused to breathe, not pure nitrous oxide, but a mixture of equal parts of nitrous oxide and air, under a pressure of two atmosphere1. By this device the normal quantity of air is supplied to the patient as well as the requisite dose of gas. The results obtained from experiments on dogs show that the breathing and circulation goes on normally while tbe animal is rendered quite insensible by this meth od, and on withdrawing the gas it re covers all its faculties after a few bn aths. This is an important discov ery, but it has the practical failing of, at present, at least, requiring a special chamber to be constructed for the ope ration. In the case of hospitals, how ever, this will not be difficult to obtain. CasselPs Magazine. pmi axii roi.vr. practice of medicine make his opinion j vi tiuuc uu wvnaj ot connucucv, and i tbere is alwars a rik when a ocnon The uniform rtk vwima rontiua ni seeks to "doctor" himself. Youth's ' a brcast-pl&le, something Ilka a chert Companion. ELIZABETH TH0MPS05. AW with a XlutoB i of aje.ooe. tntl Washington Cor. Indlanapoll Journal. You have published considerable lately about Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, the philanthropist She is now in Wash ington, directing the medical machinery which is to checkmate yellow fever next summer, lei us nope, sne oetng pro protector or a brass liver pad. .V. 0. Picayune. A TOfxo man feels that he has aot leceme i lived in vain when he find his picture exhibited in the bow-cae of a pboto- grapn gallery. Aevarb Vail. Si'Kiso to the time when youag mea think of going to see their girl. It Is the marry-tinie season. New York Com tnercial. Vor can talk about woman's richts till doomsday, but the beat rural of jector of the enterprise, and its chief , woman is the marriage rite artrrf and started, and the population, which was Dareiy auu, u years ago, amounted in 1875 to 13,000 in the city alone. A rich Jew of Venice has founded and endow ed a school of agriculture with several thousand pounds, so that the country seems in a fair way to recover some of its old fertility. Mks. John P. Richards of New York City heard a noise in the parlor the other evening. Mr. Richards laughed at her, as it is the habit of men to laugh at womanly fears. Presently he heard it himself, and then he took his revolver (he is in the fire-arm business) and went downstairs. Having shot one burglar dead and covered the other with his Eistol, he asked his wife to bring him is hat and some more cartridges, whereupon he handed his prisoner over to the police. But just fancy Mrs. R.'s feelings as she came down stairs with tbe hat and ammunition! The burglar who was shot was already under in dictment for another crime and was out on bajj. He gets 18 years in State Prison. The missionaries among the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico find their lan guage the greatest obstacle to the spread of vhe Gospel. With the study of this very little has yet been accomplished. The missionaries have no means of get ting at its princples, having no preposi tions, articles, conjunctions,.or relative pronouns, and to a great extent wants the moods and tenses of verbs. The simple sentence "God mado the body of Adam but of the ground, and formed Evefromthe.bodyof Adam," must be translated as though it read: ,"God made body father Adam in sand earth ; also is God made body mother Eve one rib is father Adam." The Pueblos are Pantheists, and naturally they are very religious. They worship the sun, moon, stars, rainbow, fire, water, rivers, moun tains and trees even snakes, bears and otHer animals. A tender wife on Park Avenue was alike pained and surprised when, Fri day night, or, to speak more accurately, Saturday morning, her husband return ed in that condition that ladies who love their lords do not like to see them in, insisting, for instance, in wrapping the drapery of his hat and boots about him ere lying down to pleasant dreams. She never shed a tear or dropped a scolding word, but thinking that he breathed rather heavily, and fearing that he might have an attack of apo plexy, she tenderly made two mustard plasters about the size, thickress, and consistency of door-mats, put them on the soles of his feet. and. after allowing the grateful warmth from them to per vade his system for about two hours, removed them, sponged off his sizzling feet (which would have been a treat to a cannibal who liked his victuals well cooked), and went to bed with the sweet consciousness of duty performed. About b:aj tne partner of her wedded life awakened, and after determining who and where he was, quietly popped out of bed, intending to drain the water- Jutcher. But no sooner had he set his oot on the carpet than with a wild howl he threw himself back into bed, yelling, " Holy Moses, who's carpeted the floor with tacks and red-hot boiler plate?" His wife deemed it prudent to send for the doctor, with whom she had a brief private interview before he was shown to the sufferer's room. The unhappy sufferer then discovered from the physician that his indulgence in alcoholic stimulants had brought on a frightful attack of gout, which, was latent in his system as thick as silver deposits and strapped emigrants in Leadville. "If you go on drinking," said the Doctor, "you are quite likely to have the gout go to your stomach and heart, and when it does that the best thing you can do is to seek out the agent and medical examiner of an insurance company yon have a spite against, tell them about it, and go snacks with them in an insurance policy on your life, and that insurance company '11 be stock for the amount thereof within a month. However, I will give you something to disseminate the gout," and he drew up a prescription the very first ingredient oi wnicn wouia nave racked the in ternals of a gasometer. A Tribune re porter saw the sufferer last nuzht. nis feet enveloped in ice-bags and elevated on a pyramid of pillows as if he were recuperating after a six days1 walk. The doctor think that if all goes well he will be able to walk about on two crutch es towards Easter. Chicago T.ibune. Age of the World. Geologists, astronomers and physicists alike have hitherto been baffled in their attemps to set up any satisfactory kind of chro nometer which will approximately measure geological time, and thus give us some clew to the antiquity of our globe. It is therefore worth noting that Sir. Mellard Reade of Live.pooI has lately contributed to the Royal Society a very suggestive paper, in which he endeavors to grapple with the question by employing the limestone rocks of the earth's crust as an index of geological time. Limestones have been in course of formation from the earliest known geological periods, but it would appear that the later-formed strata are more calcareous than the earlier, and that there has, in fact, been a gradually pro- ressive increase of calcareous matter, he very extensive deposition, ef car bonate of lime over wide areas of the ocean-bottom at the present day is suf ficiently attested by the recent sound ings of the Challenger. According to the author's estimate, the sedimentary crust of the earth is at least one mile in average actual thickness, of which prob ably one-tenth consists of calcareous matter. In seeking the origin of this calcareous matter, it is assumed that the primitive rocks of the original crust were of the na ture of granitic or basaltic rocks. By the disintegration of suchrocks,calcare ousand other sedimentary deposits have been formed. The amount of lime-salts in water which drain districts made up of granites and basalts is found, by a comparison of analyses, to be on an average about 3.73 parts in 100,000 parts of water. It is further assumed that the exposed areas of igneous rocks, taking an average throughout all geo logical time, will bear to the exposures of sedimentary rocks a ratio of about one to nine. From these and other da ta Mr. Reade concludes that the elimina tion of calcareous matter now found in all the sedimentary strata must have oc cupied at least 600,000,000 of years. This, therefore, represents the mini mum age of the world. The author infers that the formation of the Lauren tian, Cambrian, and Silurian strata must have ocoupied about 200,000,000 of years; the old red sandstone, the carboniferous, and the poikilitic sys tems, another 200,000,000, and all the other strata, the re maining 200,000,000. Mr. Reade is, therefore, led to believe that geolog ical time has been enormously in excess of the limits urged by certain physi cists; and that it has been ample to al low for all the changes which, on the hypothesis of evolution, have occurred in the organic world. The Academy. promoter. It must already have cost her 95.000 or $ iO.OOe. I have met Sirs. . Thompson several times, and can tell you something of her. She was a poor girl some years ago (jast how many or few we need not venture on guessing), and got her liv-" ing by dressmaking. She was bewitch- ingly handsome and uncommonly i bright and piquant, when Mr. Thomp- i son, a rich young Boston merchant, oflered her his hand and fortune. Af- ter a short married life, ho died, and left her his entire property, something more than a million. "Or, rather," said she, in a confi-" dential moment, " he left me the inter est on it; and I have never ceased to be grateful that he put the principal cut of my reach. Every cent would have been gone before this time if I could have got hold of it." Finding herself a young and attract-' ive widow, with an annual income of $50,000, her tendencies and inclinations I manifested themselves in novel dircc-, tions. She declined to have any thing more to do with Hvmen; she excluded herself from general society ; she thought and passed through the phases of religious belief from Unitarianism to Rationalism and heresy of the most ad vanced type, where she still lingers ; she was horrified at the wretchedness around her, and invented methods of giving away her money to the best ad- vantage that is, where it would do tho j most good. For yean she gave .,?30f000 or 840,000 a year in miscellaneous ; charity. " I should think," I said to her once, ; "that this miscellaneous giving away i would give you from time to tiuio some doubts as to its wisdom." , "Doubts!" she exclaimed, as if half afraid of herself; "why, sir, I have done more harm than any other wom an in New York!" I knew by her expression that she felt what she said most keenly, though she smiled, for it sounded so whimsically extravagant. "You have seen harm come of it sometimes?" I asked. " Oh, often and much," she said, " and I do not doubt that much harm has come of it which I never knew." "Thorefore," sho added, after a min ute's thoughtiulncss, "I have niostlj stopped miscellaneous giving to stran gers. If you could see the pile of beg ging letters I threw into the grate this morning and some of them without reading through, though I got the gist of all. You could set an interior view Journal Br and bye thai man will come around the corner "with his prediction of the hottest summer in 20 vears. Saeark Call. "A cosTKvrro mind to bUcr than creat riches" but you can't buy a brick block or pay a board-bill with it A7 raira Gazette. Thk idea that fruit eaten at night to deleteriotu is proved by the bad effect it had upon Adam from eating an apple after Eve. Boston Commercial Bulle tin. I havk only kissed one girl in all ray life. She wxi not a beautiful girl. She had a nose on her you had to steer for and then tack. Merulen Be eorder. California people are eating toma toes and green peas. Exchange. So are Danbury people have been doing it all winter. We eat what others can. Dan bury Xctcs. The Buffalo Express says : A letter is now lying in tho Chicago Pot-oflico addressed To any true Chrtotaiu in Chicago, and-to none other.' " They may jmt as well send it to the dead let ter office firat as lat. It will never reach the person addressed while it to in Chicago. Detroit Free Press. "TliEUK's no HtnoklHK lUIotredr Thci conductor cxclMtnctt, To man who had Jumped on the car; " I'm not eunokim; aloud,'1 Ho fjently t!Ailaln-U, "Kor I nol-olfsslj jiutl mycljcnr." HacttnMCk IieplUa. A i'oet named Wells thus exuberates in the New York Mail: I nm Kind, I um Kind I nm chid thut the Hiimmrr U coming tvuln, With it sunshiny day. and its shower or ruin! Of course. Wells have now a chance to get full. Boston Traveller. hkkoke asp jirrr.K. I loved Atimndfi piit nil tolling; Kor hr my bosom dirt; wt welling; JkT ptcturvd ftwetttiiCKi ntolo my alrojv I know, thtirefore, my love wu dotsp. On tinted cloudlet, renting oft, Sho ilouu-d near, in luncy, oft ; Fed by tho km1 on ni'ctnr Mtlll O lll-"s to pay no khkit's bill. Vu two wuru wed, and tht'n I lound In No. A'h sbu walked the ground; And, If the, Kodi had fed before. They never led her uiiy more. .7w York Keening Pott. A Death-bed Marriage 'Prevented. TIIS TOKKy. CUd in tr&, fct N kt . A fwwrfat i. I Utl ; . t!a. Tkroax fct m-t rm, wbo at tfc Cam oih?, wfeo 1oom1 tilt Ux M . U cm l prwjdijr. 4 k4 P '. If rid it with totr bU ottW b4; lt iltt krrry. lt tigM . crS. Hut, cri PT krrrijr. M- mi lt hn wt jvrJ. It w Gkrf. A ltrri1)U iplrtirt btt nt lire, Sn m Ujtnl Hit U, to ww or , nr wfco b4 ut fe4 ai ! $rirl lu brifetiM hom or Uml d oca. rr rrMjf dxllajr. bllidlH4T Hti CrviJas wftat&r jmkI rtTttk. A tcaxi of Ixjrr , ami Us of Mtabt- " Who faaU wU Ilk lol dwdd Thl Man of u " Look t wr Tt cw It ercw hr ib rtrr at golden mJ1, WIU other M do aot eori " lhtm I t trt th monarch, tt U a ukr O! tb V.tcr, ibt cTr on crUi rwnln J And If by chaaoo any part U UroVoa. It U not&lnx 5. bat U wfaol grain.' Tbo In CiaUlc LUn-jrourimlhy wlU bdw tt Two hundred and fifty yrr o, Wrot tn crrat de Thou, of an fity poet, IJut what the taeantnj;. he did not ktxtw. I know M Mcrrt. without hU learntst; I havt dtvlor-d it. by mv dntp art. It U only dark to tb undUerrnlnr TbU parablwof th ota Jlrtl SUOWEH ASD FLOWER. Down thr little drop pattrr, Maklruc a tnuUal clatter. Out of th cloud- tboy throns: rrrhnea ot heavn tby caltr Utile dark rootlet aroon. "Conitnjt to tlt you. '"oate! Open 3-our hrrt to o, Kocr That U loo lUlndrop. oac. lp ilia little crd rbw llmt of all color and aluvt Clamber up out ot tho ground. Gently the blue -ky urprtca The earth with that aoft rushinff aourm. M Welcome1 the brown be are humming "Come" for we wslt for your cwnln" WhWpcr tho wild dowrra around. " Shower, ft f pleasant to bear you l" Flower, It I irt Ui txa near you?M Thta 1 the aonjr every wnere. Listen ' tho iauto wtll cheer you I Ualndrop and blootii bo fair Gladly aro meeting together Out In the beautiful weather. Oh, the et Ming In tho air I Lc Lartv. in St. SltAtttaiJor Jjtril. A UOKSK-CAK IIOSaM'K. The Drlr.tr of m Nw York ftovanilt A nu Car Marrl m Wealthy nml t'h. Inwablo Yuuag IjmIjt lluar lit CuurUhlp llegHM. From the New York Sum. MiM Sarah Hall wax until two yearn j artln a bnin?: requiring r i jhmII capita! in Ne Sue. ' S , I porn nwk Mri Mr)rM th , pcUr poww of eo.w!r:- - r f UfMJ, -M otW fadtactlA thv efttfUed tooalj fr thmf! 4 I part of which S h n r?- - j KsctUfc Xt.1 Trip to Vrar?. lh SSth 'f Ik prri nHMiUt f r I IT diUinc bct-rf Ujo s- . U nt refT great. It Jn bn '"ranch Ira iKan nin lwwr. , f do rwwiUr i n ! fa ; i quarter of a otalury i 4i ' urU crwd lbs hAa4 sa' Krae. It km not until -b r " 17 tcat on Ihfl lhrtn ikv, putted b;r ih Piloe Cr ". " ' cdifoat o(! and lUagiMer. k- t , is rari the rllt hHb Np -, bd pSd to her MjlT at t C-J. Many Kin f K ' hlr to lh crowa ihM?i, fe ' the journey between loUn by all klfiu of room or i routes line tho day ef A Tho obUtg Henry VC wr& rn-w . of Kmncti In Notre Iaio but - Ignowlntuly ctpoUt! from which bU fAlher4 rrU.r Charles 1 , when Trineon! - ed thnntjjh I A?t tn t rnt to hptun. v nariv 1 1 srtw w n vWtor to Itri during the rpr He hail no money ; h rv, i etU MarU. wiw trell-nlgli u th tamvre, and lha Krewwh ment, to plce Cromwell, i I portuniUiia of letting the r,i.M know thtt hU room tv t -preferred to hh company. Yet a royal Stuart, hl brother, both a l . of Y'ork ami Jamea It . tV i crowned King of KngUr. 1, r from Ixmdon to l'arvs, n rvi mtwt rouadabout TwoUiu'arK (treat Hrluln, Franco and I Jamei III and Charlet III , v J apexjlirely tho Old and thti ur louder, trero dUnwI for a w make Taiii their aloio wheh tl r a ! much rniher haro brc-n a: St J or at Windaor. M St. (m"ir f - Chevalier do St OcorjJ heW f j aw his phantom court; and then a.( I Ktlward ho iulttetl 1'art with iWi f only to relurn, after ntanj iwltc-.- , and mwfDrtuntw, r.v;e4i, Ut. ru ' nonniloAi. By and bv thol-rott . emment made peaeo with Knjjtif , ! the Kngtlah Mtnblr proaair5 v ' ! mandod the expulon of tho "('iff i ed Prince of Wale" from the t' . ' lotm of the Klri;r of France, wh ' Chevnllex obitmaU'ly le.'tnod So they Ifottud a aliort way f ro ago one of tho belles of Providence, It. ; AHhtlng from hln earriatfo one, n & At Meyer's Hotel in Washington, on tho night of Sunday, Mai ch i'U, Cant. .Tiiromn flrano. n. wll lrnnurn man. fnv t litimon naftirn hn lrrl,nrv r.tm vt. . . .... . f w uumu ummo j .s "4 3 yng. lno Captain was worth about m . uiuaaiMi i v.tn .' mail, and it looks dark Do they ask much?" I paid " Every sum you can think of One $20(u00. He had lived live years with a woman named Mary Crane, and bad introduced her as his wife in some of in?, and a woman in Kansas asked me M woman requested the 'loan of 10 cents,' tJl0 most rc3pectablo circles in the Dis- knOWinff I WOUld make It more Or nOth- trinf 'n mirri..frn nnrnmrmt. ,.. I fVI . UM1 tltaW WIViUIIIM however, been performed. When Capt. I Crane was dying ho desired to make j Mary his legal wife. Tho Captain's sister, Celia Crane, was violently op i posed to a marriage, tbere being, it ap pears, no win. a clergyman, tne itev. I , and a crett favorite in society there. She is connected with nomo of tho old cL families of that State. It was ro ported that sho was onco engaged to a son of Perry Davis, tho wealthy manu facturer of a patent medicino in Provi donee, but her parents choio to break olT the match. It was also said that aha has a blood kinship with tho Vnn Itensaclacr and Schermerhorn families tho door of tho Opera, he wn ; a IkkI' oif armed jollco, lntin I t - ' and foot, flung Into a dungeon a cennc and u few days afterwai f ried to the frontier. No Knglnh K I or Prin co of Wales hn lt in t I since thoio Ume.t until tho reign of j present family. The throw I never set eytts on the towor cf N i Dame; (Jdorgo IV. paxawl lhr-th l lata on nu wtv to hi iiannrt-r ,'i of this State Her hair anl eyrs are dark, but sho Is not a pronounced bru-1 minions, but did not vhlt Km; I nette, and though her friends saysho'XJV. at tho TuUIcnVx. ami the wms not greaUy distinguished as a nothing to show that William I beauty, her brightness in conversation, nnvr Paris. grace of manners, and, abovu all, - . LuKtc in drea that touched upon genltH, ' Some Siljflit ('oHiplleatlon in thi- Doctoring in the Dark. In many diseases several organs are more or less implicated, and what seems a primary ailment may be one only remote. For instance, a severe headache may have its origin in a disturbed stomach. On the other hand, sickness at the stomach may be caused by a blow on the head. BoOs and other eruptions on the surface often result from the imperfect action of the liver in eliminating effete matter from the system. So, offensive excre tions of the skin, are caused by this lat ter organ's throwing off what the kid neys or bowels had failed to do. A se vere pain in the lower part of the spine may be due to an irritation of a nerve near the base of the brain. A pressure on one side of the brain by an effusion of blood or water (serum) into one of its cavities, may cause a paralysis of the opposite side of the body. The seat of typhoid fever is in the upper part of the bowels : but some of its worst symptoms are often in the brain. Uterine disease is very often dependent on disease of the liver, and attention to this latter organ, as well as to the stomach, brain, spleen, etc., is far more important than ordi nary local treatment. These facts, with many others that might be given, help to show why most persons are incom petent to "doctor" themselves, and why patent medicines are quite likely to do harm rather than rood. In sickness, and even in ailments that may seem al most trivial, the most jadicioas coarse is to seek the counsel of a skillful physi cian. The years that such a man has given to the study of disease ajxd to the boldly to give her $20,000-it wouldn't hurt me a bit, she said!" " I should think all this would make you malevolent, or at least misanthrop ic," I ventured. " It does make me feel rather streak ed toward the world sometime?," she admit ed, "especially where I have given my confidence to some person or cause and have been grossly deceived and robbed, which has happened oftener han I would like to confess. And then t makes me fairly sick when my judg ment compels me to refuse money to poor men and women. I still give oc casionally to promiscuous beggers in in cases of peculiar suffering, but! know that much free charity breeds beggary rather than diminishes it, and there are wiser ways to invest money." And here I have kept the auditor standing m Mrs. inompson's presence all this time without telling him what sort of a lady she is. Her more strik ing features are cheerful, coal-black eyes, and black hair lying like a pair of raven's wings across the corners of a forehead quite Websterian in form and size. Her head is large, her face come ly and impressive, with a sizable, hand some mouth and a square chin, the sym bol of resolution. You feel that you are in the presence of no common charac ter. Most of her talk is in the discus sion of philanthropic schemes; she is bent on doing good as she finds oppor tunity. Sho is deeply interested in the labor question ; indeed, in all questions which involve human suffering. One of her largest gifts was the $25,000 she paid last year for Frank B. Carpenter's great painting, " The Signing of the mancipation Proclamation," which she presented to Congress. I will only add that Mrs. Thompson is absolutely alone in the world. She has never had children. She has sur vived her parents and brothers and sis ters, as well as her husband and also her neices and her cousins and her aunts." She is full of generous im pulses and noble purposes, but they mostly incline to a large-sized philan throDV to schemes which she can per sonally direct and be certain that her money does what she wishes it to do. Though she has a strikingly fine face and is a lady who could be decorated to much esthetic advantage, she robes her self uniformly in black, and dresses with almost a Quaker severity. She lives in developing various plans of be nevolence, ana finds little enjoyment, I fancy, outside of their realization. & Wealthy Russian merchants, with a touch of savagery in their nature, often give way to riotous enjoyments. A ' party of them call at a first-class hotel, , order a costly dinner with a profusion. of champagne and other wines, lock tbe j doors and give themselves up to wild ' revelry, eating little but drinking. enormonslv. Unable to consume all Dr. James G. Addison, was sent for. and was willing to perform tho cere mony. Dr. Townsend, who was pres ent, thus described tho scene in an in terview with a Post reporter: " The sister kept her place by tho side of the bed, and as I asked the question first to prove his consciousness, 'Do you know me'1 he indicated his roply by an aflirmattve nod of the head. Then I asked: Aro you willing to marry this woman?' but before he could nod, his sister patted him on tho cheek, and said, Don't answer them, my dear brother.' In his weak condition he would at once relapse, and after several attempts and failures, both I and Dr. Addison gave it up." Tho marriage was thus prevented, and after the Captain's death tbe sister took possession of his porsonal proper ty. The alleged wife caused the arrest of the sister on the accusation of lar ceny, but on the witness stand the com plainant acknowledged that there had been no marriage ceremony. Tho Police Justice, thereupon, decided that the sister, being the natural heir, was entitled to the property. Tho so-called Mrs. Crane was visited by a Po3t reporter. She is of a petite figure, about SO years of age, of fair complexion, and very ladylike and mod est in her demeanor. She was dressed in deep mourning. She was evidently worn and worried with excitement. She said that she had been living for years as the wife of Mr. Crane; had for saken home and friends for him, and, in the eyes of God and man, was his wife. Speaking of the reasons for de laying the marriage, she explained that it had been spoken of between them, but that up to his last sickness nothing definite had been arranged. Some time before Mr. Crane's death the Kev. Dr. Addison had called, but at that time, although she thought of suggesting tbe marriage, she had deferred it, and when he next came it was too late. She add ed that she did not know the sister un til her arrival, and that the sister had Itrevented tbe marriage by placing her land over the mouth and head of Mr. Crane, thus preventing him from an swering the questions when asked. n A Bait for Back. gained for her admireis wherever she appeared. About two years ago she came to this city to reside with her sis ter, Mrs. Morris Barnwell, In tho Itock Ingham apartment house, Fifty-sixth Street and Broadway. One day laat wintcr,while tho streets were blockaded with snow, sho had occasion to ride up town in a Seventh Avenue car. When she wanted to get off, the conductor, at her signal, rang the bell, but the car, drawn by four steaming horses, came to a stop in such a position with reference to tho crosswalk as made it necessary for her to iret off tho front platform. Family of the I.atr Xr. Yotm.,. Consider how many wlve thl i had. Tho number of women to w he was fully married, accordm" to M h to get " I ' l V a I - . B m. m. & KB .I M . l a iL IS a f.. a mo uwr wm upcDuu jor uer uy mo uron nau ft rnflJl to call film faiiiT driver, who also supported her with a ' his first children wore Inmi lxf ire strung, steady hand until she bail safely he had many grandchildren. mon usage, was iwenty-nvw. wh Ijot, after all, so large a c.m a-A t wives as that which jMiptilar r , credited him. These wive ' i many children, some eight, iw r x, and como only one or two. A ', an avoragu of only Jive children u n i wife. Young would have- been the t of 125 children. It ! .vlraltiwl if. t 4 could not have known how mar J 1 f mifcufccu iiuuj wo Biippory nwpii oi me j augnt we :now to tne cofitr,w)-, n platform. When sho stopped to thank i grandchildren were worn unt i, him she saw, mulllcd in a black, shag- Then, agasn, hli gy overcoat, a broad-shouldered young man, over six feet high, with a clear-cut Irish face, set off with bright bluo eyes and a flowing, orown mustache. Ho respectfully acknowledged tho unex pected courtesy from the richly dressed lady, and then, loosing the brake, al-1 ship beyond all poraibln A gentleman in Indiana who has a shallow pond, covering several acres, took the advice of Forest and Stream and sent to a Janesville, Wis., cousin for a banal of wild rice, to seed it with, as an attraction to migrating waterfowl He soaked it until it would sink, and then sowed it where the ground is al ways covered with water from two inch- the wines, they seize the bottles, shout, es to nve xeet ueep, covering swat an "smash," and then rush upon the mir rors, furniture and ornaments oi tne apartments. The next thing is to pay the bill and decamp. Some of the hotel proprietors, need to such visits, hide the valuable pieces of furniture and charge high for the breakage. I thtxk 'twas in September, if I rightly now remember, that I heard a knocking, knocking at my door; yes, I know 'twas in September, for quite well I now remember he had been there abovt fifty times before; had been there knocking at my door. But I opened not, nor wondered, as upon the door he thundered, for lie yelled, "Say, now, wfll you, settle this 'ere bill I bring yon," as he battered on the door, and 1 answered, calmly answered, "Never more." OU City Derrick. acre, in tne spring it came up imcuy and he hi3 since found it to succeed when sown then Next fall a large flock of blackbirds came for the first time, and began to devour the ripe seed so ravenously that a company of sharp shooters were called out to drive them off. A few days later fat teal and wood duck appeared, and seemed to like tbe provision so well that when disturbed they only flew to settle again or to return-with others. The first evening's shooting brought down seven, and the owner of the pond confesses to being as pleased as a boy with' his first pair of boot3. Boast dock was a frequent dish after that. lowed tho horses to snrinc forward through the snow. A fow days afterward Miss Hall found herself by chance on the same car. She gave the driver a kindly glance of re cognition as be turned and saw her. It happened that thereafter sho always took his car when she rode up and down town. It appears that during these rides tho two became acquainted, for, about two months aeo. Miss Hall told ber guardian in this city that she was going to be married, and that, being of age sho wanted the money he held in trust for her made over to her. On his inquiry she frankly told him that her bo trothed was Bernard McDonald, a Sev enth Avenue car driver. He remon strated, but she remained firm in her in tention. Her relatives in Providence were made acquainted with her resolu tion and they came to New York to in duce her to change her mind. Nothing, however, could influence her. The onlv rcMuitui mr entreaties was tnat she ceased to live at the bouse of ber sister, and went to Kiverdale, where she boad ed with a former governness. Here she remained several weeks until Feb. ID. McDonald bad given up his posi tion as driver about Feb. 12. On the morning of the 19th a weddieg party of four met at McDoaald's lodgiags, d thence walked up Fiftieth Street to the Koman catholic Church of St. John the Evaagelist. Accompaayiag the bride and groom were Mr. Joeeph Fitzpatrick, bartesder for Aa drew Bleseisg, Forty-sixth Street at Sixth AveaM, asd Miss Maggie Brow, a daughter of the groomT Itailsdr. The ceremoay was performed bv Fatw Donovan, the bride wore a slain brown silk aad an Eagltsk walkisg hat. There was no bridal tour. The tow wuFM tw. Ktigwgs whs mxm. Drown, who occapiea the top story of the tene ment over the rastasraatoa Fiftieth Street aad Street Avssoe. There they lived uatn last Satarrfay, wh they re moved to faratthed rooms ia Sereath A,n2? TF Tweaty-seco4 eet. McDonald's late fapleyers at the Seventh Avenue car stables give him aa excellent character for steadiaeei aad honesty. His yoa?er brother. vkA t. employed in the St. Cioad Hotel, says that " no man ever saw asrbaM nt !inn mWXMrl 1ifa ft .aawl ftt.l MM 0 agann, mi soni contrary i . marriage, and theie plural jutmnjf- and marri.igea with other men' wt.t , and marriages with women '' svl having children, to say nothing I V numerous divorces nnd Hara' . must complicate tho fjuettion f t. Unfit!' r .1 t a r a urijtnarn i ounir himself w.-w a imv t and a father before he wn n M' - m i The dowager Mra. Young, nwnM ' Brigham in Ohio, in l&JJ, unrtu ?.' much-married husband. TV w ' children and grandchildren of th r and oriel mil (but deceased) Mr Vo.' entered polygamy, and th' add a i cullar clement to tha legal conuwt h , la said to he imminent. One othr s of heirs U that made up of the nlhyt s of the so-ci tiled "spiritual" marna' contracted by the Prophet. It avl that no reeord was over kept f in- contracts. Tho women were "wif i1 to Young, that ij, they were .'iara-rr ly marked as wlvei who were to f . recognized as such in the future w it. f Whatever may be said of the Irgtii ' f Mormon plural roarriagen.childrco ru of these " iealcd" wives are clearer legimate. Nevertheless!, thev Karr rights as heirs. Tho oldest Mrs 'tu ' now living has a lawful (Gcntdej r ', to a widow's third. Kcto York Tt -1 ' m m - tiettiar KM efttnew ia CUIm. rta mawa.v i. it a-J .v.... .. straight, sqmare, aad fair man in every way." He has never doae aay thing since boyoood bat drive horses, aad hi employers say he was oae of the Terr best mea oa the Seventh Aveaaa liae He is 24 years old, aad has beea ia this coantry aboat 12 yean. He makes aopretaase to edacaUoa, but can read aad writ fairW tu ToMjaro-CniXA. Make cement of I brother adds that hdaAutVauMrwk. i - ti. J .; i.: I .. . T 1 1 --"" pi&sxer ox xrans aau. uucs. 9juuu ot i Bernard latends to do, bat it is reported gam arabic in other quarters that he oomttaplates More tbfta eight yeir ago the r j authorities of London offered a ym t r any invention which would cnabte -i to get rid of mov ia the street. .So tcea scheiaes were submitted f " successful apparatus w&t at once ere - aad has been in operation every t? since. It consists simply of an iac liwd plate oTiroa, fixed balow a roast leadmg to the mala sewer. L'nder tlus plate are raeged gas burner T enow carted from the ad joining th r oaghfaresii shoveled down the mini. gratiag, falls oa the heated plate, is re duced to water, aad pastes away d'i the sewer. The consumption of ga - very moderate, aad the ecu is 4id to be mace lees than that iscnrred br cxru away I he aaow oa the old system Tt spparatae, my the Engineer topr? ed extreeseiy soccsssful. and the isret tioa deserves to be widely adopted A UMCJOtr aamber of x tftivre de scribee a simple aad cosvesient nigs. lamp, the invention of M. Bha, ind. eatiag the hour by the extent of eos bastioaof the oil. Daring th u& oae can see at what height the oil iizzds in the tube and read the correspond hoar. T. Z. Gkahax, an actor, suggcrtd aad fell oa the stage of the iisdianzpoUs Theater. The audience hissed hisup posiBg he was draak. 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