mmmmimmm Current tCmmH!8ii(mmmm5!Bm?iHiJiH5c Uhe KfoUra Ghost Zatice. Under ordinary clrciimstnncpH news thnt nn Indian trlbo Ih Indulging In tho wild frenzy known as the ghowt danco Is enough to call up visions of murder nnd rapine. In prist days num orouB murderous raids of tho red men have been preceded !y such festivals. Dut n ghost dnnro now being held In tho Wichita nnd Kiowa reservations of Indian territory Is not bcllovcd to preoago nny such tcrrlblo HcencR. Tho roservntlona nnmnd nro to be opened to white settlors when the allotment of lands to Indians shall have been complotod, nnd tho red men fenr thnt onco tho paleface gem in among them tho days of tribal power will have been nurnborod. With tho vlow of preventing tho Impending Incuralon .these older chlofs hnvo organized the DIANKI. Leader of tho Ghost Dance. ghost dance, which will, they hope, servo to kcop the white men nwny. Blaukl, tho leader of tho ghost dnco, is a high priest In hlb trlbu nnd ft dreamor as well. Ho Is u unlet man between BO and GO yenrs of age, of dignified manner and with a thought ful countenance, according well with his tribal positions as chief priest and head man. He Stole $700,000. Cornelius L. Alvord. noto tollor In the First Natlonnl bank of Now York, 2 Wall street, boa stolen $700,000 of tho bank's funds nnd has abscond ed. Tho bnnk'B of ficers positively do ny that nnyono In tho bank or that any of its deposit ors was In collu Blon "with Alvord. Ho had been twen ty yearfl In tho linnlt'a nmnlnv. hIv President Dnkor. ycn lta noto teller, nnd had tho Implicit confidence of Its olllcors. It Is probable that Al vord lost tho groater part of tho money ho stolo in speculating In tho etroot, at tho very ontranco to which ho handled millions of dollurs. George P. Baker, president of tho bank, lins Issued thlB statement: "Tho aggregate or the fnlse cutrlcs, amounting to $700,000, has been charged off on tho books of tho bank, out of tho rosorvo fund, without di minishing tho surplus, and profits of tho bank as reported In Its last pub lished statement. It is expected that tho shortngo will bo materially re duced by a substantial sum. of which thero is a fair prospect of recovery." Slg. Gullo. tho new ltnllnn minister or public Instruction, Is being criti cised by tho German press becauso ho has ollmlnntod tho study of Gorman from tho curriculum of tho Intermedi ate schools. That language was Intro duced In tho ltnllnn schools, by sig. Baccelll, Gallo's predecessor. Tho Gor man papers assort that Italy's commer cial relations with Germauy, Austria, nnd Switzerland nro becoming closor year by year, and that tho Gorman tonguo la noccssnry to Italians. Jfeto Count Coming. Daron Von Sternberg, who has boon flrst socrotary to tho Gorman embassy hero for several yoars, has beon trans (erred to a now post and will bo succeeded by Count Quadt.who has Just arrived and Is now looking for a ault ft b 1 o residonce. Count Quadt has spent his llfo in tho German dlnlo matio service and is n man of great wealth and social Inclination. Tho Count Quadt. Countoss Quadt is a daughter of Slg nor Martino, tho Italian ambassador to Denmark. The lato Lord Kussell onco presided ut a dinner given to Sir Heury Irving on tho lattor's return from Amorica. Whllo the dlnnor was in progress Lord Russoll suggested that Comyns Carr f propose Sir Henry's health. "I can't mako speeches, you know," said ho. v 8lr Henry gontly replied: "I heard you mako a line npeoch boforo tho Par noll commission." To which tho pun ont Irishman answered: "Oh, yes, but then I had borne thing to talk about." y$ 4$ IB &- Topics Say Mr. Cruder Is to VOcd. From Italy como rumors that Airs. Van Rensselaer Cruger Is engaged, to mnrry n wealthy young Dostontnn named Gardnor, and Now York so cloty Is pltiascd thereat. Dcforo tho death of her husband Mrs. Cruger fell Into tho habit of writing b h ort stories and novels, which dealt whol Mrs. Crugor, ly with Bocloty, and for which publish ers eagerly bid. It was thon alio enmo as nenr founding o. salon as was pos Blblo In Now York. Hor houses nt Oyster Hoy nnd In the city wero tho rendezvous of persons of both boxcs with literary and nrtlstlc tiustes. Aftor the death of Mr. Crugor and tho discovery thnt wealth was not horn, Mrs. Cruger dipped deepor into tho stream of light fiction, nnd under tho nom do plumo of "Julian Gordon" wroto cloveror sketches' thnn ever. Then came tho deslro to llvo abroad and for tho past year or more Mrs. Crugor has occupied a chnrmlng vil la In Florence. A Gal-Ocston Hero. Thoro nro few men In Texas with such n well dovelopod propensity fot getting Into (llsngreeablu Jobs as Col. Hunt McCaleb, who whb adjutant gen eral of tho city forces when Galveston wnH undor martial law. When Gen. Thomas Scurry was appointed to tho military command of tho city by May or JOnes ho at onco offered tho ap pointment of adjutant general to Col. McCnlob. Why ho did so nobody ap peared to know, for McCalob is not IKipular. In normal times ho is an unassuming nowspnper plodder of tho most ordinary stripe, But ho seems fairly to revol In a row, nnd perhaps that Is why Gen. Scurry appointed him to tho responsible position of ndjutant genernl, and gnvo into his hands tho work of managing tho great mnsa of dotall which dovolvcd upon tho military government. Thero waa no law to guldo him save common eonso, nnd, according to his Btory, when ho needed a law right badly to cover a caso which presented itsolt at tho adjutant general's ofllco, COL. McCALED. ho would grind ono out us fast ns his stenographer could work a typewriter. During tho ton days of martial law forty-Blx general orders wero issued. Gen. Scurry says they were modol3 of military conciseness. In these forty six orders this newspaper plodder, whom tho hurrlcnno had tossed into a position of despotic power second only to tho military govornor himself, gave to the town a codo of laws which brought order out of chaos, defined tho common law rights which would bo respected and indicated In no un certain tonus tho common law rights which ceased to exist undor this fear ful and pocullar military despotism. Out moro wonderful than this was the fact that tho peoplo proper, who had beon governed with an iron hand and ofton at tho inuzzlo of n rlllo, roso up and proclalmod against tho proposed abrogation of martial law. It waa McCalob who first suggested to Gon Scurry thnt tho tlrao hnd como to got back to civil government. As tho ad jutant general had been In tho closest touch with tho people, Gon. Scurry placed great storo on his opinion. Ho aaw tho correctness of it, and told tho mayor that martial law must ceaso, and In twonty-four hours tho machin ery of civil process was again in mo tion. The 'Right to Hiss. A Kansas City Judgo bus laid down a now canon In theatrical criticism. Two men nt tho Standard theator In that city who did not llko tho por rormanco expressed their disapproval by hissing. Thoy wore arrested and fined, tho court deciding that while ovory citizen has tho right to indulge In criticism, ho has no right to dis turb tho enjoyment of othora. Tho learned Judgo npparontly did not ro memlwr thnt persona sometimes ap plaud aud usually applaud In tho wrong timo, which disturbs many persons. Tho two victims ought to go to Pnrls, whoro recently an audlonco, dlsplcasod with ttho performance, broke Uio windows and chnira nnd wound up by turning a hooa on tho performers. Thoro nro many occasions when an audience fools llko turning on tho hose, but Paris is tho only place whero this luxury Is enjoyed. 1L Jit MAJ)E sewing easy. BUT SCANT HONOR 13 DENIED HI8 MEMORY. Kllae How Failed of Klrcllon to tlio Mull or Fame In tho Uulrnraltjr of Now York ClilHf .Itullco Against Illm. Chancellor McCrackcn of tho Univer sity of Now York request that tho fol lowing bo published: "By reason of a clerical error (tho misreading of a single figure) In our canvass of tho reports of tho 100 elec tors of tho Hall of Famo, fifty-three votes wero credited to Ellas Howo In atoad of forty-seven. Sovontcon chief Justices wero recorded as supporting him, whon tho number was cloven. Failing, thoreforo, to receive fifty-one votes, his name Is not Included nmong those to bo Inscribed thla present year. This reducos tho roll of names to twen-ty-nlno and leaves vtwenty-ouo vacant panola to bo flltod two years lienco, In 1902. The official count will bo pub Ushed In a fow wcokB, In tho book of tho Hall of Fame. In a fow Instances tho figures may vary slightly from thoso published in tho public prints, but tho roll of twenty-nlno names is now oasured." Ellas Howo was the Inventor of tho sewing machine Ho was born at ELIAS HOWE. Spencer, Mass., July 9, 1819, and died at Brooklyn, Oct. 3, 18G7. Ho was tho son of a farmer and miller, and his only education was that received dur ing tho winter months, when thero was no work to bo done on tho farm. In 1837 ho drifted to Boston, nnd secured employment In tho bhop of a machin ist. Hero he conceived tho Idea of the sewing machine, nnd spent llvo years in perfecting It. On Sept. 10, 18IC, he was given his first patent, but ho could not soil tho mnchlno becnuso of tho opposition of the artisan class to labor-saving ap pliances. Noxt ho went to England, and, falling thero to Interest capital In his Invention, ho returned to Amerlcn, working his passage as a common sailor. Whllo ho was abroad his machine had boon Imitated and was selling ovorywhore. Capital now came to his aid, nnd In a short time" his Incomo had lnci eased from $300 to $200,000 a year. Ho cleared up on his Invention about $2,000,000. CHARACTER IN THUMBS. Hie Way They Are Held Is a (lultle o Miwrn'n. Thoro aro many who Judgo of tho character of Individuals by tho ex pression and netting of tho eye, the shapo nnd chnracter of tho nose, tho conformation of tho mouth, with its toll-tnlo corners, tho looseness or tight ness of tho lips, but hero Is a woman who bases hor approval or conJomna tlon on tho wny womon hold tholr thumbs, and declares that alio has never been deceived in her estimate. This Is Miss Mary Burk, an organized chnritios worker, whoso remarks nro quoted by tho Philadelphia Daily Bul letin ns follows; I gave the subject spe cial study aftor I had noticed tho al most Infallible guldo that thumbs offer to tho woman who must road charac ter. Many of tho so-called signs of chnractor may bo acquired without tho characteristic that they nro supposed Tho late William L.Wilson, who died at Loxlngton, Ky recently, was born at Charlestown, W. Va,, May 3, 1843. His father, who was also an educator, died when tho son was a child, and tho boy was educated by his mother, a woman of great culture. Mr. Wilson was graduated In 18G0 from tho Colum bian university at Washington and for two years thereafter waB a studont in tho University of Virginia. At the close of tho war, during which ho had fought as a prlvato on the sido of tho confederacy, ho studied law In tho Columbian university and was at tho samo tlnio assistant pro fessor of Greek and Latin In that In stitution. It was at tho Democratic natlonnl convention of 1880, to which he was a dclegato, that Mr. Wilson made hla dobut In politics. Since 1871 ho had beon a practicing lawyer in Chnrlos I town. But law and politics wero not 1 then as attractive to him as waa odu r catlonal work, and In 18S3 ho beenmo I president of tho University of Wost Virginia. Ills oloctlon to congress, however, drew him back to tho politi cal flold into which ho enterod this tlmo with koon Interest I In congress he won n distinguished reputation as a scholarly, statesman llko rocmbor whoso special interest in the, tariff question led to his appoint ment to the commlfteo on ways and means. This was In 1887. He was nl waya a hearty Bupportor of Mr. Cleve mLwi m Mm Ipil Willi's (rctl to Indicate. A woman may cultivate manner and telf-control to such' an ex tent that hor real personality nnd In stincts mny bo kopt from tho oyoa of most obsorvors. nut her thumb Is hor botrayor. It la tho ono member that aha .forgets to keep under btrct sur veillance. And it speaks frankly. When I am collecting money for any philanthropy and I meet n. patron who discusses tho subject with her thumb hold close against her forefinger I do not ask her for a contribution, for I know that she Is selfish and unwilling to part with a donation. If, on the contrary, tho thumb stands out with a heroic nonchalance, I know that tho owner la open for sympathy, nnd will help If sho can. Evon if alio cannot, her answer will bo truthful. I do not think that I ever have mot an excep tion to veracity In tha right sort of thumb. But I never placo any rellnnco upon tho word of a woman whoso thumb closes Insldo of her palm ns tho speaks, or who makes a list by lotting tho fingers cover tho thumb. Sho is de ceptive, Insincere, and ofton cowardly. In a man thla retirement of tho thumb expresses woaknesa, too. Notice it when acquaintances or friends fchako hands with you. If womon think that a brnvely extended thumb is obtrusive or Inartistic they dhould dlsabuso their minds of tho Idea, for they nro placing a class upon themselves that thoy do not doservo whon they chock tho thumb In Its free expression. When a woman manifests nervousne33 on a club platform I loo at her thumb to know tho cnuse. And when sho uttors a particularly lofty or noblo sentiment I glanco again at hor thumb to know whether she mennt it. This has been ono of tho most Important aids thnt I havo used with success In studying tho colored people NavlKtlon ou Illinois Hirer. Although thero aro many steamers on the Illinois river, most of them aro In local trado on the various pools, and fow pass through tho locks. A feo of $1.G0 per vessol and a toll on cargo 1b charged at each dam. The receipts at Honry last year wero $1,101.11, nnd tho exponso of maintaining $1,37G.05. At Copperas Creek $1,701X6 was col lected to offset an expenditure of $2, 114.13. But a slnglo vessol regularly passes tho Henry lock at present, tho Borealls Ilex of tho Itoynl route, Capt. Swain. This stcamor makes regular dally round trips between LnSolle and Henry loaded to tho guards with freight aud passengers, and Ib said to havo cleared nearly $10,000 abovo all expenses this season. A new steamer, tho Fred Swain, has been built to run opposite to it, nnd many moro boats nro projected in consequonco of tho deep water and booming trado. An other Btcamer, tho Bald Eaglo, runs from Peoria to St. Louis. In addition to theso grain boats, yachts and ex cursion steamers pass at Intervals, and this year tho expense, sheets at tho locks will probably show a consider able profit to tho state. John L Mathews, In Chicago Record. To Italic tho Kangaroo. A movement has been started In Franco which has for Its purposo tho preservation, or, rather, the cultivation of tho kangaroo, which has been rap Idly proceeding toward extermination. Dr. Brisson, a French surgeon, says that thero Is likely coon to be an ex ceptional demand for the animals In consequence of tho success nttendlng the uso of tho kangaroo tendon in tho hospitals. It has been employed In scores of Instances to tlo up tho frac tured bones of a man's leg, In order that ho may uso his knees while tho bones aro knitting together. Kanga roo tendon, ho says, Is as strong as silver wire. It Is taken from tho tall, and being animal In Its nature Is ab sorbed, and tho leg doos not havo to bo cut open, as Is necessary whon sllvor wlro Is used. This year has continued tho great est season in tho history of lake traf fic. land's policies. In tho speakership fight between Crisp nnd Mills ho took an ac tive part. This was followed by his appointment as chairman of tho ways and moans commltteo and tho Wilson, bill was tho result Mr. Wilson fa- THH LATE WILLIAM L. WILSON, vorcd warmly tho repeal of tho Shor mnn law, In tho gonoral elections of 1891 Mr. Wilson waa defontcd for congrosj, but was nppolntod postmastor In general at the expiration of his term in 189S. Ho waa one of Mr. Cleveland's olMeat advisors, and for his Judgment that Prortdent bad the profoundest respect j3i ' ' JfrygX' I Speculation as to tho composition md surroundings of tho sun nnd Its toronu has run on many linos, but Ihero have been vory few investigators who have suspected tho existence of inrk bodies In such a neighborhood. Sucli suspicions have existed, but thero has been very little to support thorn until tho recent eclipse. Skepticism dii the point was fully Justified until tho fact was definitely and clearly as certulnod, since In tho case of an ob ject to brilliant aa the corona It was so oasy to mistake u mero Interval botween two bright structures for a dark one, and this objection applies evon to tho phott graph. It is to tho pnotgraph. however that wo owo our knowledge thnt dnrk boales do ex ist In the vicinity of the sun and its corona. Tho discovery appears to bo duo to tho exlstenco oi a light which Is not that of tho corona, but a faint, diffused light duo to tho scattering of other light by K.lnuto pnttlclcs, and It Is by their showing against this gleam that wo oro able to convince oursclvcB of the existence of tho dark bodies. What they mean at present men of sci ence do not know and at present havo no menus of ascertaining. Significance of some tort they must havo and to tlie solution of this problem our as tronomers will coubtlcsE address them selves with that mixture of enthusiasm and patience which hns given to tho world so inany nolablo discoveries, rrolongrd ej.pomire of the plates has been tho means by which Mr. Maunder has clearly demrmhtrnted that those dark ttriutures posse en an actual ex lstenco nnd arc not mere effects of contrast, ns was hiiggested with regard to the negatives taken by Mr. Wesley as far back as 1871. Tho dark rays arq of no small extent, one of them com ing to an abrupt end at about 600,000 mile3 from tho edge of tho sun, and unother bordering on a bright stream er Is oven longer than Its companion. Tho discovery is important oven on the ground that it adds a new element to the inexhaustible romance of science Ha Currents and Migration. Tho French scientific Journal, La Nature, calls attention to a recent re port of tho French consul at Hawaii, which, it thinks, throws light on somo problems of ethnography. Not long ago a little schooner, dismantled and its rudder gone as tho result of a tem pest, was drifted by winds and ocean currents from Tahiti to Hawaii, after elghty-ono days of helpless wandering. Hawaiian traditions declare that in ancient days people camo from Tahiti, drifting with the currents, and Bottled In Hawaii. Tho ndventuro of tho dis mantled schooner seems to prove tho possibility of such n migration, nnd It is suggested that the currents of tho Pnclflc, which hnvo not yet been suffi ciently studied, may throw light on tho distribution of tho native races among tho Island groups. TURN THIS SIDEWAYS. If you follow the advice you will bo startled by the sudden apparition of a water god's smiling face. This, morcovor, is not a "freak," but a gon ulno and curious case of extraordinary reflection m still water. The picture was taken at Wllloughby lake, a sum mer resort iu Vermont, and tho re flection Is called locally Devil's Face. Harvard' lreat Klootrlo riant, Prof. John Trowbridge .has recently had installed at Harvard university tho most powerful apparatus In the world for tho production of olectro-motivo force. Tho plant comprises 20,000 stor age cells giving 40,000 electrical units of pressure, and this can bo Increased to 3,000,000 volts. But In order to ob tain the full effect of so enormous a pressure, Prof. Trowbridge says It would bo necessary to romovo tho ap paratus Into tho center of an open flold and elevato It at least thirty feot from tho ground In ordor to avoid Iosb from tho inductive action of floors and walls. With this great battery tho highest degreo of Instantaneous tem perature yet attained can bo produced. Prof. Trowbrldgo hopes with Its aid to obtain some cluo to tho temperature at which hydrogen exists In tho stars. This plant furnishes, ho adds, an Ideal method of producing X-rays. CuUlrntet! Iinntter. The vlllago of Bracket in Belgium onjoys tho fame of having originated ono of the most celebrated rnccB of domeatlc fowls. Tho Belgians do not hesltato to assert that tho Bracket hens are unequaled for tho exttclWnce aSSsT $ c-'Sts N 4i &iI and number of tholr eggs, whllo tho roosters have developed, thanks to genorationa of cultivation and tho In fluence of "crowing tournamontB," a power and rhythm of volco equally un rivaled. Tho breedera have a theory that tho mimical contests In which tho Bracket roostors are trained servo to develop tho peculiar qualities of tho race. However thlB may be, It Ib cer tain the cultivation has differentiated theso fowls from all others. CURES CATARRH AT NICJHT. Most of tho cures recommendod for catarrh, hay fevor, etc., require consid erable cure and routino work In order to effect a cure, and the sufferer la apt to neglect a contlnuanco of tho treat ment until a complote euro la effected, simply because It Is "too much troublo" to attend to the slmplo do-, tnlls. It would seem, howevor, that If a treatment was provided that could bo applied at night, when It would not Interfero with tho dally duties or ro qiilro attention at stated hours, It would havo much to rocommond Its use. Tho Inhaler shown abovo Is so constructed as to bo readily attached to tho nose, and that, too, without a sufficient pressuro on tho cartilage to cause annoyance or Intorfeia with rest ful sleep. The devlco consists of two absorbent pads connected by a wire spring, Uio latter bent to a shape con venient for attachment to tho central cartllago of tho nose. Tho Inventor claims that It a sufferer from catarrh, asthma, bronchitis and othor diseases of tho nasal passages and throat will apply this device at night a euro will be shortly effected, thv modiclno doing Its work nt tho hours whon diseases of tho head and throat make their most formidable strides. Unmeaning a Waterfall, The harnessing of ono of Sweden's largo waterfalls has Just been accom plished. Tho water power lies at Quarnsveden and tho electric current Is conveyed to Domnarfvet, about threo mlle3 distant. Tho power station, gen erators, cables nnd transformers aro all from German houses. For convey ing this current 40,000 pounds of cop per wlro Is used. Tho waterfall, which Is ono of tho most powerful nnd con tinuous in tho kingdom, Is estimated to contain 18,000 horso power, 8,000 of which Is utilized to oporato the saw mills of tho company, whllo 10.000 la used for tho generation of tho oloctrlo current. Buimlilue anil HuRar. Tho experiments of tho French grnpo growers In Algeria havo shown that too much sunshine Is unfavorablo for tho making of good wine. In tho moro temperate climate of France grapes possess tv proper proportion of sugar to acid for wine making, but tho hot Algerian sunshlno induces so ac tive an assimilation by tho vines that tho quantity of acid is reduced and thnt of Hugar Increased. In conse quence tho wine mnkers of Algeria aro driven to many devices lor Improving the flavor nnd lasting qualities of their wines. Hnve Iniecta I'uvorlto Colon. It has been asserted that Insects nro particularly attracted by tho colors of certain flowers. Felix Plateau, after Investigating tho conduct of Inseots in their visits to various flowers, con cludes that while thoy may porcelvo colors and thus bo enabled to distin guish, at a distance, between flowers and leaves, yet they show no prefer- 'ences among tho different colors. Bluo, red, yellow, white aro lndifforont to them. He thinks that tho ordor of floworB affects Insects more than tholr colors do. Aluminum for Soldering Italia. Among tho uses receutly found for aluminum Is tho soldering of Jron rails end to end In order to obtnln a smooth, continuous track. Aluminum has tho luujieny 01 producing great boat la tho act of combining with oxygen. The ends of tho rails aro placed together in a crucible filled with a mixture of aluminum and Iron oro. Tho mlxturo being fired, an lntonso heat results, and tho rails aro flrmly soldered to gether. This Is said to be quite as effi cacious as tho electric method of sol. derlng. Marino AnlmaU Far from the Hot. Somo of the vast changes which the faco of tho earth has undergono aro indicated by the recent discovery In tho small lakes' scattered among tho survival of certain forms of marine an imate. Salt plains exist there whoso deposits were formed beforo volcanic forces upheaved tho surrounding rocka and created mountain peaks and crat ers. Few mon aro admired by tholr ser- fe vants. Montaigne. - ' V r MJmwmAyeMmmmm&ammnmk MIffitmifKnmi W& mwiiwrMiniay)