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I I K I i HP i r f. !) Fl: r BTJCHAXaJTS TRAGEDY. ' j Maw Iws UtM Were Wrecked ay Cksace sad Craelty. The extract from a Washington letter to the Chicago New headed "Buchan an's Tragic Lore Story," copied into the Tribune recently, is called by people here who claim to know a mass of errors. His love story as told by them and they assert they have often heard the particulars from" his own lips, and farther that it can be verified by mariy 'till living in Lancaster is to this effect: The young lady to whom Mr. Buchanan was engaged to bo married was Miss. Anne Coleman of Lancaster, not of Philadelphia. Mr. Buchanan at this time was not "practicing law in a remote part .of Pennsylvania," but was a member of the Legislature, residing in Lancaster, next door to theColemans in East Hng street j He "was a lawyer bvfprofessiooand-wentvtb -Lancaster from franklin county, to study for the bar when a boy. Ilis engagement to 'Miss Coleman was long before he pur chased his country-seat of "Wheatland." The Colcmans were a auiet, early-going-to-bcd family, and Air. Buchanan was never allowed to sec his fiancee after 9 p. m. The young couple were accustomed to tako regular evening walks, but it was always reqnired that the Udv ber at home by 9. They were noted hroiighout the city as the hand somest and most affectionate pair the place could boast One night, coming from Harrisburg, the stage was delayed (no railroads then), and Mr. Buchanan did not reach Lancaster until after 9. Knowing that he would not at that hour be permitted to see Miss Coleman, he called upon a friend, Mrs. Jenkins, and accompanied her sister. Miss Harriet Olds, to a ball at the house of Mrs. Bosanna Hubley. TheColemans of-coursc heard of this, and, being very proud, they felt that an indignity had been placed upon their daughter, and insisted that the match be broken off. The young lady herself wished to keep faith with her lover, and was so much distressed and so un willing to accede to the commands of her parents that she was sent to Phila delphia. Mr. Buchanan never saw her alive again, nor could lie attempt to communicate with her, for he did not know where she was. Ho called at her house the morning after the ball, but was denied admission, and all he could learn was thai; she had left the town. She came to Philadelphia by the stagot which took nearly two days for the 'ourney, stopping over night at Down ngton at what was called the Half-Way House. The same stage in a few days brought her dead body back. Mr. Bu chanan never doubted that she took poison and often expressed that belief. It was also the general opinion. The Colemans never spoko to Mr. Buchanan after the ball, even declined further ac quaintance with those who remained .his friends, and would have prevented him looking upon the corpse. The woman, however, who prepared the un fortunate young lady for her coffin let him into the house disguised in female attire at 1 o'clock in the morning, and he had the melancholy satisfaction of seeing once more the features of the girl he loved so fondly. He is said to have had the sympathy of everybody in his deep sorrow. He was greatly affected, and for two years, in his own words, was 'scarcely himself There is a probability that this sad experience in fluenced all his after life, and it is cer tain that he never again thought of marriage. There were no intercepted or delayed letters, and the story of the broken leg is all imagination. It may be worth while adding that Miss Olds, the innocent cause of all the trouble, remained single, and that only about ten years ago she was burned to death at her home in Lancaster, her clothes taking lire at a grate. Phila delphia Letter to Xew York Tribune. Earthquakes and Other Earth Movements. We are accustomed to think of the land of the earth as something solid and fixed; and, as a testimonial of this impression, the Latin phrase terra firma, firm land or solid ground, has been naturalized in the languages of nearly all civilized peoples. On the other hand, we speak of water as un stable. But the geological history of the earth and the more careful observa tions of modern times have taught us that these ideas do not correctly repre sent the qualities of the land-masses and water-masses of the globe as compared f with one another. The ancient shorc ' marks on the continents and the phe nomena of elevation anil subsidence that have been observed in historic , times, confirming their evidence, show that the land and the ocean are con tinually changing their level as to one another; and it has further been mado evident by experiment as well as by a priori reasoning, that it is not the ocean that changes, but the land which under goes alternate movements of elevation and depression. An earthquake-shock is a phenomenon well adapted to de stroy the faith of any person who feels one in the fixedness of the earth; and such, by the evidence, is the effect for the time on all who experience theso shocks. Even the light pulsations i which sometimes pass over parts of the . United States occasion panic and excite a momentary impression that every thing is falling over or sinking away; while the more violont shocks that are felt in crrthquake-infestod countries pro duce indescribable terror; and such cat--jastrophes as those historical earthquakes Jof Lisbon- and Caracas, and the moro recent ones of Ischi and the Strait of Sunda amouut to a demonstration that the reason for such terrors is real, and that the continents also can not escape the general law of change and perish ability. Earth-movements the name by which these phenomena may be most con venient) described are various, and comprise, so far as they are now con sidered, earthquakes, or sudden violent movements of the ground; earth-tremors or minute movements which usually escape attention by the smallness of their amplitude; earth pulsations, or movements which are overlooked on ac count of the length of their period; and earth oscillations or movements of long .-period t and large amplitude like the - .shifting of levels of land-masses which attract attention from their geological importance. Some of these movements have only recently begun to attract at tention. They are all intimately as sociated in their occurrence and their origin. Popular Science Monthly. i m "j ii '' A valuable discovery has been made whereby the faded ink on parchment may be so restored as to render the writing perfectly legible. The process consists in moistening- the paper with water, .and then pass over the lines in writing with a brush which has been wet in a solution of ammonia. The -writing will immediately appear quite dark in color, and this color, in the case of parchment it will preserve. On paper.! however, the col6r gradually fanes again; but it may be restored at r -; pleasure by the application of the sul phide. The explanation of the action n of tliis sBBstaacciis very simple. The iron which enters into the composition of the ink is transformed by the reac tion into the black sulphide. Mocking birds canx be taught almost anything in the way of tunes. Macon,' need, to boast of a bird, that whistled "Dixie,"" and years ago, a-Frenchman, 7, , .traveled about the country playing airs. upon tue piano wnicn ins Dim wouia follow accurately. At the Pulaski r BSmai, in Savannah, a negro used to gooa nlto to tanas his master whistled. to FREAKS. ImirtrNf Cases That Have Come to the Notice or a Clergymaa Tue Trag edy of a Choree Girl. Speaking of the many features which enliven the matrimonial market a well known clergyman said to a Boston Olobe reporter: "One of the many remark ablo cases I recall is that of a beautiful young girl who was married to a wealthy man of three score years and nine. The acquaintance was made at one of our theaters, where Laura was engaged as chorus girl. The brief ac quaintance ripeneu into a strong re Srd, and finally, they were married, lira after a time tired of her aged partner and sought her old haunts, aud on any pleasant day she might be seen upon the road behind four handsome coal-black horses, in her barouche, the flashiest in town, with some half a dozen young swells. The husband look ed upon all these peccadilloes without a word of remonstrance, and -endeavored all the harder to wean her from the evil influences which surrounded her, but without avail It was but a few months after their marriage that the wife, de serting husband and home, took pas sage on a steamer for Loudon, and, ar riving there, occupied quarters with a well-known elocutionist who had fig ured prominently in the social world, and who had sailed a week previous for old England. The two were married within a few days by the queen's chap lain and started" for the coast for their honeymoon. On the first day the couple retired at an early hour, but when morning came the domestic found the husband of a few hours stretched cold and dead across the bed, a small blue circle in the forehead where a bul let had entered. He had taken his own life. TKe young man's family made in quiries regarding the character of tho widow, and when tho reports came in so detrimental to her honor and repu tation she was' sent out into the world to fight its battles alone, unearcd for and unknown. The first husband be came a victim to grief and died, and the brido, weakened by the forced dis sipations. survived him but a short time, ! and the remarkable career begun so auspiciously, so happily, ended in tho bereavement of three families. "Only a few weeks ago a handsome team drove to mv door and a moment later a lady and gentleman entered our a. a J m a k A m a1S S rk A r 1 apartments and asked to be married. The lady was young, beautiful, and wealthy. The husband to be was a common sailor, the odor of tar still strong upon him, while every feature snowed a barrenness of even ordinary ability. I led the lady to another part of the room, when I asked an explana tion. AH I could get was that they j were bent on marrying and if I didu t j do it some one else would, and at last j the knot was tied and the couple drove away. I have since learned that Jack returned immediately to his ship and took passage to Liverpool, where to-day the couple-Tivo in contentment "Another f singular incident in my career as a minister was the marriage of tho father of one of the most promi nent political officers of the state. What makes it more interesting is that the offspring was not even aware that his parents were lawful husband and wife. While at a public reception a few weeks ago I was introduced to the nfan in Juration, and remarked that years ago had married his father to an estima ble young woman. The son, after a moment's reflection, left the house, say ing that he would investigate the mat ter, but whether he did or not I cannot telL It was years before that the hus band, having buried his wife, retired in seclusion with only a housekeeper to assist in the management of the house, and they lived as tueh for many years. One afternoon a neighbor visited me and inquired whether I had married the couple, but I knew nothing of their mar riage and told him so, but it was only a few weeks later that 1 was visited by the husband and his housekeeper, who expressetl a desire to be wedded. 'Have you your certificate?' I asked. No; ho had none with him, but promised that if I woidd wait a few moments he would obtain one, as he had made application years previous and had been granted his papers. He posted home aud re turned with his certificate, old aud yel low with age, but the legal instrument and they were married on the spot and the son was the legal offspring of that marriage. "I have met couples who would not be married with metal rings, and I have cut circles from the groom's gloves to satisfy them. I have known of the church key heing the substitute for the wedding-ring, of a clergyman's stop ping a wedding service because the wedding-ring was diamond instead of the ordinary band, and of no end of trouble being caused by a wedding-ring which the bride mistrusted to be brass being placed on her finger, and I recall an instance where a common curtain ring answered the purpose of a more suitable and costly one. The question of fees is a most interesting one, and in my experience as minister I have re ceived almost every sum, from a silver dollar to a check for $100, and almost every conceivable gift from a copy of the church ritual, elegantly bound, to less portable but more valuable evidences of appreciation." Tho Language of the Train. To sit on one scat and put your feet on another signifies. "I am not accus tomed, to upholstered furniture at home." To occupy four seats on one ticket means, "1 am a hog." To lean half way out of the window in order to see tho country means, "There are no glazed windows in my house." To turn a front seat and ride backward, staring the whole car in the face, means, "I may not be pretty, but 1 think I am." To expectorate on tho car-floor means, "I have no carpets at borne." To say of the station that yon "cannot see the town for the houses," sigpilies, "I have never been anywhere before." To drink all the water in the tank and go to sleep at 8 o'clock in the morning means, "I was out with the boys last night" To be bounced off the train means, "I'm dead-broke." To chase your children away from your own seat to be entertained by the other pas sengers signifies, "I cannot afford to keep a nurse." To talk so loud the .whole car can't help hearing you signi fies, 'Tin telling all I know.'1 To bore a reluctant stranger with your conver sation signifies thatyou ought to be taken out and shot To eat your dinner with both hands meaus that you would eat like a gentleman if the railroad com pany gave you time. To whistle in the car signifies that you have no ear for music. To drum on the window with your fingers shows that yon do not know how to drum. To walk through the car with alighted cigar in your mouth indicates that it is your first cigar. To do any or all of these things just when you feel like it signifies that you are away from home and are going to enjoy yourself in your own way ana you' don't care who knows it To be run over by a truck-load of theatre bag gage on the platform signifies "I seem to be in the way." To go into the res taurant and come out wipiner vonr mouth with the back of your hand signifies "I am a prohibitionist but I am not bigoted." To cnagge a $50 bill for a plain old farmer from Schoharie means "I am out $60." To run up town five minutes when the train stops only three means "I am liable to get left" To bay an expired limited ticket j. over the Boston & Maine and try to ride i over the Eastern Railroad with it means i "I am a fooL" To urn a half-fai-A hv 1 tellihsr the conductor that vour 9-vear- old boy will be 5 next June means "I . am a liar." Vnr ninotrr-Mtt, 'n.uATKMM MATRIMONIAL mmv m ww t av sj mm TUT a uajsja3v4MCv40 19. f. &:&! &g " seat Stc W9 MS means "somebody is going to. stand up." BurJcUe. . "" m a Why He Never Swears. 'I never swear," said a jolly, fat traveler from Kansas City, to a writer in the St Paul Globe. "And as well as I can remember I never uttered but five or six oaths in my life, and they were all pronounced about the same time. Before and after that I never found it necessary to use a profane word and I believe 1 have as much temper as any man, and have as many things to annoy and trouble me. It's all non sense to hear men talk about nut being able to content themselves in that par ticular. They can all quit it if they only will. Every one of them keeps from swearing while he is with women, and if ho ean do it then, he can quit it altogether. 'My swearing bee? O, yes. When I was a boy I longed to swear as much as any boy, but the teachings of my mother, who died when I was quite small, came to mo and I was actually afraid to swear afraid that something, I could not tell what would happen to me. One evening I made up my mind to swear the next day. The following morning, after breakfast, I went down under an old culvert and began to swear like a mate on a steamboat I had not got through all my combinations, for I combined all sorts of oaths, when the culvert caved in. I got out in time to save mj'self from a horrible death, with an oath on my lips. I took that caving in business as a direct hint to mo to let up. 1 still feel that way, and nothing could induce me to use a profane word." m s i Wonderful Photographs. I am sometimes moved to wonder whether the photographs which line the shop-windows are, considered beautiful by their feminino originals. What might be called a contortion craze has invaded the photograph gallery, and women have their pictures taken in poses that would have made their mothers gasp with amazement twenty years ago. This is not only true of ac tresses, but also of women who are so cially eminent One well-known leader of New York society not Mrs. Potter, by the way is on exhibition in nunior- nun prtmp ot a photograph winch de . picts her, in gorgeous evening attire, - 1 ? 4 ff.1V !..-. - A 1 A - - - - reclining at half-length upon a low chair, with her arms stretched back over her bead, holding a huge feather fan aloft She is looking at the fan, and the effort throws her bead so far back that the tendons of her throat' stand out like whip-cords. It is a thea trical and suggestive pose. Tho lady would not for an instant think of as suming it in a drawing-room indeed, she could not without "causing infinite scandal and yet she allows herself to be photographed in such a pose, and is exhibited in a dozen shop-windows on the principal thoroughfares. Even Miss Ada Rchan, who is usually acknow ledged to be a woman of good taste, has had herself photographed in a some what similar manner. Only the bead and neck arc shown. Tho view is from in frnnt nnii tJiA rliin in hold fin hirh in the air that one sees nothing but a long throat very much strained and topping off in a sharp-pointed chin. Above the chin may be seen, in a dim horizontal perspective, the features of Miss Rehan, the nose alone rising distinct from the somewhat blurred hue of the face. Tho photograph is life-size. Tho effect is unpleasant N. Y. Cor. San Francis co Argonaut. ' The Danger of Kissing. The custom of kissing has been con demned by the wise and frowned upon 'by tho religious, but has managed to thrive despite it all, and is still love's great artillery and best ally. Why tactilo sensations from a limited labial surface have been found so very agree able, and why they should have con tributed so much to the poetry and pair ing off' of the human race are questions quite worthy of full discussion. Kiss ing, we are told, began with the birds and reaches its most perfect evolution in man. It has a long history, there fore, and may well bo considered a per manent feature in human society solacing grief, increasing joys, promo ting wedding engagements, and fur nishing a permanent source of inspira tion for the artist But an enemy to the kiss has appear ed in Washington, D. C, in the person of Dr. Samuel S. Adams, who devotes seven columns of the "Journal of the American Medical Association" to ex posing tho "dangers of kissing." Every thing has its dark side. The dark side of kissing, as viewed by Dr. Adams, is both moral and physical. Among women and between children and adults it has degenerated into an insincere, unmeaning, and common-place saluta tion, when it should be reserved only as an index of affectionate feeling. But the weight of tho doctor's argument is expended in showing the possible evils which come from the promiscuous kiss ing of babies and children by adults. Tuberculosis, diphtheria, infectious fevers all are possible on actual results of kissing. A veritable instance is cited in which the drum of the ear was rup tured by a kiss applied to tho external auricular appendage! A kiss of such suction force reminds one of Benedict's, which had "such a clamorous smack that at the parting, all the church did echo." Although we may not realize as he does the widespread and endemic character of the kissing habit in Wash ington, we can ouly trust it will prove a safe place for the international oon- gress. -Mcdical Record. Variety In Food. Often a sickly, waning appetite can be stimulated by some exceedingly simple change in tho commonest articles of daily food. Slices of dry bread are uninviting, but tho same bread lightly browned, with a delicately-poached egg resting on the crisp toast becomes al together another item in the bill of fare. Cold beef or mutton have become standard dishes for wash day or other slim dinners. But an accompaniment of pickles for the one, and jelly for the other, makes all the difference in the world between tasteful and bald utili tarian housekeeping. Oatmeal porridge is a most excellent breakfast dish, yet it is well to occasionally substitute in its place berries or other fruit, or even a change to pearl hominy, or cracked wheat or cornmeal mush. I know there are forty different ways to prepare potatoes, and should not be surprised to learn that there may be fifty, yet how few are the tables, especially In the country, where one sees this vegetable except in the stereotyped boiled whole, mashed or fried. A great variety of delightful dishes can be made with ap ples at all seasons of the year, whether one has fresh or canned fruit Break fast dinner or tea need not lack a healthful relish if one has a dozen or bo of apples within reach. I do not enu merate the host of what are known as made-dishes," which can he so quick ly and easily concocted out of remnants. I know it is worth the trouble to set on the family table, not courses of elabor ate dishes, but a wholesome, agreeable and yet economical diversity of food. Lucy It. Fleming, in American Agri culturist. Atlanta is the third largest snuff market in the world. .London comes first. New York next and Atlanta third. Lorillard sold 808,000 pounds of snuff in that city last year, and other makers abbot 150,000 pounds. One house there ' old 66,000 pounds. In Macon uxii- 1sh sold 175,000 ponndeV I -"'" V "' dm.OOOoouad.. I The-Story of David Davis' Fortmme. "Judge David Davis made one of the luckiest deals in Chicago property ever known," said a real estate agent yester day; "in fact he was fairly forced by circumstances into an investment wnicn made him a millionaire. Just about forty years ago, when Davis was a young lawyer, struggling for a living, an Eastern client a manufacturer, placed in his hands for collection a bill against a Chicago firm, which was on the verge of bankruptcy. The bill was something like $3,000, and the firm, though in hard luck, were honest and were willing to do the best they could to satisfy their creditors. They told the young lawyer that they couldn't raise any cash, but they had some land on tho outskirts of the city which they were willing to give up. Davis, thinking that even land was better than nothing, accept the proposition, aud a deed was made out iu his name. A fow weeks later ho met his client iu St Louis, and told him what had been done. But the client was not satisfied. ' 'That will never do,' ho exclaimed; you had no authority to take land in settlement of our account It takes money to carry on business, and we must have cash. We don't want any wild Western lands. This will never do.' "And the client expressed so much dissatisfaction that tho young lawyer took it very much to heart Ho deter mined to try and make a new basis of settlement with the debtors. He came to Chicago, but could do nothing with the firm. He tried to sell tho land, even at a sacrifice, but could find no pur chaser. Chicago was then a town of only twelve or fifteen thousand popula tion, and nobody foresaw that in a quarter of a century it would spread all over the surrounding prairie. Reluc tantly, and more to satisfy his client and his own sense of wounded honor as an attorney, he decided to take the land himself. He went to Bloomington, with some difficulty raised the money, sent it to his client, and retained the deed in his own name. "His honor in this case was the foun dation of his large fortune. That land consisted of eighty acres lying between Twenty-sixth and Thirty-first streets and west of the tracks of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad Company. For several years the taxes on this prop erty kept the young lawyer land poor,' and his homing was constantly in the market, without purchasers. He finally realized that it was good property and held to it He paid out a good deal of money for taxes and assessments, but ten years ago he sold one-half of the tract for $375,000, and the remaining forty acres, with the eighty houses which be has erected thereon, are esti mated to be worth a cool million. Nearly one-half of his whole fortune consists of this 'wild Western land' which his indignant client and his own honor forced upon him forty years ago." Chicago Herald. a i a Pay of Congressmen. When a member dies his pay ceases on the day of his death. The salary of the successor commences tho day after the docease of the former member. though the election may not occur for several months. The new member, in other words, draws pay for time he never served. A member is allowed 20 cents mileage each way, or 40 cents a mile odc way, and he can check for the full amount of both trips when he takes his seat He is allowed $125 a year for stationery. The most of this sum is pocketed. The members draw their money in different ways. There are probably twenty of the present House who let their salaries rim into nest eggs. Among these are Scott and Evcrhart, of Penn sylvania; Powell, of Illinois; Boutelle, of Maine; Henley, of California; Jones, Stewart and Reagan, of Texas; Ells bury, of Ohio: Stone, of Massachusetts, ana Wakefield, Minnesota. Scott has over a year's salary owing him about $6,000. The other members mentioned have from $1,000 to $3,000 to their credit There are a couple of dozen of members who always overdraw, or, rather, borrow from the head of tbe bank. They borrow or get in advance sums ranging from $10 to $300. and at the end of the month they have noth ing. The great majority of the members draw all that Is coming to them at tho end of each month, particularly those who have their families with them. Some of them never sec an outside bank, but let their monthly salary remain and draw it out in small sums. Others take out their salaries and place them in other banks. But this is not done as much as formerly. A number of them got caught in the MIddleton Bank that roke some time ago. Moat of the members do all their financial business over the counter of the Congressional bank, and some of them pile checks up as high as $60,000 in a single session. Washington Hatchet. m i s Ancient Cities of Hoadnraa. While Guatemala boasts more ruined aboriginal cities. Central Honduras was once the scene of a high condition of civilization. Near the source of the winding Chemelicon, on the left bank of the river, are situated the ruins of Copan.the capital of a great and powerful aboriginal kingdom. The temple walls are fallen, but the stones that compose them are sculptured with graceful hireoglyphics vastly different from the uncouth signs and symbols that cover the late obelisks and temple walls of the famous ruiqed cities of Egypt Re cent investigations prove that tbe once great Indian capital at Copan must have been founded thousands of years ago, shortly after the half-destroyed world recovered from that terrible cataclysm that covered it with the desolating deb ris of the drift period. Indeed, it is probable that; like UxmaL it has been several times rebuilt, for its ruins betray traces of several styles of architecture that embrace different epochs of civili zation. But the stories told by the moral sculptures and the hieroglyphic covered obelisk remain a profound secret to the savants of the day. No ro sette stone has been discovered tore veal the mysterious histories they relate, nor can we over hope to learn them. The language of the builders has disap peared with those who raised these stupendous monuments. California Nomeaclafre. Some day when the people begin to study the nomenclature of this great country they will be puzzled consider ably to tell where some of tbe names came from. Quite likely they will go clear away back centuries before M9 and prove that America must have been known to the ancient Assyrians. There will be lots of fun for the future arch aeologists. There is a station on one of the railroads, and a town with a church, a saloon, and the usual camp followers of civilization, which bears the euphon ious name of Eltopia. The ancient Greeks may perhaps be held responsible for this in the future, but the plain fact is that a congregation and a minister wandered out to that place and found it all too inconvenient to address their religious reports from a place bearing the name given to it by the miners of "Hell to Pay," so they changed it into Eltopia. San Francisco Chronicle. Streator, IU.. has a cat that delights in killing snakes, but she nearly saet her match the other day when she tackled a big farter snaks It colled about her body, and" the two rolled around on the ground until the teeth and claws of the cat got her the victory. MISSING LINKS. NIW PENSION BILL WANTHX Mow while oiir Solon are rteel'liur oat pea leas, awl ponlinir our surplus wlta beat of intention. 1 nrvaent. a a ber4 of. the SK?M?t Give a pension f..r lire to that nun siM" lnr for mch SNtrlaii virtue as tbia ia worth biii.!ir-w:Ti ciui tish all iy ion aniiirobonioMimour lyirnr. an.l tell tbe at might truth without suakinir or swerv- Itur: Otvi n rwMmtiin to Mm nho trailoa naas with- ! out cbcil:tir. iin! ii-Hi n Rood talu without ever n.paiinir. mul i pious ut home as he'a pious ut uuvilti all wen of UtU stamp u'otl u iiU-r.il pension. Give a pension to Mm. wboth.-r married or tingle, who Is never i pioud with all tm-ii t c-.'iuiiiniiile; Itjon imve miiv loft thou Hit ci it- of tlilit Jl isle prtfbtfulutb himself ik you.- kinJ'l uitciiU'itt. 'fid-Bits. Philadelphia lias a saloon that took in $a-'5.0() last y.;.H In (he Island ol Java there are twen ty lcltcr-pross printing olhc.-s. This season':. .rang.: rop in southern California nggr.::it-tl 7'A).U00 boxes, or 108.000.000 onto-.. John Newman, who has put died in Soviur County. 'lVuiif.s-cu, u reported to have bt:.!ii 1 17 rars old. Ho never was nioris than ten miles away from the place vh-iv was born, and was one of tlu: lii-ht white children born in Ten iuse!. Charles Qu.mmi. tho originator of tho IK-iliMni dog-dado, ami who held for a oug tiin.; tin! liiiis of champion clog dauer. is ilyin ( iMiiMimption in the SisU-rs' Hospital at Kansas City. He began !ilo as a bootbhtck. Crystalled viol.'ts at $G a pound are tlus very Li!ost things in contectionery. Candied rMi Ifa's are also very popu lar, (litis tike to ealllowttrs and will pay as high as $10 a Kuud for some of the more exjH-nsiv,: kinds. They aro all brought from France. The famous full-length portrait of President Arthur hangs on the east trail of tho Red Parlor in the White House. At Mrs. Cleveland's lat re-.-eption it was noticed that tho much-criticised red rose, which originally lay at his feet, hud been painted out. A party, under the direction of officers of tin United States Geological Survey, is about to inuki) an extended explora tion of Crater hake in National Park. It will be necessary to lower them 1,000 feet down the stony crags in order to reach water. George La Blanche, the Boston prize fighter, told a Buffalo reporter that less than four years a;o he was a conductor ou the New York Central Railroad, be tween Syracuse aud Buffalo. He said that he was al.soa marine at the Charles town barracks. Hence his uame "Tne Marine." In 1875 Miss Emma Wilson, of Rose bud. III., married her second cousin, who died, leaving her two children. Then she married another second cous in, the first rou-iiu of her lirst husband, aud he died, leaving one child. Two weeks ag slu: married another second cousin, a brother to her lirst husband. One of the Pharaohs has been disin terred at Kulak, near Cairo. The mum my was diiir up in the presence of the IvheiKve. and proves to be tlio remains of U.-i mors Mi. of i he twoutieth Egyp tian d nasty, who rcivncd about 1100 B. R. and wan a ue:u descendant of the Metiepiiiah who w:is probably tho Pharaoh of Exodus. A resident of New Haven writes as follows of Mrs. Murr.iv, who recently secured a divorce from v H. H. Mur ray: "Mrs. Murray has a tine practice iu this city. Shu has an excellent loca tion and in in v warm friends. She is a bright, energetic, hopeful woman aud deserves much praiso." A Connecticut peddler who had been selling clocks "like hot cakes" in Ken tucky, the terms being $'J down and the buyer's own time for the remaining $3, explained to au eastern drummer that be had a profit of $1 apiece out of the first payment, and the rush of business was to be explained by the fact that the purchasers thought that they were each beating him out of $3. Twenty-six years ago Joseph Loth of New York City was au invited guest when the Putnam Phalanx of Hartford visited the grave of Gen Putnam. At that time a subscription paper was cir culated to secure a fund to erect a monu ment over "Old Put's" grave, and Mr Loth put down his name for $10. He heard no more about the monument un til last week, when he read that it was about to bo erected. Thereupon he made good his subscription by sending $10 to Adjutant Tyler of tbo Putnam Phalanx.' Fred and Willie Gerster, aged 0 and 11, tired of their home in Cincinnati, so they packed a big basket with pro visions, stole 93 and a pistol from their father, and set out to see the world. And they saw it for three weeks, sleep ing in barns, selling newspapers, and blacking boots in Dayton and Toledo, and were in a fair way to become thor ough tramps when the advertisements of their frantic father led to their ap prehension and return to the parental roof. They say that they have had all the tramping they want. The rejection of Mr. William K. Van derbill by the Jockey Club in Paris has occasioned much comment in New York club circles. It is generally thought that Mr. Vanderbilt did not act wisely in allowing himself to be proposed for membership, as ho had not been a resi dent of the gay capital sufficiently long to enable him to become well acquaint ed with the club members. The Jockey Club of Paris is an organization very chary of admitting new members, ana Mr. Vauderbilt's rejection, for these two reasons, does not signify anything in particular. "Cousin Ben" Folsom is in Omaha looking after the Folsom estate in that citv, which is worth from 9350,000 to $500,000. The Omaha Bee reports him as thinking of hiring a secretary and keepinjr a scrapbook. "Some of these paragraphs are very funny," said Mr. Folsom, "but the one that accuses me of wearing a scarf-pin as big as a half dollar with a red rooster with green feathers is a monstrous exaggeration. You can say 'officially that I nave too much taste 'to wear a scarf-pin of that size Here is the pin. You will see that it is no larger than a 10-ccnt piece and is simply a Florentine mosaic Marie Hebron, 13 years old and black, was committed to the Industrial School in Baltimore by ber mother, who said she couldn't do anything with Marie. She' baa a room on the ufth floor. One dark night she got out on the roof, hunr from the eaves by her bands, and dropped to a building beneath, thence jumped to the roof of a house adjoining, got on the veranda, slid down a post to the ground, scaled the fence, and went home. Her mother at once notified ihe police, and one of the force went to .re arrest Marie. He couldn't find her nn til he happened to stick his hand np a chimney. He felt something, and ppeu ana pulled, and down came e blacker than ever, and angry. About six months ago a man' giving his name as James Eustace secured 'an audience with Secretary Lamar. He asked tbe Secretary If he rememberfd having lost a- pocketbook containing notes and money to the amount of ov ers! thousand dollars in 1874 while a Representative from Mississippi. The Secretary replied that he did. Eustace then said: "Do yon further remember telling the finder of the pocketbook that if he wanted a favor he would not have, to call upon you in vain? Well, I am the man to whom yon made that prom ise. I have been' unfortunate since then and need employment badly. The Secretary told him to report for duty the feetasME -aatffllPf. UeaargLJak place on the laborer's roll at $840 a year. The incident found its way into Srint, and camo to the knowledge of asses M. Martin, of Springfield. 3tfo. Eustace LMm wees oecreiary iiuar received a as an impostor, tie said Eustace was one :jf , his neighbors, and bad often . -fan...... n ,i? .. j-!T Iu hcaroFtim tell the story of finding the Secretary a money and the latter's promise. Eustace has received his dis- I missal from tbe department Ihejr Had Fin With The Snake. During the noon hour among the workmen employed in improvements along the railroad west of Sterlington, N. Y., one of the bosses noticed the other day that a gang of Italians had found some amusement in their shanty which kept them in a constant state of hilarity for nearly the entire hour. Just before it was time to resume work the boss walked to the shanty to see what it was that so excited the merriment of the Italians. He found three or four of the laborers with sticks Bix or seven inches long in their hands. One of them stepped to one side of the shanty, thrust his stick quickly at something on the Ground and then jumped quickly back, at which tho spectators laughed heartily. The boss made bis way through the men to see what it was at which the Italian thrust his stick, and came in sight of it as one of the men had made a thrust,' and jumped back just in time and far enough to escape the fangs of an enormous rattlesnake, which sprang at the man and then quickly recoiled on the ground for another spring as an other Italian advanced. The snake's eyes glittered with rage, and its rattle filled the shanty with the noise of its vibrations. The boss shout ed to an Italian who was advancing for his turn at the sport and said a few words in Italian which caused an in stantaneous clearing out of the cabin. The Italians had captured the snake in some way while at work, and, ignorant of its deadly nature, had dragged it to their shanty, where for an hour they had played with the reptile, escaping its fangs only by extraordinary good fortune. Tho snako was killed. It was nearly five feet long, and had a splendid set of rattles, seventeen in number. Even after the snake was dead not one of the Italians who bad so fearlessly tempted death while ignorant of the venomous cnaracter oi too snake would go any where near it and when they had oc casion to enter their shanty they crossed themselves and, left it again as hasitly as they could. Patti's Loyalty To Her Friends. A London paper, m speaking the other day of Patti's talent for keeping tbe love of her friends through good and through bad report, recalls to mind ber lifelong friendship for a blind schoolmate of her early childhood. Tho families of the children were neighbors in New York, and tho little girls were constantly together, confiding their childish secrets to each other, and com forting each other in every little sor row, until finally the time came whep they must separate, Fatti going abroad, to become in time tho most famous singer in the World, and her friend re maining to meet her destiny a sad one first the total loss of her eyesight and then the death of her lover. The two did not meet again qnnl fortnne had come to each, extending to one nil the gifts of the gods; taking from the other even that which she haj. The meeting was ah affecting one. The blind woman recognized her friend's voice, and Patti in a moment had her In her arms, kissing her poor, sightless eyes and making every demonstration of joy at seeing her and pity at her con dition, while the other passed her hand over the great diva's face, trying to mark any change therein. Then fol lowed an exchange of confidences as in olden time, the two women sitting with their arms about each other, like two school-girls, and during Patti's stay in New York they were almost constantly together, and anyono who saw her ten derness for her helpless friend would have understood why it is that Patti keeps so many warm admirers. e i a Failure of Sllk-Cal tare In the United States. In the year 1882 the Department of Agriculture received many letters from persons interested In the culture of silk, and distributed a few silk-worm eggs, but there was no general distribution. In 1884 the department appropriated $15,000 for the encouragement of the Industry, and a special agent was ap pointed to attend to tho work, the de partment offering to send egzs to any one who would try the experiment of raising them. I should judge, howover, that no very favorable .reports were re ceived, as, jU a meeting of the American Association 'for the Advancement of Science, in 1885, as reported in Science, Professor Rfley: stated that the culture of silk bad been tried in the United States for fifty years, and all that the experiments had shown so far was that sdk could be raised over three-fourths of the United States if there was a market for the cocoons. He considers tbe in dustry best conducted on a small scale, and adapted for women and children who have no other way of earning money. The profit of three persons to be estimated at fifteen to twenty-five dollars for the season, provided the cocoons bring one dollar a pound a price, by-tbe-way, which only the best cocoons bring. The care of silk-worms is decidedly wearisome, interesting though it may be; and certainly any woman enterpris ing enough to start in the experiment of raising silk, and strong enough to. do the necessary work, might find somo .1 more profitable way of utilizing her time. Mr. Edward Atkinson, at the same meeting of the association above men tioned, maintained that the culture of silk in tbe United States was not desir able, since there was no lack of em ployment, as tbe high rate of wages shows, and we can not afford to do for ourselves what foreign laborers will do cheaper; and. moreover, the raising of silk has always been carried on by the poorest and most inefficient peoples, who, as they rise in the social scale, abandon it, as is now coming to be tbe case in Southern France France being onable to compete with the cheap labor of China and Japan. Margarette W, Brooks, n Popular-Science Monthly. i a A writer in London Truth pronounces Mrs. R. Ogden Dorcnius of New York "the most astoundingly fine-looking and attractive woman" he ever met, and waxes most enthusiastic over her hair, which M. Auguste, the leading Paris hair-dresser, was badly fooled by. He was called in to dress it "I shall take the? liberty," said be, "of remark-' ing that Madame has a charming little face, but the load of hair she wears doesn't suit it It's ridiculous to crowd on false braids to that extent" And then, as he let down coil after coil and found that every hair grew straight out from the scalp, he fairly gasped with wonder. . - - By the carelessness of the pressman tbe music on the fourteenth page was printed upside down, and the mistake was discovered too late to reprint the edition. Our musical readers have the option of standing on their heads or turning the page over when they want to p&y the piece. San Franciscan. ia i a A Texas physician claims to have foandtae microbes of dengue fever, and that the disease can be avoided by Tancinatiag with attenuated vima, " Be Warned alaaae. Kidney iMeaMef aMJ he prevented 7 jnrlfyiBg, renewing, and htvigorataag UMBfeodwHaAyeraSamperUk. When, . taroafdWlHT,. taeUdayi If perverted, these organs re the Wood of fU needed cotaaaat, aawuaem, which is paaeed off In the ariae, while worn out nutter, which they shook! carry off from the blood, Is allowed to resMia. By the use ( Ayet's 8anafarilla, the Udaeys are restored to proper action, and Atbu nuaBria,or Bright' s Disease b preveated. Ayera SarsaparUla also prevents iniammatioa of the khlaeya, and other disorders of these organs. Mrs.Jas. W.TFrfM, Forest Hill st, Jamaica Plain, Mass., writes : t !m e had a complica tion of diseases, but my greatest trouble has been with niy kidueys. Four bottles of Ayer's Sarsaparilla made me feci like a new person; as well and strong as ever." W. M. McDonald, 46 Summer st, Boston, Mass., bad been troubled for years with Kidney Complaint. By the use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, he not only Prevented the disease from assuming a fatal form, but was restored to perfect health. John McLellan, cor. 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