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.THE QMAKA DAILY BEE : SUNDAY EEBBUA11Y 24. laSO , TWELVE PAGES. FATHER .OF THE EMPEROR , w In China Ho IB a Vary Mlffhty Individual. HAS A VEIN OF HUMOR IN HIM. Adventure AVItli n POOP Cart Driver A VlHll to tlio Orcnt Wnll inconveniences of Travelling In > V.lieclUurro\VH. A t'lilnf" o lint-nun AlrnHchlil. ' PrKixo , Fob , 1. ( Special Correspondence of Tun HUE.Tho | seventh prince , or Iho father of the ttinporor of China , hns hnd to inovu out of hit ancestral mansion , and it was sold to the government for a little over 1100,000. It will bo used as'a temple and the reason for the soiling Is that no Chinese sub ject can live In a house in which an emperor wits bora. The bov emperor now outranks his father and ttio relations between the two ore very curious. The cnrpi'css repent and this seventh prince still hold great Influence with the government , ! ltll lno empress ro- Bcnt will probably still have her place be hind a gauze screen whenever the emperor gives an audience. The present imperial family of China is stronger than usual. The jirlncc Kung , who was regent in connection with the last boy emperor , is living nt Pe king , and the IHth prince , Kung's brother , is said to bo a man of weight. The fifth prince is the Hnroun Alraschid of the family. Ho delights In going about incognito , and many funny stories are told of his practical Jones. Ono is ns to a cart driver. The prince met the driver when ho was in disguise anil asked for a rldo. Tlio man looked nt his poor clothes nod asked him to jump in. he did so and directed the driver to take him to Prince Knng's rcsldcnea. The driver stopped whoa lie came into the ttrcct of the great prince and said ho feared to go farther as the great Kung was not a Ulnd-hcartcd man , and If tie trespassed on his territory ho would certainly got the bamboo across Ins bare legs , and ho might loio his head. The ragged noble urged liltn onward , and , to his surprise , stopped him nt Kung's door. Hero n great lotinuo came out to meet hltn , and the man learned that ho had been entertaining the imperial princo. Ho had been talking very freely during the ride ns to what the people thought of the emperor , Prince Kung and the fifth prince , and he feared that his tongue would lese him his head. The fifth prince dismissed him and the next day sent him hltn a lot of money and a now horse and cart. This seventh prince , as the father of the emperor , is now the inightic&t man in China , and all the celestial world goes down on its knees to him. Ho rides about Peic- Ing occasionally , and Is by no means a bad looking Chinaman. Ho Is well made and Inclined to fatness wears the brightest of im perial silks and sports , at times , a hat for all the world like an inverttfd dislipan. His pony is a line wliito Mongolian griflin and ho ROCS about the city with a retinue of servants and soldiers. ' ' MICE A ( WHAT CAMP. Poking is like no other city ; in the world. It is essentially different from tlio other cities of C iiua , and is the most Asiapolitan city of Asia. It is more like a great camp than a city , and Its walls , fifty feet high and thirty or more feet thick , make ono think of , BOldlcrsanO seizes , rising and falling empires. The thousands of do-nothing nobles in gor geous gowjis , who gallop through the vile filthy streets on ponies with hundreds of soldiers ruuUecrvuals dressed in the rnggedost of gaudy llxurliMj , ciuiyimiliu Illusion , aim when you aslc the reason of the rags , you are todit ! is not poverty , but that the nobles dare not appear rich for fear the government wrruld levy a contribution upon them. The chief of these nobles are tartars , and they nro taller and bettor lookIng - Ing than the Chinese who como to America. ; They form the greater part of the soldiers of the capital of China , and it is said that there are 00,000 of them in the city. They are poorly arm oft with the oldest of muskets , all patterns , and would avail little before one-foyiHi as many Americans armed with Winchester rifles. China , ail told , has an army of three-quarters of a mil lion , and some of the troops of the provinces are well armed and are being trained by Eu ropean ol\cers. ) \ ; The country now has eight arsenals and our naval ofllccrs tell me these nro turning out some guns which are equal to these ot Krupp , and also that the rillcs made at the Shanghai arsenal are on the Spcncor hnd Winchester pattern. The Chi nese navy has , wonderfully improved since the late war with Franco. Their northern squadron commanded by an English naval officer and their ships built In England and Gel-many- among the best of the small men of war allnat. They carry the latest Improvements in the wuy of guns , ami the hulls of some of their boats are of steel. They are , I am told , now making gun-lioats of tholr Own , and they Imvc a cruiser of i,100 ) , tons and oflUO liorso nowcr which tlipy built not long ago. Thecountry has but a small national debt , aniounting.say the statistics , to not over $ ! i5,000iX)3. ) nnd by n judicious taxation it could establish a navy and army which might niako the rest of Asia trcmblo. TIICOltr.AT CI11KCBR WAl.T. . I have just returned from a trip to the Chinese wall , and I have seen enough to say that there is no douht of its existence and its greatness , Huiit 1,700 before America was discovered , wlion our ancestors , half- tiniccd and altogether savage , wandered throughout France , Germany and England , when Homo was in the height of her repub lican form of government , and when the Roman rinplro had not yet begun to hothcso massive towers still crown the parallels , und the 1,000 miles of wall still stiind. It is n two days rldo by a dor.koy from Peking end ono goes through tno not them edge of the great plain of China and moots It in the proat chain of mountains which separates China from Mongolia and Manchuria. Manchuria and Mongolia He directly north of China They are both subject to and uro governed by China , and they equal In Biro about one-hall the uholo territory of the United States. Above tliom lion .Siberia , and south of their wi'stcrn edge Is Thibet and III , which arc also Chinese countries as to gov ernment. All are spnr ely settled anil Mnn Kolia lias less than two people tu the square inilewhllo Its whole population is not gieator than the city of Nv York Mnnriiuria has ttvDlvo mlllfoiiH of people , but both countries are far more savage than tlio Chinese , unit Mongolians live largely lu tents. 'J ho trade- of nil these people , however , coiws north from Peking and parses over thu mountains and through the ( 'rent wall at the gate which I X'Ultcd. The wall was built originally to keep them out , but they huvo bwarmcd through In hordes again and again , and it Is a Manchuria * emperor that now sits upon tlio Cliino.se throne. What a wonderful structure it Is. It would extern ! moro than hulf way aciosu America and It must have consumed yeait. In building It. As 1 stood upon Ita .Aimpaits I could M O it climbing the ir.oiinti.lna nml going down the vallcya ! asfir us jny ovcs couM reach. U dul jy ) . diminish In strength nor si ut the var n Dclnlr. I visited } nnd its masonry woulii Imfro Uecn gooA work for the Ampricai ) bulldttmof to-day. It is about tweuty-ilvo feet high , nnd at the top It Is BO wide tluit tivo rnrnn ca cnuhldrivu abreast along it , and the tiub ' of.ouo would mt touch thosu of the-other. Us Interior walls are of blue brick of such a sl/o that they luck like mutvivo stones , und thei.0 arc nllml In with earth and iiji\Vjlwltli brick at the top , The prut * md ; ulailioSh bus now grown over the top of th'.b givut wall. No archvi's now guard It , nnd It stands amid thu snowy mountains fe monumrut of the tilniunU i\ved men who thv.s , two yfeUiyi.ij ) i cars ago , KUiicht to protect toct their humcj&iimi tliosu of tlioir do&niiul- wits for alL'lltiialo come. No oic : can binml upon the rnimuii'li of thin stnu'ttiro and not l > c ( reprcrtcirwllh the trvatnessof iho Chlu. sc tint foil. U U a giiTt'ot'monuiiCit. | than the pyriiflilrl of Kcypt , built by Rolllth kln * fi r I'p.'Mtou'ps ' , anil Its purpose was nobUTs It isa/iiruiuiuciit aUo of tno fioui ( rulb liat wuJo ! iuiu ilien , hU wsr ) ; rcmuluh , and that the lives bottled up hero twcnt- ; centu rics ago exUt to-day as docs tlio hand that carved the Venus ill Mcdlcl , the hand that wrote Shakespeare , and the Aoneldnnd in n humbler , though no loss effective way , the muscle that dug out tno marble from the mlncM , of which the builders nml architects constructed the mighty cathedral of Milan. This wall Is right in the mountains. There nro no villages to speak of near it , nnd the surrounding's arc the picturp of desolation. The road to It , which was once a paved high way , Is now it mountain path filled with boul ders nml puddles , nnd It Is Impossible to get through with nnythlngolsothnn niulo litters , eamch or donkeys. Wo passed camels by the hundreds , nnu our mule Utter and two donkeys , which tnado up the outfit of the party , had often to stand aside for herds of black Chinese hogs and droves of fat-tailed sheet ) which were being driven from the wild pasture lands of Mongolia down to Peking. Ponies mid horses c.iu no moro travel this rend than tiiev can the passes of the Amlei , ami the mule litter , In which my wiforode , Is n fair sample of Chinese in terior travel It was a cloth-covered box , about llvo feet long and four high , swung between two of the rawest , mangiest mules I have over seen. It was hunc upon shafts , nnd these mules , ouo in front and two behind , carried It In single lllu up the lulls und through the mud. In passing through one of the villages they slipped and the whole outfit cnmo to the ground. The muleteer was n Mohammedan , lit nro many of these north Chinamen. Ho was us stubborn ns his mules and ho de cidedly objected when I proposed putting two people Into the litter during a rain. Wo carried our own cook und bedding with us nnd slept at Chinese Inns on dirty ledges of brick heated Horn beneath bylines. These ledges nro about two feet hitrh and they con stitute half of the bcdrodm of a Chinese hotel. Tl.o Inns were much the same , I judge , na the mniof Palestine in the days of tlio Savior. 1-ow , one-story brick buildings ran around an open court in which droves of hogs and raiiiuls slept. The doors of tlio building nil opened into tlio court and half ot them were open at the front and were as signed to the donkeys and mules of the trav elers. These brnyed the livelong night and their munching of straw could bo distinctly heard through the walls separating thorn from us. CHINESE CAHTS. 1 paid some calls yesterday in company with Colonel Dcnbv , our minister to PoKing. Wo went in the minister's Chinese cart , preceded by his mafoo or groom on horse back. The Chinese cart is the only car riage known iu Puking outsldo of the ele phant carts , on which the emperor goes out to sacrifice at the temple of heaven. It ii the rudest , crudest and imst unbending vchiclo I have over met with. It has no spring , and its heavy wheels bum ] ) nnd jolt on n level road to bay nothing of the torture they produce on these streets of Peking , which ure u continuous series of ruts , holes nnd : nud ponds. There is no window to the cart , save : i picco of glass about oue foot square set into its side und its covering is made of blue cloth stretched over a frame , making it as close as a cob. The. bed of this cart is level with the shafts , and tno rich Chinaman or the noble China woman sits in It with crossed legs flat on the floor. There is no room for more than ono person Inn call , and if the grand Pek ingese dame lias n maid with her the ser vant must sit on the shafts beside the driver. It was on such carts that the hundreds ot Munchu maidens , who were brought to the palace from all parts of North China that they might bo looked over us prospective in mates of the emperor's harem , wore carried , and it is in such carts that all the travelling of North China , outside of donkey , pony and camel back and mule-litter is done. It is tlvo only vehielo that will withstand the ruts and ditches of Chinese public roads. These are every where bad and the statement , in thn geographies that China has uioro than 20,000 imperial roads , conveys no idea to the Amer ican mind of the highways of this great em pire. Many of the streets of the Chinese part of the city of Peking are too narrow for these carts , and there are many cities in the empire where neither four-footed beasts nor carts are to bo found. Hero in Poking the easiest method of moving from ono part of the city to the other Is by means of donkeys , winch , not larger than good sized New foundland dogs can go anywhere. Tlio great , part of the carting of the city unit till or thu iliayii u Is loim by men. WheelbarrowH are the drays and these uro pushed und ( lulled by stalwart , half-naked men. They carry sometimes as much as u ton , und I hava seen three men and ouo don key harnessed to ono of them. Ono man , naked to the waist , hold the shafts of the barrow uidod by a wide bund of camel's wool tope , which stretched from them across his shoulders , and two others walked in front harnessed to the barrow by like bands across tlioir chest , and stooping over nnd straining every muscle ns they pulled at the load. The donkey was also harnessed to the front of the barrow ami ho walked between the men. The load they carried wasmado up of n'Jargc number of boxes labeled with the name of ono of the leading aRcnts of tlio Standard OH coinuany of the United States. China uses n creat deal of American kerosene , and I sco this coal oil everywhere throughout North China. These Chinese wheelbarrows are entirely different from ours. The wheel is as big around as the front wheel of a bugcy and it comes up through the center of the barrow instead of being in front of it us in America. Tlio load is put on each side ot the wheel and there is a sort of a frame work which runs up from the bed and keeps the load oft the wheels , The handles of tlio barrow are vary long , and the front part of the bed ends in two sharp points. In SDIIIO parts of China , such as Shanghai , the wheel barrow is the cab and street car of the Chi nese , and each barrow is expected to carry two passengers. I have seen two pretty Chi nese maidens being pushed along the road in tins wuy , and at 'lientsin you find tlio streets often blocked with these wheelbarrows loaded with coal , stone , wool , cloth , and a thousand nnd ono things which are used in ono form or another by thu Chinese. In the great plain where the winds are very .strong the wheelbarrow-carrier often hoists n sail to help him along , and thu wind pushes with him us he goes. In Shanghai these wheel barrow limn pay a license , and not long ugo there wus an attempt made to raise this from f > 0 cents to $1 per year. The men clubbed to gether unu struck to the number of some humtrcds , and the result was that the in crease had to bo materially lessened. TIM : rtvioN MOII. Our Asiatic squadron is now scattered along the coast of China. Thu llttlo pales Is roofed with matting and Is fro/en in just op posite tiio big city of Tientsin. This matting has windows in it and the marines have their drills under i-ovor. It takes about two months \o \ got a letter to them from Now York , and there is no possibility of their being movt 0 hcfuio ipring. The Omaha , the Kssux and tht > Marlon arc , at this writing , in tlio harbor at Shanghai with Admiral Chandler commanding. They have periodi cal drills , \vhii'h , I am told , tteml terror into the hearts of tlio celestials , and ills said that the 70,0,1) ) drilled soldiers under Li Hung Cluing actually tremble when they think of Captain Craig with his less than fifty of the Palo's crow. The reason uf the bringing of the fleet to China wus the apprehension that the expulsion act might nm&o tlio Chinese to letaliuto upon our American roRiiiui.ls here. So far , huwover , the only outbuist has been at Canton , and I doubt vcr.v much if nno man In ton thousand in North China known that any of the Chlnoso have over gone to Amerlc.f , und fewer mill Itinv.N that they have been wiiruod to keep iiway and some of them rffiit back. Ttu'ro nro : r.l Americans In Shanghai , about thirty In llouir ICong , a small number at Peking nud a few hundreds of missionaries nsattore.l throughout the interior. The Chinaman , howovur , know * not the diffeioiiiv between Ilia American unu the Knglishtmin , tlio Frenchman nml thu ( icnimn Ho classes them all as white foreign duv'ls ( aim raiinot discriminate. The nuly imly people In GMua seem to bo these of the south ami the literati of PcKlutf. ThoC.inioue&u mob burned the residence of the Chiiiosu minister to Amorit a \\hentlKiiie\vbof tin ; expulsion lavwub ro- colved , ami Iravelers tell mo th < iy have an unpleasant way of throivjng bricks ut for. oigneisuud of np'.tlliii- ' tholr 'ntVH wlinn : hpy hapiien to trave ! uluns Iho htrrets of tluilr nliy They made some , kind of an offensive demcmMrntlijn the otlc'rdav in front ot our ( -omul's rcsUlmiro and it. m said that they are vr.r.x angry over the now law. I will visa Caulouiihlii u week or so and will then icport thlnKS > thry nro. r'coti : U. An AliMiliiti ) Curn' Tlio OKIUJ V.U , AUlUTINrJ OJ W onofi'Jt up in large two ouneo tin boxes , and twi alHcluto l-tirii for i > ld wire * , burnt. , woiipds , chapped Jiur.ilo.mil ull sliln criip- tpmt. : \ \ ill poMlivuly cure nil kinds of piles , v. . * &r U { ? ° ' 1 ( ll".AJ < AUIBTINi i : OIN'I .Mr.M bold by Uoodiuuu Drug Co. ' u' ' . ' .1 ii ; ] > ei-box.-lu wail 'JUcsutn. Some Strongo Tnloa of Mon nud Other Animals. HER QFJAVE MID LIGHTNING RODS The Queer Fancy or n Georgia W OWCP An Uplilcnilc of Ininaey The Corpse Quake Ono Jinn's HorribleKcvcn.o. ! The Curious Sltlo of Life. A ttozcn Hebrews were before the mayor of Indlannpolls recently for lighting In church over u iimycr. A small congregation in the southern part of the city is known us the Orthodox Jowisti church , of which Simon Glnssmiui has been acting as nibbi. Ho Is opposed by some of tlio members. It U tlio custom of the cliurch in n certain prayer for tlio laymen to take part up to a certain point , when a church leader prays. Htirr.y Horn- stein liml been unpointed to this ofllce. but wlion the time cunm Glnssmmi claimed the privilege. A free light ensued , und the per sonal beiiuty of several members was mar red by bloody noses and bluckcnod eyes. The defendants were fined by the mayor for disturbing religious meetings. An old man liviagupin tlio mountains near Elijay , On. , has hnil his wife's grave sur rounded by several lightning rods. While the old Indy was living lightning struck the old imui so often that ho dreaded to think of even his wife's body being stiuck , so ho bought the rods. He's got nlnoty-llvo of his dond wife's dresses and tliirty-flvo pairs of her shoes uilcd up in the house , and he wouldn't ' soil them for anything. Ho is a queer customer. He's got a hit for every d ny in the week , and the last one of them is o ut of style. Ho wears a beaver on Sunday , a white hat on Monday , a slouch hat on Tucsdaya fudecl derby \Vudnosdayiin old brown wool lint on Thursdaynn olil-fasiuoncil white derby on Friday anil a coon skin cap on Saturday. Ho lias forty pairs of boots and ho is buying new ones every week or so. Another curious thing about the old man is that bo has a mania for pocket knives and has 125 of them , und is still lidding to his col lection. Ho's a farmer , and ovor.y few days ho brings a load of extra line potatoes to sell. Ho won't accept any kind of money for them unless it's silver or gold. He wants hard money , ard will take no other kind for his potatoes. Ho recently married a 10-year- old girl , though he's liO hill-self. A straneo species of insanity has attacked the pupils in the Soldiers' Orphan school nt MeAlistcrvllle , N. Y. It is most apparent among the boys , twenty-flvo of whom arc badly affected. The boys were bright and liacpy , but a day or so ago they began Jcldp- Ing at tlioir clothing or at the clothing of tlioir fellow pupils , in a nervous serb of way , as insane people sometimes do iu asylums. When engaged in conversation tlioy talked fast enough , but unintelligibly. At last a physician took one of thorn aside and began interrogating him. "What is this I'1 said the doctor , holdiug up a Itiiifo. "Tadpole1 was the reply. "What fruit do you like best ! " "Li/arcl , " the lad answered. Another boy was taken into a hall and his fur cap thrown away. "Oh , why did you throw out my over shoes I" was what he said , the sentence being mumbled. The children have vacant expressions on their faces und at times are worse than at others. The symutotns of aphasia may bo duo to over-study , but it is a curious fact that many members of classes not at all studious uro af fected. A strange sort of mental affection known as "coriHO-nnake has often boon found to exist among gravo-diggers. It is no uncom mon occurrence that a person employed in cemeteries for many years is suddenly af flicted with a shaking similar to that ex perienced by persons suffering from ague. A grave digger who has boon employed at the Cypress Hills cemetery , Now York city , for Jlficcn years , said : "I know of u. number of such cases. Ten years ago wo had three diggers here ivho bad worked together for quite a while. Ono of ttio three , .jvho used to bo a very lively chap and always willing and ready to toll a gojd yarn , became very quiet all at once. His companions noticed this , and think ing that Joe was not feeling well , lot him alone. There was to bo a funeral in the afternoon , and wo went over to dig the grave. As soon as Joe stuck his spade in the ground ho began to shako. His compan ions told Tim to stop working if ho didn't feel well , but Joe paid no attention und con tinued with the work until the Job had been finished. Three or four moro graves wore nnidu that day , and every time Joe put down his spade ho shook. The other two tried to muKu fun of him bv imitating his shaking while at work. A few days later Joe's com panions had the corpse quaku too , und a wcelc later bad to stop worlc entirely. "I thought that the three men had con tracted malaria , but , strange to say , they never would have that peculiar shako away from the cemetery. Joe came back to us.but every time ho would pick up u spade and trv to wont , that old trouble would como back" . Wo insisted upan his giving un the Job , us ho was falling away. Ho remained homo for about a week , and Ins wife told us that Joe was getting bettor again , when one day his boy mentioned tlio word 'spado' in his fath er's presence. It was the strangest thing in tlio world no sooner had the boy said 'spado' than Joe took the corpsc-quako again. Ho didn't lust long after that. Ho would bo thinking about digging graves nil the time , and this made him so sick that ho died shortly uftur. I don't ' rcmcinbor what became - came of thu other two men. They had to give up tno Job , and , I think , moved away from hero altogether. I read or rather had read to mo the other night u horrible story of Grifllths Wain , wnght , says a writer in tlio London Globo. It was out of a book written by an Austral ian clergyman , and though the poisoner's numo was not mentioned , there could bo llt tlo doubt of his Identity. When Walnwright was released from prison It appears that for some time he uutod us u kind of assistant surgeon ut the hospital. To this Institution u man hated by Wumwright was brought In iu a dying condition. Just before ho yielded up the ghost a scene took place wh.ch , as un cxumplo of unabated rovcngofulness , sur passes anything 1 huvo heard boforo. Walnwright gained admission to the fel low's bedside , und in u piercing whisper , loud enough tu bu heard by the nuxt patient , said : "Listen ! I huvu one word to suv to you before you dlo " The dying patlont , ns if suddenly magnetized , llfto.l lilswuur.y uyus und stared ut the person who addressed him. "In llvo minutes " said , his malignant tor mentor , "your soul will Iu in hell , anil before - fore your body Is cold my dissecting kuifu will bo In your entrails. " Tiioso who wore present could never forgot the horrillod ex pression of thu man's faceus his uylng car caught thu frightful words , and his dying eyes took the impression of the gloaming iMeptiistonhcltiin fuco bending over Ins death bed. Crover ! Cleveland Klii.vsbury is u patlont in the temporary ward of the now Long lir.inch hospital. Ho | s a pretty curly-haired youngbtor of four years. His father is a liotiso carpenter , who lives in Kud Hank. Llko another Graver Cleveland , this young- liter had a fall last November. Hu missed Urn soup kcttlo , but hauled on his back in the llrp. The result win u largo woundwhich has not healed. It was finally decided to talio him to thu now hospital for treatment. Urs , S. II. Hunt of Long Branch and Halter of ICatonto.vn decided that slciiijgraftitig was nei-tibwiry. Tlio K v N A. Miio.N'iuliol , the huiiiiKomc young pastor of the Hishop .Simp- sou Metl.odlst Memorial church , at Third anil ciurJicld avenues , offered to supply the iH'cotHury uinount of cuticlu from his arms. Young ( irovor'H impious old grandfather v/as uu interested t-pcctutor of the llrst ifaj'H oiJi-ratlono He closely watched the ph.VhViatis n : > they carefully raised UlUu 1'iivei ) .of skta from the young Litiiijyiuuu' ! ) urdi with a Ublicatu little pair of force | > s and , after snipping them off with n pair of ocissors with curved blades , deftly placed them on Graver's back. The old gen tleman was Interested in the probable effect of Mr. MuoNichol's skin upon bis grandson. Ho nskod the clergyman ; "Will this makon ilomlnlu out of him , ho being llcsh of your lloshl" The child's father is nn ardent democrat. Ono of the physicians Is a democrat , but the other Is n republican. The Hev. Mr. Mac- Nlchol is a prohibitionist. If Grovcr lives to prow up and the grafted nldn takes us good a hold on his political opinions ns It does on his back , ho may be the founder of a now order of mugwumps. "Did you ever shave a woman I" was the question put to a Pittsburg barber by a cus tomer who was being shaved. "Many a time , " said the barber , who wont on to tell of his experience in that line of business. "Thero arc ladles In town who have quite a mustache , nnd others who have something like n chin beard , and 1 have operated on both kinds. 1 shaved the upper lip of n lady yesterday afternoon to prepare her to go out to n party. She keeps down the growth of UMtr by clipping it , but slio wanted to look extra line on this occasion. " Tno citizens of Walker county , Georgia , a few miles from Cliattnnooia , Tcnn. , nro very much excited over the cxlstcnco or i genuine wild man , who haunts the mountain of the county. Ho Is described as being of gigantic stature , covered with n thick growth of hair , and ho carries In his hand a large Knotted stlo'.c. He looked ns if ho might bo the twin brother of Harnum's wild man. This modern Orson has been soon by diff erent parties. Ono gentleman bolder than the rest encountered the creature In a lonely part of the mountains ono day not long since and nt a safe distance endeavored to strike up a conversation. A perfect shower of rocks greeted his first wcrds , nnd thinking discretion the bettor part cf valor , ho made rucks from the dangerous neighborhood , The remarkable result of a tidnl wave in thu province of Haiinam , Java , has boon u great Increase of tigers. The land laid waste soon relapsed into a Jungle nftordinvol como cover to the tigers , which became so daring and numerous tint-whole villages had to be abandoned. Ltst year the tigers killed no less than sixty-one persons there. To remedy the evil the government of Juvu bus raised the reward for killing tigers from 100 to 200 gilders a head. A discussion nroso on Tuesday evening In n cafe on the Uoulevard les Capacities be tween two young men , sa/s the Paris Gau- lois. Oneof thcmbecamo lurious.nnd finally cards wsro exchanged , sjconds appointed conditions drawn up und ' .ho duel was llxei for the following morning in the Dois do Boulogne , near the gun chi > ground. The two adversaries wo-e placed in front of one another at a distanto of thirty paces and pistols wore handed to them. Thou , without uny warning , the young man who had heen most violent tooc to his heels and fled into the bushes , leaviig his enemy und the seconds in a state of bewilderment. John Wilson , living ncir Astur , Florida , out u big cypress trco in tie swamp north of town recently and found it it u live alligator seven feet long. As the opening in the trco was not half largo cnougl for the animal to get through thu prosnnption is that It crawled in when quite yoang und lived on other nnimals and reptiles that bought shel ter in the same trco. Ilorsl'ord's Acltl I'liosplinte For Wcaktess , Hysteria , and other diseases of the nervous system. MUSlCAIj AM ) JHAMATIC. Melbourne , Aus. , theatres uro , as a rule equipped with billiard tallcs. It is said that Hilly Eimrson has rejoined Katie Putnam. Katie is x > go to Australia for a long trip in May. Maurice H. Uarrymorc will not write the comedy in which J. 11 Muson and Robert Hillard are to go starring Tlio Hanlon's "Voyugo en Suisse" will bo tnken off thOBlagcnt tin end of thosousou. It was old when the chestnut bell wus born. "Antony and Clcopard , " with Edwin Hooth us Antony and dime. Modjcskuas Cleopatra , is the latest runoreil production for next season. The now opera , "Oolab" which is to bo produced at the Broadvny theater , Now York , is an adaptation of a French play. "The Jolly Persian. " Mrs. Potter's magnificent production of "Antony und Cleopatra" las enjoyed a very successful run of oighlwecks at Palmer's theater in New York. Mr. Francis Wilson , tin comedian of the Casino company , has rccnatly fallen heir to 7,000 , sterling , the bjquat rtf his aunt , Mrs. Joan Wilson , late of Abeadoen , Scotland. Pntti's farewell Amerian 'tour has been contracted for. It begin. lit Now York in December nnd includes Cincinnati , Boston , Philadelphia , St. Louia Chicago and San Francisco. Wagner's "Tnnnhause- the version given it by the compobo for the Paris per- tormunco of that work , B shortly to bo pro duced at Curlsruhe , undir the direction of Ft-lix Muttl. The success of Miss Rurlowcnt the Chicago cage opera house has ben so emphatic that the management has u-ranggd with Mr Ariel Barney for a retiin visit. Miss Mar. towo will therefore rcrppear on Monduy- March 11. , A Greek tragedy of Sojlioclcs never bcforo [ U-csontcd in this countr ; , will bo given in .ho Lyceum theater , Nim York , nt a special matlnoo In the latter partof February'under the auspices of tdo Amirican Academy of Dramatic art. At tlio Munich Court theater 100 perform ances of opera took phiM du ring the past year , the most important love Itics produced there having boon Voill's ' 'Otcllo , " Web- stcr'B "Die Drei Pintos" uid Wagner's early opera , "Die Feon.1' Franz Hummel , the pltnist , having Just romplutoil n very suceossfil series ot cham- , ) cr-innsic concerts at lUvlin , has left tnat capital for n tournco In loutho/n Germany mil Austria , after which tiu will pay a visit ; o England , previous to lis departtiro upon another artistic tour in thu Scandinavian countries. Marcello Rossi , the voll-knowu violin virtuoso , has recently arnised thu entluis- 'asm of u Trieste uudiciics by "ploying with- n four minutes the Pcrjotuuni Mobile , by Paganlni , u piuco consisting of upwards of O.OoOnotusI" It is to bo hopad that this n > - narkublu "artistic" nchiivcincnt will not ? lvo rise to u general raw among violinists , u order to "boat the rcuoM" established by Slgnor Hossl. May will bo a great month for San Fran cisco , theatrically speaking. During that nonth Booth and Bin-oil will 0)1211 ) the now Jailfornla Uiculnr. Alary Anderson will bo ut ho Grand opcru hoii.se , und the Bostotiians it Baldwin's , ull umlor Ilio direction of Al layman , who is rapidly forming a kind of a theatrical trust on thu Paciliu coast. Miss Andert.on'8 HC-USOII opens April 21 , the same night that Sothorn me junta "LordCnumlev" at Baldwin's. Hcrr Nmlsuh of Lelpslc , Saxony , is an- lounced us the successor to Mr. Uurlcko iw cimluc'iar of that uxuollunl orgaiii/Mtion , the Joston Symphony orchestra. Herr Nikisch now ojnductor of the Giwamlhaus con- crt In L'jipsic , und has sorvtU for some timu as.llrst conductor of the Sta It theater. His memory is said to bo wonderful , allow ing him to conduct thu Wagner operas with out u rufcrencu to the ncoro. Ho Is forty-llvo yuars old , and is hold in high rofrurd us u loader. Not long uo at ttio Grand opsra house In Pisa thu premlero dnnsuasu miscalculated her distance und mailo u pirouette clean ovur tlio footlights Into the orchestra , where she alighted greatly to thu < ltsaiuy of thu musi cians und with much Uamujro to their Instru ments. Ono of her lugs iplurcod the big drum , two violins werui smashed to match wooJ. unit then rluociiettlng she impaled herself upo i the upox ot the bald head of the doublo-bass player and conly e cup d trans- ixlon by the expanse Jf the musicians shoulders. Two of Uic ( performers were blightly injured but thu fair dans use es caped with u ' > A beautiful woinannnuHl bo houltby , anil to remain heulthyaud beautiful uhe Hho.uld take Dr. J. II. McLcun'u StronKlhcninf , ' Cordial unil Blooil Purl- tier. It imparts touo and llu = li to the bkin. fatruii < ; th , vluoranll jairo blood ; is equally adapted for all a os , from the bubo to .the ajjud , und cither box. A ROMANCE OF THE BOTTOMS , Pathotio Story of the Tenant of n Houso-Bont. A MELANCHOLY OLD RECLUSE. Tlic Fair Mniil He hovcd niul host In ilio Fiir-OfT TJRMII of the 1'lne Tree Knlth- Ipss Atinlc. I'etor unit Annie. In n dilapidated house-boat half boat and half house against whoso scuiii-bomoUled hullc the muddy waters of the Missouri lap in summer and whoso poorly joined timbers are made to Rroan and creak by the doleful north winds of winter , snuggling close to a sheltering pier of the Union Pacific bridge , lives Pelor.Ienson. A reclusive soul Is Peter ; not much given to parleying with the motley crow , roproBontatlvos of nearly every nation upon carthwhich constitutes the population of the vicinity in which ho lives. As ho goes and comes to and from his work ho seemingly is lost to his surroundings. The children of the neighborhood fcool ; their own doorstop when ho draws nigh ; aiulyotlhu pule blue eyes that occasionally glance from beneath the rim of the tattered felt lint , always drawn low over the brow , are not unkindly. But seclusion always be gets suspicion , and so It , is with Poter. Never known to have addressed an unkindly word to a fellow being , or to have done aught tlmtshould brim * him into disrepute , he Is yet ostracised and condemned by the simple and igno rant folk of the bottoms as one possessed of the devil. One whose company and association are to be eschewed by all honest men. Upon the long summer evenings of this northern country , Peter is to bo seen seated upon the ilonk of his habita tion in lonely bolitude. His face is always towards the north and lie scorns to be evci staring at the stars shining northward of the xenith , fondly imagin ing perhaps , that they are at tlio same time twinkling over his distant homo among the tall pines of Norway. In winter , when thc&o comnuinings with the stars are perforce stopped , ho will draw his solitary stool before the anti quated little htove that serves him for cooking and heating purposes alike , and gazing into tlie little open grate lose himself in retrospection. If you should become stilliciontly in terested in Peter Jensen to inquire con cerning him of these from his own country who live on the bottoms , they would toll you a btory something like this. this.Less Less than forty years ago there lived within the boundaries of a small ham let on the coast of Norway , ti family con sisting of throe uersons : father , mother and son. The head of the family was a goodly inon , not addicted to much drinker or debauching one who gained his liv ing honestly , principally from the sea. He and his good wife lived in quiet con tentment , satisfied to gather from the great deep sutllciont sustenance to meet their daily needs ; content in their hum ble home and the ) ) ossessioit of their only son , Peter. A sturdy boy was Paten , tall and straight like His father , and not differing greatly from the pines symbolical of their native land. Peter had grown from a babe in arms to the ago of ton with but few of those ills that are like an heritage to the young and an unceasing source of worry to ' mothers. The happiest day of his'life was when , upon his tenth birthday , his father placed him in the base of his bimplo craft and took him along a-tish- ing. Many a tale head he to tell the mother that night upon his return of the adventures of the day. The moit trilling minutiae was not for gotten. In the lapping of the waves against the sides of the boat ; in the varying clouds , the Hash of birds' wings , the white caps and the sky ho heard and saw things that the moro obtuse father had never noticed. He had now been attending the vil lage school for nigh onto two years , and although he was ever at the foot of his class , the master know that he was the superior of all. That tlio little mind could not content itself with the regime of study. 'When ho had not yet attained his majority , 1'qter mot and loved Annie Olben. A pretty , simple girl was Annie ; not given to broaches of modesty or possessed with forwardness. Annie" , too , loved , and it was generally under stood in the valley that tome day the two would bo made one. . j As ho grow older Peter became dis- | .satibtied with the life of u lisherinan. and hearing of great opportunities in the city for acquiring money and fame , he bade father , mother and sweetheart | all good-bye and , promising to return soon , left. Annie mourned Peter as one dead , and the weekly letters from him seemed to bring but little comlort to her , but after a time she grow more tranquil ; a stranger with darker hair and eyes than are found in the north , uppaurcd on tlio scone. Ho had known Peter in the city , ho said , and told her ninny things 'of her absent lover's failures , disappointments and biicco hos. The two became inseparableuntil one night Annie died , leaving behind her a little babe , which took hut one peep at the earth and then , lee , died. They were laid at root together. 1'otor'b mother and fatlior died , also , but the c'InrU ' of kindly neighbors tonpprifeo Peter of his loss and bring him buck to the old homo wore fruitless. On night a quiet young man appeared at a tavern in the little village , anil after spending a night listening to the idle gossip ot a few villagers gathered near the lire , disappeared. His face was familiar to all , but it was not until ho was gone that they recollected him as Peter .IOIIHUII. lie was never seen again in the villugo. it's a simple tale , common enough to every day life in this iniquitous world. And KO old Potur , Hitting upon the dock of his huiibo boat in the hiiiiuncr- time , gazes wistfully at the fa tars in the north as though asking them of Annie. The lapping of the waves against tlio half wrecked hulk , recalls those ll.shiiig jaunts , with the father long ago , or in winter when ho MI moodily hturos- into the llrp , who knows but what he uoet. iimongst the coals the htill beloved imago of Annie Olben. A .Modern Uoniito. New York Weekly : Amelia'Swear ' not by the moon , the inconstant moon. " Augustus "Thou what shall 1 swear jyV" "Swear by that , which you hold inval uable ; something which is dearer to you than all things oltu ; something that 'ou cannot llvo without. " "Then , Amelia , 1 love joii ! I Mvonr t by my Hilary. 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